Compaq Presario 1200 and Kernel 2.4

[Anders Nielsen]

Hi,

I have been running Debian on my Compaq Presario 1200 since i bought it in 
february this year. It was a bit fidely to get the Conexant LANFinity nic 
working, but in the end i suceeded.

I have one unresolved problem though. I am running kernel 2.2.23 at the moment, 
but i havn't been able to get kernel 2.4 to work. The machine boots at runs 
perfectly, but when i reboot it hangs realy badly. It takes a couple of hard 
reboots (holding the power button down for 5 sec.) before it can boot again.

This is the only reason why i am not running kernel 2.4.

Anyone had this problem? Or a solution?

/Anders

Re: Compaq Presario 1200 and Kernel 2.4

[Anders Ellenshøj Andersen]

On Monday 23 December 2002 09:35, Anders Nielsen wrote:

> I have one unresolved problem though. I am running kernel 2.2.23 at the
> moment, but i havn't been able to get kernel 2.4 to work. The machine boots
> at runs perfectly, but when i reboot it hangs realy badly. It takes a
> couple of hard reboots (holding the power button down for 5 sec.) before it
> can boot again.

Sounds like the old APIC problem. Which was the last kernel you tried with? It 
has worked for me since version 2.4.19.

Else the solution was to recompile the kernel with Local APIC support 
disabled.

Anders

Re: Re-partitioning failing...

[Tom Pfeifer]

Eric D Nielsen wrote:
> 
> I recently bought a vprMatrix laptop and am trying to setup a dual boot
> winXP/Debian configuration.
> 
> I'm used to using fips to repartition windows drives non-destructively, 
> however
> it can't handle the NTFS partition.  So I tried PowerQuests's Partition Magic
> to resize the existing partition to make room for Debian.
> 
> Running PM8 under WinXP I resized the 30 GB drive to about 8 GB for WinXP and
> 22 for Debian.  It says it needs to reboot to make the changes.  I let it
> reboot.  I see some message from PM come up during the boot up, screen flashes
> a few times and windows boots back up.  I run PM8 to check the current state 
> of
> the partitions and there is no change.
> 
> I tried running PM8 off the bootable CD in dos mode, make the same desired
> partition table and hit apply,
> I receive an "Volume bitmap wrong size file 6 (128)" error message.
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice?
> Eric

No advice on PM. If it continues to give you trouble, you could try
Bootit NG which can resize NTFS. 

The program can be installed to the hard drive, but if you just want to
use it for the resize operation..download the zip, make the bootable
floppy disk, boot from it, cancel Setup, and then go into the Partition
Work screen where the resize function is available.

http://www.bootitng.com

Tom

Re: ispiron 8100 power problem

[nikolaj erichsen]

You have to remove all Apic (not apci) from your kernel
(CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=n and so on), that will probably solve your
problem...


man, 2002-12-23 kl. 06:22 skrev Arash Bijanzadeh:
> Hi all,
> I have installed woody on a unspiron 8100, everything's fine but apm. Every 
> time I plug in/out the power it hangs. Anybody knows whats the problem?
> Thnks a lot
> 

Re: Compaq Presario 1200 and Kernel 2.4

[Anders Nielsen]

> > I have one unresolved problem though. I am running kernel 2.2.23 at the
> > moment, but i havn't been able to get kernel 2.4 to work. The machine
> boots
> > at runs perfectly, but when i reboot it hangs realy badly. It takes a
> > couple of hard reboots (holding the power button down for 5 sec.) before
> it
> > can boot again.
> 
> Sounds like the old APIC problem. Which was the last kernel you tried with?
> It 
> has worked for me since version 2.4.19.
> 
> Else the solution was to recompile the kernel with Local APIC support 
> disabled.
> 
> Anders

I finally got kernel 2.4 to work. I tried with 2.4.20 and APIC enabled, with
gave the same problem. With APIC disabled though it works perfectly. Great! Now
i can use Iptables and all that.

What is APIC support? What am i missing by having it disabled in the kernel?

/Anders Nielsen

stock X nv driver for nvidia

[Calum Mackay]

Has anyone tried the stock X driver for Nvidia'a cards, the nv driver, 
as opposed to using the debs of the official driver?


I want to use a current  cvs version of X, and am having trouble with 
both the deb official drivers, and also the cvs "nv" driver.


cheers,
Calum.

Compaq Armada

[Chris Tipney]

I'm trying to get XFree86 4.2.0 to work on my Compaq Armada 7770 DMT, I can
only get a very low resolution screen to work - anyone had any real success.
The same machine worked quite well with XFree 3.

Thanks,

Chris Tipney

p.s. using woody

Re: Re-partitioning failing...

[Jeff]

Eric D Nielsen, 2002-Dec-22 20:17 -0500:
> I recently bought a vprMatrix laptop and am trying to setup a dual boot
> winXP/Debian configuration.
> 
> I'm used to using fips to repartition windows drives non-destructively, 
> however
> it can't handle the NTFS partition.  So I tried PowerQuests's Partition Magic
> to resize the existing partition to make room for Debian.
> 
> Running PM8 under WinXP I resized the 30 GB drive to about 8 GB for WinXP and
> 22 for Debian.  It says it needs to reboot to make the changes.  I let it
> reboot.  I see some message from PM come up during the boot up, screen flashes
> a few times and windows boots back up.  I run PM8 to check the current state 
> of
> the partitions and there is no change.
> 
> I tried running PM8 off the bootable CD in dos mode, make the same desired 
> partition table and hit apply,
> I receive an "Volume bitmap wrong size file 6 (128)" error message.
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice?
> Eric

I recommend converting the NTFS to FAT32.  I believe you can do this
with built-in tools on WinXP.  This will give you a much better
supported filesystem.  After the conversion, you can resize using PM8
and see if it works.  If it doesn't, I would recommend parted.  NTFS
is a pita to work with in anything other than a pure MS environment.

jc

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Selecting from multiple network cards?

[Nate Carlson]

I've got a laptop with both a wired interface (3c59x) and a wireless
interface (orinoco mini-pci card with a pcmcia bridge on it)  built-in.
I'd like some easy way to select which card to use on bootup.. right now,
I've got the system set up not to automatically initialize either cards (I
don't have 'auto' specified for eth0, and I don't have it starting PCMCIA
on bootup), and I just start up whichever interface I want by hand.  I'm
wondering if there's an easier way.. how are other people dealing with
this problem? What I'd like to see is a simple menu system that you select 
from on bootup, and it'll initialize whichever card you pick. Has anyone 
done anything like this?

Thanks for any input!


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Re: Compaq Presario 1200 and Kernel 2.4

[Anders Ellenshøj Andersen]

On Monday 23 December 2002 13:25, Anders Nielsen wrote:

> What is APIC support? What am i missing by having it disabled in the
> kernel?

It is a driver for some irq hardware in the cpu. It is essential to SMP 
systems but as far as I know not much good anywhere else. And severel laptops 
wont even run with it enabled. Including mine iirc.

Anders

Re: stock X nv driver for nvidia

[Steffen Elste]

What kind of nvidia graphics card are you talking about?
AFAIK, the 'mobile' versions (GeForce 2 Go e.g.) are not supported by XFree's 
nv driver ...
Compiling the sources from nvidia's homepage has - up to now - never been a 
problem for me; but with kernel 2.4.20 i get loads of unresolved symbols :-(

Steffen

Re: woody on T23

[Glen Mehn]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:19:00PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> hello all!
> have v nice T23 which was running linux just fine... [apart from irda]
> untill I recompiled my kernel from the 2.4.18 source. Now i get major
> video corruption on resume from suspend which can only be solved by
> rebooting. This doesnt happen if i boot from the stock 2.4.18-bf24
> kernel, any ideas as to what i need to set in my kernel config to sort
> this out?

Diff your /boot/config-2.4.28-bf file to your /boot/config-2.4.18, and
let us know what/if you find anything...

-g
 
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Re: woody on T23

[Hugh Saunders]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:34:48AM -0800, Glen Mehn wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:19:00PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > hello all!
> > have v nice T23 which was running linux just fine... [apart from irda]
> > untill I recompiled my kernel from the 2.4.18 source. Now i get major
> > video corruption on resume from suspend which can only be solved by
> > rebooting. This doesnt happen if i boot from the stock 2.4.18-bf24
> > kernel, any ideas as to what i need to set in my kernel config to sort
> > this out?
> 
> Diff your /boot/config-2.4.28-bf file to your /boot/config-2.4.18, and
> let us know what/if you find anything...
thanks, 
i didnt know i could find the configuration of a prebuilt kernel in
/boot That is usefull, diff showed loads of power related differences,
so i will use them to correct my .config then compile the kernel again!

should work fine, will say if it doesnt!

hugh

graphic acceleration /debian

[Samuel Desseaux]

Hi!
 
I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which 
works very well with woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't 
know how could i have the acceleration for it. 
Yours ideas are welcome.
 
Cheers
 
sam

Re: stock X nv driver for nvidia

[Calum Mackay]

Steffen Elste wrote:

What kind of nvidia graphics card are you talking about?


It's a GeForce 2 Ti.

AFAIK, the 'mobile' versions (GeForce 2 Go e.g.) are not supported by XFree's 
nv driver ...


It's supported OK, but whenever I try to run a GL prog, like glxgears, 
it gets a SEGV.


This happens when I use either of:

o Nvidia-supplied driver (from src debs)

o XFree86 "nv" driver from latest cvs source

using both the Debian glxgears and the cvs src one.

cheers,
c.

Re: Selecting from multiple network cards?

[Seth Golub]

Nate Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I just start up whichever interface I want by hand.  I'm wondering
> if there's an easier way.. how are other people dealing with this
> problem?

It is a problem.  I'm doing it by hand (ifup, ifdown) at the moment,
and I'm not sure what a better way would provide.  It'd be easy enough
to make a GUI that did that (though it'd have to run as root), but I
can't think of anything that could be automatic.  (Pick your favorite
scripting language + widget set and make something.  Tcl/Tk, perl-tk,
libgtk-perl, python-gtk, etc.)

autoselecting network config despite WEP

[Seth Golub]

There are a few things that change depending on which network
I'm on. /etc/hosts, my unison config (because it seems to ignore
/etc/hosts and go straight to DNS), and some extra things I use in
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, the most crucial of which is the WEP key.

To switch configurations, I manually run a script that changes a
directory symlink, and each different setup has a directory with the
appropriate files.

I've seen a bunch of autodetection packages, but as far as I can tell,
they all depend on having IP working already, which isn't the case if
I haven't picked a WEP key yet.  I'm told that MACs are broadcasted in
the clear, even when WEP is used, so we ought to be able to sniff the
wireless traffic, notice a familiar MAC, and select based on that.
Has anyone tried doing that?

Re: graphic acceleration /debian

[Aryan Ameri]

On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:49, Samuel Desseaux wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which works very well with
> woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't know how could i
> have the acceleration for it. Yours ideas are welcome.

Well, same problem here. I have an IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses the same 
graphic card. The card is a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility. I upgraded XFree86 to 
4.2.1 (on sarge), and 2D accelleration is ok, and it works with the dafault 
resouloution and color depth. But though in XFree86's documentation it is 
written that 3D accelleration is provided for Radeon 7500, it seems it 
doesn't work here. From time to time, I wonder if Radeon 7500 is the same as 
7500 Mobility. I mean if XFree86 claims that their driver supports 3D 
accelleration for 7500, does that mean 3D acceleration is also provided for 
7500 Mobility? Or are these diffrent from each other?

Re: graphic acceleration /debian

[Joe Wreschnig]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:28, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:49, Samuel Desseaux wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which works very well with
> > woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't know how could i
> > have the acceleration for it. Yours ideas are welcome.
> 
> Well, same problem here. I have an IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses the same 
> graphic card. The card is a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility. I upgraded XFree86 to 
> 4.2.1 (on sarge), and 2D accelleration is ok, and it works with the dafault 
> resouloution and color depth. But though in XFree86's documentation it is 
> written that 3D accelleration is provided for Radeon 7500, it seems it 
> doesn't work here. From time to time, I wonder if Radeon 7500 is the same as 
> 7500 Mobility. I mean if XFree86 claims that their driver supports 3D 
> accelleration for 7500, does that mean 3D acceleration is also provided for 
> 7500 Mobility? Or are these diffrent from each other?

I have an ATI 7500 Mobility (in my Vaio), which has working 2D and 3D
acceleration. You do, however, need X 4.2.1 (sarge or sid) rather than X
4.0 (woody). Relevant sections of my XF86Config-4 file are pasted below:

Section "Module"
...
  Load"GLcore"
  Load"dri"
  Load"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Driver  "radeon"
Option  "AGPMode" "1"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode0666
EndSection

Make sure you have DRM support enabled in the kernel (the radeon and
agpgart modules). You need to either insert them before you start X, or
compile them directly into the kernel. Also, make sure you have a
/dev/dri file. Finally, this configuration is pretty insecure - it lets
any user write to the DRI device. This is probably okay if you're not
running any external login services, but if you are you want to use
"Mode 0660", and only let users in some group you create (say, "dri")
write to the files in /dev/dri.

HTH.
-- 
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Re: graphic acceleration /debian

[Joe Wreschnig]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:28, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:49, Samuel Desseaux wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which works very well with
> > woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't know how could i
> > have the acceleration for it. Yours ideas are welcome.
> 
> Well, same problem here. I have an IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses the same 
> graphic card. The card is a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility. I upgraded XFree86 to 
> 4.2.1 (on sarge), and 2D accelleration is ok, and it works with the dafault 
> resouloution and color depth. But though in XFree86's documentation it is 
> written that 3D accelleration is provided for Radeon 7500, it seems it 
> doesn't work here. From time to time, I wonder if Radeon 7500 is the same as 
> 7500 Mobility. I mean if XFree86 claims that their driver supports 3D 
> accelleration for 7500, does that mean 3D acceleration is also provided for 
> 7500 Mobility? Or are these diffrent from each other?

I have an ATI 7500 Mobility (in my Vaio), which has working 2D and 3D
acceleration. You do, however, need X 4.2.1 (sarge or sid) rather than X
4.0 (woody). Relevant sections of my XF86Config-4 file are pasted below:

Section "Module"
...
  Load"GLcore"
  Load"dri"
  Load"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Driver  "radeon"
Option  "AGPMode" "1"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode0666
EndSection

Make sure you have DRM support enabled in the kernel (the radeon and
agpgart modules). You need to either insert them before you start X, or
compile them directly into the kernel. Also, make sure you have a
/dev/dri file. Finally, this configuration is pretty insecure - it lets
any user write to the DRI device. This is probably okay if you're not
running any external login services, but if you are you want to use
"Mode 0660", and only let users in some group you create (say, "dri")
write to the files in /dev/dri.

HTH.
-- 
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Re: graphic acceleration /debian

[Joe Wreschnig]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:28, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:49, Samuel Desseaux wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which works very well with
> > woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't know how could i
> > have the acceleration for it. Yours ideas are welcome.
> 
> Well, same problem here. I have an IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses the same 
> graphic card. The card is a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility. I upgraded XFree86 to 
> 4.2.1 (on sarge), and 2D accelleration is ok, and it works with the dafault 
> resouloution and color depth. But though in XFree86's documentation it is 
> written that 3D accelleration is provided for Radeon 7500, it seems it 
> doesn't work here. From time to time, I wonder if Radeon 7500 is the same as 
> 7500 Mobility. I mean if XFree86 claims that their driver supports 3D 
> accelleration for 7500, does that mean 3D acceleration is also provided for 
> 7500 Mobility? Or are these diffrent from each other?

I have an ATI 7500 Mobility (in my Vaio), which has working 2D and 3D
acceleration. You do, however, need X 4.2.1 (sarge or sid) rather than X
4.0 (woody). Relevant sections of my XF86Config-4 file are pasted below:

Section "Module"
...
  Load"GLcore"
  Load"dri"
  Load"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Driver  "radeon"
Option  "AGPMode" "1"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode0666
EndSection

Make sure you have DRM support enabled in the kernel (the radeon and
agpgart modules). You need to either insert them before you start X, or
compile them directly into the kernel. Also, make sure you have a
/dev/dri file. Finally, this configuration is pretty insecure - it lets
any user write to the DRI device. This is probably okay if you're not
running any external login services, but if you are you want to use
"Mode 0660", and only let users in some group you create (say, "dri")
write to the files in /dev/dri.

HTH.
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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Re: graphic acceleration /debian - Apology

[Joe Wreschnig]

Shit, I'm terribly sorry about sending that message three times.
Evolution kept telling me it wasn't getting through, and as soon as I
changed mail servers it silently sent all three previous
attempts through...
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Re: Re-partitioning failing...

[Mike Leone]

Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/23/02 at 10:46: 

> I recommend converting the NTFS to FAT32.  I believe you can do this
> with built-in tools on WinXP.  This will give you a much better

No, it only converts the other way - FAT32 to NTFS.

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Compaq Presario 1200 and Kernel 2.4

[Anders Nielsen]

Hi,

I have been running Debian on my Compaq Presario 1200 since i bought it in 
february this year. It was a bit fidely to get the Conexant LANFinity nic 
working, but in the end i suceeded.

I have one unresolved problem though. I am running kernel 2.2.23 at the moment, 
but i havn't been able to get kernel 2.4 to work. The machine boots at runs 
perfectly, but when i reboot it hangs realy badly. It takes a couple of hard 
reboots (holding the power button down for 5 sec.) before it can boot again.

This is the only reason why i am not running kernel 2.4.

Anyone had this problem? Or a solution?

/Anders


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Re: Compaq Presario 1200 and Kernel 2.4

[Anders Ellenshøj Andersen]

On Monday 23 December 2002 09:35, Anders Nielsen wrote:

> I have one unresolved problem though. I am running kernel 2.2.23 at the
> moment, but i havn't been able to get kernel 2.4 to work. The machine boots
> at runs perfectly, but when i reboot it hangs realy badly. It takes a
> couple of hard reboots (holding the power button down for 5 sec.) before it
> can boot again.

Sounds like the old APIC problem. Which was the last kernel you tried with? It 
has worked for me since version 2.4.19.

Else the solution was to recompile the kernel with Local APIC support 
disabled.

Anders


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Re: Re-partitioning failing...

[Tom Pfeifer]

Eric D Nielsen wrote:
> 
> I recently bought a vprMatrix laptop and am trying to setup a dual boot
> winXP/Debian configuration.
> 
> I'm used to using fips to repartition windows drives non-destructively, however
> it can't handle the NTFS partition.  So I tried PowerQuests's Partition Magic
> to resize the existing partition to make room for Debian.
> 
> Running PM8 under WinXP I resized the 30 GB drive to about 8 GB for WinXP and
> 22 for Debian.  It says it needs to reboot to make the changes.  I let it
> reboot.  I see some message from PM come up during the boot up, screen flashes
> a few times and windows boots back up.  I run PM8 to check the current state of
> the partitions and there is no change.
> 
> I tried running PM8 off the bootable CD in dos mode, make the same desired
> partition table and hit apply,
> I receive an "Volume bitmap wrong size file 6 (128)" error message.
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice?
> Eric

No advice on PM. If it continues to give you trouble, you could try
Bootit NG which can resize NTFS. 

The program can be installed to the hard drive, but if you just want to
use it for the resize operation..download the zip, make the bootable
floppy disk, boot from it, cancel Setup, and then go into the Partition
Work screen where the resize function is available.

http://www.bootitng.com

Tom


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Re: ispiron 8100 power problem

[nikolaj erichsen]

You have to remove all Apic (not apci) from your kernel
(CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=n and so on), that will probably solve your
problem...


man, 2002-12-23 kl. 06:22 skrev Arash Bijanzadeh:
> Hi all,
> I have installed woody on a unspiron 8100, everything's fine but apm. Every 
> time I plug in/out the power it hangs. Anybody knows whats the problem?
> Thnks a lot
> 


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Re: Compaq Presario 1200 and Kernel 2.4

[Anders Nielsen]

> > I have one unresolved problem though. I am running kernel 2.2.23 at the
> > moment, but i havn't been able to get kernel 2.4 to work. The machine
> boots
> > at runs perfectly, but when i reboot it hangs realy badly. It takes a
> > couple of hard reboots (holding the power button down for 5 sec.) before
> it
> > can boot again.
> 
> Sounds like the old APIC problem. Which was the last kernel you tried with?
> It 
> has worked for me since version 2.4.19.
> 
> Else the solution was to recompile the kernel with Local APIC support 
> disabled.
> 
> Anders

I finally got kernel 2.4 to work. I tried with 2.4.20 and APIC enabled, with
gave the same problem. With APIC disabled though it works perfectly. Great! Now
i can use Iptables and all that.

What is APIC support? What am i missing by having it disabled in the kernel?

/Anders Nielsen


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stock X nv driver for nvidia

[Calum Mackay]

Has anyone tried the stock X driver for Nvidia'a cards, the nv driver, 
as opposed to using the debs of the official driver?

I want to use a current  cvs version of X, and am having trouble with 
both the deb official drivers, and also the cvs "nv" driver.

cheers,
Calum.


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Compaq Armada

[Chris Tipney]

I'm trying to get XFree86 4.2.0 to work on my Compaq Armada 7770 DMT, I can
only get a very low resolution screen to work - anyone had any real success.
The same machine worked quite well with XFree 3.

Thanks,

Chris Tipney

p.s. using woody


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Re: Re-partitioning failing...

[Jeff]

Eric D Nielsen, 2002-Dec-22 20:17 -0500:
> I recently bought a vprMatrix laptop and am trying to setup a dual boot
> winXP/Debian configuration.
> 
> I'm used to using fips to repartition windows drives non-destructively, however
> it can't handle the NTFS partition.  So I tried PowerQuests's Partition Magic
> to resize the existing partition to make room for Debian.
> 
> Running PM8 under WinXP I resized the 30 GB drive to about 8 GB for WinXP and
> 22 for Debian.  It says it needs to reboot to make the changes.  I let it
> reboot.  I see some message from PM come up during the boot up, screen flashes
> a few times and windows boots back up.  I run PM8 to check the current state of
> the partitions and there is no change.
> 
> I tried running PM8 off the bootable CD in dos mode, make the same desired 
> partition table and hit apply,
> I receive an "Volume bitmap wrong size file 6 (128)" error message.
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice?
> Eric

I recommend converting the NTFS to FAT32.  I believe you can do this
with built-in tools on WinXP.  This will give you a much better
supported filesystem.  After the conversion, you can resize using PM8
and see if it works.  If it doesn't, I would recommend parted.  NTFS
is a pita to work with in anything other than a pure MS environment.

jc

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Selecting from multiple network cards?

[Nate Carlson]

I've got a laptop with both a wired interface (3c59x) and a wireless
interface (orinoco mini-pci card with a pcmcia bridge on it)  built-in.
I'd like some easy way to select which card to use on bootup.. right now,
I've got the system set up not to automatically initialize either cards (I
don't have 'auto' specified for eth0, and I don't have it starting PCMCIA
on bootup), and I just start up whichever interface I want by hand.  I'm
wondering if there's an easier way.. how are other people dealing with
this problem? What I'd like to see is a simple menu system that you select 
from on bootup, and it'll initialize whichever card you pick. Has anyone 
done anything like this?

Thanks for any input!


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Re: Compaq Presario 1200 and Kernel 2.4

[Anders Ellenshøj Andersen]

On Monday 23 December 2002 13:25, Anders Nielsen wrote:

> What is APIC support? What am i missing by having it disabled in the
> kernel?

It is a driver for some irq hardware in the cpu. It is essential to SMP 
systems but as far as I know not much good anywhere else. And severel laptops 
wont even run with it enabled. Including mine iirc.

Anders


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Re: stock X nv driver for nvidia

[Steffen Elste]

What kind of nvidia graphics card are you talking about?
AFAIK, the 'mobile' versions (GeForce 2 Go e.g.) are not supported by XFree's 
nv driver ...
Compiling the sources from nvidia's homepage has - up to now - never been a 
problem for me; but with kernel 2.4.20 i get loads of unresolved symbols :-(

Steffen


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Re: woody on T23

[Glen Mehn]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:19:00PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> hello all!
> have v nice T23 which was running linux just fine... [apart from irda]
> untill I recompiled my kernel from the 2.4.18 source. Now i get major
> video corruption on resume from suspend which can only be solved by
> rebooting. This doesnt happen if i boot from the stock 2.4.18-bf24
> kernel, any ideas as to what i need to set in my kernel config to sort
> this out?

Diff your /boot/config-2.4.28-bf file to your /boot/config-2.4.18, and
let us know what/if you find anything...

-g
 
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Re: woody on T23

[Hugh Saunders]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:34:48AM -0800, Glen Mehn wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:19:00PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > hello all!
> > have v nice T23 which was running linux just fine... [apart from irda]
> > untill I recompiled my kernel from the 2.4.18 source. Now i get major
> > video corruption on resume from suspend which can only be solved by
> > rebooting. This doesnt happen if i boot from the stock 2.4.18-bf24
> > kernel, any ideas as to what i need to set in my kernel config to sort
> > this out?
> 
> Diff your /boot/config-2.4.28-bf file to your /boot/config-2.4.18, and
> let us know what/if you find anything...
thanks, 
i didnt know i could find the configuration of a prebuilt kernel in
/boot That is usefull, diff showed loads of power related differences,
so i will use them to correct my .config then compile the kernel again!

should work fine, will say if it doesnt!

hugh


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Re: stock X nv driver for nvidia

[Calum Mackay]

Steffen Elste wrote:

What kind of nvidia graphics card are you talking about?


It's a GeForce 2 Ti.


AFAIK, the 'mobile' versions (GeForce 2 Go e.g.) are not supported by XFree's 
nv driver ...

It's supported OK, but whenever I try to run a GL prog, like glxgears, 
it gets a SEGV.

This happens when I use either of:

o Nvidia-supplied driver (from src debs)

o XFree86 "nv" driver from latest cvs source

using both the Debian glxgears and the cvs src one.

cheers,
c.


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Re: Selecting from multiple network cards?

[Seth Golub]

Nate Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I just start up whichever interface I want by hand.  I'm wondering
> if there's an easier way.. how are other people dealing with this
> problem?

It is a problem.  I'm doing it by hand (ifup, ifdown) at the moment,
and I'm not sure what a better way would provide.  It'd be easy enough
to make a GUI that did that (though it'd have to run as root), but I
can't think of anything that could be automatic.  (Pick your favorite
scripting language + widget set and make something.  Tcl/Tk, perl-tk,
libgtk-perl, python-gtk, etc.)


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autoselecting network config despite WEP

[Seth Golub]

There are a few things that change depending on which network
I'm on. /etc/hosts, my unison config (because it seems to ignore
/etc/hosts and go straight to DNS), and some extra things I use in
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, the most crucial of which is the WEP key.

To switch configurations, I manually run a script that changes a
directory symlink, and each different setup has a directory with the
appropriate files.

I've seen a bunch of autodetection packages, but as far as I can tell,
they all depend on having IP working already, which isn't the case if
I haven't picked a WEP key yet.  I'm told that MACs are broadcasted in
the clear, even when WEP is used, so we ought to be able to sniff the
wireless traffic, notice a familiar MAC, and select based on that.
Has anyone tried doing that?


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graphic acceleration /debian

[Samuel Desseaux]

Hi!
 
I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which 
works very well with woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't 
know how could i have the acceleration for it. 
Yours ideas are welcome.
 
Cheers
 
sam

Re: graphic acceleration /debian

[Aryan Ameri]

On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:49, Samuel Desseaux wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which works very well with
> woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't know how could i
> have the acceleration for it. Yours ideas are welcome.

Well, same problem here. I have an IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses the same 
graphic card. The card is a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility. I upgraded XFree86 to 
4.2.1 (on sarge), and 2D accelleration is ok, and it works with the dafault 
resouloution and color depth. But though in XFree86's documentation it is 
written that 3D accelleration is provided for Radeon 7500, it seems it 
doesn't work here. From time to time, I wonder if Radeon 7500 is the same as 
7500 Mobility. I mean if XFree86 claims that their driver supports 3D 
accelleration for 7500, does that mean 3D acceleration is also provided for 
7500 Mobility? Or are these diffrent from each other?


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Re: graphic acceleration /debian

[Joe Wreschnig]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:28, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:49, Samuel Desseaux wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which works very well with
> > woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't know how could i
> > have the acceleration for it. Yours ideas are welcome.
> 
> Well, same problem here. I have an IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses the same 
> graphic card. The card is a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility. I upgraded XFree86 to 
> 4.2.1 (on sarge), and 2D accelleration is ok, and it works with the dafault 
> resouloution and color depth. But though in XFree86's documentation it is 
> written that 3D accelleration is provided for Radeon 7500, it seems it 
> doesn't work here. From time to time, I wonder if Radeon 7500 is the same as 
> 7500 Mobility. I mean if XFree86 claims that their driver supports 3D 
> accelleration for 7500, does that mean 3D acceleration is also provided for 
> 7500 Mobility? Or are these diffrent from each other?

I have an ATI 7500 Mobility (in my Vaio), which has working 2D and 3D
acceleration. You do, however, need X 4.2.1 (sarge or sid) rather than X
4.0 (woody). Relevant sections of my XF86Config-4 file are pasted below:

Section "Module"
...
  Load"GLcore"
  Load"dri"
  Load"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Driver  "radeon"
Option  "AGPMode" "1"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode0666
EndSection

Make sure you have DRM support enabled in the kernel (the radeon and
agpgart modules). You need to either insert them before you start X, or
compile them directly into the kernel. Also, make sure you have a
/dev/dri file. Finally, this configuration is pretty insecure - it lets
any user write to the DRI device. This is probably okay if you're not
running any external login services, but if you are you want to use
"Mode 0660", and only let users in some group you create (say, "dri")
write to the files in /dev/dri.

HTH.
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Re: graphic acceleration /debian

[Joe Wreschnig]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:28, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:49, Samuel Desseaux wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which works very well with
> > woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't know how could i
> > have the acceleration for it. Yours ideas are welcome.
> 
> Well, same problem here. I have an IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses the same 
> graphic card. The card is a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility. I upgraded XFree86 to 
> 4.2.1 (on sarge), and 2D accelleration is ok, and it works with the dafault 
> resouloution and color depth. But though in XFree86's documentation it is 
> written that 3D accelleration is provided for Radeon 7500, it seems it 
> doesn't work here. From time to time, I wonder if Radeon 7500 is the same as 
> 7500 Mobility. I mean if XFree86 claims that their driver supports 3D 
> accelleration for 7500, does that mean 3D acceleration is also provided for 
> 7500 Mobility? Or are these diffrent from each other?

I have an ATI 7500 Mobility (in my Vaio), which has working 2D and 3D
acceleration. You do, however, need X 4.2.1 (sarge or sid) rather than X
4.0 (woody). Relevant sections of my XF86Config-4 file are pasted below:

Section "Module"
...
  Load"GLcore"
  Load"dri"
  Load"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Driver  "radeon"
Option  "AGPMode" "1"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode0666
EndSection

Make sure you have DRM support enabled in the kernel (the radeon and
agpgart modules). You need to either insert them before you start X, or
compile them directly into the kernel. Also, make sure you have a
/dev/dri file. Finally, this configuration is pretty insecure - it lets
any user write to the DRI device. This is probably okay if you're not
running any external login services, but if you are you want to use
"Mode 0660", and only let users in some group you create (say, "dri")
write to the files in /dev/dri.

HTH.
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Re: graphic acceleration /debian

[Joe Wreschnig]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 16:28, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:49, Samuel Desseaux wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've got a wonderful laptop (dell inspiron) which works very well with
> > woody. My graphic card is an Ati Radeon 7500 but i don't know how could i
> > have the acceleration for it. Yours ideas are welcome.
> 
> Well, same problem here. I have an IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses the same 
> graphic card. The card is a ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility. I upgraded XFree86 to 
> 4.2.1 (on sarge), and 2D accelleration is ok, and it works with the dafault 
> resouloution and color depth. But though in XFree86's documentation it is 
> written that 3D accelleration is provided for Radeon 7500, it seems it 
> doesn't work here. From time to time, I wonder if Radeon 7500 is the same as 
> 7500 Mobility. I mean if XFree86 claims that their driver supports 3D 
> accelleration for 7500, does that mean 3D acceleration is also provided for 
> 7500 Mobility? Or are these diffrent from each other?

I have an ATI 7500 Mobility (in my Vaio), which has working 2D and 3D
acceleration. You do, however, need X 4.2.1 (sarge or sid) rather than X
4.0 (woody). Relevant sections of my XF86Config-4 file are pasted below:

Section "Module"
...
  Load"GLcore"
  Load"dri"
  Load"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI Radeon Mobility"
Driver  "radeon"
Option  "AGPMode" "1"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode0666
EndSection

Make sure you have DRM support enabled in the kernel (the radeon and
agpgart modules). You need to either insert them before you start X, or
compile them directly into the kernel. Also, make sure you have a
/dev/dri file. Finally, this configuration is pretty insecure - it lets
any user write to the DRI device. This is probably okay if you're not
running any external login services, but if you are you want to use
"Mode 0660", and only let users in some group you create (say, "dri")
write to the files in /dev/dri.

HTH.
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Re: graphic acceleration /debian - Apology

[Joe Wreschnig]

Shit, I'm terribly sorry about sending that message three times.
Evolution kept telling me it wasn't getting through, and as soon as I
changed mail servers it silently sent all three previous
attempts through...
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Re: Re-partitioning failing...

[Mike Leone]

Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/23/02 at 10:46: 

> I recommend converting the NTFS to FAT32.  I believe you can do this
> with built-in tools on WinXP.  This will give you a much better

No, it only converts the other way - FAT32 to NTFS.

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Re: Re-partitioning failing...

[Jeff]

Mike Leone, 2002-Dec-23 21:55 -0500:
> Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) had this to say on 12/23/02 at 10:46: 
> 
> > I recommend converting the NTFS to FAT32.  I believe you can do this
> > with built-in tools on WinXP.  This will give you a much better
> 
> No, it only converts the other way - FAT32 to NTFS.

Crud!  I must have been thinking of converting FAT to FAT32.  If it's
possible to reinstall, then you could use FAT32.  I wonder if there's
any tool that can convert NTFS to FAT32...I just did some quick
googling and I see several statements saying that you can't convert
NTFS to FAT, only the other way.  So, I'm guessing that's what Mike
means, eh?

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