Processed: Increase severity of X autodetection problem

2007-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 415620 important Bug#415620: Wrong driver for Radeon card? Severity set to `important' from `normal' > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrato

Re: os-prober: better autodetection of windows systems

2007-02-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 03:30, Thanatermesis - Elive wrote: > I have found a user where os-prober don't has autodetected its windows > systems, after to a long trace i have found to the problem is on the > file "NTDETECT.COM" to its called "ntdetect.com", I would recommend to > change the line

os-prober: better autodetection of windows systems

2007-02-26 Thread Thanatermesis - Elive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, first of all I want to tell you to my english is not very good, but I try to help in my posible way I have found a user where os-prober don't has autodetected its windows systems, after to a long trace i have found to the problem is on the file

Bug#407138: marked as done (autodetection leads to vesa used instead of nv)

2007-01-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:47:02 + with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#407138: fixed in discover-data 2.2007.01.20 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case i

Bug#407138: autodetection leads to vesa used instead of nv

2007-01-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 18 janvier 2007 à 22:40 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : > [Josselin Mouette] > > lspci -n output: > > > > 00:07.0 0604: 8086:25e7 (rev 12) > > This is the wrong device. It is a bridge. Please send info on PCI > device 07:00.0. I suspect it is PCI id 10de:029d, but need you to > c

Bug#407138: autodetection leads to vesa used instead of nv

2007-01-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Josselin Mouette] > lspci -n output: > > 00:07.0 0604: 8086:25e7 (rev 12) This is the wrong device. It is a bridge. Please send info on PCI device 07:00.0. I suspect it is PCI id 10de:029d, but need you to confirm it. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#407138: autodetection leads to vesa used instead of nv

2007-01-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: discover1-data Version: 2.2006.12.28 I've just installed etch on a brand new Xeon system with a nVidia Quadro FX 3500 graphics card, and the X server configured itself to use the "vesa" driver, while this card is perfectly supported by the "nv" driver. Here is the lspci output for this d

Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails

2005-01-07 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 289101 pending retitle 289016 Problems in locales generation tags 289016 moreinfo thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Processed: Re: Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails

2005-01-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 289101 pending Bug#289101: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet not detected Tags were: patch Tags added: pending > retitle 289016 Problems in locales generation Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails Changed Bug

Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails

2005-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
clone 289016 -1 retitle -1 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet not detected reassign -1 discover1-data tags -1 patch thanks > 1) Installer didn't autodetect onboard TG3 NIC. When installer asked me to > specify manually what modules to load, I selected tg3, and the NIC was >

Processed: Re: Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails

2005-01-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > clone 289016 -1 Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails Bug 289016 cloned as bug 289101. > retitle -1 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet not > detected Bug#289101: TG3 NIC autodetection fails Changed Bug title. >

Processed: Re: Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails

2005-01-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 289016 discover1-data Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `discover1-data'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug

Bug#289016: TG3 NIC autodetection fails

2005-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 27-12-2004 uname -a: Linux test 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Thu 06-01-2005 15:00 Method: Booted from sarge netinst CD (27-12-2004) and installed using ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org, no proxies. Machine

Re: TG3 NIC autodetection fails with Supermicro P8SCI server motherboard

2005-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 06 January 2005 15:41, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > I just installed sarge/testing with network installation CD from > 27-12-2004. I used "linux26" kernel. > > NIC autodetection did not detect onboard tg3 NIC's. But when I chose > tg3 from the "manual

TG3 NIC autodetection fails with Supermicro P8SCI server motherboard

2005-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi! I just installed sarge/testing with network installation CD from 27-12-2004. I used "linux26" kernel. NIC autodetection did not detect onboard tg3 NIC's. But when I chose tg3 from the "manual driver selection" list, the NIC was detected OK. Output of lspci fo

Re: keyboard autodetection

2004-07-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
nk, is whether the hardware ID implies a >> > layout. (It's not really autodetection; it's a lookup.) I don't know.> Its hard to do keyboard detection based on hardware ID because of the cheap way keyboard manufacturers build keyboards: they do not want to build key l

Re: How much autodetection does the expert install do? (was Re: beta 2 update)

2004-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
r the installer chooses > the modules to load and prompts me for any parameters, > or whether the expert install was indeed using > modconf, so that I would have to choose the modules as > well as set the parameters. > > So, does the expert install do autodetection or not?

How much autodetection does the expert install do? (was Re: beta 2 update)

2004-01-05 Thread James J. Ramsey
ers, or whether the expert install was indeed using modconf, so that I would have to choose the modules as well as set the parameters. So, does the expert install do autodetection or not? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bon

Bug#180772: default to manual if autodetection fails

2003-02-12 Thread Matt Kraai
Package: ethdetect Version: 0.22 Severity: minor If no NIC is autodetected, ethdetect should default to manual loading on the next attempt (or just go directly to it). Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Autodetection

2000-11-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello! I made a program to autoconfigure the kernel (in a very soft manner). My program is a simple shell script that detect what kernel know (/proc, ...). It can detect most of modern hardware. I can convert very fast this program for a installer autodetection. But I'm not subscrib

Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-03 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Migowski wrote: > Sounds good. I didn't know about those tools before, but I think the > detection is something we should do at one of the first things during the > install-process. Of course, I disagree. The main purpose of the debian installer is to get debian *installed*. It doesn't

Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Migowski
Hi, On Friday 03 November 2000 03:17, you wrote: > Assuming you mean DDC for getting monitor frequencies and such, X4 > already does this automatically. If not there are apps out there like > read-edid that can do this in user-space. Combined with things like > anXious (or Progeny's dexter) this

Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-02 Thread edo79
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Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-02 Thread edo79
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Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-02 Thread Randolph Chung
> even if this can only be done with a special kernel, what's wrong with > probing the monitor. I am new to the list, so i don't know if the your > installer will install X at boottime, which I highly recommend. Most users > from Windos haven't seen the DOS-Prompt before, and having to use the

Monitor autodetection

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Migowski
Hi, even if this can only be done with a special kernel, what's wrong with probing the monitor. I am new to the list, so i don't know if the your installer will install X at boottime, which I highly recommend. Most users from Windos haven't seen the DOS-Prompt before, and having to use the she

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-08 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:22:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > I'll look at it. I'm using a table of device->driver mappings I stole > from RH 6.2, so unless it has the X info, I don't. Some time ago (actually it must be 0.5 to 1 year ago now) I also started implementing a pci hardware detection.

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-07 Thread Branden Robinson
Please don't CC me on replies. > A generic svga at 1024x768@60Hz should be a good default in most situations > if nothing else is found. Hrm, I'd rather not contribute to workplace violence in the United States by defauling to a refresh rate that is guaranteed to result in psychosis. > Consider

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-07 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> Well, it looks like everybody's doing the same thing at the same time. > > At Progeny, Joseph Carter has been developing a libdetect based program > called "discover" which spits out the correct X server (for 3.x) or X > server and driver (for 4.x) given the PCI info. > > I'm writing a program

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-06 Thread Randolph Chung
> While you're at it -- perhaps you could try to come up with some > patches against xviddetect so it knows about more cards? It really > only knows pathetically few right now. See the bugs against that > package too. woah if you want to add more things to xviddetect, file bugs or email me

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Excellent. Will, let us know what else we can do to help. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:22:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > That would be cool. You wanna patch dbootstrap -- we could even make > > that conditional on the pci stuff being there at all.. > > I'm in the midst of building a patch to dboostrap now. I'll throw in a > check to see if /proc/bus/p

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-05 Thread Will Lowe
> That would be cool. You wanna patch dbootstrap -- we could even make > that conditional on the pci stuff being there at all.. I'm in the midst of building a patch to dboostrap now. I'll throw in a check to see if /proc/bus/pci exists, and if not we'll skip the "do you want to autodetect PCI d

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right. I'm adding a step just before the user is presented with the list > of modules that asks if the user would like to try autoprobing for PCI > devices. That would be cool. You wanna patch dbootstrap -- we could even make that conditional on the pci

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-04 Thread Will Lowe
> busybox and mini-grep are on the root filesystem, not the base set. Right. I realized this later last night. So I rewrote the whole thing in ash, and it's now down to 2k (after gzip -9). It will, of course, get larger as the table grows when new hardware is added. > Sure, of course. The 'c

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-04 Thread Will Lowe
> Please don't forget that debian supports machines without pci bus. What would > your changes to boot floppies do if this is the case ? Nothing. The program that does autopci detection just says "Can't find PCI bus" and you go one to configure the drivers the old way. > Also, it would be nice

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I just remembered:) > > The reason I did it in C rather than in ash was that I wanted the program > to be usable _before_ base.tar.gz is untarred (and hence before grep and > the rest of busybox is available) busybox and mini-grep are on the root filesy

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:20:23PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > I've put together (from pciutils and Redhat's anaconda) a small program > that asks the kernel about devices on the PCI bus and loads (or lists )the > needed driver modules. This hopefully enables NIC autodetection

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Will Lowe
> I suppose I could write a shell script to do the same thing, looking at > /proc/bus/pci/devices instead of asking the kernel directly, and keep the > table as text ... (I just remembered:) The reason I did it in C rather than in ash was that I wanted the program to be usable _before_ base.tar

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Will Lowe
> this is really just like what xviddetect/anXious does; you just have a > db of kernel modules instead of Xserver names Yes. It's something of a pain because it means you've (I've) got to keep the table up to date as new drivers are written or old ones expanded, but I don't see how else it

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Randolph Chung
In reference to a message from Will Lowe, dated Oct 03: > I've put together (from pciutils and Redhat's anaconda) a small program > that asks the kernel about devices on the PCI bus and loads (or lists )the > needed driver modules. This hopefully enables NIC autodetection

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Will Lowe
> > If you're not already gzip'ing the vendor/device id table this could be > > an option for reducing it. > That doesn't matter since the root filesystem is gzipped anyhow. Actually, in order to reduce the amount of parsing needing to be done by the program, I've got a perl script that builds a

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For boot-floppies for Potato? I am not sure we'd be allowed to add > > this sort of change to potato -- anaconda isn't included in Potato. > > This is _hacked_ from anaconda, but isn't anaconda itself. It's one > smallish (22k if you build the "tiny"

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ray Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you're not already gzip'ing the vendor/device id table this could be > an option for reducing it. That doesn't matter since the root filesystem is gzipped anyhow. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Ray Knight
Will Lowe wrote: > > > For boot-floppies for Potato? I am not sure we'd be allowed to add > > this sort of change to potato -- anaconda isn't included in Potato. > > This is _hacked_ from anaconda, but isn't anaconda itself. It's one > smallish (22k if you build the "tiny" version) binary. I

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Will Lowe
> For boot-floppies for Potato? I am not sure we'd be allowed to add > this sort of change to potato -- anaconda isn't included in Potato. This is _hacked_ from anaconda, but isn't anaconda itself. It's one smallish (22k if you build the "tiny" version) binary. It can't get a whole lot smalle

Re: PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've put together (from pciutils and Redhat's anaconda) a small program > that asks the kernel about devices on the PCI bus and loads (or lists )the > needed driver modules. This hopefully enables NIC autodetection for >

PCI autodetection

2000-10-03 Thread Will Lowe
I've put together (from pciutils and Redhat's anaconda) a small program that asks the kernel about devices on the PCI bus and loads (or lists )the needed driver modules. This hopefully enables NIC autodetection for anyone who's using a PCI nic. You can grab the current version o

PCI autodetection

2000-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
Last night I put together some code from pciutils and Redhat's anaconda and came up with a little program that asks the kernel about installed PCI hardware and modprobes the needed drivers, using a little table. I don't know if it's useful or not for the next incarnation of boot-floppies, but you

Bug#70639: boot-floppies: Add module autodetection based on modconf/libdetect (PATCH provided)

2000-09-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
This is a nice idea but I don't think we can consider such a change for Potato. I don't know. I'll leave it to Randolph to assess. If a Potato modconf does come in, we can make this change though, seems pretty minor. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#70639: boot-floppies: Add module autodetection based on modconf/libdetect (PATCH provided)

2000-08-31 Thread stelian
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A Severity: wishlist This small patch enables the boot-floppies to take advantage of the modconf module autodetection feature (I submitted a patch for the integration of modconf and libdetect against modconf, bug #70588). ---8<--- cut h

Bug#70588: modconf: Add autodetection based on libdetect (PATCH provided)

2000-08-30 Thread stelian
rig/template/eval_C.fixed Sun Aug 6 22:34:06 2000 +++ modconf-0.2.27/template/eval_C.fixedTue Aug 29 13:05:11 2000 @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ dir_descr_scsi="Drivers for SCSI controller cards and classes of SCSI devices" dir_descr_video="Drivers for Video4Linux"