Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-26 Thread Christopher De Vries
Just an update on this problem... I ran another apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade last night and things went mostly back to normal (whatever caused the problem appears to have been fixed). It looks like some sort of hardware probing was causing the laptop monitor to get all weird. When I tried

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-26 Thread Christopher De Vries
Just an update on this problem... I ran another apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade last night and things went mostly back to normal (whatever caused the problem appears to have been fixed). It looks like some sort of hardware probing was causing the laptop monitor to get all weird. When I tried

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher De Vries
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:02:22PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > This also happened to me during the a recent Sarge install, using the > new Sarge installer. It went away when every thing was installed. > Not much help, but I think you may want to play with the vga settings in > lilo or grub. I th

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher De Vries
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:36:10AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > Sid works fine on my inspiron 8200, with the free nv driver. > > Did the upgrade install a new kernel? Have you tried booting your > previous kernel? > > Try booting single-user, then running the /etc/init.d/rc2 scripts one > by on

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher De Vries
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:02:22PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > This also happened to me during the a recent Sarge install, using the > new Sarge installer. It went away when every thing was installed. > Not much help, but I think you may want to play with the vga settings in > lilo or grub. I th

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher De Vries
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:36:10AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > Sid works fine on my inspiron 8200, with the free nv driver. > > Did the upgrade install a new kernel? Have you tried booting your > previous kernel? > > Try booting single-user, then running the /etc/init.d/rc2 scripts one > by on

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
> Hi, > > I've been using sarge on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for a while now > with no problems. I'm using a custom kernel built from the 2.4 kernel > series using debian packaging tools as well as the non-free nvidia > video drivers (I know... I don't like the fact that they sully my > compute

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I've been using sarge on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for a while now with no >problems. I'm using a custom kernel built from the 2.4 kernel series using >debian packaging tools as well as the non-free nvidia video drivers (I >know... I don'

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin C. Smith
> Hi, > > I've been using sarge on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for a while now > with no problems. I'm using a custom kernel built from the 2.4 kernel > series using debian packaging tools as well as the non-free nvidia > video drivers (I know... I don't like the fact that they sully my > compute

Re: dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I've been using sarge on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for a while now with no >problems. I'm using a custom kernel built from the 2.4 kernel series using >debian packaging tools as well as the non-free nvidia video drivers (I >know... I don'

dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher De Vries
Hi, I've been using sarge on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for a while now with no problems. I'm using a custom kernel built from the 2.4 kernel series using debian packaging tools as well as the non-free nvidia video drivers (I know... I don't like the fact that they sully my computer either). Any

dist-upgraded sarge (on Dell Inspiron 8200) and things got funky

2004-08-19 Thread Christopher De Vries
Hi, I've been using sarge on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop for a while now with no problems. I'm using a custom kernel built from the 2.4 kernel series using debian packaging tools as well as the non-free nvidia video drivers (I know... I don't like the fact that they sully my computer either). Any