Debian on smartphones, how to make it happen!

Hi all, Anyone who wants Debian running on their smartphone and is willing to help make it happen, please check out the wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Smartphone#Howto If you are interested, please join the #debian-smartphone IRC channel on irc.debian.org to co-ordinate activities. More conta

Re: backports updates

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote: > >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: > >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >> > According to the backports instructions si

Re: firmware-realtek (0.29) can't work at amd64

sorry,I am too late to reply. Because I have not the RTL chip at hand.I can't try now. I try to describe detail. I use wicd (RTL8191SU and amd64) connect wireless network. wicd scan function is ok, but when I connect net,it will connect a long time,and display "password error".But I'm sure passwo

Cambiar punto de montura de directorios

La consulta es la siguiente. Tengo que mover a otro disco las particiones /var /opt y /usr porque me estoy por quedar corto de espacio en un equipo de desarrollo. Ahora aquí la consulta, ya que nunca lo he realizado, es correcto el proceso si copio el contenido y modifico la partición en donde

Re: Switch to LILO from Grub2 ?

On Sun, 15 May 2011 15:09:24 -0400 (EDT), Russell Gadd wrote: > On 14 May 2011 21:59, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> This will definitely not work.  LILO stores the location of kernels >> (their sectors on the disk) in a map file, and if you move those around >> it won't be able to find them anymore. >

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > > and Im using the rt2800pci driver. The machine itself > is running 2.6.38-2-amd64 > > #1. > > You could try 2.6.39-rc7-amd64 from experimental. OK, i did give this a try (though i worry about doing stuff like this;

Re: backports updates

On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote: >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in >> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's

Re: GRUB GRUB black screen

Russell Gadd (russ.mail.li...@gmail.com on 2011-05-14 07:18 +0100): > One of my operating systems (a version of Debian Squeeze) is now > refusing to boot. It just shows a black screen with the 2 words GRUB > GRUB in the top left hand corner. I wonder if anyone has seen this > sort of behaviour befo

Re: backports updates

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > > this isn't required for

Re: backports updates

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:31:22PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2011 22:05:29 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > > this isn't required for Squeeze. Does

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

On Sun 15 May 2011 at 14:06:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 04:11:50 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > Hm--I see a whole bunch of stuff. Which are the wrong ones, and how do i > > blacklist them? > > Good question :-) > > The working one has to be "rt2800pci" but I'm not

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 03:24:16AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble with finding the driver > for > my ralink card. I got help with that but now > its "working" but not in any good way. > > The card is: > > 05:00.0 Network controller [028

gnome-screensaver does not fade out

Hello, i have debian testing with proprietary nvidia driver and gnome desktop. My problem is when i am inactive for some time screensaver lock the screen without fade out so i can not stop it. I do not know what information should i include so if you need some pls tell me. I will appreciate any a

Re: backports updates

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, evenso wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > > this isn't required for

Re: backports updates

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated > along with the oth

Re: backports updates

On Sunday 15 May 2011 22:05:29 Robert Holtzman wrote: > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated > along with the other repos vi

Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

On 05/15/2011 11:14 AM, John Hasler wrote: > sdc writes: >> My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the [non-free] >> software hosted on it's servers? > > Because some of our users need it. While we make that stuff available, > we do not consider it part of Debian. > >> Don't they wan

backports updates

According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated along with the other repos via "apt-get update"? -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If you

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

Am Samstag, 14. Mai 2011 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 5/14/2011 11:02 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> On 5/12/2011 5:19 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Sometimes though something is accessing data on the disk drives, > >>>

Re: unique identifiers for cdrom drives

On Du, 15 mai 11, 13:39:20, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Sat, 14 May 2011 09:58:27 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > My Squeeze installs on machines that have two cdrom drives seem to boot > > > sometimes with the upper drive as /media/cdrom0 and lower drive as > > > /media/cdrom2, and other ti

Re: M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Realtek ALC892 - No sound(mostly)

> Are you sure the output jack is in the right socket? These multi-input/ > ouput audio cards are going to get us crazy :-) I know, most of us only have 2 ears... (Yes it's in the right socket although i try the other non mic ones as well). > I would start for the easiest thing, that is, edit "/e

SOLVED: Problem mounting USB stick after installing Squeeze in new netbook

I have just installed Squeeze in a new eMachines E350 netbook, my first laptop, using the .iso image of CD-1 on a USB stick. The install went perfectly, thank you very much to all the developers. A problem emerged today when I tried to transfer some files from the desktop computer to the netbook u

Re: Which WLAN driver to use?

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 02:24:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 14:20:43 +0200, Elias Diem wrote: > > > I installed Debian 6 on my HP Pavilion Netbook. Unfortunately the > > WiFi Card is not working. I plan to install a driver manually but > > don't know which driver to grab. > > >

Re: Which WLAN driver to use?

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 02:09:03PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 12 May 2011 at 14:20:43 +0200, Elias Diem wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I installed Debian 6 on my HP Pavilion Netbook. Unfortunately the > > WiFi Card is not working. I plan to install a driver manually but > > don't know which driver

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

I had this happen with recent xorg update from Sid. Log said that (proprietary) Nvidia driver was no longer compatable with the new Xorg version. So I ran its installer (version 260) with update which downloaded and installed version 270 (but did not keep that installer!) and this works fine.

Re: Wheezy upgrade trashes display

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:30:09 + (UTC), I wrote: > Two weeks ago I successfully installed Wheezy (testing). Yesterday I did > the latest upgrades, and now my X-Windows display is unreadable. I can no longer reproduce this problem and have updated bug 622761. Today I ran "apt-get install xorg"

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On 05/15/2011 12:17 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:56:18, Russell L. Carter wrote: >> I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia" >> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. > > Does this mean that everything is ok now? Ah, sorry, no, I left out the step of swi

Re (2): Routing vs. bridging; was Re (4): Linux hub

From: Andrei Popescu Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 10:59:36 +0300 > ... IMVHO, as long as you don't have any compelling reasons to keep > two networks more or less separate it's just simpler to bridge them. The subordinate network here is just an Ethernet crossover cable with the carnot Web server

Re: how do i report a bug in reportbug ?

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:27:58AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110514_135701, Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 05:10:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: . . . > > I like the gui on reportbug-ng. Speeds things up over reportbug IMHO. Also > > uses color coding nicely for clarity. > >

Re: [help-a-newb] setting grub

On Sb, 16 apr 11, 12:35:05, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Hmm, from my (limited) experience and a lot of d-u lurking I can think > of two possible approaches to this: ("this" being multiple systems, possibly even different distros on the same machine) > 1. shared /boot > > Assuming other distros'

Re: unique identifiers for cdrom drives

On 20110514_160848, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011 09:58:27 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > My Squeeze installs on machines that have two cdrom drives seem to boot > > sometimes with the upper drive as /media/cdrom0 and lower drive as > > /media/cdrom2, and other times with the identities

Re: Switch to LILO from Grub2 ?

On 14 May 2011 21:59, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > This will definitely not work.  LILO stores the location of kernels > (their sectors on the disk) in a map file, and if you move those around > it won't be able to find them anymore. > >> Also I'd like to avoid using UUIDs - I think this will be n

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:56:18, Russell L. Carter wrote: > I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia" > in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. Does this mean that everything is ok now? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.d

Re: Routing vs. bridging; was Re (4): Linux hub

Hi, Peter: En fecha Domingo, 15 de Mayo de 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca escribió: > * From: "Jesús M. Navarro" > * Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:47:48 +0200 > > > There's neither "carnot" nor "Allied Telesis 3612TR" in your provided > > diagram so it's a bit difficult to follow you. It would be b

Re: GRUB GRUB black screen

On 14 May 2011 21:48, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > > > Maybe LILO's simpler design can be a good choice in many situations, > where grub fanciness (and complexity) isn't needed. > > Glad you solved it somehow in the end. > Thanks for your interesting discussion. I appreciate that grub2

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. On 05/15/2011 11:52 AM, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who > see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific

[some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific about the nvidia blank screen problem. (For the record, I have a fixed hardware config that I've tracked debian-testing on for two years, and also tracking

Re: gnus info manual

Sven Joachim writes: > Install the emacs23-common-non-dfsg package from non-free, it also > contains all the other Emacs manuals. > ah perfect! thx sven! i knew this had something to do with the non-free repository from doing the About Gnus in the Help section, but didn't know what to do about i

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Du, 15 mai 11, 17:58:30, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:57:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> > > >> > ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used > >> > in openSUSE, the distro I was using be

Re: Bug report: Which package?

Hi, sorry it took me so long to react to your quick and helpful replies, I first had to recover from an illness. I verified that xserver-xorg-input-evdev is installed. The packages xserver- xorg-input-{kbd,mouse} were not installed, but installing them changed nothing. Ctrl+Alt+F<1-6> does not

Re: gnus info manual

On 2011-05-15 19:52 +0200, prad wrote: > this doesn't seem to exist on debian so when i > C-c TAB > i get the message: > Info-find-file: Info file gnus does not exist > > i couldn't figure out how to get the info manual either though i did > come across something like this: > > apt-get source -t

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi Curt, On 05/14/2011 07:00 PM, Curt Howland wrote: I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to simlinks. If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it. I did th

Re: gnus info manual

On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:52:48 -0700, prad wrote: > this doesn't seem to exist on debian so when i C-c TAB > i get the message: > Info-find-file: Info file gnus does not exist (...) Hum... http://www.gnus.org/manual.html How about "C-h i m gnus RET" as suggested? :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Sun, 15 May 2011 19:57:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> > >> > ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used >> > in openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian. > > openSUSE should now have DKM

gnus info manual

this doesn't seem to exist on debian so when i C-c TAB i get the message: Info-find-file: Info file gnus does not exist i couldn't figure out how to get the info manual either though i did come across something like this: apt-get source -t stable gnus to install the (old) gnus info manual into m

Re: configuring iceweasel fonts for debian documentation

On 2011-05-15 19:04 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm reading > > http://tldp.org/LDP/www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_device_files > > IMHO, it is important to see what the author intended, but I think I am not. > > If this doesn't clear up your display problems with MC,

Re: configuring iceweasel fonts for debian documentation

On Sun, 15 May 2011 11:04:35 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm reading > > http://tldp.org/LDP/www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ ch01.en.html#_device_files > > IMHO, it is important to see what the author intended, but I think I am > not. > > If this doesn't clear up your display pro

Re: configuring iceweasel fonts for debian documentation

On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:04:35, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm reading > > http://tldp.org/LDP/www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_device_files > > IMHO, it is important to see what the author intended, but I think I am not. > > If this doesn't clear up your display problems with

Re: So much for Skype.

[top-posting fixed] On Du, 15 mai 11, 12:54:44, Daniel Andersson wrote: > > > >Last time I tried to "video call" my mom (running pidgin on squeeze) my > >pidgin crashed. That was a few weeks ago :( > > > Did you use Google Talk video in Pidgin Andrei? I tried, but as I wrote above, it crashed the

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:41:18, deloptes wrote: > > The reason to say this the way I said it, is because already last time I > migrated dovecot I had many troubles and this is the job of the developers. > Believe me I know what I am doing (resp. saying). Dealing everyday with > software developers ...

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

On Du, 15 mai 11, 03:24:16, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > and Im using the rt2800pci driver. The machine itself is running > 2.6.38-2-amd64 > #1. You could try 2.6.39-rc7-amd64 from experimental. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.aliot

configuring iceweasel fonts for debian documentation

I'm reading http://tldp.org/LDP/www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_device_files IMHO, it is important to see what the author intended, but I think I am not. If this doesn't clear up your display problems with MC, see Section 9.6.6, “The terminal configuration”. The

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:57:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > > ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in > > openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian. openSUSE should now have DKMS as well[1] > I was a great fan of module-assistant, but since d

Re: how do i report a bug in reportbug ?

On 20110514_135701, Freeman wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 05:10:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I tried to use reportbug to report a bug (wishlist) in approx. I > > didn't succeed because first i got a segmentation fault and on second > > try i got floating point exception. My computer is

Re: mails to t...@security.debian.org - no ACK?

* Fresel Michal: > just wanted to get some feedback on mailing to > t...@security.debian.org > > any knowledge why there is no answer or any ACK of recieve after 8h? There is no autoresponder, so all replies you receive are written by hand. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:03:56 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Then check again the listed modules: >> >> lsmod | grep rt2 >> >> If there are only "rt2800*" modules loaded try to setup the card >> again. > > This brought me back t othe same pl

Re: [SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

sdc writes: > My beginner question is, why doesn't Debian remove the [non-free] > software hosted on it's servers? Because some of our users need it. While we make that stuff available, we do not consider it part of Debian. > Don't they want to follow the FSF word? No. Note that the FSF publis

Re: M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Realtek ALC892 - No sound(mostly)

On Sun, 15 May 2011 22:10:20 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: (...) > This version of the chipset has a 6 connector audio + spdif + HDMI on > the rear + 2 ports on the front. > > Unsure what to provide at the moment, so here are some of the common > outputs to hopefully help. > > root@gemini:~# alsact

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 15 May 2011 04:11:50 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > --- On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble > >> with finding the > >> > driver for my ralink card. I got help with that but >

[SOLVED] Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, sdc wrote: > Greetings, I was reading FSF distro review and I was shocked to see that > Debian isn't actually free software. FSF said that they are making a big > progress(this happened when they removed the blobs from the kernel) but > still isn't free software

Re: Xorg keyboard/mouse "no reaction" under testing.

Hi, * Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > As I recalled, I had learnt about this problem. Well, I forgot how > to resolve it > With Debian Testing branch, newly installed xorg, when startx, the > keyboard/mouse lost their function at all. By this I mean, > click/move/any key press does not work

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

On Sun, 15 May 2011 04:11:50 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > --- On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón wrote: >> > Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble >> with finding the >> > driver for my ralink card. I got help with that but >> now its "working" >> > but not in any good way. >> >>

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Sun, 15 May 2011 14:13:07 +0200 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: Hello tv.deb...@googlemail.com, > More like "Dell" who first developed it, it is supposed to really > stands for "Dynamic". I may very well be wrong but I think it appears You're right; I don't what made me think it was Debia

Re: Quality Assurance of mailserver?

On Sun, 15 May 2011, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Yes, but most won't be using ksplice, that would be the exception -- > I did say "generally" for a reason. Besides, it is true that even > with ksplice that you can get by for over 12 months without a reboot > and also have the latest kernel and all o

Re: So much for Skype.

2011/5/15 Daniel Andersson > Did you use Google Talk video in Pidgin Andrei? > > Is there any other software that is included in a Debian repository, > supports video chat, and is also easy to install on Windows? > > Ekiga? > > Thanks > Daniel > > > On 05/14/2011 12:16 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

15/05/2011 12:10, Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:23:45 + (UTC) >> Camaleón wrote: [snip] >> ¹I didn't know how this thingy worked, it is something I never used in >> openSUSE, the distro I was using before coming to Debian. > > No surprise there. The D in DKMS stands for "De

M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Realtek ALC892 - No sound(mostly)

This motherboard used to work under a previous install of Debian, I Updated to Squeeze through a fresh install (hard drive replacement). Ever since I have been unable to get the sound to work. With the speakers plugged in to the speaker port I get random pops coming from the speakers, Clicking on

Re: So much for Skype.

Did you use Google Talk video in Pidgin Andrei? Is there any other software that is included in a Debian repository, supports video chat, and is also easy to install on Windows? Thanks Daniel On 05/14/2011 12:16 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 11 mai 11, 17:23:48, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Camaleón wrote: > From: Camaleón > Subject: Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 4:03 AM > On Sun, 15 May 2011 03:24:16 -0700, > Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

On Sun, 15 May 2011 03:24:16 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble with finding the > driver for my ralink card. I got help with that but now its "working" > but not in any good way. (...) I would first check for a possible driver conflict: ls

Ralink driver connection, speed problems

Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble with finding the driver for my ralink card. I got help with that but now its "working" but not in any good way. The card is: 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092] and Im using the rt280

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:23:45 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Don't ask me why -maybe due to inexperience-, but the first time I had Inexperience? You? Unfamiliar, perhaps. > to deal with the closed nvidia driver in Debian I prefered¹ to not use > "dkms" and manually pulled the required package

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

15/05/2011 11:23, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:07:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC) Camaleón >> wrote: >> >> Hello Camaleón, > > (replying to your e-mail but also addressed to tv.debian's) > >>> Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprieta

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ""sid" is subject to massive changes and in-place library updates. This > can result in a very "unstable" system which contains packages that > cannot be installed due to missing libraries, dependencies that cannot > be fulfilled etc. Use it at your own risk!" Stan, stop re

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Your demonstrated frustration and cussing clearly demonstrate you are > NOT a proper candidate for using unstable packages.  Do yourself and > us a favor and stick to stable. you are not proper candidate to tell me what I should do. The reason to say this the way I said it

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Sun, 15 May 2011 10:07:25 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > > Hello Camaleón, (replying to your e-mail but also addressed to tv.debian's) >> Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprietary drivers: they need the >> corresponding kerne

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

In <4dcec70c.9020...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >On 5/14/2011 11:02 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> My Main reason for not doing it was that I do run the SSD partitionless >> to avoid partition alignment issues. > >There are no partition alignment issues with SSDs. SSDs have no >cyli

RES: Problem with Driver!

Dear Yashar, The mainstream manufacturers as HP, DELL, certified Red Hat or Suse for their Servers. See at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/hplinuxcert.html As CentOS is a clone for RED HAT, of course CentOS wi

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Sun, 15 May 2011 08:37:43 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Hello Camaleón, > Just a quick note on nvidia (or ati) proprietary drivers: they need > the corresponding kernel version package. Whilst what you say is true, a lot of the agony of installing nVidia drivers can be done away with by insta

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

15/05/2011 10:37, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:23:19 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > >> I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years >> that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's >> update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:23:19 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years > that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's > update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when launching X. (...) Just a quick

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

14/05/2011 23:23, Russell L. Carter wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two > years that I have kept current with testing through that time. > Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank > screen when launching X. I swapped out the GTX285 for

Re: Problem with Driver!

On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:42:43 +0430, Yashar Amirabedin wrote: > Greetings to you, Wow... (side note: please, don't send cross-posting messages across mailing lists and avoid using html format) > I have got a problem with Network controller on HP ProLiant DL380 G7 > E5620 and HP ProLiant DL380 G

Re: Why my xorg started into framebuffer mode?

On Fri, 13 May 2011 16:00:45 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Then I installed xorg from testing branch. With '# startx', I had > the xterm window. But when I exited, the console turned into > framebuffer mode. /proc/fb shows interdrmfb. > What happened? Did the stage with xterm also run

Re: Routing vs. bridging; was Re (4): Linux hub

On Sb, 14 mai 11, 22:14:44, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > What are the greatest advantages in bridging eth0 and eth1 rather > than routing through Dalton to Carnot? Bridging will need some > additional software, bridge-utils; routing should be possible > without adding software. AFAIK the addi

Re: Problem with Driver!

Yashar Amirabedin kirjoitti: Greetings to you, I have got a problem with Network controller on HP ProLiant DL380 G7 E5620 and HP ProLiant DL380 G6 E5504. The Quickspecs is : 1GbE NC382i Multifunction 2 Ports. So, when I installed the Debian 6 (squeeze) on these HP servers, it did not d