GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-03 Thread alex . padoly
Hi, For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, I used LILO in kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. Why many of LINUX distribution choose GRUB? I don't know that I must choose. Thank you. Alex

GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-03 Thread Alex PADOLY
Hi, For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, I used LILO in kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. Why many of LINUX distribution choose GRUB? I don't know that I must choose. Thank you. Alex

Re : Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread alex.padoly
Hi, I think that you are right, for me it's for a security reason there is that. With Mandriva it's impossible to connect you as root in graphical mode safe to configure LINUX with Mandriva's menu. Regards. Alex - Message d'origine - De : Camaleón Envoyés : 03.07.11 16:27 À : debia

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

2011-07-03 Thread spp mg
2011/5/19 Camaleón : > On Thu, 19 May 2011 11:29:35 +0800, spp mg wrote: > >> 2011/5/17 Camaleón > > (...) > >>> > sorry,I am too late to reply. >>> >>> (no problem, but don't make use of html formatted messages and better >>> yet if you reply at bottom or inline and don't cross-post ;-)) >> >> Ok

Re: message formatting and pseudo XML [was Re: disk problems: which ATA?]

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 23:56:30 you wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:40 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote: > > > (see original message) > > > > Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display > > turned off. > > > > Lisi > > That's inte

Squeeze - Virtualbox - No Installable Kernel

2011-07-03 Thread scottmaccal
Greetings, I recently installed VirtualBox on Squeeze by following these instructions: http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox. During the install of an Ubuntu 8.04 server virtual machine I got the following error: No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources. Has anyone else encounter

kvm

2011-07-03 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi, I am running kvm 0.12.5 from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp inside kvm, even when I run it as root. only the first disk where windows is installed shows up!  I created the other image using kvm-img with qco

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/03/2011 04:27 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 03 Jul 2011 at 16:06:24 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/02/2011 04:04 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: I don't think he did. :) Paul Scott wrote: On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: 1024x7

Re: message formatting and pseudo XML [was Re: disk problems: which ATA?]

2011-07-03 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:56:30PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:40 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote: > > > (see original message) > > > > Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display > > turned > > off. > >

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-07-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Philip Hands wrote: >>  ok, i bring in phil now, who i was talking to yesterday about this. >> what he said was (and i may get this wrong: it only went in partly) - >> something along the lines of "remember to build the drives with >> individual mdadm bitmaps enab

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:48 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 03 Jul 2011 at 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up > > several times for me, most recently with > > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen > >

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/03/11 at 02:46pm, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:26:52 +, T o n g wrote: > > > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:36:14 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> you're best sticking with Camaleón if possible - she does run Gnome and > >> . . . > > > > I don't know western names well and I

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Ross, maybe it's been suggested, but running smartctl -i /dev/sdb on all drives, you could get serial numbers. If you get all but one, open the case, identify those you already listed on smartctl , the other(s) one(s) are the problematic ones. I had to do it some time ago. Pablo Sánchez On Su

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Jul 2011 at 16:06:24 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/02/2011 04:04 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: I don't think he did. :) >> Paul Scott wrote: >>> On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > 1024x768 60.0* >

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/02/2011 04:04 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Paul Scott wrote: On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: 1024x768 60.0* 800x60060.3 56.2 848x48060.0 640x48059.9 My LCD monitor's native re

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Jul 2011 at 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up > several times for me, most recently with > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen For ata1.00 on this machine: ls -l /sys/class/scsi_disk/0

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-03 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:54:01 +0200 Hans Vogelsberger wrote: >instead of moving >/etc/X11/xorg.conf, I again changed its driver line in section "device" >to nouveau - and SUCCEDED: After a reboot xdm started X normally, not >even startx was necessary. I tried to do the same, but alas, Xorg doe

message formatting and pseudo XML [was Re: disk problems: which ATA?]

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:40 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote: > > (see original message) > > Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display turned > off. > > Lisi > That's interesting. The messages are not in html. However, I did u

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/03/2011 03:25 PM, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 03 July 2011 21:44:21 Paul Scott wrote: "Camaleón" is a sort of nickname I chose long time ago because of the openSUSE mascot (Geeko). It translates as "Chameleon" in English. Actually gecko and chameleon are different varieties of lizards. Both wo

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote: > (see original message) Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display turned off. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive?  It's come up > several times for me, most recently with > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Depending on how long since boot, you can often explore the output

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 21:44:21 Paul Scott wrote: > > "Camaleón" is a sort of nickname I chose long time ago because of the > > openSUSE mascot (Geeko). It translates as "Chameleon" in English. > > Actually gecko and chameleon are different varieties of lizards.  Both > words are used in English an

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 12:07 -0700, JD wrote: > On 07/03/2011 11:25 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > > How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up > > several times for me, most recently with > > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen > > > > It appears fro

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 19:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up > > several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 > > SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen >

Re: rsnapshot and cron :-)

2011-07-03 Thread Aniruddha
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks > > Using rsnapshot I've unsure about maintein my backup for almost 24 months: > > in rsnapshot.conf I have: > > interval        hourly  6 > interval        daily   7 > interval        weekly  4 > interval       monthly 24 > > (I hope

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/03/2011 07:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:26:52 +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:36:14 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: you're best sticking with Camaleón if possible - she does run Gnome and . . . I don't know western names well and I had always thought that Cam

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-07-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:56:34 -0400 (EDT), Paul Scott wrote: > > or that read-edid is broken? ddcprobe seems to provide correct > information for my ViewSonic VA703b. read-edid does not. By the way, have you noticed that nv (xserver-xorg-video-nv) has been dropped from Wheezy (testing) now? I'

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 06:48:33PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > If ACPI is broken you'll see messages in dmesg. A quick scan shows this: 26.446021] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found. [ 26.446024] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: Try again with latest BIOS. Th

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > On 03/07/2011 10:25, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would like to know if the root have a graphical environnement ? >> I don't connect with login root with the password of root but in >> terminal window I can connect me as

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

2011-07-03 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:51:56 +, Camaleón wrote: >> I put them in another file, /etc/udev/rules.d/71-my-cd.rules, but how >> would I overwrite the settings in /etc/udev/rules.d/70 -persistent- >> cd.rules, which was automatically generated by the 75-cd -aliases- >> generator.rules? I.e., wouldn

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up > several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 > SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (...) You can: - Run "smartctl -i /dev/sdb | grep -i model" -

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread JD
On 07/03/2011 11:25 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen It appears from other info that sdb is the problem: # smar

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disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen It appears from other info that sdb is the problem: # smartctl -H /dev/sdb Sun Jul 3 10:26:29 PDT 2011 smartctl version 5.3

Re: install squeeze con core i5 2500 motherboard 1155

2011-07-03 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Camaleón, maybe it's a bug with de motherboard, besides that, i also prefer to build software raid before using the chipset's "fake raid". I cannot find what's that hotplug stuff in the motherboard manual. Will have to look on asus site. Pablo Sánchez. On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:49:55 -0300, Pab

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 18:28:51 Camaleón wrote: > SuSE (with which I also > > > started. But I didn't use it for long because I couldn't stand YaST). > > > YaST is one of the best tools an admin (and a user) can find! And now is > GPL :-) > Yes, it seems to inspire either love or hate and very

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:06:55 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2011 17:32:19 Camaleón wrote: >> I was one of those newbies that sometimes logged as root when I was >> giving my first steps in Linux. I remember in that time (2003, KDE >> 3.2.x, IIRC) there was a background image¹ for root logi

Re: monitor detection maybe not working - another try

2011-07-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Jul 2011 at 00:17:16 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I believe that if my monitor info were being read correctly I would have > no problem with monitor resolution. Is is possible that I just need to > file a bug against read-edid? More likely the bug would be in the kernel but I'm no ex

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode - ERRATUM

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 18:06:55 Lisi wrote: > that won't *key* you log that won't *let* you. Sorry - I'm a lousy typist. :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 17:32:19 Camaleón wrote: > I was one of those newbies that sometimes logged as root when I was > giving my first steps in Linux. I remember in that time (2003, KDE 3.2.x, > IIRC) there was a background image¹ for root login with bright red and > plenty of bombs. Yes, bombs, f

Success! no longer stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:45:54 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:53:50 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >> Thanks for the advice. I'll ssh in and if the text consoles don't >> reappear after completing the upgrade, I can investigate further at >> leisure. > > Upgrade completed us

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:23:46 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2011 15:27:03 Camaleón wrote: >> It is not a good idea to run a GUI session with the root user. It can >> be done, but better if you first explain what is goal for doing it >> so... > > I run Konqueror as root for some file manip

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

2011-07-03 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 25/06/2011 19:58, lee wrote: T o n g writes: On my system the /dev/cdrom is actually DVD while My CD is actually /dev/ cdrom1. This confuse most of the media software. How can I fix it? Do you have entries about these devices in /etc/fstab? Be careful that entries in /etc/fstab are only

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

2011-07-03 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 28/06/2011 20:48, Tom Furie wrote: Or perhaps edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules so that the devices get the links in /dev that he wants. Cheers, Tom I also think this is the solution because udev names devices on startup, so if you want something permanent, that's the way to do i

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:18:05 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:06:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> just read Debian udev the docs to follow the instructions. > > Hi Camaleón, > > Thanks for your reply. However, I was having a hard time trying to find > what you meant by "Debian udev

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-03 Thread David Baron
> I know this is playing with fire but I did this: > sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 > > This points the "multiarch" version to where the /usr/lib version points. > Save the original symlink to libGL.so.1.2 to be safe but easy enough to > restore is need

Re: install squeeze con core i5 2500 motherboard 1155

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:49:55 -0300, Pablo Sánchez wrote: > >> Pablo Sánchez writes: >> >>> Well, i got an ASUS P8H67-M LX with H67 B3 revision intel chipset >>> with a core i5 2500 . >>> >>> The machine has 3 Samsung 1TB disks , that i see on the bios config, >>> connected to sata 3gb ports . >>

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 15:27:03 Camaleón wrote: > It is not a good idea to run a GUI session with the root user. It can be > done, but better if you first explain what is goal for doing it so... I run Konqueror as root for some file maniplulations on files which are owned by root. I simply don't

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:39:50 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/02/2011 12:23 PM, Paul Scott wrote: >> On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Also, better if you upload your full "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" somewhere, >> >> I will do that soon but I believe it will show you that read-edid is

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:23:34 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >> >>> I'm running sid. >>> >>> My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. >>> I have an >>> >>> nVidia Corporation N

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:29:12 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:47:38 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Or is there some devious trick I'm missing?  Will an ssh connection >>> from another machine survive the upg

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:04:21 +, Curt wrote: > On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: >> >> And of course, warning about NM can leave the system disconnected is a >> very good point (I didn't know NM can take that path...), so in the >> evnt this can happen and the OP is using NM, he can just turn it

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:26:52 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:36:14 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> you're best sticking with Camaleón if possible - she does run Gnome and >> . . . > > I don't know western names well and I had always thought that Camaleón > is a man, although bei

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:25:32 +, alex.padoly wrote: > I would like to know if the root have a graphical environnement ? Yes, well... it can have. > I don't connect with login root with the password of root but in > terminal window I can connect me as root. Regards. It is not a good idea to

Re: Problen installing Debian

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:30:56 -0400, Robert Mansell wrote: > I installed Debian on my desktop and it works fine. I tried installing > Debian on a laptop and a another desktop and neither computer > is even booting up. Can anyone help? And the error you get is...? And the error happens, at what sta

multiple images and usb not working in kvm

2011-07-03 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi, I am running kvm from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp inside kvm, even when I run it as root. there is always only one dirve (C). I created the other image using kvm-img with qcow2 format. the -usb works onl

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 03/07/2011 15:10, Adrian Levi wrote: I don't see anything on the screen, Can't wake up the screen (it goes blank) no oops, no nothing. Dosen't even respond to a num-lock, caps-lock button press. Adrian OK, so you may want to use a live cd to inspect the Debian logs...? Nicolas -- To UNSUB

Re: NetworkManager (was: Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze)

2011-07-03 Thread Curt
On 2011-07-02, Camaleón wrote: > > And of course, warning about NM can leave the system disconnected is a > very good point (I didn't know NM can take that path...), so in the evnt > this can happen and the OP is using NM, he can just turn it off before > doing the upgrade and turn it on aftwew

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread green
Adrian Levi wrote at 2011-07-03 01:43 -0600: > My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will > hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. If you are not getting any sound anyway, have you tried removing all the snd modules? signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-03 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Jul 2011 at 10:44:51 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I wasn't sure whether you were giving me an example or the exact line I > needed. The above gives: > > X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) > Major opcode of failed request: 150 (RANDR) > Minor op

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-07-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 03/07/11 14:19, lee wrote: Jerome BENOIT writes: The very first stage is to install refit ( http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ) from Mac OS X. And then Debian can be installed quite as usual. For more details see http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro Thanks for the info :) It seems once

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
On 3 July 2011 21:27, lee wrote: > You need to figure out what happens to trigger the freezing.  Are there > any entries in syslog that might indicate something?  There's cron > scripts running over night ... Perhaps the easiest way to approach this > is setting the system clock 12 hours or so ah

Re: Debian 6 causes my SunFire T2000 system to not boot

2011-07-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:43:51AM -0700, Scott Simpson wrote: > I'm using 6.2.0.1 from June 26th. Should be pretty current. I can think of > two > approaches: I see. I overlooked this. Dah ... Sorry for noise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
On 3 July 2011 18:56, Nicolas Bercher wrote: Hi Nicolas, > So, before upgrading the kernel to 2.6.38, where you using the standard > stable Debian kernel (2.6.32)?  If not (but seems yes), maybe downgrading > the kernel back to the stable one is a good thing to test. The problem was also in 2.6

Re: Debian 6 causes my SunFire T2000 system to not boot

2011-07-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Wow SunFire T2000... That is fancy ULTRASPARC machine. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:43:51AM -0700, Scott Simpson wrote: > I'm using 6.2.0.1 from June 26th. Should be pretty current. I can think of > two > approaches: > > 1. Boot version 5 and see if my video card isn't the one mentioned in t

Re: install squeeze con core i5 2500 motherboard 1155

2011-07-03 Thread Pablo Sánchez
lee, i didn't take a look at syslog. dmesg showed they were there. What i ended doing, was play with the hotplug option for each disk on the bios, and it worked. I have the system running, but i'm now trying to learn what that option means . I don't think it's a real hotplug thing, as changing d

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread lee
Adrian Levi writes: > My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. > > My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will > hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. I updated > to 2.6.38 thinking it might be a kernel compatibilit

Re: install squeeze con core i5 2500 motherboard 1155

2011-07-03 Thread lee
Pablo Sánchez writes: > Well, i got an ASUS P8H67-M LX with H67 B3 revision intel chipset with a > core i5 2500 . > > The machine has 3 Samsung 1TB disks , that i see on the bios config, > connected to sata 3gb ports . > > After inserting an usb stick with realtek firmware-realtek 0.28, config

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 04:26:52 T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:36:14 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > you're best sticking with Camaleón if possible - she does run Gnome and > > . . . > > I don't know western names well and I had always thought that Camaleón is > a man, although being "ove

Re: Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 03/07/2011 09:43, Adrian Levi wrote: My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. I updated to 2.6.38 thinking it might be a kernel c

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 03/07/2011 10:25, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, I would like to know if the root have a graphical environnement ? I don't connect with login root with the password of root but in terminal window I can connect me as root. Regards. Alex PADOLY Probably because you have to authorize X co

Squeeze and root in graphical mode

2011-07-03 Thread alex . padoly
Hi, I would like to know if the root have a graphical environnement ? I don't connect with login root with the password of root but in terminal window I can connect me as root. Regards. Alex PADOLY

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 04/02/2011 03:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 10:24 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working an

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-03 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X > which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old > computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I > use the new on

Computer instability under Debian Stable

2011-07-03 Thread Adrian Levi
My home server has been experiencing instability issues running Debian stable. My issue is I have no sound output and overnight the computer will hard lock-up so that the num-lock light won't even toggle. I updated to 2.6.38 thinking it might be a kernel compatibility issue but the problem remains

Re: monitor detection maybe not working - another try

2011-07-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 01:22 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). I'm researching many things from this list etc. to attempt to solve the problem but o