HOWTO: getting black borders on a widescreen display

2006-08-19 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
I've been using Debian for several years, and am currently running Sid. I recently installed Starcraft under Wine, which insists upon running in 640x480. My monitor is a 20" widescreen (1650x1080). The modes picked by the NVIDIA driver all stretch the screen to the full width of the display, but

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-27 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
r). You should have one of these two blocks in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as described here: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/DRI6.html#10 # All users get full access Section "DRI" Mode "0666" EndSection # Only users in group "video" get full access Section "DR

Re: Howto install sarge to boot on lvm on raid5 ???

2005-05-12 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 00:56 -0500, helices wrote: I am using root on LVM, although without RAID using kernel 2.6; installed with the Sarge installer. > The first two options offered /dev/md0 -- neither of which are accepted > by this process. The third option (advanced) appears to allow me to >

Re: Troubleshooting 802.11b wireless

2004-03-10 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 03:59, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:48, Joe Carey wrote: > > > It's the wrong driver. You're using the driver for an > > > Agere/Proxim/Orinoco c

Re: Troubleshooting 802.11b wireless

2004-03-09 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
thout actually building my own kernel, what would it take to get a kernel source tree that matched the one used to build the stock Debian kernel verbatim? Thanks, Jonathan Brandmeyer > Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > > >I'm trying to get a brand new Prism 2.5 based 802.11b wireless e

Re: make-kpkg and signing program

2004-03-09 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
an page, they direct dpkg-buildpackage to not sign the resulting files. HTH, Jonathan Brandmeyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Troubleshooting 802.11b wireless

2004-03-09 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
n, I got several of this error instead: hermes @ MEM 0xe090a000: Error -16 issuing command. hermes @ MEM 0xe090a000: Error -16 issuing command. hermes @ MEM 0xe090a000: Error -16 issuing command. which repeated until I ran `modprobe -r orinoco_pci` So, can anyone help me debug this problem? The card wor

Re: OSS -> ALSA migration trouble: no sound

2004-02-19 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 18:27, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 18:03, Chris Metzler wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:14:20 -0500 > > Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm attempting to migrate from my (wo

Re: OSS -> ALSA migration trouble: no sound

2004-02-19 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 18:03, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:14:20 -0500 > Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm attempting to migrate from my (working) OSS driver to the ALSA stuff > > in preparation for upgrading to the 2.6 ke

OSS -> ALSA migration trouble: no sound

2004-02-19 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
've tried XMMS, zine, and mplayer. All are silent and do not give any errors or warnings WRT sound. I would really like to give the new 2.6 kernel a try, but if I can't even get ALSA to work with 2.4, what's the point? I'd appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks, Jonathan B

Re: CD Writer does not work for audio CD

2003-12-31 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
a cooked ioctl CDROM. > Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface > No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device > /dev/scd0 > You need to set the permissions on the generic scsi device file corresponding to your cdrom device. chown root:cdrom /dev/sg0

Re: JBuilder installer causes kernel panic on Sarge

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
contain any reference to the hfs driver (the kernel would have written something out in that event, wouldn't it?). Any other thoughts or suggestions? Should I take it up with the LKML, and if so, is there anything more that they will want? Thanks, Jonathan Brandmeyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

JBuilder installer causes kernel panic on Sarge

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
starts to work and immediately causes a kernel panic. If there is anything else I can provide to help debug this problem, please ask. Thanks, Jonathan Brandmeyer The kernel's last words to the console: hfs_fs: unable to locate alternate MDB hfs_fs: continuing without an alternate MDB h

Dual-boot w/ Debian on external HDD

2003-11-20 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
exclusively from said external drive? Thanks, Jonathan Brandmeyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB mouse phantom devices

2003-08-14 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
ve any need for it, I just want my mouse to work with X. Thanks for any help you can provide, Jonathan Brandmeyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB mouse phantom devices (SOLVED)

2003-08-14 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 21:08, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 00:00:22 +0200, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > > [configuring USB HID mouse] > > I'm using the stock 2.4.21 kernel on Sid with separately compiled > > openafs and nvidia modules. The required US

Re: Disk Corruption SOLVED

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 21:00, Anita Lewis wrote: --snip-- > I still think you could just put boot=/dev/hda in > lilo.conf and run it happily. If windows will boot with other=/dev/hda1 > using the floppy, then I see no reason why you could not install it LILO > into the mbr of that first drive. Hav

Re: Disk Corruption: SOLVED

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
And permanantly broken. A detailed read of /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt reveales this telling entry: --quote-- Two disks, Linux on second disk, first disk has no extended partition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If there is neither a Linux partition nor an

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:40, Anita Lewis wrote: > Ok, that's a step in the right direction. We know that the lilo.conf is > working. If you hit TAB during the LILO startup before it goes off into > Linux, You will probably see windows as a choice and you could type that in > and go to xp. >

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
- Original Message - From: > > I'm thinking there is another way to make sure that you are using the LILO > that is getting written. Try writing it to a floppy. Edit /etc/lilo.conf and > put > > boot=/dev/fd0 > > in place of boot=/dev/hda Actually, I have been using /dev/hdb1 without p

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /dev/hdb1*162497983+ 83Linux > /dev/hdb26386996030 82 Linux swap > /dev/hdb3 187392130001387+83 Linux > /dev/hdb439224164 1951897+

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
The drive is 60GB. You are saying that the extended partition should consume all of the space that may be parceled out as logical partitions, Right? I am going to try it and see. Thanks, Jonathan - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, Febru

Re: xine audio gui setting

2003-02-03 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
> I've gone into the gui setup, and under the audio tab for "audio driver > to use" field the default is null. I suspect that explains the lack of > sound, but I'm at a loss as to what to put it there. I ran into the exact same problem recently and this is what I did: Start xine from a terminal w

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-03 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
Here is my lilo.conf (comments omitted) if it helps. This configuration has not changed in a while, and it used to work fine. I don't think that the problem is in here but... lba32 boot=/dev/hdb1 root=/dev/hdb1 compact install=/boot/boot.b delay=20 map=/boot/map vga=normal image=/vmlinuz lab

Re: Errors after Kernel-updates

2003-02-03 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
> The update went without flaws except that on every boot I get theese messages: > - /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.18-686-smp/modules.dep > - insmod: cannot locate module * > - cannot read /etc/mtab no such file or directory I get the same thing, but I have been blowing it

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-03 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
ajlewis wrote: > If you cannot get mounted on anything and can't find a partition table with > 'fdisk /dev/hdb' then you might want to try gpart or rescuept for finding > the partition info and then rewriting the table with fdisk. --snip-- > Forget this! I was thinking of booting with a rescue di

Re: Disk Corruption (was: Disk formatting)

2003-02-03 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
> if you can see all the directories and mount all your partitions > from an emergency boot disk, try re-running lilo and booting > again. No luck. I re-ran LILO this morning, and nothing changed. Any other ideas? Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Disk Corruption (was: Disk formatting)

2003-02-02 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
> Something VERY BAD has happened. When I attempted to format the disk, with > mkfs.ext3, it reported that the partition table for that partition said 0 > size, and I should reboot the computer to re-read the partion table. When I > rebooted, instead of LILO, I saw an endless stream of "01 " repe

Disk Corruption (was: Disk formatting)

2003-02-02 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
repeating without end! I can boot into BIOS, and probably an emergency disk, but that is all. HELP! -Jonathan - Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Brandmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 8:30 PM Subject: Disk format

Disk formatting

2003-02-02 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
When I installed Debian woody, I allocated only part of my available HD space to it, like this: hdb1: 512MB: / hdb2: 1GB: swap hdb3: 30GB: /usr free space: ~27GB Now, I found that /home has taken up almost all of /'s available space. So, I created a new logical partion from some free space, as /d

Re: kernel-2.4.18 module mis-install

2003-01-27 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
> "Jonathan Brandmeyer" <...> writes: > > Installed the stock kernel-image-2.4.18-i686 debian package, with dselect. > > Installed and unpacked kernel-source-2.4.18, with dselect and tar. > > Downloaded and unpacked nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source

[newbie] kernel-2.4.18 module mis-install

2003-01-27 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
My system is a PIII, with woody 3.0_r0. I am installing the nvidia kernel driver for a M64 card. It went like this: Installed the stock kernel-image-2.4.18-i686 debian package, with dselect. Installed and unpacked kernel-source-2.4.18, with dselect and tar. Downloaded and unpacked nvidia-kernel-s