Re: Re: Wheezy missing IDE modules

2013-05-13 Thread rlwbonsai
The 3.8 kernel from Sid is much worse for this problem. The 3.2.0-4 default Wheezy kernel is bad. The default Squeeze kernel 2.6.32-5-486 works with gxine to render good video. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Wheezy missing IDE modules

2013-05-12 Thread rlwbonsai
Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy resulted in stuttering video when trying to watch a DVD movie with gxine. (The upgrade left totem totally unusable so don't know if the stutter occurs or not) The drive is an ATA/ATAPI-4 compliant drive capable of UDMA2. Booting into the default i386 kernel results i

Re: RE: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
Thanks. The Gnome terminal is now usable in XFCE. Can't check rxvt because trying to start rxvt crashes X. Trying to start it a second time, after logging in from the first crash, crashed the system. I like rxvt from past experience but it seems not to be an option in Wheezy. I really, really

Re: RE: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
Gnome-session-fallback is installed. Classic Gnome is in the login menu. My comments relate to that. Not sure what you mean by 'default profile'. My guess is ~/.bashrc since I don't have a ~/.profile. I think the relevant section of ~/.bashrc is: # enable color support of ls and also add hand

Re: Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
This is my sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 ( 20060314)]/ etch main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch main #deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian squeeze main contrib #deb-

Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails

2013-05-06 Thread rlwbonsai
I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This laptop has successfully run Sarge, Etch, Lenny and Squeeze and was s