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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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
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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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

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 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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

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

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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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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 : 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

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