Re: Nvidia Geforce GT 520

2012/1/25 Arno - > > I wish to install Debian 6.0.3. (64 bit) on my PC. I have a Nvidia Geforce GT > 520, which is not on the Debian Hardware compatibility list. I'm a new user > and not familiar with Debian. I would be very grateful if you could give me > clear, step by step instructions. The

Wheezy. Weekly build 23-Jan-2012. "No kernel modules were found" during install.

Hello, list! Trying to install weekly build subj from USB stick. An image in use is 'debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso'. Boot and installer's start are fine but next step shows a message: "No kernel modules were found... mismatch kernel version... etc.". Have no possibility to install from netinstall

Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser

On 24/01/12 22:01, MRH wrote: And I just checked that in Thunderbird 9 at work - the same (attachment tab is empty), but the links work there. So its not related... good to know :) ill keep looking for a solution and post it when find it greets! aL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: ALSA instead of pulseaudio on new sid

On 25/01/2012 03:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 12:37, John Hasler wrote: Scott writes: You'll discover the minor pain of learning Pulse is a very profitable investment. For those of us who are not audiophiles and have very simple audio needs, what does Pulse add? Hi John, a common m

Re: Free software

On 25/01/2012 10:42, Stayvoid wrote: Hello! I want to install Debian. Does it contain any non-free software? How to check it? Is there a way to use Debian without non-free software? http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html King regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: ALSA instead of pulseaudio on new sid - now [OT] serious audiophiles

On 25/01/12 20:07, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 25/01/2012 03:07, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 25/01/12 12:37, John Hasler wrote: >>> Scott writes: > >> >> [*1] Audiophiles use electrostatic speakers, Class A amplifiers, >> and shun the crudities of "digital" sound (apparently). > > They also sl

Re: Nvidia Geforce GT 520

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:41:21 +0100 Arno - wrote: > I wish to install Debian 6.0.3. (64 bit) on my PC. I have a Nvidia Geforce > GT 520, which is not on the Debian Hardware compatibility list. I'm a new > user and not familiar with Debian. I would be very grateful if you could > give me clear, ste

Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

Hello, I'm installing Debian on a new computer and although the install of stable version works fine, after upgrade to testing I am unable to boot on the 3.1 kernel. There is no X on the machine (for the moment) and I get a blank screen a few seconds after boot. I suspect a problem with the graphi

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:56:15 + Rémi Moyen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm installing Debian on a new computer and although the install of > stable version works fine, after upgrade to testing I am unable to > boot on the 3.1 kernel. There is no X on the machine (for the moment) > and I get a blank s

Re: Nvidia Geforce GT 520

richard writes: > If you want to install it the debian way read this:- > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > If you want to install the nvidia way read this lifted from:- > Debian - NVIDIA drivers quick and easy tutorial about how to install NVIDIA > drivers as simply as possible.

Re: Free software

> The main branch is only free software... Are you sure about that? How to check that? Where can I look through the package's license? King regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Re: Free software

Hi! Yes you can exclude all non-free software. If you install Debian, I don't know, where it will be, but I'm very sure, that excluding non-free software is the default. Later on you can decide, what you want. You can always edit /etc/apt/sources/list There you might see lines - roughly - l

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

Rémi Moyen writes: > OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing > system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But > rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it prints at least the > "waiting for udev to be populated" message) and then all I get is a >

Kernel Compiling from scratch

Hello I like to know where can i get the information in detail for compiling kernel, loading modules and installing programs from scratch. i never did it before. I installed virtual box recently and looking to play with it. Thank you Syed Hasan Atizaz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Nvidia Geforce GT 520

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:22:49 +0100 Alberto Luaces wrote: > richard writes: > > > If you want to install it the debian way read this:- > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > > > If you want to install the nvidia way read this lifted from:- > > Debian - NVIDIA drivers quick and easy

Re: Free software

Hello! Yes I am sure about the main branch. One of the main ideas of Debian was to be a distribution of free-software only. I don't know, if they already introduced the non-free branch with the first version, but that's precisely, why it is there as a seperate branch, to make sure, that peopl

Re: Free software

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:24:03 +0300 Stayvoid wrote: > > The main branch is only free software... > Are you sure about that? > How to check that? > Where can I look through the package's license? > Its policy [1] - "Every package in main must comply with the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines

Re: Free software

On 25/01/12 21:24, Stayvoid wrote: >> The main branch is only free software... There are three repositories - you need "main" to build an OS Main is all libre Additionally you may select "contrib" and "non-free". > Are you sure about that? Debian has a legal test:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

On 25/01/12 10:40, Syed Hasan Atizaz wrote: I like to know where can i get the information in detail for compiling kernel, loading modules and installing programs from scratch. i never did it before. I installed virtual box recently and looking to play with it. Download the kernel sources from

Re: System hangs due to NFS share

Sylvain wrote: > I have an NFS share mounted on my Debian testing computer with default > mount options. It works fine but as soon as my computer loses network > access or the NAS is disconnected or shut down, the system becomes > unstable: I would recommend a number of things to review. 1. If t

Re: Free software

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:42:24 +0300 Stayvoid wrote: Hello Stayvoid, > I want to install Debian. > Does it contain any non-free software? How to check it? The main Debian repos have three sections; Main, Contrib & Non-free. > Is there a way to use Debian without non-free software? Don't use th

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

(I made a mistake and answered to the posters individually instead of the list, so I'll post my answers here again. Sorry for that!) Le 25 janvier 2012 10:20, richard a écrit : >> I'm installing Debian on a new computer and although the install of >> stable version works fine, after upgrade to t

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

(again, I mistakenly answered Alberto directly instead of the list, so I repost our exchanges here. Sorry...) Le 25 janvier 2012 10:27, Alberto Luaces a écrit : > If you are not running or have X installed, you can uninstall nouveau > and nvidia-glx packages. Yes, I agree. I installed nvidia-gl

Re: boot failure

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: But may-be /etc/modprobe/options is used at kernel upgrade to create the initrd image. That would explain why the same error occured with my 2 kernels. Running dpkg-reconfigure, I checked that this is true Remains the question "how /etc/modp

Re: Free software

* On 2012 25 Jan 03:43 -0600, Stayvoid wrote: > Hello! > > I want to install Debian. > Does it contain any non-free software? How to check it? > > Is there a way to use Debian without non-free software? The default is the way. That said, you may find that depending on your hardware that the exp

Re: Free software

On 01/25/2012 10:42 AM, Stayvoid wrote: > Hello! > > I want to install Debian. > Does it contain any non-free software? How to check it? > vrms - Virtual Richard M. Stallman can help you . > Is there a way to use Debian without non-free software? >

NIC transferring twice its max rate

I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. I've been doing a dd over ssh for the last hour, and iftop tells me that I'm transmitting at a steady 186Mb, while receiving about 1.2Mb. I read up a bit on full duplex, and as I understand it full duplex means the NIC would be capable of transmitting a

Re: Setting up horde3 on Debian Squeeze

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:32:58 +0100, Csanyi wrote in message <87ipk8n9np.fsf@debian-asztal.excito>: > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:59:06 +0100, Csanyi wrote in message > > <87boq1d00l.fsf@debian-asztal.excito>: > > > >> Knut Esztermann writes: > >> > >> > Csanyi Pal schri

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On Wed 25 Jan 2012 at 09:56:15 +, Rémi Moyen wrote: > OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing > system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But > rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it prints at least the > "waiting for udev to be populate

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. I've been doing a dd over > ssh for the last hour, and iftop tells me that I'm transmitting at a > steady 186Mb, while receiving about 1.2Mb. > > I read up a bit on full duplex, and as I unders

Re: System hangs due to NFS share

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Sylvain wrote: > On 24. 01. 12 09:28, Tom H wrote: >> On 24/01/12 18:50, Sylvain wrote: >>> >>> I tried to SIGKILL the [nfsiod] process but it didn't get killed. I >>> also tried to kill the various rpcbind processes but it didn't change >>> anything. >>> >>> I al

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

isnt it suppose to be /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config ? plus what type of configuration it stores ? just curious. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:22 PM, wrote: > The best tutorial I have found describing the Debian way to compile the > kernel is Steve Powell's pae: > > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinu

Re: boot failure

Pierre Frenkiel writes: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >Remains the question "how /etc/modprobe.d/options was corrupted" >May-be after a power failure, but I thought that this couldn't >happen with a ext4 file system. > The default/normal configuration of ext4 journa

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

Le 25 janvier 2012 14:36, Brian a écrit : > On Wed 25 Jan 2012 at 09:56:15 +, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >> OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing >> system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But >> rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it print

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

The best tutorial I have found describing the Debian way to compile the kernel is Steve Powell's pae: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm There are lots of others, just google around, but be wary of older pages and read Steve's page first. I have no idea how using virtual box may affec

Re: SGE (grid-engine-*) versus open grid scheduler

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:04 PM, francis picabia wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:08:55 -0400, francis picabia wrote: >> >> > Maybe this isn't the best list to discuss grid cluster software, but >> > I'll see... >> >> JFYI, there is also: >> >

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:33:19 + Rémi Moyen wrote: < Gurt big snip> OK different approach. You can identify if its kernel 3 problem or not by booting up off a live cd. Download a Fedora FC16 live CD.. Yes I said Fedora, I've found the hard way that Debian is a bit fussy with graphics card drive

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On 2012-01-25 16:33 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > Well, I'm guessing that at the early stage of the boot some very crude > driver is used and things fail when the kernel tries to load/use > something more complicated. Kernel 3.1 can display something but only > using the "big" characters at startup (

Re: boot failure

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Marc Auslander wrote: To update files that must be correct, one can write a new version, sync, and then use mv to replace the old with the new version. The only way to easily do that seems to always call any editor via a script doing that. The journal_data option pro

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

Le 25 janvier 2012 16:07, richard a écrit : > OK different approach. > You can identify if its kernel 3 problem or not by booting up off a live cd. > Download a Fedora FC16 live CD.. Good point. If I don't find another way to tweak the install, I'll try that. -- Rémi Moyen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

Le 25 janvier 2012 16:07, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2012-01-25 16:33 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >> Well, I'm guessing that at the early stage of the boot some very crude >> driver is used and things fail when the kernel tries to load/use >> something more complicated. Kernel 3.1 can display some

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

On 2012-01-25 09:39:40, Rob Owens wrote: > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. I've been doing a dd over > ssh for the last hour, and iftop tells me that I'm transmitting at a > steady 186Mb, while receiving about 1.2Mb. Perhaps you have compression enabled for ssh? /Allan -- Allan Wind

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > I am also guessing, based on this (why didn't I think about that > earlier?) that in the 3.1 kernel, my card is supposed to be supported > by nouveau, hence it tries to use it (and this causes all my problems) > whereas in 2.6.32 it doesn't even try t

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

Okay..I am telling all in this email -:) My configuration is as such: /dev/md0 = /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1 /dev/md1 = /dev/sda1 and /dev/sb1 My swap partitions are not part of the array or mirror at all - they are just regular partitions - they are: /dev/sdc2 and /dev/sdd2. When I boot the sy

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:03:49PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2012-01-25 09:39:40, Rob Owens wrote: > > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. I've been doing a dd over > > ssh for the last hour, and iftop tells me that I'm transmitting at a > > steady 186Mb, while receiving about 1.2Mb. >

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

Le 25 janvier 2012 18:10, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >> I am also guessing, based on this (why didn't I think about that >> earlier?) that in the 3.1 kernel, my card is supposed to be supported >> by nouveau, hence it tries to use it (and this causes al

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On 2012-01-25 20:38 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > Le 25 janvier 2012 18:10, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: > >>> Kernel 3.2 seems to be still in unstable, I'd rather not install >>> something from there if I can avoid it. >> >> No, 3.2 has been in testing for

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

I am able to compile the kernel for i386, however no initial ram disk image is created, i did with the help of mkinitramfs though it was empty, still unable to boot. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Syed Hasan Atizaz wrote: > isnt it suppose to be > > /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config ? > plus wha

Re: Setting up horde3 on Debian Squeeze

Arnt Karlsen writes: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:32:58 +0100, Csanyi wrote in message > <87ipk8n9np.fsf@debian-asztal.excito>: > >> Arnt Karlsen writes: >> >> > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:59:06 +0100, Csanyi wrote in message >> > <87boq1d00l.fsf@debian-asztal.excito>: >> > >> >> Knut Esztermann wri

KVM virtualisation

Hi, I'm having trouble building a kvm virtual machine, The script I'm using to build this is: #!/bin/bash virt-install \ --connect qemu:///system \ -n deb1 \ -r 512 \ --vcpus=1 \ --os-variant=debiansqueeze \ --accelerate \ -v \ -c /var/lib/libvirt/images/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso \ -w bridg

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

25/01/2012 19:16, Joey L wrote: In-line reply ; > Okay..I am telling all in this email -:) > > My configuration is as such: > /dev/md0 = /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1 > /dev/md1 = /dev/sda1 and /dev/sb1 > > My swap partitions are not part of the array or mirror at all - > they are just regular p

Re: Wheezy. Weekly build 23-Jan-2012. "No kernel modules were found" during install.

Same problem here. After receiving the error, at first it seems possible to continue the installation (as long as one doesn't need the network card). However when entering partman, there seems to be no way to assign a mountpoint to any partition. The only workaround I found so far is this one:

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-01-25 20:38 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: >> Le 25 janvier 2012 18:10, Sven Joachim a écrit : >>> On 2012-01-25 18:04 +0100, Rémi Moyen wrote: Kernel 3.2 seems to be still in unstable, I'd rather not install something from t

Re: NIC transferring twice its max rate

Rob Owens wrote: > I've got an onboard NIC, supposedly 100Mb. > [...] > I've got gigabit networking between the two computers So do you have 1Gb or 100Mb connectivity? CHris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

duplicity backups are unidirectional? : local_directory -> remote_host

duplicity full [options] source_directory target_url Duplicity enters restore mode if it sees the "URL" before the local directory. - this sorta sucks as this mandates the "source" to be a local directory - means I can backup "this" machine's stuff elsewhere using duplicity. If i wanted to

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:21:46 -0500 (EST), Syed Hasan Atizaz wrote: > > I am able to compile the kernel for i386, however no initial ram disk > image is created, i did with the help of mkinitramfs though it was > empty, still unable to boot. Did you use the --initrd option when you invoked make-kp

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

Le 25 janvier 2012 20:09, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> I don't want to nominally install the 3.2 >> kernel, I only want the latest one, so I think I'll stick to >> linux-image-amd64 and wait until that updates to 3.2. Should be quite >> soon, I guess. > > As long as you don't have untrusted users on

Fwd: Mr. Geissert "Need Some Help" Debian GNU/Linux unstable "Sid" - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/NETINST Binary 20090704-21:29

-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Mr. Geissert "Need Some Help" Debian GNU/Linux unstable "Sid" - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/NETINST Binary 20090704-21:29 Date: Wednesday 25 January 2012, 17:08:36 From: maujhsn <1037302...@gmail.com> To: geiss...@debian.org I downloaded this

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:35 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 25/01/2012 19:16, Joey L wrote: >> Okay..I am telling all in this email -:) >> >> My configuration is as such: >> /dev/md0 = /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1 >> /dev/md1 = /dev/sda1 and /dev/sb1 >> >> My swap partitions are not part o

Re: duplicity backups are unidirectional? : local_directory -> remote_host

[About remote back-ups w/ duplicity vs. rdiff-backup] I am unfamiliar with duplicity, but use rdiff-backup regularly, as well an rsync/rsnapshot combination. One thing that I like to do is to separate the remote transport from the actual back-up process -- there can be performance penalties

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

On 2012-01-25 23:51 +0100, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> The metapackage has not yet migrated, it seems. But 3.1 really is not >> supported anymore, neither by Debian nor by upstream. > > This can't be. I installed a testing box and upgraded it to unsta