Hi all,
I ran into problems with Gnome automounting CDs and USB flash
drives over the weekend. I have been sticking with Sarge, and I had
been using a backports kernel (2.6.15) that I custom compiled back in
February, but when I bought a new video card recently I found that I
had to compil
andy wrote:
Dave Witbrodt wrote:
Hi all,
I ran into problems with Gnome automounting CDs and USB flash drives
over the weekend. I have been sticking with Sarge, and I had been
using a backports kernel (2.6.15) that I custom compiled back in
February, but when I bought a new video card
Gustavo Franco wrote:
(...)
Since Etch is nearly ready to be released, I decided that my best
bet was to keep the new kernel and replace everything else! ;-) I
chose to dist-upgrade to Etch.
I've been using Etch now since Sunday night, and everything is
working really smooth. Everything
Liam O'Toole wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:10:25 -0500
Dave Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
I thought it was particularly hilarious that I had to recompile my
entire kernel, whereas my original decision to upgrade to Etch was
intended to allow me to preserve it.
Colin wrote:
Dave Witbrodt wrote:
Thanks for the tip. As it turns out I already knew about this. It's
just that AMD/ATI just released a brand new driver package this month,
and I wanted that:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy fglrx-kernel-src
fglrx-kernel-src:
Inst
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
here i go, installing the hurd. I'll report back.
If you don't hear from me by the spring, I'm either dead or found
paradise. Either way send whiskey and reinforcements.
What hardware are you installing on? (Just curious.)
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g a stock kernel, you may have to blacklist a module
or two.
I've been very happy with the ATI drivers since I got them to work
after a false start or two. Hope you get it to work on your box!
Dave Witbrodt
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Redefined Horizons wrote:
However, he is having some problem with his graphics card. He is using
the ATI Sapphire Radeon 1650. Does anyone now if it is still necessary
to go through these steps to install support for the video card?
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/4447
I have used 2 different
FYI,
I run Debian Sarge on a P4 Dell Dimension 8400 workstation. I use
a self-compiled kernel and the proprietary ATI driver for my X300SE
video card. I also have an older machine (HP Pavilion 8766C) with
proprietary NVidia drivers for the onboard Vanta dinosaur.
On my older machine I ha
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Hey thanks, I've solved it now actually...
Somebody else posted a similar problem and said they'd worked around it
by setting AlwaysRestartServer to true in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
This fixed it! Thanks for the reply tho - hopefully this fix might help
someone else too?
I
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Dave Witbrodt writes:
I use Sid, and have been interested in the appearance of the new
ia32-apt-get facility.
I see that ia32-apt-get has its own configuration files in
/etc/ia32-apt
After reading /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/README.Debian, I'm a bit
con
Does the new 'ia32-apt-get' system honor anything in /etc/apt after
initially being installed, such as 'apt.conf'? Or should 'apt.conf' be
copied to '/etc/ia32-apt'?
Dave W.
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Anyone know what happened to kernel-archive.buildserver.net? Seems like
it has been down for about 2 weeks now.
Curious,
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Mark Allums wrote:
Anyone with experience with 2.6.31 yet? Anything we need to know?
What's the consensus?
I compiled my own 2.6.31-rc6 on Aug. 18. Out of over a dozen boots, I
experienced:
- a couple of hangs during boot
- some hangs logging out and logging in as a different user
(
KMS works very fine here (recent Intel graphics) since I learned that
you have to disable the framebuffer in the kernel config. :) That's a
really great feature. Switching from X to a VT is almost as fast as
switching workspaces.
Cool! I look forward to playing with it.
My understanding is tha
Peter F Bradshaw wrote:
Hi;
Anybody know which configuration file Exim4 uses when it is configured
for "non split" configuration on Debian?
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
Many people can get away with just tweaking the debconf settings with
dpkg-reconfigure exim4
Those settings are in /
Ken Heard wrote:
I want a new display adapter/video card with two DVI ports to use for a
two screen setup to replace the adapter/card built in to my Foxconn
mainboard which has only one VGA port. I found a place in Toronto where
I can buy a Radeon X1650 XT for CA$40.00. I checked the URLs in
th
Wayne Topa wrote:
I hope to install Courier font in my lenny but I did not find the
proper package.
Whant package should I install ?
Thanks in advance.
You should learn how to use the Debian tools.
1. Install the apt-cache package.
2. Read the apt-cache man file ie man apt-cache.
There i
Chris Jones wrote:
.. oh bugger.. I meant the framebuffer lists, naturally.
To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer? I have some framebuffer
issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable people,
but I don't know where to look or subscribe.
Dave W.
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Chris Jones wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:49:10PM EDT, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
To which "framebuffer lists" do you refer? I have some framebuffer
issues of my own that I would like to discuss with knowledgeable
people, but I don't know where to look or subscribe.
Yo
T o n g a écrit :
My CPU is AMD 64. What's the latest and easiest power management tool for
AMD64?
powernowd is less complicated than cpufreqd or cpudyn, but I also heard
sayings that the 2.6 kernel ondemand cpufreq governor might be even more
simpler, and there are many other tools like acpi
T o n g wrote:
The default kernel governor is ONDEMAND, so Tong has probably been using
CPU frequency controls all along without knowing it. :)
Not after I've installed a bunch of packages that google implies
necessary, because I'm using a minimum set of packages.
What are the minimum set
T o n g wrote:
What are the recommended system monitoring tool for AMD64?
I tried xmbmon, but it doesn't seems to show me the mb/cpu temperature,
fan speed etc.
I then tried xsensors, but get
% xsensors
Sensor 'k8temp' not supported by xsensors!
This is also a matter of personal pref
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
I have used reportbug successfully a few times with the urwid interface
without any problems. However, recently I can't get reportbug to load
urwid or even gtk2 ui settings.
Tried to look at the bug reports posted on debian but no luck. Even
tried reconfiguring and usin
Randy Patterson wrote:
My intention at this point is to make a detailed list of the components on a
particular system so I can remove everything that is not needed. These would
be older systems that will never be upgraded or need new hardware so the
kernel don't need a lot of options concerning
Randy Patterson wrote:
So on a dedicated system that is used for nothing but running a processor
intensive application 24/7, do you think there would be any real increase in
performance from a custom kernel?
My gut reaction is "no," but I do not claim to have data to back that
up. If there i
Sandro Tosi wrote:
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:07, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
I have used reportbug successfully a few times with the urwid interface
without any problems. However, recently I can't get reportbug to load
urwid or even gtk2 ui settings.
Tried to look a
If so, would you be so kind as to post your 'dmesg'?
Thanks,
Dave W.
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No improvement. The Log Out button quits the X
session. The Shut Down and Reboot buttons
produce a complaint and then quit the X session.
Does the reboot/shutdown gadget work properly
for everyone else using Xfce in Squeeze?
I'm using Sid, and it is working just fine. The behavior you're
gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Thing is, I ran memtest86+ last night but it the computer froze midway
through test #3 of the first pass. I assumed it was because I was running
a 32 bit version of memtest on a 64 bit architecture, but lacking anything
better to try, I ran it again. Sure enough, there w
What is CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE ?
How can I use it to update my Debian GNU/Linux system kernel to 2.6.30 ?
You cannot "use it" to update your kernel. It is merely one kernel
configuration option among many.
The CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE option is for providing a text file (during
the kernel
I use Sid, and have been interested in the appearance of the new
ia32-apt-get facility.
I see that ia32-apt-get has its own configuration files in
/etc/ia32-apt
After reading /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/README.Debian, I'm a bit
confused on how this new system works
1) The README.Debian
Peter Crawford wrote:
Folk,
A year or two back in Etch, xfsm-shutdown-helper
with the appropriate entry in /etc/sudoers, allowed
"Log Out", "Restart" and "Shut Down".
Now in Lenny, this message is on the console after
Log Out.
** Message: xfsm-shutdown-helper.c:215: Hal not available or do
Paul E Condon wrote:
There are several command options to update alternative that require
that the user supply a name or a specific link group. 'link group' is
a term of art for which there is much discussion in the man page, but
I don't see instructions for merely listing all the legitimate cur
Jen Craigson wrote:
> I still cannot normally operate any USB printer connected to my system
> after I upgraded to stable Lenny with the stock 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel.
>
> It's clear now after more testing that this problem described below is
> not ehci_hcd specific as I can get the "module reload"
David Goodenough wrote:
I recently upgraded the kernel on an elderly Acer laptop from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32
and found that it hung just after initialising the pcmcia socket. Looking at
the dmesg output from booting 2.6.26 there seemed to be something about
ACPI interrupts, so I added noapic and it no
On 04/10/2010 10:37 AM, vr wrote:
I just picked up a laptop that has that display adapter.
lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD
5600 Series]
The highest resolution I've been able to get so far is 1400x1040 but using
the VESA driver.
xrandr:
Screen 0:
On 03/10/2011 09:46 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
From: Liam O'Toole
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:24:29 + (UTC)
I'm not aware of a kernel module named v4l1compat, so I can't see how
explicitly loading such a module would have helped anyway.
[...]
The problem you were facing was a userspa
David Baron wrote:
There are 2.6.32-rc's around as well, but not on Debian.
Why should there not be current stable kernel version on Debian?
I always compile my own. Question is that if Debian is keeping it back, is it
safe.
Version 2.6.31 is available in "experimental". You can use
'kernel
Frank Miles wrote:
Has anyone tried installing 'squeeze' recently on a i7/860 machine?
[...]
Any insights welcome!
Isn't Core i7 an amd64 architecture, instead of ia64? I think you need
to burn another installer CD, instead of that first coaster you burned.
Dave W.
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Neal Hogan wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Andreas Ronnquist
wrote:
Hi!
I need to do a alsaconf after every boot, otherwise I don't get any
sound. This is on a ABit motherboard, Nvidia nforce 590 chipset, with
built-in sound. How can I make it configure the built-in sound-card
automatic
Steven Demetrius wrote:
Sthu Deus wrote:
I have ATI x1100 on a laptop and in x-server logs I see that it load
>> Radeon driver with GLX module... - AFAIK it should allow 3D direct
>> rendering - but it is not - visually and the glxinfo utility states
>> the same. It also states about setting
[
Having spent just a day in testing I am not happy with the quantity of
bugs.
[...]
But at the same time I want the latest and greatest.
These 2 comments are a contradiction.
Make a decision between those two, and you will have made your decision
regarding whether to switch away from Ubuntu.
Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
G'day,
I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to
copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on
another machine via network.
I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running
ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop r
Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
Dave Witbrodt wrote:
Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
G'day,
I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to
copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on
another machine via network.
I've got about 100GB of data I ne
Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 06:59:48AM -0700, deb...@toursbymexico.com wrote:
I have a doubt about kernel compilation. Two days ago I compiled by hand
2.6.31.6 and it crashed during the boot process. The configuration was
made by hand, starting from the default configuration and
David Baron wrote:
Getting a lot of warnings about this on recent udev upgrades. I tried
substituting in some of the rules files but might have caused problems. Fact
is that this was tested with the recent broken udev and problems were (also?)
from udev itself.
Should ATTR be simply substitut
I Rattan wrote:
I am trying to install hp deskjet 6122 printer via cups page.
It finds a driver that has the attribute:
.. Foomatic/gutenprint-ijs.5.2
and configures it. When a test page is printed the error
message ".. guntenprint-ijs" is not installed.
What package might contain this soft
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:54:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-12-14 13:28 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
Be sure to avoid Nvidia graphics cards then.
Why?
There is "nv" driver (2D) and soon it will be "nouveau" (2D+3D) driver
available. Both are open sour
Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:28:19 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 14:39, Camaleón wrote:
That "100 people" was just a "supposition", sir :-)
Hmmm, then that sentence needs some qualifiers or something:
"so even *if we had* 100 dedicated engineers working on A
Stephen Powell wrote:
Things have changed in the area of text-mode console fonts between
Lenny and Squeeze. And I'm not happy about it.
[snip: that was long!]
By running "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup" I can get a VGA font of
the right point size (as long as what I need is 8, 14, or 16).
Merciadri Luca wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
Hi,
I have two folders, say .../source/ and .../destination/.
There are many files in /source/ and in /destination/. There are some
more files in /source/. There are so many files in /source/ that I
cannot check the ones that
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor.
I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source
Because you built your own, it becomes more difficult for the rest
of
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt i'm still having the same failure message, there's something amiss from
what i had done?
Definitely. If your setup was correct, it would be working.
I would like to see
Paul Cartwright wrote:
on my 4-year old Dell laptop, running Ubuntu, I now have a nice new 2.6.32.1
kernel running! at first it couldn't boot, then I noticed that there was no
initrd.. I "forgot" that option... once I built it again, it now boots.
SO, I just have to go back through and make it
Paul Cartwright wrote:
so, the config file works over & over? even for different kernels?
Not exactly, but almost. When a new kernel is released, you can reuse
most of your old .config by copying it into your Linux source top-level
directory and running 'make oldconfig'. This answers the lo
Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your kernel image file? I also
use lilo and no initrd. I'm using 2.6.31.1 with Lenny and have not run
into any boot problems yet.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12781374 Oct 29 18:11 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31-
davidb_2.6.31-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
-rw
On 02/21/2011 05:36 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello Paul Cartwright,
Am 2011-02-21 16:01:58, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
$ grep 'XID collision, trouble ahead' .xsession-errors | wc
275772 1930404 18116684
wow, ya got me beat:)
$ grep 'XID collision, trouble ahead' .xsession-errors | wc
On 02/20/2011 03:40 AM, Jim McCloskey wrote:
[...]
And it seemed to work. /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports that direct rendering and
acceleration are enabled. And glxinfo reports:
%glxinfo | grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR
On 08/01/2011 08:21 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
I haven't tried this out myself yet, but this may be another symptom
of Debian bug report 635536.
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635563).
At the very least, the above bug report illustrates that there
are known problems with kernel-
On 08/02/2011 04:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 8/1/2011 9:44 PM, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
I was a long-time user of make-kpkg, but since I learned how to use the
in-kernel deb-pkg target I have been taking the Debian Kernel Team's
advice and recommending building custom kernels that way.
A
On 08/02/2011 07:45 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:44:46 -0400 (EDT), Dave Witbrodt wrote:
My understanding is that the Debian Kernel Team recommends using the
'make deb-pkg' target now; they argued that kernel-package should be
considered deprecated, but Manoj
On 05/04/2010 03:27 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
Hi. Just finished a fresh Squeeze install, xfce as the main manager.
Well, I've used xfce before, along with lots of others in Debian
because it's so bloody easy to have more than one. There has always
been a "Debian" entry in the main xfce menu, that
On 05/20/2010 01:03 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010 04:19:22 +
"RyanJB" wrote:
That's odd. Mine is 3.5.9 too but I didn't notice any crashes. Does
all your tab crash or just on specific websites? If you suspect
javascript is the problem, try disabling it and see what happe
On 07/26/2010 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
There's another advice I need to give: while dpkg-dev will automatically
use fakeroot when necessary, make-kpkg currently does not unless you set
ROOT_CMD=fakeroot in the environment. You can put this setting into
~/.kernel-pkg.conf (I have it there fo
However, I would still like to know how to get the driver into the debian
installer image. It seems that there should be a way for the installer to
deal with this situation. Like maybe identifying hardware for which no
driver is available in the install and asking the user to provide it during
Stan Banash wrote:
Thanks for the info it is much appreciated. Dave please send the link, I
would like to review the info. Although, my situation is not exactly the
same as yours. In my case the Optiplex bios disables the IDE controller on
the motherboard when a second one (the Rocket 133) is ad
At the start, my ThinkPad (A31) was dual booted via grub, Windows XP
on /dev/hda1, sid on the rest, 2.6.15-homemade kernel. So I added a
second hard drive in the UltraBay. I then copied the XP partition to
the new drive -- dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=$((1*1024*1024)). I
double checked: XP b
Here's the story, in more detail, for the archives. I rewrote the
relevant stanza of /boot/grub/menu.lst to read
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hdb1, "map" lines added by hand.
title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map
I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a
new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an
issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with
the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to work, though. As soon
as the
Simon Meelich wrote:
I guess I will give the Etch CD a shot, haven't tried this so far.
Thanks for the advise.
If I don't find a solution, I will go ahead and buy an IDE drive to
install Debian to; I just can't believe, that I can't get it to work
with SATA and this really bugs me... :-)
A
Simon Meelich wrote:
Dave,
YOU'RE THE MAN! Thanks a lot for the advise with Etch. It worked
without any problems, you stopped a three day pain... :-)
Very glad to see it worked! When I had to install to an old drive,
then transfer to the newer ones, it was really a PITA.
Be careful
-f $node
mknod $node c 195 $i || error "mknod \"$node\""
chmod 0666 $node || error "chmod \"$node\""
done
node="/dev/nvidiactl"
rm -f $node
mknod $node c 195 255|| error "mknod \"$node\""
chmod 0666 $node || error "chmod \"$node\""
Now 'gdm' starts just fine when I reboot, and '/var/log/XFree86.0.log'
shows no errors.
Like I said, tomorrow I'm going to read up on 'udev' and see if I can
do this The Right Way. Maybe someone else can explain it to me in the
meantime? I would be grateful for that, too.
In any case, I hope this scroll may be of some usefulness for folks
out there wanting to use old NVidia drivers with new custom kernels on
Debian.
Dave Witbrodt
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Is there a wiki somewhere where I can put my experiences installing
Debian on my laptop, similar to the Gentoo wiki? I know of
wiki.debian.org, but it doesn't seem to have an appropriate area.
If your hardware isn't already listed here, you could follow the
instructions:
http://kmuto.jp/d
Just out of curiosity, what is the Debian Way to change compiler
settings like -Ox and -march? Can this be done with command line
options when using higher level tools like 'apt-get -b source '
(with more options specified here, obviously)? Or does one download
the source .deb, hack something
Please correct me if I'm wrong:
About 2 years ago I started reading up about Linux when I was first
decided whether to try it, and which distro to use. I took about a
year before I finally installed Debian last May.
During that time I remember reading that some programs that write to
CDs or
During that time I remember reading that some programs that write to
CDs or DVDs were caching data in /tmp before burning. It seems like
using tmpfs for /tmp under that kind of scenario would be a real
problem. My old box would probably roll over and die, and my newer
one probably would if
Tonight I logged out from one user account and logged into another.
When Gnome came up, there was no sound. I checked the volume, read
some documentation, and eventually checked ~/.xsession-errors. I
discovered that I was getting errors with the 'esd' sound daemon.
After some Googling, I fou
Tonight I logged out from one user account and logged into another.
When Gnome came up, there was no sound. I checked the volume, read
some documentation, and eventually checked ~/.xsession-errors. I
discovered that I was getting errors with the 'esd' sound daemon.
After some Googling, I foun
Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
I was contacted by SBC(telephone service) about DSL service which I
want. [...]
If there is anyone using this
service via SBC, I would certainly appreciate hearing from you.
Appreciate any replys.
Leonard Chatagnier
I've been using SBC DSL for about
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