Re: Getting xorg to use the newly installed nvidia drivers
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:31:27PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: I'm pretty sure. Just to make sure I re-ran 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' and configured it for low priority (as window shot should show). Here's the list of nvidia packages installed on this system: Well it turns out that the latest xserver-xorg (from january 2008) has now stopped asking a lot of questions and simply assumes the Xserver will autodetect the right driver by itself. Of course it could choose nv instead of nvidia (and likely does) making for a lousy solution. I guess the debian X team has decided to make life harder for most of us. You will have to manually specify the 'Driver "nvidia"' in your section for configured video device for now it would seem. You already had to edit it manually for lots of driver specific options, so I guess they haven't made it that much worse than it was before. It they were trying to get rid of stupid questions, perhaps the question about emulating 3 mouse buttons could go away since if X detects a real 3 button mouse it turns off the emulation anyhow. Really appreciate it. Thanks. -- José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path to real wisdom begins with a deep loving respect for the ever living God (Prov. 1:7) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting xorg to use the newly installed nvidia drivers
José Alburquerque wrote: Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:56:40AM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: Hi. Would anyone know how I might get xserver-xorg to use the nvidia-glx driver package I just installed (I installed the nvidia-kernel package using m-a, etc.)? I've tried, `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and gone through the questions, but it never asks me which driver to use. I'm running an up-to-date lenny system, have a GeForce FX 5200 and debconf is configured to process all priorities (ie. ignore questions with lower priority than 'low'). Would I be missing something? Thanks. Can't think of any reason then. Are you SURE it is set to do all levels of questions in debconf? nvidia-glx package is installed? I'm pretty sure. Just to make sure I re-ran 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' and configured it for low priority (as window shot should show). Here's the list of nvidia packages installed on this system: [12:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia ii nvidia-glx 169.12-1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.24-1-amd64 169.12-1+2.6.24-6 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1-0.1NVIDIA binary kernel module common files ii nvidia-kernel-source 169.12-1 NVIDIA binary kernel module source ii nvidia-settings 1.0+20070502-1Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-xconfig 1.0+20070502-1The NVIDIA X Configuration Tool I didn't mention that I also seem to get an error message when I run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. The first question that it asks is if it should use kernel framebuffer device interface. The last question it asks is if it should emulate 3-button mouse and then it "finishes up" with this message: [12:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Element/Gnome/Select.pm line 33, line 4. xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080423124136 -- José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path to real wisdom begins with a deep loving respect for the ever living God (Prov. 1:7) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting xorg to use the newly installed nvidia drivers
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:56:40AM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: Hi. Would anyone know how I might get xserver-xorg to use the nvidia-glx driver package I just installed (I installed the nvidia-kernel package using m-a, etc.)? I've tried, `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and gone through the questions, but it never asks me which driver to use. I'm running an up-to-date lenny system, have a GeForce FX 5200 and debconf is configured to process all priorities (ie. ignore questions with lower priority than 'low'). Would I be missing something? Thanks. Can't think of any reason then. Are you SURE it is set to do all levels of questions in debconf? nvidia-glx package is installed? I'm pretty sure. Just to make sure I re-ran 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' and configured it for low priority (as window shot should show). Here's the list of nvidia packages installed on this system: [12:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia ii nvidia-glx 169.12-1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.24-1-amd64 169.12-1+2.6.24-6 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1-0.1NVIDIA binary kernel module common files ii nvidia-kernel-source 169.12-1 NVIDIA binary kernel module source ii nvidia-settings 1.0+20070502-1Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-xconfig 1.0+20070502-1 The NVIDIA X Configuration Tool -- José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path to real wisdom begins with a deep loving respect for the ever living God (Prov. 1:7) <>
Getting xorg to use the newly installed nvidia drivers
Hi. Would anyone know how I might get xserver-xorg to use the nvidia-glx driver package I just installed (I installed the nvidia-kernel package using m-a, etc.)? I've tried, `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and gone through the questions, but it never asks me which driver to use. I'm running an up-to-date lenny system, have a GeForce FX 5200 and debconf is configured to process all priorities (ie. ignore questions with lower priority than 'low'). Would I be missing something? Thanks. -- José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] The path to real wisdom begins with a deep loving respect for the ever living God (Prov. 1:7) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nspluginwrapper and libc6 2.6-4 (and higher)
Ben Butler wrote: I just had/have a need to see WMV3 (Windows Media 9) content from time to time, especially on the web. Unfortunately, that's only supported by the 32-bit version of Mplayer (As I mentioned, it's really not such an issue any more as most larger sites that relied upon Microsoft's proprietary WMV technology have moved on to Adobe's proprietary Flash technology for their streaming video). --Ben. -- "I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had." --Tears for Fears, "Mad World" Strange, I haven't encountered a site with windows media that I haven't been able to play here. Would you send me a link so I can test? Thanks. -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nspluginwrapper and libc6 2.6-4 (and higher)
Ben Butler wrote: Just out of interest, why do you have the chroot's library paths in your ld.so.conf path? Is it to save yourself from having to use schroot/dchroot to launch an application? I would advise against that, although I have no firm reasoning as to why! Mainly for Mplayer, to go about the "transparent" method of launching it through a shell script using schroot (substituted for dchroot) documented here: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356 It really works quite well to "fool" Mplayer-plugin into launching the 32-bit version of Mplayer when viewing embedded content, which used to make _almost _as much multimedia content viewable as nspluginwrapper (now even CNN's gone to Flash video...). For that matter, it also works well for viewing/encoding the odd video from the command line. --Ben. -- "I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had." --Tears for Fears, "Mad World" Hi. I think that mplayerplug-in is very usable without a chroot. I use it on this system to watch all sorts of media from quicktime to realmedia to wmv, asf, etc. I've gotten the packages from the debian-multimedia.org repositories (mplayer, mplayerplug-in, etc) and the realmedia (essential) codecs (for 64bit) off the mplayer site. I installed the codecs in /usr/lib/codecs and everything works nicely without a chroot. ;-) -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug in acpi ? (update)
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Hi all,
this message was sent to the wrong address. Forget it !
Sorry for the noise.
Regards
Hans
Were you able to fix reportbug as some of your previous threads say you
haven't been able to do? As some have suggested, you need to make sure
exim is configured correctly. Reconfigure 'debconf' by running
'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' as root and then reconfigure exim4-config
('dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'). Make sure you can send mail (either
by smarthost or directly as an internet site). Also make sure that
'reportbug' is properly configured by running 'reportbug --configure'.
I hope this helps.
-Jose
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Re: sun-java6-jre
Marcin wrote: This is my sources list file: deb http://mirrors2.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirrors2.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free #Marillat deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main #E17 deb http://edevelop.org/debian unstable main Apt-get output: biba:/home/marcin# wajig install sun-java6-jre Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: sun-java6-jre: Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-01-1) but it is not going to be installed or ia32-sun-java6-bin (= 6-01-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Thanks I'm experiencing a similar problem, but I've already got the sun-java6-* packages installed and the new ones show up as upgrade candidates. I think that since jdk6 update 2 has been released, the debian sun-java6-* packages are being updated, but not all of them are available. I have the following installed: [10:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l sun-* | m Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++--==-=== ii sun-java6-bin6-00-2 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent files) ii sun-java6-demo 6-00-2 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 demos and examples ii sun-java6-doc6-01-1 Sun JDK(TM) Documention -- integration installer ii sun-java6-fonts 6-00-2 Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE) ii sun-java6-jdk6-00-2 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 ii sun-java6-jre6-00-2 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent file ii sun-java6-source 6-00-2 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 source files The ones that show up on my system as being "upgradable" (to version 6-01-1) are: sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-source But when I try to install any of them, apt-get needs to remove all my installed java packages (which I now I can't do because I need things like the jdk, etc). I would suggest that you use snapshot.debian.net to install a version of the packages that you see above; this will give you a working java environment for the time being. I'm no expert, but this might be a temporary fix. -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squares in a 32bits gtk application
Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: Hi list, I want to try google desktop but I want to try this outside the chroot, inside the chroot that shows correctly outside all the characters are replaced by squares. Any hint? Thanks I see this when I run a gtk application compiled for a 32bit system (one that I compiled myself some time ago). -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash for etch amd64?
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:27:49PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: Please see the following thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2007/05/msg00168.html That's the thread that I was looking for, thanks. It would appear that it requries the nspluginwrapper to work. This is new ground for me. I don't suppose that I could pull the deb and install it with dpkg, have it appear in aptitude as locally installed/obsolete and have it work? Or does it rely on newer versions of libs than are in Etch? Doug. If you could get it to install locally you should have no problems. As you say, it may not be possible because it could rely on newer packages (such as libc6, etc.). The dependencies of nspluginwrapper include ia32-libs (>=1.6) and libc6-i386 (>=2.5-5) among others. -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash for etch amd64?
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:28:51PM -0300, José Guilherme wrote: Douglas, you should try *nspluginwrapper, it works fine for flash without chroots... * I have it installed, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation on how to set it up. Perhaps no intervention is necessary. I have the adobe flashplayer .so plugin in /usr/local/mozilla/plugins but when I get Konqueror to scan it doesn't find it. I just remembered that I don't have ia32 libs installed. Perhaps they're needed. I'm doing that now and it will be done in 3 hrs or so. I'll let you know if this works. Doug. Please see the following thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2007/05/msg00168.html -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running Java App fails...
Thomas Besser wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: There is a "bug" with the paths, as the newest java is not installed, where the applications do expect it. Solution (quick and dirty): create a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/java /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.00/ You confused the target with link (first the target and then the link). That does not solve the problem. I think that it has something to do how the java binary was compiled (32bit!?) Regards Thomas Perhaps you have more packages than needed installed (I'm referring to the ia32 packages). I don't know if you need them, but with all the suggestions given and the following packages installed, Java works fine on this system: sun-java6-bin sun-java6-demo sun-java6-doc sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre sun-java6-source I develop in Java so I have a few, but I think with *-bin, *-fonts and *-jre things should work fine. :-) -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing flash plugin
Stephen Cormier wrote: On May 22, 2007 12:18:04 am José Alburquerque wrote: Hi. I recently read the "Plugin" thread started on 5/4/07 that explains that in order to use the flash plugin the nspluginwrapper can be used. I was able to install the package because I'm running lenny (amd64/unstable). Would someone be able to tell me where I can get the flash plugin from? I've looked for it and I can't find it. This is what I'm using as my apt source.list: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org unstable main deb-src http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org unstable main Thanks. You download the plugin from the Adobe website extract the tarball then copy the files (.so and .xpt) to the /usr/lib/plugins/mozilla directory then run the nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so command to install it. The file I used was install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz putting this into Google should come up with it. Stephen Oh, I see. No need for a package because package comes directly from adobe. This worked perfectly. Thanks a lot. -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing flash plugin
Hi. I recently read the "Plugin" thread started on 5/4/07 that explains that in order to use the flash plugin the nspluginwrapper can be used. I was able to install the package because I'm running lenny (amd64/unstable). Would someone be able to tell me where I can get the flash plugin from? I've looked for it and I can't find it. This is what I'm using as my apt source.list: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org unstable main deb-src http://debian-multimedia.dfoell.org unstable main Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems starting X in a new Athlon 3800+ system
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've been using the latest unstable with a Pentium III for quite a whille now with no problems at all. I decided to upgrade my h/w to an Athlon 3800+ and I thought I could just install the disks from the old system to the new h/w and work from there. The new system, as I said, is an Athlon 3800+ with an ATI Radeon 9200 (from Sapphire). Everything worked just fine until gdm started up. It looks like X will start, but when the screen blanks it just stays that way and I cannot break X or reboot the system with ctrl-alt-del. My old system was running an ATI 128 Rage Pro, but what I did was boot the new system into single user mode and reconfigured 'xserver-xorg' accepting sensible options. The configuration recognized the card and the monitor, etc. But X just doesn't work. At this point, I decided to reinstall using the Debian 4.0 netinst cd thinking that the reinstallation would default to a useful value, but the re-installation has the same problem with X. Does anyone have any suggestions I might follow to get my system back up? Everything works fine in the text console; it's just X that seems to be having problems. BTW, I've tried running a livecd (centos 4.3) and everything works just fine (gdm starts up, etc.). I'd appreciate any help. Thanks -Jose Isn't there a log file -- something like /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Whenever I screw up an X config or something screws it up for me, I usually can get the answer in that log file. Did my reply not make it? I had replied a couple of days ago saying that I did not find any real errors and posted the log. However, I was able to discover that I needed to install the fglrx-driver package to get the video card to work properly. I found there was a bug in the fglrx-driver package (#420379) that broke the driver so I had to find a way to patch it (as is suggested in the report). X is working fine now, except that before X would do something so that my Acer AL1917 monitor recognized the entire screen size (sort of flash like procedure) and showed the display properly. Now, there doesn't seem to be such a procedure which causes the monitor to not "center" the display correctly. At least I have X working correctly :-) Thanks. -Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
