Re: unable to install lenny using CD1 (26-Jan-2009)
Try a boot option: all_generic_ide. Basically your PATA(?) chip may not be recognized with an older kernel. Do you have a USB CD/DVD drive? It may be easier to use that. Justin. On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Gaius Mulley wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to install lenny amd64 (using CD1) on a: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz stepping 0a the CD boots but the kernel fails to find the CDROM. Under Ubuntu the CDROM device is /dev/scd0 - but no such device exists (in /dev/) when lenny is booted. I'm wondering whether I'm doing something obviously wrong? Ubuntu reports the CDROM as: $ cdrecord -scanbus scsibus5: 5,0,0 500) 'TSSTcorp' 'CDDVDW SH-S202J ' 'SB02' Removable CD-ROM apologies if it really is straightforward. regards, Gaius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fwd: Failure to load amd64 lenny
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Francesco Pietra wrote: I forgot to mention that Knoppix loads correctly, shows all mem and CPUs, and lets using both the mouse and the keyboard. I have not managed with the HDs because Knoppix does not recognize the RAID1, showing sda and sdb which are not my partitions. In fact neither one can be mounted. francesco francesco, You have to 'enable' it first. 0. boot knoppix. 1. mdadm --examine --scan >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf 2. vi /etc/default/mdadm or /etc/default/mdadm-raid 3. change AUTOSTART=no to AUTOSTART=yes 4. /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid start Then your arrays should show up (cat /proc/mdstat). Keep in mind though if you want to use your system or run LILO inside the chroot (after you chroot into it) you need to copy KNOPPIX's bin,lib,sbin to your chroot and move the x86_64 versions aside before you chroot. Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DG965ss
Good to hear-- I wonder if Intel will ever release a proper BIOS update. Justin. On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Dr. Helmut G. Enders wrote: My problems with corrupt apt-get .deb files has gone, when I upgraded to SID. Now it seems, that everything works as expected. Thanks for your help. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- CS Cybernetic Systems GmbH Markgrafenstr. 19 D-95100 Selb Germany -- Dr. Helmut G. Enders Phone: +49 9287 9929 11 Fax: +49 9287 9929 32 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- COO: Dipl.-Kfm.Univ. Hiltrud Enders County Court: Hof HRB 1968 VAT ID: DE 154589625 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DG965SS
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Dr. Helmut G. Enders wrote: Justin Piszcz: ... I assume you ran the latest version of memtest86 and let it cook for some time? Grub said 28: does not fit into memory? and I have *no* floppy :-(. I'll try to burn the image onto a cd. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am curious of the results :) If its good ram, probably http proxy or other misc error, else you got bad ram :) Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DG965ss
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Dr. Helmut G. Enders wrote: I tried an amd64 installation on an Intel DG965SS board with 8GByte. The system is very very slow (installation more than 1 day.) and I got corrupt files from the net (e.g. apt-get update). Justin Piszcz: Use the following boot option: append="mem=8832M" Yes it works, thanks. I wouldn't touch the BIOS Justin. You are right, I first changed back in the bios. Tt worked with the mem problem, but I got a lot of new troubles. So I ruefully come back to your advice and updated the bios to the new version again and with your option it worked nearly perfect. Even my grub problem with the raid controller (3ware) disappeared. I still have one strange error. When I do a apt-get install , e.g. linux-image-2.6..., this file is corrupted (apt-get said gzip: invalid compressed data). If I fetch this deb-file with wget into /var/cache/apt/archives and do an apt-get install it worked. I tried within my net some filetransfers without a problem. So the interface seems to be ok. Strange, do you use an http proxy by any chance? Also you could try a different mirror just incase there was some temporal weirdness. I assume you ran the latest version of memtest86 and let it cook for some time? And apt-get from my other maschine with the same net/firewall to the same mirror worked smoothly. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to hear audio
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Vikram Vincent wrote: Hello, In the kernel config, just enable the appropraite options under Alsa PCI devices section, install the new kernel and you should be all set. | |[*] Intel HD Audio | | | |[ ] Build hwdep interface for HD-audio driver | | | |[ ] Build Realtek HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build Analog Device HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build IDT/Sigmatel HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build VIA HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build ATI HDMI HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build Conexant HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build C-Media HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build Silicon Labs 3054 HD-modem codec support | | | |[*] Enable generic HD-audio codec parser | | | |[ ] Aggressive power-saving on HD-audio | | I only found references on how to compile fresh kernel sources but nothing specific to making changes to pre-existing kernels. Is it the same or are there any specific docs I could look at? Thank you. Regards, -- Vikram Vincent +91 9448810822 http://www.swatantra.org http://translate.swatantra.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes there is a /boot/config-filename. Grab latest source, cp /boot/config-filename /usr/src/linux. Make oldconfig. If you want to do it that way. The best way (IMO) is run lspci and compile the kernel to your hardware's specifications (bzImage)->done. Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to hear audio
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Vikram Vincent wrote: Hello, The problem w.r.t. sound started when I did an upgrade recently. The o/p of # lspci -nn | egrep -i 's(ou)?nd | audio | media' 00:07.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio [10de:055c] (rev a1) and # lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_intel 311968 3 snd_pcm_oss48288 1 snd_mixer_oss 21376 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm89992 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 28424 1 snd_pcm snd65896 7 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 13088 3 snd snd_page_alloc 15376 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm I tried reinstalling libasound2, lib32asound2, alsa packages, etc... but to no avail. Previously I was using realtek-linux-audiopack-4.06c but now that too does not work and messes up the installed libraries. Thank you, Regards, -- Vikram Vincent +91 9448810822 http://www.swatantra.org http://translate.swatantra.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the kernel config, just enable the appropraite options under Alsa PCI devices section, install the new kernel and you should be all set. | |[*] Intel HD Audio | | | |[ ] Build hwdep interface for HD-audio driver | | | |[ ] Build Realtek HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build Analog Device HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build IDT/Sigmatel HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build VIA HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build ATI HDMI HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build Conexant HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build C-Media HD-audio codec support | | | |[ ] Build Silicon Labs 3054 HD-modem codec support | | | |[*] Enable generic HD-audio codec parser | | | |[ ] Aggressive power-saving on HD-audio | | Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DG965ss
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Dr. Helmut G. Enders wrote: I tried an amd64 installation on an Intel DG965SS board with 8 GByte. The system is very very slow (installation more than 1 day.) and I got corrupt files from the net (e.g. apt-get update). I have read that this should be a Intel Bios Bug since version 1669 (curr: 1719), if using more than 4 GDB. Does anyone has sucessfully installed Debian amd64 on such a motherboard? If yes, I would like to know which BIOS Version and boot parameter (noacpi, etc.) you are using. thanks, Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, Use the following boot option: If using lilo: append="mem=8832M" Otherwise, just add mem=8832M for grub. Then it will back to normal. I wouldn't touch the BIOS updates unless this works for you, I tried updating the BIOS 2-4 revisions and none of them helped me for my 965 board. Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel (s775) Johannesburg DQ35JOE mATX
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Thanks Lennart (and others) for a very through explanation. Sorry for abusing your time but I am going to buy a computer with the following ingredients. I am quite worried that I might have to wait for half a year for support of some of the chips so I decided to ask first if someone has used this (with good or bad experience): Motherboard: Intel (s775) Johannesburg DQ35JOE mATX I have only used a few Intel boards myself, but I wouldn't buy one. I only buy Asus boards. There has been a lot of trouble for people with more than 3GB ram and getting the MTRR cache setup right on intel boards in the last year, and it has taken a lot of pushing to even get intel to admit they screwed up their bios, while Gigabyte and Asus had a new bios within days of being notified of the mistake in intel's reference code. Not what I would consider a well supported board. Most affected users were windows 64bit users who got a very very slow system if they had more than 3GB ram installed, and linux gets the same slow performance since the top of ram is not cached and hence very slow. The salesman knew this problem but said it was a problem with the 965 chip but was solved with the Q35 chip. I hope he is right. About the kernel, I most often end up installing Debian unstable and then I wait for it to become stable if there are no problems. But on my main computer I happily use unstable and experimental. Cheers Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use a 965 and p35 boards. The problem with the cache is annoying but just append mem=8832MB (for an 8GIB) config and it solves the issue (with the 965)-- no issue with the p35/gigabyte I have. Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mozilla-plugin-gnash crashes X on x86_64 (fwd)
Sent this as a bug report but FYI to those amd64 users out there, (I never got a response from the upstream maintainer). -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 06:22:36 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mozilla-plugin-gnash crashes X on x86_64 Package: mozilla-plugin-gnash Version: 0.7.2-1 # dpkg -l | grep -i gnash ii gnash0.7.2-1 free Flash movie player ii libgnash00.7.2-1 free Flash movie player - shared libraries ii mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.7.2-1 free Flash movie player - Plugin for Mozilla Running Debian/Lenny. When I go to any page that utilizes Flash on x86_64 using Debian's Ice Weasel, it crashes my X session. Jan 4 20:09:26 p34 kdm[3501]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly I use an Intel motherboard with the i810 driver, no proprietary modules. Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deciding on a new amd64 (laptop) system
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: I'd get an Intel P965 or 975 motherboard, besides some BIOS/MTRR issues with 4 and 8GB of memory, they work very well. Well I hope the kernel developers manage to explain to intel what their MTRR setup bugs are in their BIOS so that they will actually fix it in the BIOS. So far they (intel) seem to think their BIOS is doing nothing wrong. -- Len Sorensen Yeah it's quite strange, a developer from Intel has patched the kernel and I am using his patch against 2.6.22-rc4 and he says the BIOS has issues, but the BIOS people say its not their problem. Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deciding on a new amd64 (laptop) system
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:44:00AM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote: Certainly not, I had only bad experiences with all-in-one systems. Dell is probably better than Fujitsu-Siemens but I'd rather have standard components, for a desktop computer. But... The budget we have might be enough to also buy a laptop. Which one(s) would you recommend? The main requirements are that - it must be light (the more so, the better); small screen size is not a problem as this won't be for watching DVDs... - it should have a _working_ graphics output (to plug it to a projector); some laptops seem to have problems with this, under Linux... - it must have a supported WIFI chipset. I think about the only way to be quite sure wifi will work on a laptop is to get something with an intel cpu/chipset/wifi in it. intel actually tries to support linux for their wifi chips. My wife has an Asus R1F, which from what I have read is very very easy to install linux on, although she hasn't tried it yet. I believe it has the intel 39xx wifi chip (the a/b/g wifi) which recently had support contributed to the kernel by intel. I think the only part of that model that is known to not (yet) work with linux, is the tablet screen input, but it is USB based, and quite likely wacom based, so people are working on it. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd get an Intel P965 or 975 motherboard, besides some BIOS/MTRR issues with 4 and 8GB of memory, they work very well. Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
