Re: kernel-2.6.11.8 and vmware-4.5.1 question?
I am running kernel-2.6.11.8 and trying to install vmware-4.5.1 (for Linux host). An attempt to insmod # insmod ./vmnet.ko results in insmod: error inserting './vmnet.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module Does vmware-4.5.1 works with 2.6 kernels? -ishwar Do you need the ./ and .ko. I always use insmod/modprobe modulename with no path or extensions. But I am fairly new to this and could be talking crap:) Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fw: Debian Install Problem...
I have two monitors, both 17 LCD 1280 * 1024 plugged into a NVidia 6200 The important part of the log is (EE) No devices detected. The nv driver does not support this card. You could try using the vesa driver, 2D only, or download the latest linux driver from the Nvidia website. It works with my PCX6600 Card once you reconfigure X. You can also use the debian packages to create the Nvidia driver. More information can be found at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/ which is what I used. HTH Wackojacko oops forgot to send to list, sorry Peter. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3d accel and agpgart
From: Elmer E. Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:39 AM Subject: 3d accel and agpgart Greetings: I'm tryiing to get 3d acceleration working on my IBM R40 laptop running Sarge (3.1). I'm attempting to follow the instructions at http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting. It says to do dmesg | grep drm and if it displays nothing, then compile agpgart into your kernel or load it as a module. I can load agpgart with insmod agpgart so I know that the module exists. I tried adding Load: agpgart to /etc/X11/XF86config-4, but then when I do a dmesg | grep agpgart I get: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0 [drm: radeon unlock] *ERROR* Process 1847 using kernel context 0 XFree86.0.log says: (II) LoadModule: agpgart (WW) Warning, couldn't open module agpgart (II) UnloadModule: agpgart (EE) Failed to load module agpgart (module does not exist, 0) But if I do a insmod agpgart, it says that it already exists. A little later in the instructions, it says that I need to load the agpgart module before the radeon module. XFree86's log indicates that indeed the radeon module loads later. The instructions don't seem to address the above problems. Any ideas? Any input is appreciated, My knowledge and experience is limited. - Elmer E. Dow This looks similar to the problem I had recently with X not finding my Nvidia module. Try adding the agpgart module to /etc/modules so it is loaded on boot and will be available when X tries to load it. I'm a relative newbie also so I may be barking up the wrong tree but it might be worth a shot. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mouse wheel
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:36 +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: Anyway i run pdkg-reconfigure, but i didn't find where it writes the XF86Config-4 file (does it generate that file?), so imodified /etc/X11/XF86COnfig-4 by hand. the reason for above is either in the man pages and these archives. essentially once you've editted XF86Config (changed the md5) then package managers assume you won't want them to write all over your changes. the fix is also in said sources Its actually in the header of the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. It tells you how to reset the MD5 sum of the file before running dpkg-reconfigure to ensure the file is recreated. It also advises you to back up the config file first, especially important if you have edited by hand, e.g. added specific monitor mode lines etc. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mouse wheel
ok i should read some more documentation, I am sorry. That's OK we all have to learn :) But on the other hand i think that dpkg-reconfigure should say me if it wrote or not the configuration file to disk. I think this only applies to this file and is as such a known 'bug' or 'feature' and there is a work around once you know about it ! I'm not sure anything is being done about this as Xfree86 is being dropped in favour of X.org in the new releases. PAolo Wackojacko PS please reply to the list for the benefit of other users. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: KDM Error - no screens found
?รก?ek Kry?tof wrote: Try tu put nv (GPL driver) or nvidia (accelerated driver) into your /etc/modules so that this module gets loaded before X is started I'd already thought of this, or at least I though I had. nvidia module was shown in the modules.conf file generated from an entry in /etc/modprobe.d/ and being a newbie I thought this would mean it would be loaded. It wasn't and putting an entry in /etc/modules fixed the problem. Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copy protected CD's
Hi Debian! Read an article in the WP about copyprotected CD's: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800149.html Would cdparanoia care? H This sounds like the same DRM copy protection used by most legitimate internet download sites these days. You can download your favourite music (at a price) and make up to three copies onto CD. At the moment this is software controlled, Windows Media Player allows you to download and manage copy protected sources, but I am sure there are many others. The future is hardware controlled DRM with Intel leading the way http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915 I'm so glad I bought AMD! Although I suspect future CD's will only be able to be ripped if the appropriate DRM system are in place :( Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE 3.4.1 .ICEauthority
I am running the Unstable AMD64 port and have just upgraded to KDE 3.4.1 from alioth and KDE failed to start with an error stating '/home/user/.ICEAuthority permission denied'. I have fixed this by chown user:user /home/user/.ICEAuthority but is this the correct solution? Is it a bug? FYI I am also using Xorg 6.8 from Ubuntu Hoary archives. TIA Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDM Error - no screens found
Using AMD64 Unstable, Xorg and KDE 3.4.1 I have a problem with kdm when I first boot. kdm.log shows that the Nvidia driver is not loaded and no screens are found. The strange thing is if I try startx, of kill kdm and restart it, everything is fine. dmesg shows that the nvidia driver is loaded just before kdm spits the error out so I'm a little confused. Could it be a timing thing where the driver is not fully loaded before kdm tries to use it? As always your help is appreciated. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No joystick device nodes
Final problem for today at least. I cannot get my sidewinder precision pro to work with Linux. I have a Asus A8N-SLI NF4 motherboard and I am using the latest Nvidia drivers (0301 I think) but no device nodes are created. I've tried creating the device nodes manually and modprobe sidewinder/joydev/gameport in various order without success. I am running a custom AMD64 Kernel compiled from 2.6.11 debian source package using make-kpkg and using the latest udev from unstable on a pure64 unstable system. I have tried my 32bit install and Knoppix 3.7 without any better results. I would really like to try out some of these Linux games I keep hearing so much about but using the keyboard is a little tedious :-( Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDM Error - no screens found
I have exactly the same problem, but I'm using 32 bit kernel on a AMD64 cpu, xfree86 and an ATI card. I always thought that the problem is the driver from ATI, but now I guess is something with kde. I wil try another graphical login (gdm maybe) to see what happens. Regards, Toshiro. Just tried xdm and it worked fine so I guess its a bug in kdm. How do I go about reporting this, does the reportbug package do all the hard work? Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two IDEs - KDE and Gnome
I a bit of a noob myself, but since noone else has replied I'll give it a go I had two machines, one had KDE on it, and the other had Gnome. Now, I want to put both the hard drives in one machine. I have already recompiled the kernel for the hard drive that I want to install. But I did so by temporarily disconnecting the existing hard drive. Now, I want to have both on-line, with an option to boot either of the two. I have grub installed at present. Edit the menu.lst to include options for both kernels. Use the man pages to help on this. You just need to tell grub to boot from a different 'root=' using hd1 instead of hd0. You could try reinstalling Grub (grub-install device I think) which will probably do all the hard work for you. It did for me with different installs (32 and 64 bit) on separate partitions. my other question is how to mount various drives (root, home, usr etc...) Because when booting from one hdd, i would need only the home partition of the other hdd. Any suggestions how to do this.. edit your /etc/fstab/ as root (or use su/sudo) with you favourite text editor. Insert an extra line for /dev/hdXY where X is the letter of the 'other' HDD and Y is the partition number for home on the other HDD. Use a mount point like /otherhome but the rest of the details can be the same as your /home information. Save and $mount /dev/hdXY. Repeat for the other install when required. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xwindows
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 06:04:51PM -0700, asc wrote: I can't get this to start it has a failure. How do I reconfigure this? as root: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 You also have to reset the md5sum of /etc/X11/XF86config-4, see the header of this file for details. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xwindows
Can't you just delete the config file and re-run dpkg-reconfigure? I think that has worked for me in the past, but maybe I imagined it :) Not sure, I am noob myself so I might try this next time. The md5 approach seems overly complicated to reconfigure a file :) Couldn't agree more:) You do have to rename the original file so as not to overwrite it, so I would have thought this was the same as deleting it. I do like to keep a copy of the original as it invariably has to be tweaked after running dpkg-reconfigure, in my case anyway. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD cooling utility in debian
On Fri, 6 May 2005 11:26:06 +0100 Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that is the case--at least, not in stock Debian kernels. I have an Athlon XP 1700+, and it idled at 45C until I installed athcool. Now it idles below 40C, sometimes as low as 30-32C in cooler weather. I have to agree, my Athlon 64 3200+ runs at least 5-10c cooler in Windows (with C'nQ) than in Linux. I think its because the default kernel state for powernow is 'Performance' which keeps the processor at full speed. Then use ondemand instead. How do you change which governor it uses though. I have recently compiled my own kernel with the 'userspace' governor set as default and compiled the ondemand governor into the kernel, but I'm not sure its made any difference. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD cooling utility in debian
If you want to use the kernel policies, look at the files in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq. You can see which governors are available: $ cat scaling_available_governors ondemand userspace performance Also which governor is currently active: $ cat scaling_governor performance And of course you can change the active govenor: $ echo -n ondemand scaling_governor $ cat scaling_governor ondemand Alternatively, you can use a userspace program like cpufreqd or powernowd to control the frequency. This allows much finer control, based on user-definable rules, battery status, a/c status, time, ... Regards, Dennis Thanks for the excellent response I will certainly give this a go. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bcm5700 driver installation problem
Amira Youssef wrote: Hello, After I've managed to compile the gigabit N/W card driver bcm5700, It gave error while trying to install it: output of insmod bcm5700.o:(using Woody 3.0 r 2, kernel 2.4.18-1-686-smp) -- bcm7500.o: init_modules:no such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused any incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters New to this myself, but it looks like you have tried to insmod bcm5700.o and not bcm5700. You don't need the .o Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio CD Burning Perplexities
So why am I perplexed? I have no confidence that I know a sure way to burn a good music cd which will play on fussy cd players that have no trouble playing commercial cd's. TBH, I doubt that this is a problem with the burning process. It is more likely to be a problem with the quality/age of the laser pick up in the 'fussy' players. AFAIK Commercial CD's are 'pressed' and not burnt and are therefore far more precise than CD's made at home by burning, some CD players are, like you say, more 'fussy' than others. You seem to be using good quality media, slowing the burn speed down may reduce errors, but an upgrade to the CD player on the boat might be in order :) Regards Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD cooling utility in debian
I don't think that is the case--at least, not in stock Debian kernels. I have an Athlon XP 1700+, and it idled at 45C until I installed athcool. Now it idles below 40C, sometimes as low as 30-32C in cooler weather. I have to agree, my Athlon 64 3200+ runs at least 5-10c cooler in Windows (with C'nQ) than in Linux. I think its because the default kernel state for powernow is 'Performance' which keeps the processor at full speed. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Background question
You can't. I believe it is hardcoded in the depths of X. (Perhaps the newer X stuff from X.org might do something differently) Just installed X.org and can report that it doesn't solve this problem, sorry. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
