Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Dave Reisner
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:36:52PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > To add to the nvidia issues, after update to the latest driver (nvidia > 260.19.12-1) the machine stops during boot due to (Invalid video mode, press > enter to see list) > > Pressing enter then lists the

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
It might have to do something with a module not being included in the initrd? Just guessing...

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:03:09 -0500 schrieb "David C. Rankin" : > Also, on the (press enter or scan issue), I'm sure you are > 100% correct Heiko, but no matter whether I press enter or issue scan > with this 8800GT, the list of modes returned is the same. Also, both > enter or scan take the

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Norbert Zeh wrote: > I do have the /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf file on my > machine, > too, but I remember that the nouveau kernel driver did get loaded > until > I added !nouveau to the MODULES list in my rc.conf. I believe the proprietary driver package

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Norbert Zeh
I do have the /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf file on my machine, too, but I remember that the nouveau kernel driver did get loaded until I added !nouveau to the MODULES list in my rc.conf. So 1) Can you do an "lsmod | grep nouveau" to see whether nouveau maybe still gets loaded. (If

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread David C. Rankin
On 10/28/2010 04:38 AM, Dan Vrátil wrote: > Hello David, > > this cannot be related to nvidia drivers because of two things: 1) the > drivers are loaded after the kernel boots and 2) the proprietary nvidia > drivers do not support KMS (and according to nvidia they are not going > too in near futur

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Attila
At Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2010 13:19 Heiko Baums wrote: > And you need to decide whether you want to use KMS or not. If you want > to use KMS you need to remove the vga kernel parameter. Otherwise you > need to add the two kernel parameters vga and nomodeset (both of them) > to the kernel line of

Re: [arch-general] ath9k, ar928x, monitor mode

2010-10-28 Thread BOYPT
confirmed. While my card doen't work porperty with 2.6.35/36, randomly invalid leaving such in dmesg: Call Trace: [] ? printk+0x18/0x1b [] __report_bad_irq.clone.1+0x27/0x90 [] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x44/0x1a0 [] note_interrupt+0x152/0x190 [] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x9b/0xc0 [] handle_irq+0x18/0x3

Re: [arch-general] ath9k, ar928x, monitor mode

2010-10-28 Thread killall_humans
> with 2.6.35 it works here. Well, i think it appears in aircrack-ng for me. I'll send bugreport, we'll see.

Re: [arch-general] ath9k, ar928x, monitor mode

2010-10-28 Thread Marek Niklíček
2010/10/28 : > If someone have this card  - please, test it. On 2.6.36 kernel monitor mode > causes kernel panic, on .35 - simply doesn't work properly(channel of mon0 > interface == -1). > -- > WBR && GTFO > > I can confirm that monitor mode causes a kernel panic with 2.6.36, but with 2.6.35 i

Re: [arch-general] A question about running Proftpd

2010-10-28 Thread Cédric Girard
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Christian wrote: > Hi all, > Have just installed ProfTPD and if I run /etc/rc.d/proftpd start as root it > stats just fine. > In /etc/proftpd.conf it says to run the server as the group nobody and the > user nobody. I am just wondering what system level it's runni

[arch-general] A question about running Proftpd

2010-10-28 Thread Christian
Hi all, Have just installed ProfTPD and if I run /etc/rc.d/proftpd start as root it stats just fine. In /etc/proftpd.conf it says to run the server as the group nobody and the user nobody. I am just wondering what system level it's running on? Is the server now running as root or what privilegie

[arch-general] ath9k, ar928x, monitor mode

2010-10-28 Thread killall_humans
If someone have this card - please, test it. On 2.6.36 kernel monitor mode causes kernel panic, on .35 - simply doesn't work properly(channel of mon0 interface == -1). -- WBR && GTFO

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recog nized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Dan Vrátil
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:36:52 -0500, "David C. Rankin" wrote: > Guys, > > To add to the nvidia issues, after update to the latest driver (nvidia > 260.19.12-1) the machine stops during boot due to (Invalid video mode, press > enter to see list) > > Pressing enter then lists the av

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:06:53 -0500 schrieb "David C. Rankin" : > Not yet, but I don't know what else could have caused this. I have > used scan (same thing as just pressing enter) and I get about 50 > valid modes to enter. Everything thing from vga to 1920x1200. I have > tried entering the listed