Re: Boot floppies?

2006-01-02 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
jmt wrote: Can you try booting from a tftp ? If your bios allows a boot network, it is the best way I found out ! Thanks for the suggestion. I managed to get it installed this way but it took me a long time to figure out the required DHCP/TFTP configuration. Is there a reason why the

Re: 64/32 with DRI

2006-01-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:45:16AM -0600, Stephen Olander Waters wrote: Radeon 7000 DRI in xorg 6.8.2 is unstable apparently. See this message: [...] Man that sucks. That's ATI for you. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-02 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'd like to. :) really busy right now. :) reportbug needs a local smtp server? is there a standard way to send bug using gmail? reportbug can be configured to use SMTP to bugs.debian.org directly. (Some ISPs block port 25 so this will not

Re: Boot floppies?

2006-01-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:00:34AM -0800, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Is there a reason why the simple boot floppy approach is not offered for the amd64 port? Because nobody put time in it yet to get a 2.6 linux kernel to fit on a floppy. Mostly because their are various other ways to get it

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:38:27PM +0800, zzz haha wrote: Is there a bug reported logged so that this will be fixed in the next Debian kernel package? i'd like to. :) really busy right now. :) reportbug needs a local smtp server? is there a standard way to send bug using gmail? Simple.

Re: Temperature problem with 2.6.14-2.6.15

2006-01-02 Thread Andrea Gasparini
v0n0 wrote: Could I make anything against this? i've the same problem. and if it isn't enough, sometime (without being reproducible ) reading in /proc/thermal_zone/*/temperature hangs the machine. and thanks for tell that even 2.6.15 won't work... :-P bye! -- -gaspa-

Where is the top level linux kernel source directory located?

2006-01-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to make use of make-kpkg, but find that it keeps complaining about that I'm not at a top level kernel source directory. Where's this supposed to be? I've even tried /usr/src, but no luck. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Where is the top level linux kernel source directory located?

2006-01-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 12:25 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make use of make-kpkg, but find that it keeps complaining about that I'm not at a top level kernel source directory. Where's this supposed to be? I've even tried /usr/src, but no luck. It is the top-level directory

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :)) X starts fine using both GNOME

Re: nvidia 1.0.8178 installing question

2006-01-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:43:09AM +, antonio giulio wrote: I'm trying to install nvidia 1.0.8178 driver in this way: apt-get update NVDIST=unstable apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common m-a prepare m-a auto-install nvidia apt-get -t $NVDIST install nvidia-glx

How to setup S/PDIF Input

2006-01-02 Thread Franz Schenk
Hello, I want to use the S/PDIF connector on my Abit AV8. The chipset in use is an VIA 8237, the codec is Realtek ALC658. I've done some research on the web, mainly in the alsa-archives. But most of the information is concerned with how to setup S/PDIF output. The most specific document from

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:37:12AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: Thanks for all the feedback. I tried installing a new kernel the 'debian way': % make menuconfig % make-kpkg followed by: % dpkg -i kernel_name.deb which did everything automatically. Then I restarted ... to find I had

Re: Install problem on Supermicro X6DHT-G system

2006-01-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 01:43:07PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: I'm trying to install on a Supermicro X6DHT-G motherboard system with 2 EM64T processors, using a CD built from debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso The system boots to the CD and starts the installer, but it can not find a

Re: ATI OpenGL Support??? Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0.

2006-01-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:20:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open GL support is :( and I'd like to get it running. I've never had to work with kernel compilation, etc. so things are a bit Greek. As for installations of Linux I can do that on the fly, apretty smooth process, even

Re: Install problem on Supermicro X6DHT-G system

2006-01-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Hello Lennart, Thank you so much for your reply. I think I did a follow up post on this and I also posted a message to debian-user which is copied below with lots of details on the system. more below ... Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 01:43:07PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge

Re: Install problem on Supermicro X6DHT-G system

2006-01-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Debian Installers. My BIOS reports IDE Channel 0 Master 250GB SATA1 IDE Channel 1 Slave CD-ROM That is probably the whole problem. The SATA should NOT be treated as an ide device unless you are trying to install something

usb2 from debian distribution kernel

2006-01-02 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Hello list, I have installed the debian distribution kernel (2.6.14-2) and I have attached an usb2 harddisk to an usb2 port on my linuxbox (sounds good till here). Now I want to know how to check if my computer uses usb2. The problem is that there is a really bad transmisson rate to the harddisk

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/2/06, kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid

Re: Install problem on Supermicro X6DHT-G system

2006-01-02 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Debian Installers. My BIOS reports IDE Channel 0 Master 250GB SATA1 IDE Channel 1 Slave CD-ROM That is probably the whole problem. The SATA should NOT be treated as an ide device unless you are

Re: usb2 from debian distribution kernel

2006-01-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:58:46PM +0100, Wolfgang Mader wrote: I have installed the debian distribution kernel (2.6.14-2) and I have attached an usb2 harddisk to an usb2 port on my linuxbox (sounds good till here). Now I want to know how to check if my computer uses usb2. The problem is

USB devices work with uhci, not with ehci

2006-01-02 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Hi folks, Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? All my low or full speed devices work fine. My *high* speed devices don't work if ehci_hcd is loaded, but if I remove it, they work as fall-back full speed devices. For example, when I install a USB storage device without ehci_hcd loaded,

RE: USB devices work with uhci, not with ehci

2006-01-02 Thread Joel Johnson
I have seen this as well (on an x86-32 desktop machine), and it turned out that my USB wireless adapter didn't work fully with ehci. When I have ehci-hcd loaded and the wireless adapter (rt2570 chipset) plugged in, I get scsi timeouts on my USB thumb drive (also SanDisk Cruzer Mini...) so that

Re: usb2 from debian distribution kernel

2006-01-02 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:12, Hamish Moffatt wrote: snip, snip, excellent advies deleted, snip, snip. -- If problem not resolved with previous advies (which I was about to send too) It feels like hw. Bad connector or cable. - Check on a different system to see if the problem is with the

Re: Temperature problem with 2.6.14-2.6.15

2006-01-02 Thread v0n0
Andrea Gasparini ha scritto: i've the same problem. and if it isn't enough, sometime (without being reproducible ) reading in /proc/thermal_zone/*/temperature hangs the machine. I filed a bug. -- Alessandro Dal Grande Student In The University Of Padua - Computer Science Linux Registered

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread David L. Johnson
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:57:53 -0500 Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid restarting the

Re: Unable to create i386 chroot

2006-01-02 Thread Markus Neviadomski
Am Montag, den 02.01.2006, 20:40 +0100 schrieb Jack Malmostoso: Hello there list, I am trying to create the i386 chroot as explained in the AMD64 Howto. There are some problems with the packages there are downloaded. When I issue: nostromo:/var/chroot/sid-ia32# debootstrap --arch i386 sid

Re: USB devices work with uhci, not with ehci

2006-01-02 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 02 January 2006 16:39, Joel Johnson wrote: I have seen this as well (on an x86-32 desktop machine), and it turned out that my USB wireless adapter didn't work fully with ehci. When I have ehci-hcd loaded and the wireless adapter (rt2570 chipset) plugged in, I [ . . . ] This just

missing /dev/fd/0 device nodes

2006-01-02 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
Hi all, Cups printing fails on my 'unstable' amd64 installation because the /dev/fd/0 .. /dev/fd/3 device nodes don't exist. Do I need to configure something to get these files? This system was initially installed from the testing archive because I thought that was the latest. I then

Re: USB devices work with uhci, not with ehci

2006-01-02 Thread cbergmann
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:26, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: Hi folks, Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? All my low or full speed devices work fine. My *high* speed devices don't work if ehci_hcd is loaded, but if I remove it, they work as fall-back full speed devices. I had a

Re: missing /dev/fd/0 device nodes

2006-01-02 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
Hi all, Earlier today I wrote: /dev/fd/0 .. /dev/fd/3 device nodes don't exist. Do I need to configure something to get these files? Turns out that the following symbolic link was missing: ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev After adding this link CUPS started working. This system was initially