Fw: Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-15 Thread Francesco Pietra
Quickly added: I loaded Knoppix 5.3.1 (lenny, kernel 2.6.24.4) networking OK. When loading etch from the HDDD, command startx does not start X (it worked on previous machine). Errors no scree found X10 fatal IO error 104 on X server. I use the GNU driver, no nvidia driver for X. regards

Re: Fw: Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:46:12AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Quickly added: I loaded Knoppix 5.3.1 (lenny, kernel 2.6.24.4) networking OK. So the network works with the newer kernel, so it should work with a direct lenny install. When loading etch from the HDDD, command startx

Re: Fw: Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-15 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi: Grat! Please see below --- On Tue, 4/15/08, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard To: Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian64 debian-amd64@lists.debian.org

Re: Fw: Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:49:02AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Reconfiguring (accepting automatic detection) worked fine indeed. Thanks. (ATI card) Not only. Now dhclient connects to network! Odd, not sure how those could be related. At this point I can resume molecular dynamics with

can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear folks, I have been reading the debian nvidia howto and I noticed the following comment: ** Current issues Testing users: NVIDIA packages are currently not in testing due to lack of maintainance, a Linux bug and X server 1.4's ABI change. Filipus Klutiero plans to

Problem with avahi-daemon

2008-04-15 Thread Simon Bruenler
Hello, I have an annoying problem with avahi-daemon. When the init-Script starts I receive the message: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemonTimeout reached while wating for return value Could not receive return value from daemon process. failed! Does anybody else have this problem

RE: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
If you take the source package from unstable, change the dependancy version for xorg to the version in testing and I think a couple of other build dependancies, and then build the package, it installs and runs just fine. At least I think that's what I did a few weeks ago. Did you

Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: Current issues Testing users: NVIDIA packages are currently not in testing due to lack of maintainance, a Linux bug and X server 1.4's ABI change. Filipus Klutiero plans to update the document when the situation is fixed. In the meantime,

Fwd: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix,,,,

2008-04-15 Thread Maximiliano Marin Bustos
-- Forwarded message -- From: Maximiliano Marin Bustos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:30 PM Subject: Re: can you install nvidia drivers in pure lenny or do you need a testing/unstable mix To: Alexandru Cardaniuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:28

Re: Hey everyone, GUI isn't working; I can't figure out how to configure my xserver correctly.

2008-04-15 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Mark Allums [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lance Ferrer wrote: Im getting XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 when I try to boot debian. I'm new to linux and computers in general, so any help would be great. I have a BFG NVidea 8800 GT if that helps. If you need