Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?

2006-03-30 Thread A E Lawrence
Pete Klemm wrote: A. E. Lawrence is correct on the disk enumeration issue. I am running 2.6.12-686-smp with udev 0.87-1 and the disk enumeration is quite flaky as some times it boots properly and other times not. udev also has a problem with my Radeon 7000VE in that I did have a few

Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?

2006-03-29 Thread A E Lawrence
Hendrik Tews wrote: Dear all, does anybody have experiences with the ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard or its Deluxe variant? Does Debian run out of the box on it? I did have a few problems with disc enumeration order differing between install and sarge, but this was on a fairly complex system with 4

Re: KDE in AMD64 etch

2006-02-06 Thread A E Lawrence
Graham Cobb wrote: don't think using sarge is an option because I don't think it has support for the nVidia components on the ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard I am using (am I wrong?). I run AMD64 sarge on an A8N-SLI with nvidia video, but I roll my own kernels and had to `weave and duck' to get

Re: nvidia (graphics) driver pain

2005-11-03 Thread A E Lawrence
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:07:13PM +0100, Hans wrote: No, this is only necessary, if you want to use 32-bit programs in 64-bit environment (I use this i.e. for X-Plane (this is a flight simulator)). BTW: In Kernel 2.6.14, the kernel-module can be built, but not

Re: Problem installing on nforce4 amd...

2005-04-21 Thread A E Lawrence
Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I got the debian 64bit netinstaller from 10 of april 2005 yesterday and tried to install. I took the sid installer, btw. But it couldn't install lilo or grub on my SATA HD on the asus A8NV nforce4 board. And without a

Re: installing nvidia driver for pci express 6600GT?

2005-04-20 Thread A E Lawrence
Ed Cogburn wrote: Thanks Lawrence, if you have access to that machine could you show us what lspci -vv shows for the video card? Does the output mention a capability related to PCIe, or is it like Alexander's output from the earlier post? That is a home machine and I won't be there until the

Re: installing nvidia driver for pci express 6600GT?

2005-04-19 Thread A E Lawrence
Jacob Larsen wrote: Alexander Fieroch wrote: So whats the problem with the proprietary nvidia driver? The module can be loaded with modprobe and lsmod shows me that it is loaded, but xorg says (EE) Failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist, 0)! There are two components: a kernel module

Re: installing nvidia driver for pci express 6600GT?

2005-04-19 Thread A E Lawrence
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:41:20PM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote: I didn't get the geforce 6600GT to work with xfree86 so I have installed xorg but the nvidia driver is not found too. I suggest going back to xfree86 and following the README in the nvidia-kernel-source

Re: Installer and installed system differ in disk enumeration

2005-04-12 Thread A E Lawrence
Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D. wrote: A.E.Lawrence wrote: I have a similar set up with you: ASUS a8n-sli Deluxe mbrd populated with 5 hard disks: a) 1 scsi MO on adaptec 2940UW b) 1 PATA primary master c) 4 sata on nv_sata, none on sil_SATA In addition, I have 1 DVD-RAM, and 1 CD-RW on PATA secondary.