Re: Fwd: fglrx driver locks machine

2008-09-29 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Matteo, The best source of information for your problem is the Phoronix forum: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/ I had your problem at first even though I use lenny and a different graphics card, ATI Radeon HD 2400. You and I have what are called R6xx cards, and the current drivers (both open

Re: Gnome Logout/Shutdown

2008-09-17 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Not sure if you tried this already but you could try changing a setting under System Admin Login window: Select Local tab and then Show actions menu under the menu bar. This changes the options available under the System menu. Martin wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Michal

Re: Does anyone know how to find File Manager ?

2008-09-17 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Victor, If you're using Gnome, try Applications System tools File browser. Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Linux. I can't find a similar function as File Manager as in Windows. I only find it when I connect my CD-Rom, it will pop-up. Anyone help me? Victor YU -- N Syrotiuk |

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
: what's $fglrxinfo returning? On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 18:34, Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Kelly. First I stuck with the fglrx driver and added the two options to the Device section of xorg.conf. Unfortunately

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Daniel Dickinson wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:13:52 +0100 Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Output of dmesg | grep drm: [nothing] Is that bad? Maybe not for the closed source (ati's) driver, but for the open source driver if the drm kernel module is not loaded then DRI can't be done

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-13 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Thanks, Kelly. That sounds fairly definitive. I will take my problem to Phoronix unless Daniel or Felipe come up with a solution. Cheers, Nick Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Nicholas Syrotiuk

xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Dear Debian users, I installed lenny on a new system last week. Without changing anything, the xserver started successfully. (Thanks!) But direct rendering was disabled. (No surprise there.) Regardless DVD/video playback was satisfactory using totem-xine. However it was desirable to try to

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:57, Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. installed fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src 2. used module-assistant to build and install the fglrx module i think you should try the with latest drivers ati provide, downloading

Re: xserver, video playback, direct rendering etc.

2008-09-12 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
drivers. The xserver starts in each case (as expected) but direct rendering is disabled. Is there anything I can do to enable direct rendering with either of these drivers? Cheers, Nick Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Nicholas Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian

Now you see it, now you don't--the tale of the disappearing mouse...

2005-06-30 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
I first began using Linux in January 2005 by installing Debian sarge. I was a very happy user until I upgraded my system on 4 June, just a couple of days before 3.1 was released. Since then I have had one major problem: I can't *see* the mouse at all when I use rdesktop. When I move the

installation of sarge on Dell Optiplex SX280

2005-06-13 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
What is the best way to install sarge on a Dell Optiplex SX280? Kernel 2.4 doesn't recognise the SATA hard disk and thus gives the error message No partitionable media found. Do I need to specify a special boot parameter? I don't know. Kernel 2.6 installed and worked okay for a few months