Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
d see what it detects. >>>>> > If "xrandr" is able to detect both outputs it should just be a >>>>> > matter of configuration, if not then that would suggest a problem >>>>> > with the driver. >>>>> > >>>>

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
ne that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can read >>> through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run "xrandr" (when >>> both screens are connected) and see what it detects. If "xrandr" is able >>> to detect both outputs it should j

Re: [SOLVED] Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

2015-06-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 14:05 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > Thanks Selim, that fixed it. Glad you got it working, but there's certainly a bug there. If you have the time, maybe you could file a bug (preferably directly upstream) or see if it already has been reported. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 05:58 AM, Bret Busby wrote: ii nvidia-prime0.5~hybrid0.0.3 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime Google this, for the love of $DEITY$ http://askubuntu.com/questions/363775/what-is-the-use-of-nvidia-prime -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic)

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 02:07 PM, Reco wrote: I would rather use Debian 6, as it has the superior interface, to the later Debian versions, and to Ubuntu, but, to use Debian 6, I have to use a lesser computer. Ah, I get it now. So, layman's terms put aside, you like to use GNOME2 and not GNOME3. And that

Re: Still unable to get external monitor working on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 22:51:40 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/19/2015 02:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > No, it wouldn't solve the problem. He can get Ubuntu going to his > > satisfaction, but he cannot get Debian going to his satisfaction. > > ...running Squeeze, a 5 year old OS, while expecting it will

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 02:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: No, it wouldn't solve the problem. He can get Ubuntu going to his satisfaction, but he cannot get Debian going to his satisfaction. ...running Squeeze, a 5 year old OS, while expecting it will be maintained at Wheezy/Jessie level. We've beaten that h

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Ric Moore
7;t like it, don't use it. No-one is making you. If he would just take "squeeze" out of the equation, it ~might~ help. From what I read it won't be a simple matter of installing a nvidia driver. He's got this video chip hybrid from Hell, and Bumblebee is ~supposed~ to be

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 19:40:11 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:31:56 +0100 > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> Unfortunately, it appears

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:31:56 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: > > >> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is > > >> "released" an

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 18:49:38 Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is > >> "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its > >> packages, ce

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:45:42 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/06/2015, Reco wrote: > > > > > And then again - if Ubuntu satisfies your needs, why suffer with Debian > > oldstable? > > > > As should be shown by examining the full headers of this and other > messages not explicitly sent fro

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: >> Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is >> "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its >> packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only >> bug

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Reco wrote: > > And then again - if Ubuntu satisfies your needs, why suffer with Debian > oldstable? > As should be shown by examining the full headers of this and other messages not explicitly sent from the Debian installations, I am using Ubuntu 12.04, except where necessary for

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/06/2015, Curt wrote: > On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby wrote: >>> >>> Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, protracted, >>> confused and confusing thread, the exact same issue, not too long ago? >> >> As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been trying for >> about

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, protracted, >> confused and confusing thread, the exact same issue, not too long ago? > > As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been trying for > about two years, now, to get Debian worki

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 23:54:12 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > As I have, I believe, previously mentioned, I have been trying for > about two years, now, to get Debian working on this computer, so that > it can work with the external monitor. > > The status of Debian Linux, with the computer, is t

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote: > Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is > "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its > packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only > bugfixes and security vulnerabilities, are

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:50:17 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: >> I have attached a copy of the file from the Debian 6 installation. > > It's not loading neither the nouveau nor the nvidia driver, is one of > them correctly installed, and i

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Curt wrote: > On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> Sorry - I had read the whole of the post, and had tried to respond to >> it in modularised progressive steps, and when I got down to that part, >> I had forgotten the content of the first paragraph. > > Didn't we already go throu

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:50:17 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > I have attached a copy of the file from the Debian 6 installation. It's not loading neither the nouveau nor the nvidia driver, is one of them correctly installed, and is the kernel module loaded? For Squeeze, I simply do not kno

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-19, Bret Busby wrote: > > Sorry - I had read the whole of the post, and had tried to respond to > it in modularised progressive steps, and when I got down to that part, > I had forgotten the content of the first paragraph. Didn't we already go through this once with you in a long, prot

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
ow do you determine that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can >>>> > read through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run >>>> > "xrandr" (when both screens are connected) and see what it detects. >>>> > If "xrandr" is able

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
gt;>> > read through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run >>> > "xrandr" (when both screens are connected) and see what it detects. >>> > If "xrandr" is able to detect both outputs it should just be a >>> > matter of con

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
X11/75dpi, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, built-ins (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices. (II) Loader

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
ne that it doesn't detect the monitor? You can read >>> through /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run "xrandr" (when >>> both screens are connected) and see what it detects. If "xrandr" is able >>> to detect both outputs it should j

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
easier to just run >> > "xrandr" (when both screens are connected) and see what it detects. >> > If "xrandr" is able to detect both outputs it should just be a >> > matter of configuration, if not then that would suggest a problem >> > with the

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices. [25.494] (II) Loader magic: 0x7f0af8cb6c20 [25.494] (II) Module ABI versions: [25.494]X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 [25.494

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-19, Ric Moore wrote: > > "Check and see if you have the tool 'intel-virtual-output' installed. > This is included in 'xf86-video-intel' =< v2.99, aprox date released is > 22/Dec/2014 > "xf86-video-intel" doesn't appear to be a Debian package. I can only find it here: http://www.x.or

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
ns are connected) and see what it detects. > > If "xrandr" is able to detect both outputs it should just be a > > matter of configuration, if not then that would suggest a problem > > with the driver. > > > > At least Wheezy is a lot more up to date than Squ

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
n > both screens are connected) and see what it detects. If "xrandr" is able > to detect both outputs it should just be a matter of configuration, if > not then that would suggest a problem with the driver. > > At least Wheezy is a lot more up to date than Squeeze, with newer &

Re: [SOLVED] Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

2015-06-19 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 02:05:37PM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > Thanks Selim, that fixed it. [selim] > >>>options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0 > > > > ^^^ > >Should be like this. > > Yes, solution is /etc/modprobe.d/forcedeth.conf containing > o

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
log/Xorg.0.log, but it's easier to just run "xrandr" (when >> both screens are connected) and see what it detects. If "xrandr" is able >> to detect both outputs it should just be a matter of configuration, if >> not then that would suggest a problem with t

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
n > both screens are connected) and see what it detects. If "xrandr" is able > to detect both outputs it should just be a matter of configuration, if > not then that would suggest a problem with the driver. > On Debian 6; " :~# xrandr xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from >>> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that >>> installation,

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/19/2015 12:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: >>> On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: >>> There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-19 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:15:59 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: >> I note also, that I used synaptic to remove all the nvidia stuff, from >> the Debian 7 installation, and I removed the bumblebee stuff from that >> installation, and reinstalled bumblebee on that instal

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
able to detect both outputs it should just be a matter of configuration, if not then that would suggest a problem with the driver. At least Wheezy is a lot more up to date than Squeeze, with newer kernel and X. I'd say your odds of getting the second screen going there would be a lot better

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/19/2015 12:15 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it from source? At this point that may be your only ch

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > >> There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it >> won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it from source? At >> this point that may be your only chance. If only you could do that wi

[SOLVED] Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

2015-06-18 Thread Bruce Ward
Thanks Selim, that fixed it. I had tried that months ago on the Wheezy installation I run, but it did not work then - probably I did not update the module dependencies or the initramfs at that time! I had not realised the importance of the 'options' keyword, having seen few examples of it :-

Re: Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

2015-06-18 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 09:06:30AM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > > > >An entry "options forcedeth ms=0 msix=0" in some /etc/modprobe.d/foo.conf > >should do thr trick, no? > > > >Of course, perhaps you tried that already and I'm mis-interpreting > >your question completely. Apologies if that's the cas

Re: Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

2015-06-18 Thread Bruce Ward
Hi Tomas On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:12:49PM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: Installing Jessie 8.1.0 on an Asrock N68-VGS3 FX motherboard. This has "Giga PHY RTL8211CL" ethernet, which lspci reports as: "00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)" It uses the for

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/18/2015 03:25 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: There are, however, no hits on bumblebee for squeeze at all, so it won't help in this case. Maybe you could try to build it from source? At this point that may be your only chance. If only you could do that with the drivers... It might also be that it

Re: forcedeth driver - bug?

2015-06-18 Thread tomas
n MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)" > > It uses the forcedeth driver module, which seems to need parameters > "msi=0 msix=0" to work. If I blacklist the driver, I can load it > with "modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0" and all is fine. However, it > needs this after ev

forcedeth driver - bug?

2015-06-18 Thread Bruce Ward
Installing Jessie 8.1.0 on an Asrock N68-VGS3 FX motherboard. This has "Giga PHY RTL8211CL" ethernet, which lspci reports as: "00:07.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)" It uses the forcedeth driver module, which seems to need parameters "msi=0 msix=0

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:07:47 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 18/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > > > As to your problem with bumblebee, I think Optimus support is > > something that is fairly recent, and might well have come after > > Squeeze. Maybe you will find it in backports? > > > >

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 18/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > As to your problem with bumblebee, I think Optimus support is something > that is fairly recent, and might well have come after Squeeze. Maybe > you will find it in backports? > A problem is that, and, I am not sure whether I indicated this in a previous

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-17 Thread Petter Adsen
5.36.31-6squeeze2_amd64.deb) ... > >> Setting up nvidia-kernel-dkms (195.36.31-6squeeze2) ... > >> Loading new nvidia-195.36.31 DKMS files... > >> First Installation: checking all kernels... > >> Building only for 2.6.32-5-amd64 > >> Building initial mod

Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
ing new nvidia-195.36.31 DKMS files... >> First Installation: checking all kernels... >> Building only for 2.6.32-5-amd64 >> Building initial module for 2.6.32-5-amd64 > > As I said, you are installing bits of nvidia 195 driver series. It's > right there in your frig

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread Ric Moore
Building initial module for 2.6.32-5-amd64 As I said, you are installing bits of nvidia 195 driver series. It's right there in your frigging log. That's for REAL OLD nvidia cards. You have a mess. Jerk it all out. Fire up synaptic, search on nvidia, check on what you currently have ins

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:39:00AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > sudo purge nvidia* > > (Do not forget to reboot). nVidia ppa's other than xorg-edgers need to > be disabled or removed for the sake of this particular example. > " > > Trying to run that p

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-15 Thread Bret Busby
You may have much better >>> luck with nouveau. >>> >> >> At this stage, as everything that was expected to work, apparently >> doesn't, including the manufacturer's driver, it has become a matter >> of grasping at straws. > > Simple, purge all

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
rer's driver, it has become a matter of grasping at straws. Simple, purge all of your nvidia packages. Then install mlocate. As root user, updatedb, then locate nvidia. Clobber everything remaining. Follow this to make sure your blacklist is set up now to exclude nvidia, instead of nou

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
else to find that >>> information, in Debian 6), I found the following two packages >>> installed; >>> >>> " >>> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau >>> X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver (experimental) >>> >>> Version: 1:0.0.1

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
pers. > > Other than that, I was under the impression that you had already tried > them and had to use the proprietary drivers. You may have much better > luck with nouveau. > At this stage, as everything that was expected to work, apparently doesn't, including the manufacturer&

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
found the following two packages >> installed; >> >> " >> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau >> X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver (experimental) >> >> Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 >> " >> >> and >> >> "

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Petter Adsen
; " > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver (experimental) > > Version: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5 > " > > and > > " > xserver-xorg-video-nv > X.Org X server -- NV display driver > > Version: 1:2.1.17-3

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
rote: >>>> >>>>> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. >>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>>>> - Nick >>>> >>>

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-13 Thread Bret Busby
; >> >>>>>> - Nick >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: >> >>>>>>> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages >> >>>>>>> necessary

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Petter Adsen
t;>> On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >>>>> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > >>>>>> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> - Nick > >>>>>> > >>>>

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
T. wrote: >>>>>> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Nick >>>>>> >>>>>> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: >>>>>>> Install build-essential it should contain all the pa

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Bret Busby
>>>>> >>>>> - Nick >>>>> >>>>> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: >>>>>> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary >>>>>> to install the driver. >>>>>> A

Re: Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-12 Thread Matthijs Wensveen
necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded. However, after rebooting, the system still does not se

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
ild-essential it should contain all the packages necessary >>>> to install the driver. >>>> Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the >>>> driver after every kernel update. >>>> >>>> - Nick >>>>

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The d

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
t;> Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > >>>> > >>>> - Nick > >>>> > >>>> On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: > >>>>> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary > >>>>> t

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded. However, after rebooting, the system

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
gt; >>> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary > >>> to install the driver. > >>> Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the > >>> driver after every kernel update. > >>> > >

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
en rebooted. > > System -> Preferences -> Monitors still did not find the external monitor. > > In that menu path, down from Monitors, was an entry,something like > nVidia xserver settings, so I selected that. > > I got a dialogue box, with something like "You appear to b

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
itors, was an entry,something like nVidia xserver settings, so I selected that. I got a dialogue box, with something like "You appear to be not using the nVidia driver. Run nvidia-xconfig as root and restart xserver." So, I ran nvidia-xconfig as root, and got a message something like &q

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
ub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
odeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had >>> to add that to make the driver work. >>> >> >> This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably >> already appear, but, how do I do that? >> >> Thank you in anticipation. &g

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
make the driver work. This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do I do that? Thank you in anticipation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had > to add that to make the driver work. > This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably already appear, but, how do I do that? Thank you in anticipation. -- B

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. wrote: > Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. > > - Nick > > On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: >> Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary >> to install the driver. >> Also you might want to install dkms i

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
When last heard Bret was using Squeeze. I think he looked at Wheezy, but Jessie??? Ah, hopefully he can make the edit properly then, using "squeeze" instead of "jessie". Still, installing the driver should be a cake walk. Thanks for the correction, Lisi. It never hurts to have

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 19:36:18 Ric Moore wrote: > Add "contrib" and "non-free" components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for > example: > > # Debian 8 "Jessie" > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free When last heard Bret was using Squeeze. I think he looked at Wheezy, but

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Ric Moore
ame -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-kernel-dkms This will also install the recommended nvidia-driver package. DKMS will build the nvidia module for your system. (nvidia-xconfig as root) Create an Xorg server configuration file. Restart your system to enable the nouveau blacklist. -

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. -

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
installer ncurses user interface -> Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8. -> License accepted. -> Installing NVIDIA driver version 346.72. -> Performing CC sanity check with CC="/usr/bin/cc". -> The CC version check failed: The compiler used to compil

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 16:52:50 Bret Busby wrote: > ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please > make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed.  If gcc is > installed on your system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH. Have you done this? Start with: #

Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
ello. The only available boot option, apart from the normal boot mode, in the GRUB menu, for Debian 6, was the recovery mode, so I booted into that, changed to the appropriate directory, and ran the sh command to try to install the driver. The error message referred to the log file; " :~# c

Broadcom b43 driver

2015-06-04 Thread Jose Martinez
Problem fixed... Rebooting is a wondrous thing!! I ended up re-installing the original jessie kernel to get rid of my bull in the china shop hacking, then re-installed the firmware-b43-installer. Then with things back the way they should be, I rebootedLife is good, wifi is on the air. I

Re: About synaptics driver in graphical installer

2015-06-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:25 +0200, David Demelier wrote: > I have a simple question, is the synaptics driver missing in the > official Debian ISO files? Because running the graphical installer won't > let me use my touchpad (which works pretty fine once installed). > >

About synaptics driver in graphical installer

2015-06-02 Thread David Demelier
Hello, I have a simple question, is the synaptics driver missing in the official Debian ISO files? Because running the graphical installer won't let me use my touchpad (which works pretty fine once installed). I think it should be enabled in case it's currently missing. Regards,

Re: install ati open source driver , but have no effect!

2015-05-25 Thread mudongliang
On 05/25/2015 09:52 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 21:22 +0800, mudongliang wrote: 5. I use "glxgears -info" to test the performance. However ,the performance is so bad ! It seems no ati driver at all! 375 frames in 5.0 seconds = 74.986 FPS 300 frames in 5.0 second

Re: install ati open source driver , but have no effect!

2015-05-25 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 21:22 +0800, mudongliang wrote: > 5. I use "glxgears -info" to test the performance. However ,the > performance is so bad ! It seems no ati driver at all! > 375 frames in 5.0 seconds = 74.986 FPS > 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.857 FPS > 300 frame

install ati open source driver , but have no effect!

2015-05-25 Thread mudongliang
:68e4] (rev ff) 2. the installation comes from https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo Installation The following procedure will install the open source display driver packages, DRI modules (for 3D acceleration) and driver firmware/microcode: 1)Add "contrib" and "non-free" co

Re: Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-04-01 Thread venkat
On 01-04-2015 04:11, David Wright wrote: Quoting venkat (venka...@vortexindia.co.in): Primary intent : To control connected HDMI and CRT monitors individually. We use VESA as display driver for connected display(Single display). Now, we are trying to extend and use dual display as said (HDMI

Re: Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-03-31 Thread David Wright
Quoting venkat (venka...@vortexindia.co.in): > Primary intent : To control connected HDMI and CRT monitors individually. > > We use VESA as display driver for connected display(Single display). > Now, we are trying to extend and use dual display as said (HDMI and > CRT). > We c

Re: Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-03-31 Thread venkat
2.6.32 kernel with newest version of cedarview driver. If you show me a trigger point where to start this process it would be great. I did a little searching, and from what I find, I don't think you can without upgrading. The problem is not only the old kernel, but old versions of X an

Re: Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-03-31 Thread Petter Adsen
ith newest version of cedarview driver. > If you show me a trigger point where to start this process it would > be great. I did a little searching, and from what I find, I don't think you can without upgrading. The problem is not only the old kernel, but old versions of X and the n

Re: Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-03-31 Thread venkat
Hi Peter Thanks for the response, I really understand the need for the upgrade. We are definitely working on it.It would definitely take some time. To handle current situation, I wanted to somehow use 2.6.32 kernel with newest version of cedarview driver. If you show me a trigger point where

Re: Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-03-31 Thread Petter Adsen
T and HDMI) and we > had no luck in making this display controllable. > On goggling, it was found some graphic driver(cedarview drivers) > issues with kernel. > I am pretty new Linux kernel stuffs and applying upgrades.Request > some guidance on the same. You could start here: http

Upgrading guidance for Cedarview driver in Debian 6 - 2.6.32 Kernel

2015-03-31 Thread venkat
, it was found some graphic driver(cedarview drivers) issues with kernel. I am pretty new Linux kernel stuffs and applying upgrades.Request some guidance on the same. -- Regards Venkat.S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: fbdev driver on Wheezy

2015-03-17 Thread Andrew Wood
On 17/03/15 13:50, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Andrew Wood [2015-03-17 12:18 +]: [...] It just lists one 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller Silicon Motion SM712 I suspect what may be happening is its defaulting to video out on the LVDS and turning the VGA port off. Is there a way to conf

Re: fbdev driver on Wheezy

2015-03-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Andrew Wood [2015-03-17 12:18 +]: [...] > It just lists one > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller Silicon Motion SM712 > > I suspect what may be happening is its defaulting to video out on the LVDS > and turning the VGA port off. Is there a way to configure it to mirror the > output on bo

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