Before making any changes backup your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 If you have Radeon 8500 check this link, it has very comprehensive instructions on howto build Radeon Drivers and configure XFree86.
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html If can easily do it by hand as root user. Below are relative lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Copy lines starting from Tag "Copy lines start" to "Copy Tag end". and put paste them in Section "Screen" of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Please note that Section "Screen" is subsection of Section "Monitor" as shown below. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 28-50 VertRefresh 43-75 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Generic Video Card" Monitor "Generic Monitor" ### # Copy lines start. # # DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" # # # End copy lines #### EndSubSection EndSection If you know Horizontal Sync. and Vertical Refresh Rate of your monitor (refer to a manual for your monitor or search on the web) My values are defaults and they are very low, this is because I am using LCD on a laptop. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 28-50 VertRefresh 43-75 Option "DPMS" EndSection Check under Section "Device" that your are using "ATI" driver. Below are settings for my laptop, but the driver name should be the same. Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M6 [LY]" Driver "ati" VideoRam 16384 BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Finally reboot and see new settings work for you. If nothing works, roll back to the backup /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. If it works and your are running Gnome, check menu to see what resolutions do you have: Applications > Desktop References > Desktop Resolution Hope it helps. Ivan On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 00:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: No Subject > Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:44:57 +1100 > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2004 : Issue 1588 > > Today's Topics: > Re: why debian [ EJ Finneran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > OT: Re: why debian [ Eddy Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: why debian [ Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorell > ] > Re: why debian [ Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: debian hangs with syslog/syslog- [ Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL > PROTECTED] ] > Re: OT: Re: why debian [ Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorell > ] > RE: The debian-mirror script suite [ Zlatko Calusic <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: How to get more than 800x600? [ Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR [ Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > nvidia driver "disappeared" [ David Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: How do I get /dev/ub [ Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: root crash recovery [ Al Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: network install over nVidia nFor [ "Ben Hutchings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: network install over nVidia nFor [ "Ben Hutchings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: why debian [ Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > mysql db creation: HELP! [ Francisco Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ] > Re: why debian [ Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: mysql db creation: HELP! [ nullman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: EJ Finneran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: why debian > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 03:26:09 -0600 > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:11:27 -0800 (PST), ken keanon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian > > should be the preferred choice? > > > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of Debian? > > > > I'm in the dark waiting to be enlightened. > > > > Cheers > > > > Ken > The beauty of Debian and Linux in general is that when you ask users > why they use it, you'll get many different answers. The reason their > are so many distributions is that enables choice. If you don't like > the way Debian does it, chances are there is someone > out there who will suit your needs. > > I personally like Debian just because its easy and straight forward to > get basic stuff setup. Its my server distro of choice. Everyone has > dependency handling now but apt-get is still king. > > Basically, try it out and see what you think. If you don't like it, > we aren't going to get a pay cut because of it. Have Fun! > > > > > ________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Eddy Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT: Re: why debian > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:45:17 +0700 > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:33:54 +0100, Andrea Vettorello > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=best+operating+system > > > > and for sure i trust them... =) > > > > > > Andrea > > > > Surprise Windows is not the first one on the results :) tried same > query on google, show totally different kind of result. don't know how > this new MS search is going to beat google. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: why debian > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:33:54 +0100 > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:11:27 -0800 (PST), ken keanon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian > > should be the preferred choice? > > > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of Debian? > > > > I'm in the dark waiting to be enlightened. > > > > http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=best+operating+system > > and for sure i trust them... =) > > > Andrea > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: why debian > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:50:30 +0000 > > --- ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. > > Any reason(s) why Debian should be the preferred > > choice? > > I switched after many happy years of using SuSE (which > is a great distro to get started with). Debian has a > package and dependency management system that makes > upgrading a breeze. Apt-get changed how I view OS's. > > For instance, with SuSE I found myself having to > aquire CD's if a new release came out and I wanted the > latest gear (they do an ftp installation which trails > a little behind the CD releases, but is a *new* > release - upgrades from, for example, SuSE 8.2 to 9 > weren't "slick"). Sure, you could download patches or > security updates for the packages you already had, but > upgrading KDE or the like was never as easy as it was > supposed to be. With Debian, I've set my install > source to Debian Sarge and I just run apt-get update, > apt-get upgrade on a weekly basis. I will always be up > to date. > > Also, seeing the direction RedHat have moved in (which > I'm not intentionally judging here) made me nervous. I > was installing SuSE in schools here in the UK, but > ended up with 7.1 in school 'A', 7.2 in school 'B', > 8.1 in school 'C' etc. And what if SuSE decided to > follow RedHat's model? My main selling point to > schools is financial: I can get a Windows2000 server > license *very* cheaply through my Local Education > Authority. So I needed to switch to a *community* > based distro. One where a company didn't dictate the > direction. I wanted to know that the distro I was > becoming familiar with, and promoting, and advocating > was still going to be *free* (free and free), easily > obtainable and philosophically sound. > > To sum up: > > Debian is... > > 1. Easily maintained and upgradable, > > 2. Not beholdened to the decisions of people looking > at the bottom line. > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Matt > > > > > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the > > popularity of Debian? > > > > I'm in the dark waiting to be enlightened. > > > > Cheers > > > > Ken > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: debian hangs with syslog/syslog-ng (urgent) > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:59:06 -0200 > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Manou Rabary wrote: > > i don't know if my problem is already show in this mailing-list or not. > > Last january, my debian woody hangs but no a complete freeze: it > > answered ping, pop3.. but not smtp(postfix), ssh, no console login... > > I had nothing special in logs but many cron and defuncts process. I > > saw an url saying that it is because of syslog and login (or > > passwd/shadow I don't remember anymore). > > I removed syslog and I changed it in syslog-ng. Since, It works fine. > > But now, it comes back to hang!! I had to disable "syslog-ng" to solve > > the problem. And now, my system runs without logging. But everyone > > knows that it is not recommended. > > > > Have someone in the list had experience on such problem? Could someone > > give me some ideas to solve? > > Make sure nothing has tampered with syslog/syslog-ng binaries. They get > restarted sometimes (for log rotation), so if you have memory errors or > anything else that slowly eats away what's in your disk... > > What this does look like is that something is DoS'ing your syslog, the > applications won't hang if syslog/syslog-ng simply die... > > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: Re: why debian > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:21:37 +0100 > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:45:17 +0700, Eddy Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:33:54 +0100, Andrea Vettorello > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=best+operating+system > > > > > > and for sure i trust them... =) > > > > > > > > > Andrea > > > > > > > Surprise Windows is not the first one on the results :) tried same > > query on google, show totally different kind of result. don't know how > > this new MS search is going to beat google. > > > > You'll get more funny results if you search "evil", "more evil than > satan" and "more evil than god", courtesy of the Inquirer > (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19631) > > Maybe the culprit is the "beta" that appear in the URI... =) > > > Andrea > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Zlatko Calusic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: The debian-mirror script suite > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:43:38 +0100 > > "Gilbert, Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On my initial look, things looked good. You mention an issue under > > debian-mirror about the fact that it stores everything from all the > > different package sections in to one and not understanding it. Here is a > > link to the page that provides the basic information on it: > > > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > > > I am guessing you are outside of the US so I think you are fine on this as > > well as anyone using this script would be. As far as within the US is > > concerned, I think the ramifications would vary from package to package and > > from license agreement to license agreement. However, this would probably > > be most useful to admins who wanted to do farm updates on a site without > > having each machine have to download the packages each time from the WAN. > > This would actually be very useful to me. > > > > Hey Gilbert, you actually resolved the issue, thank you for that! It's > obvious that I didn't spend a second trying to find answers to my > questions. :( Yes, it's all pretty simple in fact. I'm outside of the > US, non-US packages are obtained from the non-US site, so everything > is fine. The above URL doesn't say anything about reimporting all > those stuff back to US, so I think we're fine. > > About usefulness, I'm pretty sure there are many other packages out > there that allow you to mirror Debian or part of it. It's just that > this one is quite different and has some philosophy behind it (that I > tried to explain on the web page). Anyway, if you need any help, just > ask, I'll be glad if I can help with anything. I had the other guy > that had problems with the firewall, and we solved them quickly. > > > Further research would have to be done to determine if having a local > > repository for local only distribution caused any problems with any of these > > packages but I think you would have about the same sort of liability as you > > have if you are running the software anyways. I don't know a lot about all > > of these legal issues. > > Yes, this seems like the only clever explanation, too. Otherwise even > non-us.debian.org sites would be in a breach of some licence or > whatnot, right? IANAL, too, but you actually managed to explained all > those issues very concisely and I think you're right in all of your > observations. At least, that's what my common sense says to me. :) > > Thank you for comment! I'll see if I can change content on the web > page to better reflect the situation. > > Regards, > -- > Zlatko > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to get more than 800x600? > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:02:58 +0000 > > On (02/01/02 09:03), Michael Barton wrote: > > 1. How do I get above 800x600? > > I am using ATI - Radeon 8500. > > > > 2. Where to application directories go like "Program Files" in XP? > > I am installing Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox. > > >From the date on your message it would appear that your system is in > need of configuration. The information you've provided is a bit thin. > You are more likely to get helpful responses if you provide more detail: > > eg. how did you install and from where (CDs, http etc) > about your set up h/w, net access etc. > > 1. if you've managed to get X started and want to change > resolution, try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > 2. if you use the debian apt package management system > (recommended), it knows where to put program files (and debian bears no > resemblance to XP). A handy front-end to apt is aptitude. > > Regards > > Clive > > > > -- > www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... > ...strategies for business > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:59:30 +0000 > > On Friday 12 November 2004 05:10, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > [...] > > I had to do the following: > > > > #mount -t ext2 /dev/hdf1 /mnt > > > > Of course I had to be root to do it. Now the hard part is cleaning up > > the Windows side! Oh well, at least Linux is again accessible! > > That should not have been affected. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf to include > a suitable stanza pointing at your windows partition and re-run lilo > before rebooting. If it was only a re-install in the same place, I'd > expect your old lilo.conf to still work. > > -- > richard > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: David Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: nvidia driver "disappeared" > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:59:01 -0500 > > I had been using nvidia's accelerated driver (version 6106) plus kernel 2.6.8 > without trouble with Sid until Nov 10 (I had done a dist-upgrade the previous > evening). Now, X says the nvidia driver does not exist. I noticed that > there was a newer version of the nvidia driver (6629) as well as kernel > 2.6.9, so I compiled a new kernel and new modules in the "Debian Way" using > make-kpkg, installed both resulting .debs, updated Grub, but I still have the > same problem. If I do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, the nvidia driver > does not appear as an option. I confirmed that I really had installed the > nvidia-kernel*2.6.9*deb with dpkg. Has there been a recent change in XFree86 > that causes it to look in different places for drivers than previously? I am > using the version currently in Sid (4.3.0.dfsg.1-8). If there has been a > recent update to XFree86 causing this behavior, how can I most easily go back > to the old version? Alternatively, is there a symlink I could create to tell > XFree86 where to find the nvidia driver? > > Thanks for any help > David Bruce > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How do I get /dev/ub > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 04:00:26 -0800 > > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> When I plug in my USB hard drive with Kernel 2.6.9 it is now > |> assigned to /dev/uba instead of /dev/sda. > |> > |> Google says this is because of the new usb module in 2.6.9. > |> But I don't have any /dev/ub?? files on my filesystem and > |> I don't think they are regular files, so I don't know how to > |> create them. > > Are you using udev? I believe that it is the responsibility of udev > to dynamically create the /dev/uba node when the device is inserted, > using the information provided by hotplug, > > Jim > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Al Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: root crash recovery > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:00:03 +0300 > > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > If you trust your /var/lib/dpkg dir, something like: > > > > dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install" { print $1 }' | xargs > > apt-get -y --reinstall install > > Yep, that's what it should be. Thanks! > > -- > Regards, > Al Nikolov > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexandru Cabuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: network install over nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:26:40 +0000 > > Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My question concerns the correct course of action when installing > > Sarge on a computer whose only way to connect to the internet is > > through an nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface which needs the driver > > provided by nVidia at > > > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64_1.0-0292 > > I don't think you need that driver. > > > without having to burn 14 CDs. > > The first CD is more than sufficient to install a base system. > > <snip> > > I have tried to install a basic system and then worry about the driver > > later, but the installation didn't work. I set up the partitions, > > everything going smooth, until reboot. After reboot I got flooded with > > messages like > > > > nv_sata : Primary device mounted > > nv_sata : Primary device mounted > > nv_sata : Secondary device mounted > > nv_sata : Secondary device mounted > > nv_sata : Secondary device unmounted > > nv_sata : Secondary device unmounted > > nv_sata : Primary device unmounted > > nv_sata : Primary device unmounted > > > > Or maybe it was "loaded" instead of "mounted"... I forgot. Anyway, > > something like that. > > This appears to be a known bug in the driver. This message > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/10/msg00002.html> suggests a > solution. > > <snip> > > Should I just try another build of the netinstall CD or (and this > > would really be sweet) is there any way to get a hold of a netinstall > > CD with the forcedeth driver corresponding to the particular kernel ON > > IT already...? > > forcedeth has been part of the standard kernel since versions 2.4.26 and > 2.6.5. > > > A man can dream can't he? > > > > Oh by the way, in the meantime, grub and the master boot sector got > > all messed up somewhere along the way, and so I can't even boot into > > my windows partition I had installed for recovery purposes... :-) now > > I lost my windows partition too. > > > > Great. > > If you have a drive larger than 137 GB (128 GiB) then you must use a 2.6 > kernel to avoid disk addresses wrapping around beyond that point. > > Ben. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexandru Cabuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: network install over nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:31:00 +0000 > > I wrote: > > If you have a drive larger than 137 GB (128 GiB) then you must use a 2.6 > > kernel to avoid disk addresses wrapping around beyond that point. > > Sorry, I got this wrong. 2.4 should be fine as well, so I don't know > what the problem might have been. > > Ben. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: why debian > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:29:53 -0500 > > As you probably know, there are quite a few distros based on Debian. I'm > actually using Kanotix myself. The great part is that all these > Debian-based distros can (for the most part) make use of the vast > archive of Debian packages that you can install with apt-get. With > something like 15,000 packages in Sid, it's a tremendous resource. > > I'd like to see Debian emerge as a standard of sorts. All the > incompatible collections of RPMs, TGZs and whatever holds Linux > development back, in my opinion. Of course, everyone will argue that > "their" standard is best - so be it. But I've tried all the big-name > distros (SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, etc) and I think Debian's > packaging system is the most elegant. > > regards, > Robert > > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:11:27 -0800 (PST) > ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why > > Debian should be the preferred choice? > > > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of Debian? > > > > I'm in the dark waiting to be enlightened. > > > > Cheers > > > > Ken > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Francisco Borges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: mysql db creation: HELP! > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:42:40 -0200 > > Hello, > > Running sarge here. > > I want to have a b2evolution blog running here and for that I need a > mysql database... > > So I installed mysql-server and mysql-client > > The mysql-server says I need a numeric IP associated with localhost in > /etc/hosts. I have that. > > And it also says that I have to create a password for the mysql root > user: > mysqladmin -p --user=root > > but I get: > > error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES)' > > Using -v for verbose doesn't help me to learn anything... > > I've also tried to create a ~root/.my.cnf just as in described in > /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian but that fails with the very > same error message. > > Can anyone tell me how to proceed?? > > Peace, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
