RE: Wich brand of graphic cards?
I use an ATI 9700 Pro. It can be little bit of a hassle getting 3D acceleration running the first time, but there are some websites with good instructions and prepackaged binaries for Debian. > -Original Message- > From: David Fokkema [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Wich brand of graphic cards? > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:10:29PM -0400, Franco Gorziglia wrote: > > I'm thinking in buy a new graphic card; Which one runs better with > > linux? Is there a brand that support better the free > software with the > > appropriate drivers? Thank you! > > ATI is nice, I think. I specifically bought a laptop with an > ATI card. It works very well for me using the open source > drivers. Of course, ATI has proprietary drivers which are > (supposed to be) even better. > > BUT: before you buy I card, google around for specific > models. For example, ATI cards are well-supported, except for > the newest models (9800 or something like that). Probably the > ATI proprietary driver _does_ support them, but you should > want to use it. > > David > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into > your ~/.signature to help me spread! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing
Title: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing Occasionally Debian just locks up. The same box has WinXP and SuSE 9.1 and Debian Sid. Each OS has its own hard drive. I have not experienced any locking up with the other two OSs. I've looked in the logs in /var/logs but can't find anything that seems significant. Can anyone give me some tips on troubleshooting something like this? I'm really trying to decide between SuSE and Debian. I really like some things about Debian, but if I can't stop the freezing, I'll have no choice but to go back to SuSE.
RE: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing
The box is connected to a cable modem and no other network. The freezes have never occurred when using the web browser or email, but with a variety of other programs, such as synaptic, mplayer, kwrite. Last night, the flying toaster screensaver was running when I went to bed, but had frozen during the night. > -Original Message- > From: Kamaraju Kusumanchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing > > > Scott Thompson wrote: > > Occasionally Debian just locks up. The same box has WinXP and SuSE > > 9.1 > > and Debian Sid. Each OS has its own hard drive. I have > not experienced > > any locking up with the other two OSs. I've looked in the logs in > > /var/logs but can't find anything that seems significant. > > > > Can anyone give me some tips on troubleshooting something > like this? > > I'm really trying to decide between SuSE and Debian. I really like > > some > > things about Debian, but if I can't stop the freezing, I'll have no > > choice but to go back to SuSE. > > > > Just a side thought. Is the lock up occuring when you are > accessing the > internet or local LAN? If that is the case, I would look into the > network configuration. > > hth > raju > > -- > Home page: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/index.html > Fluid's group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flumech/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Color Distortion in KDE
Add me to the list. I have a Nforce2 chipset and ATI 9700 Pro card with Sid installation. I get the same problem. Turning off transparency fixes the menus, but I still get the weird orange effect when selecting desktop icons for example. > -Original Message- > From: John van Spaandonk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Color Distortion in KDE > > > On Tuesday 13 July 2004 09:04, Silvan wrote: > > > I've had the same problem, since the X update about a > month ago. It > > > worked fine before that. I also have the 855 GM video controller. > > > > Me three, and it's damned strange, really. I've been using > Sid on a > > box with an i845 chipset for months, and I had never seen > this. Today > > I installed Sid on a Dell Some Flummy 2400 with the same > i845 chipset, > > and I saw the funky color inversion thing you're talking > about. I had > > had Mandrake 10.0 on the same box previously, and had run > Knoppix and > > Libranet and maybe AGNULA on it without ever seeing that. > > > > Damn strange indeed. I hope it doesn't show up on my home box the > > next time I upgrade. I did have to grab some stuff from > experimental > > today on that new install, because I caught too many packages with > > their pants down. > > > > -- > > Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 > > http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ > > This problem started for me in sarge yesterday, with the > kdelibs etc. update. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing
Title: RE: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:54, Scott Thompson wrote:
> > The box is connected to a cable modem and no other network. The
> > freezes have never occurred when using the web browser or
> email, but
> > with a variety of other programs, such as synaptic,
> mplayer, kwrite.
> > Last night, the flying toaster screensaver was running when
> I went to
> > bed, but had frozen during the night.
> [snip]
>
> Okay, I gotta ask the usuals:
> What (exactly) kind of Video Card are you running?
ATI 9700 Pro
> What motherboard and processor?
ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Athlon 2500+
> What Xserver are you using?
> (Vesa, FrameBuffer or Chipset Specific?)
> (one of mine I128, another nvidia)
I'm not sure how to tell, other than it's an XFree86 4.3.
> Which kernel are you using?
> Boot parameters? (mine == "root=/dev/hde3 ro vga=791")
Was using 2.6.5-1-i686, now using 2.6.7-1-k7 (this may have fixed the problem. The system has been running for 2 days without a freeze).
> And do you have hdparm installed?
> If you do give output of: hdparm -iI /dev/hdX
> (X == OS Drive like /dev/hd[a-l])
Model=WDC WD307AA, FwRev=05.05B05, SerialNo=WD-WMA111003547 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=60074784 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4
* signifies the current active mode
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD307AA
Serial Number: WD-WMA111003547
Firmware Revision: 05.05B05
Standards:
Supported: 4 3 2 1
Likely used: 5
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
--
bytes/track: 57600 bytes/sector: 600
CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 60074784
device size with M = 1024*1024: 29333 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 30758 MBytes (30 GB)
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Buffer size: 2048.0kB bytes avail on r/w long: 40 Queue
depth: 1
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific
minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* READ BUFFER cmd
* WRITE BUFFER cmd
* Host Protected Area feature set
* Look-ahead
* Write cache
* Power Management feature set
* SMART feature set
* DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
HW reset results:
CBLID- above Vih
Device num = 0 determined by the jumper
>
> Please get that info for us.
> --
> greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The technology that is
> Stronger, better, faster: Linux
>
RE: Debian crashes
I had similar problems a week or so ago. It wasn't limited to Firefox, sometimes it was doing a file search, sometimes it was with the screensaver running, it would just happen off and on. When it did, I could not SSH into the machine or switch out of X or anything. I was using kernel 2.6.6-1-i686 on an AMD Athlon. I upgraded using apt to the 2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and the problem went away. I changed nothing else on the machine. It's been running for over a week now without a single hiccup. Before, it crashed 3 or 4 times a day. Don't know if that info will help at all. > -Original Message- > From: Alexandros Papadopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Debian crashes > > > On Monday 26 July 2004 23:49, Tim Raats wrote: > > Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > > >On Monday 26 July 2004 21:32, Tim Raats wrote: > > >>Debian crashes on the strangest moments. Im running Sarge with > > >>kernel 2.4.26. When im surfing the internet with Mozilla Firefox > > >>0.8, Debian sometimes crashes. > > > > > >Quick answer: Use a different version/build of Firefox. > > > > > >Now, are you sure the machine is "crashing"? What does that mean? > > >Can you install the SSH server and login to it from a different > > >machine, or ping its address, while it seems "crashed"? > > > > > >Sometimes a graphical application locks the keyboard and the user > > >perceives this as a "crash", although it really isn't a > system crash > > > - it's the stupid X server not being able to accept input > from the > > >devices any more. If for example you leave some program > with dynamic > > >output (e.g. top) running in an xterm, do you still see it > updating > > >after the system becomes unresponsive? > > > > > >Make sure this isn't happening, try to get out of X with > Ctrl-Alt-F1 > > >and see if you can troubleshoot from there. > > > > > >>I dont know what the source of this problem is. Im > > >>running KDE 3.2.3 also. Please I need help because if I want > > >>crashes than I should install Window$ again. > > > > > >If instability is the only thing that annoys you in M$ products, > > >then I agree with you; you really should. > > > > > >-A > > > > I also had this problem also with the version in unstable. > I have also > > tried ctrl-alt-F1 and it doesnt switch to tty1. > > So, are we to assume that ONLY firefox is giving you grief, > and no other > application? In that case, please check the plugins/extentions > installed, create a new user profile and use that for a while and see > how it goes. > > Although in theory, a single application should not have the > power to do > that (lock your physical I/O). > > I also assume that you can't try accessing the machine from the > network... that would be quite enlightening. > > -A > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any chance of Debian adding YaST
I have both Debian and SuSE installed on my computer. The one thing I really like about SuSE are the YaST components related to hardware setup (not the components related to software installation). YaST has some very simple and easy tools to set up firewalls, edit and reload bootloaders, make boot disks, setup cdrom and hard drive options, networking, scanners, printers, etc. While all of these things can be done by hand through a command line, it's really nice to be able to quickly see what hardware is installed, how its set up and what options there are all from a centralized location. I read recently that Novell has moved YaST to a GPL license. Does anyone know if there are any official or third party plans to develop a version for Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Any chance of Debian adding YaST
<> Look,I'm not saying the YaST is great or perfect. But, I've tried 8 or 10 different distros, and the one thing that many do better that Debian is manage and configure hardware from a central location. Whether it's Mandrake's HardDrake or Redhat/Fedora's Kudzu or Ark Linux's Mission Control, etc., sometimes it's nice to have a central, handy hardware config system. Debian has everyone beat in package management and would be the hands-down greatest distro on earth if it handled hardware a little better. I've used YaST in SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 and as far as hardware configuration, it has worked pretty well. As far as software installation and configuration, it sucks. I use apt4rpm on my SuSE installation instead of YaST. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OT: Judicial election/appointment (was Re: Is Linux Unix?)
I'm an Oklahoma lawyer. In Oklahoma, state district court judges are elected in non-partisan elections. They then appoint special judges who handle things like small claims and criminal preliminary hearings. Judges for the Civil Court of Appeals, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the Oklahoma Supreme Court are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. The Governor must appoint from a list of 3 candidates provided by a judicial nominating commission made up of members appointed in equal number by the Governor, the Senate Pro Tempore and the Speaker of the House. All of the appointed judges serve staggered terms and in every election a significant number of them appear on what's called a retention ballot. That ballot says something like "Shall Judge Joe Smith serve another term as a Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court." The choices are yes or no. In the federal context, there are federal district courts, the Circuit Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. At the district court level there are probably more than a thousand district judges and magistrate judges. There are lots of vacancies, because the appointment process can never keep up. All appointments made by the President must be confirmed by the Senate. That technically requires only a majority vote, however, some of Bush's more controversial nominees have been held up by filibuster, which takes 60 votes to break. Bush has still had well over a hundred judges confirmed. He has only had a few Circuit appointments so far and no Supreme Court appointments. So, at this point, Bush's overall effect on the federal judiciary has been minimal. Another Bush term, however, could see as many as two Supreme Court vacancies. Filling those vacancies could radically alter the fundamental balance of power on the Court which could have powerful ramifications throughout the country. > -Original Message- > From: Bob Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 6:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: Judicial election/appointment (was Re: Is > Linux Unix?) > > > On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:16 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Varies by jurisdiction. > > > > Superior (county) judges are frequently elected. > > > > State/Federal judges are appointed by governors and presidents, > > respectively. I don't believe any state has an elected judiciary, > > although California has recalled Supreme Court justices through > > plebiscite. > > Judges in Kentucky, where I used to live, are, in fact, > elected by the voting > population. This includes district judges (misdemeanors/ juveniles/ > preliminary hearings) circuit judges (felonies), judges of > the Court of > Appeal and State Supreme Court. > > My memory of California is that the governor appoints all > judges, who must > then stand for non-partisan election in the next general > election of the > state. > > Bob >
RE: How Do I Get the Java Plugin To Work with Firefox and Mozilla ?
It took me about 5 minutes to get java working. Go to the Sun website, click on download J2SE JRE and download the self-executing binary for linux. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html Create new directory under /usr called java. Copy the .bin file to /usr/java and execute it. (chmod +x [filename]) then (./[filename]) After agreeing to the license, it will unpack its files. In a terminal, go to your firefox/plugins directory and remove or rename any file called libjavaplugin_oji.so and then type: ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so That's it. Start up firefox and check about:plugins. It should show the java. Worked for me anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to add new Windows Manager to KDM?
I want to add a new entry to the Session Types menu in kdm. Everything I could find says either edit the SessionTypes entry in kdmrc or add a session through the KDE Control Panel. My login configuration applet in control panel does not have a place to add a new session and the only kdmrc file that my system has has no entry for SessionTypes. Where else do I look? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to add new Windows Manager to KDM?
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:24 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: How to add new Windows Manager to KDM? > > > Scott Thompson wrote: > > >I want to add a new entry to the Session Types menu in kdm. > Everything > >I could find says either edit the SessionTypes entry in > kdmrc or add a > >session through the KDE Control Panel. My login > configuration applet > >in control panel does not have a place to add a new session and the > >only kdmrc file that my system has has no entry for SessionTypes. > >Where else do I look? > > > > > > > > > It was my impression that if you just apt-get install a new window > manager it'll automagically get added to the list. Do you > already have > this new wm installed? > > -- > Kent > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's not available through apt. I downloaded and installed it from the web. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding Debian menu to windows managers
Both KDE and GNOME have menus full of links to all of the software installed on the system, including the Debian menu. When I use any other installed windows manager, i.e. fluxbox, blackbox, enlightenment or xfce4, the menus are all empty. How can I get at least the Debian menu to appear in enlightenment and xfce4 primarily? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable
I haven't tried it, but there are instructions for getting IE6 working with WINE on this website. http://frankscorner.org > -Original Message- > From: Mike Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable > > > I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck > installing Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable? > > It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some > web dev stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, > plus it'd just be rather amusing to run IE6 on linux. Well, I > think so, anyway. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable
Of course, if you want to spend some cash and run a bunch of other Microsoft and other business software, Crossover Office http://www.codeweavers.com supports IE6. It's $40. > -Original Message- > From: Mike Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable > > > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:44:36 -0500, Scott Thompson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, I hadn't found that yet. > > Unfortunatly I think my problem is a bit deeper: When I try > to "wine ie6setup.exe", it runs for a moment and then tells > me that the cluster size on this system isn't supported. > > I also tried "method 1" on that page, the installer script, > but it said the following: > > Could not locate /home/mike/.wine/dosdevices/c:/ > Wine exited with a successful status/windows directory. > Checked for windows, Windows, and WINDOWS > > > Thanks for the help. > > > I haven't tried it, but there are instructions for getting > IE6 working > > with WINE on this website. http://frankscorner.org > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Mike Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:40 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable > > > > > > > > > I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing > > > Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable? > > > > > > It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing > some web dev > > > stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus > it'd just > > > be rather amusing to run IE6 on linux. Well, I think so, anyway. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel 2.6.8 changes hard drives
I have Debian installed on a drive attached to an ATA controller. I also have a CD-RW and DVD-RW attached to those controllers. These drives were recognized as hda, hdb and hdc. I also had two hard drives attached to SATA controllers. These drives were recognized as hdd and hde. After moving to kernel 2.6.8 from 2.6.7, the SATA drives are recognized as sda and sdb. I corrected the fstab entries and now they both seem to mount and work fine. Any idea why this occurred? Is it something changed in the 2.6.8 kernel or a problem with my setup? Thoughts and comments would be appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I mount /dev/sdax at boot?
Nicolaus said: > Loki, I tried changing pass to 1, and the it (almost) worked. > I recompiled the kernel, this time with the SATA (libata) > support "fixed" in the kernel, and not as a module, and that > did the trick. I've had the same problem, but is hasn't really been any issue since my SATA drive is for storage and not accessed that often, but isn't there a solution short of recompiling the kernel? Perhaps a way to load the module libata earlier so there's no problem when fstab makes a pass. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
