Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
On Tue ... you wrote > I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. > Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE >to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. ... later you wrote in answer to this > > I'm running etch

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
> You could of snipped the unnecessary bits. > Chris. errr.. that might be good advice Chris BUT, it kinda ASSumes that I knew what the 'unnecessary bits' were ... doesn't it? If I'd known that ... then I would have been able to spot the error instantly (as others did when they saw t

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
> > > > (II) Initializing extension GLX > > > > Backtrace: > > 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x6d) [0x4802ed] > > 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2ac51f460110] > > 2: /lib/libc.so.6(__ctype_tolower_loc+0x25) [0x2ac51f45a2c5] > > 3: /usr/bin/X(xf86nameCompare+0xfe) [0x4a4cde] > > 4: /usr/bin/X(InitInput+0x1

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
> > > > Ian, It sounds to me like your xorg.conf is still messed up. Can you > > post that too? Just the relevant "Device" and "Screen" sections should > > be enough. But you can put the whole thing here too. Then we should > > get a pretty good idea what is going on. Will do... but just no

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
> Try commenting the PCI bus line out of the xorg.conf and see if the > driver can auto detect the card. Otherwise, look at lspci -v for > details of the bus. Oh and BTW. I had already tried that (and have just repeated it 'just in case') ... no effect whatsoever. same error-11 , same war

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:05 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > > > > > I have read dozens of trails about this 'Signal 11' ... but so far not > > one of them has thrown any light on it. (The error codes listed for the > > xserver are about as obscure as they could be ... at least the version I > > downl

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-27 Thread Ian Broadbent
> > > >Question please... should the driver be 'nvidia' or 'nv', (if 'nvidia' > >- any suggestions as to what I am missing?) ... if it's should be > >'nv' in any event .. then can someone help me find the settings for > >this to get the colours to be accurately displayed? > > It depends. IIRC