Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Mark McCorkell
nstalling from, it wasn't able to resolve all the dependencies for core parts of gnome and gdm at install time. The situation may have improved now that a lot of the big changes are getting fleshed out a bit in sid. -- Mark McCorkell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Switch from lenny-stable to squeeze-testing

2009-04-20 Thread Mark McCorkell
a 'sudo apt-get update' will download package lists from the new repositories and 'sudo apt-get upgrade' or 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' will start the process. I'd recommend dist-upgrade when changing the main repositories. -- Mark McCorkell -- To

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

2009-04-13 Thread Mark McCorkell
7;t have libbar-1.1 installed, "apt-get upgrade" will 'keep back' foo-1.1, whereas "apt-get dist-upgrade" will update to foo-1.1 AND install libbar-1.1. The caution comes in that sometimes dist-upgrade will remove packages too, but even then it generally gets it right. --

Re: No X after upgrade from lenny to testing with radeon x700

2009-04-13 Thread Mark McCorkell
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 17:11 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > I don't know why you don't have card0. X never creates devices in dev, > but udev should definitely have created it. What happens if you modprobe > radeon_drv.so? > > I'll go sit at the back of the class. Yep, loading the radeon module d

Re: No X after upgrade from lenny to testing with radeon x700

2009-04-13 Thread Mark McCorkell
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 00:37 +0100, Mark McCorkell wrote: > Switching to fglrx causes this device > to appear, but the fglrx package in testing has a version difference > between the driver and the kernel module meaning it's not an ideal > solution. > Oops, ignore this bit.

No X after upgrade from lenny to testing with radeon x700

2009-04-13 Thread Mark McCorkell
Did a clean install of lenny i386 onto a laptop with a Radeon X700 (RV4xx chipset). Normally I'd use fglrx but I decided to give the xorg radeon driver a try to see if it had improved to a usable state yet. Unfortunately, xrandr still can't handle 2 monitors with this chipset. It reports that two

Re: xserver woes (ATI Radeon) after upgrade to xorg 1.7.4

2009-04-11 Thread Mark McCorkell
ibGL and such. I didn't find these in the archive -- am I > just overlooking them? > > Thanks, > -Steve You might need to add a Virtual line to your xorg.conf to allow it to create a screen big enough to accomodate both your monitors. Something along the lines of SubSection "Dis

Re: [Solved - sort of...] Lenny overheating, preventing installation

2009-04-11 Thread Mark McCorkell
age than other OSes. The ondemand governor can very quickly ramp up the CPU speed when it's needed. And purely anecdotally, I seem to find my system runs cooler when it's running a 64-bit OS than an i386 one. I've no evidence of why this might be or even whether its entirely my

Can't view package changelogs via update-manager

2009-04-09 Thread Mark McCorkell
a problem with my setup, and if so, where I might begin looking for solutions? TIA. -- Mark McCorkell "At least you can ignore my inanity, I'm stuck with it for life" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: accessing debian-unofficial

2009-04-09 Thread Mark McCorkell
till valid for 2009. If not, you could contact the site maintainers to ask for an updated .asc file. -- Mark McCorkell "At least you can ignore my inanity, I'm stuck with it for life" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing

2009-04-05 Thread Mark McCorkell
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 18:10 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, I have Pulseaudio set up on my sid machine, and after following the > configuratoin examples, things have been working fine. > > But recently some parts (i dont know the right word--channel, track, source?) > stop working and

Re: Illogical drives?

2009-03-26 Thread Mark McCorkell
postid wrote: Just finished a lenny install. I used manual partitioning in the graphical installer to do the following: #1 primary 19.0 GBntfs #2 primary 6.0 GB B F ext3 / #5 logical 1.0 GB F swap swap #6 logical 14.0 GB F ext3 /home #1 is Win2000 and boots fro

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

2009-03-26 Thread Mark McCorkell
Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but they depend on linux-kbuild-2.6.28 which isn't available Searching on packages.debian.org does not show that level in experimental eithe

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-26 Thread Mark McCorkell
Daryl Styrk wrote: Mine doesn't like the marble table/desk.. Keep a blank sheet of paper around or this really old mouse fabric mouse pad.. Speaking of which and moving slightly off topic.. Anyone know of a pad that has reference material on it? Maybe Debian commands or perhaps bash? I don

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Mark McCorkell
Celejar wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: Amit Uttamchandani: Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this common practice? Do others do this as well? I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-25 Thread Mark McCorkell
Davide Mancusi wrote: Hi .*, I have an external USB hard disk that I use for automated backups. I have written the following udev rules: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="574341535530323537353839", KERNEL=="sd?", SYMLINK+="exthd", GROUP="plugdev" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-18 Thread Mark McCorkell
Davide Mancusi wrote: The problem is that sometimes, when init calls fsck, /dev/exthd1 has not appeared yet, fsck bombs and init drops me to an emergency shell. This happens about 50% of the times. Then I use the emergency prompt to check if /dev/exthd1 actually exists, and, again, 50% of the tim