modules in 2.6.xx

2006-05-28 Thread Renato Serodio
I'm fighting to get Irda working on my machine, and I came to a point where I would really like to understand so files in /etc . I searched around in the web, looked at the kernel docs, but nothing really enlightning came up. So here's my question: In a 2.6 series, kernel (for the curious, 2.6.16.

apt-get, sudo and proxies

2006-04-06 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello group,did something change in sudo policy? I usually do my updates behind a proxy with the following commands:$export http_proxy=http://proxy.host:port$sudo synaptic (or sudo dselect) It appears now that the variable isn't passed to the sudo command. So, if I define the variable for root, and

Re: loading modules (or not!)

2006-03-02 Thread Renato Serodio
I did install modconf, but it was actually made redundand by the new module-init-tools architecture: you'll notice it will write to /etc/modules, which appears to be there for backward compatibility.

loading modules (or not!)

2006-03-02 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello all, I'm puzzled by the module system for kernel 2.6. Everything's working fine, that's a point, but still.. I used make-kpkg to create my kernel and modules, in this case ipw2100 and ieee_sth. After installing them, I notice that they get automatically loaded at boot. Well, modules.dep was

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-09 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello again,here's an update on the story:- the discrepancy in fps had nothing to do with the driver: it was a consequence of "AccelMethod"- there is/was a bug somewhere that caused the discrepancy between the log and glxinfo, though I couldn't understand whether the DRI was on or not.. - building

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-09 Thread Renato Serodio
Oh, I forgot about the xorg.conf file.. # xorg.conf (Xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, Section "Module" Load"GLcore" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-09 Thread Renato Serodio
Servus, Privet, Hello,thanks for lending a hand at this.Jacob:below are the relevant parts of my xorg.conf. Concerning fps, I use glxgears for an estimate, just like Ivan. Peculiar is, with the generic 'ati' kernel module I get some 230 fps (it's a very small window), while with the 'radeon' k-modu

XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-08 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello all,my 3D plots were rather slow, and I decided to check:$> glxinfodirect rendering: NoWell, I dug and dug, and here's what I got:For a functional Hardware Acceleration with Radeon 9200/9000: - agp, intel-apg (or other), drm and radeon drivers- glx, dri and radeon modules loaded from RadeonBu

Re: resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello Michael, I did go into laptop-net, but decided on taking guessnet instead. At the time, I not running any, since I only jump between these two nets. Resolvconf is indeed recommended by a series of packages I use, and it addresses my needs, that's why I stick to it. Renato -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello Michael, I did go into laptop-net, but decided on taking guessnet instead. At the time, I not running any, since I only jump between these two nets. Resolvconf is indeed recommended by a series of packages I use, and it addresses my needs, that's why I stick to it. Renato -- To UNSUBSCRI

resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm having a hard time with resolvconf, and I can't begin to figure where the problem lies. Here's the story: - - I use DHCP at work and a static configuration at home. Here's my interfaces file: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback #ifac

resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello all, I'm having a hard time with resolvconf, and I can't begin to figure where the problem lies. Here's the story: - I use DHCP at work and a static configuration at home. Here's my interfaces file: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback #iface eth0 i

patching debian source: fails!

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello All, I'm trying to patch some debian sources, namely bash. I had managed to so with an earlier version (3.0), but with version 3.1 I'm not making it. I've traced the problem with patching bash with the way sou

patching debian source: fails!

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello All, I'm trying to patch some debian sources, namely bash. I had managed to so with an earlier version (3.0), but with version 3.1 I'm not making it. I've traced the problem with patching bash with the w