This is a bit old, but...
On 2021-04-24 15:37:28 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre composed on 2021-04-24 21:05 (UTC+0200):
>
> > Yes, very bad experience with the nouveau driver (I haven't tried
> > recently with the latest kernels, but my bug reports remained
> > unanswered), which is
Am 24.04.21 um 22:46 schrieb Alexander V. Makartsev:
On 23.04.2021 21:31, Malte Marwedel wrote:
Has anyone experience with Nvidia cards without closed source drivers
and newer kernels?
I've stopped my attempts to make "nouveau" work a long time ago and
never looked back.
It is n
On 23.04.2021 21:31, Malte Marwedel wrote:
Has anyone experience with Nvidia cards without closed source drivers
and newer kernels?
I've stopped my attempts to make "nouveau" work a long time ago and
never looked back.
It is not finished, it lacks so much even basic functionalit
Vincent Lefevre composed on 2021-04-24 21:05 (UTC+0200):
> Yes, very bad experience with the nouveau driver (I haven't tried
> recently with the latest kernels, but my bug reports remained
> unanswered), which is the only free driver I know. In particular,
> it is unusable with my laptop and an ex
On 2021-04-23 18:31:55 +0200, Malte Marwedel wrote:
> Has anyone experience with Nvidia cards without closed source drivers and
> newer kernels?
Yes, very bad experience with the nouveau driver (I haven't tried
recently with the latest kernels, but my bug reports remained
unanswered
Malte Marwedel composed on 2021-04-23 18:31 (UTC+0200):
> Any Ideas? I don't want to install the closed source module, I had
> enough pain with fglrx ~10 years ago.
I've never installed NVidia's proprietary drivers o
for extra performance.
Viktor
On 4/23/21 9:31 AM, Malte Marwedel wrote:
Has anyone experience with Nvidia cards without closed source drivers
and newer kernels?
Recently my AMD card died, so I got a fast replacement from a friend -
a GeForce GTX 660.
With the kernel 5.5.9, the PC stops boo
Has anyone experience with Nvidia cards without closed source drivers
and newer kernels?
Recently my AMD card died, so I got a fast replacement from a friend - a
GeForce GTX 660.
With the kernel 5.5.9, the PC stops booting after GRUB. The kernel tries
to set the resolution of the console and
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 08:29:40AM +, Curt wrote:
> On 2016-03-24, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 03/23/2016 07:46 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> >> David Christensen writes:
> >>> If I am running version N, have changed the configuration file to M',
> >>> and then upgrade to version N+1, you're sa
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:07:45PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/23/2016 07:46 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> >David Christensen writes:
> >>If I am running version N, have changed the configuration file to M',
> >>and then upgrade to version N+1,
On 2016-03-24, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/23/2016 07:46 PM, John Hasler wrote:
>> David Christensen writes:
>>> If I am running version N, have changed the configuration file to M',
>>> and then upgrade to version N+1, you're saying dist-upgrade throws
>>> away +X and -Y. I may want or need
On 03/23/2016 07:46 PM, John Hasler wrote:
David Christensen writes:
If I am running version N, have changed the configuration file to M',
and then upgrade to version N+1, you're saying dist-upgrade throws
away +X and -Y. I may want or need those.
The package management system will notice tha
David Christensen writes:
> If I am running version N, have changed the configuration file to M',
> and then upgrade to version N+1, you're saying dist-upgrade throws
> away +X and -Y. I may want or need those.
The package management system will notice that you have changed the
file. You will be
On 03/23/2016 12:44 AM, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote:
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:40:18PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
I'm not a good Debian owner. I download and install 3rd party software. I
modify system configuration files.
As do most of us. An upgrade won't overwrite configurati
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:52:25PM +, Brian wrote:
> William Lee Valentine's only post is about installing newer kernels and
> has nothing to with booting a Debian image.
Which probably means he wasn't subscribed. :(
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:40:18PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/18/2016 02:13 PM, Curt wrote:
> >I have never had a failed dist-upgrade. Of course, you gotta follow the
> >goddamn directions, do about five or ten minutes of reading of the
> >appropriate material, which isn't too much to
On Sun 20 Mar 2016 at 12:23:03 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:09:51 -0500
> David Wright wrote:
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> With this much work, it would probably be easier just to do a wipe and
> re-install, since the process you described basically nukes the system
> down to the bar
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:09:51 -0500
David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 17 Mar 2016 at 16:18:14 (-0700), William Lee Valentine wrote:
> > I have installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686 on two machines. One, a custom
> > machine, has a Pentium III processor running at 800 megahertz, and
> > has 500 megabytes of mem
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:40:27 +
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 18 March 2016 17:55:50 Ric Moore wrote:
> > On 03/18/2016 01:22 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> > > On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > >>> Debian
On Thu 17 Mar 2016 at 16:18:14 (-0700), William Lee Valentine wrote:
> I have installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686 on two machines. One, a custom
> machine, has a Pentium III processor running at 800 megahertz, and has
> 500 megabytes of memory; the other is an IBM Mpro Intellistation 6229
> with a Pentiu
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 18:31:24 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> You're a better man than myself. :-) I recycled all of my Pentium
> III machines. My 32-bit Pentium 4's will soon follow...
Well, this Pentium III is the last machine I had on my desk at work,
so I'll probably run it until it d
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:21:12AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a
> > backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Deb
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 20:06:32 (+), Brian wrote:
> On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 14:44:31 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
> > But I've had no difficulty booting Debian from CD on any of my machines.
> > Obviously USBs are unsuitable for the ancient ones, though I await
> > a response to
> > https://lists
On Friday 18 March 2016 17:55:50 Ric Moore wrote:
> On 03/18/2016 01:22 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> >>> Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a
> >>> backup-wipe-install-
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 10:22:49 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> >On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> >>Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a
> >>backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to D
I have installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686 on two machines. One, a custom
machine, has a Pentium III processor running at 800 megahertz, and has
500 megabytes of memory; the other is an IBM Mpro Intellistation 6229
with a Pentium processor running at 2.2 gigahertz, and has 2
gigabytes of memory.
D
On 2016-03-19, David Christensen wrote:
>>
>> This wipe business strikes me as vaguely scatological. Clean and
>> cruftless and wiped (and do they wash their hands fifty times a day
>> too, just to be impeccable)?
>
> I'm not a good Debian owner. I download and install 3rd party software.
> I
On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a
> backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian
> 7
> (or 8).
Why not do a dist-upgrade?
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On Thu 17 Mar 2016 at 19:27:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/17/2016 04:18 PM, William Lee Valentine wrote:
> >I have installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686 on two machines. One, a custom
> >machine, has a Pentium III processor running at 800 megahertz, and
> >has 500 megabytes of memory; the ot
On 03/17/2016 04:18 PM, William Lee Valentine wrote:
I have installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686 on two machines. One, a custom
machine, has a Pentium III processor running at 800 megahertz, and
has 500 megabytes of memory; the other is an IBM Mpro Intellistation
6229 with a Pentium processor runn
On 03/18/2016 02:05 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the root
partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I use /opt
Hmm.. just to give a counter-point, almost all my current Debian
installs are the result of a st
On Thursday 17 March 2016 23:18:14 William Lee Valentine wrote:
> I have installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686
2.6.32-5-686 is a kernel number. Since you call it Debian 2.6.32-5-686 it is
presumably a Debian compiled kernel. Which version of Debian? This
https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/linux-image
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 14:44:31 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> But I've had no difficulty booting Debian from CD on any of my machines.
> Obviously USBs are unsuitable for the ancient ones, though I await
> a response to
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/03/msg00677.html
> with bated breath
> I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the root
> partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I use /opt
Hmm.. just to give a counter-point, almost all my current Debian
installs are the result of a stream of upgrades+clones from the first
instal
On 2016-03-18, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the root
>> partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I use /opt
>
> Hmm.. just to give a counter-point, almost all my current Debian
> installs are the result of a st
H mentioning the thread here might cause William Lee Valentine,
> > or others, to take an interest if his Pentium III, like mine, won't
> > boot from USB without "ways around it". Is mentioning one thread
> > in another improper? It's not as if one can talk be
On 03/18/2016 02:13 PM, Curt wrote:
I have never had a failed dist-upgrade. Of course, you gotta follow the
goddamn directions, do about five or ten minutes of reading of the
appropriate material, which isn't too much to ask I wouldn't think.
This wipe business strikes me as vaguely scatological
is always a good reason for keeping
quiet.
> OTOH mentioning the thread here might cause William Lee Valentine,
> or others, to take an interest if his Pentium III, like mine, won't
> boot from USB without "ways around it". Is mentioning one thread
> in another improper?
On 03/18/2016 01:22 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a
backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian
7
(or 8).
Why not
On 03/18/2016 12:44 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 17 Mar 2016 at 19:27:31 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
If/ when you get the
Debian installer going, install to a HDD, don't use encryption, and
only install:
SSH server
Standard system utilities
You can add things carefully after
On 03/18/2016 01:21 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a
backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian
7
(or 8).
Why not do a dist-upgrade?
1. The few times I tried, I
On 19/03/16 09:06, David Wright wrote:
>>> I'm currently using manual procedures and home-grown scripts.
>>> The next step up would be a deployment/ management automation
>>> tool such as Puppet:
>>>
>>> https://puppetlabs.com/
> I can get a lot of hardware for $3000!
Puppet Enterprise is $3000.
On 03/18/2016 01:06 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 10:22:49 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
https://puppetlabs.com/
I can get a lot of hardware for $3000!
That's why I would use the Debian version:
2016-03-18 18:20:22 dpchrist@t7400 ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version
On 03/18/2016 07:03 PM, David Wright wrote:
Well, this Pentium III is the last machine I had on my desk at work,
so I'll probably run it until it dies, for sentimental reasons.
I'm retired; you're probably running machines for professional
reasons, which carries responsibilities I no longer have.
Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander:
> While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the
> 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next
> long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer
> features from the
Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2013 schrieb Gary Dale:
> On 13/03/13 09:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
> > While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting
> > the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the
> > next long term support kernel, but I would like to
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 04:40 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Or, there are a gazillion VM solutions available for precisely this
> purpose.
For testing a FS a virtual machine is fine, but often you need a "real"
install even for playing, that's why I've got a multi-boot with that
many Linux. I'm not
On 3/13/2013 8:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
...
> play with ...
> features ...like f2fs and btrfs.
...
> I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they are stable
> enough for day-to-day use.
I see a major disconnect here. Playing with something new is not
day-day use. You can buy
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 03:02 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> Some of the 'buntus use 3.4, don't they?
Packages for Quantal are already > 3.4, but it's unstable. However, it
isn't unstable regarding to the kernel. I also build kernels myself for
Ubuntu, it still is buggy as hell. On Arch Linux everythin
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:00 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
> While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting
> the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the
> next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of
> the newer features from
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:12 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> I wouldn't use any of the newer file systems until they've been around
Oops, that's another story, the kernels I use are stable, but I use ext3
and ext4.
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> From: Johan Grönqvist [mailto:johan.gronqv...@gmail.com]
> 2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev:
> > [...] sid is still sporting
> > the 3.2.x kernel.
> > [...] I would like to play with some of the
> > newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...]
> > I was wondering if an
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:24:19AM +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote:
>...
> I considered installing 3.8 from experimental, but that one seems to
> move from the old initramfs tools to something called dracut, so I
> decided to stay with 3.7, as it works for me.
I'm running:
zito@bobek:~$ uname -a
2013-03-14 02:00, Brad Alexander skrev:
[...] sid is still sporting
the 3.2.x kernel.
[...] I would like to play with some of the
newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, [...]
I was wondering if anyone is running any of them, and if they
are stable enough for day-to-day use.
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:00:47 -0400
Brad Alexander wrote:
> While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the
> 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next
> long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer
> features fro
Sorry. Didn't check the reply field.
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From: Brad Alexander
Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: newer kernels from experimental?
To: g...@dalefamily.org
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> I wouldn't use any
On 13/03/13 09:00 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting
the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the
next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of
the newer features from the later 3.x ker
While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the
3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next
long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer
features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, like f2fs and btrfs.
I w
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM, B. Alexander wrote:
> It seems that we (Debian) is falling further and further behind. The latest
> kernel in sid is 2.6.32+28, and I didn't see anything in experimental. Are
> we going to see any of the more recent kernels any time soon in Debian?
>
>
In experime
It seems that we (Debian) is falling further and further behind. The latest
kernel in sid is 2.6.32+28, and I didn't see anything in experimental. Are
we going to see any of the more recent kernels any time soon in Debian?
Thanks,
--b
H.S. wrote:
>
> I posted this problem over at linux1394-user mailing list (subject "Kino
> and dvgrab not working with camcorder ", date 28 May 2010 11:39 PM).
> Stefan Richter has been extremely helpful, and diligent, in tracking
> down the problem. He has found its root and has proposed a so
H.S. wrote:
> I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any
> problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some
> kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore.
>
> I am now using Debian Testing, KDE and kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686.
>
> I see th
Bhasker C V writes:
> The native driver can directly do all the tasks and SCSI emulation
> is not needed anymore.
>
> For programs like growisofs, cdrecord in the option dev=
> instead of giving 0,0,0 etc., you can give /dev/hdc directly.
Thank you. That is great news. I figured it was
Hi,
The native driver can directly do all the tasks and SCSI emulation
is not needed anymore.
For programs like growisofs, cdrecord in the option dev=
instead of giving 0,0,0 etc., you can give /dev/hdc directly.
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Martin McCormick wrote:
I upgraded my kernel from an old
I upgraded my kernel from an old 2.6.5 kernel to a newer 2.6.18
kernel and noticed that the boot process ignored the passing of
/dev/hdc to scsi emulation. The drive worked fine after I
mounted it as /dev/cdrom rather than /dev/hcd0. Do I need to do
anything different to such programs as cdrecord?
Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 04/04/2008 04:02 PM, Ernst Doubt wrote:
>> My config is at http://pastebin.com/m9d3c9ea
>
> I see this in your config:
>
>1567. # CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI is not set
>1568. # CONFIG_MMC_WBSD is not set
>1569. # CONFIG_MMC_TIFM_SD is not set
>
> Enable these and some of t
On 04/04/2008 04:02 PM, Ernst Doubt wrote:
I have a 2.6.18 (self-compiled) kernel that I can use to successfully mount
an SD card from my camera, but when I built a newer, more trimmed down
kernel, my SD card access is no longer available. I thought I had enabled
all the correct hardware options
I have a 2.6.18 (self-compiled) kernel that I can use to successfully mount
an SD card from my camera, but when I built a newer, more trimmed down
kernel, my SD card access is no longer available. I thought I had enabled
all the correct hardware options, but apparently I've missed something.
My c
Greetings Debianists!
I have been happily using make-kpkg to build my own kernel debs for a while,
and recently found that the cdrecord version in sid will not play nicely with
new kernels (2.6.9-something and above).
I am using kernel 2.6.10, running sid on an Athlon 1.3 (tb), and got an LG
CD-wr
This is for everyone who has tried to compile a newer kernel than the
stock 2.4.18bf-2.4 and lost the ability to shut down your computer at
powerdown. The problem lies in new features in the newer kernels and the
default settings when you compile.
I found the problem. When you first untar the
Bob,
> For a number of other reasons I'd like to go to 2.4.10 ... any experience on
> the TR PCMCIA out there ??
>
> Than you. Bob Alexander
>
It all works fine using the token ring pcmcia drivers in the kernel.
The latest drivers are in fact better as they do away with the need
for the config.
I now have an unstable dist working fine on my PC ... only thing I am
keeping back is the pcmcia-cs and source and the 2.2.19 kernel from potato
since my Token Ring PCMCIA works with these ...
For a number of other reasons I'd like to go to 2.4.10 ... any experience on
the TR PCMCIA out there ??
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 03:59:45PM +, Martin Oldfield wrote:
> Has anyone packaged a more recent kernel than 2.0.35 ?
No. There are no newer stable kernels than 2.0.35 at the moment (although
the prepatches for 2.0.36 seem to be stabilising now); if you want to have
packages for newer kern
Has anyone packaged a more recent kernel than 2.0.35 ?
Cheers,
--
Martin Oldfield.
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