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

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:52:23AM +0100, Ian Broadbent wrote: > > 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

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 Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:23:14AM +0100, Ian Broadbent wrote: > OK, now I am really into DEEP water I have run the lspci > command ... but I'm not too sure what it is telling me on a quick > scan down this lot (below) I only see the entry for VGA graphics > controller. Would you not

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 Wackojacko
Ian Broadbent wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:39 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Ian Broadbent wrote: 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 (a

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

2007-03-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Mar 2007, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 27 Mar 2007, Ian Broadbent wrote: > Question please... should the driver be 'nvidia' or 'nv', (if > >> 'nvidia' > - any suggestions as to what I am missing?) ... if it's

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 Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 27 Mar 2007, Ian Broadbent wrote: > 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 a

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

2007-03-27 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Mar 2007, Ian Broadbent wrote: 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 so

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

2007-03-27 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 18:44:30 +0100, ieb wrote: >> Hello folks, > [..] >> I have rebuilt the 2.6.18-4-amd64 with the NVIDIA components, have >> installed the nvidia-glx module, but whenever I let the >> etc/X11/xorg.conf bui

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

2007-03-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Mar 2007, Ian Broadbent wrote: > > > > > >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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Wackojacko
Ian Broadbent wrote: 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 err

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 Wackojacko
Ian Broadbent wrote: 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.

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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 18:44:30 +0100, ieb wrote: >Hello folks, [..] >I have rebuilt the 2.6.18-4-amd64 with the NVIDIA components, have >installed the nvidia-glx module, but whenever I let the >etc/X11/xorg.conf build with the nvidia configuration tool it builds >the 'conf' with a declaration for

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

2007-03-25 Thread ieb
Hello folks, I'm still puzzling with my build of Etch on this new machine I've solved the GRUB error 16 and error 18 problems, by disabling the SMART options in the BIOS and stopping the appropriate services for smartmon. Everything on that front now appears to be stable ...and I don't appea

Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:27:07PM +, ieb wrote: > I asked last week about getting Debian to run on my new box. > [...] > > I have just switched on the machine - it booted OK - got to Gnome > desktop... and the whole thing froze (reminiscent of the bad old Windoze > days) ... switched it off

Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:27:07PM +, ieb wrote: > I asked last week about getting Debian to run on my new box. > [snip: running Etch] > Everything worked fin until Saturday switched on and it failed with > an Error 18 at the GRUB. > > It took me 8 attempts over the weekend to reinstall

Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-22 Thread Kent West
ieb wrote: It took me 8 attempts over the weekend to reinstall to system it kept failing at the 'Installing Software' stage and wouldn't proceed. I downloaded the latest installer yesterday- - burnt another dic and tried again it all seemed to go fine and the system was up and running aga

Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-22 Thread ieb
I asked last week about getting Debian to run on my new box. Joe Hart pointed me in the direction of ETCH rather than the SID I was trying to use. Everything worked fin until Saturday switched on and it failed with an Error 18 at the GRUB. It took me 8 attempts over the weekend to reinstal