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