Re: dell OptiPlex

2023-02-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Matthew Norris wrote: > Hi everyone! > Matt here. Years ago I had Debian on a disk with an awesome package and I > told myself I was always going to start again. I have been out of > circulation for some time. I have this Dell Optiplex with 32 RAM and an SSD > with an Intel i5-

Re: dell OptiPlex

2023-02-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2/24/23 00:06, Matthew Norris wrote: Hi everyone! Matt here. Years ago I had Debian on a disk with an awesome package and I told myself I was always going to start again. I have been out of circulation for some time. I have this Dell Optiplex with 32 RAM and an SSD with an Intel i5-4590 CPU

Re: dell OptiPlex

2023-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 3:24 AM Matthew Norris wrote: > > [...] I have this Dell Optiplex with 32 RAM and an SSD with an Intel i5-4590 > CPU. Can I install and use Debian as my daily driver? Most likely. A Core i5 is a 64-bit processor circa 2014; see https://ark.intel.com/content/

dell OptiPlex

2023-02-24 Thread Matthew Norris
Hi everyone! Matt here. Years ago I had Debian on a disk with an awesome package and I told myself I was always going to start again. I have been out of circulation for some time. I have this Dell Optiplex with 32 RAM and an SSD with an Intel i5-4590 CPU. Can I install and use Debian as my daily

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 October 2017 22:41:41 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2017-10-28 21:43 (UTC-0400): > > On Saturday 28 October 2017 20:23:33 Felix Miata wrote: > >> Gene Heskett composed on 2017-10-28 15:28 (UTC-0400): > >> > Bios is 2.3.1, I wonder if a newer one might still be availa

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2017-10-28 21:43 (UTC-0400): > On Saturday 28 October 2017 20:23:33 Felix Miata wrote: >> Gene Heskett composed on 2017-10-28 15:28 (UTC-0400): >> > Bios is 2.3.1, I wonder if a newer one might still be available? > Gee, thats ancient compared to yours. :( >> My 745 has

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 October 2017 20:23:33 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2017-10-28 15:28 (UTC-0400): > > Bios is 2.3.1, I wonder if a newer one might still be available? > Gee, thats ancient compared to yours. :( > My 745 has 2.6.2. Primary Grub is on /dev/sda3 on 1TB rust. I > downloa

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2017-10-28 15:28 (UTC-0400): > Bios is 2.3.1, I wonder if a newer one might still be available? My 745 has 2.6.2. Primary Grub is on /dev/sda3 on 1TB rust. I downloaded BIOS 2.6.6, but never got an urge to install it. Download page also offers 2.6.4:

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 October 2017 17:08:45 David Christensen wrote: > On 10/28/17 11:31, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I've partitioned and formatted this 64GB SSD, copied everything from > > both working partitions of a 2TB drive to it, filling it up to a > > whopping 18%, edited the S

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread David Christensen
On 10/28/17 11:31, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I've partitioned and formatted this 64GB SSD, copied everything from both working partitions of a 2TB drive to it, filling it up to a whopping 18%, edited the SSD's version of /etc/fstab to use the proper blkid's to mount it including swap, a

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/10/2017 à 21:37, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 03:28:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot mount -B /proc /mnt/proc mount -B /sys /mnt/sys mount -B /dev /mnt/dev The last three should be: mount -t proc /mnt/proc mount -t s

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 03:28:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot > mount -B /proc /mnt/proc > mount -B /sys /mnt/sys > mount -B /dev /mnt/dev > The last three should be: mount -t proc /mnt/proc mount -t sysfs /mnt/sys mount -t devpts /mnt/dev/pts

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 October 2017 14:43:12 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > But pull the 2TB, and plug its cables into the SSD, and grub is not > > loading. > > > > What did I miss? > > In such case I boot from ubuntu usb and do > > mount /dev/sdaX /mnt > mount /dev/sdaY /mnt/boot > mount -B /p

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 October 2017 14:42:08 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I've partitioned and formatted this 64GB SSD, copied everything from > > both working partitions of a 2TB drive to it, filling it up to a > > wh

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > But pull the 2TB, and plug its cables into the SSD, and grub is not > loading. > > What did I miss? In such case I boot from ubuntu usb and do mount /dev/sdaX /mnt mount /dev/sdaY /mnt/boot mount -B /proc /mnt/proc mount -B /sys /mnt/sys mount -B /dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I've partitioned and formatted this 64GB SSD, copied everything from both > working partitions of a 2TB drive to it, filling it up to a whopping > 18%, edited the SSD's version of /etc/fstab to use the proper blki

new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I've partitioned and formatted this 64GB SSD, copied everything from both working partitions of a 2TB drive to it, filling it up to a whopping 18%, edited the SSD's version of /etc/fstab to use the proper blkid's to mount it including swap, and edited /boot/grub/device.map to poi

Re: Dell Optiplex Chassis Sound with Pulseaudio

2015-07-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 04:00:06PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: >Dear Users! >I've installed Pulseaudio in Jessie x64 and I'd like to use my PC internal >chassis speaker. Is this a full-range speaker connected (internally) to a sound card, or is this the little piezo-electric beeper a

Dell Optiplex Chassis Sound with Pulseaudio

2015-07-25 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Dear Users! I've installed Pulseaudio in Jessie x64 and I'd like to use my PC internal chassis speaker. Now anything I choose in Pavucontrol and Pulseadio Sound-settings the music/sound always silent - and nothing muted. Please help me! Thanks!

Re: Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-13 Thread Johan Mazel
Here are the results of the 2 commands for kernel 2.6.32-5: *dmesg | grep modeset [7.265735] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [7.267335] [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting. *dmesg | grep radeon [7.265735] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [7.265834] radeo

Re: Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 9 May 2012 14:06:30 +0900, Johan wrote in message : > Under kernel 3.2.0-2, I have: > *dmesg |grep modeset > [7.111909] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. > [7.112268] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV620 > 0x1002:0x95C5 0x1028:0x0342). > > *dmesg |grep radeon > [

Re: Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-08 Thread Johan Mazel
Under kernel 3.2.0-2, I have: *dmesg |grep modeset [7.111909] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [7.112268] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV620 0x1002:0x95C5 0x1028:0x0342). *dmesg |grep radeon [7.111909] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [7.111991] radeon 000

Re: Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 8 May 2012 13:23:29 +0900, Johan wrote in message : > I installed firmware-linux, firmware-linus-non-free, libdrm2 and > libdrm-radeon1. I think that radeon is starting with KMS because > there is a file called radeon-kms.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/ that > contains "options radeon modeset=1"

Re: Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-07 Thread Johan Mazel
I installed firmware-linux, firmware-linus-non-free, libdrm2 and libdrm-radeon1. I think that radeon is starting with KMS because there is a file called radeon-kms.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/ that contains "options radeon modeset=1". This fixed the problem for kernels 3.2.0-1 and 3.2.0-2. There is ho

Re: Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
. > Does anyone knows how to fix this ? .."aptitude install linux-firmware", you need linux-firmware-non-free, libdrm2 and libdrm-radeon1 too, and radeon needs booting with KMS. > Regards. > Johan > > 2012/5/3 Johan Mazel : > > Hi > > I have a Debian testing 64

Re: Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-03 Thread Johan Mazel
prove that the non-proprietary ATI driver are here the source of my trouble. Does anyone knows how to fix this ? Regards. Johan 2012/5/3 Johan Mazel : > Hi > I have a Debian testing 64 bits running on a Dell Optiplex 960. > > I have three different kernels installed: 2.6.32-5, 3.2.0-1

Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Mazel
Hi I have a Debian testing 64 bits running on a Dell Optiplex 960. I have three different kernels installed: 2.6.32-5, 3.2.0-1 and 3.2.0-2. Until a recent upgrade (through apt-get update/apt-get upgrade), I could not use the Gnome login screen with kernel versions 3.2.0-1 and 3.2.0-2: the top of

Dell Optiplex 755

2008-07-17 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
I'm looking for a new desktop. Dell ships Optiplex models without Windows :) Any experience with Debian Sid in Dell Optiplex 755? Graphics card are one 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT dual monitor. I've not previous experience with ATI and 3D, is hard to configure? Thanks

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread H.S.
Kent West wrote: Yep, did that. The stanzas are the same as far as the options, etc. There's just something in the .24 kernel that's not in the .18 that causes it to hang. One more thing. Though I am not familiar with LILO, when you boot with the new kernel, is the disk drive detected as t

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:34 AM, j t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West So I tried going the route of doing a network install via http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me any option to feed the "pci=nomsi" paramete

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West >>> So I tried going the route of doing a network install via >>> http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me >>> any option to feed the "pci=nomsi" parameter (or any other similar >>> parameters); I've been unable to find a

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread Kent West
Chris Burkhardt wrote: H.S. wrote: > Kent West wrote: >>> >> >> I've just discovered that upgrading from the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel to >> the 2.6.24-1-686 re-introduces a hang-up on booting. D'oh! (choosing >> the old 2.6.18 kernel from lilo gets me going again, though - whew! >> Stupid Optiplex 320

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread H.S.
Chris Burkhardt wrote: Except he's using LILO and not Grub. But Kent might want to make sure everything in /etc/lilo.conf looks right. Congratulations on getting it going at all :) Ah! My bad, I missed that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread Chris Burkhardt
H.S. wrote: > Kent West wrote: >>> >> >> I've just discovered that upgrading from the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel to >> the 2.6.24-1-686 re-introduces a hang-up on booting. D'oh! (choosing >> the old 2.6.18 kernel from lilo gets me going again, though - whew! >> Stupid Optiplex 320!) >> > > This might not

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread H.S.
Kent West wrote: I've just discovered that upgrading from the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel to the 2.6.24-1-686 re-introduces a hang-up on booting. D'oh! (choosing the old 2.6.18 kernel from lilo gets me going again, though - whew! Stupid Optiplex 320!) This might not matter, but can you verify t

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on it so I could update t

SOLVED: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on it so I could update the BIOS to the m

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-06-23 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Chris Burkhardt wrote: I may be misunderstanding, but when the grub menu comes up can you not press 'e' to edit. If so select kernel line and press 'e' again and add option there. Hit the 'Return' key and then 'b' to boot. No, there's not so much as a grub menu; it's like the

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-06-22 Thread Nicolas Salles
> Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net > is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just > spent a day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would > install on it so I could update the BIOS to the most re

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-06-20 Thread Kent West
Chris Burkhardt wrote: I may be misunderstanding, but when the grub menu comes up can you not press 'e' to edit. If so select kernel line and press 'e' again and add option there. Hit the 'Return' key and then 'b' to boot. No, there's not so much as a grub menu; it's like the grub menu has be

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-06-20 Thread Kent West
Robin wrote: 2008/6/20 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. So I tried going the route of doing a network install via http://www.goodbye-microsoft.

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-06-20 Thread Robin
2008/6/20 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is > full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a > day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on i

How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-06-20 Thread Kent West
Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on it so I could update the BIOS to the most recent versio

Debian Etch on Dell Optiplex 320

2008-03-07 Thread Amit T Uttamchandani
Hey there, This is a mailing list question and a how to as well. I purged my life of Windows completely the other day by only using Debian Etch on my workstation at work :) Unfortunately this workstation is as linux unfriendly as it gets. It is a Dell Optiplex 320. I couldn't get any d

Hardware compatibility => DELL optiplex 740 small form factor

2008-02-14 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
Did you have previews experiences of compatibility about Debian Stable and "DELL optiplex 740 small form factor"? Please report me! Thank you! Andrea - -- Openclose.it - Idee per il software libero http://www.openclose.it

Re: SUCCESS: Grub2 on Dell Optiplex GX270

2008-02-08 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Michael D. Norwick wrote: To whom it may concern; Machine :Dell Optiplex 270 server Intel P4 2.8GHz (non HT) 1G PC2700 Memory Onboard Intel Gb ethernet adapter Onboard Intel Extreme 8x AGP graphics controller

etch : pb with sound on i810 chipset (Dell Optiplex GX270)

2007-01-29 Thread Fabrice LORRAIN
Hello, I'm trying to get sound working on a Dell Optiplex Gx270. In a previous existence (sarge + 2.6.x sarge kernel) sound was working find on this box. I reinstalled the box from scratch under etch (netinstall RC1) + aptitude upgrade. Sound didn't work with kernel 2.6.18-3-686.

installation of sarge on Dell Optiplex SX280

2005-06-13 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
What is the best way to install sarge on a Dell Optiplex SX280? Kernel 2.4 doesn't recognise the SATA hard disk and thus gives the error message "No partitionable media found." Do I need to specify a special boot parameter? I don't know. Kernel 2.6 installed and w

X Res on Dell Optiplex GX270

2004-03-01 Thread Kent West
I'm posting this only for archival purposes (to perhaps help others). The Dell Optiplex GX270 computer apparently ships with a broken BIOS (v. A03) that does not correctly report to the operating system the size of video RAM assigned to the integrated Intel 82865G. MS-Windows appar

installing video card to dell optiplex gx110

2003-12-13 Thread wilbur miller
      wilbur miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.  

Installation problems on a Dell Optiplex GXa

2003-10-19 Thread Dennis van Turnhout
I installed 3.0R1 on an old Dell Optiplex Gxa machine. Since it has a P2-333mHz processor and 196Mb of ram I thought it would be fine for a Wolfenstein ET server. I've ran into 2 problems... X won't start... Tried to config it, looks okay to me. Upon boot I get a popup box that s

Re: installation problem on Dell OptiPlex

2003-06-19 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got a problem during installing debian on a Dell Optiplex L60. I startet the installation with the disks (Kernel 2.2.20, version: comcat,woody), but at the point of installing the networkdriver i stoped. Where can I get a driver for the Intel

SOLVED :installation problem on Dell OptiPlex

2003-06-19 Thread hetzel.devel
Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 19.06.03 15:12:02: > > On (19/06/03 07:03), Kent West wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > >I got a problem during installing debian on a Dell Optiplex L60. > > >I startet the

Re: installation problem on Dell OptiPlex

2003-06-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:32:26 +0200 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I got a problem during installing debian on a Dell Optiplex L60. > I startet the installation with the disks (Kernel 2.2.20, version: > comcat,woody), but at the point of installing the networkdriver i sto

Re: installation problem on Dell OptiPlex

2003-06-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/06/03 07:03), Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi, > >I got a problem during installing debian on a Dell Optiplex L60. > >I startet the installation with the disks (Kernel 2.2.20, version: > >comcat,woody), but at the point of installing

Re: installation problem on Dell OptiPlex

2003-06-19 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got a problem during installing debian on a Dell Optiplex L60. I startet the installation with the disks (Kernel 2.2.20, version: comcat,woody), but at the point of installing the networkdriver i stoped. Where can I get a driver for the Intel 8255X 10/100/1000

installation problem on Dell OptiPlex

2003-06-18 Thread hetzel.devel
Hi, I got a problem during installing debian on a Dell Optiplex L60. I startet the installation with the disks (Kernel 2.2.20, version: comcat,woody), but at the point of installing the networkdriver i stoped. Where can I get a driver for the Intel 8255X 10/100/1000 Onboard-networkdevice? How

RE: Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-19 Thread wl10
>In case you missed the rest of the thread: > >1. which version of debian are you trying to install? Oh- sorry, I'm installing testing. I want to load Demudi and it says that I need to install it on top of testing. >2. what cd are you installing from? Each boot floppy comes with > a file calle

Re: Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* William Lacy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I tried the 3c509 but it didn't work- it didn't say 'Vortex'. I tried the > GX110 again today just to verify that I remembered the number correctly (which > I did) and there was no Vortex listed. As I remember, previous CDs had a lot > more NIC d

Re: Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-19 Thread William Lacy
I tried the 3c509 but it didn't work- it didn't say 'Vortex'.  I tried the GX110 again today just to verify that I remembered the number correctly (which I did) and there was no Vortex listed.  As I remember, previous CDs had a lot more NIC drivers. I usually install from the net without even l

Re: Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
(remember to hit Reply to All so that your replies go to the list as well.) On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 14:26, William Lacy wrote: > I selected every 3com driver on the install menu, if there was one > called 'Vortex' I did not install it unless it said '3c'. > I don't remember the EXACT wording, but

Re: Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-18 Thread Michel Loos
Em Seg, 2002-02-18 às 19:09, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu: > * Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 13:19, William Lacy wrote: > > > I am having the same problem on two different computers. One is an > > > Optiplex GX150 and one is a GX110. > > > > > > The probl

Re: Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 13:19, William Lacy wrote: > > I am having the same problem on two different computers. One is an > > Optiplex GX150 and one is a GX110. > > > > The problem is that the 3Com on board network does not detect in the > > d

Re: Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 13:19, William Lacy wrote: > I am having the same problem on two different computers. One is an > Optiplex GX150 and one is a GX110. > > The problem is that the 3Com on board network does not detect in the > debian install, the 110 has a 3C579 and the 150 a 3C509 from what

Re: Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-18 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 14:19, William Lacy wrote: > I am having the same problem on two different computers. One is an > Optiplex GX150 and one is a GX110. > > The problem is that the 3Com on board network does not detect in the > debian install, the 110 has a 3C579 and the 150 a 3C509 from what

Dell Optiplex Network

2002-02-18 Thread William Lacy
I am having the same problem on two different computers. One is an Optiplex GX150 and one is a GX110. The problem is that the 3Com on board network does not detect in the debian install, the 110 has a 3C579 and the 150 a 3C509 from what I can tell. Both computers run fine with Red Hat. Any

RE: Alsa on Dell OptiPlex GX1 (Debian/2.4.17/CS4236B)

2002-02-06 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
Thanks for the input Elizabeth. I have, with your suggestion, now been able to get sound working. For future reference (and maybe help someone else along the way, this is my configuration: System: Dell OptiPlex GX1 Kernel 2.4.17 Debian 2.2 upgraded to current unstable CS4236B On Board

Re: Alsa on Dell OptiPlex GX1 (Debian/2.4.17/CS4236B)

2002-02-06 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Greer, Darren (MED)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, after running /etc/init.d/alsasound start (output shown below), I > cannot open the mixer...running aumix says "error opening mixer". > However, if I "modprobe snd-mixer-oss" it works. So, the mixer thing is > my first challenge as to why

Alsa on Dell OptiPlex GX1 (Debian/2.4.17/CS4236B)

2002-02-06 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
Hello all, I am hoping you can help me with getting my sound working on my Dell OptiPlex GX1 (CS4236B). I am running kernel 2.4.17, and the latest stable alsa drivers as of yesterday, on Debian. I have compiled alsa with isapnp=yes, and compilation and install went fine. You will find all the

Parallel port on DELL Optiplex GX400

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Kleiner
Hello... Debian 2.2r5 i386 on a DELL GX400. I can't seem to get the /dev/lp0 port to work at all. I've re-compiled the kernel with parallel port drivers loaded as modules, and loaded the modules. Redirecting to /dev/lp0 (i.e. date > /dev/lp0) just gives: /dev/lp0: No such device In dmesg,

Help with parallel port on Dell Optiplex...

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Kleiner
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Re: Installation on DELL Optiplex GX100

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:18:36PM +0200, Marceau Dominique wrote: > Here is the message I got while attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my DELL > Optiplex GX100 > Can you help me please. As others have mentioned, the GX100 uses an Intel i810-based video chipset. Do some searching with g

Re: Installation on DELL Optiplex GX100

2001-06-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:37:46PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > i810. You got yourself a TOUGH row to hoe, but it's possible to work. > It looks as if you need to use xserver-svga... Look in the archives, > there's some people who've asked about it before IIRC. If you're willing to live a bit on

Re: Installation on DELL Optiplex GX100

2001-06-11 Thread John Galt
got while attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my DELL >Optiplex GX100 >Can you help me please. >Thank you in advance > >cmd: xviddetect >Sorry, I wasn't able to determine a driver for your video card. This script >only detects PCI and some SBUS devices. If you know, or f

Installation on DELL Optiplex GX100

2001-06-11 Thread Marceau Dominique
Hi, Here is the message I got while attempting to install Debian 2.2 on my DELL Optiplex GX100 Can you help me please. Thank you in advance cmd: xviddetect Sorry, I wasn't able to determine a driver for your video card. This script only detects PCI and some SBUS devices. If you know, or f

Re: Dell OptiPlex GX110

2001-03-17 Thread mike polniak
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > We received such a machine and I've installed Debian > testing/unstable on it. > I'm running 2.4.3-pre4 and one problem I was not able to get > solved is for DMA/UltraDMA. > The box has a Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm 5T020H2 model and whenever

Dell OptiPlex GX110

2001-03-15 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, We received such a machine and I've installed Debian testing/unstable on it. I'm running 2.4.3-pre4 and one problem I was not able to get solved is for DMA/UltraDMA. The box has a Maxtor 20GB 7200rpm 5T020H2 model and whenever I try to set the using_dma flag with hdpar

Re: Network problem on dell optiplex GX115 3C905C

2001-02-10 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Manuel - If "ifconfig" output is correct, the next thing you should work on is "route". - Jim Van Zandt btw: you should have posted the output from "ifconfig". >Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:04:15 +0100 >From: Manuel Segura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: ESCPI - CNAM > >He

Network problem on dell optiplex GX115 3C905C

2001-02-05 Thread Manuel Segura
Hello, I have just installed a Debian 2.2 R2 on PC Dell Optoplex GX115, The main board network interface is a 3C905C. I have installed the driver 3c59c delivered with Debian standard Kernel. During boot, I cannot see any problem. Ifconfig is good But ping does not work. I am stucked , and don't

Re: Dell OptiPlex GX110 and XFree86

2001-01-18 Thread Jim McCloskey
> I'm having problems getting xfree86 to work with intels i810 > graphics chipset, I've compiled the kernel with the agp module and > can load it, but I can't figure out exactly what to put in the > config file to get it all working. > > I was just wondering if anyone has had any success with doi

RE: Dell OptiPlex GX110 and XFree86

2001-01-18 Thread Magus Ba'al
rich Nietzsche -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dell OptiPlex GX110 and XFree86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I'm on the subje

Re: Dell OptiPlex GX110 and XFree86

2001-01-18 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I'm on the subject of annoying hardware in these Dells, anyone know > what chipset the sound hardware is and if it can be made to work with Linux? the dells i had that were GX110s (we had about 15 of em) all used the es1371 chipset, it was a pci soundcard for us.

Re: Dell OptiPlex GX110 and XFree86

2001-01-18 Thread aclark
On Thu, 18 January 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > yes. if your using xfree86 3.3.6 get the xfree86 source, find the > agpgart module there > and use that when using xfree, then configure it with xf86config or > maybe XF86Setup, > been a while since i used 810. but i do remember that xfree86 3.3.6 only

Re: Dell OptiPlex GX110 and XFree86

2001-01-18 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm having problems getting xfree86 to work with intels i810 graphics > chipset, I've compiled the kernel with the agp module and can load it, but I > can't figure out exactly what to put in the config file to get it all working. > > I was just wondering if anyone h

Dell OptiPlex GX110 and XFree86

2001-01-18 Thread aclark
I'm having problems getting xfree86 to work with intels i810 graphics chipset, I've compiled the kernel with the agp module and can load it, but I can't figure out exactly what to put in the config file to get it all working. I was just wondering if anyone has had any success with doing this or

Re: Getting X to work in Dell OptiPlex

2000-09-26 Thread Kelvin Chow
.gz format. I downloaded it, make and then make install, and I found out that it installed into 2.2.15 instead of 2.2.17 (modules directory). I don't know how I should approach the problem from here. Any further suggestion? Regards. Kelvin At 11:38 PM 2000/9/25 -0700, you wrote: > The

Re: Getting X to work in Dell OptiPlex

2000-09-26 Thread Seth Cohn
> The Dell OptiPlex GX110 is using i810e chipset. > I think it's best to > describe what I went through. Been there, done that. Complained to Branden, because at the time, he didn't even HAVE the link he'd promised in the docs, on the website. He fixed that though. :)

Getting X to work in Dell OptiPlex

2000-09-26 Thread Kelvin Chow
Dear all, For the past few days, I've been trying to get Debian (Potato) installed in my work machine. After sorting out the trouble with partitioning and in the end installed the system, I am now faced with a new problem -- setting up X. The Dell OptiPlex GX110 is using i810e chipse

Re: `unable to open console' afteinstall on Dell Optiplex GX1

2000-02-08 Thread ferret
#x27;m trying to install slink on Dell Optiplex GX1. Strangely, > during initial installation I was not able to install LILO or > even a kernel on a floppy, getting failure messages for each. > I created a boot floppy and unpacking resc1440.bin unto another > floppy, copying `linux' (th

Re: `unable to open console' afteinstall on Dell Optiplex GX1

2000-02-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Forget it! Sorry! I had forgotten to run `configure base' ! I wrote: > I'm trying to install slink on Dell Optiplex GX1. Strangely, > during initial installation [...] > boots okay until the > end where I get the error `unabl

`unable to open console' afteinstall on Dell Optiplex GX1

2000-02-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm trying to install slink on Dell Optiplex GX1. Strangely, during initial installation I was not able to install LILO or even a kernel on a floppy, getting failure messages for each. I created a boot floppy and unpacking resc1440.bin unto another floppy, copying `linux' (the kerne

Re: Dell Optiplex GXa ethernet problem

1998-10-21 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm using an Optiplex GXi and GX1 and have no trouble. Use the 3c59x device support. "Smith, Brian N." wrote: > Has anybody installed Debian on a Dell Optiplex Gxa? I seem to be having > some problems finding the type of built in ethernet chip set it is usin

Dell Optiplex GXa ethernet problem

1998-10-21 Thread Smith, Brian N.
Has anybody installed Debian on a Dell Optiplex Gxa? I seem to be having some problems finding the type of built in ethernet chip set it is using. Thanks Brian

`ATI Rage Pro AGP' and `SMART drive' in Dell Optiplex? Ok for Linux?

1998-05-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
A collegue needs a new desktop computer for Linux. He's looking at a Dell OptiPlex GXa. http://www.dell.com/intl/ca/products/desktops/optiplex/gxa/gxa_specs.htm Two concerns I have are: - High-performance AGP-enabled video. Integrated ATI Rage Pro video controller with up to 4MB 1