On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 anthony gennard wrote:
Almost 15 months ago I suffered a massive stroke and am left with
memory loss. I am 90 years of age, and i`m westling with trying to
recover some computer skill.
Welcome back, and good luck with your project.
I have managed to build a further machine
anthony gennard wrote:
> Almost 15 months ago I suffered a massive stroke and am left with memory
> loss. I am 90 years of age, and i`m westling with trying to recover some
> computer skill.
>
> I have managed to build a further machine and double installed Debian
> 10 from a CD received with Deb
Almost 15 months ago I suffered a massive stroke and am left with memory
loss. I am 90 years of age, and i`m westling with trying to recover some
computer skill.
I have managed to build a further machine and double installed Debian
10 from a CD received with Debian magazine and Windows 10. The ins
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
> 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
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
>
>
> > (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
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
On 27 Mar 2007, Joe Hart wrote:
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> 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
> >
> > 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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
> 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
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
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.
> >
> >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
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
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
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
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
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
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
William Ballard wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts.
But I looked like a tool having to do that.
What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean?
I talked about this a year ago. Several people tol
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 03:55:27PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote:
> I'm trying to understand Grub as well. I finally found out how to make a
> boot disk from the FAQ (see link). The Grub project calls this the
> "legacy" version (0.9x).
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html
>
> T
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts.
> >But I looked like a tool having to do that.
>
> What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean?
I talked about this a year ago. Several people told me with ch
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
William Ballard wrote:
Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd:
1) Boot from the Woody CD.
2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as /
3) Execute a shell
4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right
places in /boot.
5) Exit the shell.
6) Run "make s
William Ballard wrote:
Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd:
1) Boot from the Woody CD.
2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as /
3) Execute a shell
4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right
places in /boot.
5) Exit the shell.
6) Run "make system bootable." which
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 00:24 -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd:
>
> 1) Boot from the Woody CD.
> 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as /
> 3) Execute a shell
> 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right
> places in /boot.
> 5) E
Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd:
1) Boot from the Woody CD.
2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as /
3) Execute a shell
4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right
places in /boot.
5) Exit the shell.
6) Run "make system bootable." which would Lilo it up.
Tod
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:50:57PM -0700, Jonathan
wrote:
> I have been using debian with kernel 2.4.25 (I tried
2.6.8 but it had
issues
> with my onboard sound and so I stuck with 2.4.25).
> My problem is the following:
>
> I left emule running overnight (which was never a
problem before). I
>
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:50:57PM -0700, Jonathan wrote:
> I have been using debian with kernel 2.4.25 (I tried 2.6.8 but it had issues
> with my onboard sound and so I stuck with 2.4.25).
> My problem is the following:
>
> I left emule running overnight (which was never a problem before). I
> f
I have been using debian with kernel 2.4.25 (I tried 2.6.8 but it had issues
with my onboard sound and so I stuck with 2.4.25).
My problem is the following:
I left emule running overnight (which was never a problem before). I found that
emule had failed and shut down my computer. When I turned it
* Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031202 16:38]:
> Except for the initrd, I exactly copied the configuration settings.
What do you mean "except for the initrd"? Are you building from debian
kernel sources (which are patched for initrd)? How are you building
your initrd, and how are you linking t
Dear all,
booting Debianized kernels with grub does not create any troubles.
However, when I try to build a kernel myself optimized for my laptop,
the kernel panics because it believes not to be able to mount root.
Except for the initrd, I exactly copied the configuration settings.
Of course, the
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