nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread kees
Jo Shields wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:40 +, kees wrote: Hello folks, Although the problem I am talking about is a general debian problem/bug, I am sending my message to this list, as there seems to be no list adequate for this subject and the machine I am working on is a amd64.

Re: nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Kees did you get my original post? would you like assistance getting your 6600gt running? please be awair that the debianized nvidia driver is your best option. i have used your card extensively in debian linux for amd64 cpus i have since upgraded to sli'd 7900gs's. all work perfectly.

Re: nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:56:55AM +, kees wrote: Jo Shields wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:40 +, kees wrote: Hello folks, Although the problem I am talking about is a general debian problem/bug, I am sending my message to this list, as there seems to be no list adequate for

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:02:49PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: There is a non-free repository at security.debian.org and the debian.org/security page does include the line: You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This requires a line such as deb

Re: nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:56:55AM +, kees wrote: Now let's come to the information you asked for: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (dual core) Motherboard Asus A8N-E Videocard: Nvidia 6600 Kernel 2.6.15-8 Distro: Debian etch, updated till ABOUT july 2006 Expected behaviour:A working

Re: bad mirror list in 3.1r3 netinst

2006-11-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:11:33PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: I tried an install with the 3.1r3 netinst ISO, and noticed that it appears to have reverted to the debian.org mirror list. It looks like it is no longer using a pure64 version of base-config. I merged the diff between base-config

Re: System freeze

2006-11-04 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 18:36, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: How can I redirect the console somewhere to copy of the error message? That is always a problem. The only reliable way I found is by running the console over a crossed serial line and reading that from an other still running

Call for help in debugging the gaphical installer on AMD64

2006-11-04 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi As you may know, Etch will include a new graphical (GTK on DirectFB) frontend to cdebconf: currently it works quite well on AMD64 too, but it's currently affected by a bug (#373253, #396520) i cannot debug as i have no AMD64 hardware. Shortly, the graphical frontend produces output on VT5

FGLRX and ATI XPRESS 200M

2006-11-04 Thread Antonio Salvucci
Hi, i have a problem with my ati xpress 200M card. I installed fglrx proprietary drivers, but 3D acceleration is no enabled. The fglrx module works, but the opengl acceleration is powerd by glx mesa project. This is my xorg.conf config file: Section ServerLayout Identifier Default

Re: FGLRX and ATI XPRESS 200M

2006-11-04 Thread Jo Shields
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 18:34 +0100, Antonio Salvucci wrote: Hi, i have a problem with my ati xpress 200M card. I installed fglrx proprietary drivers, but 3D acceleration is no enabled. The fglrx module works, but the opengl acceleration is powerd by glx mesa project. This is my xorg.conf config