Re: kernel 2.6.19: system freeze with blinking CapsLock and ScrollLock leds

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:41:13AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: AFAIK with a single dual-headed card that is not possible. With two cards it might work, provided that the video driver in X can drive the second card without ever touching the legacy VGA I/O space (since that can be enabled for

Re: raid + lvm setup

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: [snip] Does this seem like a workable/wise plan or here there be dragons? Is there any reason to think that 20 GB is too small for a fully installed workstation including swap and /tmp (everything but /home)? Sounds sane, except

USB hubs and storage no go on 2.6.17-2

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
Howdy listers, I'm running etch with a custom compiled 2.6.19 and it sure seems to work brilliantly better that the Debian 2.6.17 kernel package when it comes to USB storage and USB hubs. In other words, those didn't work at all on the 2.6.17-? kernel package. It seems that those don't work

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:26:35PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: There is almost never a reason to not run one of debian's prebuilt kernels. They work perfectly and optimally for probably 99% of users. I only know of two (in my eyes) valid reasons to build your own kernel: 1. you

etch RC1 installer

2006-12-12 Thread Francesco Pietra
Aimed at adding X to my amd64 etch workstation, I wonder whether X is treated in amd64 (no 32 chroot, pure 64 as far as it may be pur) like in i386. In a new installation of i386 etch netinstall with latest etch RC1, no nvidia driver was installed. I took notice of what was installed for X,

Re: etch RC1 installer

2006-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aimed at adding X to my amd64 etch workstation, I wonder whether X is treated in amd64 (no 32 chroot, pure 64 as far as it may be pur) like in i386. In a new installation of i386 etch netinstall with latest etch RC1, no nvidia driver was installed.

Re: etch RC1 installer

2006-12-12 Thread Francesco Pietra
--- Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a new installation of i386 etch netinstall with latest etch RC1, no nvidia driver was installed. Install nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx (binary drivers) of debian unstable, latest version 1.0.8776-3. It runs with Xorg 7.1.1 but maybe lower too.