Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a sqeeze system running as (amongst lots of other things) a mythtv backend/frontend combination. Yesterday, after a long overdue aptitude update, I noticed the video playing rather slow. I had previously configured the nvidia kernel module to run because it seem to perform better

Re: Important question.

2010-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gabriela Jiménez wrote: Dear Debian.Org Support Team: I am a new user of Linux O.S., and I need to use Linux to use RDP protocol to connect with a Server with Windows 2008 Server to use an business application. Debian have a RDP tool similar to Windows RDP ?

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:02:33 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Monday 20 December 2010 18:40:02 Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Why not? :-) Because I'm seeing (one day and another, in this same list and in other Debian lists) that Intel driver is

Re: Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 18:58 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a sqeeze system running as (amongst lots of other things) a mythtv backend/frontend combination. Yesterday, after a long overdue aptitude update, I noticed the video playing rather slow. I had previously configured the nvidia kernel

Re: Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/12/10 18:37, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-20 18:58 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I had previously configured the nvidia kernel module to run because it seem to perform better with mythtv Was there an upgrade of nvidia-glx or the kernel? Also, do you use the nvidia-* packages from

Re: Keeping Lenny via /etc/apt/sources.list when Squeeze becomes stable

2010-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alexander Batischev wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:41:48PM +, Camaleón wrote: Do you mean that there is no way to keep the same name for the time it lasts a release? Excuse me for intervening, but no, he does not mean that. You see, you can look at codenames (like 'etch', 'lenny' or

Debian Lenny Crashes

2010-12-20 Thread will ryder
Hi, I have a problem with my Debian Lenny server. I have a SMB/CIF connection to NetApp storage. On the storage space is about 250Gb of files. When I run the following command to remove the files, in the root of mounted directory, rm -R * This causes the server to reboot. Today using

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Curt Howland wrote: Is there a way to do a file system check on a UDF disk? Next, while I realize that UDF spreads the writes around and makes the disks last longer, I am using them for long-term archive rather than something like a daily backup. Is there a reason anyone can think of for not

Re: Xorg changes? Nouveaux prefered over NV? How can I tell?

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 19:51 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/12/10 18:37, Sven Joachim wrote: This is pretty normal, although you should specify the nvidia driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, preventing all the probing of other drivers in the first place. Do you even have an xorg.conf? No xorg.conf, so

Re: Debian Lenny Crashes

2010-12-20 Thread Atif CEYLAN
On 12/20/2010 09:13 PM, will ryder wrote: Hi, I have a problem with my Debian Lenny server. I have a SMB/CIF connection to NetApp storage. On the storage space is about 250Gb of files. When I run the following command to remove the files, in the root of mounted directory, rm -R * This

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:25:02 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: The vesa driver won't work with Kernel Mode Setting (which is mandatory for current Intel driver versions), the

Re: Debian Lenny Crashes

2010-12-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
will ryder wrote: I have a SMB/CIF connection to NetApp storage. On the storage space is about 250Gb of files. When I run the following command to remove the files, in the root of mounted directory, rm -R * This causes the server to reboot. Today using konqueror when I looked at the

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:45:55 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:56:55 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:42:59 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: (...) This was an interesting error during my efforts: = # fsck /dev/sr0 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 fsck: fsck.udf: not found fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.udf for /dev/sr0 = Is there a way to do a file system

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:02:33 +0100 Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote: ... Well, I don't want to start a war, but I have machines with Intel, nvidia and ati graphic card. Intel one has proved to be the stable one over the past two and a half years. And it was going to be a must for

Re: Debian Lenny Crashes

2010-12-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Atif CEYLAN wrote: Hi, what the kernel logs say? If you send us look at the /var/log/syslog , /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/kern.log logs. Might also be worth opening a console window, or attaching a serial console (if you can) - some kinds of kernel panics will never make it to a log file, but

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 18:40 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Hummm, I wouldn't like to have an Intel VGA chipset nowadays O:-)

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 21:55 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: - Black screen when the i915 kernel module loads. This happened even to me some day¹, but the kernel developers are shaking out the KMS bugs, so this should become less of

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:50:42 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:45:55 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: By reading your xorg log error, I see two problems here: Thanks for the help (as always!), but you may be confusing two different problems. The X log is from my initial problem,

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 04:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:14:12 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 21:55 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: - Black screen when the i915 kernel module loads. This happened even to me some day¹, but the

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:14:09 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:50:42 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:45:55 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... 1/ Intel driver is failing (not normal but users are accustomed to this) Accustomed?!

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 22:17 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: This may be due to the use of a framebuffer in grub2, or because CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set in the kernel configuration. For the former, try to disable the framebuffer

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 22:17 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: This may be due to the use of a framebuffer in grub2, or because CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 22:52 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY set? No - should it be? The help says 'if unsure, select n', so I figured it was best left off, since I'm certainly not sure ;)

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2010-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:28:52 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: ...  I have been able to circumvent the problem by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting: /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during formatting. Which raises a question that has

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:11:59 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 22:52 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY set? No - should it be? The help says 'if unsure,

lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread Jim Pazarena
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice? -- Jim Pazarena deb...@paz.bz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi , On 21/12/10 10:18, Jim Pazarena wrote: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice? do you really

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Pazarena wrote: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? It isn't just Debian. Most of the software distributions use names for their releases *in addition to* the version numbering just like Debian does. Debian isn't unique here. Just like car companies name their car

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread John Hasler
Jim Pazarena wrote: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice? This was all fought out on debian-devel

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread teddieeb
Jim Pazarena said: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice? - Windows 98, 2000 Pro., ME, XP, Vista,

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread Petrus Validus
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice? Don't

Re: External hdd changing device node mid-use

2010-12-20 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thanks all. I tried toying with udev to create a persistent node name, but to no avail. The problem seem to be that the hdd is periodically disconnecting. By the time it has disconnected, it is too late. Md has already faulted the device. If anyone has any ideas about preventing the drive from

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 12/20/2010 20:45, Petrus Validus wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy

Re: External hdd changing device node mid-use

2010-12-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 06:58:55AM +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thanks all. I tried toying with udev to create a persistent node name, but to no avail. The problem seem to be that the hdd is periodically disconnecting. By the time it has disconnected, it is too late. Md has already

Re: External hdd changing device node mid-use

2010-12-20 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hmm, it seems to be a power issue. I had a usb hub connected to the same bus and I disconnected it. Since then there have been no problems. Regards, Panayiotis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: External hdd changing device node mid-use

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:58:55 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thanks all. I tried toying with udev to create a persistent node name, but to no avail. The problem seem to be that the hdd is periodically disconnecting. By the time it has disconnected, it is too late. Md has already faulted

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