Thanks! Already download and will try later. Hope it work. The hard disk seem ok. I got a feeling it was write protect or something. The hard disk brand is Seagate Barracuda 40GB IDE drives OEM. Nothing special about the drive. One more question. What software can actually write protect the hard disk? Any ideas anyone? Thanks again to those who help.

Software write protection is program based. It may be a feature of the OS or a program. The only other thing I can imagine is firmware based write protection? I never heard of that before. Maybe someone here can enlighten me. Apart from that, if its software based, just bypass it by not loading the hard drive at all (ie DBAN).

I feel weird with crunchbang linux, for the 1st adding nomodeset in the kernel parameter I can get my display. Now not anymore.... inherit some nvidia bug especially from debian derivatives is so ... 1st Julia, 2nd LMDE now crunchbang.

No luck with DBAN after several attempt. I try different method to wipe but it come with a non fatal error. I think it is a bad sector or a bad block. Any more ideas? I think it is a waste of a good hard disk. Anyway thank you guy for the guidance.

Currently testing the PClinuxOS E17 replacing my crunchbang due to it's unfriendly behavior to my nvidia 9400gt gc.

I have a PCLinuxOS XFCE on 1 of my older computer. Its work great. I think they are 1 of the top ten on the Distrowatch.

I've had no problem running CrunchBang (and Debian in general) with a 9400gt, though mine doesn't have a 'gc' at the end.

Here's what I usually do for Nvidia on Debian.

As Root, add these lines to the end of your /etc/apt/sources.list to enable Sid/Unstable sources (don't worry, we'll remove them once we install and activate the Nvidia drivers)



Then, in root terminal (or add sudo to beginning of each line if you're a sudoer)


Install Nvidia Kernel Source



Get Module assistant to recognize


Install Nvidia Glx


Install Xconfig and Nvidia Settings


Then run


Note: never combine all the apps installed above in a single line, and use them in steps like I've listed, as they tend to configure stuff as they're installed. Also, make sure your terminal is fullscreen to prevent some dialog boxes being cut off.

Reboot.
If everything was successful, you should get into X without problems. You can then launch the Nvidia Control Panel via 'nvidia-settings' (either with your terminal or dmenu (alt-f3), and later creating a menu entry if you want)

You can also install vdpau drivers for HD playback if you desire. Currently, only mplayer supports vdpau (either via console or it's gnome-mplayer or smplayer frontends)


Once you've confirmed everything works properly, you should remove the Unstable related lines from your /etc/apt/sources.list .... unless you actually want an Unstable/Sid based system.

why after update upgrade to other kernel version, need to reinstall back Nvidia driver?

wow.. got another liquorix kernel update. 3 updates in a week. damentz is really something

If you configure the module assistant like I said (the "m-a a-i" line above), you (in theory) don't need to re-enable the Nvidia drivers each time.

BUT.....

There are exceptions and sometimes you'll need to perform additional steps, particularly if you're on a volatile setup with mixed Unstable/Experimental sources/packages/kernels.

If so, you can try performing these additional steps each time you get a new kernel version, and reboot/restart X;



For me, the best metcho if you run a constantly changing (rolling) system is to use the Aptosid/Sidux recommended method, but this requires a specific package called dmakms that's only available by adding Aptosid sources, so your mileage may vary.
You don't really need this if you use a Debian Squeeze/Testing setup, though...
http://manual.aptosid.com/en/hw-dev-hw-dri...htm#non-free-3d

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Added on January 9, 2011, 4:43 pmOn my GRML/Unstable setup, I sometimes recompile my custom kernel every 3 days, due to some patches that keep getting updated/reintroduced. Damentz is quite similar in that he likes to incorporate the latest as quickly as possible for users to test and give feedback.

It's not so bad like in my Gentoo days, though ... those days I spent more time recompiling than I did actually using the system... and half the time, it broke everything >_<


This post has been edited by G-17: Jan 9 2011, 04:43 PM

i got the NVIDIA driver from here http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html


if i do as what you stated above, i think the Nvidia driver not the latest from the Nvidia page,am i right?

gc is a short of graphic card, actually this is what really happen in crunchbang. On live session everything was perfect with correct reso I am supposed to have, hard install after the grub I am unable to get display as the monitor will goes to black or save mode. This is common as it will happen in Julia and LMDE and the only workaround is during the grub, within the kernel parameter adding the 'nomodeset' or 'nouveau.modeset=0" after 'ro' I'll get my display and install the correct driver as you mentioned.

Crunchbang, at first it worked well, I am getting my display. But the 2nd attempt nothing is working I am getting no display before I am able to download the correct driver. Restart, it can but cannot at other time. Some nvidia gcs are not so ngam with certain distro i.e Mint 10, LMDE, crunchbang. Other distro such as opensuse, on the 1st boot we'll get working opensource nouveau driver. PClinuxOS on the 1st boot I am getting the latest non free nvidia driver 260.19.29!

sorry,noob ques here...

can i use ubuntu netbook 10.10 OS on pc??i mean 1920x1080 pc??

This post has been edited by wanfaris: Jan 9 2011, 06:58 PM

audacious tempted to crash often on my side

of course

Hmmm you have got quite an interesting situation here.

Sounds like bad sectors. Have you scanned your hard drives using drive testing utilities? Just remember not to boot from those drives.

If you're using versions lesser than 2.4.0, tendency is that it tends to crash quite often for me as well.

There's a repo for Audacious v2.4.0 and I upgraded my Audacious with it a while back, satisfied so far

Only that its Last.fm scrobbler has a bug: it still sends songs that does not contain any metadata (at least the artist name and track title) to my Last.fm. So the result is I got so many (null) by (null) in my Last.fm list

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Jan 10 2011, 10:55 AM

didn't even sleep last night to fooling around with bash script.. now feels sleepy as h3ll

When I put into another computer to scan. It just goes blank when power up and hang. I even try Ubuntu 10.04 but no luck. It just hang on the splash screen forever. Anyway I will try again when I got time. Thanks again!

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Added on January 10, 2011, 4:41 pmI just found out that the 2 unit of Dell PowerEdge is a server running on Linux. Is it possible that the hard disk can't be formatted because it is use as a server and there is some sort of write protection for Linux server?

This post has been edited by khakilang: Jan 10 2011, 04:41 PM

any ppa for audacious that is on current version, 2.4.2?
currently "official" up to 2.4.0