Re: Samba print setup novice question
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seting up samba on a home LAN on which there are no Windows PCs. Why? I have several Debian Etch boxes and several Mac OS X boxes, For many years I have used netatalk to share files and printing, but my daughter has a new Mac laptop that came loaded with Leopard. Leopard won't talk nicely to netatalk. At least I can't make it work. Reports on the internet claim that Macs will connect to a Windows networks via NetBIOS. So, I want to use Samba, and fake out a recalcitrant Leopard. But for printer sharing, samba seems to need a print driver that is copied from one of the client Windows PCs. But as I said, above, I don't have any Windows PCs. It there a legal work-around for this situation? There's no need to use Samba printing at all - since Mac OSX uses CUPS as the default printing solution, then run CUPS in the Debian boxes wherein the printer would be attached. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xen 3.1 on Debian Sid
Hi: It seems that there's no dom0 linux image for xen in unstable. is the default 2.6.22 kernel in unstable already merged with dom0 functionality? Or what should I do to run xen 3.1 in unstable? -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get Paid to Read Emails! Join Now! http://www.emailcashpro.com/?r=pfalcone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid
On 11/30/06, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:33 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: I went back to debian sid after using ubuntu for a few months. So far, i've been able to configure my thinkpad t42p to resemble some ubuntu goodies except for fn-f12: nothing happens when i hit it, as supposed to hibernate using ubuntu. I have verified that echo disk /sys/power/state just works though. Any hint how ubuntu did it? I'm guessing Ubuntu uses gnome-power-manager, you need to be in group powerdev, and possibly bind the correct key to Sleep in Keyboard Shortcuts. I'm already a member of the powerdev group... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups pfalcone pfalcone : pfalcone adm dialout cdrom floppy audio src video plugdev powerdev netdev nvram Even with that, I still can't make the laptop suspend via Fn-F12 (although using g-p-m works just fine). Here's the log of /var/log/acpid whenever I press Fn-F12: [Fri Dec 1 13:50:08 2006] executing action /etc/acpi/hibernatebtn.sh [Fri Dec 1 13:50:08 2006] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES [Fri Dec 1 13:50:09 2006] END HANDLER MESSAGES [Fri Dec 1 13:50:09 2006] action exited with status 0 [Fri Dec 1 13:50:09 2006] completed event ibm/hotkey HKEY 0080 100c Now, I couldn't map the Fn-F12 script to GNOME keyboard shortcuts as I don't mask the ibm_acpi module: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/ibm_acpi.modprobe options ibm_acpi hotkey=enable,0xff9f experimental=1 I do believe that this is also the same options that ubuntu passes to the ibm_acpi module. Also, how do i enable graphical notification of screen brightness in gnome when i use the appropriate fn-key combination, similar to ubuntu? Thanks. Not sure if this is supported in g-p-m 2.14 or if it was added in 2.16. What version did Ubuntu use? I used Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10 back then ... both already have that patch enabled I guess.. at any rate g-p-m 2.14 as packaged by Debian in Sid I think doesn't have that patch for Thinkpads... (I could be wrong though...) Also found this, http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-power-manager/docs/faq.html#faq-ibm-brightness HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid
On 11/29/06, Michael Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Paolo! I went back to debian sid after using ubuntu for a few months. So far, i've been able to configure my thinkpad t42p to resemble some ubuntu goodies except for fn-f12: nothing happens when i hit it, as supposed to hibernate using ubuntu. I have verified that echo disk /sys/power/state just works though. Any hint how ubuntu did it? Also, how do i enable graphical notification of screen brightness in gnome when i use the appropriate fn-key combination, similar to ubuntu? Thanks. You have to install the acpi and acpid stuff. AFAIK it knows this shortcut. You can see it in the acpid log file. I did that beforehand... the problem is that for everything else except Fn-F12 it works, but when I try to hibernate using the Fn-F12 key combination it doesn't do anything. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid
I went back to debian sid after using ubuntu for a few months. So far, i've been able to configure my thinkpad t42p to resemble some ubuntu goodies except for fn-f12: nothing happens when i hit it, as supposed to hibernate using ubuntu. I have verified that echo disk /sys/power/state just works though. Any hint how ubuntu did it? Also, how do i enable graphical notification of screen brightness in gnome when i use the appropriate fn-key combination, similar to ubuntu? Thanks. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cyber Cafe Manager
On 9/20/06, Antonio Felipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'm looking for a cyber cafe manager. I know that's too much to ask, but i need it to be free and support clients MS Windows. Could anyone help me? Thank you anyway! Hi Antonio: Maybe you could try out Open Kiosk[1]. We've been using it in production for many schools and internet cafes for a few years already. [1] http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/ -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian
On 9/2/06, Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I love Debian and I don`t wanna switch to another distribution. I have Debian SID for ppc. You'd have a hard time though - most of the 3D drivers are x86 binaries :( -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Brother HL printer, how to install it into the debian system??
On 3/23/06, lmyho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I have a Brother HL5040 printer, and I have downloaded it driver for linux/debian system from Brother's website, it is a .deb pkg file. However the apt-get program couldn't find this driver pkg to install it, even when I gave a full path for the location of the pkg. Chris suggested to run dpkg -i at location of the pkg to install it, I did and the pkg was installed,:) however it didn't work right. the effect is that the printer will print but print out only empty papers and will not stop such horrible printing until I turn its power off! :(( It still not working.:( Could anyone tell me what I can do to install this Brother HL5040 printer onto my debian system? Or where can I find the right or compitable driver (if it's driver problem) for it to install? THANKS A LOT!!! I've been a recipient of new Brother printers (they've been using our company as test-bed of sorts as our company has Linux from the president down to all employees) and they work just well with the default auto-detection. I didn't try the online PPD's that Brother provided. I -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless card
On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, i'm planning to buy wifi (b/g) card for my laptop, however i'm not about the support. my colleague has asus with broadcom bcm4306 chipset in his windoze notebook. i tried it, kernel recognized the card, but the i cannot find the respective drivers for linux. according to mr. google it seems that this has to be solved using ndiswrapper. is it really so? do you have good experience with ndiswrapper? or would you be willing to recommend some other pcmcia card / provide pointer to relevant information? I suggest you forget about the bcm4306. Broadcom clearly doesn't want to cooperate in making native drivers for operating systems other than MS Windows. I'm assuming that you're using a mini-PCI wifi card, so I'd suggest you get one of these, if your budget allows. These are long-range, high-power cards that have good receive sensitivity, which is good for wifi, and are Linux-compatible (using the Madwifi drivers): Mini-PCI * Engenius EMP-8602 - a 400mW mini-PCI type III card * Engenius EL-3054MP2 * Engenius EL-3054MP2 PCMCIA * Engenius NL-5354CB * Engenius NL-3054CB * Netgear WG511T Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500 chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the GPL'd rt2500 drivers. You'd have a tougher time looking for others, such as cards using Prism54, as they aren't really commercially available. eBay would help a lot on these though. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless card
On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I was to buy a new wireless pccard, it'll definitely get one with support under the vanilla kernel...cause I'm lazy :). It's very easy to install ndiswrapper module by following its wiki but is *super* easy via module-assistant. for such cards, ndiswrapper is not needed, i guess... or am i wrong? regards, You're correct, ndiswrapper isn't needed by cards with native support under the vanilla kernel. obviously, there aren't too many possibilities (2.6.15 kernel): Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards (AIRO_CS) they seems to support only b/ Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards (PCMCIA_WL3501) Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus (PRISM54) several cards have this chip inside which one of these three would you recommend? or maybe going with ndiswrapper would be an easier way... The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support 802.11g. For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects (for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then the rt2x00 drivers for the ralink rt2500 chipset). We're still waiting for the maturity and inclusion of the libieee80211 stack (used by the Intel cards) so that every wifi card would have a standard library of functions. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless card
On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500 chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the GPL'd rt2500 drivers. it's not clear whether the engenius and netgear require the firmware or not... they work with madwifi, right? If you want the Engenius cards as well as the Netgear WG511T to work in Linux, you _do_ require the binary HAL firmware as they employ the Atheros chipset. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless card
On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Intel wireless cards (which are already in the kernel) do support 802.11g. For the other cards, you'd have to look for their open source projects (for atheros chipsets use the madwifi drivers + their binary HAL; then the rt2x00 drivers for the ralink rt2500 chipset). We're still waiting for the maturity and inclusion of the libieee80211 stack (used by the Intel cards) so that every wifi card would have a standard library of functions. i couldn't find any intel pcmcia wifi cards in the kernel config... or does this relate to PCI card? what have i overlooked? My bad... What I was referring to was the libieee80211 subsystem, which was merged in Linux kernel 2.6.14. You'd still need the drivers and binary firmware at ipw2200.sf.net -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.
On 2/20/06, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. The Althon 64 fully supports i386 through some fancy on chip emulation that is as fast as a native 32 bit chip (I think all the 64 bit processors you mention do this but don't quite me on that). AMD64 calls for a native implementation of 32-bit x86 instructions. How they implement 64-bit mode is what sets apart the AMD from the Intel implementation... So I could do that by booting a normal i386 network-installation bootable CD, and start with the i386 kernel, right? Yep. You might have some problems with some hardware whether in 32-bit or 64-bit mode (e.g. NForce 4 chipset). In this case, would I be able to run OpenOffice, mplayer and flash without difficulty from the binary packages? Yep. Should this also work on Xeon and Opteron, and how do I choose between the three processors? Opteron is AMD's server chip. Xeon is the Intel counterpart. Both implement AMD64 (branded as EM64T in Intel's implementation) although AMD's implementation is far superior due to many reasons you can Google online. Athlon64 and Athlon64 X2 are AMD's consumer chips that implement AMD64. The Pentium 4 Prescott and Pentium D also implement EM64T; then again AMD's implementation is again far superior. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus rt2500 wireless card
On 2/8/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, Following the advice I got in the thread Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad), I got myself an Asus wireless LAN card. It uses the rt2500 driver, which I installed (I downloaded the neccecary Debian packages, did everything I was supposed to, and now have the rt2500 module loaded). The laptop is running Debian Testing with kernel 2.6. I am trying to connect over wireless to a Lynksis wireless router. I cannot do it. I have tried adding auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp wireless_essid MY_ESSID to /etc/network/interfaces, but it is not working (I am doing ifdown eth0, ifup eth0). Please help! I would suggest that you first do a few checks on the interface itself: # iwconfig eth0 This will tell you if the interface is recognized as a wireless one and if it associates with the correct access point. You can also see how it reacts to different configuration options such as # iwconfig eth0 essid I would first try to get everything working without WEP and activate that later if you want to do so. # iwlist eth0 scan This will list all the access points which can be detected and the signal strengths. Check if you get a good signal from your AP. If your interface is associated with the correct AP you can try to run the dhcp client: # dhclient eth0 Note that there are two versions of the dhcp client package in Debian, dhcp-client and dhcp3-client. If one fails maybe the other one will work. Also check if your Linksys router is configured to accept requests from your wireless card; there might be MAC address based filters, for example. Take note also that you'd need to check if the rt2500 module gets loaded. I'm not sure if Debian builds the RT2x00 module into their kernels. Moreso, the device name of the rt2500 would be something like ra0 -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Branded Servers that support Debian GNU/Linux
On 1/30/06, Rishi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Anyone knows of any Branded (HP/IBM/Dell etc.) Server that supports Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge) I need to order a server for a customer with the following specs or higher. CPU: P-IV RAM: 512 MB HDD: 160 GB I need the following to work. (a) 1024x768 Resolutin Display for X Windows (b) Network card for accessing the Network (c) Disk Controllers / Drives for accessing and partitioning the hard disk. Try asking HP. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Content Management Recommendations?
On 1/17/06, Ed Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good content management system for me to set up. I want to have a News section, a photo gallery, a blog, some articles, etc. I used to use PostNuke, but I don't see it as a Debian package anymore. I'd prefer PHP/MySQL but it's not a requirement. Why not try Plone? It can do CMS, it can do document management, and it can nearly do what you want it to be (h i have to to rephrase this statement soon :D) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ultra320 controller suggestions
On 1/9/06, Rodney Richison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to get some suggestions for some ultra320 controllers that are very debian friendly for purchase from ebay. LSI Logic SCSI controllers are quite good. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php5
On 11/9/05, Wiki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When will be php5 in stable version? How can I find out if there are some new upgrades/packages in stable version (without debian - In windows?)? The stable version is aptly called stable as the packages there are effectively stable in terms of versions. Don't expect PHP5 to be in the current stable distribution... maybe in Etch it would be... -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding new hardware after installation
On 10/28/05, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. I need to add a network card to a PC with recently installed Debian (Sarge). What's the best way to do it? I don't really want to sit in front of the thing again feeding it CDs, so if I could avoid doing a complete install that would be nice. Just add the network card. If it's supported, it'll work. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running 4GB of Memory
On 10/21/05, Mark Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of memory. Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run multiple virtual machines. Problem - I can only see 4GB of memory. Here is the output from free -m: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3995 3908 86 0145 2668 -/+ buffers/cache: 1094 2901 Swap: 2047 0 2047 What do I need to do in order to make the other 2GB of memory available? By default, 32-bit machines can only have up to 4GB of memory allocated to a process. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bittorrent query?
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:12 -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: I just installed bittorrent-3.4.2-5 from testing. What is the command to invoke it? man btdownloadcurses -- if you want the ncurses-based UI man btdownloadheadless -- the interface for headless chickens of machines -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mounting XFS with user_xattr on Debian linux-image-2.6.12-1-686-smp not working?
I tried to remount an LVM volume and another partition - both formatted as XFS - with the user_xattr option, but mount reports that it's not a valid option, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /dev/mapper/balaraw-root on / type xfs (rw,sync) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw,nodev,sync,noatime) /dev/mapper/balaraw-usr on /usr type xfs (rw) /dev/mapper/balaraw-var on /var type xfs (rw,usrquota,grpquota) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) /dev/mapper/balaraw-home on /home type xfs (rw,usrquota,grpquota) /dev/sdc1 on /media/usbdisk type xfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount -o remount,user_xattr /dev/sdc1 mount: /media/usbdisk not mounted already, or bad option [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ sudo mount -o remount,user_xattr /dev/mapper/balaraw-home mount: /home not mounted already, or bad option [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ uname -a Linux balaraw 2.6.12-1-686-smp #1 SMP Wed Jul 20 22:42:26 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Is the user_xattr flag disabled already for XFS in Debian's 2.6.12 kernel image? -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer
On 7/11/05, Luke Pacholski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, peter colton wrote: Here is a link for a raid1 howto. hope it dose the job. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ I was actually reading that as I was going through the process. The main difference is that instead of creating a single ext3 partition on the RAID device, I wanted several (what the multi-user workstation option creates). Is that simply not possible? I was under the (incorrect?) impression that you could partition a RAID device just like you can a drive. Perhaps you want LVM over RAID? Such configuration is also supported and can be done by the Debian installer. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID with Debian Installer
On 7/11/05, Luke Pacholski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Hal Vaughan wrote: Are you using mdadm? (It sound it, but I don't know what else is out there.) If so, just as a point of reference, I set mine up with mdadm, and it set it to /dev/md0. I just did a ls of /dev/md* and got: I'm just using the software RAID option within the installer... Luke Don't mind it - it works just fine even if you ignore it. Have done such with my setups having software RAID 1 using the Sarge installer. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on xSeries (x266)?
On 6/24/05, Kristian Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all; being into upgrading our server environment, I've been offered IBM xSeries x226 machines at quite good conditions and sort of am willing to get those; however, since our current production servers are running Debian sarge, the new machines also are supposed to, but IBM, concerning the x226, is only supporting several older versions of SuSE and RHEL. Unfortunately, I can't have any of those machines for testing purposes and google isn't that verbose on that topic, as well, so: Anyone around here running Debian on the x226? Will Debian work on that servers? Are there any pitfalls I should worry about? The x226 is not really that exotic. It's still x86 (although a recent model). Sarge should still run just fine on this model, whether you'd run it in 32bit or 64bit mode. Thanks loads and have a calm weekend, Kris/ -- Kristian Rink -- Programmierung/Systembetreuung planConnect GmbH * Strehlener Str. 12 - 14 * 01069 Dresden Tel. 0351 4657716 * Fax 0351 4657707 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD Sampron Processor
On 6/19/05, Ramesh Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am Rameshkumar. I had a laptop of AMD Sempron Processor. I am very interested to Install Debian Woody Linux in it. Do you we have any separate Debian woody version for AMD. If it so please give me the link. Let me download it. I am very interested to use it. Woody is the old stable distro. You most definitely would want Sarge as it has support for modern hardware (the AMD Sempron is just a 32-bit only version of the AMD64 processor, and is entirely x86 compatible) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution / Novell
On 6/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new stable release of Sarge comes with Evolution. I was wondering what the difference was between The Sarge Evolution and Novell's Evolution. Novell owns Evolution, right? What is the difference between the two? Does Novell's version have more, up to date, and better features? Is Novell offering their version for free? Somebody set me straight... =) Maybe versions. Nothing else. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1
On 6/15/05, Luiz Emediato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortunatelly. I would appreciate any help in how to solve these issues. many thanks in advance, Luiz Emediato PS: My Debian 3.0 was working dandy prior to the upgrade to 3.1. Don't use dselect for distribution upgrades. Use apt-get directly, e.g. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usbmount only mounts pendrive as root:root?
On 6/10/05, Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! So, after swithing one box from Fedora to Debian Sarge, there's onw thing users would probably like, but I don't know how to do: Fedora will mount pendrives automatically for you, with the permissions of whoever is on the console. I tried usbmount, but it seems to always mount as root. After the pendrive is plugged, this is how /media looks like: $ ll /media/ total 44K lrwxrwxrwx 1 root adm 4 2005-06-09 22:30 usb - usb0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16K 1969-12-31 21:00 usb0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 4.0K 2005-06-09 22:30 usb1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 4.0K 2005-06-09 22:30 usb2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 4.0K 2005-06-09 22:30 usb3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 4.0K 2005-06-09 22:30 usb4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 4.0K 2005-06-09 22:30 usb5 drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 4.0K 2005-06-09 22:30 usb6 drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 4.0K 2005-06-09 22:30 usb7 I had changed the group in *all* /media/usb* directories to adm, just to check if they'd go back to root:root when mounted, and indeed -- they do. So, is there a simple way to get the same behavior from Fedora in Sarge? Add your user account to the plugdev group -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on an ECS RS480-M mother board.
On 6/10/05, James Ronald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to put together an inexpensive Socket 939 system for just general computing as my main computer just died the other day. I intend to run Debian Sid on it and would like to know if anyone has any experience good or otherwise with the ECS RS480-M mother board. I see that the NB/SB is quite popular in several AMD based laptops. The mother board has the following: North Bridge: ATI RS 480 South Bridge: ATI RS 400 Graphics: On Chip (Radeon X300-based. 2D/3D graphic engine) Audio: Realtek ALC655 6-Channel audio CODEC These days you'd be stuck with VESA graphics if you'd run Linux on the RS480-M line, as the Radeon X300 onboard graphics controller is not yet supported in Linux. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache/PHP problems since Sarge
On 6/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I just upgraded to Sarge and I have discovered an odd behavior w/ Apache and PHP. If you go to: http://turlyming.com/index.php - Apache/PHP appears to work okay. http://turlyming.com/ - Prompted for file download (content type x-httpd-php) DirectoryIndex is set to index.php. The module configuration looks correct. No problems whatsoever. Try flushing your browser cache and try again. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how many bugs in 3.1r0?
On 6/9/05, j smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have just downloaded 1st CD of 3.1, only to find the following Last Minute Notes in README.txt: You should keep in mind that this is an unofficial CD of the current development version of the Debian system. This means that all sorts of bugs may be present anywhere in the system. i'm completely confused. after waiting for so long, 3.1 still has so many bugs? The release team squashes the release-critical bugs as its first priority. Bugs rated normal are not priority for fixing for a release (although they do get fixed later) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lvm2 disk replacement
On 6/9/05, cwinl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi,all i have a DELL PE2800 server with 10 300GB disks.i make 3 PV which are 3 RAID0.then a LV cross the whole 3 PV. now , one of RAID0 is unstable. so i want to change disk. but i can't lose data. You should've been aware of the consequences of using RAID 0. At any rate, have you tried doing a manual copy via cp? It might be slow, but you might get better results as opposed to using pvmove. here is 'df' information: /dev/mapper/nicvg-niclv 2.0T 774G 1.2T 40% /ftproot and here is 'pvscan' information: ftp:~# pvscan /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found PV /dev/sdb1 VG nicvg lvm2 [838.09 GB / 0free] PV /dev/sdc1 VG nicvg lvm2 [558.72 GB / 0free] PV /dev/sdd1 VG nicvg lvm2 [558.72 GB / 0free] Total: 3 [1.91 TB] / in use: 3 [1.91 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] the unstable PV is /dev/sdb1 i want to move data from /dev/sdb1 to the reset PV such as /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1. i think the disk space is enough . but when i use command 'pvmove -v /dev/sdb1' i got wrong info: ftp:~# pvmove -v /dev/sdb1 Finding volume group nicvg No extents available for allocation my question is : the reset of disk space is 1.2TB but why 'pvscan' say free space is zero? why i can't move data? how can i solve the problem? don't say add another disk to the server. i had added 10 disks to it and there is no space to plug even one. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless help
On 6/4/05, Trevor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Linksys WPC11 V4 for a wireless card. I had it working in ubuntu, but now after my switch to Sarge i have been so far unsucessful. I am using ndiswrapper to load the Realtek driver. After a 'ndiswrapper -l' it shows taht the driver is installed and the device is detected. I am unable to do a 'modprobe ndiswrapper' like i did in Ubuntu. So yeah pretty much from there i am clueless as to what i need to do. The device does not show up in ifconifg or the GUI networking devices app. like it did in ubuntu as wlan0 (im in windows right now till i get it working, once this prob. is solved...GOOD BYE WINDOZE!!) So the sooner i get this problem solved, the better. You'd need to compile the ndiswrapper module (there's a kernel patch package for this one) for the sarge kernel, as well as install the ndiswrapper package. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Move from i386 to ia64?
On 5/26/05, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got a Dell PowerEdge SC1425 with Sarge running on it. Apparently the box supports Intel's EM64T, but it's currently running a standard i386 kernel. What are the advantages of running an x86_64 / ia64 kernel? It's amd64 or x86-64. It's basically x86 with 64-bit extensions. IA64 is Itanium - which is a different beast altogether. The most obvious advantage of using the amd64 platform (Intel just licensed the 64bit extensions and rebranded them as EM64T) would be access to more than 4GB of RAM without resorting to slow cheats like PAE. Another would be additional registers which in theory could speed up applications. Are there any special steps to take to upgrade it? There's no such thing as an upgrade from 32-bit to native 64-bit. You'd need to reinstall the OS. Can I upgrade the kernel without upgrading the userspace apps? If you'd run in 64 bit mode - No. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Probably a stupid question but...
On 5/26/05, SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, I wanted to install debian on an amd64 / x86_64 SMP machine from IOS images, I can't find a suitable set of images on the mirrors I have looked for these but they are absent. I have found amd64.debian.org however I am still a little confused: Since sarge is due out at the end of the month and this is due to contain a mainstream amd64 distro should I wait unitl next week to do this? There'll be an unofficial stable release of Debian for the AMD64 architecture - visit amd64.debian.net. Once sarge gets released, the amd64 architecture would be merged into Debian and would be officially included in Etch (the next stable release). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: u.s. robotics 2210 wi-fi driver recommendation
On 5/27/05, noc-ops [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone used the USR 2210 wi-fi card? If so, any recommendation for a working driver for sarge? What's the output of lspci? Or google? That may help finding out what driver to use. Alternatively you can use the windows drivers together with ndiswrapper -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA HDD compatibility
On 24 May 2005 05:19:38 -, abhishek basak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have just bought a PC with the following configuration: Intel P4 GHz Intel D915GAV Motherboard Seagate Barracuda HDD (80 GB) Samsung 510N Monitor (TFT) Transcend 512 MB RAM Sony CRX 320E combo drive If you'd get the latest Sarge installer, it would work out of the box with your configuration. I've got an ASUS PC-DL Deluxe which also uses the Intel SATA RAID ICH5/6 chipset like your board as well as the same hard disk brand and capacity and it didn't exhibit any problems. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is Sarge much slower than Woody on old hardware?
On 5/19/05, Nacho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have doubts about upgrading to Sarge (when it's stable) because my PC is about 6 years old, and actually with Woody it's not slow, this is the hardware: - CPU AMD K6-2 400 Mhz - 224 Mb RAM - 180 Gb HD The problem is that I use it for lots of things: - Long queries to postgresql which can last between 5 to 30 minutes - Web development - Multimedia (divx, mp3...) - desktop applications: firefox, staroffice, gimp... - Execute remote X applications (more firefox, staroffice, gimp...) - Several Gb encrypted directories - Many more things... And I'm worried that if I upgrade to Sarge I could feel that it's slower for making the same amount of job... what do you think about this? If it works, why fix it? :D Also, I'm using kernel 2.2.26, it supports all the hardware I have so I haven't upgraded... could I run Sarge without upgrading my kernel? is really an advantage to upgrade kernel in such old hardware as this? A dist-upgrade would never force you to upgrade to a new kernel. That being said, the 2.6 kernels do have better support for desktops that it's got good performance even on older hardware. The bad news is it does this at the expense of being bigger in size compared to a 2.2 kernel. Yet again, YMMV. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling debian stock kernel with badram (Was: Re: Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?)
On 5/11/05, Alexander Toresson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to compile a kernel equivalent to the stock debian 2.6.8-2-686, but with badram and compiled for pentium 2/celeron. Therefore, I downloaded the kernel source from the apt repository, extracted it, patched it with the badram patch for 2.6.8.1 kernels, copied /boot/config-2.6.8-2-686 to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8-2-686/.config, ran make oldconfig (which asked about badram, andI answered yes), I then ran make menuconfig, and changed so that it's going tobe compiled for pentium 2/celeron, and then I exited. I then ran: make-kpkg --append-to-version=badram --revision=lex.badram.1.0 kernel_package (I also use ccache) Then I installed the kernel-image package created in /usr/src. I have no idea how to create an initrd equal to the stock debian, so I used the stock debian. (added the appropriate commands to /boot/grub/menu.lst) When I then tried to boot the kernel, I got a lot of errors about module not found, then a lot of errors about /lib/modules/2.6.8badram/modules.dep not found, and then Kernel panic: attempted to kill init. What am I doing wrong? You forgot the --initrd flag. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is 64MB enough?
On 5/9/05, John Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. The primary purpose is to study and understand Linux and the programming environment. I'd also like to install Apache and Tomcat and do some Java programming (again, just experimental stuff - nothing commercial grade). I'll definitely need to run a browser and an email client. The ability to run (Star/Open)Office would be nice. in that case you'd need more memory. 256MB is cheap these days. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RealPlayer
On 5/8/05, hja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This there a Debian package for Realplayer? If not, what is the best equivalent? Yes. Check out Christian Marillat's repository: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge and IBM z800
On 5/6/05, Marek Rudziak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi It is possible to install Debian sarge on IBM z800 ? If yes, did you have any documentation? It should be able to, as the z800 can run the S390 port of Linux. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NT ACL support
On 5/6/05, Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me if NT ACL support is compiled into the Debian Samba packages? I've read the Debian rules file in the Samba source package and see a line for ACL support but am unsure if that is Posix ACL or NT ACL. Afaik samba is compiled against libacl, which is POSIX ACL support for Linux. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: S3 Vision964-Graficcard: Installation of Xfree 3.3.6 on Sarge
On 5/4/05, Walther, Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian-user-list, because of the fact, read on www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status29.html : ** Summary: All hardware supported in 3.3.6 is also supported in 4.3.0 except for the 911, 924, 801, 805, 928, 864, and 868, and versions of the 964 and 968 that do not use the RAMDAC chips listed above. The SuperSavage chipset is supported only in 4.3.0. ** my elderly graficcard, S3 Inc. 86c964 [Vision 964 VRAM] doesn't work with the delivered XFree86 Version 4.3.0 on Sarge. - only vesa-mode, RAMDAC-chips are not supported here. Meanwhile, the XFree86 3.3.6-Version is further available. Can anyone tell me, 1) from where get the Xfree 3.3.6 as Debian-paket, complete with dependig other pakets (e.g. libraries, etc.) and 2) how to install/configure it easy-going step by step on Sarge without mismatch with Xfree 4.3.0 and system to get S3 86c964-card running ? I suppose, that would be the correct way, to configure my S3 86c964-card on the Sarge-System ... You'd have to live with XFree 4.3, and for this good reason (from the Debian X FAQ): What is the story with XFree86 3.x? As of September 2003, packages of XFree86 3.x are no longer supported by the Debian Project. Please note that the XFree86 3.x codebase is not maintained by anyone, even for security fixes. If you run XFree86 3.x on your system, you may be vulnerable to CAN-2002-0164, CAN-2003-0063, CAN-2003-0071, CAN-2003-0690, CAN-2003-0730, CAN-2004-0083, CAN-2004-0084, CAN-2004-0093, CAN-2004-0094, CAN-2004-0106, CAN-2004-0687, and CAN-2004-0688 (as indexed by the MITRE CVE project), among other flaws. Version 3.x XFree86 X server packages include: xserver-3dlabs, xserver-8514, xserver-agx, xserver-fbdev, xserver-i128, xserver-mach32, xserver-mach64, xserver-mach8, xserver-mono, xserver-p9000, xserver-s3, xserver-s3v, xserver-svga, xserver-tga, xserver-vga16, xserver-w32, xserver-xsun, xserver-xsun24, and xserver-xsunmono. If XFree86 3.x works on your hardware, but XFree86 4.x and the X.Org X server do not, the Debian Project could use your help in getting the more modern X server code to support your hardware. The best place to start is with a bug report! -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I force a PCMCIA network card to have a specific interface name?
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:51:03 -0500, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked at teh PCNCIA HOWTO, but I can't seem to figure out how to force a specific peice of ahrdware to have a certain interface name. I've got a wireless card that (incorectly) gets assigned eth0, which conflicts with the built in NIC. I want to force it to be wlan0. Check out ifrename. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternative X and graphic drivers. HOWTO ?
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:30:49 +0100, Bob Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this Thinkpad T40 with a fairly standard Debian sid on it. Reading some appends it appears that using the X.org and/or ATI's binary driver could enhance performance and/or stability (upon susupend/resumes) of my machine. Do I understand correctly that I can run EITHER XFree86.dfsg OR X.org on my machine and that Debian packages for the latter do not exist ? If memory serves me right, the IBM Thinkpad T40 has an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 video chipset - you won't need ATI's binary driver to get decent 3D on this machine as X's own DRI-enabled open source driver (ati) would be apt for the task. You could add these in the Device section for your video: Option Accel Option AGPMode 4 Option EnablePageFlip1 Option AGPFastWrite 1 Option HWCursor 1 Option DDCMode yes -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dist-upgrade
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:03:56 +0800, Jianan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have got hold of a 'sarge' installation cd #1. I am currently running 'stable'. To minimise the disturbance to my system, I would like to do a apt dist-upgrade rather than a new installation with the cd. Is that possible? If yes, then how? You could either use the CD as the apt-repository or get the packages straight from the net. To use the CD, issue apt-cdrom add, then apt-get dist-upgrade. To use repositories from the net, just add the appropriate lines to /etc/apt/sources.list for the debian mirror you want to connect to, eg. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free then apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade HTH -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:22:29 +, Daniel Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for re-awakening this fairly dead thread, but... On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:30:25 +0200, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are, as posted, other alternatives as well. Ext3 is simplest, I think. Linux can mount NTFS read-only but has full FAT32 support. Is that the case with a default Sarge installation? I did one only very recently and, ever since, the Debian system refuses to mount the Windows FAT32 partition, although it does recognise it. I haven't had this problem before (mainly as I never had a windows partition before) and am sure that it can be rectified with a modprobe command. My two questions are: o Which module needs to be loaded? I have loaded msdos and vfat, but the system still says that the fat32 is not supported by the kernel. o Why were the dos/win filesystem supports removed from Sarge's kernels? As many first time users would want to keep their Windows stuff accessible, this would appear to me to be a red-line issue for many fresh adopters of Debian. Even modularised, the fact is that it remains a command-line post-configuration step for someone who may not have the experience required to do it and, consequently, will become disillusioned. Any responses/assistance on these would be gratefully received, particularly the first. That's weird... I could mount my USB flash drives (which uses vfat as its filesystem) using the stock debian kernels. Older-world MS Windows installations do use vfat as well. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP Mac address
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:10:01 +0100, Mark Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know if it's possible to only give out leases to known clients? And those clients be authenticated by there MAC addresses? It is possible. man 5 dhcpd.conf for more details. Prefferably the MAC address I place in a seperate file. I'm not sure if this is supported by the default dhcpd.conf, although you can whip up a script that would generate the appropriate dhcpd.conf given a file containing the MAC addresses as input. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody XFS file system support
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:03:02 +0100, Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Gerald Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need to access XFS just once in a while, will Knoppix handle xfs file system? Take a look at http://knoppix.net. Knoppix comes with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, so I assume it supports xfs. Knoppix has been XFS-capable for a long time already (first seen it in release 3.0, although it might've been earlier). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix Swap
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:58:36 +, Jean-Michel Hiver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I have installed knoppix with knx2hd but it doesn't seem to be using swap. I was wondering: Have you verified via `free -m` if the swap partition wasn't even mounted? - What tool can I use to make sure the swap partition exists? An fdisk utility would see if the swap partition exists. - What do I need to do to mount the swap, or rather let linux know that it should use the swap partition? man 8 swapon. Add an fstab entry to automatically mount it everytime your machine boots up, e.g.: /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody on Compaq Prolinea 575
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:27:33 -0500, red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to install Woody 3.0r3 on a Compaq Prolinea 575 (pentium 1) 75Mhz with 98Mb ram and 1.5Gb HD. I am always getting a problem with the base installation failing with a return code 1. I then tried installing Sarge, and Sid. All installs failed. Segmentation faults, etc. I am installing from the boot and root floppys for each specific distro. My pc bios cannot be configured to boot from the CDROM drive. In all cases my network card works properly and I am doing a net install from several different mirrors including us.debian.org. Switching to a different mirror doesn't seem to help. Check for faulty hardware. I've made installations on such hardware (having a couple of them on my deployments with only 16MB of RAM) and debian installs on them were painless. You could also try bootstrapping by getting its hard disk and installing debian on it from another machine. If it still fails when you return the disk to the original machine then your hardware's flakey already. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:15:00 +, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 12:53, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:48 +, michael wrote: Hi - I've had a quick look on the WWW but can't find much of help. I've a dual Xeon box running testing and kernel from backports: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux r 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux The SMP kernel does indeed make use of the processors available: 2 if hyperthreading (HT) is off and 4 if it is on. My questions are: a) for MPI codes (mpich v1.2.6 compiled with Intel 8.1 compilers), under which circumstances is better performance achieved with HT on or off? I'm looking for quite a detailed analysis which, if hasn't already been done, I can kick off if anybody's interested b) for general day to day running do people leave HT on or turn it off? How threaded are your apps? Or, maybe, how many apps do you run at once? On Windows benchmarks, at least, performance of non-threaded apps drops when HT is turned on. The apps in question are MPI Fortran/C codes and I can say at run time how many processors (threads) I require. Thus for my dual Xeon I could have HT off and go up to 2 processors. But is it worth switching HT back on and going to 4 (logical) processors, that is my main question. I believe the answer is depends on the nature of your codes and I'm interested in hearing if anybody has studied this (eg with known memory intensive, compute intensive, comms intensive code kernels (not linux kernels!)). If not, I'm happy to kick this off as a low priority project. I've also posed this question to comp.parallel.mpi so if people are interested I can summarize any results/answers here. Traditional SMP architecture features processors each with its own set of caches, execution resources, and buses. You won't have much problems if you don't saturate the bus by data transfers, don't have contention over the bus, and keep the CPU cores busy. This is achievable if you employ your machine as a computing workhorse and not as a memory-chewing machine. On-chip simultaneous multithreading (aka hyperthreading as marketed by Intel), however, is constrained by having only one set of caches, one set of execution resources, and one bus, but you have two logical CPUs contending for those, each running its own different thread. A thread can hog most of the resources of your machine should the other thread choose not to use them. This is why SMT generally screws up scheduling algorithms that work normally in traditional SMP systems. In your case, however, it would seem that most of your processes are CPU-bound - in which case enabling SMT/HyperThreading would be very beneficial. IBM developerworks has this dated study but might be beneficial nonetheless: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:51:20 +1300, Simon Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep.. But the server i have is a dual xeon. Which is *NOT* 64bit - right? Are you saying that the AMD64 is faster as an alternative for the xeon? That dual Xeon is 64bit, as Intel licensed the 64bit extensions from AMD for their EM64T architecture. So the Xeon Nocona is still AMD64 architecture (deep down). Architecturally, AMD's original implementation (from chip to mobo) is superior compared to the current Xeon Nocona, but that's another story. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:03:55 +1300, Simon Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry... Im getting confused... So i should be running this kernel *right*? kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel EM64T SMP systems Do note that should you choose that kernel, your userland should also go 64bit (aka go debian-amd64) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DFSG-free replacement of DJBDNS ?
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:09:51 -0800 (PST), Frank Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm searching for dns server for a small network. I have used djbdns in the past, but now I'd like to switch to something dfsg-free. The dns server should have both authoritative (for computers in local network only) and recursive part. The recursive part must be easily scriptable, because we are on dialup and we can get different set of nameservers each time we connect (we have several providers, etc). There are other DNS software like BIND, Maradns and PowerDNS which can publish authoritative records, as well as caching. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Burning Fedora CD's
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:20:40 -0500, Shawn McCuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I have to do to get cd burning enabled on my system? The burning programs arent detecting that I even have a burnerwhat should I do? Can you post a copy of the output of dmesg? -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian architectures
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:41:42 +0100, Mauro Darida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 09:27:55 +, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: * ia64 - Intel's 64-bit Itanium series of workstations. Not doing too well in the marketplace. Do you mean we will have a debian sarge for Itanium processors ?! Looks like it. As long as there would be users for that architecture who'd be willing to maintain then it'll live even through EOLs (like the Alpha EV chips) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] local-only webserver for web app. thttpd or ??
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:06:46 -0800, Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up a series of apps to run together for computational chemistry work at home. A Java-based front-end app I want to try is called WebMO, which uses a web interface requiring CGI. I have no server for doing this, so am looking for candidates. Thttpd seems to be a possibility. Apache strikes me as too big a package for what's needed. It would reside entirely on this one box on my internal LAN. I'm completely clueless as well about setting this up as well, so a simpler, kinder system would be of great help. I have no trouble beating my head against installation manuals, etc., but wanted to get a feeling for what others thought would be good to start with... ??? For localhost as well as internal LAN usage with not much sophisticated configs, I find boa to be sufficient - it's lightweight, and the packaged boa just works out of the box. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Buying new PC-Intel or AMD
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:15:29 -0800 (PST), RituRaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am PC for and i am considering various options : Intel/AMD64/AMD. Also i would like to know low cost -reliable motherboards for AMD. PLease suggest. THe purpose of the PC is: Running all multimedia apps ...like 3dmax,maya etc. Wheather i should go for intel or AMD? This is OT, but here goes. While Intel hardware shines well on multimedia applications, I'd still recommend the AMD64 :) Cheap (well, relatively), reliable and can crunch lots of computations in one gulp. Not to mention it runs much cooler than the LGA775-based setups Intel currently has. The best thing is - no matter what you choose - Debian's still there for that machine :) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux on HardDrive
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:02 -0800, Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got hold of an old portable PC, which I want to put linux on. Since the networking on this device is poor, I removed the harddrive and hooked it up to my own computer. So, my question is what do I need to do to the hard drive to get Linux to boot up on it, when I put it back in the original computer? I have formatted the hard disk, but I need to set it up so that it will boot. How do I do that? Install a bootloader on that hard disk's MBR. I recommend grub for that task. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:40:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, to forward X through ssh you still need X there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] You won't need the X server present on that machine, but you'd need the X utilities, then forward the X request via ssh or xauth. I think you'd also need to set the DISPLAY variable to the host you'd output the display (works just fine with my Oracle installation on headless chickens as compared to using xhost+ ...) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux and IPR
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:29:33 -0800 (PST), ken keanon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, MS boss was reported to have warned Asians govts that they could face IPR-infringement lawsuits for using Linux. How was the outcome of the case betweeen SCO and IBM? Will it be the end of Linux as open-source if SCO wins? The outcome doesn't look favorable towards SCO given the developments. It's only a matter of time before SCO dies a hapless corporate death that no one would miss. BTW, if SCO sues Debian, will Debian have the resources to fight the case in court? What SCO does is patently illegal and reeks of the worst things corporate greed can muster, yet they still go unpunished. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail login
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:28:01 + (GMT), Elias Obudho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a mail account with the Uinversity of Nairobi. My problem is that for some computers whenever I try to loin I get a message of Unknown user or password is uncorrect. This happens before typing my password. I cannot log in since the login page does not come. Seems that there's a problem that needs the help of your network's god, err administrator. You've tried informing them of that problem? It's really hard to give diagnosis on this given that there's not much administrator-related information supplied. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to install alien made wxPython .deb package.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:59:41 -0700, Anthony Hoskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day folks, I am trying to update my wxPython package so I can run Boa Constructor. I have tried installing from source, but encountered some errors which I don't remember now, but could probably replicate if need be. I also tried installing via apt-get, which left me with an outdated distrobution of wxPython, and currently i'm getting the message when trying to start Boa: Sorry! This version of Boa requires atleast wxPython 2.4.0.7 Boa Constructor is included in unstable, so it's just: apt-get install boa-constructor -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ibm xseries
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:18:49 -0800 (PST), mchael chileshe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a ibm @server xseries 220 machine, and debian installation can not pick the on board ethernet card. How can i configure the on board card? I have already installed debian 3.0 using a 3com pci network card. I am migrating from redhat. And this is the only obstacle in this process... What NIC does that x220 use? Have you tried installing using the more recent versions of the debian installer (given that woody is just too aged for some hardware)? -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: synchronize PDA with Linux and Windows
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:22:34 +0100, Christian Christmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've a Palm IIIxe PDA. Now I'm looking for a tool which is running with Linux and Windows to manage the data of the PDA. My idea was to put the data directory on my debian server and to access it with my notebook which is running both Debian and Windows XP. Thus, I could manage the data with both OS. Are there any tools which could solve my program? There's J-Pilot, as well as GnomePilot and KPilot. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: custom compiled 2.6.9 kernel; broke gcc
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:35:00 -0500, homeless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i've been custom compiling kernels for a while now and just tried the 2.6.9 version. i use kernel-package and debian's packages. running my 2.6.8 kernel i compiled a 2.6.9 kernel using make oldconfig, nothing relevant appeared (though i did add an extra version tag), so the config file is essentially as it was. after booting with the new kernel, gcc seems to sporadically give internal compiler error: segmentation fault errors. i've tried going up to gcc-3.4 but that doesn't change anything. the problem is most prevalent with kernel compilation. system is debian unstable on a 1GHz AMD Athlon. any thoughts? has something changed in the kernel that i missed? Not much detail, but it does look like a hardware problem. Does going back to the old kernel make the problem go away? Try having your DIMMs tested via memtest also -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitioning hard drives
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:06:24 +, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by the Debian Install Guide on how you should partition a Servers disks...? I'd say that the attaining the perfect partition scheme is an arcane art ... :D Seriously, it would depend on how you'd use your rig. Although it's really prudent that user information be in separate partition or disk from the system binaries and/or the root filesystem. Saved me a lot of times when I screw up my system back then. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: print to a Windows machine's printer
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:15:48 - (GMT), michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked about for how to print from this Debian box to a printer (HP LaserJet-2100) hanging off a Windows (Win2000 I do believe) box for which I have no admin rights. I found that ''samba'' seems the way to go. The Samba web pages (http://kr.samba.org) seem to imply that the server (the Win2K box) has to have Samba installed too - is this correct? And how (in)secure is Samba? Is there a better way? How insecure = as insecure as you want to be. Don't run samba on a public IP (or any windows-based network for one thing). You need the samba server installed on your server hosting the printer IF you don't have windows there. If there's windows on that server already there's no point in installing samba there :D On the other hand, you'd need the samba client on your workstation for it to see your windows based printer. Of course, a better way would be to use native IPP (ala CUPS). I'm not sure though if MS still bundles a broken IPP implementation though. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:28:52 -0600, Nelson, Quinten Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought an HP with an AMD 64 processor. It came w/ wireless keyboard/mouse. If I install debian stable or unstable will it have drivers for these or will I need a plugged in keyboard/mouse. If you'd run in 32bit mode you won't encounter too much problems on stable unless your hardware is too new for stable. At any rate, you're better off using testing or unstable. If you're to run it on 64bit mode there won't be problems pertaining to drivers as well. However you can't have 64bit mode using the current stable as stable predates the amd64. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [plug] HA Cluster STONITH Device
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:11:27 +0800, Ariz C. Jacinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: dumb UPS's also operate similar to this mode. i agree but there are UPS that can't handle the power hog of servers and thus data centers use a much higher-capacity UPS that can serve hundreds of workstations or dozens of servers. and with this setup, we can't simply turn-off the UPS for STONITH purposes since it would shutdown all the machines connected to it thus, a PDU is preferred. It's not exactly the UPS that would substitute for STONITH. What I meant was an adhoc controller can be constructed similar to how UPS cables are done with regards to a rise in current to be transmitted via serial cable. DTR and DCD can then be monitored to check any change in current which can then be interpreted by the system to trigger an event (a timed shutdown usually). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover date after rm -rf
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:10:51 +0200, bing yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question might have been asked before. I just want to know Is it possible to recover data after rm -rf. filesystem is xfs where to find docs to recover my data if there is a way go get my data back. and is the process too hard to master by newbie like me? Unfortunately _no_ unix-based filesystem can make undelete trivial, newbies and oldbies alike. Problem is complicated further with a journalling filesystem. That being said, you could try a low-level block scanning or magnetic force microscopy, although there are no guarantees of recovery. and again sorry to ask such a stupid qustion, I just don't know what to do after Lost about 1G import data. No backups? Can the data be regenerated using what data you currently have, or avenues available? -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: experiences with Debian Alpha
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:35:00 +1300, Steven Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody set up Debian on an Alpha? Specifically a DS10? If so, can you point me at some docs / hints / tips / pit falls to avoid to start such a install? I want to build a hi-speed sendmail/postfix gateway with clamav if I can. Easy on intel, but this is my first alpha box and the only hardware I have available for now. The debian alpha mailing lists can help you there. Aside from the architecture differences (e.g. SRM, bootloader is aboot, first disk must be partitioned BSD-style, etc), you shouldn't experience anything else different, given the task you have to do. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:57:51 -0800 (PST), Ibrahim Mubarak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an AMD 64 [Socket 754] processor. However, I installed Debian Sarge for the x86 architecture. Is it best to stay like this, or to change to a 64 bit one? As I was told that the x86 kernel is optimized for the Hammer processor. Using an AMD64 in pure 32bit mode is just like driving a 5-speed car only up to second gear. There's nothing really wrong with that though, although it's pretty much a waste of capabilities. That goes with running Athlon64's in pure 32-bit mode. Do mind though that there are still a few software that has yet to be ported to native AMD64 and/or has some issues with pure 64bit. Caveat emptor. But look on the bright side nonetheless - you get more capacity for memory beyond 4GB without resorting to cheats like PAE, bigger address space, faster decryption, etc... And if I want to change, is it enough to compile a kernel for the 64 bit arch and install it, or do I have to install Debian all over again? No. The AMD64, though having an x86 compatibility mode, has a different native binary format. That means all things would go 64bit if you'd rely on native AMD64 binaries. Debian's AMD64 port, though a pure 64bit port, has an /emul directory wherein you can place 32bit software that hasn't yet been ported to native AMD64. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:22:17 +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:28:32AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: RAID 5 alleviates this by using parity information stored across the disks - now it takes more than 1 disk failure for RAID 5 to fail. How does this change anything ? If you have one failed disk, and one disk containing unknown errors (the same case as your RAID1 example above), replacing the failed disk will lead to errors on the new disk. The use of parity information in separate blocks for reads and writes would just reduce the risk of that happening (prolonging the inevitable?) as data information and parity information are distributed across all disks in the array (RAID 1 won't contain parity information, and is just a copy - data and all) . The disadvantage, of course, with this setup, the controller design would be a lot more complicated and subsequently would make the array reconstruction more difficult unlike RAID 1 wherein it's guaranteed that you'd get a copy of the other half of the mirror. Whether that remaining half of the mirror already got checked for other errors that might've seeped in is another matter absent of RAID 1 though as RAID 1 doesn't have a provision for other information other than merely write data to the other disk as well. On an environment that's heavy on writes, RAID 5's overhead doesn't really justify the costs. You'd be better off with RAID 1 for that. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:31:03 +, Joao Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paolo, Alvin, Pigeon, Ron Tim, thanks for all the replies... Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: [snip] Which are the tradeoffs of hard vs software raid1? What happens/How do we proceed if 1 disk fails (how do we know it, how do we replace/resync them?) [snip] Do note though that RAID 1 won't help you that much - it's better if you could try higher RAID levels (RAID 5) for data integrity. RAID 1 will only mirror disks - and that would also mean should there be errors in one disk it gets propagated to the mirror as well. Alvin, first off all I'm aware of high availability solutions (I've done my master thesis on those setups), but together with HA solutions we can use RAID anyway... Alvin and Paolo, I'm quite stunned with these claims that errors on one disk will be propagated to the other when using RAID1. It still makes no sense to me that something like that could happen. Quoting Tim: problem with raid1 ( aka mirror ) - if one disk goes bad, the other disk will copy that bad info onto the good disk the whole point of mirror, both disk is identical Completely false. Physical disk errors mirrored by raid? No, No, No. Fat fingered deletes? Yes. My bad. I made a glaring misconception here. Here's the case here - RAID 1 indeed does not mirror physical disk errors (else there's no real point in using RAID at all). However, should there be errors in the disks during reconstruction of the RAID array, RAID 1 won't save you as the errors would propagate anyway. RAID 5 alleviates this by using parity information stored across the disks - now it takes more than 1 disk failure for RAID 5 to fail. Paolo, as far as I understand your statements, you state this behaviour (suposing that it does happen) does not happen with RAID5. Why? With RAID5 you checksum data and in RAID1 you mirror sectors? I've googled for these problems you claim in RAID1 and haven't found nothing stating that these things could happen! See above. The problem with RAID 5 is this - the benefits doesn't really match the costs. You get additional checking but at a very high cost (as additional space are used to store parity information, and it takes more than two disks to implement RAID 5). Some alleviate this problem by combining RAID 1 with RAID 0 as this is somehow an acceptable trade off between economics and performance. Altough I'll not be going to SCA (as it appears to add somewhat significant $$$ to my environment where I don't neet 24/7 availability), just confirm this: There is no SCA controllers. The controllers have 68 pins wich connect to the hot-swap rack (wich will also receive power from a regular power cable) and the hot-swap rack will have the sca connector to connect to a sca disk. Is that it? SCA is quite useful if you need hotswapping of SCSI disks. If that isn't the case - there's not much economic incentive in purchasing them. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a mounted USB stick icon on desktop
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:25:13 -0400, H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using udev to detect and mount a USB external floppy drive. When I
mount the floppy drive, an icon appears on the desktop and when I umount
it, it dissappears. Recently I added a udev rule to mount a USB stick in
a similar fashion but I am not getting the icon for the mounted USB
stick on the desktop. What am I missing here? I also mount/umount the
'disk mounter' utility of gnome panels.
Running Debian Unstable on Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop with kernel 2.6.7.
{~} dpkg -l udev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=-=-==
ii udev 0.040-1 /dev/ management
daemon
{~} lsmod | grep us
mousedev 10704 1
psmouse20616 0
usbcore 117440 4 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
{~} lsmod | grep scsi
scsi_mod 127492 1 sd_mod
Have you tried installing gnome-volume-manager? Afaik it deals with
this pretty well - I sure wish they have this on KDE too though :D
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Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:31:21 -0400, H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a given dual boot machine, Windowx XP and Debain (or any Linux for that matter) and booting using Grub, what effect would changing a drive letter in Windows have on the partition table, if any? I am just trying to verify it won't mess with my Debian installation. All I want to do is interchange D: and E: driver letters for two partitions (for sharing data between Windows and Linux in an inituitive way -- mainly for non techie users). Afaik the ways to interchange drive letters in win32 is to interchange the order of the drives as they are placed in the IDE bus, or repartition the drive. Effect on Linux - device names would also change. This may have no visible to really visible repercussions depending on how you had both setup across partitions. At any rate, win32 is slowly leaving the unscalable solution that is drive letters to mount points that almost everybody else in the Unix (or -like) world does. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:01:43 +0100, Joao Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. For the first time I'm gonna setup a server with SCSI disks (until now I've done it only with IDE - regular ATA or SATA) I'm getting a completly new server (P4 3Ghz, Dual-Channel DDR 400, MB with intel chipset) and, while I have a good ideia on these components, I would like to setup a RAID-1 system with SCSI disks... I'm looking for advice on these: wich scsi controller should I buy? Software or Hardware RAID-1? Wich disk brand? (I'm getting a couple of 36GB, it is more than enough space for my setup) Linux software RAID is usually good enough, but since you already invested a lot in SCSI, go for the hardware RAID. There's a recent thread in this mailing list concerning hardware vs software RAID. There are a lot of good hardware RAID cards to choose from. On a lot of enterprise machines you'd get good ones by default. Linux has quite a good sizeable roster of supported SCSI chipsets. Which are the tradeoffs of hard vs software raid1? What happens/How do we proceed if 1 disk fails (how do we know it, how do we replace/resync them?) The card's custom chip does the computing on hardware raid setups, while software raid taxes the cpu for the computing. Otherwise, it's almost the same. When a disk fails, the other part in the RAID 1 (mirror) setup takes over. It'll be preferrable if you could replace the disk once it fails though - which is why hotplug is really a preferred feature. Do note though that RAID 1 won't help you that much - it's better if you could try higher RAID levels (RAID 5) for data integrity. RAID 1 will only mirror disks - and that would also mean should there be errors in one disk it gets propagated to the mirror as well. This server can be shutdown for maintenance at off-work hours, so I don't need any hot-plugging capability.. (this is a controller feature, right?) Yep. Usually hotpluggability is already built-in in a couple of SCSI RAID cards. The good thing with hotplug is that when one disk fails, you could replace it on the fly. Another thing I haven't tried is to do hotswap on Linux software raid (though I've done hotswap on hardware raid with no problems). I'm quite confused about all the SCSI variations.. This is what I've found so far are somewhat like this: - SCSI disks, all Ultra320Wide: Seagate Cheetah 10K 68 pin,36Gb - 160 EUR Fujitsu 10K 68 pin,36Gb - 150 EUR Fujitsu10K SCA/80pin, 36Gb - 150 EUR Fujitsu 15K 68 pin,18Gb - 185 EUR Fujitsu15K SCA/80pin, 18Gb - 185 EUR Ok, no problem with these... any brand/model suggestions? - Controllers Several Adaptec SCSI Cards from 200 to 400 EUR, wich can have: - 32 or 64bit - 160MB or Ultra320 - Raid (or not, when they say nothing.. I think) (the RAID ones start at 400 EUR and I've seen up to 950 EUR) I'm confused... none of the descriptions of the Adaptec controller I've seen state the connectors (68/80 pins)... now add more controller to the mess: The PCI bus has two variations - 32bit PCI (the short one found in most PCs), and the 64bit PCI (the longer ones found in servers). There's also PCI-X. You can safely guess that in terms of bus speed it goes this way: 32bit PCI 64bit PCI PCI-X. SCSI-2 disks have an 80-pin setup. SCSI-3 disks have a 68-pin setup. SCA in SCSI just integrates the data and power wires to a single attachment (hence Single Connector Attachment) Tekram PCI DC395UW - 56 EUR Tekram PCI DC390U2B - 102 EUR Tekram PCI DC390U2W Ultra 2 Low WIDE SCSI - 126 EUR Tekram PCI DC390U3W Ultra 3 WIDE SCSI 160 - 182 EUR Tekram PCI DC390U4W Ultra 4 WIDE SCSI 320 - 223 EUR Damn... Really confused... Please confirm these toughs also: UltraWideSCSI = 68 pin ... What is 2, 3 or 4 ?!? These seem similar to ATA 66/100/133 - the bus speed, is that it? So, what's SCA? None of these controllers says SCA... Ultra-Wide SCSI = SCSI-3. For the other definitions - see my post above. I think the 2/3/4 has something to do with the data rate. At any rate, to really take advantage of ultra-wide SCSI you'd need to have 64-bit PCI slots or PCI-X slots, as 32-bit PCI would cut down performance sharply. Any help? Ps: I supose getting a SCSI crontroller built-in on the motherboard is stupid? Those are low-value/performance controllers? Not all of them are low-value/performance connectors. Some are of very good quality. You could always check the chipset used and ascertain from other sources if the chipset is good enough. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't Boot 2.6 Kernel -- IDE is a Module
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:09:04 -0400, Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to install a stock Debian kernel (2.6-386) on my system, it won't boot any longer (VFS: Unable to mount root fs). The stock 2.2 kernel that comes with Woody rescue disk boots fine. As far as I can tell, it's because the 2.6 kernel is compiled with IDE as a module instead of including it in the kernel proper. Is there something I still need to do to allow this module to be loaded? Did you upgrade your userland tools like modutils and module-init-tools? -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USE flags ??
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:42:52 +0100, Jim Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 21, 09:56, Paul Johnson wrote: WARNING: Unsanitized content follows. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a possibility to use USE FLAGS like in gentoo ? No. We're not ricers. http://www.funroll-loops.org/ Speak for your self I find Gentoo is great for my mid-life crisis. ;-) This would be very easy to install new software. Apt isn't good enough for you? It is alright but there is always room for improvement, I think emerge has the edge as a packet management tool. ;-P During the early days of the Debian project, the members then did consider going source-based: provide the upstream source and a debianized patch afterwhich the users would compile it themselves.But later on they did realize that a binary distribution would be more maintainable. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATI Radeon 7500 Support in Sarge
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:01:00 -0700, Gilbert, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've told KDE to apply the settings on startup and logged out, logged back in... even rebooted completely only to have the problem back. Is there a step I'm missing... do I have to do something special to get full support for my video card (ATI Radeon 7500). strange that you're encountering a problem on your video card model (ati radeon 7500). I do have the same card, but didn't encounter much problems: Try doing the configuration the debian way via dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Chances are it would give you sane defaults for vertical and horizontal refresh rates. If you've installed the read-edid and discover packages it would help a lot. Debconf should configure your setup to use the ati driver. Now, to maximize your card's potential of 3D you'd have to provide the Accel directive in your X configuration file. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev with Xwindows and winmodems,
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:33:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having installed the udev.deb package, the following problems have been encountered. 1) Xwindows does not start unless first, /etc/init.d/udev stop Once Xwindows is up, it is retained after /etc/init.d/udev restart I'm using udev myself on a Dell Latitude C640 running Debian Unstable. Didn't encounter that problem on a stock install. What hardware are you running udev on? Chipset of your video card? 2) The Lucent winmodem uses /dev/ttyLT0 c 62 64 with a symbolic link to it. Neither is in the /dev/ created during a bootup with udev called Load the appropriate module first. 3) /dev/ppp needed for dialup is not created by udev either. You'd need to load the module for ppp first. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:34:02 -0400, cmdrwoody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greeting all! I am trying to write a script that ssh to all the computers in my school and perform automated tasks. For a machine say, p30, i can just put ssh p30 command in my script to execute that command. I have public-key authentication so no password is required. Now if this is the first time I login to that machine, I will get the question The authenticity of host 'p30 ' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is . Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? And I have to type yes or no. This is annoying since the script should be able to run automatically. How can I make the script to accept this automatically? Use ssh-keygen to generate an RSA key pair. then copy the generated public key to all of your workstations' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 2.0 speed
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:06:38 +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. When I boot my machine with KNOPPIX and have the USB case plugged, I get fast transfer rates to my external disk (10MB/sec or so). When I boot my regual installation of Debian (sarge), with both kernels 2.4.25 and 2.6.8 (installed via apt-get), the same modules are loaded (uhci-hcd and friends), but the system can only exchange data with the external drive VERY slowly (less than 500kb/sec). usbview shows me at that time that the external USB device (correctly) advertises speeds of up to 480Mbps, but actual file transfers are extremely slow. USB 2.0 should use the EHCI driver. Try preloading the module and see what happens. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 82815 graphics controller config in debian 3 woody
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:47:32 +0530, VRT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have an integrated 82815 graphics controller i tried using the vesa driver it was working well for [EMAIL PROTECTED] for higer depth 16 and 24, the screen was flickery... pls help thanks in advance vinay Try finding out the correct frequency via XFree86 -configure. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:02:21 +0530, Micheal Mukherji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use ssh-keygen to generate an RSA key pair. then copy the generated public key to all of your workstations' ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Shud it be to authorized_keys? I think to avoid typing yes, he should make entries in ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. ~/.ssh/known_hosts contains a list of hosts together with their public keys. This is used for verifying whether a remote host is authentic. This file is automatically appended for each new host connected to, and is subsequently checked everytime you try to connect to a remote host. Now, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys contains a list of hosts together with their public keys. However, this is used for a remote host to be able to connect to your machine non-interactively in a secure manner. This file is NOT generated by default. man ssh for more details -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk defragmenting
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:23:58 -0700, Mike Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 07:31 am, robin wrote: Mike Chandler wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hello, Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!! Nope, not needed. There are lots of hits on google for this one being: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-admin/msg00513.html If you are running the ext2 file system It seems only to be a possible issue when the disk becomes very full. There is a deb package defrag, description below: ext2, minix and xiafs filesystem defragmenter As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more scattered across the disk, degrading performance. A disk defragmenter simply re-organises the data on the disk, so that individual files occupy a single sequential set of disk blocks, and all the free space on the disk is collected together in a single region. This generally means that reading a whole file is faster, and disk accesses in general are more efficient. Ok, you're right and I am wrong. I've never heard of that, never had the need for it, and don't run ext2 anyway. The last I heard (some time ago) was Linux didn't need defrag, so never thought about it again. Must have gotten some bad information? You didn't get bad info. 99% of the time you won't need defrag on a Unix-based system that uses inodes (which is almost every Unix-based native filesystem out there). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux on a Thinkbad T42
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:21:53 -0400, Jule Slootbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, My trusty iBook's hinge snapped after 3.5 years of trusty service (RIP coltrane) and so now i'm in the market for a new laptop. My brother recently bought an IBM Thinkpad T42 and he is very happe with it (running Windows, and just using it for everyday college student work). The price he got it for is still available through a source, and it's a good deal. Now i was wondering if there were any problems installing debian in the Thinkpads, and if so anybody had a suggestion, or recommendation as to what kind of laptop to purchase. I know there are lots of threads on this subject, but since new models and technologies come out everyday, an update is of order once in a while. Top of the line eh... quite an expensive laptop but it's got the words LINUX COMPATIBLE etched somewhere there :D -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:35:59 +0200, Christian Leimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I boot from another system the .dev is gone. But booting back in the troble maker shows the .dev and with the contents of an old /dev only null and console and I can not delete this it says it is in use. If I delete the content of .dev the system does not boot. Very curios what happens here. Also an other disk at sdb is not recognized. If you installed udev, it will manage the creation of devices in your /dev (which is mounted over a tmpfs). the .udev directory would contain the real /dev devices while the udev daemon is still running. Now, since the real /dev is just moved to .dev, deleting the .dev directory would make your machine unbootable prior to the point that the udev daemon gets started. At any rate, you can regenerate the contents of .dev by using the MAKEDEV utility. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kickstart, autoyast or the like for Debian?
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:58:56 +0200, Jacob Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to create an install script for Debian? Just like Red Hat/Fedora kickstart and Suse autoyast. You can try fai (although it's sometimes an overkill) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making a Debian Kernel Patch
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:43:52 +1000, Peter A. Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm a bit lost as to how to proceed here, and the dh-kpatches.html file and man dh_installkpatches are totally confusing me at this point in time. I'm trying to find a way to get the Via EPIA kernel patch into a standard Debian patch form to apply to a custom kernel. I hope that makes sense. Anyway, the patch is for extra features in the Via EPIA Nehemiah and C3 CPU's and my new mail server has one of these boards (V1) in it, so I'd like to be able to get it to run optimally with the CPU. I can't seem to find any suitable information on how to go from the vanilla kernel patch to a debian patch like, for example, the kernel-patch-mppe (which I will also be using). Running man dh_installkpatches says it needs debian/package.kpatches, which I take to mean that in the directory containing my patch, I create a directory called debian, and in this file place a file called something like via-epia.kpatches, containing the necessary lines as outlined in the man page. I have done this, and dh_installkpatches complains of not having a control file, of which I can find no reference in the man page. Anyway, I do realise that I'm doing the wrong thing, and am lacking the knowledge of exactly what it is I'm supposed to be doing, but I'm having trouble locating information telling me how to go about this. Can someone head me in the right direction as to where to find this information? Thanks in advance, I think you're better off if you'd try applying the patches first manually and see if the mixture of patches that you want would not break with each other. Once you've already ascertained the viability of such, then it's already trivial to create the patches as you'd just verify how the debian kernel-patches are made from the source packages - get them via apt-get source kernel-patch-somepatch to verify what instructions were used. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reinstall
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:27:44 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not long perched a second hand computer witch has windows 98 on it and my partner has wiped of the cd rom drive by accident and i cannot get it back now. How do i get it back could you tell me in English because i don't understand technical? The real solution there is to upgrade to the latest. With that no one would just be able to wipe your CD-ROM or anything by accident/intention. I believe you could get that upgrade from www.debian.org. Try it. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:06:25 -0700, MARCELLA CHAMBERS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im having trouble with my proxy connection on my computer can you help? Call your sysadmin for more instructions. He might also require you to supply information you might've have willingly, purposely withheld earlier here to help you with the problem you have. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade from testing to experimental ?
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:46:23 +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to have alot of 'latest' releases, now i am using the testing-debian. What exactly do you _NEED_ as opposed to _WANT_ for the latest of everything? Can i change to experimental debian by just chaning my sources.list ? I tried that, changed testing with experimental but i get errors then. What is the right procedure ? Warning: experimental is _NOT_ a distribution - just a breeding ground for very experimental (duhhh :D) packages that have yet to enter sid. Use at your own risk. You have been warned. It _CAN_ hose your system worse than how sid can break the OS. Right-thinking people _WONT_ use experimental. That notice being said, add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main It's also available to pin apt so that it won't upgrade your system to experimental so that you can only install packages from experimental if you target it specifically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting old style ufs to ext2
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:30:29 -0700, Marc Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've connected a j-bod with to an Alpha running the latest stable release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as ufs in /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. In poking around, it seems as if there is no support for writing to UFS filesystems. Q1: is it possible to write to UFS filesystems? You can. Recompile the kernel to enable read/write on UFS. Note that this is not supported by default though. Q2. Can I convert from UFS to ext2/3 without losing data? I'm not sure if convertfs can handle this. The only safe conversion is from ext2 to ext3. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enabling hyperthreading
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:41:13 +0800 (CST), ms linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very sorry for asking the same question as I had before. But since googling doesn't help me much ( no luck I guess or I'm just too lazy ), I wonder if anybody here got good enough how to to enabling hyperthreading in my desktop debian. I've got P4 3GHz Hyperthreading on Intel 865PERL mainboard, hyperthreading enable on BIOS. I'm currently using sid 2.4.27 kernel with alsa compiled. I had tried to use 2.4.27-smp kernel and debian just freeze at boot. This is weird behavior... nevertheless try disabling acpi and/or apic in the boot time parameters when you boot the SMP-enabled kernel and see what happens. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] [Debian-User] Best choice hardware?
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:03:14 +0530, Didar Hussain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm planning to buy a new box. I'm wondering what kind of hardware I should be going in for? I'm wondering whether I should go for AMD64 or P4 w/ HT. I've decide to go with 1 GB RAM. Also, I'm wondering about the mainboard (motherboard). I would like to have decent hardware support like sound and video. Oh, and I will be using it for serious stuff like compiling, development and to watch video ;) My primary OS is Debian. So, I would like Debian or Debian-based distros to work well. Either-way is good hardware, although AMD64 does look good (for me at least) despite the occasional wrinkles (as some software are still stuck in 32 bit mode). If it goes down to price though the Pentium IV would be cheaper compared to its AMD64 equivalent. The AMD64 doesn't have symmetric multi-threading like the Intel chips do, but it's better-engineered when you've got more processors and memory to deploy without resorting to cheats like PAE (as it's a 64bit chip). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
