Re: OpenOffice for AMD64

2005-03-21 Thread Lorenzo Milesi
I'm trying to compile OO2 beta, if I will manage to install it I'll send you a report! We've talked about that some days ago. OOo1.9 won't compile as is on Amd64. I've asked to the OOo ml and they replied me you need some kind of extensions to the original source, but again it's not sure it

Re: Idea for structure of Apt-Get

2005-03-21 Thread Kaare Hviid
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 12:30:35AM -0600, Patrick Carlson wrote: Hello. I'm not sure if anyone has suggested something like this or not but I was thinking about the apt-get system and bittorrent today. You might want to check out http://sianka.free.fr/ Which was mentioned in DWN

Re: Zero latency kernel 2.6.10 (64 bit)

2005-03-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi Pete, Perhaps you're running into this (from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4): # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically # updated again, run the following commands as root: DeMuDi doesn't appear to have that section in the file, on my laptop at least. I think the

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread Sythos
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:39:23AM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: I have noticed lately people are going to great lengths to get openoffice going on amd. I have found that for academic (and personal) writing latex (therefore lyx) produces superior documents; since character spacing may be

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread Jacob Larsen
Sythos wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:39:23AM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: My problem, as other people, is document generated on OS mixed network/pc/people. A great number of document find on network or created by coworker are .doc/.xls. OO offer a single suite to open this format, save in

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:39:23AM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I have noticed lately people are going to great lengths to get openoffice going on amd. I have found that for academic (and personal) writing latex (therefore lyx) produces superior documents; since character spacing may be

Re: harddisk DMA

2005-03-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:44:42AM +0100, Uwe wrote: here is the corresponding snippet of dmesg. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:02.5 SIS5513:

Re: HD based net install nok for AMD64

2005-03-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:54:10PM -0500, Tong wrote: I used to use initrd and vmlinuz from http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media to do HD-based net install. so that, - there would be no CDs burning/wasting Answer: CD-RW - work 10 times

Re: AVM Fritz!Card PCI (v2.0) / Fritz!DSL

2005-03-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:25:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I tried to install the original AVM 32-bit-driver. I changed all int variables that content pointers to long, so I have no warnings about that. But there is a library without source code. and it is: file fcpci-lib.o

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
A Dilluns 21 Març 2005 15:15, Lennart Sorensen va escriure: . Well installing openoffice in a 32bit chroot is not a big deal and works fine. Openoffice also exports PDF just fine. Sure, it's easy I do personally prefer LaTex for writing documents myself, but I sure don't like lyx for

MSI K8N Neo Platinum Installation Report GRUB/LILO troubles

2005-03-21 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi everyone, I recently bought the following system: - AMD64 3200+ (socket 754) - MSI K8N Neo Platinum - 2x 300GB Seagate 7200.8 SATA hard drives - 2x 512MB OCZ DDR PC3200 - DVD/CD writer NEC ND-3520A - a couple of more things I started my journey having in mind

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 21 March 2005 11:39, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I have noticed lately people are going to great lengths to get openoffice going on amd. I have found that for academic (and personal) writing latex (therefore lyx) produces superior documents; since character spacing may be modified

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Monday 21 March 2005 04:15 pm, A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 11:39, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: If KWord could open .sxw files and KSpread could open .sxc files, I for one would ditch OOo with all its clunkiness in a heartbeat. I remember Wordwise Plus on the BBC Model B. You typed

Is there an alternative for opensii ?

2005-03-21 Thread Vyacheslav O. Dementiev
Is there an alternative for opensii for 64 bit architecture ? I need root fail over and load level balancing -- Vyacheslav O. Dementiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:15 +, A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 11:39, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: [snip] I remember Wordwise Plus on the BBC Model B. You typed your text on a 40-column screen, marked up with control codes; and it came out of an 80-column printer. This was for

Wifi issue and AMD64 and kernel questions

2005-03-21 Thread Manu
Hi, I just bought a ferrari 3400. And verything seems to works beside my WIFI and Sounds (work but using OSS.. I have a strange noise when using ESD from gnome until I start playing a music).. I have installed the debian testing CD (supposely I should be in 32 bits mode) Anyway I have few

Wifi issue and AMD64

2005-03-21 Thread Manu
Hi, I just bought a ferrari 3400. And verything seems to works beside my WIFI and Sounds (work but using OSS.. I have a strange noise when using ESD from gnome until I start playing a music).. I have installed the debian testing CD (supposely I should be in 32 bits mode) Anyway I have few

Re: Wifi issue and AMD64 and kernel questions

2005-03-21 Thread Manu
Hi Javier As far as I know it's a 64-bit kernel with IA32 emulation. In other words, the kernel is 64-bit, but it supports a 32-bit user-land. Ah , that explains all the problem I had... I am not ready to fully move to 64 bits as not all the packages are working.. I need to run

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread Alex Perry
This really is getting off topic for AMD64. However, since LaTeX works beautifully under 64 bit, complete with all the support tools, ... Jacob Larsen wrote: Lennart Sorensen wrote: I do personally prefer LaTex for writing documents myself, but I sure don't like lyx for doing it. I just write

Re: Wifi issue and AMD64 and kernel questions

2005-03-21 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi Manu, El lun, 21-03-2005 a las 10:31 -0800, Manu escribi: Hi Javier As far as I know it's a 64-bit kernel with IA32 emulation. In other words, the kernel is 64-bit, but it supports a 32-bit user-land. Ah , that ... partially... explains all the problem I had... I am not

Mount point /dev/.static/dev is not responding

2005-03-21 Thread damon
the subject is the error I get while running xfe file manager. I have ran sid for quite some time, and have never had this error untill I tried pure64. The permissions on the folder are: root.root drwx-- . I can as root set them to 666 and the error goes away. How can I avoid this as

Re: Mount point /dev/.static/dev is not responding

2005-03-21 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi, El lun, 21-03-2005 a las 07:16 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi: the subject is the error I get while running xfe file manager. I have ran sid for quite some time, and have never had this error untill I tried pure64. The permissions on the folder are: root.root drwx-- . I can as

Re: MSI K8N Neo Platinum Installation Report GRUB/LILO troubles

2005-03-21 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Ebeling?=
I recently bought the following system: - AMD64 3200+ (socket 754) - MSI K8N Neo Platinum I've the same MoBo... I started my journey having in mind to install the Sid's Debian pure64, and knowing I might (or might not) have some problems doing it, as this motherboard isn't in the

[off topic]: sigwaitinfo doesnt dequeue signal for threads

2005-03-21 Thread Bharath Ramesh
I have a process which has multiple threads. I have a signal SIGRTMIN to be delivered to the process. I only want a particular thread to handle. I do not have any sigaction set, I use sigwaitinfo to dequeue the signal from the pending queue as I have blocked the signal in the main process before I

Re: AVM Fritz!Card PCI (v2.0) / Fritz!DSL

2005-03-21 Thread p-a-v-e-l
Hi Lennart, Am Montag, 21. März 2005 15:40 schrieb Lennart Sorensen: than I used objcopy: objcopy -v -O elf64-x86-64 fcpci-lib.o lib/fcpci-lib.o copy from fcpci-lib.o(elf32-i386) to lib/fcpci-lib.o(elf64-x86-64) Interesting idea. How does that change the size of points in the object

Re: Mount point /dev/.static/dev is not responding

2005-03-21 Thread Damon Chesser
On Monday 21 March 2005 01:24 pm, Javier Kohen wrote: Hi, El lun, 21-03-2005 a las 07:16 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: the subject is the error I get while running xfe file manager. I have ran sid for quite some time, and have never had this error untill I tried pure64. The

Re: AVM Fritz!Card PCI (v2.0) / Fritz!DSL

2005-03-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:19:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the pointers are now 64-bit long and don't fit in the places in the 32-bit executing code where before the converting were the 32-bit pointers. At the very least the pointer offsets are likely to be wrong. Is anywhere

Re: AVM Fritz!Card PCI (v2.0) / Fritz!DSL

2005-03-21 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi, El lun, 21-03-2005 a las 21:19 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi: Is anywhere how-to for adapting the 32-bit code to 64-bit? Or anything regarding the theme? If I understand correctly you want to link a 32-bit binary object with a 64-bit application/kernel module. I don't think that will

Re: AVM Fritz!Card PCI (v2.0) / Fritz!DSL

2005-03-21 Thread p-a-v-e-l
Hi, Am Montag, 21. März 2005 21:42 schrieb Javier Kohen: Hi, El lun, 21-03-2005 a las 21:19 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Is anywhere how-to for adapting the 32-bit code to 64-bit? Or anything regarding the theme? If I understand correctly you want to link a 32-bit binary object

Re: lyx rather than openoffice

2005-03-21 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 21 March 2005 17:47, Ron Johnson wrote: Being a database administrator, I can guarantee you that RDBMSs and spreadsheets serve and fulfill vastly differing needs. Anyone who thinks they are equal is foolish in the extreme. Oh, I know. I just think people mis-use spreadsheets. I

Re: Is there an alternative for opensii ?

2005-03-21 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:11:21PM +0200, Vyacheslav O. Dementiev wrote: Is there an alternative for opensii for 64 bit architecture ? I need root fail over and load level balancing since neither google nor freshmeat gave any results, what is opensii at all? kind regards Frederik

Re: KDE Konqueror woes

2005-03-21 Thread Rob
In case anyone else has this issue, this is a known bug with the kernel with CIFS. I have a CIFS mount to my Win2k3 server. Apparently, KDE uses some CIFS features (directory/file modification notification, thus the correlation to fam), this causes a hang since these features aren't

Re: Wifi issue and AMD64

2005-03-21 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:57:41 -0800 (PST), Manu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) have installed this package as I have an AMD64 * kernel-image-2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 is it a 32 bit package or 64bits? Anything special to this kernel ? 64-bit. 2) I need to use the ndiswrapper for my broadcom WIFI

VMWare Confusion/Clarification

2005-03-21 Thread Pete
Hi all, Sorry if I'm missing something obvious from all my list and Google searching, but I'm a bit confused and need some clarification with VMWare GSX 3.1 and AMD64 Sarge (pure64). Firstly, I've recompiled my kernel but only to put mppe support in as I need this for VPN access to work. I

ia32-libs problems

2005-03-21 Thread Philipp Winkler
Hi list, I´ve got a sid pur64 on my machine. Every some day (has ben twice now) the 32bit apps won´t run. Failures are ... file not found My solution was to purge and reinstall the ia3-libs. After the reinstall of the libs the apps ran fine. The applications I am running on 32bit are f-prot,

Re: Wifi issue and AMD64 (SOLVED)

2005-03-21 Thread Manu
Thanks for your help! I changed my kernel to a 32 bit and got both of the CArd to work with madwifi and ndiswrapper. Thanks Manu --- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:57:41 -0800 (PST), Manu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) have installed this package as

Re: ia32-libs problems

2005-03-21 Thread Philipp Winkler
Hi Javier, Hi list Well I solved it twice now by purging and reinstalling the 'libs', but I guess it will just happen again. The system was running normally - I did not do any major updates, especially I did not update the ia32 libs. The problem is I cannot reproduce it, so I am looking for

Bug#248043: ftp.debian.org: Request for new architecture: amd64

2005-03-21 Thread Dave Whitla
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: This will happen post-sarge, amd64 will not get released with sarge, and adding it to sid now would only cause more work that can better be spent elsewhere (read: releasing sarge). --Jeroen (read: I don't own an AMD64) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ia32-libs problems

2005-03-21 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi Philipp, El mar, 22-03-2005 a las 06:19 +0100, Philipp Winkler escribi: Hi Javier, Hi list Well I solved it twice now by purging and reinstalling the 'libs', but I guess it will just happen again. The system was running normally - I did not do any major updates, especially I did not

Re: grub SATA netinstall problem

2005-03-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Baab wrote: I am looking for some help with a netinstall grub problem. I am trying to install via the 2/20/05 sarge netinstall. The installation goes fine, but upon reboot I am getting error loading operating system I have taken notice that durring the grub installation step, grub is