MSI K8N Neo Platinum Installation Report GRUB/LILO troubles

2005-03-29 Thread Ricardo Diz
Hi, Only this weekend did I have the chance to try again and install debian on my computer. It didn't went very well, as I kept having errors from time to time while reading from burned install isos (It also happened last time). I thought they were related to my particular reader (DVD NEC 3520A),

Re: usb wireless mouse stopped working

2005-03-29 Thread Sythos
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:55:13AM +0200, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: Last night my wireless mouse batteries ran out, so I replaced them, but now it wouldn't connect anymore. I am seeing the same behavior I have seen in windows since the beginning. This isn't a OS related problem. It is a pairing

Re: usb wireless mouse stopped working

2005-03-29 Thread Superuserman
Alex writes: Hello, Last night my wireless mouse batteries ran out, so I replaced them, but now it wouldn't connect anymore. I am seeing the same behavior I have seen in windows since the beginning. The wireless keyboard is seen no problem, but not the mouse. Both the keyboard and the mouse use

Re: Idea for structure of Apt-Get

2005-03-29 Thread Helge Hafting
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. What if the apt-get system was redesigned so that users could download updates and upgrades from other users? This way they would

Re: fujitsu-siemens primergy rx300 s2

2005-03-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:43:56PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote: Len Sorensen wrote - Do [Broadcom] provide a driver that works without a firmware file? Do they include sources to any firmware files required? If not they can call it GPL all they want, but it still won't be GPL. They

Notice: nvidia-kernel patches required.

2005-03-29 Thread Zachary Rizer
The nvidia-* packages in sid/amd64 have a couple of small issues that I have discovered and would like to point out to everyone else for future reference. Firstly, it is imperitave that you upgrade to a 2.6.11+ kernel (whether a debian image or roll your own). Previous kernels have a bad

PHP4 works again (was Re: PHP4 causes apache to fail to start)

2005-03-29 Thread Per Bojsen
Hi Andreas, apt-get dist-upgrade upgraded php4 today and with this new version I am able to run php4 with apache again. Thanks! Per -- Per Bojsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 Francis Road Billerica, MA 01821-3618 USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: usb wireless mouse stopped working

2005-03-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:55:13AM +0200, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: Last night my wireless mouse batteries ran out, so I replaced them, but now it wouldn't connect anymore. I am seeing the same behavior I have seen in windows since the beginning. The wireless keyboard is seen no problem, but

Re: ASUS - K8N-E Deluxe Install Report (using /debian-installer/2005-03-24)

2005-03-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 03:19:02PM +0200, Remi Butaud wrote: Debian-installer-version: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-installer/2005-03-24/monolithic/mini.iso uname -a: Linux owl 2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 #1 Tue Mar 15 17:25:19 CET 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux Date: March - 27, 2005 Method:

some issues with Gnome

2005-03-29 Thread Christophe Dupré
Hi guys, I'm having some problems with gnome, and its librairies I think. To be honest, I don't really know what can be wrong as I can't find any clues in log files so I'll describe the symptoms: - gnome-session doesn't start anything. After logging in I get a blank screen, nothing else. -

Re: Another program for burning dvds

2005-03-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 07:53:42PM +0100, v0n0 wrote: Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well I burn DVDs like this: growisofs -Z /dev/hda -J -R /dirwithfiles -J and -R and /dirwithfiles are of course mkisofs options. Really simple. But I got these errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ growisofs -Z

Re: kernel-image-2.6.11-amd64 packages

2005-03-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 07:46:48PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: sure, i did so. i used menuconfig, but that shouldn't matter. make menuconfig is not a substitute for make oldconfig. It does and should matter which you use first. You can use make menuconfig after using make oldconfig if you wish.

pure64 semi-testing

2005-03-29 Thread Niklas Ögren
no. pure64 and the gcc-3.4 branches are entirely separate (and incompatible). I would recommend using the pure64 branch. The gcc-3.4/gcc4 is more like experimental. You should not mix packages from these. For the pure64: Am I the only one who would appreciate a system similar to the 32bit

Re: pure64 semi-testing

2005-03-29 Thread Theodore Kisner
there is already a sarge version of debian-amd64. Did you want something else? no need to CC me- I'm subscribed to the list. -Ted On Tuesday 29 March 2005 10:34, Niklas Ögren wrote: Am I the only one who would appreciate a system similar to the 32bit Debian, where the unstable packages come

Re: pure64 semi-testing

2005-03-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:34:14PM +0200, Niklas Ögren wrote: no. pure64 and the gcc-3.4 branches are entirely separate (and incompatible). I would recommend using the pure64 branch. The gcc-3.4/gcc4 is more like experimental. You should not mix packages from these. For the pure64: Am

List split?

2005-03-29 Thread Ryan Lovett
Now that debian-amd64 is successful enough that newbies have managed to get it working, could the list be split into something like -user and -devel? I'm more interested in the development of the port and not other (still important) issues like how to get GNOME/KDE/networking/etc. working on amd64

Re: pure64 semi-testing

2005-03-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:22:36PM +0200, Niklas Ögren wrote: My sources.list: deb http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/pure64 testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/pure64 testing main non-free contrib Change that to: deb http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/debian-pure64 testing main

Re: pure64 semi-testing

2005-03-29 Thread Niklas Ögren
Change that to: deb http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/debian-pure64 testing main non-free contrib Ah, I see. Found the http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se/archive-structure.txt :-) Then I will still have a mix of sid/sarge, but I guess it will converge to sarge .. Thanks! /n -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: List split?

2005-03-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 4:38pm, John Goerzen wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:18:34PM -0800, Ryan Lovett wrote: Now that debian-amd64 is successful enough that newbies have managed to get it working, could the list be split into something like -user and -devel? I'm more interested in the

Re: Future of gcc-3.4?

2005-03-29 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 16:09, Ed Cogburn wrote: Hi, What is the future plan for pure64 and gcc-3.4? What will the gcc-3.4 (now almost gcc-4.0) archive eventually become? Will it always be an experimental thing that never becomes official, or will it eventually become the official AMD64

Re: Future of gcc-3.4?

2005-03-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 7:32pm, Theodore Kisner wrote: I have appended the message below. Thanks Theodore. 3. The documentation should clearly state that the 'pure64' archive is the 'official' one for the amd64 port which will be integrated into the Debian archive after sarge is