Re: ATA abnormal status

2006-08-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:16:30PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: While computing with mpqc2.3.1 (debian etch amd6a; dual opterons; 8GB ram ECC; raid 1; filesystem ext3; grub on its own partition): Led of HD permanently lighted. Messages on screen: ATA: abnormal status 0x58 on port

Re: ATA abnormal status

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:16:30PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: [snip] Any guess at what that means? I naively understand it was failure by the OS, not failure of hardware. I had the same errors on a Tyan K8SSA and first thought it was a software/kernel problem with the sata

Re: ATA abnormal status

2006-08-24 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Thursday 24 August 2006 11:08, Daniel Tryba wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:16:30PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: [snip] Any guess at what that means? I naively understand it was failure by the OS, not failure of hardware. I had the same errors on a Tyan K8SSA and first thought it

ATI driver slow: which way to look ?

2006-08-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, this time I am looking for a way to find out a problem and to understand, how things are working. I have a 64-Bit notebook with installed ia32-libs. My graphic-card is a X700 made by ATI (yes, ATI sux !) and Xorg7. All 3D-acceleration functions are accessible and working, But they

RE: ATI driver slow: which way to look ?

2006-08-24 Thread Bhaskar Manda
First place to look would be /var/log/Xorg.0.log (use the latest Xorg log file after the X server is started). Perhaps it isn't able to allocate enough memory (for shared memory graphics)? -- Bhaskar S. Manda From: Hans-J. Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] All 3D-acceleration functions are

Re: ATI driver slow: which way to look ?

2006-08-24 Thread Jo Shields
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, this time I am looking for a way to find out a problem and to understand, how things are working. I have a 64-Bit notebook with installed ia32-libs. My graphic-card is a X700 made by ATI (yes, ATI sux !) and Xorg7. All 3D-acceleration functions are

Re: ATI driver slow: which way to look ?

2006-08-24 Thread Rob Andrews
On 24-Aug-2006 15:33.56 (BST), Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I have a 64-Bit notebook with installed ia32-libs. My graphic-card is a X700 made by ATI (yes, ATI sux !) and Xorg7. All 3D-acceleration functions are accessible and working, But they work real slow. I do not think, it is the

Re: OpenOffice in chroot -- fonts?

2006-08-24 Thread Andrew Robinson
Tried using xfs. I have more fonts now in open office, and the Andale Mono is now available, but that didn't help What is interesting, is that the fonts are correct in the actual contant (in oocalc, the fonts in the cells are fine). It is only the windowing fonts (menu bar, dialog text, etc.).

Re: OpenOffice in chroot -- fonts?

2006-08-24 Thread Matteo Vescovi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andrew, On 08/24/2006 09:20 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote: Tried using xfs. I have more fonts now in open office, and the Andale Mono is now available, but that didn't help What is interesting, is that the fonts are correct in the actual contant

32 bit chroot and ld-linux.so.2

2006-08-24 Thread edwardsa
I'm installing a 32 bit chroot, following http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356 First, there is a tiny typo under 1.2 -arch should be --arch Second, it says that I have to put a soft link in /lib to the ld-linux.so.2 in the chroot. My question is, given that I already have a