Re: Re: [POLL] To continue 64 or not?

2006-09-03 Thread Craig Hagerman
I find this whole discussion interesting. I have been using Debian unstable AMD64 for 3 years now. I currently have Ubuntu (32 bit) installed on another partition (as a back up for those rare times when I have upgraded and lost X or had some other temporary problem). I have been thinking about

(Soved: for now) Re: Asus motherboard hangs in X

2006-09-03 Thread Russ Cook
Russ Cook wrote: Matthew Robinson wrote: Try changing the driver in xorg.conf to 'vesa'. This will be much slower than the binary Nvidia drivers, but if it works, youve found your problem. Thanks Matt. I have changed the driver to Vesa, and so far I can't make

[Help] build/test user-mode-linux and rootstrap on amd64

2006-09-03 Thread Mattia Dongili
Hello, I'm looking for help in building and testing the amd64 version of user-mode-linux and rootstrap packages to be able to ship them in Etch. Building them should be as easy as adding the Architecture to debian/control and run dpkg-buildpackage. The first test I'd like to see successfully

Spurious problems booting with last grub from a SATA disk

2006-09-03 Thread César Fernández Rodríguez
Hi everybody, recently i've installed an amd64 box with debian, i've used the latest installer (one week ago) and i've experimented booting problems when i connect new hardware in my PC. The system disk is a SATA disk which udev detects as sdc, with all its partitions sdc1, 5, 6, etc. and

Re: Spurious problems booting with last grub from a SATA disk

2006-09-03 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Hi, Le 03.09.2006 22:36:26, César Fernández Rodríguez a écrit : Hi everybody, recently i've installed an amd64 box with debian, i've used the latest installer (one week ago) and i've experimented booting problems when i connect new hardware in my PC. The system disk is a SATA disk which udev

mixing Fortran (77) and C code with gcc-gfortran 4.1 on amd64?

2006-09-03 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Hello, this is probably offtopic, so feel free to answer off the list, if you prefer. Some time ago, I wrote a piece of software which mixed C and Fortran 77. This was relatively clean and somewhat portable, since I included f2c.h to get the type definitions to coincide between C and F77

Re: Asus motherboard hangs in X

2006-09-03 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:59:21PM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon 4800 dual core cpu, with 4 MB of Corsair TwinX ram sticks. I have an older GeForce4 MX 420 graphics board with 64 MB ram. I have updated my bios to version 1303, with no

Re: Spurious problems booting with last grub from a SATA disk

2006-09-03 Thread César Fernández Rodríguez
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:56:40 +0200 Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ... Hi jean-luc, the problem is that when i plug an usb disk the system doesn't boot correctly, grub gives me an error 21 and anything more happens. The messages are Error 17 or Error 21 from grub, and

Re: etch installer and dm-crypt

2006-09-03 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 16:29 +0200, sigi wrote: I thought the recommended way is to encrypt /home /tmp and /var because there my 'personal' files are - and let the rest unencrypted due to the perfomance ... Makes sense, but I have read that encryption's performance hit is