DG965ss

2008-02-01 Thread Dr. Helmut G. Enders
I tried an amd64 installation on an Intel DG965SS board with 8 GByte. The system is very very slow (installation more than 1 day.) and I got corrupt files from the net (e.g. apt-get update). I have read that this should be a Intel Bios Bug since version 1669 (curr: 1719), if using more than 4

Re: DG965ss

2008-02-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Dr. Helmut G. Enders wrote: I tried an amd64 installation on an Intel DG965SS board with 8 GByte. The system is very very slow (installation more than 1 day.) and I got corrupt files from the net (e.g. apt-get update). I have read that this should be a Intel Bios Bug

ath5k success ???

2008-02-01 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, with the new kernel version, there is a new module available: ath5k. It shall replace madwifi. Has anyone get it running ? I can load it, the device is seen, but I never get an IP via dhcp. Maybe it dows still not work correctly. Can anybody confirm this ? If yes, should we sent a

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

2008-02-01 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi absolutely true. But then, who is so diligent to always do so, especially when developing your own code for scientific computation? I've written some, and only when it was for public consumption I cared to put all the checks in all the places... :P Ehm, anyone that wants to avoid

Re: DG965ss

2008-02-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:09:23AM +0100, Dr. Helmut G. Enders wrote: I tried an amd64 installation on an Intel DG965SS board with 8 GByte. The system is very very slow (installation more than 1 day.) and I got corrupt files from the net (e.g. apt-get update). I have read that this should be

b43 driver oddities...

2008-02-01 Thread Giacomo Mulas
I know this is not strictly an amd64 matter, but I just discovered something odd (for me) and wanted to understand if it's just me. I have an asus A6K, with one of the (in)famous broadcom wireless chips. Until kernel 2.6.24 I was only able to (partially) use wifi via ndiswrapper, meaning that I

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

2008-02-01 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Insufficient ram does not EVER cause a segmentation fault. Only buggy code causes segmentation faults. If a bad programmer simply calls malloc and doesn't check that it succeeded before using it, then you get a segmentation fault, but only because

Re: b43 driver oddities...

2008-02-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Giacomo Mulas: [...] Where exactly was it ever made known that you have to ifconfig up your wireless interface before you can have it list the available networks? I have no idea but I have made the same observation with an Atheros chip when using madwifi (self-compiled from SVN). J. -- In

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

2008-02-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:01:35PM +0100, Giacomo Mulas wrote: absolutely true. But then, who is so diligent to always do so, especially when developing your own code for scientific computation? I've written some, and only when it was for public consumption I cared to put all the checks in all

reinstalling Debian - part I

2008-02-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi I have an amd64 system that is still dualboot with XP. It has a 100GB FAT32 that i use as my /home but since i barely use XP anymore and i had some issues with FAT32 i'm gonna resize my 20GB XP partition (oh, wait, i have game isos...) and change the fat to ext3. Also, my system got infected

Grub and raid

2008-02-01 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi I am using a 64 bit computer but the problem might be general. But anyway, is there any unknown trick in making a computer with two raid1 SATA disks boot with Grub? I can mount /dev/md* when I boot the system on the install CD but I am unable to install grub on /dev/sda nor /dev/sdb.

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

2008-02-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:10:25PM +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Since you are discussing this. I spent yesterday on trying to debug ngspice on amd64 with gdb and valgrind. It segfaults on amd64 but not on i386. Can you point out some good documents on where to put those checks you

Re: Grub and raid

2008-02-01 Thread Jack Schneider
-Original Message- From: Gudjon I. Gudjonsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 1, 2008 04:19 PM To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Grub and raid Hi I am using a 64 bit computer but the problem might be general. But anyway, is there any unknown trick in making a

Re: Grub and raid

2008-02-01 Thread Marcus Beranek
Am Freitag, den 01.02.2008, 23:19 +0100 schrieb Gudjon I. Gudjonsson: Hi I am using a 64 bit computer but the problem might be general. But anyway, is there any unknown trick in making a computer with two raid1 SATA disks boot with Grub? [...] Hi, have a look at:

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

2008-02-01 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi again On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:10:25PM +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Since you are discussing this. I spent yesterday on trying to debug ngspice on amd64 with gdb and valgrind. It segfaults on amd64 but not on i386. Can you point out some good documents on where to put those checks

Re: reinstalling Debian - part I

2008-02-01 Thread Michael
Nuno, You can de-install unnecessary stuff anytime later. Using an interactive PM eases the control over the package selection. It lets you browse and solve dependency conflicts much more easily. Compared to 'real' graphical PMs like synaptics, interactive aptitude has advanced features, but

Re: hal: some questions

2008-02-01 Thread Michael
Hans, HAL does not depend on pmount, but pmount depends on libhal-storage. KDE kio-plugins use pmount, while Gnome use gnome-volume-manager and gnome-vfs. pmount installs an additional warpper pmount-hal. According to the pmount manpage, you need users in the group 'plugdev' (debian.) But

Re: Grub and raid

2008-02-01 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:30:21 +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: But anyway, is there any unknown trick in making a computer with two raid1 SATA disks boot with Grub? I have two SATA disks on a nForce4 motherboard in RAID1, and boot happily with Grub. The RAID was set up during installation