Re: sun-java6-plugin

2007-09-16 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Davide Mancusi wrote: If it is just a java plugin that you are after, you could try the GCJ plugin (gcjwebplugin). It works for me. You may want to read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267040 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:39:28PM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: QUESTIONS: 1) How to set shmmax in debian? Look in /proc/sys/kernel ... there are several shared memory parameters there. [Not sure about the rest] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: compiz

2007-01-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: What is the option to increase vram size. Section Device Identifier Intel Driver i810 VideoRam131072 EndSection -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiz

2007-01-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jo Shields wrote: in my experience, DRI JustWorks(tm) on intel kit - it's just not particularly usable (e.g. don't try playing any old games like unreal tournament or wolfenstein enemy territory) It works substantially better if you raise the vram size to, say, 128MB in xorg.conf. The

Re: Keys too old or compromised ?

2006-11-21 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I do not want to set my locales to C for one thing. Here is the translatation, it means: FYI, changing the locale for one command is really easy: LC_ALL=C apt-get update that's it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: muttprint doesn't want to play

2006-08-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Stephen Gran wrote: Line 1752 is open (LFILE, $Temp{logf}) or die Could not open $Temp{logf}; in the printLog subroutine. This means $Temp{logf} is undefined for some reason. It should normally be /tmp/muttprint.log. Please file a bug report. That's a security issue (unsafe use of

Re: Lots of packets are missing in amd64/etch...

2006-05-29 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Koen Vermeer wrote: I now have the 'some packages keep getting updated'-syndrom, which was one of the things I was trying to avoid. One alternative to Goswin's suggestion of apt-get clean is to manually go in to /var/cache/apt/archives and remove the specific package/version involved. --

Re: Tyan S2877 no network? like to end up with something close to sarge...

2006-05-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Does not support md raid, nor lvm. The box I am typing this one would like to disagree with you about md. I haven't tested root-on-lvm, but certainly other partitions on lvm is fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Tyan S2877 no network? like to end up with something close to sarge...

2006-05-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:12:12AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: If you use backports.org as an addition, then you have the tools needed to use a newer kernel. I wouldn't try a newer kernel either unless I at least had backports of the new initramfs-tools and dependancies. yaird is far

Re: new install

2006-04-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:56:08AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Of course if your raid consists of drives from all of them, it probably won't be a problem. My problem is I have a raid1 on each controller, and the order of my raid devices gets rearranged when the controllers load in reverse

Re: aic7xxx doesn't work with 2.6.16

2006-04-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Daniel van Eeden wrote: I'm using an Adaptec 2940 controller with one 20GB disk and a scanner on my AMD64 system. It worked fine with kernel 2.6.9. With 2.6.16 is gives lots of errors. (bus reset, scsi domain validation errors, etc.). A quick google search turns up lots of similair results with

Re: DVD burning stop to work...PLEASE HELP ME!!!

2006-03-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Marlon RĂ©gis Schmitz wrote: Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdc: Current Write Speed is 8.2x1385KBps. :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=3h/ASC=0Ch/ACQ=00h]: Input/output error :-( write failed: Input/output error I've seen errors like this when it was

Re: Can't mount CD/DVD drives

2006-02-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Carl Brown wrote: On Wednesday 15 February 2006 3:45 Pm, Austin Denyer wrote: When: # ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.ko -- 1 root root 25892 2005-09-27 22:15 /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.ko This proves that the ide_scsi

Re: Debian ADM64 Etch (testing/unstable) system freeze

2006-02-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Rami Saarinen wrote: Anyway, I am glad to inform that yes it really was the memory that was causing the trouble. I let the machine run the memtest86+ last night and after 10 hours it had found four memory errors. Apparently I was too hasty at the first time. Well, now you get the next fun

Re: SATA, RAID, A8N-E, 3800+ help

2006-01-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I think most of them can do volumes on a raid, which is essentially partitions. They show up as seperate drives then. Of course you can also partition the raid device since it is just a disk to the OS. No. That's different from what Linux software raid can do. Linux

Re: Please help - kernel crashes often

2006-01-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
mike wrote: Sure enough, one of the two others I tested failed within only 10-15 mins. Does this look appropriate for a dual-core, single chip, Opteron 175 in a 1u chassis? The max any CPU gets is 62C... That's pretty damn hot. Something closer to 40C is more normal... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Please help - kernel crashes often

2006-01-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi Mike, A machine check exception indicates a hardware problem, i.e. a broken CPU. (I am not sure whether it could indicate bad ECC memory, too. Did you run memtest68?) ECC failures will generate MCE's. The MCE message *should* provide some hint as to what is wrong.

Re: Jumbo Frames?

2006-01-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
mike wrote: Thanks for the reply. I've tried that and now this is giving me confusing results: A has jumbo frames (mtu 9000) B has jumbo frames (mtu 9000) C has normal (mtu 1500) B - A = 3.4MB/sec C - A = around 50MB/sec Check to make sure that B is operating in 1000mbps, full

Re: Debian ADM64 Etch (testing/unstable) system freeze

2006-01-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Rami Saarinen wrote: Well, somehow I assumed that if the fault is in memory, it is probably in a fixed location Depends on the type of memory problem. Memory problems can cover everything from this one certain bit is stuck at 0 (what you're thinking of) to the memory timings/voltage/whatever

Re: SATA, RAID, A8N-E, 3800+ help

2006-01-28 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Marco Amadori wrote: The differences is between needing a special RAID driver (most of fake harware raids) and a simple SCSI one (like high-end ibm raid controllers: real hardware raid). The OP said any driver, and I pointed out that isn't true. Trying to have users tell the difference

Re: SATA, RAID, A8N-E, 3800+ help

2006-01-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Helge Hafting wrote: The fact that you _need_ a raid driver in window is a strong hint that the raid is implemented in software - a hw raid controller can be made to look like a single disk on a standard controller - both linux and windows can then handle it without special drivers. Most all

Re: No swap on my Debian Sid system

2006-01-24 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Emmanuel Fleury wrote: Most of the current applications are designed to fit in 512Mo of RAM and they probably don't use yet the 64bits-span memory allocation that your processor can do. So... ;-) 2769 anthony 15 0 496m 173m 26m S 0.0 5.0 40:44.77 mozilla-thunder 6208 root 16

Re: No swap on my Debian Sid system

2006-01-24 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jack Malmostoso wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /sbin/mdadm -Q /dev/md1 Password: /dev/md1: is an md device which is not active /dev/md1: is too small to be an md component. Considering that you ran mkswap on the underlying partitions it is wholey unsurprising that you destroyed md1. Hint:

Re: via82cxxx_audio module missing in 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8

2006-01-22 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
via82cxxx_audio is OSS, snd_via82xx is ALSA. You want the latter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No swap on my Debian Sid system

2006-01-22 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jack Malmostoso wrote: I set it up during the installation as the /dev/md1 RAID-1 device, ... nostromo:~# mkswap -c /dev/sda2 nostromo:~# swapon /dev/sda2 swapon: /dev/sda2: Invalid argument Possibly, because you should have used /dev/md1 ? Works here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/swaps

Re: packages.d.o (was Re: Upgrade)

2006-01-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Blars Blarson wrote: OK, given a package name how do I find what versions are available in which distributions on all architectures? Well, first off, packages.debian.net seems to work. No idea if it really does, or is just pretending. Second, if they're in youre sources.list, apt-cache

Re: iTunes in 32bit chroot?

2006-01-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Craig Hagerman wrote: By the way, is there some kind of law that linux apps must have stupid names? flamewar instensity=minorNo, only KDE ones./flamewar :-D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt get for AMD64

2006-01-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Sean Roe wrote: Well I am sitting across the room from the machine, so no proxies just a switch is between my workstation and this new server. This is all new hardware so, I am not inclined to to think its hardware, but then again. Are there any switches in the tg3 driver? modinfo tg3 will

Re: Openoffice 2.0.1

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Mickael Marchand wrote: any tips are welcome to fix this ... might be a bug in the control file of the pkgs maybe ? Often, this is caused by a mismatch of e.g., Installed-Size between the .deb and the Packages file. Normally, this would only happen with locally built packages but you

Re: missing /dev/fd/0 device nodes

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: My guess is that the upgrade from testing to unstable somehow failed to create this link. The /dev/fd link exists on testing. And on sarge. And woody. And probably potato before that. No idea when it first came into being, but it isn't recent. [BTW: If you're using

Re: no updates to amd64 stable in last 3 weeks?

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I run 2.6.14 on my sarge systems, and will probably move to 2.6.15 soon. If you do use udev, well you can backport that too. FYI, I use 2.6.15 on my sarge system at work, with Sarge's udev, and don't have any problems (it's ia32, though) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2005-12-31 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Craig Hagerman wrote: I am sure most of you will disagree with me but this is one area where I do NOT like doing things the debian way. Compiling and installing a kernel isn't something I do everyday but it is something that can mess up a system. I don't know what is automagically being done

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2005-12-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Craig Hagerman wrote: After doing some searching on the internet I found out that I probably should compile a kernel with dma support (or at least compiled in as a module). Generally, the relevant modules are already included in the kerlnel-image/linux-image deb... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Dean Hamstead wrote: dont know about that. but the ppc may lend itself more to stability given that the g3 isnt backward compatible. errrm, what? AFAIK, it's compatible with earlier PPC chips like the 60x series. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Ethernet problem

2005-12-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jens Schwarze wrote: The card is directly on the mainboard, it's a A8V Deluxe from Asus with gigabit ethernet. Beware of #341801. Driver is either sk98lin or skge depending on kernel version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Local mirror problems.

2005-12-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Austin Denyer wrote: Now, if I ssh to the mirror, debian-amd64/debian-amd64/pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.16-1_all.deb is a symlink to the file in the regular mirror (debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.16-1_all.deb) and I can follow the link manually. Confirm that your

Re: DualCore Dual-Opteron Board - suggestion?

2005-12-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lubos Vrbka wrote: we planned to have dual core dual opteron machine with tyan mobo. however tyans are not available at the moment (and this situation will last at least till the end of the year). we were offered supermicro h8da8 mobo. does anyone have any experience with it, or should we wait

Re: How to package SuperCollider (or, whats the deal with multiarch)

2005-12-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Mario Lang wrote: In this specific case, that is a very hypothetical thesis... I cant really imagine an arch which does say 80bit or 128bit floating point math faster than 64bit... M68K comes to mind, I think that might do 80bit FP faster than it does 64-bit (because the FPU does 80-bit).

Hardware memory remapping....

2005-11-30 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
OK, I just upgrade to 4G of RAM, so I had to turn on memory re-mapping to use it. First result, with 2.6.12, was that touching any software raid device other than the one the root fs was on resulted in multiple kernel panics in quick sucession, and the console completely locked. (This, btw, was

Re: X86_64 on Shuttle-XPC ST20G5

2005-11-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Thomas Drillich wrote: The company ULI offers sata module for older kernels (current is 2.6.14) on their website, but on the need to boot from sata drive the module must be included in the kernel and cannot be loaded afterwards. Unless their is something special about their

Re: RAID

2005-11-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Corey Hickey wrote: Compared to constant operation, it would certainly be worse to turn a hard drive on and off with a period of one minute, and it would be better with a period of one year; I just don't know know at what point on the continuum once per day lies. Is it better or worse? Since

Re: RAID

2005-11-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Even on a fileserver it is becoming hard to have your network link outperform your disk IO unless you have a very good gigabit or better network link. Any single modern disk can saturate a 100Mbit link. This is not always true. If you have a lot of seeks (e.g.,

Re: How to set default compiler to 4.0?

2005-11-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Or you could start running unstable where gcc-4.0 is the default I believe. :) Same with testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-11-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Sven Mueller wrote: It is also easier to be fast writing if you lock the whole table and prevent others from accessing it while you update things. Slows down reading to stopped while you do a write though. More like stops every other read and write. for as long as the write takes. If only

Re: scsi parity error

2005-10-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Martin Kuball wrote: scsi error: 2 0 0 0 ret code = 0x802 sda: current: sense key: aborted command addintional sense: parity error end request: I/O error: dev sda, sector 3268390 (and others) abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x947 Sounds just like

Re: Athlon64 Dual Core powernow

2005-10-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: For the fan, you can use thenam controlled fans or the fancontrol program which is part of the lm-sensors package OK, now I'm confused. Some googling around finds this AMD document:

Re: Asus K8N, Cool'n'Quiet, and sensors.conf

2005-10-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Anders Helmersson wrote: I have tried powernowd on my A8V Deluxe with an AMD64 3200+ (Winchester core). When it runs at 1000MHz the core voltage is set to 1.1V, which I suspect is too low for running stably. Works fine here, with a 4400. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Problem installing debian amd-64 on a HP

2005-10-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Andreas wrote: Problem: The installation hangs when it is at 100% of the detecting hardware part. I can at that moment switch back and forth between the consoles for a couple of minutes, then the whole system freezes and I have to hardboot. Boot it into expert mode and

Re: Athlon64 Dual Core powernow

2005-10-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
In The Night wrote: Which modules and what Mobo? Mobo: Asus A8V Modules: powernow_k8, cpufreq_ondemand (and dependss, of course) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies 220 200 180 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat

Re: perspectives on 32 bit vs 64 bit

2005-10-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: - Holier than Stallman Free Software bigots, who object at anything not GPL, unable to understand the value of a temporary compromise... (e. g. refusing to provide a pointer to libdvdcss in totem or xine docs) Ummm, totem and xine docs not mentioning it (if that's

Re: Asus K8N, Cool'n'Quiet, and sensors.conf

2005-10-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Peter Cordes wrote: Even when running at 2.2GHz (full speed) with only one stick of RAM (1024MB OCZ), it sometimes shows a cluster of memory errors in memtest. It doesn't seem significantly different from with both sticks of RAM, the other being a 512MB Infineon, IIRC. All DDR400. What

Re: Athlon64 Dual Core powernow

2005-10-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
In The Night wrote: No luck here...I've been running the X2 from Amd some months now, and it is a driver/module problem... processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 35 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ stepping

Re: AMD64 System Becomes Unresponsive During Software RAID Synchronization

2005-10-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Eric Sorton wrote: I'm going to try the SysReq key combinations and see if they respond and provide any helpful information on what might be happening. Try and keep, e.g., 'ps' in the buffer-cache. e.g., leave: watch -n1 'ps fxa' running in a console Either that or use a shell with

Re: AMD64 System Becomes Unresponsive During Software RAID Synchronization

2005-10-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Eric Sorton wrote: Is anyone successfully using software RAID on an AMD64 system? Yes, on several machines. Works fine. With both SCSI and SATA disks. Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be wrong or possible workarounds? Sounds like your SATA controller is having fun. Do any

Re: 64 bit-48 bit pointer hacks...

2005-10-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Dale E. Martin wrote: For short strings, allocating 8 bytes to point at a couple of characters just seems wrong ;-) There are far better ways to optimize that space back if you _really_ need it. And RAM is cheap these days, so you probably don't need it. Without giving it any thought, it

Re: ASUS A8V Deluxe SATA problems

2005-09-28 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: It really sounds like you have a broken port on the board. Drat. Its a brand-new board, just assembled, and I really don't want to have to take the machine apart to fix it... Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Onboard raid controllers a problem?

2005-09-22 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Steve Dondley wrote: Support for onboard RAID controllers has been depreciated in the Linux 2.6 Kernel. If you desire RAID the system may be configured with software RAID or you may select a hardware RAID controller. Onboard software raid controller support has indeed, I think, been

Re: gcc4, thunderbird: emacs key bindings lost?

2005-05-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Bob Proulx wrote: I found this solution on the firefox site. I have the following in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file. Beware that if you're running gnome, you may need to do this in gconf instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL