Re: Cool and quiet in amd64 box

2008-10-19 Thread Corey Hickey
Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: Hi, some days ago I updated my old (2004) box with a new hd. In the operation I installed a clean lenny. After the installation, all more or less is working, I noticed that the box didn't have activated the cool and quiet. Probably because I disable it

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Corey Hickey
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote: I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies. When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', though, I get a list

'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-05 Thread Corey Hickey
I don't know if this is amd64-specific, but it's only happening on my amd64 Sid system, so I'm asking here first. I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies. When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade',

Re: New Debian User needs an idea

2007-12-03 Thread Corey Hickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am a fairly experienced Fedora user trying out Debian for the first time. I have a 3 disk distribution from Linux Central and I can get it to install and boot to a command line. The installer uses only the first disk. My problem is that I can't bring up

Re: chroot and ia32libs combined

2006-09-07 Thread Corey Hickey
Martin Jambor wrote: On 9/6/06, Seb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the same situation with Firefox as you are, but do not see the extension compatibility wizard kicking in. The danger I see is the 64-bit and 32-bit versions modifying ~/.mozilla differently, which may mess the files up at

Re: Pixelation in Totem and other Video problems

2006-07-14 Thread Corey Hickey
Craig Hagerman wrote: Hi, I use a Debian AMD64 Unstable/Sid machine as a home file / web server and media center. I did an apt-get upgrade yesterday and right afterwards noticed that a video I watched in Totem was pixelated. I thought perhaps it was just that one file, but after some

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-12 Thread Corey Hickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, when it crashes, I can sometimes still manage to use a ssh connection to get in from elsewhere. What information should I collect, and how should I analyse it? Start with 'dmesg'. Look for anything erroneous and/or send the output to the list. You can

Re: sources.list ???

2006-05-30 Thread Corey Hickey
Dean Hamstead wrote: enlightenment is awesome. nor bars or docks or loading bays etc just screen real estate. Properly configured, Enlightenment is a great way to keep people from using your computer until you show them how. ;) That's what I do -- no need for a screensaver password.

Re: amd64 updates?

2006-04-25 Thread Corey Hickey
Jonathan Kaye wrote: For the past 6 or 7 days, updating amd64 sid has produced no new upgrades which seems a bit unusual. I'm using deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ sid main contrib in my sources.list but I've also tried deb http://ftp.belnet.be/debian-amd64/debian/ sarge

Re: VMWare does not start after update to libc6-i386?

2006-03-26 Thread Corey Hickey
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kourosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I remove the /emul entries from ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig -v, I see that it does _not_ scan the 3 /emul directories and does _not_ find the 32bit X libs and I again get the same error with vmware not finding the correct

Re: VMWare does not start after update to libc6-i386?

2006-03-26 Thread Corey Hickey
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Corey Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kourosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I remove the /emul entries from ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig -v, I see that it does _not_ scan the 3 /emul directories and does _not_ find the 32bit X libs

Re: turion/mobile athlon benchmark

2006-03-15 Thread Corey Hickey
Tamas K Papp wrote: Hi, I am trying to decide whether to buy a turion/amd mobile laptop. I need to know how much performance I would gain compared to my 1.33 Ghz G4 powerbook. I mainly use the laptop for numerical work (I am an economist). I am asking those who own turion/mobile athlon

Re: quake4 on debian amd64 - works for me

2006-02-01 Thread Corey Hickey
Lars Schimmer wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I know, it was a topiv before. But I don't get it run right now. Teh specific problem is: Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.8178, but this library is version 1.0.7174 Does anyone has got a nvidia-glx-ia32 with a 1.0.8178

Re: i want to migrate from ide to serial ata

2006-02-01 Thread Corey Hickey
daniele wrote: hello i have a little question now i have two maxtor hard disk ide in the first hard disk i have my debian installation i want to buy a new hard disk serial ata i will use cp to copy my system on the new hard disk, _but what i need to do to boot from my new hard disk_? my

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

2006-01-31 Thread Corey Hickey
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. I have one more stupid

Re: How big will the 32-bit chroot end up being? What goes in these days?

2006-01-28 Thread Corey Hickey
Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Not quite that bad. There is no need for the xserver for example, as the 32-bit processes have no problem talking to the 64-bit server. No problem is an overstatement. Normal things work well, but 3D acceleration doesn't work if a 32-bit prgram is connected to

Re: Re-install grub.

2006-01-24 Thread Corey Hickey
Thierry LARMIER wrote: Hello all, I want to format my FAT32 disk and re-install windows ( Windows need to be re-installed often. :-))). Yes I need windows only for game :- But I know that windows will erase my MBR :-. I saw 2 solutions with knoppix live cd : First solution

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-01 Thread Corey Hickey
zzz haha wrote: Is there a bug reported logged so that this will be fixed in the next Debian kernel package? i'd like to. :) really busy right now. :) reportbug needs a local smtp server? is there a standard way to send bug using gmail? Offhand, I'd say that you could go through the motions

Re: OpenOffice-2.0.

2005-12-09 Thread Corey Hickey
v0n0 wrote: lol I'm trying since three months ago to make this emulation work, but I miss something...I'm stuck on an error saying: javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! no suitable windowing system found, exiting. But java is not a strict dep I think! However libgcj6 in 32

Re: Forcedeth ethernet driver hangs

2005-12-02 Thread Corey Hickey
Charles de Miramon wrote: Hello, I'm running kernel 2.6.14-2-amd64-k8 on a A8N-Sli with the latest nvidia kernel source package of http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/amd64/ http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/all/ Today the ethernet connection stopped

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-21 Thread Corey Hickey
Hi again! Now I have another problem. After installing nvidia drivers, my consoles (ctrl+alt+F1,F2,...) have a diferent color. Not the normal black and white. Now I get blue (background) and white (characters) consoles, and most of the times, fuzzy blue and white. Sometimes I get a complete

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-21 Thread Corey Hickey
Tony Power wrote: 1. At what point are your consoles messed up? Do they look weird right after the nvidia module loads, or only after you start X and switch back to a console? They get messed up after I start X and then switch to console mode. (blue and white) And when

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-18 Thread Corey Hickey
Tony Power wrote: Hi Lennart! Well, I tried that but my LCD turned very colourful, like it was melting. Heh. My laptop's LCD melts in black and white when I try to use software suspend. And, yes, the log says something about EDID on the syncs. I'm attaching my X log and my X config file. If

Re: Quake 4

2005-10-26 Thread Corey Hickey
Kaneda Langley wrote: I second this, quake 4 is working on my system as well now. I reinstalled the ia32-libs, made sure the libsdl1.2debian-oss package was installed and ran quake 4 with quake4 +set s_driver oss +set s_numberOfSpeakers 2 Thanks for the feedback. Is it necessary for you

Re: Quake 4

2005-10-26 Thread Corey Hickey
Zachary Rizer wrote: It's not necessary. OSS is the default. While we're on the subject of sound...I occassionally get sound stuttering issues on my machine with both Q4 and D3. It's entirely intermittent, and some days are worse than others, but when it does it, I quit the game and

Re: Quake 4

2005-10-24 Thread Corey Hickey
Zaq Rizer wrote: It shows the loading page for about a second, then immediately crashes with a segfault. Information regarding the crash from the console is as follows: ++ found DLL in pak file: /Shared/Games/quake4/q4base/game100.pk4/gamex86.so copy gamex86.so to

Re: acidrip: doesnt work with latest versions of mencoder

2005-10-19 Thread Corey Hickey
Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: Hi, The latest versions of mencoder (cvs) that are newer than 20051011 (for me) dont dont accept the -xvidencopts suboption which is used by acidrip, typically with something like: -xvidencopts :bitrate=759:pass=2 ... Yes, the ':' before bitrate

Re: acidrip: doesnt work with latest versions of mencoder

2005-10-19 Thread Corey Hickey
Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: me) dont dont accept the -xvidencopts suboption which is used by acidrip, typically with something like: -xvidencopts :bitrate=759:pass=2 ... Yes, the ':' before bitrate is a syntax error. I don't know if earlier versions of mencoder were tolerant of that.

Re: Fwd: news

2005-10-12 Thread Corey Hickey
lordSauron wrote: excuse me but what was that all about? Weird spam, it seems. The company disavows any association with the spammers. http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=85605 -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dist-upgrade installs xorg, GUI fails to start

2005-10-08 Thread Corey Hickey
Craig Hagerman wrote: Hi, I did apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade a couple days ago. I got some message about setting up xorg and did I want to let it automatically detect my monitor and mouse. I said yes. I just installed a new HD and restarted to find that my GUI system is f**ked.

Re: GeForce FX 5500 FPS problem

2005-10-08 Thread Corey Hickey
Kamen Dimitrov wrote: man i didn't quite understand what have you found but if u know a solution for the low fps pls tell me cause I just bought it and I am really disappointed:/ Can you give us a clearer indication of what thread you are referring to? The only thread in the last several

Re: CPU Frequency on default Sarge kernel

2005-10-03 Thread Corey Hickey
Eduardo Costa Lisboa wrote: Hi. I can't set the CPU frequency on my notebook. I am using the default kernel, 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic. Can you be more specific? Tell us the output of the following: $ cpufreq-info $ grep CONFIG_CPU_FREQ /boot/config-`uname -r` $ dmesg | grep powernow-k8 That

Re: Which applications have been ported and will work?

2005-09-28 Thread Corey Hickey
George Patterson wrote: Apache, Mysql and Perl/PHP are all available and works well under AMD64 (I'm running all of those on this development machine). I'm not sure about Postfix though (shouldn't be a problem). I use postfix on my desktop amd64 and have never had a problem. All it does is

Re: mono-jit

2005-09-27 Thread Corey Hickey
Philippe wrote: hi mono-jit is not instalable , is it a know problem ? is there a solution to install it thank `apt-get install mono-jit' worked for me just now. Can you elaborate? Show us exactly what goes wrong. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-20 Thread Corey Hickey
Dean Hamstead wrote: im running debian-amd64 sid also nvidia gefore 6600gt pcie nvidia drivers 1.0-7676 (previous versions dont like my card) k 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 3d acceleration is working glxgears gives 3000+fps Is that all? My AGP 5900XT gets about 6200fps. Unless you forgot a zero at

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Corey Hickey
Dean Hamstead wrote: i did a clean install then untarbz2'd the 3355 patch and then cp -R * all its files into the /usr/local/games/ut2004 directory then in Xorg i jumped into a shell, went to /usr/local/games/ut2004/System and ran ut2004-bin-linux-amd64 splash starts, screen goes black.

Re: nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174

2005-09-16 Thread Corey Hickey
Volkher Scholz wrote: Hi, which package provides the tool m-a? (I forgot to send this to the list, as usual) Here's how you find out: 1. apt-get install apt-file 2. apt-file update 3. apt-file search m-a Ok, so debian provides a zillion files that contain m-a. Since we want a program it'll

Re: openoffice2 on amd64

2005-09-16 Thread Corey Hickey
Mathieu Lutfy wrote: Then again, I'm trying to build the source which now fails because of an out of memory problem, similar to what has already been reported in July by Rene Engelhard to debian-gcc@ list.[3] [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2005/07/msg00186.html Yeah, me too(TM).

Re: 64-bit java plugin (or lack thereof)

2005-08-30 Thread Corey Hickey
Matthias Julius wrote: In any case, I'm looking for a 64-bit java plugin that can run this: http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/tx.html I have Blackdown's Java package installed and it works fine with Konqueror. Firefox crashes when I try to visit the link above. I didn't have konqueror

Re: 64-bit java plugin (or lack thereof)

2005-08-30 Thread Corey Hickey
Juergen Kreileder wrote: It's a known Mozilla bug, the OJI code isn't completely 64-bit safe. Really! I didn't realize that. Thanks for telling me, you just saved me some bugreporting time. :) I have patch which fixes that for older Mozilla versions. I'll update it for recent version and

64-bit java plugin (or lack thereof)

2005-08-28 Thread Corey Hickey
I've been struggling with getting a java plugin working in my 64-bit firefox. It might well be an impossible task at this time, but I wanted to post here and see if anybody has had any success. Otherwise, this message might be able to save users some time trying things that don't work. I'm

Re: mp3 encoding - lame?

2005-08-21 Thread Corey Hickey
jurriaan wrote: Script started on Sun 21 Aug 2005 02:49:45 PM CEST INTEL :cat test.in file /usr/local/bin/lame r --vbr-new -V 0 18 US Forces.wav bt INTEL :rm *mp3; gdb test.in snip Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0045224b in quantize_x34 () (gdb) #0

Re: mp3 encoding - lame?

2005-08-21 Thread Corey Hickey
jurriaan wrote: I did run memtest86 after overclocking, no problems during a 24 hrs period. The I compiled 250 kernels, which were all identical. Still, lame is obviously very sensitive. The moral of the story: overclocking a 3700 San Diego to 2750 MHz works most of the time, but not with

Re: touchpad conflicts with mouse

2005-08-08 Thread Corey Hickey
antonio giulio wrote: Thanks Corey and Hans for your replies. with : InputDevice Configured Mouse SendCoreEvents it works now:) but ksynaptics no. I have tried to disable touchpad for example, but nothing is happened. I have changed /dev/input/event1 with /dev/psaux for

Re: touchpad conflicts with mouse

2005-08-07 Thread Corey Hickey
antonio giulio wrote: Hi, I have a notebook sis. If I set as CorePointer touchpad, only touchpad works. If I set mouse as CorePointer, in kdm mouse and touchpad work, but when I login in KDE, touchpad is stopped (ksynaptics cannot restart it). I have tested with XFree 4.3.0 and Xorg 6.8.2,

Re: touchpad conflicts with mouse

2005-08-07 Thread Corey Hickey
Hans wrote: here is my part of the config, just try it out: [cut] I hope , it works. I use XOrg, but X-free is the same in its Config. Hans, I think you misunderstand: I was providing an answer for antonio giulio; my own X configuration works fine. Thanks anyway, though. -Corey -- To

Re: GPG burns my notebook!

2005-07-18 Thread Corey Hickey
antongiulio05 wrote: Hi Corey, I have launched your script in my chroot (after installed 'hwtools'), but I got these errors: $ sh temptests.sh all Running test: test_idle cat: /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0290/temp1_input: No such file or directory temptests.sh: line 85: / 1000: syntax

Re: GPG burns my notebook!

2005-07-09 Thread Corey Hickey
antongiulio05 wrote: At start, notebook temperature was for thermal 1: 40 C and thermal 2: 47 C (from 'acpi -V'). Running command above (and so 'gpg' process) my system becomes unstable (auto key pressing etc.), and temperature is jumped to 55 C for 1, and 88 C for 2 in one minute. Top command

amd64 aalib debs in repository aren't built with X11

2005-07-01 Thread Corey Hickey
Hello, I sent a message to this list on 2005-04-12: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/04/msg00370.html But didn't receive any response. I guess it just got lost in the pile. For reference, I quote the body: --- Aalib

Re: amd64 aalib debs in repository aren't built with X11

2005-07-01 Thread Corey Hickey
Kurt Roeckx wrote: According to the buildd log: checking for X... no [...] Display drivers: slang curses Linux console I'll look into it shortly, and file a bug report. This is probably a case of incorrect build dependencies. Thank you. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: PATA System Slowdown

2005-06-13 Thread Corey Hickey
John Baab wrote: I am experiencing a system slowdown when moving files between my SATA and PATA drives. CPU usage jumps to 100% and the system is basically unusable. The problem does not exist when I am only using the SATA drive, only when I use the two of them. I am running an Asus K8V

Re: Lilo problem in gcc4

2005-05-22 Thread Corey Hickey
Kyuu Eturautti wrote: Side question - if this is something troublesome to fix, does anyone have quick tips on switching boot loader from lilo to grub? Here you go: http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-grub.php The procedure is the same for debian-amd64. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Grub not installing properly

2005-05-05 Thread Corey Hickey
Jannick Ingo wrote: Hi ! I just installed via a chroot install. Installed fine, no bumps. But when i installled grub, checked grub bootimages, i couldnt find them. They are not in the /boot/grub dir.. Neither a config is there I know what has to be there, actually the stage files from the

Re: bzflag segfualts

2005-05-03 Thread Corey Hickey
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Deep inside nvidia code. Great. No free source. I apt-get installed bzflag and bzflag-server version 2.0.2.20050318. I started a server, joined it, and then cruised around and shot at the walls for a few minutes. No problems here. I'm using the nvidia drivers

Re: A new, unstable system, HW problem ???

2005-04-25 Thread Corey Hickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, This mail might be partly off-topic, since I'm pretty sure it's my hardware that's at fault and not debian-amd64, but I don't know where else to ask, so I thought I'd try here, thanks for you patience... :) So, the situation is, that I upgraded my

bb segfault - will someone please confirm?

2005-04-12 Thread Corey Hickey
bb (the aalib demo) is reproducably segfaulting for me when I run the amd64 build; the i386 build works fine in my chroot. I'm planning to report the bug, but I was hoping someone here could confirm that it happens to them too. Hardware: Athlon64 3400+ DFI Lanparty nf3 250gb Sound Blaster Live

Re: bb segfault - will someone please confirm?

2005-04-12 Thread Corey Hickey
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Turns out it is a memory wipe caused elsewhere in the program as far as I can tell. If you fix this bug, it seems to run perfectly all the way through: tex.c line 95: Was: memset(zbuff, 0x55, (X_s * Y_s * sizeof(long))); Should be: memset(zbuff, 0x55, (X_s * Y_s

Re: bb segfault - will someone please confirm?

2005-04-12 Thread Corey Hickey
Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 23:25, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: Confirm. Although I got so mesmerised by the images that I forgot to time it. 6. After 3 minutes 47 seconds (+/- a couple seconds) bb segfaults. It happens right before the section with the toroid.

aalib debs on alioth don't have X11 support

2005-04-12 Thread Corey Hickey
Aalib includes an X11 driver for its text rendering that is much faster than the console drivers. For some reason the aalib debs on alioth aren't built with X11 support. I can build the debs on my own machine and they have X11 automatically, so I don't know what's wrong. Thanks, Corey -- To

Re: Booting on nforce3 with SATA

2005-04-01 Thread Corey Hickey
Zafod Biblbrox wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to do a net boot on a nforce3 chipset (uses sata_nv module) with Seagate 160GB SATA drive, but the drive is not recognized: ata1 is slow to respond, please be patient ata1 failed to respond (30 secs) I have googled for help and have found

Re: Thunderbird dies about 'mozilla-thunderbird -remote mailto(harri)'

2005-04-01 Thread Corey Hickey
Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, If I run mozilla-thunderbird -remote mailto(harri) then thunderbird dies with a core dump. (This command is run if I click on a mailto: URL in firefox.) There is no such problem on i386, AFAICT. Regards Harri For what it's worth, I can't

Re: mozilla-thunderbird and enigmail problem

2005-03-31 Thread Corey Hickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an update last night. I wasn't paying attention but it removed mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail. This morning when I tried to open thunderbird, it doesn't open. First of all the mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail packages requires thunderbird 1.0.0 but 1.0.2-1 is

Re: Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-06 Thread Corey Hickey
Sorry, didn't send this to the list last time. Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? Yes, I have one and it works fine. I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc. The

Re: Anyone uses the Gigabyte GA K8-NS Pro ?

2005-03-06 Thread Corey Hickey
Hannes Mayer wrote: Noone ? :-( I'd very much appreciate comments on this board, since this is my first system built while I'm using linux only and I want to get it 100% right. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Hannes. It might be that nobody here is using that motherboard. When