On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:32:20PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:37:54PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:
Why is it you need specific to amd64, since amd64 will boot and run
i386?
Want the amd64 'cuz I'm running an amd64 chip. Had put in a 32 bit
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:37:54PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:
Thanks Heinz and Fabricio. I do appreciate your help. I have already
thanked Thierry and Goswin in emails that I had done just a reply to
not looking to see that they went not to this list but to their personal
addresses.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 08:16:14PM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
first of all sorry because the mails is off topic: it's not about the amd64
port of debian. But, I have a problem with a kernel, and maybe some of the
clever minds here could help me, because nobody in my LUG have
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:01:25AM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
A Dilluns 25 Maig 2009, Douglas A. Tutty va escriure:
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 08:16:14PM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
Here's my /boot/grub/menu.lst that shows how to set it up. Grub will
start
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:12:14PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I wonder whether a failure to boot (amd64 lenny, multiprocessor,
raid1) requires attention. On resetting, the boot was ok.
Having the follow-on boot OK is good and bad: good that you booted OK,
bad in that it's an intermittant
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:21:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/26/2009 01:49 PM, Ron Peterson wrote:
2009-02-26_14:21:54-0500 Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:53:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/25/2009 07:22 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]
/proc
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:53:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/25/2009 07:22 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]
/proc/megaraid/hba0/raiddrives-0-9
Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
Span depth: 1, RAID level: 1, Stripe size: 64, Row size: 2
Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:38:49PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:41:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
You get nice hotswap bay LED control to show which drive has failed
(I imagine software could do this too, but I have never seen that
happen yet.)
Since the status
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:34:22PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:37:12PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Why wouldn't you configure the raid controller to give you a small
logical drive (with whatever raid config you want) for the OS, and the
larger logical drive
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:55:09PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Who boots off of (or puts / on) a 2TB partition?
Someone with a 4 drive raid5 on a hardware controller with 750GB SATA
drives. Hence the only drive in the system
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:10:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/25/2009 04:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:55:09PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Who boots off of (or puts / on) a 2TB partition?
Someone
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:41:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:08:13PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:10:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/25/2009 04:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Lennart
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:44:31AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Major mistake (shutting down the ups unit) while doing a parallel
computation on all 8 processors (UMA-type machine amd64 lenny with
raid 1 two disks).
On restarting the machine and the computation,
fdisk -l showed
Disk
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 02:13:08PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
The only problem I had with JFS was what I have with all
metadata-journal-only: I don't have a UPS and some files would go
missing.
?? simply turn on autosave in your application.. or dig through /tmp
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:20:28PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I had great success with JFS except that I switch away from it when told
by the maintainer that IBM didn't recommend using it anymore.
Could that be that they want you to use something they make
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 04:06:47PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 02:04:56AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Argh! %s/Linux/Linus (almost did it again again). Why couldn't he call
it LSD (Linus Software Distribution) instead of Linux?
So you mean: Yes, Linus
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:20:25PM -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote:
To my dissappointment my 'AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 3800' has
been a ho-hum experience; don't know if it's the scheduler
with the default debian compile that seems to effect the
performance, but it's certainly nothing to write home
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:04:32PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Truly have found ext3 to be ho-hum, but I guess that's the
point;^)
It's reliable, the performance is decent.
I tried XFS for a while, but that was around 2.6.10, and there were some
serious bugs at the time that
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:54:35AM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
Do you know the difference between Unix and Linux? Short answer is that
Linux wrote Linux when he needed a Unix but Unix was caught in the Unix
wars and there wasn't one available that wasn't tied up in legal
wrangling and
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:46:35AM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
Note that the reason that OpenBSD can claim only two security holes in
the default install in the past 10 years is that there are no services
active in a default install (you have to add commands to the startup
script to
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:07:00AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty escreveu:
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:54:35AM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
Do you know the difference between Unix and Linux? Short answer is that
Linux wrote Linux when he needed a Unix but Unix
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:51:02PM +0100, annne annnie wrote:
Hi, I'm the one who asked about getting unstable and the different
distributions compared to debian. I have a few more questions, sorry.
First question: How would I reply correctly so that my reply is still
in the same topic?
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:44:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe Berkeley BSD is free. I'm told Apple chose it over Linux as
a basis for OS/X because it didn't have all the restrictions of the
GPL that required it to remain free, though. I'm also told it is
developed less
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 04:31:37PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
For nearly a decade now, I've been upgrading my hardware piecemeal. When
it was time for a new motherboard, I just took out the old one, plugged in
the new one, fired it up, and it Just Worked. No reinstall required.
But now,
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:43:05AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I have updated from etch to lenny (UMA type machine dual opterons raid1) by
just replacing etch with lenny in sources.list. Got a single error while
processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libsc7_2.3.1-3_amd64.deb
what error
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:25:29PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear folks,
I got an email asking me to leave the list.
If you wish I will go.
Please take a vote
[snip standard listmanager automated reply]
Hi Michael,
Someone sent an email to the unsubscribe address listed at the
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 07:00:54PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear folks,
I think I have received another prank email.
I will ignore further ones.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
I would contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED], just to
be sure. Perhaps check your email
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:00:02AM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:04:35PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
the reverse engineered nvidia driver is working now,
cant recall the name
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:13:38AM -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote:
2008/4/8, A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm thinking of buying a new 64-bit machine to use as my home
desktop. (It
will probably run Sid.)
Does anyone know of a graphics card which is definitely supported by Free
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:59:16PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:56 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:08:44AM +, A J Stiles wrote:
I'm thinking of buying a new 64-bit machine to use as my home desktop.
(It
will probably run Sid.)
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:04:35PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
the reverse engineered nvidia driver is working now,
cant recall the name of it.
nv
is there any reason you cant use with nvidia blob? it works well in
linux and in debian
just go
apt-get install module-assistant
m-a
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:09:28PM -0400, Lance Ferrer wrote:
Im getting
XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0
when I try to boot debian. I'm new to linux and computers in general, so
any help would be great. I have a BFG NVidea 8800 GT if that helps. If you
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:27:48AM +0100, Steve Dobson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 09:44 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
From what i have read JFS may not be in the kernel much longer. Dont
know, worth someone filling me in.
Now you have me worried. Were did you read this? I was thinking
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:44:49PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
accidently I crashed my package database with
dpkg --set-selections packagelist.txt
Now aptitude wants to delete a lot and reinstall other packages, which are
already installed.
Ouch.
I want to correct my database to
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:04:56PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
I have this:
# kopt=root=UUID=35963d32-f15e-497e-859a-ed1cb366b0f3 ro
Then update-grub will make all the entries have that and it just worked.
Is there any advantage of using UUID (which are very long) and a
filesystem
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:22:04PM +, Steve Dobson wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:56 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:48:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:24:28PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:18:56PM
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:02:36PM -0600, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote:
On 2/21/08, Mr. P|pex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hans-J. Ullrich ha scritto:
I just tried to run famous john password cracker on my multicore
system. I
discovered, that john is using only one of my two cpus (100
Keep the replies on the list.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:54:43AM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
Running the system overnight, and doing an ntpdate every five minutes, I
notice that I very consistently take a +7.5s offset -- seems like
exactly 2.5% to the limit of my ability to measure.
So
Moshe,
What part of keep the replies on the list didn't you understand.
Reply to the list.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:04:36AM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Keep the replies on the list.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:54:43AM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
Running the system
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:37:17AM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
C Wakefield wrote:
What's the hardware? Could be a bios bug.
Chris,
The motherboard is an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe. The CPU is an AMD64 6500 x2,
2.8 GHz clock. I'm not aware of any issues with this board.
I'm running on that
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:17:32AM +0100, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
I have a system with an intel core 2 dou CPU, which currently runs fine
Debian-i386.
I want to change it to amd64 with certain conditions:
- Same package selection
- Same debconf
- Same config files
- Same disk afterwards
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:30:22AM +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
I sent this problem to the debian-user list but it hasn't appeared so I
hope you forgive me for sending it to you :)
I have a problem with the newest Debian testing installer on i386.
The installation works perfectly
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:21:08PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote:
That's part of why I put swap in LVM. Why not put swap in LVM?
Well, basically 'cos the little i'vre read of LVM seemed to confuse
more that simplify and i don't wanna waste too much time setting this
up. It's just one disk,
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:15:11AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:25:11PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
/usr can be read-only while /var must be read-write. Also /var might
cause fragmentation on the FS and then files in /usr will fragment
when you update the
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:15:35PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote:
Usually i use / and /home only. This is a 160GB Maxtor drive.
2) How about 20GB for / and everything else for /home?
3) is it worth it to separate /var and /usr on a desktop system? Why?
Why not? What sizes?
4) What's standard
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:34:43PM -0500, Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
Right, I've got Smartmontools installed and working just fine, as well mdadm
working for my array.
Can these tools be configured to send alerts to a local mail account??? And
from there be mailed to external mail addresses
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:41:40PM -0500, Andy Syrewicze wrote:
I've got a server with no gui. Just CLI and Webmin.
I would like to have some sort of monitoring and reporting service
that notifys me via e-mail if one of my Raid arrays Degrade and to let
me know if the SMART check on one
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:50:58AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
For discontinuing the proxy, I guess I can go into
/etc/rc*.d/* and comment out all the lines mentioning port
4001; would reboot be necessary after that? Otherwise,
how would one go about fixing the proxy so that it does
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:47:51 -0500
From: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get problem
Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:58:30
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:49:26PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:50:58AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:02:45PM -0600, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote:
On 1/14/08, Don Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:39:04PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:58:25AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
after a circuit breaker caused a power outage, which reset the
bios. debian is now freezing (solid) at 'Loading kernel module eeprom'.
I have tended to the bios and reset to optimized, fail safe etc.
Prior to the power outage
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:43:22PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
I looked at the apt-get howto located at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-sources.list
and grabbed some additional lines for my
/etc/apt/sources.list file, which now reads:
---
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:18:49AM -0500, C. Ahlstrom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty 16:04 Sat 05 Jan
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:38:54PM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote:
I'm hoping to get Flash and Java working with iceweasel on AMD64. The
bits and notes I see are not all the same
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:59:40PM +0100, Heikki Levanto wrote:
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:11:01PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Under what conditions would you need to boot the 32-bit chroot natively?
Hopefully none - but until it works perfectly, I need a way to get back
there, so I can
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:38:54PM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote:
I'm hoping to get Flash and Java working with iceweasel on AMD64. The bits
and notes I see are not all the same and confusing.
I've set up a wiki page http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Iceweasel to put
step by step information
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:56:57PM +0100, Heikki Levanto wrote:
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:20:31AM +, A J Stiles wrote:
I successfully invoked the 32-bit firefox using
$ iceweasel -a firefox32
from within the chroot while simultaneously running a 64-bit instance.
Flash,
Java c.
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:32:52PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with apt-get (please see below).
(I have noted no other network problems: browser and ssh
work fine.) I am not sure what is supposed to go on with
localhost. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:02:46AM +0100, Patrizio O.C. Melis wrote:
I use the Primary Debian mirror site (ftp.debian.org) for installing Etch
amd64... but more files is missing on site. I can't install Etch on my
computer and I have only this computer. Please help me!!!
Well, the
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 06:35:13PM +0100, Patrizio O.C. Melis wrote:
Well, the ftp.debian.org mirror is depreciated. Use another mirror.
See the debian website for a list of mirrors: choose one close to you.
I've tried... the mirror do not run
If you have any CD other than the
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:35:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:51:13PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
Nuno Magalh?es wrote:
Another thing that you can try is simply ask the package to be removed.
If you get broken packages or other things are being
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:54:54PM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 00:49 +0100, Davide Mancusi wrote:
Alex Malinovich ha scritto:
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 21:56 +0100, Davide Mancusi wrote:
I would like programs inside a 32-bit chroot to be able to access my
USB
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 07:55:42PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
just a question: I cannot get external drives like USB-Sticks and SD-Cards
get
writable (when formatted with ext2/3) or writable mounted, as a normal user.
I suppose, this is related to hald.
Is there any way, to get this
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:32:31PM +0200, Teodor wrote:
Unfortunately I don't have a serial cable around but I'll try to buy
one. Can you direct me to a good howto on setting a serial console? I'll
search on Internet but you might know a short one.
A few sources available as debian packages:
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:43:32AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
MAC addresses are supposed to be unique and fixed on an ethernet
port. Random MAC addresses are a very bad sign (of either a driver
bug or a hardware problem).
Len,
Silly me, but I thought that MAC addresses were actuall
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:42:20PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
I now got my system encrypted ( I used dm-crypt) without loosing data.
It needed a lot of work and time. But now almost every thing is working fine.
Besides, there is just one thing, I got not managed:
moving and resizing the
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:12:42PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Am Montag, 19. November 2007 schrieb Douglas A. Tutty:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:42:20PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
I now got my system encrypted ( I used dm-crypt) without loosing data.
It needed a lot of work and time
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:29:54PM -0800, Keith Schweikhard wrote:
No luck on the MAC addresses being printed on the bottom. I've tried to
locate the chip on the IEEE website without luck. It looks like the MAC
address that is getting posted on both machines is in a reverse byte order.
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:54:48AM -0700, Rob Sims wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:54:17PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Grub on Etch amd64 works just fine.
Not just fine. In particular,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423235
is quite annoying.
I never noticed
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:05:26AM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:35 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:58:15PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
Do you have any reasons for that suggestion? Which disadvantages does
the amd64 port have on system
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:39:05AM -0400, Rob Klingsten wrote:
Ram is not trivial on AMD systems. :)
Thanks again for the help ... the RAM was used for about 4 months in
a desktop P4 system on an Asus board. It is good RAM, Micron from
Crucial. I suppose I must have shocked and
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:08:11AM -0500, helices wrote:
Unfortunately, both systems on which I experienced such calamity ran lvm
over software raid 5. In fact, both systems ran lilo, not grub; and
everything was under lvm, including root and boot. Under these
circumstances, there is
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:08:02AM +0100, A J Stiles wrote:
On Sunday 23 Sep 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
there is a heavy bug in NVidias driver. The bug let the whole system
unexpectly freeze. But, this is not a Debian related problem, it is caused
by the binary part of NVidias
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:48:01AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:29:31PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Where would you go for floating point? Last time I looked, Cray used
Opterons as nodes in its supercomputers.
True, but in terms of memory bandwidth
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well if you need something to do floating point, then x86 isn't
generally where you want to be. And yes if performance matters gcc is
not what you want to use either.
Is there a free alternative to GCC?
Where would you go
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:22:35PM -0400, Zaq Rizer wrote:
and increase the tickrate, and enable preemption. None of which, afaik,
can I do with any Debian packaged kernels.
Why is it that debian doesn't do pre-emption in the kernel?
Doug.
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:17:26PM -0400, Zaq Rizer wrote:
I have an Intel Core2 Duo arriving in the mail in a couple of days, and
I read online that these processors can run in either 32bit or 64bit
mode (just like Athlons can).
Thing is, the 32bit chroot and ia32-compatibility libraries,
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 02:01:24AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Linux software raid (at least for raid 0 and 1 and combinations) is
often faster than what a hardware raid card can do, and almost certainly
better than what any fakeraid pulls off (since their drivers are often
crap at doing
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:42:40AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
I just figure it out by the numbers. Maximum on plain PCI is 33MHz x
32bit = 132MB/s. There is a bit of overhead so expect maybe 100MB/s
actual throughput. 66MHz pci would double that, 64bit PCI would double
it too, and PCI-X
Hi Niels, (top posting on purpose)
Keep the replies to the list. See my embedded comments. I'll cc the
debian-amd64 list.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:59:19PM +0200, Niels Larsen wrote:
On Thursday 23 August 2007 20:38:05 you wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:54:38PM +0200, Niels Larsen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:20:26PM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-21 13:34:53 -0400]:
Another good test scene: Maria in the Mother Superior's office, the
Nvidia driver lets the viewer see the MS's facial expression change as
Maria talks, with
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:20:00AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:10:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I have an nVidia EN7300GT based card. I'm quite happy with it when I
use the nVidia driver to watch DVDs. With the nv driver the fine image
detail is less
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 06:34:04PM -0500, helices wrote:
I am looking to add a high quality sound card to my amd64 system.
Obviously, I want it supported on in Etch.
Please, advise ...
You need to provide more info. How do you define high-quality?
Until I got my recent box I was
I have an nVidia EN7300GT based card. I'm quite happy with it when I
use the nVidia driver to watch DVDs. With the nv driver the fine image
detail is less clear. I'm assuming that this is because the nv driver
isn't accessing the hardware decoding engine.
Are there any good video cards that do
Hello all,
I have an ia32 schroot setup for iceweasel/flash on my otherwise Etch
amd64. Occasionally, I find that there are sessions left lying around.
I don't notice them unless I do a 'df' where I see them. I can't pin
down when they are left. I don't need sessions at all but can't see how
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:30:14PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
I am looking for an application named hydra.
There was a package in earlier times, but today it is gone. I even do
not find it in snapshot.debian.net, although there isd an entry in the
database.
What does hydra do? Perhaps
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
All machines I setup now are done with software raid1, and then LVM on
top of that. I haven't had much luck with root on LVM yet (seems to
hard to fix), so I tend to have a 10G partition for a raid1 to use as
root and then
Hello,
Restarting my own thread.
Since nspluginwrapper can't be backported from Sid/Lenny to Etch, I've
gone ahead and installed an etch-ia32 chroot on my etch-amd64 Athlon
box.
I'm running Konqueror and needing to access some sites that require
flashplayer.
In the chroot, I installed the same
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 05:54:05PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
On Thu July 12 2007 05:16:07 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
Note, however, that while I can view thenorthface.com, the adobe test
page thats supposed to verify that your flashplayer is working, doesn't
work. Oh well.
I find
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:27:20PM -0500, Seb wrote:
That is the problem, the boot partition is the largest (137 out of the 160
Gb total), and can only be reduced to about 80 Gb!! The Vista system is
optimized to make efficient use of the hard drive by creating 4
partitions with several
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:07:29PM -0500, Seb wrote:
Merci Gilles, in that case I'll stick with the amd64 for the laptop, given
that I'm quite happy with it on my current desktop. I look forward to the
day I can wipe the non-free flashplayer out of my chroot once Gnash gets
better, but so
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:24:14PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
Fairly early in the install, there's a menu item continue install from
ssh. Is there no way to get remote access to the console so that the
datacenter people only have to put CD-bin1 into the drive?
I have never seen this option
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:53:18AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
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The AMD64 port is less straightforward because they do not include the
dpt_i2o driver, which is necessary for my RAID card. Instead, I have to
either use the i2o_block driver, which I gather has had some
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:07:23PM +0100, Adam Stiles wrote:
advantage that you can have your swap area without redundancy, hence running
as fast as possible (just set up the partitions as separate swap areas).
However, with non-raid swap, if something happens to one drive, the
system dies
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:29:02PM +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:
On 04-Jul-2007 02:54.42 (BST), Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
in the freeze of etch nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.3-1+b1 use libc6 = 2.3.5
I suppose you could use snapshot.debian.net to obtain that version
that works very good until
I'm running Etch on amd64 on my Athlon64. I use Konqueror.
I have the libflash-mozplugin installed but flash sites (and adobe's
test site) don't work.
After I came back from holidays, I reactivated my subscription to the
debian lists and saw a reference to something like now that flash works
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:28:51PM -0300, José Guilherme wrote:
Douglas, you should try *nspluginwrapper, it works fine for flash without
chroots... *
I have it installed, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation on
how to set it up. Perhaps no intervention is necessary.
I have the
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:32:11PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 schrieb Douglas Allan Tutty:
I'm running Etch on amd64 on my Athlon64. I use Konqueror.
I have the libflash-mozplugin installed but flash sites (and adobe's
test site) don't work.
I also learned
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:24:31PM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote:
On July 3, 2007 12:52:41 pm Alan Ianson wrote:
On Tue July 3 2007 08:49:28 am Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:28:51PM -0300, José Guilherme wrote:
Douglas, you should try *nspluginwrapper, it works
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:27:49PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
Please see the following thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2007/05/msg00168.html
That's the thread that I was looking for, thanks.
It would appear that it requries the nspluginwrapper to work.
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