Re: intel extreme graphics chipset

2008-05-06 Thread Jo Shields
. -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre / --- \ ,__, \ (oo)___ (__))\ ||--|| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers

2008-04-08 Thread Jo Shields
. I care about not being shafted that way myself, and I care about other people not being shafted in future. -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford

Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers

2008-04-08 Thread Jo Shields
than Intel. -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre / --- \ ,__, \ (oo)___ (__))\ ||--|| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: JFS in Linux [Was: Reiser4 patches.]

2008-04-03 Thread Jo Shields
. Just for the other side of the coin -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre / --- \ ,__, \ (oo

Re: AMD dual core vs Intel core 2 quad

2008-02-06 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 08:35 -0800, Francesco Pietra wrote: In the last few days I asked advice about upgrading from a 2-way Tyan motherboard Thunder K8WES2895 with two series-2xx AMD dual core opteron to a 4-way motherboard. I learned from both Lennart Sorensen and Daniel Tryba that I can't

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

2008-01-31 Thread Jo Shields
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 09:12 -0800, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi Len: I agree. However, these are no standardized codes. Actually, it is a code in development that is faced with extreme situations that could not have been in the mind of the developer. Docking a large molecule onto a protein

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

2008-01-31 Thread Jo Shields
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 07:39 -0800, Francesco Pietra wrote: This question is related to problems in running a docking computation. With big cases, RAM proves insufficient, resulting in immediate segmentation fault, so that top cannot inform. Though, from the code it is clear that memory is

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-08 Thread Jo Shields
mem b/w per physical CPU Memory performance increases with CPUs in AMD platforms, decreases in Intel platforms. That's the incredibly naive version, anyway. -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre

Re: Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5345

2007-09-27 Thread Jo Shields
Debian. Modern meaning Nocona core and more recent. -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre / --- \ ,__, \ (oo

Re: Opinions sought regarding RAID controller behaviour

2007-09-26 Thread Jo Shields
) on older kernels (e.g. the kernel in Ubuntu 6.06), where the RAID array is listed *last* rather than first Which suggests it's a kernel issue -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre

Re: Opinion question (Core2 Duo)

2007-09-19 Thread Jo Shields
core limit per machine is a problem?). Then look at cost, choke on your coffee, and go back to buying Xeon clusters -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre

Re: Fwd: Re: Opinion question (Core2 Duo)

2007-09-19 Thread Jo Shields
compiler and math library - you may find a cheaper option to improve performance than buying a new Core2 rig is to buy Portland C (or Pathscale C), and link against the free AMD Core Math Library instead of conventional open-source BLAS/LAPACK routines. -- __ / Jo Shields

Re: Opinion question (Core2 Duo)

2007-09-18 Thread Jo Shields
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:07 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:35:30PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: And in case anyone's not keeping up at the back: Pentium 4 and Core 2 have nothing whatsoever in common, other than the ability to run x86 code. Core 2 is a screamingly

Re: Opinion question (Core2 Duo)

2007-09-18 Thread Jo Shields
. Core 2 is a screamingly fast chip, Pentium 4 wasn't -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre / --- \ ,__, \ (oo

Re: Opinion question (Core2 Duo)

2007-09-18 Thread Jo Shields
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:41 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:08:48PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: Or more? Buy an Altix! ;) Ehm, well the Altix uses either the itanium (why would anyone want that crap) or a dual socket core 2 based cpu. That hardly matches a 4

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-24 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 08:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Jim Crilly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tested the exact same thing again but waited 60 seconds after saving the file, and then yanked the power out. Upon a boot up, the file was intact and the save worked. So you still have

Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode

2007-08-24 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 17:09 -0300, Ivan Paganini wrote: I've installed a amd64 lenny system, and installed just afterwards the nvidia 100 driver directly from the nvidia installer, with the 2.6.21-2-amd64 kernel. Not a single glitch, everything working fine... and lightning fast! It works

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-22 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 03:02 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: 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

Re: high quality sound card ???

2007-08-21 Thread Jo Shields
Lennart Sorensen wrote: 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 ... What do you intend to use it for? What features do you want? ie: S/PDIF

Re: high quality sound card ???

2007-08-21 Thread Jo Shields
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:57:45PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: For general ease of using legacy apps, aim for a card with hardware mixing. Which in most cases means an Audigy of some kind. Check http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Tag-HWMIX Don't

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Jo Shields
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -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 clear. I'm assuming that this is because the nv driver isn't accessing the

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 06:59 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: * Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-20 08:48:57 +0100]: On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I'm asking on this list since my box is an Athlon64 running amd64 and I don't know if, for example

Re: video card with hardware mpeg decoding with free driver?

2007-08-20 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: * Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]: In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. Core2 gives double that. It's a significantly faster floating point chip, albeit with significantly worse memory

Re: OpenGL

2007-06-29 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 03:14 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: --- Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 23:01 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: May I ask whether OpenGL is now available pure 64-bit for amd64 etch (dual-core opterons machine where X - when needed

Re: opteron 175: only one core recognized

2007-06-25 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 14:21 -0400, Tom Vier wrote: I tried to search the archives, but i got an internal server error from lists.debian.org. Looks like there's no seperate smp kernel anymore. 2.6.18-4 seems to support smp, but it doesn't recognize my dual core 175. I don't see any newer

Re: IA-32 libraries

2007-06-15 Thread Jo Shields
system isn't RPM-based, then you're out of luck. Ignore the messages if you can, bet to work on repackaging the installer RPMs if you can't -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre

Re: confused about performance

2007-06-14 Thread Jo Shields
of performance? You doubt the port? What, because nobody has more than 3GiB of RAM, or compiled their own high-performance apps? -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre

Re: Hello from Sweden

2007-05-10 Thread Jo Shields
of the 3000Mhz models do not as far as I can tell. Look for lm in the flags section of /proc/cpuinfo - if it's there, that means it'll run amd64 code -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre

Re: VirtualBox on Debian-AMD64

2007-03-26 Thread Jo Shields
that required manual cleaning in a text editor. Don't do it! -- __ / Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | Systems Manager, | \ Oxford Supercomputing Centre / --- \ ,__, \ (oo

Re: High Performance Linpack

2007-03-21 Thread Jo Shields
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Re: canon mp150 drivers

2007-01-26 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:25 -0600, Seb wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:34:31 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: [...] So yes a commercial driver may be the only choice, or one could go get a cheap printer that actually works with linux and will stay working because it

Re: dual-core amd question

2007-01-18 Thread Jo Shields
performance - meaning MPI becomes a more interesting prospect at that point. --Jo Shields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libimf.so

2007-01-13 Thread Jo Shields
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 09:38 -0800, Francesco Pietra wrote: I am trying to run on debian amd64 etch, kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64 #1 SMP, an application that was compiled with ifort. It has installed correctly, I believe, though when trying to start a job, error message: not found libimf.so. That

Re: libimf.so

2007-01-13 Thread Jo Shields
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 11:56 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: Hi Frencesco: If you could tell us a bit more details on the application your are installing and where you get it, that would help. It is likely that you are installing a program which has been compiled for Intel architecture on your

Re: compiz

2007-01-10 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 09:15 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:24:23PM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I think that my /etc/X11/xorg.conf is fine, nevertheless to be sure I sent it What isn't working? Your window manager is managed either by your display manager

Re: problems running fglrx drivers

2006-11-29 Thread Jo Shields
My video board is an ATI Radeon 256MB PCI-E. There approximately 16 different ATI Radeon graphics chipsets in use which appear on a PCI-E bus and feature 256MiB of memory. You need to be more precise if you want a helpful answer - especially with the curious vesa doesn't work statement. --Jo

Re: apt repositories

2006-11-29 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:39 +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi everybody, could someone post a mirror for amd64 etch. http://www.debian.org/mirror/list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keys too old or compromised ?

2006-11-22 Thread Jo Shields
for the system. I can't ever remember the name of the variable though. LANG=C somecommand --Jo Shields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mosix and debian amd64

2006-11-09 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 21:25 +0100, Sythos wrote: Il Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:26:00 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrisse: Hi. Have anybody heared about some mosix or open-mosix kernel for debian amd 64? When I searched the package list on debian.org I have found only some mosix kernel in oldstable

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch? {Scanned}

2006-11-08 Thread Jo Shields
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:39 +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi, Do 'apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source nvidia-kernel-common', then run module assistant (m-a) as already suggest on this list. I've done it several times, and it worked. i tried to run m-a but the compilation ended with an

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-08 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 16:46 +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: You will also want to install nvidia-glx after running module assistant. but nvidia-glx is not available in etch. i had to use unstable version when installing amd64 etch desktop. any hints? what am i doing wrong? This is caused

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-11-08 Thread Jo Shields
run m-a a-i nvidia first, in order to provide the kernel module package. --Jo Shields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD64-generic doesn't see all 4GB RAM?

2006-11-07 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 17:54 +0100, A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 12:08, John Hannfield wrote: I have a dual core Opteron 265 running in a Tyan K8WE (S2877) motherboard with 4 x 1GB RAM DDR modules. The BIOS displays the RAM as 4094 MB, but using a fresh install of

Re: FGLRX and ATI XPRESS 200M

2006-11-04 Thread Jo Shields
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 18:34 +0100, Antonio Salvucci wrote: Hi, i have a problem with my ati xpress 200M card. I installed fglrx proprietary drivers, but 3D acceleration is no enabled. The fglrx module works, but the opengl acceleration is powerd by glx mesa project. This is my xorg.conf config

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:40 +, kees wrote: Hello folks, Although the problem I am talking about is a general debian problem/bug, I am sending my message to this list, as there seems to be no list adequate for this subject and the machine I am working on is a amd64. The problem is the

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 12:35 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 November 2006 12:40, kees wrote: Hello folks, Although the problem I am talking about is a general debian problem/bug, ... I tried to install the driver etc. via the *.run file downloaded from nvidia, but this

Re: System freeze

2006-11-01 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 08:42 +0100, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: dmesg | grep -i aperture Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ 246000 size 32 MB Aperture too small (32 MB) How to setup Aperture? In BIOS, video shared memory is set up to 128MB. Kind regards, Jean-Michel It's a

Re: gcj

2006-10-27 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 11:17 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:05:16PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: gcj -v --main=Hello -o Hello.exe Hello.java [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/j$ ./Hello.exe bash: ./Hello.exe: Permission denied .exe? Do you think this is windows? :)

Re: kernel compile.again.

2006-10-25 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 02:45 -0700, C_Wakefield wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 01:05, you wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 09:08, C_Wakefield wrote: Greetings. Still trying to understand why I can't seem to run any kernels I compile. Been trying since 2.6.17 on my new amd64-X2

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch? {Scanned}

2006-10-24 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 21:15 -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote: andy:/etc/apt# apt-get install nvidia-graphics-drivers Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Couldn't find package nvidia-graphics-drivers There's no such (binary) package. nvidia-kernel-common: Init

Re: shkeys or similar ?

2006-10-24 Thread Jo Shields
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 13:07 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi folks, I am lookingh for a special program called shkeys. Maybe it is too old, as it is gone. This little fine program did tjhings like this: - You did press a key, then it read out your scancode. - then it asked you, which

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch? {Scanned} {Scanned} {Scanned}

2006-10-24 Thread Jo Shields
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 12:19 -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote: Henry Hollenberg wrote: I wrote: OK, I added some unstable lines to my sources.list and ran apt-get update: deb http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/debian/

Re: nvidia rivafb problems

2006-10-23 Thread Jo Shields
by a silly nvidia-kernel-source bug that has been resolutely ignored for over a year. cat /proc/version and ensure you have the correct version of GCC installed - e.g. if your kernel was compiled with GCC 4.0, ensure you have gcc-4.0 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319544 --Jo

Re: mystery kernel {Scanned}

2006-10-19 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 21:34 -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote: It looks like this kernel got installed on my system not to long ago but I can't seem to figure out where it came from. Can't find it in the debian packages by searching the debian web site. Any idea where it comes from? It seems

Re: Debian 64 freezes

2006-10-19 Thread Jo Shields
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 17:46 +0200, Bonnel Christophe wrote: function. So it seems that the memory motherboard controller change bytes randomly. AMD64 doesn't have a motherboard-based memory controller. The memory controller is built into the CPU -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Google Earth woes

2006-10-10 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 18:13 -0500, Seb wrote: On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:19:06 +0100, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The nvidia-installer indiscriminately overwrites key files in /usr, leading to major system death in the event of upgraded X-related packages. The Debian

Re: Google Earth woes

2006-10-09 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:56 -0500, Seb wrote: On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:02:34 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alok G. Singh) wrote: [...] There is a beta 9625 driver out which fixes the problem on my 6200TC. The debs are in experimental. You'll also need nvidia-glx. Thanks, yes, I had an

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-10-07 Thread Jo Shields
Russ Cook wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi Russ, sry, my late answer, I did somehow miss your mail. Well, if nv crashes and nvidia without Load GLX-Option, then there might be another non nvidia dependent problem. What does it show, if you disable kdm and start manually X with the

Re: [Pkg-uml-devel] [Help] build/test user-mode-linux and rootstrap on amd64

2006-09-28 Thread Jo Shields
Stefano Melchior wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:54:49AM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: Dear all, I am going to plan a help on your amd64, once I download and installed it on my pc. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-uml-devel/2006-September/000297.html

Re: Fail to detect the Cd-Rw

2006-09-28 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:15:01PM -0700, chindea mihai wrote: Hy, I tried to install the AMD64 OS version, on my PC, the boot worked fine, but when installer should Detect and Mount the cdrom, failed to detect any. I was wondering if there is any problem with

Re: fglrx-driver still slow

2006-09-27 Thread Jo Shields
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello all, I have got the fglrx-driver installed, but, because of some reason, it is still rather slow. Although all 3D-functions are o.k., and fgl_glxgears is running, the kernel-module and the driver are loaded correctly it is still slow. Please look at the result

Re: fglrx-driver still slow

2006-09-27 Thread Jo Shields
Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: I've a Radeon 9250 It is supported with free drivers and fglrx I tried both With fglrx if I enable the Composite extension, I've a message as it disable dri. Without dri, it is slow, with dri I've slightly better performances than with free driver... but I miss

Re: NVidia official driver

2006-09-16 Thread Jo Shields
Pepo wrote: Hi friends. I am trying to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8774-pkg2.run on my new amd64 system but it didn't find kernel source. How do I can install this driver? My kernel is 2.6.17-2 and Ive installed linux-headers-2.6.17-2 linux-headers-2.6.17-2-amd64 linux-source-2.6.17.

Re: Installing Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-09-13 Thread Jo Shields
A J Stiles wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:00, João Marcelo wrote: Hello Everybody, I'm trying to install Intel Fortran Compiler 9.1.036 on my Debian AMD64 Opteron Box. Unfortunely, i can't use gnu fortran to compile the application i want (http://www.cpmd.org/), because it needs

Re: K8 Mainboards Linux compatibility list

2006-09-13 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. You wrote that you have no problems with your MB with nForce3. I have 2 questions. I have also a MB with nForce3 and have some problems with the intel8x0 sound driver. (My MB is AsRock K8Upgrade-NF3). My chipset's full name is nForce 3 250. The snd_intel8x0 does not

Re: K8 Mainboards Linux compatibility list

2006-09-13 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Użytkownik Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. You wrote that you have no problems with your MB with nForce3. I have 2 questions. I have also a MB with nForce3 and have some problems with the intel8x0 sound driver. (My MB

Re: K8 Mainboards Linux compatibility list

2006-09-13 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Użytkownik Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: So check to see what drivers are actually being used, how they're configured - and especially whether a daemon like aRts or ESD is getting involved. snd-intel8x0 cannot will not do mixing in the absence of a sound

Re: [SPAM] Re: Installing Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-09-13 Thread Jo Shields
Fielder George Dowding wrote: Jo Shields wrote: A J Stiles wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:00, João Marcelo wrote: Hello Everybody, I'm trying to install Intel Fortran Compiler 9.1.036 on my Debian AMD64 Opteron Box. Unfortunely, i can't use gnu fortran to compile

Re: Packagehandling

2006-09-09 Thread Jo Shields
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear maintainers and users, there is a little thing I think should be discussed. Whenever essentiell packages (especially the kernel) is released with a new version, there is no possibilty fall back to the old one, if things crash. For example, some time ago there

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-07 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly off topic but I'm soon going to be making a new computer (my first in 12 years) and will be using AMD with Debian. The standard board/power/box form-factor has been ATX for a while. Does anyone see anything else on the horizon? I plan to buy a good case and

Re: Opteron or Athlon 64 FX?

2006-09-07 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:22:00AM -0500, Marc D.M. wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 19:57 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:11:52PM -0500, Marc D.M. wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 20:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: apcupsd

2006-09-05 Thread Jo Shields
Erik Mouw wrote: I'm not sure what kind of device a USB UPS should use. Believe it or not... They're detected as USB joysticks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apcupsd

2006-09-05 Thread Jo Shields
Jo Shields wrote: Erik Mouw wrote: I'm not sure what kind of device a USB UPS should use. Believe it or not... They're detected as USB joysticks. Aha, some dmesgage: hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 2200 RM FW :665.5.I USB FW:2.4] on usb3:2.0

Re: Opteron or Athlon 64 FX?

2006-09-01 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm starting to design my next computer before my current 486/P-II pair finally die. Any computer will do what I need 95 % of the time. Here's what I would like to do that I can't do now: scan, retouch, and store pictures from a digital camera

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Jo Shields
Craig Hagerman wrote: On 8/30/06, Michael Langley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can mount and read data DVD-Rs but not video DVD then you might not have UDF support in your kernel. Either that or your drive is toast. I compiled the kernel about 6 months ago. It had all the necessary

Re: Large font when booting into linux when using NVIDIA card

2006-08-26 Thread Jo Shields
Adam D wrote: Daniel Foote wrote: Ever since I have built my first x86 box (AMD64) I have not been able to get my initial font size down from the about 1 size. I have included in my grub the following line ..root=/dev/hda1 ro video=nvidiafb:vmode:22 quiet splash Using

Re: Large font when booting into linux when using NVIDIA card

2006-08-26 Thread Jo Shields
Jo Shields wrote: Adam D wrote: Daniel Foote wrote: Ever since I have built my first x86 box (AMD64) I have not been able to get my initial font size down from the about 1 size. I have included in my grub the following line ..root=/dev/hda1 ro video=nvidiafb:vmode:22 quiet splash Using

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-26 Thread Jo Shields
A.E.Lawrence wrote: Nobody has mentioned /etc/inittab in this thread so far. ISTR that I just had to assign a run level to include kde/gdm/whatever. Runlevel 2 is usually kept for text alone which is very useful indeed when your GUI goes belly up. ael That's a redhatism. Debian runs at

Re: graphical desktop

2006-08-25 Thread Jo Shields
Viktor Tsyrennikov wrote: Hi, does Debian Etch for AMD 64 comes with graphical desktop KDe or Gnome? I installed Etch yesterday but only got command line even thought I asked to install Desktop task. Thanks, Victor Debian Etch for AMD64 has practically all the same packages available to

Re: ATI driver slow: which way to look ?

2006-08-24 Thread Jo Shields
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, this time I am looking for a way to find out a problem and to understand, how things are working. I have a 64-Bit notebook with installed ia32-libs. My graphic-card is a X700 made by ATI (yes, ATI sux !) and Xorg7. All 3D-acceleration functions are

Re: OT: hardware for quake4 (Was: Re: Nvidia Texture corruption in quake4!)

2006-08-23 Thread Jo Shields
P|pex wrote: Hi which are the requirements for quake4? I have: amd64 3200, 1 GB Ram and GeForce 5600 w 128MB could I play quake4? Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com From

Re: Flash in firefox on amd64 -- revisted?

2006-08-21 Thread Jo Shields
Jean-Luc Coulon wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 05:22:32AM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:20:03 +0200, Andrew Robinson wrote: Any hope of running flash on amd64 without chroot jailing firefox to 32bit mode? If you talk about the macromedia plugin, you need

Re: apt/dpkg always upgrade still upgraded packages

2006-08-21 Thread Jo Shields
Sander Smeenk wrote: Quoting Peter Stoehr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But, whenever I make apt-get update apt-get upgrade, apt want to upgrade Postfix and Vnstat again and again. Did I something wrong when building the packages? I have the exact same behaviour on one of my hosts with the

Re: Problems with creating a 32-bit chroot jail (chroot exec format error)

2006-08-15 Thread Jo Shields
Paul Patrick Carpio Prantilla wrote: Hello, I've been stuck at this for some time now. From my x86_64 kernel, I'm trying to install a 32-bit chroot jail under /var/chroot/sid-ia32/. I've already used debootsrap to create a 32-bit sid environment under for that directory, and basically followed

Re: Problems with creating a 32-bit chroot jail (chroot exec format error)

2006-08-15 Thread Jo Shields
Paul Patrick Carpio Prantilla wrote: Jo Shields wrote: Where did your kernel come from? Hello Jo, Sorry, I should've mentioned this earlier. I compiled my own 2.6.17.7 kernel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a Linux Terrabreak 2.6.17.7terrabreak-1 #3 PREEMPT Sun Aug 6 12:58:58 PHT

Re: Wolfenstein: E-T on debian amd64 with ATI X800 Pro gfx?

2006-08-12 Thread Jo Shields
Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I would like to run Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on my amd64 system, as I had it running on my 32-bit debian before I upgraded to amd64. Is it at all possible? Some words about my setup: o HW: - AMD64 3200+, - ATI X800 Pro gfx card. o SW: -

Re: Wolfenstein: E-T on debian amd64 with ATI X800 Pro gfx?

2006-08-12 Thread Jo Shields
Jo Shields wrote: Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I would like to run Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on my amd64 system, as I had it running on my 32-bit debian before I upgraded to amd64. Is it at all possible? Some words about my setup: o HW: - AMD64 3200+, - ATI X800 Pro gfx card

Re: Wolfenstein: E-T on debian amd64 with ATI X800 Pro gfx?

2006-08-12 Thread Jo Shields
Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:33:15AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: Jo Shields wrote: Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I would like to run Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on my amd64 system, as I had it running on my 32-bit debian before I upgraded to amd64

Re: smartmonitor-tools not working with sata drives

2006-08-11 Thread Jo Shields
Harm Behrens wrote: Just upgrade your kernel to 2.6.15 or more. there is no kernel 2.6.15 in the amd64-sarge repositery! And as this is an production-server I don't like to compile myself! 2.6.16 have in backports and testing. I couldn't find testing at: deb

Re: How to get the right source

2006-08-11 Thread Jo Shields
Bill Ranck wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 11:58 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:02:41AM -0400, Bill Ranck wrote: I am still trying to get a 64bit smp kernel working on my Dell system. I have installed and successfully run 2.6.12-1-amd64-generic.

Re: amd64 situation in Mirrors.masterlist

2006-08-09 Thread Jo Shields
Joey Hess wrote: Jo Shields wrote: I'm not actually sure what the correct format is for Archive-architecture when something's got all supported arches The best thing to do there is to list all the arches. Done. and I'm not sure what to do about the hosts I couldn't contact

Re: amd64 situation in Mirrors.masterlist

2006-08-09 Thread Jo Shields
Joey Hess wrote: Jo Shields wrote: Done. Mirrors I couldn't update automatically are detailed in my earlier message (the 11 I couldn't contact, plus 65 that didn't provide a correct directory listing for dists/sid/main/). Thanks, applied. I hope you can do this again from time

Re: amd64 situation in Mirrors.masterlist

2006-08-09 Thread Jo Shields
Joey Hess wrote: Jo Shields wrote: Would it be useful to refine the rather rushed tools used to create the diff, removing any manual steps from Mirrors.masterlist to .diff? Yes. Okay then. Attached is the new, improved Masterlister program. It should just compile with mcs

Re: Grub gone from unstable

2006-08-08 Thread Jo Shields
Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anyone know why grub has been removed from unstable and lilo brought back? I upgraded a test install from testing to unstable two days back and found that grub gets removed; lilo gets installed but no lilo-conf is generated.

Re: amd64 situation in Mirrors.masterlist

2006-08-08 Thread Jo Shields
Joey Hess wrote: A quick look at what Mirrors.masterlist says about mirrors carrying amd64 finds a lot of probably wrong information: * 154 mirrors listed as mirroring !amd64, but having all other arches. This is probably wrong for most of them ... it's definitly wrong for the couple I

Re: amd64 situation in Mirrors.masterlist

2006-08-08 Thread Jo Shields
Jo Shields wrote: Joey Hess wrote: A quick look at what Mirrors.masterlist says about mirrors carrying amd64 finds a lot of probably wrong information: * 154 mirrors listed as mirroring !amd64, but having all other arches. This is probably wrong for most of them ... it's definitly wrong

Re: dchroot script error

2006-08-07 Thread Jo Shields
Pipex wrote: hi from the last update the script to run ooo don't run I copy it from https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html and the error occurs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin $ oowriter E: Only one command may be specified I: Run dchroot --help to list usage

Re: Right kernel for AMD Athlon64-3000+

2006-08-06 Thread Jo Shields
Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:02:32PM +1000 Dean Hamstead said: On Sun, August 6, 2006 1:27 pm, Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been running an AMD64-3000+ with a generic kernel for

Re: Dell 1950 and Debian

2006-08-03 Thread Jo Shields
Alexander Meis wrote: Hi, is it possible to get an dell 1950 (Intel Xeon Woodcrest Dual-Core) running with debian etch amd64 or are there any problems with hardware support or something? Thanks Alex There should be no more problems than with a Dempsey-based system, as they both share the

Re: 32bit chroot help

2006-07-19 Thread Jo Shields
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 18 July 2006 12:37 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Bharath Ramesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had recently posted in the group for suggestions on the best possible setup for a dual opteron compile/head node for our cluster. The solution for 32bit support

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