On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:07:10AM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> That is not correct. You can make use of SSE instructions also in
> x86_32/i386 mode.
>
> I found f.i.:
> https://gcc.gcc.gnu.narkive.com/k0KqaZF2/i386-sse-test-question
Well x86_64 uses it all the time, not just optionally,
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 03:45:37PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote:
> Is there in deed any reason to prefer amd64 over i586 if you have the
> choice and a machine with 2GB RAM or less, apart from perhaps long term
> support?
Twice the registers and sse instructions for fpu rather than x87?
--
Len
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:39:34AM +0200, Omnis Moriar wrote:
> Can we got xorg in minumal version of debian with X-window system ??? I
> fight for xorg couse Wayland is our danger to linux world
I don't get it.
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xorg-server seems so show
xorg is in
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:59:06PM +, ael wrote:
> zless /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz is where this was
> announced.
Wow, I never knew the su command used to have such misbehaviours on
Debian. I guess being used to doing 'su -' from years of using different
unix systems I never
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 08:43:29PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Hi
> Following amd64 upgrade from stretch to buster on both a vaio laptop and an
> asus desktop,command disappeared, while a severe bug arose with
> dpkg that breaks upgrade/install
>
> pkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:20:50AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> in addition, arm64 is usually speculative OoO (Cavium ThunderX V1
> being a notable exception) which means it's vulnerable to spectre and
> meltdown attacks, whereas 32-bit ARM is exclusively in-order. if you
> want
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 12:00:45PM +, Hugo Ricardo wrote:
> Ive bougth a new machine, it had Windows 10 preinstaled. I changed it for
> Deepin but now, the touchpad isnt working... how can I solve this problem?
A quick search makes it look like a common problem with Acer's.
On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 08:11:45PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Hi Lennart:
> I solved the problem of importing python module scipy.optimize by
> installing Anaconda2. That worked with the drug-hunting software with both
> debian8 and debian9. I was short of time and, most importantly,
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 06:59:56AM -0400, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> All python bugs solved by installing Anaconda2. The drug-hunting software
> is running in Debian9 (stretch) on Anaconda2 python.
Or another way of looking at it:
All scipy bugs worked around by giving it exactly the version of
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 06:57:28PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I fear that on the amd64-gnome box my sources list should be amended:
>
> deb http://debian.netcologne.de/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
Wheezy is long gone, given jessie was release well over a year ago now.
Might be
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 04:08:36PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> On last "upgrade" of amd64 wheezy I found Firefox in place of iceweasel.
> OK, except that the single commercial application in my box (Vuescan) now
> fails to upgrade
>
>
> francesco@tya64:~/Vuescan$ ./vuescan
> gvfs-open:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:35:20PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Yeah, apparently it's cheaper to bootstrap a complete new little endian
> platform than to fix portability issues in existing software...
I believe a big reason is that Nvidia cards expect little endian data,
and the overhead
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to
> support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVec, didn't we?
Well it is getting there.
--
Len Sorensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:35:02PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Do they implement the ISA required by the existing Debian port?
Yes.
The only ones that don't are the Freescale 85xx and P10[12]x chips,
which are powerpcspe due to using the e500 core.
All the 83xx and 82xx chips which are still
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:04:12AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> The debian-powerpc@l.d.o mailing list is active so I would say it
> still has some users. I have been using partch.d.o for doing some work
> on PowerPC. I posted a summary of work people have been doing on this
> port lately:
>
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 05:04:06AM -0700, Amir H. Firouzian wrote:
> Hello alls,
> Due to fact that other kernels are become populate like BSD, and Debian is
> universal OS, So is it better to rename all Ports and mention the kernel
> use that inside like kfreebsd-amd64 or khurd-i386?
>
>
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 04:28:18AM -0800, Will Puffenbarger wrote:
> New user need explain for difference between 32 and 64 bit how to get to
> ubuntu faster on smaller device by faking pathways
Well the difference between 32 and 64 bit is:
64 bit x86 has twice as many registers (which makes
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 04:55:49PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
Sorry dear!
I tried with all genuine methods and installed debian 8.1.
But whoa! I lost my activated version of Windows 10. I WAS able to access
all my hard drives as I did a proper shutdown but the grub os list showed
no link
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:30:14AM +, Dohtre, Shekhar [HDS] wrote:
If you want to dual-boot your favorite Linux distribution and Windows 10
Technical Preview on any computer, whether the computer has UEFI firmware or
not, the Windows 10 Technical Preview installer is only capable of
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:25:49AM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
I want to dual-boot windows 10 with debian 8.1 (amd64), as I have been an
avid linux user for many years. I want to make sure that I shall not lose
my original copy of Windows 10 if I try to install Debian.
Also please make me
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:23:04AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
I believe Debian limits this to 8 with a default kernel. However, you
can recompile the kernel to raise the limit to 4096 (or 8192 with a
newer kernel).
Well the config in the amd64 3.2 kernel says:
CONFIG_NR_CPUS=512
So that's a
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 03:27:26PM +, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hello:
Following update/upgrade with amd64 jessie, the 2 GTX 680 are seen by the
graphical package VMD, however, nvidia -smi does not respond. The GTX are
used in the absence of X-server, for number crunching.
I rerun
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 06:10:24PM +0100, Hans wrote:
Hi franceso,
I am checking the necessary packagaes by module-assistant. It is the easiest
way.
Try it out. Install package module-assistant , start with m-a, and then go
through the 4 steps (update, prepare etc.) Nice tool, and is
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 04:33:26PM +, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Sorry, I forgot:
$ dpkg -s linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Package: linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: kernel
Installed-Size: 2235
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:47:51AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
I think BSD style init is underrated. Controlling everything in rc.conf
is wonderful :)
Lets have that in Debian please?
Next you will suggest config.sys and autoexec.bat are a good design
too. :)
--
Len Sorensen
--
To
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 03:34:45PM +0200, jp.po...@izzop.net wrote:
I really hate systemd, since it is installed on one of my machine
starting and stopping the system are painful.
Starting is more than one minute with the X screen appearing at the very
end.
Stopping is the more painful thing,
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 09:25:23AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
Can *anything* justify creating a problem that can't be debugged?
I noticed on a reboot yesterday that there was a 5 minute countdown
shutting down samba by the looks of it. Seems to be bug #762002.
Again, bedrock principles:
Do
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 07:59:17AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
On 10/04/2014 07:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Lennart,
The best option will actually end up being x32 (which is 32bit
programs using the 64bit cpu so you get all the new registers and
SSE floating point, but without the pointer
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 10:12:18PM +0200, Michael wrote:
Lennart,
What do you think, chances does X32 have ? Will this be, like, fused, into
AMD64 compilers some day ?
I see no reason for it to fuse given multiarch works now. I expect
people to have amd64/x32 multiarch systems though since
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:45:59PM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
Ok thanks, that's a good start right there. Looking at various
blogs and such, it seems no two people can agree if the conversion
to '64 is beneficial or even wise. I have only 2 GB of RAM on this
machine, so that's no motive. I
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:38:51AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
Gentlemen,
Are you sure that is always true? Sure I may be, but not everyone on
the list is likely to be.
I just upgraded to the 'amd64' kernel. I've always been a 32 bit
lad up till now. The kernel runs fine, but I'm wondering if
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:04:09PM +, Christopher Carlson wrote:
Not yet. I have only downloaded 2 DVDs (1 5). DVD 1 had 57 files it could
not download. DVD 5 had 20. Each download is taking between 6 and 8 hours,
so if I do them serially, it will be close to a week to get them all
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 08:27:00PM +, Christopher Carlson wrote:
Thank you very much for your quick response. I took your advice, installed
jigdo-lite and attempted to download debian-6.0.5-amd64-DVD. It is made up
of 8 DVDs, which surprised me, but I guess it's everything.
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 08:56:48PM +, Christopher Carlson wrote:
Argh! They've scrolled off the top of the window. I'm trying to build all 8
DVDs.
They may not have been life/death parts. Here are some that just popped up:
--2014-08-08 13:57:20--
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:45:58AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I am attacking the problem from another side, directly from within the OS
itself:
#lspi -
tells that the link speed (= link status) LnkSta is at 5Gb/s, no matter
whether the system is at number crunching or not. I.e.,
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:39:53PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I forgot to mention that LnkSta 8GT/s is obtained only when actually
carrying out the MD simulation.
I believe to save power the link speed changes on the fly based on demand.
--
Len Sorensen
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:13:15AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I think it was renamed. No idea why. modinfo nvidia-current should
work though.
Yes, it does.
Do you have the cuda libraries for the 319 version installed?
Yes
I don't play around with GPU computations, but
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:32:26AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
My answer seems to have disappeared. I summarize here.
modinfo nvidia-curred works well. CUDA libraries are installed.
For nvidia-cuda-toolkit, nvidia offers SDK packages for Ubuntu, not for
Debian. I don't like to get into
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 07:40:10PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
That is unnecesary. That is already in the library path. The local
directory is not. Windows implicitly looks in the current directory
for files, linux
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:53:30PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ file ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run
./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run: data
francesco@gig64:~/tmp$
OK that's weird. I expected to see x86 32 or 64bit binary.
Seems to be a shell scripts with compressed code in it. Yuck. :)
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 05:43:47PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:53:30PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
francesco@gig64:~/tmp$ file ./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run
./CUDA-Z-0.7.189.run: data
francesco@gig64:~/tmp$
OK that's weird. I expected to see x86 32 or 64bit
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 03:54:32PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hello:
I decided to try jessie to get PCIe 3.0 with a recent nvidia driver, thus
upgrading from wheezy.
wheezy was
uname -r
3.2.0-4-amd64
nvidia-smi
304.88
nvcc --version
4.2
(the latter is also the version at
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 05:22:18PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Yes. Also,
# apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-dkms
# apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms
(which, in the year 2011, served to clear the driver at
/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/updates/dkms. But now the kernel was 3.2.) left
the
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:35:53PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
# apt-get --purge remove *legacy*
did the job.
I wonder how these legacy packages entered the scene while
updating/upgrading from a clean wheezy.
The bad news are that with the new driver 319.60 there was no acceleration
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:06:08PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hello:
I am looking for how to test the cuda memory bandwdth for GTX (GTX-680)
with cuda tools in amd64 wheezy.
I tried GNU CUDA-Z, however it did not find libXrender.so.1. I guess its is
looking for it from ia32-libs (as
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 06:45:40PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Really the only difference between distributions is their packaging
system, their support infrastructure, their release schedule/policy, and
how up to date the software is and what software they offer packages for.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Federico Sologuren wrote:
i have a HP Visualize B2000 that i managed to install last night from iso
distribution that i found after a lot of looking. at this point only
terminal is working. will keep reading to get debian up and running.
i would like
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
Here is a little status update on the mails we have received so far.
First off, thanks to all the porters who have already replied!
So far, the *no one* has stepped up to back the following architectures:
hurd-i386
ia64
Hi,
I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend
to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release:
For powerpc, i386, amd64, armhf, I
- test most base packages on this architecture
- fix toolchain issues
- triage arch-specific bugs
- fix arch-related bugs
- run a
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hello:
I noticed that in my country supercomputer center all machines, both CPU
(FERMI) and GPU (AURORA, PLX) run on RedHat Linux. As a long time user of
Debian GNU Linux amd64, I am curious whether such machines elsewhere also
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 06:11:31PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi Lennart:
I forgot that what is found on supercomputers might result also from what
you say.
I found it problematic to compile a code for molecular dynamics (MD)
inclusive of an elaborate plugin. Better, I succeeded when
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 02:08:12AM -0700, DutchGlory wrote:
I have printer driver here for Epson AcuLaser C1100 if someone is able to
convert this to x64... (amd64)
i'll (and many others) be *MORE* than happy :)
It has no source code, only binaries, and the binary is 32bit only.
Now you
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:02:00AM -0400, Harry Prevor wrote:
Thanks again for all your help guys. I was having a lot of problems,
but I somehow managed to start the computer for just long enough to
quickly install memtest86+ before it crashed with a kernel panic. On
memtest, every single test
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:23:09PM -0400, Harry Prevor wrote:
Thanks a lot for your helpful responses guys. I'm at a public computer
right now and haven't had a chance to try your ideas yet, but I've
noticed a few things that I'd like to clarify:
On 5/9/13, Chris Swenson ch...@cswenson.com
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:18:09AM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote:
After my upgrade to wheezy my X has failed.
I tried to find the problem to fix it, and I was not be able to do it...
I have a partial success narrowing the problem...
And I ask you for help to find it clearly I don't
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 04:08:58PM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Don't use the nvidia package from debian for googleearth. They do not work,
as
the 32-bit-libs of nvidia have dependency problems. Obviously no one cared
for
this at the moment.
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 06:59:01AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I had all my data on another raid1 machine. Following the new install,
all data were scp transferred. All my machine are on a router, with
passwordless scp. Which is also used to contact external server for
computational work.
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:09PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi:
With a raid1 amd64 wheezy, one of the two HDs got broken.
Unfortunately, I had added grub to sda only, which is just the one
broken. So that, when it is replaced with a fresh HD, the OS is not
found. Inverting the SATA
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 05:44:42PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hello:
With Debian amd64 wheezy I was unable to get the sound card working
correctly (bumping voice or sound) for a Gygabyte GA-X79-UD3
motherboard, while with other motherboards there are no problems.
:~$ lspci | grep -i
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:21:15AM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote:
OpenOffice still doesn't write OOXML and there is very little macro
compatibility
with Excel.
Well only Microsoft Office 2013 can write OOXML files. 2010 could
read them. OOXML of course being defined as ISO/IEC 29500.
--
Len
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:00:00PM -0500, Seb wrote:
Packages ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk are not installable in sid, and
this prevents installation of some packages like the Debian amd64
version provided by Skype and google-earth-stable. How do we get around
this?
Well one option might be
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 07:22:47PM +0200, Pietro Paolini wrote:
I tried to add the firsts you wrote me and no result.
Before add the last one I have a question, what I have to do is run:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
I would recommend always using dist-upgrade, not upgrade. upgrade
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:44:45PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hello
With my i386 wheezy desktop I had the surprise of gdm3 display
manager, whereby now the X server is started automatically, without
startx
gnome-session.
How should I manage not to have the same situation with
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:50:08AM -0700, Instruisto Jose wrote:
What are the main advantages of debian amd64 compared to i386 debian besides
to address more than 4GB of memory?
The standard Debian 6.0 kernel image of i386 has already been compiled with
SMP-alternatives support.
Are
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:12:41AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I suddenly got the opportunity to change the two GTX-470 on my Gigabyte
GA-890FXA-UD5/PhenomII-1075T with two faster cards, while sticking to
gaming hardware for CUDA number crunching (molecular dynamics).
Considering the
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 04:15:12PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
gpg --keyserver hkp://www.keys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error
I have always used subkeys.pgp.net
There seems to be a problem though:
lennartsorensen@lennartsorensen:~$ host
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:39:01PM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
It's more trivial to change the default shell to bash if it is
necessary for a configuration, there is no need to get defensive about
dash or force its use upon anyone that doesn't want to use it.
So a few seconds saved whenever a
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 11:34:30PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
The first I did (after having computed successfully with mopac on the
basis of sh - bash), was to remove the symlink, having now again
sh - dash, in order to avoid possible problems in addition to the
many I am having since I
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 10:39:05PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Solved by
# mv /bin/sh /bin/sh_original
# ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
now
ls -l
sh - /bin/bash
and mopac does its job. Hopefully, this should also allow the hundreds
of other codes inside the main code to work, if
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:21:15AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Following kind guidance by Lennart Sorensen as to the correct
installation of the nvidia driver, I recently got a two GTX-470
computer work perfectly for molecular dynamics simulations with
NAMD-CUDA.
The simulations were
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 07:54:16AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hello:
With a gaming machine
Gigabyte GA 890FXAUD5
Six-core AMD PhenomII 1075T
2x GTX 470
Debian GNU-Linux amd64 wheezy
I run successfully NAMD code (molecular dynamics simulations). Now I
am having problems getting GTX
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 07:23:38PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I forgot to answer: yes, sometime it works, sometimes not, everything
being the same.
As a matter of fact, after a day of failure, I have now renamed back
/lib/modules/2.638-2-amd64/updatesdkms/no_nvidia.ko
to
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:32:13AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
That was the point and I can summarize how the error arose. It may
help other users about debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso for wheezy.
(1) Manual partitioning with raid1, two raids, one for /boot and
another one lvm with home,
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:58:18PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
From the recent network install CD, I have set up a RAID1 software with
ext2 /boot in a first raid
and root, usr, opt, var, tmp and home ext3, plus swap into a second raid LVM.
Installed the 'base system' only for the
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 05:20:35PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I have just set up a gaming machine with
Gigabyte GA 890FXUD5
AMD Phenom II 10775T
2 x GTX470 GPU cards
4 x 4GB RAM
2 x 1 Tb HD for RAID1
and need to install amd64 to run molecular dynamics using (free for
non-commercial
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:15:03PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Unlike CPU machines, where the computational software is stable,
with CUDA support the situation is highly experimental, changes
rapidly and has requirements of recent OS support. New versions of
NAMD every few weeks and even
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 07:17:46AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I also forgot a most important aspect of CUDA in the choice of the
mainboard. Currently, the GPUs carry out only a part - albeit major -
of the task (non bonded forces), while bonded forces and PME
long-range forces are left to
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 04:12:13PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote:
Or even better, just put the -dev files in the main library package already.
The time when separate -dev packages were a good idea has been and gone a
long
while since; nowadays, they are doing more harm than good.
Those of us
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:18:09AM +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote:
I have recently installed WHEEZY to a separate partion on one of my
hard drives. My HOME folder is on another partition and is mounted
on /home in /etc/fstab in both WHEEZY and SQUEEZE.
Now here is the funny thing - I cannot
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 03:48:26PM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
For Stable? Historically it's never updated so as to _not_ be vulnerable
when Adobe screws up. Do you really want to put someone's spouse through
the forced death march that is Sid just for a secure flash plugin?
That may be
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:10:52PM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
The current stable flash plugin is 32-bit only which leaves you using either
nsplugin-wrapper or a 32-bit browser.
There is a 64-bit beta that was released last year that works fine but no
one will package it for the usual
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:48:35AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Windows of course saw the scanner right off the bat and then scanned
some files and rebooted into Debian mounted the Windows disk on the
linux tree and ran gscantopdf on the scanned files and worked round my
scanning problem.
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:45:00PM +, A J Stiles wrote:
Sort of makes you wonder why the EU haven't already made it a legal
requirement for hardware manufacturers to supply driver Source Code, if they
want to sell their products in any European country. How much otherwise
perfectly
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:43:02AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear Debian folks,
I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box. I have 8GB of RAM on the
machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine. I know
many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for certain
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:43:42AM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote:
Not sure how to fix this one. The possible source of the problem is
iceweasel, alsa, java, amd64..
I can't find much other than other people saying it didn't work. Flash
works fine - I understand it talks directly to alsa.
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:38:12AM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote:
Interesting - Pulse audio seems to be being pushed as a new sound server
There is this from wikipedia http://www.javasonics.com/support/check_play.html
I'm not understanding the whole of the sound picture in the Linux world -
I
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:58:52PM -0300, Felipe Valverde wrote:
Definitively the culprit is the new driver. I tried the testing and the
unstable driver but they just do not work properly. They will freeze my
laptop as soon as I try to connect to a wireless network. My fix is just a
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0200, sigi wrote:
Hi Whit,
last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an
(for me) unresolvable loop:
The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one run -
which failed. apt-get always complained, that the kernel-image
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:10:30PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I've been IP masquerading for years. But now my Pentium front-end machine
has bit the dust, and I'm setting up my server to do the masquerading
itself.
It's and AMD65 running Debian lenny:
hend...@lovesong:~$ uname -a
Linux
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:39:33PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote:
I was thinking of getting a card like this for my camera:
http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Fi-Class-Wireless-Memory-EYE-FI-8PC/dp/B002UT42UI
Having a hard time figuring out if there is support for these in squeeze?
Has anyone been down
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:19:39AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:07:37 +0300
Vladimir tetl...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to rollback the software after standard apt-get
(aptitude) upgrade?
I use a little script which creates backup of the packages involved
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:07:37PM +0300, Vladimir wrote:
Is there a way to rollback the software after standard apt-get(aptitude)
upgrade?
No. At least not without a lot of manual work that may or may not work.
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 05:15:47PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Amd64 is also about more general purposes registers in addition to bigger
numbers.
Generally speaking anything will benefit from more registers, and if a
problem uses the larger int's (or uses a large number library which uses
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:28:57AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Siddharth Ravikumar
rsiddharth.m...@gmail.com wrote:
I am planning to build my own computer . I have choosen to use intel
i3 as my processor , I just want to know whether debian amd64 will
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:14:17PM +0530, Siddharth Ravikumar wrote:
I am actually quiet happy with 32bit , but it looks like the future is
going to be 64bit. So if I build my comp this year , I will be using
it for the next 3 - 4 years or so . I am under a confusion whether to
go for 32bit or
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:56:15PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote:
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Until some day skype decides to open their protocol and actually play
nice with anyone else, rather than try to build a VoIP monopoly, it
simply won't happen.
I just tell people to not use skype
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:57:16PM +0200, Dimitris Lampridis wrote:
I was about to suggest something similar:
1) Add the deb-src for debian testing in your sources.list
2) apt-get update
3) apt-get source mpich2
4) apt-get build-dep mpich2
5) cd mpich2-1.2.1.1 (or whatever the name of the
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 05:15:09PM +0200, Lothar Ketterer wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:57:16PM +0200, Dimitris Lampridis wrote:
[...]
6) dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
i suggest to use a non-root account whenever possible. The
dpkg-buildpackage command can be run as a normal user by the
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:17:26PM +0200, Lothar Ketterer wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Very good point. Then just switch to root for the dpkg -i part.
'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot -b' it is then.
I forgot to mention that this only
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:05:05PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hello:
For computational chemistry on the stable amd64 I needed yesterday
MPICH2. As the deb package is only in testing, I compiled MPICH2 for
stable, but the parallelized program needs python2.6, only available
in testing. I
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