Re: gcj

2006-10-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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? :) At least you found your permissions problem. -- Len Sorensen

Re: kernel compile.again.

2006-10-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:33:01AM -0700, C_Wakefield wrote: Just did a backup install with the lastest weekly build. Obviously it boots and installs the system, but when you boot as a standalone, it won't boot! The current kernel for etch is vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-amd64. I've checked the

Re: kernel compile.again.

2006-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:45:46AM -0700, C_Wakefield wrote: Thanks for the idea. I just compiled 2.6.18.1 with .config from my only running debian kernel: 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp with gcc-4.0 using the symlink in /etc/alternatives/gcc. Again, no joy. My next, is to use gcc-2.95, but not

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

2006-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:19:40PM -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote: So gdm is looking for /usr/X11R6/bin/X but my xserver now is: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg when I try and run this binary by hand I see these errors: (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel

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

2006-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:24:13AM -0500, Henry Hollenberg 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/ testing main contrib non-free deb

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

2006-10-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:43:13PM -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote: Yeah it was already pointed out to me that I must have compiled under 2.6.17-amd64 instead of booting into 2.6.18-amd64 first and then running the m-a stuff. Lots of steps, boy my butt is getting tired. Anyway, now I'm up

Re: MB Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe WiFi Edition and Dedian/GNU

2006-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:39:01PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Well, thanks all for your answers. My main concern was about the 2 lans and the wifi ship. Sound is not an issue, would still be nice to have it working, but as long as the rest is working, it's OK. Well most nforce ethernet

Re: e2fsck

2006-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:27:09PM +, Francesco Pietra wrote: A quick question related to in general it is not safe to run e2fsck on mounted filesys- tems. The only exception is if the -n option is specified, and -c, -l, or -L options are not specified. However, even

Re: e2fsck

2006-10-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:47:52PM +, Francesco Pietra wrote: Thanks a lot. Do these indications hold also for an external usb hd that is shared with another machine? In fstab is presently dump 0, pass 0, so I have to change to pass 1. If so, is it checked not-mounted at boot? Which

Re: how do I interrupt an install?

2006-10-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:46:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of installing on my new AMD Athlon computer. I'm on dialup. The new computer accesses the net via ethernet to my 486 which has a modem. Boot is via USB stick with the businesscard netinst.iso, Etch Beta 3

Re: how do I interrupt an install?

2006-10-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:33:36AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Len. If I don't get a better answer, I'll try killing the process. I can't setup a proxy on the 486 because the drive is too small; I'm really shoehorned in here. If nothing else works, I'll try building a bigger USB

Re: Debian 64 freezes

2006-10-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:22:00PM +0200, pietia .moo wrote: I'm trying to use Debian on my Asus laptop (a6tc, Turion x2 64 bits). Few times every day my Debian freezes. I can make mouse's pointer tochnge position, but i cant do anything :/ ctrl+alt+1 does not work. I was trying to use nosmp,

Re: off-site backup

2006-10-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:51:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reviewing/planning for new offsite backup media and am wondering what people are using now. Previous discussions I found on lists.debian.org are a few years old. I've been happy using 100 MB Zip disks; I can store

Re: off-site backup

2006-10-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:39:47AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The encased USB laptop drive option in where I'm leaning after last night's research. Looking at how fragile a DLT cartridge is (basically drop it and its broke/unreliable even if it looks ok) compared to several drive

Re: off-site backup

2006-10-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:50:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the limit is? 10 years at monthy is 120 cycles; 10 years at weekly is 520 cycles, 10 years at daily is 3,650. Different types of flash memory have different cycle counts. Does the cycle limit apply to

Re: in-reply-to=[EMAIL PROTECTED]subject0re:%re:installation on asus k8n4-e deluxe still fails

2006-10-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:59:49AM +0200, Kv237 wrote: References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, modprobe forcedeth only produces the same error message about no ethernet card detected. It don't add anything to ifconfig -a. Yes, I am using the etch installer as per specified in my original

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:04:59PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:20:58PM -0400, dtutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:27:12PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:04:43PM +0200, Daniel Tryba wrote: Adding a disk creates an other copy

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:14:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would that live CD (or the etch install-cd) be able to work with a weird problem on the filesystem if its on raid1? Since the installer can install to jfs anyway, and my previous bootfloppies predate SATA so won't work, is

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:43:33AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Because it is way to fragile (fails half the time) and you can't use init=/bin/sh anymore. init=/bin/sh works for me using initramfs and has never been a problem. On 2.4 kernels it was a different story. I used to build my

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:04:32AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell me more about raid1 support inside lvm, because that's what I'm looking at for /. I know about raid0 (lvm's striping) but can't find mirroring in lvm. Never heard of anything other than striping in LVM. -- Len Sorensen

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:36:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Debian, is it only the loss of / that requires a reinstall? What happens if /var (especially /var/lib) or /usr get corrupted? Doesn't that also make the system extremely difficult/time-consuming to restore? What would

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:51:54PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: there is code in the kernel to do just that and even though it is marked experimental i've read on this list that it works... though it is time consuming, especially when the system is under load... Neat. I will have to play with

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:20:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am lucky in that my backup-set size is small; Its been tight on a 100 MB Zip disk and absolutley essential stuff (stuff I need to be able to access absolultly from anywhere, any time) fits on one floppy in gzipped plain-text.

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:35:02PM +0200, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: *Real* hardware raid doesnt need an OS layer / driver to work. This kind of raid relies on the BIOS *and* on a Windows driver. It is more a raid feature enabled in the BIOS and managed by the Windows driver. Linux can

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:09:26AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Board is an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe (AM2), says it has hardware raid (Raid0,raid1, raid0+1, raid 5, and JBOD via the onboard NVIDIA MediaShield RAID controller. This sounds like hardware raid to me and is configured via the bios

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:55:07AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there a performance hit doing this? If a programme is putting stuff in /tmp to otherwise reduce its memory footprint, does it make sense to circumvent that and put /tmp back in memory? If a program is accessing both its

Re: in-reply-to=[EMAIL PROTECTED]subject0re:%20re:installation on asus k8n4-e deluxe still fails

2006-10-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:44:58AM +0200, Kv237 wrote: The bios is the 1010.bin bios from the Asus website. Using eSupport.com BIOS agent it is reported as: Bios Type: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG BIOS ID: 10/21/2005-NF-CK804-K8N4E OEM Sign-On: AsusK8N4-E Deluxe

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:04:43PM +0200, Daniel Tryba wrote: Which is a negligible advantage. How often is the need for this? Disk space for / varies between 100Mb to 500Mb on my machines. Instal with a generous 2Gb for / only and you never need to worry about it filling up. Certainly if you

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:03:47AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: re /boot: old habits die hard. The wisdom I learned was that its less likely to get corrupted. If that's not an issue anymore, then I can forget it. I haven't seen any corruption in a long time running ext3. Corrupt root

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Manuele Rampazzo wrote: Maybe it's better to make a bigger /tmp, say 1 GB, because of some programs (for example, nautilus-cd-burner uses it to create a temporary iso file - OK, you can change it's tmp directory, but by default it uses /tmp)... I

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:21:42AM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: i would not merge them since grub does not support lvm at the moment... (there are rumours about lvm2 support in grub2 though i havent tried/tested it Keeping /etc of LVM makes it easier to start and fix your LVM if it ever gets

Re: i386 or amd64?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:54:13AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just about finished building my new computer and need to decide which Debian port to install (i386 vs AMD64). Hardware: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3800+

Re: Installation on Asus K8N4-E Deluxe still fails

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:37:36PM +0200, HXC wrote: I am afraid the nforce chip is causing these troubles, I have exactly the same ethernet controller working without problems on my asus A8v -deluxe with via chipset. Did you try kanotix? An A8V does not have the same ethernet. It has a

Re: Installation on Asus K8N4-E Deluxe still fails

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:23:01AM +0200, Kv237 wrote: Installation report Installation image: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Download date 2006-10-10 Installation attempts: 5 Hardware

Re: i386 or amd64?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:54:40PM +0200, HXC wrote: Is this true? I have an amd64 4000+ system with 1GB memory in a single slot, does this hamper performance that much? It cuts your memory bandwidth in half. So any application that goes through a lot of data, will be a lot slower. Anything

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:09:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm planning the install of amd64 on my new box (Athlon 3800+, 1 GB ram, Asus M2N-SLI MB, one Seagate 7200 80 GB SATA drive). What are the advantages to using LVM for root? Being able to resizeit later if needed I

Re: em64t

2006-10-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 09:15:44AM -0500, Gnu_Raiz wrote: It's now Intel 64, if that wasn't confusing enough. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34722 So intel went from IA-32e to EM64T to Intel 64! I guess you know why upstream left it amd64. I guess they suffer from the not

Re: em64t

2006-10-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:34:47PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: I'm using etch with kernel 2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-smp. I want to upgrade the kernel, but the images are: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64 is no smp? or using smp-alternatives? What about em64t? Thanks. As of 2.6.17-9 amd64 only

Re: lirc modules needing complete kernel source

2006-10-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:30:46PM +1000, garrone wrote: I'm thinking of giving lirc a try. I find I need the lirc-modules-source package because lirc_dev is absent. The package in dselect says that kernel sources must be installed to compile these modules. Why cannot they simply be

Re: Can anyone tell why do I get this error

2006-10-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 03:07:53AM -0700, chindea mihai wrote: I tried a several times to install the AMD64 Etch, and every time I got this error in syslog. kernel: ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82: 83: 84: 85: 86: 87: 88:0407 kernel: ata4: dev 0 ATAPI, max

Re: MSI K9N Diamond main board?

2006-09-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:27:32PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've emailed Tyan to try to clear this up (nVidia says to talk with Tyan since I'm not buying a case of nVidia chips). I've also asked Tyan to clear up the CPU: one web page says Opteron only, the other says both Opteron only

Re: amd64's question

2006-09-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:27:14PM +0400, Roberto Gonzalez wrote: hello friends. in my work are installing debian amd64 in an ibm xeon. is this correct?. thank you A xeon with EM64T can run debian-amd64. It can also run debian-i386. Depends what you want it to do and what you expect in terms

Re: Fail to detect the Cd-Rw

2006-09-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:15:01PM -0700, chindea mihai wrote: 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 my mainboard. I have an Abit

Re: Fail to detect the Cd-Rw

2006-09-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:21:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can an Intel Pentium D run an AMD 64 OS? Not having either yet (building first AMD system now) I don't know for sure. I would have thought that the AMD64 is the wrong Debian port. Read the Ports page at debian.org and see,

Re: MSI K9N Diamond main board?

2006-09-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:26:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to search the archives to see if this has been answered but got 404 errors. Reported it to debian-www. I'm going to be buying a new main board and have a short list all based on the nVidia nForce 590 SLI chipset. At

Re: fglrx 8.29.6 and Xorg 7.1.1 :: ABI major version mismatch

2006-09-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:10:14PM -0700, Max A. wrote: fglrx 8.29.6 claims to support Xorg 7.1 http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.29.6.html But I cannot get it work because of the following error: (II) LoadModule: fglrx (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (II)

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:18:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building my new computer and am ready to look at boards. I've settled on AMD AM2 socket. I don't do games but would like to transfer videos to DVD and watch DVDs (edit out commercials?) and other home use type stuff.

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:16:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Tyan Tomcat n3400B (S2925) has both video and 2 firewire (and floppy, ,4 USB, 1 serial, 1 paralell, sound, 2 GB LAN, 6 SATA 3.0, 1 IDE). I'll use the video for most things most of the time and for Xwidown running Mozilla,

Re: tyan board

2006-09-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:32:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received this from the Tyan automated tech support mail system. They say that the nVidia nForce chipset isn't supported in Debian. Does anybody know from the Debian perspective if this is true? In sarge that is probably

Re: how to get all options from dpkg-reconfigure

2006-09-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:15:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Mader wrote: I want to update my refreching rate for my monitor, because I had to switch from a TFT to a normal screen. So I tried to type dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but I am not asked the questions I know from first set up of the

Re: NVidia official driver

2006-09-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:13:22PM +0200, vitko wrote: I'm used to something like ... make-kpkg kernel-image --append-to-version -v1 make-kpkg modules-image --append-to-version -v1 cd .. dpkg -i *-v1*deb ... Anyway, what is this module-assistant thing for? How can it help

Re: Driver for smartlink modem

2006-09-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:41:48AM -0500, Pepo wrote: I have a sl-modem that works very well in my 32bits Etch, but this source code didn't work in my amd64; please Where do I can look up for am64 driver for my sl-modem? I suspect since it is a binary only driver, that the answer is simply

Re: Installing Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-09-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:17:05PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:06:26AM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: You should *never* install *any* software which does not come with source code -- you don't know where it's been. If the software vendor isn't prepared to

Re: is there a linux-image-2.6.17-x-amd64-k8?

2006-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:20:08PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: There is no such precompiled image anymore. Precompiled images have switched to one flavour only: SMP adequate for AMD and Intel processors. I guess about the only difference was the cache line size optimization, which can't

Re: Installing Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:12:57AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: I drink a whole lot o' booze, and that never has an ingredients list Some do. At least in places that care about beer quality. :) -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Installing Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:06:44AM -0300, Jo?o Marcelo wrote: Well, i really hope that some day gnu fortran can be as good as or even better than the others fortran compilers. I don't like closed source software and i think that the gnu c compiler is way better than any other C compiler.

Re: K8 Mainboards Linux compatibility list

2006-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 01:59:30PM +0200, [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

Re: is there a linux-image-2.6.17-x-amd64-k8?

2006-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:06:57PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Specifically, I should add, we have detected a bug in mpqc2.31, unable - with large complex molecules - to build correctly the hessian in internal coordinates, reading cartesian coordinates. We turned to cartesian coordinates

Re: is there a linux-image-2.6.17-x-amd64-k8?

2006-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:38:14PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Wouldn't the same kinf of differences as between -march=pentium4 and -march=athlon-xp appear again? Instruction set just a little bit different, although largely compatible, different timings for the same instruction which

Re: K8 Mainboards Linux compatibility list

2006-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:02:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turned out that the ALSA was wrong configured (as I mentioned in previous mail). On both systems I use snd_intel8x0 and both kernels are in 2.6.17 version. And one more thing. Does anybody know if the snd_intel8x0 supports

Re: Installing Intel Fortran Compiler

2006-09-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:00:20PM +, Jo?o Marcelo wrote: 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 the 'Cray Pointer' extension to

Re: Tyan S2877 Plextor PX-755SA

2006-09-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:05:43PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: I went from AMD64-K8-SMP sarge to etch and now it no longer sees this SATA plextor DVD drive. Which kernel version are you running? Try passing the libata.atapi_enable=1 to the kernel at boot (I might have the spelling wrong so

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:18:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any other form-factors on the horizon that would make a good ATX box and PS obsolete? Are there boxes that are future-oriented (lots of bays, lots of room for air to flow, bottom cooling like AMD suggests) that will

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:23:04PM +0100, A.E.Lawrence wrote: PCI Express is a significant advance over standard PCI. (Better physics, primarily.) High speed unidirectional serial links, versus slower parallel bidirectional links. It's a good change. Whether you want PCI slots or PCIe slots

Re: Opteron or Athlon 64 FX?

2006-09-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:03:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the merits of ECC memory? My previous computers have always had it and the hardware-HOWTO says to always use it. Now, it seems, that if one wants ECC they have to go Opteron. What has changed? Is generic memory

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 08:00:23PM -0400, [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

Re: apcupsd

2006-09-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:46:49PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: I have two from APC,Back-Ups CS 500 and Back-Ups RS 1500. Trial below refersto the 500. My aim isimply to have done done at poweroff/battery low: #Ctrl C (to kill mpqc231 computation; there is no X system) # shutdown -h

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:30:26PM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: I have a puzzling problem I could use some help with. The computer will not burn DVD discs, recognize blank DVDs, recognize DVD movie discs. However, the computer does automatically recognize and automount Audio CDs, blank CD-R

Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:05:06AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: Are you sure? I thought they both use red lasers. DVD is red, CD is infrared. This is why DVD has more space on it. The tracks are narrowe, the pits shorter, and the focal depth much shorter. A CD reflects off the other side of

Re: Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:09:05AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: I compiled the kernel about 6 months ago. It had all the necessary modules built at that time and DVDs / CDs mounted or were burnt without any problems. I haven't installed a new kernel since then. I doubt the drive is toast. It

Re: Re: Re: blank DVDs no recognized, other media OK

2006-08-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:20:46AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: I checked that. There IS some hald processes running but what exactly does this mean? $ ps ax | grep hald 2870 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald 2871 ?S 0:00 hald-runner 2877 ?S 0:00

Re: how to setup KDE or Gnome

2006-08-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:02:31PM +0100, 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.

Re: nvidia-kernel

2006-08-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:33:11AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: my: deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib should be added of non-free? As it is, it does not find nvidia, of course. Once modified as said, shoud the sources.list be left as modified or it is safer to

Re: libsc8

2006-08-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:34:56AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Retried today to reinstall libsc8: same negation as below. Cheers francesco Aimed at reinstalling mpqc 2.3.1 from scratch, I also wanted to reinstall required tk8.4 and libsc8 (although apt-cache show shows both

Re: new models nvidia AMD ASUS board

2006-08-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:05:30PM -0700, AWP wrote: something needs to be done about getting it to install on the new (ASUS) nvidia chipsets (specifically SATA2.0 and Gb ethernet) What model, which chipset, which installer did you try and with which kernel? -- Len Sorensen -- To

Re: Can't install -- locks up

2006-08-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:58:30PM -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote: I took one of my RAM chips out and moved the one from DIMM2 to DIMM3, so that I have DIMM1 DIMM2 only filled now. The board supports dual channel memory, and I wonder if somehow it didn't like me putting different sizes in the

Re: nvidia-kernel

2006-08-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:51:37PM +0200, Philippe Bourcier wrote: hi all, I am using the amd64 port: $ uname -a Linux gala 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 11 20:47:32 CEST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux could somebody explain me the following: $ apt-config dump |grep Architecture

Re: Can't install -- locks up

2006-08-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:02:10PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:58:36PM -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote: memtest86 test passed You can't have run it for long. It needs hours to be thorough (ie several passes). And even then many people have memtest86 pass and then

Re: Can't install -- locks up

2006-08-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:43:21PM -0600, Andrew Robinson wrote: Just a note, that when the kernel build hangs, it seems to always happen at the same place. Seems very odd. Last 2 lines: SHIPPED drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_reg.h CC [M] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.o 3 times it hung

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 06:27:32AM +0200, Hans wrote: Sorry, I maybe did not ask correctly. It is not the problem, that the time is not shown correctly. The background is, that other timings are running in double speed, too (i.e. keyboard clock and some other). This is a known problem on

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:22:43AM +0200, Koen Vermeer wrote: /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt says: disable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64] Disable PIN 1 of APIC timer Can be useful to work around chipset bugs.

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:57:43PM +0200, Matteo Vescovi wrote: Here fglrx 8.27.10 is working fine... about 480 fps, not 600 but that's not bad. Your situation sounds strange. But my pathetic GF6200 is getting 1250fps... What gives? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:40:58PM -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: ntp-simple couldn't be easier to install use and will keep your system time synchronized with the national time servers. I also would recommend ntpdate if you shut your system down frequently. Ntpdate will set the time on boot,

Re: smartmonitor-tools not working with sata drives

2006-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:09:48AM +0200, Harm Behrens wrote: 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! backports.org has one for amd64 sarge. It is based on the kernel from testing. -- Len Sorensen -- To

Re: smartmonitor-tools not working with sata drives

2006-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:51:38AM +0200, Harm Behrens wrote: I couldn't find testing at: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main contrib where is it? ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free (having contrib without non-free makes no sense at all)

Re: How to get the right source

2006-08-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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. I have tried installing kernel-image-2.6.8-12-amd64-k8-smp and kernel-

Re: 2.6.8-12-amd64-k8 raid1 freezes with spurious interrupts

2006-08-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:05:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a fix for your problem, but isn't it better the have the drives in your RAID on *different* IDE chains? If they are SATA drives, then they are on seperate interfaces (since SATA doesn't have shared connections, well unless

Re: harddisk error within raid1 = howto restore?

2006-08-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:24:30PM +0200, Harm Behrens wrote: is there a easy way to copy over the partition-layout or do I have to use cfdisk to create every single partition? dd if=/dev/correctdevice of=/dev/newdevice bs=512 count=1 Simplest I know off. Does NOT work if you have extended

Re: Right kernel for AMD Athlon64-3000+

2006-08-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:27:21PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: I've been running an AMD64-3000+ with a generic kernel for the last six months: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux zizyphus 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic #1 Sun Jul 16 01:12:23 CEST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux Today I was just wondering

Re: raid1 bootable disks

2006-08-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:17:57PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Except some bios does. But all the bios is _supposed_ to do, is run the code in the MBR. The rest isn't any of its business. I suppose some like compaq and IBM that thought putting a special partition on the disk to store

Re: raid1 bootable disks

2006-08-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:28:11AM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: If you use the normal method to install a bootloader on sdb, then you will end up configuring it to boot from sdb. But the way most motherboards work is that, if the first drive fails Power On Self Test, then it will be ignored

Re: [Little OT] grub and udev root device

2006-08-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:04:57PM -0700, Hemlock wrote: I'm wondering if its possible to rename my / device with udev and get grub to see it and boot it? Here's what I tried: kernel 2.6.17 /etc/udev/rules.d/010local.rules BUS=scsi, ID=0:0:0:0, NAME=sata%n I have one partition on

Re: raid1 bootable disks

2006-08-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:49:11PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Just to add that #fdisk /dev/sda or #fdisk /dev/sdb followed by p gives the identical layout of partitions for both sda and sdb, in particular Device: /dev/sda1 (or sdb1) Boot: * Start: 1 End: 365 Blocks:

Re: problems with dhcpd3-server

2006-08-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:04:41PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: It's working for me as well. I checked it with ethereal. It's sending the parameter with 4 bytes now. My client is being somewhat obnoxious though. The lease time is being set to 10 minutes (600 seconds); the client was renewing

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:12:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weird! That's supposed to be the very thing reiserfs *is* good at. No actually reiserfs is rather fragile since it has essentially no redundancy in the meta data, unlike ext2/ext3 which have redundant superblocks and such. I

Re: GoogleEarth install

2006-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:36:21AM -0400, Brett Viren wrote: I'm guessing you don't have hardware OpenGL acceleration going. I found w/out that G.E. is essentially unusable (at least on my 2GHz Turion, 1GB ram laptop). With it, it is fully captivating! Yeah accalerated opengl really is

Re: How to get the right source

2006-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:58:31PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: Be aware that this WILL cause you problems with some devices. I know from experience that the usb-storage module (for digital cameras, multi slot readers and external HDDs) occasionally (too rarely to investigate, but often

Re: GoogleEarth install

2006-07-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:24:53PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am getting a series of errors from GE on install: timmy:/home/robbo# DISPLAY=:0.0 ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux

Re: How to get the right source

2006-07-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:43:54AM -0400, Bill Ranck wrote: Hello folks, I am new to the 64 bit stuff and I need to rebuild my kernel for multiple processors. I know I should apt-get the source packages, but which packages and from where? My /etc/apt/sources.list has the following: deb

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much further trying (documented to some extent in this thread) I'm back to suspecting the software again. I've summarized the state of affairs as it's known as of now and filed it as a bug against xorg: bug

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