Re: high quality sound card ???

2007-08-21 Thread Scott Reese
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 ... Don't buy any of the Creative X-Fi cards - there are no linux drivers for them at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Reese
Andreas Fester wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Jambor wrote: On 8/30/06, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible? If not, could someone please follow instructions in the bug to produce a debug backtrace?

Re: [Little OT] grub and udev root device

2006-08-04 Thread Scott Reese
Hemlock wrote: Thanks for the info guys! Sounds like too much of a headache to go much further. I guess my idea about this came from a different problem I was thinking about. Maybe you have some ideas about it. Here it is. I have a software raid as / with 4 sata drives.

Re: raid1 bootable disks

2006-08-04 Thread Scott Reese
A J Stiles wrote: 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 and the second drive will be assigned as sda. So the bootloader on the second drive must be configured to boot from

Re: raid1 bootable disks

2006-08-04 Thread Scott Reese
Francesco Pietra wrote: That sounds interesting. Could you recommend the directions for grub on mbr at http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialRecoveryAndBootDisk.html#GRUB ? Greetings: I never tried the grub-install program. These are the instructions that I followed:

Re: [Little OT] grub and udev root device

2006-08-03 Thread Scott Reese
Hemlock wrote: Hello, 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 my sata drive so I edited fstab

Re: automount and etc/fstab

2006-07-29 Thread Scott Reese
sigi wrote: Hi all, since I reinstalled my system, I'm wondering, why my second hdd is always mounted automatically after each new boot. My /etc/fstab shows for this two partitions on this disk the following entries: /dev/hdb3 /daten1 ext3noauto,rw,user 0

Re: failure to start kernel k8-smp

2006-07-12 Thread Scott Reese
Francesco Pietra wrote: If this is the situation, I hope that a suggestion will come whether to unistall (I still have the generic kernel) linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp and install linux-image-2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp should it exist. Why replacement does not occur on #aptitude

Re: Dual booting 64-bit and 32-bit kernels

2006-05-23 Thread Scott Reese
A J Stiles wrote: If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a 32-bit kernel and a 64-bit kernel with {at least} a shared /home and swap space, but separate / partitions? I think it should be possible, this way, to keep all the nasty binary-only stuff tucked out

Re: install-mbr on amd64?

2006-05-18 Thread Scott Reese
Kilian wrote: Dear All, I'm trying to set up a software RAID 1 (two disks) with Debian on a system with an AMD x86_64 Athlon processor. To install the MBR on both discs, I need install-mbr (http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/mbr) if I'm correct, but this package does not exist in the

Re: install-mbr on amd64?

2006-05-18 Thread Scott Reese
Kilian wrote: Thanks a lot for your reply! I'm using lilo as bootloader, but as grub is way more modern, I might just switch to grub. The thing is, the machine I'm working on is remote and I have no console access, so everything is a bit tricky. It's already running, has two identical