Re: no XDMCP support after upgrade of gdm / xorg / ...

2005-11-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:51:11AM +0100, Franz Schenk wrote: Thanks, Hamish, for your help, I think you saved me a lot of time! It might be a stupid question, but what makes you sure, that the situation you analyzed for the powerpc-platform is the same for amd64? Well, on i386 the gdm

Re: Hello! from a newbie+ problems with debian for amd64+can't boot debian for i386 on amd64 from cd+can't extract sbm.bin from cd

2005-11-29 Thread cbergmann
Hi Martin! I have no experience with nforce4 boards, so I can't give you much help here. However, I would suggest to add the module for your network card to the file /etc/modules. On booting, the network card wich is detectetd first becomes eth0, and the one detected second eth1 (this was

vmware workstation 5.0

2005-11-29 Thread Alejandro Barcena
I'm having trouble compiling the vmware modules. I guess it's something stupid what I'm missing. I didn't had the problem while using kernel 2.6.8-11-amg64-k8 Thanks in advice, Alejandro I'm using: Debian Sarge amd64 (mixed) kernel: 2.6.14-2-and64-k8-smp gcc-4.0 vmware workstation 5.0 ...

Re: vmware workstation 5.0

2005-11-29 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 11/29/05, Alejandro Barcena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble compiling the vmware modules. I guess it's something stupid what I'm missing. I didn't had the problem while using kernel 2.6.8-11-amg64-k8 I seem to recall some trouble doing that myself. I think VMware tries to use

Test wpa-encrypted

2005-11-29 Thread antonio giulio
Hi, I have installed wpa_supplicant for my wireless connection. Is there a way to test it? I can use internet normally, but I'm not sure that it's using wpa (I have read this tutorial: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=399787view=getlastpost). Could be good a sniffer like ethereal?

Yawn! Linux v Windoze, a new twist?

2005-11-29 Thread studio-64
Hi I'm sure some on here can think of a few comments to add to this: Linux v Windoze debate. I note two revealing comments. if a subject of the study (vendor for example) is behind its funding, whether directly (as in this study) and it's important to recognize the small sample size in

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:59:35PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: Are you sure? That's what I tought at first but now I'm not so sure. Dirty filesystem pages will not be swapped (that won't make any sense). Well if an application can't swap in to

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:04:19PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: That is not _filesystem_ corruption. And it is not worse than just cutting the power, so disk containing swap dies is no worse than any other crash. I still prefer not having any crash

Re: mplayer and libdvdcss

2005-11-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
sigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I try to install from 'deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main' but apt said there it can't find the PUBLIC KEY or something like that. That's only a warning. had the same problem some weeks ago. I did wget

Re: Open office

2005-11-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nico Jochens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # Converted 32 bit debs deb file:///var/lib/amd64-archive sarge main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/ No openoffice.org-bin package in this repository. sunny greetings from Norderstedt Nico Those line

Re: ia32-libs

2005-11-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:13:10PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, i am not able to update ia32-libs on sid. i get the following error: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.5_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Burn a dvd. Or any other job that pushes a few gig around the fs. I have 1GB ram and I burn multiple full DVDs a week, and I still don't see much swap use: # free total used free sharedbuffers

Re: vmware workstation 5.0

2005-11-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:07:55AM -0600, Alejandro Barcena wrote: I'm having trouble compiling the vmware modules. I guess it's something stupid what I'm missing. I didn't had the problem while using kernel 2.6.8-11-amg64-k8 The error about ioctl32.h is reasonable given newer 2.6 kernels

Re: Test wpa-encrypted

2005-11-29 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:23:59AM +, antonio giulio wrote: I have installed wpa_supplicant for my wireless connection. Is there a way to test it? I can use internet normally, but I'm not sure that it's using wpa (I have read this tutorial:

Re: recommended scsi card for Debian/AMD64/Sarge

2005-11-29 Thread mikepolniak
On 16:21 Mon 28 Nov , Freels, James D. wrote: I have an existing Debian/Amd64/Sarge system which includes sata hard drives, but has a tape drive connected to a separate Adaptec 29160N Ultra160 SCSI adapter scsi card dedicated to that task. I am using the 2.6.14 kernel with the new aic7xxx

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Burn a dvd. Or any other job that pushes a few gig around the fs. I have 1GB ram and I burn multiple full DVDs a week, and I still don't see much swap use: # free

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Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-29 Thread Austin Denyer
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:09:23 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 22 days: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 10255801014156 11424 0 13740 614136 -/+ buffers/cache: 386280 639300 Swap:

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-29 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:36:48PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Only to the amout of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. After that binaries and data are swapped out in favour of more cache. Binaries do not use swap. File-backed R/O mapped pages can simply be discarded because they can always be

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:36:48PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Only to the amout of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. After that binaries and data are swapped out in favour of more cache. Binaries do not use swap. File-backed R/O mapped pages can simply

Re: vmware workstation 5.0

2005-11-29 Thread Matthias Julius
Thomas Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/29/05, Alejandro Barcena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to recall some trouble doing that myself. I think VMware tries to use gcc, which is really gcc-4.0. Unless I am mistaken, the kernel has to be compiled using gcc version 3, and that also

Fwd: Test wpa-encrypted

2005-11-29 Thread antonio giulio
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=399787view=getlastpost). Could be good a sniffer like ethereal? And if so, how test it? Just configure the access point to only allow WPA, and see if you connect at all. I am sure there is a better way but not sure what. You certainly can't

Window borders disappared!

2005-11-29 Thread antonio giulio
Hi, I have restarted normally Debian, and logged in KDE. Surprise, every window started was without borders/decorations (and relative buttons, resize, close obviously). I have no made updating in last session, and I have no idea because window manager does this. Can you help me or suggest me what