Re: Wnie vs amd64

2006-10-13 Thread Kirill A. Korinskiy
H Or wine compiled for 64-bit: H http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit be in existence done packets for debian? -- With best regards, Kirill A. Korinskiy Home mail/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://catap.ru/ Mobile phone: +7 (916) 3-604-704 pgprSgmDKlV0l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nvidia repository

2006-10-13 Thread HXC
Alexander Samad wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:55:02PM +0200, HXC wrote: Randall Donald wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 08:46 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I remember in some earlier posts, there was an unoffical repository that has

Re: Wnie vs amd64

2006-10-13 Thread HXC
Kirill A. Korinskiy wrote: H Or wine compiled for 64-bit: H http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit be in existence done packets for debian? Not yet you have to do it yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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

2006-10-13 Thread Kv237
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 message. It is the version built on a daily basis, and download

apt-get update yields unfamiliar error {Scanned}

2006-10-13 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hey gang, I'm not familiar with this error: andy:/etc/apt# apt-get update Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release Errhttp://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release Get: 2 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release [74.4kB] Ign

Re: apt-get update yields unfamiliar error {Scanned}

2006-10-13 Thread Wolfgang Mader
Since the debian packages are signed for not forcing you to install packages from which you do not know, that any bad guy provided them, you need the public key from the person which habe signed them. Otherwise you are not able to check if the signature is valid. So you have to find the public

Re: apt-get update yields unfamiliar error {Scanned}

2006-10-13 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Friday 13 October 2006 13:39, Wolfgang Mader wrote: So you have to find the public key that was used to sign the packages on http://archive.progeny.com and import it (how was this done?). Ususally something like: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 010908312D230C5F gpg --export --armor

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 13.10.2006 01:14:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:35:02PM +0200, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: You suggest ext3 for the / system. Why would I not just use JFS for everything? It is often easier to repair have access to ext3 (which is ext2+journal) from a

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread dtutty
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:43:33AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might want to stripe the volume for editing accross both disks. Lvm can do that without you having to resrot to raid0. Gives you more speed on file I/O. It's a per volume

Does vlc work for anybody?

2006-10-13 Thread Manolo Díaz
Hi all, When I try to use vlc (0.8.6-svn20061008.debian-1, unstable) the main window is shown but, when I choose the media to reproduce (no matter whether it's a file or a dvd) it crashes with: VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)

Re: Delivery failed

2006-10-13 Thread daniel
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Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Daniel Tryba
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. There is no such thing, it's lvm in a md device that does the trick. -- When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread dtutty
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? If I were to get a second 80 GB SATA drive so that I could raid1 /, might I just as

Re: Does vlc work for anybody?

2006-10-13 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi Manolo It does not work for me and fails with the same error messages so I guess it's a bug. /Gudjon Þann Föstudagur 13 október 2006 14:10 skrifaði Manolo Díaz: Hi all, When I try to use vlc (0.8.6-svn20061008.debian-1, unstable) the main window is shown but, when I choose the

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: Does vlc work for anybody?

2006-10-13 Thread Manolo Díaz
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Manolo It does not work for me and fails with the same error messages so I guess it's a bug. /Gudjon Þann Föstudagur 13 október 2006 14:10 skrifaði Manolo Díaz: Hi all, When I try to use vlc (0.8.6-svn20061008.debian-1, unstable) the main window

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 Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Does vlc work for anybody?

2006-10-13 Thread HXC
Manolo Daz wrote: Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Manolo It does not work for me and fails with the same error messages so I guess it's a bug. /Gudjon ann Fstudagur 13 oktber 2006 14:10 skrifai Manolo Daz: Hi all, When I try to use vlc

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread dtutty
Sorry Len for the off-list post. Wrong 'to', no excuses. Doug. On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:11:19AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:14:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there other issues in choosing ext3 vs jfs? You might be able to install to JFS, but I am

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:07:29AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: You can only add drives to raid5 with a good hardware raid card I believe (fake raids generally suck at raid5 since it is rather cpu intensive and needs a dedicated xor engine).

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:44:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Len for the off-list post. Wrong 'to', no excuses. Doug. On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:11:19AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:14:01PM -0400,

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread dtutty
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:28:10AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: 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

Re: Does vlc work for anybody?

2006-10-13 Thread Manolo Díaz
HXC wrote: Manolo Díaz wrote: Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Manolo It does not work for me and fails with the same error messages so I guess it's a bug. /Gudjon Þann Föstudagur 13 október 2006 14:10 skrifaði Manolo Díaz: Hi all, When I try to use vlc

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: Does vlc work for anybody?

2006-10-13 Thread HXC
Manolo Daz wrote: HXC wrote: Manolo Daz wrote: Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Manolo It does not work for me and fails with the same error messages so I guess it's a bug. /Gudjon ann Fstudagur 13 oktber 2006 14:10 skrifai Manolo Daz:

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-13 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:45:44AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: ... Most machines have at least two ide ports. Just spread every raid1 over different controllers. If you loose a disk, you may loose a disk from two different raid1's but at

Re: Does vlc work for anybody?

2006-10-13 Thread Manolo Díaz
HXC wrote: Manolo Díaz wrote: HXC wrote: Manolo Díaz wrote: Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Manolo It does not work for me and fails with the same error messages so I guess it's a bug. /Gudjon Þann Föstudagur 13 október 2006 14:10 skrifaði Manolo Díaz:

Re: apt-get update yields unfamiliar error {Scanned}

2006-10-13 Thread jmt
On Friday 13 October 2006 13:13, Henry Hollenberg wrote: Hey gang, I'm not familiar with this error: andy:/etc/apt# apt-get update Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release Errhttp://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release Get: 2

Re: Wnie vs amd64

2006-10-13 Thread Matthias Julius
HXC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or wine compiled for 64-bit: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit This is not really compiling for 64 bit. They are compiling a 32bit wine to be run on 64bit Debian (or Gentoo, or...). Instead you could just unpack the 32bit .deb under /emul/ia32-linux/. What was

Re: Does vlc work for anybody?

2006-10-13 Thread S. Sakar
Manolo Díaz wrote: Hi all, When I try to use vlc (0.8.6-svn20061008.debian-1, unstable) the main window is shown but, when I choose the media to reproduce (no matter whether it's a file or a dvd) it crashes with: VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus X Error of failed request: BadWindow

Re: nvidia repository

2006-10-13 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:41:21AM +0200, HXC wrote: Alexander Samad wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:55:02PM +0200, HXC wrote: ...snip... Hi already go those. I should i kno how to build the modules against the kernel, I just thought I had seen somebody put a location to a

off-site backup

2006-10-13 Thread dtutty
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 everything except CD-iso images on one or two and put it in the bank's

Re: off-site backup

2006-10-13 Thread hendrik
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

vim problems

2006-10-13 Thread antonio giulio
Hi, I have installed these packages: vim, vim-common, vim-runtime for vim version 7.0 In versions 7.0 I had highlight text, number of lines on display, etc. Now I have 'strange' settings and /etc/vim/vimrc seems not working if I change it. Have you any idea? Thanks, Giulio -- To