RE: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Zrin
Seconded. acpupsd works fine on an AMD64 system. true. follow the debian readme. first test how your ups reacts to -killpower. new APC devices have killpower delay, and in that case you should send the killpower command in the doshutdown event in apccontrol - you have to add one line as

Re: alsaconf locks up my system

2006-05-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 17:09:26 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 13:32:31 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: I'm running a A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with dual core amd64. My kernel is 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp. I also run kernel 2.6.14.4. With either kernel, I have no

Re: adm64 and multiarch

2006-05-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alexander Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi sorry if this email is a bit off topic, but still enough to ask I think. What is the status of multiarch and debian (specifically amd64 port). I like lots of other users have migrated to amd64, I am finding it a bit of a pain to get some

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:55:19PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: I would like to protect from sparks and temporary power failures my (continuous) computational work on a workstation (still to be built because of the difficulty of getting mainboard Tyan K8WE S2895SA3NRF). We already have

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 06:14:59PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: I forgot to mention that for my two amd64 dual opterons set the transformer is 600W. Would the 540W of APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA be enough? The 1000W model is priced 470 euros in Italy. Well a system is amost never using the

Re: Problem booting Debian amd64 3.1r0a

2006-05-15 Thread Marcus Beranek
On Friday 12 May 2006 12:41, Hans wrote: Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2006 13:08 schrieb Alex Page: I'm trying to install Debian amd64 3.1r0a on a dual em64t Xeon box, with SCSI hard drives and an IDE CD-ROM. I've previously had Debian i386 running on the same hardware. Once I've completed the

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Len: Thanks for all information. I forgot two possible problems: it deals of a workstation for very heavy computation (quantum mechanical), not a server. Although I'll benefit of full property (not having to share cpu time with colleagues, such as in the institution) it will be at the very

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:29:09PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: I forgot two possible problems: it deals of a workstation for very heavy computation (quantum mechanical), not a server. Although I'll benefit of full property (not having to share cpu time with colleagues, such as in the

software raid jfs

2006-05-15 Thread Karl Schmidt
Is anyone using software raid (mdraid) and/or jfs with success on AMD64? I finally finished an install on a Tyan S2865 and was installing some extra packages - I suddenly had massive file corruption and an unbootable system.

Re: Re: Problem booting Debian amd64 3.1r0a

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Page
Maybe, the scsi-driver is not seen properly. So it will not find the hard drives, and cannot load needed modules. my suggestion to fix this: Make a kernel with all needed drivers statically compiled in and no initrd on another machine using make-kpkg. Then start with the installation

Re: software raid jfs

2006-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:52:04PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: Is anyone using software raid (mdraid) and/or jfs with success on AMD64? I finally finished an install on a Tyan S2865 and was installing some extra packages - I suddenly had massive file corruption and an unbootable system. I

Re: software raid jfs

2006-05-15 Thread Karl Schmidt
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:52:04PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: Is anyone using software raid (mdraid) and/or jfs with success on AMD64? I finally finished an install on a Tyan S2865 and was installing some extra packages - I suddenly had massive file corruption and an

Re: software raid jfs

2006-05-15 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Karl Schmidt wrote: I'm now thinking it might be the NForce4 chipset - I need to find out where I might snag a newer kernel for sarge - and I am concerned that there is a change about the initrd that might make this a problem? yes, but of course this is only a problem if

Re: software raid jfs

2006-05-15 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote: backports.org might have one along with the required tool updates. At least they do for i386. I think they have amd64 packages too but I haven't checked. They do. bye Giacomo -- _

VT8237 and installation problem

2006-05-15 Thread Teo|256
Hello, I'm trying to install debian sarge (I've also tried testing) in a pc with MSI mainbord with VIA VT8237 southbridge. The problems come at the beginning, just after the boot option. The final result is a kernel panic. I've tried all avaible boot option: safe, linux26, acpi=off, noapic,

Re: software raid jfs

2006-05-15 Thread Karl Schmidt
Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006, Karl Schmidt wrote: I'm now thinking it might be the NForce4 chipset - I need to find out where I might snag a newer kernel for sarge - and I am concerned that there is a change about the initrd that might make this a problem? yes, but of course