Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-12 Thread Keith Schweikhard
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:29:54PM -0800, Keith Schweikhard wrote: No luck on the MAC addresses being printed on the bottom. I've tried to locate the chip on the IEEE website without luck. It looks like the MAC address that is getting

Re: How to shift backwards on nvidia's driver?

2007-11-12 Thread Keith Schweikhard
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hello, According to your email you are running the 100.14.11 nvidia drivers. In looking at sid the latest drivers are 100.14.19. I am currently running these drivers on my nvidia cards and am having no problems with instability. You may want

Re: How to shift backwards on nvidia's driver?

2007-11-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: Hi, I'm in the predicament of needing to have OpenGL working on my box, which already has the latest X updates (this is in Sid). The instability issues exists with the driver I have, so I need to back down to one which doesn't show the

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-12 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:31:31AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I don't consider it a real issue either, but it is still something. I am not sure why sparc tends to run 32bit for most programs and only 64bit for select cases where it helps. Certainly x86_64 seems to be better than i386 in

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:29:54PM -0800, Keith Schweikhard wrote: No luck on the MAC addresses being printed on the bottom. I've tried to locate the chip on the IEEE website without luck. It looks like the MAC address that is getting posted on both machines is in a reverse byte order.

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:46:00PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: Taking the same code, going from 32-bit to 64-bit will cause a slowdown, period. The only way to overcome that is if you can write better code in 64-bit mode than you could in 32-bit mode. There are apps that indeed benefit from

Re: How to shift backwards on nvidia's driver?

2007-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:29:54AM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I am having much problems with nvidias driver higher than 100.14.09. My system freezes unexpectly. This is caused by the binary part of the nvidia driver and effects mostly 64-bit systems. Not every graphic card is effected,

openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread helices
I have now experienced this three (3) times; so, it is chronic : However, it is intermittent. Sometimes, when opening and/or manipulating an XLS created on winders; the desktop freezes. The mouse pointer moves; but, no alt-tab; no menuse; no ctrl-fkeys; nothing. When I ssh into this box, the

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
helices: Sometimes, when opening and/or manipulating an XLS created on winders; the desktop freezes. The mouse pointer moves; but, no alt-tab; no menuse; no ctrl-fkeys; nothing. Did you check /var/log/syslog and (IIRC) /var/log/xorg.0.log? Another thing that comes to my mind: OOo has an

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: I have now experienced this three (3) times; so, it is chronic : However, it is intermittent. Sometimes, when opening and/or manipulating an XLS created on winders; the desktop freezes. The mouse pointer moves; but, no alt-tab; no menuse; no

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-12 Thread Rob Sims
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:46:57AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Given the amount of ram in your average desktop is getting close to requiring a 64bit OS, there is really no point designing anything new with 32bit operation in mind. People have to switch to 64bit OSs if they want to be

Re: How to shift backwards on nvidia's driver?

2007-11-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 09:29 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: Hi, I'm in the predicament of needing to have OpenGL working on my box, which already has the latest X updates (this is in Sid). The instability issues exists with the driver

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread helices
* Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:17:17:30+0100] scribed: helices: Sometimes, when opening and/or manipulating an XLS created on winders; the desktop freezes. The mouse pointer moves; but, no alt-tab; no menuse; no ctrl-fkeys; nothing. Did you check /var/log/syslog Around

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread helices
* Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:17:31:27+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: I have now experienced this three (3) times; so, it is chronic : However, it is intermittent. Sometimes, when opening and/or manipulating an XLS created on winders; the

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: * Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:17:31:27+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: I have now experienced this three (3) times; so, it is chronic : However, it is intermittent. Sometimes, when opening

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
helices: * Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:17:17:30+0100] scribed: helices: Sometimes, when opening and/or manipulating an XLS created on winders; the desktop freezes. The mouse pointer moves; but, no alt-tab; no menuse; no ctrl-fkeys; nothing. Did you check /var/log/syslog

Re: How to shift backwards on nvidia's driver?

2007-11-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 09:29 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: Hi, I'm in the predicament of needing to have OpenGL working on my box, which already has the latest X updates (this is

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread helices
* Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:18:53:47+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: * Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:17:31:27+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: I have now experienced this three (3) times; so, it is

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:40:40AM -0700, Rob Sims wrote: I have and use 6GB in a 32 bit machine, and have for years. Sure, no one process can use 3GB, (3/1 user/kernel split) but the machine handles two 3G processes just fine. I believe the limit for machines like this is 64G. Sure, but

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: * Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:18:53:47+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: * Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:17:31:27+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: I

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread helices
* Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:20:23:52+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: * Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:18:53:47+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: * Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: * Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:20:23:52+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: * Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:11:12:18:53:47+0100] scribed: Am Montag 12 November 2007 schrieb helices: *

Re: openoffice locks graphic video ???

2007-11-12 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Mon, 2007-11-12 10:04:54 -0600, helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now experienced this three (3) times; so, it is chronic : However, it is intermittent. Sometimes, when opening and/or manipulating an XLS created on winders; the desktop freezes. The mouse pointer moves; but, no

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-12 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On 11/12/07, Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:31:31AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I don't consider it a real issue either, but it is still something. I am not sure why sparc tends to run 32bit for most programs and only 64bit for select cases where it

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-12 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
On 11/12/07, Keith Schweikhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 November 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:29:54PM -0800, Keith Schweikhard wrote: No luck on the MAC addresses being printed on the bottom. I've tried to locate the chip on the IEEE website

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:36:27PM -0600, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote: In my opinion certainly all the applications wrote in the past has no designed to use 64 bits operations and many algorithms could have beneffits of this, if in the same bus (64 bits) are you only use 32= bits operands there

Re: forcedeth generates Invalid MAC address message

2007-11-12 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
FYI On 11/12/07, Mike Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a fix on the Debian forums. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14331highlight=forcedeth You edit your /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file. remove all old entries your not using then add this one ( SUBSYSTEM==net,

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-12 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:46:57AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: They also deprecated MMX and x87 (hence reducing the old crap to carry around on centext switches), and switched to sse match (which is much faster and not stack based), and add some new instructions that can help code in

audio performance.

2007-11-12 Thread C Wakefield
Dear all, I have a Soundblaster Audigy LS that I use for sound. (the on-board Intel HD audio device (driver - snd-hda-intel) was unreliable a year ago when I did my first install.) It works fine for system sounds and the occasional movie, but playing some mp3's I find extraneous sounds