Status

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
before i ask stupid questions is there a support status page for amd64 im interested in buying an FX cpu and then which video card is best supported (non-GPL will do) so nvidia or ati also whats mainboard support like im looking at a pci-e dfi lanparty board yeah so i like games. bah. Dean -- WWW:

Re: Status

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
to the weary traveller i was of course refering to running debian on the aforementioned hardware Dean Zachary Rizer wrote: The page you are looking for is here: http://www.google.com Regards, Zaq --- Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: before i ask stupid questions is there a support status

Re: Status

2005-04-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
Nvidia absolutely has the best drivers of those two. I would not personally buy an ATI for running a Linux system. thats the quick summary im after. thanks also whats mainboard support like Well the list has had a number of messages on that you can find in the archive. I think I have seen

Re: Installing Debain on My AMD64

2005-04-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
I think running a 64bit system is all very nice (and fast), except for software availability. Sure, most software has a working 64bit version (unlike on Windows...), but a few pieces essential for the typical user are missing: most browser plugins, openoffice, wine etc. openoffice wont be far off,

Re: command line only run level?

2005-08-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
if your running a headless system... just dont install X *shrug* X isnt really 'part' of linux, not like how the windows gui is part of windows. its much more comparable to win311 on top of XXdos (where XX is dr, ms, etc) i believe gdm/kdm (although i use wdm) is started in as the last rcX.d

building nvidia drivers

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
hi all just did a clean install on my shiny new amd64 before i post mboard specs (im running on a dfi lanparty ut sli-d) can someone shed some light on why i cant built the nvidia drivers i followed the instructions on alioth it didnt work ;) now for some details (as root)...

Re: building nvidia drivers

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
'return' for the Bus Identifier and for amount of RAM. All other options depend on what you want. Best bet is to select 'simple' for the monitor configuration! Dean Hamstead wrote: hi all just did a clean install on my shiny new amd64 before i post mboard specs (im running on a dfi lanparty

Re: building nvidia drivers

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
Select 'nvidia' for the driver when prompted. Enter whatever you want for the card name, and just press 'return' for the Bus Identifier and for amount of RAM. All other options depend on what you want. Best bet is to select 'simple' for the monitor configuration! Dean Hamstead wrote: hi all

Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
ok huray video works on to sound this board has an Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC which in lspci is CK804 AC97 audio codec. the realtek site claims this is supported with snd-intel8x0 alsa-conf shows up nothing, modprobing it works but the card isnt detected any ideas? this kernel is a

Re: Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 straight from the mirror Dean Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:45:24PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: any ideas? this kernel is a tad old - although its straight out of 'unstable' Which kernel version are you using? does it work with linux-image

Re: Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
or kernel.org). Regards Yannick Dean Hamstead a écrit : 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 straight from the mirror Dean Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:45:24PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: any ideas? this kernel is a tad old - although its straight out of 'unstable' Which

CDROM problems in 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
updating to 2.6.12 has solved a few problems but has brought on the problem of kernel oop's when i try to mount a cdrom in 2.6.8-11-amd-k8 (and generic) cdrom works just fine. obviously this is very annoying before i complain that the nvidia drivers are unstable and only show half my video

Re: soundcard not detected by alsaconf

2005-09-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
i dont know if the drivers not supporting the hardware counts as a bug i think its just new vendor id's and small changes to alsa, fairly normal stuff as new manufacturers ship the same basic chips. Dean you are the 4th person in this list (including me and in my knowledge) who can't get

Re: soundcard not detected by alsaconf

2005-09-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
ive found that 2.6.11 is less stable. ie. using my cdrom causes a kernel oops Dean Yannick - Debian/Linux wrote: Dean Hamstead a écrit : i dont know if the drivers not supporting the hardware counts as a bug i think its just new vendor id's and small changes to alsa, fairly normal stuff

Re: nvidia-kernel 1.0-7676

2005-09-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
whats the easiest way to get and build them? Dean Yannick - Debian/Linux wrote: Dean Hamstead a écrit : any chance of the latest nvidia driver becoming a package the current version is seriously unstable on my GT6600 (pci-e) infact, any 3d things cause crashes. unreal tournament 2004

unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
is there any trick to getting ut2004 working? gltron and tuxracer both work well, ut just hangs when it tries to get into opengl hints? Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
i wish i could get into the game to have this bug! does ut2k4 access the cdrom? as the 2.6.12 kernel has a kernel oops when i try to mount the cdrom (other than that it works better than 2.6.8) any thoughts? is there a 2.6.12-2 or 2.6.13 deb around? Dean Alexander Nagel wrote: Hi, i cannot

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
im running debian-amd64 sid also nvidia gefore 6600gt pcie nvidia drivers 1.0-7676 (previous versions dont like my card) k 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 3d acceleration is working glxgears gives 3000+fps tuxracers works nicely at around 500fps gltron also with around 1000fps. needless to say though i

new kernel

2005-09-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
is there a new kernel release schedueled soon? as in debain package. im hoping for some 2.6.13 action as 2.6.12 has murdered my cdrom Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
when using my cdrom in both the k7 and k8 optimised kernels but not in the generic (generic i386) kernels. so i would say there is something wrong with optimising the driver when compiling. who do i report this bug to? Dean Alexander Nagel wrote: Am Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:00:15 +0200 schrieb Dean

Re: Migrate running IA32 system to Debian AMD 64?

2005-09-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
you could change to a 64bit kernel i believe but as for swapping out all your software in 5 mins... chances are youll muck something up. so from a system admins point of view i would seriously advise you to get another machine, set it up, copy your data across. then when you are happy, swap

Re: Backing up a dual opteron server with an Pentium 4 server

2005-09-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
depends on 'what' the p4 is taking over. if its just webserving or something, but application servers are more complicated for web services etc that just have config files it shouldnt be a problem Dean Steve Dondley wrote: I've got a Pentium 4 web server that I'm going to replace with a Dual

Re: Backing up a dual opteron server with an Pentium 4 server

2005-09-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
of mysql, even less of a worry. apache. static pages np. you might have problems with compiled cgi stuff. and zend compiled php. pos Dean Steve Dondley wrote: The big services on the server: MySQL, Apache, and Postfix. On 9/22/05, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: depends on 'what' the p4

Re: mplayer

2005-10-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
the rtc device wouldnt be the problem, its just the real time clock which mplayer can use to make sure the movies are played at the correct speed, on my ibook this device doesnt exist and things run fine - mplayer uses an internal algorithm instead. your error output isnt very helpful, try a

Re: mplayer

2005-10-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
. FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo). Can't restore text mode: Invalid argument Exiting... (End of file) Why would root not have a problem with the -vo option but a normal user would? Clyde On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:49:10PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote

Re: mplayer

2005-10-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
at 08:01:20PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: are you running x as root? do other applications all work? could be some device permissions. does the framebuffer driver work? Dean hjalmar wrote: I have tried differnet -vo options but get the same result when I run it as a normal user. When run

Re: Problem installing debian amd-64 on a HP

2005-10-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
your mboard likely as pata and sata connectors if you have sata raid just turn it off. its most likely a phat lie and all it is is a bios hack to load from software RAID'd drives. it boots then hands over to the cpu. in terms of performance etc there is no reason not to just turn it off and use

Re: Problem installing debian amd-64 on a HP

2005-10-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
update your kernel to 2.6.12 actually, can i recommend updating to 'testing' Dean Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:34:34PM +0200, Andreas wrote: Hi, I got the DX5150 up and running today, thanks all for your help! This is how I did it: Booted into expert mode with

Re: problems with the clock???

2005-10-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
most likely windows is asuming your clock is set to local time and debian is assuming its set to gmt (or other) Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone run into the problem where one's clock keeps changing time on it's own? I still switch to the 32-bit version of Debian, and now and then to

Re: Help with dual-processor's machine

2005-10-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
ive had some serious problems with the 'k8' series (bugs reported) dont give up without trying 'generic' if you have probs Dean Alexander Charbonnet wrote: Yes, SMP is the setting that allows the kernel to see more than one CPU. Just run: apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp

Re: Help with dual-processor's machine

2005-10-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
indeed grub, lilo, silo, yaboot, - whatever your choice. good labels are invaluable Dean lordSauron wrote: though make sure that grub is booting the smp one - otherwise you'll be using the old one and having installed the new won't have done you any good at all. -- === GCB v3.1 === GCS d-(+)

Re: Quake 4

2005-10-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
you realise its a 32 bit binary? Dean Zaq Rizer wrote: The linux client came out yesterday. Has anyone gotten in it working in debian-amd64? Mine is segfaulting and I can't figure out why for the life of me. Thanks! ~Zaq -- My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises he makes

Re: OpenGL games in Amd64

2005-10-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
youll have to build 7676 drivers the source debs are at http://people.debian.org/~rdonald i havent got ut2004 to work in amd64 (or 32 for that reason... something 6600gt related) but you just compile quake3 from source. go get it from svn at icculus.org (something like that). it makes straight

Re: Quake 4

2005-10-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
For me looks like known problem with libs. Maybe you haven't properly created libs cache for 32bit libs. Sometimes after upgrading main system or chroot you have to run ldconfig to update libs cache and with Doom it usually was helpful. Q4 uses the same engine so it may help here I've tried

Re: Quake 4

2005-10-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
video card, video card bus (pci/agp) and video driver revision would be the best help Dean Levi Bard wrote: On 10/21/05, Zaq Rizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The linux client came out yesterday. Has anyone gotten in it working in debian-amd64? Mine is segfaulting and I can't figure out why

Re: DVD/CD Woes

2005-10-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
try the 'generic' kernel. the k8 kernel segfaults (could be a page fault) when i try to use my cdrom in anyway. but generic is fine. ive submitted a bug report. im not convinced that maintainers read them though. as Eterm also misbehaves on amd64 and the bugreport hasnt recieved any attention.

unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
has anyone got unofficial kernel debs ? i could build my own but im just trying to fix these damned nvidia drivers. im looking for 2.6.14 or something Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
Dean Hamstead wrote: has anyone got unofficial kernel debs ? i could build my own but im just trying to fix these damned nvidia drivers. im looking for 2.6.14 or something Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
generic as k8 pagefaults when i try to use my cdrom which is frustrating Dean lordSauron wrote: are you running the -k8 or the -generic kernel? I know that the -k8 works perfectly on nForce 2 chipsets (well, the one found in the ECS EliteGroup nForce 2-A board, anyways...) -- To

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
well everything else works bar ut2004. and you have a point about putting up with it i have a dfi-lanparty ut sli board (nf4) and 6600gt 256mb pcie dual sata wd raptors (36gb) its worth going to k8 just to see what happens Dean lordSauron wrote: I don't know... you might have to survive

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
I hate you : ) AMD Athlon64 3000+, 512 Mb RAM, 27 Gb ATA133 HDD, nVidia GeForce 2 MX 64 MB AGP 4x, and a great 8x CDROM, with a wonderful ECS EliteGroup nForce 2-A (nForce 2 chipset) I hope to get a nvidia geforce 6600 256mb AGP 8x and a SATA150 80gb HDD so I can Cedega my little life away : )

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
in general, with very little for ia32. so its worth tracking with amd64 but not so much with ia32 Dean Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:36:29PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: hence, has anyone got newer kernel debs than those the official deb repositories (2.6.11 is the lastest

Re: Problems with ALSA in AMD64

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
try 2.6.12, ive found it much much better Dean Santiago Kci wrote: I have been installed on my computer the ALSA drivers to play sound. They seem to work fine but it crash down after a while when I play a soundfile. It seems to be a problem with the port since in the distribution i386 were

consistent kernel oops

2005-10-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
happens when i try to mount a cdrom mount /cdrom (see attached dmesg output) does the same for both 2.6.12-amd64-generic and 2.6.12-amd64-k8 its something to do with ide-scsi, rmmod'ing it also gives a kernel oops. help! (please) Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN:

Re: Unofficial amd64 kernel images?

2005-10-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
i just built one 2.6.14-rc4 no less its faster than the 2.6.12 and i just used the 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 config file (and hit enter for the rest) alsa seems to know my sound card better. however eject, mount etc still all cause kernel oops see dmesg i sent earlier today Dean On Thu, October

unreal tournament 2004 for x86_64 on debian

2005-10-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
is anyone out there running ut2004 x86_64 with nvidia drivers on debian for amd64 im pulling my hair out hear Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: consistent kernel oops

2005-10-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
{strlen+2} RSP 81003bfddc30 CR2: Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: happens when i try to mount a cdrom mount /cdrom (see attached dmesg output) does the same for both 2.6.12-amd64-generic and 2.6.12-amd64-k8 its something to do with ide-scsi, rmmod'ing it also gives a kernel oops

Re: unreal tournament 2004 for x86_64 on debian

2005-10-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
2004 for x86_64 on debian Please let us all know when you get it working, as I miss these as well on my 64studio (yeah I know I should be making music, not playin' games!!) Cheers Bob Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu October 27 2005 11:20 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote: is anyone out there running ut2004

Re: consistent kernel oops

2005-10-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
good point however, still shouldnt happen. so i still hope some clever kernel hacker will take note Dean Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead said: not sure what the deal is with this, i hope some clever kernel chaps can help me here this happens with either

Re: nvidia drivers not working in linux-2.6.14

2005-10-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
did you apply all the patches from the nvidia support forums? youll need to apt-get source nvidia-graphics-drviers (from rdonald's stuff) build them and install then go to /usr/src/ and unpack the nvidia-kernel-souce cd into the directory then grab all the patches and patch with 'patch -p1

Re: nVidia, acpi, apic and PCI controller

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
is that an nforce4? mine has ck804 also and is nforce4 but has nvraid rather than sil. but anyway yes it is a known issue but im sure it should be solved, my board doesnt have the same problem so i thought it was. that video card is comically old. it made me laugh thinking how old that is

Re: nVidia, acpi, apic and PCI controller

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
Dean Hamstead wrote: is that an nforce4? mine has ck804 also and is nforce4 but has nvraid rather than sil. if you mean the mainboard, i've no idea. i didn't buy the hardware, i'm just an administrator. 'lspci -v -s 00:00.0' gives: :00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory

Re: Installer for amd64?

2005-11-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ you might consider the daily builds. i find amd64 is moving so fast that its worth it. especially kernek 2.6.12 over 2.6.8. there was a huge jump in hardware support, 2.6.14 seems to have some big jumps also, but not as huge as 2.6.8 to 2.6.12 Dean

Re: nvidia (graphics) driver pain

2005-11-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
just move the module into the correct directory Dean Gilles wrote: Hi. Try the advice in this post I seen on Debian User. http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/f126e8f271acbbb5/2b3371f32bd0729f?lnk=stq=kernel+2.6.14+prepare+debian+userrnum=1#2b3371f32bd0729f

Re: nvidia (graphics) driver pain

2005-11-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
recompile your kernel with a less silly name then rebuild nvidia :P Dean Gilles wrote: Hi. just move the module into the correct directory Done. But... # modprobe nvidia FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.14-vs2.1.0-rc5+g1/nvidia/nvidia.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or

Re: nvidia (graphics) driver pain

2005-11-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
nv doesnt support 6600gt but im running 2.6.14-1 with 1.0-7676 (+forum patches) works fine. except ut crashes always Dean A J Stiles wrote: It seems a lot of people have been having nothing but trouble with the closed-source nVidia drivers: trouble that can be attributed directly to the

Re: nvidia (graphics) driver pain

2005-11-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
why dont you get the nvidia-graphics-driver 1.0-7676 source debs from http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/ build all that, then go patch the kernel-source with the minor (although important) updates from the nvidia linux support forums and then build the kernel module. im running 2.6.14-1 as we

Re: nvidia (graphics) driver pain

2005-11-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
I'm not sure I understand. The kernel itself must be patched for the driver to work? This is not mentioned in the README files. no the /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz untargz it, then apply the patches, retar then run module assistant PLEASE NOT THIS ISNT IN THE NVIDIA README. and

Re: nvidia (graphics) driver pain

2005-11-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
I never patched the 7676 driver, I have installed it the Debian way, I have both Debian kernels and self-built kernels. I have a 7800GT. I have never ever had any problems with the nvidia driver. _BUT_ I have never ever touched the nvidia-installer since my last fresh install. Many people try it

Re: nvidia 7174 + 2.6.12 kernel problem (sid)

2005-11-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
try drviver as 'nvidia' not 'nv' dean Grahame White wrote: I installed the nvidia kernel module using : #m-a i-a -t nvidia Next I installed nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-glx After that I changed the driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf from nv to nvidia and commented out the Load dri line. I

Re: nvidia 7174 + 2.6.12 kernel problem (sid)

2005-11-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
try the 1.0-7676 driver Dean Grahame White wrote: On Saturday 05 November 2005 20:21, Dean Hamstead wrote: try drviver as 'nvidia' not 'nv' Sorry my mistake. I did try it as nvidia but I cut and paste the previous email after I'd changed it back to nv to get a working gui. So no nvidia

Re: nvidia 7174 + 2.6.12 kernel problem (sid)

2005-11-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
detailed instructions if you would like. alas there is no amd64 wiki so i cant just wack this stuff up. and the amd64 howto is getting painfully out of date. Dean Grahame White wrote: On Saturday 05 November 2005 21:10, Dean Hamstead wrote: try the 1.0-7676 driver Dean Grahame White wrote

Re: eeyes

2005-11-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
i used to be a fan of it, but it seems to have disappeared for whatever reason. check out gqview Dean On Mon, November 7, 2005 10:47 pm, Olivier Bornet said: Hello, I often use eeyes (http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/graphics/eeyes). Is someone knowing if there is a amd64 package for

Re: eeyes

2005-11-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
knowing if there is a amd64 package for it ? (or even if it is replaced by another tool on the Debian repositories). Reply by Dean Hamstead: check out gqview The intended Gnome standard is now eog (Eye of Gnome). I personally use qiv (Quick Image Viewer). Both are supported Debian packages

Re: unreal tournament 2004 for x86_64 on debian

2005-11-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
://liflg.org/ download the patches from here: http://www.unrealtournament.com/ut2004/downloads.php On 10/28/05, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the nvidia driver use 'nvidia' as their driver get 7676 from http://people.debian.org/~rdonald youll have to build them entirely from source

Re: Fwd: RAID

2005-11-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
I'm about as absent minded as you can get. I really wish that they'd add a reply-to part to this list, b/c I almost never remember to send to the list, and not to the sender... I know it's supposed to cause major lag on the mail servers, but in my little case it'll probably far outweigh the lag

tweaking and testing openal

2005-11-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
openal is the problem with my ut2004 install i recall someone mentioning where to configure openal but the archives wont give up that information. does anyone know where the openal configurations are and also if there are programs to do arbitrary tests on openal? cheers Dean -- WWW:

Re: amd64: Sarge or Etch?

2005-11-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
sid really isnt that scarey. Dean Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: You must follow the same way in amd64 sarge for servers and for workstation if you have the courage you could be able to follow sid. On 11/10/05, Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm taking the plunge and building

Re: amd64: Sarge or Etch?

2005-11-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
the downside is, as i recall sarge uses k 2.6.8 and hw support has gone quite far since then, 2.6.12 being vastly better and 2.6.14 being noticable better especially with nvidia based hw (nf4, nvraid, nforce eth etc) Dean mike wrote: FWIW, this is most likely what I'll be doing as well. :)

Re: How to install nvidia driver

2005-11-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
here here is that likely to happen though? Dean A J Stiles wrote: On Monday 14 November 2005 11:18, Jo Shields wrote: Nobody buys a £400 graphics card for slow 2D If I had paid £400 for a piece of hardware, I would expect it to come with a neatly-bound programmer's manual explaining

Re: Ip own modem/router ADSL

2005-11-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
your router most likely has a web based configuration alternatively traceroute will give it away Dean antonio giulio wrote: Hi, how can I see my ip modem (it's a router too, and I connect to it via dhcp)? with ip route show I can see just local address 192.168.1.1, but I wanna know real

Re: Ip own modem/router ADSL

2005-11-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
log into your adsl router Dean antongiulio05 wrote: your router most likely has a web based configuration alternatively traceroute will give it away with a simple: traceroute google.com I cannot see anything, just 192.168.1.1 Giulio -- WWW: http://deanpatrick.tk LAN:

Re: nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion

2005-12-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
there was, there may not be any more Dean Colin Ingram wrote: These sources provide the 7676 driver in (hopefully) easy to compile/install packages. deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/amd64/ deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/all/ Is there a

etch graphical installer

2005-12-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
having just installed fedora *shudder* in my quest to make my 3d card work, can i suggest that for newer nvidia cards that the 'vesa' driver be used not the 'nv'. the 'nv' turning my computer into a jibbering mess. this is with a 6600gt, i presume newer cards will have similar problems. ive

Re: Forcedeth ethernet driver hangs

2005-12-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
the forcedeth driver is reverse engineered, although nvidia now recommends it (yeah no comment). you could try the nvidia driver and see if thats better also forcedeth development is very much full steam ahead as its a now a very popular card. i personally have one on my dfi-lanparty (nf4)

Re: fresh.install

2005-12-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
use a nightly install cd Dean Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all, gonna do a fresh install of debian-amd64 testing ; what's the best filename.img to use? Thanks, Chris w. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia suspend2

2005-12-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
agp support is most likely being built as a module? something like that as the nvidia driver uses its one agp code. regardless, i believe this is a known issue with the new driver. i encourage you to flame the nvidia support forums as they can actually get in and fix things (being proprietry

Re: Help to get VmWare run!!

2005-12-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
you would most likely need to run vmware in a proper chroot the other problem is kernel modules, im not sure if they work for 64bit kernels. Dean dclemen wrote: Hi I have problem to get work VmWare. I read some post and try these solutions, but I don't get to work it. I have AMD64 system and

yesterdays and todays netinstall cd images

2005-12-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
just trying to use yesterdays and todays netboot install disk images (the 100mb ones), they cant find the modules.dep file. im not sure if this is an image problem or perhaps my cdrw. can someone with a little bandwidth verify this? the cd boots, the kernel loads then the console spews out

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
i burn the isos on windows using nero. ive never had problems. and ive burnt debian (various platforms), fedora (various), red hat images once upon a time, turbolinux, gentoo, freebsd openbsd etc winrar should be able to open the iso's in windows or use iso buster. further pre-burn testing

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
dont use the nvidia binary drivers. the forcedeth driver is vastly better. which debian installer are you using? sarge should support it. if not then get a nightly installer cd (Etch) i believe the 2.6.11 kernel was the first with the forcedeth driver the marvel card should be supported in

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
pieces of hardware started working well. since then 100%) your motherboard would seem about the same as mine. dont give up yet! debian will run very nicely on your machine. Dean On Tue, December 20, 2005 12:37 am, Aaron Stromas said: On 12/19/05, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dont use

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
enlightenment is still the only real window manager that said i run windowmaker on my ibook Dean i haven't been paying much attention to the issue. frankly, both exim or postfix, cyrus, firefox and eclipse run fine under gnome, and that was good enough for me. I hear you. I've hopped

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
I see a lot of complaints on the list ... repeated with some regularity, but few new complaints. nvidia is the biggest problem :( Sarge is the reliable one. Unstable is unreliable and etch/testing is mostly useless on amd64. The script handling our testing migration is suboptimal and needs

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
Don't be *that* mean to them... It's far better than XP (which is known to spaz out and totally break firefox in a way that prevents it from working even after reinstalling the program! That *really* sux to, since ffx is the only usable browser for XP) opera is quite good Dean -- To

Re: System Monitor shows only 1 CPU (2 present)

2006-01-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
use top the cli is best anyway ;) Dean Andrew Sharp wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Hi all, I'm running an AMD64 dual core processor, debian64 stable. Sources.list is attached. My problem is that System Monitor 2.8.1 lists only 1 CPU. I have a dual

Re: Eterm broken on AMD64

2006-01-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
whos the package maintainer for eterm? this bug has been around for about 2 years Dean Andrew Sharp wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:02:52PM +0100, Andreas Fester wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I suppose you are talking about bug #332781, garbage characters in

Re: Eterm broken on AMD64

2006-01-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
thats kind of what im saying, surely the patch should have made it into the packages and or up stream =) Dean Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:27:14PM +0100, Juanjo Garcia wrote: This is just to report that the same exact bug is to be found with Eterm in Debian- UltraSPARC (also

Re: Upgrade to Kernel 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp

2006-01-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
use aptitude or dselect to find the package 2.6.8 was pretty bad, may i suggest you go to 2.6.14 or 15 Dean Nonno wrote: Hi to All, please I'm new of Debian, I'm trying to install Kernel 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp for my dual Xeon system; now Kernel 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4 is installed so debian don't

Re: iTunes in 32bit chroot?

2006-01-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
dont forget 'gtkpod' for all your ipoding needs. except buying music... but thats what the cd store is for ;) Dean Craig Hagerman wrote: Hi, Just curious - does anyone here use crossover office (or wine) and been able to run iTunes successfully? I would really love to run iTunes on my debian

Re: Upgrade to Kernel 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp

2006-01-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
quite seriously, wouldnt... wget ftp://ftp.xx.debian.. ../kernel-image-xxx.deb dpkg -i kernel-image-xxx.deb work, perhaps a few supporting packages might need updating Dean Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:37:02PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: use aptitude or dselect

Re: Upgrade to Kernel 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp

2006-01-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
chip) im sure there are deeper architectural changes that are of benefit also. i recall nvidia whinging about changes that broke their drivers. but thats really their own fault. Dean Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:14:31AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: quite seriously, wouldnt

Re: AMD 64 CPU Chip Selection Question

2006-01-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
i was going to, and then i decided the $500 difference was better left on my credi card ;) Dean Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: I mean about a debian in a FX machine... On 1/24/06, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the FX chip is the gaming model or something its a little faster and costs

locale still causing segfaults

2006-02-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
im running sid here, and configuring locale is always causing segfaults. its something wierd and obscure as configuring locale in chroot-32 runs fine its actually locale-gen that is causing the problem /snip Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_AU.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen:

Re: Dropping to a shell

2006-03-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
did you install sid or sarge? (looks like sid) i also cant see what sort of disk controller the machine uses. Dean William Humphrey wrote: I am using the latest official testing version of debian (kernel 2.6.15) on a DL580 G3 with Quad Procs. I used the netinst image. Once I installed the

Re: mysql dependancy problems.

2006-03-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
try mysql -u root -p then hit enter if that doesnt work, you can just delete the mysql database but you will have to recreate it and then all the users there in you may also be denied access via 127.0.0.1:3306 but allowed access via /tmp/mysql.sock (or wherever your mysql socket may be) your

Mboard support report...

2006-05-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
ive been running on a 'DFI Lanpary UT NF4 SLI-D' with an amd64 4000+ nvidia 6600gt pcie 1gig of corsair xms pro ram 2xwd sata raptors (36gig, running in soft raid. no bios assistance) debian amd64 for some time now (very really run windows on it) mele:~# lspci :00:00.0 Memory controller:

Re: sources.list ???

2006-05-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
enlightenment is awesome. nor bars or docks or loading bays etc just screen real estate. Dean I would recommend xfce, it's a lot lighter, faster and works just fine, if colours and things are a must, try enlightenment... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: sources.list ???

2006-05-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
you clearly don't have a 16 year old sister ;) Dean Corey Hickey wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: enlightenment is awesome. nor bars or docks or loading bays etc just screen real estate. Properly configured, Enlightenment is a great way to keep people from using your computer until you show

Re: sources.list ???

2006-05-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
ahh ok, so unstable amd64 is now in the main arcvices Dean Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:37:44AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: speaking of sources.list, is there a good etch/sid (unstable testing) mirror in australia? i was using mirror.pacific.net.au (huray unmetered

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