Re: complaints about systemd

2014-10-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
I don't see the similarity. They are all files on a disk? :P Dean On 2014-10-22 00:32, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:47:51AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: I think BSD style init is underrated. Controlling everything in rc.conf is wonderful :) Lets have that in Debian

Re: What is the evidence for and against systemd?

2014-10-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
see the specifics). I'm all in favour of hardware memory protection and the like separating disparate system components as a step in the direction of safety, and I already deplore the monolithicity of the Linux kernel. (Perhaps formal verification would be an adequate substitute, but we're

Re: complaints about systemd

2014-10-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
I will weigh in. In the FOSS world - I could care less what people decide to code up and run. If you like it, go for it. Scratch that itch and share your code. I liked the look of systemd early on, but this was in comparison to upstart. Debian's dash based init scripts always struck me as

Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

2013-06-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
RedHat are focusing their product on suiting the needs and idiosyncrasies of companies that 'think' in the 'old iron' mentality. RedHat have moved from being disruptive in the small end of town (start ups, small ISP's etc) to chasing large fortune 500 companies. They have unashamedly shaped

Re: Cannot use Debian

2013-04-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
in the 32bit version, cat /proc/cpuinfo and paste it here. 2006 should be new enough and generally the boot disk will tell you quite clearly that 64bit isnt supported, the full error would be helpful if you can paste it. the crash could be acpi related. try noacpi as a kernel option Dean On

Re: Network Install Debian

2013-04-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
For a network install, whilst you boot from some form of attached media (cd/dvd/usb) all the actual .deb files are retrieved via http/ftp/whatever then copied to disk Dean On 22/04/13 14:57, wrote: Debian has several ways to install, but I don't understand about Network Install

Re: HP DV7 amd64 Turin x2 RM-70

2013-01-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
blacklist the radeon driver and see how you go (remember to rebuild initrd), then install the newest ati driver Dean On 08/01/2013, at 6:25 PM, sub...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tiandao, I've not seen the spec, but i guess your laptop has an ati as vga card. I know of many problems caused by

Re: Network problem

2011-12-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
don't know how to do some long iperf (internet performance??) tests... what exactly do you mean? I don't know what would be useful... regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:30:29 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: No probs perhaps stress test it with some long iperf tests ? Dean On 28

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Michael Wine is constantly rolling forward, with releases monthly and more. The do differentiate between 'stable' and 'development' releases - though in almost every case the 'development' release is what people are running. Unfortunately debian tends to stick with the 'stable' release, which

Re: Network problem

2011-12-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
: atl1c I tried unloading and loading the driver but it didn't work though. I'll try some of your other suggestions. Maybe I'll find something. regexes On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:59:46 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has

Re: Network problem

2011-12-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
The kernel may not be aware that something is wrong. Your email has garbled which driver is in use, could you please clarify and also which kernel version are you using? Some steps i suggest are... - see if traffic is leaving your machine (mirror ports, hubs or a cross over to another

Re: Network problem

2011-12-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
*bc*sc*i* depends: vermagic: 2.6.32-5-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions Maybe a kernel upgrade would help... I guess I'll try that first. On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0100, Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: here is the driver version in k3.1 root@astrotrain:/home/dean

OpenVZ in Wheezy

2011-12-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
Howdy, Has anyone used Wheezy as an OpenVZ host? Apparently the openvz patches are merged now in the default kernel (see http://wiki.debian.org/OpenVz) Though vzctl has other ideas... root@astrotrain:/lib/modules# service vz start Running kernel is not an OpenVZ kernel The openvz website

Re: Need a html5 browser for squeeze

2011-12-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
FOSS only? how about opera? On 12/9/2011, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: Not sure which way to approach this: backports does not have a more recent iceweasel. I could try to install from iceweasel 8.0 from unstable, but last time I did that it produced a big mess - wanting to bring

Re: no kernel driver for sound card

2011-04-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
my snd-virtuoso stopped loading at boot recently. i have concluded its something in userspace, as booting to older were-working kernels doesnt work either. i manually load snd-virtuoso the relogin to X and everything is fine. gnome doesnt seem to handle soundcards being added mid session,

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
Your best bet is to capture the pertinent files in /etc and /home from 32bit of course, any databases etc. should also be preserved and log files stored if they need to be held for legal reasons etc. then copy them in to their new homes in a fresh 64bit install ive moved my ~dean around from

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Michael, Ie is only available on windows. Linux offers a number of options including firefox / iceweasel, konqueror, opera and many derivatives. Wine can help you run windows software but may not always provide a satisfactory experience compared to a native program Dean On 11/08/2010,

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
A google search for ie4l or ie for linux proves otherwise. ;) Not sure if it supports IE8, though. But we've tested it with IE6 and IE7. i mentioned wine. Dean -- http://fragfest.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
maybe, maybe not. but a genuine answer deserves a fair response. i figured i would get one in before someone upbraided Michael in some unhelpful manner. Dean On 11/08/10 10:02, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: Dean, I certainly suspect that Michael is a spamer... domain .ch and don't know

Re: intel i3 processor

2010-07-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
Amd64 is also about more general purposes registers in addition to bigger numbers. Generally speaking anything will benefit from more registers, and if a problem uses the larger int's (or uses a large number library which uses them) you will experience enormous performance gains. More

Re: Weird things with Xorg on amd54

2010-05-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
Just use module assistant to build the nvidia blob driver. Add non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get install module-assistant m-a prepare nvidia m-a a-i nvidia apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings in 2.6.32-5-amd64 nouveau will load during kernel boot. so after you build and

Re: What is the state of testing?

2010-04-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
To get recent nvidia cards to work, i have found that unstable is required. Fortunately it's quite stable with aptitude safe-upgrades occasionally performed with a little caution. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who can't fix occasional wacky problems. Dean On 12/04/2010, at 2:05

Re: KVM storage

2010-03-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
If youre using kvm you can put the vm's disk image anywhere you like Dean Whit Hansell wrote: Hey guys, Am trying to set up KVM on my Lenny AMD64 box and need recommendations from those who have set up KVM regarding storage memory. Following is my df -h: FilesystemSizeUsed

Re: misconfiguration or bug? (nvidia packages)

2010-02-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
Ive just started seeing that same thing, but running sid i dont jump to much unless a problem doesnt go away within a month or so. I havent had any adverse affects... Hopefully an updated package will come through soon? Dean Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear maintainers, on my amd64 system I

Re: unable to connect to wireless networks with RTL8101 card

2010-02-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
thats your wired controller not your wireless controller what output do you get from running iwconfig? can you send a full output of lspci and lsusb? can you see the wireless device in /var/log/messages ? (or dmesg if thats how you like it) Dean Seb wrote: Hi, I have a Toshiba Satellite

Re: Who is starting this process?

2009-10-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
grep recursively in /etc? Dean Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, does someone know, which script or who is starting this process? root 7152 tty9 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt9 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-8DjLbd I suppose, it is started by kdm, but I could not find the exactly

Re: Subversion segmentation fault for 1 repository

2009-07-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
run strace with svnadmin Dean On 7/31/2009, Jakub Nadolny jakub.nado...@carrywater.pl wrote: Hi, I've changed hardware in my server from i386 to AMD64 and everything works fine except one SVN repository. When I try to access it, there is following error: svn: OPTIONS z

Re: How to install wine on debian/amd64/sid?

2009-07-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
aptitude will do a reasonably good job of downgrading however, backup ~you and /etc Dean Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Cavan Mejias cavanmej...@gmail.com writes: 2009/7/20 Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au: If you arent able to fix breaks, you should use 'testing' which is currently

Re: How to install wine on debian/amd64/sid?

2009-07-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
ia32-libs isnt as up to date as ia32-apt-get yet welcome to sid... dean John Wong wrote: I add the below url to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt/ sid main then apt-get update apt-get install wine but it always said: Some packages could not be installed. This may

Re: How to install wine on debian/amd64/sid?

2009-07-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
If you arent able to fix breaks, you should use 'testing' which is currently 'squeeze' testing is generally solid enough but also bleeding edge enough for desktops. Dean John Wong wrote: Dean Hamstead 提到: ia32-libs isnt as up to date as ia32-apt-get yet Hi, so should i just wait ia32

Re: AMD vs Intel in 2009

2009-06-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
AMD cant beat the top end intels, But bang for buck in the mid and low range you can still do well with AMD. On the low range, its AMD all the way. Watch out on some of the AMD cpu's, as some of the qauds had nasty bugs. Would be worth your while to read some reviews on them before buying.

Re: libopenal.so.1 wrong ELF class

2009-06-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
You may need to brandelf it. From observation, its trying to run it as a 64bit binary rather than 32bit. Im assuming you have linux compatibility installed, both in userspace and in the kernel? In any case, see the linux emulation sections of the FreeBSD handbook, they are a wealth of

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
you should always install the nvidia drivers the debian way its quicker and will automatically include any minor fixes that nvidia dont bother rolling in to their releases. apt-get install module-assistant m-a prepare nvidia m-a a-i nvidia then run nvidia-settings to get X configured Dean

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
youll notice if you click on requirements you get a link to some third party plugin. which only supports windows and mac. Dean Klaus Becker wrote: On Sunday 3 May 2009 09:29:53 Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: with amd64 lenny, i have installed the nvidia driver (OpenGL 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.04)

Re: recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
you may get better bang for buck with an actual amd64 chip Dean Petrus Validus wrote: Hi All, I have been thinking of building a low-power Debian AMD64 desktop with a Core 2 Quad CPU (probably the Q6600). The purpose of this machine is nothing special, just the basic computing type thing

Re: How to tell when a hardware RAID disk goes bad?

2008-12-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
is there a user space daemon that monitors the device? we use one for the hp (nee compaq) array controllers, called cpqarrayd its decent enough, just runs in the background, sends SYSLOG and or snmp traps as configured. from a quick apt-cache search i see there is a program called array-info

Re: Sound problems

2008-09-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
'alsaconf' is always your best friend with sound problems. just run it as root and follow the prompts Dean Fabricio Cannini - Yahoo wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2008 15:58:49 Antonio Luiz Pacifico wrote: Dear all, Since Debian testing has changed its kernel from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 series

Re: 2.6.25-2 and xfs

2008-08-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
at 06:10, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is anyone else having VFS boot problems with 2.6.25-2? i have tried reconfiguring the kernel package and re-running lilo. could http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479101 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486582 help

Re: 2.6.25-2 and xfs

2008-08-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
yup thats what i did it seems to reduce the initramfs file size, which keeps lilo happy Dean On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:14:11 +0200, Sandro Tosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 14:11, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thats exactly the problem, and it occured on 2.6.25-1

2.6.25-2 and xfs

2008-08-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
is anyone else having VFS boot problems with 2.6.25-2? i have tried reconfiguring the kernel package and re-running lilo. 2.6.24 still works fine. Dean -- http://fragfest.com.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hal buggy ?

2008-07-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
can you see that the kernel is seeing the new device? ie tail -f /var/log/messages then insert a usb device. then look in HAL's logs and see whats happening etc Dean Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hiho all, since a few days there is no icon in KDE when inserting an usb-drive (or an sd-card into the

Re: Fwd: Compiz window decorations missing

2008-07-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
it could be broken packages run compiz --replace from a terminal and see if you get errors Dean Massimo Savino wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: *Massimo Savino* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:34 PM Subject: Re: Compiz window

Re: Opera for x86_64

2008-07-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
there was a beta 64bit for ages. it worked perfectly and i think was marked 'beta' purely as a notice that there may be some issues they werent yet awair of. but yeah. 9.5 is great. Dean Michael Dominok wrote: Hi List There have been some threads about opera for amd64 on this list. So, if

Re: Automatically build and install kernel-modules

2008-06-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
ideally the nvidia module should come precompiled if the nvidia build fails (normal with new kernels) newbies will be stumped regardless of where it happens Dean Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:03:51PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: althoug this is not quite

Re: RedHat in Chroot

2008-06-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
you might consider something a little less than full visualization, especially if running linux on linux and the kernel version isnt an issue http://linux-vserver.org/ Dean On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:43:37 +0200, Maciek Kaliszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Has

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
intel cpus are smashing AMD cpus except in the very low end market you are best off buying an intel quad core... sadly. Dean Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all. I'm planning to build my next power machine, this time I may go with a Core Duo, but I looking for some suggestions and CPU

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
Im running XFS on my desktop and laptop So far so good. Dean Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-06-12T08:05:28-0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: Don't want to start a war, but I'd like to hear about your filesystem suggestions:^) I use ext3 and have no reason to consider anything else. reiser is

Re: C.P.U. suggestions.

2008-06-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
UPS's are way cheap. You should just grab a generic one from somewhere. Chances are NUT will support it. It supported one I bought as an impulse by from a local supermarket! Dean I use ext3 with data=journal mode since the power goes out here and I don't have a UPS. With default mode, only

Re: kernel upgrade has made nvidia 3D rendering not turn on.....

2008-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
select the previous kernel version in grub compile breaking against 2.6.25 will no doubt be fixed fairly soon, nvidia likes their commercial drivers to work otherwise their forums will be hammered with complaints. Dean Michael Fothergill wrote:

Re: kernel upgrade has made nvidia 3D rendering not turn on.....

2008-06-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
boot the previous kernel version for a while Dean Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, I forgot to use protection and the stork delivered a new kernel to my machine in the middle of the night again So I had to re do the nvidia driver stuff again. The machine is an AMD64 box with a

Re: kernel 2.6.24 and DVD

2008-04-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
what program are you using to play said dvd? Dean Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: Hi, I know this is of topic but I ask you for some comments about dma and 2.6.24... For an unknow reaso I'm not be able to play DVD with kernel 2.6.24 in the same system clean reboot with kernel 2.6.23 is not

Re: kernel 2.6.24 and DVD

2008-04-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
2.6.24 fail... On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what program are you using to play said dvd? Dean Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: Hi, I know this is of topic but I ask you for some comments about dma and 2.6.24... For an unknow reaso I'm not be able to play

Re: nvidia way versus debian way of installing nvidia 3D graphics drivers in Lenny..

2008-04-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
you want the debian way definitely. rogue files in /lib etc will only cause you headaches in the future. Dean Simon Vos wrote: The wiki is not out of date at all. By the way, this way of installing the nvidia drivers has been around for some years now. I use module-assistant in sid and it has

Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers

2008-04-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
the reverse engineered nvidia driver is working now, cant recall the name of it. is there any reason you cant use with nvidia blob? it works well in linux and in debian just go apt-get install module-assistant m-a prepare nvidia m-a a-i nvidia apt-get install nvidia-settings nvidia-glx

Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers

2008-04-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
just go apt-get install module-assistant m-a prepare nvidia m-a a-i nvidia On etch, there's no reason for module-assistant since the nvidia driver is pre-packaged in non-free. that could be the case, i run lenny on my desktops/laptop so *shrug* Dean -- http://fragfest.com.au -- To

Re: Reiser4 patches.

2008-04-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
The fact it isn't part of the kernel also indicates to me it is nowhere near ready for prime use. Thats a really big can of worms to pry open. My mailbox doesnt need the flaming! If you want a journalling fs that doesnt hog your cpu and is still slow as a dog (so not ext3), try XFS or

Re: kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
regardless, when i got home from work it booted properly. with no changes or updates. seems strange. but oh well, back to normal computing... Dean Gabor Gombas wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:26:29AM +, Koen Tavernier wrote: The package lm-sensors uses the eeprom module to get

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
happy to be wrong :) Dean Randall Donald wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:04 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: maybe your mirror is confused? its worth adding rdonalds archive to your apt.sources http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php Not really. It hasn't been updated for months

kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi all, after a circuit breaker caused a power outage, which reset the bios. debian is now freezing (solid) at 'Loading kernel module eeprom'. I have tended to the bios and reset to optimized, fail safe etc. Prior to the power outage there wasnt anything fancy in the bios settings regardless.

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
you need to make the kernel module. its easy, if module-assistant (m-a) isnt installed, just go apt-get install module-assistant (may not be with a -) then do this... m-a prepare nvidia m-a a-i nvidia Dean Seb wrote: Hi, For the last several days, nvidia-glx fails to upgrade with apt-get

Re: nvidia-glx not updating

2008-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
looks like kernel module built is an older version check your mirror sources, um, what else, maybe flush out your apt cache. try apt-get source nvidia-graphics-drivers see what version it downloads. Dean Se wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:24 +1100, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: kernel module eeprom causing system freeze

2008-01-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
, 2008 at 08:58:25AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: after a circuit breaker caused a power outage, which reset the bios. debian is now freezing (solid) at 'Loading kernel module eeprom'. I have tended to the bios and reset to optimized, fail safe etc. Prior to the power outage there wasnt anything fancy

Re: forcedeth wierdness

2007-09-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
thanks for that, it was hiding up in eth5 for some reason *shrug* and dmesg didnt bother to tell me i will have to set it to a more reasonable eth number Dean Jonas Bardino wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: any thoughts why a forcedeth (nvidia) onboard nic would be detected, but not presented

forcedeth wierdness

2007-09-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
any thoughts why a forcedeth (nvidia) onboard nic would be detected, but not presented as a usable card? i also have an onboard sky2 card which seems to work fine. i have tried disabling things in the bios but to no avail. im using a winbond motherboard. i can give more detailed outputs if

Re: wireless card

2007-08-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
whats the contents of /etc/network/interfaces? by default the wireless keys are hex, to use a string you need to put s:xxx where is the pass-string Dean On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:23:04 -0400, Cavan Mejias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everybody, I'm trying to

Re: sun-java6-jre

2007-07-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
pls provide output and sources.list your mirror might just be behind run apt-get update, then try again Dean Marcin wrote: Hi guys Can anybody tell me what's wrong with the sun-java6-jre package. Some dependencies seem to be broken and i can't install it. I am running unstable. Thanks

Re: sun-java6-jre

2007-07-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
: Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-01-1) but it is not going to be installed or ia32-sun-java6-bin (= 6-01-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Thanks Dean Hamstead wrote: pls provide output and sources.list your mirror might just be behind

Re: How to use SMP right?

2007-07-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
the kernel will share the threads across the processors / cores. you can see this in 'top', the processes being shared around if you want the program you are writing to use more than one cpu you will need to thread it. if you are running lots of different programs (as you do on a desktop)

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
which player are you using? what else is running? whats cpu usage like? Dean Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is this an issue with the amd64 arch, or something else? I have an AMD 5600+ cpu paired with an Nvidia 7600 GS card, which strikes me as more than adequate to work with a DVD (my older XP

Re: nvidia-driver

2006-11-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Hi Kees did you get my original post? would you like assistance getting your 6600gt running? please be awair that the debianized nvidia driver is your best option. i have used your card extensively in debian linux for amd64 cpus i have since upgraded to sli'd 7900gs's. all work perfectly.

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
the nv driver is... substandard on modern cards the nvidia bundled driver doesnt work on debain however it is repacked and well maintained. this is possibly the most frequent question on this list. so heres a quick summary build the nvidia driver using module-assistant m-a prepare m-a a-i

Re: mozilla-browser

2006-10-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
the mozilla suite has been replaced by seamonkey firefox is a very fully featured browser - but thats all it is. thunderbird is the mail client. nvu is a seperate program that is a stand alone html editor based on the mozilla editor. please note that firefox and thunderbird are both soon to be

Re: dq965gf

2006-10-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
give it a whirl, see what happens! if fedora and ubuntu are installing debian should be fine. if a sarge disk wont boot, try a nightly net install disk. Dean Robson Francisco de Souza {S} wrote: Hi, I just bought an Intel DQ965GF board and was considering whether Etch could be installed on

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch? {Scanned}

2006-10-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
you need to compile the kernel module for yourself R. Donald is the maintainer - hit site is here http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php wack these lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list #use this source line for unstable drivers deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable

Re: ALSA not working in chroot environment

2006-10-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
have you created the alsa device entries in chroot:/dev? Dean On Fri, October 20, 2006 10:36 am, Todd Courtnage wrote: With the release of the Flash Player 9 beta, I've discovered that I have no ALSA devices available in my chroot environment. When trying to use any program in my chroot

Re: Wnie vs amd64

2006-10-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
best bet is wine in 32bit chroot. Dean On Thu, October 12, 2006 10:51 pm, Kirill A. Korinskiy wrote: Hi. Be in existence repository included wine for amd64? -- With best regards, Kirill A. Korinskiy Home mail/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://catap.ru/ Mobile phone: +7 (916)

Re: Nvidia-GLX very slow

2006-09-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
fwiw i have found that mesa tends to clobber libGL no big dramas, the change the symlink in the appropriate lib dir (/usr/lib) from the mesa library to the nvidia library and all is well again. Dean Mike Mironov wrote: antongiulio05 wrote: Check this entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ---

Re: [POLL] To continue 64 or not?

2006-08-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
if the majority of your applications are running 32bit chroot anyway, then most likely 32bit would be the way to go i have been running 64bit workstation for over a year now and the only application i use 'heavily' in 32bit is cedega (and occasionally but not often wine). dont be ashamed to use

Re: new models nvidia AMD ASUS board

2006-08-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
thats nice ;) how about you post an lspci output, or maybe some doco. have you tried the latest kernel?? Dean On Tue, August 22, 2006 3:05 pm, AWP wrote: something needs to be done about getting it to install on the new (ASUS) nvidia chipsets (specifically SATA2.0 and Gb ethernet) -- AWP

Re: Right kernel for AMD Athlon64-3000+

2006-08-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
K8 is the correct kernel for AMD cpus Dean On Sun, August 6, 2006 1:27 pm, Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been running an AMD64-3000+ with a generic kernel for the last six months: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux zizyphus 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic

Re: Dell 1950 and Debian

2006-08-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
if rhel runs ok, there shouldnt be any reason for debian to have problems Dean Jo Shields wrote: Alexander Meis wrote: Hi, is it possible to get an dell 1950 (Intel Xeon Woodcrest Dual-Core) running with debian etch amd64 or are there any problems with hardware support or something?

Re: Dell 1950 and Debian

2006-08-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
i would take that as a good sign Dean Alexander Meis wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: if rhel runs ok, there shouldnt be any reason for debian to have problems dell offers it with the option to buy redhat linux 4 es em64t version preinstalled -- WWW: http://deanpatrick.tk LAN: http

Broadcom NIC

2006-08-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
hi everyone ive just installed deb sarge on a nice 1ru dual opteron. everything went smoothly, however im not getting the dual broadcom nics for some reason. they are without a doubt there, i just think that the driver doesnt recognise the pci id. (these cards should be BCM57xx, using the tg3

Re: building nvidia module on sarge

2006-07-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
i believe 'prepare' may help you ie m-a prepare nvidia could be wrong. debian people are lazy, so we spend ages writing a tool like that does stuff for us ;) not that i have contributed any code to debian - so 'we' is more like 'they'. Dean Alan Ianson wrote: On Fri July 14 2006 10:02 pm,

Re: debian_amd64_sarge

2006-06-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
i dont think anyone would say that the amd64 port is horendously unstable. as a server, most of your standard software is 64bit friendly and 64bit is by no means new ground for the linux kernel. for example, you shouldnt see any 64bit specific issues from... apache. mysql. postgresql. perl.

Re: sources.list ???

2006-05-31 Thread Dean Hamstead
time to update the amd64 page then ;PPP Dean Rafael Rodríguez wrote: El Miércoles, 31 de Mayo de 2006 07:23, Dean Hamstead escribió: ahh ok, so unstable amd64 is now in the main arcvices For next year SoC, why not a script to analyze messages to mailing lists and if the topic has been

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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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