accumulated schroot sessions

2007-08-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello all, I have an ia32 schroot setup for iceweasel/flash on my otherwise Etch amd64. Occasionally, I find that there are sessions left lying around. I don't notice them unless I do a 'df' where I see them. I can't pin down when they are left. I don't need sessions at all but can't see how

Re: hydra available ?

2007-07-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:30:14PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I am looking for an application named hydra. There was a package in earlier times, but today it is gone. I even do not find it in snapshot.debian.net, although there isd an entry in the database. What does hydra do? Perhaps

Re: uswsusp not detecting swap during Debian testing install

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: All machines I setup now are done with software raid1, and then LVM on top of that. I haven't had much luck with root on LVM yet (seems to hard to fix), so I tend to have a 10G partition for a raid1 to use as root and then

flash for amd64 [FAILED and SOLVED]

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello, Restarting my own thread. Since nspluginwrapper can't be backported from Sid/Lenny to Etch, I've gone ahead and installed an etch-ia32 chroot on my etch-amd64 Athlon box. I'm running Konqueror and needing to access some sites that require flashplayer. In the chroot, I installed the same

Re: flash for amd64 [FAILED and SOLVED]

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 05:54:05PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu July 12 2007 05:16:07 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Note, however, that while I can view thenorthface.com, the adobe test page thats supposed to verify that your flashplayer is working, doesn't work. Oh well. I find

Re: resizing partition with Windows Vista

2007-07-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:27:20PM -0500, Seb wrote: That is the problem, the boot partition is the largest (137 out of the 160 Gb total), and can only be reduced to about 80 Gb!! The Vista system is optimized to make efficient use of the hard drive by creating 4 partitions with several

Re: Toshiba Core 2 Duo

2007-07-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:07:29PM -0500, Seb wrote: Merci Gilles, in that case I'll stick with the amd64 for the laptop, given that I'm quite happy with it on my current desktop. I look forward to the day I can wipe the non-free flashplayer out of my chroot once Gnash gets better, but so

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:24:14PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: Fairly early in the install, there's a menu item continue install from ssh. Is there no way to get remote access to the console so that the datacenter people only have to put CD-bin1 into the drive? I have never seen this option

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:53:18AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The AMD64 port is less straightforward because they do not include the dpt_i2o driver, which is necessary for my RAID card. Instead, I have to either use the i2o_block driver, which I gather has had some

Re: 32-bit vs AMD64 on Opteron for LAMP server

2007-07-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:07:23PM +0100, Adam Stiles wrote: advantage that you can have your swap area without redundancy, hence running as fast as possible (just set up the partitions as separate swap areas). However, with non-raid swap, if something happens to one drive, the system dies

Re: flash for etch amd64? [FAILED]

2007-07-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:29:02PM +0100, Rob Andrews wrote: On 04-Jul-2007 02:54.42 (BST), Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: in the freeze of etch nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.3-1+b1 use libc6 = 2.3.5 I suppose you could use snapshot.debian.net to obtain that version that works very good until

flash for etch amd64?

2007-07-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I'm running Etch on amd64 on my Athlon64. I use Konqueror. I have the libflash-mozplugin installed but flash sites (and adobe's test site) don't work. After I came back from holidays, I reactivated my subscription to the debian lists and saw a reference to something like now that flash works

Re: flash for etch amd64?

2007-07-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:28:51PM -0300, José Guilherme wrote: Douglas, you should try *nspluginwrapper, it works fine for flash without chroots... * I have it installed, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation on how to set it up. Perhaps no intervention is necessary. I have the

Re: flash for etch amd64?

2007-07-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:32:11PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Dienstag 03 Juli 2007 schrieb Douglas Allan Tutty: I'm running Etch on amd64 on my Athlon64. I use Konqueror. I have the libflash-mozplugin installed but flash sites (and adobe's test site) don't work. I also learned

Re: flash for etch amd64?

2007-07-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:24:31PM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote: On July 3, 2007 12:52:41 pm Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue July 3 2007 08:49:28 am Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:28:51PM -0300, José Guilherme wrote: Douglas, you should try *nspluginwrapper, it works

Re: flash for etch amd64?

2007-07-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:27:49PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: Please see the following thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2007/05/msg00168.html That's the thread that I was looking for, thanks. It would appear that it requries the nspluginwrapper to work. This is new

Re: flash for etch amd64?

2007-07-03 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:21:38PM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: in the freeze of etch nspluginwrapper 0.9.91.3-1+b1 use libc6 = 2.3.5 I suppose you could use snapshot.debian.net to obtain that version that works very good until now in etch Retreiving it now. It also depends on

Re: Why does this happen ?

2007-06-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 11:01:05AM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Oh sorry, I did not prezise my question corretly. I know that both conflict. This is clear for me. What I want to know is, WHY such a conflict happens. Why can (in my case) nexuis not access to libcurl4 and the other ones stay

Re: confused about performance

2007-06-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:18:53PM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:50:57AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I wouldn't throw away that Intel compiler just yet. For that matter, I'd give serious consideration to switching

Re: confused about performance

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:50:57AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I wouldn't throw away that Intel compiler just yet. For that matter, I'd give serious consideration to switching to a Core 2 Duo and a copy of Intel's tuning tools ... they are quite good. Life's too short to wait for

Re: No audio in my system for AMD-64 and Debian 40r0

2007-06-14 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:40:47PM -, vidhya shankar wrote: My system configuration AMD Athlon-64 X2 3600+ 2.01GHz dual core processor with ASUS motherboard and nVidia GeForce 6100 nForce 430 videocard and nVidia MCP61P chipset for soundcard and ethernet. I have a dual boot

Re: nvidia module issues.

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:52:27PM -0700, C Wakefield wrote: I have a problem with either the nvidia-kernel or the nvidia module m-a compiles. The xorg driver nv works fine; The Nvidia module builds with m-a (but I have to force it with -f, otherwise m-a reports it's up-to-date) The

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:39:15AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:51:56AM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said: I have just seen many posts on this list where people ran memtest, found nothing wrong, but eventually swapped out the ram and their problems went away. memtest

Re: [Solved in a round about way] Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:27:27PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Who knows, though? What boards do people really have no problems with? I'm not against switching, though my wife's eyebrows will likely go up... ;-) I use Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe in a case with good fans. Board temperatures

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:05:24PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I don't see anything that would be inherently a no-go with linux but I do know from reading this list that wifi is interesting. make sure its covered. I didn't see wifi on the list. IIRC, the difference between M2N-SLI

Re: Ideas why dvd playback is jerky?

2007-06-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:08:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: I've tried mplayer, codeine, ogle, totem, and vlc. Totem ca't read the disc. I don't know your board. My EN7300GT Silent does the mpeg conversion in hardware

Re: Offtopic : Large hostings and colocations ?where?

2007-05-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:46:33AM -0700, Joerg Bashir wrote: On 5/11/07, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1,500 machines online, 4 drives/machine, a mix of PATA and SATA. 4,000 hard drives in cold storage. 500 hard-drives in boxes awaiting possible recovery. HOWEVER, your point

Re: Hello from Cuba

2007-05-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:02:24PM -0500, EMNI Pablo Rafael López Martínez wrote: I have just installed Debian 4.0 this morning and a big problem has arised right now. When I tried to shutdown the system, the keyboard freeze but i could see –between many messages- this: 0 kernel

Re: Automatic kernel-upgrade: How ?

2007-02-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:14:05AM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Wolfgang Mader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: linux-image-2.6-amd64 This package depends on the latest binary image for Linux kernel This packages just installes an new image, if one is availabel. You have to uninstall the old

Re: Automatic kernel-upgrade: How ?

2007-02-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:48:05PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Yeah, this is fine and I am using apt, aptitude or synaptic, just the one I like in the moment. And the upgrade works perfectly. But doing so, this appeared another problem: The latest kernel (2.6.18-4-amd64) inhibits to load

Re: m-a question

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:14:35AM -0800, Zachary Rizer wrote: When using module assistant to install a package (e.g. nvidia driver, some wireless driver, whatever), it only compiles a module for that currently-running kernel, correct? Yes. So, then, after a dist-upgrade, in which I have

Re: newby trying to go debian

2007-01-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:55:47PM -0200, Rodrigo Alexandre wrote: hi all again. i'm just posting here to keep you informed what's been since the last messages. the saga is still in its very begin, but seems to succed in a short future. so, got a couple of majour problems trying the RC1 (nov

Re: newby trying to go debian

2007-01-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:02:43AM -0200, Rodrigo Alexandre wrote: hi all, i would like to go linux, have heard that debian is a good compilation, and want to give it a try. my system is a amd athlon 64 3500 currently running windows and with an empty partition for linux. i have a few

Re: strange xterm behavior across platforms

2007-01-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:33:12PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote: Hi, I'm seeing strange terminal behavior in xterm with output from g++ or even man pages on my amd64 etch installation. Things that are normally quoted are instead surrounded by odd characters that goof up the terminal output.

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote: That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is available from Arizona's sid

Re: system_crash.

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:56:23PM -0800, CHRIS WAKEFIELD wrote: Greetings all. Had my machine (amdx2) up and running for about 70 days (2.6.16-16), came home today to a frozen kde. Rebooted and grub would _NO_ partitions! ...15 or twenty different kernels between 2 drives. Checked, and

Re: AMD64 show stoppers

2007-01-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:47:00PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:41:38PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: On 01/16/07 07:42:29PM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote: Add your show stopper to this thread... First on the list is the java browser pluging - the black down java