Re: OpenOffice.org 3.0 ?

Hi thank you, but this is not quite just what I wanted. :) Of course, I know, it is in experimental. My question aimed more to, why it is still not in sid and what is the reason for it (i.e. problems, bugs or debian-political reasons). I guess it is in experimental because of the freezing of

Re: libmotif3 on amd64 (and rtai/comedi)

Hi The package is in lenny and sid, and also in sarge, but it's missing from etch: apt-cache policy libmotif3 W: Unable to locate package libmotif3 Searching for the package file at packages.debian.org shows this too. It's missing from all architectures. Small changes are needed to the

Re: libmotif3 on amd64 (and rtai/comedi)

Hi $ apt-get source libmotif3 works perfectly for me. the following line is needed in the sources.list file: deb-src http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free But I haven't got a clue why libmotif3 is in i386 but not in amd64. An explanation is more than welcome :) I do have

Re: RedHat in Chroot

Hi again Now I have a RHEL3 running happily in a Debian chroot. I had to install REHL3 on a special partition on my own computer since the other is too new. Then I could tar the whole distribution and move it to the other computer. Unfortunately some of the problems still persist but now

Re: Java and libpthread.so.0 (LD_ASSUME_KERNEL)

Hi Sorry, I should have known the problem, I think I have even asked similar question earlier. There was an LD_ASSUME_KERNEL statement hiding in the code. Thanks Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Java and libpthread.so.0

Hi I have the following problem with a java version that is distributed with a commercial program. But I have tried to replace the file with a symbolic link to the Debian java but without success. Java doesn't find libpthread.so.0 but it does exist and I have run ldconfig several times. Can

RedHat in Chroot

Hi Has anyone installed RedHat in a Debian Chroot? That would be the perfect solution for me since I have some commercial software that for some !#$%/ reason does not follow any sensible file hierarchy standard. If I could install RedHat Enterprise 2 and 4 on the same Debian machine I would be

Re: SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS

Hi again Thanks for the advice. The problem is a tcl problem. I could get the program running by setting up a sarge i386 chroot. Then I compiled tcl-8.2 for that system and then the program runs happily. The solution is more amd64 specific than the problem :) The function TclX_EvalRCFile

SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS

Hi I am fighting to get some code written 13 years ago in several languages to run decently on my amd64. Making it run in 64 bit mode is a far future dream but I'm hoping to fix a chroot. Currently I get most success with an etch chroot. The program compiles and runs in 64 bit mode but

non-TLS reference

Hi I am trying to compile a program and get the following error message: /usr/bin/ld: errno: TLS definition in /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.1/../../../../lib/libc.a(errno.o) section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in Is there any easy trick to fix it? Thanks Gudjon -- To

Mounting a root device after installation

Hi I sent this problem to the debian-user list but it hasn't appeared so I hope you forgive me for sending it to you :) I have a problem with the newest Debian testing installer on i386. The installation works perfectly but when I reboot after the installation the computer is unable to

Re: Mounting a root device after installation

Hi Sorry, my mistake. The disk was configured as RAID in BIOS. When changing it to IDE, everything works perfectly. I overlooked this option several times. Cheers Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Java and libpthread.so.0

Hi I have a problem with java /usr/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory But both the 32 and 64 bit versions of libpthread exist on my system. I found one thread on the internet where they seem to solve the

Re: Grub and raid (Solved)

Hi Thank you all for very through answers. The problem was very strange. I had to disable the ACPI APIC Support in BIOS. Then I could run grub-install but the computer then lost interrupt to hda (CDROM) and also interrupts to the hard drives. With Grub installed, I could enable this option

Re: Grub and raid

Hi again Thanks for the answers but there seems to be a problem with Grub. The device map is OK but when installing GRUB it stops with the message Error reading stage1 I tried to make a boot CDROM. It starts booting the kernel but then the computer restarts. Has anyone tried the CDROM from

Re: Grub and raid

Hi again Thanks for the answers but there seems to be a problem with Grub. The device map is OK but when installing GRUB it stops with the message Error reading stage1 I tried to make a boot CDROM. It starts booting the kernel but then the computer restarts. Has anyone tried the CDROM from

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

Hi absolutely true. But then, who is so diligent to always do so, especially when developing your own code for scientific computation? I've written some, and only when it was for public consumption I cared to put all the checks in all the places... :P Ehm, anyone that wants to avoid

Grub and raid

Hi I am using a 64 bit computer but the problem might be general. But anyway, is there any unknown trick in making a computer with two raid1 SATA disks boot with Grub? I can mount /dev/md* when I boot the system on the install CD but I am unable to install grub on /dev/sda nor /dev/sdb.

Re: Total vs per-cpu memory

Hi again On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:10:25PM +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Since you are discussing this. I spent yesterday on trying to debug ngspice on amd64 with gdb and valgrind. It segfaults on amd64 but not on i386. Can you point out some good documents on where to put those checks

Re: Intel (s775) Johannesburg DQ35JOE mATX

Thanks Lennart (and others) for a very through explanation. Sorry for abusing your time but I am going to buy a computer with the following ingredients. I am quite worried that I might have to wait for half a year for support of some of the chips so I decided to ask first if someone has

Intel (s775) Johannesburg DQ35JOE mATX

Hi Sorry for abusing your time but I am going to buy a computer with the following ingredients. I am quite worried that I might have to wait for half a year for support of some of the chips so I decided to ask first if someone has used this (with good or bad experience): Motherboard: Intel

Re: Skype 2.0 beta on debian sid amd64?

Hi I want to use the skype 2.0 beta .deb package on my debian amd64 sid system. I saw hell a lot of guides hwoto use chroot, but I don't want a chroot! Any guide available which is simple enough (e.g. just install some .deb and it works?)? Tecnically, you can't simply install the .deb in

Re: X locking up

Hi again I could use the mouse and from it get to the console and kill X. Then by how did you use your mouse to change to a console ? It is possible to enter console with the mouse in KDE. But then I switched to xfce for some time and there was no problem in that. I haven't had this problem for

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

Hi It is also possible to use the install disk. You just stop after detecting the hard disk (don't reformat it :) Then you do: #mkdir /mnt #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt #chroot /mnt and then you can do whatever you need to fix your system. Hope it helps Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Running Java App fails...

On Monday 02 July 2007 13:30:20 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Montag 02 Juli 2007 schrieb Thomas Besser: Hi, I'm recently switched my desktop computer to amd64 architecture (intel macbook) and want to use JXplorer (LDAP Browser in Java, http://www.jxplorer.org) furthermore. Have

Re: Running Java App fails...

Hi Hans I may be wrong but I don't think it is a bug and I think the following will do the trick #update-alternatives --config java and then you select the java alternative you like. Hope it helps Gudjon Not quite, please take a look: protheus2:/home/ullhan63# LANG=C

Re: Running Java App fails...

Hi It works on my computer I downloaded $JXv3.2deploy.tar.bz2 $tar cjf JXv3.2deploy.tar.bz2 $cd jxplorer $sh jxplorer.sh And the program appears but I have not got a clue what it does :) I am using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java Cheers Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ld ? ldd ? please help

On Sunday 01 July 2007 11:52:02 Danny Tiberman wrote: Hello When I do /sbin/ldconfig -v | grep libtk I get : libtk8.4.so.0 --- libtk8.4.so.0 but when I run ldd executable i get: libtk8.4.so -- not found Please Help I have never done this before. Thanks In Advance Hi This is strange.

Re: Urgent Help Is needed, PLEASE

On Thursday 28 June 2007 09:38:16 Danny Tiberman wrote: Hello there, I have installed debian etch 4 every is runnning fine BUT i am trying to run a program I get : error while loading shared libraries: libtk8.4.so: cannot open object file: no such file or directory but the file is there

Re: Why does this happen ?

Hi Libcurl3 conflicts with libcurl4. dselect will tell you that when you try to install libcurl3 and you can download the source package and look at the control file. Cheers Gudjon On Saturday 23 June 2007 10:14:18 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, I wondered, why the additional

Re: Why does this happen ?

On Saturday 23 June 2007 11:01:05 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Samstag 23 Juni 2007 schrieb Gudjon I. Gudjonsson: Hi Libcurl3 conflicts with libcurl4. dselect will tell you that when you try to install libcurl3 and you can download the source package and look at the control file

Network failure

Hi Today my network does not work. /etc/init.d/networkging restart answers with the following comment RTNETLINK answers: File exists It worked happily yesterday and I have not changed anything except for upgrading a little bit. Does anyone know the solution. Thanks Gudjon -- To

Re: Network failure

Hi again To close my own thread. There is a failure in the experimental version of ifupdown 0.7 (and some dangerous greek letter) Now I will make a bugreport. Cheers Gudjon On Thursday 21 June 2007 10:02:58 Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Today my network does not work. /etc/init.d

Re: Problems with schroot after a listdc update

Hi I think I had this problem a year ago and the solution is the following. In the do_chroot script write #!/bin/bash LANG=C; exec schroot -p -c sid -q -- `basename $0` $@ This LANG=C fixes the problem. At least chroot works happily on my computer. Cheers Gudjon Þann Thursday 21 June 2007

Re: How to install Skype?

Hi I have a chroot but for skype I like more to use the static version and just copy skype to /usr/local/bin. Somehow it worked better than in chroot but I don't remember how :) Cheers Gudjon On Sunday 17 June 2007 19:05:22 Gilles Sadowski wrote: Hi. inside a chroot if you have one No

Svn+sshfs+shfsmount (slightly offtopic)

Hi Sorry. The problem may not be amd64 specific. I was using shfsmount earlier but it does not work with the 2.6.20 kernel so I switched to sshfs. This works more or less perfectly except when I commit changes to my subversion repository. I use subversion in the way that I mount the disk

Re: PovRAY - Where are you?

Hi This is a splendid homepage that answers many questions :) http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/packages After searching for the povray package I found out that it only compiles on i386 architectures, unfortunately :( Regards Gudjon On Wednesday 25 April 2007 22:48:20 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

Re: PovRAY - Where are you?

think. apt-get source povray cd povray-3.6.1 fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage Hope it helps Gudjon On Wednesday 25 April 2007 22:59:40 Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi This is a splendid homepage that answers many questions :) http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/packages After searching for the povray

Re: gcc-4.1

Hi Rob And thanks for the answer. Has anyone noticed that gcc is older in experimental for amd64 than for other architectures. It seems to me like dependencies that go in circles. If so, does anyone have an explanation? I wanted to compile the newest version of openoffice but I

gcc-4.1

Hi Has anyone noticed that gcc is older in experimental for amd64 than for other architectures. It seems to me like dependencies that go in circles. If so, does anyone have an explanation? I wanted to compile the newest version of openoffice but I need this version of gcc for that.

My server, changed IP + more

Hi I have quit on Chalmers and I am slowly moving my stuff out. I have set up my own server and now the deb files will be at the following place: deb http://195.198.146.229/debian/ amd64/ deb http://195.198.146.229/debian/ i386/ deb-src http://195.198.146.229/debian/ source/ I would like to

Re: 32 bit application

Hi Thanks for the answer, I should have known this package. You can install 32bits libs. For your case, specially the package ia32-libs-gtk. This is the package but there is a bug filed against it, exactly the same problem as I'm complaining about. Somehow I always end up in using

Re: 32 bit application

Thanks Marco /Gudjon Þann Miðvikudagur 14 mars 2007 09:01 skrifaði Gudjon I. Gudjonsson: Hi Thanks for the answer, I should have known this package. You can install 32bits libs. For your case, specially the package ia32-libs-gtk. This is the package but there is a bug filed against

Re: 32 bit application (Sorry, spam)

Sorry list I need a cup of coffie or two to wake up before answering emails :) /Gudjon Þann Miðvikudagur 14 mars 2007 09:12 skrifaði Gudjon I. Gudjonsson: Thanks Marco /Gudjon Þann Miðvikudagur 14 mars 2007 09:01 skrifaði Gudjon I. Gudjonsson: Hi Thanks for the answer, I should

Re: kernel 2.6.18-4-amd64 hangs

Hi I had the same problem but I was quite sure I had done something wrong. But what I suggest is that you insert the install CD and boot the computer (without installing anything) Then you go to a shell ctrl F2 and do the following #mkdir mnt #mount /dev/hda3 #chroot /mnt #mount -a then you

32 bit application

Hi I have been trying to install a 32 bit program on my amd64 and I got it running but without fonts and with the following error messages. /usr1/bin/pjob-manager (/usr1/bin/pjob-manager-real:11161): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library (/usr1/bin/pjob-manager-real:11161):

Re: 32 bit application

Thanks Lennart for the answer Þann Þriðjudagur 13 mars 2007 20:14 skrifaði Lennart Sorensen: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:18:23PM +0100, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi I have been trying to install a 32 bit program on my amd64 and I got it running but without fonts and with the following

Re: hda : lost interrupt. Why do I get this?

Hi Somewhere I heard that you get this message if you connect the hard drive to the middle of the cable, leaving the end floating. The electric wave may become reflected in that way. Always connect the ends of the cables. Please try to reconnect it if this is the case. /Gudjon Þann

Re: Search Background

Hi Even if there was an option, I wouldn't recommend it. If you need to force an overwrite, there is a bug in the package dependencies that should be corrected. You should always know what you are overwriting before doing it. Regards Gudjon Þann Þriðjudagur 20 febrúar 2007 11:24 skrifaði

Re: Warning X locale (Chroot)

Hi Thank you Goswin. You solved my problem too. I changed the do_chroot script to #!/bin/bash LANG=C; exec schroot -p -c sid -q -- `basename $0` $@ and now it is working perfectly (if anyone happens to have the same problem) /Gudjon Þann Wednesday 21. February 2007 08:09 skrifaði Goswin

Re: For those who have no sound in their 32bit chroot

Hi Þann Föstudagur 26. janúar 2007 17:38 skrifaði Stephen Olander Waters: On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:08 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Do you mind posting your /etc/fstab? I want to see if I'm mounting my /x86/dev similarly. # mounts for the i386 chroot /home

Re: Kernel 2.6.19, jmicron controller anche Core 2 Duo

Hi The modules for the hard drives were moved around and renamed if I remember correctly. See what module is used for the hard drive in kernel 2.6.18, find its corresponding name in the 2.6.19 kernel tree and add it to the /etc/modules file Hope it helps Gudjon Þann Fimmtudagur 25. janúar

Re: For those who have no sound in their 32bit chroot

Hi Mattias Gudjon I. Gudjonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: xoscope is a software oscilloscope that only works on 32 bit machines and comedi is a library to access several IO cards. I ported xoscope amd64 (if anyone is interested) and then it works with comedi but not if I run the 32 bit

Re: For those who have no sound in their 32bit chroot

Hi Goswin and all the others # ia32 chroot /home /var/chroot/sid-ia32/home none bind0 0 /tmp/var/chroot/sid-ia32/tmp none bind0 0 proc/var/chroot/sid-ia32/proc proc defaults0 0 /dev

Re: For those who have no sound in their 32bit chroot

Hi Mattias And thanks for the answer /sys shouldn't be needed for sound. But, for other hardware like USB scanners it might be necessary. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot chroot # cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV generic; cd - I wouldn't create a static /dev

Re: Fresh Install Problems

Hi You may be able to do some tricks for saving your system but I don't know if you save time on it. If it boots and dpkg works, then you can download initrdtools by hand and do dpkg -i initrd*.deb. What I can recommend is that you use dselect to select the packages you really want to

Re: AMD64 show stoppers

Hi Not 100 percent sure, my sources.list has a lot of entries and I've not bothered to add any comments. Have a go and see; else it has to be this one: deb http://mve035.mc2.chalmers.se/~gudjon/debian/amd64/ ./ Just to mention since somebody is using nvu from my server that the path has

Re: Openoffice

Hi Tomek packages on my server if you are interested. But as before, there may be some unwanted stuff on my server. deb http://mc2-m038.mc2.chalmers.se/~gudjon/debian/ amd64/ /Gudjon Hi. I've just downloaded some ooo components from the link above and found out that there is a problem

Re: java

Hi It is a nice program you pointed out but I don't have any data for it :) Just install the sun java packages and select them with update alternatives as your default java. Well it is that way on my computer. The program run nicely (the svn version) but as I said, I don't have any molecules

Openoffice

Hi Can anyone explain to me why Openoffice 2.1 is not available for amd64? It compiles perfectly and works nicely and you can get the debian packages on my server if you are interested. But as before, there may be some unwanted stuff on my server. deb

Re: Openoffice

Hi Thanks for the answer. Can anyone explain to me why Openoffice 2.1 is not available for amd64? it's in experimental. Probably all the maintainers are working to try to release etch as soon and not put more difficult thing as openoffice 2.1 in sid. Then I don't understand. On the

Re: corrupted kernel module files with 2.6.18-3 on ext3

Sorry, I may be wrong but is it possible that you have installed libattr1 2.4.35? The problems seem similar to the problems I saw on my computers a few days ago. The problem has been fixed with an emergency release of libattr1. /Gudjon Þann Miðvikudagur 20. desember 2006 17:50 skrifaði henk:

Warning about libattr1 2.4.35

Hi Please take the warning about libattr1 seriously. It will leave you systems in an unusable state (nothing that can't be fixed though). The bug report in apt-listbugs did not sound so dangerous. In case you have upgraded and it does not work then reboot your machine to recovery mode, Log

Virtual machine on Debian amd64

Hi I have made a childish attempt to become a software developer and I found out that there is some people out there in the big world using Windows :) I need some Windows environment and wine does not help since it does not support USB as far as I know. Is there anyone using a virtual

Re: purging linux-image-2.6.18.1

Hi I have had such problems several times and I have always resolved them by editing /var/lib/dpkg/status by hand, setting the status of the corresponding package to not-installed. This has worked but it is not the preferred solution. If anyone knows a better solution please tell.

Re: oowriter not recognising graphics in 64 bit

Hi I can confirm that behaviour. Try to open the document with a chrooted oowriter. Then the picture should appear and you can then save it in odt format and then open it with the amd64 version. That worked for me at least. I was so happy for the bugs that had disappeared so I did not

Re: off-site backup

Hi Excuse me, this is not amd64 specific I would recommend rdiff-backup. There is a Debian package and it is simple to set up and has worked perfectly for me. http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ It works on the same principle as rsync but some extra routines to make it simpler like a user

Re: libmotif3

You need to compile the package yourself apt-src install libmotif3 cd libmotif... fakeroot debian/rules binary cd .. su dpkg -i *motif*.deb /G I have never understood why there are packages that are allowed in i386 version of Debian but not in the amd64. But if I remember correctly there was a

Re: Does vlc work for anybody?

Hi Manolo It does not work for me and fails with the same error messages so I guess it's a bug. /Gudjon Þann Föstudagur 13 október 2006 14:10 skrifaði Manolo Díaz: Hi all, When I try to use vlc (0.8.6-svn20061008.debian-1, unstable) the main window is shown but, when I choose the

Re: i386 or amd64?

Hi I hope I'm not repeating any of the earlier postings. I am much more interested in running amd64 software on amd64. If in doubt, I would (and have done) add an extra partition for i386 distribution. Then you can install an i386 Debian on that if the 64 bit version does not fit your needs.

openoffice 2.0.4, rc3

Hi The newest version of openoffice more or less works. I have a doc file (unfortunately confidential) that I have always tried to open and openoffice for amd64 has always crashed on. Now I could open it. Two figure, a little bit of text and an excel table is missing but the rest is there.

Dunc-Tank

Hi Before I start I want to state that I don't want to start a flame war. I have been reading about this Dunc-Tank project http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7543606709.html and I have decided to pay 40€ into the project. In the last years I have been fighting inside my institution for

xmgrace

Hi Wonder if anyone reads my emails but anyway. Sorry but I was wrong yesterday. xmgrace segfaulted as well after recompiling. But I downloaded lesstif 0.95 and made one of my dirty Debian packages out of it, recompiled grace and it worked perfectly. Haven't been able to make it crash still.

Re: xmgrace on double processor machines

. Regards Gudjon Þann Mánudagur 25 september 2006 22:50 skrifaði LI Daobing: On 9/26/06, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi once again Hope I'm not boring you. I got a hint from a user that had no problems with xmgrace. I tried more and to my surprise it works perfectly on my

xmgrace, wxmaxima, recompiling once more

Hi again Now I have verified that both xmgrace and wxmaxima do not work as they are downloaded from the Debian server but after beeing recompiled they work perfectly. Is anyone willing to try to install grace 5.1.20 . When printing a plot it will fail with something similar to *** glibc

Openoffice+kdenlive

Hi I have compiled openoffice 2.0.4 rc2 and it can be found on my server deb http://mve035.mc2.chalmers.se/~gudjon/debian/amd64/ ./ Has anyone tried kdenlive on amd64. Shall I ask Marillat to add amd64 to the list of supported distributions? (don't know if he will) The option motion_est must

ia32-libs-dev missing

Hi Can anyone explain to me why ia32-libs-dev is missing from the Debian distribution? Regards Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ia32-libs-dev missing+wine

are not complete. Will provide what is needed if I succeed and no cleverer person will do it before me:) /Gudjon Þann Þriðjudagur 19 september 2006 23:26 skrifaði Gudjon I. Gudjonsson: Hi Can anyone explain to me why ia32-libs-dev is missing from the Debian distribution? Regards Gudjon

Wine, it works!

Hi again My last email before going to sleep. Wine works, Now I can play Mumintrollen on my amd64 computer (or in fact my daughter will). If you are interested you read the following page http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit Apparently you don't need the ia32-libs-dev package copy the

Re: Problem with Alsa

Hi I have been pretty happy with alsa for the last few years. It even configured an ISA-PnP card without problems (or the only problem was my intervention in the process:) There is one problem with alsa (or udev) and that is that if my webcamera is connected to the USB port then it

Some very experimental packages

Hi I have been making some packages because of need and curiousity and I am keeping them on my private server: deb http://mve035.mc2.chalmers.se/~gudjon/debian/amd64/ ./ The following packages can be found kdenlive(The mlt library needs to be compiled with the --disable-motion_est

Re: Problem with Alsa

Hi One suggestion. I just came to think of that I did get a warning message during an upgrade some days ago. There is said that I should read /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/NEWS.Debian.gz The messages below are starting to look like the suggestions there. I followed the suggestions and haven't had

Wxmaxima does not work

Hi Could anyone test this please Open wxmaxima Open the help try some examples like (%i1) factor(10!);8 4 2 (%o1) 2 3 5 7 (%i2) expand ((x + y)^6); 65 2 4 3 3 4 2 5 6 (%o2) y + 6 x y + 15 x y

Re: NVidia official driver

Hi again It works perfectly for me. Are you using unstable? I have found testing often to be less dependable than unstable. Please send me some more debug information if you need help. /Gudjon Þann Laugardagur 16 september 2006 07:19 skrifaði LI Daobing: On 9/16/06, Pepo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sorry SPAM(Re: NVidia official driver)

Sorry for the spamming. Forgot to check where the email was coming from before answering:) /Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recompiling

Hi Now I had the problem that wxmaxima did not work for me until I recompiled the Debian source package (both maxima and wxmaxima). Now it works charmingly. A few months ago some guy was complaining about the grace program. That crashed as well for me until I recompiled it. Yesterday I

linux-image-2.6.17-2-???-smp and more

Hi One of the things I am confused about is why I cannot find any kernel linux-image-2.6.17-2 with the smp extension. Perhaps it's a silly question but I've got another and a little bit less silly:) I have a few times found differences in the amd64 archive and the i386 archive. Today I

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

Hi Add wine to the list, and maybe other non-free software like skype. I downloaded skype static library and installed on my amd64 part. It works perfectly except for the dead acute when chatting. The specific Icelandic characters did not work when I used it in chroot. Hope somebody is

ADS, no input from keyboard

Hi To answer my own question. The problem that the program ADS does not work with xorg 7.0 can be solved in the following way. By adding a symbolic link cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 ln -s /usr/share/X11/XErrorDB . ln -s /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB . Only half a years headace and it works:) /Gudjon

Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

Hi Edit openoffice.org-2.0.3/debian/rules and there is some variable build_amd64???=n that should be y I only started building it seemed to work properly after that change. Hope it helps Gudjon Þann Mánudagur 24. júlí 2006 23:13 skrifaði Emmanuel Fleury: Hi, A J Stiles wrote: I do not

Re: get rid of landlord

You start gnome by writing gnome-session. Does it reduce performance, having *dm running? As far as I understand, an unused program is stored on swap space but not in RAM and should therefore not reduce performance? /Gudjon Sorry, it was quite simple to stop gmd and gnome by renaming

Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

Hi Go to http://openoffice.debian.net/ and there you will find all information but I recommend setting up a chroot for openoffice. I have both chroot and amd64 version of openoffice and the 64 bit crashes sometimes when opening doc files. But version 2.0.3 is better than 2.0.2. /Gudjon

Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

Þann Fimmtudagur 20. júlí 2006 23:15 skrifaði sigi: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:50:13PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Adam Stiles wrote: On Thursday 20 July 2006 14:47, sigi wrote: I'm using this [64-bit OpenOffice.org] package since it's released, and had only very few crashes. OOo

Re: No sound on etch when using video players

Hi I might be off topic but I have had the problem with my sound card that /dev/dsp is not created at boot time. I need to create it myself mknod /dev/dsp c 14 3 chgrp audio /dev/dsp chmod 660 /dev/dsp then I can use realplayer and skype. Hope it helps and a solution would be very much

Re: Cups and KDE

is not necessary. but /etc/init.d/cupsys restart is necessary. /Gudjon Þann Þriðjudagur 11. júlí 2006 09:24 skrifaði Gudjon I. Gudjonsson: Hi I tried to follow the procedure below but failed (I remember doing it some years ago and then it worked). Could you please give me a better description

Re: Fwd: Debian Server restored after Compromise

Hi How worried should I be? Do you think it is OK to wait for an official Debian packaged kernel or should I download some tonight from kernel.org and compile myself? /Gudjon -- Missatge transmès -- Subject: Debian Server restored after Compromise Date: Dijous 13

kernel error, packages, unstable

Hi I hope I am not forcing my solutions to the list. I have had the problem with kernel 2.6 14 and 2.6.15 (2.6.13 never installed) that the computer froze, most often during heavy simulation but also without anything happening. The same happened to some i386 machines as well. With kernels

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

Hi again I have ddd, version 3.3.11 and the console is not dead. I write break and it responds with no breakpoint address now (I will try to recover my debugger knowledge this summer). xmgrace in fact crashed with *** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x007a4740 ***

Re: Broken applications: We are honest:)

Hi again I tried to download the sources for xmgrace and recompile it and now it works beautifully. I even managed to make a graph and export it to a png file. But I have a problem myself. Everytime I try to file a bug with reportbug I get the message back with a lot of iso8859-1

Re: Cups and KDE

Hi I tried to follow the procedure below but failed (I remember doing it some years ago and then it worked). Could you please give me a better description on what you did? I always get Initialising Manager and then cups fails. Regards Gudjon Þann Þriðjudagur 4. júlí 2006 17:03 skrifaði

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