Re: Black screen when launching Gnome

2006-08-30 Thread Jean Arnaud
Ok I found the solution : i did a minimal install (without desktop env.) and installed Gnome AND Xorg manually with Apt-get. It seems that only Gnome was installed with the netinstall cd. -- -- Jean Arnaud -- Projet SARDES -- INRIA Rhône-Alpes / LSR-IMAG -- Tél. : +33 (0)4 76 61 52 80 -- To

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread A J Stiles
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 20:17, Thomas Steffen wrote: BTW: what happened to the many plans of running 32bit binaries without a chroot? In my experience, a chroot environment is a mayor PITA, and it is the one main reason that I would not recommend a 64bit system yet expect for the most

Re: OpenOffice in chroot -- fonts?

2006-08-30 Thread Helge Hafting
Andrew Robinson wrote: Tried using xfs. I have more fonts now in open office, and the Andale Mono is now available, but that didn't help What is interesting, is that the fonts are correct in the actual contant (in oocalc, the fonts in the cells are fine). It is only the windowing fonts (menu

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread tomek . fizyk
Użytkownik Gnu-Raiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: I mean almost all the software that one needs is able to run in amd64 with ia32libs. Gnu_Raiz yeah.. almost, and that's the problem: almost. To tell you the truth, I have also an i386 version of Debian installed, because I sometimes need it (for

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread tomek . fizyk
Użytkownik A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: On Tuesday 29 August 2006 20:17, Thomas Steffen wrote: The fact is simple: any piece of software which will not compile cleanly on a pure 64-bit system IS BROKEN. Yeah... I would definitely agree with that! Tomek Kazmierczak -- To

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:17 +0100, A J Stiles wrote: [...] The exception to the rule-of-thumb is OpenOffice.org. Although it is Free Software, it is riddled with elementary mistakes, starting from the assumption that the processor uses a 32-bit word length and a 32-bit address space, which

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread Bernardo Arlandis Mañó
Jan De Luyck escribió: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 00:18, Gnu-Raiz wrote: I think the real question should be what programs don't run with ia32libs, that can only be run in 32 bit chroot? I can only think of two really Open Office 2, and Firefox with flash plugin. Mostly the later because

thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Alexander Sack
Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible? If not, could someone please follow instructions in the bug to produce a debug backtrace? [1] - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383344 Thanks, - Alexander -- GPG messages preferred. | .''`. ** Debian

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Manolo Díaz
Alexander Sack wrote: Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible? If not, could someone please follow instructions in the bug to produce a debug backtrace? [1] - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383344 Thanks, - Alexander No, I can't reproduce it.

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Manolo Díaz
Manolo Díaz wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible? If not, could someone please follow instructions in the bug to produce a debug backtrace? [1] - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383344 Thanks, - Alexander No, I

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
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

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Martin Jambor
On 8/30/06, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible? If not, could someone please follow instructions in the bug to produce a debug backtrace? [1] - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383344 I don't use thunderbird

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 8/30/06, A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mixed 32 and 64 bit systems are a PITA however you implement them, be it through a chroot {the Debian way} or having separate /lib and /lib64 directories {the R*d H*t way}. And there should be no need to have them anyway. I agree that the

DVD: ogle crashes randonly ???

2006-08-30 Thread helices
Is there some trick to playing DVD's under amd64? I have a new HP xw9300, dual 2.5 GHz cpus, 6 GB RAM, KDE -- everything appears to work as expected -- except playing DVD's ; Inserting a DVD in the drive prompts some autoload process to pop up a window, asking me what I want to do with the media

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Andreas Fester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Jambor wrote: On 8/30/06, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible? If not, could someone please follow instructions in the bug to produce a debug backtrace? [1] -

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Alexander Sack
Thanks a lot for confirming that it works properly - at least for some :). On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:57:40PM +0200, Andreas Fester wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Jambor wrote: On 8/30/06, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please confirm

Re: ATA abnormal status

2006-08-30 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:37:03PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Sent again: The external scsi HD was not connected when the accident occurred Hi Erik: Thanks for your attention. Main board: Tyan K8WE S2895 SATA II controllers nForce Pro 2200. Added graphic card Pixel view 6600 256M

etch netinst question about wlan

2006-08-30 Thread sigi
Hi, I have to do a new debian installation next days and downloaded one of the netinstall iso-images (beta3) from the debian website. My problem is, that I need a wlan-module which is not yet packaged for debian, the rt2570-wlan-module. Now I thought if it's possible, to build this module

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread tomek . fizyk
Użytkownik Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. How to use 32 bit programs in debian etch testing amd64? When I want to run any 32bit application that uses external libraries I get an error message telling that the libraries cannot be found. And I don't know

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Héctor González
just updated thunderbird to get the version in the bug (I'm using testing) and it does not segfault. seems to work ok so far. Alexander Sack wrote: Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible? If not, could someone please follow instructions in the bug to produce a debug

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:57:40PM +0200 Andreas Fester said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Jambor wrote: On 8/30/06, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible?

Re: Debian AMD64 - any 32bit compatibility?

2006-08-30 Thread tomek . fizyk
On 8/30/06, A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To deny access to the source code of a program shows nothing but contempt for users, and we should not tolerate this blatant abuse. Yes, we should not... But there still are companies that make us (opensource software users) addicted to their

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Reese
Andreas Fester wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Jambor wrote: On 8/30/06, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please confirm if this bug [1] is reproducible? If not, could someone please follow instructions in the bug to produce a debug backtrace?