Re: amd64 sid ftp.us.debian.org stuck?

2006-11-29 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 12:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it just me, or is the sid amd64 archive stuck?
> I don't have any package updates since November 20.
> In particular, I don't see libpng12-dev version 1.2.13-4,
> or iceweasel.
>
> My sources.list file is pretty simple:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>
> I went so far as to rm /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us*
> and re-apt-get-update, on the chance the diffindex
> stuff got lost.  That didn't help.

ftp.us.debian.org has been acting funny for at least a week. I haven't been 
able to update or install from it at all, so have switched to 
ftp.debian.org or a specific mirror.

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Re: Can't find libXmu.a and libXaw.a for xorg

2006-06-16 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:10, edwardsa wrote:
> I'm trying to compile Scilab from sources and it requires the two static
> libraries
> libXmu.a and LibXaw.a
>
> I have installed the packages libxmu-dev and libxaw7-dev, where these
> files are supposed to originate,. However, after installation they are
> not in the /usr/X1R6/lib directory, where, according to the debian
> packages web page, they are supposed to reside.
>
> I looked at the package dependencies and they include xfree86-common.
> I'm running the xorg xserver. What are my options?

It depends on what version of xorg you are running--if it's a recent one 
(e.g. 7.0), the files will in /usr/lib. You can find where your particular 
files are with dpkg -L; for instance on my system:

$ dpkg -L libxmu-dev | grep libXmu.a
/usr/lib/libXmu.a

Hope that helps.

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Re: Strange network things: eth1 (but no nic!!) and sit0

2006-02-25 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:56, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After installing Etch on my AMD64 machine I suddenly have an extra eth1
> without actually having an NIC. I cannot activate it  in the "Network
> settings" applet but it is shown during boot and in the output of
> ifconfig (without ip address). Can anyone give me clue as to where this
> eth1 is comming from ? Is that related to my next question (IP6)?  Or
> maybe firewire ?

There is a good chance this is your Firewire interface. For instance, on my 
system:

$ ip link show
1: lo:  mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:11:d8:68:f5:92 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1:  mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000
link/ieee1394 00:11:d8:00:00:08:50:49 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: sit0:  mtu 1480 qdisc noop
link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0

Notice that eth0 is link/ether (Ethernet) and eth1 is link/ieee1394 
(Firewire).

> I also have a "sit0" which appears to be a IPv6-in-IPv4 address. Is that
> correct? IS there any documentation available a to why that is (I have
> nothing configured myself, there is nothing about IP6 I can find on my
> machine)?

sit0 is a generic device that will AFAIK always be around if you have IPv6 
support, whether or not that support is configured.

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Re: USB devices work with uhci, not with ehci

2006-01-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 02 January 2006 16:26, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? All my low or full speed
> devices work fine. My *high* speed devices don't work if ehci_hcd is
> loaded, but if I remove it, they work as fall-back full speed devices.

Just for future reference, and in case anyone else has this same problem or 
more information, I went ahead and filed a bug upstream: 
<http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5835>

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Re: How to correctly pass filename to dchroot

2006-01-03 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 13:46, Koen Vermeer wrote:
> I'd like to be able to simply click a file on my Gnome desktop. It's
> easy to tell Gnome to run 'dchroot -d oowriter', but I cannot tell it
> how to pass the filename. The problem is that, if I have a file with
> name 'test test.doc', I can open it by running 'dchroot -d oowriter
> "test\ test.doc'. The following methods don't work:
> dchroot -d oowriter test test.doc
> dchroot -d oowriter test\ test.doc
> dchroot -d oowriter "test test.doc"
>
> I expect that I'm not the only one with this problem, so how did others
> solve it? Or should I be asking aroung on a Gnome list?

I could never get dchroot to handle every possible valid filename directly. 
Even doing tricks to make things work with spaces would fail if I had a 
file with single-quotes, for instance. 

Anyway, I ended up using a pair of scripts so that I can handle ANY possible 
filename, including ones with mixes of single and double-quotes, spaces, or 
other shell metacharacters. They are attached in case they're useful. (The 
first one (not the .helper) is the one that is linked to the program name 
that should be run in the chroot.)

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Re: USB devices work with uhci, not with ehci

2006-01-03 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 02 January 2006 23:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:26, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? All my low or full speed
> > devices work fine. My *high* speed devices don't work if ehci_hcd is
> > loaded, but if I remove it, they work as fall-back full speed devices.
>
> I had a similar problem with an ASUS A8V Deluxe mainboard and the Sarge
> AMD64 kernel image (2.6.8), it disappeared when I switched to the Etch
> kernel image (2.6.12).

Well, I'm using 2.6.14...

$ uname -a 
Linux tonberry 2.6.14 #2 PREEMPT Tue Nov 1 17:58:44 MST 2005 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

I guess I'll keep looking for ideas. =)

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Re: USB devices work with uhci, not with ehci

2006-01-02 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 02 January 2006 16:39, Joel Johnson wrote:
> I have seen this as well (on an x86-32 desktop machine), and it turned
> out that my USB wireless adapter didn't work fully with ehci. When I have
> ehci-hcd loaded and the wireless adapter (rt2570 chipset) plugged in, I
[ . . . ]
> This just happens to work for this machine, but isn't a real solution. Is
> there any way to force a USB device to run at lower speed with high speed
> module loaded and enabled for all other devices?

Hmmm... well, that's kind of similar, but not exactly what I'm seeing.

I kind of doubt in my case it is an issue of the USB device not fully 
working with ehci, since I've tried it with two USB flash drives and an 
external USB HD enclosure, all of which work fine in high speed on my other 
computers, just not on my amd64. =(

I assume most others here have had high speed USB devices working (in high 
speed mode) with ehci_hcd on amd64?

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USB devices work with uhci, not with ehci

2006-01-02 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Hi folks,

Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? All my low or full speed devices 
work fine. My *high* speed devices don't work if ehci_hcd is loaded, but if 
I remove it, they work as fall-back full speed devices.

For example, when I install a USB storage device without ehci_hcd loaded, 
I'll get:

Jan  2 16:14:24 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 
:00:10.4 disabled
Jan  2 16:14:25 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using 
uhci_hcd and address 2
Jan  2 16:14:25 localhost kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
Jan  2 16:14:30 localhost kernel:   Vendor: SanDisk   Model: Cruzer Mini   
Rev: 0.2
Jan  2 16:14:30 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access  
ANSI SCSI revision
: 02
Jan  2 16:14:30 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 2001888 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (1025 MB)
Jan  2 16:14:30 localhost kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Jan  2 16:14:30 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 2001888 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (1025 MB)
Jan  2 16:14:30 localhost kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Jan  2 16:14:30 localhost kernel:  sdb: sdb1
Jan  2 16:14:30 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, 
channel 0, id 0, lun
 0

However, if I try it with ehci_hcd loaded, I'll get:

Jan  2 16:17:34 localhost kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using 
ehci_hcd and address 7
Jan  2 16:17:35 localhost kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using 
ehci_hcd and address 8
Jan  2 16:17:35 localhost kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using 
ehci_hcd and address 9
Jan  2 16:17:36 localhost kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using 
ehci_hcd and address 1
0

But nothing else shows up, and the device isn't shown with lsusb.

For reference this is with the following devices on an ASUS A8V-E Deluxe 
motherboard:

:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 81)
:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 81)
:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 81)
:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller (rev 81)
:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)

Thanks for any pointers you might have. =)

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Re: building ghdl for amd64

2006-01-01 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 01 January 2006 07:23, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> You just need to wait until the ghdl source gets on the mirrors.
> We do not build from incoming, but only start after dinstall.  So
> it should get build in about 10 hours, and be available in about
> 24 on the amd64 mirrors if it build succesfully.

Okay, good to know; I wasn't 100% sure how that worked. Anyway, looks like 
it built and is installed now. Woohoo!

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building ghdl for amd64

2005-12-31 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Hi folks,

I just (several hours ago) uploaded a new version of ghdl that builds on 
amd64; the previous versions didn't build. Do I need to do anything to get 
the amd64 buildds to build it? 

According to <http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?packages=ghdl>, it 
doesn't seem like anything is going on with amd64; for all[1] other 
architectuers, there is at least some status.

[1] Also except m68k, but that is expected, since it doesn't even have gnat.

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Re: update time

2005-10-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Thursday 06 October 2005 18:25, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> Hi, I looked in the archives and to update my console clock the command
> is 'ntupdate' however this doesn't work.  Can anyone tell me the
> command?

There is "ntpdate" (set the time from an NTP server), "date" (read or set 
the local clock), and "hwclock" (query and set the hardware 
clock--generaelly you don't need to run this manually).

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Re: chroot application list

2005-07-30 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 30 July 2005 07:42, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> kohzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > hi all
> > I would like to know here can i find a list of application witch need
> > to be chrooted (non 64bits appz) under debian amd64.
> > thx
>
> All and none both at the same time. All 32bit apps need special
> treatment but chroot is just one way to treat them.

I think what he might have meant (or if not, would be useful for what he was 
asking) is a list of packages that are in the i386 archive, but not in the 
amd64 archive.

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Re: Any idea what's wrong?

2005-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 06 May 2005 18:30, Vernon Dozier wrote:
> I just did a apt-get update and apt-get
> dist-upgrade... this is the first time I'd done this
> since the archive move, and I'm getting some error
> messages relating to emacs.  Specifically...

> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  dictionaries-common
>  wamerican
>  emacsen-common
>  emacs21-common
>  python-mode
>  xemacs21-support
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
> (1)
> spqr:/home/mojo#
>
> Anyone know how I can fix this?  Thanks

I got this the other day. I went into aptitude and selected *emacs21-* for 
REINSTALL (with "L"). It redownloaded and reinstalled all my xemacs21 and 
emacs21 packages, and then everything else came through as well.

I don't know how or why it happened, or why this fixed it, though.

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Bug#307226: devtodo: tdr segfault on amd64

2005-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Hi amd64 folks,

Could anyone that uses or is interested in devtodo on amd64 see if they can 
reproduce the problem described in this bug? 

Basically with certain .todo files (there is one attached on the bug with 
reproduction redetails), tdr will segfault. I'd like to see if this is 
reproducable by others, as I only have a single amd64 machine, and 
pergolesi doesn't have the build-deps to try it there...

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[SOLVED] disappearing fonts/pixmaps

2005-03-26 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:28, David Liontooth wrote:
> Javier Kohen wrote:
> >From all the data you provided I conclude that the problem lies in
> > the video driver. I also estimate the likeness of my conclusion
> > being wrong to be very high.
> >
> >I'm afraid that we are not magicians, we just try to help each other
> >when we can. Have you tried a 32-bit system? Does the same happen?
> > Did you try the vesa driver for X?
> >
> >Good luck,
>
> I agree, this sounds a lot like a video driver problem. I
> don't even think the likelihood of this being wrong is
> particularly high 

Well, I thought the same thing, but I was mostly just trying to figure 
out if it was that or just something dumb in how I had set things up, 
so since I wasn't able to figure it out with quite a lot of tweaking 
and experimenting, I thought I'd see if anyone else had experienced the 
problem. =)

> I've used the nVidia drivers for years and I've seen this
> behavior. What's your card, and which driver version?

(Curious: you have seen this behavior? Or was that a typo, and you meant 
you haven't?)

Anyway, at first I when I read your both suggestions, I was thinking, 
"yeah, okay, so maybe it's the video driver, but nvidia claims to have 
never heard about the problem, and I have the latest driver!" But, 
turns out that a new nvidia driver came out a week or so ago, and had 
the following:

* Added a workaround for an X server bug with PCI-E GeForce 6800 and 
GeForce 6600; a fix has been provided to XFree86 and XOrg.

(I have a GeForce 6800 PCI-E.) Upgrading to the latest version of the 
nvidia drivers both in my main system and in my chroot seemed to fix 
it.

Now I'm happy, but curious what the "X server bug" that they worked 
around was ...

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Re: disappearing fonts/pixmaps

2005-03-25 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday, 25 March 2005 17:01, David Liontooth wrote:
> Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> >On Saturday, 19 March 2005 15:25, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>On my amd64 machine, I'm having issues where for certain
> >>applications, fonts and/or pixmaps will randomly disappear.
> >>
> >>Has anyone heard of this before?
> >
> >I guess I am the only one seeing this problem...

> It doesn't sound like anyone else is encountering this in a general
> way. You could give us some details if you want suggestions -- which
> apps, which fonts and pixmaps?

Well, my first message had a lot of details. ;) I'd be happy to provide 
more if it would help it get fixed. Below is the relevent "more info":

Quoting myself:

On Saturday, 19 March 2005 15:25, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> On my amd64 machine, I'm having issues where for certain
> applications, fonts and/or pixmaps will randomly disappear.
>
> Has anyone heard of this before?
>
> Here is some more info:
>
>  * This is really noticable with firefox. After loading a web page,
> or when the window looses focus, and under other hard-to-describe
> conditions, text will often disappear. Links, which have underlines,
> keep the underlines, but the actual font glyphs disappear. To "fix"
> this, I highlight everything with the mouse, then click somewhere
> benign to deselect and then everything is fine... until the next time
> it happens.
>
>  * Konsole. I've been running using icewm, but I like konsole.
> Everything with konsole will be fine--the menus, window tab-bar, and
> the actual console view itself never has this problem. However, the
> pixmaps that should appear on the status bar (kill this window, make
> a new window, the terminal icons on the tabs) intermitantly disppear.
> Sometimes they'll reappear randomly when I mouse over them, but not
> always--I can't easily make it happen on way or another.
>
>  * Cheesetracker - none of the text ever has any problems, nor any
> pixmaps in the main window. The toolbar pixmaps randomly disappear
> and reappear when you mouse over them.
>
>  * Openoffice (from 32-bit chroot) -- menu text never appears, and I
> can't get it to. Text entered (say in oowriter) appears while typing,
> but then disappears, never to return, if you start highlighting,
> backspacing, or scrolling around. Doesn't seem to have a problem with
> pixmaps, though.
>
>  * All sorts of other programs are better/wrose/different, but it
> NEVER happens with an xterm, it doesn't seem to happen with any of
> the WM widgets themselves in icewm, and there are lots of programs
> where it will just never happen.
>
> I've tried a bunch of different font-relating things (changing what
> fonts are installed, changing some settings in /etc/fonts/local.conf,
>
> For reference, I'm running pure64 unstable, and using the binary
> nVidia drivers (because I need 3D acceleration).
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. =)

I really would appreciate suggestions. (=

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Re: disappearing fonts/pixmaps

2005-03-25 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Saturday, 19 March 2005 15:25, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> On my amd64 machine, I'm having issues where for certain
> applications, fonts and/or pixmaps will randomly disappear.
>
> Has anyone heard of this before?

I guess I am the only one seeing this problem... 

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disappearing fonts/pixmaps

2005-03-19 Thread Wesley J Landaker
Hi folks,

On my amd64 machine, I'm having issues where for certain applications, 
fonts and/or pixmaps will randomly disappear. 

Has anyone heard of this before?

Here is some more info:

 * This is really noticable with firefox. After loading a web page, or 
when the window looses focus, and under other hard-to-describe 
conditions, text will often disappear. Links, which have underlines, 
keep the underlines, but the actual font glyphs disappear. To "fix" 
this, I highlight everything with the mouse, then click somewhere 
benign to deselect and then everything is fine... until the next time 
it happens.

 * Konsole. I've been running using icewm, but I like konsole. 
Everything with konsole will be fine--the menus, window tab-bar, and 
the actual console view itself never has this problem. However, the 
pixmaps that should appear on the status bar (kill this window, make a 
new window, the terminal icons on the tabs) intermitantly disppear. 
Sometimes they'll reappear randomly when I mouse over them, but not 
always--I can't easily make it happen on way or another.

 * Cheesetracker - none of the text ever has any problems, nor any 
pixmaps in the main window. The toolbar pixmaps randomly disappear and 
reappear when you mouse over them.

 * Openoffice (from 32-bit chroot) -- menu text never appears, and I 
can't get it to. Text entered (say in oowriter) appears while typing, 
but then disappears, never to return, if you start highlighting, 
backspacing, or scrolling around. Doesn't seem to have a problem with 
pixmaps, though.

 * All sorts of other programs are better/wrose/different, but it NEVER 
happens with an xterm, it doesn't seem to happen with any of the WM 
widgets themselves in icewm, and there are lots of programs where it 
will just never happen.

I've tried a bunch of different font-relating things (changing what 
fonts are installed, changing some settings in /etc/fonts/local.conf, 

For reference, I'm running pure64 unstable, and using the binary nVidia 
drivers (because I need 3D acceleration).

If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. =)

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Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Saturday, 05 March 2005 09:11, Kyuu Eturautti wrote:

> Yes, I figured as much, but as I also noted, it doesn't work either.
> Quoting myself:
>
> - the latest driver from syskonnect.com fails during "Compile the
> kernel" when running install.sh, either expert or user mode. The
> install.log contains these errors:
> -- In function 'sk98lin_resume';
> -- error: too many arguments to funcion 'pci_restore_state'
> -- a similar error for sk98lin_resume and function pci_save_state

Ah, okay, I didn't catch that you were already trying to use the newer 
driver.

> >>- the driver in 2.6.11 from ftp.kernel.org doesn't do anything -

I haven't tried it against the 2.6.11 kernel--sounds like some function 
signatures changed. I don't have time to look at it now, but I bet it 
wouldn't be too hard to fix the calls in the module to match what's in 
the kernel.

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Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday, 04 March 2005 21:07, Kyuu Eturautti wrote:
> Alois Zoitl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i got this htin g yesterday and I'm not to glad about it because I
> > can not get the network running.
> > As far as I found out it uses also the sk98lin driver.
> > But the standard driver that comes along with the debian amd 64 cd
> > fails the installation.
> > After using an additional card I was able to upgrade to the gcc-3.4
> > tree. And after installing
> > the 2.6.9-9 kernel I could load the sk98lin module with modconf.
> > But I don't think its working.
>
> I've hit the same problem on the same board. Running a freshly
> installed pure64 sarge.
>
> - the driver on the DFS cd states No adapter found
> - the driver in 2.6.11 from ftp.kernel.org doesn't do anything -
> modprobe sk98lin doesn't report anything on the console or dmesg.
> modules are working, as I can load the 3c59x module without problems
> for a temporary alternate nic

The sk98lin driver in the kernel doesn't work with this motherboard. 
Instead, you must use the one from:
<http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk9e21_lin.htm>

(The module is GPL'd, and AFAICT is the same driver as what is in the 
kernel, except MUCH MUCH newer... so who knows why it isn't in the main 
kernel tree.)

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Re: libflash-mozplugin

2005-02-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Saturday, 12 February 2005 08:49, v0n0 wrote:
> After installing libflash-mozplugin + dependancies when I get in a
> site with a Flash component Firefox (1.0) goes in segmentation fault.
> Is there anyone that is experiencing the same problem?

I used to maintain libflash (I adopting it thinking it would be 
interesting)--it's not just an AMD64 problem, it's just a problem with 
the upstream software itself. It has problems on every architecture.

Sadly, it ended up have WAY more problems that I could fix or 
work-around, and I ended up just orphaning it so I could focus on more 
important things.

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Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-02-10 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Thursday, 10 February 2005 01:01, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> > I have this board, I'm still working on migrating everything over
> > to this system (it's going to be my new primary system on my desk).
>
> May I ask you, and the list, a question (well, a couple) then: how
> much RAM do you have installed? I have 4Gb on it, but I was unable to
> use it all, because apparently some addressing space (about 400Mb) is
> reserved for the southbridge. I found an option in the bios (the
> documentation is terse on it, to say the least) which claims to
> "remap" memory to make it all available. I tried enabling that, but
> then some drivers do not work well (e.g. nvidia, but I can live with
> it) or do not work at all (e.g. sk98lin, and this crashes the
> computer). Currently, for the sake of stability, I left remapping
> disabled in the bios and everything works like a charm, apart from
> the missing 400Mb, but this is not copletely satisfactory. Anybody
> else went through this? Suggestions?

I have 1GB, and I have all of my RAM available minus the size of the 
kernel (1023816 kB total reported by /proc/meminfo). I'm using the 
binary nvidia drivers for x86_64, the sysconnect sk98lin driver for 
network.

I'm actually curious what BIOS option you're talking about, as I don't 
see anything like what you were describing listed either in the BIOS or 
in the A8V-E Dexlue motherboard manual. Anyway, 400MB seems like an 
incredible (and strange) amount of address space to reserve for ISA 
compatibility--it seems like it must be for something else.

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Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-02-09 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Wednesday, 09 February 2005 16:04, Alois Zoitl wrote:
> i got this htin g yesterday and I'm not to glad about it because I
> can not get the network running.
> As far as I found out it uses also the sk98lin driver.
> But the standard driver that comes along with the debian amd 64 cd
> fails the installation.
> After using an additional card I was able to upgrade to the gcc-3.4
> tree. And after installing
> the 2.6.9-9 kernel I could load the sk98lin module with modconf. But
> I don't think its working.

I have this board, I'm still working on migrating everything over to 
this system (it's going to be my new primary system on my desk).

The network card works fine with the *latest* sk98lin driver from 
www.syskonnect.com; I had to bootstrap the system from CD, then compile 
the driver against the kernel, but then it worked fine. =) (I'm not 
sure why the sk98lin in the kernel is so old; the code from syskonnect 
is 100% GPL licensed.)

I was planning to write up a board report on this once I tested 
everything out, but for now the SATA works fine in IDE mode (I'm not 
using RAID), the network works with said driver, sound works perfectly 
with the OSS and ALSA drivers (but the ALSA drivers give much better 
control over the card)--it's the standard via82xxx set. I haven't yet 
tried the onboard wireless or firewire, but USB works fine so far, and 
firewire was autodetected (it's a TI chip, so I don't expect trouble).



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Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-01-23 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Sunday, 23 January 2005 02:05, Cyril Chaboisseau wrote:
>  Le 22 January vers 21:58, Wesley J Landaker Ãcrivait:
> > Anyone out there tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe motherboard? Judging
> > by the specs and what I've heard about the A8V, I don't *expect*
> > any problems, but I'm wondering if anyone has actually given it a
> > shot.
>
> it works perfectly fine (no crash) altough I haven't tried the Ralink
> RT2500 drivers yet
> here are some links
> http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/rt2400.html
> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
>
>
> BTW, the Deluxe is just a plain A8V + a Wifi card

Thanks for the info; I don't have the system in hand yet. I've heard 
from others that the A8V seems very supported and stable.

I was actually referring to the A8V-E Deluxe 
<http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A8V-E%20Deluxe&langs=09#> (has PCI 
Express) not the A8V Deluxe 
<http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A8V%20Deluxe&langs=09> (has AGP); 
they are very similar but not quite the same chipsets everywhere. 

Hopefully nothing changed that will give me trouble, though. (=

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Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-01-22 Thread Wesley J Landaker
Anyone out there tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe motherboard? Judging by the 
specs and what I've heard about the A8V, I don't *expect* any problems, 
but I'm wondering if anyone has actually given it a shot.

Anyway, I have one on order for a new system (need the PCI-Express 
capability), so once I get it up and running I'll let you know how it 
turns out... =)

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