[SOT] EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Dominok
Hi Folks, I'm subscribed to this List for about 2 Months now but failed to find a single Post, amongst the many that deal with Hardware-Problems, that concerns the EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra, or similar, Mainboard. That makes me become suspicious. Am i the only one using this Board and if so why? What

Re: Building amd64/k8 kernel from 32-bit userspace

2005-10-25 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 24.10.2005 at 23:01 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: On Monday 24 October 2005 22:35, Max wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: Is it because I have a 32-bit i686 userspace and this is considered cross-compiling or something?? From old version of FAQ: === *Crosscompiling a 64bit

AMD64 Laptop

2005-10-25 Thread Ken Kasina
Hi, I know I should have submitted this question to the laptop list, but I guess this is the most appropriate place to post it. I wish to buy a laptop that features andAMD64 processor and a nice 17inch view. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'll really appreciate your input. Thanks,

Re: 32-bit memory limits IN DETAIL (Was: perspectives on 32 bit vs 64 bit)

2005-10-25 Thread studio-64
Hi I'm now worried as I nearly understand this!! I need to play more guitar!! Many thanks for a well written mail. cheers Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to come up every now and then, so let me explain. None of this is new information, butt can be a bit confusing. First, i386

Re: todays installer is still broken

2005-10-25 Thread .
Ken Bloom schrieb: I say start with Len's installer (the tinyplanet.ca one) because it's got a newer kernel. If you use it, things are more likely to work the first time. THX! I´ve tried the Sarge one on the testing maschine, and it seems to work well except for that it doesn´t detect the

Re: Installing Debian over another distribution

2005-10-25 Thread .
Jean-Jacques de Jong schrieb: I noticed that you can install Debian over another distribution when using existing partitions. Apparently the home directories are then moved into / while all other directories are erased. However, does the installer do this also with /usr/local? On the machine

Re: bzip2 problem

2005-10-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
hjalmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sory if this is a copy of the one sent. Have been reworking my mail setup and was not sure if it came through. My problem below: I have just ran aptitude update and got the following result Hit http://bach.hpc2n.umu.se unstable/non-free Packages

Re: Multiarch

2005-10-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthew A. Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any new updates on multiarch or is it still just a purposal? I say we organize a team to get multiarch working and stop sitting on our hands. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Building amd64/k8 kernel from 32-bit userspace

2005-10-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Brook wrote: Is it because I have a 32-bit i686 userspace and this is considered cross-compiling or something?? From old version of FAQ: === *Crosscompiling a 64bit kernel on a 32bit host* snip Most of this is obsolete. The Debian i386 gcc-3.4

Re: Building amd64/k8 kernel from 32-bit userspace

2005-10-25 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 25.10.2005 at 11:36 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The recommended (and only user friendly) way to build a 64bit kernel is a 64bit userland. For i386 users that means installing the existing 64bit kernel, create a 64bit chroot and compile the kernel in there. That way it

Re: gfortran

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Stiles
On Monday 24 October 2005 21:32, Dominique Rousset wrote: Hello everyone, I've been a silent subscriber to this list for the past 3+ months, and now, I am coming with my question... I am benchmarking a fortran code of my own (simulation of seismic wave propagation) whose output is a direct

Re: Re: base system installation error

2005-10-25 Thread Support Miniemeninstituut
I have the same problem. Question: how to solve it? Kristof;

Re: Re: base system installation error

2005-10-25 Thread Support Miniemeninstituut
Hi, I have the same problem during install of debian amd64: [!!] Install the base system Base system installation error The debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 2). (next page...) Failed to install the base system The base

Re: Installing Debian over another distribution

2005-10-25 Thread Jean-Jacques de Jong
GH wrote: Jean-Jacques de Jong schrieb: I noticed that you can install Debian over another distribution when using existing partitions. Apparently the home directories are then moved into / while all other directories are erased. However, does the installer do this also with

Re: AMD64 Laptop

2005-10-25 Thread Bas van Besouw
Ken, Most laptops should be fine. As far as I have seen, and experienced,the biggest problem are wireless cards.. And then only in 64bit mode, which I believe you want to use. Make sure the wireless card is in the hardware compattibility list. If not, then there are some other options like

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-25 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 10/23/05, Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am (unfortunately) trying to install Oracle Database 10g on Debian AMD64. I know this is routinely done on i386, but I'm having some problems. I tried that, but gave up pretty soon. The basic problem is that Oracle is compiled for a hybrid

Re: Installing Debian over another distribution

2005-10-25 Thread .
Jean-Jacques de Jong schrieb: The home directories are not moved. Yes they are, I experienced it (at least with 32 bit Sarge). It happens when you choose to install over your old / partition without reformatting - the installer then lets you choose an option keeping the data. In

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Stiles
On Sunday 23 October 2005 18:42, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I am (unfortunately) trying to install Oracle Database 10g on Debian AMD64. I know this is routinely done on i386, but I'm having some problems. The errors I get appear below, when I try to bring up the installer screen

Re: AMD64 Laptop

2005-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:56:35AM -0400, Bas van Besouw wrote: Ken, Most laptops should be fine. As far as I have seen, and experienced, the biggest problem are wireless cards.. And then only in 64bit mode, which I believe you want to use. Make sure the wireless card is in the hardware

Re: [SOT] EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra

2005-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:47:08AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: I'm subscribed to this List for about 2 Months now but failed to find a single Post, amongst the many that deal with Hardware-Problems, that concerns the EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra, or similar, Mainboard. I have never even heard of the

Re: bzip2 problem

2005-10-25 Thread hjalmar
I was able to track down the problem. It was a problem with my router. Clyde On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: hjalmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sory if this is a copy of the one sent. Have been reworking my mail setup and was not sure if it came through.

Re: DVD/CD Woes

2005-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:09:19AM -0400, John Baab wrote: I seem to be having some problems with my optical drives, I cannot remember when the last time is that I used them successfully though. My current setup includes 2 optical drives: Lite-On LDW-811S (primary)(dvdrw) Lite-On LTR-52327S

Re: [SOT] EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra

2005-10-25 Thread Milan Melichercik
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:36, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:47:08AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: I'm subscribed to this List for about 2 Months now but failed to find a single Post, amongst the many that deal with Hardware-Problems, that concerns the EPoX 9NPA+

Re: nvida driver is not working after reboot

2005-10-25 Thread FrekoDing
Rob Sims ecrivait le 30.09.2005 22:54: And in /etc/init.d/udev changed the case statement in make_extra_nodes: case $type in L) ln -s $arg1 /dev/$name ;; D) mkdir -p /dev/$name ;; M) mknod --mode=600 /dev/$name $arg1 ;; O) chown /dev/$name $arg1

Re: [SOT] EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra

2005-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:46:28PM +0200, Milan Melichercik wrote: We will have (in our company) 2 pcs. of exactly the same model U mentioned. So probably I can later reffer - when they arrive... BTW: I have Epox MB at home (sock. A with nForce2) and no problem (and my friends have similar

Re: 32-bit memory limits IN DETAIL (Was: perspectives on 32 bit vs 64 bit)

2005-10-25 Thread Martin Kuball
Am Tuesday, 25. October 2005 02:31 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Because the kernel address space has to hold more than just RAM (in particular, it also has to hold memory-mapped PCI devices like video cards), if you have 1G of physical memory, the kernel will by default only use 896M of

why is amd64 still separate?

2005-10-25 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Perhaps I missed something, but why is amd64 still not included into the official package pool? I am still in the NM process, but maybe I can help? Regards Harri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:16:08PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Montigny wrote: Adam Stiles wrote: The proper way to fix it would be to recompile the whole package from source so it works with your existing installation. But that probably is not an option for you ;) So let's ask a different

Re: state of Java on amd64

2005-10-25 Thread debianista.deb
I installed it by sourceforge :D and now is running okay :DOn 10/20/05, debianista.deb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:nop still not working ;P I don't know why ;( same bug segmentation fault $ java -version java version 1.4.2-02 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-25 Thread Jean-Christophe Montigny
Hi, Lennart Sorensen wrote: So that is 'Why no mysql', how about 'why no postgresql' part of the original question? Well, I am afraid I'm not quite postgresql-literate, and I live by the (perhaps false) assumption that PostgreSQL and MySQL are more or less the same : open source database

Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64

2005-10-25 Thread Adam Skutt
Thomas Steffen wrote: On 10/25/05, Adam Skutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Concerning the tool chain: I noticed (on Solaris, both 32 and 64bit) that you actually only need a few libraries and a few support files to compile and run C applications using the OCI. In fact, this works a lot better

Re: gfortran

2005-10-25 Thread Dominique Rousset
Le Lundi 24 Octobre 2005 23:27, Dominique Rousset a écrit : Le Lundi 24 Octobre 2005 23:00, Lennart Sorensen a écrit : Further investigations indicate an extra time step on AMD64 which result in one extra floating point value per record. The number of time steps is computed using floating

HTTP Cache Cleaner ??

2005-10-25 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
Every now and then I have this little jumping icon on my screen with a entry in the kicker calling itself HTTP Cache Cleaner I have no clue as to what is producing it, I suspect something KDE. Except irritably jumping up and down for a full 10 minutes this thing doesn't seem to do anything

Re: fast clock wreaks havoc on amd64 dual core - hp1250n

2005-10-25 Thread Frederik Schueler
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:07:47PM -0400, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: Unfortunately 2 hours is not enough time to say this is a stable configuration (24 hours is better), but encouraging. I have hit the system with high cpu, video, disk, and ieee load to test but sometime the clock starts

Re: why is amd64 still separate?

2005-10-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:13:42PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Perhaps I missed something, but why is amd64 still not included into the official package pool? I am still in the NM process, but maybe I can help? It's a case of one architecture too many, rather than a problem with amd64

Re: fast clock wreaks havoc on amd64 dual core - hp1250n

2005-10-25 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
Frederik, Thanks much. I will test this. With the exception of some disquieting kernel logs: Oct 23 07:00:38 line kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) Oct 23 07:00:38 line kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 40(40) Oct 23 07:07:19 line kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) Oct 23 07:07:19 line

unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
has anyone got unofficial kernel debs ? i could build my own but im just trying to fix these damned nvidia drivers. im looking for 2.6.14 or something Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I have always used (built) the proprietary nvidia drivers when necessary. video or motherboard? There was an old problem with nvnet (part of the nforce set that covers motherboard peripheral function ) that now appears resolved, in the sense that the proprietary drivers are up to snuff.

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
ive exhausted nvidia support forums, its not a build problem but a very odd problem with ut2004 and only ut2004 (on both 32bit and 64bit) so its time to update the kernel and see what happens. hence, has anyone got newer kernel debs than those the official deb repositories (2.6.11 is the

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
generic as k8 pagefaults when i try to use my cdrom which is frustrating Dean lordSauron wrote: are you running the -k8 or the -generic kernel? I know that the -k8 works perfectly on nForce 2 chipsets (well, the one found in the ECS EliteGroup nForce 2-A board, anyways...) -- To

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
well everything else works bar ut2004. and you have a point about putting up with it i have a dfi-lanparty ut sli board (nf4) and 6600gt 256mb pcie dual sata wd raptors (36gb) its worth going to k8 just to see what happens Dean lordSauron wrote: I don't know... you might have to survive

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
I hate you : ) AMD Athlon64 3000+, 512 Mb RAM, 27 Gb ATA133 HDD, nVidia GeForce 2 MX 64 MB AGP 4x, and a great 8x CDROM, with a wonderful ECS EliteGroup nForce 2-A (nForce 2 chipset) I hope to get a nvidia geforce 6600 256mb AGP 8x and a SATA150 80gb HDD so I can Cedega my little life away : )

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:36:29PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: hence, has anyone got newer kernel debs than those the official deb repositories (2.6.11 is the lastest there, im after 2.6.12 or upto 14) .12 has been in the archive for ages, but it's called linux-image-2.6.12-*, rather than the

Re: Quake 4

2005-10-25 Thread Kaneda Langley
Corey Hickey wrote: Zaq Rizer wrote: It shows the loading page for about a second, then immediately crashes with a segfault. Information regarding the crash from the console is as follows: ++ found DLL in pak file: /Shared/Games/quake4/q4base/game100.pk4/gamex86.so copy

Re: unofficial kernel debs anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
there is chatter on the ppc list (which im also fairly active on) but obviously installing a ppc kernel would be a Bad Idea (tm), atleast on machines other than my ibook ill look for 12 and see what happens from the changelogs on kernel.org there is a lot of stuff going on for amd64 and 64bit

Re: why is amd64 still separate?

2005-10-25 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:13:42PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Perhaps I missed something, but why is amd64 still not included into the official package pool? I am still in the NM process, but maybe I can help? It's a case of one architecture too many, rather than a