Re: USB mouse and touchpad issues using the unstable release

2005-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/05 00:09), Massimo Perga wrote: Hi Clive, I've tried to use your same configuration but I can't get neither mouse nor touchpad working. I also moved to the hotplug package to fix these USB issues but I wasn't so lucky. Have you any other idea ? Do you know what changed from

Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-24 Thread David Goodenough
I have a machine I am trying to install Debian on. It is an AMD-64 and has a DPT RAID card. The disks appear on the I2O bus. The Debian installer recognises them (once I have told it to load the right driver), and partitions them, but there is a problem when it comes to formatting them for

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hamish Moffatt wrote: You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this working. It builds amd64 debs of enough library and binary packages to get it running, though it's running 32-bit behind the scenes. Very nice. Does the Debian Amd64 developpers consider pushing this

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread studio-64
Hi Although I run my 64Studio for music I really miss Open office. We often get asked to produce CD covers and such for our master CD's. I can us OO for this but not on 64. Its a shame as most of my Windoze people are really impressed with Linux on seeing this setup. We can only wait as I

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/05 15:39), studio-64 wrote: Hi Although I run my 64Studio for music I really miss Open office. We often get asked to produce CD covers and such for our master CD's. I can us OO for this but not on 64. Its a shame as most of my Windoze people are really impressed with Linux on

RE: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-24 Thread Mark Coetser
I have done quite a few installations onto different hardware/storage devices and have only had one issue quite recently using an intel (megaraid) SATA controller and that was hardware related, I could see the logical raid 5 device as /dev/sda and I could partition it but when doing a mke2fs -j

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Mike Dobbs
Ubuntu breezy has a working 32bit behind the scenes version that works quite well here. See what they are doing. On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:32 +0100, sigi wrote: Hi, You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this working. It builds amd64 debs of enough library and binary

Re: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:41:31PM +, David Goodenough wrote: Either through the installer, or manually on VC2, the format seems to go OK, but when I come to mount it, mount complains of an invalid parameter. Is there anything in the kernel log (from dmesg) about why? The manual mount

Re: mplayer and libdvdcss

2005-11-24 Thread Yannick - Debian/Linux
Hi, Check this page : http://debian.video.free.fr/ especially the bottom for adresses. Regards, Yannick sigi a écrit : Hi, has anyone out there a link to a mplayer and libdvdcss-mirror for amd64? my collected sources seem not to be accessible since some weeks... in my sources.list I

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:38:10AM +0100, Nico Jochens wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:32:15PM +0100, sigi wrote: Hi, You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this working. It builds amd64 debs of enough library and binary packages to get it running, though it's