Re: changed ownership of / by mistake...

2005-11-19 Thread Cameron Patrick
Gilles wrote: dpkg --get-selections | perl -ane 'print $F[0], if $F[1] =~ /^install/' SELECT [...] and press enter... [Note/WARNING: I did not test this!] I've done something very similar to repair a system after filesytem corruption. It worked quite well. But if ownership is screwy,

Re: X86_64 on Shuttle-XPC ST20G5

2005-11-18 Thread Cameron Patrick
Andrew Sharp wrote: what a PITA. I've got an ATI X300SE PCIe on my system, came right up with X when I installed etch, it works fast and furious, I didn't have to do anything except answer a couple of questions from debconf (or whatever) when it was installing. ... To get 3d working, it's

Re: OO 2.0 released

2005-10-23 Thread Cameron Patrick
Greg Madden wrote: It is not a 64 bit version of OOo.org, it is 32 bit, and they (Ubuntu) have included and configured ia32libs to make it work. It's an ugly ugly hack. It does appear to work, though. $ cat /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/soffice.bin #! /bin/sh

Re: Checkpoint Firewall Client on AMD64

2005-06-29 Thread Cameron Patrick
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:20:05PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: I just looked at openswan but on trying to install it got: WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed! Never seen that message before. Are you running some silly signature

Re: verification of packages with gnupg/apt-key

2005-06-29 Thread Cameron Patrick
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I was under the impression the majority of packages in debian were not signed, since no one has come up with a way for the buildd to sign a package using a package maintainers key (and I imagine no one should try either). All packages are signed. Ones uploaded by the

Re: notebook choice advice...

2005-06-20 Thread Cameron Patrick
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Certainly based on my past experience, if you run linux and want it to work, you always pick nvidia over ati for graphics. My experience has been that Intel graphics is much better supported than either. A pity you can't get an AMD machine with Intel graphics and

Re: SATA Silicon Image 3114 support for A64 images ?

2005-06-15 Thread Cameron Patrick
eternalnewbee wrote: This one is at least supported in 2.6.10 and above, in plain SATA mode. Using the proprietary software raid crap in the Sil chips isn't recomended. Why not? The lowly Windows has been doing just fine with SiI; why is it not recommended under Linux? Linux's md

Re: Bootsector not writable?

2005-06-13 Thread Cameron Patrick
Andre Timmermann wrote: The system works without any problem if I boot it from my grub-floppy. You could try installing grub from that boot floppy. It'd be something like: grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) Replacing (hd0,0) with the partition that contains grub (e.g. /boot or if you

Re: Bootsector not writable?

2005-06-10 Thread Cameron Patrick
Andre Timmermann wrote: Serial ATA Raid-Controller: Adaptec AAR-2410SA 3 x 80GB SATA harddiscs But when I try to boot the system, the bios shows Operating system not found This may be a stupid question - but it's something that worth checking, since everyone suffers from moments of

Re: SATA Silicon Image 3114 support for A64 images ?

2005-06-05 Thread Cameron Patrick
Tudiatya wrote: No, I didn't try sata_sil .. I don't know, how. :) The Debian Installer modules list (which modules to load) doesn't contain sata_sil, only sata_nv. :( Hi, While the SiI controllers should normally be fairly well supported, but what you say suggests that the installer hasn't

Re: SATA Silicon Image 3114 support for A64 images ?

2005-06-05 Thread Cameron Patrick
Tudiatya wrote: Okay, I went from the installer to Execute a shell, but in the shell, lspci was not recognized as a command, so this won't take me further. :( (I don't have Linux, WinXP only ! Would it help you if I let a Suse Live CD run and lspci from there?) Yes, that would be great. It

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-08 Thread Cameron Patrick
Ed Cogburn wrote: Note: non-free is NOT provided yet. We need to decide what we do with it, as we may be forbidden to distribute some of the software in it (we aren't Debian). Wait a second, if you *aren't* Debian, it should be *easier* for you to provide non-free, not harder.

Re: Recommended Graphics card for OpenGL (was Matrox P650 / Athlon 64)

2004-10-26 Thread Cameron Patrick
Gaius Mulley wrote: I wonder whether anyone knows (if any) graphics board can be bought which also has complete source code for reasonable, even average, performance OpenGL (Mesa) which also works on pure64? I've had good luck with the Radeon 9200 in a number of 32-bit machines (though I've

Re: Diskless AMD64; mknbi

2004-09-23 Thread Cameron Patrick
Jeroen Coumans wrote: I have a server running with pure64 and would like to follow the method on http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DiskLess. I'm wondering what the status is of porting mknbi to AMD64, since it's the only package which doesn't compile. It's a perl script, so you /might/ be

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Cameron Patrick
Raul Miller wrote: Not exactly. Current generation X (for example X.Org) seems to run fine on current generation ATI. [Well... it runs fine on 9600 and 9800 -- I'm only presuming it runs fine on X800.] It's the 3d acceleration which is not yet supported on amd64 for ATI. If you don't