libesd-alsa0 & vncserver

[Neal Stephenson]

Hi,

I noticed that there is no alsa variant built in libesd (i.e.
libesd-alsa0). It seems just a matter of editing the control file and
adding amd64 to the architecture specific builds. It seems to work fine
on my system. How does one push this change upstream?

Also it seems that vncserver just segfaults on me. I was wondering if
anyone has this problem or is it just me?

  Neal

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[Frank Remetter]

Hey,

> If you google a bit, you'll be able to find some amd64 packages for
> mplayer, also from marillat. Unfortunately last time i checked, there
> was no debian repository, so you can't install them by adding a few
> lines to your sources.list and using apt. You'll have to get all
> needed packages and install them with dpkg.

just take a look at:
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/mirrors/debian/marillat/index.html

unstable-amd64
deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main
libdvdcss-amd64
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

Regards
 Frank Remetter

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[Ryan Lovett]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:30:27AM +0100, Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] wrote:
> If you google a bit, you'll be able to find some amd64 packages for
> mplayer, also from marillat. Unfortunately last time i checked, there
> was no debian repository, so you can't install them by adding a few
> lines to your sources.list and using apt. You'll have to get all
> needed packages and install them with dpkg.

Check the list archives. There is a mirror at
http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/.

I'd seen XVideo related X server freezes with mplayer that went away by
using the '-vo x11' option. I believe the mplayer in the latest package
didn't cause any trouble though.

Ryan

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:30:27AM +0100, Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] wrote:
> 
> If you google a bit, you'll be able to find some amd64 packages for
> mplayer, also from marillat. Unfortunately last time i checked, there
> was no debian repository, so you can't install them by adding a few
> lines to your sources.list and using apt. You'll have to get all
> needed packages and install them with dpkg.

deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main


Kurt

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[Peter Nelson]

Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] wrote:
If you google a bit, you'll be able to find some amd64 packages for
mplayer, also from marillat. Unfortunately last time i checked, there
was no debian repository, so you can't install them by adding a few
lines to your sources.list and using apt. You'll have to get all
needed packages and install them with dpkg.

   Christian Marillat has maintained an unofficial repository of Debian
   packages relating to multimedia applications for several years. He's
   now set up an amd64 version of the repository.
-Peter

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[David Liontooth]

Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] wrote:
Hi,
Sythos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   

I read on kernel 2.6.10 changelog that 32bit emulation is widely
improved...
This change something in amd64 situation?
 

using that kernel I had the problem that mplayer-32bit (from marillat)
totally freezes up my system. No matter if called from the chroot or
from the 64bit-environment. But I didn't spend much time in solving
this. Maybe its just a problem with my configuration.
   

If you google a bit, you'll be able to find some amd64 packages for
mplayer, also from marillat. Unfortunately last time i checked, there
was no debian repository, so you can't install them by adding a few
lines to your sources.list and using apt. You'll have to get all
needed packages and install them with dpkg.
 

The repository (as announced earlier on this list) is at
deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main
Christian Marillat has just incorportated some new amd64
optimizations into mplayer (from the changelog):
mplayer (1:1.0-pre6-0.3) unstable; urgency=low
 * Enable all optimizations for amd64.
-- Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Tue,  4 Jan 2005 00:51:42 
-0800

Cheers,
Dave
About 32 bit emulation, if i need to run a 32bit app i look for a
statically compiled binary, and they use to work. I tried to configure
a chroot environment to run labview 7, but i didn't success.
Aritz Beraza [Rei]
 

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei]]

> Hi,
> 
> Sythos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I read on kernel 2.6.10 changelog that 32bit emulation is widely
> > improved...
> >
> > This change something in amd64 situation?
> 
> using that kernel I had the problem that mplayer-32bit (from marillat)
> totally freezes up my system. No matter if called from the chroot or
> from the 64bit-environment. But I didn't spend much time in solving
> this. Maybe its just a problem with my configuration.
> 

If you google a bit, you'll be able to find some amd64 packages for
mplayer, also from marillat. Unfortunately last time i checked, there
was no debian repository, so you can't install them by adding a few
lines to your sources.list and using apt. You'll have to get all
needed packages and install them with dpkg.

About 32 bit emulation, if i need to run a 32bit app i look for a
statically compiled binary, and they use to work. I tried to configure
a chroot environment to run labview 7, but i didn't success.

Aritz Beraza [Rei]
-- 
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___
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Re: TIGER K8w Dual opteron crash

[Pedro I. Sanchez]

I had the same problem with my laptop after a fresh install of pure64.
In my case I was able to link network activity with the crashes. Just
visiting a web site would very likely completely freeze the laptop.

Finally the solution was to replace the kernel. I installed a vanilla
2.6.10 from kernel.org and bum! everything is OK since then.

I still have the original Debian kernel in my Grub menu and believe me,
it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to see the laptop totally
frozen (this is the closest I've been to "hybernation" in my new laptop,
still working on it :).

-- 
Pedro
 

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 15:05 +0100, Sythos wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:23:27PM +, Manuel Capinha wrote:
> > When the machine crashes it just freezes: all input is ignored. Mouse,
> > keyboard, networking nothing works... the machine is just dead in the
> > water :/
> 
> Mmmm... its taste is hardware problem
> 
> try a memtest86, try another videocard or another network card (if
> onboard try to disable it and try a PCI card)
> 
> Regards
>   Sythos
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sythos - http://www.sythos.net
>   ()  ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against html/rtf/vCard in mail
>   /\- against M$ attachments
> 
> 

Re: mirror.phy.bnl.gov: sarge isn't sarge

[Norval Watson]

>  this "sid" works like a charm on my
> athlon64fx. 
> 
Hi Steffen,
What mobo and other hardware are you using?
Thanks,
Norv

Re: mirror.phy.bnl.gov: sarge isn't sarge

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:16:08PM +0100, Steffen Schwigon wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I suppose the mirror
> 
>   http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-amd64/dists/sarge/
> 
> isn't "sarge" but "sid".

Yes, that's the pure64 archive, and it only has sid in it atm,
and sarge is a symlink to sid.


Kurt

Re: mirror.phy.bnl.gov: sarge isn't sarge

[Brett Viren]

Hi Steffen,

Steffen Schwigon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I suppose the mirror
>
>   http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-amd64/dists/sarge/
>
> isn't "sarge" but "sid".
>
> Can someone acknowledge this?
> Is this deliberate?

That's mine but I just blindly rsync from:
debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org::debian-amd64/

FWIW, the symlinks show "sarge" is indeed sid...

ls -l debian-amd64/dists/
total 12
drwxrwsr-x5 20071401924096 Jan  5 11:40 exp
lrwxrwxrwx1 2007140192   3 Sep 22 11:12 experimental -> exp
lrwxrwxrwx1 2007140192   3 Sep 22 11:12 sarge -> sid
drwxrwsr-x5 20314401924096 Jul  6  2004 sarge.old
drwxrwsr-x5 20071401924096 Jan  5 11:40 sid
lrwxrwxrwx1 2031440192   5 Sep 22 11:12 testing -> sarge
lrwxrwxrwx1 2007140192   3 Sep 22 11:12 unstable -> sid

-Brett.

mirror.phy.bnl.gov: sarge isn't sarge

[Steffen Schwigon]

Hi!

I suppose the mirror

  http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-amd64/dists/sarge/

isn't "sarge" but "sid".

Can someone acknowledge this?
Is this deliberate?

(It seems I installed the wrong dist, normally I'm a "stable"
fetishist, but anyway, this "sid" works like a charm on my
athlon64fx. Thanks to all you debian-amd64 developers out there.)

GreetinX
Steffen
-- 
Steffen Schwigon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dresden Perl Mongers 

Re: Ide (PATA) problem with kernel 2.6.9

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:06:11PM +0200, "Matti-P.Sar?n" wrote:
> Thank you for quick answer!
> 
> I had to load kernelmodule ide-disk to access PATA drives manually.
> 
> I think that you are right Len.
> 
> The ide controller of this motherboard, however, is not nvidia (the 
> kernel module is for graphics adapter).
> 
> IDE controller is (I guess) VIA VT8237 or VIA8T800 pro, the user manual 
> is not very clear on this matter. Has anyone any experience with this 
> chipset?

nvidia was a typo.  My via82cxxx module suggestion was still meant to be
potentially right.

An lspci and lspci -n output could help look it up.

Of course the right module has to load early so adding it to
/etc/modules is good since that way ide-generic and comapny won't load
first taking over control of the drives.

Len Sorensen

[Fwd: Re: snmpd network intefaces not displayed]

[Jacob]

stupid bcc, twice now I've done that

 Forwarded Message 
> From: Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Martin Kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Bcc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: snmpd network intefaces not displayed
> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:10:55 -0800

> I'm seeing something simalar on both the pure64 debian and the gcc3.4
> lines. snmp sems to stop responding as soon as snmpwalk tries to read
> the interface information, it just hangs, no core dump and the process
> is still running and I think the udp port is still open but a second
> snmpwalk after I ctrl^c the first doesn't even get a response from the
> server.
> 
> I've looked at tinysnmp but I can seem  to figure out how to get it to
> display interface information.
> 
>  On Wed, 2005-05-01 at 17:26 +0100, Martin Kos wrote:
> > hi
> > 
> > is it possible that there is a problem with the snmpd (5.1.2-6)? 
> > first i tried to use cacti to show some statistics about network 
> > interfaces but it couldn't find the interfaces. then i've tried 
> > with snmpwalk (-v 2c -c public localhost) but i get no 
> > information about network interfaces? can somebody tried that out 
> > on another machine? on all my normal (x86) machines that works 
> > just fine. yes i have changed snmpd.conf for read permissions but 
> > it still won't work :-(
> > 
> > thanks for help
> > 
> > regards
> >   KoS
> > -- 
> > Martin Kos   +41-76-384-93-33
> > http://kos.liSay NO to HTML in mail ICQ# 13556143
> >  Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux
> > 
> > 

Re: Ide (PATA) problem with kernel 2.6.9

["Matti-P.Sarén"]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:19:44PM +0200, "Matti-P.Sar?n" wrote:
Dear List,
I have Abit A8V motherboard. It has on-board VIAK8T800Pro chipset for IDE.
I have Debian AMD64 (kernel with 2.6.9-8, sarge) installed to SATA disk. 
It runs nicely except I had to install modules psmouse, nvidia to 
/etc/modules to get them loaded automatically during bootup.

I added a PATA disk (SAMSUNG SP1604N) to my system. I had to add 
ide-drive to /etc/modules to see this drive, but it transfer rates are 
quite slow. I've had Windows XP system installed to this disk and this 
motherboard earlier and it ran fast and smoothly.

With default settings:
kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm -tT /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1:
Timing cached reads:2632 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1314.23 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.38 seconds =   2.95 MB/sec
kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount=  0 (off)
IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq=  0 (off)
using_dma=  0 (off)
keepsettings =  0 (off)
readonly =  0 (off)
readahead= 256 (on)
geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 160041885696, start = 0
I tried to boost drive a bit with DMA-mode:
kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
...
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
...
Why the DMA mode is prohibited? Without it the transfer rate is only
Timing buffered disk reads:   16 MB in  3.15 seconds =   5.07 MB/sec
My question: What could be done to make drive run faster?
I'll attach here lsmod-listing:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
nls_cp437   7168  1
ntfs   91200  1
ipv6  260128  8
af_packet  23244  2
snd_via82xx28772  0
snd_ac97_codec 76288  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm99852  1 snd_via82xx
snd_timer  24968  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11088  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport4864  1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 8064  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi26532  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device  9036  1 snd_rawmidi
snd56872  7 
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
budget  7424  0
budget_core 9156  1 budget
dvb_core   88744  2 budget,budget_core
crc32   4800  1 dvb_core
saa714620156  2 budget,budget_core
ttpci_eeprom2816  1 budget_core
eth139421968  0
ehci_hcd   30724  0
uhci_hcd   31392  0
via82cxxx_audio30088  0
uart40112632  1 via82cxxx_audio
sound  90952  2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401
soundcore  11104  3 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound
ac97_codec 20312  1 via82cxxx_audio
via82cxxx  13744  1
sk98lin   154604  1
ohci1394   33604  0
ext3  118160  1
jbd59504  1 ext3
mbcache 9800  1 ext3
evdev  10880  0
mousedev   12700  2
tsdev   8832  0
nvidia   4053980  8
psmouse21068  0
sr_mod 17892  0
ide_disk   22208  4
ide_generic 1728  0
ide_cd 42016  0
cdrom  39528  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
reiserfs  222384  3
sd_mod 17880  5
usb_storage69120  0
ide_core  158112  5 
via82cxxx,ide_disk,ide_generic,ide_cd,usb_storage
sbp2   25480  0
ieee1394  375320  3 eth1394,ohci1394,sbp2
sata_via8260  4
sata_promise   11204  0
libata 45448  2 sata_via,sata_promise
scsi_mod  130528  6 
sr_mod,sd_mod,usb_storage,sbp2,sata_promise,libata
unix   29632  444

Thanks in advance!

You should add the right driver for your nvidia ide controller to
/etc/modules so that is doesn't just try and use ide-generic (which does
NOT do DMA since it is not chipset specific).
It use to be something like via82cxxx but that may not apply to the
newer SATA enabled chipsets.
Len Sorensen

Thank you for quick answer!
I had to load kernelmodule ide-disk to access PATA drives manually.
I think that you are right Len.
The ide controller of this motherboard, however, is not nvidia (the 
kernel module is for graphics adapter).

IDE controller is (I guess) VIA VT8237 or VIA8T800 pro, the user manual 
is not very clear on this matter. Has anyone any experience with this 
chipset?

/Matti

Re: libqt3c102-mt miscompiled in gcc-3.4 distro?

[Andreas Jochens]

On 05-Jan-05 19:20, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> I got one more idea.
> I installed the binary libqt3c102-mt again (the one that was compiled 
> with g++-4.0 and gave me the problems the Plastik widget style).
> I also downloaded the kdeartwork source package (in includes the Plastik 
> theme) and compiled it with the same compiler (g++-4.0). I installed the 
> resulting kdeartwork-style*.deb. And it works!
> So the problem is not g++-4.0 itself. The problem seems to be some 
> binary incompatibility between libraries compiled with g++-3.4 and g++-4.0.

Great, thanks for your help! I will recompile kdeartwork with 
g++-4.0 and upload it to alioth soon.

Regards
Andreas Jochens

Re: Re: Re: evolution addressbook problem

[Christian Thalinger]

> evolution --force-shutdown

Still the same problem.

TWISTI

K8-Mainboard info

[Dirk.Weigenand]

Mainboard  ATAATA-Raid Serial ATA SCSI Network   Sound
---
ASUS K8N-E Deluxe  nforce   -   sata_sil-   forcedeth  ?

regards,
Dirk
-- 
_
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SMB GmbH   http://www.smb-tec.com

RISC: Relegate Important Stuff to Compiler

Re: libqt3c102-mt miscompiled in gcc-3.4 distro?

[Michal Schmidt]

Andreas Jochens wrote:
Thank you for your report and your investigation. Could you try to 
recompile libqt3c102-mt again with 'gcc-snapshot' which is gcc-4.0 
version 20041231?
Done. Unfortunately that's even worse. Now even texts in all top-window 
menus don't show up. And the tree widget in kcontrol looks seriously broken.
I'm going back to libqt3c102-mt compiled with g++-3.4.
But I'm willing to do more testing if you tell me what to try.

Thank you for your test. I will try to find out what is going on with
gcc-4.0 here.
I got one more idea.
I installed the binary libqt3c102-mt again (the one that was compiled 
with g++-4.0 and gave me the problems the Plastik widget style).
I also downloaded the kdeartwork source package (in includes the Plastik 
theme) and compiled it with the same compiler (g++-4.0). I installed the 
resulting kdeartwork-style*.deb. And it works!
So the problem is not g++-4.0 itself. The problem seems to be some 
binary incompatibility between libraries compiled with g++-3.4 and g++-4.0.

Michal

Re: Ide (PATA) problem with kernel 2.6.9

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:19:44PM +0200, "Matti-P.Sar?n" wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I have Abit A8V motherboard. It has on-board VIAK8T800Pro chipset for IDE.
> 
> I have Debian AMD64 (kernel with 2.6.9-8, sarge) installed to SATA disk. 
> It runs nicely except I had to install modules psmouse, nvidia to 
> /etc/modules to get them loaded automatically during bootup.
> 
> I added a PATA disk (SAMSUNG SP1604N) to my system. I had to add 
> ide-drive to /etc/modules to see this drive, but it transfer rates are 
> quite slow. I've had Windows XP system installed to this disk and this 
> motherboard earlier and it ran fast and smoothly.
> 
> With default settings:
> 
> kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm -tT /dev/hda1
> /dev/hda1:
>  Timing cached reads:2632 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1314.23 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.38 seconds =   2.95 MB/sec
> 
> kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
>  multcount=  0 (off)
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  unmaskirq=  0 (off)
>  using_dma=  0 (off)
>  keepsettings =  0 (off)
>  readonly =  0 (off)
>  readahead= 256 (on)
>  geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 160041885696, start = 0
> 
> I tried to boost drive a bit with DMA-mode:
> 
> kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
>  ...
>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
>  ...
> 
> Why the DMA mode is prohibited? Without it the transfer rate is only
> 
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   16 MB in  3.15 seconds =   5.07 MB/sec
> 
> 
> My question: What could be done to make drive run faster?
> 
> 
> I'll attach here lsmod-listing:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod
> Module  Size  Used by
> nls_cp437   7168  1
> ntfs   91200  1
> ipv6  260128  8
> af_packet  23244  2
> snd_via82xx28772  0
> snd_ac97_codec 76288  1 snd_via82xx
> snd_pcm99852  1 snd_via82xx
> snd_timer  24968  1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 11088  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> gameport4864  1 snd_via82xx
> snd_mpu401_uart 8064  1 snd_via82xx
> snd_rawmidi26532  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device  9036  1 snd_rawmidi
> snd56872  7 
> snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> budget  7424  0
> budget_core 9156  1 budget
> dvb_core   88744  2 budget,budget_core
> crc32   4800  1 dvb_core
> saa714620156  2 budget,budget_core
> ttpci_eeprom2816  1 budget_core
> eth139421968  0
> ehci_hcd   30724  0
> uhci_hcd   31392  0
> via82cxxx_audio30088  0
> uart40112632  1 via82cxxx_audio
> sound  90952  2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401
> soundcore  11104  3 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound
> ac97_codec 20312  1 via82cxxx_audio
> via82cxxx  13744  1
> sk98lin   154604  1
> ohci1394   33604  0
> ext3  118160  1
> jbd59504  1 ext3
> mbcache 9800  1 ext3
> evdev  10880  0
> mousedev   12700  2
> tsdev   8832  0
> nvidia   4053980  8
> psmouse21068  0
> sr_mod 17892  0
> ide_disk   22208  4
> ide_generic 1728  0
> ide_cd 42016  0
> cdrom  39528  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
> reiserfs  222384  3
> sd_mod 17880  5
> usb_storage69120  0
> ide_core  158112  5 
> via82cxxx,ide_disk,ide_generic,ide_cd,usb_storage
> sbp2   25480  0
> ieee1394  375320  3 eth1394,ohci1394,sbp2
> sata_via8260  4
> sata_promise   11204  0
> libata 45448  2 sata_via,sata_promise
> scsi_mod  130528  6 
> sr_mod,sd_mod,usb_storage,sbp2,sata_promise,libata
> unix   29632  444
> 
> Thanks in advance!

You should add the right driver for your nvidia ide controller to
/etc/modules so that is doesn't just try and use ide-generic (which does
NOT do DMA since it is not chipset specific).

It use to be something like via82cxxx but that may not apply to the
newer SATA enabled chipsets.

Len Sorensen

Ide (PATA) problem with kernel 2.6.9

["Matti-P.Sarén"]

Dear List,
I have Abit A8V motherboard. It has on-board VIAK8T800Pro chipset for IDE.
I have Debian AMD64 (kernel with 2.6.9-8, sarge) installed to SATA disk. 
It runs nicely except I had to install modules psmouse, nvidia to 
/etc/modules to get them loaded automatically during bootup.

I added a PATA disk (SAMSUNG SP1604N) to my system. I had to add 
ide-drive to /etc/modules to see this drive, but it transfer rates are 
quite slow. I've had Windows XP system installed to this disk and this 
motherboard earlier and it ran fast and smoothly.

With default settings:
kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm -tT /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1:
 Timing cached reads:2632 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1314.23 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   10 MB in  3.38 seconds =   2.95 MB/sec
kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 multcount=  0 (off)
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq=  0 (off)
 using_dma=  0 (off)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly =  0 (off)
 readahead= 256 (on)
 geometry = 19457/255/63, sectors = 160041885696, start = 0
I tried to boost drive a bit with DMA-mode:
kengu:/mnt/tmp1# hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 ...
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
 ...
Why the DMA mode is prohibited? Without it the transfer rate is only
 Timing buffered disk reads:   16 MB in  3.15 seconds =   5.07 MB/sec
My question: What could be done to make drive run faster?
I'll attach here lsmod-listing:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
nls_cp437   7168  1
ntfs   91200  1
ipv6  260128  8
af_packet  23244  2
snd_via82xx28772  0
snd_ac97_codec 76288  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm99852  1 snd_via82xx
snd_timer  24968  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11088  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport4864  1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 8064  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi26532  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device  9036  1 snd_rawmidi
snd56872  7 
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
budget  7424  0
budget_core 9156  1 budget
dvb_core   88744  2 budget,budget_core
crc32   4800  1 dvb_core
saa714620156  2 budget,budget_core
ttpci_eeprom2816  1 budget_core
eth139421968  0
ehci_hcd   30724  0
uhci_hcd   31392  0
via82cxxx_audio30088  0
uart40112632  1 via82cxxx_audio
sound  90952  2 via82cxxx_audio,uart401
soundcore  11104  3 snd,via82cxxx_audio,sound
ac97_codec 20312  1 via82cxxx_audio
via82cxxx  13744  1
sk98lin   154604  1
ohci1394   33604  0
ext3  118160  1
jbd59504  1 ext3
mbcache 9800  1 ext3
evdev  10880  0
mousedev   12700  2
tsdev   8832  0
nvidia   4053980  8
psmouse21068  0
sr_mod 17892  0
ide_disk   22208  4
ide_generic 1728  0
ide_cd 42016  0
cdrom  39528  2 sr_mod,ide_cd
reiserfs  222384  3
sd_mod 17880  5
usb_storage69120  0
ide_core  158112  5 
via82cxxx,ide_disk,ide_generic,ide_cd,usb_storage
sbp2   25480  0
ieee1394  375320  3 eth1394,ohci1394,sbp2
sata_via8260  4
sata_promise   11204  0
libata 45448  2 sata_via,sata_promise
scsi_mod  130528  6 
sr_mod,sd_mod,usb_storage,sbp2,sata_promise,libata
unix   29632  444

Thanks in advance!
/Matti

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[Maurice]

Hi,

Sythos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I read on kernel 2.6.10 changelog that 32bit emulation is widely
> improved...
> 
> This change something in amd64 situation?

using that kernel I had the problem that mplayer-32bit (from marillat)
totally freezes up my system. No matter if called from the chroot or
from the 64bit-environment. But I didn't spend much time in solving
this. Maybe its just a problem with my configuration.

Re: libqt3c102-mt miscompiled in gcc-3.4 distro?

[Andreas Jochens]

On 05-Jan-05 17:30, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Andreas Jochens wrote:
> >Thank you for your report and your investigation. Could you try to 
> >recompile libqt3c102-mt again with 'gcc-snapshot' which is gcc-4.0 
> >version 20041231?
> 
> Done. Unfortunately that's even worse. Now even texts in all top-window 
> menus don't show up. And the tree widget in kcontrol looks seriously broken.
> I'm going back to libqt3c102-mt compiled with g++-3.4.
> But I'm willing to do more testing if you tell me what to try.

Thank you for your test. I will try to find out what is going on with
gcc-4.0 here.

Regards
Andreas Jochens

kernel package documentation

[Larry Doolittle]

Guys -

Can someone give me a pointer to documentation on the AMD64 kernel
package builds on Alioth?  For generic debian packages, I can get
Changelogs from packages.debian.org.

Two specific questions, that I'd like to learn how to answer myself:

when I "apt-get upgrade"d today, including
kernel-image-2.6.8-10-amd64-k8 and kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8,
the automagically generated /boot/grub/menu.lst changed my
default kernel from 2.6.9-9 to 2.6.8-10.  I don't know if this
is intended or desired.

Today's upgrade also gave me a new 2.6.9 kernel patch
(2.6.9-4), but no corresponding kernel image.  Is one on the
way?

Lastly, what are the plans regarding 2.6.10?  I'd really like
to start up SMART on my SATA drive.

 - Larry

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[Hugo Mills]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:25:10PM +0100, Sythos wrote:
> I read on kernel 2.6.10 changelog that 32bit emulation is widely
> improved...
> 
> This change something in amd64 situation? Somebody has tried to run
> 32bit apps without chroot (apps that to 2.6.9 don't run in 32bit
> emulaiton of 64bit kernel)?

   Without 32-bit emulation, you wouldn't even be able to run 32 bit
applications in a chroot. A chroot shares the kernel with two (almost)
separate userspace installations. The problem with running 32 bit
applications on a 64 bit system is now almost entirely userspace, and
is to do with locating appropriate libraries for the application
(i.e. a 32 bit application needs 32 bit libraries; a 64 bit app needs
64 bit libs). 

   The reason Debian currently suggests using a chroot for the 32/64
split is for the packaging. dpkg currently can't cope with having two
packages with the same name installed at the same time, so if you were
to try installing (say) libc6/32bit, you'd lose libc6/64bit, which
would be a disaster. The solution to this is proposed to be
multiarch... but don't hold your breath, it's not being worked on at
the moment, because none of the people interested in developing it
have the time.

   Hugo.

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Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[lore]

> I read on kernel 2.6.10 changelog that 32bit emulation is widely
> improved...
> 
> This change something in amd64 situation? Somebody has tried to run
> 32bit apps without chroot (apps that to 2.6.9 don't run in 32bit
> emulaiton of 64bit kernel)?

I run Skype in the 64bit system, but it was working also with 2.6.9
(don't ask why)

I'm not a big expert, but I doubt 32bit apps will ever fully run on a
64bit environment, despite of kernel improvements. (I MAY be wrong on
all this)

Re: libqt3c102-mt miscompiled in gcc-3.4 distro?

[Michal Schmidt]

Andreas Jochens wrote:
Thank you for your report and your investigation. Could you try to 
recompile libqt3c102-mt again with 'gcc-snapshot' which is gcc-4.0 
version 20041231?
Done. Unfortunately that's even worse. Now even texts in all top-window 
menus don't show up. And the tree widget in kcontrol looks seriously broken.
I'm going back to libqt3c102-mt compiled with g++-3.4.
But I'm willing to do more testing if you tell me what to try.

Michal

snmpd network intefaces not displayed

[Martin Kos]

hi
is it possible that there is a problem with the snmpd (5.1.2-6)? 
first i tried to use cacti to show some statistics about network 
interfaces but it couldn't find the interfaces. then i've tried 
with snmpwalk (-v 2c -c public localhost) but i get no 
information about network interfaces? can somebody tried that out 
on another machine? on all my normal (x86) machines that works 
just fine. yes i have changed snmpd.conf for read permissions but 
it still won't work :-(

thanks for help
regards
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Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

[Sythos]

Hi all

I read on kernel 2.6.10 changelog that 32bit emulation is widely
improved...

This change something in amd64 situation? Somebody has tried to run
32bit apps without chroot (apps that to 2.6.9 don't run in 32bit
emulaiton of 64bit kernel)?

Regards
Sythos

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Broken locales-package

[Kenan Esau]

Hello all,

The locales-package in the pure64-repository seems to be broken. It
claims to depend on a package named glibc-2.3.2.ds1-19 which doesn't
exist. Shouldn't it be libc6-2.3.2-ds1-19?

Re: libqt3c102-mt miscompiled in gcc-3.4 distro?

[Andreas Jochens]

On 05-Jan-05 15:27, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> I have now installed g++-4.0 (version 4.0-0pre1.0.0.1.gcc4). When I 
> recompile libqt3c102-mt with it, the problem appears again.
> 
> So I think that g++-4.0 miscompiles libqt3c102-mt.

Thank you for your report and your investigation. Could you try to 
recompile libqt3c102-mt again with 'gcc-snapshot' which is gcc-4.0 
version 20041231?

Regards
Andreas Jochens

Re: libqt3c102-mt miscompiled in gcc-3.4 distro?

[Michal Schmidt]

I wrote:
[...] 
Therefore it seems to me that the binary package in the gcc-3.4 archive 
is somehow miscompiled. My g++ version is 3.4.3-1. What g++ version was 
used to compile the original package?
I have now installed g++-4.0 (version 4.0-0pre1.0.0.1.gcc4). When I 
recompile libqt3c102-mt with it, the problem appears again.

So I think that g++-4.0 miscompiles libqt3c102-mt.
Michal

Re: TIGER K8w Dual opteron crash

[Sythos]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:23:27PM +, Manuel Capinha wrote:
> When the machine crashes it just freezes: all input is ignored. Mouse,
> keyboard, networking nothing works... the machine is just dead in the
> water :/

Mmmm... its taste is hardware problem

try a memtest86, try another videocard or another network card (if
onboard try to disable it and try a PCI card)

Regards
Sythos

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Re: TIGER K8w Dual opteron crash

[Manuel Capinha]

Yup, I'm tempted to blame it on hardware, but it's just weird that it
started to happen a few minutes after the dist-upgrade.
I ran memtest yesterday, just for one quick pass. I'll try leaving it
running overnight today, see if it finds any errors.

Karl Hoppel wrote me offlist with some sugestions about disabling
dual-channel memory access, so I'll try that one too (thanks Karl!)


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:41:28 +0100, Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Manuel Capinha wrote (ao):
> > I'm running the gcc-3.4 distro, on a dual opteron motherboard.
> > Since Monday (Jan 3) this machine has been crashing randomly and I
> > can't find a pattern to why this happens. The 3 times it has crashed,
> > it was always running a X session so I can't even get to the console
> > and look at the stack trace.
> > When the machine crashes it just freezes: all input is ignored. Mouse,
> > keyboard, networking nothing works... the machine is just dead in the
> > water :/
> 
> Sounds like hardware. Both because it happens al of a sudden, and
> because it is a total freeze.
> 
> Can you try memtest86+ for some hours?
> 
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Re: TIGER K8w Dual opteron crash

[Erik Mouw]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:23:27PM +, Manuel Capinha wrote:
> The machine is using a TIGER K8w motherboard, 2 Opteron CPUs, 1Gb of
> RAM on 2 DDR sticks and 2 Seagate SATA harddrives running on RAID 1.

I suppose you're running a 2.6 kernel. If the board has a Silicon Image
SATA chip and you're using the sata_sil driver, you might want to add
this into the sil_blacklist in drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c:

 { "ST3200822AS",SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },

Replace ST3200822AS with the model number of your drive(s), you can see
them in the kernel boot messages. Recompile the kernel, and try to
recreate the problem.

The problem is that some Seagate SATA drives have a bug in their
firmware for some rarely used but valid SATA commands. The quirk works
around that bug by not issueing those commands.


HTH,
Erik

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Re: TIGER K8w Dual opteron crash

[Sander]

Manuel Capinha wrote (ao):
> I'm running the gcc-3.4 distro, on a dual opteron motherboard.
> Since Monday (Jan 3) this machine has been crashing randomly and I
> can't find a pattern to why this happens. The 3 times it has crashed,
> it was always running a X session so I can't even get to the console
> and look at the stack trace.
> When the machine crashes it just freezes: all input is ignored. Mouse,
> keyboard, networking nothing works... the machine is just dead in the
> water :/

Sounds like hardware. Both because it happens al of a sudden, and
because it is a total freeze.

Can you try memtest86+ for some hours?

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libqt3c102-mt miscompiled in gcc-3.4 distro?

[Michal Schmidt]

Hello,
I'm using the gcc-3.4 port of Debian/amd64.
After a recent upgrade of libqt3c102-mt (from 3:3.3.3-7.0.0.1.amd64 to 
3:3.3.3-7.0.0.1.gcc4) the Plastik widget style stopped working.
KDE Control Center now only offers the built-in widget styles (CDE, MS 
Windows 9x, Motif, Motif Plus, Platinum, SGI).

To solve the problem I downloaded the sources for libqt3c102-mt with:
apt-src install libqt3c102-mt
and I recompiled the package with:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
When I install the resulting compiled package, all widget styles show up 
in the Control Center and I can select Plastik.

Therefore it seems to me that the binary package in the gcc-3.4 archive 
is somehow miscompiled. My g++ version is 3.4.3-1. What g++ version was 
used to compile the original package?

Can somebody confirm that libqt3c102-mt_3:3.3.3-7.0.0.1.gcc4 from the 
gcc-3.4 archive breaks widget styles?

Michal

TIGER K8w Dual opteron crash

[Manuel Capinha]

Hi all.

I'm running the gcc-3.4 distro, on a dual opteron motherboard.
Since Monday (Jan 3) this machine has been crashing randomly and I
can't find a pattern to why this happens. The 3 times it has crashed,
it was always running a X session so I can't even get to the console
and look at the stack trace.
When the machine crashes it just freezes: all input is ignored. Mouse,
keyboard, networking nothing works... the machine is just dead in the
water :/

This happened for the first time a short while after doing an apt-get
dist-upgrade.

So, if no one else is experiencing this behaviour, maybe someone could
give me some pointers on where to start looking ? Especially, if
there's any way to access the console or force the stack trace to be
written to the harddrive maybe ?

The machine is using a TIGER K8w motherboard, 2 Opteron CPUs, 1Gb of
RAM on 2 DDR sticks and 2 Seagate SATA harddrives running on RAID 1.

Any help is appreciated, off course.
Thanks in advance,
Manuel Capinha

howto comments

[Egon Willighagen]

Hi all,

first of all: great job, many thanx for all efforts. I had the amd64 port 
running in two hours, including downloading and burning the 145MB install 
disk.

Ok, today I've installed chroot according to the HOWTO, and this mostly 
worked. I found a few things different from the HOWTO, so wanted to share 
that with you (hoping it is useful):

- in the section "Installing a Debian IA32 chroot system" I found that there 
was no need to do:

cd /lib
ln -s /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/ld-2.3.2.so ld-linux.so.2

Because the file was already present.

- in the section "Running applications inside the chroot (e.g. OpenOffice.org" 
I found it confusing in which /etc/fstab to add the lines, but picked the 
right one, because later it states "At this point ... . Change to your 
chroot...".

I think this is confusing because I still was in chroot for the previous 
section...

- when I tried to install openoffice, it turned out that having testing in 
my /etc/apt/sources.list was not enough to fullfill dependencies, and I had 
to add unstable too (which is, I guess, actually a problem with the 
repository and not the howto...)

- when starting openoffice, it showed a window, but without menu's and no 
buttons... after asking on #debian-amd64 (thanx to those again who helped) I 
learned that locales was not installed by default, and that I had to install 
some font packages... after installing ttf-bitstream-vera and 
x-ttcidfont-conf... (I installed these at the same time, so not sure which of 
those as actually the important one...) ... openoffice was working.


I'm not sure whether these differences are important or typical to my machine, 
but they might be added to the howto (in some sort of way...) to help others?

Again, many thanx to the port *and* the howto.

Egon

Re: Problems upgrading gv

[Clive Menzies]

On (05/01/05 10:51), Andree Zeulner wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 17:57 schrieb David Liontooth:
> > The problem is fixed in 1:3.6.1-2 (not in amd64 yet?) -- or you could
> > comment out these lines in /var/lib/dpkg/info/gv.postinst and reinstall:
> >
> > if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
> >         install-info --quiet --section Viewers Viewers
> > /usr/share/info/gv.info
> > fi
> >
> > Dave
> 
> Problem solved, thank you.
> 
> Andree
Thanks David - another little problem soved ;)

Regards

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Re: Problems upgrading gv

[Andree Zeulner]

Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 17:57 schrieb David Liontooth:
> The problem is fixed in 1:3.6.1-2 (not in amd64 yet?) -- or you could
> comment out these lines in /var/lib/dpkg/info/gv.postinst and reinstall:
>
> if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
>         install-info --quiet --section Viewers Viewers
> /usr/share/info/gv.info
> fi
>
> Dave

Problem solved, thank you.

Andree

Troubles with phpmyadmin in gcc3.4 port

[Johan Groth]

Hi,
I'm trying to get phpmyadmin to work with apache2 but without success. I 
have installed and, as far as I know, configured everything correct. 
When I try to load the phpmyadmin start page I get the following message 
in the browser:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was 
unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform 
them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done 
that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.0.52 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-2.0.0.1.gcc4
Cheers,
Johan
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