Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is the AMD-64 ready for reliable use? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)]
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:21:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (which is still unofficial). Ans as security is a severe problem on any server, I would recommend staying with Sarge/Stable and applying all security updates (which aren't available in Etch/Testing an Sid/Unstable). Etch now has security updates. -- Chris. == Reproduction if desired may be handled locally. -- rfc3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new kernel too big for lilo
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:37:12AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: I am sure most of you will disagree with me but this is one area where I do NOT like doing things the debian way. Compiling and installing a If you do it ALL the Debian way, it's just fine. You should see your new kernels added into the LILO configuration automatically, or at least the GRUB configuration (preferred to LILO these days). new kernel to lilo by hand to try it out, knowing the working kernel is still safe. If you have it update your configuration file automatically you get exactly that. Another part of the Debian way is that you rarely need to compile your own kernel these days. What did you need to change? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: building ghdl for amd64
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:17:16PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: 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. 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. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
English grammar checker
Hi, do you know if exist an english grammar checker for debian/linux??? It must be enabled to correct (possibly) entered text... Thanks, Giulio
Re: building ghdl for amd64
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! -- Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp2uZf9WFtMh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Trouble burning DVD
I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system wolfe:~# cdrecord -scanbus | egrep -v .\*$ cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. cdrecord: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface changes. cdrecord: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root programs. cdrecord: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root account. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.31 cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling'). Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'. scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) '' '' '' Disk scsibus4: 4,0,0 400) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4120B' 'A102' Removable CD-ROM scsibus5: 5,0,0 500) 'SAMSUNG ' 'MP0402H ' '' Disk wolfe:~# That's a bit confusing output; I have 3 relevant drives: - ATAPI LG CD-RW, which appears to be the one on scsi bus 2 - ATAPI Pioneer DVD+RW, which seems to be the one on scsi bus 4 - ATAPI LG DVD+RW, hooked up externally, via FireWire, apparently on bus 5. Either #4 or #5 otta work... Another referencing is thus... sr0 seems to be the external LG DVD drive; hdd looks like the internal Pioneer DVD, hdc is the LG CD-RW wolfe:/lib/modules/2.6.8-11-amd64-k8# cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 drive name: sr0 hdd hdc drive speed:78 47 40 drive # of slots: 1 1 1 Can close tray: 1 1 1 Can open tray: 1 1 1 Can lock tray: 1 1 1 Can change speed: 1 1 1 Can select disk:0 0 0 Can read multisession: 1 1 1 Can read MCN: 1 1 1 Reports media changed: 1 1 1 Can play audio: 1 1 1 Can write CD-R: 1 1 1 Can write CD-RW:1 1 1 Can read DVD: 1 1 0 Can write DVD-R:1 1 0 Can write DVD-RAM: 1 0 0 Can read MRW: 1 1 1 Can write MRW: 1 1 1 Can write RAM: 1 1 1 I try writing a backup to the Pioneer drive: wolfe:/proc/ide# cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:4,0,0 speed=4 /brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. cdrecord: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface changes. cdrecord: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root programs. cdrecord: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root account. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: 'ATAPI:4,0,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 4 target: 0 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. cdrecord: ERROR: unknow subsystem (scd0) in (/dev/sr0) Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling'). SCSI buffer size: 64512 cdrecord: Asked for SCSI I/O buffer size 64512 bytes, could only get 20480. atapi: -1 cdrecord: Cannot do inquiry for CD/DVD-Recorder. cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s I get the same message whichever I use, ATAPI:2,0,0, ATAPI:4,0,0, or ATAPI:5:0,0. The proprietary version of cdrecord is obviously no option as it is available binary only, and AM64 is not one of the platforms for which binaries exist. What we usually use at work to
Re: new kernel too big for lilo
Another part of the Debian way is that you rarely need to compile your own kernel these days. What did you need to change? his (and mine) dma is not enabled. :00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) thanks to his try, i compiled my own kernel and enabled dma too now. :)
Re: Trouble burning DVD
* Christopher Browne | I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system [...] | wolfe:/proc/ide# cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:4,0,0 speed=4 | /brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso If this actually is a DVD, I would much rather recommend growisofs, part of dvd+rw-tools. growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso should work fine. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: after kernel re-compile tons of sound errors
On Saturday 31 December 2005 06:18, Craig Hagerman wrote: Hi, I did %make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install Don't forget to also delete /lib/modules/2.6.14/... before make modules_install Otherwise you might be mixing incompatible modules (unlikely). But why use not use the latest kernel 2.6.14.5 ? I'm sure it's more stable than plain 2.6.14 Ernest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new kernel too big for lilo
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:48:59PM +0800, zzz haha wrote: Another part of the Debian way is that you rarely need to compile your own kernel these days. What did you need to change? his (and mine) dma is not enabled. :00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) thanks to his try, i compiled my own kernel and enabled dma too now. :) Is there a bug reported logged so that this will be fixed in the next Debian kernel package? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble burning DVD
On 1/1/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Christopher Browne | I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system [...] | wolfe:/proc/ide# cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:4,0,0 speed=4 | /brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso If this actually is a DVD, I would much rather recommend growisofs, part of dvd+rw-tools. growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso should work fine. Cool. That's doing the trick both with /dev/sr0 and /dev/hdd... Thanks much. -- http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linux.html The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -- Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
Re: new kernel too big for lilo
Is there a bug reported logged so that this will be fixed in the next Debian kernel package? i'd like to. :) really busy right now. :) reportbug needs a local smtp server? is there a standard way to send bug using gmail? thank you z
Re: Thunderbird hangs when trying to write message
On Friday 30 December 2005 11:34 am, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: lance wrote: Hey, Using a Sarge/Sid hybrid. I can read, delete, and move messages in Mozilla thunderbird 1.0.7 but when I try to write, reply, or forward the application hangs and I have to use pkill to stop it. Anyone else had this problem and know the solution? Lance Under advanced server settings for the account, how many connections is it set to cache? What IMAP server do you use? Cache is default (5) and am using Cyrus IMAP 21 Lance -Roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new kernel too big for lilo
zzz haha wrote: Is there a bug reported logged so that this will be fixed in the next Debian kernel package? i'd like to. :) really busy right now. :) reportbug needs a local smtp server? is there a standard way to send bug using gmail? Offhand, I'd say that you could go through the motions with reportbug, then copy-n-paste the message it generates into gmail. Then cancel the reportbug message. Try it. :) -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird hangs when trying to write message
lance wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 11:34 am, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: lance wrote: Hey, Using a Sarge/Sid hybrid. I can read, delete, and move messages in Mozilla thunderbird 1.0.7 but when I try to write, reply, or forward the application hangs and I have to use pkill to stop it. Anyone else had this problem and know the solution? Lance Under advanced server settings for the account, how many connections is it set to cache? What IMAP server do you use? Cache is default (5) and am using Cyrus IMAP 21 Lance Ding! Ding! Ding! The Cyrus IMAP server will allow a max of 2 or 4 (I forget which). You need to reduce the number of cached connections in T-bird, or you will continue to see the same problem whenever you send a message that should also be copied into the Sent folder. I had the same exact problem when I was using Cyrus. I finally ended up switching to Courier, though for a number of other reasons as well. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 64/32 with DRI
Radeon 7000 DRI in xorg 6.8.2 is unstable apparently. See this message: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-September/msg0.html --- - DRI is now enabled by default on all ATI Radeon hardware except for the Radeon 7000/Radeon VE chipsets, which is known to be unstable for many users currently when DRI is enabled. Radeon 7000 users can re-enable DRI if desired by using Option DRI in the device section of the config file, with the understanding that we consider it unstable currently. --- Man that sucks. -s signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
