Viziteaza profilul meu Netlog
Hei, Am creat un profil Netlog cu pozele mele, filme, bloguri si evenimente si vreau sa te adaug ca prieten astfel ca tu sa il poti vedea! Dupa conectare, iti poti crea propriul tau profil. Arunca o privire: http://ro.netlog.com/go/mailurl/type=invite_1&mailid=119067899&id=1&url=-L2dvL3JlZ2lzdGVyL2lkPTg4NTkzMzI1OCZpPXQ5MQ__ Urari, Alexandru Nu mai vrei sa primesti invitatii de la prietenii tai? http://ro.netlog.com/go/mailurl/type=invite_1&mailid=119067899&id=2&url=-L2dvL25vbWFpbHMvaW52aXRlL2VtYWlsPS1aR1ZpYVdGdUxXRnRaRFkwUUd4cGMzUnpMbVJsWW1saGJpNXZjbWNfJmNvZGU9MTIyNTIzODYmaWQ9ODg1OTMzMjU4Jmk9dDky
Re: dpkg: wrong permissions ?
> Can someone confirm or deny 0755 ? I got 750. > ls -l /usr/bin/dpkg -rwxr-x--- 1 root root 387224 avr 9 20:23 /usr/bin/dpkg -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +44 (0)753.471.8031 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grub error 22
> Alex, in your case I would try to remove the second HDD (sdb) and > first see if the system boots. If not, then I would inspect the grub > parameters to make sure that root=/dev/sda1 and initrd too. Alright! I removed the second hard drive and the error went away. It booted without a problem. And I also tried reversing the hard drives, that is, I exchanged the cables going to one with the cables going to the other. Result: I got the error not only when booting normally but also when booting via live cd as described above. Needles to say, I switched the cables back. So I don't know what to make of this. Any suggestions welcome. Thank you. -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +44 (0)753.471.8031 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grub error 22
I guess the one major thing I modified recently is to change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 2 to 5. For some reason gdm was not starting automatically when booting up. I would always get dropped to a terminal login, and then I would become root and run gdm and it would start without a problem. Changing the default runlevel fixed that and for about a week things went fine, until I got this error 22 this morning. Other than that I have changed nothing other than apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade There is a possibility the hard drive might be failing. But there is no other sign of it. I'm going to run a fsck on the root partition to see if anything is wrong with it. And yes, / and /boot are on the same partition, the /dev/sda1. Thank you. -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +44 (0)753.471.8031 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grub error 22
Yes, I did search for error 22. That's why I thought it might be a problem with the names of the partitions because the partition *is* there, it's not corrupted, it's readable and, like I said above, the system *does* boot just fine, but only if I put in a live cd (ubuntu in this case) and when the little menu comes up(choose to boot ubuntu live, install ubuntu, or boot from first hard drive) choose to boot from the first hard drive. I am actually writing this email from the running system so clearly there is no problem with the partitions. menu.lst is this: # menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8) #grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8), #grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub #and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/. ## default num # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and # the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used. # # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'. # WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved' or your # array will desync and will not let you boot your system. default 0 ## timeout sec # Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry # (normally the first entry defined). timeout 5 # Pretty colours color cyan/blue white/blue ## password ['--md5'] passwd # If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing # control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the # command 'lock' # e.g. password topsecret # password --md5 # password topsecret # # examples # # title Windows 95/98/NT/2000 # root (hd0,0) # makeactive # chainloader +1 # # title Linux # root (hd0,1) # kernel/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro # # # Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs ## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet ## default grub root device ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0) # groot=(hd0,0) ## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options ## e.g. alternative=true ## alternative=false # alternative=true ## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options ## e.g. lockalternative=true ## lockalternative=false # lockalternative=false ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions= ## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options ## e.g. lockold=false ## lockold=true # lockold=false ## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option # xenhopt= ## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option # xenkopt=console=tty0 ## altoption boot targets option ## multiple altoptions lines are allowed ## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options ## altoptions=(single-user) single # altoptions=(single-user mode) single ## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst ## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the ## alternative kernel options ## e.g. howmany=all ## howmany=7 # howmany=all ## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option ## e.g. memtest86=true ## memtest86=false # memtest86=true ## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system ## can be true or false # updatedefaultentry=false ## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options ## can be true or false # savedefault=false ## ## End Default Options ## title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-amd64 title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64 (single-user mode) root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-amd64 ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +44 (0)753.471.8031 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: grub error 22
fdisk -l gives Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 49 393561 83 Linux /dev/sda2 50 30401 2438024405 Extended /dev/sda5 501265 9767488+ 83 Linux /dev/sda612661751 3903763+ 83 Linux /dev/sda717522237 3903763+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda822382359 979933+ 83 Linux /dev/sda92360 30401 225247333+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd03fd03f Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 19457 156288321 83 Linux device.map contains (hd0) /dev/sda I tried reinstalling grub. grub-install /dev/sda It reinstalls without error, but same result. Error 22. -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +44 (0)753.471.8031 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
grub error 22
Hello, I powered on my lenny amd64 box this morning and I get GRUB loading, Error 22, and hangs. However! If I put in a live cd, for instance the ubuntu amd64 live cd, and then choose "Boot from first hard drive" from the list, then grub boots no problem and the computer runs as usual. So grub must be configured wrong and it doesn't find the right partition or device. Or the devices are named differently or something. So I thought this might have something to do with Lennart Sorensen's email on this list, with the subject "SCSI Device Addresses". However, I go to this page http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/list/debian-amd64.en.html click on Lennart's email, and a blank page appears. I am using firefox, but I tried with galeon and konqueror. Blank page. So even though this issue might have been resolved, I can't read the mailing list. So is this related to a SCSI device naming bug or something? What's the fix? Thank you for your assistance. -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +44 (0)753.471.8031 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does xerox workcentre 3119 work in debian amd64?
Solved! I have managed to get Xerox Workcentre 3119 working in both Lenny amd64 and also partially in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon i386 (on my laptop). First, you open your browser, and go to localhost:631, and remove any 3119 printers you might have had from previous attempts. In Lenny, you put in the CD, mount it in, for example /mnt/cdrom, and then you copy all files in /mnt/cdrom/Linux/x86_64/at_root/usr/lib64/cups/filter to /usr/lib64/cups/filter on your computer. Also copy all files in /mnt/cdrom/Linux/x86_64/at_root/usr/lib64/cups/backend to /usr/lib64/cups/backend on your computer. Then you go to "Add printer" in the cups web interface and when it asks you for the driver you go to /mnt/cdrom/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/wc3119.ppd In Ubuntu the difference is that you don't get the files from x86_64 but from i386. For the scanner it is surprisingly simple. You just run the linux installation program provided on the CD that comes with. (It will create another printer along the way which can be removed later.) One complication with the scanner is that xsane needs to modprobe something and so can't be run in regular user mode, but only as root. I have not figured out *what* exactly it modprobes so I can have it loaded at startup. Until then I am using xsane in root mode, which is a bad thing, so I just won't use it much... Also, there is this one error that kept popping up. xsane gives: *** glibc detected *** xsane: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0079b970 *** One way to avoid this is to go into /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and remove or comment out the xerox_wc3119 entry. In Ubuntu the installation program seems to freeze. In this case one needs to go into the install.sh file and find where the stuff concerning the scanner is. It's a routine called register_sane_backend. I'm not a lisp programmer, but it seems like pretty self explanatory stuff. In any case, bottom line, this Xerox Workcentre 3119 machine actually works in both i386 and amd64, and it seems to work better in Debian than in Ubuntu. That's a nice. -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +40 (0)722.478.168 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does xerox workcentre 3119 work in debian amd64?
Here's a guy that seems to have managed to get it working in 32bit ubuntu. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=392225 -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +40 (0)722.478.168 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
does xerox workcentre 3119 work in debian amd64?
Hello, Does anybody know if the xerox workcentre 3119 works under lenny amd64? It seems to have an x86_64 linux driver shipped with it. But does it actually work? If anybody has any experience with this printer/scanner in amd64, please let me know. Thank you. -- Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +40 (0)722.478.168 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: java plugin lenny
> deb http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/blackdown/debian/ etch non-free > sudo apt-get -f install j2re1.4 j2sdk1.4 j2sdk1.4-doc Thank you! This seems to work on lenny, though it's the old 1.4.2 version. Oh well. I'll keep watching this list for a 64 bit plugin... -- Dr. Alexandru I. Cabuz --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
java plugin lenny
Hello list, Does anyone know if its possible to get java plugin working in iceweasel, in lenny amd64 without installing a whole chroot? In particular, does nspluginwrapper work with java? If so how do I go about setting up the java plugin? It seems like I would have to install the 32bit java plugin, then run something like nspluginwrapper -i [path to .so plugin file] But I can't install the 32 bit version of the java plugin, sun-java6-plugin because apt-get refuses, because it's 32bit and my system is 64bit. I tried the linux32 wrapper, but apt-get still won't install sun-java6-plugin. I have sun jre 64 installed. [cabuz ~]>java -version java version "1.6.0_03" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode) So how do I do this? Has anybody got nspluginwrapper working with java plugin? Thanks for any suggestions. I am not subscribed, please copy me. -- Dr. Alexandru I. Cabuz Tel: +40 (0)722.478.168 --- Please no Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian/Ubuntu/Redhat which is better for heavy duty computations?
Hello, I was wondering if anybody knows if there exist benchmarks done to compare the performance for floating point computations (for example lapack) on opteron with the Debian, Ubuntu and Redhat AMD 64 ports. My research group recently got a couple of new multi-proc opteron machines and even though they shipped with redhat enterprise, being a fan of debian I was wondering if Debian AMD64 or Ubuntu might not be better? Has anybody compared performance systematically? Alex.
where are the startup messages?
Hello,
I was wondering if the messages displayed during startup are recorded
somewhere that can be consulted later. /var/log/dmesg and
/var/log/syslog do not actually contain **exactly** the same messages
displayed during startup. They contain something related but
different.
Kind of a newbie question...
Reason I'm asking is that I just rebooted my amd64 sid box after a
week of no interaction (was out of town came back and machine was
inexplicably slow) and I got a whole bunch of nasty messages. Here is
what I could see on the screen at the end of the boot sequence:
Buffer I/O underrun on device sda5, logical block 68243
ata1: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
ata1: error=0x40 {UncorrectableError}
SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x802
sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 20181687
ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
ata1: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x802
sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error
Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 20181688
/var: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while reading block 8530
JBD:Failed to read block at offset 8002
fsck.ext3: Input/output error while recovering ext3 journal of /var
fsck failed. Please repair manually.
CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and continue system startup.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):
So I boot off my knoppix CD and I try to mount the various partitions.
All of them mount except the home partition, the sda9. It's the one
where I had all my data.
Here is what knoppix's dmesg | tail says after trying to mount it
ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata1: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x802
sda: Current: sense key=0x3
ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x4
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 39652779
JBD: IO error reading journal superblock
EXT3-fs: error loading journal.
So it's not lookin so good... I mean it's lookin real bad.
Does anybody know a way I could still try to recover my data on the
sda9 partition (formerly known as /home) ?
Thank you for any help or suggestions.
Alex.
bind9-host upgrades every single time...?
I noticed almost every single time I do an apt-get upgrade, bind9-host gets upgraded. Why is this? Alex.
why is /lib64 world writable?
Is it supposed to be world writable? I tried chmod to make it read only but that does not seem to work. That's pretty strange... Wha Alex.
usb wireless mouse stopped working
Hello, Last night my wireless mouse batteries ran out, so I replaced them, but now it wouldn't connect anymore. I am seeing the same behavior I have seen in windows since the beginning. The wireless keyboard is seen no problem, but not the mouse. Both the keyboard and the mouse use the same receiver, which is connected directly using a USB bus. Up until now, every time I booted into windows (last time that happened was about 6 months ago) I had to hook up my old wirebound mouse, cos the wireless mouse wasn't recognized.Well, now I gotta do the same thing in Linux. Anybody know what's going on? What package is responsible for this and how do I fix it? I tried reloading the mousedev driver but that did nothing. Thanks. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't connect to internet anymore
> ifrename is very helpful in giving interfaces stable names; OK. I'll try ifrename. Except I can't just do apt-get install ifrename cos I don't have an internet connection.I gotta install it by hand, so I looked in http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/i/ and I can't find any ifrename package. But it is in official sid. Where can I find it for amd64? Thanks. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't connect to internet anymore
Hello, My AMD64 sid box was running along nicely until yesterday, when after a reboot it didn't want to connect to the internet anymore. I am using dhcp, and when I start the client here is what I get: sit0: unknown hardware adress type 776 eth1: unknown hardware address type 24 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 eth1: unknown hardware address type 24 Listening on LPF/eth1/ Sending on LPF/eth1/ Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 and then another few lines like this before it gives up. I am now writing from my laptop where I still get the sit0 lines, but don't get the eth lines. And the listening line had a bunch of numbers and letters separated by ":" instead of the not very promising "". So what could be the problem...? I got an MSI K8N Neo NForce 3 SOC-754 motherboard with onboard LAN. and forcedeth has worked OK up til now... Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pure64 experimental octaviz package
Hello, I am trying to install the octaviz package, which is in 32bit experimental but it seems, not in amd64 experimental. (It's an advanced plotting tool for octave) The AMD64 howto does not say anything about experimental packages and a search of list archives gives nothing. Why is octaviz not in pure64 experimental? I have this line in my sources.list deb http://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/pure64 experimental main contrib non-free Perchance I should use another mirror...? Thanks. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dchroot script (was Re: running openoffice from chroot)
The suggestion with the openoffice \"%u\" worked. But if you say there is a cleaner solution... > > Yes, but a better thing is to fix dchroot's / su's stupidity with a > > script (make this do_chroot): I don't understand. What should I do with this script? Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running openoffice from chroot
> Just to clarify, have you tried opening the documents from OOo itself I typed in the command line openoffice file\ name\ with\ spaces.doc Or equivalently I clicked on a file attached to an email in kmail (after having configured kde to recognize doc and sxw files and to open them with openoffice). Obtained the same result. Openoffice starts correctly, and gives four error messages File "file" does not exist. File "name" does not exist. File "with" does not exist. File "spaces.doc" does not exist. If I type in the command line openoffice 'file\ name\ with\ spaces.doc' then it works perfectly. my problem is that I want to be able to just click on an attachment in kmail and open the file directly. I get a lot of attachments and it's a pain to have to save them to disk, and then open them command line with the apostrophes. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: running openoffice from chroot
Ted: > I'm assuming you are using dchroot to run openoffice in the chroot? Yes, that's exactly my setup, as described in the howto. But. I did not use the apostrophes. With the filename between apostrophes it does indeed work. Clive: > expert and can't guess what the problem may be. Did you install amd64 > and then install the 32bit system in the chroot (as I did) or the other I have a 64bit system, and a 32bit chroot inside of it. The only tricky business is that this weekend I reinstalled my 64 bit system, but without reinstalling the chroot. The chroot was in my /home which is on its own partition. So in conclusion, is there any way to tell KDE to put apostrophes around filenames when it calls various programs? Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
running openoffice from chroot
Hello, I just set up my system according to the amd64 howto, and I even set up kde to recognize doc and sxw files and open them with openoffice. The problem is that files that have spaces in them do not get opened. The first word is considered as a filename, then the second word as another filename... It seems to not parse the "\" correctly. I have tried from the command line too (in case perhaps kde doesn't put in the "\"). It seems to not open files with spaces in their names. Is there any way to fix this or go around it? Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pinning for easy downgrading
Is there any way to configure apt to install sid pure64 but in such a way that when sarge will become sufficiently tested and sufficiently stable and friendly, I can downgrade to it? Is downgrading in general a doable thing? I have heard it's supposed to be so unpractical it's not worth it. Isn't there any way to do it though? Cos running sid can be a little annoying what with constant upgrading problems with buggy packages, and having to hold them, etc. As a side note, I am asking because I had just realized I had forgotten that my firewall (on my amd64 sid) was not running for a couple of hours and when I came to, I found all my base files missing. I can't even do ls, or top or ps or cat or nano or emacs anymore. It says the files don't exist. I can cd though! Yay! On the bright side, he seems to have left my home directory thankfully untouched. So he just wanted to teach me a "lesson"... the sonufa... So I think this is a reinstall job. Right? Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt wants to remove 526 packages!!?
Hello, I usually do a apt-get update apt-get upgrade every couple of days. When there are bugs I just put packages on hold and wait it out, and after a month I try them individually, and if they are still buggy, then I leave them on hold. I decided tonight I was sick of this, so I would do apt-get dist-upgrade. It says it needs to update 6, install 12 new ones, remove 526, and hold 20. Now I am afraid to do this. Remove 526 packages!!? What's going on? Will my system still work? It took me a long time to get it to this point, and I would __hate__ to have to start all over if things get messed up. Here is the list of stuff it says it needs to remove: akode amor apt-show-source apt-show-versions apt-src apt-watch aptconf ark arson arts artsbuilder atlantik atlantikdesigner autoconf automake1.4 automake1.6 bibletime bibtex2html bookcase brahms build-essential capplets capplets-data celestia cervisia classpath-tools dcoprss debhelper debian-builder debian-cd debiandoc2dbxml debsums devscripts dia dia-common dia-gnome dictionaries-common digikam digikamplugins docbook docbook-dsssl dpkg-dev dpkg-ftp drip dvi2ps epiphany-browser eyesapplet festival festlex-cmu festlex-poslex festvox-kallpc16k fifteenapplet fig2ps firestarter free-java-sdk galeon galeon-common gcc-3.4 gconf2 gdeb gftp gftp-gtk ggz-gnome-client ggz-gtk-games ggz-kde-client ggz-kde-games gmessage gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-apt gnome-control-center gnome-doc-tools gnome-gv gnome-media gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-system-monitor gnome-utils gnome2-user-guide gnuhtml2latex grip gs gs-common gs-gpl gstreamer0.8-misc guarddog guidedog gv gwenview gxine hotswap-gui iamerican ibritish ifrench intltool-debian ispell jade jadetex juk k3b k3blibs kaboodle kaddressbook kaddressbook-plugins kalarm kalzium kamera kandy kappfinder karbon karm kasteroids kate kate-plugins katomic kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbarcode kbattleship kbear kblackbox kbounce kbruch kcachegrind kcalc kcd kcdlabel kcharselect kchart kcmlinuz kcoloredit kcontrol kcpuload kcron kdat kdbg kde kde-amusements kde-core kde-extras kde-i18n-fr kdeaddons kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdeadmin kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-window kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelibs kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kdelirc kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork kdenetwork-filesharing kdepasswd kdepim kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdepim-wizards kdeprint kdesktop kdessh kdetoys kdeutils kdevelop kdevelop-data kdewebdev kdf kdict kdirstat kdm kdvi kedit keduca kenolaba kernel-package keybled kfax kfilereplace kfind kflog kfloppy kfocus kformula kfouleggs kgamma kget kghostview kgoldrunner kgpg khangman khelpcenter khexedit kicker kicker-applets kiconedit kig kile kimagemapeditor kitchensync kiten kivio kjots kjumpingcube klaptopdaemon klatin klettres klickety klines klinkstatus klipper klog klogic kmahjongg kmail kmailcvt kmenuedit kmerlin kmessedwords kmid kmilo kmines kmix kmoon kmplot kmrml knapster2 knetfilter knetload knewsticker knewsticker-scripts knode knotes knutclient kodo koffice koffice-data koffice-libs kolf kolourpaint kommander kompare konq-plugins konq-speaker konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konquest konsole konsolekalendar kontact kooka kopete korganizer korn koshell kover kpackage kpager kpat kpdf kpercentage kpersonalizer kpf kphone kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler kppp kpresenter kprof kpsk krdc krec krecord kregexpeditor kreversi krfb kruler krusader ksame kscd kscreensaver kscreensaver-xsavers ksensors kshisen ksig ksim ksimus ksimus-boolean ksimus-datarecorder ksimus-floatingpoint ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver ksnake ksnapshot ksocrat ksokoban kspaceduel ksplash kspread kstars ksvg ksync ksysguard ksysv ktalkd kteatime ktimer ktimetrace ktip ktnef ktouch ktron ktuberling kturtle ktux kugar kuickshow kuser kvdr kverbos kview kviewshell kvim kvirc kvlc kvoctrain kwalletmanager kwave kwavecontrol kweather kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kword kwordquiz kworldclock kxmleditor kxsldbg latex-xft-fonts latex2html libarchive-tar-perl libarts1 libarts1-audiofile libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libauthen-pam-perl libavifile-0.7c102 libbonoboui2-0 libcompress-zlib-perl libcvsservice0 libeel2-2 libfinance-quote-perl libflac++2c102 libfont-afm-perl libfontconfig1-dev libft-perl libgail-common libgail17 libgconf2-4 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 libgtkhtml2-0 libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libio-string-perl libio-stringy-perl libio-zlib-perl libkcal2 libkcddb1 libkdeedu1 libkdegames1 libkdenetwork2 libkdepim1 libkgantt0 libkleopatra0a libkonq4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 l
keeping files up to date accross multiple systems
Hello, Does anybody know if there is any program in Debian or in Linux in general, that can keep for example my KDE addressbook and organizer synchronized between for example my home computer and my office laptop...? Cos I often add a contact at home, but then don't have it at work, or I add a task to the organizer at work, but forget about it at home... Does such a functionality exist or am I dreaming? Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox instability
My mozilla (as well as firefox and any other browser based on mozilla) was crashing on any site containing a flash animation. I removed the swf-player package and the problem went away. The non-free flash plugin is not available in 64bit so just gonna have to wait for the bug in swf-player to get fixed or for Macromedia to release a 64 bit version. Alex.
dvdrip in 32 bit chroot?
Hello, I just tried installing dvdrip inside my 32 bit sarge chroot. It installs fine, I configure it, everything is cool, it rips the DVD, but then when it has to encode it complains df doesn't work. It's got a point. df does not work inside the chroot. I get this (sorry it's in french) df: La table du système de fichiers ne peut être lue.: Trop de niveaux de liens symboliques Translation is "Can't read filesystem table: too many levels of symbolic links" How can I get it to work? I am now in the process of trying to install dvdrip on my amd64 system, but the cyberspace.ucla.edu site is real slow at best, and it just times out most of the time. If it was real slow it wouln't be a problem, but it times out, so I have to rerun apt like dozens of times, and each time it reads like one percent, then times out. For each package. How can I go around this? Is there any way to download the needed packages separately (from... somewhere...) and just install them by hand one by one? I know which packages I need cos apt-get lists them. It just can't seem to be able to actually download them without timing out... Alex.
errors upgrading
Hello, Here's an example of the kind of error I've been getting trying to run apt-get upgrade on my amd64 system. Réception de : 23 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main libsane 1.0.15-3 [2634kB] Err ftp://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main libsane 1.0.15-3 Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian-amd64/pure64/pool/unstable/main/amd64/s/sane-backends/libsane_1.0.15-3_amd64.deb: No such file or directory ' I'm getting about a dozen of these and that's not counting the base-config, sed and a couple of other packages which have been broken for a while now and so I have them on hold for the time being. I've never seen this before. What's going on? Alex.
Re: Acrobat reader
> Hi. Has anybody got acrobat reader working? Tried apt-get -b source acroread I ain't no expert, but it seems to me acroread is proprietary software and thus that its source code is not available. I have not checked but I would bet 64bit binaries for Linux are not available... What's the problem with xpdf though? Alex. On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:52:33 +, Rafael Rodríguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Has anybody got acrobat reader working? Tried apt-get -b source acroread > from marillat's mirror but fails: > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared > library libXt (soname 6, path /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, > dependency field Depends) > > ... and dozens of errors like that one with another libs Finally, it > explodes: > > dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture amd64 does not appear in > package's list (i386) > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280 > > Any hints? > > Regards, > > Rafael Rodríguez > >
Re: AMD64 is not one of them
> Anybody know reason? Read the AMD64 HOWTO. For convenience I quote from the faq at the end. I'm too nice. Not yet an official port? After the Technical Committee arbitrated the dispute on the port's name between some developers, the port itself is still the subject of some discussion, which can be found in the archives of debian-devel. Please help to improve the port, rather than taking part in flamewars. The thread starts here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/07/threads.html. So, when will it be released? The first planned official Debian release of 64bit userland for AMD64 will be Etch (Sarge+1). An unofficial Sarge release is being worked at, and is planned to be released as soon as the official Sarge is out. Which distributions are available: stable, testing, unstable? Until AMD64 becomes an officially supported architecture, things are a bit different here: * pure64 - sid (unstable) for amd64. * Sarge - the designated unofficial stable release. * gcc-3.4 - sid (unstable) thoroughly compiled with gcc-3.4, which has better amd64 support. There will not be any official stable release, since debian security support is one of the most important qualities of debian/stable, and is not given for unofficial ports. An official Debian/stable for amd64 will be available with the next major release after Sarge. Alex.
Re: Can I use i386 executable file on AMD64?
> read the AMD64 Debian FAQ Sorry, I meant the Debian AMD64 HOWTO. https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html Alex.
Re: Can I use i386 executable file on AMD64?
read the AMD64 Debian FAQ Alex. On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:18:06 +0800, gulfstream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > > I want to know if the i386 executable file can be used on AMD64 > architecture. Who could tell me about it? > > Thanks > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: openoffice in chroot
> do, I might suggest that you try sarge instead of sid to avoid the My chroot IS sarge. My main amd64 system is sid of course, since sarge has not been ported to amd64. Alex.
Re: openoffice in chroot
Alright, I am still struggling to get openoffice running inside a 32bit Sarge chroot here, and the latest development is that as a matter of fact openoffice does NOT hang when you try to start a new document. It just takes a really really long time to do it. When I follow how much use it makes of the processor during its hanglike phase, it starts at about 6% and it slowly goes down to almost zero, over, I don't know, like 15-20 minutes or something. Then it wakes back up and starts working smoothly. That's pretty strange. Has anybody seen or heard anything like this before? I could also try to put this up on one of the openoffice.org lists... Oh, and I should have also added to the previous email that before you can do anything you need to fix sed. You can't apt-get anything without fixing sed. You do that by finding a good copy of the sed.info.gz file and copying it over the one in /usr/share/info/sed.info.gz. Also, you need to do dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt edit the file, hold sed and base-config and then do dpkg --set-selection < selections.txt before you start apt-getting the main stuff, like X, kde, gnome, openoffice, mozilla, etc. Those two packages are broken right now, so you can't upgrade them. Hope they get fixed soon. Alex.
Re: sound inside the chroot
> Alexandru> the sound device, whatever that is... I'll try mounting > Alexandru> the /dev also see if that helps. Yes, it does. Success! It should be added to the faq that you need to mount /dev too. Alex.
Re: sound inside the chroot
> Make sure you have /dev, /proc and /sys mounted in the chroot > directory. According to the howto add /home and /tmp also. The howto does not say anything about /dev. So it should also be mounted in the chroot, huh? Cos the chroot has its own /dev and I thought it should be able to get by on that... For example because I can *watch* DVDs, which means it can find the /dev/hdb and /dev/hda devices, which are my two ide DVD drives. But apparently it can't find the sound device, whatever that is... I'll try mounting the /dev also see if that helps. Thanks. Alex.
sound inside the chroot
Hello, I am trying to run xine inside a 32bit sarge chroot on my AMD64 box. I am trying this because the real player, quicktime, and all kinds of other codecs are proprietary and they are available for 32bit. But inside the chroot sound does not work. Outside it does, of course. How would I get it to work? For example I can *watch* a DVD inside the chroot no problem, it's just that I can't *hear* it... Alex.
Re: AMD64 Question
> How would I know that the installed Kernel > is a single CPU or smp kernel (Dual, Quad etc.) ? Wouldn't uname -a tell you? Alex.
Re: openoffice in chroot
> Could you send all the details of what you did to get running? Well, first of all, since the chroot I had installed was sid-ia32, I thought maybe it's because... well... it's sid, you know. So last night I wiped it out and debootstrapped sarge over it. I have not had time to check if openoffice works yet, because it's been downloading all night. This morning I checked and it seemed to have downloaded everything OK and was already configuring things. I did not have time to go through it cos I gotta work too, you know. But the correct sequence to debootstrap sarge I think is along the lines of run debootstrap command after it's done setting up the base system create /etc/apt/sources.list (which does not exist at first, you create it) and put in the relevant lines, depending if you're installing sarge or sid, or stable. apt-get install locales This will get rid of the annoying messages about locale being undefined or uninstalled and whatnot. Then you run base-config, which does the rest. You go through the package configuration and whatnot... Then you follow instructions in the howto, mounting the 64bit /home, proc and /tmp filesystems in the chroot, and linking the libraries, and stuff. The first time I did it I did not install locales before doing anything else. (I did create an /etc/environment file, by hand, which did not change much since the actual locales were not installed) I went through the whole install, mounting filesystems, installing X and kde, and openoffice, etc, and THEN, did apt-get install locales. It is true however that last time I neglected to link the 32bit libraries in the 64 bit system, but I did not think that was important as far as running programs INSIDE the chroot is concerned. I'll report tonight if this time things are working better or what... Alex.
openoffice in chroot
I set up a chroot last night following the instructions in the howto.
By the way, that AMD64 howto needs some updating. There are some details
that are not mentioned. Like when and how to run base-config to set up
the chroot environment, and whatnot, and when and how one should run
aptitude to install all the packages. The debootstrap just installs a
base system. Also it's not clear if the proc and /tmp filesystems
should be put in the fstab in the 64 system or in the chroot and it's
not clear at what point int the boostrapping procedure exactly this
mounting should be done. There
are a couple of things where the howto does not specify where you're
supposed to do it, inside or outside the chroot.
I managed to install it though, though I ran aptitude and installed a
bunch of stuff BEFORE I ran base-config, and while apt was installing
packages I was constantly getting messages complaining about locale
not being defined. My locale is supposed to be french.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en",
LC_ALL = "fr_FR",
LANG = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Hundreds of times.
Now when I try to run openoffice, the window appears, with french
menus for just a fraction of a second, then it switches to english.
And when I try to go to File New, to create a new document openoffice
displays this to the console and then hangs.
I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale ""
Maybe it's because it was installed before the locale was set up for
the chroot so it didn't know how to configure itself... or something.
So what is supposed to be the correct sequence in order to set up a
386 chroot correctly, and is there a way to get openoffice running
now, without reinstalling the whole chroot?
Oh, btw, mozilla works, but not the flash plugin (inside the chroot).
Thanks
Alex.
Re: DVD RW drive not recognized
> Generally using ide-generic is a bad idea (it does not allow DMA) and > the specific driver should be used instead. This is true, now that you mention it. I can't enable DMA, which is particularly annoying when playing DVDs. The image is jerky. What specific driver should be used? ide-cd? And more generally, how does one know what driver goes with a particular piece of hardware? I've been googling for weeks, and I wtill can't figure out how people know that with this or that controller, or card: "Oh, you need to load such and such module, because the other one does not support such and such...". Is there some searchable database somewhere that tells you what module to load with a particular piece of hardware? Alex. On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:59:59 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandru Cabuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Turns out there was some kind of bug in the ata_piix module so that it > > had to be loaded after the ide_generic module and all kinds of > > incomprehensible kernel babble, all of which can be skipped by simply > > installing 2.6.9. I was still on 2.6.8. > > > > Now my DVD burner is detected and everything is cool. > > > > Alex. > > Generally using ide-generic is a bad idea (it does not allow DMA) and > the specific driver should be used instead. For ata_pixx that might be > different. > > MfG > Goswin >
adding a 386 chroot in /home
Hello, Is there any particular reason why in the AMD64 Debian howto the i386 chroot is setup in /var/chroot/sid-ia32 or can it be anywhere? I am asking because on my system /var is its own partition, and is not big enough to house a i386 system. Same thing for the /, /tmp and /usr filesystems. My big partition is the /home partition. Would there be any problem putting my chroot in /home/sid-ia32? Because then, in the chroot, I would make /home point to /home in the amd64 system, which would contain the chroot, so the filesystem would be like the snake swallowing its own tail. Would it not freak out, or in any case, protest at this state of affairs (the filesystem I mean)? Thanks. Alex.
Re: DVD RW drive not recognized
Turns out there was some kind of bug in the ata_piix module so that it had to be loaded after the ide_generic module and all kinds of incomprehensible kernel babble, all of which can be skipped by simply installing 2.6.9. I was still on 2.6.8. Now my DVD burner is detected and everything is cool. Alex.
Re: DVD RW drive not recognized
> Are you using a debian kernel or a selfcompiled one? > Did you load the ide modules corresponding to your chipset? > > Try `modprobe via82cxxx' and check if your drives are getting detected > then. Debian kernel. In /etc/modules I got ide-cd ide-generic among other things. I don't know if these are the good modules to handle my hardware. I don't know how to figure that out. And it's not that my driveS are not getting detected. One of them is, and it works fine. It's just the DVD RW that is not. I did the modprobe via82cxxx and it's still not getting detected. Alex.
DVD RW drive not recognized
I do [root /home/cabuz]>mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/hda is not a valid block device This drive is the master and a DVD rom is the slave on that bus . The DVD ROM slave is recognized, but not the master DVD writer. Possibly related to this is that I can't enable DMA on either of these two. I do [root /home/cabuz]>hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) Oh, btw, in my fstab, I noticed these two lines, which the installer put in there by default. /dev/hdb/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda/media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 That's strange, if it keeps saying it can't even see /dev/hda. Any suggestions? Alex.
Re: Off-topic: Re: pppoe on pure64 sid
> Check your /etc/resolv.conf for PPP's DNS servers. If it is empty Yep. It was empty. I put in three of the dns servers I knew, and now it's flying. Thanks! Alex.
pppoe on pure64 sid
I just got done installing pure64 on my new box, kde3.3, mozilla, everything works smooth, except that I can't get on the internet, which is strange because I did a netinstall. During the install I was able to set up pppoe, and then that's how I downloaded the whole system. Let aptitude run all night basically. Well, after a couple of reboots, it won't work anymore. More precisely after I do pon dsl-provider here is what ifconfig says. eth1 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:7C:9D:A5 adr inet6: fe80::211:9ff:fe7c:9da5/64 Scope:Lien UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 RX bytes:358232 (349.8 KiB) TX bytes:101777 (99.3 KiB) Interruption:10 Adresse de base:0x7000 loLien encap:Boucle locale inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0 adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:678 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:678 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:0 RX bytes:45068 (44.0 KiB) TX bytes:45068 (44.0 KiB) ppp0 Lien encap:Protocole Point-à-Point inet adr:83.113.225.163 P-t-P:193.253.160.3 Masque:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:3 RX bytes:246 (246.0 b) TX bytes:54 (54.0 b) Here's what route gives Table de routage IP du noyau Destination Passerelle Genmask Indic Metric RefUse Iface 193.253.160.3 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 default 193.253.160.3 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 Here's what ps aux | grep ppp gives root 13928 0.0 0.3 14984 1592 ?Ss 17:16 0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd call dsl-provider root 14250 0.0 0.1 5152 836 pts/1R+ 17:18 0:00 grep ppp Here's what plog gives Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: CHAP authentication succeeded Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: peer from calling number 00:90:1A:41:04:2E authorized Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: local IP address 81.251.89.62 Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: remote IP address 193.253.160.3 Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: primary DNS address 80.10.246.130 Nov 19 17:19:08 localhost pppd[14302]: secondary DNS address 80.10.246.3 What is very strange is that I can ping stuff, but only by IP address. For example ping www.google.com doesn't work. Also kmail and mozilla won't connect to anything. Here's my interfaces file # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback Here is my /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file # Configuration file for PPP, using PPP over Ethernet # to connect to a DSL provider. # # See the manual page pppd(8) for information on all the options. ## # Section 1 # # Stuff to configure... # MUST CHANGE: Uncomment the following line, replacing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] # by the DSL user name given to your by your DSL provider. # (There should be a matching entry in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets with the password.) #user [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Use the pppoe program to send the ppp packets over the Ethernet link # This line should work fine if this computer is the only one accessing # the Internet through this DSL connection. This is the right line to use # for most people. #pty "/usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth1 -T 80 -m 1452" # An even more conservative version of the previous line, if things # don't work using -m 1452... pty "/usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth1 -T 80 -m 1412" # If the computer connected to the Internet using pppoe is not being used # by other computers as a gateway to the Internet, you can try the following # line instead, for a small gain in speed: #pty "/usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth0 -T 80" # The following two options should work fine for most DSL users. # Assumes that your IP address is allocated dynamically # by your DSL provider... noipdefault # Try to get the name server addresses from the ISP. usepeerdns # Use this connection as the default route. # Comment out if you already have the correct default route installed. defaultroute ## # Section 2 # # Uncomment if your DSL provider charges by minute connected # and you want to use demand-dialing. # # Disconnect after 300 seconds (5 minutes) of idle time. #demand #idle 300 ## # Section 3 # # You shouldn't need to change these options... hide-password lcp-echo-interval 20 lcp-ec
Re: amd64 build necessary to get nvidia nforce3 mobo working?
Thank you for your replies, everybody, I'll try 386 again tonight... I tried the amd64 mini.iso installer. It works great up until it needs to install the base system. Then, it can't find the network. I go to command line and I do ifconfig I get eth0 Link Encap: UNSPEC HWaddr and then a bunch of numbers separated by colons. Lots of them. Besides, not having the base install I don't have pppoe and therefore the installer can't get on the internet to get the base install. I have a feeling that this is where that bootstrapping with sarge 386 comes into play, but I don't know what that means. Is there another iso image available, aside from the mini.iso, that also contains the base system? And what does this Link Encap: UNSPEC stuff mean? On the computer I am using right now, ifconfig says eth0 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:1F:C8:9C:55 Alex. On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:29:14 +0100, Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I know this question is probably better suited for an nividia linux > > forum (where I have posted it 2 minutes ago) but I thought I might > > check with people on this list too, maybe somebody knows. > > > > I recently bought an athlon64 nvidia nforce3 box, and have not been > > able to install anything except windows on it. I want to install > > Sarge, but the i386 build does not recognize the network or sound, > > both of which are integrated in the motherboard. The drivers provided > > by nvidia are binary and they will only install on a 64 bit kernel. > > > > My question is this: > > "Is there any way to get the ethernet and the sound going on nforce3 > > in Sarge 386, that is, without installing the true amd64 port which is > > not yet finished, and which therefore might be more trouble than it's > > worth?" > > > > I had no problem with the new sarge netinstall. I used a 2.6 kernel. > > The module to get the network working is called forcedeth, the sound > is an intel ix810 ac97 compatible chip, so you can use either oss or > alsa modules to get it working. I recommend alsa ones. > > Net and sound are supported either in the i386 and amd64 ports of debian. > > > Note that I have already installed a minimal, text only, Sarge 386 on > > this box, WITH the forcedeth driver, and it does not see any ethernet > > interface at all, preventing me from doing a netinstall, which is the > > only install I can do without burning 10 CDs and besides, a computer > > that cannot get on the internet is useless (to me). It looks like the > > forcedeth driver in Sarge 386 is for nforce2, while I got nforce 3. > > > > I have had any problems with 2.6.3 and newer kernels. Try an upgrade. > Or use the amd64 port of debian (recommended). > > > Any suggestions would be helpful (I am at that experience level where > > I am just starting to crawl out of the newbie cave, and start seeing > > the light, instead of just the shadows on the wall, but my eyes still > > hurt). > > Buy a new sunglases :) > > Aritz Beraza [Rei] > -- > Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] > ___ > [ WWW ] http://evangelion.homelinux.net > [jabber] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: amd64 build necessary to get nvidia nforce3 mobo working?
> the sound chip works fine with the intel8x0 kernel driver. I am using > kernel 2.6, but the 2.4 kernel should not be a problem. OK. You're talking about the 386 build right? Alex.
Re: amd64 build necessary to get nvidia nforce3 mobo working?
> Did you try the 2.4 kernel or the 2.6 kernel for i386? I tried both. Hell, I tried everything. The thing is I tried this installation so many times, I forget the details, all I know is that the network didn't work anyway I tried it. ifconfig couldn't see any eth interface. I tried to configure everything command line, edit the interfaces file, the dsl-provider file, etc (I am on ADSL). With one of the kernels, I forget which one the installer would just take enormous amounts of time to do simple tasks like format a 300Mb partition. It would look like it is hung for 15 minutes and then the little progress indicator would jump from 0% to 33%. Then wait another 15 minutes with no HD access... all work no play akes Jack a dull boy... I'll download the amd64 installer and give it a shot. ] You should be able to bootstrap a i386 sarge from the amd64 installer ] and run it with a 64bit kernel, just use the amd64 installer to do half ] the work, read up to partitioning the disk, then spawn a shell and do ] the rest by hand. But what do you mean, bootstrap 386 with the 64bit kernel? You mean the 386 programs will run on a 64 bit kernel? And "the rest" means just setting up the network, and then doing aptitude...? With the regular, 386 sources.list file pointing to some mirror of the official sarge repository? Alex.
Re: amd64 build necessary to get nvidia nforce3 mobo working?
> So which motherboard is this, and which ethernet adapter and sound is it > using? Quoting directly from the manual: K8N Neo (MS 7030) v1.X ATX mainboard based on nVidia nForce 3 250Gb chipset for optimal system efficiency. LAN nVidia nForce 3 250Gb LAN controller Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip Compliant with PCI v2.2 Supports ACPI Audio Realtek ALC 850 7.1 channel audio codec Alex Cabuz.
amd64 build necessary to get nvidia nforce3 mobo working?
Hello, I know this question is probably better suited for an nividia linux forum (where I have posted it 2 minutes ago) but I thought I might check with people on this list too, maybe somebody knows. I recently bought an athlon64 nvidia nforce3 box, and have not been able to install anything except windows on it. I want to install Sarge, but the i386 build does not recognize the network or sound, both of which are integrated in the motherboard. The drivers provided by nvidia are binary and they will only install on a 64 bit kernel. My question is this: "Is there any way to get the ethernet and the sound going on nforce3 in Sarge 386, that is, without installing the true amd64 port which is not yet finished, and which therefore might be more trouble than it's worth?" Note that I have already installed a minimal, text only, Sarge 386 on this box, WITH the forcedeth driver, and it does not see any ethernet interface at all, preventing me from doing a netinstall, which is the only install I can do without burning 10 CDs and besides, a computer that cannot get on the internet is useless (to me). It looks like the forcedeth driver in Sarge 386 is for nforce2, while I got nforce 3. Any suggestions would be helpful (I am at that experience level where I am just starting to crawl out of the newbie cave, and start seeing the light, instead of just the shadows on the wall, but my eyes still hurt). Thanks. Alex.
