Re: Problem installing debian amd-64 on a HP
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:34:34PM +0200, Andreas wrote: > Hi, >I got the DX5150 up and running today, thanks all for your help! >This is how I did it: > >Booted into expert mode with Len Sorensens sarge ISO, modprobed ahci, >sata_sil and sd_mod. By now it sees the disk. Loaded ide-cd and >ide-generic and it sees the cdrom. Those weren't loaded automagically >and that's probably why the installer hung (I think). Switch back to the >installer and continue as usual. No problems at all, except for some >trouble with XFree, it couldn't detect the graphics card, so I had to >use the vesa driver. I works for me. > >Again, thanks all. > >Andreas > >PS. Here's the lspci output: > >:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5950 >:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4376 >:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4377 >:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4371 >:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc: >Unknown device 4370 (rev 01) Try man update-pciids Unfortunately I couldn't get 'update-pciids' to work. It complained about a compressed file and I have gzip and bzip2 installed. (I am running Sarge i386 but soon I'll be running AMD64 :-)) -- 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: apt-get error
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:43:16PM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > list > eb ftp://debian.inode.at/debian-amd64/debian/ sid main contribapt-get > install locale > locale > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package locale > > Thanks. apt-cache search -- 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: Compiling a kernel module. gcc-3.3 vs. gcc-3.4
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:42:11PM +0100, James Hansen wrote: [..] > When building, it offered up a few warnings about casting ints to > different sizes to pointers. Because of this I was expecting it to just > segfault the kernel, but it seems to insert without incident. I'll look > at these errors later, when stuff starts to break :) [..] Warnings are not errors. Things will normally work with a warning but tend not to work on an error. -- 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: Virus Scanner 64 bits version ??
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:35:21PM -0500, Mike Dobbs wrote: > Nothing is impossible! Yes linux as a non-root user is very secure > especially today, but you should still have an idea of what you are > running. That's why debian repositories are great, gpg signed, and > maintained by good people. > > I think there are some virus scanner that run on linux, but don't waste > your time. Linux is too secure, or too small of market (depending on > the view) to get any real viruses as of yet. > > MD I used to think that as well. Apparently most distributions are not secure *out of the box*. It takes more work/skill to secure Linux than it does to secure Windows XP. Hence there are probably more secure XP installations out there than Linux boxes. Viruses and spyware are another matter. That is my understanding. Of course I may be wrong, but it is probably the best way to lean. :-) -- 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: Hello! from a newbie+ problems with debian for amd64+can't boot debian for i386 on amd64 from cd+can't extract sbm.bin from cd
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:02:42AM +0100, Martin Baldan wrote: > Hi! > > >if you are a real newby, you may wait until december. As I knew debian etch > > > >should be finished in december, and there amd64 should be one of the standard > > >supported systems. > > > > That's cool! I thought it would take a bit longer. > > Anyway, I have nothing better to install on my drive, > > so I'll try to get used to Debian now, Good idea. > and then, when Etch is released, I'll give it a try. Remember once you install a version of Debian (Woody, Sarge, Etch ...) then you only need to dist-upgrade to the next one, no need to reinstall. -- 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: [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: scsi & official debian repositories
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:27:33AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > However, I am not interested in either kde or gnome or realplayer or sound > anyway; what I need (and it might be the same for workstations anywhere) is a > better window manager than twm for X, ideally mwm. I need to move and resize > the windows. twm you know cannot. kwin from kde is the worst one can install > for my purposes, and it is very intruding, remembering tools from Microsoft. Have a look at FVWM, it is very configurable and with fvwm-themes installed it shows what is possible. Sorry, I'm not running AMD64 and don't know if fvwm is available for that arch. Also fvwm-themes does not seem to be available in the Debian archives for some reason. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian's Organizational Structure
Hi, Noticed that on http://www.debian.org/intro/organization there is no mention of the amd64 port. I realise it is not official yet . . . but apparently neither is Demudi -- Debian Multimedia Distribution -- This is not yet an official Debian internal project but it has announced the intention to be integrated. There is also: This list can become outdated since it isn't updated automatically after things change. If you find anything missing or incorrect, please send us corrections. corrections to debian-www@lists.debian.org I have not done this as I don't know all the info. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where are the nvidia Drivers?
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:10:07AM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > Hi, > > look on: > ftp://ftp2.caliu.info/pub/distribucions/debian-amd64/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers >^ distributions? -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cross-distro binary compatibilty
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:52:57PM +0200, Thomas Steffen wrote: > Oracle > > I agree that some of them do show the typical problems of closed > software, but still they do something for which there is no equivalent > OSS alternative. (sticks hand up from back of room) PostgreSQL OSS alternative for Oracle? -- 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: Cross-distro binary compatibilty
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:12:57PM -0400, Adam Skutt wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > (sticks hand up from back of room) PostgreSQL OSS alternative for > > Oracle? > > > In some cases, yes. But not in a whole host of others. > > PostgreSQL is not as scalable or as fast as Oracle on the high-end. > > It's also lacking some features needed for dealing with really massive > datasets. > > There is no true OSS equivalent to the likes of Oracle and DB2, and it's > likely there will never be, unless one of them becomes open-source. After a quick search through the postgresql-doc package I found postgresql-doc/TODO.detail/performance.gz which compares Oracle + PostgreSQL. Thanks. -- 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: vim problems
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:44:32AM +, antonio giulio wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed these packages: > > vim, vim-common, vim-runtime > > for vim version 7.0 > > In versions < 7.0 I had highlight text, number of lines on display, > etc. Now I have 'strange' settings and /etc/vim/vimrc seems not > working if I change it. > > Have you any idea? vim-latexsuite no longer works in vim7.0 either. :-( -- Chris. == " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange network problem
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:39:57AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I thought it was usually that you had 230V between neatral and a live > wire, and about 400V between a pair of live wires (out of the 3 > available). That is what I remember being the standard setup in denmark > at least. Here we have 2 phase to residential with 230V between them > and 115V between one and neatral/ground. What countries ran the other > way? > > > That's possible in Europe because earth and ground are not the same > > thing. > > It ought to be possible here since earth and neatral should only become > the same thing at the electrical panel. Here in NZ we have MENS, which stands for Multiple Earth Neutral System, where the neutral is earthed at various strategic places along the distribution network. Maybe a google could shed more light :-) -- Chris. == " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual-core amd question
[Please don't top post] On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:33:22PM -0800, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Thank you. Then, one additional question that I forgot before. > Planning to replace the 1GB modules with 2GB modules, is that correct > to replace couples of modules (one left, one right) at different > times, and not all eigth modules at the same time? I plan to use the > machine with a mixture of 1G-1GB and 2GB-2GB couples of memory modules > until I get money to replace all. > > francesco pietra Hi, Your motherboard manual should have that info. -- Chris. == " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newby trying to go debian
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:00:59PM -0600, Colin Baker wrote: > In between these is etch/testing. I used to run sid/unstable on my > desktop PCs, but I've recently switched to testing, since it is a nice > compromise. I get fairly recent software, but without all of the broken > package issues seen in sid. I believe etch is frozen now (this means > that no new packages are being added, just like stable), and will become > the new "stable" soon. At that point, Sarge (current stable) will > become "old stable". As I understand it, "testing" is the testing ground for the next stable release, Etch, which is nearly ready so at this point in time testing is good to start with but ... ... once Etch is the new stable, "testing" will be codenamed 'Lenny' and will be the testing ground for the next stable release. As a consequence "testing" will start receiving packages, and the associated bugs, from unstable. If a bug is fixed it will take approximately 10 days for the fix to reach testing. Because of this I recommend to either run Etch or sid because Lenny will probably be horribly broken. This was evident immediately after the release of Sarge when users had testing in their 'sources.lst' -- check the archives of the debian-user mailing list. Please correct me if I am wrong. -- Chris. == " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: canon mp150 drivers
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:59:57PM -0600, Seb wrote: > I'm immediately apprehensive of companies that advertise a crippled trial > version, on the condition you provide useful (for them) marketing info, > and that have the following in their license agreement: > > ,-[ http://www.turboprint.info/ ] > | Disclaimer > | > | ZEDOnet makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, with > | respect to the program described herein, its quality, performance, > | merchantibility, or fitness for any particular purpose. This program is > | sold "As is". The entire risk as to its quality and performance is with > | the buyer. In no event will ZEDOnet be liable for direct, indirect, > | incidental or consequential damage, or damages resulting from loss of use > | or loss of anticipated profits resulting from any defect in the program > | even if it has been advised of the possiblity of such damage. Some laws do > | not allow for the exclusion or limitation of implied warranties or > | liabilities for incidental or consequential damages, so the above > | limitations or exclusion may not apply. > `- All licences/disclaimers say basically the same thing. -- Chris. == " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
