Re: Cool and quiet in amd64 box
Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: Hi, some days ago I updated my old (2004) box with a new hd. In the operation I installed a clean lenny. After the installation, all more or less is working, I noticed that the box didn't have activated the cool and quiet. Probably because I disable it some month ago testing some function with the compiz, k8temp module or whatever. Now, I have been realised that my box doesn't work with cool and quiet. Simple, if I activate it in the bios, the kernel (linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64, 2.6.26-8) hangs booting. Are you saying it worked before but it doesn't now? If so, I probably can't help you. If it never worked before (or you hadn't tried it), perhaps a BIOS update will fix the problem. I had the same thing happen on my fairly similar system due to a BIOS bug. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote: I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies. When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', though, I get a list of 73 packages that are to be installed. Maybe dist-upgrade tries to satisfy recommends? Good idea, but it doesn't appear to be what's happening here. To be sure, I just removed a package: gimp-gnomevfs, recommended by gimp. The list of packages dist-upgrade tries to install is unchanged; gimp-gnomevfs isn't there. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages
I don't know if this is amd64-specific, but it's only happening on my
amd64 Sid system, so I'm asking here first.
I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade',
no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies.
When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', though, I get a list of 73 packages
that are to be installed. I don't want any of them, and I don't know why
apt-get wants to install them.
'aptitude full-upgrade' doesn't have this problem. If all else fails
I'll just switch to aptitude, but I'd rather know what's going on.
I don't have anything non-default in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d.
'apt-get -f install' doesn't try to do anything.
The following is a log of upgrading and the contents of /etc/apt/apt.conf.d.
Thanks,
Corey
bugfood:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
bugfood:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
avahi-daemon bash-completion busybox enscript esound-clients exiv2
gnokii-common hal hal-info initramfs-tools kaddressbook kamera
kcontrol kdebase-data kdebase-kio-plugins kdeeject
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdepim-kresources
kdeprint kdesktop kfind kghostview kicker kipi-plugins klibc-utils
kmail konqueror kooka korganizer libavahi-core5 libbluetooth2
libccid libdaemon0 libexiv2-2 libgnokii3 libgpgme11 libgpod-common
libgpod3-nogtk libical0 libkcal2b libkcddb1 libkdcraw3 libkdepim1a
libkexiv2-3 libkleopatra1 libklibc libkmime2 libkpimexchange1
libkpimidentities1 libkscan1 libksieve0 libktnef1 libmimelib1c2a
libnss-mdns libpcsclite1 libsgutils1 libsmbios-bin libsmbios1
libsmbiosxml1 libsplashy1 ocrad pcscd pm-utils pmount poster
powermgmt-base psutils radeontool sane-utils sg3-utils uswsusp
vbetool
0 upgraded, 73 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 44.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 131MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
bugfood:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*
APT
{
NeverAutoRemove
{
^linux-image.*;
^linux-restricted-modules.*;
};
};
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs { /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne
10; };
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version 2;
// Pre-configure all packages with debconf before they are installed.
// If you don't like it, comment it out.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true;};
DPkg::Post-Invoke { if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums
--generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi; };
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Re: New Debian User needs an idea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am a fairly experienced Fedora user trying out Debian for the first time. I have a 3 disk distribution from Linux Central and I can get it to install and boot to a command line. The installer uses only the first disk. My problem is that I can't bring up the GUI. I have a driver for the video card but in order to install it gcc and the kernel headers are required, and missing. Also my only web source is via a wireless, which needs to be configured with ndiswrapper. This requires, guess what, gcc and the kernel headers so I can't download them. I tried aptitude and it requests a disk be mounted but it is not any of the disks that I have. I suspect that gcc is hiding on one of the disks I have if only I knew how to get to it. Ideas? The computer is dual booted so I could use the Fedora side to download and copy over. Jim Bean You can try this; some commands may need to be adapted. 1. boot fedora 2. get Internet access working if it isn't already 3: run something like this: mkdir /mnt/debian mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/debian # replace /dev/sda2 as needed mount -t proc proc /mnt/debian/proc # maybe not needed mount --bind /dev /mnt/debian/dev# maybe not needed chroot /mnt/debian 4. make sure Internet access works from within the chroot 5. use the chrooted shell to do whatever you need to do Good luck, Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chroot and ia32libs combined
Martin Jambor wrote: On 9/6/06, Seb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the same situation with Firefox as you are, but do not see the extension compatibility wizard kicking in. The danger I see is the 64-bit and 32-bit versions modifying ~/.mozilla differently, which may mess the files up at some point. As far as Firefox is concerned, I have never actually managed to run the 32 bit and 64 bit version concurrently, somehow whichever I run second just opens a new window of the first. Try using: $ MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox ...to run the second instance. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pixelation in Totem and other Video problems
Craig Hagerman wrote: Hi, I use a Debian AMD64 Unstable/Sid machine as a home file / web server and media center. I did an apt-get upgrade yesterday and right afterwards noticed that a video I watched in Totem was pixelated. I thought perhaps it was just that one file, but after some checking today I have found that all videos I view through totem are pixelated. I am not sure how to begin troubleshooting this issue. Do you think this is a problem with a new version of Totem, or xorg or some other system? or a problem with codecs? Video looked fine before the upgrade. While on the topic of video software I have had problems with mplayer and vlc for ages now and just wondering if anyone else has these kinds of problems. With mplayer - I right click on a video file, chose open with mplayer and the program starts up with a smallish window. I want to view it full screen; however if I make it full screen it immediately crashes with error messages. For this reason i have never been able to make use of mplayer. Anyone else seen this? About vlc - I right click on a video file, chose to open with vlc and sometimes the program DOES start up. Most of the time it does not. Same story when chosing vlc from the application menu. When I try to start from the command line as a normal user it tells me just that there was a segmentation fault. When I start as root it fires up with no problems. Both VLC and mplayer are the vanilla apt-get versions. I hope I am not the only one with these problems. Does everyone have to compile a custom version for themselves? I can't speak for the other players, but MPlayer does not exist in Debian. If you're apt-getting mplayer, then the package is coming from an unofficial source and as such is supported by neither Debian nor MPlayer developers. Still, if you're having video output issues, the first thing to try is a different video output driver. If you're using the GUI, right click somewhere, choose Preferences, go to the Video tab and try some of the other drivers. If you're not using the GUI, use 'mplayer -vo something', where something is one of the available drivers. To read about which driver is what, type these two lines into a terminal: man mplayer /VIDEO OUTPUT DRIVERS -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apparent crashes persist.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once again, when it crashes, I can sometimes still manage to use a ssh connection to get in from elsewhere. What information should I collect, and how should I analyse it? Start with 'dmesg'. Look for anything erroneous and/or send the output to the list. You can also check /var/log/messages after rebooting, but problems might not get written there if the kernel is somehow unable to write to the disk. What is ur memory configuration by the way? I remember you said 2G, but is it 2x1G, 4x512M, something else? and what about the manufacturer? 2x1G. But now I'm running 1x1G. Kingston memory. memtest86+ never finds a thing wrong. Could be, of course that it's other hardware. Have you tried stressing your CPU? 1. make sure your CPU isn't running too hot 2. # apt-get install cpuburn 3. $ burnK7 4. keep an eye on your CPU temperature and see if your system crashes soon. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sources.list ???
Dean Hamstead wrote: enlightenment is awesome. nor bars or docks or loading bays etc just screen real estate. Properly configured, Enlightenment is a great way to keep people from using your computer until you show them how. ;) That's what I do -- no need for a screensaver password. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amd64 updates?
Jonathan Kaye wrote: For the past 6 or 7 days, updating amd64 sid has produced no new upgrades which seems a bit unusual. I'm using deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ sid main contrib in my sources.list but I've also tried deb http://ftp.belnet.be/debian-amd64/debian/ sarge main contrib with the same results. I've read about the problems with xorg-xserver upgrades and I'm wondering if there is a general freeze while this problem is sorted out. I've also read that the debian amd64 repositories have moved but those listed above are from the most recent Mirrors page I could find. I guess that means the old debian-amd64 archive is no longer being updated. That's ok, though -- amd64 sid is now on the main Debian mirrors, as in: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare does not start after update to libc6-i386?
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kourosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I remove the /emul entries from ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig -v, I see that it does _not_ scan the 3 /emul directories and does _not_ find the 32bit X libs and I again get the same error with vmware not finding the correct libs. At least on my system, the 3 /emul entries are required for vmware to work. I don't have any other 32bit software that I can test. I add back the 3 /emul entries, rerun ldconfig -v, and the 3 /emul directories are scanner and vmware works again. Regards, Kourosh I have the same versions and the same links in /lib/ldconfig on my system and everything works without anything in ld.so.conf. It doesn't make sense for ldconfig to fail completly on some systems. Please file a bug report about this with libc6. Maybe the maintainers have more insight. This is happening to me, too. Not with VMWare, specifically, but ldconfig isn't seeing the symlinks in /lib/ldconfig. If I add the directory lines back to /etc/ld.so.conf it works fine. Did anybody file a bug? I looked but the list of open bugs for libc6 is huge. If nobody has filed a bug yet, then I will. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMWare does not start after update to libc6-i386?
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Corey Hickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kourosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I remove the /emul entries from ld.so.conf and rerun ldconfig -v, I see that it does _not_ scan the 3 /emul directories and does _not_ find the 32bit X libs and I again get the same error with vmware not finding the correct libs. At least on my system, the 3 /emul entries are required for vmware to work. I don't have any other 32bit software that I can test. I add back the 3 /emul entries, rerun ldconfig -v, and the 3 /emul directories are scanner and vmware works again. Regards, Kourosh I have the same versions and the same links in /lib/ldconfig on my system and everything works without anything in ld.so.conf. It doesn't make sense for ldconfig to fail completly on some systems. Please file a bug report about this with libc6. Maybe the maintainers have more insight. This is happening to me, too. Not with VMWare, specifically, but ldconfig isn't seeing the symlinks in /lib/ldconfig. If I add the directory lines back to /etc/ld.so.conf it works fine. Did anybody file a bug? I looked but the list of open bugs for libc6 is huge. If nobody has filed a bug yet, then I will. -Corey I managed to track the problem down with the help of Ivan Ivanic (at least that's what /whois says). ldconfig only follows entries in /lib/ldconfig that have d_type=DT_LINK set in their direntry structure. Unfortunately reiserfs always sets d_type=DT_UNKNOWN. Glibc docs mention that in such a case one has to stat the entries themself and ldconfig didn't do that. Wow, I never would have guessed. Thanks a bunch for figuring it out. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: turion/mobile athlon benchmark
Tamas K Papp wrote: Hi, I am trying to decide whether to buy a turion/amd mobile laptop. I need to know how much performance I would gain compared to my 1.33 Ghz G4 powerbook. I mainly use the laptop for numerical work (I am an economist). I am asking those who own turion/mobile athlon based machines to please I have an overclocked socket 754 Newcastle 3400+. It's not mobile, but what the heck. After trying the test a few times, I disabled cpu frequency scaling (cpufreq-set -g performace) and that boosted the early results proportionately. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/perl$ /usr/lib/atlas3-test/xzinvtst NREPS ORDER UPLO NLDA TIME MFLOP RESID = = = = = 0Col GE100100 0.005 1594.32 9.536429e-03 0Col GE200200 0.028 2281.75 1.116727e-02 0Col GE300300 0.084 2568.61 1.244014e-02 0Col GE400400 0.179 2858.08 2.111688e-02 0Col GE500500 0.329 3037.70 2.246591e-02 0Col GE600600 0.567 3046.18 1.968228e-02 0Col GE700700 0.868 3160.08 2.345843e-02 0Col GE800800 1.278 3203.99 2.368572e-02 0Col GE900900 1.746 3339.32 2.717980e-02 0Col GE 1000 1000 2.375 3367.67 2.801465e-02 10 cases: 10 passed, 0 skipped, 0 failed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/perl$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 14 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ stepping: 0 cpu MHz : 2556.109 cache size : 512 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips: 5115.47 TLB size: 1024 4K pages clflush size: 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: quake4 on debian amd64 - works for me
Lars Schimmer wrote: Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! I know, it was a topiv before. But I don't get it run right now. Teh specific problem is: Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.8178, but this library is version 1.0.7174 Does anyone has got a nvidia-glx-ia32 with a 1.0.8178 nvidia source? Ok, I've done it. quake4 runs really nice here. I just grabbed the nvidia-update package from mr Alessandro Dal Grande and rebuild the nvidia 8178 package of the nvidia driver. I just installed the normal 64bit glx and throw away the ia32 version. And YES: I used the .deb package because the flow really nice in the system and made no problems til yet. Everythink works like a charm. Just one problem stayed: alsa sound is broken. I need to start quake with the OSS sound option. This might be due to you having libsdl1.2debian-oss installed in your chroot or 32-bit library path. If that's the case, try switching to libsdl1.2debian-alsa. Note that Quake4 had problems loading with libsdl1.2debian-all before; I don't know if that problem has been fixed. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i want to migrate from ide to serial ata
daniele wrote: hello i have a little question now i have two maxtor hard disk ide in the first hard disk i have my debian installation i want to buy a new hard disk serial ata i will use cp to copy my system on the new hard disk, _but what i need to do to boot from my new hard disk_? my motherboard is a gigabyte k8ns pro socket 754 nforce3 i found a lot of documetation to install debian to a new hard disk serial ata but no documents to migrate debian on new hard disk serial ata :-( thanks Here are the steps. These are from memory, so if I forget something I'm sure somebody else will fill it in. 1. Change your BIOS to boot from SATA first. If at any time during this process you need to abort, simply change this back and you should be able to boot your old installation like normal. 2. Boot from a debian CD or some 64-bit live CD. You don't absolutely _have_ to do this, but it makes some things easier if the source installation is offline when you copy it. I've omitted a few steps that would be necessary for copying an online installation. 3. Use cfdisk or a similar program to partition your new disk however you want. 4. Make new filesystems with mkreiserfs, mke2fs, mkswap, etc. 5. Mount your new filesystems and copy the installation over. Make sure you use 'cp -a'. 6. Edit your new etc/fstab; change hda to sda, etc. 7. Edit your new boot/grub/menu.lst; change hda to sda everywhere you need to, including the DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC kernels (unless you have a whole lot of kernels it's easier than mounting everything together, chrooting, and running update-grub). You shouldn't have to change anything like (hd0,0) unless you're altering your partition scheme at the same time. 8. Turn off your computer and unplug your old ATA drive. This is a safeguard against getting mixed up and overwriting the wrong boot sector. If you feel you really know what you're doing than you can skip this step. 9. Boot back up from the CD again. 10. Run grub. At the grub command prompt, type the following. Replace the numbers with the correct ones for your partitioning scheme. Remember that grub starts numbering at 0, so /dev/sda3 is (hd0,2). root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) 11. If that works, then try booting from your SATA disk. If that works, then plug your old disk back in and make sure your BIOS is still booting off the SATA. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian ADM64 Etch (testing/unstable) system freeze
Rami Saarinen wrote: Anyway, I am glad to inform that yes it really was the memory that was causing the trouble. I let the machine run the memtest86+ last night and after 10 hours it had found four memory errors. Apparently I was too hasty at the first time. I have one more stupid question: as it may take couple of days for me to get the new memory. Is there any way to block / reserve the faulty memory area so that it would not be available for use? If memtest86+ is consistently reporting a few addresses, then you can use the badram kernel patch: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ I had some very slight stability issues with my machine after I build it, and memtest86+ reported one memory failure after I ran it for a while. The problem turned out to be that my BIOS was, for some reason, setting the memory timing (CAS/RAS/etc. -- I don't remember which) more aggressively than the values at which the RAM was specced to operate. So, if memtest86+ seems to be reporting random, sporadic failures, you might try checking and increasing your memory timings. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How big will the 32-bit chroot end up being? What goes in these days?
Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Not quite that bad. There is no need for the xserver for example, as the 32-bit processes have no problem talking to the 64-bit server. No problem is an overstatement. Normal things work well, but 3D acceleration doesn't work if a 32-bit prgram is connected to a 64-bit X-server. This means for instance that I can't play gl-117 because the 64-bit version segfaults and the 32-bit version has no 3D acceleration... That's not necessarily true. I don't know what kind of video setup you have, but with an nvidia card and the nvidia-glx-ia32 package I am able to use 32-bit programs with 3-D acceleration just fine -- either in a chroot or with ia32-libs. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re-install grub.
Thierry LARMIER wrote: Hello all, I want to format my FAT32 disk and re-install windows ( Windows need to be re-installed often. :-))). Yes I need windows only for game :- But I know that windows will erase my MBR :-. I saw 2 solutions with knoppix live cd : First solution #grub root (hd0,3) --- I have an error here. setup quit 2d solution # mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/root # chroot /mnt/root I have an error here # grub-install /dev/hda # exit I think it's not working because knoppix run in 32bit. Probably; I've never tried that on my amd64 system. Anyway, you mention (hd0,3) and /dev/hda3 above. Since grub starts numbering at 0, /dev/hda3 would be (hd0,2). -Corey -- 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: OpenOffice-2.0.
v0n0 wrote: lol I'm trying since three months ago to make this emulation work, but I miss something...I'm stuck on an error saying: javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! no suitable windowing system found, exiting. But java is not a strict dep I think! However libgcj6 in 32 bit form is installed!! This fd openoffice...I'm running even Firefox with Flash without chroot!!! I think the two errors above are unrelated. 10 minutes ago I upgraded openoffice to 2.0 (on my i386 laptop), and I get that java error too but openoffice runs fine otherwise. I haven't investigated why -- ironically, a java program is running on that system at this very moment. Sorry I can't help you with the error, though. I use openoffice chrooted on my amd64 system. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Forcedeth ethernet driver hangs
Charles de Miramon wrote: Hello, I'm running kernel 2.6.14-2-amd64-k8 on a A8N-Sli with the latest nvidia kernel source package of http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/amd64/ http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable/all/ Today the ethernet connection stopped working after running the computer for several hours with the message : nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy7eth0: tx_timeout: dead entries! I had to unplug the computer and to reboot it to reset the lan interface. My problem seems connected with http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4552 It is the first time it is happening and I'm wondering if it is bad luck or if 2.6.14 + nvidia-kernel-source is buggy and I should downgrade. Am I the only one encountering forcedeth freeze. I've had that happen to me twice in the past year. It looks like there's a good amount of activity in the bugzilla. Hopefully someone will figure it out. I didn't read the whole page, but it looks like one or more developers is requesting various debug output. If you are able to reproduce the bug with any kind of regularity, you should read the entire bugzilla page and send the output you get when following their instructions. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to install nvidia driver
Hi again! Now I have another problem. After installing nvidia drivers, my consoles (ctrl+alt+F1,F2,...) have a diferent color. Not the normal black and white. Now I get blue (background) and white (characters) consoles, and most of the times, fuzzy blue and white. Sometimes I get a complete white screen (no charaters) that shows coloured lines progressively. Anybody knows why is that? I've never seen that before, and I probably can't help. I have a few questions, though. 1. At what point are your consoles messed up? Do they look weird right after the nvidia module loads, or only after you start X and switch back to a console? 2. Are you using a framebuffer console or plain old text-only? 3. Do these problems go away (at least temporarily) when you turn your machine completely off and then on again? -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to install nvidia driver
Tony Power wrote: 1. At what point are your consoles messed up? Do they look weird right after the nvidia module loads, or only after you start X and switch back to a console? They get messed up after I start X and then switch to console mode. (blue and white) And when I kill X with ctrl+alt+backspace (complete white screen) 2. Are you using a framebuffer console or plain old text-only? I'm not using frame buffer, although it's enabled on the kernel. I suppose you could try using vesafb -- it's not likely to cause any problems and looks a lot nicer than the default console anyway. See /usr/src/linux-2.6.whatever/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt I don't really expect that to help you, but it's all I can come up with. If it doesn't work then I'm out of ideas; unless someone else here can help, you should try posting on the nvnews.net linux forum. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to install nvidia driver
Tony Power wrote: Hi Lennart! Well, I tried that but my LCD turned very colourful, like it was melting. Heh. My laptop's LCD melts in black and white when I try to use software suspend. And, yes, the log says something about EDID on the syncs. I'm attaching my X log and my X config file. If anyonone can help, I appreciate that. Thank you. I don't know if this will help, but I had to use a custom modeline on my Toshiba laptop to make it work right at 1400x1050. The nvidia driver was reading the EDID as (if I recall correctly) 1360x1050 and there was an annoying black bar at the right hand side of the screen. Try making these modifications to your xorg.conf: 1. Set HorizSync to 29-49 (according to the EDID info in your log that is correct). 2. Set VertRefresh to 60 (as far as I know that's correct for all or at least most LCDs). 3. In your Monitor section, insert the following modeline: Modeline 1280x800_60.00 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -HSync -Vsync My email program is going to break that up, but the -HSync -Vsync is part of the same Modeline. For reference, I generated that with gtf 1280 800 60 and changed the +Vsync to -Vsync because that was necessary for my laptop. If it doesn't work for yours you can try switching them around. 4. In your 24-bit Display subsection, change 1280x800 to 1280x800_60.00 to reference the custom modeline. 5. In your nvidia Device section add: Option IgnoreEDID 1 If all this doesn't work, you can try asking on the nvnews.net Linux forum. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake 4
Kaneda Langley wrote: I second this, quake 4 is working on my system as well now. I reinstalled the ia32-libs, made sure the libsdl1.2debian-oss package was installed and ran quake 4 with quake4 +set s_driver oss +set s_numberOfSpeakers 2 Thanks for the feedback. Is it necessary for you to use +set s_driver oss? If so, I'll put a note in the howto. I was under the impression that doom3 and quake4 would use oss automatically if alsa was unavailable. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake 4
Zachary Rizer wrote: It's not necessary. OSS is the default. While we're on the subject of sound...I occassionally get sound stuttering issues on my machine with both Q4 and D3. It's entirely intermittent, and some days are worse than others, but when it does it, I quit the game and restart it. If it doesn't do it during the intro id movie, it won't do it for the duration of the session. Anyone else seen this behavior? And, are you guys using snd-ioctl32? So far so good; I haven't had any sound issues in quake4 that I can tell. I vaguely remember sound cutting out once in a while in doom3, but I think that problem went away on its own before I got around to trying to fix it. snd-ioctl32 disappeared from the Linux kernel a while ago, as far as I can tell. At some point I noticed it was gone, but since everything still worked I didn't investigate further. What kernel version are you running and what sound card do you have? I'm on 2.6.13 and I have an sblive. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake 4
Zaq Rizer wrote: It shows the loading page for about a second, then immediately crashes with a segfault. Information regarding the crash from the console is as follows: ++ found DLL in pak file: /Shared/Games/quake4/q4base/game100.pk4/gamex86.so copy gamex86.so to /home/epoch/.quake4/q4base/gamex86.so signal caught: Segmentation fault A quick solution is to use either libsdl1.2debian-alsa or libsdl1.2debian-oss instead of libsdl1.2debian-all. I've written up a bit of a howto. Send me feedback if you have anything to contribute or find an error. http://fatooh.org/q4howto/ -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acidrip: doesnt work with latest versions of mencoder
Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
Hi,
The latest versions of mencoder (cvs) that are newer than 20051011 (for
me) dont dont accept the -xvidencopts suboption which is used by
acidrip, typically with something like:
-xvidencopts :bitrate=759:pass=2 ...
Yes, the ':' before bitrate is a syntax error. I don't know if earlier
versions of mencoder were tolerant of that.
In any case, you'd be best off contacting Chris Phillips, the author of
acidrip. His address is listed at the bottom of the acidrip file (the
perl script itself). Just use a text editor and scroll to the end. Or,
if you want to be fancy, use 'perldoc acidrip'.
-Corey
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Re: acidrip: doesnt work with latest versions of mencoder
Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
me) dont dont accept the -xvidencopts suboption which is used by
acidrip, typically with something like:
-xvidencopts :bitrate=759:pass=2 ...
Yes, the ':' before bitrate is a syntax error. I don't know if earlier
versions of mencoder were tolerant of that.
I don't know perl, but I can see what's going on.
Line 221 of AcidRip/acidrip.pm:
$menc{'video'} = -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
$::settings-{'xvid_options'}:bitrate=$::settings-{'video
_bitrate'};
xvid_options is empty, leaving only the ':'. Mencoder accepts a trailing
':', so you ought to be able to just reorder that line, putting
xvid_options at the end. Try the attached patch. If that fixes the
xvidencopts part, you might have to follow my example for some of the
other nearby lines in AcidRip/acidrip.pm.
-Corey
diff -aur acidrip-0.14.orig/AcidRip/acidrip.pm acidrip-0.14/AcidRip/acidrip.pm
--- acidrip-0.14.orig/AcidRip/acidrip.pm2004-07-25 07:03:09.0
-0700
+++ acidrip-0.14/AcidRip/acidrip.pm 2005-10-19 13:37:57.0 -0700
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
$menc{'video'} .= :pass=$::settings-{'video_pass'} if
$::settings-{'video_passes'} 1;
}
if ( $::settings-{'video_codec'} eq 'xvid' ) {
-$menc{'video'} = -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
$::settings-{'xvid_options'}:bitrate=$::settings-{'video_bitrate'};
+$menc{'video'} = -ovc xvid -xvidencopts
bitrate=$::settings-{'video_bitrate'}:$::settings-{'xvid_options'};
$menc{'video'} .= :pass=$::settings-{'video_pass'} if
$::settings-{'video_passes'} 1;
}
if ( $::settings-{'video_codec'} eq 'nuv' ) {
Re: Fwd: news
lordSauron wrote: excuse me but what was that all about? Weird spam, it seems. The company disavows any association with the spammers. http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=85605 -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dist-upgrade installs xorg, GUI fails to start
Craig Hagerman wrote: Hi, I did apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade a couple days ago. I got some message about setting up xorg and did I want to let it automatically detect my monitor and mouse. I said yes. I just installed a new HD and restarted to find that my GUI system is f**ked. The start up messages proceed as normal until the stage where the x server is started. The nvidia logo comes up briefly 2 or 3 times and then a blue screen error message comes up saying: I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagonose the problem? Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if you can tell what's going wrong. If you can't tell what's wrong or aren't sure how to fix it, then post the log here. Use gzip or bzip2 if the log is big. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GeForce FX 5500 FPS problem
Kamen Dimitrov wrote: man i didn't quite understand what have you found but if u know a solution for the low fps pls tell me cause I just bought it and I am really disappointed:/ Can you give us a clearer indication of what thread you are referring to? The only thread in the last several months besides this one that has 5500 in the subject is nvidia driver ( GeForce FX 5500 gives 10fps), started by Michal Hajek on 2005-08-03. That problem was resolved; it turned out Michal was running setiathome, which was preventing glxgears from running smoothly. Do you have any other cpu-hungry programs running? Try stopping them. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU Frequency on default Sarge kernel
Eduardo Costa Lisboa wrote: Hi. I can't set the CPU frequency on my notebook. I am using the default kernel, 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic. Can you be more specific? Tell us the output of the following: $ cpufreq-info $ grep CONFIG_CPU_FREQ /boot/config-`uname -r` $ dmesg | grep powernow-k8 That last one might not work if your machine has been running a while. Try: # cd /var/log ; (cat messages messages.0 ; cat messages.*.gz | zcat) | \ grep powernow-k8 | tail -n 20 I would like to know if is it possible to set the processor frequency using cpufrequtils on the AMD64 processor. Yes. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which applications have been ported and will work?
George Patterson wrote: Apache, Mysql and Perl/PHP are all available and works well under AMD64 (I'm running all of those on this development machine). I'm not sure about Postfix though (shouldn't be a problem). I use postfix on my desktop amd64 and have never had a problem. All it does is relay to my smtp server (postfix on an i386), but I wouldn't expect any trouble with whatever postfix configuration you're planning on. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mono-jit
Philippe wrote: hi mono-jit is not instalable , is it a know problem ? is there a solution to install it thank `apt-get install mono-jit' worked for me just now. Can you elaborate? Show us exactly what goes wrong. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unreal tournament 2004
Dean Hamstead wrote: im running debian-amd64 sid also nvidia gefore 6600gt pcie nvidia drivers 1.0-7676 (previous versions dont like my card) k 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 3d acceleration is working glxgears gives 3000+fps Is that all? My AGP 5900XT gets about 6200fps. Unless you forgot a zero at the end, I would expect you to get much better framerates than that. I can only think of one more bit of advice. UT2004 doesn't spit out much information to the terminal, but it has a nice verbose log. If your machine is rebooting, though, anything helpful that might be in the log probably isn't written to disk. This might work: 1. ssh into your computer from some other computer. 2. $ tail -F ~/.ut2004/System/UT2004.log 3. run ut2004 4. See what the log says. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unreal tournament 2004
Dean Hamstead wrote: i did a clean install then untarbz2'd the 3355 patch and then cp -R * all its files into the /usr/local/games/ut2004 directory then in Xorg i jumped into a shell, went to /usr/local/games/ut2004/System and ran ut2004-bin-linux-amd64 splash starts, screen goes black. computer reboots. most odd That shouldn't happen. Even if your ut2004 installation is screwed up I wouldn't expect it to be able to crash your machine. What video card do you have, and what driver version? If we can't figure out what's happening here, try asking on the ut2004 mailing list: http://icculus.org/lgfaq/#ut2k4ml Or, if you have an nvidia card, try the nvidia linux forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 For what it's worth, I have ut2004 working fine, so there's not some inherent problem with debian-amd64 and ut2004. * debian-amd64 sid * linux 2.6.13 * nvidia geforce 5900xt * nvidia drivers version 1.0-7676 -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174
Volkher Scholz wrote: Hi, which package provides the tool m-a? (I forgot to send this to the list, as usual) Here's how you find out: 1. apt-get install apt-file 2. apt-file update 3. apt-file search m-a Ok, so debian provides a zillion files that contain m-a. Since we want a program it'll be in /some/where/bin. 4. apt-file search m-a | grep bin If you want to be more efficient you can also do: apt-file -x search 'bin.*m-a' -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openoffice2 on amd64
Mathieu Lutfy wrote: Then again, I'm trying to build the source which now fails because of an out of memory problem, similar to what has already been reported in July by Rene Engelhard to debian-gcc@ list.[3] [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2005/07/msg00186.html Yeah, me too(TM). It's a little disconcerting seeing cc1plus using over a GB of memory and everything else on my machine swapped out. I also tried using gcc/g++ 3.2 and had the same problem. This message says it works with gcc 4.1, so I'm going to try that: http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2005/07/msg00188.html -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 64-bit java plugin (or lack thereof)
Matthias Julius wrote: In any case, I'm looking for a 64-bit java plugin that can run this: http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/tx.html I have Blackdown's Java package installed and it works fine with Konqueror. Firefox crashes when I try to visit the link above. I didn't have konqueror installed, but it seems to work fine for me too. So, perhaps the bug is in firefox. I didn't suspect that initially. I guess I'm going to end up filing a bug against firefox. I looked through bugzilla and found several reports about java crashing; none of them related to amd64 linux builds. I did, however, find a couple more URLs that crash firefox (but not konqueror): Bug # URL 296737 http://www.java.com/ 271444 http://finance.lycos.com/qc/livecharts/default.aspx? The first one results in the java vm dumping an error log right before the segfault, which could be helpful. Now, my question at this point is: would it be more productive to file a bug in the Debian BTS or in the mozilla.org bugzilla? Reportbug tells me: *** Please submit non packaging issue (e.g. feature requests) bugs to the Debian BTS and the upstream bugzilla (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox) and put a reference to the bugzilla bug in the Debian bug report, to ease bug triage for the maintainers. Thank you. *** The mozilla project (still) doesn't have an official amd64 build (and I'm having trouble compiling the upstream source), so it would seem like filing a Debian bug would be more productive. Any thoughts? -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 64-bit java plugin (or lack thereof)
Juergen Kreileder wrote: It's a known Mozilla bug, the OJI code isn't completely 64-bit safe. Really! I didn't realize that. Thanks for telling me, you just saved me some bugreporting time. :) I have patch which fixes that for older Mozilla versions. I'll update it for recent version and release it when I find some spare time. Take your time; no rush. Thanks again, Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
64-bit java plugin (or lack thereof)
I've been struggling with getting a java plugin working in my 64-bit firefox. It might well be an impossible task at this time, but I wanted to post here and see if anybody has had any success. Otherwise, this message might be able to save users some time trying things that don't work. I'm running pure64 Sid. My first stop was plugindoc.mozdev.org to see where to download a JRE. http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java That page lists JREs from Sun, IBM, and Blackdown: http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22PartDetailId=jre-1.5.0_04-oth-JPRSiteId=JSCTransactionId=noreg http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux140/ http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/jdk1.4-status.html The Sun JRE doesn't have a plugin at this time: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=568127tstart=105 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695 Neither does the JRE from IBM, though I haven't been able to find any further information about that (possibly because having to give IBM a bunch of personal information just to find a download is very annoying). For reference, the file I downloaded is IBMJava2-JAVACOMM-AMD64-142.x86_64.tgz So, onward to Blackdown which, conveniently enough, has debs: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/blackdown/debian/ (the current version is 1.4.2.02-1) I installed the JRE deb without any problems but had mixed results when testing the plugin in firefox. (1) http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml The embedded applet says You are using an older version and asks me to get the latest version. Then it shows some system information and has a weird little dancing figure. I don't know what it's supposed to do, but java_vm is running ok. (2) http://www.bodo.com/javame.htm The wiggly scrolling text in this applet says I'm fully java enabled, though the animation has a slight tendency to stutter. Again, I don't know if this is working properly. (3) http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/tx.html This one makes firefox segfault immediately. Since Blackdown java is crashing, it seems I'm out of luck. I've looked through the debian java faq: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ ...but there doesn't seem to be anything else that provides a java plugin. `apt-file search libjavaplugin_oji.so' turns up nothing. I know I could go back to running a 32-bit firefox in a chroot, but I'd rather not. If anybody else knows more, please let me know. Thanks, Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mp3 encoding - lame?
jurriaan wrote: Script started on Sun 21 Aug 2005 02:49:45 PM CEST INTEL :cat test.in file /usr/local/bin/lame r --vbr-new -V 0 18 US Forces.wav bt INTEL :rm *mp3; gdb test.in snip Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0045224b in quantize_x34 () (gdb) #0 0x0045224b in quantize_x34 () #1 0x00456cdb in VBR_noise_shaping () #2 0x0044d888 in VBR_iteration_loop () #3 0x00443abb in lame_encode_mp3_frame () #4 0x0040f126 in lame_encode_buffer_sample_t () #5 0x004104e7 in lame_encode_buffer_int () #6 0x00402a6e in lame_encoder () #7 0x00403763 in main () This is with my own gcc-4.0 compiled lame. Sometimes it hangs, most of the time it crashes on this file. AFAIK the .wav file is OK, it plays and is a decompressed .flac file. It's 5.8 MiB, btw. Are you saying that your lame behaves differently if you run it multiple times on the same file? If that is the case you almost certainly have faulty or overheating hardware. - If you're overclocking, don't do so as much. - Check to make sure your system is being cooled adequately. - Run memtest86 and see if it likes your RAM. For what it's worth, my machine has no problem with your test file and --vbr-new -V 0. You can try my deb if you want, but I suspect your problems are hardware-related. http://fatooh.org/files/lame_3.96-0.1_amd64.deb -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mp3 encoding - lame?
jurriaan wrote: I did run memtest86 after overclocking, no problems during a 24 hrs period. The I compiled 250 kernels, which were all identical. Still, lame is obviously very sensitive. The moral of the story: overclocking a 3700 San Diego to 2750 MHz works most of the time, but not with lame. For now, 2640 works a lot better. - Check to make sure your system is being cooled adequately. the cpu is never above 45 degrees C. - Run memtest86 and see if it likes your RAM. 24 hrs - no problems. This must sound lame, but I really thought I had it stable, with memtest and compiling kernels. No, it's only LAME once you get it working right. :) Kernel compilation might not be so good a test since it's heavy in I/O -- your CPU isn't working as much while it's waiting for the hard disk and cools down somewhat. I've mostly used mencoder for stability testing in the past. Burnk7 (from the i386 cpuburn package) is very good for heating up the CPU, though, and I might start using that instead of mencoder. Bzip2 seems to work well for testing overclocked RAM, but I try to stay away from that. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: touchpad conflicts with mouse
antonio giulio wrote: Thanks Corey and Hans for your replies. with : InputDevice Configured Mouse SendCoreEvents it works now:) but ksynaptics no. I have tried to disable touchpad for example, but nothing is happened. I have changed /dev/input/event1 with /dev/psaux for touchpad, and removed : Option TouchpadOff 0 but it's not working. Have you any idea? I don't know anything about ksynaptics. Are you saying that both your touchpad and your mouse work fine in X but the ksynaptics program can't properly detect your touchpad? Do you also have this line in your serverlayout? InputDevice TouchPad CorePointer If that doesn't fix it then I probably can't help you - I'm familiar with X configuration but not ksynaptics. Perhaps someone else here will know more. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: touchpad conflicts with mouse
antonio giulio wrote: Hi, I have a notebook sis. If I set as CorePointer touchpad, only touchpad works. If I set mouse as CorePointer, in kdm mouse and touchpad work, but when I login in KDE, touchpad is stopped (ksynaptics cannot restart it). I have tested with XFree 4.3.0 and Xorg 6.8.2, Kernel 2.6.8 and Kernel 2.6.11. Actually I have kernel 2.6.11 and xorg. This is my partial xorg.conf for mouse and touchpad: Try this: Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen Option Clone off Option Xinerama off InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice TouchPad CorePointer InputDevice Configured Mouse SendCoreEvents EndSection SendCoreEvents makes another input device behave just like the core input device, and you can then use them both at once. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: touchpad conflicts with mouse
Hans wrote: here is my part of the config, just try it out: [cut] I hope , it works. I use XOrg, but X-free is the same in its Config. Hans, I think you misunderstand: I was providing an answer for antonio giulio; my own X configuration works fine. Thanks anyway, though. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GPG burns my notebook!
antongiulio05 wrote:
Hi Corey,
I have launched your script in my chroot (after installed 'hwtools'), but I
got these errors:
$ sh temptests.sh all
Running test: test_idle
cat: /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0290/temp1_input: No such file or directory
temptests.sh: line 85: / 1000: syntax error: operand expected (error token is
/ 1000)
Giulio
Well, I'm back from vacation now.
If you want to run my script you need to configure it for your system. I
guess I'll go into more detail.
1. In Linux 2.6 all the lm_sensors drivers create sysfs files. You
need to find your CPU sensor file. 'cd /sys/bus/i2c/devices' and see
what's there; you should find one or more symlinks to directories. Look
inside each one. The files named temp*_input correspond to the
temperature sensors. Cat each one until you see which corresponds to
your CPU temperature (they're probably scaled by 1000).
2. Open the script in a text editor. Near the top you'll see a
TWEAKABLE VARIABLES section. Think of that like a configuration file.
Replace the value being assigned to SENSOR with the path to the sysfs
file you found in the previous step. If necessary, replace the value
being assigned to DIVISOR too.
---
...at this point some people might be wondering why I don't just parse
the output of the sensors command. Catting a file and letting the shell
divide by 1000 is a lot faster than sensors | awk '/CPU Temp:/ {print
$3}', the fastest parse I can think of. Maybe I'm being picky, but I
wanted to avoid extra CPU use.
---
3. Look at the other values in the TWEAKABLE VARIABLES section. Change
them if you want.
4. Keep going down to the TEST FUNCTIONS section. Look at the
functions that start with test_. All the commands in those functions
must run on your system or the script will quit in the middle of a run.
You'll notice that I use dchroot for the programs that must run in my
32-bit chroot. All the other programs are in my shell's $PATH. Your
system will likely differ from mine and some of those commands will not
run. You have three options:
Option 1:
Alter the command to work on your system: remove dchroot if you need
to, type in an absolute path, etc.
Option 2:
Alter your system so the command works: configure dchroot, download
prime95 and cpuburn-in and put them in your $PATH, etc.
Option 3:
Remove the test if you're not interested in it or you can't make it run.
To do this, don't bother deleting the function -- just disable it by
removing its name from the ALL_TESTS variable up in the TWEAKABLE
VARIABLES section.
-Corey
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Re: GPG burns my notebook!
antongiulio05 wrote: At start, notebook temperature was for thermal 1: 40 C and thermal 2: 47 C (from 'acpi -V'). Running command above (and so 'gpg' process) my system becomes unstable (auto key pressing etc.), and temperature is jumped to 55 C for 1, and 88 C for 2 in one minute. Top command returned 'gpg' cpu-usage 99%. Is it a debian problem or a notebook strange behavior? I have an acer 1524wlmi. It's normal for CPU activity to increase heat. It's a hardware problem if it increases that much. Get it serviced! Yes:) However I'm running (how Gnu-Raiz suggests) prime 95 to stress processor. Temperature is constant. And it doesn't show unstability. I'll continue test for many hours again. Thanks, Giulio You should also try burnK7 of the cpuburn package. Unfortunately there isn't an amd64 deb of cpuburn, but it works fine in my i386 chroot. This thread inspired me to run a few tests to see what program makes my CPU run the hottest. My somewhat overclocked machine had been running for over a month, even with me playing games in hotter weather than it is now -- and burnK7 crashed my computer. I wrote a script to test several programs and graph the temperatures reached. I thought it might be of general interest so I attached it and the output on my machine. Run the script with no arguments for a usage explanation. It's meant to be tweaked and I wrote it in such a way that it should be easy to do so. Just put the script in an empty directory somewhere first; it makes a lot of intermediate data files when it runs the tests. I won't be around for the next week but I wanted to get that out before this thread sinks into oblivion. -Corey temptests.sh Description: Bourne shell script
amd64 aalib debs in repository aren't built with X11
Hello, I sent a message to this list on 2005-04-12: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/04/msg00370.html But didn't receive any response. I guess it just got lost in the pile. For reference, I quote the body: --- Aalib includes an X11 driver for its text rendering that is much faster than the console drivers. For some reason the aalib debs on alioth aren't built with X11 support. I can build the debs on my own machine and they have X11 automatically, so I don't know what's wrong. --- The situation is still the same (although of course the debs are on amd64.debian.net now instead of alioth). The amd64 aalib1 package doesn't have X11 support, while the i386 deb does. By way of demonstration: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux bugfood 2.6.11.11 #1 Sun Jun 5 14:23:19 PDT 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache depends aalib1 aalib1 Depends: libc6 Depends: libgpmg1 Depends: libncurses5 Depends: libslang2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dchroot Executing shell in '32' chroot. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache depends aalib1 aalib1 Depends: libc6 Depends: libgpmg1 Depends: libncurses5 |Depends: libx11-6 Depends: xlibs Depends: slang1 --- I can't really give any more details; when I build the aalib debs from source they have X11 support and it works fine. I know this is a relatively small issue, but if you've never watched bb at high resolution with the X11 driver than you're missing out. :) -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amd64 aalib debs in repository aren't built with X11
Kurt Roeckx wrote: According to the buildd log: checking for X... no [...] Display drivers: slang curses Linux console I'll look into it shortly, and file a bug report. This is probably a case of incorrect build dependencies. Thank you. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PATA System Slowdown
John Baab wrote: I am experiencing a system slowdown when moving files between my SATA and PATA drives. CPU usage jumps to 100% and the system is basically unusable. The problem does not exist when I am only using the SATA drive, only when I use the two of them. I am running an Asus K8V Deluxe SE board, using the VIA SATA. Anyone have any ideas? -Thanks, John Do you have DMA enabled? # hdparm -d /dev/hda If your DMA is disabled, there are two likely reasons. 1. Sometimes the kernel disables DMA when it detects an error; check your kernel logs. If that's what happened, you may or may not be able to re-enable it safely with 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda'. By safely I don't mean your hard drive might catch fire, but rather that the worst I've seen happen is that processes accessing the drive go into uninterruptible sleep and you have to reboot. Or, sometimes the kernel disables DMA again a few seconds later. Unless you actually have a failing hard drive, though, turning DMA back on shouldn't be a problem; with a couple of the motherboards I used to have, the kernel would disable DMA on a drive once every few months and I was always able to re-enable it on-the-fly. 2. If trying to re-enable DMA with hdparm spits out an error (I don't remember the wording) then probably you don't have support for your IDE chipset compiled into the kernel. Once you do that, DMA will be enabled automatically on boot. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo problem in gcc4
Kyuu Eturautti wrote: Side question - if this is something troublesome to fix, does anyone have quick tips on switching boot loader from lilo to grub? Here you go: http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-grub.php The procedure is the same for debian-amd64. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grub not installing properly
Jannick Ingo wrote: Hi ! I just installed via a chroot install. Installed fine, no bumps. But when i installled grub, checked grub bootimages, i couldnt find them. They are not in the /boot/grub dir.. Neither a config is there I know what has to be there, actually the stage files from the host system could be used ingo The short answer is that you have to run grub-install, which: - puts the necessary files in /boot/grub on whatever device you specify - installs grub to the boot block of the device you specify Then, you have to run update-grub to make a menu.lst. ...but there's more, and I don't want to type it all. Here's a little howto I found for you: http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-grub.php -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bzflag segfualts
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Deep inside nvidia code. Great. No free source. I apt-get installed bzflag and bzflag-server version 2.0.2.20050318. I started a server, joined it, and then cruised around and shot at the walls for a few minutes. No problems here. I'm using the nvidia drivers version 7174 on 2.6.11.6. I have an Athlon 64 3400+ and a GeForceFX 5900XT. Do you have problems in any other 3D video games? Check and make sure the video card is being cooled adequately. Is the fan spinning well? Is dust caked up in the heat sink? That's all I can come up with now, unless maybe your card is defective. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A new, unstable system, HW problem ???
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, This mail might be partly off-topic, since I'm pretty sure it's my hardware that's at fault and not debian-amd64, but I don't know where else to ask, so I thought I'd try here, thanks for you patience... :) So, the situation is, that I upgraded my computer on weekend, with the following components: AMD64 3200+ (Winchester core) Abit AV8 mobo Seagate 7200.8 250Gb sata harddrive 2x512Mb 64bit DDR memory (M-Tec, Twinmos MT6464400D I quess) Does your power supply have the additional ATX12V supply? That's the square 4-pin connector. According to this picture, it's right next to the usual ATX power connector on your board. http://www.overclockzone.com/newhardware/abit/av8/IMG_5220.jpg A friend of mine had built a very unstable system before someone told him to get a power supply that had an ATX12V connector. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bb segfault - will someone please confirm?
bb (the aalib demo) is reproducably segfaulting for me when I run the amd64 build; the i386 build works fine in my chroot. I'm planning to report the bug, but I was hoping someone here could confirm that it happens to them too. Hardware: Athlon64 3400+ DFI Lanparty nf3 250gb Sound Blaster Live Software: Linux 2.6.11.6 Debian pure64 sid bb 1.3rc1-5 Steps to reproduce: 1. Install bb 1.3rc1-5 2. run 'bb' from a terminal. 3. Select 'Y' at the Music? prompt. 4. Hit '7' to select 48000 Hz sample rate. The options screen should now look like: 0:Yes - 16 bit output 1:Yes - Stereo output 2:Yes - Process music via software mixer 3:No - Use high-quality (slower) software mixer 4:Yes - Surround sound 5:No - Interpolation 6:No - Reverse Stereo 7:Sample rate: 48000 8:Continue 5. Hit '8' to continue. 6. After 3 minutes 47 seconds (+/- a couple seconds) bb segfaults. It happens right before the section with the toroid. Thanks, Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bb segfault - will someone please confirm?
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Turns out it is a memory wipe caused elsewhere in the program as far as
I can tell.
If you fix this bug, it seems to run perfectly all the way through:
tex.c line 95:
Was: memset(zbuff, 0x55, (X_s * Y_s * sizeof(long)));
Should be: memset(zbuff, 0x55, (X_s * Y_s * sizeof(int)));
Len Sorensen
Thank you for the fix! That was more than I expected. Also, thank you to
the others for confirming this.
Am I right in deducing that this bug doesn't show on i386 because both
int and long are 32-bit, whereas on amd64 longs are 64-bit?
I just tested your fix on an i386 machine; no problems. I'll send the
attached patch to the debian bug tracking system.
-Corey
diff -Naur bb-1.3rc1.orig/tex.c bb-1.3rc1/tex.c
--- bb-1.3rc1.orig/tex.c2001-04-26 08:52:27.0 -0700
+++ bb-1.3rc1/tex.c 2005-04-12 20:15:41.0 -0700
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
static inline void clear_zbuff()
{
-memset(zbuff, 0x55, (X_s * Y_s * sizeof(long)));
+memset(zbuff, 0x55, (X_s * Y_s * sizeof(int)));
}
Re: bb segfault - will someone please confirm?
Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 23:25, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: Confirm. Although I got so mesmerised by the images that I forgot to time it. 6. After 3 minutes 47 seconds (+/- a couple seconds) bb segfaults. It happens right before the section with the toroid. hmmm, actually here it goes beyond that. it finishes the toroid part, blasts something with a tank thingy, which seems to spiral to nothing, shows briefly yet another face, and then fills the screen with the letter 'Q' and seg faults. I had originally thought bb only segfaulted with 48000 Hz audio; it turns out that with the default it still segfaults, just later on (where you noticed). for completness, tryed it in an xterm (instead of a konsole) and it went _much_ smoother and faster ! but it crashed at exact same location. tryed in 32bit mode to see whole demo, which actually went smoother _and_ faster still !! I'm not sure about konsole vs. xterm (I'm using rxvt), but I have just come upon another problem with bb on amd64: it isn't getting built with X11 support. bb has an X11 driver that is _much_ faster than the console drivers. I poked around and found out that the bb package isn't getting X11 because aalib doesn't have X11. I don't know why. For some reason the aalib packages on alioth aren't built with X11 support, but when I build my own packages they have X11. I'll start a new thread for this in a few minutes. If you haven't seen bb with the X11 driver I highly recommend it. I just uploaded aalib debs with X11 support and a bb deb with X11 and Lennart's fix to: http://fatooh.org/files/aa-bb-amd64/ You can either use these, make your own, or use an i386 chroot with the DISPLAY environment variable set. Now, at a terminal, run: $ AAFont=fixed bb ...or choose whatever font you want. Make the X11 window nice and big _before_ you choose your options. If you resize the window while the demo is playing the audio gets out of sync. Actually the whole demo looks _much_ nicer in 32bit mode. The toroid there really does looks 3D (instead of flatish 3D in 64bit mode) and the Mandelbrod demo went from just beautifull to very impressive indeed. When using the same driver, the i386 build looks the same as amd64; the toroid ugliness is rectified with Lennart's fix, and the fractal zooming seems to be random. Use the X11 driver with a big window and a small font. BB will look quite nice. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aalib debs on alioth don't have X11 support
Aalib includes an X11 driver for its text rendering that is much faster than the console drivers. For some reason the aalib debs on alioth aren't built with X11 support. I can build the debs on my own machine and they have X11 automatically, so I don't know what's wrong. Thanks, Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting on nforce3 with SATA
Zafod Biblbrox wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to do a net boot on a nforce3 chipset (uses sata_nv module) with Seagate 160GB SATA drive, but the drive is not recognized: ata1 is slow to respond, please be patient ata1 failed to respond (30 secs) I have googled for help and have found out, that the same problem has been noticed with FC3. They seem to have found a fix in the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140367, but the proposed fixes are probably not applied to the install kernel. Do you have any suggestions how to overcome this problem? juraj I've been booting from SATA using the nforce3 controller since 2.6.10 - no problems at all. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci | grep Serial :00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) :00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) From looking at the bugzilla, it seems to be an old kernel bug. What kernel are you running? Have you tried upgrading? -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird dies about 'mozilla-thunderbird -remote mailto(harri)'
Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, If I run mozilla-thunderbird -remote mailto(harri) then thunderbird dies with a core dump. (This command is run if I click on a mailto: URL in firefox.) There is no such problem on i386, AFAICT. Regards Harri For what it's worth, I can't reproduce this with mozilla-thunderbird 1.0.2-1 from pure64 sid. Are you using pure64 or gcc-3.4? A few days ago thunderbird from gcc-3.4 kept segfaulting and I switched to pure64. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla-thunderbird and enigmail problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an update last night. I wasn't paying attention but it removed mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail. This morning when I tried to open thunderbird, it doesn't open. First of all the mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail packages requires thunderbird 1.0.0 but 1.0.2-1 is installed, so I can't reinstall enigmail. I looked at the debian bug track system, and it says that it's been fixed. Obviously it hasn't gotten to pure64 yet. :) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302260 Secondly, now even without enigmail, thunderbird does not open at all. Running from the console, it gives no output, but never opens. Am I alone in my problem here or does anyone else see this? Were you using pure64 or gcc-3.4? I was using gcc-3.4 and I had pretty much the same problem. Here's how it went. Most of this happened yesterday. 1. After an apt-get upgrade, thunderbird kept segfaulting on an email my mom sent me, but would start up again and run just fine. 2. Thunderbird segfaulted on a mail in this list and wouldn't start up again. It just segfaulted whenever I tried to run it. 3. I got fed up, changed my sources.list to point to pure64, and ran apt-get update. 4. I ran apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird, and there was a newer version in pure64 than there was in amd64. It wouldn't install, though, because /usr/sbin/update-mozilla-thunderbird-chrome kept segfaulting. I ended up symlinking update-mozilla-thunderbird-chrome to /bin/true and then purging all the thunderbird packages I had. 5. I ran apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird and it went fine. I couldn't install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail, though, because of the problem you reported. 6. Apt-get update this morning fixed it. Now I have enigmail. I don't know what the state of enigmail in gcc-3.4 is now. I might let pure64 gradually replace gcc-3.4 on my system until such time as gcc 4.0 (the compiler) is released. Since most (all?) of the gcc-3.4 archive is now built with gcc 4.0, I'm getting nervous about stability. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geforce FX 5900XT
Sorry, didn't send this to the list last time. Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar chipset? Yes, I have one and it works fine. I have installed all pertinent kernel-sources, kernel-headers, etc. The nvidia installer compiles the driver with no problem but then it complains about installing the nvidia module. There are symbols that are unrecognized. Nvidia warns that this is usually due to incorrect libs or kernel headers but I have all matching versions installed as prerequisite. So I am at a loss. I am hoping someone has figured out why nvidia's installer fails. I build my own Linux kernels (with make-kpkg so they end up being debian packages). Right now I'm running 2.6.11 and the nvidia installer worked fine after I patched it with the cumulative patch listed here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46676 There are also debs for the nvidia drivers in non-free, if you want to go that route. I've never used them but I'd expect them to work fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show nvidia-kernel-source Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 1.0.6629+1-1 Priority: optional Section: non-free/x11 Maintainer: Randall Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: debhelper ( 4.0.0), make, sed ( 3.0), dpatch (= 2.0.0) Recommends: nvidia-glx (= 1.0.6629), kernel-package (= 8.082), devscripts Conflicts: nvidia-kernel-src Replaces: nvidia-kernel-src Architecture: amd64 [--rest of output cut--] More info on this page: http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php So, try things out, don't hesitate to use google, and if you're still having problems then send another mail with more details, especially the output of anything that fails. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone uses the Gigabyte GA K8-NS Pro ?
Hannes Mayer wrote: Noone ? :-( I'd very much appreciate comments on this board, since this is my first system built while I'm using linux only and I want to get it 100% right. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Hannes. It might be that nobody here is using that motherboard. When researching a motherboard to determine linux compatability, I always find a list of compoents and use make menuconfig or google to see if each component's chipset is supported (when I don't know already). Searching google for k8-ns pro reveals this page: http://www.mainboard.cz/mb/gigabyte/GA-K8NSPro.htm I'll answer the ones I know for you; I'm sure you can dig up the rest if someone else doesn't have firsthand experience. GA-K8NS Pro nForce3 250 chipset I've been using an nforce3 250 board since December without a hitch. Processor Socket 754 for AMD Athlon64 This goes without saying... Super I/O: ITE IT8712F chip lm_sensors supports this. Works fine for me. Silicon Image sil3512 controller I'm pretty sure this is supported in recent kernels. GigaRAID ATA 133 RAID controller I don't know. T.I. IEEE1394 controller If this uses the PCILynx chip then it's supported. Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller The sk98lin driver supports this. Realtek ALC850 Audio AC'97 Codec Recent versions of alsa should support this too. -Corey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
