[martinw...@yahoo.it: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross is not being built on any architecture other than i386]
Hi, could the buildd admins please enable building for amiga-fdisk and upload the resulting packages (powerpc has been built, but it seems it was never uploaded). thanks, Christian - Forwarded message from Martin Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross is not being built on any architecture other than i386 Not a bug in amiga-fdisk itself, but a Debian buildd issue that needs sorting On 16 Jan 2008, armel was added to the architecture list for amiga-fdisk-cross (bug #461081) but, despite being enabled for 12 architectures, the package has not been built for anything but i386. I am guessing this is due to being included in the various buildd admins' Not-For-Us lists - can you poke them? Cheers! - End forwarded message - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian vs Ubuntu for Enterprise Production Servers
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 09:12 +0530, Erle Pereira wrote: I use Debian almost exclusively on all the servers I control. Personally I think it comes to a question of choice. Hello Erle, Yes. I will stick on Debian already. Thank you for your suggestions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB rescue/boot disk
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:29:04 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). ... Is it actually possible to create an USB rescue/boot disk that contains a Debian Etch AMD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image available somewhere? When talking about rescue Live CD, IMHO, nothing comes close to grml (grml.org). What's more exciting is that it also come with an 55M alternative iso, which is ideal for a Live USB. It is a pure Debian 386 based Live system that will boot any machine that allows booting usb. The root fs is read only, so it should be usb friendly. http://grml.org/faq/#grmlsmall tong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACPI with AMD64
Hi, powernow is working without problems (processor is switching between 1800MHz and 1000 MHz): cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies: 180 100 Only switching between power states C1, C2, C3, .. (which is a different thing than cpu scaling) isn't available. I have a ASUS A8N-Premium Motherboard, powernow is enabled. Can you post the output of /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling ? thanks Thimo At 13:19 10.02.2006, you wrote: Thimo Eichstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi folks, The CPU does support powesaving, but does the BIOS? Which motherboard do you have, and do you have powernow/cool'n'quiet enabled in BIOS? I have an Athlon AMD 64 3000 MHz and want to use its powersaving futures. Therefore I am using PowerNow with the powernow_k8 module. This is working great. Additionally it should be possible to profit from the power states of the processor (C1...C8). But the ACPI module tells me that only C1 is availabe: Modules loaded: processor, powernow_k8, cpufreq_userspace dmesg output when loading processor.ko module: ... ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1]) ... cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power: active state:C1 max_cstate: C8 bus master activity: states: *C1: type[C1] promotion[--] demotion[--] latency[000] usage[03559864] cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling not supported Is this correct or what have I done wrong ? Can anybody with a AMD64 processor perhaps post its proc output ? Thanks Thimo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- .O. Scream, Scream like the silence of the bits. ..O Dead lies the flag by the feet of the cold one. OOO Freedom WILL break the walls of mammon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: beta status
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it into the archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which is linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute those (or at least used to distribute those in the woody times). Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix. which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in anything but It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google :-). Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib. libnix is an AmigaOS library, and is available on aminet, which IIRC predates Debian by a couple of years. Do you want to ship all free software on aminet with Debian now, too? http://main.aminet.net/dev/gcc/libnixV1_1.readme Short:A static library for gcc (V1.1) Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type: dev/gcc Architecture: m68k-amigaos This is a new release of libnix - a static (link) library for gcc. Changes from the last release include mostly bug fixes but also a few new functions. Sources included. As you see, this is a library for use with gcc, the AmigaOS version, which I assume is free also, after all it is GNU gcc. gcc, and crossgcc, are available on Aminet also. So where exactly does amiboot become non-free here? I wouldn't mind if 90% of the debian archive contained Amiga software, it has been a while that I received free Aminet CDs, but I guess some other arches might not like that waste of archive space. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: beta status
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:00:03PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:53:53AM -0700, Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it into the archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which is linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute those (or at least used to distribute those in the woody times). Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix. which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in anything but It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google :-). Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib. libnix is an AmigaOS library, and is available on aminet, which IIRC predates Debian by a couple of years. Do you want to ship all free software on aminet with Debian now, too? Well, it depends on stuff outside of main for use/build, so cannot go in main. It is an AmigaOS binary, built from free source with free compilers. So we just have to include all the free AmigaOS software to be able to ship a precompiled amiboot? As I said, no problem with me, maybe we include all free TOS and MacOS software as well, ataboot and Penguin have to be compiled somehow as well. So why not include aminet, and what ever are the counterparts for atari, mac, maybe C64, Pet2001, those were nice machines as well, and maybe we still use something that was first developed on one of those machines. Would be a big boost for the emulator packages that are already in debian, and free software is free software... In case you did not get it yet, I think this would be a stupid thing, debian is about Un*x, Linux, *BSD software. Do we have DOS compilers as well? What about loadlin? The source(!) package contains a compiled loadlin.exe, but it also contains the source. The makefile says: To compile with Borland TASM 3.1. In case that assembler is still available, is it free software? Don't you need to run DOS to use it? But I guess thats what the editorial changes were about, lets throw out all the documentation, that should free up lots of space which we can fill with useless (for debian) software. And while we are at it, let's shoot ourselves in the other foot as well by throwing out all the boatloaders... isn't loadlin used on every bootable i386 CD? Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: opera
Attila Kocsis said on Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:53:30AM -0700,: I have just tried to install opera 8.5 on sarge amd64. Everithing seemed to be fine during the install except this: Opera is not distributed by Debian, afaik. Please ask this to whoever /whatever connected with Opera. -- Mahesh T. Pai It's not the software that's free; it's you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer ?
On 9/17/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/17/05, Tim Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe try mplayer with the realplay codecs?tim that's one option, that I'll need to investigate anyway.. Anyway; I managed to get decent sound quality: I installed realplayer 8 wich I found in a legacy directory somewhere. Anybody understand why realplayer 10 would have problems, where realplayer 8 doesn't? Ok.. follow up question: I'm trying to record programs using vsound , without much success - the 32 bit version of vsound exits as soon as realplayer starts playing (running both in a chroot doesn't seem to make a difference) - the 64 bit version doesn't seem to intercept..(I hear the program, but nothing gets recorded. Has anybody managed to get this working ? TimT.
Re: Realplayer ?
On 9/18/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/17/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/17/05, Tim Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe try mplayer with the realplay codecs?tim that's one option, that I'll need to investigate anyway.. Anyway; I managed to get decent sound quality: I installed realplayer 8 wich I found in a legacy directory somewhere. Anybody understand why realplayer 10 would have problems, where realplayer 8 doesn't? Ok.. follow up question: I'm trying to record programs using vsound , without much success - the 32 bit version of vsound exits as soon as realplayer starts playing (running both in a chroot doesn't seem to make a difference) - the 64 bit version doesn't seem to intercept..(I hear the program, but nothing gets recorded. Has anybody managed to get this working ? TimT Right, Solved it: turned on the esd daemon, turned on the -t option to vsound.. At least I'll have something decent to listen to in the car tomorrow.. ;-) TimT
Re: Realplayer ?
On 9/16/05, Tobias Krais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim, one thing I miss is being able to listen to the bbc, which uses realplayer.. I've googled, but I can't locate a realplayer or clone for Amd-64; tried building the Helixplayer, but that turned out to be a bit more work than I am willing to invest at this time. Totem won't play: apparently, this has problems with the cook codec So can any one suggest a workable alternative ?I use Realplayer in chroot to listen to BBC. It work quite well. Good Luck! Thanks for the tip.. unfortunately, I get a lot of drops and crackles.. Not sure what I did wrong Let's review: - created chroot; following the ubuntu howto at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575page=1pp=10 (This system is ubuntu based...Somethings were easier to configure that way) - Downloaded realplayer 10 from the realplayer site: converted the rpm to deb,installed the deb - created a symbolic link as specified in the howto above - started realplayer realplay http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/rams/1930.ram And listen to a lot of dropouts, and I don't mean the cast ;-( (Audio system here is alsa based, on a an Acer Aspire 5024 Wlmi. Not sure what other information is relevant) Anybody have any idea ? TimT. Grüssle, Tobias--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer ?
On 9/17/05, Tim Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe try mplayer with the realplay codecs?tim that's one option, that I'll need to investigate anyway.. Anyway; I managed to get decent sound quality: I installed realplayer 8 wich I found in a legacy directory somewhere. Anybody understand why realplayer 10 would have problems, where realplayer 8 doesn't? TimT. Tim T. wrote:On 9/16/05, Tobias Krais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi Tim,one thing I miss is being able to listen to the bbc, which usesrealplayer..I've googled, but I can't locate a realplayer or clone for Amd-64; tried buildingthe Helixplayer, but that turned out to be a bit more work than I amwilling toinvest at this time.Totem won't play: apparently, this has problems with the cook codec So can any one suggest a workable alternative ?I use Realplayer in chroot to listen to BBC. It work quite well.Good Luck! Thanks for the tip.. unfortunately, I get a lot of drops and crackles.. Notsure what I did wrongLet's review:- created chroot; following the ubuntu howto at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575page=1pp=10(This system is ubuntu based...Somethings were easier to configure that way) - Downloaded realplayer 10 from the realplayer site: converted the rpm todeb,installed the deb- created a symbolic link as specified in the howto above- started realplayer realplay http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/rams/1930.ramAnd listen to a lot of dropouts, and I don't mean the cast ;-((Audio system here is alsa based, on a an Acer Aspire 5024 Wlmi. Not sure what other information isrelevant)Anybody have any idea ?TimT.Grüssle, Tobias--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Realplayer ?
Hi, one thing I miss is being able to listen to the bbc, which uses realplayer.. I've googled, but I can't locate a realplayer or clone for Amd-64; tried building the Helixplayer, but that turned out to be a bit more work than I am willing to invest at this time. Totem won't play: apparently, this has problems with the cook codec So can any one suggest a workable alternative ? TimT.
Re: Bug#324030: swt-gtk: FTBFS on 64 bit arches: error: cast from 'void*' to 'jint' loses precision
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:52:02AM -0600, Shaun Jackman wrote: The build times out on m68k: make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/swt-gtk-3.1' gcj -fPIC -fjni -c `find org -name *.java` make[1]: *** [java-stamp] Terminated make: *** [build-stamp] Terminated Build killed with signal 15 after 150 minutes of inactivity What's the solution? That was me. The build was running on one of our fastest machines, but it did not produce any output for two and a half hours. This is often a sign for a crashed build. Since we do not want our buildds to be blocked by this, we have a default timeout of 150 minutes. If there has been no output to the build log file, the build is killed. Of course we can increase the timeout, but it would be good to know some reasonable numbers, especially since the build could end up on a slower machine and still timeout. This would only be a fix, a solution would be if there is some output in reasonable time intervals so we know that the build is still doing something. How about compiling the source files separately, there would a new log line for every source file? Some package like gcc are producing output at regular intervals just to prevent the build from being killed: : # start logwatch script for regular output during test runs chmod +x debian/logwatch.sh debian/logwatch.sh -t 1800 -p /build/buildd/gcc-3.2-3.2.3ds9/build/logwatch.pid \ -m '\ntestsuite still running ...\n' \ But I still think a real solution would be some visible sign of build progress for the sake of the nervous buildd maintainer. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Acer Turion laptops
(This on an ACER 5024WLMi, by the way.. what irritates me is that I just booted from the Ubuntu live CD, and did see the battery..this is funny, as I have it running on the very same laptop model.I put the kernel image and -headers package I built on http://213.178.77.236/laptop/togehter with the kernels config. It's quick and dirty based on thedebian 2.6.12 config for amd64-k8, but without the debian patchapplied. Hi Frederick, I've tried to rebuild the kernel with the configuration pulled both from the website and the running kernel itself, but I can't get it to show me the battery.. About the only thing I haven't tried yet is installing gcc-4.0 (bit tricky.. I'm developing code for work, which absolutely requires a gcc 3.x) Are you sure that you haven't applied any other patches ? By the way, using the code described on the acer_acpi homepage, I managed to get the wireless working, on a homebuild 2.6.12.-5 with patches. It's nice to be able to work in the garden, even though I need to set a timer to remind me of battery time.. (about 2.5 hours, on average) TimT.
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On 8/31/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, Michelasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Give a look here: http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html Thanks to Mark's work the wireless card in my Aspire 5024 is now working. That's thrown my plans for the day.. I was going to go home early, to buy a new network card.. I guess I just have to try this first ! Thanks ! TimT. Wonderful ! Full speed internet access, from the back of the garden! I can happily confirm that the software metioned above works on my Acer Aspire 5024WLMI. Currently using a gcc 3.3 compiled 2.6.12-5 kernel, no patches, ndiswrapper 1.3.rc1 , with the 64 bit (windows) driver from the acer site TimT.
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On 8/25/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I recently bought an AMD64 Turion based ACER WLMi which alsofeatures a broadcom 4318,which is turned on by a switch on the front of the laptop.It looksas though this switch needssomesort of software to turn on the radio. I haven't found any information on how make thiswork. (looks as though ndiwrapper does support the chipsetotherwise, which is somewhat frustrating.)Since I need wireless to work, I've decided to get a PCMCIA based card for now. What would be agood card to get, given that I want to run an AMD64 based system ?Which card/vendor has64 bit drivers ?(Or does anybody have any idea on how to turn on the radio ?) Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Failing that,I stumbled across a good price on a prism54 based card, the smc2835w. Anybody got any experience with this ? TimT. Thanks in advance for any help, TimT.
Re: Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
On 8/30/05, Michelasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, Tim T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on my own post: I found this: acerhk (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/) Unfortunately, development has stopped. I'd be willing to take a shot at it, but there's some assembler in there, for a 32 bit processor that I'm not familiar with... Anybody here fluent in this ? Give a look here: http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html Thanks to Mark's work the wireless card in my Aspire 5024 is now working. That's thrown my plans for the day.. I was going to go home early, to buy a new network card.. I guess I just have to try this first ! Thanks ! TimT.
Acer 5024WLMI and wireless
Hi, I recently bought an AMD64 Turion based ACER WLMi which also features a broadcom 4318, which is turned on by a switch on the front of the laptop. It looks as though this switch needs some sort of software to turn on the radio. I haven't found any information on how make this work. (looks as though ndiwrapper does support the chipset otherwise, which is somewhat frustrating.) Since I need wireless to work, I've decided to get a PCMCIA based card for now. What would be a good card to get, given that I want to run an AMD64 based system ? Which card/vendor has 64 bit drivers ? (Or does anybody have any idea on how to turn on the radio ?) Thanks in advance for any help, TimT.
Re: Acer Turion laptops
On 8/24/05, Frederik Schueler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:12:10PM +0200, Tim T. wrote: I've tried this kernel version and the patch.. without any luck: still no battery (This on an ACER 5024WLMi, by the way.. what irritates me is that I just booted from the Ubuntu live CD, and did see the battery.. this is funny, as I have it running on the very same laptop model. I put the kernel image and -headers package I built on http://213.178.77.236/laptop/ Wonderful ! I'll give it a spin tonight.. (left the laptop at the home office) togehter with the kernels config. It's quick and dirty based on the debian 2.6.12 config for amd64-k8, but without the debian patch applied. Also: the Ubuntu distribution has a 1280x800 resolution on this hardware, which I can't seem to reproduce (At least, not with the modern Xfree config.. ) Could some one give me a pointer to a working configuration ? (I used to be able to compute modelines by hand. Don't see anywhere I can put a modeline these days.) see the xorg.conf on that location, the interesting part is the ModeLine. Ah.. I'm still using XFree, since I did not see an option to select x.org anywhere. Where can I find the x.org debs for amd64 ? Another issue: latest ATI drivers don't do 1280x800 at all, hardware forums I searched are full of users complaining about this. Hopefully the next ATI drivers release will fix this, as it's the only way of getting TV-OUT to work. Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDDCN16n7So0GVSSARAqREAJ9IRbGUNJEQ2FaSd+C/XNqZ7hFWNgCgiJ/z Hke1Tpfzkkv0M2imvXmeotY= =d3Lv -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Acer Turion laptops
On 8/17/05, Frederik Schueler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, a short update on the acer wmli5024: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:09:51PM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: ACPI is a mess (no battery status! (great for a laptop) nor thermal, only AC and buttons) battery status works with 2.6.12.5 and the latest acpi patch found at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.6.12/acpi-20050729-2.6.12.patch.bz2 and temperatures too. the keyboard starts working after a few key strokes one stroke, and it is recognised (with 2.6.12.5+acpi) the touchpad is only recognised after rmmodding and modprobing psmouse again problem still present. best regards Frederik Schueler hi Frederik, I;'ve tried this kernel version and the patch.. without any luck: still no battery (This on an ACER 5024WLMi, by the way.. what irritates me is that I just booted from the Ubuntu live CD, and did see the battery.. Would you be so kind as to post or mail your kernel configuration ? Also: the Ubuntu distribution has a 1280x800 resolution on this hardware, which I can't seem to reproduce (At least, not with the modern Xfree config.. ) Could some one give me a pointer to a working configuration ? (I used to be able to compute modelines by hand. Don't see anywhere I can put a modeline these days.) Thanks in advance TimT.
Re: nvu HTML editor
A J Stiles said on Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:58:41PM +0100,:
{Why, in 2005, do we -still- need to separate these files? Aren't
disk-space-challenged users savvy enough to just delete the
unnecessary files for themselves?
If they are savvy enough, they will settle for smaller disk sizes.
Chances are also that Deleting files manually can break upgrade cycles.
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After an apt-get upgrade about 10 to 15 days back, I note that xmms and cycle do not display text in dialogs (like `open file' dialog and error messages), and sometimes, does not accept input (open the selected files, cycle does not accept password, etc.) Since the problem does not appear to be application specific, where should I look into? Is this related to LANG* environment variables? I use en_IN. (It should not be - becaus if if the message files for the LANG environment are not found, the application should revert to the default messages). -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com ``Open source'' stresses the technical side of the software, excellence through code sharing. ``Free software'' emphasizes the moral and ethical, technical excellence being a desirable byproduct.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Anybody knows what is required to install Debian AMD64 on on Acer laptops with Turion processor? A friend has been asking me for help; and will be doing it tomorrow; I do not want to be embarassed if the installation fails. :-) -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com Free software is the only field where a person can go from naivete, to the state of the art, in everything that a particular field contains, solely by reading material that is universally available at no cost everywhere the network exists. -- Eben Moglen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burn cd/dvd: permission /dev/sg0 denied
antongiulio05 said on Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 06:49:54PM +0200,: I have downgraded udev version: 0.063-1 - 0.056-3 and mantained same kernel version 2.6.11-9. However problem remains again: no permissions on /dev/sg0. Have you any idea??? Had the same problem; downgraded udev, and it went away. I use /dev/hda for the sony cd/dvd writer anyway. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft or MacOs executables
jmt said on Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:22:07PM +0200,: I tried to send a message to Nikon support : the server crashes when reporting a bug not related to either MS or Mac. In the FAQ, I found : Nikon software is designed for Windows and Mac OS operating systems only (this does not include the server versions of this software). Nikon do not have any plans at present to support Linux, UNIX or any other operating system. Ah. I am looking around in the market for a digital camera, and now that Nikon is out of reckoning, my job becomes easier. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com Long horns are for cattle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft or MacOs executables
Erik Mouw said on Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:44:24AM +0200,: Heh, I got quite some Nikon gear, so if I ever buy a digital body (slide film still can do so much better IMHO), it will be a Nikon. Luckily(?) my laptop comes with Windows, which I only need to upgrade the BIOS... Hmm. Search the word `Nikon' on http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/raw-flaw.shtml -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Microsoft or MacOs executables
Adam Stiles said on Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:25:09AM +0100,:
How should I deflate, either one or the other, on my amd64 machine ?
Don't. Just go to a camera shop and get them to do the job for you. And
then
complain to the manufacturer that their upgrade procedure is excluding users
of the popular GNU/Linux operating system {which otherwise works fine with
their camera} and can't they just use ordinary gzip?
And I second this.
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Re: Any DVD for install amd-64?
Nayandei said on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 06:56:57PM -0100,: Can have any problem for install sarge-i386 in a amd64? (of course will have 50% of performance) Of course yes. Do a minimal install of i386 (do not select any additional packages when the installer asks), edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to amd64 and do apt-get update apt-get upgrade. Install additional packages *after* the upgrade. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com With freedom comes responsibility. Do not use unauthorised copies of copyrighted material. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI-emulation
Attila Kocsis said on Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:26:54AM -0700,: How to enable SCSI- Emulation under Debian amd-64? Because XCDRoast says I have to do so in order to activate it... Scsi emulation is not required if you are using a 2.6* kernel. As somebody else said just ignore th message and tell xcdroast that you use /dev/hdX or /dev/cdrom or whatever your cdwriter device is. Works fine on my AMD64 and gran old PIII running 2.6.11 kernel. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com Free Software is a misnomer. You should say `Liberated User'. -me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nfs and hsm
Hello, We have noted a difference between 2.6.11-9-em64t-p4-smp and 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp when accessing via nfs our HSM (EMC/Legato DiskXtender SM 2.9). 2.6.8 behaves normally, i.e. if a file is on tape it waits until the file is restored then continues processing the file. 2.6.11 triggers the staging of the file, but never continues, but waits indefinitely (well at least 10 days!) although access from other clients shows that the file has been staged. Any suggestions? Does anyone know if anything was changed with the nfs code for 2.6.11 that might cause this? Adrian - Dr T A Carpenter Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre University of Cambridge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Successful install, but no boot
Nathan Dragun said on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:52:25PM -0400,: boot disks are located at (2,0) but they're really located at (0,0). I was able to solve this by manually editing this through the grub boot menu and then saving the changes. Of course I need to do this every time I update grub, but it works. IMHO, the better option is to use grub-install --recheck /dev/hdXXwhatever -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com With freedom comes responsibility. Do not use unauthorised copies of copyrighted material. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Successful install, but no boot
J.A. de Vries said on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:04:20PM +,: Someone else suggested something like this as well. But I've already tried editing the device map to no avail. grub-install --recheck /dev/hda -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. --William Penn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Successful install, but no boot
J.A. de Vries said on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:58:09PM +,:
Jun 13 20:31:43 localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
Jun 13 20:31:43 localhost kernel: hda: DMA timeout error
Jun 13 20:31:43 localhost kernel: hda: dma timeout error:
status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Jun 13 20:31:43 localhost kernel:
Jun 13 20:31:43 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Do a lsmod here. Some modules are getting loaded in wrong order / not
at all.
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Re: Successful install, but no boot
J.A. de Vries said on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:13:51PM +,: On 2005-06-14 @ 11:08:27 (week 24) Lennart Sorensen wrote: Doesn't the install cd have a rescue mode anymore? I know they did in the past but I haven't used it in a long time. Hmm, I thought to remember that too, but F1 revealed no such option. AFAICT, simply typing `rescue' at the boot prompt while booting from live CDs helps, even if th option does not turn up in F1 menu. In fact, I distinctly remember somewhere that rescue/live CDs have far more options than can be found in the F1 menus. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. --William Penn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bug #311857 [was] Re: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
Carrick Detweiler said on Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:01:06PM -0400,: Has anyone installed onto an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mother board? I'm having problems (see bug #311856 for details) and am wondering if this is a hardware compatibility problem or faulty hardware. Any reports as No idea if I am being helpful, but I have no problems on a slightly later version - K8M NeoV with K8M800 + 8237 chipset with a via chipset and a sata drive. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.port5.com Encryption: A powerful algorithmic encoding technique employed in the creation of computer manuals. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: EM64T Machine available for porting
I hope it works! I have 8 1850's (2.8 GHz EM64T's) running unstable at the moment (with the test SMP kernel), and have another 34 on order! Adrian Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre University of Cambridge -Original Message- From: Kurt Roeckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2005 22:25 To: Martin Michlmayr Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: EM64T Machine available for porting On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:15:50PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I know most of the AMD64 work has already been done on AMD hardware, and I'm grateful for that work. But I obtained this EM64T box for Debian so we can *test* whether Debian works rather than just assume it will. We got various reports that it worked, but it sure couldn't hurt to give it a good test. :) Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smp kernel success on Dell 1850
Hi Guys, Just reporting that kernel-image-2.6.10-0-em64t-p4-smp_2.6.10-5_amd.deb works on a dual CPU Dell 1850 (all other smp kernel either panic or instantly reboot just after the scsi probe). Adrian - Dr T A Carpenter Reader in Imaging Sciences University of Cambridge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMP kernel panics on Dell 1850
I've successfully installed debian-pure64/testing on a dual CPU Dell 1850 (EM64T) using pxeboot and the netinst kernel/initrd. System installs really easily and is running 2.6.8-10-em64t-p4. /proc/cpuinfo reports 4 cpus (hyperthreading is on). I have tried to install 2.6.8-10-em64t-p4-smp, however on boot just before the scsi modules are probed kernel reports its not able to open an initial console, then immediately after the scsi probe, but before mounting the root partition the kernel panics. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also I am surprised that I see more than one CPU using a non-smp kernel. Adrian - Dr T A Carpenter Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre University of Cambridge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) Works great in the i386 installation, does not work on amd64, but this is due to bumprace not running (SDL parachute...), even with sound switched off. Christian
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:24:24AM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) Works great in the i386 installation, does not work on amd64, but this is due to bumprace not running (SDL parachute...), even with sound switched off. Thanks, Christian. This is enough information for me to be reasonably certain that this problem only occurs on amd64 systems built with the Via chipset. (Your board is nVidia.) I didn't know this problem existed, so one more reason to buy nvidia boards for the next machines instead of via. If only the nforce NIC had not died... It does not even show up with lspci. Oh, maybe it is one of the unknown devices, that would agree with an nforce2 chipset which I recently set up. Christian
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: There was nothing hooked up to the firewire, but the NIC was connected to a switch. So I guess it is a bug in the link detection code. Could there be anyhting in the installer log files? I could try to retrieve them tomorrow. I also tried a knoppix 3.6 (i386), it did not detect the network either. Yes there should be some info in there about the link info it reported. We probably need that and the model of nic card to do more. Since I installed with the old CD after this, it seems the log files where overwritten, and I can not install again just for testing, this will have to wait until we get the next AMD64, which will probably have the same MB. As for the onboard nic (which died after less than a days usage), I don't see it in lspci, I think it is one of the unknown devices, I am guessing one of the Bridges: :00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e1 (rev a1) :00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e0 (rev a2) :00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e4 (rev a1) :00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 (rev a1) :00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 (rev a1) :00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e8 (rev a2) :00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00df (rev a2) :00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ea (rev a1) :00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e5 (rev a2) :00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e3 (rev a2) :00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00e2 (rev a2) :00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00ed (rev a2) :00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge :00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge :00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge :00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) :02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) :02:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) :02:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) It is supported by the forcedeth driver: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.28. ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:05.0[A] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:05.0 to 64 eth2: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to :00:05.0 It has eth2 now, since we had to plug in another NIC, which is detected as eth0, before the builtin firewire and the builtin nforce3. Christian
installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
Hi, we got another AMD64 machine at work, nearly identical to the one I installed in late august, only difference, this one has an ASUS K8N-E Deluxe mainboard. I set it up for Debian sarge/i386 and sid/amd64 with netinstall isos I downloaded on oct 26 (i386) and today (amd64). I used linux26 for the i386 install, amd64 has no linux26 image, but the default linux also boots a 2.6 kernel. The i386 install had one major obstacle, the onboard network was not detected, it might have loaded the nic module, but DHCP and manual network config did not work. I think this is due to a second network card magically appearing on the box, ethernet over firewire, which received eth0, the real network card received eth1. After changing network/interfaces to use eth1 instead of eth0, everything worked out smootly. The AMD64 install had another major obstacle, the installer did not find the release file. It was looking in (typing from memory) debian/dists//Release, which does not exist on the CD. I think the double slash is a clue, the distribution (sarge, sid, whatever) is missing here. I didn't want to remaster the CD, so I used the same image I used at the end of august, and ran into the same problem. I had to change the debootstrap script to load libgnutls11. And in addition to this, the ethernetcard was not detected, just like in the i386 installation. The K8V mainboard does not seem to have firewire built in, so there is no second ethernet adapter on that board. Maybe this is a generic problem that the wrong network device might be detected first and the installer does not check other detected eth devices during network config? BTW I also installed ubuntu on my P2 at home, and I don't know what the fuss is all about. It is nice, but sarge is just as nice, maybe it asks a few more questions, but the basic install looked pretty similar, it only uses a different colour scheme. I didn't see any of the ubuntu backgrounds people have been talking about, I think I prefer the blue debian swirl. Christian
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) bumprace, what's that? ;-) I tested audio/alsa on the i386 install I think. But I connected only one pair of speakers (builtin in the monitor) out of the possible 8(?). Worked fine with saytime and k3b, but only for the user account that was setup during the installation, but not for a user account that was added later (all our regular user accounts are in nis, the user in question is in the audio, cdrom, .. group, but access to /dev/mixer was denied. Our nis guru is on business travel, maybe I did something wrong when I set up that account). But I guess you are interested in amd64, I think I tested saytime there too. Unfortunately I only set up this machine, I will not be using it. In a couple of months I might get a new one myself, though. IIRC I got sound to work on the other AMD64 box without problems. Unfortunately the user of that system is deaf, so it wasn't too high priority... Christian
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:02:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, the onboard network was not detected, it might have loaded the nic module, but DHCP and manual network config did not work. I think this is due to a second network card magically appearing on the box, ethernet over firewire, which received eth0, the real network card received eth1. After changing network/interfaces to use eth1 instead of eth0, everything worked out smootly. The firewire ethernet will always be available as eth0 on systems running 2.6 that have a firewire controller. d-i should not have defaulted to a probably non-fuctional firewire interface if there was another ethernet interface that had link. If it did default to eth0 in the question about which one to use, this might be a bug in the link detection code. There was nothing hooked up to the firewire, but the NIC was connected to a switch. So I guess it is a bug in the link detection code. Could there be anyhting in the installer log files? I could try to retrieve them tomorrow. I also tried a knoppix 3.6 (i386), it did not detect the network either. The AMD64 install had another major obstacle, the installer did not find the release file. It was looking in (typing from memory) debian/dists//Release, Most times I've seen this reported it's been due to a problem reading the CD, which makes it not notice a symlink and not figure out what the suite is. We've mostly seen this one much older machines though, with DMA problems. I think the CD drive was a LG DVD writer, I don't remember the exact model, but I can check tomorrow. But if the drive does not like to operate in DMA mode, why did it work with the old image, all images, i386 and both amd64 where written to the same CD-RW disk. The non-working amd64 image was written with the LG drive itself, while the other images where written on my desktop with plextor CD writer. But I don't think the image was bad. Christian
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:47:16PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: apt-get install bumprace. apt-cache show bumprace | grep Maintainer The reason I mention it as a test app is because it's relatively small and easy to install, don't require 3D X accelleration (or much video at all) and it it's a good example of an app that sounds absolutely awful on my i386/sid Athlon64. Basically, when the CPU load goes above 1 (which will happen quite easily with bumprace) audio seems to just go to pieces. Stuttering and dropping out, but also speeding up and changing volume erratically. Happens with all apps which put the CPU under load, AFAICT, and a few that don't, too, but most simple single-thread audio producing applications like saytime will sound just fine. I think I heard something like this before, not sure which package. But it only happened with 2.6 kernels, I think it was reassigned to the kernel, I don't see it in the bumprace or sdl-mixer bugreports, maybe you can dig it up... Christian
Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:37:05PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: So, what I would like to know is, does bumprace sound ok on your ASUS K8N-E Deluxe, or does it sound like crap? As I said, I am not using that machine, but I guess I can sneak into the office and abuse it for playing games for a minute or two. Does it matter if I test i386 or amd64 mode? Christian
Re: installation stuck in loop
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 02:32:12PM -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: Christian, I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for -- I'm new to this list -- but I just did a successful AMD64 install to an Opteron server with SATA hard disks, using the Debian From Scratch (DFS) method. (See The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOWTO: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id257798) I see this only now, I am not subscribed to this list... this is also the reason why I am breaking the threading, I was trying to reply to this from master, but it ran out of space again, sorry for the inconvenience. After downloading a fresh cdimage, I noticed it probably hasn't changed since friday, the md5sums match. So I just did what Goswin said, fixed /usr/lib/debootstrap/script/sarge to load libgnutls11 instead 10 and after three tries (first it installed 10 and 11, and had some trouble, then awk existed, and I had to remove it manually) it installed fine! Grub even detected the Debian/i386 installation and lists it under other OS, didn't try to boot his yet, though. So why again is AMD64 not yet on the debian mirrors? It rocks! Christian
