Re: sym53c8xx SCSI Controller and Kernel 2.4.5 boot problems

2001-07-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Martin Sanborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having problems booting the 2.4.5 kernel on my alpha > machine. I've used both the stock kernel source (from kernel.org) > and the debian kernel source with the same results. I believe it > comes down to the sym53c875 SCSI controller in the machine.

Re: building malsync

2001-07-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm trying to build it for potato (so i can fix it - it's broken 64bit > cpus), but i keep getting this: > > /usr/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.h:2342 > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]:

Re: kde 2.2 on alpha

2001-07-08 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I'm very happy that KDE is now in Debian for Alpha; I was especially curious for konqueror. Unfortunately, it keeps crashing on almost every site (though not 100% reproducibly). (I think it might be triggered by large pictures, which load slowly (not in cache)) Is this a known problem, or does

Re: netscape?

2001-07-06 Thread Falk Hueffner
Michael Stroucken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > > The problem is g++, believe it or not. I tracked down the problem ages > > ago and realised that the multiple inheritence C++ code isn't compiled > > correctly by g++. I've been testing g++-

Re: How to find out if an architecture is 32 or 64 bit?

2001-03-13 Thread Falk Hueffner
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm lookking for my package tmview for a C solution to determine whether > an architecture is 32 or 64 bit. The correct answer is: your code shouldn't care. Very few programs really need to make a distinction here. > The current code is: > > <-- snip

Re: size of glibc on alph rootdisk

2001-01-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
Chris Lumens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there. I've been working on a Slackware port to the Alpha for > some time and have been having issues getting my rootdisks down to > size. I went looking at the sizes of things on the Debian rootdisk > and noticed that your libc.so is only about 600k

Re: xserver-3dlabs

2000-12-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Bruno Waes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but when i check the versions of my X packages i get this > > alpha:~# dpkg -l 'xserver*' |grep ^.i > ii xserver-3dlabs 3.3.6-11potato X server for 3DLabs GLINT and > Permedia-based > ii xserver-common 4.0.1-10 files and utilities common to all X

Re: A list of RAM modules supported on SX ?

2000-12-04 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Andrei A. Dergatchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Axp-redhat list seems to be down a second day, I'd like to ask here > - is there something like a list of supported RAM modules for Alpha > motherboards (SX in my case). I just bought two cheap PC100 SDRAMs for my SX (128 MB each), and they see

Re: zsh job control

2000-11-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21 Nov 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Does anybody know who compiled woody's zsh? There seems to be > > something weird with the builder's system... > > That would be me. Any idea of wha

zsh job control

2000-11-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, the job control in zsh got disabled somehow again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% bg bg: no job control in this shell. If I rebuild it, everything's fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/zsh-3.1.9.dev7/Src% ./zsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/zsh-3.1.9.dev7/Src% bg bg: no current job Does anybody know who compiled

Re: New XF 4.0.1-3 debs available

2000-11-13 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I managed to get the new X debs to build and package with a minimum of > manual intervention, thanks to some pre-emptive patching on my part :-) > I've uploaded them to the same place (http://people.debian.org/~chris), so > if someone/everyon

Re: fail to boot 2.4

2000-11-13 Thread Falk Hueffner
Toshinao Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I compiled linux-2.4.0-test10 on SX164 (AlphaBIOS) running potato. > But booting this kernel failed. Please let me know hits to solve the > problem. What is your MILO version? You need a recent version to boot a 2.4 kernel. Try the MILO from http://www

Re: cxx on woody

2000-11-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2 Nov 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > I tried to install Compaq cxx on woody, but encountered this problem: > > > > /usr/bin/ld: unknown demangling style `compaq'collect2: ld returned 1

cxx on woody

2000-11-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I tried to install Compaq cxx on woody, but encountered this problem: /usr/lib/compaq/cxx-6.3.9.6/alpha-linux/bin/lnxexx -V Compaq C++ V6.3-006 for linux Compiler Driver V6.3-006 (cxx) cxx Driver cat /usr/lib/compaq/cxx-6.3.9.6/alpha-linux/bin/.version Installed as cxx-6.3.9.6 woody Test

Re: svgalib on alpha

2000-11-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are a couple of bugs open about svgalib not building on the > alpha. I'm mostly asking for advice here; I could just set > Architecture: i386 and have done with it, but if it's possible to > get it to build, that is clearly ideal! I'd rather not

Re: glibc 2.2 and gcc (Was Re: something completely different)

2000-08-03 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthias, fyi, the last gcc snapshot that you packaged had bootstrap > problems on alpha, so it wouldn't build. I'm going to check the > latest CVS snapshot probably tomorrow and see if things build ok > (I'm getting access to a dual-process

Re: Bad dependencies list

2000-07-31 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a PITA. I sent in patches for bb to work and compile, but > the maintainer never did anything other than remove alpha from the > arch list. I've NMU'ed it anyway (binary) since a source NMU won't > be accepted unless I bump the impo

Re: wine with Linux/Intel ELF emulation

2000-07-30 Thread Falk Hueffner
Stefano Curtarolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey, > > I am wondering if somebody was able to run Wine (windows emulator) through > the Linux/Intel ELF emulator (CONFIG_BINFMT_EM86=Y), or install Win31 > starting from a "dosemu" filesystem. They need kernel support, which is likely not impleme

Re: dd bug or cdrom driver bug???

2000-07-27 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 27 Jul 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > Hum. Funny. I get an error, too: > > > > % dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cdrom.iso bs=8192 > > dd: /dev/scd0: Input/output error > > 0+0 records in >

Re: dd bug or cdrom driver bug???

2000-07-27 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr) writes: > I was reading the cdrom writing howto and the howto gave a demo on how > to copy a data cdrom directly to the harddisk. I tried this on an > alpha and got the following result with /dev/scd0, and I also tried > /dev/hda and got the same result. Bot

Re: MILO 2.2.17 for potato/Alpha?

2000-06-30 Thread Falk Hueffner
David Huggins-Daines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was rather impressed by the MILO 2.2.17 release notes, and I'm > considering (a) packaging it, and (b) using it for the potato > boot-floppies. > > I know it's a bit late to switch to a new version of MILO at this > point, but this one appears

Re: libforms?

2000-06-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
Kerstin Hoef-Emden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the new error output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Compile/Molbio/Seaview.alt$ make > gcc -O3 -Wa,-m21164a -mieee -funroll-all-loops -o seaview align.o > seaview.o load_seq.o use_mase_files.o comlines.o xfmatpt.o regions.o > -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lo

Re: libforms?

2000-06-18 Thread Falk Hueffner
Kerstin Hoef-Emden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # Libs > LIBS = -L./forms.h -L/usr/lib/libform.so.5 -L./seaview.h \ ^ -L means search in this path for libraries, -l means link this library. Also, the library seems to be calles libforms, not libform. So use -L/usr/X11R6/lib

Swisswatch

2000-06-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, When I start 'swisswatch' from the Debian package 0.6-7, it shows a random looking time each second. I already filed a bug report about this. Now when I try to rebuild it, I have no problems, which seems strange. Can anybody reproduce this? Does anybody remember he built this package and did s

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