Re: problem with large disk

2002-05-07 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
From: John Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:28:06AM +0200 > Hi all. > > I got a big problem with one 38GB disk on my Alpha 164LX. > > df -h says that i got 10gb left, but when i try to write to the disk > it says no free space on device. > Out of inodes perhaps? try df -i

linux 2.5.10 and compiling gdb-5.1.1 from source

2002-04-26 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
I'm running into some gdb problems with linux 2.5.10: ALPHA :gdb ./angband GNU gdb 5.1.1 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "sh

Anybody else having the same [bad] experiences with Mozilla 0.9.9-6?

2002-04-16 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
It arrived only yesterday during my apt-get upgrade/date cycle, but it is nowhere being stable when browsing ebay for example - after 2 pages or less (!) there's a segmentation fault. This is on a PWS500a, running Debian/Testing. Any other experiences? Hints (except from downgrading, that is firs

Re: Voodoo4 supported by PWS SRM?

2002-04-14 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
From: Rob Byrnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:14:52PM +1000 > > On another note, as anyone tried a Voodoo4 4500 on a PWS? I have found a > PCI version for sale. > Yes, works perfectly here (PWS500au, srm 7.2-1). Is recognized by SRM, and works fine as framebuffer and as 3D

Re: Optimizing Alpha

2002-04-03 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
From: Terry A. Bowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:47:11AM -0500 >Is there a way to check this also without rebooting? I have a PWS600au and >I have no idea if I have the L3 cache - I assume I do not because I see 4 >small plastic slots next to the cpu that are emp

[OT] source for used XP1000?

2002-03-27 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
Now that all corporations have switched to dual athlons, there should be used XP1000's on the market - yet I don't often see one at ebay for example. Is it completely irrealistic to expect to be able to buy one at a bargain price (say US$ 600 for an XP1000 without much memory, without much disk, w

Re: mozilla seg faults on startup

2002-02-16 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:28:23PM -0500, Tom Vier wrote: > anyone else unable to use mozilla after its last update in testing? > > ii mozilla0.9.7-6Mozilla Web Browser - dummy package > ii mozilla-browse 0.9.7-6Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser > > /usr/bin/mozilla

Re: Autistic alpha cutting all connection to the rest of the world, help!

2002-01-24 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:05:24PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Hi! > > I know it is a bit off topic, but I have a alpha (AlphaPC EB164/500 Quant-X) > which from time to time cuts off all connections to the world, means: > keyboard, graphic card, network card are all not working. I cannot

debian testing: mozilla now is forced full-screen?

2002-01-06 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
Is anybody seeing what I see? I run Debian/Alpha testing, and use fvwm95 as a window-manager. Mozilla now always opens up full-screen. And I mean really full-screen, there's nothing on screen that isn't from mozilla itzelf. No symbols from the window-manager to resize or close the window, for exa

Re: Optimize X

2001-12-22 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:03:26PM +0100, Laurent Jacques wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2001 19:37, Jurriaan on Alpha wrote: > > I must assume any matrox card is properly supported in XF4. However, the > > original poster could always try to run Xstone or some such benchmark to

Re: Optimize X

2001-12-21 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:06:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Get a video card that is supported properly by XF4, and install the > proper driver for it. Im using an ATI Radeon 32Meg SDR, with 128Megs of > RAM X is pretty damn quick for me, then again im used to running it with > 48 with my

Re: Optimize X

2001-12-21 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Laurent Jacques wrote: > Hello, > > Do you have some hints to optimize the X server on alpha ? > I have just installed debian on my Alpha PW au433 (miata) after a RedHat 7.1 > axp configuration and X seems quite slow now. > > My configuration is: >

Re: Slllloooowwww Alpha

2001-12-07 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:47:09AM -0500, Andrew Forgue wrote: > Allright, So > > The manual says this: > a.. ECC-protected Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) main memory (SRAMs mounted on > DIMMs). > > Any idea what speed this should run? PC133 or PC100 > It does have to be ECC right? > ECC is necessary,

libSDL and libXxf86dga.so - I'm in library hell!

2001-12-06 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
I'm trying to compile a patched version of mpeg2dec-0.2.0 (with an interleaved integer/floating point idct algorithm) in search of acceptable dvd-decoding speed on my alpha. I see this when compiling: c++ -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/home/jurriaan/flintcmp/mpeg2dec-0.2.0/libmpeg2/.libs -L/hom

any experience with voodoo 4500/5500 framebuffer @ high pixclocks?

2001-12-01 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
My voodoo 4500 pci doesn't work that well with 2.4.17pre1/2 and a resolution of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did get the latest 3dfx patches, but they also don't work. X works perfectly. Is there any alpha user using a voodoo 4500/5500 with a framebuffer at this resolution (or rather, at a pixel-clockrate

Re: memory issues

2001-11-30 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:11:16PM -0200, Thadeu Penna wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Stefan Schroepfer wrote: > > > "Christopher C. Chimelis" wrote: > > > > > > Also, I'm not sure if LX requires ECC > > > or not, but that may be another issue as well (SX doesn't require ECC). > > > > Yep. Unbuffer

Re: any text-mode browsers _with_ SSL for debian/alpha?

2001-11-17 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:27:27PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > Uh...lynx-ss and links-ssl are both available in the non-US archive. Are > you sure that non-US software sources are in your /etc/apt/sources.list? > Duh. I just did 'apt-get install links' and wondered why it didn't wo

any text-mode browsers _with_ SSL for debian/alpha?

2001-11-16 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
I know I can compile links or lynx myself, but I'm rather amazed that debian has them without ssl support Thanks, Jurriaan -- It is a matter of words. In my birth language there are more ifs than whens, but I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the hap

Re: Help with ethernet and ram

2001-11-15 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:43:51AM -0500, CiAsA S'Nuey Boark wrote: > Hi, >I have a couple of quick questions. I have recently purchaced an alpha > pws500a. I finally managed to get debian installed on it, but I seem to be > having trouble with the network. > Could this be some sort of ful

mozilla on alpha - .deb hangs, self-compiled also faulty

2001-11-12 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
I'm running Debian (testing) on my PWS500au (1.5 Gb ram, 45 Gb disks). The only thing I'm missing to dump my x86 system is a graphical web-browser. links and lynx are very nice, and I use them daily, but they're not always the first choice. I run the latest XFree (4.1.0-9) on a Matrox Millennium I

Re: aic7 vs sym53c8

2001-11-11 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:50:09PM -0500, Tom Vier wrote: > i'm looking to buy a u2w card, and i'm split between an adaptec and a tekram > the sym53c8 driver doesn't like > 8 tcq depth, but other than that, i > haven't had any problems. does the aic7 driver work correctly on alpha? > anyone else ha

Re: Personal request and/or info?

2001-11-09 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:17:50AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > Does anyone know of any of the d.o machines runnin Alpha with > 'pbuilder' install'd and able to be run through sudo access? Or know of > anyone with an alpha willing to allow such? I have a a Multia with very > lil harddrive

Re: reiserfs on all my SRM-alpha drives: how I did it

2001-11-06 Thread Jurriaan on Alpha
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:52:33PM -0500, Will Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > It seems Will Woods from Compaq is working on this, at least he has filed > > a feature request at > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=466983&group_id=32540&atid=40