Re: Migration from unstable to testing.

2004-07-23 Thread Chris Wakefield
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:17 +, Chris Wakefield wrote: Greetings all: I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers and people involved in porting Debian Linux to amd64. Debian is my favorite Distribution and it's so great to finally be able to run in

Re: Migration from unstable to testing.

2004-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:17 +, Chris Wakefield wrote: > Greetings all: > > I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers and > people involved in porting Debian Linux to amd64. Debian is my favorite > Distribution and it's so great to finally be able to run in 64 bit mod

Migration from unstable to testing.

2004-07-23 Thread Chris Wakefield
Greetings all: I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers and people involved in porting Debian Linux to amd64. Debian is my favorite Distribution and it's so great to finally be able to run in 64 bit mode! I have been reading most of the posts, since the beginning of this

Re: SiS755 AGP support

2004-07-23 Thread John Lenz
On 07/22/04 21:03:34, Tom Vier wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 08:36:55PM -0500, John Lenz wrote: > I have a Radeon 9200, so the open source drivers should work. But when > loading the radeon module (which happens after the agpgart, since > agpgart is compiled into the kernel (I am using the kernel

Re: slight OT: running 32-bit apps in chroot, nvidia drivers

2004-07-23 Thread dan carraher
Hey, thanks, I fixed the problems by making sure /home and /tmp were mounted properly in the chroot and also reinstalling the nvidia drivers package. The only problem left is that nvclock and nvidia-settings both segfault. >From: Levi Bard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Carraher, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-23 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:48:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi! > > Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian > archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other > dpkg-architecture variables, which are actualy much more importan

Re: amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian > archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other > dpkg-architecture variables, which are actualy much more important than > the architecture name d

amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-23 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other dpkg-architecture variables, which are actualy much more important than the architecture name dpkg uses internaly to identify debian ports.

Re: slight OT: running 32-bit apps in chroot, nvidia drivers

2004-07-23 Thread Levi Bard
I can go to the chroot dir /var/chroot/sid-ia32 and do a chroot . I can then start kdm from within the chroot and run and run the whole Xserver + DE + apps in 32bit from within the chroot. That works fine. But when I start the Xserver (through kdm) outside the chroot in pure64 and go 'inside' the

Re: How to build a kernel which boots from SATA?

2004-07-23 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:25:39PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: >> options are wrong. So I tried to build a new kernel (2.6.8-rc2) but I >> didn't get it to boot from my SATA disk. The installed kernel >> (2.6.7-5-amd64-k8-smp) boots fine (module is sata_via). > > Maybe you also have an other mod