Re: network probs on HP xw8200

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Sharkey
> the network > doesn't appear to be working correctly when I try and 'apt-get update' > or even use wget to download a file. The transfer starts, and then > abruptly slows down to just a few bytes/sec, and then eventually times > out. The nic is an Intel pro/1000, pretty standard I think. I've

network probs on HP xw8200

2004-10-20 Thread Count László de Almásy
Greetings, I installed Debian on my HP xw8200 (EM64T based) workstation via the sid-amd64-netinst.iso image. The install went fine, but the network doesn't appear to be working correctly when I try and 'apt-get update' or even use wget to download a file. The transfer starts, and then abruptly s

Re: Newbie question - installation problems

2004-10-20 Thread Ernest ter Kuile
I'm not sure this the best advis, but to solve this, I got rid of package debsig-verify. without this package verification isn't done, so all packages are installed regardless of sig. Don't know why sigs check fail. may be because the amd64 packages aren't signed by the authors. my reasoning

Re: Newbie question - installation problems

2004-10-20 Thread Michael Vang
Ray Lanza wrote: I've just installed debian on an athlon 64 machine using the netinstall iso. I have my sources.list pointed towards debian-amd64.alioth.org/sarge/ testing. Is this right? Many of the things I try to install fail authentication, is that expected? I'm real new to this, having just i

Newbie question - installation problems

2004-10-20 Thread Ray Lanza
I've just installed debian on an athlon 64 machine using the netinstall iso. I have my sources.list pointed towards debian-amd64.alioth.org/sarge/ testing. Is this right? Many of the things I try to install fail authentication, is that expected? thanks, ray

Re: double mouse clicks with Linux 2.6.9?

2004-10-20 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:36:25PM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote: > I've upgraded to a vanilla Linux 2.6.9 kernel in hopes of fixing > my strange audio problems. (no such luck, btw) I seem to have picked > up another strange behavior, though. Around 25% of mouse clicks seem > to be registered as dou

Re: double mouse clicks with Linux 2.6.9?

2004-10-20 Thread Stephen Hassard
It's the ps2 mouse sending events to the /dev/input/mice device as well as /dev/psaux. I've seen this happen a few times on distros that are designed to use the 2.4 kernel where the psaux events are only sent to /dev/psaux .. later, Steve Eric Sharkey wrote: >>I've also run across this problem

Re: double mouse clicks with Linux 2.6.9?

2004-10-20 Thread Eric Sharkey
> I've also run across this problem if more than one mouse is configured > in XF86Config(-4). Not sure why another kernel would suddenly make it > start to manifest this behavior, but it's something to look at. Thanks. My XF86Config-4 had an entry for both "Configured Mouse" and "Generic Mouse"

Re: Matrox P650 and Athlon 64

2004-10-20 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
Hi, > I have an Athlon 64 3000+ and a matrox P650-graphics-card. (I can provide > information on the rest of the hardware if you need it). I used to have a similar system. > Is getting a 64-bit-X running on my system in a reasonable good way > possible? > (I already had the problem that even wi

Matrox P650 and Athlon 64

2004-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Pausch
Hello, I have an Athlon 64 3000+ and a matrox P650-graphics-card. (I can provide information on the rest of the hardware if you need it). At the moment, I´ m running a 32-bit-Debian. Now, I wonder if installing a 64-bit-Debian makes sense on my system. I didn´t find any information on 64-bit-X-