Geforce FX 5900XT

2005-03-05 Thread Brian R. Whitecotton
Title: Message Has onyone successfully installed the nvidia provided drivers for the GeForce FX 5900XT or similar  chipset?   I have a base-debian pure64 netinstall + xserver-common. et. al using the basic nv driver.  I have kdm as my window manager and am running KDE3.3.x and it all works q

Re: Anyone uses the Gigabyte GA K8-NS Pro ?

2005-03-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
Noone ? :-( I'd very much appreciate comments on this board, since this is my first system built while I'm using linux only and I want to get it 100% right. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Hannes. -- Forwarded message -- From: Hannes Mayer Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 20:14:01 +0100 Sub

Re: AMD64 small form factor

2005-03-05 Thread Dale E. Martin
> Yes, it was the me you replied to in the thread mentioned above and I did > try this image, but same problem: it gets to the point of loading the > sata_nv driver and then it stalls for about 30 secs. Continuing with the > installation just results in the disk not being detected. OK, that is wei

Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Kyuu Eturautti
Javier Kohen wrote: Hi Kyuu, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: Thank you for the tip. I can now confirm that the A8V-E Deluxe onboard NIC will function with kernel versions up to 2.6.9 but not with 2.6.10 or .11. After I set up 2.6.9, I ran the install.sh script that came with the driver from syskonnect.com

Re: Instead of chroot for i386

2005-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:21:35 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >>> My understand that the solo reason for the i386 chroot to exist is to >>> avoid messing up 64bit and 32bit libraries. Is that so? >> >> The reason for a chroot is so you can run "apt-get" and

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Sven Mueller
Ed Tomlinson wrote on 06/03/2005 00:06: In any case, if you wish to keep it on your system, just mark it as manually installed 'm' in aptitude. Is there any way to do this from the command line? Yes, at least a workaround is possible: Abort whichever operation would uninstall the package, then apt

Re: Instead of chroot for i386

2005-03-05 Thread Tong
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:21:35 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> My understand that the solo reason for the i386 chroot to exist is to >> avoid messing up 64bit and 32bit libraries. Is that so? > > The reason for a chroot is so you can run "apt-get" and "dpkg". Can I chroot into my existing s

Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi Kyuu, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: Thank you for the tip. I can now confirm that the A8V-E Deluxe onboard NIC will function with kernel versions up to 2.6.9 but not with 2.6.10 or .11. After I set up 2.6.9, I ran the install.sh script that came with the driver from syskonnect.com and generated a pat

Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Kyuu Eturautti
Ryan Senior wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:11 +0200, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: Wesley J Landaker wrote: On Friday, 04 March 2005 21:07, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: Alois Zoitl wrote: Hi, i got this htin g yesterday and I'm not to glad about it because I can not get the network ru

Re: AMD64 small form factor

2005-03-05 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Dale E. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed my SN95G5 with very few problems. (During the CD part of the > install the network card did not work, once I was running from the disk it > was fine.) I'm writing this message on it right now (albeit from the x86 > port - I sometimes run am

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 05:19:42PM -0600, Mike Reinehr wrote: > In any case, if you wish to keep it on your system, just mark it as > manually installed 'm' in aptitude. Is there any way to do this from the command line? Not that I'm aware of. Of course, aptitude is an ncurses application, not an

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Saturday 05 March 2005 17:31, Mike Reinehr wrote: > Ed, > > There are times that I certainly wondered what the h___ was going on! > > The first thing that comes to mind is that xfs was installed automatically to > satisfy a dependency of some other program, which subsequently has been > remo

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 05 March 2005 05:06 pm, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Saturday 05 March 2005 17:31, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > Ed, > > > > There are times that I certainly wondered what the h___ was going on! > > > > The first thing that comes to mind is that xfs was installed > > automatically to satisfy a de

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Carsten Prieß
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:33:39 +0100 Vanuxem Grégory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 05 mars 2005 à 16:43 -0500, Ed Tomlinson a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Thought the advice was to use aptitude because it will remove unused > > packages... Well it seems to think xfs is unused, guess that ps is

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Reinehr
Ed, There are times that I certainly wondered what the h___ was going on! The first thing that comes to mind is that xfs was installed automatically to satisfy a dependency of some other program, which subsequently has been removed. (IIRC there are two different font servers that can be used wi

Re: Instead of chroot for i386

2005-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > My understand that the solo reason for the i386 chroot to exist is to > avoid messing up 64bit and 32bit libraries. Is that so? The reason for a chroot is so you can run "apt-get" and "dpkg". MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
Le samedi 05 mars 2005 à 16:43 -0500, Ed Tomlinson a écrit : > Hi, > > Thought the advice was to use aptitude because it will remove unused > packages... Well > it seems to think xfs is unused, guess that ps is must be wrong... Me thinks > I'll revert to > apt-get - aptitude seems very broken

Re: fbpanel from pool segfaults, rebuild helps

2005-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > > for some reason, fbpanel from the pure64 pool segfaults on my pure64 > system. if i fetch the package sources and rebuild it on my own, > it works like a charm. > it doesn't matter whether i build it with gcc-3.4 or gcc-3.3, both work > well. >

aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Thought the advice was to use aptitude because it will remove unused packages... Well it seems to think xfs is unused, guess that ps is must be wrong... Me thinks I'll revert to apt-get - aptitude seems very broken. Anyone else see this sort of error on pure64? Ed grover:/usr/bin# apt

Re: Instead of chroot for i386

2005-03-05 Thread Tong
Thanks for the reply, wow, that IS fast. On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:30:52 -0800, Alex Perry wrote: >> I'm running an i386 Debian Sarge perfectly well, and I have sufficient >> spare partitions to test AMD64 Sarge. In this case, is it ok just to >> append my i386 tool paths to the PATH and add i386 l

Re: AMD64 small form factor

2005-03-05 Thread Dale E. Martin
> Yes, I have a SN95G5 and I have had no luck in installing any of the iso > images distributed on alioth. It is the sata controller which is the > stumbling block, the controller is recognized, but the disk attached to > it is not. It does work with Ubuntu though, so it is not that the > hardware

Re: Instead of chroot for i386

2005-03-05 Thread Alex Perry
The quick answer: It doesn't matter whether the i386 is inside, outside, or next to the amd64 chroot. I've got them next to each other, just for symmetry. Tong wrote: My understand that the solo reason for the i386 chroot to exist is to avoid messing up 64bit and 32bit libraries. Is that so? Ye

Instead of chroot for i386

2005-03-05 Thread Tong
Hi, My understand that the solo reason for the i386 chroot to exist is to avoid messing up 64bit and 32bit libraries. Is that so? I'm running an i386 Debian Sarge perfectly well, and I have sufficient spare partitions to test AMD64 Sarge. In this case, is it ok just to append my i386 tool paths

2.6.11 and fglrx 8.10.19

2005-03-05 Thread Ludovic watteaux
Does anybody try to install the ati drivers fglrx 8.10.19 with the latest stable 2.6.11 Kernel. I'm currently using the a 2.6.10 kernel with the fglrx-installer 8.10.19-1 from flavio's pages. And it work great. Thanks flavio. But the fglrx modules refuse to compile with a 2.6.11 kernel ! Ludov

Re: AMD64 small form factor

2005-03-05 Thread Alex Perry
Alex Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (1) Does anybody have experience of Debian/Sid/AMD64 _not_ working on the Shuttle SN85 or SN95 motherboards - that are in their XPC units ? Morten Bo Johansen wrote: Yes, I have a SN95G5 and I have had no luck in installing any of the iso images distributed o

Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Ryan Senior
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:11 +0200, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: > Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > >On Friday, 04 March 2005 21:07, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: > > > > > >>Alois Zoitl wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>i got this htin g yesterday and I'm not to glad about it because I > >>>can not get the

Anyone uses the Gigabyte GA K8-NS Pro ?

2005-03-05 Thread Hannes Mayer
Hi all! I'm about to switch to a AMD64 system :-) First I want to run 32bit sarge on the main HD, but I want a second disk with the amd64 port for testing and experimentation. I got a nice quote on the Gigabyte GA K8-NS Pro motherboard and wonder if anyone has experience with it. Any known issues

fbpanel from pool segfaults, rebuild helps

2005-03-05 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, for some reason, fbpanel from the pure64 pool segfaults on my pure64 system. if i fetch the package sources and rebuild it on my own, it works like a charm. it doesn't matter whether i build it with gcc-3.4 or gcc-3.3, both work well. any suggestions, why the package in the pool segfaults?

Re: AMD64 small form factor

2005-03-05 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Alex Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) Does anybody have experience of Debian/Sid/AMD64 _not_ working on > the Shuttle SN85 or SN95 motherboards - that are in their XPC units ? Yes, I have a SN95G5 and I have had no luck in installing any of the iso images distributed on alioth. It is the s

Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Saturday, 05 March 2005 09:11, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: > Yes, I figured as much, but as I also noted, it doesn't work either. > Quoting myself: > > - the latest driver from syskonnect.com fails during "Compile the > kernel" when running install.sh, either expert or user mode. The > install.log co

Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Kyuu Eturautti
Wesley J Landaker wrote: On Friday, 04 March 2005 21:07, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: Alois Zoitl wrote: Hi, i got this htin g yesterday and I'm not to glad about it because I can not get the network running. As far as I found out it uses also the sk98lin driver. But the standard driver that comes

Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

2005-03-05 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday, 04 March 2005 21:07, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: > Alois Zoitl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i got this htin g yesterday and I'm not to glad about it because I > > can not get the network running. > > As far as I found out it uses also the sk98lin driver. > > But the standard driver that comes along

Re: Success on MSI RS480M2 ATI Xpress 200 based mainboard

2005-03-05 Thread Stephen Hassard
Fredrik Vraalsen wrote: I'm using the vesa driver for X at the moment, until Debian gets X.org which supports the ati chip (radeon 9200 igp) or I figure out how to get the ati proprietary drivers to work after the changes to the 2.6.10/11 kernel I guess. ;) The on-board ATI video is a new direct

fbpanel from pool segfaults, rebuild helps

2005-03-05 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, for some reason, fbpanel from the pure64 pool segfaults on my pure64 system. if i fetch the package sources and rebuild it on my own, it works like a charm. it doesn't matter whether i build it with gcc-3.4 or gcc-3.3, both work well. any suggestions, why the package in the pool segfaults?

Re: One unsuccessfull and two successfull sarge installs

2005-03-05 Thread Daniel James
Hi Kyuu, > As it's installed in a > Flex ATX case with half height PCI slots, using a common PCI > network card isn't an option. You can use a generic RTL8139 card in a half-height case - the boards are tiny. Either get one with a half-height bracket, or for the DIY method, get the full-size b

Success on MSI RS480M2 ATI Xpress 200 based mainboard

2005-03-05 Thread Fredrik Vraalsen
Hi, I would like to report success for installing Debian AMD64 on the MSI RS480M2 mainboard (socket 939) which is based on the ATI Xpress 200 chipset with integrated graphics. This was using the sid netboot ISO (20050303) and installing on a regular IDE harddrive (not SATA). To get the install