Idea for structure of Apt-Get

2005-03-18 Thread Patrick Carlson
Hello. I'm not sure if anyone has suggested something like this or not but I was thinking about the apt-get system and bittorrent today. What if the apt-get system was redesigned so that users could download updates and upgrades from other users? This way they would trickle out to people, slowly

Bug#248043: ftp.debian.org: Request for new architecture: amd64

2005-03-18 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 10:03:13PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > the debian amd64 port is rapidly maturing and apart from beeing so new > its reaching a point where the goals needed for it to be released > would be met (i.e. D-I support, most packages compiled, ...). > > Amd64 was recently disc

Re: un-ported list

2005-03-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:43:38PM -0500, Javier Kohen wrote: > > What packages in main provide java2-compiler? Practically every package > that's waiting for a dependency blames that one. None provide it. Those packages are also all in contrib for that reason. They are provided by packages as

Re: un-ported list

2005-03-18 Thread Javier Kohen
El sÃb, 19-03-2005 a las 00:30 +0100, Kurt Roeckx escribiÃ: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:57:42PM -0500, Tong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since about 99% of packages have been ported to AMD64, I'm wondering where > > I can obtain a list of packages that are not available in AMD64 yet. > > > > PS. I f

Re: harddisk DMA

2005-03-18 Thread Uwe
On Friday 18 March 2005 14:54, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Could you include the section of dmesg where ide is detected and setup? > Gotta make sure it didn't load ide-generic before the sis driver in > which case the generic driver (which is not dma capable obviously) is > running the drives inst

Re: un-ported list

2005-03-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:57:42PM -0500, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > Since about 99% of packages have been ported to AMD64, I'm wondering where > I can obtain a list of packages that are not available in AMD64 yet. > > PS. I found 2 files on alioth, but I didn't find the ooffice there: > > http://d

Re: Instead of chroot for i386

2005-03-18 Thread Tong
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:26:02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib in my ldconfig, and running openoffice works >> fine without having to chroot or anything. > > Running it outside the chroot needs a symlink. See this thread. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2003/03/msg

un-ported list

2005-03-18 Thread Tong
Hi, Since about 99% of packages have been ported to AMD64, I'm wondering where I can obtain a list of packages that are not available in AMD64 yet. PS. I found 2 files on alioth, but I didn't find the ooffice there: http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/needs-porting.txt http://debian-a

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Hannes Mayer
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:43:06 +0100, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2005 21:15, Hannes Mayer wrote: > > It should probably say "is a static executable". That would be more clear. > > > > Not necesserally, it could be anything else too. it could be a script, a > picture, a device, e

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Waters
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 21:07 +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: > First I tried to use pptp from alioth, but that did not work, so as a > last resort I tried to run the 32bit versions and voila! They worked! Definitely check your PPTP settings. If you want the best encryption and compression, you'll have t

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
On Friday 18 March 2005 21:15, Hannes Mayer wrote: > It should probably say "is a static executable". That would be more clear. > Not necesserally, it could be anything else too. it could be a script, a picture, a device, etc ..., or a static excecutable. ldd had only one error for all files it

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Hannes Mayer
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:06:53 +0100, Ernest jw ter Kuile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > not a dynamic executable > > Indeed: Static > > ;o) Thanks Ernest! The message is a bit confusing. At least I was confused, since it said it is "not a ... executable". It should probably say "is a sta

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Hannes Mayer
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:51:57 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:36:26PM +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: [...] > > # ldd pppd > > /usr/bin/ldd: line 145: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory > > ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) > > That means

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
> not a dynamic executable Indeed: Static ;o) Ernest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:36:26PM +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:20:08 -0600, Stephen Waters wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:15 +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: > [...] > > > How come that 32bit binaries run on pure64 without any chroot or the > > > ia32 libs installed ? > > >

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Hannes Mayer
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:20:08 -0600, Stephen Waters wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:15 +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: [...] > > How come that 32bit binaries run on pure64 without any chroot or the > > ia32 libs installed ? > > They're probably statically compiled so they'll work on any system. Run >

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
On Friday 18 March 2005 20:15, Hannes Mayer wrote: > How come that 32bit binaries run on pure64 without any chroot or the > ia32 libs installed ? They are probably statically linked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:15:49PM +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: > I just installed pure64 on a spare disk for testing. > In order to connect to the net, I got a tar.gz from my provider with > precompiled binaries of dhcpcd, pptp, and pppd and some scripts. It > works very well on sarge (32bit) but su

32bit binaries run on pure64!?

2005-03-18 Thread Hannes Mayer
Hi all! I just installed pure64 on a spare disk for testing. In order to connect to the net, I got a tar.gz from my provider with precompiled binaries of dhcpcd, pptp, and pppd and some scripts. It works very well on sarge (32bit) but surprisingly enough those binaries also work on pure64! How co

OpenOffice for AMD64

2005-03-18 Thread Alexander
Hi folks I searched on the oficele OpenOffice Homepage for a port on the amd64. In the mailing-list I found something about a cvs-version. do anyone of you have installed it on his system and made experiences with it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: SATA/IDE strangeness (ATI chip)

2005-03-18 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:55:22 +0100, Oliver Korpilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > On my MSI motherboard there are the following devices: > > :00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 437a > :00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4379

Re: Zero latency kernel 2.6.10 (64 bit)

2005-03-18 Thread Pete Harlan
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:45:18AM +, Daniel James wrote: > DeMuDi still uses XFree86 rather than X.org for the time being, the > monitor autodetection doesn't work properly, and dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86 doesn't overwrite /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 like it > should, for some reason. Pe

Re: harddisk DMA

2005-03-18 Thread Per Bojsen
*** Regarding harddisk DMA; Uwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds: Uwe> i have 2.6.10-9 installed on SIS chipset hardware. the Uwe> SIS5513 module is loaded, but doesn't work with DMA support for Uwe> my harddisks. hdparm -d1 /dev/hda tells me that this operation Uwe> is not supported: I had a similar pr

Re: harddisk DMA

2005-03-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:04:07AM +0100, Uwe wrote: > hi there, > > i have 2.6.10-9 installed on SIS chipset hardware. the SIS5513 module is > loaded, but doesn't work with DMA support for my harddisks. > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda tells me that this operation is not supported: > > filou:~# cat /proc/

Re: Problem with htDig

2005-03-18 Thread BARBIER Jean-Matthieu
Le vendredi 18 mars 2005 à 08:23 +0100, Egon Willighagen a écrit : HtDig 3.2 compiles out of the box, and works well (a bit slow...) but i think there's no debian package yet (has been announced ?.?.)... I've not tried yet to recompile 3.1.6. > And I was thinking that I did something wrong ! :(

Re: Zero latency kernel 2.6.10 (64 bit)

2005-03-18 Thread james
Oh ok! I'll give that a go when I get home from work :) Daniel James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Hi James, > > > I've installed DeMuDi on the other 6gb hard drive here. Install > > went fine, but X wont be starting. > > DeMuDi still uses XFree86 rather than X.org for the time being, the > mo

Re: Zero latency kernel 2.6.10 (64 bit)

2005-03-18 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, > I've installed DeMuDi on the other 6gb hard drive here. Install > went fine, but X wont be starting. DeMuDi still uses XFree86 rather than X.org for the time being, the monitor autodetection doesn't work properly, and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 doesn't overwrite /etc/X11/XF86C

Re: Zero latency kernel 2.6.10 (64 bit)

2005-03-18 Thread James Titcumb
Daniel James wrote: As far as I know, no-one is producing a patched kernel of this kind yet, which is why I was going down the DIY route. If all goes according to plan there should be some debs available by next month. Ok - Let me know either by the list or directly, and I'll be willing to he

Re: OpenOffice.org

2005-03-18 Thread Daniel James
Hi Christian, > I don't have a /lib32. Is this the Multi-Arch thing the HOWTO talks > about in the section about future plans or do they thave yet > another approach? I'm not quite sure how Ubuntu does it, but it looks like they've just added 32-bit libraries for programs that can't run without

Re: Zero latency kernel 2.6.10 (64 bit)

2005-03-18 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, > Does anyone know where I can find a binary zero-latency kernel > 2.6.10 (for amd64 obviously..)? As far as I know, no-one is producing a patched kernel of this kind yet, which is why I was going down the DIY route. If all goes according to plan there should be some debs available by

Kile crash bug

2005-03-18 Thread Matthew Kriebel
kile (a nice TeX program part of KDE for those who havn't heard of it) crashes when you run the quick start wizard. I have filed a bug at kde.org http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101670 and have emailed the Debian maintainer but he says he isn't the packager for the 64 bit releases and doesn't

harddisk DMA

2005-03-18 Thread Uwe
hi there, i have 2.6.10-9 installed on SIS chipset hardware. the SIS5513 module is loaded, but doesn't work with DMA support for my harddisks. hdparm -d1 /dev/hda tells me that this operation is not supported: filou:~# cat /proc/ide/hda/settings namevalue min