Re: random system hang

2005-06-21 Thread Olleg Samoylov
Ron Farrer wrote: Hardware list (to look for any possible common connections): 2 x Opteron 252 Tyan S2875 2GB DDR400 (2 x 1GB) SATA (one seagate drive) IDE (one sony DVDRW) EVGA Nvidia Geforce 6800 Ultra 256MB (AGP 8x, FW, and SBA enabled) no PCI devices installed I have Tyan S2875 with one

Re: Advice sought on moving to AMD64

2005-06-21 Thread Olleg Samoylov
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Postgresql 7.4/8 (I believe I can compile the latter from the debian When you will compile postgresql don't forget add configuration option to use timestamp as integer64. :-) In debian package this already configured. One possible configuration we are

kasablanca package...

2005-06-21 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Has anyone made a amd64 package of kasablanca or found one? Cya Lars - -- - - Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Computergraphik Tel.: +49 531 391-2109

Re: random system hang

2005-06-21 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 6/18/05, Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I didn't knock on wood quick enough or something. After I sent my reply I left for lunch and apon returning (1 hour) the thing was locked up! I went over to another machine, logged in via ssh. I looked at the CPU usage and X was

Confused about 64bit

2005-06-21 Thread Graham Smith
Hi, I'm confused and I hope that you can help me out. I'm running the pure64 port of Debian on an AMD64. My understanding about the AMD64 was that is could run in three modes: 1)32 bit emulation mode where you are using a 32bit kernel and 32 bit libraries (eg WinXP). 2)mixed mode with a 64

Re: cdrdao package for k3b

2005-06-21 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 21/06/2005 Ross Urban wrote: Tony, Thanks for the info. Can you give me directions or point me to a site that will tell me how to setup a i386 chroot. Sorry, I'm still a little green behind the ears. hey ross, you don't need to setup a chroot for fetching sources. just add the

graphics cards

2005-06-21 Thread A J Stiles
Does anyone have a list of graphics cards known to work with purely Open Source drivers in 64 bit mode? I do *not* mean NVidia's drivers which include a closed-source binary portion {though there is the open source nv driver -- is that any good?} I mean an actual, really-open-source driver

Re: Confused about 64bit

2005-06-21 Thread Helge Hafting
Graham Smith wrote: Hi, I'm confused and I hope that you can help me out. I'm running the pure64 port of Debian on an AMD64. My understanding about the AMD64 was that is could run in three modes: 1)32 bit emulation mode where you are using a 32bit kernel and 32 bit libraries (eg WinXP).

Re: Advice sought on moving to AMD64

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:46:36PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: We intend to use 2 SCSI disks in RAID1 for the system and the others in RAID10 for the DB. There is (obviously) a lot of debate about SATA vs SCSI on the Postgresql list. The general opinion is that 7200 rpm SATA disks just

Re: Confused about 64bit

2005-06-21 Thread Adam Skutt
Helge Hafting wrote: Unfortunately, libraries have the same name no matter if they're 32- or 64-bit, so you can only have one kind at a time. Unless you set up a chroot or use other tricks. Or, you know, install the 64 libraries in /lib64 and let ld.so do all the work. -- Internal Virus

Re: graphics cards

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:23:03AM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: Does anyone have a list of graphics cards known to work with purely Open Source drivers in 64 bit mode? I do *not* mean NVidia's drivers which include a closed-source binary portion {though there is the open source nv driver --

Re: Confused about 64bit

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: Hi, I'm confused and I hope that you can help me out. I'm running the pure64 port of Debian on an AMD64. My understanding about the AMD64 was that is could run in three modes: 1)32 bit emulation mode where you are using a

Re: random system hang

2005-06-21 Thread Manuel Capinha
Yet another Me too message. I've seen this happen a lot on a Tyan Mobo with 2 Opterons (can't recall the exact model but I could look it up). For us, disabling the xscreensaver solved it. I can't pinpoint it to one specific screensaver (we even stress tested a lot of them) but _almost_ everytime

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:17:24PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Goswin wrote me the same. Good to know. I might have made that mistake as I was under the impression that RAID on the ASUS A8V Deluxe was good. In general (there are a few exceptions for high end server boards): -Onboard raid is

Re: NVIDIA, kernel 2.6.12

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:31:16AM -0400, David Wood wrote: I saw some traffic on a web board about this yesterday when I was looking to see if anyone had packaged the latest nvidia driver yet (BTW, no). Seems like they released their latest driver with a dependency on some new

Re: NVIDIA, kernel 2.6.12

2005-06-21 Thread David Wood
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote: There probably will be a new debian package for the new nvidia driver soon, assuming it hasn't changed anything drastic. Good question. Depending on a glibc from experimental might be considered drastic. :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-06-21 @ 10:34:46 (week 25) Lennart Sorensen wrote: -A raid card that costs less than $200 probably isn't hardware raid and is the same as the onboard raid just on a pci card. I suspect there may be a few hardware raid cards just below $200, but probably not many. There are many

Re: graphics cards

2005-06-21 Thread Thomas Steffen
On 6/21/05, A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a list of graphics cards known to work with purely Open Source drivers in 64 bit mode? 64bit does not seem to be a big issues. If there are minor bugs, they are quickly fixed. My Radeon 9600 works fine with the free driver, but

chroot and alsa

2005-06-21 Thread Rathgeb Markus
my bad english - i know ;-) i use mplayer in my ia32 chroot (because of the codecs...) but mplayer only used oss and not alsa. so i have done this: # mkdir /var/chroot/sid-ia32/dev/snd # mount -t none -o bind /dev/snd /var/chroot/sid-ia32/dev/snd and it worked because of this i added to my

nfs and hsm

2005-06-21 Thread Dr T A Carpenter
Hello, We have noted a difference between 2.6.11-9-em64t-p4-smp and 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp when accessing via nfs our HSM (EMC/Legato DiskXtender SM 2.9). 2.6.8 behaves normally, i.e. if a file is on tape it waits until the file is restored then continues processing the file. 2.6.11 triggers

Re: cdrdao package for k3b

2005-06-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:53:49PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: Ross Urban wrote: Thanks for all of the info guys. Hey Ross, For what it's worth, setting up the chroot will take longer than downloading the source package by hand. You can download the sources as follows (and skip the

Re: Now that I have working box, any problems with LVM?

2005-06-21 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:34 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:17:24PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Goswin wrote me the same. Good to know. I might have made that mistake as I was under the impression that RAID on the ASUS A8V Deluxe was good. In general (there are a

Re: graphics cards

2005-06-21 Thread Alexander Rapp
A J Stiles wrote: Does anyone have a list of graphics cards known to work with purely Open Source drivers in 64 bit mode? I do *not* mean NVidia's drivers which include a closed-source binary portion {though there is the open source nv driver -- is that any good?} I mean an actual,

Re: cdrdao package for k3b

2005-06-21 Thread Ross Urban
Problem solved guys. I added the entry to sources.list, used apt-get source, and built the package. Thanks for all the help. Cheers, RossOn 6/21/05, Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:53:49PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: Ross Urban wrote: Thanks for all of the info

need bmp/jpeg/ppm/pmp to wsq/nist2000 file format changer.

2005-06-21 Thread Golam Mustafa
We are working for a finger print validation system. We want to work on the work done by NIST. But we need bmp/jpeg/ppm/pmp to wsq/nist2000 file format changer. We want to use cwsq,mindtct,bozoth3 program and working to make a gui. any help will be boosting for us.. we are hanging this point.

Re: Muine

2005-06-21 Thread Javier Kohen
Hello to myself, El lun, 20-06-2005 a las 21:01 -0300, Javier Kohen escribió: do you have any information on whether Muine will be built for AMD64? I don't know how to read the information in http://packages.qa.debian.org/muine nor could I find relevant information in

bmp/ppm/jpeg/pbm to wsq/nist2000 file format changer

2005-06-21 Thread Mustafa Golam
We are working for a finger print validation system. We have taken NFIS as our base. We need some bmp/ppm/jpeg/pbm to wsq/nist2000 file format changer. any link or Free program will be quit help full. any doc to converter program or specification of wsq/nist 2000 file fomat and other image

Debian pure-amd64 and sun-java

2005-06-21 Thread Lars Schimmer
Hi! I tried to install java after the small guide on: http://chrismetcalf.net/blog/archives/2005/05/19/mini-howto-installing-java-on-debian-unstable/ with the package jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-amd64.bin from sun. It all worked well within isntallation, but then while trying to use java, I get a:

Re: chroot and alsa

2005-06-21 Thread Marcin Dębicki
I personally use dchroot with -d option (saving current environment) so there is no need to map dev's. For more info read Debian amd64 howto and follow steps for chroot and dchroot both. It should help I think -- Registered Linux User 369908 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian pure-amd64 and sun-java

2005-06-21 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, apt-get install java-package, (you might need to add contrib to your sources.list) then as user run fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-amd64.bin and install the deb as root again. Best regards Frederik Schueler On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:32:52PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: I tried

Re: Debian pure-amd64 and sun-java

2005-06-21 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi Lars, El mar, 21-06-2005 a las 20:32 +0200, Lars Schimmer escribió: Hi! I tried to install java after the small guide on: http://chrismetcalf.net/blog/archives/2005/05/19/mini-howto-installing-java-on-debian-unstable/ with the package jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-amd64.bin from sun. It all worked

Re: Debian pure-amd64 and sun-java - solved and another one

2005-06-21 Thread Lars Schimmer
Lars Schimmer wrote: Hi! /home/user# java Error occurred during initialization of VM java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object Ok, that problem was easy to solve, I just unziped the .bin instead of sh ...bin it... But now azureus won't run and jsut prints out: # An unexpected

Re: chroot and alsa

2005-06-21 Thread Rathgeb Markus
Marcin Dębicki schrieb: I personally use dchroot with -d option (saving current environment) so there is no need to map dev's. For more info read Debian amd64 howto and follow steps for chroot and dchroot both. It should help I think are you sure? use gmplayer witch an soft link to do_chroot

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't keep realy old images around as they are mostly unusable or still have the unupgradable libc6/base-files combination. My image is from the very end of February, and I'm pretty sure it (barely) postdates that whole mess; I don't recall

Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE

2005-06-21 Thread Gary Hodges
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:31:39PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: Having no luck installing sarge on our new machine. Tyan K8WE w/2x Opteron 244s LSI21320RB SCSI Controller Plextor PX-716SA (SATA) So far from what I have read, ATAPI support on SATA is still not

Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:43:45PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: I should have researched a bit more, but I figured since SATA has been out for a while now, it would work without much trouble. Well SATA harddisks have been out a while and work. SATA optical drives are new (the PX712SA was

Re: 3.1, megaraid2 install cd

2005-06-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Whoops, I seem to have gotten some threads badly mixed up. This particular image was not my doing, though I still believe the version numbers reported look sane. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more

Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE

2005-06-21 Thread Gary Hodges
Koen Tavernier wrote: Gary Hodges wrote: Having no luck installing sarge on our new machine. Tyan K8WE w/2x Opteron 244s LSI21320RB SCSI Controller Plextor PX-716SA (SATA) debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso The three items I'm having trouble with: 1. Installing from the Plextor drive. I'm

Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:24:04PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: Does this mean I'm SOL using this card to install sarge? It means you need to find an install image using a newer kernel than the standard debian cd uses. Very common for dell users for some reason. probably has something to do with

SATA II support, MSI K8T Neo2-FIR

2005-06-21 Thread Attila Kocsis
Hello, Does anybody know whether SATA II is suppported in Debia AMD-64? I'm planning to buy this motherboard: MSI K8T Neo2-FIR, and on their home page it reads: SATA 150MB/s with extensions (SATA II Phase I). I'm not quite sure if it means, that this board can handle SATA II HDD, either. Any

Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE

2005-06-21 Thread Gary Hodges
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:24:04PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: Does this mean I'm SOL using this card to install sarge? It means you need to find an install image using a newer kernel than the standard debian cd uses. Very common for dell users for some reason.

Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:33:36PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: I got the listing with Knoppix v3.8 installed. I see v4.0 is out now. I don't see any network controllers with lspci. Networking does work with Knoppix. :00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005e

Re: SATA II support, MSI K8T Neo2-FIR

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:40:35PM -0700, Attila Kocsis wrote: Does anybody know whether SATA II is suppported in Debia AMD-64? I'm planning to buy this motherboard: MSI K8T Neo2-FIR, and on their home page it reads: SATA 150MB/s with extensions (SATA II Phase I). I'm not quite sure if it

Has anyone ever....

2005-06-21 Thread Nathan Dragun
Ok, I'm curious here. I've got 2x512 sticks of corsair memory for my opteron, and unfortunately they are PC2700 and not PC3200. (Thinking the max FSB was only 333 when I first purchased this system 2+ years ago.) What I'm wondering is; has anyone ever tried overclocking memory on their

Re: Has anyone ever....

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:51:27PM -0400, Nathan Dragun wrote: Ok, I'm curious here. I've got 2x512 sticks of corsair memory for my opteron, and unfortunately they are PC2700 and not PC3200. (Thinking the max FSB was only 333 when I first purchased this system 2+ years ago.) What I'm

Re: Install troubles - Tyan K8WE

2005-06-21 Thread Gary Hodges
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:33:36PM -0600, Gary Hodges wrote: I got the listing with Knoppix v3.8 installed. I see v4.0 is out now. I don't see any network controllers with lspci. Networking does work with Knoppix. :00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation:

Re: SATA II support, MSI K8T Neo2-FIR

2005-06-21 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Hello, Attila Kocsis wrote: Hello, Does anybody know whether SATA II is suppported in Debia AMD-64? I'm planning to buy this motherboard: MSI K8T Neo2-FIR, and on their home page it reads: SATA 150MB/s with extensions (SATA II Phase I). I'm not quite sure if it means, that this board can

Re: chroot and alsa

2005-06-21 Thread Marcin Dębicki
Rathgeb Markus kiedys napisal: Marcin Dębicki schrieb: I personally use dchroot with -d option (saving current environment) so there is no need to map dev's. For more info read Debian amd64 howto and follow steps for chroot and dchroot both. It should help I think are you sure? use gmplayer

Re: chroot and alsa

2005-06-21 Thread Marcin Dębicki
Rathgeb Markus kiedys napisal: Marcin Dębicki schrieb: I personally use dchroot with -d option (saving current environment) so there is no need to map dev's. For more info read Debian amd64 howto and follow steps for chroot and dchroot both. It should help I think are you sure? use gmplayer

Re: random system hang

2005-06-21 Thread Charles Leggett
I'm using a Tyan thunder K8W S2885 mobo, but have no SATA drives attached. Hmmm, most of the time, the machine hangs when I'm away, so the screensaver is running, though it's only using the blank screen. Sometimes however, it's hung while I'm in the middle of using the system. I've moved to the

Re: chroot and alsa

2005-06-21 Thread Rathgeb Markus
have a look to the lines: alsa-init: no soundcards found: Success AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) $ dchroot -c ia32 -d mplayer Psyko.avi (ia32) mplayer Psyko.avi MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 Clawhammer (Family: 8, Stepping: 10)

Re: Has anyone ever....

2005-06-21 Thread Nathan Dragun
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:51:27PM -0400, Nathan Dragun wrote: Ok, I'm curious here. I've got 2x512 sticks of corsair memory for my opteron, and unfortunately they are PC2700 and not PC3200. (Thinking the max FSB was only 333 when I first purchased this system 2+

Re: chroot and alsa

2005-06-21 Thread Rathgeb Markus
and now with bind mound /dev/snd have a look to the lines: alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default alsa: 44100 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/57364 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le - $ dchroot -c ia32

Re: chroot and alsa

2005-06-21 Thread Marcin Dębicki
Just try to play any audio file using non-gui player. of course you should run 'xhost +localhost' before dchroot (for me seems that problem is ont in sound for now - sound device is opened) -- Registered Linux User 369908 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Has anyone ever....

2005-06-21 Thread Jacob Larsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nathan Dragun wrote: Probably very unlikely that it would be stable with the same latencies and timings as the 2700 settings then? I know that some chips far out perform what they boast, where others barely meet the expectations. No clue if

Re: Has anyone ever....

2005-06-21 Thread Nathan Dragun
Jacob Larsen wrote: Corsair is AFAIK a brand that have a pretty good reputation when it comes to overclocking. But experiments are the only way to be sure. You may be lucky that the security margin for you memory modules may allow for them to run PC3200. Thanks, I kinda felt the same way,

Re: Has anyone ever (overclocked memory on amd64)...

2005-06-21 Thread Alexander Rapp
Nathan Dragun wrote: What I'm wondering is; has anyone ever tried overclocking memory on their opterons? Is it fesable? Stability issues? - although thats why I mentioned they were corsair sicks, don't know if that would make a difference or not. I tried running two 512M PC2700 sticks of

Re: random system hang

2005-06-21 Thread Ron Farrer
On Tue, June 21, 2005 0:09, Olleg Samoylov said: I have Tyan S2875 with one Opteron 240, DDR400. I can give some advise. 1. I had problems with SATA drive. Update BIOS to newest. Bios for S2875 is very buggy especialy for SATA (may be your swap in SATA?). I am running the latest BIOS (3.00)

Re: random system hang

2005-06-21 Thread Ron Farrer
On Tue, June 21, 2005 2:40, Thomas Steffen said: It might just be the X server going crazy. Since it runs as root, it can take the whole system down if it crashes. You may try to compile Magic keys into the kernel, so that you can kill the server using the keyboard. That's good advice.

Question about abbreviations

2005-06-21 Thread Ross Boylan
First, thanks to all of you who worked on the AMD64 port. In looking at http://amd64.debian.net/docs/package_changes.txt I don't understand some of the abbreviations. Could anyone clue me in? In particular, PaS and ANAIS. It might be nice to provide a little guide in that document, or a

Re: random system hang

2005-06-21 Thread Ron Farrer
I also forgot to mention that xscreensaver seems better behaved. The OpenGL screensavers no longer bleed onto the screen in preview mode (from KDE) and most of them seem to work when quickly scrolling through them. Ron On Tue, June 21, 2005 17:23, Ron Farrer said: Based on some off-list

Are there any CVS Emacs deb package under Amd64?

2005-06-21 Thread 赵雷
Actually, I found something on how to make one: http://www.forcix.cx/work_environment/emacscvs.html But if there is someone already has made one, why should I make it again? But I didn't find any. Anybody knows?

Re: Has anyone ever (overclocked memory on amd64)...

2005-06-21 Thread Nathan Dragun
Hm, unless I'm just used to being able to manually set 200mhz it would appear that I can adjust any and every setting EXCEPT this. I can only limit the frequency...what sense does that make. So right now I'm locked in at 166 it would appear with about 15+ options that I can vary on the

Re: SATA II support, MSI K8T Neo2-FIR

2005-06-21 Thread roach
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 22:40, Attila Kocsis wrote: I'm planning to buy this motherboard: MSI K8T Neo2-FIR Hi, Bought the same board because it was an upgrade from the board used in http://www.linuxformat.co.uk Ultimate Linux PC 2004. Problems I've found so far: - Both the on board SATA