Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 13:18 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:49:55PM -0700, lordSauron wrote: pentium 4s use a 21 stage pipeline or something like that... so they take approximately 21 clock cycles to get anything done. AMD uses about 7

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread valentin_nils
O.K I guess I have to take the risk that Lord Sauron will flame me for what I say next ;-) I would rather recommend you a 2xCPU MB instead of a single CPU MB You will easily find many 2xCPU MB out there and you may want to consider the following: - most have only 32 bit PCI slots, look for 64

Re: How to run qt3*

2005-09-19 Thread Matthias Reinhardt
Am Sonntag, 18. September 2005 04:39 schrieb Hamish Moffatt: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:35:17PM +0100, Matthias Reinhardt wrote: Hi everybody, how can I get qt3* and all the necessary libqt3* workin. I have several problems using appz with qt3 solution: 32bit chroot? There's no

Re: How to run qt3*

2005-09-19 Thread Jo Shields
Matthias Reinhardt wrote: Am Sonntag, 18. September 2005 04:39 schrieb Hamish Moffatt: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:35:17PM +0100, Matthias Reinhardt wrote: Hi everybody, how can I get qt3* and all the necessary libqt3* workin. I have several problems using appz with qt3 solution:

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread Jo Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot to add one thing. As for the Power Supplies (PS). I tried everything from 400W to 550W and came to the conclusion that mostly 400W is fully acceptable for most machines (1-4 disks). I know that the shop assistants often recommend stronger Power supplies (after all

unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
is there any trick to getting ut2004 working? gltron and tuxracer both work well, ut just hangs when it tries to get into opengl hints? Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Jo Shields
Dean Hamstead wrote: is there any trick to getting ut2004 working? gltron and tuxracer both work well, ut just hangs when it tries to get into opengl hints? Dean Do you have ia32 compatability 3d drivers (nvidia-glx-ia32)? Have you modified the /usr/local/bin/ut2004 script to use amd64

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Joe, Thanks for the additional info, that was something I didnt know (I should have guessed that). Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo / Japan http://www.be-known-online.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot to add one thing. As for the Power Supplies (PS). I tried everything from 400W to

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread valentin_nils
Hi Jo, Thanks for the additional info, that was something I didnt know (I should have guessed that). Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo / Japan http://www.be-known-online.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot to add one thing. As for the Power Supplies (PS). I tried everything from 400W to 550W

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 19. September 2005 14:06 schrieb Dean Hamstead: indeed i do have the ia32 installed ive tried both amd64 and the ia32 binary im convinced ive borked something somehow Dean Jo Shields wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: is there any trick to getting ut2004 working? gltron and

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 19. September 2005 14:50 schrieb Dean Hamstead: i did a clean install then untarbz2'd the 3355 patch and then cp -R * all its files into the /usr/local/games/ut2004 directory then in Xorg i jumped into a shell, went to /usr/local/games/ut2004/System and ran ut2004-bin-linux-amd64

evolution and spell checking is now broken

2005-09-19 Thread Andrei Mikhailovsky
Hi I am wondering if anyone experienced similar problems with Evolution and spell checking after a recent upgrade. I've noticed that aspell package has been updated and since then the spell checking is gone in Evolution. I've double checked that the gnome-spell and aspell (including

Re: burn cd/dvd: permission /dev/sg0 denied

2005-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:39:28AM +0200, antongiulio05 wrote: I have setted my system as: /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup under kernel 2.6.* section, but it doesn't work. I have launched: # cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

Re: burn cd/dvd: permission /dev/sg0 denied

2005-09-19 Thread antongiulio05
but it tries to open hda, not hdc... I have no ideas... Can you help me? Well you could simply try: cdrecord -dev ATAPI:/dev/hdc -toc (list toc of a cd) or -atip (list info about a blank CDR type). If that works, you probably have what you need. Make sure ide-scsi is NOT

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Brook
Another concern is the heat those CPU beasts produce (90W each). You may want to find a cooler solution which doesnt grill you or the CPU and also doesnt make you death. (I am sitting next to such a beast right now ;-) Most cooling systems go up to the 246 or 248. Finding one for the 252

Re: dvd+rw-tools and dvdrecord problem / solution

2005-09-19 Thread Will Dyson
On 9/17/05, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 17.09.2005 04:04:00, Will Dyson a écrit: Q. What are the dvd+rw-tools for? A. As implied/already mentionned - to master the DVD media, both +RW/R and -R[W]. . And in the package description: Description: DVD+-RW/R

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Alexander Nagel
Hi, i cannot help you with your current problem. But if you can play check following bug: https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2054 greets Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm not o.k. ?

2005-09-19 Thread Jacob Bresciani
do you have the proper chipset driver for your HD controller or motherboard loaded? if not then DMA won't work because it won't know where/how to turn it on. Knoppix loads a kernel which probably has your MB /HD controller loaded so at least you know it will work. Jacob Bresciani

Re: hdparm not o.k. ?

2005-09-19 Thread Jacob Bresciani
The only other thing that jumps to mind is permissions, I assume you're running as root or through sudo? Jacob Bresciani Passwords are like bubble gum, strongest when fresh, should never be used by groups and create a sticky mess when left laying around -anon On Sep 19, 2005, at 10:19

Re: hdparm not o.k. ?

2005-09-19 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 19. September 2005 19:38 schrieb Jacob Bresciani: The only other thing that jumps to mind is permissions, I assume you're running as root or through sudo? Yes, I am running as root. Directly as root, not sudo. Hans Jacob Bresciani Passwords are like bubble gum, strongest when

Re: amd64 bootsplash howto

2005-09-19 Thread Cédric Boutillier
That is surely cleaner, but with this package, it seems you don't have the possibility to put a picture in the background of your consoles tty1-6, contrary to what you can do with bootsplash :( On 9/19/05, Rafael Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-get install -t experimental splashy El

Re: Pingus

2005-09-19 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:47:54PM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: I have this error... Preparing to replace pingus 0.6.0-8 (using .../pingus_0.6.0-8.1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement pingus ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/pingus_0.6.0-8.1_amd64.deb(--unpack):

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:49:55PM -0700, lordSauron wrote: oh... as for performance increases... pentium 4s use a 21 stage pipeline or something like that... so they take approximately 21 clock cycles to get anything done. AMD uses about 7 stages (or something in that neighbourhood) so if

Re: hdparm not o.k. ?

2005-09-19 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 19.09.2005 19:04:20, Hans a écrit : Hi folks, I tried to improve my settings of the harddrive. These are the original settings: /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off)

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Brook
They can natively run 32 bit stuff with NO speed penalities No speed penalty compared to what? Amd64 chips do run 32-bit code natively, and are competitive as 32-bit CPUs in their own right. However you usually get a speed increase from recompiling as a 64-bit app. In 64-bit mode you have

Re: Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC

2005-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:45:24PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: ok huray video works on to sound this board has an Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC which in lspci is CK804 AC97 audio codec. the realtek site claims this is supported with snd-intel8x0 alsa-conf shows up nothing,

Re: soundcard not detected by alsaconf

2005-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:27:08AM -0400, Tony Andrews wrote: I've been trying all day to get the sound up and running, but no dice. I have the chaintech vnf4 ultra which has onboard nvidia sound. I have the snd-intel8x0 driver module and modprobe gives no error. I tried commenting out the

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread Jacob Bresciani
I would guess compared to Intel's first line of x86 64bit CPU's, the Intanium's which had a 32 bit emulation mode which took serious performance hits. I haven't seen much on what their (Intel) new line of x86_em64 chips are like now though. Jacob Bresciani Passwords are like bubble

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread lordSauron
Yes, I did say natively. AMD really works overtime, and if I get a Athon64, and Athlon XP of the same clock speed will run the programs at the same speed if you could somehow remove the extra goodies from the Athlon64, and ensure that the entire system was equal. However, you are generally going

wake-on-lan with Abit KV-80

2005-09-19 Thread Jamie Rollins
Hello, all. I've been having trouble getting wake-on-lan (WOL) working with some Abit KV-80 cluster nodes and was wondering if someone on one of these lists had any thoughts. (Maybe useful: sarge 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8). So far, I have only been able to get WOL working (with standard 'magic

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Corey Hickey
Dean Hamstead wrote: i did a clean install then untarbz2'd the 3355 patch and then cp -R * all its files into the /usr/local/games/ut2004 directory then in Xorg i jumped into a shell, went to /usr/local/games/ut2004/System and ran ut2004-bin-linux-amd64 splash starts, screen goes black.

tcmplex

2005-09-19 Thread William Brown
I think I finally have some good parameters to the transcode utility to create some good DVD mpeg2 format videos. However, once I use transcode to transcode and split into video/audio files, I need to re-merge them back into one file. What I'm looking for is tcmplex. What I've found on the

Re: tcmplex

2005-09-19 Thread Lee Begg
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:23, William Brown wrote: As well, I tried searching debian archives sarge, sid, marillat, and found nothing for tcmplex, or even mplex. Can anyone tell me where I can find tcmplex, or mplex for sid, in sourced or precompiled binary? mplex is in mjpegtools, which you

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
i wish i could get into the game to have this bug! does ut2k4 access the cdrom? as the 2.6.12 kernel has a kernel oops when i try to mount the cdrom (other than that it works better than 2.6.8) any thoughts? is there a 2.6.12-2 or 2.6.13 deb around? Dean Alexander Nagel wrote: Hi, i cannot

Re: unreal tournament 2004

2005-09-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
im running debian-amd64 sid also nvidia gefore 6600gt pcie nvidia drivers 1.0-7676 (previous versions dont like my card) k 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 3d acceleration is working glxgears gives 3000+fps tuxracers works nicely at around 500fps gltron also with around 1000fps. needless to say though i

Re: Re: soundcard not detected by alsaconf

2005-09-19 Thread Tony Andrews
I have the Chaintech VNF4 Ultra VE. Its a nforce4 motherboard. I think that it has a realtek chip but I know that I can use the nvidia or Realtek drivers on the windows side. I am convinced that its a compatibility issue with this kernel but, if anyone know of any alternatives, I'm open to

Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge

2005-09-19 Thread valentin_nils
Paul , thanks for the corrections below (Hypertransport), I mistook the word ;-o. I also agree with you that the cooling SHOULD be same for 246-252 , but my experience shows me that its not. The Zalman most certainly qualifies for all CPUs here ;-) (its one of the few around) , but its not

Debian Sid amd64 on a Compaq v2310us (status report)

2005-09-19 Thread Ken Bloom
I have previously posted to vox-tech@lists.lugod.org about attempts to install Linux on my Turion64 based Compaq Presario v2310us laptop. I'm posting this as a howto to both vox-tech, and also debian-amd64, so that there should be an internet record of how to get a successful system working. In