Re: Best approach for a system that needs desktop apps and 64bit address space

2005-11-01 Thread Robert Isaac
> Hi all, Hello > what would be the best approach? A completely 64-bit OS (Still not an option, but hey...) > Install an ia32 system with 64SMP kernel > or the whole 64 system with ia32 chroot? I'd go with the 64 bit system with a 32 bit chroot, that way you can take advantage of the hardware

Re: nVidia, acpi, apic and PCI controller

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 01/11/2005 Dean Hamstead wrote: > i did update my bios but it had no effect on anything. i never > had that problem in the first place. > (btw im using a dfi-lanparty ut sli board, running sid) this motherboard is an ASUS K8N-DL (dual cpu) with two opteron cpus. let's see whether a bios update

Re: nVidia, acpi, apic and PCI controller

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 01/11/2005 Dean Hamstead wrote: > is that an nforce4? mine has ck804 also and is nforce4 but has nvraid > rather than sil. ok, i checked, and the chip finally is a nforce4 too. i'll check which bios it has installed next. if it's older than Version 1004, i'll do a bios update, and see if it hel

Re: 32 bit firefox on amd64 system

2005-11-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > Related to recent threads (installation of flash on firefox, etc). > I've got a debootstrap ia32 system installed in /emul. The intent is > to install firefox (i386) from tarballs at mozilla.org and use it > without chrooting. If you created this chroot with debootstr

Re: Gxine / Xine chrashes

2005-11-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Tobias Krais said: > Hi together, > > my gxine (Sid, amd64, all vanilla kernels) crashes very often. E.g. when > I want to listen to the German radio station swr3 or when I listen to > mp3's. Watching DVD's, it does not crash. Using gxine in chroot it does > not crash.

Re: Best approach for a system that needs desktop apps and 64bit address space

2005-11-01 Thread pmarc
2005/10/31, Nathan O. Siemers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Which Nvidia drivers are you speaking of? Graphics or Nforce > ethernet, etc? I thought is was clear that I was talking about the graphics card. > I have had no problem compiling and using Nvidia graphics on my 64 > bit dual opteron

Re: nVidia, acpi, apic and PCI controller

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
i did update my bios but it had no effect on anything. i never had that problem in the first place. (btw im using a dfi-lanparty ut sli board, running sid) http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/index.html there is plenty of information there. Dean Jonas Meurer wrote: On 01/11/2005 Dean

Re: nVidia, acpi, apic and PCI controller

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 01/11/2005 Dean Hamstead wrote: > is that an nforce4? mine has ck804 also and is nforce4 but has nvraid > rather than sil. if you mean the mainboard, i've no idea. i didn't buy the hardware, i'm just an administrator. 'lspci -v -s 00:00.0' gives: :00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporati

Gxine / Xine chrashes

2005-11-01 Thread Tobias Krais
Hi together, my gxine (Sid, amd64, all vanilla kernels) crashes very often. E.g. when I want to listen to the German radio station swr3 or when I listen to mp3's. Watching DVD's, it does not crash. Using gxine in chroot it does not crash. Starting gxine in a console window says: -%<- [EMA

Re: Best approach for a system that needs desktop apps and 64bit address space

2005-11-01 Thread Jo Shields
Nathan O. Siemers wrote: Which Nvidia drivers are you speaking of? Graphics or Nforce ethernet, etc? I have had no problem compiling and using Nvidia graphics on my 64 bit dual opteron system at work (Suse). Remember what i said about "moronic"? Suse goes beyond moronic on its as

Re: nVidia, acpi, apic and PCI controller

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
is that an nforce4? mine has ck804 also and is nforce4 but has nvraid rather than sil. but anyway yes it is a known issue but im sure it should be solved, my board doesnt have the same problem so i thought it was. that video card is comically old. it made me laugh thinking how old that is compar

nVidia, acpi, apic and PCI controller

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i fail to boot my amd64 server (nVidia chip) with kernel 2.6.12 or 2.6.14 and ACPI plus APIC support. if i boot the kernel without any boot parameters, it hangs directly after the beginning of boot process at some problems with the PCI controller. it tells something like "PCI32 ... failed .