Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:38:10AM +0100, Nico Jochens wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:32:15PM +0100, sigi wrote: > >Hi, > > > >>>You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this > >>working. > >>>It builds amd64 debs of enough library and binary packages to get it > >>>runnin

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Nico Jochens
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:32:15PM +0100, sigi wrote: Hi, >You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this working. >It builds amd64 debs of enough library and binary packages to get it >running, though it's running 32-bit behind the scenes. Very nice. Do you have a link? I h

Re: mplayer and libdvdcss

2005-11-24 Thread sigi
Hi, > Check this page : > http://debian.video.free.fr/ > especially the bottom for adresses. that was the page I got my sources from... and deb http://spello.sscnet.ucla.edu/marillat/ sid main works, instead of my addressing to 'unstable'. but as Gian said, the link to deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net

Re: mplayer and libdvdcss

2005-11-24 Thread Robert Isaac
> Yes, you're right, it's impossible to use apt with > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ at the moment. However, you can download > libdvdcss manually from Change your apt/sources.list from this: > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main to this: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debia

Re: mplayer and libdvdcss

2005-11-24 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Donnerstag 24 November 2005 22.44 schrieb sigi: > Hi, > > has anyone out there a link to a mplayer and libdvdcss-mirror for amd64? > > my collected sources seem not to be accessible since some weeks... > in my sources.list I wrote the following: > > #mplayer > deb http://spello.sscnet.ucla.edu/m

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 24 November 2005 06:39, studio-64 wrote: > Hi > Although I run my 64Studio for music I really miss Open office. > We often get asked to produce CD covers and such for our master CD's. A couple of programs, available in 64 bit, 'glabels' does all kinds of labels, and Scribus, a desktop

Re: mplayer and libdvdcss

2005-11-24 Thread Yannick - Debian/Linux
Hi, Check this page : http://debian.video.free.fr/ especially the bottom for adresses. Regards, Yannick sigi a écrit : Hi, has anyone out there a link to a mplayer and libdvdcss-mirror for amd64? my collected sources seem not to be accessible since some weeks... in my sources.list I wrote

Re: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:41:31PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > Either through the installer, or manually on VC2, the format seems to go > OK, but when I come to mount it, mount complains of an invalid parameter. Is there anything in the kernel log (from dmesg) about why? > The manual mount c

mplayer and libdvdcss

2005-11-24 Thread sigi
Hi, has anyone out there a link to a mplayer and libdvdcss-mirror for amd64? my collected sources seem not to be accessible since some weeks... in my sources.list I wrote the following: #mplayer deb http://spello.sscnet.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ u

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Mike Dobbs
Ubuntu breezy has a working 32bit behind the scenes version that works quite well here. See what they are doing. On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:32 +0100, sigi wrote: > Hi, > > > >You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this working. > > >It builds amd64 debs of enough library and

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread sigi
Hi, > >You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this working. > >It builds amd64 debs of enough library and binary packages to get it > >running, though it's running 32-bit behind the scenes. Very nice. > > Do you have a link? I have not found on google-search. Think, you're

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Ken Bloom
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:54:48AM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > >>Er um hmm, but why has gentoo had OOo 2 working on their amd64 port for a >>while now? I'm considering just getting a gentoo precompiled package and >>untarring it on my system or actually trying to hack a

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Bas van Besouw
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 15:39 +, studio-64 wrote: > Hi > Although I run my 64Studio for music I really miss Open office. > We often get asked to produce CD covers and such for our master CD's. > > I can us OO for this but not on 64. > > Its a shame as most of my Windoze people are really impres

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:32:22AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Loss of swapped ram can cause all sorts of interesting filesystem > corruption too. Are you sure? That's what I tought at first but now I'm not so sure. Dirty filesystem pages will not be swapped (that won't make any sense). > S

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-24 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:30:45PM +0100, Soenke von Stamm wrote: > That's what I suggested with "With hot swappable disks perheaps?" > Ok, yeah, I see the question mark too ;) Swap on RAID1 means you can do a clean shutdown even if you do not have hotswap hardware. Also, the machine will not be

Kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:347

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm getting frequent (daily) hangs with my PC running 2.6.14 on AMD64. Every time the problem comes up I get the error below. For a bit of background here, I had tried 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 previously and had this same problem (with a different line number shown for radix-tree.c). I reverted to 2.6.8

RE: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-24 Thread Mark Coetser
I have done quite a few installations onto different hardware/storage devices and have only had one issue quite recently using an intel (megaraid) SATA controller and that was hardware related, I could see the logical raid 5 device as /dev/sda and I could partition it but when doing a mke2fs -j /de

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/05 15:39), studio-64 wrote: > Hi > Although I run my 64Studio for music I really miss Open office. > We often get asked to produce CD covers and such for our master CD's. > > I can us OO for this but not on 64. > > Its a shame as most of my Windoze people are really impressed with Linux

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread studio-64
Hi Although I run my 64Studio for music I really miss Open office. We often get asked to produce CD covers and such for our master CD's. I can us OO for this but not on 64. Its a shame as most of my Windoze people are really impressed with Linux on seeing this setup. We can only wait as I hav

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Charles de Miramon
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this working. > It builds amd64 debs of enough library and binary packages to get it > running, though it's running 32-bit behind the scenes. Very nice. > Does the Debian Amd64 developpers consider pushing this

Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-24 Thread David Goodenough
I have a machine I am trying to install Debian on. It is an AMD-64 and has a DPT RAID card. The disks appear on the I2O bus. The Debian installer recognises them (once I have told it to load the right driver), and partitions them, but there is a problem when it comes to formatting them for EX

Re: USB mouse and touchpad issues using the unstable release

2005-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/05 00:09), Massimo Perga wrote: > Hi Clive, > I've tried to use your same configuration but I can't get neither mouse > nor touchpad working. > I also moved to the hotplug package to fix these USB issues but I wasn't so > lucky. > > Have you any other idea ? > Do you know what changed