Re: Re: fast clock wreaks havoc on amd64 dual core - hp1250n

2005-12-21 Thread Dave Jacobs
So, let me jump in line here as another interested party -- I've got the fast clock problem on an HP zv6130us laptop (Athlon 3200+) running Debian sarge AMD64. I've seen the bugzilla.kernel.org report on this (bug#3927), and I'd love to know when and how a fix for this might make it into the Debia

installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings,   I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet, but I was wrong. I've burned too many CDs and I was actually booting

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Sven Krahn
Hi Aaron,On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here are a couple of question I have for the list. I initially did Kubuntu server install and ended up with no root (sudo passwd!) and one rootThe 'no root' is one of the specifics of Ubuntu intended to make the environment 'safe' for n

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
Hi Sven,   On 12/21/05, Sven Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Aaron, On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Here are a couple of question I have for the list. I initially did Kubuntu server install and ended up with no root (sudo passwd!) and one root The 'no root' is one of th

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Sven Krahn
On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   thanks. i presume you mean "comment out". "uncomment" means taking off the comment mark, i.e., enabling whatever was commented out. sorry for the little lesson, i'm not native english speaker either. Indeed, sorry... I was thinking faster than

Re: Build dependencies not satisifed

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ronan Mullally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to rebuild apache2 on a em64t running sarge/testing box. > 'apt-get build-dep' is failing with: > > # apt-get -b build-dep apache2 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Build-dependencies for apache2 coul

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated (r1)

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The Debian Projecthttp://www.debian.org/ > Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated (r1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > December 20th, 2005

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So that's okay... Have you checked the motherboard documentation - >> there are a few m-board BIOS controlled things that when enabled >> prevent writing to the boot sector of the hard drive (a virus >> protection thing). > > no, i didn't do that. > >>

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:>> So that's okay...  Have you checked the motherboard documentation - >> there are a few m-board BIOS controlled things that when enabled>> prevent writing to the boot sector of the hard drive (a

Re: amd64-archive (openoffice) dpkg ERROR HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Brian R. Whitecotton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > For some reason, Goswin's amd64-archive deb package is giving me grief that > it > didn't used to. > > I am running testing... > > My apt sources.list contains... > > deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread A.E.Lawrence
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Of course someone with the board could simply post the PCI ids for both > ports and it would then be much simpler to look it up. lspci -v on an Asus A8N-SLI deluxe:- :00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3) Subsystem:

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread A.E.Lawrence
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:32:07PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > >>>There are two network ports on that board right? One should be >>>forcedeth (nvidia) and the other sk98lin (Marvell Yukon). If only one >>>driver loads you may have to plug the cable into the right port

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/19/05, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:32:07PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote:> > There are two network ports on that board right?  One should be > > forcedeth (nvidia) and the other sk98lin (Marvell Yukon).  If only one> > driver loads you may have to plug

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Matthew Robinson
> > > simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold? > > > > You are assuming wrong. > > > > You will run into several problems with incompatibilities between > > ubuntu and Debian. > > Pity. Then, can you advise how to do that? TIA, i'd say you should backup /home and install deb

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I > simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold? You are assuming wrong. You will run into several problems with incompatibilities between ubuntu and Debian. M

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I > simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold?You are assuming wrong.You will run into several probl

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, Matthew Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold?> >> > You are assuming wrong. > >> > You will run into several problems with incompatibilities between> > ubuntu and Debian.>> Pity. Then, can you advise how to do that? TI

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-21 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 12/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had it proposed to me that I might set up a server for > my LAN (Not the internet gateway) as a Sempron system running > Linux. Specifically, an Asus K8V-MX Athlon 64 motherboard, > an AMD Sempron64 2600, 512 meg DDR PC-3200 w/o EC

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I > like, can I > > simply edit the sources fil

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have had it proposed to me that I might set up a server for >> my LAN (Not the internet gateway) as a Sempron system running >> Linux. Specifically, an Asus K8V-MX Athlon 64 motherboa

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2005-12-21 Thread nomailboxhere
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Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread lordSauron
On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> So that's okay... Have you checked the motherboard documentation - > > >> there are a few m-board BIOS controlled thin

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, lordSauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Aaron Stromas < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> >> > >> So that's okay...  Have you checked the motherboard documentation -> > >>

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread lordSauron
On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/21/05, lordSauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Aaron Stromas < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writ

Re: Ethernet problem

2005-12-21 Thread rainer herrendoerfer
Jens Schwarze schrieb: >> > Hello Rainer, > > maybe I doesn't tried it the right way, but the command "pppoeconf" > cannot be found in my debian. Perhaps you can explain it to me more in > detail? > > Thx > Jens > A search on http://packages.debian.org/ shows it's in the package pppoeconf. Do y

Re: Ethernet problem

2005-12-21 Thread rainer herrendoerfer
And you have to be _root_ to use it, because it's in /usr/sbin/. Ciao Rainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:03:00PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > no, only one port. oddly, ifconfig -a shows en0 and en1 Could be ethernet and firewire ports showing up. You can network over firewire after all. 400Mbit isn't bad. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:48:27PM +, A.E.Lawrence wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > Of course someone with the board could simply post the PCI ids for both > > ports and it would then be much simpler to look it up. > > lspci -v on an Asus A8N-SLI deluxe:- > > :00:0a.0 Bridge: nVid

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:54:18AM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > Output of lspci: > :00:00.1 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005e (rev > a3) > :00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3) > :00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device

Re: amd64-archive (openoffice) dpkg ERROR HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

2005-12-21 Thread Brian R. Whitecotton
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 05:27 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Brian R. Whitecotton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, > > > > For some reason, Goswin's amd64-archive deb package is giving me grief > > that it didn't used to. > > > > I am running testing... > > > > My apt sources.list

Re: Ethernet problem / souncard problem

2005-12-21 Thread Jens Schwarze
rainer herrendoerfer schrieb: And you have to be _root_ to use it, because it's in /usr/sbin/. Ciao Rainer Ok, all right. now it works fine :-) But Ihave two other problems: the soundcard of the asus A8V mainboard doesn't works and debian is always starting Gnome, but I want to have KDE

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Wackojacko
Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet, but I was wrong. I've burned too many CDs

Re: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

2005-12-21 Thread Licaworks
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Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:56:59PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 12/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have had it proposed to me that I might set up a server for > >> my LAN (Not the internet gateway) as a Se

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
I see a lot of complaints on the list ... repeated with some regularity, but few new complaints. nvidia is the biggest problem :( Sarge is the reliable one. Unstable is unreliable and etch/testing is mostly useless on amd64. The script handling our testing migration is suboptimal and needs som

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-21 Thread lordSauron
On 12/21/05, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see a lot of complaints on the list ... repeated with some regularity, > > but few new complaints. > > nvidia is the biggest problem :( yeah, from what I've heard, they don't take well to the idea of making open-source their drivers. thi

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

2005-12-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
Don't be *that* mean to them... It's far better than XP (which is known to spaz out and totally break firefox in a way that prevents it from working even after reinstalling the program! That *really* sux to, since ffx is the only usable browser for XP) opera is quite good Dean -- To UNSUB