Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is the AMD-64 ready for reliable use? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)]

2006-01-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:21:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (which is still unofficial). Ans as security is a severe problem on any server, I would recommend staying with Sarge/Stable and applying all security updates (which aren't available in Etch/Testing an Sid/Unstable). Etch now

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:37:12AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: I am sure most of you will disagree with me but this is one area where I do NOT like doing things the debian way. Compiling and installing a If you do it ALL the Debian way, it's just fine. You should see your new kernels added

Re: building ghdl for amd64

2006-01-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:17:16PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: Hi folks, I just (several hours ago) uploaded a new version of ghdl that builds on amd64; the previous versions didn't build. Do I need to do anything to get the amd64 buildds to build it? According to

English grammar checker

2006-01-01 Thread antonio giulio
Hi, do you know if exist an english grammar checker for debian/linux??? It must be enabled to correct (possibly) entered text... Thanks, Giulio

Re: building ghdl for amd64

2006-01-01 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 01 January 2006 07:23, Kurt Roeckx wrote: You just need to wait until the ghdl source gets on the mirrors. We do not build from incoming, but only start after dinstall. So it should get build in about 10 hours, and be available in about 24 on the amd64 mirrors if it build

Trouble burning DVD

2006-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system wolfe:~# cdrecord -scanbus | egrep -v .\*$ cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-01 Thread zzz haha
Another part of the Debian way is that you rarely need to compile your own kernel these days. What did you need to change? his (and mine) dma is not enabled. :00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) thanks to his try,

Re: Trouble burning DVD

2006-01-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Christopher Browne | I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system [...] | wolfe:/proc/ide# cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:4,0,0 speed=4 | /brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso If this actually is a DVD, I would much rather recommend growisofs, part of

Re: after kernel re-compile tons of sound errors

2006-01-01 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
On Saturday 31 December 2005 06:18, Craig Hagerman wrote: Hi, I did %make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install Don't forget to also delete /lib/modules/2.6.14/... before make modules_install Otherwise you might be mixing incompatible modules (unlikely). But why

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:48:59PM +0800, zzz haha wrote: Another part of the Debian way is that you rarely need to compile your own kernel these days. What did you need to change? his (and mine) dma is not enabled. :00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.

Re: Trouble burning DVD

2006-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On 1/1/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Christopher Browne | I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system [...] | wolfe:/proc/ide# cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:4,0,0 speed=4 | /brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso If this actually is a

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-01 Thread zzz haha
Is there a bug reported logged so that this will be fixed in the next Debian kernel package? i'd like to. :) really busy right now. :) reportbug needs a local smtp server? is there a standard way to send bug using gmail? thank you z

Re: Thunderbird hangs when trying to write message

2006-01-01 Thread lance
On Friday 30 December 2005 11:34 am, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: lance wrote: Hey, Using a Sarge/Sid hybrid. I can read, delete, and move messages in Mozilla thunderbird 1.0.7 but when I try to write, reply, or forward the application hangs and I have to use pkill to stop it. Anyone

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2006-01-01 Thread Corey Hickey
zzz haha wrote: Is there a bug reported logged so that this will be fixed in the next Debian kernel package? i'd like to. :) really busy right now. :) reportbug needs a local smtp server? is there a standard way to send bug using gmail? Offhand, I'd say that you could go through the motions

Re: Thunderbird hangs when trying to write message

2006-01-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
lance wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 11:34 am, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: lance wrote: Hey, Using a Sarge/Sid hybrid. I can read, delete, and move messages in Mozilla thunderbird 1.0.7 but when I try to write, reply, or forward the application hangs and I have to use pkill to stop it.

Re: 64/32 with DRI

2006-01-01 Thread Stephen Olander Waters
Radeon 7000 DRI in xorg 6.8.2 is unstable apparently. See this message: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-September/msg0.html --- - DRI is now enabled by default on all ATI Radeon hardware except for the Radeon 7000/Radeon VE chipsets, which is known to be unstable