Re: Where has it gone?

2006-01-31 Thread Brian R. Whitecotton
Thank you! I sure wish I had known that before :-) Brian Michael Dominok wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:43 -0800, Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: So I think, humm there must be new images, sources, headers, etc BUT I cannot find them. Please advise! The naming changed. You have

Re: AMD64 etch net installer

2006-01-31 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:00:14 +0100, David Meggy wrote: > Is this > even the right place to look? Yes, the mini.iso contains the very minimum. The rest of the installer is then downloaded live. Try with that! -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux on AMD64 -- To

Re: Where has it gone?

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Dominok
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:43 -0800, Brian R. Whitecotton wrote: > So I think, humm there must be new images, sources, headers, etc BUT I > cannot find them. > > Please advise! The naming changed. You have to look for linux-image instead of kernel-image now. Cheers Michael -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: AMD64 etch net installer

2006-01-31 Thread Grzegorz SzymaƄski
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 03:44, David Meggy wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking to install Debian AMD64 etch on a new hard drive, but in the > daily snapshots > (http://amd64.debian.net/debian-installer/2006-01-31/netboot/), I only > see a 5.3MB mini.iso, which seems way too small for an installer. I

Where has it gone?

2006-01-31 Thread Brian R. Whitecotton
Hello All, I am presently runing 2.6.11-9-amd64-k8. I think my system is broken as it is having trouble with what it *thinks* is the correct kernel version -sources etc. I would like to be running the latest testing but when I attempt an apt-get install kernel-image I get the following: [

Re: Please help - kernel crashes often

2006-01-31 Thread mike
Do you mean disable the CPU cache (L2?) or disable the ECC memory cache? I haven't looked at the BIOS yet to see which options I have, but I want to make sure I do the right one :) Wouldn't disabling some caches wind up cutting the performance down, especially if you mean the CPU cache? Having th

AMD64 etch net installer

2006-01-31 Thread David Meggy
Hi I'm looking to install Debian AMD64 etch on a new hard drive, but in the daily snapshots (http://amd64.debian.net/debian-installer/2006-01-31/netboot/), I only see a 5.3MB mini.iso, which seems way too small for an installer. Is this even the right place to look? I want to use an etch install

DMA missing after install -- rebuild initrd? HOWTO?

2006-01-31 Thread cmetzler
Hi, After playing around for a while, I decided to go ahead and do my AMD64 Etch install for real. At the end of it, though, I got a surprise -- no DMA on any IDE devices. The drives are capable, the BIOS recognizes them as UDMA5, I tried a bunch of different 80-connector cables, and hdparm sho

Re: Jumbo Frames?

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:53:04PM +, Adam Stiles wrote: > On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 15:51, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > > I don't know this switch but why does g19 have Mode "On" and g21 have > > Mode "Off"? > > Also, why not try making the Mdix type the same? > > The difference between MDI and MD

Re: Debian ADM64 Etch (testing/unstable) system freeze

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:08:28AM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote: > Rami Saarinen wrote: > > Anyway, I am glad to inform that yes it really was the memory that was > > causing the trouble. I let the machine run the memtest86+ last night and > > after 10 hours it had found four memory errors. Apparent

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:18:56PM +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > So what FOSS/.deb package would you recommend for the Nvidia 6600? I would recommend the non-free (non FOSS) .deb package called nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-dev, and nvidia-kernel-source. It installs cleanly and properly on a debian

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
So what FOSS/.deb package would you recommend for the Nvidia 6600? Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:15:25PM +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: Can you explain how to do this or point me to a link that can? Using anything other than the package makes your system no lon

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:15:25PM +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > Can you explain how to do this or point me to a link that can? Using anything other than the package makes your system no longer be a real debian system. Once you go overwriting things in places that by policy is controlled by d

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:49:05PM +, A J Stiles wrote: > You know, if hardware manufacturers were obliged by law to release sufficient > information to enable a competent programmer to write a driver, we would not > be in this sorry mess in the first place. That is no excuse for making a me

Re: Please help - kernel crashes often

2006-01-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:45:01AM -0800, mike wrote: > Yes, I was able to go down and get on the console, record it, and > found a thread on how to decypher it. > > > The MCE was: > > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 0: f60da833 > TSC 23fd7acec1e ADDR 797db2c0 > Kernel pan

Make, ccache and unreaped defunct shells

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Crowe
I've installed sarge/amd64 on a machine with a couple of Opteron 275s. We're using make (Debian version), ccache 2.4 and distcc 2.18.3 to build quite a large amount of code using -j12. At some point during the build make will stop spawning new jobs. Looking at the process listing there are a large

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Adam James
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:40 -0600, Michael Langley wrote: > It literally takes me 2 to 3 minutes > to have everything setup and ready with the installers from > nvidia.com. 2-3 minutes will become 2-3 hours when you need to remove all the cruft that was put in non-standard locations by your DI

Re: Jumbo Frames?

2006-01-31 Thread Adam Stiles
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 15:51, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > I don't know this switch but why does g19 have Mode "On" and g21 have > Mode "Off"? > Also, why not try making the Mdix type the same? The difference between MDI and MDI-X is in the port wiring; one of them has the transmit and receive line

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Michael Langley wrote: Oh, and if you used nvidia-installer from www.nvidia.com, then you're probably screwed unless you want to put in an unneccessary amount of effort to un-screw things. Not true at all. All I use are the installers from nvidia.com. The installer will install th

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread A J Stiles
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 15:23, Jo Shields wrote: > Michael Langley wrote: > >>Oh, and if you used nvidia-installer from www.nvidia.com, then you're > >>probably screwed unless you want to put in an unneccessary amount of > >>effort to un-screw things. > >...If you have a basic knowledge of ln and kn

Re: Jumbo Frames?

2006-01-31 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
mike wrote: Here's all the information I think could possibly be relevant... does anything look out of place here? and the two ports on the switch: switch01# show int st Flow Link Back Mdix Port Type Duplex Speed Neg ctrl S

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Langley
> Why exactly aren't you just using packages, rather than having some > random script overwrite bits of /usr for kicks? > > Some things I just prefer to do myself. I've been using Linux since '97 and got used to doing things for myself very early on. When it comes to video drivers and kern

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Jo Shields
Michael Langley wrote: Oh, and if you used nvidia-installer from www.nvidia.com, then you're probably screwed unless you want to put in an unneccessary amount of effort to un-screw things. Not true at all. All I use are the installers from nvidia.com. The installer will install the

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Langley
> Oh, and if you used nvidia-installer from www.nvidia.com, then you're > probably screwed unless you want to put in an unneccessary amount of > effort to un-screw things. > > Not true at all. All I use are the installers from nvidia.com. The installer will install the 64bit driver and lib

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Jo Shields
Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I know, it was a topiv before. But I don't get it run right now. Teh specific problem is: Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.8178, but this library is version 1.0.7174 Does anyone has got a nvidia

Re: quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Jo Shields
Lars Schimmer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I know, it was a topiv before. But I don't get it run right now. Teh specific problem is: Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.8178, but this library is version 1.0.7174 Does anyone has got a nvidia

quake4 on debian amd64

2006-01-31 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I know, it was a topiv before. But I don't get it run right now. Teh specific problem is: Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module is version 1.0.8178, but this library is version 1.0.7174 Does anyone has got a nvidia-glx-ia32 with a 1.0.817

Re: ITP: fmit -- free music instrument tuner

2006-01-31 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> Junichi Uekawa writes: >> >>However the package seems to be functional as well. JU> I'll try to track down the problem, which probably is on amd64 Qt JU> side, which I suspect might take some time. Yes, these are nasty issues.. JU> For the timebeing, feel free to push me any ot

Re: [a-users] Re: ITP: fmit -- free music instrument tuner

2006-01-31 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > JU> Hi, > JU> I'm trying to debug why 'fmit' is so unstable on my unstable amd64 > JU> box. Backtrace is looking suspiciously too qt to be application > JU> specific. Anyone seen this kind of backtrace recently? At first sight > JU> it looks like some allocator bug. > > Hi Junic

Re: Jumbo Frames?

2006-01-31 Thread mike
Here's all the information I think could possibly be relevant... does anything look out of place here? This is machine A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 1

Re: Please help - kernel crashes often

2006-01-31 Thread mike
Yes, I was able to go down and get on the console, record it, and found a thread on how to decypher it. The MCE was: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 0: f60da833 TSC 23fd7acec1e ADDR 797db2c0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine check the output from "mcelog" was: web03:~

Re: Debian ADM64 Etch (testing/unstable) system freeze

2006-01-31 Thread Corey Hickey
Rami Saarinen wrote: > Anyway, I am glad to inform that yes it really was the memory that was > causing the trouble. I let the machine run the memtest86+ last night and > after 10 hours it had found four memory errors. Apparently I was too > hasty at the first time. > > I have one more stupid q