Re: quiet dual dual-core opteron

2006-04-06 Thread Peter A. H. Peterson
Quoting Peter A. H. Peterson: > I've started a wiki for K8N-DL information if anyone cares: > > http://tastytronic.net/k8ndlis/ So, my quiet 4-way dual-core Opteron system is up and running. * ASUS K8N-DL motherboard because of it's smallish size and it's support for dual-core CPUs and NUMA. *

ram

2006-04-06 Thread Francesco Pietra
In setting up a workstation with --two amd6a 265 opterons dual core --Tyan K8WE S2895SA3NRF main board --two 360GB raid1 hd (raid 1 software by debian) --ram 2GB (Kingston KVR400D4R3A/2G - DDR 400 Ecc Registered), is any reason to prefer two slots of memories 1GB each instead of a single 2GB slo

ram/raid1

2006-04-06 Thread Francesco Pietra
n setting up a workstation with --two amd6a 265 opterons dual core --Tyan K8WE S2895SA3NRF main board --two 360GB raid1 hd (raid 1 software by debian) --ram 2GB (Kingston KVR400D4R3A/2G - DDR 400 Ecc Registered), is any reason to prefer two slots of memories 1GB each instead of a single 2GB slot

Re: is testing not getting build ?

2006-04-06 Thread Ernest jw ter Kuile
On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:09, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > I'm assuming you are talking about the official Debian archive, right? correct. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/mirror/debian/dists% grep-dctrl -F Architecture amd64 > etch/main/binary-amd64/Packages > > There seem to be some packages

Re: Upgrading to testing

2006-04-06 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
Find backports to sarge to just upgrade only your kernel and not all the system. Good luck On 3/31/06, Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This is my first post to this list. > > I am running Sarge at the moment but would like to upgrade t

Re: lazy umount

2006-04-06 Thread Francesco Pietra
after updating/upgrading etch today for other purposes, the card reader umounts smoothly. should it not next time, i'll follow your indications. thank you francesco pietra On Thursday 06 April 2006 15:35, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:35:38PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > >

Re: Powernow on MSI L715

2006-04-06 Thread Михаил Иванов
Thanks for the advice! Regrettably bios does not offer any possibility to set the an mode. Only an option to turn powernow on or off :-( Andrea Gasparini wrote: Hallo! Please help me to set up powernow for L715 MSI notebook. This is the laptop with MT4 Turion processor. I have a problem with cp

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread Sebastian Haase
On Thursday 06 April 2006 09:04, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Sebastian Haase wrote: > > Thanks Jo, for the details. > > OK - I found "nvidia-installer --uninstall" > > You remind(claim?) that nvidia only works (well) when built with gcc-3.4 > > !? But just /i

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Sebastian Haase wrote: > Thanks Jo, for the details. > OK - I found "nvidia-installer --uninstall" > You remind(claim?) that nvidia only works (well) when built with gcc-3.4 !? > But just /installing/ gcc-3.4 would not be enough ! How and at what step can

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread Sebastian Haase
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:43, Jo Shields wrote: > Sebastian Haase wrote: > >Thanks (I'm back ...) > > - Sebastian Haase > > Build one. Add a normal 32-bit mirror's deb-src to /etc/apt/sources.list > (e.g. "deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian unstable non-free"). > Install some building-relat

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread Bora Ugurlu
Temperature control is built only in the nvidia driver (nvidia-settings tool displays it in 6xxx models and upwards), as well. --- sigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:37:22AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:29:18PM +0200, Rafael Rodr?guez

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread sigi
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:37:22AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:29:18PM +0200, Rafael Rodr?guez wrote: > > mmm... btw... for the ones that don't use DRI at all.. is there any single > > advantage of nvidia propietary driver over nv? > > Supports newer chips sooner t

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:29:18PM +0200, Rafael Rodr?guez wrote: > mmm... btw... for the ones that don't use DRI at all.. is there any single > advantage of nvidia propietary driver over nv? Supports newer chips sooner than x.org That's about it. Not sure you can do dual head on the x.org driv

Re: lazy umount

2006-04-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:35:38PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > is anything new about umounting busy devices? i am just rebooting (and going > to sleep) after unsuccessful search which/what is blocking my card reader on > debian etch (and once again hating usb). i tried fuser -u but probably

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread Rafael Rodríguez
mmm... btw... for the ones that don't use DRI at all.. is there any single advantage of nvidia propietary driver over nv? Rafael Rodríguez El Jueves, 6 de Abril de 2006 14:55, Lennart Sorensen escribió: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:37:36PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: > > I ran nvidia 7676 for

Re: is testing not getting build ?

2006-04-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ernest jw ter Kuile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There have been no new packages in amd64 testing since a few days > now, while many packages now in amd64 unstable are already in i386 > testing (udev 0.088-2 is an example) > > It seems like the rebuild of amd64 testing stopped somehow. > > note

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:06:35PM -0800, Sebastian Haase wrote: > Thanks for the reply - as I said the only 8178 I found claimed to be only for > i386. Just because you only see i386 doens't mean the source package can't be compiled with dpkg-buildpackage on amd64 (it can, quite well) > Now, I

Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)

2006-04-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:37:36PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: > I ran nvidia 7676 for 2.6.14, but had to upgrade to 8178-3 for 2.6.16. > Not sure about 2.6.15. > To build the package, I install nvidia-kernel-source, cd /usr/src/linux > (where I have the kernel) and > >make-kpkg -rev 1 mod

Re: Debian Sarge server frozen (em64t-p4-smp)

2006-04-06 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Simon wrote: On 4/6/06, Stephen Woodbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Simon, Have you checked your 3ware logs, are you getting any disk errors? Which controller are you running? Have you run fsck on all the partitions? Not sure any of these will help as Lennart said, it does sound like somethi

Firefox themes don't install

2006-04-06 Thread Aaron Stromas
Hi,Yesterday I installed etch on a new Dell box. This morning I tried to change the theme in Firefox but instead of usual installation into themes set, Firefox untarred the themes jar. I reckon, since themes are packaged as jars it makes sense but I have never seen this behaviour before, firefox wa

Re: samsung ml-1520 install script fails with glibc 2.0 error

2006-04-06 Thread Matthew Yee-King
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Matthew Yee-King wrote: > >>Hello! >> >>I am attempting to install a samsung ml-1520 usb printer on my debian >>etch amd64 system. I have only been able to install this printer on an >>i386 system using proprietary drivers in the past, and that is what I am >>using now.

Re: Debian Sarge server frozen (em64t-p4-smp)

2006-04-06 Thread Simon
On 4/6/06, Stephen Woodbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon, > > Have you checked your 3ware logs, are you getting any disk errors? Which > controller are you running? Have you run fsck on all the partitions? Not > sure any of these will help as Lennart said, it does sound like > something har

Re: Powernow on MSI L715

2006-04-06 Thread Andrea Gasparini
> Hallo! Please help me to set up powernow for L715 MSI notebook. This is > the laptop with MT4 Turion processor. I have a problem with cpu > temperature control: the temperature on idle machine stabilizes about > 54*C. The frequency is at lowest level (800MHz). Fan incessantly changes > speed from