Re: openoffice good news

2006-04-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Rafael Rodr?guez wrote: > http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/blog/archives/monthly/2006-04.html#2006-04-10T20_53_15.htm "This does not mean that porting OpenOffice.org to x86-64 is over[...] [...] Of course, no-one says how much it will work for you ;-)" Still looks as a working OOo is

Intel E7230 + ICH7

2006-04-10 Thread Nicholas P. Mueller
Hello, I am trying to setup Debian AMD64 on a Supermicro SuperServer 5015M- MF. I am having a bit of trouble as I cannot get the 3.1r0a net install cd to recognize the disks. I had found a thread in the mailing lists about this particular server's chipset, the E7230 + ICH7 but they didn'

openoffice good news

2006-04-10 Thread Rafael Rodríguez
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Re: ram

2006-04-10 Thread Paul Brook
> You MUST however have at least one stick of ram installed per cpu in > that cpu's memory area. If you don't put ram in A3 or B3, then it will > not see CPU2 at all. Really? My Tyan board works fine with RAM on only one CPU. The only restriction is that you must have at least one dimm installed

Re: The future of the amd64 port

2006-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Can we list the amd64.debian.net mirrors as sarge only and the debian > mirrors as etch/sid? Not sure if the Master file had that info. The sarge installer contains a copy (or 2) of the mirror list, so changing Mirrors.masterlist for etch will not affect sarge, aside

Re: The future of the amd64 port

2006-04-10 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:28:18PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> At what point should Mirrors.masterlist be updated to remove the > >> amd64.debian.net mirrors and stop listing all the main mirror network as > >> "!amd64"? > > > > As used in

Re: ram

2006-04-10 Thread Peter A. H. Peterson
Quoting Lennart Sorensen: > Well I was talking to someone on irc last week with that particular asus > board, and he had two dual core cpus, and 2 sticks of ram installed in > A1+B1, and it refused to see the second cpu. I suggested he move B1 to > A3, and when he did, the second cpu showed up. >

Re: ram

2006-04-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > You MUST however have at least one stick of ram installed per cpu in > > that cpu's memory area. If you don't put ram in A3 or B3, then it will > > not see CPU2 at all. > > Really? My Tyan board works fine with RAM on only one CPU. T

Re: ram

2006-04-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 04:10:26PM -0700, Peter A. H. Peterson wrote: > Quoting Steffen Grunewald: > > Wouldn't this mean that, in a dual CPU system, one should better use > > 4 mem modules? > > I just got an ASUS K8N-DL (because it is NUMA but fits into many ATX > cases). It is a strange board in

Re: cdrecord fails on usb writer

2006-04-10 Thread Andreas Fester
Hi, I wanted to retry this with a more recent linux kernel. Did you try anything specific, and which kernel did you use? Does the debug/log output of cdrecord look similar to the one I attached to the original posting? Thanks, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'd just like t

cdrecord fails on usb writer

2006-04-10 Thread ajmm
Hi! I'd just like to say that when I was just going crazy with my problem trying to write dvds on an external LG GSA-4167B i found your post, and... I'll give up. I lost t much time on this... Good luck! If i find an answer I'll tell you about it.

Re: Problems with upgrading packages in unstable

2006-04-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Edward Guldemond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When running unstable on my amd64 system, I am encountering problems > upgrading five packages. The packages with the problems are docker, > libbonobo2-0, libgtk2.0-bin, libselinux1, and openntpd. After > upgrading them, they stay in the list of p

Re: The future of the amd64 port

2006-04-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:47:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> (Please CC me, I forget if I'm subscribed.) >> >> At what point should Mirrors.masterlist be updated to remove the >> amd64.debian.net mirrors and stop listing all the main mirror network as >>

Re: Won't mirror without dists/sarge/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz signature in Release

2006-04-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"A.E.Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the last two weeks or so, I have trouble in using debmirror on the > sarge section of the amd.debian.net mirrors. The same thing has happened > on etch now and again, but that seems just to be a temporary problem of > mirrors updating. The sarge pro

Re: Cross compiling 32 bit

2006-04-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Jason Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On 4/8/06, Jason Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Greetings, >> > >> > My first experience with debian, and amd64. Can someone tell me >> > what packages I need to cross compile 32 bit apps? I've tried for >> > awhile, but I just can't

Re: Which linux flavor for amd64?

2006-04-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:09:19PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> "A.E.Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> 4. Install testing (etch) Debian which supposedly has internal >> >>> amd64 support. Can DVDs/CDs be found? >> >> >> >> >> >> No DVD/CDs for

Re: printing/printers

2006-04-10 Thread Erik Mouw
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:48:13PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I leave quotes after my reply? > updating

aic7xxx doesn't work with 2.6.16

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel van Eeden
I'm using an Adaptec 2940 controller with one 20GB disk and a scanner on my AMD64 system. It worked fine with kernel 2.6.9. With 2.6.16 is gives lots of errors. (bus reset, scsi domain validation errors, etc.). A quick google search turns up lots of similair results with kernel 2.6.12-2.6.16. What