Advice for new machine?

2006-07-19 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. I should install debian on a new machine with the following components: CPU: AMD X2 4200+ MB: Asus A8N SLI Prem Graphics: ASUS EAX 550 Network: DLINK DGE 530T Keyboard: Logitech LX700 Is everything supported? Especially useful would be the driver names for: - the SATA disk controller -

Re: Texmaker fails to build on arm

2006-07-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:22:44PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well the log to me looks like a g++ bug, or possibly something in libqt, but probably the compiler. Too bad you can't tell which g++ version was installed at the time of the compile on each architecture's buildd. Looking at the

Re: 32bit chroot help

2006-07-19 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 12:37 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Bharath Ramesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had recently posted in the group for suggestions on the best possible setup for a dual opteron compile/head node for our cluster. The solution for 32bit support was to install a chroot

Re: 32bit chroot help

2006-07-19 Thread Jo Shields
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 18 July 2006 12:37 am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Bharath Ramesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had recently posted in the group for suggestions on the best possible setup for a dual opteron compile/head node for our cluster. The solution for 32bit support

Re: reiserfs/md1/failure/threads

2006-07-19 Thread Francesco Pietra
Thank you for most detailed instructions. On a global balance, I decided to carry out a fresh install of amd64 to have ext3 as file system. You (and general) strong advice to change to ext3 can not be ignored. I am just downloading the amd64 net CD install built freshly daily, so that I can

Re: 32bit chroot help

2006-07-19 Thread Adam Stiles
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 10:41, Jo Shields wrote: Seems fairly self-evident to me. Instead of sid on the above line say sarge, instead of http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian; use one of the hundreds of URLs on http://www.debian.org/mirror/list - how is this complex or beyond basic common sense?

Re: reiserfs/md1/failure/threads

2006-07-19 Thread Peter Yorke
While ext3 is a very stable file system in the amd64 Debian disro For disk intensive applications like databases and those that stream data, XFS is a better choice due to the inherent performance capabilities and it's mature 64bit legacy in the SGI OS Peter Peter Yorke Sr. Linux Server

Re: reiserfs/md1/failure/threads

2006-07-19 Thread Karl Schmidt
We have several systems running the jfs file system on AMD64 with no problems. They are running under LVM on MD RAid. There are reliability reasons (that I won't go into here) that we did not use reiserfs. If you don't go with jfs you might also look at xfs.

Re: Advice for new machine?

2006-07-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:00:57AM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote: I should install debian on a new machine with the following components: CPU: AMD X2 4200+ MB: Asus A8N SLI Prem Graphics: ASUS EAX 550 Network: DLINK DGE 530T Keyboard: Logitech LX700 Is everything supported?

Azureus and libswt-gtk-3.1-jni

2006-07-19 Thread Thomas Halva Labella
Hi! I wanted to install azureus on my machine. First trial: # apt-get install azureus Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

Re: Texmaker fails to build on arm

2006-07-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:15:35AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: Looking at the texmaker buildd log[1], It seems g++-4.1 is not installed, and thus the version of g++ in the buildd is one of the g++-4.0 versions. Should g++ be atleast the same major version as gcc ? from the logs seems grieg

Re: two questions about packages

2006-07-19 Thread Wolfgang Mader
My german is not that good, but I think that, for googleearth, the installer is looking for xserver or something similar, and it does not fing it because you are running ./googleearthbin from root. Try it as a normal user, should work Thierry I tried as user and as root with exported

Re: two questions about packages

2006-07-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2006 20:05 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: My german is not that good, but I think that, for googleearth, the installer is looking for xserver or something similar, and it does not fing it because you are running ./googleearthbin from root. Try it as a normal user, should

Re: Azureus and libswt-gtk-3.1-jni

2006-07-19 Thread Max A.
On 7/19/06, Thomas Halva Labella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies. azureus: Depends: libswt-gtk-3.1-java but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages That's bug #338955 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338955 Max -- To

Re: ROX--Session--Family!

2006-07-19 Thread stalbert
Gnu-Raiz wrote: Well Ubuntu finally pushed me over the edge due to all the problems I encountered. So I decided to install Debian etch amd64, everything went well. So I decided to try the latest ROX family of products, as I am an ardent fan of ROX in general. I installed Rox-filer with no

Re: No sound on etch when using video players

2006-07-19 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:47:39AM +0100 Jo Shields said: Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi I might be off topic but I have had the problem with my sound card that /dev/dsp is not created at boot time. I need to create it myself mknod /dev/dsp c

Re: ROX--Session--Family!

2006-07-19 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 18:51, stalbert wrote: Gnu-Raiz wrote: snip hi I use rox-filer all the time, sid amd64, and it is part of the distribution. Rox-session is not. I choose to use .xsession and that works fine for me. For pinboard backgound I just right click on the pinboard and drag