Where are the packages ?

2006-09-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I wondered, why some packages cannot be found by apt, although they are still on the Debian-servers in the repository. (in my case I looked for chntpw in the non-free branch) Did I miss some change ? This my sources.list entry: -- snip

Re: Where are the packages ?

2006-09-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:44AM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I wondered, why some packages cannot be found by apt, although they are still on the Debian-servers in the repository. (in my case I looked for chntpw in the non-free branch) Did I miss some change ? It doesn't seem to be built

Re: Where are the packages ?

2006-09-08 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 8. September 2006 10:24 schrieb Hamish Moffatt: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:44AM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I wondered, why some packages cannot be found by apt, although they are still on the Debian-servers in the repository. (in my case I looked for chntpw in the non-free

Re: Where are the packages ?

2006-09-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:44AM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I wondered, why some packages cannot be found by apt, although they are still on the Debian-servers in the repository. (in my case I looked for chntpw in the non-free branch) Did I

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:18:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For motherboard brands, are some better for Linux and reliability in general than others? Tyan as one definite ace in its sleeve that I appreciate much, and that you may appreciate or not: They support LinuxBIOS on all their

Re: chroot and ia32libs combined

2006-09-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:27:08AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: My suggestion is: Don't do it. If you need the 32bit version for something then use it for everything. The benefit of 64bit is generaly negible anyway. No point in having say a 64bit and 32bit mozilla. Well, there's a

Re: chroot and ia32libs combined

2006-09-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:27:08AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: My suggestion is: Don't do it. If you need the 32bit version for something then use it for everything. The benefit of 64bit is generaly negible anyway. No point in having say a 64bit and 32bit

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:18:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any other form-factors on the horizon that would make a good ATX box and PS obsolete? Are there boxes that are future-oriented (lots of bays, lots of room for air to flow, bottom cooling like AMD suggests) that will

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:23:04PM +0100, A.E.Lawrence wrote: PCI Express is a significant advance over standard PCI. (Better physics, primarily.) High speed unidirectional serial links, versus slower parallel bidirectional links. It's a good change. Whether you want PCI slots or PCIe slots

Re: [POLL] To continue 64 or not?

2006-09-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Andrew Robinson wrote: Well I made the rough decision last night and switched back to 32b. After reading some benchmarks it didn't look like 64b was going to benefit me much. This is a home desktop computer so the 32b will fit me fine. Just a shame to give up the extra functionality. Perhaps in

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-08 Thread Helge Hafting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly off topic but I'm soon going to be making a new computer (my first in 12 years) and will be using AMD with Debian. The standard board/power/box form-factor has been ATX for a while. Does anyone see anything else on the horizon? I plan to buy a good case and

performance of AAC-RAID (ICP9087MA)

2006-09-08 Thread Raimund Jacob
Hi *, We are happily running our fileserver on AMD64 (from /proc/cpuinfo): model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 cpu MHz : 1995.066 cache size : 1024 KB we thought it might be a good idea to run one of those expensive, over-engineered ICP controllers (on PCI-X): 02:03.0

Re: performance of AAC-RAID (ICP9087MA)

2006-09-08 Thread Paul Brook
Checking out a largish CVS module is no fun. The data is retrieved via cvs pserver from the file server and written back via NFS into my home directory. Have you checked your NFS settings? I'd expect that to be the main bottleneck in this setup. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: which package to play DVD's ???

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:20:38PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:59:19AM -0500, helices wrote: What do you think? well, i personally user xine-ui or mplayer from deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main Well, slightly OT because this isn't about DVDs, but

s2875 tyan kernel memory problem

2006-09-08 Thread garrone
Memory/disk Problems with s2875 Tyan dual-processor motherboard I have 4 gig of ram. If, in the bios, I enable the memory hole so as to get all 4 gig of ram in the kernel, and run a stress test as follows: stress -d 1 -t 10 Then I get a kernel crash almost immediately and have to de-power to

Re: povray

2006-09-08 Thread Steven Dobson
Florian On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 23:16 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: It is still not fixed for me (Sid, povray 1:3.6.1-3). You could try to install the package povray-3.5 for the time being. I've be chatting with Francesco off-list (I guess it was the 'ld Reply/Reply-All problem). I use povray-3.5

Re: povray

2006-09-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:55:44 +0100, Steven Dobson wrote: Florian On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 23:16 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: It is still not fixed for me (Sid, povray 1:3.6.1-3). You could try to install the package povray-3.5 for the time being. I've be chatting with Francesco