Re: F-Spot bug? - Encountered a Fatal Error

2006-10-10 Thread Andrew Mitchell
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:53:34AM +0530, Erle Pereira wrote: > Hi > > Im not sure if I have found a bug, was wondering if anyone can reproduce > this, ( Its not listed in the BTS ) > > (I hope this is the right list to post too) > > When I start F-spot, I get a fatal Exception, and cannot use i

F-Spot bug? - Encountered a Fatal Error

2006-10-10 Thread Erle Pereira
Hi Im not sure if I have found a bug, was wondering if anyone can reproduce this, ( Its not listed in the BTS ) (I hope this is the right list to post too) When I start F-spot, I get a fatal Exception, and cannot use it. Im on testing now (Etch) ... (upgraded from Sarge) Ive never really worke

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-10-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 9. Oktober 2006 03:38 schrieben Sie: > Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006 03:38 schrieben Sie: > >> Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > >>> Hi Russ, > >>> > >>> sry, my late answer, I did somehow miss your mail. > >>> > >>> Well, if nv crashes and nvidia without "Load GLX"-Optio

Re: i386 or amd64?

2006-10-10 Thread Kelly Byrd
>> >> It would take quite a big performance hit I suspect. It would >> essentially drop to the performance of the socket 754 systems, rather >> than the socket 939 performance. For example the 512k L2 socket 754 at >> 2.4GHz was ranked as a 3400+, while the socket 939 using dual channel >> memory

Re: i386 or amd64?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:54:40PM +0200, HXC wrote: > Is this true? I have an amd64 4000+ system with 1GB memory in a single > slot, does this hamper performance that much? It cuts your memory bandwidth in half. So any application that goes through a lot of data, will be a lot slower. Anythin

Re: i386 or amd64?

2006-10-10 Thread HXC
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:54:13AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just about finished building my new computer and need to decide which Debian port to install (i386 vs AMD64). Hardware: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe mot

Re: Installation on Asus K8N4-E Deluxe still fails

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:23:01AM +0200, Kv237 wrote: > Installation report > Installation image: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > Download date 2006-10-10 > > Installation attempts: 5 > > Hardware >M

Re: Installation on Asus K8N4-E Deluxe still fails

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:37:36PM +0200, HXC wrote: > I am afraid the nforce chip is causing these troubles, I have exactly > the same ethernet controller working without problems on my asus A8v > -deluxe with via chipset. Did you try kanotix? An A8V does not have the same ethernet. It has a m

Re: i386 or amd64?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:54:13AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I've just about finished building my new computer and need to decide > > which Debian port to install (i386 vs AMD64). > > > > Hardware: > > Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard > > AMD AM2 Athlon

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:21:42AM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > i would not merge them since grub does not support lvm at the moment... > (there are rumours about lvm2 support in grub2 though i havent > tried/tested it Keeping /etc of LVM makes it easier to start and fix your LVM if it ever gets c

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:01:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > You need an initrd or initramfs even if you compile a custom kernel. Why would you bother building your own kernel for most machines? Why would you not use an initramfs? > I like to boot into my / with init=/bin/sh, have an

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Manuele Rampazzo wrote: > Maybe it's better to make a bigger /tmp, say 1 GB, because of some > programs (for example, nautilus-cd-burner uses it to create a temporary > iso file - OK, you can change it's tmp directory, but by default it uses > /tmp)... I t

Re: LVM root?

2006-10-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:03:47AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > re /boot: old habits die hard. The wisdom I learned was that its less > likely to get corrupted. If that's not an issue anymore, then I can > forget it. I haven't seen any corruption in a long time running ext3. Corrupt root

Re: writing dvd problem

2006-10-10 Thread garrone
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 08:23:15PM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote: > I see one time this error if my memory is working right and means your > kernel must support the filesystem in the DVD... Well I can mount the image using the loopback device no problem. > > On 10/9/06, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL P

Re: writing dvd problem

2006-10-10 Thread garrone
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:00:30PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:50:09PM +1000, garrone wrote: > > Hi, > > Writing to dvd's appears to work as normal, but reading them back > > fails, with the following appearing from dmesg > > > > cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tra

Re: Installation on Asus K8N4-E Deluxe still fails

2006-10-10 Thread HXC
Kv237 wrote: Installation report Installation image: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Download date 2006-10-10 Installation attempts: 5 Hardware Motherboard:Asus K8N4-E Deluxe Chipse

Installation on Asus K8N4-E Deluxe still fails

2006-10-10 Thread Kv237
Installation report Installation image: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Download date 2006-10-10 Installation attempts: 5 Hardware Motherboard:Asus K8N4-E Deluxe Chipset:

Re: Google Earth woes

2006-10-10 Thread Jo Shields
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 18:13 -0500, Seb wrote: > On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:19:06 +0100, > Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > The nvidia-installer indiscriminately overwrites key files in /usr, > > leading to major system death in the event of upgraded X-related > > packages. > > >

Re: i386 or amd64?

2006-10-10 Thread HXC
Frank Hart wrote: On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:07:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What software packages available for i386 will not be ready for AMD64 when Etch becomes stable and is released (in December?)? I use both amd64 and i386 and I don't notice a performance

Re: Question: package listing with apt

2006-10-10 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2006 09:08 schrieb David Navas: > dpkg -l ¦ less > Thanks ! I ust forgot about dpkg ! Shame on me !!! Sry about the noise ! Best regards Hans > Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hi all, > > how can I list all installed packages in the shell ? I suppose it can be > > done using

Re: Question: package listing with apt

2006-10-10 Thread David Navas
dpkg -l ¦ less Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi all, > how can I list all installed packages in the shell ? I suppose it can be done > using apt, but with apt-cache or apt-show I could not find a way. What did I > miss ? > > Regards > > Hans > > > --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. V