Re: flash for amd64 [FAILED and SOLVED]

2007-07-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu July 12 2007 06:10:42 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Are there other things that you find iceweasel does better than > konqueror? I don't run KDE, but when I installed Etch in testing, the > mozilla namechange was happening and it was confusing to follow so I > switched to Konq. By & lar

Re: flash for amd64 [FAILED and SOLVED]

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 05:54:05PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu July 12 2007 05:16:07 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > Note, however, that while I can view thenorthface.com, the adobe test > > page thats supposed to verify that your flashplayer is working, doesn't > > work. Oh well. > >

Re: flash for amd64 [FAILED and SOLVED]

2007-07-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu July 12 2007 05:16:07 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Note, however, that while I can view thenorthface.com, the adobe test > page thats supposed to verify that your flashplayer is working, doesn't > work. Oh well. I find http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome doesn't work with konqueror

Re: uswsusp not detecting swap during Debian testing install

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:28:18PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > All machines I setup now are done with software raid1, and then LVM on > top of that. I haven't had much luck with root on LVM yet (seems to > hard to fix), so I tend to have a 10G partition for a raid1 to use as > root and then

flash for amd64 [FAILED and SOLVED]

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello, Restarting my own thread. Since nspluginwrapper can't be backported from Sid/Lenny to Etch, I've gone ahead and installed an etch-ia32 chroot on my etch-amd64 Athlon box. I'm running Konqueror and needing to access some sites that require flashplayer. In the chroot, I installed the same

Re: uswsusp not detecting swap during Debian testing install

2007-07-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:14:18PM -0500, Seb wrote: > Thanks so much for this concise and clear summary of partitions! I'll > make sure the /home is not primary but logical. I'll also check into the > benefits of the LVM setup you suggested. LVM lets you turn one or more devices/partitions into

Re: uswsusp not detecting swap during Debian testing install

2007-07-12 Thread Seb
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:27:42 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: [...] > The way the partition table works on PCs is that there is room for 4 > entries. Those are your 4 primary partitions. That's it. No more > bytes left for partition entries. To get around this, logical > par

Re: uswsusp not detecting swap during Debian testing install

2007-07-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:41:07AM -0500, Sebastian P.Luque wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:25:04 -0400, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > > [...] > > > As long as swap is larger than ram, suspend should be OK with it. > > > Of course it is imposible to have 4 primary partitions if

Re: uswsusp not detecting swap during Debian testing install

2007-07-12 Thread Sebastian P . Luque
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:25:04 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: [...] > As long as swap is larger than ram, suspend should be OK with it. > Of course it is imposible to have 4 primary partitions if you have any > logical partitions since the logical partitions all share a primary

Re: mounting disks

2007-07-12 Thread Cavan Mejias
thanks everybody for the advice. Ill make those changes. Cavan On 7/12/07, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:49:57AM -0400, Cavan Mejias wrote: > my new fstab now looks like this: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # >

Re: mounting disks

2007-07-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:49:57AM -0400, Cavan Mejias wrote: > my new fstab now looks like this: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > /dev/sda6 / ext3defaults,errors=

Re: uswsusp not detecting swap during Debian testing install

2007-07-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:16:10AM -0500, Seb wrote: > Now that I got through wrestling Vista's partition, I stumble upon this > issue. During installation of Debian testing onto the laptop, right after > packages chosen for install have been downloaded, I get the following > message: > > ---<---

Re: mounting disks

2007-07-12 Thread Cavan Mejias
my new fstab now looks like this: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/sda6 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda5 noneswapsw

Re: How to use SMP right?

2007-07-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 7/12/07, Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am not really familar with multiprozessors or multicore systems except installing a smp enabled kernel and see more then one cpu in /proc/cpuinfo. On clustersystems are tools for distributing prozesses to free nodes of the cluster.

Re: mounting disks

2007-07-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag 12 Juli 2007 schrieb Cavan Mejias: > Hi everybody, > Does anyone know what changes i need to make to fstab to have > my 14 GB fat32 partition and my 40 GB WindowsNTFS partition mount > automatically at boot? Disks, in administration, lists the 1st as

mounting disks

2007-07-12 Thread Cavan Mejias
Hi everybody, Does anyone know what changes i need to make to fstab to have my 14 GB fat32 partition and my 40 GB WindowsNTFS partition mount automatically at boot? Disks, in administration, lists the 1st as /dev/sda7 and the 2nd as /dev/sda2? pmount doesn't give an

Re: resizing partition with Windows Vista

2007-07-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:27:20PM -0500, Seb wrote: > That is the problem, the boot partition is the largest (137 out of the 160 > Gb total), and can only be reduced to about 80 Gb!! The Vista system is > "optimized" to make efficient use of the hard drive by creating 4 > partitions with several

uswsusp not detecting swap during Debian testing install

2007-07-12 Thread Seb
Hi again, Now that I got through wrestling Vista's partition, I stumble upon this issue. During installation of Debian testing onto the laptop, right after packages chosen for install have been downloaded, I get the following message: ---<---cut here---start--

Re: resizing partition with Windows Vista

2007-07-12 Thread Seb
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:48:40 -0500, Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I may have found a workaround though. I had created these so-called > "recovery" DVDs once the laptop went through the whole first-run > procedure. Booting into the 1st DVD there's an option to install > out-of-box softw

Re: How to use SMP right?

2007-07-12 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: Hi, I am not really familar with multiprozessors or multicore systems except installing a smp enabled kernel and see more then one cpu in /proc/cpuinfo. How is it running on single desktopsystems, does the smp enabled kernel do the work for distributing the prozesses

Re: How to use SMP right?

2007-07-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
the kernel will share the threads across the processors / cores. you can see this in 'top', the processes being shared around if you want the program you are writing to use more than one cpu you will need to thread it. if you are running lots of different programs (as you do on a desktop) the

How to use SMP right?

2007-07-12 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi, I am not really familar with multiprozessors or multicore systems except installing a smp enabled kernel and see more then one cpu in /proc/cpuinfo. On clustersystems are tools for distributing prozesses to free nodes of the cluster. How is it running on single desktopsystems, does the smp e

Re: buttons on front panel

2007-07-12 Thread A J Stiles
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 23:25, Thiago Nolasco wrote: > Hello everyone ... > I've got one probleam > my notebook had a button on front panel witch 1 of these buttons doesn't > work, the kernel that i compile had a support for acpi(buttons) > the halt button works, just this one doens't work, i