Re: sources.list help

2007-11-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 22:17, Dave Stevens wrote: > I have a friend with a new debian amd-64 install. He has unrar-free but it > won't open RAR 3.0 files. It looks like it would be worthwhile to try unrar > but I am not able to get appropriate access for synaptic. > > I went to: > http://packa

re: sources.list help

2007-11-13 Thread Dave Stevens
Jochen Schulz, Robert Isaac, Thanks for your info. The Debian computer is not mine and I was not at it when writing. I apologize for the scant information, but finding out what information to provide was part of my purpose. I'll write again after trying your suggestions and will provide more in

Re: sources.list help

2007-11-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dave Stevens: > > I went to: > http://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar/amd64/download > > and tried adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list as suggested at that page Don't force us to follow your links if you could easily provide the necessary information (i.e. the contents of the sources.list) in y

Re: sources.list help

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Isaac
Demand a better archive format, tar.bz2 has much better compression. Otherwise: apt-cache search unrar unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) Just add contrib non-free to the end of your mirror if you must use the non-free version of unrar it

sources.list help

2007-11-13 Thread Dave Stevens
I have a friend with a new debian amd-64 install. He has unrar-free but it won't open RAR 3.0 files. It looks like it would be worthwhile to try unrar but I am not able to get appropriate access for synaptic. I went to: http://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar/amd64/download and tried adding a line

Re: audio performance.

2007-11-13 Thread Michael
I think you should try to describe the noise and circumstances a little. Is only with mp3 (not with wave, for example) ? Will be influenced by loudness ? (alsamixer PCM gain, or equalization) Is the same in different players, like vlc and amarok ? Perhaps you can drop a note at http://alsa.open

Re: reportbug config

2007-11-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag 13 November 2007 schrieb Bhaskar Manda: > > From: Hans-J. Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > can I change the editor of reportbug from "joe" to "vi" ? > > If yes, where ? > > In /etc/reportbug.conf. Thanks, yes, I looked in /etc/reportbug.conf but somehow did not dicover it. Shame

RE: reportbug config

2007-11-13 Thread Bhaskar Manda
> From: Hans-J. Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > can I change the editor of reportbug from "joe" to "vi" ? > If yes, where ? In /etc/reportbug.conf. -- Bhaskar

reportbug config

2007-11-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, can I change the editor of reportbug from "joe" to "vi" ? If yes, where ? Regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)

2007-11-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > AFAIK SSE is also available in 32-bit mode so that is no reason why > x86_64 should be faster. Available yes, but not default. You would have to recompile all libraries and applications that use floating point and tell them all to us