Re: hibernate vs hibernate-ram ?

2008-04-14 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:40:39PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Second question: Is there a way on a multi processor system to prevent the system to use both cores (yes, I know, can start as a single core machine) and after start up using the second (and now empty cpu) for one process ? My

Re: nvidia way versus debian way of installing nvidia 3D graphics drivers in Lenny..

2008-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:00:25PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I have installed Debian Lenny on my HP G6062 laptop. Xserver works reasonably using the vesa driver. I couldn't get it to work with the nv driver. It seems to see the nvidia network controller as well. There is an

apt-* vs aptitude vs synaptic

2008-04-14 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear maintainers, it seems for me, that the commandline tool apt, the ncurses tool aptitude and the graphical tool synaptic might use different databases. So I need a little more background (and knowledge) about this, otherwise I cannot explain myself, why apt-get dist-upgrade is giving

Re: apt-* vs aptitude vs synaptic

2008-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:21:05PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear maintainers, it seems for me, that the commandline tool apt, the ncurses tool aptitude and the graphical tool synaptic might use different databases. So I need a little more background (and knowledge) about this,

Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:56:58PM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi Giacomo: I do have a fast internet connections, though the current installation of amd64 was for a RealTek. On the Supermicro there is an integrated Gigabit, which is not seen by Linux. This also means that I can't scp to

Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:17:03AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi I finally succeeded in entering BIOS (although the Intel Boot Agent is a pest that has still to be eliminated; thanks to ael for suggesting Freedos: not yet tried, I first wanted to configure BIOS at least where I am sure

apt-mirror oddity.

2008-04-14 Thread Chris Wakefield
Greetings all: I've finally decided to set up my own mirror of unstable with apt-mirror on one of the machines on my network, which is running fine getting the initial download of x86_64. Running nload on the box, I notice a steady upload of about 15% of download bandwith as well, can someone

Re: apt-mirror oddity.

2008-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:44:47AM -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote: I've finally decided to set up my own mirror of unstable with apt-mirror on one of the machines on my network, which is running fine getting the initial download of x86_64. Running nload on the box, I notice a steady upload

Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Sorry for having posted fragmentarily. Some issues (mostly due to my faulty doing) have been fixed. Some are still unresolved (I'll post later about your second kind mail, I have to find the way to take the dmesg output as the scp to my desktop does not work) --- On Mon, 4/14/08, Lennart

Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:23:29AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Sorry for having posted fragmentarily. Some issues (mostly due to my faulty doing) have been fixed. Some are still unresolved (I'll post later about your second kind mail, I have to find the way to take the dmesg output as the

Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi reported at the bottom the output of dmesg gsemd --- On Mon, 4/14/08, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard To: Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL

Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
--- On Mon, 4/14/08, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard To: Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-amd64@lists.debian.org, A J Stiles

Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard

2008-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:13:18AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi reported at the bottom the output of So you have the CDROM, and you have all your ram. So what else was wrong with it other than the silly netboot agent making bootup take a while? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: apt-* vs aptitude vs synaptic

2008-04-14 Thread Karl Schmidt
One other tool you might consider is wajig that includes the gui front-end gjig. Apt has finally started doing logging, but have found wajig's logging to be more useful - and a log you might not want to delete except when moving between releases. The wajig log has saved me a lot of time in