I've been using nothing but 64-bit Debian for the last few years.
I love it. Server, workstation.
brian m. carlson 23:12 Mon 21 Mar
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:35:46PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Are there still significant end-user problems for 64-bit Debian? The
Lennart Sorensen 13:37 Fri 10 Jul
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:59:22AM -0300, Erick Tostes wrote:
Until the next xorg upgrade overwrites one of the files and breaks things.
Packages are a much better idea to use.
The nvidia installer is one of those awful things that
* Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-28 10:20:05 -0200]:
wget -c
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-40r1-amd64-DVD-1.iso
Try installing and using jigdo/jigdo-lite. I've had pretty good luck
with it.
It downloads smaller chunks and assembles
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-26 10:55:37 -0400]:
apt-cache show packagename dpkg --info package.deb
To see what files a package is using: dpkg -L packagename
To see what package owns a file: dpkg -S /path/to/filename
Thanks!
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* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 21:23:53 +0100]:
Now, assume those packages are updated (e.g. by a security update),
reversing the nvidia changes. The nvidia driver will unexpectedly stop
working. You try to uninstall, which replaces the overwritten files with
the versions that
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 09:33:27 -0400]:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:53:49AM +0200, Niels Larsen wrote:
On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, following their
instructions:
http
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 09:27:34 -0400]:
In fact if you have three processes to run and in total they need 90% of
one cpu, then it is better to run it all on one cpu and let the other
one go to power saving mode rather than running half the load on each.
That does
* Hans-J. Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 08:27:20 +0200]:
Am Freitag 24 August 2007 schrieb Niels Larsen:
On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, following their
instructions:
http://www.nvidia.com/object
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 10:20:13 -0400]:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:14:13AM -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
I much prefer doing it all myself and
understanding where to put every file.
I used to do my own kernels. I stopped bothering around 2.6.0 since
debian's
* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-23 11:45:11 -0400]:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:08:49PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
I have an AMD64 dual-core cpu running debian-amd64. Now I have heard, that
it
might be possible, to run applications on different cpus. One app is
running
* Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-23 23:19:02 +]:
Hi Niels, (top posting on purpose)
Keep the replies to the list. See my embedded comments. I'll cc the
debian-amd64 list.
This is off topic, but /now/ I discover the L key in mutt grin
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* Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-21 13:34:53 -0400]:
Another good test scene: Maria in the Mother Superior's office, the
Nvidia driver lets the viewer see the MS's facial expression change as
Maria talks, with the nv driver you miss this subtle facial acting.
I too was
* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-20 08:48:57 +0100]:
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:10 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I'm asking on this list since my box is an Athlon64 running amd64 and I
don't know if, for example, there are fewer choices of free drivers for
amd64.
Free XvMC
* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]:
In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. Core2 gives double
that. It's a significantly faster floating point chip, albeit with
significantly worse memory bandwidth.
Thanks! Do you know of a URL that lays out all the
* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-20 13:12:17 +0100]:
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 08:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
* Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-20 12:06:05 +0100]:
In short? AMD64 gives you 2GFLOPS per core per GHz. Core2 gives double
that. It's a significantly faster
* Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-19 18:32:35 +0200]:
A Dijous 19 Juliol 2007 18:25, Lennart Sorensen va escriure:
because the grub, after reboot doesn't detect this:
splashimage=/boot/sid.bmp
or
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/sid.bmp
and the error that I have is
* Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-19 19:05:31 +0200]:
A Dijous 19 Juliol 2007 18:51, Chris Ahlstrom va escriure:
Another question is the splash image in grub, but this is another question.
I think that is a side effect of the SATA problem, too.
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* A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-11 08:56:42 +0100]:
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 03:46, Seb wrote:
Just programs that are not available for amd64, or that require some
plugin that is not: acroread, iceweasel (for flash, and the java 6
packages), mplayer (for w32codecs), realplayer
* Seb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-11 17:27:20 -0500]:
Some people use gparted from a livecd. Do NOT resize or move the
windows boot partition however, unless you have a real vista CD around
to boot to recovery mode and repair the boot files for vista. It will
not boot if you change the
* Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-22 20:59:44 +]:
Ditch checkinstall and learn the debian way. In particular:
$ tar -xzvf foo.tar.gz
$ cd foo
$ ./configure --your-pretty-options
$ make --your-pretty-options
[if everything goes according to the plan]
$ dh_make --createorig
* Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-23 14:31:35 +]:
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:20:10 +0200, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
I need one more crash: what package gives one dh_make?
Behold: dh-make
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/dh-make
Silly me, I was searching aptitude
* Gudjon I. Gudjonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-21 19:55:17 +0200]:
Hi
I think I had this problem a year ago and the solution is the following.
In
the do_chroot script write
#!/bin/bash
LANG=C; exec schroot -p -c sid -q -- `basename $0` $@
This LANG=C fixes the problem. At least
* A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-14 09:01:29 +0100]:
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 20:52, C Wakefield wrote:
Greetings all.
I have a problem with either the nvidia-kernel or the nvidia module m-a
compiles.
The xorg driver nv works fine;
Then use that! Problem solved, and you
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