Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Clive Menzies
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2009-07-21 01:03:08, schrieb James Brown: There is 3071MB RAM I can see in my BIOS. ^^ ^^^ IF THE BIOS does only find 3 GByte, then tere is something wrong with your Laptop or the BIOS and this has nothing to do

Re: I want all my 4GB!!!

2009-07-21 Thread Clive Menzies
Clive Menzies wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2009-07-21 01:03:08, schrieb James Brown: There is 3071MB RAM I can see in my BIOS. ^^ ^^^ IF THE BIOS does only find 3 GByte, then tere is something wrong with your Laptop or the BIOS

Re: Package gkrellmd won't upgrade

2008-04-22 Thread Clive Menzies
Steve Dobson wrote: Hi guys What is the best way to cope with a package that will not upgrade? For example: # # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded:

Problems seeing samba shares from chroot

2007-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I have two sid amd64 systems on this box (main and reserve); the principle difference between the two is the main system is on LVM. Firefox/Iceweasel is run in the 32bit chroot and works fine on both. However, following a recent upgrade of the main system, I could no longer access samba shares

Re: bind mounts and shutdown sequence

2006-10-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On Thursday 19 October 2006 15:33, Stephen Olander Waters wrote: I am running sid with amd64 architecture. I also have a chroot called /x86 to run openoffice, acroread, boinc, etc. In my /etc/fstab, I have several bind mounts into /x86. When I run shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now,

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch? {Scanned} {Scanned} {Scanned}

2006-10-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/10/06 09:13), Henry Hollenberg wrote: Jo Shields wrote: There's no such (binary) package. nvidia-kernel-common: Init scripts needed by Nvidia. I've compiled the 2.6.17 kernel using the .config file that came with 2.6.17-2-amd64 which seemed to go OK. But all that gives me is an

oowriter not recognising graphics in 64 bit

2006-10-24 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've been running OOo 2.0 in a 32bit chroot for some time now and it works fine. Our letterhead has a graphic logo which shows and prints OK. I installed the 64bit OOo packages from sid recently and they too seemed work fine. However, in trying to print an invoice today, I realise the logo

Re: Is anyone else seeing segfaut on mutt (sid)? - SOLVED

2006-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/09/06 23:00), Clive Menzies wrote: Moving my .muttrc allows mutt to start (looking to create a local mail folder). If I then try to connect to the IMAP server (by changing folders), it segfaults having contacted the server. So I'm guessing that the fairly dramatic upgrade

Re: Is anyone else seeing segfaut on mutt (sid)?

2006-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/09/06 02:49), Manolo Díaz wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Since the latest round of upgrades mutt won't start; it segfaults when trying to connect to the IMAP server. I couldn't see anything similar in the BTS and so tried to run reportbug but get: File /usr/bin/reportbug

Re: Is anyone else seeing segfaut on mutt (sid)?

2006-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/09/06 19:04), Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:39:46AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Hmm thanks. The mutt problem has now resolved (sysvinit seems to have been the culprit). Just need to wait for the reportbug fix to hit sid :) Err, how would sysvinit cause mutt

Is anyone else seeing segfaut on mutt (sid)?

2006-09-10 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Since the latest round of upgrades mutt won't start; it segfaults when trying to connect to the IMAP server. I couldn't see anything similar in the BTS and so tried to run reportbug but get: File /usr/bin/reportbug, line 485 if email_addy != def_email: ^ SyntaxError: invalid

Re: Is anyone else seeing segfaut on mutt (sid)?

2006-09-10 Thread Clive Menzies
Manolo Díaz wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Since the latest round of upgrades mutt won't start; it segfaults when trying to connect to the IMAP server. I couldn't see anything similar in the BTS and so tried to run reportbug but get: File /usr/bin/reportbug, line 485 if email_addy

Re: muttprint doesn't want to play

2006-08-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/08/06 01:39), Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: Line 1752 is open (LFILE, $Temp{logf}) or die Could not open $Temp{logf}; in the printLog subroutine. This means $Temp{logf} is undefined for some reason. It should normally be /tmp/muttprint.log. Please file a

Re: muttprint doesn't want to play

2006-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/08/06 09:17), Stephan Seitz wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:37:22PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: When I hit 'p' to print a mail, I get the following: Could not open at /usr/bin/muttprint line 1752, STDIN line 46. Easy, you don’t have muttprint installed. The package is called

Re: muttprint doesn't want to play

2006-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/08/06 11:59), Stephan Seitz wrote: What is the content of your mutt variable print_command? set print_command=/usr/bin/muttprint it's the same rc file I use elsewhere Can you call muttprint from the command line? It appears to be doing something intelligent but nothing happens until

Re: muttprint doesn't want to play

2006-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/08/06 23:37), Clive Menzies wrote: Hi I've just done a fresh install (etch beta3) and upgraded to sid. I can't seem to get muttprint to work. I've got other installs on other partitions and I'm using the same $home partition and the muttrc works fine elswhere. When I hit 'p

Re: muttprint doesn't want to play

2006-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/08/06 14:49), Stephan Seitz wrote: Hm, do you have some TMP environment variables set (or maybe in your muttrc), and this directory doesn’t exist or isn’t writeable? I don't think so: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ printenv SSH_AGENT_PID=4515 SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm WINDOWID=10486116

Re: muttprint doesn't want to play

2006-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/08/06 15:45), Stephan Seitz wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:29:27PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (03/08/06 14:49), Stephan Seitz wrote: Hm, do you have some TMP environment variables set (or maybe in your muttrc), and this directory doesn’t exist or isn’t writeable? I don't think

Re: Problems with dchroot_start

2006-07-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/07/06 03:04), Max A. wrote: To: Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-x86-64@lists.debian.org From: Max A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 03:04:31 -0700 Subject: Re: Problems with dchroot_start On 7/9/06, Jack Malmostoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exec dchroot -c

Is there a bug in apt-listbugs?

2006-06-22 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi All Trying to do the usual daily upgrade of sid yesterday produced the following error: Fetched 6161kB in 31s (197kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... 0% [0/19] W: invalid compressed data -- crc error: dhcp3-client W: invalid compressed

Re: SATA, RAID and GRUB

2006-05-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/05/06 13:24), Erik Brucken wrote: On Friday 12 May 2006 13:05, Valero Pascual wrote: Hello!! I have a computer with amd64 and I am trying to install the sarge for amd64 with a minimum CD for net, I lower the image ISO: should-31r0a-amd64-netinst. Antecedentes: I must say that the

Re: stupid recent problem (chroot related)

2006-04-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/04/06 12:05), Sylvain Archenault wrote: I send a message about this at the Pkg-shadow-devel team. They told me, they've sent a patch to dchroot (#360604). And as a workaround, you can set the SU_NO_SHELL_ARGS environment variable before calling dchroot, or use: dchroot -- -c

Re: Problem with OpenOffice in chroot

2006-04-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/04/06 16:50), Sylvain Archenault wrote: Thanks to a private message, I found the solution, I needed to downgrade to login_4.0.15-1 (http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/03/23/debian/pool/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.15-1_i386.deb). Have a nice day :) Thanks Sylvain I was bitten by

Re: stupid recent problem (chroot related)

2006-04-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/04/06 20:20), Rafael Rodríguez wrote: i've been using skype through a chroot for months, with an icon in the desktop with the associated command: /usr/bin/dchroot -d /home/user/downloads/skype-1.2.0.18/skype but now it has stopped working: /usr/bin/dchroot -d

Re: realplayer in chroot VERY slow

2006-03-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/03/06 10:00), Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Same here. I assumed the program was just rubbish... May be, but it's all I got and this problem is likely some problem with a Debian library, because a real player Linux executable ran reasonably

Re: installation problem

2006-03-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/03/06 15:22), Martin Kotys wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:44:30PM +, Martin Kotys wrote: Not working as well. Kernel is with devfs support and harddisks are accessible through /dev/scsi/.. device, but it tries to write to /dev/sda error message from lilo: mount:

Success with wireless on Acer1524WLMi but now won't shutdown cleanly

2006-03-14 Thread Clive Menzies
Well there's good news and bad news :) The good news is it works :) The bad news is that when shutting down, the console hangs on an error ending: ndiswrapper (iw_set_ap_address:668) setting AP mac addressed failed (C0010015) After boot up dmesg shows: ndiswrapper (iw_set_freq:375): setting

Re: via82cxxx_audio module missing in 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8

2006-01-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/01/06 09:26), Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: Le 22.01.2006 00:55:19, Clive Menzies a écrit : Would you mind posting the output of lsmod so I can make a line by line comparison? Module Size Used by [snipped ] Thanks Jean-Luc I tried adding/deleting various

Re: via82cxxx_audio module missing in 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8

2006-01-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/01/06 15:14), Anthony DeRobertis wrote: via82cxxx_audio is OSS, snd_via82xx is ALSA. You want the latter. Ah! but if I've been using OSS to date, am I not able to continue or is it depricated? Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To

Re: via82cxxx_audio module missing in 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8

2006-01-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/01/06 11:18), Jo Shields wrote: Remember that when 2.6.0 was released, it was made clear that OSS was deprecated and scheduled for removal. We're on 2.6.15 now - don't expect too much time to be spent on OSS by the kernel developers. Thanks Jo, I should read more. That settles it

Re: via82cxxx_audio module missing in 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8

2006-01-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/01/06 15:47), Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Clive Menzies wrote: Since upgrading to 2.6.15 sometime ago, I've lost sound; I've only now had a chance to investigate and comparing the output of lsmod |sort on 2.6.14 (on which sound works) with this kernel, the module

via82cxxx_audio module missing in 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8

2006-01-21 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Since upgrading to 2.6.15 sometime ago, I've lost sound; I've only now had a chance to investigate and comparing the output of lsmod |sort on 2.6.14 (on which sound works) with this kernel, the module is missing. modprobe via82cxxx_audio fails to find it Am I being dense or is this a bug?

Re: via82cxxx_audio module missing in 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8

2006-01-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/01/06 17:23), Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: Le 21.01.2006 16:53:01, Clive Menzies a écrit : Since upgrading to 2.6.15 sometime ago, I've lost sound; I've only now had a chance to investigate and comparing the output of lsmod |sort on 2.6.14 (on which sound works) with this kernel

Re: via82cxxx_audio module missing in 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8

2006-01-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/01/06 20:42), Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: I've it used : via82cxxx 9284 0 [permanent] ide_core 139128 3 ide_generic,ide_cd,via82cxxx If via82cxxx is not loaded, I've no DMA on the disks. I've the same : *-multimedia

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Hi all, I have not been able to find anything useful on the problem described below. I could really use some ideas or suggestions. The one thing I have not tried is to build the driver based on the 3ware source, but I have not had much luck building a kernel that

Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/01/06 14:16), Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Thanks this sounds like it might do it. I tried it but no luck yet. I some more details below, maybe I missed an important module. I'm running a Sarge system with the sid kernel and backported yaird. /etc/modprobe.d/libata options libata

Re: Please don't laugh...

2006-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/01/06 11:53), Graham Smith wrote: Ok, you can maybe have a bit of a chuckle. I have just done an upgrade and, because I wasn't paying attention, I installed a load of KDE 3.5 packages which has left we with a less than perfect KDE experience. I have managed to get most things working

Re: Please don't laugh...

2006-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/01/06 12:48), Graham Smith wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 12:13, Clive Menzies wrote: On (10/01/06 11:53), Graham Smith wrote: If you use the interactive capability of aptitude it now has a pretty nifty dependency resolution function. I'm not sure why you're having a problem

Re: Upgrade to Kernel 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp

2006-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/01/06 10:11), Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:37:02PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: use aptitude or dselect to find the package 2.6.8 was pretty bad, may i suggest you go to 2.6.14 or 15 Tricky on sarge. FWIW I was frustrated with smp, sata and raid issues on a

Re: no updates to amd64 stable in last 3 weeks?

2006-01-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/01/06 10:27), Matthew Robinson wrote: i'm currently running AMD64 Stable, and i'm a little worried that there haven't been any updates (sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade) since just after i first installed. Stable is such because it doesn't introduce new packages, only

Re: no updates to amd64 stable in last 3 weeks?

2006-01-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/01/06 13:10), Matthew Robinson wrote: On Thursday 05 January 2006 13:01, Clive Menzies wrote: On (05/01/06 10:27), Matthew Robinson wrote: i'm currently running AMD64 Stable, and i'm a little worried that there haven't been any updates (sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist

Re: deborphan

2005-12-30 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/12/05 13:20), antongiulio05 wrote: Hi, launching deborphan I got a list of packages (for default in libs and oldlibs). Does it mean that I can remove that packages without risks? As I understand it, it is safe to remove any libraries that are reported by $ deborphan without any

Re: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

2005-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/12/05 22:02), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I received a letter congratulating me of my winnings. This sounds too good to be true, so I decided to check it out. I read your letter and it's almost exactly the same as the one I received. Did you really receive any money? Is this

Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system

2005-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/12/05 15:28), Thomas Steffen wrote: On 12/19/05, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone mentioned 64 bit knoppix. I thought of that but couldn't find it. That would be the fastest way, i think. Thanks for all the advice, Seem I am mistaken there. I thought I did use it, but

Re: acpi on turion 64

2005-12-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/12/05 18:46), Bruno Ducrot wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:52:30PM +0100, Andrea Gasparini wrote: Hi, I'm new of this mailing list, and i've some problems with fine-tunes in my Turion based notebook... The most serious problem is that from rebooting it doesn't change states

Re: USB mouse and touchpad issues using the unstable release

2005-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/05 00:09), Massimo Perga wrote: Hi Clive, I've tried to use your same configuration but I can't get neither mouse nor touchpad working. I also moved to the hotplug package to fix these USB issues but I wasn't so lucky. Have you any other idea ? Do you know what changed from

Re: Open office

2005-11-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/05 15:39), studio-64 wrote: Hi Although I run my 64Studio for music I really miss Open office. We often get asked to produce CD covers and such for our master CD's. I can us OO for this but not on 64. Its a shame as most of my Windoze people are really impressed with Linux on

Re: Open office

2005-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/11/05 10:07), Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Rob van Kraanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I'm quite new with Debian 64-bits. I just installed it on my laptop and it's great :) I just had one question, openoffice is currently not available as a debian-package, does anyone

Re: Cups On 64bit - Is it running?

2005-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/11/05 14:57), studio-64 wrote: Hi When I try cups admin in my browser I get ' connection refused on locakhost:631' even as root. I assume it's not running, How do I start it? I have this in init.d: *** 64studio:/etc/init.d# update-rc.d cupsys

Re: Cups On 64bit - Is it running?

2005-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/11/05 15:46), studio-64 wrote: I have this so far But still get the error: * AuthType Basic AuthClass System ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Encryption Required /Location

Re: Cups On 64bit - Is it running?

2005-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/11/05 18:09), studio-64 wrote: Something here: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: cupsys is broken or not fully installed 64studio:~# Re-install? Yeah! Ah well now we are at least close to the problem and hopefully near to a solution. I suggest you use aptitude to add and remove

Re: USB mouse and touchpad issues using the unstable release

2005-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/11/05 23:27), Massimo Perga wrote: Hi All, I've just upgraded the testing version to the unstable version. In the testing version both USB mouse and touchpad were working, but using latest unstable version (xorg server) I'm unable to use both. In particular, USB mouse seems to be

Re: changed ownership of / by mistake...

2005-11-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/11/05 22:52), Craig Hagerman wrote: Thanks for the replies Gilles and Cameron. I tried the suggestion to do apt-get --reinstall -u install and it does seem to have gotten things back ALMOST to where they should be. still a couple of obvious problems. I have no sound for some

Re: no correct boot after update of libpcre | debian amd64 unstable

2005-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/05 13:27), Thomas Drillich wrote: after update of libpcre the initscripts can't run, cause of the dependency of grep on /usr/lib/libpcre. /usr may not on the root filesystem, it could be on another partition or disc and grep is used in the mounting scripts. So should libpcre

Re: debian-amd64 or debian-pure64

2005-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/05 11:46), Stepan Kadlec wrote: debian-amd64 and debian-pure64 repository as found on amd64.debian.net and which one should I use? thanks steve I can't tell the difference but I use debian-amd64 which works well; I recall some posts about issues with 'pure'. Regards Clive

Re: synaptic touchpad does not work anymore

2005-10-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/10/05 09:42), Hans wrote: Hi all, after updating my system, the synaptic touchpad does not work any more. This is only, when I start the windowmanagers KDE or XFCE as normal users. I suppose it is a problem of permission rights. But where do I have to search ? Does somebody

Re: can't connect to ANY desktop !

2005-10-18 Thread Clive Menzies
Thanks Guys :) A transitory moment of panic. averted by your very helpful answers. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't connect to ANY desktop !

2005-10-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/10/05 16:23), Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: Le 18.10.2005 18:17:23, Clive Menzies a écrit : Thanks Guys :) A transitory moment of panic. averted by your very helpful Don't panic [1] ! ... or don't choose sid :) [1] Douglas Adams, THHGTTG 'panic' was used primarily

Re: Warning while updating package list.

2005-10-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/10/05 21:15), Jitendra Pawar wrote: Hi all, I am new to debain. I want to install new packages like logcheck, glibc, gnucash etc. I am getting following warning at the end of command: $apt-get update. --- Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error:

Re: Warning while updating package list.

2005-10-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/10/05 13:23), Michael Haupt wrote: Hi, On 10/10/05, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Long answer, install gnupg and acquire the public key for the source which will make the warning go away and ensure that you are installing from verifiable sources. where can I get

Re: perspectives on 32 bit vs 64 bit

2005-10-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/10/05 16:36), David Liontooth wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:37:26PM +0200, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: It's worth keeping in mind that Ubuntu is built on and refines Debian, syncs with it before a new release, and could not possibly succeed without Debian.

Re: amd64.debian.net sick?

2005-10-02 Thread Clive Menzies
(02/10/05 09:05), Ed Tomlinson : Is there a problem or is it just me? W: Couldn't stat source package list http://amd64.debian.net sid/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/amd64.debian.net_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) Got the above

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird bug?

2005-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/10/05 14:44), Alex Ferrara wrote: My PC used to run i386 Debian, and I have recently moved over to AMD64 port. I have noticed that Mozilla Thunderbird does not want to save a copy of an outgoing message to my Sent folder. I had the same config under i386 Debian using the same mail

Re: Heat problem with amd64 laptop

2005-09-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/09/05 17:31), Thomas Steffen wrote: On 9/25/05, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spoke to Acer support who referred me to the small print re: official acer software blah di blah. I assume you bought the notebook in the UK. In this case european consumer law

Heat problem with amd64 laptop

2005-09-25 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've been running sid amd64 (xfce4.2) since January and it's been working very well. However, from time to time I've suffered an abrupt shutdown, it would seem, due to overheating. 1. Some months ago I tried ripping some mp3 tracks from a CD using grip and it managed 5 tracks before just

Re: Heat problem with amd64 laptop

2005-09-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/09/05 11:15), Theodore Kisner wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:47, Clive Menzies wrote: I note that all Acer 64bit notebooks now ship with the Turion processor which is designed for laptops which would suggest that there is an inherent flaw in putting the athlon chip in laptops

Re: Heat problem with amd64 laptop

2005-09-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/09/05 00:43), antongiulio05 wrote: two months ago I have posted on this ml same problems (look out at cpu burns posts). I have an acer 1524wlmi, and it was under garantee until 10 days ago... my motherboard was burned and they have substituted it. Now it seems work, however I had

Re: http://http.us.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ gone?

2005-09-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/09/05 15:56), lordSauron wrote: Somewhat related, but not really, (I'm shy about starting new threads), I was wondering what mirrors there are for amd64-k8 or otherwise amd64 compatible packages. Right now I'm using the following mirrors: deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/

Re: http://http.us.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ gone?

2005-09-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/09/05 13:13), lordSauron wrote: so it would probably be best to stick with testing releases, since stable is usually too old and unstable has the possibility of having a few large errors, correct? There have been many posts to the list on this subject which go into considerable

Re: chroot application list

2005-07-30 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/07/05 17:57), kohzak wrote: it's just that i m about to install a debian etch on a amd64 with for exemple samba, and i would like to know if there is a existing samba amd64 package or if i will have to chroot it. pn samba none (no description available) un

Re: Acer Turion laptops

2005-07-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/07/05 12:09), Frederik Schueler wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:34:56AM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Anybody knows what is required to install Debian AMD64 on on Acer laptops with Turion processor? A friend has been asking me for help; and will be doing it tomorrow; I do

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/07/05 12:13), Joey Hess wrote: Adeodato Simó wrote: Or even better, make sure d-i installs anacron for desktop systems. That could be the case already, I'm not sure. CC'ing debian-boot to hear something from them. It doesn't do so currently. It does for laptops though, so

Fwd: Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-25 Thread Clive Menzies
- Forwarded message from Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org From: Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:55:49 +0100 Subject: Re: Please participate in popularity-contest On (25/07/05 12:13), Joey

Re: Where are the packages ?

2005-07-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/07/05 08:28), Hans wrote: Did I miss something ? All the packages in main are gone. Only the packages in non-free are there. This is my last known entry in sources.list: deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free deb-src

xorg upgrade without drama

2005-07-23 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi All Just thought I'd let you know that after hanging back whilst various problems resolved, I switched to xorg last night and everything works fine. No tweaking, no messing, just a drop in replacement. Am I impressed or what ? ;) Thanks a bunch for a brilliant port! Regards Clive --

Re: amd64-specific bug in XPDF based programs?

2005-07-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/07/05 13:19), Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: Dne ne 10. ?ervence 2005 14:55 Volker Schlecht napsal(a): Hi, as of recently I have experienced serious (read: undecipherable output) display bugs when trying to view certain PDF documents (i.e.

Re: amd64-specific bug in XPDF based programs?

2005-07-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/07/05 14:55), Volker Schlecht wrote: Hi, as of recently I have experienced serious (read: undecipherable output) display bugs when trying to view certain PDF documents (i.e. http://www.dnt.de/dl/58/SportyAdventur-eng-rgb.pdf). in xpdf-based viewers (xpdf-reader, evince, kpdf).

Re: amd64-specific bug in XPDF based programs?

2005-07-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/07/05 13:23), Max wrote: Volker Schlecht wrote: Hi, I am seeing similar problems garbled text. A windows user sent me a .pdf this week and it exhibited the same characteristics - I assumed it was a windows specific problem ;( Will you file a bug? Unless anyone tells me

Re: GPG problem for amd64.debian.net ?

2005-07-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/07/05 17:21), Harald Dunkel wrote: Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10339 March 1977, Harald Dunkel wrote: W: GPG error: http://amd64.debian.net unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY E415B2B4B5F5BBED W: You

Re: gimp, gimp-data dependencies

2005-07-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/07/05 11:41), Norval Watson wrote: I apt-get installed a stack of new pkgs recently and gimp somehow got dropped along the way. Now when I try to reinstall gimp I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install gimp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done

Re: Checkpoint Firewall Client on AMD64

2005-06-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/06/05 21:22), Pete wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: I can't help with your question re: Checkpoint but I'm in the same postion of having to reboot into XP for VPN remote access. I came up with the following possibilities and have had a cursory look at vpnc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt

Re: Checkpoint Firewall Client on AMD64

2005-06-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/06/05 08:24), Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well you would not want pptp for anything, so the webmin module isn't interesting. PPTP is really that bad. NT4 was really about the only thing to ever try to promote it until the flaws in the encryption system were shown to make it very insecure.

Re: Successful install, but no boot

2005-06-14 Thread Clive Menzies
J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi Goswin, My apologies, I sent my answer to you directly. Here it is again, but this time with a propper list-reply: Check that the bios and grub agree on the order of the drives. Try running grub-install for the other drive or switch the mapping in

Re: Rescue CD wanted: 2.6.10, SATA and XFS

2005-06-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/06/05 10:11), Thomas Steffen wrote: it seems I have to repair my XFS filesystem manually (recovery fails). Can anyone recommend a rescue CD with at least kernel 2.6.10 (needed for my SATA controller) and XFS support? A debian install CD would work, if it had kernel 2.6.10 on it... Is

Re: Debian AMD64 Sarge released

2005-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/06/05 10:39), Bharath Ramesh wrote: I would like to congratulate the developers who did this great job to make available Debian amd64 port to all us debian users. Great work congrats once again. I'll second that - brilliant ;) Thanks everyone Clive * Joerg Jaspert ([EMAIL

Re: archives?

2005-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/06/05 10:09), Mark Nipper wrote: Am I just crazy or did all of the archives die recently? I've tried amd64.debian.net, debian.csail.mit.edu and ftp.de.debian.org and all of their dists directories appear to be empty for each of the various amd64 distributions. apt-get and

Re: 32 bit mozilla in 64bit kernel, fails.

2005-05-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/05/05 15:46), Dan Merillat wrote: To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org From: Dan Merillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:46:22 -0400 Subject: Re: 32 bit mozilla in 64bit kernel, fails. Reply-To: Dan Merillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/24/05, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: nVidia drivers

2005-05-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/05/05 12:12), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, i've recently purchased an acer aspire 1524wlmi with a geforce go5700, i've been installing the system but i can't find the package nvidia-kernel-source, for the latest version of the dirvers (1.0.7174-1). Anyone knows anything

Re: nVidia drivers

2005-05-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/05/05 12:41), Rupert Heesom wrote: Hope you don't mind me writing to you directly (copied to list). No Problem - although I am subscribed Text to you (and reply) below: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:27, Clive Menzies wrote: On (26/05/05 12:12), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody

Re: nVidia drivers

2005-05-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/05/05 13:19), Alexander Fieroch wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: i've recently purchased an acer aspire 1524wlmi with a geforce go5700, i've been installing the system but i can't find the package nvidia-kernel-source, for the latest version of the dirvers (1.0.7174-1). Anyone knows

Re: 32 bit mozilla in 64bit kernel, fails.

2005-05-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/05/05 14:45), Dan Merillat wrote: On 4/6/05, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can only suggest you check through the howto and make sure that you've covered everything. It works fine here. Ok, I've tried a lot of things. First, I switched off the 3.4 port back

Re: Amd64 on acer laptop

2005-05-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/05/05 14:44), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. Has anyone tried to install our dear distribution in an acer laptop (aspire 1520 series, i don't know if the model changes in other countries). I'm thinking about purchase one laptop and i like that model, but i need to know if i

Re: Amd64 on acer laptop

2005-05-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/05/05 09:45), Lennart Sorensen wrote: On (06/05/05 14:44), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. Has anyone tried to install our dear distribution in an acer laptop (aspire 1520 series, i don't know if the model changes in other countries). I'm thinking about

Re: ISO not found?

2005-05-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/05/05 12:52), Emmanuel Doguet wrote: This URL http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/install-images/ doesn't work anymore. Any idea? If you check the mailing list archive for Subject: AMD64 Archive Move you'll see that the archive is on the move: As announced earlier the Debian AMD64

Re: spamassassin badness

2005-05-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/05/05 13:23), Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: Hello all I keep getting segfaults from spamd. Is anyone experiencing similar issues? I am using pure64 sid. Segfaults looks like this: spamd[8059]: segfault at 00f0 rip 00373ca16e3b rsp 7390 error 4

Re: openoffice in chroot

2005-05-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/05/05 12:25), jmt wrote: Hello, Question : having open office installed in a 32 bit chroot, how do I access printers (using cups) ? Well I'm not sure if this is proscribed practise but I installed cups in the chroot . it works ;) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ...

Re: openoffice in chroot

2005-05-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/05/05 17:16), Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: Well I'm not sure if this is proscribed practise but I installed cups in the chroot . it works ;) do you mean that you installed the package or that you actually run the service from the chroot? Both

Re: Xfce 4.2 on AMD64

2005-04-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/04/05 18:43), Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Short history: I installed xfce4.2 from a link at: http://www.os-works.com/view/debian/ Andreas Weber provides ready-to-install Debian/amd64 versions of our Debian packages. Just add

Re: viruses and spam

2005-04-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/04/05 12:03), DR GAVIN SEDDON wrote: I have installed clamav. I am investigating now and it apears to be Excellent. Thanks. Gavin Just to report I've now got spamassassin, sa-exim and clamav-daemon working nicely together - exim4-daemon-heavy is required to integrate clamav-daemon. I

Re: viruses

2005-04-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/04/05 10:15), DR GAVIN SEDDON wrote: Hi, As I understand there are no viruses for Linux. Can 'we' be carriers, why not, and is it worth buying software to detect and clean the hdd? I am asking this because I have just opened a suspect email and I don't want to pass anything on to a

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