Re: Dell Vostro 1700 sound problem

2007-10-11 Thread Colin Baker
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 23:22 +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: lspci | egrep -i 'audio|sound|media' 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_intel 311968 0 snd_pcm_oss48288 0 snd_mixer_oss

Re: flash for etch amd64?

2007-07-03 Thread Colin Baker
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:10 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I'm running Etch on amd64 on my Athlon64. I use Konqueror. I have the libflash-mozplugin installed but flash sites (and adobe's test site) don't work. After I came back from holidays, I reactivated my subscription to the

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-01 Thread Colin Baker
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: I googled and found that Dell offers Dimension n Series E521. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=uscs=19l=ens=dhs~ck=mn It comes with no Windows OS preinstalled. And Dell claims that it is ready to work under linux. Does anybody here

Re: maple 11

2007-04-17 Thread Colin Baker
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I am installing the last maple release (Maple 11) on my Lenny box: while everything is fine for the command-line version, I get trouble with the graphic interface: I get a totally white window. I suspect that something is wrong with Java. Did any anyone

Re: newby trying to go debian

2007-01-30 Thread Colin Baker
Rodrigo Alexandre wrote: is there a command that rescues all hardware specs or do i have to gather it myself through manual ways (with 'manual' i mean unscrewing the hd to check info on the label...) thanks rodrigo These should tell you about your CPU, memory, and PCI (and onboard, AGP, etc)

Re: newby trying to go debian

2007-01-26 Thread Colin Baker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so here is some clarification;) When I wrote about an official programs I meant binaries released by their official vendors. Eg. Official OpenOffice is the one that you can download form OpenOffice.org site. There are no 64bit precompiled versions available on the

Re: newby trying to go debian

2007-01-26 Thread Colin Baker
Rodrigo Alexandre wrote: so the debian version i should try is this sid one, right? you say that debian is easier to customize (as opposed to ball and chain), but i didnt understand why then the stable version is frozen, i mean, why then cant i install the newest codecs in the stable (and frozen

Re: newby trying to go debian

2007-01-26 Thread Colin Baker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does your 32bit firefox come from debian's repos or form mozilla.org? And do I need those ia32libs to run it? I'm using one from a 3rd-party repository right now, for ease of administration: deb http://getswiftfox.com/builds/debian unstable non-free Though, the

Re: Problem with resolving names with firefox 32 bit

2007-01-15 Thread Colin Baker
leandro noferini wrote: Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto: [...] Where do you get the 32bit firefox from? From the error it sounds like you got that from ubuntu. I am not sure but I think so! FWIW, I've had good luck with the firefox binaries here:

Re: compiz

2007-01-09 Thread Colin Baker
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, I guess I have missed something: compiz can be used as a replacmeent of sawfish/metacity sawfish is launched (defaults instalation) So you have to *replace* the running window manage. for that, try: compiz --replace I get: /usr/bin/compiz.real: Another

PHP5 dotdeb packages - incorrect MySQL Client API version

2006-04-04 Thread Colin Baker
Hello, I'm running Sarge on amd64 with php5 and mysql5 packages from the dotdeb repository. Recently, I've run into an issue where I'm unable to insert or update tables. PHP version is 5.1.2 and MySQL is 5.0.19. One thing I've noticed that is odd is that in phpinfo(), the mysql section

Re: Detecting SATA drive after install

2006-03-13 Thread Colin Baker
Joseph Legner wrote: I had a generic AMD64 computer built for me, and they put a SATA hard drive in it. It also has a motherboard with on-board NIC, video, and sound. The Debian netinst CD would not detect the hard drive, NIC, video card, or sound card. I salvaged an old PCI NIC from a dead

AMD64 installer with megaraid driver?

2006-02-28 Thread Colin Baker
Hello all, I have an LSI Megaraid 467 (often rebadged as a Dell PERC2/DC, I believe) that I would like to use on my Athlon 64 system. Unfortunately, with every installer I have tried does not have the megaraid module. I have found an old i386 installer with this, but that's about it.

Re: nvidia-glx removes x-server???

2006-01-12 Thread Colin Baker
Andrew Syrewicze wrote: Hey everyone. Having a wierd problem here. It's been awhile since i've run debian unstable, but i missed the updated packages and what not. Anyway, My install went as clean as usual, and i used module assistant to set up my nvidia driver. When i run apt-get install

Re: nvidia-glx removes x-server???

2006-01-12 Thread Colin Baker
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:02:07AM -0600, Colin Baker wrote: Andrew Syrewicze wrote: Hey everyone. Having a wierd problem here. It's been awhile since i've run debian unstable, but i missed the updated packages and what not. Anyway, My install went as clean

Re: nvidia-glx removes x-server???

2006-01-12 Thread Colin Baker
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Hmm, really? I wonder if my home machine has a newer one from some other source... Let me check: No, i386 unstable contains 8178, so it is just amd64 that is way behind. Someone should update the unstable non-free on amd64, since I don't think there is anything in

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

2006-01-10 Thread Colin Baker
Dean Hamstead wrote: quite seriously, wouldnt... wget ftp://ftp.xx.debian.. ../kernel-image-xxx.deb dpkg -i kernel-image-xxx.deb work, perhaps a few supporting packages might need updating Dean Tricky on sarge. Len Sorensen I was able to install the current 2.6.12 em64t smp image

Re: Java plug-in

2005-12-29 Thread Colin Baker
Massimo Perga wrote: Before all, thank you for your support. Could you please send me the apt string or the URL where I can download the AMD64 Blackdown package ? Thanks, Regards, Max I have been using this one: deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ unstable non-free which seems to work

Re: Java plug-in

2005-12-29 Thread Colin Baker
Colin Baker wrote: I have been using this one: deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ unstable non-free which seems to work ok. ...and it looks like testing and stable are represented there as well -- Colin M. Baker XVII [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: amd64, how do I know?

2005-12-29 Thread Colin Baker
Aaron Stromas wrote: on the recently installed etch amd64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -m x86_64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.12-1-amd64-generic uname -r will work if you're using a debian stock kernel, since they always have the arch type in the name. Mine just says '2.6.14', but a

Re: Matrox 550 / Debian Etch/ X.Org 6.8.2 / Xinerama not working??

2005-12-19 Thread Colin Baker
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, After an update of XFree86 to X.org my Xinerama setup stopped working. I cannot get my two screens working at the same time, except when I use the second screen (an LCD screen, the little inferior one) as my main (or first, the one with the menubar) screen, and

Re: question

2005-12-08 Thread Colin Baker
Santiago Kci wrote: How I do to install firefox 1.5 in Debian AMD64?. I must download the source code or something and then compile in my machine???. I must to install from a rpm file?. I try with apt-get install firefox but is not list for AMD64. Thanks in advance. Santiago. As others

Re: Cups On 64bit - Is it running?

2005-11-22 Thread Colin Baker
studio-64 wrote: Hi 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 I have

Re: Open office

2005-11-22 Thread Colin Baker
Andrew Sharp wrote: Er um hmm, but why has gentoo had OOo 2 working on their amd64 port for a while now? I'm considering just getting a gentoo precompiled package and untarring it on my system or actually trying to hack a deb out of it or something. If they can do it, there's no excuse for

Re: RAID

2005-11-10 Thread Colin Baker
lordSauron wrote: So, if I can get a decent RAID 0 PCI card that'd be better than using my CPU time on it, correct? Even if I'm a cheap person and get one of the worst cards there is, would that be faster or slower than software RAID? Particularly Linux's software RAID. For what you

Re: RAID

2005-11-09 Thread Colin Baker
wrote: Well a single 80G or 120G is rather nice. Raid0 is just not worth it unless you have enough drives to run raid0 + raid1 (usually 4 drives so you mirror each pair and then stripe the mirror sets). Sometimes called raid10 or raid01 (Depending on the order you do it in stripe mirrors or

Re: RAID

2005-11-09 Thread Colin Baker
lordSauron wrote: okay... so, let's just say that hypothetically I choose to be a little less than intelligent and try to use the motherboard built-in software RAID. Would that work? Also, I'm a little skeptical of Linux's software RAID being better (ie. faster) than my motherboards. Is

Re: problems with installation

2005-10-31 Thread Colin Baker
Jean Christoph Jung wrote: Hello, I've just bought a new PC with amd64bit architecture. and wanted to install a debian linux. First I tried sarge for i386. I had installed it, but the installer couldn't find my network card. So with no possibility to get to the web, I tried an unstable for