transcode filter plugins

2005-03-04 Thread David Liontooth
I'm experimenting with capturing television using transcode and getting very interesting results from the following: transcode -x v4l2 -o tv2.avi -f 30 -i /dev/video0 -y ffmpeg -F mpeg4 \ -p /dev/dsp -b 128 -g 720x480 -I 1 --print_status 20 -u 128 -H 0 \ -w 1500 -J hqdn3d=pre=1 -J smartyuv

Re: RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak376)(rev02)

2005-03-02 Thread David Liontooth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the onboard Promise and VIA chips with raid features. I also use those now as individual disks with the raid turned off. Unless I missed something, I think there is no raid support for these chips under Linux. Lots of fun stuff happening with Linux raid -- cf.

Re: Setting up an internal Debian AMD64 mirror

2005-03-02 Thread David Coulson
Brett Viren wrote: Yes. You are also free to use mine at: mirror.phy.bnl.gov::Debian-amd64 There was some discussion on IRC the other day regarding mirroring. I never did find a good mirror to get the pure64 Debian data. David -- David J. Coulson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http

debian-amd64 Mirror

2005-02-23 Thread David Coulson
at this point, but I can change this if necessary. David -- David J. Coulson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.davidcoulson.net/ phone: (216) 920-3100 / (216) 258-4942 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multiarch distribution

2005-02-21 Thread David Hartveld
.alioth.d.o, but found it (almost) empty... Greetings, David Hartveld -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Enigmail

2005-02-19 Thread David Liontooth
Javier Kohen wrote: Hi, is anybody using Enigmail successfully with Thunderbird? It doesn't work at all here: the keymanager doesn't work, signatures and encryption don't work either for incoming or outgoing messages. No error messages are being shown, except by the Test feature inside the

Re: Big filesystems.

2005-02-16 Thread David Wood
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Adam Skutt wrote: I've had filesystem corruption on every fileystem I've used that's caused data loss: FAT16, FAT32, NTFSv4, NTFSv5, ext2, ext3, ReiserV3, XFS, VMS' ODS-11, HFS. It's funny, you got me thinking. Have I ever seen an independent corruption problem with the

Re: CPU frequency scaling on AMD64 laptop

2005-02-16 Thread David Wood
You might have a BIOS bug that you can solve with a BIOS update. Other than that, I think you are going to have to troubleshoot the ACPI code in the kernel. On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 21:23 +0100, Luk Oliva wrote: Hi, Thanks for useful advices, it was enough to remove cpufreq and start to use

Re: Big filesystems.

2005-02-15 Thread David Wood
FWIW, I had expected ReiserFS to perform well at large partition sizes. For the most part it does, but I was surprised to see there is already a noticeable (~7-8 sec) delay mounting a ~400GB LVM part. On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:14 +0100, Juergen Kreileder

Re: Big filesystems.

2005-02-15 Thread David Wood
Yes, that's every time. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Tom Vier wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:24:00AM -0500, David Wood wrote: FWIW, I had expected ReiserFS to perform well at large partition sizes. For the most part it does, but I was surprised to see there is already a noticeable (~7-8 sec) delay

Re: Big filesystems.

2005-02-15 Thread David Wood
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Kyle Rose wrote: Same here, but that doesn't bother me so much. What bothers me is file deletion time. Anyone have any clue why ReiserFS takes so long to delete files, and why the delete operation evidently blocks all other FS operations? It seems that ReiserFS should log

Re: Big filesystems.

2005-02-15 Thread David Wood
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Surely you aren't implying that Reiser uses anything as pedestrian as a b-tree! Why, Reiser's tree format is so novel, so utterly perfect, that no human could have ever thought of it. I understand their patent applications is sailing through the

Re: Big filesystems.

2005-02-15 Thread David Wood
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: Maybe the moral is you should use what everybody else uses. ext2/3 and to some extent Reiser are very well tested because practically everybody uses them. Major bugs in ext3 are readily apparent because it has millions of users. Major bugs in XFS are

Re: CPU frequency scaling on AMD64 laptop

2005-02-14 Thread David Wood
I've seen several things cause this. Every BIOS is different, but you generally have to enable both Cool-n-Quiet and ACPI 2.0. My BIOS (a8v), for instance, had ACPI 2.0 disabled by default for some reason, and nothing complains when you turn CnQ on without it - it just doesn't work. Then the

Re: kernel 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8

2005-02-12 Thread David Liontooth
Dustin N.Jenkins wrote: Just on a bit of a side note... If one wants to upgrade the amd64-k8 kernel (i.e. from the default 2.6.8-10 to 2.6.10), would the sources from www.kernel.org suffice, or is there a different place to acquire the amd64-k8 kernel? I much prefer downloading the source

Re: Previous packages?

2005-02-11 Thread David Wood
at the hardware donations page ? should i just email them and ask how to beef up alioth? (i am going under the assumption they have some raid arry they can just plug in extra disks, i'm probly wrong) patrick Goswin von Brederlow wrote: David Liontooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible

vlc

2005-02-08 Thread David Liontooth
What's the story with vlc and the libflac4 dependency? This was sorted out on i386 a while back and libflac6 is in place for amd64. Just wondering. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu with AMD64 Support

2005-01-31 Thread David Wood
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: You can't predict the future - neither for $COMMERCIAL_DISTRIBUTION (God knows what will be in 1 or 2 years with e.g. SuSE) nor for $FREE_DISTRIBUTION (yes there were several which are pretty out-of-business right now). One way to look at the

Re: Unable to boot Kernel 2.6.10

2005-01-28 Thread David Wood
Thanks for sharing this; it will probably help others. It's interesting that these steps solved your problem; I wonder what caused it? On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Leoncini Xavier wrote: I got to boot. I erased my modprobe.conf and modprobe.d as well as my modules.conf and modutils, then removed modconf

Re: Ubuntu with AMD64 Support

2005-01-28 Thread David Wood
Is their amd64 support just based on the pseudo-mainline pure64 sid? On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Daniel James wrote: Hi Johannes, Hoary Hedgehog is available as a native AMD64 version. Has anyone tested this thing so far? I tried the last version on my Opteron, and it was a very smooth install. The

Re: Asus K8N, Cool'n'Quiet, and sensors.conf

2005-01-26 Thread David Wood
Has anyone else noticed instability when using cpufreq modules? I have a pretty stable system, but I get OOPSes within a few hours or days of using cpufreq_ondemand, and I've had a few crashes I was pretty sure were related to cpufreq_userspace/powernowd. On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Jean-Luc Coulon

Re: Unable to boot Kernel 2.6.10

2005-01-25 Thread David Wood
Seconded. Please, if you have nothing nice to say, silence is golden... Leoncini, your problems are unusual and troubleshooting them will doubtless be a project. This port of debian is raw, upstream support for the hardware is often raw, and I take it no one else here has had similar issues...

Re: filesystem and x86 vs. x86_64 benchmarking...

2005-01-24 Thread David Liontooth
Dale E. Martin wrote: I mentioned the other day I was doing some benchmarking on my shiney new amd64 system. Here is a quick writeup about it: http://www.the-martins.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=4page=1 My test setup will not exist by the end of today so

Re: AMD64 DHCP Network Configuration Failure

2005-01-17 Thread David Sawyer
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:37:21 +, Pat C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just put a new system together. Here are the specs: AMD64 3200+ CPU 512MB DDR 3200 RAM 3DFX 16MB Graphics Card... old, yes I know :) Standard CD-Drive 20GB IDE Hard Drive 550 Watt Power Supply Antec Case Bridgecom

Re: status of vmware

2005-01-14 Thread David Wood
My brief impression of vmware 4.5 with the any-any patches was that it was so unstable as to basically be unusuable for anything but a proof of concept. Vmware has begun an open beta program for v5, which I can report is substantially improved (only one crash so far). However, given how these

Re: rock solid motherboard

2005-01-12 Thread David Wood
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Hank Barta wrote: I have an ABIT AV8 (v1.1) The LAN driver did not load so I put in a RealTek card and moved on. Sound on the motherboard works fine. I do have RAM issues in that I have to run the RAM at DDR333 instead of DDR400 (for which it is speced) and this board is known

Re: amd64 / x86-64 as i386?

2005-01-12 Thread David Wood
As the list archives will show, the unofficial debian pure64 port does work and is in use by many people, although it is not perfect. You can run the i386 version if you like. On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Didde Brockman wrote: Hey all! Sorry about me coming with this stuped question, but I have browsed

Re: libflac6 wacko dependencies

2005-01-08 Thread David Liontooth
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:14:31PM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: Something went wrong with the dependencies for libflac6 on amd64. On i386 the package installs with no protests; in amd64 it requires the uninstallation of kdemultimedia, jack, and lots of others. Could

libflac6 wacko dependencies

2005-01-07 Thread David Liontooth
Something went wrong with the dependencies for libflac6 on amd64. On i386 the package installs with no protests; in amd64 it requires the uninstallation of kdemultimedia, jack, and lots of others. Could the problem be vorbis-tools? Dave # apt-get install libflac6 -s Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: Kernel-2.6.10 and 32bit emulation

2005-01-05 Thread David Liontooth
Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] wrote: Hi, Sythos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read on kernel 2.6.10 changelog that 32bit emulation is widely improved... This change something in amd64 situation? using that kernel I had the problem that mplayer-32bit (from marillat) totally freezes up my

Re: broken documentation link

2005-01-04 Thread David Liontooth
Dale E. Martin wrote: Hello! I just recently started lurking here as I've got an Athlon 64 system on order and I'm a Debian user/developer. I went to [1] to read a bit about the basics and at the bottom of that page there is a link - Documentation (HOWTO and hardware compatibility list). When I

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: sk98lin doesn't work

2004-12-23 Thread David Liontooth
Cheers, Dave Thanks. Xiaolin On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:48:55PM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: wrote: Hi, Harri Thanks for helping. I got the latest sk98lin driver source from http://www.syskonnect.com/

Re: sk98lin doesn't work

2004-12-22 Thread David Liontooth
wrote: Hi, Harri Thanks for helping. I got the latest sk98lin driver source from http://www.syskonnect.com/. I also installed the kernel-source-2.6.8.deb package, because installing the sk98lin driver needs to recompile the kernel. When running the sk98lin install.sh script (compiling the

Re: Mythtv

2004-12-21 Thread David Liontooth
In The Night wrote: I'm working on it. I have a Pinnacle PCTV Pro (bt878 I think) I have all the stuff running, but some small MySQL-problems have to ironed out before I'm happy with it. Great. Could you send the list the results when you're done? I have the AverTV Stereo card working on a dual

Framebuffers

2004-12-21 Thread David Liontooth
Is anyone using framebuffers? I tried loading fbcon and rivafb on an nVidia FX-5500 and got no result at all (fb0 not created). The drivers work on my 32-bit laptop. Cheers, Dave

Re: dchroot scripts

2004-12-17 Thread David M. Cooke
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 05:29:01PM -0500, Kyle Rose wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cooke) writes: There are actually two separate problems with quoting in dchroot, and they're both caused by interaction with su: Bug #249655: dchroot -d ls -l broken: su tries to interpret -l switch

JMF for amd64?

2004-12-14 Thread David Liontooth
Gentoo seems to be packaging a version of the Java Media Framework for amd64. Is this something we could do in Debian? http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?jmf-bin-2.1.1e-r1 Cheers, Dave

Re: Unofficial multimedia repository

2004-12-14 Thread David Liontooth
Johan Groth wrote: David Liontooth wrote: Christian Marillat has maintained an unofficial repository of Debian packages relating to multimedia applications for several years; cf. http://debian.video.free.fr/ He's now set up an amd64 version of the repository: deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu

Unofficial multimedia repository

2004-12-13 Thread David Liontooth
Christian Marillat has maintained an unofficial repository of Debian packages relating to multimedia applications for several years; cf. http://debian.video.free.fr/ He's now set up an amd64 version of the repository: deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main The repository is

Re: ud segfault

2004-12-12 Thread David Liontooth
Steve McIntyre wrote: OK, so I'm bored. I've just looked at the bug and found the problem. ud's source is quite ugly, suggesting a novice author. I can recreate the bug quite readily here, and it's crashing down below a sprintf() call: (gdb) bt #0 0x002a956e9980 in strlen () from

Re: amd64 repository for debian-marillat

2004-12-12 Thread David Liontooth
Drew Hess wrote to debian-amd64@lists.debian.org : I want to set up a repository of AMD64 binary packages for the source packages at ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ What I'd like is a script that checks the source packages there for updates. When a new source package version is available,

Re: [debian-amd64] Dependents on java runtime

2004-12-12 Thread David Liontooth
Steve Feehan wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:26:22PM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: A number of recent packages in debian-amd64 depend variously on j2sdk1.5 (eg freewatch) and j2re1.4 (eg freemind) or java2-runtime (both), which are not available from the mirrors. I've installed Sun's now

ud segfault (was: When will the amd64 port be stable?)

2004-12-11 Thread David Liontooth
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: David Liontooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dec 11 12:59:13 clitunno ud[6280]: Uptime daemon starting... Dec 11 12:59:13 clitunno kernel: ud[6280]: segfault at 958a7d00 rip 002a956e9980 rsp 007fbfffecb8 error 4 The daemon really does stop running, every

Re: When will the amd64 port be stable?

2004-12-10 Thread David Liontooth
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 11:45 -0800, David Liontooth wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Same time the official sarge will be released (+ a day or two) the unofficial sarge amd64 should be finished. Hey, that's great news! (News to me anyway.) Aside from hankering

Re: MythTV

2004-12-02 Thread David Liontooth
to start out with that, and then experiment in a Debian pure 64 chroot. Gentoo people have the driver working for amd64, so I don't think there are any real problems. (I need someone else to handle the project, so I'm recommending an optimal entry point.) Dave On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, David Liontooth

MythTV

2004-11-28 Thread David Liontooth
MythTV compiles on amd64 using the following procedure: * get liblame0 and liblame0-dev from http://debian.freenux.org/debian-marillat-amd64/ * add this to /etc/apt/sources.list and run update: deb-src http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv * wajig source mythtv

Bug in Imlib11

2004-11-22 Thread David Vidrie
Hi all I have found a bug in Imlib11 (1.9.14-17), on pure64 and gcc-3.4 The problem is that they are using long ints for loading the bmp header, the size of long int is 8bytes in amd64 and 4bytes in i386, this is causing kuickshow (and others) being unable to display bmps. i have fixed it

Re: Permission to run chrooted X-apps remotely as user root

2004-11-12 Thread David Liontooth
Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:48:46AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: This is not really an amd64 topic, aside from the fact that pure64 creates the need for a chroot. The issue is X11 permissions within an ia32 chroot. First off, never run a X11 app as root. Second, once

Re: Reinstall *all* packages. How?

2004-11-01 Thread David Liontooth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am able to login the amd64 box anymore, I have practically lost it as a bootable one. I do however have a lot of stuff (about 2GB) in /var/cache/apt/archives/ My question is: After setting up a fresh system from CD, how can I make the newly installed OS update itself

Re: Incommunicado after winxp/vmware access over NFS

2004-11-01 Thread David Liontooth
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:38:52AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: Thanks, Len -- I didn't realize the upgrade was free, so that's very useful. It turns out the problem can't have been vmware after all, however, as the same thing happened when I wasn't using it. I

Re: Incommunicado after winxp/vmware access over NFS

2004-10-31 Thread David Liontooth
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:56:41PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: Not terribly exciting, but my amd64 sid box (Thunder K8S/AMD-8111/3ware 8506/Broadcomm 5700) let me down for the first time today, after months of rock-solid performance. I was running WinXP over VMware

Zope segfaulting

2004-10-31 Thread David Merrill
will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- David Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zope segfaulting

2004-10-31 Thread David Merrill
on this, after spending personal funds on this baby to replace my aging webserver. Now I'm happy. Thanks, -- David Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Howto install Openoffice.org on Debian amd64 pure64

2004-10-23 Thread David Liontooth
Summarizing past instructions -- this works as of today: 1. apt-get install ia32-libs-openoffice.org 2. apt-get install libstlport4.6 3. echo deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/openoffice.org ./ /etc/apt/sources.list 4. apt-get install openoffice.org-debian-files=1.1.2-2+1.0.1 5. download

Re: Install Report: Tyan Thunder K8S Pro / dual Opteron 250 / 2GB / SATA root

2004-10-10 Thread David Dumas
. -David

Install Report: Tyan Thunder K8S Pro / dual Opteron 250 / 2GB / SATA root

2004-09-30 Thread David Dumas
driver. Hardware monitoring with lm_sensors works well but really requires the custom sensors.conf available from http://www.tyan.com. So far, I can definitely recommend this board/CPU combination for use with debian-amd64. I will post an update if anything changes significantly. -David

libflash-mozplugin

2004-09-29 Thread David VandeVen
Is it just me or does this plugin result in a segfault when trying to load any page in mozilla, firefox, or konqueror containing flash content? -Z 0x61165DC558657E5D5B09F7E93E80D74D82C6161A.asc Description: application/pgp-keys pgpy74CMPEvpP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Java working

2004-09-22 Thread David Liontooth
Sun distributes a version of java for amd64 at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp and it works great. Cheers, David cd /usr/local /download/jre-1_5_0-rc-linux-amd64.bin vi /etc/profile add /usr/local/jre1.5.0/bin

Success report Thunder K8S/AMD-8111/3ware 8506/Broadcomm 5700

2004-09-14 Thread David Liontooth
-source driver also killed my system reliably; use tg3. I can't comment on stability at this point, but things are looking good! Cheers, David

Re: Lots of PREEMPT on 2.6.7-6 and 2.6.7-3. 2.6.8-3 panics before mounting anything.

2004-09-12 Thread David VandeVen
Off the top of my head.. Don't enable preemptive kernel in kernel config for Athlon 64. As it says in the documentation, it's not well-tested and may be unstable. -Z On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:24 pm, In The Night wrote: Home brewed 2.6.6 DOES work so far removed Here a snippet

Re: Dialup Netinstall

2004-08-26 Thread David
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:35:08PM -0700, bob wrote: I've looked around and can't find the .jigdo files for the AMD64 distribution? Good point. Perhaps you could download the sarge ones (if you can find them) and modify them to point to the amd64 repository. dd -- David Dooling

Re: Dialup Netinstall

2004-08-25 Thread David
of the packages I need. If you have access to a fast internet connection and a CD burner, you can use jigdo. http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ http://atterer.net/jigdo/ dd -- David Dooling

Re: Bug#260747: removing --enable-final allows successful compilation of arts-1.3.0

2004-08-15 Thread David Dumas
the rules quoted above with: # run configure with build tree $(objdir) cd $(objdir) \ ../configure $(configkde) \ --with-alsa -David On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:56:08 +0200, Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the version you cite is not made by the gcc-3.4 package

Issues with arts using ALSA kernel sound on AMD64 arch.

2004-08-10 Thread David Van de Ven
I've been having a problem since I first installed the AMD64 distro where some arts-aware apps will produce sound, and some will not. I thought it was the mixer, because in the artscontrol app, no volumes are shown in the master volume display, even when an arts application is producing

Re: New procps, may break

2004-07-29 Thread David S. Miller
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:08:21 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Small) wrote: A new procps has been uploaded. I think the 64bit arches will be ok but I'd just like to let you lot know that there might be problems on the sparc or amd64. Complaining won't fix it, but patches that don't break

unison 2.9.1 segfault on amd64

2004-07-24 Thread David Dumas
When I try to synchronize my laptop (running debian i386 unstable) with my desktop (running debian amd64 unstable) the unison process on the desktop segfaults just before starting to update files. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? (BTW I mentioned before that there isn't a segfault in

Re: gcc-defaults: Please make gcc-3.4 the default on amd64

2004-07-19 Thread David Dumas
-time, and have not yet encountered a segfault that recompiling with gcc-3.4 didn't fix. Moreover, I think this relatively new port should standardize on a gcc with good K8 support while it is still young. -David

Re: amd64 sleeps too quickly

2004-07-19 Thread David Dumas
$ time ssh pergolesi.debian.org sleep 5; echo done done real0m2.957s The problem is not universal: $ uname -a Linux feynman 2.6.7.2004-07-11feynman-amd64 #3 Sun Jul 11 03:09:04 EDT 2004 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ time sleep 5 real0m5.001s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.002s $ dpkg -l

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