Re: SATA problem with x86_64 install CD

2006-03-23 Thread Ed Tomlinson
not quite as pristine, desktop (eg. wine, open office 2, flash, many 32bit codecs all work with painless installs). I do miss apt-get. Bottom line, old and/or broken installers cost users. Thanks, Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

console-common missing a depends?

2006-02-11 Thread Ed Tomlinson
/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new kernel too big for lilo

2005-12-26 Thread Ed Tomlinson
suspect you have almost everything built into your kernel. Here my 2.6 kernel is about 1.6m (vs your 7.2m). I don't understand this. Am I doing something wrong? or is lilo wrong? Can anyone tell me the correct way to compile a kernel if I have been doing it wrong. Luck Ed Tomlinson

Re: USB mouse and touchpad issues using the unstable release

2005-11-22 Thread Ed Tomlinson
the issue by doing a 'modprobe mousedev' which causes the input dir to be created and lets X start without errors. Luck, Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hauppauge PVR-250 and PCHDTV-3000 with 2.6.14.2 kernel

2005-11-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
dependencies _will_ change. Have you tried the video4linux module? If it works with your ivtv stuff its probably your best bet. Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lockup at boot with kernel 2.6.14...

2005-11-11 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Thursday 10 November 2005 07:25, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, 2.6.14.2 should be out this weekend. The .1 fixes a security issue, .2 fixes bind (0 sized icmp packets) and several other bugs. Might be worth waiting. It also is worth trying to boot with apci disabled. Ed Tomlinson

Re: lockup at boot with kernel 2.6.14...

2005-11-10 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, 2.6.14.2 should be out this weekend. The .1 fixes a security issue, .2 fixes bind (0 sized icmp packets) and several other bugs. Might be worth waiting. It also is worth trying to boot with apci disabled. Ed Tomlinson On Thursday 10 November 2005 06:50, Giacomo Mulas wrote: Hello

Re: Eclipse

2005-11-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 31 October 2005 15:58, Marcin Dębicki wrote: Hamish Moffatt kiedys napisal: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:22:31AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: On Monday 31 October 2005 05:28, Dalibor Topic wrote: The packagers used a specific free runtime to make the eclipse package build

Re: mplayer

2005-10-04 Thread Ed Tomlinson
problem is - it make take a bit to understand what strace is telling you. Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

amd64.debian.net sick?

2005-10-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
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Re: amd64.debian.net sick?

2005-10-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Sunday 02 October 2005 10:44, Aritz Beraza Garayalde [Rei] wrote: 2005/10/2, Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi 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

Re: GPG marillat

2005-09-30 Thread Ed Tomlinson
: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY E415B2B4B5F5BBED I would be nice to have aptitude install without complaining about keys... TIA Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: GPG marillat

2005-09-28 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03:11, Marko Kaiser wrote: Hello, get dists/sid/Release.gpg and add that key via apt-key add. Bye, Marko grover:/home/ed# apt-key add marillat_Release.gpg gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. grover:/home/ed# cat marillat_Release.gpg -BEGIN PGP

Re: new 2.6.13 kernel

2005-09-02 Thread Ed Tomlinson
away in the Doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt file in the kernel source. Debain has just been slow to adapt. Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problems with base-config_2.70_all.deb

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
status 2 I've reinstalled 2.69 and held the package. For some reason aptitude, without any messages why, ignores my instructions to hold the pack and keeps trying 2.70 (probably something requires 2.70 - when/if aptitude overides my instructions it SHOULD tell me why!) Ideas Ed Tomlinson

Re: problems with base-config_2.70_all.deb

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Forget this. I did a second update/upgrade cycle (about 5 minutes after the first) and 2.71 was found - it fixes this problem. Thanks Ed On Friday 19 August 2005 18:13, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, Got back from vacation. Updating gets the following: Setting up base-config (2.70) ... /var

Xorg and RADEON (dri disabled)

2005-07-20 Thread Ed Tomlinson
them has no effect on the problem. Ideas? TIA, Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg and RADEON (dri disabled)

2005-07-20 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 21:13, Michal Schmidt wrote: Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, With Xorg I get: (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xd000,0x800) drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Dual core support is not distro specific. It depends on the kernel used. I believe that debian, with a recent (2.6.12.3+) kernel should be fine. Ed Tomlinson On Monday 18 July 2005 01:36, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, My bioinformatics research group at Duke is buying a server

Re: [update] More 32bit packages for amd64

2005-07-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
with the new package arch? TIA, Ed Tomlinson

Re: [update] More 32bit packages for amd64

2005-07-18 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Monday 18 July 2005 09:03, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Ed Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 17 July 2005 13:28, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package fetching is done by reprepro and turning it more verbose gives some more messages but not a download progress for files

Re: X.org enters in Sid

2005-07-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 05:59, v0n0 wrote: Since yesterday night, X.org 6.8.2 is in Debian unstable. Be aware if you dist-upgrade you will get X.org installed over Xfree. Is this bad? If so what has to be done to upgrade to X.org safely? TIA Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: MSI K8N NEO PLATINUM

2005-06-24 Thread Ed Tomlinson
thing I had to do was to download the sound driver from nvidia's site (possibly another way to get sound working...but this worked). No problems here - The kernels alsa drivers support the sound card too. Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

apt-listchanges gets: ImportError: No module named _bsddb

2005-06-19 Thread Ed Tomlinson
82, in open mod = __import__(result) File /usr/lib/python2.3/dbhash.py, line 5, in ? import bsddb File /usr/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py, line 40, in ? import _bsddb ImportError: No module named _bsddb TIA, Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lots of probs with SF Azureus

2005-06-12 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi I also use 1.5.0_03 / 2.3.0.2 with very good results. I found that the default setup enables UPnP by default. Here I have to turn if off or azureus stalls ( use tools / options / Plugins / UPnP and unclick and apply). Luck Ed On Sunday 12 June 2005 14:30, Rupert Heesom wrote: I've

Re: Strange aptitude behavior with bind9-host

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 13 May 2005 23:21, Bob Proulx wrote: Ed Tomlinson wrote: Looks like the bind9-host package is sticky... Or has two different sources. grover:/home/ed# aptitude update ... grover:/home/ed# aptitude upgrade ... The following packages will be upgraded: bind9-host

Re: Bug#309072: azureus: crashes on startup. An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot VM:SIGSEGV

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Try disabling micro PnP suport. Think you have about a minute to get to the options, turn off the pluging, save and exit. Ed On Saturday 14 May 2005 06:41, Gerhard Gauling wrote: Package: azureus Version: 2.3.0.0-2 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line ***

Strange aptitude behavior with bind9-host

2005-05-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descr Notice that it still thinks bind9-host needs to be installed. How do I find out why? Alternately, how do I fix it? TIA, Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Strange aptitude behavior with bind9-host

2005-05-13 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 13 May 2005 18:35, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 06:12:55PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Notice that it still thinks bind9-host needs to be installed. How do I find out why? Alternately, how do I fix it? grover:/home/ed# apt-get clean grover:/home/ed# apt

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-08 Thread Ed Tomlinson
to agree with Ed - the problem are political... Which is the bane of debian. Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-08 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Sunday 08 May 2005 09:27, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10283 March 1977, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Whats going on == someone needs to check it. Thats it. That was the point made by Ed Cogburn. Its already been checked in the other arch! If this is not the case please explain why. Without

libglade 2.5

2005-05-06 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Where would I find source for the experimental glade 2.5 stuff that I can built for amd64? Second whats the process to build the binary package (or point me to an faq). TIA Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Kino

2005-03-14 Thread Ed Tomlinson
but in 64 bit playback is lagguy and blocky, it's totaly unuseable. I don't know if it's a problem with libdv or kino itself. I've also noticed that when encoding it fails to use sse and so is much slower than 32bit. Ed Tomlinson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, Thought the advice was to use aptitude because it will remove unused packages... Well it seems to think xfs is unused, guess that ps is must be wrong... Me thinks I'll revert to apt-get - aptitude seems very broken. Anyone else see this sort of error on pure64? Ed grover:/usr/bin#

Re: aptitude loosing its mind?

2005-03-05 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Saturday 05 March 2005 17:31, Mike Reinehr wrote: Ed, There are times that I certainly wondered what the h___ was going on! The first thing that comes to mind is that xfs was installed automatically to satisfy a dependency of some other program, which subsequently has been removed.