Re: your mail

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:02:44PM +0200, Pietro Paolini wrote: Hi all, I have still freeze in my laptop, I discover it is not related at a music or video reproduction, in adding I discovered that my Ethernet card is not recognized, I really really ask for help because my PC is going to be

Re: your mail

Hi. I tried to add the firsts you wrote me and no result. Before add the last one I have a question, what I have to do is run: apt-get update apt-get upgrade You have to use aptitude or another software for selecting which package(s) to install. You might have some of the firmware

Unusable windows

Hello. I apologize in advance for posting here, but I'm at a loss even figuring out where to report the situation I'm facing after my latest attempts to upgrade my system. Maybe people here will have an idea of which package is the likely culprit of the following symptoms. Launching kdm, and

Re: Which 64bit debian version for Intel(R) Core™2 Quad Processor Q8300?

Hi. Currently i am running windows 7 64 bit on a machine with Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q8300 (http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=39107). i would like to install debian. Is the amd64 bit version ok for this processor [...] Yes. Best regards, Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: AMD vs Intel in 2009

Hi. A word of warning: I'm looking at replacing a few boxes with some new Tyan boards - [...] ^^ A few months ago [1], my machine broke down (in a still unknown way). It was 5 months after the 3-years warranty period provided by TYAN! I

Re: recommended motherboards for build?

Hi. I have been thinking of building a low-power Debian AMD64 desktop with a Core 2 Quad CPU (probably the Q6600). The purpose of this machine is nothing special, just the basic computing type thing (office suite, email, web surfing) without the power-hungry hardware. If low power is

Tyan, Dell, Medion [Was: Re: Machine died]

Hello. Just to close this thread and thank all those who have provided advice. And also say all the bad I think of Tyan's literally non-existing support: I sent them a mail asking for advice on the possible causes of the motherboard (K8W Tiger S2875) behaviour I was seeing. They didn't even

Re: RedHat in Chroot

Hi. See http://virtualbox.org/ works great in i386 and

Re: How would I get debian unstable?

See also: http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talks/why_debian/talk.html Best, Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop advice

Hello. Thanks for all the advice. A thinkpad that's cheap? I didn't think that was ever possible. They are quite nice in general though. How to assess cheapness? I saw that prices span quite a large range... Everyone here seems to agree that a ThinkPad is nice but expensive. So what does

Laptop advice

Hello. Sorry if this slightly off-topic. But what laptops would you currently advise to buy? Obviously, the purpose is that all the components be supported by Debian GNU/Linux. Specifications: - Lightweight but usable (i.e. screen should be 14 or 15). - Wired network adapter - Wireless

Logitech QuickCam supported?

Hello. Is it possible to make the webcam Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX Plus work (the movie camera part) on Debian? There is a quickcam_messenger.ko module but it seems to recognize only the integrated microphone. Thanks, Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Logitech QuickCam supported?

Is it possible to make the webcam Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX Plus work (the movie camera part) on Debian? I've just found http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/gspca-source I'll try that and hopefully I'll be able to answer my own question... Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Logitech QuickCam supported?

Hi. Sorry, I was definitely too fast in posting this. :-/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/gspca-source I'll try that and hopefully I'll be able to answer my own question... There are gspca-modules-... available in unstable. [And, answering to myself: It works.] Best,

Re: debootstrap chroot failure

Hello. I cannot install a 32-bit chroot with debootstrap.. sid5600:/home/norv# debootstrap --arch i386 sid /var/chroot/sid-ia32 http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I:

Re: How to install Skype?

Hi. Here is what I did: 00. Downloaded skype-1.4.0.74.deb from skype's web site. 01. Tried to install directly with dpkg (with --force-architecture) - skype didn't work. 02. Downloaded the static version from skype's web site - skype didn't work. 1. Installed a chroot as per the

How to install Skype?

Hello. I have to [1] set up skype on an AMD64 installation. I think there was a discussion some time ago on the best way to achieve that, but the Debian ML archive seems to be down (3 or 4 days already), so I'd be glad if those who succeeded could provide me with some hints. Thanks and best

Re: How to install Skype?

Hi. inside a chroot if you have one No I don't have one, yet. Which program do you recommend, and how should I invoke it, in order to have everything (dependencies etc...) set up as easily as possible? Thanks, Gilles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

Hello. I'm also inquiring about hardware for a new system. Based on previous posts (with some replacements for parts I didn't readily found in the closest shop), here is my tentative list (with alternative choices): CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU AMD Athlon64 5000 RAM

NVIDIA driver ... fails to compile (again)

Hello. I use make-kpkg (from kernel-package deb) to compile the Nvidia driver (I've just downloaded version 1.0.8776-3 of nvidia-kernel-source). Then I get (after building kernel 2.6.19.1): ---CUT--- NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... make CC=gcc-4.0 -C /home/eran/system/kernel/source/linux-2.6.19.1

Re: NVidia official driver

Hi. Is there a significant difference at compiling between using module-assistant and make-kpkg modules_image ? When compiling a kernel with make-kpkg and using the --append-to-version option, I couldn't make m-a produce a package that would install the module in the right directory (it

Advice for new machine?

Hi. I should install debian on a new machine with the following components: CPU: AMD X2 4200+ MB: Asus A8N SLI Prem Graphics: ASUS EAX 550 Network: DLINK DGE 530T Keyboard: Logitech LX700 Is everything supported? Especially useful would be the driver names for: - the SATA disk controller -

Re: spamd segfault

Are you using a pre-2.6.14 kernel on an SMP machine? [There was a bug in the kernel.] Yes: 2.6.12-10-amd64-xeon #1 SMP Thu Dec 22 11:43:32 UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux Then, if it's that same bug, you should try and upgrade the kernel. [I had random crashes with anything that heavily

Re: spamd segfault

I'm watching a lot of spamd segfault in my logs. I'm using Debian SID.. Does anybody experieced this? We've got this on one server with exim too. Don't have a clue. Are you using a pre-2.6.14 kernel on an SMP machine? [There was a bug in the kernel.] Best, Gilles -- To