Re: How would I add an OS to grub?

2008-06-10 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:42:16PM +0100, annne annnie wrote: I'm pretty sure I have a working version of NetBSD though, but it is not listed on the grub bootloader. (...) I just want to know how to add NetBSD to grub. The exact documentation pointers are: info --node '(grub)Configuration'

Re: any TV tuners supported by linux?

2008-06-10 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:03:28PM +0100, annne annnie wrote: I'd like to get a tv tuner to put in my computer, preferably PCI. Does anyone have or know of a tv tuner that is supported by linux so that everything works smoothly with good quality? Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for that kind of

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tries to install unneeded packages

2008-06-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote: I have my system fully updated right now. When I run 'apt-get upgrade', no packages are ready to install or held back because of dependencies. When I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', though, I get a list of 73 packages that are to be

Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.

2007-04-18 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:34:46PM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: I know cross-posting is frowned upon but I just discovered a useful item that you may like to try. http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2006/11/24/playing-youtube-videos-without-flash/ Also worth of notice is package youtube-dl. --

Re: is there a linux-image-2.6.17-x-amd64-k8?

2006-09-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:08:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I would like to install a kernel image that is compiled for AMD64 processors only (not for both AMD64 and EM64T). There is no such precompiled image anymore. Precompiled images have switched to one flavour only: SMP

Re: is there a linux-image-2.6.17-x-amd64-k8?

2006-09-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:27:10AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:20:08PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: There is no such precompiled image anymore. Precompiled images have switched to one flavour only: SMP adequate for AMD and Intel processors. I guess about

Re: future of ATX?

2006-09-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:18:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For motherboard brands, are some better for Linux and reliability in general than others? Tyan as one definite ace in its sleeve that I appreciate much, and that you may appreciate or not: They support LinuxBIOS on all their

Re: Jumbo Frames?

2006-01-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:26:56AM -0800, mike wrote: I have recently moved my servers to an all gigabit ethernet network and I'd like to make use of jumbo frames. They're enabled on my switch (it's a Dell managed switch) - however, I am not sure if I have to make any changes to the servers

Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system

2005-11-23 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:26:36AM +0100, Soenke von Stamm wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 04:30 schrieb Hamish Moffatt: Also, don't forget swap. RAID1 is good for that too. RAID1 for swap? What use would that be? If you are trying to construct a system that will survive a disk

Re: RAID

2005-11-10 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:54:09AM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: Since both lilo and grub support linux software raid, there really isn't anything to discuss, I wasn't aware that grub supports linux software raid. It is not mentioned in the documentation, at least. How do you make it work? --

Re: RAID

2005-11-10 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:36:09AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:32:50PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I wasn't aware that grub supports linux software raid. It is not mentioned in the documentation, at least. How do you make it work? I run /boot on a raid1

Re: Thunderbird segmentation fault

2005-11-02 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:45:13PM +0100, Ralph Kutschera wrote: My Thunderbird under Debian sarge amd64 keeps crashing giving the following message: You may be hit by http://bugs.debian.org/321644 . I posted a patch that solves it for me there; try it. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Tyan Thunder K8W S2885 with 4GB memory missing memory??

2005-09-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:58:41AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On my S2895, I have in Advanced / Hammer / Memory Hole / Memhole mapping, the choice between disabled, software and hardware. The one that works is software. If I set hardware, it just goes back to disabled after boot

IOMMU on Tyan K8WE s2895

2005-09-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I have a Tyan s2895; Linux complains on boot: Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup This costs you 64 MB of RAM Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 400 But I have triple-checked, I have IOMMU: enabled in my BIOS config.

NUMA setup on Tyan s2895

2005-09-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, Still with my Tyan s2895, I have two CPUs and 4GB, made of 8*512MB DIMM modules, of RAM. The motherboard's documentation clearly shows that four memory slots (two banks) are attached to each CPU. See the block diagram on page 2 of ftp://ftp.tyan.com/datasheets/d_s2895_100.pdf . What I find

Re: NUMA setup on Tyan s2895

2005-09-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:28:17AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:51:57AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Still with my Tyan s2895, I have two CPUs and 4GB, made of 8*512MB DIMM modules, of RAM. The motherboard's documentation clearly shows that four memory slots

Re: Tyan Thunder K8W S2885 with 4GB memory missing memory??

2005-09-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:55:52PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 09:51 -0700, Max wrote: Kulagin D.I. wrote: Update your BIOS if needed and set MTRR option from continuous to discrete. Lucky you. As I said before, for Tyan S2875 this leads to system instability. I

Re: ip6tables (was Re: Disable IPv6 - here is help)

2005-09-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:22:19PM +1200, Lee Begg wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example: If you used iptables to block all sorts of ports, but you still had ipv6 enabled on a nic, could those ports still be accessed via an ipv6 travelling packet? Yes, but

Re: CPU burns 3

2005-08-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:35:36PM +0200, antonio giulio wrote: Ok, it's impossible that software damages hardware... It is very much possible. Old monitors would break when sent too high a refresh rate, old hard disks break when asked to do a read or write move beyond their size and ... the

Re: truncated dmesg

2005-04-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:31:38PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: On a board with two sata raid cards, I get a truncated dmesg. I believe this is due to the size of msgbuf -- how is this set? LOG_BUF_SHIFT in the kernel configuration. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set

2005-04-04 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:55:11AM +0200, Oliver Korpilla wrote: Realtime priorities under Linux are priorities that are higher than that of any other user process. (...) there is this patch to allow standard programs to elevate themselves without being run by root. BTW: This is useful for

Stable kernel for amd64 machine?

2005-02-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I'm having trouble getting my amd64 machine running stable with recent kernels. I was wondering whether someone here had advice or experience to share; thank you in advance for any help. It is a mono-processor Opteron machine, with an Asus SK8N motherboard and two Maxtor 6Y120M0 SATA hard

Re: mounting a SATA drive

2005-02-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:54:26PM +0100, Erik Norman wrote: I have installed the system on a IDE harddisk. I wondered how to mount a SATA harddisk. Well, hmmm..., I'm not sure on what level to answer that. You first partition it (e.g. with cfdisk), then you create a filesystem on the

Re: From Sid to Sarge

2004-10-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:19:10AM +0200, Davide Ling wrote: Il mar, 2004-10-19 alle 06:24, Andreas J. Guelzow ha scritto: gnumeric uses libgnomeprint which will try to connect to a cups server. You may want to try to go into /usr/lib/libgnomeprint/*/modules But.. is there a clean

Re: OT: gnumeric and cups (was: From Sid to Sarge)

2004-10-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 07:00:04AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 05:20, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:19:10AM +0200, Davide Ling wrote: Il mar, 2004-10-19 alle 06:24, Andreas J. Guelzow ha scritto: gnumeric uses libgnomeprint which will try