Re: Failure lauching application since iceweasel -> Firefox

2016-07-13 Thread Michael
Why don't you try http://www.palemoon.org installed as a portable (like /opt/palemoon) you don't need the installer, just unzip the package in place.

Re: Link problem..

2015-09-06 Thread Michael
Jack, Replace all "8.2.0" with "8.1.0" maybe that works better http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.1.0/amd64/bt-cd/debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso.torrent hth mi

Re: Bug#399608: fixed in sysvinit 2.88dsf-59.1

2015-05-18 Thread Michael Cree
with a variety of techniques, one of which is cross-building. Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150518195914.GA1661@tower

Re: Guide to getting ported?

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
) someone(s) with another platform who just tries to package (or just make install) it. Also test that 'make DESTDIR=/some/where/else install' works well. p.s. - Very glad to see you are opening the discussion! Michael On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: Hi

running kodi (xbmc) on debian

2015-02-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
than kodi are people currently using? Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: Xfce vs GNOME

2015-01-29 Thread Michael
Hendrik, JIT compilers Ah, i didn't know. Well i guess this is just a topic on its own and i should open a new thread if i really wanted to discuss it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

debian-amd64 list obsolete now ?

2015-01-29 Thread Michael
I wonder about the future of this list. There isn't so much point in having amd64 as something exclusively anymore. It's low traffic too. Hendrik pointed me to JIT compilers who seem to differ between 32 and 64 bit. Well, i don't know ... I really don't want to down the list, i rather wonder

Re: Xfce vs GNOME

2015-01-27 Thread Michael
Francesco, About Laptops, probably look into the archives of debian-lap...@lists.debian.org (or subscribe and ask there) I would not make the choice depend on the keypboard. I guess the keyboard of a laptop can be replaced (manually), i don't know how much effort it would be though. Ideally,

Re: Xfce vs GNOME

2015-01-26 Thread Michael
Francesco, Just for my daily work, i've similar expectations - all RAM and CPU should be dedicated to the applications i work with, and nothing else. Although i try out many new systems now and then (and not only Linux) i'm still using Windowmaker as a desktop session. WM is kind of ancient

OT: complaints about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread Michael
Speaking about exchanging complexity... http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html (busy start with chapter 'User') All that under the hood of 'systemd' just appears like a trojan horse. They should've called it DLL (Distributors-Less Linux) in the first place.

Re: OT: complaints about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread Michael
At this point, think about architectures. (Thanks heaven we're a little more on topic now ;) Especially Debian tries to support many architectures, at least as good as resources provide. Lennarts Operating System Troll (LOST) resulting in DLL (Distributor-Less Linux) woul probably remove

Re: OT: complaints about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread Michael
Christopher, The way it went, it seems to me the LOST party found a way to take the developer/maintainer base with them. Instead of starting from scratch, as a clearly announced project, they want the whole thing just like that. Already now, after their tiny init trojan rapidly swallowed

OT: complaints about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Michael
Lennart, shutting down samba by the looks of it. Seems to be bug #762002. where did you find that ? Not here ? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advancedbug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=REOPENEDproduct=systemd If you talk ARM then #74280 could apply. Besides

Re: complaints about systemd

2014-10-08 Thread Michael
After having read much of the stuff available online (including parts of Lennart Poetterings blog), it appears that the essential point of it all seems to have been to make boot up a little faster. Bit i have a strong feeling that just a few seconds faster boot up simply do not justify the

Re: new software if moving to amd64?

2014-10-05 Thread Michael
Lennart, What do you think, chances does X32 have ? Will this be, like, fused, into AMD64 compilers some day ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: new software if moving to amd64?

2014-10-05 Thread Michael
Lennart, Thanks for the comment. Actually, until you mentioned it, i wasn't even aware of x32, but its existence answers a lot of questions i had since long :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: new software if moving to amd64?

2014-10-04 Thread Michael
Ray, Well. Having done a lot of (kindly) support for older machines, i'd say leave the arch as is. While on the other hand it's fun to upgrade to a decent GNU/Linux version (a friend once said Linux is the greatest online adventure ever) so if you are bored, give it a shot :) but that does not

complaints about systemd

2014-08-10 Thread Michael
Hello all, I just want to load off my bad mood :) so let me tell you, today i deinstalled systemd. There were several problems, like with shut down, when sound card state should be saved but created a guru. Sometimes it didn't even boot because some ACPI thing stuck. Also my reboot / shutdown

Re: root low space

2014-06-01 Thread Michael
It's cool dd if=/dev/vg1/root | ssh 192.168.#.## dd of=/home/chiendarret/tmp/vg1-root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Banck
Linux kernel config options on -ports is off-topic. Maybe you sent the initial mail to the wrong list? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Michael Cree
a subset of arm ports is yet to be seen. I am subscribed to the debian-alpha and debian-arm mail lists. I am not a DD. Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-29 Thread Michael
Karl, I can see nvidia-kernel-source in my debian unstable package list, though i have no 'src' line in sources.list. Probably because that package can not have a binary counterpart unless you used it :) When i used this package (along nvidia-glx and module-assistant) in the past, i just

Re: nvidia 9800 GT with nouveau on wheezy

2013-04-29 Thread Michael
'm-a a-i' sorry, should be: m-a a-i nvidia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130429154448.7c88e...@mirrors.kernel.org

Re: Cannot use Debian

2013-04-27 Thread Michael
Recently, accidently inserted an Itanium64 installer in an amd64 PC and there wasn't any feedback message at all ... just the DVD did not start. I wonder if it's just grub being architecture specific ? Nailing down the CPU is a tricky thing. Even if you install and use the 'cpuid' tool, you

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-04-06 Thread Michael
Many thanks for your suggestions ! Klaus, I d/l the latest i386 package ('current') then after the package is loaded into the database (by dpkg -i) it still can not be configured, as expected, because: /tmp r: dpkg --configure google-earth-stable dpkg: dependency problems prevent

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-04-06 Thread Michael
Goswin, I tried your other suggestion (DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 make-googleearth-package) and created the i386 debian package. Es expected it installed only unconfigured, with /tmp r: dpkg --configure googleearth dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of googleearth: googleearth depends

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-04-06 Thread Michael
On a close look, it appeared that somewhere in my installation experiments, lsb-core (amd64) was deinstalled completely. I fixed that, but the result is nearly exactly the same, with one exception. If i start this, it say that now: /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-04-06 Thread Michael
Now my packages are somewhat in a mess, and please allow me to ask this a little off-topic (but not completely): (1) how can i apply a 'purge' to all packages that are 'c' half-configured ? There are hundreds it seems. (2) how can i search for _installed_ i386 packages explicitly (and maybe

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-03-14 Thread Michael
Goswin, If your package is depending on ia32-libs then you are not using the right package for multiarch. Only the amd64 package would depend on ia32-libs. Use the i386 package instead. The i386 package of what ? I've got an amd64. My sources suck testing and unstable and i have multiarch

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-03-14 Thread Michael
Ah ! I was too focused on apt. I guess you meant i should download the i386 deb directly from google ? ok i'll do that now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-03-14 Thread Michael
This seems to end up in dependency hell too :) google-earth requires lsb-core:i386 which does not recognize the already installed alien v 8.88 (which is arch:all), but still insists on alien = 8.36 (but no arch specified). (I wonder what prevents lsb-core from being arch:all.) There seems to

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-14 Thread Michael
Is anyone running wheezy today? Yes. I don't see crashes or critical bugs with major applications, but i avoid KDE on 'production' desktops :) but then, 'production ready' is a slightly broad term :) From my i386 laptop, it seems to be ok though (with plasma desktop) if you don't insist on

Re: kde Desktop on wheezy - nvidiacard - production ready?

2013-02-14 Thread Michael
Hendrik, I see. Now that's another statement ! Maybe you should move to grub then, within Squeeze, and also try to upgrade only the 'problem' packages first ? if that's all fine, to the rest ? I always do such things within aptitude, maybe in several cycles, since it gives me more choices

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2013-02-09 Thread Michael
On my Athlon PC, multiarch (amd64,i386) is enabled and all packages are latest update 'testing', none broken. I've downgraded to testing, downloaded the latest googleearth version (6.0.3) and installed all dependencies, including ia32-libs. Now still i get

Re: sound card problems

2013-02-07 Thread Michael
Ah yes, you're probably right, Hendrik. And just one more quick hint. With 'vlc' playing music, you can switch on-the-fly (while playing music) between the available devices by the 'Audio' - 'Device' top menu. Just to check which card or chip works, or not. Another issue i've seen with older

Re: sound card problems

2013-02-06 Thread Michael
Francesco, with most video / audio players you can configure which sound source shall be used (in their preferences). Install alsamixergui, the most simple tool. If you don't know what those channels refer to, turn up anything then turn down those which don't make a difference. (Click the

Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk

2012-10-20 Thread Michael
Hello, I am running testing/unstable. I just enabled i386 multiarch mode, installed package ia32-libs and all its dependencies, and then run make-googleearth-package, which d/l version 6.0.3. All through with no errors. Now when i launch the binary, it responds with:

is my source.list file out of date.......

2012-05-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
in a new box with a newer motherboard in it.The OS still runs but I probably freaked it a bit. Firestarter seems not to work now. Suggestions on getting it used to what I did welcome. The new motherboard is a GA-A55M-S2V model and an AMD A 3400 chip. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: is my source.list file out of date.......

2012-05-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
for the help here. Suggestions on getting it used to what I did welcome. The new motherboard is a GA-A55M-S2V model and an AMD A 3400 chip. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: nouveau nvidia crashing

2012-02-23 Thread Michael
Seb, Maybe you are lucky and the proprietary nvidia driver ('nvidia') is working better for you. Else, try downgrade. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
) fixme:shdocvw:InPlaceFrame_SetStatusText (0x1255ec)-(0xf76418f9) Suggestions welcome here. Regards Michael Fothergill fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)-((null) 25 2 0x32f978 (nil)) fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)-((null) 26 2 0x32f978 (nil)) fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x1255ec)-((null

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
know this package existed.I will try this out and see how I get on. Michael -- *Robert Goley* FOSS Implementation Specialist Toll Free: (800) 338-4984 Local: (770) 479-7933 Fax: (770) 479-4076 www.openrda.com Helping local schools and governments make a difference. *P

Re: Need a html5 browser for squeeze

2011-12-13 Thread Michael
Hendrik, I did a routine upgrade a few weeks ago, before havein friends over for a write-in, only to discover that gnome had become unusable. Yes, i agree. When using testing, you have to learn a new discipline: Update only when you feel like it ;) And you can always cancel when package

Re: Need a html5 browser for squeeze

2011-12-12 Thread Michael
Why not move to Debian testing ('wheezy') altogether. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111213031653.6eee9...@mirrors.kernel.org

chroot to 32bit

2011-03-27 Thread Michael
My main box is amd64 debian testing/unstable. Can i do this ? - (1) plug in a harddisk with a 32 bit ubuntu (maverick), taken from a remote offline computer, (2) do a chroot into the maverick (3) aptitude update and download missing packages (4) back to the remote computer, perform the

Re: chroot to 32bit

2011-03-27 Thread Michael
It turned out it was an old IDE drive and i had to open the case anyway to get access to the last remaining IDE channel (for a DVD drive) and thus i decided it was easier to just plug off some of the more difficult hardware, and boot that external drive directly. I'm glad i had a 32bit downward

help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Fothergill
installation I will try again later. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikdrxkuy89jv6czk7aus5t4+hvztlytwfns8

help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Fothergill
installation I will try again later. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=_spniorqmnvcofu+q4q_e5xxrvu4zzvmz9

dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Michael Fothergill
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old libstdc++-libc6 library, ia32-libs?

2010-08-11 Thread Michael F. Egglestone
Hello, We have a very old 3rd party program that won't run properly without this file: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 It also requires some libraries from the ia32-libs package which works nicely, but this one libc6.2-2 is the only one missing. Here's an output from the binary:

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Michael
I also would need Windows Mediaplayer. And Aero, i need the aero desktop ! Can i run these in wine too ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Michael
No i want explorer mediaplayer and aero desktop from Microsoft. Except that it should be Linux. it's because my microsoft clock dropped and now is so bad, it always shows April 1. i hope linux time is better ! * And i don't want foxes or wiesel or bugs or kaffee on my desktop thanks. --

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Michael
Paulo, Congrats! your the 1st who gets it right and openly say so -- debian people are incredible patient, and polite ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Michael
But i was really surprised by the ie4l thing that Freddie mentioned. anyway. I hope you won't mind. I just could not resist to revive that running gag after so many years :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Michael
Christopher, If you want them from Microsoft, then I suggest you contact Microsoft. I asked them on phone. They don't want to release package for linux :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: rollback after software upgrade

2010-07-27 Thread Michael
Yes granted. I just think that the format is the obstacle that makes developing some level of automation too tedious. Any upgrade or downgrade implies elements that are very similar for most software, and others that are not. Most times, it is a kind of a mapping, you extract information of

Re: rollback after software upgrade

2010-07-26 Thread Michael
Lennart, And hope the upgrade did convert any data files to a new incompatible format. (i think you wanted to write didn't here ?) Wouldn't it be funny to ask developers for a downgrade converter :) It's an interesting question if there will be any 'standard' configuration syntax some day

Re: rollback after software upgrade

2010-07-25 Thread Michael Dominok
to do is to change into the backup directory and do dpgk -i *. Cheers Michael #!/bin/sh # /root/bin/getafix # Script to save packages to be upgraded in /root/lib/upgrade/$DATE # using dpkg-repack # In case something goes wrong, whilst upgrading, a simple dpkg -i /root/lib/upgrade/$DATE

32bit -- 64 server upgrade, and samba

2010-07-21 Thread Michael F. Egglestone
Hello, I'm looking to upgrade an old Pentium4 box to a new xeon I realize I'll have to install a fresh AMD64 Debian to the new server. But I want to retain all the samba domain/accounts stuff. Can I simply just install samba on the new xeon box, and then copy over the /var/lib/samba/* files and

Re: Google Gears

2010-07-05 Thread Michael
You don't need gears (which has never really worked well for me even when I've been able to install it). You could use any of a number of imap mirroring tools. I use offlineimap quite successfully for offline gmail Isn't it that many mail programs today have inbuilt support for gmail

Re: fstab labels

2010-06-25 Thread Michael
Hendrik, Would labels help if you wanted it to recognise specific CD's when you put them in the drive? funny idea. How do you imagine to make use of it ? have them automounted into specific parts of the file system. That's for data CD's, of course. What you can do is put up

Re: status of skype amd64

2010-06-24 Thread Michael
Lennart, I just tell people to not use skype. :) Everyone else uses SIP. I think you are right. A VoIP monopol, that would be a real bad thing. So i'll try to suggest SIP first to anyone. I think it boils down to multiple IMs open at the same time, but that's the price. -- To

Re: status of skype amd64

2010-06-22 Thread Michael
Thanks for your suggestions ! There seem to be at least 3 versions of debian packages: skype-debian_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb skype_static-2.1.0.81.tar.bz2 skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb But i could not get any of these working beyond the license agreement resp. login. I found this

status of skype amd64

2010-06-14 Thread Michael
Hello, Does anybody know what's the state of skype for amd64 ? My first try was, i installed skype-debian_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb with dpkg --force (btw weird, it does not appear in the apt database afterwards!) Then i launched 'skype' via user and got an error: Inconsistency detected by ld.so:

Re: fstab labels

2010-05-17 Thread Michael
hendrik, Would labels help if you wanted it to recognise specific CD's when you put them in the drive? funny idea. How do you imagine to make use of it ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: fstab labels

2010-05-16 Thread Michael
Hi Seb, Try setting /dev/cdrom instead of LABEL. Usually you have such a link in /dev, pointing to the real device (as configured by udev). If you need to check things out then try this, in a root terminal: dmesg | grep CD-ROM You will get a line like, for example 2.042890] sr 6:0:0:0:

Re: strange packages

2010-02-12 Thread Michael Mohn
is preferred for which purposes? the first one is more generic. it could some day upgrade to a 2.8 kernel. the other one is more specific the actual package of the 2.6-kernel tree. both apply only for the amd64 architecture. bye, Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ

Re: is there a way to revert to a previous, known working set of debian packages?

2010-01-08 Thread Michael Dominok
(with dd) make the upgrade and write them back i anything goes wrong. Cheers Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to track source of sleep signal?

2009-12-19 Thread Michael
Maybe you can track it with a shell fragment like: while true; do ps e | grep sleep | grep -v grep; sleep 1; done (or use 'watch') -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to track source of sleep signal?

2009-12-16 Thread Michael
(1) ps e -p process id (2) /usr/bin/lsof, /bin/fuser (3) valgrind with valgrind, install the openoffice.org-dbg package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Wrong links???

2009-12-15 Thread Michael
I found out that all files listed above are obsolete, and deleted them. Is toplevel /emul used at all anymore ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Why /etc/rc.local is executed twice ? (package sysv-rc and sysvinit)

2009-12-01 Thread Michael
Hi all, I'm ready to ask this on another list too, but let me give it a try. I wanted to setup some custom boot tasks in /etc/rc.local, which is said to be the right place for it. However, it appears this script is executed twice when booting into runlevel 2 ! It's a Debian Sid system, daily

encrypting or password protecting files in OpenOffice and also jpg files and sending them to MSWindows users.....

2009-11-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
copy the files on to CD and then send them by old fashioned snail mail. That really would confuse the hackers. Suggestions welcome, Michael Fothergill

Re: problems with init.d scripts after upgrade

2009-11-14 Thread Michael
Hello Alex, I might suggest a dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc, maybe you got caught out on the migration to insserv ! yes that's kind of last resort (and thumbs up) but i'd generally prefer to stay with the legacy system for, and even more, now, because i would like to find out how it was possible.

Re: google earth screwed (solved)

2009-11-13 Thread Michael
Solved http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=72b851d55f188ceahl=en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT

2009-11-13 Thread Michael
or maybe underscribe ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: undescribe

2009-11-13 Thread Michael
Es ist 'unsubscribe' im Betreff und die Mail geht an debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org steht unten an jeder mail, das ist bei vielen mailing-listen so (aber nicht allen): -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: problems with init.d scripts after upgrade

2009-11-13 Thread Michael
Maybe you've got the same weirdness as me. Crons FAILs in the syslog because it got started twice. Indeed the whole init runs kind of twice for me, i could not track it finally yet. It's just that all rc2 script get launched twice. So far noone had any idea, it seems to be not trivial. I

dudes, my nautilus package might be ill......

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
? Suggestions welcome. Regards Michael Fothergill PS I am running Debian Lenny on a newish fairly upscale AMD64 box.

Re: google earth screwed

2009-10-16 Thread Michael
thx Daniel, it'll need more time to give it a shot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

google earth screwed

2009-10-15 Thread Michael
Suddenly google earth seems to be screwed here. It worked yesterday, and i wonder if this maybe debian-update-related. It is version 5.1. the one you get with the debian 'googleearth-package'. To be able to track it down., i just would like to know if someone else has this too In Europe

Re: picture in the message body

2009-10-12 Thread Michael
I think that full MUAs like GNUS can do whatever you want. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Grub-pc problem

2009-10-06 Thread Michael
Hello Simon, Are you upgrading from grub-legacy to grub2 (grub-pc) ? If the old grub worked for you before without problems then it may help if you post the old config file /boot/grub/menu.lst and the new one which is effectively /etc/default/grub. If there's something special with your laptop

Re: Grub-pc problem

2009-10-06 Thread Michael
Try 'search' (search devices by a file or a filesystem label) and 'help'. oh if you're still on legacy then it's rather 'find' not 'search' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: libc6 and X11 seem not to work together

2009-10-02 Thread Michael
From what Hans reported, it was my impression this is related to the Xorg Radeon (ati) drivers, not to NVidia or something else ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: libc6 and X11 seem not to work together

2009-10-02 Thread Michael
No problem here with stock kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64 and nvidia prop driver ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii nvidia-glx 185.18.36-2 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver ii nvidia-glx-ia32 185.18.36-2 NVIDIA binary driver 32bit libs ii

Re: Updating system with ia32-apt-get

2009-09-23 Thread Michael
I can see that ia32-apt is a valid concept, and perhaps the first step toward real multiarch. But left aside that i'm deliberately running Sid and used to screw the system since many years, let me speak on behalf of a desktop user. Then i just would expect more integration, namely: A converter

googleearth

2009-09-23 Thread Michael
Weird enough, i was able to reanimate googleearth by installing nvidia-glx-ia32, additional to nvidia-glx (in a debian legacy setup). The window started up before but didn't draw the actual graphics, just a blank screen. Sad thing is that since few month, GE 4.2 doesn't run anymore, which had

Re: What is the matter with the http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Neuffer
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53 +0400, James Brown wrote: Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for Debian? I am not aware of any DD maintaining skype packages, but Skype used to have a debian repository at: deb

Re: What is the matter with the http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Neuffer
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Michael Neuffer neuf...@neuffer.info writes: Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53 +0400, James Brown wrote: Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for Debian? I am not aware of any DD maintaining skype packages, but Skype

Re: Need older nvidia-kernel-source (vers. 180.x.x)

2009-06-14 Thread Michael Langley
You can get nvidia source from nvidia. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_amd64_display_archive.html The source is inside the install package. Just run the file with -x, --extract-only On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:19:36 +0200 Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Hi all, due to some

trying to watch a tv show from a web site....

2009-05-10 Thread Michael Fothergill
to prevent unauthorised access to Channel 4 programmes. What is RTMP-E? Is there any kind of video codec or some other package that I could install with synaptic (maybe non-free) to get this to work or is this only viewable in an MS Windows environment? Comments appreciated. Michael Fothergill

dudes, my laptop won't even give me a terminal prompt - xorg problem....

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
and I have got them working both with the NVIDIA card and without. I think this is just a temporary problem. Regards Michael Fothergill

did I upgrade to squeeze properly?

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
or could they poison one another because the deb files in there could be a little different and it would screw things up? Regards Michael Fothergill

2.6.18-4 or 2.6.18-6

2008-12-29 Thread michael
I was noticing that there is a list of packages to install if you run # apt-get install linux-image I'm currently running 2.6.18-4-amd64 But I noticed there is a 2.6.18-6-amd64 Whats the difference between these? Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with

server crash, what to check?

2008-11-13 Thread michael
Hello, AMD64(dual xeon) etch box with 2.6.18 kernel, 8 Gig memory but no swap space. (forgot to turn it on) Filesystems are ext3 and mdadm Raid10. I have noticed that 2 of my 6 drives have some SMART errors but mdstat looks fine so far. Box hung completely and had to hard reboot it. Here is the

Re: server crash, what to check?

2008-11-13 Thread michael
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:03:49 +0100, Sythos wrote On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:39:35 -0800 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, AMD64(dual xeon) etch box with 2.6.18 kernel, 8 Gig memory but no swap space. (forgot to turn it on) what about memtest86+? Haven't tried that yet, will give

Re: [martinw...@yahoo.it: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross is not being built on any architecture other than i386]

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
# m68k/ppc specific Actually this was about amiga-fdisk, but I have no objection to changing the Atari fdisk p-a-s entry as well. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

recompiling the debian kernel..getting wierd messege.

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Habashy
Newbie quetion here - I just tried following the tutorial on how to compile a debian kernel - http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian It worked great - till i had to initialize with the new kernel...I keep getting these messeges: Waiting 16 seconds for /*sys/block/sdb/sdb1/dev* to

Re: recompiling the debian kernel..getting wierd messege.

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Habashy
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Michael Habashy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie quetion here - I just tried following the tutorial on how to compile a debian kernel - http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian It worked great - till i had to initialize with the new kernel...I keep

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