On Tuesday 19 December 2006 16:29, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:00 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:47:33PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > > Does this mean that when 4 GB sticks come out I can have 16 GB on my
> > > Athlon 3800+?
> >
> > Well every
On Sunday 17 December 2006 21:03, Brian R. Whitecotton wrote:
> IMHO I don't see the point in having a GeForce 7300 GT unless you are at
> least enabling its power/capabilities.
A 7300GT is a fairly bottom-of-the-line card. It's the cheapest card I've seen
that has dual-link DVI connectors (requi
> What about at high resolutions though? According to this[1] bug report at
> fd.o it's still broken and won't be fixed until at least Xorg 7.3. And the
> last time I used the nv driver it was noticably slower than the binary
> nvidia driver even at normal 2D desktop stuff, not that it was unusable
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 15:24, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:23:41PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > The open source driver does support video overlays, and seems to provide
> > hardware acceleration (I see a 10x reduction in CPU usage when xv
> The nvidia binary driver does DRI openGL. The free driver is 2D only.
> I also believe the free driver doesn't do video playback acceleration
> while the binary one does.
The open source driver does support video overlays, and seems to provide
hardware acceleration (I see a 10x reduction in C
> This has happened with a mp3 player and two cell phones (a Motorola
> C650 and a Sony-Ericsson K750i), so it's not a problem with the device.
> What's strange is that the connection is detected by the devices: the
> mp3 player, for example, turns on and displays the usual screen shown
> when
> >I've never understood the appeal of Mosix. No real HPC facility uses it.
> >
> >Proper clusters tend to use an MPI of some kind (usually some variant of
> >MPICH). Workstation clusters run Condor or similar. Neither require
> >special kernels.
>
> Hmm... I'm new to cluster calculations, so I don
> lsmod
> Module Size Used by
>...
> nvidia 5661144 22
This is almost certainly the cause of your problems.
Paul
> I had missed this suggestion. I agree to the extent that it is possible to
> agree. I mean that during my career of organic chemist I found extremely
> useful to have a free-form database, which can be used as a notebook, while
> the powerful boolean search engine allows me to retrieve quickly an
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 19:22, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> Hi
>One of the things I am confused about is why I cannot find any kernel
> linux-image-2.6.17-2 with the smp extension. Perhaps it's a silly question
> but I've got another and a little bit less silly:)
$ apt-cache show linux
> I'm trying to install Intel Fortran Compiler 9.1.036 on my Debian AMD64
> Opteron Box. Unfortunely, i can't use gnu fortran to compile the
> application i want (http://www.cpmd.org/), because it needs the 'Cray
> Pointer' extension to Fortran 77 for dynamical memory management. According
> to ht
> Checking out a largish CVS module is no fun. The data is retrieved via
> cvs pserver from the file server and written back via NFS into my home
> directory.
Have you checked your NFS settings? I'd expect that to be the main bottleneck
in this setup.
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> > I would hope LVM deals with resizing PVs though, but I did not want to
> > risk trying it.
>
> I would be willing to risk that (since I have a backup). I just would
> like to know before whether and how LVM is supposed to deal with that.
man pvresize
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On Sunday 04 June 2006 12:36, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Alexander Samad wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have need to run a text only dos application on my debian box, does
> > dosemu not exist on amd64 ? But I found dosbox - any one use this
> > successfully
> >
> >
> > Its a old pabx configuration prog
> The problem is, that without sync, unplugging an un- umounted device is
> datacide. umounting the device after transferring 700 MB takes about 24sec,
> what seems to be long.
You can manually run "sync" to flush stuff out to disk.
The long delay you're seeing on unmount is because "copy
> You MUST however have at least one stick of ram installed per cpu in
> that cpu's memory area. If you don't put ram in A3 or B3, then it will
> not see CPU2 at all.
Really? My Tyan board works fine with RAM on only one CPU. The only
restriction is that you must have at least one dimm installed
> Does anyone have experience with a working dual, dual-core opteron
> system that is less than full-tower size and relatively quiet? Or even
> a quiet-but-full-tower machine?
I've got a largeish EATX thermaltake xaser3 case (next size up from standard
midi towers), Tagan PSU, Zalman CPU coolers
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 03:10, David Liontooth wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:04, David Liontooth wrote:
> >> Paul Brook wrote:
> >>> Most modern PCI cards support 3.3v operation, so will work fine in
> >>> PCI-X slots. PCI-X
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:04, David Liontooth wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> > Most modern PCI cards support 3.3v operation, so will work fine in PCI-X
> > slots. PCI-X is backwards compatible with 32-bit 33MHz PCI.
>
> Often true, but TV cards still need 5V PCI.
I have a
> > Maybe this is what you are wanting:
> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/gt20b3870.html (1 PCI-X slot)
> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/gt24b2891.html (1 PCI-X and 1 PCIe
> > slots).
>
> One expansion slot is OK, but I need it to be 32-bit standard PCI. The
> problem is that the boards no
> One should note that the Turion MT-30 has a max power consumption of 25
> Watt, where as the Opteron tops at 89 Watt IIRC - Huge gain in FLOPS /
> Watt when using a turion processor.
Not when compared to the dual-core HE (55W) Opteron.
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On Sunday 12 March 2006 10:22, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
> I am now using Debian sid for i686 on EM64T processor.
> Now i want to shift to AMD64 as it's also port for EM64T.
>
> Any body know the way to shift to amd64 without reinstalling the hole
> system from CD ?
You have to reinstall.
You c
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 16:47, mike wrote:
> After running memtest86 (V3.3) for at least 24 hours, I came back and
> saw that each machine completed 61-63 cycles of tests, with 0
> errors...
>
> However, I did look through the BIOS for cache disabling - and it
> doesn't appear I can disable t
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 00:44, michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've done some googling on the whether hyperthreading turned or on off
> could increase or decrease server performance. I just wanted to get
> some advice from some of the admins that run the AMD64 Debian port.
> (With an Intel em64T chi
> 80386 Linux will install onto, and boot from, hdb quite happily with no hda
> present {I've done it by mistake myself once}. And it doesn't care if the
> CD-ROM device is hdd with no hdc.
It depends on the hardware. Some machines appear to work fine, some don't work
at all, and some work unre
On Monday 02 January 2006 21:56, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> > Debian Installers. My BIOS reports
> >
> > IDE Channel 0 Master 250GB SATA1
> > IDE Channel 1 Slave CD-ROM
>
> That is probably the whole problem. The SATA should NOT
> > As per the manual, you should configure Debian to compensate for the
> > mess Windows makes of the hardware clock.
>
> is 'rdate' the only way for this kind of problem?
From /etc/default/rcS
# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
UTC=no
> > > well i think that there is some information:
> > > http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/
> > >
> > > the truth is, that tyan is our favorite :) it's classics after all...
> > > and has sata...
> > > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8sdpro.html
> > > however, the question is wh
> It is possible. Nothing is impossible. But it is also quite stupid.
>
> You would need a very god reason, like you get paid for it, to do this.
You'd also need a good reason why you couldn't just buy the original source.
It's almost certainly cheaper than trying to wedge the existing library i
On Monday 24 October 2005 22:35, Max wrote:
> Dave Ewart wrote:
> > Is it because I have a 32-bit i686 userspace and this is
> > considered cross-compiling or something??
>
> From old version of FAQ:
>
> ===
>
> *Crosscompiling a 64bit kernel on a 32bit host*
Most of this is obsolete. The Debia
> Debian will activate the VG but it will not mount the LVs automatically.
> You still have to add them to /etc/fstab.
If you're using root-on-lvm you may also need to regenerate your initrd before
rebooting.
Paul
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On Friday 14 October 2005 18:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:18:50PM -0400, Adam Skutt wrote:
> > That means it's logically impossible to have a 48-bit pointer, at all
> > period.
>
> Sure. You have 32bit pointers.
>
> > Yes, but it's obvious now you didn't understand what
On Sunday 02 October 2005 01:13, Mike Dobbs wrote:
> I have a C42UX printer. It works great when it's plugged in and turned
> on when the system boots. However, if it is turned off cups just
> pauses the printer and says the printer cannot be found.
You can use a hotplug script to automatically
On Friday 23 September 2005 12:43, Steve Dondley wrote:
> Thanks for all the useful advice. One follow-up question: should I
> spring for a genunie hardware controller card? Or is a Linux software
> RAID "good enough?"
Depends on your definition of "better".
Hardware raid does allow you to offl
> They can natively run 32 bit stuff with NO speed penalities
No speed penalty compared to what?
Amd64 chips do run 32-bit code "natively", and are competitive as 32-bit CPUs
in their own right. However you usually get a speed increase from recompiling
as a 64-bit app. In 64-bit mode you have m
> Another concern is the heat those CPU beasts produce (90W each). You may
> want to find a cooler solution which doesnt grill you or the CPU and also
> doesnt make you death. (I am sitting next to such a beast right now ;-)
>
> Most cooling systems go up to the 246 or 248. Finding one for the 252
On Monday 19 September 2005 02:06, lordSauron wrote:
> MB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813186055 ($213)
> CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103511 ($695)
Um, You're suggesting a single CPU motherboard with a 2xx CPU???
Not a good idea.
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> (EE): Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE): No drivers availabe
Install the nvidia-glx package.
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> Sep 1 19:32:59 localhost kernel: hdd: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
> Sep 1 19:33:09 localhost kernel: hdd: DMA timeout error
> Sep 1 19:33:09 localhost kernel: hdd: dma timeout error: status=0xf1 {Busy
> } Sep 1 19:33:09 localhost kernel:
> Sep 1 19:33:09 localhost kernel: hdd: DMA disabl
> What are we supposed to do instead?
Fix mkinitrd so it doesn't need devfs.
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> CentOS 4.1 does work, with i2o_blocks, but I would much rather be running
> Debian. Please help...
You could install debian from your CentOS installations using debootstrap.
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apcs04.html
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On Monday 22 August 2005 14:07, jeremy avnet wrote:
> Since a bunch of people contacted me for the script, I'm posting the
> URL here in case some web searcher finds this archive.
>
> http://brainsik.to/ssh-brute-stop
Doesn't work for me. Needs the following patch.
Paul
--- /root/ssh-brute-stop_
On Monday 22 August 2005 14:07, jeremy avnet wrote:
> Since a bunch of people contacted me for the script, I'm posting the
> URL here in case some web searcher finds this archive.
>
> http://brainsik.to/ssh-brute-stop
Doesn't work for me. Needs the following patch.
Paul
--- /root/ssh-brute-stop_
On Sunday 10 July 2005 12:08, Johan Groth wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've have a dual Opteron system (MB Tyan 2885) which has a Broadcom
> ethernet interface (the infamous tg3 driver). I've also installed a SATA
> raid card (a very nice LSI 300-8x, uses the megaraid_mbox driver).
>
> My problem is this: ho
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 19:46, David Wood wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >> I guess I can only ask... what... on... earth... was the problem?
> >
> > See below...
>
> Actually, I don't see where you've said what was objectionable about
> multiarch.
>
> > Well, let's say you wa
On Friday 01 July 2005 16:17, David Wood wrote:
> There's only one amd64 generation so far.
Actually there are two. The AMD and Intel implementations have very different
performance characteristics.
However if the box is intended for heavy duty FP work the chances are that
99+% of the time sill
> I might be missing something obvious here, but I'm using a cluster running
> dual Opterons with the "2.4.21-27.ELsmp" kernel.
RHEL 2.4 kernels are not normal 2.4 kernels. They have lots of additional
patches and backported 2.6 features.
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On Thursday 28 April 2005 14:43, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 03:05:18PM +0300, Kyuu Eturautti wrote:
> > Have you upgraded the BIOS? It seems Abit has made some changes to
> > memory settings in later versions.
> >
> > Personally, I don't even remember what every motherboard s
On Sunday 24 April 2005 05:33, Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2005-04-24T14:04:26+1000, Norval Watson wrote:
> > pan64:/lib# ln /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/ld-linux.so.2
> > ln: creating hard link `./ld-linux.so.2' to
> > `/var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/ld-linux.so.2': Invalid cross-device link
> > pan64:/lib#
> >
On Saturday 09 April 2005 15:29, Jeremy Gray wrote:
> Is it possible to go from a Sarge Pure64 installation to a 32-bit debian
> installation remotely?
>
> (I have KVM over IP access if that helps in the process any.. but no
> CD-ROM on that server)
>
> If its possible could someone please tell me
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:15, Max wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> >>>Does mingw64 even exist? google says it there's no such thing.
> >>
> >>If no, what's the way to compile 64-bit windows binaries?
> >
> > You can't, not without using pro
On Sunday 03 April 2005 02:41, Max wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> >>Is there any chance to have mingw64 package in the official repository to
> >>be able to compile win64 binaries under debian-amd64?
> >
> > This isn't an amd64 specific question. When you'
On Saturday 02 April 2005 21:44, Max wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is there any chance to have mingw64 package in the official repository to
> be able to compile win64 binaries under debian-amd64?
This isn't an amd64 specific question. When you're cross compiling it doesn't
make any difference what machine
On Saturday 12 March 2005 13:03, Superuserman wrote:
> I should revise my explanation here:
> > I can have 4 disks in DOS (c:, d:, e:, and f:) and then
> > turn on the RAID1 mode and there is just one disk c: only.
> > If that is RAID0 then the c: must be 4-formatted first.
> > That doesn't use any
On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:56, Superuserman wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> >> The Linux kernel does not now support any of the
> >> motherboard chips capable of native RAID mode in the
> >> BIOS.
> >
> > Not true. Read
> > http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html.
>
> Perhaps you missed the subject ma
> > This is just plain wrong. I suggest you go and read some good
> > documentation on the properties of different RAID formats. Generally
> > speaking RAID0 doubles throughput for large writes as data is striped
> > across both volumes, and has seek times the same as a single drive. RAID1
> > (mir
> Using a Linux kernel shows two drives even when RAID is
> enabled because the drivers bypass the BIOS. The drivers
> just try to enable the disk controllers directly. That
> problem can be found in the Kernel.org bugzilla.
Most "sata raid" controllers aren't raid controllers. They're just norma
On Thursday 03 March 2005 22:50, Bharath Ramesh wrote:
> I just installed a fresh installation of amd64 on another athlon box. I
> find that the clock seems to be drifting by 8-10 seconds every day. Any
> idea how I can fix this drift. This drift seems to be large.
Run ntp.
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On Saturday 19 February 2005 17:44, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > The "lm" flag in /proc/cpuinfo tells you if the cpu is 64-bit (long mode)
> > capable.
>
> I guess it won't work if the kernel is not already compiled for x86-64.
This does work on 32-bit i386 kernels (I checked). The kernel is just
re
On Saturday 05 February 2005 07:23, SpikeyGG wrote:
> Theodore,
>
> I tried what you suggested about making the symbolic link and it appears to
> have half-way worked. Now when I kick off X it shows me the Nvidia logo
> for a little while but then jumps back out (without reporting any errors to
>
On Saturday 05 February 2005 02:00, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> Is there a way to figure, on a running system, if the processor features
> the EM64T extensions?
uname -m tells you if you're running an x86-64 kernel.
The "lm" flag in /proc/cpuinfo tells you if the cpu is 64-bit (long mode)
capable.
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 13:24, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (01/02/05 13:35), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > You're describing hardware RAID handled by a dedicated piece of hardware
> > (the SCSI controler), whereas he's describing software RAID handled by
> > the kernel (soft only implementation).
On Friday 24 December 2004 01:09, Michael Madden wrote:
> Has anyone gotten a netboot install for amd64 working on a Sun SunFire
> V20z? I'm using the netboot from 12/21/2004. It boots from the cd,
> detects my Broadcom card, loads the tg3 module, configures the network,
> obtains an IP address,
On Friday 10 December 2004 15:03, Michael Madden wrote:
> Has anyone had success with a certain machine using Debian for AMD64. We
> have a wealth of experience using Dell and HP workstations, but neither
> of them offer an AMD64 option. If I cannot get a prebuilt machine from
> someone like Dell
On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(B> Thanks Paul,
(B>
(B> That confirms what I was thinking.
(B>
(B> How can I install the smp kernel with apt-get Any chance that you know the
(B> current smp kernel debian package name ?
(B
(Bapt-cache search kernel-image smp
(B
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 18:01, Nils Valentin wrote:
> Thats what I cant make any sense of anyway it tells me "2.6.8-9-amd64-k8"
>
> If I understand that correctly than it is suing a single CPU kernel while
> it should say "kernel-version-XXX-smp" really.
Below is the uname -a output from tw
On Thursday 28 October 2004 18:46, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:53:20PM -0400, Levi Bard wrote:
> > Highmem (>4GB) may not be enabled in that kernel? Can you search for
> > it in the config? (/proc/kconfig ?)
>
> HIGHMEM on a 64bit system? I know the amd64 is x86 based, b
On Thursday 28 October 2004 13:19, Fuhr Guillaume wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I run debian on a dual opteron system with kernel (
> kernel 2.6.7-5-amd64-k8-smp ) and 2GB of memory.
>
> I have add 4GB of memory on this computer and when i verify quantity of
> memory available (with "dmesg | grep Memory" for e
On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:59, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> When using a 64-bit kernel and a 32-bit userspace I have no audio at
> all. The modules load and the card is detected, but trying to run
> "alsamixer" yields:
>
> Oct 16 13:40:25 marvin kernel: ioctl32(alsactl:2947): Unknown cmd fd(3)
> cmd(
On Friday 01 October 2004 01:53, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> Good evening!
>
> The kernel-image-2.6.8-2-amd64-k8 kernel in debian/sid is quite nice.
> However, I would like to build my own.
> How do I instruct make-kpkg in an i386 install to build a 64bit kernel?
>
> I've tried using the 'arch' set
On Thursday 30 September 2004 20:30, Johan Groth wrote:
> I have a Tyan K8W (2885) and having nothing but grief. My biggest problem
> right now is that the graphics card seems to get turned off by the kernel.
> After the grub message "Booting the kernel" absolutely nothing is
> displayed. It seems
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 16:04, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> A Dimecres 22 Setembre 2004 15:55, Ron Johnson va escriure:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:48 +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
> > > A Dimecres 22 Setembre 2004 15:38, Paul Brook va escriure:
>
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 19:23, Patrick Flaherty wrote:
> i beat on the sil3114 (tiger k8w) pretty hard trying to get it to do
> hardware mirroring, and it didn't seem to be supported at all. i guess
> hardware striping works nominaly though...
The sil3114 isn't a hardware raid card.
http://li
On Thursday 09 September 2004 20:42, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 11:25 +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote:
> > This indeed changes quiet a few things.
>
> Yes, but the 1.8 GHz Opteron is apparently still faster than the 2.8 GHz
> Nocona. Rather than a 'my cpu is faster than yours' "pi
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 23:13, Peter Cordes wrote:
[Snip a good description of 32-vs 64-bit]
> 3D acceleration is only possible with 64/64 kernel/user, or 32/32, if that
> matters to you.
The nvidia drivers provide 3D acceleration for both 64 and 32 bit apps on 64
bit kernels.
Paul
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:42, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:03 +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 14:45, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > In fact, it seems to me that *any* 32 bit processor (SPARC, HPPA,
> > > Power) that wants
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 14:45, Ron Johnson wrote:
> In fact, it seems to me that *any* 32 bit processor (SPARC, HPPA,
> Power) that wants to be able to use more than 4GB of total RAM
> would have to use such a segmentation scheme.
Err, all of the above have 64-bit variants. I don't know if
On Saturday 28 August 2004 19:55, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 12:11 +0200, Sebastian Steinlechner wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 02:22, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> > > How do I determine the default compiler optimization settings? I'm
> > > wonder if it will be worth while to try and
On Monday 02 August 2004 17:45, François Dreyfuerst wrote:
> 2) Since I only have a DSL Net connection through USB modem, and no floppy
> drive on this laptop anyway, I need to mount my USB memory stick.
>
> Evrey time I try to do it, I get something like that (hotplug is active,
usb-storage and s
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