Vuze (Azureus) broken after Apt-get upgrade

2009-12-17 Thread Russ Cook
I am running a 64-bit system, unstable, with kernel 2.6.31-1. Every week or so, I run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, to keep system reasonable up to date. I am running no firewalls on my system, which is on a home network behind a dsl modem/router. This week, after running apt-get update, Vuze

Re: OpenOffice.org broken in AMD64 Sid?

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Cook
Russ Cook wrote: Rene Engelhard wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: What about reporting a bug? execute Please not. The BTS is not a support forum, it is for actual bugs. providing the actual problem you're facing ("it doesn't open document" is a little too ge

Re: OpenOffice.org broken in AMD64 Sid?

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Cook
Rene Engelhard wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: What about reporting a bug? execute Please not. The BTS is not a support forum, it is for actual bugs. providing the actual problem you're facing ("it doesn't open document" is a little too generic) and all other information you can gather

OpenOffice.org broken in AMD64 Sid?

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Cook
After a recent apt-get upgrade, my Sid system (AMD64) no longer will run OpenOffice. I can't access my Word-formatted documents. Running apt-cache showpkg openoffice.org (printout attached) indicates broken package. Is this correct, or am I misinterpreting the output? If correct, does anyone

Solved - Nvidia video driver problem

2008-09-11 Thread Russ Cook
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:16:00 -0500 From: Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian amd64 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm running an amd64, with 64bit linux (Sid), with evga 8800gts graphics card. I did apt-get update && upgrade today. Then I down

Re: Nvidia video driver problem

2008-09-11 Thread Russ Cook
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. September 2008 schrieb Russ Cook: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. September 2008 schrieb Russ Cook: I'm running an amd64, with 64bit linux (Sid), with evga 8800gts graphics card. I did apt-get update && upgrade

Re: Nvidia video driver problem

2008-09-11 Thread Russ Cook
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. September 2008 schrieb Russ Cook: I'm running an amd64, with 64bit linux (Sid), with evga 8800gts graphics card. I did apt-get update && upgrade today. Then I downloaded latest linux source 2.6.26.5 from kernel.org, and downloaded the

Nvidia video driver problem

2008-09-11 Thread Russ Cook
I'm running an amd64, with 64bit linux (Sid), with evga 8800gts graphics card. I did apt-get update && upgrade today. Then I downloaded latest linux source 2.6.26.5 from kernel.org, and downloaded the latest nvidia-kernel-source using apt-get. I compiled a custom kernel and latest nvidia-kernel

photobucket problem

2008-05-22 Thread Russ Cook
I am running 64bit Debian unstable. Until a recent upgrade, I was able to upload photos to www.photobucket.com using any of the browsers on my machine (debault is iceweasel). Now, I can access the web page, but it doesn't see my files when I try to select photos to upload. I suspect the probl

Re: linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64 kernel installed, but am I running a 64-bit system?

2008-05-02 Thread Russ Cook
Michael Fothergill wrote: Sorry about this. I had forgotten that sometimes people put the 32 bit OS on the 64 bit machines. To me it seems like putting a diesel engine in a formula one car but there it is. _ Discover and Win

Re: kernel upgrade problem

2007-01-01 Thread Russ Cook
Jim Crilly wrote: On 12/31/06 06:40:52PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: I had already checked with 'df' before posting, but I attach the results in case it offers a clue. Thanks for the reply, Russ Script started on Sun 31 Dec 2006 06:38:39 PM CST Filesystem

Re: kernel upgrade problem

2006-12-31 Thread Russ Cook
Manolo Díaz wrote: Russ Cook escribió: I'm running a dual core amd64 with Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.17-2-amd64. Today, I tried to upgrade to kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64. I get an unexpected error message concerning a buffer-write failure. I have attached a script file with the error me

kernel upgrade problem

2006-12-31 Thread Russ Cook
I'm running a dual core amd64 with Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.17-2-amd64. Today, I tried to upgrade to kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64. I get an unexpected error message concerning a buffer-write failure. I have attached a script file with the error message. I searched the mailing list, and didn't see a

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program,not the pilot))

2006-10-15 Thread Russ Cook
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Montag, 9. Oktober 2006 03:38 schrieben Sie: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006 03:38 schrieben Sie: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi Russ, sry, my late answer, I did somehow miss your mail. Well, if nv crashes and nvidia without "L

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program, not the pilot))

2006-09-19 Thread Russ Cook
Hans wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. September 2006 02:28 schrieb Russ Cook: Russ Cook wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 19:27 schrieb Russ Cook: Flightgear crashes on startup on my system. I'm running 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp generic kernel

Re: Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program, not the pilot))

2006-09-18 Thread Russ Cook
Russ Cook wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 19:27 schrieb Russ Cook: Flightgear crashes on startup on my system. I'm running 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp generic kernel. My system: An Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon 4800 dual core cpu, with

Nvidia driver lock-up (was (Re: Flightgear crashes (the program, not the pilot))

2006-09-18 Thread Russ Cook
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 19:27 schrieb Russ Cook: Flightgear crashes on startup on my system. I'm running 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp generic kernel. My system: An Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon 4800 dual core cpu, with 4 MB of Co

Flightgear crashes (the program, not the pilot)

2006-09-17 Thread Russ Cook
Flightgear crashes on startup on my system. I'm running 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp generic kernel. My system: An Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon 4800 dual core cpu, with 4 MB of Corsair TwinX ram sticks. I have an older GeForce4 MX 420 graphics board with 64 MB ram. I have upda

(Soved: for now) Re: Asus motherboard hangs in X

2006-09-03 Thread Russ Cook
Russ Cook wrote: Matthew Robinson wrote: Try changing the driver in xorg.conf to 'vesa'. This will be much slower than the binary Nvidia drivers, but if it works, youve found your problem. Thanks Matt. I have changed the driver to Vesa, and so far I

Re: Asus motherboard hangs in X

2006-09-02 Thread Russ Cook
Matthew Robinson wrote: > > > >>>Try changing the driver in xorg.conf to 'vesa'. This will be much >>>slower than the binary Nvidia drivers, but if it works, youve found >>>your problem. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Thanks Matt. I have changed the driver to Vesa, and so far I can't make >>it

Re: Asus motherboard hangs in X

2006-09-02 Thread Russ Cook
Matthew Robinson wrote: > Russ Cook wrote: > >> I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon 4800 dual >> core cpu, with 4 MB of Corsair TwinX ram sticks. I have an older >> GeForce4 MX 420 graphics board with 64 MB ram. I have updated my bios >> t

Asus motherboard hangs in X

2006-09-02 Thread Russ Cook
I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD Athlon 4800 dual core cpu, with 4 MB of Corsair TwinX ram sticks. I have an older GeForce4 MX 420 graphics board with 64 MB ram. I have updated my bios to version 1303, with no impact. I am running kernel 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic. I have also r

Re: alsaconf locks up my system

2006-05-17 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 17:09:26 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 13:32:31 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: I'm running a A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with dual core amd64. My kernel is 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp. I also run kernel 2.6

Re: alsaconf locks up my system

2006-05-17 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 17:09:26 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 13:32:31 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: I'm running a A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with dual core amd64. My kernel is 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp. I also run kernel 2.6

Re: alsaconf locks up my system

2006-05-14 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 13:32:31 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: I'm running a A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with dual core amd64. My kernel is 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp. I also run kernel 2.6.14.4. With either kernel, I have no audio. I used to have audio until about a week ago,

alsaconf locks up my system

2006-05-14 Thread Russ Cook
I'm running a A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with dual core amd64. My kernel is 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp. I also run kernel 2.6.14.4. With either kernel, I have no audio. I used to have audio until about a week ago, after running apt-get upgrade. I'm running the 64 bit dist, unstable. When trying to run XMM

Re: rxvt won't start

2006-05-07 Thread Russ Cook
Russ Cook wrote: Gnu-Raiz wrote: On Friday 28 April 2006 15:48, Russ Cook wrote: Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm running gnome. From a xterminal, I try to start rxvt, and get this message: rxvt: can't load color "Black&qu

Re: rxvt won't start

2006-04-29 Thread Russ Cook
Gnu-Raiz wrote: On Friday 28 April 2006 15:48, Russ Cook wrote: Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm running gnome. From a xterminal, I try to start rxvt, and get this message: rxvt: can't load color "Black" rxvt: can

Re: rxvt won't start

2006-04-28 Thread Russ Cook
Aaron M. Ucko wrote: Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm running gnome. From a xterminal, I try to start rxvt, and get this message: rxvt: can't load color "Black" rxvt: can't load color "Black" rxvt: aborting Has anyone seen this problem

rxvt won't start

2006-04-28 Thread Russ Cook
I'm running gnome. From a xterminal, I try to start rxvt, and get this message: rxvt: can't load color "Black" rxvt: can't load color "Black" rxvt: aborting Has anyone seen this problem, and can you tell me what I should check? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: sources.list problem

2006-04-23 Thread Russ Cook
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In light of the recent announcement "The Future of AMD64 Port" on this list, I have attempted to update my sources.list file for Apt. I have attached the file for reference. I have tried various B

sources.list problem

2006-04-21 Thread Russ Cook
In light of the recent announcement "The Future of AMD64 Port" on this list, I have attempted to update my sources.list file for Apt. I have attached the file for reference. I have tried various combinations of the mirrors in the file in an attempt to eliminate error messages returned by the c

Re: Update killed X11 and damaged Locales

2006-03-04 Thread Russ Cook
Adam C. Emerson wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:41:37PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: I updated my pure 64 bit system (AMD64) yesterday, running combination of Sid and Sarge. Afterwards, X11 will no longer start up. The startx file is missing, as is /etc/X11/Xsession file. Perl is also

Update killed X11 and damaged Locales

2006-03-04 Thread Russ Cook
I updated my pure 64 bit system (AMD64) yesterday, running combination of Sid and Sarge. Afterwards, X11 will no longer start up. The startx file is missing, as is /etc/X11/Xsession file. Perl is also complaining about certain Locale variable not being settable, due to missing files (or someth

Stable vs Etch

2006-02-03 Thread Russ Cook
I am currently running a 64-bit system, using Stable in my apt sources.list. I find that some packages are unavailable to me (as expected). I understand that amd64 is not an official part of the archives yet, but all the ramifications are unclear to me. Is Etch the current unstable source tree fo

System Monitor shows only 1 CPU (2 present)

2006-01-04 Thread Russ Cook
Hi all, I'm running an AMD64 dual core processor, debian64 stable. Sources.list is attached. My problem is that System Monitor 2.8.1 lists only 1 CPU. I have a dual core processor, and kernel 2.6.14.4 is compiled with smp enabled. The system logs show that both processors are detected and ena

Re: Panic - Kernel 2.6.14.4

2005-12-28 Thread Russ Cook
Oleg Gritsinevich wrote: >On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:13:01PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > > >>I'm running a stock 2.6.12 kernel (2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp) on an >>ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. Processor is AMD64 4800 dual >>core, with 4 MB ram. I'm t

Panic - Kernel 2.6.14.4

2005-12-26 Thread Russ Cook
I'm running a stock 2.6.12 kernel (2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp) on an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. Processor is AMD64 4800 dual core, with 4 MB ram. I'm trying to compile and install kernel 2.6.14.4. To start, I copied the same .config file from the 2.6.12 kernel, went through the usual make-kp

Kino problem - doesn't read files

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Cook
I am running an AMD64 dual-core machine, on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard.I'm running Debian-64, Sarge (I think). My sources.list file is attached. I'm trying to use Kino to edit some video files for burning to DVD. When I try to load an AVI file, I get the error "Failed to load media"

Re: New install - no sound

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Cook
t for programs like Mplayer, Mozilla with Java support, etc. Thanks again. I really appreciate your help. Regards, Russ Russ Cook wrote: Len, In /proc/asound I have a symlink CK804 which links to a directory card0. In card0 I have a file named intel8x0 and a directory named codec97#0. There

Re: New install - no sound

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Cook
07:01:35PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: I believe I have. As a user, I am a member of the audio group. I can run alsamixer as normal user. Still no sound. I visited this web site for hints - http://xtronics.com/reference/Debian-sound.html and looked at the list of packages it recommended

Re: New install - no sound

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Cook
;Could not pause playback'. Additionally, XMMS no longer works now. I get the error message 'Couldn't open audio'. Thank you for your patience and assistance. Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: Use gstreamer-properties to make gstreamer use alsa. Russ Cook wrote: Partial success

Re: New install - no sound

2005-12-12 Thread Russ Cook
Partial success. After installing the programs I could find from the referenced list, XMMS now works. Rythmbox 0.8.8 still fails with the error message 'Could not create audio output element; check your setting'. Russ Cook wrote: I believe I have. As a user, I am a member of

Re: New install - no sound

2005-12-12 Thread Russ Cook
er mynamehere audio Then run alsamixer as that user and make sure the sound is at a resonable level. If it works as root then it should work as user if you have the right permissions. You should not need to manually run esd. Russ Cook wrote: Udev was already installed - I confirmed with

Re: New install - no sound

2005-12-11 Thread Russ Cook
rtainly appears to be a configuration issue, but I don't know what the problem is or how to fix it. As always, any help or pointers to references would be greatly appreciated. Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: Install udev, modprobe snd_intel8x0, use alsamixer to adjust your volume, enjoy your so

Re: New install - no sound

2005-12-10 Thread Russ Cook
will compile my own kernel once I get everything up and running, so I have a fall-back in case I incorrectly set some options for the custom kernel. Any further pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again. Russ Michael Langley wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:11:23 -0600 Russ Cook

New install - no sound

2005-12-10 Thread Russ Cook
I have an ASUS A8N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard with an AMD4800 dual core processor. I believe the audio is Realtek ALC850. I performed a clean install from unstable from http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main. My system is up and running, and I have been performing ap