Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

ng a problem at least two years ago - I could be wrong there, it may be even longer than that. I have no reason to regret my choice of using the 64-bit port. And, I may add, I am a non-technical user. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The chief virtue that language can have is cle

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

ntly when my GUI disappeared after an update; simply deleting the old xorg.conf file and starting X solved the problem. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Double your drive space - delete Windows! My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: unable to connect to wireless networks with RTL8101 card

in use: r8169 > > Googling around for this I cannot see whether this is the right driver > for that card, or what the problem might be. Any tips would be > appreciated. This thread may be of assistance: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8581510

Re: Skype 2.1 with ia32-libs Was: ia32-aptitude vs. aptitude

On Sat, September 26, 2009 10:14, Ernesto Domato wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 18:30, Dave Witbrodt > wrote: >> For now, the officially supported solution is 'ia32-libs' again.  The >> officially-supported multiarch solution is on the way relatively soon, >> so >> you'll have to decide whether

Re: kde4

On Thu, September 24, 2009 05:12, Karl Schmidt wrote: > Anyone running KDE4? Any AMD64 issues? None at all. Running on testing for the last few months. > Can it be loaded running lenny? Not sure. I'm running testing. > Is it stable enough to use now? Is it ever! > I want to load it up on a w

Re: Skype after ia32-libs update?

w on? :-) I installed it some months ago using this guide: http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mennucc1/skype.html I run the testing stream and Skype works fine for me. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. My PGP key: htt

Re: 32 bit pkg on amd64

ns.it/pub/mennucc1/skype.html Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)

y have both the proprietary plugin and the free one installed. Remove the lot and use the alpha 64-bit one from Adobe. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems. M

Re: flashplayer on debian-amd64 (sid)

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:33:26PM +0100 Hans-J. Ullrich said: > Dear maintainers, > > I tested some flash plugins onm my amd64 system. > The 64-bit alpha plugin from Adobe works on both IceWeasel and Epiphany for me. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com There are no

WinFast DTV2000 H TV tuner card on AMD64 port

Or is this something that the Ubuntu people have done on their own? Can some developer provide an insight into this? Thanks, Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. My PG

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:51:56AM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:05:42AM +0000, Sam Varghese wrote: > > The Core 2. > > I am surprised if an Athlon 64 beat the Core 2 on video encoding. > Weird. What

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:02:02AM +0000, Sam Varghese wrote: > > I have used both Intel and AMD dual-core and find AMD better for my work; > > I'm basing this on

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

. > I don't see anything that would be inherently a no-go with linux but I > do know from reading this list that wifi is interesting. make sure its > covered. If you're going wi-fi make sure the chipset is supported; many wireless chipsets have no Linux drivers. My experience

Re: Random Crashes

the box with two similar memory modules? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Program testing can best show the presence of errors but never their absence. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Debian success story reports - is there an archive?

riences as I have: http://gnubies.com/linux/debian_amd64.html During my searches I found an additional page: http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/amd64.jspx Sam - -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. My PG

Re: AMD64 show stoppers

4 characteristics. It's not like Debian is excluding packages. I agree. Etch is excellent and I have no regrets about moving over. And I'm one of the least technical of all you folks on this list. For the nvu seeker, this will be of help: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/

Re: AMD64 show stoppers

labbs.net/~vale/debian ./ Not 100 percent sure, my sources.list has a lot of entries and I've not bothered to add any comments. Have a go and see; else it has to be this one: deb http://mve035.mc2.chalmers.se/~gudjon/debian/amd64/ ./ I would have checked myself but the sites keep timing o

Re: 2D,3D,nvidia,nv?

I cannot notice any difference but then, like you, I don't have any need for 3D acceleration and the other swizzly bits. Sam - -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. My PGP key

Re: thunderbird: Can someone reproduce #383344?

4.1.1-11 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 == ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of all other dependencies are as listed in the bug report. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more usef

Re: Black screen when launching Gnome

anything. > Is it a know issue ? > (I got an AMD3200+ and a GeForce 7600 GT) You'd probably need to reconfigure your X configuration. As root run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and choose the nv driver. I have an AMD 3000+ and the same card. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnub

Grub gone from unstable

off the old menu.lst, though. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU

Re: Right kernel for AMD Athlon64-3000+

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:02:32PM +1000 Dean Hamstead said: > On Sun, August 6, 2006 1:27 pm, Sam Varghese wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I've been running an AMD64-3000+ with a

Right kernel for AMD Athlon64-3000+

ernel wouldn't be more suited for this processor. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8D

Re: No sound on etch when using video players

: crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 2006-07-20 10:01 /dev/dsp0 I don't know if there is some bunfight between KDE and Gnome apps for devices - but then the KDE devices should work because Kscd plays music fine. The KDE video players don't give me anything except pictures. Thanks for all th

Re: No sound on etch when using video players

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:46:27AM +0100 Jo Shields said: > Sam Varghese wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:55:44PM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said: > > > >>On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:47:29AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: >

Re: New to 64 bit/Sorta new to Debian....

kports? Is there hope of getting something newer though them? > What about Sarge source packages? Can I compile them on this machine and end > up with 64 bit code? This post provides a link to OO binaries: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/07/msg00118.html HTH Sam - -- Sam

Re: building nvidia module on sarge

: http://www.gnubies.com/linux/debian_amd64.html Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: No sound on etch when using video players

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:55:44PM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:47:29AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > > Yes, the sound daemon is running. And the gstreamer packs are installed. > > > > The user is al

Re: No sound on etch when using video players

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:30:20PM +0200 P|pex said: > --- Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > I can play audio CDs using the KDE player kscd but > > the gnome player and > > xmms do not work. > >

No sound on etch when using video players

und. The sound controls are active in both. Any help in debugging this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Program testing can best show the presence of errors but never their absence. - - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encrypt

Re: Sarge to Etch

ration; I was using the nVidia drivers for Sarge and had to reconfigure the Xserver to use the nv driver. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra My PGP key: http:/

Re: Playing an encrypted/comercial DVD - libdvdcss

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:44:05PM -0700 Adam D said: > Sam Varghese wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:54:15PM -0700 Adam D said: > >>> I have been trying to get libdvdcss to compile on my AMD64 3000+ > >>> box

Re: Playing an encrypted/comercial DVD - libdvdcss

allations - sarge and etch - an apt-cache search libdvdcss shows: libdvdcss2-dev - Simple foundation for reading DVDs - devel files libdvdcss2 - Simple foundation for reading DVDs - runtime libraries You can install it from the archives and then use totem to watch DVDs. Sam - -- Sam Varg

Grub error codes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some dude asked about grub error codes a day or so back; I don't have the message in question but a complete list of error codes is here: http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html HTH. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com As scar

Re: sources.list ???

> seem to now be only mirroring sarge for amd64 (aka stable) They generally seem to be out of date. I tried a few and gave up. I now use debian.csail.mit.edu. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great

Re: sources.list ???

ever, I am still unclear: what is the proper way to get SECURITY > updates in amd64? For stable: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. My PGP key: http://www.gnub

Re: drivers/i2c/chips/lm85.c for emc6d100-* in 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8

8-11 but that was because I could not find suitable nvidia drivers for the 2.6.15 kernel which I got from backports. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/en

Re: Etch security updates

> >deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing > >etch/security-updates main contrib non-free > > What about security updates for AMD64 Sarge? deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The chief

Re: Unable to boot install from CDs?

-inst image from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/iso-cd/ It worked for me. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encrypt

Re: Commercial programs in Debian

h the manufacturers and the way they literally force you to buy what they have on display. They can do this because apart from the drive and the memory, everything else is built according to their own "design." If the laptop had been commoditised the way the PC is, there would be an entirely

Re: nvidia-glx got removed- now no GUI

ews on the debian homepage. For me in Germany it is > www.debian.de, for you it is www.debian.org. The normal homepage news > You can also subscribe and let you send the news via mail. Anthony Towns announced that AMD64 had been added to the etch release on April 19: http://lists.debian.org/deb

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

ere? This is what I used: deb http://spello.sscnet.ucla.edu/marillat/ sarge main Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Double your drive space - delete Windows! My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

Re: dist-upgrade sarge to etch

should I risk this upgrade? I did this once about a month back and broke my entire system. I was merely looking for a kernel upgrade to get my nForce-based sound card working. Things may have changed since then. I didn't mind losing the gnome and kde stuff but I also lost my X setup. Sam -

Re: Root partition filling up

mistake when I was processing some avi files for a DVD. Once I removed that, I am back to 17 per cent usage. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/

Root partition filling up

% /usr/local /dev/sda7 8649544145388 8064780 2% /var tmpfs10240 744 9496 8% /dev My question is - what's filling up / ? Thanks, Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. My PG

Upgrading to testing

take? Thanks, Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFELQd5ZyXhknb+33gRAj1BAJ9AXjqPnQk7ZnHGrKwyuaLypl5UnQCePuJj V2sXzfmdyw8K+alA8/KCp1k= =0sse -END PGP SIGN