Re: Heat problem with amd64 laptop

2005-09-25 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:47, Clive Menzies wrote: I note that all Acer 64bit notebooks now ship with the Turion processor which is designed for laptops which would suggest that there is an inherent flaw in putting the athlon chip in laptops. This is simply not true- there are quite a

Re: new 2.6.13 kernel

2005-09-01 Thread Theodore Kisner
I'm running the stock 2.6.13 kernel (from kernel.org) on my amd64 laptop without any problems. I chose option 3 (PREEMPT) in the config. Of course, YMMV... -Ted On Thursday 01 September 2005 11:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you download it from www.kernel.org? Is there a debian source

Re: Acer Turion laptops

2005-08-18 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Thursday 18 August 2005 05:07, Michelasso wrote: ndiswrapper and the 64bit winxp drivers the card is recognized, but I cannot turn the radio on since the wifi  button in the front of the laptop has no effect in Linux. Are you sure the button doesn't work? On my compaq R3000 (athlon64)

Re: what is the status of kde 3.4 in experimental?

2005-06-14 Thread Theodore Kisner
Just use these: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./ deb-src http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./ everything works great for me :-) -Ted On Monday 13 June 2005 23:24, Kenan Esau wrote: Hi, I tried to install kde3.4 from the debian-amd64 server but there seem to be

Re: KDE 3.4.1 packages for amd64

2005-06-03 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Thursday 02 June 2005 22:58, Kurt Roeckx wrote: kde 3.4.1 has just been uploaded to experimental yesterday.  I will be building and uploading them there during the weekend. Thank you Kurt! That's great news... -Ted

Re: KDE 3.4.1 packages for amd64

2005-06-03 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Friday 03 June 2005 09:54, Andreas Richter wrote: I have installed packages from pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org and it looks great. It seems that the kde 3.4.1 packages working correct. ah yes- my mistake. There were no 3.4.0 packages for amd64, but I see that there *are* amd64 packages for

Re: KDE 3.4.1 packages for amd64

2005-06-03 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Friday 03 June 2005 12:17, Rafael Rodríguez wrote: My kmail 3.4.1 (alioth) segfaults all the time when deleting many mails in a row (that's pressing del a couple of seconds...). Didn't use to happen with 3.4.0 :( hmmm, well, I just upgraded everything to 3.4.1 and in kmail deleted ~400

KDE 3.4.1 packages for amd64

2005-06-02 Thread Theodore Kisner
Kalle, thank you very much for rebuilding the kde 3.4.0 packages for amd64. I have been using them for a month with no problems. Do you have any interest in building the new 3.4.1 packages? If not, I could take a shot at building them and try to find a place to host them... cheers, -Ted

Re: Wifi 64 bits, what solutions ?

2005-05-26 Thread Theodore Kisner
Hmmm, from the Marvell website, it appears that they only have Windows64 drivers for their Yukon GigE 88E8001 product (no wireless drivers). Looks like you are out of luck with this one... On my debian-amd64 laptop (Presario R3000), I use both the built-in broadcom wifi with ndiswrapper

Re: Ndiswrapper 1.1-4: Invalid module format

2005-05-15 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Saturday 14 May 2005 04:47, v0n0 wrote: Then, can anyone load ndiswrapper module after compiling version 1.1-4 (with gcc-3.4 that is the same version used for kernel on pure64)? With version 1.0 from sourceforge everything was all right... Under pure64, I'm using ndiswrapper-1.2rc1 on a

Re: apt wants to remove bash

2005-04-21 Thread Theodore Kisner
See *many* posts to the list in the last few days. You need to manually downgrade base-files. -Ted On Thursday 21 April 2005 06:55, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: I am having a problem with upgrading. Running apt-get upgrade doesn't upgrade most of the packages. When I run dist-upgrade it wants

Re: mozilla-thunderbird and enigmail problem

2005-03-31 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:38, Corey Hickey wrote: 3. I got fed up, changed my sources.list to point to pure64, and ran apt-get update. You really shouldn't do that unless you apt-get --reinstall *all* packages. You can just grep the package list for installed packages and pipe the list to

Re: pure64 semi-testing

2005-03-29 Thread Theodore Kisner
there is already a sarge version of debian-amd64. Did you want something else? no need to CC me- I'm subscribed to the list. -Ted On Tuesday 29 March 2005 10:34, Niklas Ögren wrote: Am I the only one who would appreciate a system similar to the 32bit Debian, where the unstable packages come

Re: Future of gcc-3.4?

2005-03-29 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 16:09, Ed Cogburn wrote: Hi, What is the future plan for pure64 and gcc-3.4? What will the gcc-3.4 (now almost gcc-4.0) archive eventually become? Will it always be an experimental thing that never becomes official, or will it eventually become the official AMD64

Re: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.3

2005-03-24 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 21:38, John Baab wrote: Did I misunderstand this?  I took it as saying that I wanted a source from each.   no. pure64 and the gcc-3.4 branches are entirely separate (and incompatible). I would recommend using the pure64 branch. The gcc-3.4/gcc4 is more like

Re: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.3

2005-03-23 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 16:33, John Baab wrote: here is my sources.list deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free ... deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4 sid main contrib non-free So does this mean you are mixing packages from the

Re: Bug#250086: extipl: please add amd64 support

2005-03-14 Thread Theodore Kisner
I think Goswin is suggesting to compile your code using large-file support. This will define off_t as a 64bit integer. Then you can use lseek on both 32bit and 64bit system with identical results (since off_t is 64bit on both platforms). Building software with large-file support involves

Re: still probs with display in chroot

2005-03-09 Thread Theodore Kisner
Gavin, the bind mounts go in the fstab *outside* the chroot. For example: /home /ia32-root/homenonebind0 0 /tmp/ia32-root/tmp nonebind0 0 proc/ia32-root/procprocdefaults0 0 I don't think anything is

Re: chroot display

2005-03-08 Thread Theodore Kisner
Is /tmp (which contains the X sockets) bind-mounted inside the chroot? -Ted On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:39, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: When I chroot into 32bit nothing opens due to display errors. 'vmware vmware Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Xlib: connection to :0.0

Re: Compaq PResario R3470US

2005-02-25 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Friday 25 February 2005 12:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMD Athlon 64 processor 3400+ with PowerNow 1024MB DDR SDRAM (2 x 512MB) at 333MHz 100GB (4200 rpm) Hard Drive DVD±RW and CD-RW combo drive 15.4 WXGA High-Definition (j) BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display this is nearly the

Re: Compaq PResario R3470US

2005-02-25 Thread Theodore Kisner
Almost forgot to mention, there is a dedicated mailing list for linux (all flavours) on the R3000 here: http://mail.kdewebdev.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 -Ted On Friday 25 February 2005 12:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm considering to buy a Compaq Presario R3470US and would like

Re: running openoffice from chroot

2005-02-21 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Monday 21 February 2005 15:07, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: The problem is that files that have spaces in them do not get opened. The first word is considered as a filename, then the second word as another filename... I'm assuming you are using dchroot to run openoffice in the chroot? For

Re: Doomsday with 32bit Chroot, what now?

2005-02-21 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Monday 21 February 2005 18:27, Greg Grotsky wrote: installed (in my chroot) I can't figure out how to run it. No matter if I try to redirect the display to :0.0 or not deng doesn't work. It gives me the following: Do you have /tmp and your home directory bind mounted in the chroot? Sorry

Re: AMD64 HOW-TO

2005-02-16 Thread Theodore Kisner
Thanks for working on the HOWTO! On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:00, Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D. wrote: exec dchroot -c ia32 -d $(basename $0) $@ I believe this line should be changed to: exec dchroot -c ia32 -d $(basename $0) -- $@ The reason is so that sudo passes the additional arguments

Re: 32-bit system, 64-bit chroot?

2005-02-15 Thread Theodore Kisner
Hmm, well, with my 32bit chroot, I simply use the dchroot command to execute commands from outside the chroot. This way you are not messing up any files outside the chroot by pointing them to files inside the chroot. In other words, the system outside the chroot should not have to know

Re: CPU frequency scaling on AMD64 laptop

2005-02-13 Thread Theodore Kisner
Some of the amd64 laptops require that you use ACPI to detect the available frequency states. Does your kernel have the options CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8 CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI set? If not, try setting those and see if it helps. Good luck! -Ted On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:34, Luk

Re: Installing Nvidia 1.0.6629 Driver

2005-02-04 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Friday 04 February 2005 21:59, Greg Grotsky wrote: But when I setup the XFree86-4 config file for the nvidia driver and ran X11, it kicked me out saying that it couldn't find the nvidia module!  I had it loaded in memory, it should not have to find the module. You had the kernel module

Re: switch back from gcc-3.4 to pure64

2005-01-28 Thread Theodore Kisner
Hmmm, this happened to me as well, but only with a couple packages (like cpp). I just installed them by hand. I'm not an expert, but does the installation of the equivalent pure64 packages constitute a downgrade for these packages, or are the versions identical? Perhaps what is happening is

Re: Dual NIC - device assign problem

2005-01-28 Thread Theodore Kisner
You might check out section 10.9 of this manual to see if it helps: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html cheers, -Ted On Friday 28 January 2005 10:03, Jörg Ebeling wrote: HiHo, I've a Tyan S4882 with a Broadcom Dual NIC controller on Board. The NIC module tg3

/usr/X11R6/lib64 link missing?

2005-01-18 Thread Theodore Kisner
I just switched my laptop from the gcc-3.4/4.0 branch back to pure64. In the process I noticed that the /usr/X11R6/lib64 - /usr/X11R6/lib symlink disappeared. Not sure if it's something I did wrong, and of course no big deal to create the link once I discovered it missing. I just wanted to

Re: /usr/X11R6/lib64 link missing?

2005-01-18 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 15:22, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Do you need that symlink for anything?  Afaik, nothing in Debian needs that symlink and if it does it means it needs to be fixed. As Rafael just noted, the default Makefile in the synaptics source uses /usr/X11R6/lib64 when /bin/arch returns

Re: amd64 (gcc-3.4): recommended sources.list to access the latest sources?

2004-12-19 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:46, Harald Dunkel wrote: I don't want to care wether some packages are patched by whom. Most packages are patched for Debian. How can I tell apt-get to get the right sources? I'm going to assume that this statement was not intended to be rude (it sure seems rude

Re: amd64 (gcc-3.4): recommended sources.list to access the latest sources?

2004-12-19 Thread Theodore Kisner
hmmm, so I guess I mis-interpreted the tone of that email, my apologies. Time to cut back on the coffee... -Ted On Sunday 19 December 2004 11:14, Theodore Kisner wrote: On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:46, Harald Dunkel wrote: I don't want to care wether some packages are patched by whom

Re: Problems with configure on debian amd64 gcc-3.4

2004-11-18 Thread Theodore Kisner
I'm not an expert, but I think I've seen similar problems when using automake 1.9 instead of 1.6 You might try using automake-1.6 instead... -Ted On Thursday 18 November 2004 13:31, Johan Groth wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the crossposting but I simply don't know where my problem originates

Re: Korganizer

2004-11-16 Thread Theodore Kisner
From the bug report, it sounds like this is a general amd64 bug (not just linux) and it has been patched in CVS (but not 3.3.1). So it will be fixed in 3.3.2 -Ted On Tuesday 16 November 2004 11:44, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:27:37PM -0500, Félix-Antoine Bourbonnais

Re: ssh with konqueror (fish)

2004-11-15 Thread Theodore Kisner
I just did a dist-upgrade, and I also noticed that some of the kio-slaves seem to be broken from konqueror (fish, smb). ftp does work... Hmmm, maybe I'm missing something stupid... -Ted On Monday 15 November 2004 12:11, Sven Krahn wrote: Hi, I am trying to connect from my amd64 to an

Re: Cool N' Quiet

2004-11-13 Thread Theodore Kisner
On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:56, Slava Risenberg wrote: I've tried to get it working, I mean to lower the CPU frequency automatically by loading powernow_k8 module, but without any success. I guess I have to do something else to get it working. Any ideas? I'm using Gigabyte GA-K8 NS

Re: korganizer crash

2004-11-03 Thread Theodore Kisner
I just purged and re-installed and it still crashes. I'll try to compile with debugging and see what kind of backtrace I can get... -Ted On Wednesday 03 November 2004 11:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:21 pm, Andreas Richter wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Oktober 2004

Re: Compaq Presario R3240US

2004-09-02 Thread Theodore Kisner
See my website about installing debian-amd64 on the Presario R3000 series: http://cmb.phys.cwru.edu/kisner/linux/compaq-r3000/ I'm currently running the gcc-3.4 branch on this laptop with only very minor problems... -Ted On Thursday 02 September 2004 21:49, d wrote: Hello. I want to share

Re: XFree86 not running

2004-08-12 Thread Theodore Kisner
so package xserver-xfree86 is installed? -Ted On Thursday 12 August 2004 16:40, Christian Wolf wrote: Hello, after having apt-get installed gnome after a netinstall, I wanted to start x (startx). However, X does not start but shows me the following message: