I need the hookup
I have not been involved before in the porting effort but may be interested if
there is a need. I have a few alpha platforms and ia64. Could someone describe
or point me to a Web page that describes what is involved? I have a c
programming background for a lot of years and am now a java software
On 11/10/2010 6:58 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 11/9/2010 1:33 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Hi all,
I am running debian-amd64/testing. When I start "orphaner" there are two
packages, which are marked as "essentials". These packages are "diff" and
"mktemp"
On 11/9/2010 1:33 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Hi all,
I am running debian-amd64/testing. When I start "orphaner" there are two
packages, which are marked as "essentials". These packages are "diff" and
"mktemp", but they are below "oldlibs". Can they safely to be removed, as they
are meanwhile old
On 7/20/2010 2:15 AM, Dean Hamstead wrote:
There is 64bit flash bit adobe dropped it.
It was always a alpha/beta status, never a release. They have said that
64-bit will return, but gave no indication about when or in what form.
My personal guess is that there was only ever one guy workin
non-3D (default) nvidia drivers do not function properly with some
7600s, in particular, the 7600 GT. I must use another driver with mine.
I use the nvidia proprietary blob[0], it works fine.
Mark Allums
0. binary large object, packaged as a shell and perl script
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:41:51PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Note that this solution (suggested by one of the dpkg maintainers) is
> the one that has been tested and implemented for libc6-dev-i386. No
> problem have been reported so far, contrary to the Pre-Depends version
> which sometimes
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:00:11PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> In this case a Pre-Depends is overkill, a simple Conflicts is enough.
> Please find a patch below to fix the problem.
Please confirm this with the amd64 porters. This whole transitions has
been plagued with problems; the predepen
wise, the system may
self-destruct. This is true for essential packages that modify system
files. You might be able to put off downgrading something like the
GIMP. It may be desirable to locate backports of newer versions of
programs before you start.
If it were me, I would just do a fresh
d the amd64
distro?
If so, then it may take some kernel boot parameters to see all of the
memory, or you may need to check your BIOS settings.
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> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
> > The you say! Is this why I can't get X going under vanilla 2.6.28?
> > Any word on the ETA of the fixing of the breakage?
>
> Well given the kernel isn't in unstable, it didn't seem l
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: Where is the kernel?
> From: "Sridhar M.A."
> Date: Tue, January 06, 2009 5:54 am
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:52:56PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
> >>
>
Robert Isaac wrote:
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the
thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the
&quo
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:41:26AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
Yes. Most "users" either aren't aware, forget about the existence of
it, or don't want to mess with kernel experimental. And most of the
time, they'd be right. The Lenny freeze i
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:16:14AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
It's not there, and won't be until after Lenny's release. Unless the
maintainers relent and put 2.6.27 into Experimental.
Well 2.6.27 was in the kernel experimental area for a while, and 2.6.
only found 2.6.26 as the latest
release. Did I miss something?
Cheers
Hans
It's not there, and won't be until after Lenny's release. Unless the
maintainers relent and put 2.6.27 into Experimental.
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icey.
Is there a recommended card (from the point-of-view of the debian-packaged
driver support)?
Thanks for the advice,
Gilles
Uh, 8000, 9000, 260, 280 is supported with the nVidia blob. For
Debian-approved drivers, 7000-series.
ATI drivers are open source, now, but have not mature
e, until nVidia gets its
act together.
An Intel motherboard (I mean the motherboard itself is Intel) is
generally supported well by Linux.
This is general advice. For specific advice, often the enthusiast
magazines are a good place to start.
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rom 2.6.25 to 2.6.26. Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4800, 4 GB.
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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:26:19PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
A brief description of the Debian way is in the Debian documentation, if
you have that installed.
It requires quite a few packages, and it depends on the Debian patched
kernel. If you use the vanilla kernel
kernel. If you use the vanilla kernel, you may need to use the standard
way.
Linux fluxster 2.6.25.10-ca #1 SMP Wed Jul 9 18:17:49 EDT 2008 i686
Yes, I see you are using a vanilla kernel. I usually can wait for the
Debian package.
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>0. make mrproper
0.5 cp /boot/config .config
>1.make menuconfig
>2.make
>2.5 modules
>3 make modules_install
>4.depmod -a
>5.mkinitramfs
>6.make install
>copy files to /boot
>modify grub/menu.lst
ckage and the Debian kernel tools. If you run gnome
you can substitute make gconfig for make menuconfig. much better.
You can copy the old
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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:36:35PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
It is hard for someone to package up
something for Redhat, SuSE, Slackware, Debian, and so on. Debian is a
particular challenge for them, apparently.
Which is odd given it has by far the nicest tools for
dependent
on their machine being up most of the time. I will keep this in mind
when giving out info or advice from here on.
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Seb wrote:
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The kernel and the nvidia driver didn't get along at first, but the
latest kernel patchlevel and the latest nvidia driver version now get
along swimmingly. So make sure everything is
ps, I'd be grateful for
them. Thanks.
The kernel and the nvidia driver didn't get along at first, but the
latest kernel patchlevel and the latest nvidia driver version now get
along swimmingly. So make sure everything is up to date.
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ideration, since the linux drivers are mostly open source and
mostly free. Or at least widely available, including Debian support.
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pteron 185 on eBay. Almost the fastest non-FX socket
939 X2 CPU. Again, make sure the BIOS support is there.
Or, you can buy a new motherboard and go Intel Core 2. They are
seriously fast.
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2.6.25 has produced unbootable machines for me on both amd64 sid boxes
I've tried. In both cases, the solution involved changing
"MODULES=most" to
"MODULES=dep" in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf (and rerunning
update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.25-2-amd64 or similar) but it didn't work
out of the box.
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test ignore
Apparently some people object to tests of this nature. I am sorry for
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S, usually.
(APIC implemented badly.) On mine, I run with the kernel parameter
noapic, which seems to do no harm.
Mark Allums
* Yes, I had one of the legendary Abit motherboards that did dual socket
370 Celerons before the Pentium III came out (and it wouldn't do the
Pentium III, it had
I'm happy.
GeForce 8XXX G80, G84, G86, G92
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series card.) I usually use a
6600 GT for installs, install the non-free[2] NVIDIA proprietary driver
available on NVIDIA's web site, and then switch out cards.
Works for me, although that is not really solving the problem, just
working around it. And, it is more work to do that, extr
recall gzip also runs
quite a bit faster on 64bit.
gzip is about 5% larger on 64-bit (67120 bytes) than 32-bit (64116 bytes).
Go figure.
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This is what I've done with etch, I don't know if it'll work for lenny. Note
that there are sarge and sid variants to try (but no lenny) in the
sources.list.
After various frustrations with the latest Sun Java not having a plugin on
AMD64, I just decided to go back to the blackdown java's older ve
Hi,
ich would like to know if the motherboard from MSI K8T Neo2-F is
supported from etch on a 64-bit machine.
This motherboard is not listed here within:
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You can also use something like "ssh localhost" to escape the chroot,
although it adds a bit of overhead.
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On 1/21/07, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anton Piatek wrote:
> I posted this on Debian-user list, but thought someone here might have
tried
> this already...
>
> I h
It sounds like a resolve.conf issue to me, too. I had more issues with this
than just changing resolv.conf itself, because I use the resolvconf package
to automagically generate the resolv.conf file when I change wireless setups
using ifscheme... resolvconf secretly stores its resolv.conf file in
MD64 or i386 based installation? Is there an image
> available somewhere (as the Debian Live Project does not have such an
> image (yet?) )?
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:35:52AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> for us it was just sufficient to bind mount /var/yp into the chroot
> environment.
This should be the only unusual thing that is required. The ypbind
daemon maintians state in this directory which tells applications that
need to g
e the packages from time to time.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this would have failed?
Make sure you have /proc mounted within your chroot. If
ifconfig shows your interface with an IP address, make sure
/etc/resolv.conf inside your chroot
I independently encountered this same error. And coincidentally, I also
encountered it trying to do
both a RAID install and a non-RAID install (though my RAID
configuration was different). I also
encountered it using both the testing/etch amd64 beta2 businesscard
image and the
testing/etch amd64 d
kernel!"
> /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv-linux.h:715:2: warning: #warning
> "conftest.sh failed, assuming remap_page_range(4)!"
>
> Anyone has a hint for me?
Check:
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for m
ce the announcement was made on the
mirror list recently that debian-all would start including things
for amd64, it seems like this may not be too far down the road.
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Install Sarge, not Sid. Sid is rarely installable. You can try a
dist-upgrade later.
Thanks, that worked great. I even got the thing working with wine...
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...for amd64 don't work. debootstrap doesn't seem to be able to install
sid.
Is there a work around for this? I'm pretty much a debian newbie (I've
run slackware for the last 10 years or so) ... I've searched the
archives of this list with no success.
Please
ted as a bug to the developers.
Whatever, I'm more curious which laptop you found with an
Athlon64 and an nvidia chipset/video chip!? I've been looking
around for such a thing and it seems all I can find are Turion's
with ATI chipsets.
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much with them. However, being entirely practical for a moment,
I too have built the AMD64 version of unrar-nonfree for myself
via 'apt-get source ...; fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage' because
people are still distributing RAR's and I still need to unpack
them. :) It's not a per
Usually it means that something is still accessing the mount point, you
could try
Bash#lsof | grep "/cdrom/mountpoint"
To see what is still accessing the cd/dvd
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> SUMMARY: I want to run a second firefox process in my 32bit chroot,
> without it just sending a remote command to open a new window from my
> 64-bit firefox. This was possible with script-fu until recently, but
> now I can
multiarch
wacko, this is the behavior all normal people want, so quit whining."
And yeah, I know I could read the source to look for other options,
but I wanted to see if someone else had already figured out a good
solution. If I do figure a better way, I'll post it here for
posterit
know java is best avoided. :)
Yes :) But please do try to help out with the free replacements for
those that did fell into the proprietary java trap!
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problems with a recent
kernel version. It would be interesting to know if the problem
happens at all without udev in the way.
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ll the many German mirrors).
I'm not sure if you were aware of debian.csail.mit.edu
previously, but it should have been faster than the European
mirrors for you. Anyway, try it or mine and see if things are
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at locale would your
> mirror be in? the US? I think that there's a lack of mirrors in the
> US personally... I would love to remedy that, but as I said before,
The mirror will be in Texas. As long as you have a
decent connection at home, your downlink will most likely be
satur
not our uplink) to add to the mix.
Let me know and if yes, send along some rsync
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and set AUTOSTART=true and hopefully if
you have modified /etc/fstab to mount it correctly your system should mount
home on start
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I notice that cvsup isn't in the Debian amd64 distro yet. Is there a
place where I can find out why? I'm trying to decide if it's a problem
that I may be able to solve and contribute back, or if it's just totally
impossible and I should spend the effort to not use cvsup.
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em was rock solid. This was all done from a console
without loading my nVidia module and no X running, so I can say
with a decent amount of certainty that there may be problems in
general with frequency scaling and AMD64 kernels.
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system present as entries, I
rarely, if ever, have problems with a static /dev despite the
absurd overkill of device entries present.
So yeah, wait a bit and try udev (or devfs, if it does in
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-glx for the X libraries.
This should keep you from having to muck up your system
with the nVidia installer. :)
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ord (non-prodvd) for
burning normal CD's, but it's so rare that I ever burn CD's at
all anymore anyway.
And of course, what everyone else said about using ATA
instead of ide-scsi at this point. You can just pass /dev/dvd or
/dev/hdc or whatever directly to growisofs withou
see that the recent Apache 2.1 development branch finally
added proper large file support. But again, I'm surprised
cdimage.debian.org is handling these files correctly (if in fact
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ait for now. If you
need any help from me, let me know. I'm on the laptop right at
the moment, but if you want to compare BIOS versions or some
such, just let me know. I'll just need to reboot to get the
string.
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In the history of my site, we've gone through 4 filesystems: initially,
we were ext2, then ext3, then ReiserFS 3.6, and finally XFS. Each of
these were chosen for a reason (ext3 because we needed journaling,
ReiserFS because we needed higher performance for
I've heard rumours that some of the Linux filesystems aren't as stable
as they should be on AMD64; in particular, I've heard of bad things
happening with JFS and XFS.
That being said, I can't find anything even approaching authoritative,
so I thought I'd ask:
What filesystems are you guys using,
yway, yes, installing the kernel-headers-2.6.8-11
package itself will probably fix your problem. I'm not sure if
it's just kernel-headers-2.6.8-11 off the top of my head or
whether the -amd64 will be on the end also.
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don't see amd64 yet on
my own official Debian mirror, so that hasn't happened yet.
Just curious...
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ms. And no, I have not reported the problems officially
even though I really should.
So, long story short, you might try 2.6.11.7 or maybe
even 2.6.10 under x86-64 if you are running something 2.6.12ish
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make file to not include them, but I don't
know if this will work or not.
Maybe I'll try the
precompiled files from the website, but I don't know which version of gcc
was used to create them.
Thanks for your
help,
Mark
Kennedy
P.S. I also did a quick check of all
th
if it needed this library?
If this is a bug, I'll enter it in the appropriate
place.
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Mark K.
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th the driver from the Adaptec site.
I have no idea how long it will take for these changes to make their
way into the mainstream kernel, but until that time, any folks running
a system with one of these newer Adaptec SCSI RAID controllers will
need to grab the drivers off the Adaptec site and
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>
> I do not have anything from nvidia installed.
Thanks. Looks like a long standing bug with the
nvidia-glx package. Bug is already filed under #208198. The
duration of this bug is rather absurd given the simple nature of
the problem.
Happy
if I do 'dpkg -S
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2' it gives me:
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diversion by nvidia-glx from: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
diversion by nvidia-glx to: /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
xlibmesa-gl: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
but it obviously never actually c
on x86_64. :)
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for the driver to actually work (in case you missed my earlier
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's even possible really unless the
build environment which is producing the package is using a
different version of gcc. Anyway, since this is specific to the
current amd64 gcc-3.4 repository, I'll leave it at that. Maybe
someone on this list can shed som
sn't it grabbing -18?
For what it's worth, -16 doesn't segfault. I'm grabbing
-18 by hand to see if the patch added between -16 and -18 is the
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The gdb dump from this looks like:
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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0043e792 in PyString_Size ()
I assume it's a 32-bit to 64-bit problem. I'll compile
python with -ggdb later if I have time.
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Anyone else seeing a segfault from reportbug/python?
Tried to file a wishlist bug report item today and I get:
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with the monolithic mini.iso.
Greetings
Frederik Schueler
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:54:00AM +0100, Mark Collin wrote:
I have tried to install AMD64 Sid onto my machine but am having problems
finding a working lan driver. I have an Abit AV8 with built in Via
Gigabit LAN Ethernet card
I have tried to install AMD64 Sid onto my machine but am having problems
finding a working lan driver. I have an Abit AV8 with built in Via
Gigabit LAN Ethernet card, unfortunately the Via Rhine drivers don't
seem to be working.
I have had a hunt around but cannot find any drivers for the Via
ashed with a segfault
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