Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 08:17 -0800, Stephen Hassard wrote: The nforce nic is definitely running as: --- :00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00df (rev a2) --- on your PC. I was confused by the same thing, but it works very well. This is because de pci-ids database does

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) Works great in the i386 installation, does not work on amd64, but this is due to bumprace not running (SDL

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-04 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) Works great in the i386 installation, does not work on amd64, but this is due to bumprace not running

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:24:24AM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) Works great in the i386

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: There was nothing hooked up to the firewire, but the NIC was connected to a switch. So I guess it is a bug in the link detection code. Could there be anyhting in the installer log files? I could try to

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-04 Thread Stephen Hassard
The nforce nic is definitely running as: --- :00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00df (rev a2) --- on your PC. I was confused by the same thing, but it works very well. later, Steve Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:18:32PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:37:05PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: So, what I would like to know is, does bumprace sound ok on your ASUS K8N-E Deluxe, or does it sound like crap? As I said, I am not using that machine, but I guess I can sneak into the office and

installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, we got another AMD64 machine at work, nearly identical to the one I installed in late august, only difference, this one has an ASUS K8N-E Deluxe mainboard. I set it up for Debian sarge/i386 and sid/amd64 with netinstall isos I downloaded on oct 26 (i386) and today (amd64). I used linux26 for

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Sharkey
The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) Eric

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) bumprace, what's that? ;-) apt-get install bumprace. The reason I mention it as a test app is because

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, Have you tried audio/ALSA? (For a good test app, play a game of bumprace.) bumprace, what's that? ;-) I tested audio/alsa on the i386 install I think. But I connected only one pair of

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, the onboard network was not detected, it might have loaded the nic module, but DHCP and manual network config did not work. I think this is due to a second network card magically appearing on the box, ethernet over firewire,

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
The AMD64 install had another major obstacle, the installer did not find the release file. It was looking in (typing from memory) debian/dists//Release, which does not exist on the CD. I think the double slash is a clue, the distribution (sarge, sid, whatever) is missing here. I didn't want to

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:02:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: The i386 install had one major obstacle, the onboard network was not detected, it might have loaded the nic module, but DHCP and manual network config did not work. I think this is due to a second

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:47:16PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: apt-get install bumprace. apt-cache show bumprace | grep Maintainer Ah, yes, I see that you're familiar with it... I *really* didn't notice that at all. I think I heard something like this before, not sure which package.

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:47:16PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: apt-get install bumprace. apt-cache show bumprace | grep Maintainer The reason I mention it as a test app is because it's relatively small and easy to install, don't require 3D X accelleration (or much video at all) and it it's

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:37:05PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: So, what I would like to know is, does bumprace sound ok on your ASUS K8N-E Deluxe, or does it sound like crap? As I said, I am not using that machine, but I guess I can sneak into the office and abuse it for playing games for a

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: There was nothing hooked up to the firewire, but the NIC was connected to a switch. So I guess it is a bug in the link detection code. Could there be anyhting in the installer log files? I could try to retrieve them tomorrow. I also tried a knoppix 3.6 (i386), it