[gentoo-amd64] Re: Open Office / NFS write problem

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/26/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I'm running Open Office on my AMD64 machine. In all ways it seems > to work fine when using local hard drives. However, if I try to write > any file held on my file server then I receive a message that says: > > Error saving the document

[gentoo-amd64] Open Office / NFS write problem

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm running Open Office on my AMD64 machine. In all ways it seems to work fine when using local hard drives. However, if I try to write any file held on my file server then I receive a message that says: Error saving the document Untitled1: General input/output error while accessing /video/

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Duncan
Hemmann, Volker Armin posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:39:22 +0100: > On Sunday 26 February 2006 15:19, Duncan wrote: > > when your father told you 'teaching is a good way to learn', he also should > have told you 'Make it short' and 'stay at the subject and d

Re: [gentoo-amd64] partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 26 February 2006 11.45, Alastair Murray wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > I've struggled for two weeks to have my gentoo-amd64 running various > > OpenGL games. > > > > > with an nvidia > > 6600GT chip. > > > > Seeing as you don't mention it in your post, which drivers and which > v

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 26 February 2006 15:19, Duncan wrote: when your father told you 'teaching is a good way to learn', he also should have told you 'Make it short' and 'stay at the subject and don't stroll away' or 'you will loose audience' and will be known as 'babbling duncan'. Sometimes your mails ar

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Duncan
Roy Wright posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:05:51 -0600: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>Which reminds me of a problem I had a few years ago which was solved by >>moving a card to another slot. When clutching at straws ... >> > I had a similar problem last year, t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Roy Wright
Peter Humphrey wrote: Which reminds me of a problem I had a few years ago which was solved by moving a card to another slot. When clutching at straws ... I had a similar problem last year, turned out the 6800GT wasn't all the way into the connector. When I would tighten the hold down scre

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 26 February 2006 09:57, Duncan wrote: > Of course, timings on a dual CPU board are going to be even more finely > tuned, and memory as well has signals at hundreds of megahertz, and a > socket that introduces a slight bit of variability in capacitance and > connectivity on each conductor

Re: [gentoo-amd64] partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Alastair Murray
Thierry de Coulon wrote: I've struggled for two weeks to have my gentoo-amd64 running various OpenGL games. with an nvidia 6600GT chip. Seeing as you don't mention it in your post, which drivers and which version are you using? Alastair Murray. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Re: partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Duncan
Thierry de Coulon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:04:35 +0100: > So, I am wondering what causes the conflict: the board, the opterons, > Gainward's card? > Has anyone a 6600GT running fine ona double opteron? It could be the marginal timings between the card

Re: [gentoo-amd64] partly OT: nvidia 6600GT

2006-02-26 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 25 February 2006 23.51, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 21:04, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > In the end, I removed the card and pulled an Asus nvidia 5700 based > > graphic card out of another computer and see: everything's running fine - > > and I'd even say