Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 06:20:04PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > It will be very interesting if anybody skilled in programming will > create an open sourse analogue programm like the skype. There are plenty, like ekiga and such. They have the advantage of using open standards like SIP, h.323 and such, unlike skype which uses a horrible p2p protocol that only skype understands. Skype's only purpose is to get everybody locked in to their private standard. They are almsot as bad as microsoft that way. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: I want all my 4GB!!!
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:08:58AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM. > But the system "see" only 3GB: > dmesg |grep Memory > [0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code, > 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init) > $ cat /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 3088108 kB > > How can I get all my 4GB memory? Could you get the output of dmesg? It would tell us exactly what the BIOS reports for memory. Many older chipsets did not support remapping of memory, so whatever area of the memory space PCI requried was simply lost. Something like this is the key part: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009ac00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009ac00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000e - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - bffc7440 (usable) BIOS-e820: bffc7440 - bffceac0 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: bffceac0 - c000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: e000 - f000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fec0 - 0001 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0001 - 00024000 (usable) -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:59:34AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > I know about ekiga and such but they do not serve for all my aims. > I (and many people in my country - Russia, when existing terrible and > bloody dictatorship of tyrants Putin and Medvedev ) need to have an > encrypted telephony either for calling to VoiP-phones or to ordinary phones. > But in the last case ekiga and SIP are not useful and the sources of the > Putins secret political police such "SORM" can control all my outgoing > calles through ekiga and SIP. Why would you trust skype to be secure? Have they told you what algorithm they use for encryption? Do you have the source code to verify it? You would have to be crazy to rely on skype for that. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: I want all my 4GB!!!
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > This is probably irrelevant but it may help someone searching the > archives. I bought a Thinkpad X61 with 4GB a while back. At first it > would recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze. I checked > the BIOS which was registering 4Gb. I had many other things to do and > left it for a while. The windows deficiency must have been fixed in the > Vista (shudder) SP1 update but the Debian shortfall continued and I've > been following this thread. > > I use aptitude and found the following kernel package: > linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem > > Installed it, rebooted and hey presto,cat /proc/meminfo gives: > > MemTotal: 4074284 kB > > Thanks. You guys are so great. Well if the BIOS does remap memory above 4GB, then on x86 you do need a PAE kernel to get the rest of memory, which would be the 686-bigmem kernel. On x86-64 you always get all the memory in that case. I believe vista SP1 did in fact add PAE support, so that would make sense there too. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: I want all my 4GB!!!
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:23:13PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > ~$ dmesg | grep BIOS > [0.00] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > [0.00] BIOS-e820: - 0009f800 (usable) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0009f800 - 000a (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: 000dc000 - 0010 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0010 - bf68 (usable) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: bf68 - bf70 (ACPI NVS) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: bf70 - c000 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: e000 - f000 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec1 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: fed0 - fed00400 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: fed14000 - fed1a000 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: fed1c000 - fed9 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee01000 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: ff00 - 0001 (reserved) So the last address reported by your bios is 4GB (0001) at the end of a reserved area. The last address of usable memory is bf68 which is 3211264000 bytes, so your system does not remap memory and hence anything covered by PCI devices is simply lost and can not be used at all. The hardware is either simply not capable of remapping memory (this is true for many intel chipsets) or the BIOS didn't make the chipset do remapping (sometimes there is a bios option for it). > [0.00] ACPI: BIOS bug: multiple APIC/MADT found, using 0 > [0.00] early res: 0 [0-fff] BIOS data page > [0.00] early res: 4 [9f800-f] BIOS reserved > [0.004000] Calgary: detecting Calgary via BIOS EBDA area > [0.264998] ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored via DMI So unless your bios has an option for memory remapping, there is no way to make the rest of memory useable, and you will only get about 3.2GB out of your 4GB. Of course if the video steals some of that 3.2GB, you get whatever is left. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: I want all my 4GB!!!
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:51:22PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Do you think is it possible to get all 4GB even the BIOS doesn't "see" > all installed memory? > P.S. I have send request to the technical support of the Acer > corporation concirning the matter of my BIOS (becouse I upgraided my > BIOS from the latest version on their site) and waiting their answer. No probably not. In that case it is almost certain the chipset is not setup to remap memory (if it is even capable of it). Vista could also just read the DMI info, detect what actual memory is installed and report that, rather than the amount of memory actually available. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:55:57PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Becouse it I think it needs to build new system of internet telephony > like skype but running under open sourse programs and protocols. > I think it need that new open-source built VoIP network system will > operate on a peer-to-peer model, that user directory will be entirely > decentralized and distributed among the nodes in the network, and use > encrypted connection insluding connetion with the exit node when making > calls to ordinary telephones. > I think that building such system will protect anonymity and privacy of > people and independence each of us from goverments, corporations etc. > control, becouse we will be able to call each other without any state or > corporate control over our telephone calls. > But now it is not exist any such VoIP system based on open sourses. > I really don't trust skype but I know that today any secret services of > Russia cannot establish real control skype-connections. I know it from > the officers of the Russian FSB which really interested (on corruption > base) to find one user of skype and didn't be able to do it. > But I am not sure that tomorrow the skype team or the US' security > services (which perhaps execute control over the skype team) will not > give information about skype users and their contacts to the Russia > authorities. > Furtherinafter, I (and each of us, I think) want to be able having > connections with other people absolutely free from any control neither > only Russian authorities nor any state secret services and any > corporations and groups of people existing in the world. The fact skype is p2p is part of why I hate it. It is a complete nightmare to try and deal with on company networks. Trying to allow skype (because some people insist on it being amazingly useful) while blocking other p2p traffic is very very hard. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:36:04PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > What is needing to block p2p traffic? Because users are idiots. When you have 250 people sharing a 3Mbit internet link, you do not need idiots running p2p file sharing. Or even worse, p2p video streaming (like CNN's garbage system, and that tv brodcast thing from india that I don't remember the name of right now, and many others). We will be moving to a 10Mbit link next month, but that still doesn't mean p2p file sharing at work is a good idea. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: I want all my 4GB!!!
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:32:12PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Looks like it, indeed: > http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=33507&mfr=Acer&model=TravelMate+3040+Series+3043%2C+3044&search_type=&root=us&LinkBack=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kingston.com&Sys=33507-Acer-TravelMate+3040+Series+3043%2C+3044&distributor=0&submit1=Search Well it confirms it being 945GM, and the 945GM is absolutely not capable of memory remapping, so there is no way to get more of the memory to be available. The benefit of 4GB ram simply is that you get dual channel access to the 3.something GB you see as far as I can tell. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: I want all my 4GB!!!
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:44:18AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Yes, you are right. > The technical support of the Acer corporation have informed me that it > is impossible to get all my memory with Intel 945GM Chipset. > I think they (the Acer company team) are frauds becouse I paid my money > for 2 modules of 2GB RAM based on their information in the manual of my > laptop. Instead doing it I could get 1 such module and install it with > preinstalled module of 1GB for using not more 3 GB. But then it would have run slower, and you would have gotten probably 100 to 200MB less memory. Right now you get 3.2GB out of 4GB, using dual channel. The video is probably taking about 200MB of that leaving 3GB for you. If you only had 3GB, you would only get single channel, making the memory half the speed, and you would get 2.8GB for you and 200MB for video. I know that going from one DIMM to two DIMMs on my wifes laptop with the same chipset increased the video performance by over 50% because it went to dual channel mode as far as I can tell. It became much faster than simply adding more ram could account for. So while you may loose 800MB of your 4GB, you still get the performance benefits of the dual matched DIMMs. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:54:35PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > As a specialist in the matters of blocking P2P, could you advice any > mesuares for users for avoding blocking P2P from company/country's > firewall etc.? > I am afraid that the terrible Pustin's dictatorial regim intend to take > measures banning P2P, VoIP etc. in Russia: > > http://www.point.ru/news/stories/20598/ I just have a perl script run every minute that checks the netfilter connection tracking for things that behave like p2p traffic and then firewalls that connection for an hour. It has been rather effective so far. I had to add an exception for very low bandwidth p2p traffic in order to allow skype. Fortunately none of the actualy p2p file sharers are willing to try and share files that slowly so it works OK. Occationally something gets through in which case we just track down who is flooding the internet link and go apply a clue bat. :) One person got annoying enough that they are now restricted to ftp, http and https traffic only. All other traffic is blocked for that user. They haven't complained yet. Expensive packet inspection tools would probably work better, but I don't have one and really don't want to have to have one. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM Ware > Player 2.5.2 from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html > (becouse there is no VMWare Player in the official repositories of the > Debian). > Which of the packege do I need - rpm or bundle? How do install it on Debian? > And what of libraries and etc. do I need install for succesfull using > VMWare Player? You do not want the rpm. I don't like the current bundles either. I keep nagging vmware to provide the tar files that worked with make-vmpkg again, but they are too clueless to understand why real admins won't run GUI installer crap in X as root on their systems rather than something the package manager can deal with. Fortunately we now have kvm (on machines with virtualization hardware support) which is in my opinion much better than vmware, free, open source, and maintained and part of stock kernels. I have no need for vmware anymore. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:45:18PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Could the kvm boot the Windows from physical disk? (I want to make the > virtual machine boot my old Windows from my laptop becouse some > programes from my working space don't want to run under Linux). > Earlier I tried the Virtualbox but it cannot do it and the Virtualbox > from the Debian's repositories don't maintain USB. Yes it probably could (it supports raw disk files so I see no reason it could not). Of course you do have to prepare the windows system with the right device drivers for running on a new system, although that usually isn't too hard. The mergeide.reg seems to cover the main problem. kvm also support USB device pass through as far as I can tell. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:47:07PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > > > >> I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM Ware > >> Player 2.5.2 from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html > >> (becouse there is no VMWare Player in the official repositories of the > >> Debian). > >> Which of the packege do I need - rpm or bundle? How do install it on > >> Debian? > >> And what of libraries and etc. do I need install for succesfull using > >> VMWare Player? > >> > > > > You do not want the rpm. > > > > I don't like the current bundles either. I keep nagging vmware to provide > > the tar files that worked with make-vmpkg again, but they are too clueless > > to understand why real admins won't run GUI installer crap in X as root > > on their systems rather than something the package manager can deal with. > > > > Fortunately we now have kvm (on machines with virtualization hardware > > support) which is in my opinion much better than vmware, free, open > > source, and maintained and part of stock kernels. I have no need for > > vmware anymore. > > > > > > Wow! > When I tried install the kvm, the system tell me: "Your system does not > have the CPU extensions required to use KVM. Not doing anything. failed!" As I said, on machines with virtualization hardware support. Also known as vt-* on intel and svm on amd. On an intel system, if /proc/cpuinfo has the flag 'vmx', then it should work. On some systems you have to enable it in the BIOS first. On an amd system the flag to look for would be svm as far as I know. Many Core 2 systems support it, all Core i7 systems support it. Pentium line systems do not as far as I know. Another option is qemu using kqemu. Not quite as fast as kvm, but still very good and the same feature set. kqemu is probably about the speed of vmware. What CPU do you have? What does /proc/cpuinfo say? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:21:56PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Bjørn Mork wrote: > > James Brown writes: > > > > > >> When I tried install the kvm, the system tell me: "Your system does not > >> have the CPU extensions required to use KVM. Not doing anything. failed!" > >> > > > > from the kvm package description: > > > > > > KVM requires your system to support hardware virtualization, provided by > > AMD's > > SVM capability or Intel's VT. To find out if your processor has the > > necessary > > support, do as follows: > > . > > * Make sure you run Linux 2.6.16 or newer for AMD processors, or > > Linux 2.6.15 for Intel processors. Older Linux versions do not report > > the virtualization capabilities. > > . > > * Run this command in a shell: egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo > > . > > If it prints anything, the processor provides hardware virtualization > > support and is suitable for use with KVM. > > > > > > > > > It is print nothing. > > But do check your BIOS setup if you think your CPU should support > > hardware virtualization. Most have some option to disable it, and it > > may be disabled by default. > > > What is the name of item I need to enable in BIOS if it exist in my BIOS? > > You'll probably have to check the Intel or AMD web sites to find out if > > your CPU is supposed to have such support. > > > > > > Bjørn > > > > > > > I'll try. Or just paste what /proc/cpuinfo has in it and someone can quickly tell you. We know where to find out. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:35:55PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > I am afraid that my chipset don't maintain this function: > $ dmesg | grep Chipset > [6.694009] agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset. > > http://ark.intel.com/chipset.aspx?familyID=22816 It is a CPU thing, not a chipset thing. So the 945GM is irrelevant. I have seen core 2 Duo laptops with the 945GM that supported kvm. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:32:22PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Depends. It should be an option related to the CPU, and it will often > include the word "virtualization". > > But I've also seen "Vanderpool Technology" used without any further > explanations... What do you think 'VT' means? :) -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:48:22PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Is it possible install on qemu Windows? It seems to me that only Linux, > am I wrong? > Does it maintain booting from raw disks and using USB? kvm and qemu both support pretty much the same features (kvm uses qemu as it's user interface). kqemu is a kernel module to allow qemu to do pretty much what vmware does for virtual machines, while kvm does the same thing using the hardware virtualization features (and hence faster and more efficiently). > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 15 > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz Well unfortunately, the T5600 and up has VT, the T5500 does not (unless it is the one stepping that accidentally had VT support enabled, but that was stepping 2 and you have stepping 6). Intel really isn't helping to make this less confusing. They like to turn off features on low end chips for no good reason other than they can. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:06:42AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > And hear http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27253 they wrote that > T5500 supportes VT > Are they, intel team, idiots, if they write one in one place, and > another - in another place?! It just means that their confusion plan is working. Perhaps too well. Based on what I found, only stepping 2 had VT on the T5500. The other T5500 steppings do not. Apparently the intent was for all T5500s to not have VT, although the link you provided certainly disagrees with that. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:32:22PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > The Acer compony's officers are frauds! > There is an information about CPU T7200 or T7400 or T7600 in the manual > of my laptop. > Why did they install T5500?! It's a build option. My wife's tablet was available with all those models too. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:09:32PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > James Brown writes: > > > model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz > > That one is supposed to support VT according to > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27253 Well intel's pages do seem to indicate in a number of places that VT is supported, yet many many people have confirmed that the T5500 does not have VT supporte enabled (except stepping 2). It seems intel has screwed up on the T5500 somewhere, either in the documentation or the actual production. Other places intel does say it does NOT have VT (or rather they don't say it does). For example: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9SQ (does not have VT) http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9U8 (has VT) Both are T5500s. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:30:54PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > Yes, but as Lennart stated not all the T5500 have the extension, in > this case James Laptop is one of the ones who doesn't have them. > > http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?series=23517 I almost wonder wether the OEM T5500s do not have VT and the retail (if there is such a thing for mobile chips) do. Looking at that page the only two chips with a price listed have VT, and those without prices do not have VT. Seems rather odd doesn't it? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:21:29PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > >> [ 0.148009] CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz stepping 06 So your system has a T5500 stepping 6. > I cannot find in the above output of dmesg the type of my CPU. > There is an information that it can be Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 or T7400 > or T7600 In the manual of my laptop. > In the site directed by you I find that E8190 does not support Intel > Virtualization Technology. The E8190 is a desktop CPU not a mobile CPU. It is a special OPEM version of the E8200 with VT and a few other features removed so HP (I believe) could sell a box for less than $399 or whatever their price point was, never mind the features the customer lost. > I cannot understand that concirning my CPU. Well the T5500 is listed as sometimes having VT depending on the stepping. It seems yours is one of the T5500s that does not have VT. Most T5500s appear to not have VT. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:20:51PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > not entirely: http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?series=23517 It seems most people have determined that the info intel lists for the T5500 is wrong. Perhaps that would be something worth discussing with intel if you bought a system with the intent of using VT just to discover it doesn't have it, although the BIOS also has to support it and some laptop makers simply don't care to make it work. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:36:22PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > Most of the times budget laptops doesn't provide virtualization > capabilities, so it's better in this case the OP stays with vmware > server, or something like that. Or kqemu, which happens to use the same interface and fileformats as kvm, making it easy to move to kvm on a new box later. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:57:01AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > I received an answer from the technical support of the Acer, they > informed me that in all laptops of Acer didn't turn on the vt-support > independently of CPU supporting. They write that becouse that it is > impossible to turn on it in the BIOS. > Are they idiots?! Well somewhat. They apparently decided it wasn't a feature worth supporting. So yes if they don't support it in the BIOS, then it doens't matter what the CPU can do, since the BIOS has to enable it. VT works fine on my thinkpad SL500. Lenovo thinks it is a feature people want. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problem with my HDD and FS's after upgrade and cloning the HDD
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:17:24PM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Hi all, > I use the Debian Lenny AMD64 on my laptop Acer TravelMate 3043. > After upgrading from my old HDD 120GB to 500GB and cloning the first to > the last, I have the next problem: > sudo fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 500 GB, 500105249280 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 509 4088511 12 Compaq diag > /dev/sda2 * 510521437784880c FAT32 LBA > /dev/sda45215 53727 3896726405 Extended > /dev/sda552155257 337365 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 5 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda652585865 4875727 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 6 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda758666230 2923830 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 7 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda862316399 1349460 82 Linux swap > Warning: Partition 8 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda964006448 385560 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 9 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda10 6449 53727 379760535 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 10 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda3 53728 6080156813872c FAT32 LBA > > Some people tell me that the "Partition x does not end on cylinder > boundary" is not serious problem and advise me to do not call attention > to that. > But some other people tell my FS's can crash through that and reccomend > me to reinstall my system at all. > What can you advice me with that? It doesn't matter. Some OSs (like DOS) would not work with partitions that weren't cylinder aligned, but every OS these days uses LBA instead and doesn't actually care about cylinders at all. Try fdisk -l -u. As long as the start and end work out without overlap, the filesystems are going to be just fine. sda4 is what contains sda5-sda10, so sda4 should contain all of those, meaning overlap with sda5-10 is expected. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problem with my HDD and FS's after upgrade and cloning the HDD
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 07:06:04AM +0400, James Brown wrote: > Very thanks. > I have tried fdisk -l -u and I have had the next : > ~$ sudo fdisk -l -u > [sudo] password for igor: > > Disk /dev/sda: 500 GB, 500105249280 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976768065 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 63 8177084 4088511 12 Compaq diag > /dev/sda2 * 81770858376290937784880c FAT32 LBA > /dev/sda483762910 863124254 3896726405 Extended > /dev/sda58376297384453704 337365 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 5 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda68445376894221224 4875727 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 6 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda794221288 100084949 2923830 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 7 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda8 100085013 102799934 1349460 82 Linux swap > Warning: Partition 8 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda9 10278 103587119 385560 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 9 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda10 103587183 863124254 379760535 83 Linux > Warning: Partition 10 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda3 863124255 97676806456813872c FAT32 LBA > > So, there are no overlaps, but there are some gaps. The gaps make sense. The reason is the way extended partitions work. An extended partition contains a partition table with one primary partition and another extended partition. The primary partition is your logical partitions, and the extended partition is the space of the remaining logical partitions. So your layout appears to be: partition start end (partition table) 0 62 sda1(primary) 63 8177084 sda2(primary) 8177085 83762909 sda4(extended) 83762910863124254 sda4(partition table) 83762910 83762972 sda5(primary) 83762973 84453704 (extended) 84453705863124254 (partition table) 84453705 84453767 sda6(primary) 84453768 94221224 (extended) 94221225863124254 (partition table) 94221225 94221287 sda7(primary) 94221288100084949 (extended) 100084950863124254 (partition table) 100084950100085012 sda8(primary) 100085013102799934 (extended) 102799935863124254 (partition table) 10279993510277 sda9(primary) 10278103587119 (extended) 103587120863124254 (partition table) 103587120103587182 sda10(primary)103587183863124254 sda3(primary) 863124255976768064 Looks fine to me. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
