Re: vbox loop in aptitude

2010-07-05 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/04/2010 02:00 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 02 iul 10, 17:04:48, Paul Scott wrote: Debian sid: There are several vbox packages available for update. When I choose any one of those to update in aptitude I get what seems to be an unending loop while aptitude attempts to resolve the depe

Re: vbox loop in aptitude

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 iul 10, 00:14:35, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/04/2010 02:00 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Vi, 02 iul 10, 17:04:48, Paul Scott wrote: > >>Debian sid: > >> > >>There are several vbox packages available for update. When I choose > >>any one of those to update in aptitude I get what seems to

Re: vbox loop in aptitude

2010-07-05 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/05/2010 12:40 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 05 iul 10, 00:14:35, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/04/2010 02:00 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 02 iul 10, 17:04:48, Paul Scott wrote: Debian sid: There are several vbox packages available for update. When I choose any one of those to update i

Re: Re: Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-05 Thread Nathen
Thanks for replying. To answer your questions - I couldn't find anything unusual in the logs, the first message around the time of the crash was the shutdown message when I pressed the power button. I have a PCI realtek card I could try with, I think it's a different chipset so I'll try with that,

USB connection to Cablemodem, cdc_ether, resolvconf?

2010-07-05 Thread Paul Chany
Hi, I have connected my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny through USB to my Cablemodem. My kernel is linux-image-2.6.26-1-686. I'm trying to setup my eth0 network interface. It should have a static and public IP address. I have setup eth0 network interface as static in interfaces file: [snip..] auto lo eth

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sure, but do they accept a CD or a DVD directly into a special tray?! Erwan David wrote: > On 03/07/10 22:21, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I >> understand it well, `Media Source' specifies where the paper to print on >> is. (

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Because if I can know it by theory, it avoids me `practice.' :) Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB >> ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, >> /dev/ttyUSB1, etc.,

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Celejar wrote: > Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally > won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, > which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY interface to the > system. > And which addresses would they get, if they were not usi

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-05 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:09:48PM CEST, Merciadri Luca said: > Sure, but do they accept a CD or a DVD directly into a special tray?! > > Erwan David wrote: > > On 03/07/10 22:21, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> For a printer, why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'? If I > >>

Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-05 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I am currently running debian (amd64) testing with some packages from sid. It is stable for my work purposes. I frequently have to input indic characters and scim is my preferred input method. I have set the input method to scim using im-switch. I can only use it in gnome-terminal that too by righ

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Erwan David wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:09:48PM CEST, Merciadri Luca > said: > >> Sure, but do they accept a CD or a DVD directly into a special tray?! >> >> Erwan David wrote: >> >>> On 03/07/10 22:21, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> >>> Hi, For a printer, why

Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-05 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 17:21 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > My question, how can I make iceweasel, OO and other packages like > inkscape to use scim as the default input method? Yeah, I know that problem. Take a look at: /usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian.gz which explains the whole situation in g

Re: CUPS: why can `Media Source' be `CD or DVD tray'?

2010-07-05 Thread John
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Sure, but do they accept a CD or a DVD directly into a special tray?! As I mentioned in my earlier post, one example is Epson Stylus. Like here (note point 5, where they talk about the tray): http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supD

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB > ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, > /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first > plugged device, or is it one

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Celejar wrote: >> Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally >> won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, >> which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY interface to the >> syst

Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?

2010-07-05 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The version of GnuCash provided with Lenny is 2.2.6-2, maintained by Thomas Bushnell. I have been using this GnuCash version for two years, but after a Lenny upgrade I did yesterday it would no longer load. Included in that upgrade was replacement of

Re: Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?

2010-07-05 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:25 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The version of GnuCash provided with Lenny is 2.2.6-2, maintained by > Thomas Bushnell. I have been using this GnuCash version for two years, > but after a Lenny upgrade I did yesterday it wo

Re: delay shutdown while backup (rsnapshot) is running

2010-07-05 Thread André Berger
* Fabian Kürten (2010-07-01): [...] > Now my question: How can I prevent/delay the shutdown while rsnapshot is > running. For your information, I am using gnome, so a solution working > only for shutdowns via gnome system menu would be sufficient. How does that system work? You could run a shell

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Celejar wrote: >> >>> Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally >>> won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, >>> which contain chips meant to provide a s

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 04 July 2010 13:06:51 Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Let's say that you progressively plug in USB peripherals in(to) USB >> ports of one computer running Debian. How are the /dev/ttyUSB0, >> /dev/ttyUSB1, etc., assignations achieved? Is /dev/ttyUSB0 the first >> plu

Re: how to set port speed for a GPRS connection

2010-07-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:43:31 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > I have a GPRS connection > In Nokia suite in Windows, it claims the speed is about 460kbps In > pppconfig how to set port speed? "setserial" could do that but I'm not sure why you should change this value. Have you made any test speed for yo

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:28:55 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Modems (gsm/umts/dial-up) devices and printers do it that way (in fact, >> anything that emulates the "serial" port). >> > Thanks, but I should have mentioned that I'm here speaking about > non-block devices

Individuals/Organisation Required for Business Partnership

2010-07-05 Thread Techen Ind Co
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Re: USB connection to Cablemodem, cdc_ether, resolvconf?

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 iul 10, 13:07:51, Paul Chany wrote: > > I have loaded kernel modules for USB-Ethernet card: > lsmod gives me the following: > [snip..] > ... > cdc_ether 4672 0 > usbnet14024 1 cdc_ether > ... > [..snip] > > I run resolvconf to setup nameservers: > # cat file_with_nameservers |

Re: Could a Lenny upgrade break GnuCash 2.2.6-2?

2010-07-05 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:25 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > The version of GnuCash provided with Lenny is 2.2.6-2, maintained by > Thomas Bushnell. I have been using this GnuCash version for two years, > but after a Lenny upgr

Re: GnuCash won't open after transferring data files from one box to another (2)

2010-07-05 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Geert Janssens wrote: > Something in your datafile is clearly upsetting gnucash. Can you open any > other gnucash file ? I don't have any other GnuCash data file. > Also, you could try and open the backup files (the ones named > /home/ken/accounts

Re: USB connection to Cablemodem, cdc_ether, resolvconf?

2010-07-05 Thread Paul Chany
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Lu, 05 iul 10, 13:07:51, Paul Chany wrote: >> >> I have loaded kernel modules for USB-Ethernet card: >> lsmod gives me the following: >> [snip..] >> ... >> cdc_ether 4672 0 >> usbnet14024 1 cdc_ether >> ... >> [..snip] >> >> I run resolvconf to setup nameserv

password memory

2010-07-05 Thread Gary L. Roach
I have a Win2K machine and a linux sqeeze machine both running mozella 5.0 (Firefox and Iceweasel). The Win2K machine remembers password inromation to my Amazon.com account (as an example) but the linux machine doesn't. I've checked all of the mozella settings and can't find any difference. Any

Re: USB connection to Cablemodem, cdc_ether, resolvconf?

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 iul 10, 19:59:15, Paul Chany wrote: > > Aha, so here goes nameservers definitions on Debian Lenny? > I remember on Debian Etch I used for this /etc/resolv.conf file. Only if you use (a.k.a. install) the resolvconf package. You can still use /etc/resolv.conf, if you uninstall resolvcon

Re: J-Pilot and Handspring Visor

2010-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 17:18:24 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > From: Florian Kulzer [...] > This is the output from dmesg: > > [637797.771076] usb 2-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=082d, idProduct=0100 > [637797.771083] usb 2-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, > SerialNumber=0 >

Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

2010-07-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally > > won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters, > > which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY interface to the > >

printing stopped after sid update

2010-07-05 Thread Paul Scott
Hi All, After a recent update I can't print. The files are in the queue but never get to the printer. The printer (HP2200) will print a test page from it's console just fine. Below is the possibly relevant part of the cups error log: How can I test the parallel port? TIA for any help, Pa

Why apt-get sets such packages as manually installed?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, When you don't know that you already have a given package, and that you want to install it, apt-get tells you that you already have it, and sets it to `manually installed.' Why does it set it to `manually installed' like this? What's the interest? Most of the time, I don't know that I have a g

Re: Why apt-get sets such packages as manually installed?

2010-07-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 05 Jul 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: When you don't know that you already have a given package, and that you want to install it, apt-get tells you that you already have it, and sets it to `manually installed.' Why does it set it to `manually installed' like this? What's the interest? Most o

Re: Why apt-get sets such packages as manually installed?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Seg, 05 Jul 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> When you don't know that you already have a given package, and that yo= u >> want to install it, apt-get tells you that you already have it, and se= ts >> it to `manually installed.' Why does it set it to `manually installe

Re: Why apt-get sets such packages as manually installed?

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sorry, Enigmail bug. And is there a way to prevent it from behaving like this? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Seg, 05 Jul 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > If you asked for a package to be installed, it is reasonable to assume > that you want that package. If it is already installed, then natural

Re: printing stopped after sid update

2010-07-05 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:53:25 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > After a recent update I can't print. The files are in the queue but > never get to the printer. The printer (HP2200) will print a test > page from it's console just fine. I had a similar problem, but I found this solution: in the CUPS inter

audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-05 Thread Urs Thuermann
When I rip audio CDs, I typically use both cdrdao and cdparanoia and compare the results to make sure that I really really have the correct digital audio data. I run Debian testing with current versions of cdrdao 1.2.2 and cdparanoia III release 10.2. For each CD I run cdrdao read-cd --d

Re: printing stopped after sid update

2010-07-05 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/05/2010 01:10 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Op Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:53:25 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: After a recent update I can't print. The files are in the queue but never get to the printer. The printer (HP2200) will print a test page from it's console just fine. I had a similar problem,

Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems could arise. I have the following questions: 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except electric problems)? 2. What are Debian/kernel's adaptations to prevent such problems from arising? Thanks.

Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 iul 10, 22:43:44, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Now my question is where these differences come from and which results > are the correct (better) ones. From the output to stdout I see that > cdrdao uses the Paranoia DAE library and Joerg Schilling's SCSI > library to actually read the audio C

Re: USB connection to Cablemodem, cdc_ether, resolvconf?

2010-07-05 Thread Lisi
On Monday 05 July 2010 18:59:15 Paul Chany wrote: > Paul Chany > You can freely correct my English. The last Hungarian to say that to me - my father - took extreme umbrage if I actually did so!! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Re: Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-05 Thread Alexander Samad
[snip] > An Intel NIC would usually be my first choice but since this board has > no PCIe slots I'm hesitant to use a PCI NIC if it's going to limit > network bandwidth. have you tried getting the realtek driver and compiling it, on some of my earlier boards, the nic was loaded by an in line kern

bug in the Debian installer?!

2010-07-05 Thread Jozsi Avadkan
bug in the Debian installer? I have two disks [2x1,5 TB WD Green]. In the Debian Lenny installer I set up RAID1 with the two disks. After that, I put the RAID1 in LVM. After that, I create a VG, and put these LV in it: 1 - lvm/256 MB/boot 2 - dm_crypt/5 GB/swap 3 - dm_crypt/30 GB/root 3 - dm_cryp

advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Jim McCloskey
I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that the amd64 port is now very complete, and that the principal difficulty would probably be with

Re: printing stopped after sid update

2010-07-05 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:07:09 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/05/2010 01:10 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Op Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:53:25 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > > > After a recent update I can't print. The files are in the queue > > > but never get to the printer. The printer (HP2200) will print

Re: Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Nathen put forth on 7/5/2010 4:47 AM: > An Intel NIC would usually be my first choice but since this board has > no PCIe slots I'm hesitant to use a PCI NIC if it's going to limit > network bandwidth. Hint: a standard PCI 32bit/33MHz PCI bus can transfer 132MB/s, which is slightly greater than t

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: > If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very > much appreciate hearing it, Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here is simply...sad. If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n go with a 32bit kern

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:58:48 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: > > > If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very > > much appreciate hearing it, > > Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here is > simply.

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 17:11, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:58:48 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: >> >> > If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very >> > much appreciate hearing it, >> >> Allowing a single web pl

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/05/2010 05:40 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that the amd64 port is now very complete, and that

Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-05 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:11:25PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian.gz > > which explains the whole situation in great detail. In particular the > sections "Autostart SCIM" and "Helper packages" are relevant. > Thanks for the reply. In fact,

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 05 July 2010 15:58:48 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: > > If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very > > much appreciate hearing it, > > Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here is > simply...sad. >

Re: Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here |> is simply...sad. |> |> If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n Sigh ... suppresses irritation. But thank you very much for this advice: |>go with a 32bit kernel with PAE |> ("bigmem")

Re: Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: > |> Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here > |> is simply...sad. > |> > |> If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n > > Sigh ... suppresses irritation. > > But thank you very much for this advice: > [...] I

Re: password memory

2010-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary L. Roach wrote: > I have a Win2K machine and a linux sqeeze machine both running mozella > 5.0 (Firefox and Iceweasel). The Win2K machine remembers password > inromation to my Amazon.com account (as an example) but the linux > machine doesn't. I've checked all of the mozella settings and

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Merciadri Luca wrote: > When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems > could arise. I have the following questions: > > 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except > electric problems)? One possibility is soft memory errors in the RAM. Using EC

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 iul 10, 15:40:04, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install > Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit > install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that > the amd64 port is now very complet

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob Proulx wrote: > Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems >> could arise. I have the following questions: >> >> 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except >> electric problems)? >> > > One possibility is

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim McCloskey wrote: > I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install > Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit > install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that > the amd64 port is now very complete, and that the principal diffi

strange freezes or lock ups on memory intensive tasks

2010-07-05 Thread H.S.
This is on an AMD 64 bit processor (AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 555 Processor) with Debian Unstable (32 bit kernel) installed. I have noticed that when I am running a RAM intensive task, usually when browsing large photo files in geeqie and sometimes when starting firefox or chromium, the PC hangs or lo

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Merciadri Luca wrote: > pretty correctly integrated into the kernel. I should not worry like > this, but for a computer which needs to be turned on 24h/24, 7d/7, etc., > it's an important thing because, for meteorological data capture, we > shall all depend on the computer's `good-will.' I have pe

Re: How do I back up a running system?

2010-07-05 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Robert S wrote: > I have debian running on a "headless" system.  I'd like to back the entire > system up.  Its difficult with a bootable disk without a monitor (so > Clonezilla etc are out).  I've tried mondoarchive but it usually bails out > before it completes th

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/5/2010 5:40 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. The machine has a 1.6GHz Intel Quad Core processor and 6GB of RAM. The GPU is an ATI Mobility Radeon (HD 5470) with 1GB of onboard memory. Do you not mean

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/07/10 23:40, Jim McCloskey wrote: I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. I'm trying to decide whether to do a 64-bit install (amd64) or a 32-bit install (i386). My understanding is that the amd64 port is now very complete, and that the p

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 7/5/2010 11:51 PM: > I admire the OP's class in his response. Thought that comment about youtube > and pr0n was completely unnecessary and unsolicited when I read it. Dry humor doesn't include emoticons. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: strange freezes or lock ups on memory intensive tasks

2010-07-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
H.S. put forth on 7/6/2010 12:42 AM: > > This is on an AMD 64 bit processor (AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 555 Processor) > with Debian Unstable (32 bit kernel) installed. I have noticed that > when I am running a RAM intensive task, usually when browsing large > photo files in geeqie and sometimes when s

Re: Debian/kernel's policy for fatal errors, etc.

2010-07-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/07/10 22:22, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, When a computer stays turned on for a long amount of time, some problems could arise. I have the following questions: 1. What habitually makes a computer 'running Linux) go down (except electric problems)? 2. What are Debian/kernel's adaptations to p