weird g++ behavior

2002-11-21 Thread Bryan Jurish
greetings all, a few months ago, i made the great leap of faith and switched to debian (woody) from suse -- a few false starts, but all in all i'm still convinced it was a good choice, if only... my problem is that i'm getting a whole slew of intermittent, unreproducable (but nonetheless frequen

Re: weird g++ behavior

2002-11-21 Thread Bryan Jurish
On 21 November 2002 at 09:08:27, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > I had somewhat similar problems with some standard libraries > (libstdc++, libc, etc.) accidentally left in /usr/local after upgrading > to woody. Removing the libraries and executables remedied the > situation. > > Elizabeth hmm,

Re: weird g++ behavior

2002-11-21 Thread Bryan Jurish
hi Elizabeth, On 21 November 2002 at 11:30:10, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > What about running conftest.cc through the pre-processor with the "-E" > option (g++ -E ...)? That often helps clear up some of the odder parse > errors. > > Elizabeth yes, i also find it a good way to diagnose weird

VT82C686B Sound Problem

2002-11-22 Thread Bryan Jurish
hi Robert, i have an "Elitegroup" mainboard with the same chipset on it, which i've managed to get sound out of using the alsa drivers (http://www.alsa-project.org) ; also under kernel 2.4.19, using the alsa-0.9.0 series (0.9.0-rc?)... i'm not clear on the "official" debian procedure for buildin

Re: VT82C686B Sound Problem

2002-11-22 Thread Bryan Jurish
Steve Juranich wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:48:58 -0500, Robert James Kaes wrote: > > > Has anyone either got these drivers to work with Debian using a 2.4.19 > > kernel, or is there another driver I should be using to activate the > > onboard sound system. > > I'm using the same mobo/

2^n (was: weird g++ behavior)

2002-11-22 Thread Bryan Jurish
hi Elizabeth, hi list, first of all, thanks for your suggestions, Elizabeth -- a 'crashme.sh' script was in fact very helpful... turns out, the machine (same procedure on another box ran fine) crashed g++ only with my 256MB ram-bar in slot-0 and my 512MB bar in slot-1 ... go figure. each bar al

Re: GNU-LINUX Installation!

2002-11-22 Thread Bryan Jurish
greetings, On 22 November 2002 at 18:21:18, Samaad Story wrote: > > Hello guys i am familiar with computers etc, But I am not at all familiar with >installing Linux. Im am not to sure about the partitioning of the hard drive, the >bios, and basically the entire process of installing this O

Re: 2^n (was: weird g++ behavior)

2002-11-23 Thread Bryan Jurish
On 22 November 2002 at 21:14:00, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > or is it just a swing-a-dead-chicken- > > over-your-head-at-midnight-on-a-new-moon-whilst- > > invoking-eldritch-and-mystic-powers sort of thing? > > It could be a board/BIOS problem, or it could be that one of those two > modul