APM or ACPI on a PowerPC Laptop?

2008-01-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I am confused as to what power management technology I should be using. When I installed debian etch on this powerpc Apple PowerBook, apm was used as default. Things are working great here and I have no complaints. However, I understand there is also ACPI, which is newer. Are there a

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread pol
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't > reformat it or you'll have to reinstall. If it's ext2/3, use > # e2fsck -c -c /dev/xxx That was my first recovering oeration. It is about 10 hours 'fsck.ext3' is running now, yet less than half par

Re: -bash: no job control in this shell

2008-01-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-07 01:08:20 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I notice right after I initially login to the pc > > the shell says to me (ominously): > > -bash: no job control in this shell. > > 1) I don't know what this means. > 2) I don't know what causes it. Perhaps some command in your .bashrc or .

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread David
Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 6, 2008 9:55 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe HP is becoming more debian friendly I believe this is one of their ongoing goals, at one point they were a major donor to Software in the Public Interest, if not Debian directly. Debian directly. Bdal

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 6, 2008 9:55 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe HP is becoming more debian friendly I believe this is one of their ongoing goals, at one point they were a major donor to Software in the Public Interest, if not Debian directly. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

-bash: no job control in this shell

2008-01-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi Gurus! When I boot my debian sid workstation: I usually log into tty1 and then run startx. But sometimes i noodle around at the command line, say to update drivers for X or whatever, run emacs, etc. I notice right after I initially login to the pc the shell says to me (ominously): -bash

Re: Wireless card failing after a while

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
Tom Raus skynet.be> writes: > > Hello All, > > I've been having some issues on my IBM netfinity server toybox. For some reason the networkcard stops > working while there is no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens during transfers, sometimes just while > it's idle. In /var/log/messages I get t

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > 2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > > > Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in > > > production at an enterprise leve

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread joseph lockhart
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:16:49PM -0500, Rick > Thomas wrote: > > The big deal is that the 3.1r6a iso's are broken. > They don't offer > > "oldstable" as an option for the distribution to > install. So you > > have to choose "stable" (or

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread David
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:16:49PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: The big deal is that the 3.1r6a iso's are broken. They don't offer "oldstable" as an option for the distribution to install. So you have to choose "stable" (or even "testing") and then break to a shell to

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Ron Peterson
2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in > > production at an enterprise level? I'm considering using multipath > > for a new fileserver and a new m

Re: filesystem throughput measurement

2008-01-06 Thread David
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: That was/is going to be my next upgrade. I went to the store here in Kingston and couldn't get any pairs of DDR2-800. It was just after the price had dropped and they couldn't get any. I'll have to try again. Actually, I figure that while I'm at it, I'll make it a pa

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:16:49PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > The big deal is that the 3.1r6a iso's are broken. They don't offer > "oldstable" as an option for the distribution to install. So you > have to choose "stable" (or even "testing") and then break to a shell > to do manual surgery

Re: filesystem throughput measurement

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:06:09AM +0900, David wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >I'm considering getting a tape drive for intermediate backup and > >long-term archiving (e.g. DLT-IV or LTO). Newer drives require a higher > >data rate to keep them fed than older drives. > > > >I can measure ra

Re: ttys1 displaying odd output

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 6, 2008 3:23 PM, joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, checked my computer today and found strange output > on ttys1 which i only use for boot messages, > > [A[Dj[2~[G[Cp;vy[Co[D+ut [Dc +[Ci[Dx+ryi[D+ > ri[D+ri[D+rc[C6[D[1~i+ 6[D[1~9[2+i 6[1~[yejsw > > [password: > > no results o

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
The big deal is that the 3.1r6a iso's are broken. They don't offer "oldstable" as an option for the distribution to install. So you have to choose "stable" (or even "testing") and then break to a shell to do manual surgery on the sources.list file if you want to install Sarge. For pedago

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 6, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:31:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: of all those IBM floppies I can only write to 2 Try a few straight reads to /dev/null just to scrape them clean. After that, use a cleaning disk to clean the heads of the

Re: filesystem throughput measurement

2008-01-06 Thread David
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I'm considering getting a tape drive for intermediate backup and long-term archiving (e.g. DLT-IV or LTO). Newer drives require a higher data rate to keep them fed than older drives. I can measure raw hard drive speed with hdparm -Tt, but how do I measure how fast a b

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in > production at an enterprise level? I'm considering using multipath for > a new fileserver and a new mailserver, running etch, using qlogic 2432 > hbas. This

filesystem throughput measurement

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'm considering getting a tape drive for intermediate backup and long-term archiving (e.g. DLT-IV or LTO). Newer drives require a higher data rate to keep them fed than older drives. I can measure raw hard drive speed with hdparm -Tt, but how do I measure how fast a backup software could read f

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stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Ron Peterson
Hi, Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in production at an enterprise level? I'm considering using multipath for a new fileserver and a new mailserver, running etch, using qlogic 2432 hbas. This would the first time I did this in production, however, so it would be nic

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:50:24PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > I hate to be a bore on this subject, but the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's still > aren't available, as far as I can tell. And no word from anyone as > to what the hold up is. > > Can anybody enlighten me? > > The 4.0r2 iso's are up now. Th

Re: mdadm problem creating device

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:51:09PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:38:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf wrote: > > > I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it > > > (and will add t

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Re: gnucash in Sarge crashes when opening file; started after recent security updates

2008-01-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:34:24AM +0100, Tomasz Szpakowicz wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > > But no scheduled transactions. > > I know I won't get much help with such an old version. That's why I > asked on debian-users if someone has similar problems. Security updates > where the only change

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:31:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > of all those IBM floppies I can only write to 2 > Try a few straight reads to /dev/null just to scrape them clean. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:12:25PM +0100, pol wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > How do you know its physically crashed? If it is physically crashed, > > the head are probably dead too. If you try, what errors do you get? > > The laptop fell about one meter to the floor, while it was runnin

Re: gnucash in Sarge crashes when opening file; started after recent security updates

2008-01-06 Thread Tomasz Szpakowicz
Thanks for your answer. But no scheduled transactions. I know I won't get much help with such an old version. That's why I asked on debian-users if someone has similar problems. Security updates where the only changes to this system. I thought if that was the reason someone might have noticed oth

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD- Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time, I'll try

Re: mdadm problem creating device

2008-01-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:38:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf wrote: > > I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it > > (and will add the second disk later) > > > > > but when I run mdadm I get the followng: > >

Re: gnucash in Sarge crashes when opening file; started after recent security updates

2008-01-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:59:29PM +0100, Tomasz Szpakowicz wrote: > Hello. > > I need help with gnucash 1.8.10 in Sarge. I have a gnucash file (written > with the same gnucash on the same system) containing one year of data. > And I can't open it. Gnucash says 'Segmentation fault'. you really ne

gnucash in Sarge crashes when opening file; started after recent security updates

2008-01-06 Thread Tomasz Szpakowicz
Hello. I need help with gnucash 1.8.10 in Sarge. I have a gnucash file (written with the same gnucash on the same system) containing one year of data. And I can't open it. Gnucash says 'Segmentation fault'. It worked on January 2nd when I last updated it. It doesn't open now. I tried older versio

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
(Setting reply-to to the d-user list only) On Sunday 06 January 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: > I hate to be a bore on this subject, but the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's still > aren't available, as far as I can tell. And no word from anyone as > to what the hold up is. > > Can anybody enlighten me? For future

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread pol
David wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote: >>> I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its >>> surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or >>> kubuntu). How is it possible to reformat the disk, without

Re: ATI X1600 Radeon Missing 1600x1050 Resolution After "fglrx" Upgrade

2008-01-06 Thread David Jantzen
Hi Anthony, thanks for the tip. I'm downloading version 7.11 from the ATI website. Which packages did you purge prior to reinstalling? All of the fglrx packages or just the driver? Thanks, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
I hate to be a bore on this subject, but the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's still aren't available, as far as I can tell. And no word from anyone as to what the hold up is. Can anybody enlighten me? The 4.0r2 iso's are up now. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/05/08 15:16, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] Interestingly enough, I can still use the IBM floppies that an old version of OS/2 came on in 1988. I've had new floppies fail but not those old IBM ones. Go figure. My

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread David
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote: I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu). How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area?

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread pol
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > How do you know its physically crashed? If it is physically crashed, > the head are probably dead too. If you try, what errors do you get? > The laptop fell about one meter to the floor, while it was running. I can't rmemeber the error messages, but they were sugegst

Re: mdadm problem creating device

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf wrote: > I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it > (and will add the second disk later) > > but when I run mdadm I get the followng: > > $ sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 > mi

ttys1 displaying odd output

2008-01-06 Thread joseph lockhart
ok, checked my computer today and found strange output on ttys1 which i only use for boot messages, [A[Dj[2~[G[Cp;vy[Co[D+ut [Dc +[Ci[Dx+ryi[D+ ri[D+ri[D+rc[C6[D[1~i+ 6[D[1~9[2+i 6[1~[yejsw [password: no results on google, altavista, or any other search engine that i could think of [EMAIL PRO

Re: DVD-1.iso: How can I write into DVD-R?

2008-01-06 Thread joseph lockhart
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:07:40PM -0800, wathavy > wathavy wrote: > > [snip problems burning DVD image to DVD] > > > Do you have any suggestion on obtaining 4.0r2 > DVD-1 iso image file? > > Especially for free ISO image extractor, other > th

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/08 09:17, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:04AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Conclusion: Disc contains BAD or even readable sectors, put it into trash can! /Sun Jan 06-07:52:09SDA6# exit But that is my grub boot CD that I use every day and just yesterday rec

Re: Xorg "random" crashes on lenny

2008-01-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/06/08 09:47, Dal wrote: Hi, I've been having a problem with crashing Xorg for a while. I really don't have no idea why this happend. I tried to search this mailing list, but I've not found anything. So here's the problem, actually I already mentioned it. It just crashes. I used to use G

Re: ATI X1600 Radeon Missing 1600x1050 Resolution After "fglrx" Upgrade

2008-01-06 Thread David Jantzen
Hi Georgi, I do have an AMD64 system, and I'm attaching my xorg.conf. It was generated by the aticonfig program and has an external monitor configured. I hope it helps, David On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 14:29 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > David Jantzen wrote: > > Hey All, > > > > I installed som

mdadm problem creating device

2008-01-06 Thread S Scharf
I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it (and will add the second disk later) (Debian testing compiled with raid built into kernel) $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid1] [raid10] [multipath] [faulty] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] unused devices: I have two p

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-06 Thread Peter Smerdon
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only difference to the setup of your normal user seems to be > LANGUAGE. Is there any reason that you reference the iso8859-1 locales > there instead of the utf-8 ones? Were the iso8859-1 locales generated on > your system? Check if they are listed

Re: Mplayer and Xine segfault at start on a MacBook Pro running sid

2008-01-06 Thread Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner
Sorry, I forgot to say that my mplayer is version 1:1.0.rc2svn20071207-0.2 maintained by Christian Marillat, and xine is v0.99.6cvs, libxine1 version 1.1.8-5. Thanks again. On Jan 6, 2008 7:15 PM, Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Each time I try to run mplayer or

Mplayer and Xine segfault at start on a MacBook Pro running sid

2008-01-06 Thread Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner
Hey, Each time I try to run mplayer or xine, I get a segfault (be I root or regular user). I'm running a Debian sid on my MacBook Pro (Santa Rosa), with a Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT graphics card. Kernel is a 2.6.23.9, i686 (not 64 bits). X.Org X Server is 1.4.0. Both mplayer and xine give a segfault

xfstt + urxvt + mc causes crash

2008-01-06 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running debian etch, and installed xfstt to use TT anti-aliased fonts in my emacs23. I'm trying out urxvt (rxvt-unicode) in place of xterm. It seems to work OK, but when I use it to start mc (MidnightCommander), the urxvt terminal hangs. This prevents my starting xterm, another urxvt, or logg

Re: how to determine current X focus?

2008-01-06 Thread michael
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 20:42 +, michael wrote: > Is there a tool that will o/p the current X application that is > accepting input ('focus')? It appears my problem with (intermittently) > un-responding USB mouse/keyboard (see 18 Dec 2007 posts) may be due to > loss of focus [1] and I wish to inv

Re: scripting question

2008-01-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.09.07 08:18, Michael Martinell wrote: > My script is as follows: > #!/bin/sh > > TERM=vt100 > export TERM forcing TERM in script is very bad idea, and in this script also useless. > date && echo " Spam Count" && /bin/more /var/log/syslog | /bin/grep -c > 'identified spam' && echo " " && ec

Re: X warning messages, why?

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Shuler
On 01/06/2008 10:36 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not exist. 2nd one goes away when you insta

Re: X warning messages, why?

2008-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have cleaned up my xorg.conf and now only get 2 warning messages: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not exist. I do

Re: menu size in Enlightenment

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:53:56AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:44:47AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I tried out Enlightenment yesterday out of curiosity but the menu size > > > on my 1600x1200 display was so small i

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:30:36AM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Thin clients are nice for a lab, but a lot of educators are looking > for a light cheep machine kids can carry around and take home. A > graphic browser is essential for research and frankly if kids can > listen to music and play w

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote: > I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its > surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu). > How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area? Why? How do you kno

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:54:53PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:28:28PM +1100, hce wrote: > > On 1/6/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:34:30PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I tried to mount a dvd drive and got

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:04AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Conclusion: >Disc contains BAD or even readable sectors, put it into trash can! > /Sun Jan 06-07:52:09SDA6# exit > > But that is my grub boot CD that I use every day and just yesterday > recreated it. > Well, grub doesn't

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:04:10 +0100 pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its > surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu). > How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area? > > Th

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +0100, pol wrote: > I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its > surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu). > How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area? I assume you know wh

re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread pol
I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu). How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area? Thank you - Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: VNC - I know, just not what I was expecting

2008-01-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:52:14AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:27:18PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >>> I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine. >>> >>> My question. How do I get the default screen to op

Re: Kernel (Enable PAE)

2008-01-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:39:30 -0200, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > > That, in fact the message left me a little concerned. For as I am > already using the kernel, I thought that something might happen in the > kernel and I lose the boot from the server, if this happens we will be > without the ma

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:12:31PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:53:45AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: As a registered pack-rat, I've got a drawer full of similar old CD- Rs. If I get ambitious and I've got some free time

X warning messages, why?

2008-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have cleaned up my xorg.conf and now only get 2 warning messages: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not exist. I do not specify a fontpath.

Re: Blind Debian Potential User

2008-01-06 Thread Shane D
Thank you for the suggestion. I am just looking for a simple shell reader that will allow me to edit the .conf files for Asterisk with speech. I need to use the consol and to edit files. That's all I need on this machine. I have installed Festival and Flite. Has anyone used Screader before? Sha

Re: ATI X1600 Radeon Missing 1600x1050 Resolution After "fglrx" Upgrade

2008-01-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jan 2008, David Jantzen wrote: > Hey All, > > I installed some upgrades yesterday to my testing/unstable installation. > The relevant packages changed (as far as I understand) were: > > fglrx-control > fglrx-driver > fglrx-kernel-src > > Apt uninstalled my kernel module compiled for

Re: Workaround for bug 44477: xserver-xorg: "Xorg crashes with nvidia proprietary driver (during allocation)"

2008-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In trying to solve my mouse foibles (previous post) I upgraded xserver-xorg-core on my Sid box. That upgrades xorg to 7.3. Starting X with the proprietary Nvidia driver 9631 one runs into bug 44477. The answer that was given to that bug ("don't use that driver") g

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-06 Thread Christoph Pilka
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:05:35 -0800 (PST) Rick Dooling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know about Debian Reference and Debian Help site, but I'm more > interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, installing > flash,

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/05/08 15:16, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] Interestingly enough, I can still use the IBM floppies that an old version of OS/2 came on in 1988. I've had new floppies fail but not those old IBM ones. Go figure. My wife keeps insisting th

Re: ATI X1600 Radeon Missing 1600x1050 Resolution After "fglrx" Upgrade

2008-01-06 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
David Jantzen wrote: Hey All, I installed some upgrades yesterday to my testing/unstable installation. The relevant packages changed (as far as I understand) were: fglrx-control fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-src Apt uninstalled my kernel module compiled for 3D support, and so I recompiled an

Re: Blind Debian Potential User

2008-01-06 Thread Tapio Kelloniemi
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:57:38AM -0500, Shane D wrote: > Anyway, I am questing a way to install Debian with Speech. I do not > have a hardware synthesizer. I want a way of > (A) Being able to install debian with speech I doubt it is possible, not sure though. I have done it using braille. >

Re: Re: ati propriety drivers + etch = floating point exceptioninvariousprograms

2008-01-06 Thread metalqga
The problem solved, using the latest AMD Catalyst 7.12 Linux Driver; which seems not to have this bug. Thanks for the responses! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wireless card failing after a while

2008-01-06 Thread Tom Raus
Hello All, I've been having some issues on my IBM netfinity server toybox. For some reason the networkcard stops working while there is no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens during transfers, sometimes just while it's idle. In /var/log/messages I get the following notifications. I'm using D

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:28:28PM +1100, hce wrote: > On 1/6/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:34:30PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I tried to mount a dvd drive and got an error, is it correct file > > > sytem type? what is wrong to the mount

Re: VNC - I know, just not what I was expecting

2008-01-06 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Jan 5, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:27:18PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine. My question. How do I get the default screen to open up, or to get something other than the 'blank' screen with a shell open. I

Re: compatibility problems

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Lale
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > John Hasler wrote: [...] > If the modem provides straight ethernet (no pppoe or other specialities > required), then the docs that come with your modem will usually tell you > what ip-address the modem will have. [...] In my (limited) experience, the IP is usually 192.168

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Lale
Rick Dooling wrote: [...] > > I'm more > interested in a list of common how-tos that most people would like to > do after installation, such as add mp3 playing ability, [...] You may find some of these things in the Debian NewbieDOC project [1]. If you feel like adding more the wiki is very sim

Re: VNC - I know, just not what I was expecting

2008-01-06 Thread Magnus Therning
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I can get SSH/VNC to work on my debian machine. > > My question. How do I get the default screen to open up, or to get > something other than the 'blank' screen with a shell open. IIRC, you can stick a call to gnome-session in your ~/.vnc/startup to get a GNOME desktop in

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-06 Thread hce
On 1/6/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:34:30PM +1100, hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to mount a dvd drive and got an error, is it correct file > > sytem type? what is wrong to the mount command? > > > > $ mount -t udf /dev/hdc /media/disk > > mount: b

Re: DVD-1.iso: How can I write into DVD-R?

2008-01-06 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sat January 5 2008, wathavy wathavy wrote: > 'Writing Error:(3) Error Closing DVD-R RZone Invalid command field(1022) > Error sense Data: SENSE KEY:5 ASC:24 ASCQ;0' probably this can give a hint : http://www.answermysearches.com/category/win32/page/2/ I too recommend that you use Nero for CD/D

Re: menu size in Enlightenment

2008-01-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:44:47AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I tried out Enlightenment yesterday out of curiosity but the menu size > > on my 1600x1200 display was so small it was unusable. Googling didn't > > reveal any way to enlarge it. Is there

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-06 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sun January 6 2008, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? Not me but maybe some others here have.. > > I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for > secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version > of open office running on that