Re: problems with cpufreq utils

2010-09-03 Thread Alexander Samad
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Davide Baldini > wrote: >> On 09/03/10 13:53, Alexander Samad wrote: > [snip] > >>> >> >> I'd check if "preformance" does his job. Try set it with >> # cpufreq-set -g performance >> and stress the cpu to see

Re: Re (2): Configuration for a Linux router with a client having a public address

2010-09-03 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > http://142.103.107.138/ So now I am really confused. carnot is already on the public internet with 142.103.107.138? I thought that you had it on a private network and were trying to tunnel it onto the public internet. I am really confused now. Sorry. > My network is

Re: Disappearing mouse

2010-09-03 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Has anyone experienced this in Debian? Is there a definitive cause and, more importantly, a real solution? Thanks - John I had this with an NVidia chipset (don't recall the exact chipset right now). I had to add a SWCursor option to prevent cu

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:35:30PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should > >> always follow up on such m

Re (2): Configuration for a Linux router with a client having a public address

2010-09-03 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:55:04 -0600 > Excellent diagram! Thank you very much for sharing it. Welcome. Until I have a definite plan, the old configuration with carnot on the AT 3612TR is restored. All of these should work as long as the old disk drives hold up. http:

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:32:03 -0300 > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > ... > > > That said, I don't trust hybernation. Your data is much safer in the > > long run if you restrain yourself to suspend-to-RAM and shutdowns. > > Can you elaborate on this?

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should >> always follow up on such messages. Do you have package >> firmware-linux-nonfree >> installed?

Re: graphics problem on Squeeze w/ GeForce4

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:47:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-03 21:45 +0200, Rob Owens wrote: > > > Running Squeeze on my wife's laptop gives horrible graphics performance > > (vertical lines all over the place, and a very fuzzy mouse pointer). > > > > $ lspci | grep VGA > > 01:00.

Re: problems with cpufreq utils

2010-09-03 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Davide Baldini wrote: > On 09/03/10 13:53, Alexander Samad wrote: [snip] >> > > I'd check if "preformance" does his job. Try set it with > # cpufreq-set -g performance > and stress the cpu to see if frequency rises, for example by yep already tried this for x in

Re: graphics problem on Squeeze w/ GeForce4

2010-09-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-03 21:45 +0200, Rob Owens wrote: > Running Squeeze on my wife's laptop gives horrible graphics performance > (vertical lines all over the place, and a very fuzzy mouse pointer). > > $ lspci | grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti > 4200 Go

RE: Arrow keys won't scroll history in squeeze konsole/bash

2010-09-03 Thread James Zuelow
Original Message From: James Zuelow [mailto:james_zue...@ci.juneau.ak.us] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 4:31 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Arrow keys won't scroll history in squeeze konsole/bash 8<---snip---8< > > I'm not the only one seeing this: > > http://

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:59 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > > > FWIW, here is my dmesg output regarding my ATI Radeon 3100 chip (RS780MC). > > I wonder about the 'loading firmware' bit, which seems to fail. > > > > [ 1478.948761

Re: graphics problem on Squeeze w/ GeForce4

2010-09-03 Thread Mark
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > Running Squeeze on my wife's laptop gives horrible graphics performance > (vertical lines all over the place, and a very fuzzy mouse pointer). > > $ lspci | grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti > 420

[SOLVED] Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:58:37 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: > > Thank you, Stephen, for a very interesting and helpful analysis of my > problem. The "by-id" specification of the boot drive is exactly what I > was trying to find and I will adopt it immediately. I'm glad you found what you w

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:59 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > FWIW, here is my dmesg output regarding my ATI Radeon 3100 chip (RS780MC). > I wonder about the 'loading firmware' bit, which seems to fail. > > [ 1478.833236] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 > [ 1478.934354] [drm] radeon kernel

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 3. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > >> > No, I _can't_. That's the whole reason for my asking here. There is > >> > no option to hide the button. I've attached a tiny screenie where you > >> > can see the problematic combo box and the hibernation (Tiefschlaf) > >> > button right unde

Re: Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")

2010-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 03:49:10PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:15:23 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:24:08PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: > >>> > >>> After latest up

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:22:17PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Here's what happening. > > > > After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) > > > > After startx: small console font (maybe 132 charac

Re: What creates /etc/exim4

2010-09-03 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Kent West wrote: > Apparently "aptitude purge exim4" does not remove /etc/exim4 or > /var/lib/exim4. > > Apparently "aptitude install exim4" does not create /etc/exim4 or > /var/lib/exim4. > > Apparently "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" neither creates nor reads fro

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hello all, > > Here's what happening. > > After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) > > After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) > > A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 > still gets me

Re: Genius e-Messenger 112 webcam and gspca_pac207

2010-09-03 Thread Csanyi Pal
hugo vanwoerkom writes: > Csanyi Pal wrote: >> on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze with kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 >> >> I have setup modules to load in /etc/modules: >> gspca_main >> gspca_pac207 >> videodev >> v4l1_compat >> v4l2_compat_ioctl32 > > > Do you actually see those modules with lsmod

Re: HA Debian Setup (2 Nodes)

2010-09-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le vendredi 03 septembre, Jangita écrivit : > Hi List, > > This is probably not the list for this question, but I guess it is a > good starting point since I used debian servers for all my > deployments. > > I want a scenario where I have two servers that appear as one server > (one IP) to the o

Re: Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:15:23 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:24:08PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: >>> >>> After latest upgrade installation of lilo fails. >>> >>> I am not using raid and have th

graphics problem on Squeeze w/ GeForce4

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
Running Squeeze on my wife's laptop gives horrible graphics performance (vertical lines all over the place, and a very fuzzy mouse pointer). $ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1) The currently-installed Ubuntu 8.04 wo

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin Ross
On 09/01/2010 02:43 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Aaron Toponce: I was in the same situation as you not a month or two ago. I spend days online looking for a good NAS, and really couldn't find anything that impressed me. I ended up going with 4-1 TB 3.5" drives, and putting them in a Linux software

Re: Stop dhclient from adding a default gateway

2010-09-03 Thread Bob Proulx
David A. Parker wrote: > >The dhclient-script sets the route. If you want to prevent it then > >you will have to either prevent dhclient-script from setting it or to > >remove it after it has been set. > > Thanks, Bob. I had looked at dhclient-script and realized that it > was the culprit, but I

Re: Stop dhclient from adding a default gateway

2010-09-03 Thread David A. Parker
On 09/03/2010 02:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: David A. Parker wrote: I have a Debian Lenny box with two NICs, eth0 and eth1. eht1 is a trunking interface and can be put onto any VLAN. Whenever eth1 is put onto a VLAN, I want it to get an address from DHCP but I do *not* want it to set a default gat

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hello all, > > Here's what happening. > > After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) > > After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) > > A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 > still gets me

Re: Debian based NAS? What to buy?

2010-09-03 Thread Bob McGowan
On 09/02/2010 02:12 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Mariusz Sielicki: >>> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:43:02PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: What mainboar, CPU and case do you use? I am currently searching for a similar solution as well. I am considering to buy a Mini-ITX Atom board, but it's

Re: Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")

2010-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:24:08PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > After latest upgrade installation of lilo fails. > > > > I am not using raid and have the entry boot=/dev/hda in lilo.conf as > > specified in the man page.

Re: Stop dhclient from adding a default gateway

2010-09-03 Thread Bob Proulx
David A. Parker wrote: > I have a Debian Lenny box with two NICs, eth0 and eth1. eht1 is a > trunking interface and can be put onto any VLAN. Whenever eth1 is > put onto a VLAN, I want it to get an address from DHCP but I do > *not* want it to set a default gateway. > ... > Any help would be great

Re: Genius e-Messenger 112 webcam and gspca_pac207

2010-09-03 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze with kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 I have setup modules to load in /etc/modules: gspca_main gspca_pac207 videodev v4l1_compat v4l2_compat_ioctl32 Do you actually see those modules with lsmod? but I have /dev/video0 only if I unplug a

Re: How to format usb stick ?

2010-09-03 Thread James Stuckey
First format the disk: fdisk /dev/* d n p 1 w Then, mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/*1 (replace * with the device label which you can find from dmesg) ciao James On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Joao Ferreira gmail < joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:16 +0200, Axel Freyn

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:22:52 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Freitag, 3. September 2010 schrieb Lisi: > >> > No, I _can't_. That's the whole reason for my asking here. There is >> > no option to hide the button. I've attached a tiny screenie where you >> > can see the problematic combo box

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 3. September 2010 schrieb Lisi: > > No, I _can't_. That's the whole reason for my asking here. There is no > > option to hide the button. I've attached a tiny screenie where you can > > see the problematic combo box and the hibernation (Tiefschlaf) button > > right underneath. > > I'm

Re: Out of focus webcam

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:34:49PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Joe wrote: > > On 03/09/10 12:36, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> > >> hi > >> > >> I am trying to find a way to change the focus of my webcam: Philips > >> (or NXP) PCVC730K Webcam [pwc]. > >> what

Re: how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 08:24:54PM -0500, tom wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:13 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > > > > man find! Did you look at the manpage . . . the man page for 'find'? > > > > Patience can only be afforded those who take the time to look things up! > > > > # find / -name 'named

Re: Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Thomas H. George wrote: > > After latest upgrade installation of lilo fails. > > I am not using raid and have the entry boot=/dev/hda in lilo.conf as > specified in the man page. The installation fails with error code 01 > which according to the lilo man

Lilo: fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")

2010-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
After latest upgrade installation of lilo fails. I am not using raid and have the entry boot=/dev/hda in lilo.conf as specified in the man page. The installation fails with error code 01 which according to the lilo man page means invalid disk command. Does it now want a UUID? If so, where do I f

Genius e-Messenger 112 webcam and gspca_pac207

2010-09-03 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze with kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 I have setup modules to load in /etc/modules: gspca_main gspca_pac207 videodev v4l1_compat v4l2_compat_ioctl32 but I have /dev/video0 only if I unplug and plug again the USB cable of my webcam. Then I can use my webcam. Why?

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
On 09/02/2010 12:26 PM, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > > Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling> in more.> > However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and> running lilo.> > Funny--worked fine last week. I got it to work today. Kernel will still not boot

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
On 09/02/2010 12:26 PM, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > > Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling> in more.> > However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and> running lilo.> > Funny--worked fine last week. I got it to work today. Kernel will still not boot

Re: Out of focus webcam

2010-09-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Joe wrote: > On 03/09/10 12:36, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >> hi >> >> I am trying to find a way to change the focus of my webcam: Philips >> (or NXP) PCVC730K Webcam [pwc]. >> what do people recommend ? >> > > Turning the front ring. lol ! I did not realize that.

Re: Out of focus webcam

2010-09-03 Thread tom
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe wrote: > On 03/09/10 12:36, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> hi >> >> I am trying to find a way to change the focus of my webcam: Philips >> (or NXP) PCVC730K Webcam [pwc]. >> what do people recommend ? >> > > Turning the front ring. > > Even today, I

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

2010-09-03 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 02 September 2010 21:11:33 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:40:56 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2010 schrieb Camaleón: > > >> I meant you can hibernate your computer with any am

Re: Out of focus webcam

2010-09-03 Thread Joe
On 03/09/10 12:36, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: hi I am trying to find a way to change the focus of my webcam: Philips (or NXP) PCVC730K Webcam [pwc]. what do people recommend ? Turning the front ring. Even today, I doubt that anything described as a webcam (rather than a professional videoconf

Stop dhclient from adding a default gateway

2010-09-03 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I have a Debian Lenny box with two NICs, eth0 and eth1. eht1 is a trunking interface and can be put onto any VLAN. Whenever eth1 is put onto a VLAN, I want it to get an address from DHCP but I do *not* want it to set a default gateway. I set up a definition for each interface in dhcl

Re: Thunderbird's not unsubscribing me from imap folders

2010-09-03 Thread Alan Chandler
On 03/09/10 11:59, Michal wrote: what version of TB are you using Icedove 3.0.6 (ie standard Debian Squeeze) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: [solved] Ethernet connection

2010-09-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Some months ago I managed to connect my Hyundai and Acer laptops with an > ethernet cable. I can copy file from one PC to another with rsync. The file > `/etc/network/interfaces' is edited on the Acer as follows: > > auto eth1 > allow-hotplug eth1 > iface eth1 inet stati

Re: [SOLVED] Problems mounting cdrom

2010-09-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> I just removed from the case of my PC two old cdrom/dvd devices that were >>> broken. Then I set all the cables as I could but I'm no expert and don't >>> know if I did everything ok. Anyway, all seems ok except that I can't >>> mount the cdrom device that is now in m

Re: How to format usb stick ?

2010-09-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 15:16 +0200, Axel Freyn wrote: > Hi, > > How can I format USB stick with vfat? > > In system menu, I cannot find the tools for it. > I would propose to use a text console. The tool is "mkfs.vfat", > contained in the debian-package "dosfstools" (This has to be installed > first

Re: How to format usb stick ?

2010-09-03 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi, > How can I format USB stick with vfat? > In system menu, I cannot find the tools for it. I would propose to use a text console. The tool is "mkfs.vfat", contained in the debian-package "dosfstools" (This has to be installed first). HTH, Axel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: How to resume USB hubs

2010-09-03 Thread godo
On 09/03/2010 10:32 AM, Gero Putzar wrote: Thanks for your suggestion, Olaf. Unfortunately I can't shutdown the system at the moment, I think in this case changing something in the BIOS is not possible or has no effect, am I right? Or else how could I do that? Btw, I would not know what do change

Re: HA Debian Setup (2 Nodes)

2010-09-03 Thread Michal
On 03/09/10 13:45, Jangita wrote: Hi List, This is probably not the list for this question, but I guess it is a good starting point since I used debian servers for all my deployments. I want a scenario where I have two servers that appear as one server (one IP) to the outside world, with bot

How to format usb stick ?

2010-09-03 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone How can I format USB stick with vfat? In system menu, I cannot find the tools for it. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.HWan Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Ethernet connection

2010-09-03 Thread Chris Jackson
Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:34:40 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> >> Camaleón writes: >> >> >>> >>> You can run "/sbin/ifconfig" in the old desktop PC to find out the IP >>> >>> address in use. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>From the old desktop: >> >> >> >> # ifconfig >> >> eth0

[SOLVED] Problems mounting cdrom

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:22:40 -0400 (EDT), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > It _seems_ ok now. Thanks to Stephen whose help was definitve. I'm glad it works now. But for the benefit of others who may find your post on the Internet, would you care to share with us exactly what you did to solve the probl

Re: HA Debian Setup (2 Nodes)

2010-09-03 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jangita wrote: > Hi List, > > This is probably not the list for this question, but I guess it is a > good starting point since I used debian servers for all my deployments. > > I want a scenario where I have two servers that appear as one server > (o

Re: problems with cpufreq utils

2010-09-03 Thread Davide Baldini
On 09/03/10 13:53, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I am having problems on my media box, it used to be able to play hd stuff easily, recently it has been having problems. I believe I have tracked down the problem to cpufreq-utils. analyzing CPU 3: driver: powernow-k8 CPUs which run at the sam

HA Debian Setup (2 Nodes)

2010-09-03 Thread Jangita
Hi List, This is probably not the list for this question, but I guess it is a good starting point since I used debian servers for all my deployments. I want a scenario where I have two servers that appear as one server (one IP) to the outside world, with both servers having *exactly* the sam

Re: Ethernet connection

2010-09-03 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Rodolfo, > > Camaleón writes: > > > >> You can run "/sbin/ifconfig" in the old desktop PC to find out the IP > >> address in use. > > > >>>From the old desktop: > >> > >> # ifconfig > >> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:cb:d7:b6:c5 > >> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255

Re: Ethernet connection

2010-09-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Some months ago I managed to connect my Hyundai and Acer laptops with an > ethernet cable. I can copy file from one PC to another with rsync. The file > `/etc/network/interfaces' is edited on the Acer as follows: > > auto eth1 > allow-hotplug eth1 > iface eth1 inet stati

problems with cpufreq utils

2010-09-03 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I am having problems on my media box, it used to be able to play hd stuff easily, recently it has been having problems. I believe I have tracked down the problem to cpufreq-utils. analyzing CPU 3: driver: powernow-k8 CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 3 CPUs which need to h

Re: Ethernet connection

2010-09-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:34:40 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> You can run "/sbin/ifconfig" in the old desktop PC to find out the IP >> address in use. > > > >>From the old desktop: > > # ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:cb:d7:b6:c5 > inet ad

Out of focus webcam

2010-09-03 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
hi I am trying to find a way to change the focus of my webcam: Philips (or NXP) PCVC730K Webcam [pwc]. what do people recommend ? I am starring at the following cmd line, but I really do not understand what I need to change: $ setpwc -p setpwc v1.2, (C) 2003-2006 by folk...@vanheusden.com Curren

Re: Ethernet connection

2010-09-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Some months ago I managed to connect my Hyundai and Acer laptops with an > ethernet cable. I can copy file from one PC to another with rsync. The file > `/etc/network/interfaces' is edited on the Acer as follows: > > auto eth1 > allow-hotplug eth1 > iface eth1 inet stati

Re: OT Re: mounting samsung galaxy S

2010-09-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Jordon Bedwell wrote: blah blah blah, anyways here is a link: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/forum/83-samsung-galaxy-s/ Looking at: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Full_Update_Guide_-_Samsung_Galaxy_S_%28International%29 It says: "Warning: Rooting the Samsung Galaxy S wil

Re: Thunderbird's not unsubscribing me from imap folders

2010-09-03 Thread Michal
On 03/09/10 10:48, Alan Chandler wrote: I read all my e-mail via imap using Thunderbird (Icedove). I have several folder hierachies in my personal account, some of which contains mail put their by an exim filter as my .forward file on the server (the mail is put into Maildirs in my account by

sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
Hello all, Here's what happening. After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 still gets me back to X) This problem appeared soon after converting to dependency-based b

Thunderbird's not unsubscribing me from imap folders

2010-09-03 Thread Alan Chandler
I read all my e-mail via imap using Thunderbird (Icedove). I have several folder hierachies in my personal account, some of which contains mail put their by an exim filter as my .forward file on the server (the mail is put into Maildirs in my account by exim). This Debian Mailing list is one s

Re: (SOLVED) Re: ia64? amd64

2010-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/02/2010 10:52 AM, Jangita wrote: On 02/09/2010 3:50 p, Jangita wrote: Hello, Difference between ia64 and amd64? I'm moving to servers with larger memory >4GB so want to move to 64 bit. Google is your friend. When I search it using the string "ia64", the first link is: http://en.wi

mount a UDF image on a loop device

2010-09-03 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I want to mount a iso image whose filesystem is UDF on a loop device: sudo mount -o loop -t udf file.iso /tmp/image there's no error from the above command line and `mount' shows the image has been mounted: file.iso on /tmp/image type udf (rw,loop=/dev/loop0) But /tmp/image is empt

Re: WINE in Squeeze taking associations of everything

2010-09-03 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 03/09/2010 à 05:28, GhostlyDeath a écrit : > > Hello, with the current WINE in Squeeze, all the file associations > change and this is very annoying and as such I cannot have WINE > installed, which means not testing my programs in a Windows-Like > environment. WINE ruins my desktop completely.

RE: How to resume USB hubs

2010-09-03 Thread Gero Putzar
Thanks for your suggestion, Olaf. Unfortunately I can't shutdown the system at the moment, I think in this case changing something in the BIOS is not possible or has no effect, am I right? Or else how could I do that? Btw, I would not know what do change, anyway. I may look at the BIOS parameters

RE: How to resume USB hubs

2010-09-03 Thread Gero Putzar
Thank you Camaleón for your answer. I found the following suggestion to switch of the autosuspend option for usb devices somewhere: # modprobe usbcore autosuspend=-1 That's why I mentioned this module. It seems that this usbcore is something different than "ehci_hcd" and "uhci_hcd", at least in

Re: Ethernet connection

2010-09-03 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 09. 2010 10:12:01 je Jangita napisal(a): From laptop to "old" desktop you need to use a cross network cable, the two laptops are new and can auto detect the cable type used but not the old pc. Get a cross cable or connect through a hub or switch. In my experience, you don't need

Re: ia64? amd64

2010-09-03 Thread Jangita
On 02/09/2010 6:09 p, Michal wrote: It will, but just letting the OP about PAE incase they didn't know. Many people assume you need 64bit if you want to go voer the 4GB mark and not know about PAE Axel has a great email explaining PAE and 32 - 64 bit, for those who need any clarification

Re: Ethernet connection

2010-09-03 Thread Jangita
On 03/09/2010 1:18 a, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Some months ago I managed to connect my Hyundai and Acer laptops with an ethernet cable. I can copy file from one PC to another with rsync. The file `/etc/network/interfaces' is edited on the Acer as follows: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth1