Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-30 Thread S D
--- On Fri, 9/17/10, S D wrote: > I have a RS-232 external dial-up modem that I use from time > to time. It works fine when connected through a RS-232 port. > I'd like to use the modem with another PC that doesn't have > a RS-232 port, so I bought a RS-232 to USB adapter cable. > It's a simple

Re: Problem with eSATA Port Multiplier

2010-09-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 9/30/2010 7:16 PM: > Hi, > > I've got a no-name PMP that I want to connect to the eSata port on my mobo. > > Attached are the output from "lspci -vvv" (It's a SiL 3132 chip and the > sata_sil24 driver is loaded) and /var/log/syslog. > > I'm running a stock kernel: > $

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Damon L. Chesser : > > error. My bios had "Cool and Quite" turned off. I did not catch that, > I was looking for some other bios settings. I really am not a big fan Makes me wanna reboot and hunt around for Cool and Quiet. I usually have this on 525 MHz using "ondemand" governor. Damned ne

Re: test :-)

2010-09-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 00:33, Alois Mahdal wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:53:39 +0200, dan wrote: >> >> [...] >> Maybe  a change in that point ( #6 ) is required. If people are in dire need for testing their email configurations, why not reply to an open thread (with relevant and related inform

Staples "Relay (tm)" 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

2010-09-30 Thread s. keeling
I keep one copy of my latest backup on usb sticks that I keep in my pack. Yesterday, I recreated it. It's an ext2 ptn: /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb0 type ext2 (rw,noexec,nodev,sync,noatime) That happens when I plug it in (udev?). drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2009-05-20 22:55 /media/sdb1/ I pl

Problem with eSATA Port Multiplier

2010-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I've got a no-name PMP that I want to connect to the eSata port on my mobo. Attached are the output from "lspci -vvv" (It's a SiL 3132 chip and the sata_sil24 driver is loaded) and /var/log/syslog. I'm running a stock kernel: $ uname -r 2.6.32-5-amd64 The actual h/w is "different"

Re: test :-)

2010-09-30 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:53:39 +0200, dan wrote: [...] Maybe a change in that point ( #6 ) is required. ...like adding "...except when you are Debian developer? ;-D -- Alois Mahdal, using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Mirror applications on Linux Server

2010-09-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
lrhorer wrote: I am building an application which needs to have high reliability. I have two essentially identical Linux servers which can host the application. Right now, I have the programs - a bash script and a c binary, running on one machine every minute in a cron job. I also have an rsync

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-09-30 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi, > I want to have a radar-like device to track moving object. It should > offer me two piece of information: the angel and the distance of the > object from me why not use Arduino (www.arduino.cc)?? "Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use har

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-09-30 Thread B. Alexander
You should have a listen to episode 9 of Hack Radio Live ( http://hackradiolive.org/), where they talked about DIY radar. It actually sounds like it wouldn't be insanely expensive to build your own radar set...Obviously, it wouldn't be military grade, but you could conceivably do it on a shoestring

Re: Mirror applications on Linux Server

2010-09-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 07:47:29PM -0500, lrhorer wrote: > Michal wrote: > > > On 28/09/10 14:05, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> lrhorer wrote: > >>> If there is a better forum for this, let me know and I will post my > >>> questions there. > >>> > >>> I am building an application which needs to hav

Re: 'sudo gedit' stopped working

2010-09-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/30/2010 04:37 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I have a menu item, 'sudo gedit', which has worked for years but just > stopped working (on a current testing system). Running from the > command line, I get: > > No protocol specified > > (gedit:30

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-30 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:20:36 +0530, >> Anand Sivaram said: AS> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: B> On Wednesday 29 September 2010 15:18:46 abdelkader belahcene wrote: A> yes but normally gcc should be configured, where is the config file, B> It's in

Re: 'sudo gedit' stopped working [SOLVED]

2010-09-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I have a menu item, 'sudo gedit', which has worked for years but just > stopped working (on a current testing system).  Running from the > command line, I get: > > No protocol specified > > (gedit:30084): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

Re: Logitech G110 keyboard

2010-09-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/30/2010 02:42 PM, John W Foster wrote: > I have a Logitech G110 keyboard installed on a mixed testing & unstable > system. I have been searching for a driver for this gameboard for a > month to no avail. I am wondering if anyone else has this b

'sudo gedit' stopped working

2010-09-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I have a menu item, 'sudo gedit', which has worked for years but just stopped working (on a current testing system). Running from the command line, I get: No protocol specified (gedit:30084): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 as I do when I try to run gedit in a root terminal. I hope t

Logitech G110 keyboard

2010-09-30 Thread John W Foster
I have a Logitech G110 keyboard installed on a mixed testing & unstable system. I have been searching for a driver for this gameboard for a month to no avail. I am wondering if anyone else has this board & has been able to get it to work in Linux. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: USB Device 0x0471:0x0310 (Alsa Mixer)

2010-09-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:20:07 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I am trying to understand why gnome-volume-control keeps on > displaying my webcam+mic as: USB Device 0x0471:0x0310 (Alsa Mixer) > I did check usbids and I can find the entry for 471/310. Is there > anything else need to replace th

Re: xfce4: periodic random backdrop change

2010-09-30 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Darac Marjal on 2010-09-29 04:12:18: > If you like random pictures, or want a GUI to do this, I can recommend > Wally[1] as a good wallpaper changers. It's one of the few that knows > about XFCE, too. > > [1] http://www.becrux.com/index.php?page=projects&name=wally I was bored yesterday,

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-09-30 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-09-30 23:58:58 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年09月30日 23:34, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > # If it works outdoor it's enough. No need to use indoor. > > # If it can find the 'partner' in 150 meters it's good enough. 300 meter > > even better. Longer not needed. > > In fact, consider the low r

Re: Lost keyboard in KDE 3.5.10 on Lenny.

2010-09-30 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-09-30 a las 18:03 +0100, Lisi Reisz escribió: (replying to list) > On 30 September 2010 16:42, Camaleón wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:32:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >> I have a fully updated installation of Lenny.  2 days ago my keyboard > >> suddenly stopped working.  There is

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-09-30 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:34:53 +0800 Zhang Weiwu wrote: > So if any one came across such a device can you give me a hint? > > * It should come in pair, one stick/bind on the thing to be > tracked, the other have a radar screen to find its partner. It is not > even necessary have a radar screen

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-09-30 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年09月30日 23:34, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > # If it works outdoor it's enough. No need to use indoor. > # If it can find the 'partner' in 150 meters it's good enough. 300 meter > even better. Longer not needed. In fact, consider the low requirement of the application, a simple device like this will

Re: Lost keyboard in KDE 3.5.10 on Lenny.

2010-09-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:32:43 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I have a fully updated installation of Lenny. 2 days ago my keyboard > suddenly stopped working. There is a long saga involved, but the > end-point, where I am now, is that I have established that something has > got corrupted somehow somew

[OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-09-30 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Being off-topic I don't know which place better to ask such question. I want to have a radar-like device to track moving object. It should offer me two piece of information: the angel and the distance of the object from me. I want to have the similar thing as the radar of "Conter-Strike" (in game

Lost keyboard in KDE 3.5.10 on Lenny.

2010-09-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have a fully updated installation of Lenny. 2 days ago my keyboard suddenly stopped working. There is a long saga involved, but the end-point, where I am now, is that I have established that something has got corrupted somehow somewhere in my own personal config files. Presumably somewhere in .

Re: Samsung R540 Microphone Problem

2010-09-30 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Mihira Fernando writes: > On 09/30/2010 07:40 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Mihira Fernando writes: >>> Stupid question but did you select the sound capture source and set >>> the capture volume in the sound mixer application ? I have a sound >>> card that

USB Device 0x0471:0x0310 (Alsa Mixer)

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am trying to understand why gnome-volume-control keeps on displaying my webcam+mic as: USB Device 0x0471:0x0310 (Alsa Mixer) I did check usbids and I can find the entry for 471/310. Is there anything else need to replace the usb ids with the proper name ? refs: T: Bus=05 Lev=01 P

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 05:34 +, s. keeling wrote: > Damon L. Chesser : > > For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: > > Well that's pretty damned sad. :-P I really don't get cpufreq* > myself. Methinks it's far too young software. > > > da...@dam-main:~$ sudo powernowd -d >

Re: sendmail rejected local connection

2010-09-30 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:19:03 +, T o n g wrote: > It seems to me that sendmail is not accepting local smtp connections: because of the sendmail service is not started (this is a new install). update-rc.d sendmail defaults invoke-rc.d sendmail start problem solved. -- Tong (remove unders

Re: Samsung R540 Microphone Problem

2010-09-30 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 09/30/2010 07:40 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Mihira Fernando writes: Stupid question but did you select the sound capture source and set the capture volume in the sound mixer application ? I have a sound card that uses the snd-hda-intel driver as well and had the same prob

Re: Samsung R540 Microphone Problem

2010-09-30 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Mihira Fernando writes: > Stupid question but did you select the sound capture source and set > the capture volume in the sound mixer application ? I have a sound > card that uses the snd-hda-intel driver as well and had the same > problem, only to find that in addition to the

Re: Samsung R540 Microphone Problem

2010-09-30 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 09/30/2010 07:22 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble to get mic working on this damn Samsung R540. I tried using linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (stable/lenny) and linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (backports) with no success. Then I downloaded latest alsa-driver and tried to compile it agai

Samsung R540 Microphone Problem

2010-09-30 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, I'm having trouble to get mic working on this damn Samsung R540. I tried using linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (stable/lenny) and linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (backports) with no success. Then I downloaded latest alsa-driver and tried to compile it against linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686, but this time

Re: Problems probing a LVM device with GRUB2

2010-09-30 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hello Tom, thanks again for your assistance Tom H writes: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> Tom H writes: >>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote: [...] > Since grub-probe isn't detecting your lvm setup, it's normal for > grub.cfg not to have "insmod

Re: Alias definition [Was: Re: how to configure gcc]

2010-09-30 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:41:46AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2010-09-29, David Jardine wrote: > > [...] > > You could add > > > > alias gcc='gcc -lm ' (note the last space) > > What's the significance of the last space? > > > This, as far as I remember, allows the user to continue the co

Re: Xen on Squeeze won't start

2010-09-30 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 22:51, Rippl, Steve wrote: > Well just in case someone else hits this... once my colleague > suggested I look closer at what grub2 was doing, and after more time > on Google and experimenting I came up with this... the actual xen 3.4 > hypervisor isn't being put into the gru

Alias definition [Was: Re: how to configure gcc]

2010-09-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-09-29, David Jardine wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 06:46:20PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: >> hi, >> by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c >> when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to add it to the >> default gcc, after what I don'

Re: debian lenny installation issues

2010-09-30 Thread Dan Serban
On 09/29/10 23:43, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:31:46 +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: almost six months ago, i have installed debian lenny on my machine. at the time of installation i have faced three issues : issue 1 : after configuration of dhcp server, it will ask for domain name

installing grub on a RAID1

2010-09-30 Thread lee
Hi, I'm moving my system partitions from an old IDE disk to a RAID1 made of two disks. The RAID1 has been created directly on the physical disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). The RAID1 is partitioned as follows: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/md127p1

Re: Problem installing mount in Sid amd64!

2010-09-30 Thread smurfd
Hey again, Problem "solved". One thing led to another, and i had to reinstall my machine. Couldnt get it booted again, after my force-shutdown. Grub was fscked... Forcing it down after 200+ uptime is no good, And especially just not have unstable but also has Experimental packages installed. DOH!

Re: usefulness of kernel option: RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing

2010-09-30 Thread lee
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:05:46PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, lee wrote: > > how useful is enabling > > > >RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing > > > > in the kernel configuration? > > It does get faster. But is it the bottleneck in your system? D