nvidia 6800 GS Random Choppy Performance

2006-06-20 Thread Andrew Nelson
Hello all, I have a EVGA 6800 GS video card that doesn't seem to be working correctly. Here's the symtoms. 1. System runs perfectly fine for a bit. 2. Some random moment in time later everything becomes very choppy. 3. Start up a 3d app like ppracer or glxgears. (for just a second or two) 4 2D

Re: xorg upgrade error

2006-05-02 Thread Andrew Nelson
Tim wrote: > Andrew Nelson wrote: > > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365282 >> >> I was able to fix this problem by getting the deb source, applying the >> patch and building the deb and finally installing the newly build deb. >> >&g

Re: xorg upgrade error

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Nelson
Tim wrote: > I'm getting the following error after a recent apt-get upgrade: > > xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 > (Reading database ... 103577 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 1:7.0.1 > (using .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.

Re: nvidia module and 2.6.16 kernel problem

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew Nelson
H.S. wrote: > I have installed the new 2.6.16 kernel on two machines running Debian > Sid and tried to install nvidia module. On both machines, the module > compilation (using module-assistant) fails with some error messages > (IIRC there was some error about rlim structure not being defined). > >

possible to set nolisten on dhclient

2006-02-07 Thread Andrew Nelson
Hello, I'm running a workstation that uses dhcp to gets it's ip address. Everything works fine but I'm hate open ports. Is it possible to tell dhclient to not listen on udp 68? I have a firewall blocking the port already but like a say I hate open ports and I don't think this one need to be ope

xterm not dealing with long lines of typing correctly

2006-01-25 Thread Andrew Nelson
Hello all, Recently I've noticed my xterm's doesn't seem to be handling line wrapping of commands correctly. Instead of wrapping to a new line the characters start wrapping back on the current line. Does anyone have any idea what I need to do to fix this? Thanks much //andy -- To UNSUBSCRIB

alien and --patch

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Nelson
Hello all, I'm creating .debs of the oracle-xe rpm. Currently I'm able to create a .deb package by asking alien to generate (--generate) the package directory, modifying the oracle scripts to work with debian, and then running debian/rules binary within the alien generated directory. This all wo

Install package from oldstable.

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Nelson
Hello all, I run unstable, but I need a package from oldstable to get an older version of java running. libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 This package is only available in oldstable. I know I can download the deb and install with dpkg but I was wondering if there was a way to get the package using apt. I

Re: Mounting an iPod via USB

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew Nelson
Josh Battles wrote: > I've got an iPod that I'd like to use and for the life of me I can't figure > out how to mount the thing. > > I'm running Sarge and have the debian package for gtkpod installed, as well > as USB support compiled into my kernel (2.4.27). I've never used a USB > device under l

Re: books/doc for programmers and sysadmin on a debian system

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew Nelson
anoop aryal wrote: > is anyone aware of books/doc about how best to: > > 1) manage source-code (not just in a CVS/subversion but, how do you lay it > out > so that managing multiple projects is easy) > > 2) do .deb packaging easily. > > 3) manage package repos easily. > > 4) etc.. > > i have

Re: How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-21 Thread Andrew Nelson
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:06:33 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I setup some environment variables needed by applications in > > user .bash files. Starting these applications from a console works > > fine. But starting these applications

Re: shorewall post-int hangs on sarge

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew Nelson
On 18 Oct 2005 13:36:18 -0700 "Colin Ingram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use sarge and when I recently tried to install the most recent > update to shorewall( v2.2.3-2) my system hangs when trying to > configure shorewall. ps shows the postins script zombified. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps axfw

Re: hosts.deny doesn't work for web services

2005-10-17 Thread Andrew Nelson
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:32:34 +0200 Nikolai Hlubek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone :-) > > On one of my machines I'm running a zope server. This server should > only be accessible from my LAN so I set: > > hosts.deny > ALL: ALL > > The hosts.deny manual states: > This denies all servic

Re: removing a module

2005-10-14 Thread Andrew Nelson
does not > work. > > > What is the standard method to remove a module ? > > I always like modconf. Nice simple curses interface. It also handles the cruft to keep the module from loading on the next boot. Hope this helps. //andy -- Andrew Nelson Software Engineer INT, INC,

Re: kernel 2.6 compile error

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Nelson
Wackojacko wrote: > >> gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-2) >> g++ (GCC) 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-2) >> GNU Make 3.80 >> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6 > > > This is your problem, the new versions of GCC wont compile the current > Kernel sources in Debian. You can > > 1. Change the top level MAKEFILE i

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-22 Thread Andrew Nelson
John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Nelson writes: > >>Although it seems this is far more difficult that it should be to remove >>all non "." file from the output of ls. Does any one know of a better >>way? > > > ls -lad .* I knew I was making things way to

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-22 Thread Andrew Nelson
Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew Nelson wrote: > >>Andrew Nelson wrote >> >>>I have no idea what the cause might be but I guess you could do something >>>like >>> >>>ls -la | awk '$9 ~ /^\./ {print}' >>> >>>Althou

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nelson wrote > > I have no idea what the cause might be but I guess you could do something like > > ls -la | awk '$9 ~ /^\./ {print}' > > Although you would then loose colors. > You could also do something along these lines. ls -lda `ls -a1 | awk 

Re: For the love of GOD!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Andrew Nelson
Dirk wrote: > Who is responsible for "ls -la" _mixing_ hidden "dot"-files with normal > files in the output? > > I wan't to salute that decision. > > I use unstable. > > I grepped a lot but was unable to find the cause. > I have no idea what the cause might be but I guess you could do somethin

Re: Kernel and compiler version?

2005-07-21 Thread Andrew Nelson
Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > Is there way to find out what version of gcc it was compiled > with? 'uname -a' does not tell the gcc info. There is probably a better way but this works. dmesg | head -1 //andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew Nelson
Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi users of 'unstable' Debian: > The included messages was posted to the debian-devel mailing list. It > outlines some of the issues with the upcomming transition from gimpprint > to gutenprint. I want to know if this kind of messages would be useful to > other > users of 'unst

Re: xorg and nvidia drivers and removal of gdm etc.

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew Nelson
H. S. wrote: > I am trying to fully convert to Xorg in a Sid machine in my home > network. The problem is something to do with nvidia-glx, which upon > trying to be installed complains: I've been experiencing the same problem. This morning I updated and nvidia-glx dependencies seem to be fixed.

Re: Networked sound

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Nelson
Anders Breindahl wrote: > Hi, > > I am very eager to establish some sort of networked sound. By that I refer to > having my sound applications output on a different host on the LAN. > Before I start hacking away at it, I would like to know if some of you have > made it work. Any easy entry-point