Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-16 Thread Daniel Johnson
Trying it out now with a noburn option with a .dar file size limit. See if this works. Am I correct to assume that it will fill the first one, burn it while filling the next one, remove it after burning/verifying and continue until done/disk is full? I had never thought of burning the DVD multis

Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-06-16 Thread Daniel Johnson
Twice now I have found emacs21 display squares instead of fonts after doing an update in Sid, and once they were fixed by an update. It seems that it is either an update to X, or some fonts package that breaks things rather than emacs. I believe both times that it broke apt was updating both X,

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 5/1/06, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a >hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. > >DAR: >http://dar.linux.free.fr/ > >DARomizer: >http://www.catherders.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1 > Thanks, that soun

Re: Totem-gstreamer still not working

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 6/13/06, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, I have a fresh install of sarge stable and am trying to get totem to work. The only totem-gstreamer I have gotten to work well on debian is the one that came out in sid around two weeks ago. Every version before that was broken in some wa

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Daniel Johnson
There are other tools for managing software that are front ends to apt. I primarily use aptitude. It is powerful interactive, and available from the command line. It will take some learning though so you will need to read a significant part of the manual to use it effectively. synaptic is pro

many segfaults scrolled by when updating with aptitude now X won't start

2006-02-17 Thread Daniel Johnson
Last night I was doing a long overdue update on a system I use mostly for learning. Many things must have gone horribly wrong during the update as a result of all of the segfaults, but aptitude seemed to think it was a success. I'm not sure what all is broken, but I know that X for sure is broken

Re: [OT] Radeon, anyone?

2005-08-11 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 8/11/05, Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I'm trying to make use the TVout of my Radeon 9200 SE.I googled a bit and (seem to have) installed the ATI proprietary driver. I the 9200 is the last chip made by ATI that has full open source driver support IIRC.  You might need the atitvout, or gat

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-26 Thread Daniel Johnson
> It contains equivalent functionality to LVM and more. It makes me wonder whether it actually uses LVM, or has an independentimplementation. >From my understanding at one point they were competing technologies, and used different kernel modifications to achieve their goals, but now they are coo

Re: MythTV

2005-06-30 Thread Daniel Johnson
Also, I don't know if this is a factor or not, but most of the channels I want to record are digital cable (that includes BBC America, Sci-Fi and manyothers).  I don't know if Myth TV or any other homebrew system handles digital cable signals. Many HDTV capable tuners can also handle digital cable.

Re: MythTV

2005-06-29 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 6/29/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday June 29 2005 10:38 am, Matt Price wrote:> just curious -- how much do you figure on spending for this> project? I'm interested in MythTV too, but it seems quite expensive> to build one's own box compared e.g. to buyint a tivo.  am I

Re: DRM failure with ATI radeon 9200 and Kernel 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Johnson
> I love reading docs*, but *which* docs do you mean? Maybe you meant man XF86Config-4?  That does seemto cover the options for the Device block.  Anyway, that's what I'm reading now.Oops sorry, yeah that was the one I meant.  There are also docs for the various drivers.  So I think "man radeon" wi

Re: Re: MythTV

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Johnson
You'll need the frontend software for the TV sets. There is software to turn an XBox into a Myth Frontend so you could use that. But basically,you need something with a tv-out. Since it will be doing the decoding, you might need some meaty power. As I said before, HDTV will need atleast 2.8Ghz, "no

Re: DRM failure with ATI radeon 9200 and Kernel 2.6

2005-06-26 Thread Daniel Johnson
Well, I suppose, but this is all automatic.  To my knowledge, I haven'tspecified it anywhere.  One thing bothers me a little --- this is an AGP card, why is the bus id a PCI specification?  Is that part normal? I think there might be an autoconfiguration script that creates the config file with the

Re: Getting rid of "holds" on packages

2005-06-26 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 6/26/05, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hold back a package is deprecated. I had used it in the past becasue "pinning"prevented notification of updates that might have fixed the problem. How do Iget rid of these "hold" flags? (They persist and also foul up Kpackage's UI.) With Aptitude

Re: DRM failure with ATI radeon 9200 and Kernel 2.6

2005-06-26 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 6/26/05, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello!Hardware acceleration (DRI) is not working with my ATI Radeon 9200 cardon a fresh install of Debian Sarge (3.1), using the AMD 64 build of Kernel 2.6. I have a radeon 8500, and it works with  a fresh install of  sarge with a  2.6.8 kernel. 

Re: 2.6.12.1 kernel won't compile in fresh sarge install

2005-06-26 Thread Daniel Johnson
>What are the error messages? unfortunately I rebooted between when I got the errors, and when I posted.  It  seems that I managed  to  install  whatever  it  needed in the meantime because  my  last  attempt  worked though it  got a  kernel  panic when I tried to boot to it.  I really don't know

Re: possibility of debian "cannabilizing" other Linux distributions in 5-10 years time

2005-06-26 Thread Daniel Johnson
On 6/26/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dominik Margraf wrote:>Also, the possible release of Etch in Q4 of 2006 (Do you think this>timeframe is likely?) will coincide with the release of the M*Shit>Longhorn and how much share of the Windows market can be snatched by >Linux?>>My p

2.6.12.1 kernel won't compile in fresh sarge install

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel Johnson
I apologise if this ends up on the list twice, but I posted it over an hour ago, and it is on the website, but not in my inbox which seems to indicate that it never really made it to the list.  I've been trying to compile a vanilla 2.6.12.1 kernel because it has native drivers for my pchdtv [1]

2.6.12.1 kernel won't compile in fresh sarge install

2005-06-25 Thread Daniel Johnson
I've been trying to compile a vanilla 2.6.12.1 kernel because it has native drivers for my pchdtv [1] card that are not in 2.6.11.  When running make it gets pages of errors under drivers/char/drm/ eventually giving me a failure message.  I've tried both with using one of the debian configure files