Re: Kernel only seeing 2TB of an 8TB disk

2025-03-11 Thread Christopher David Howie
firmware bugs. We need more info from OP, which Alexander requested and OP has not yet replied to. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Christopher David Howie
kdev(8) command. This doesn't seem like "readonly does the wrong thing" so much as "you should know what things do before you use them." -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular ba

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
ess model is *slimy as hell* and I cannot in good conscience support them in any way. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preference

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/7/25 11:49 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I believe all the major browsers are using Manifest v3 nowadays. Most support Mv3 now, but AFAIK only Chrome has actually disabled Mv2 support. All of my Mv2 extensions continue to work on Firefox. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
ture being backed up is designed to recover from that scenario. ext4 with a journal certainly qualifies. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
images using the original as a backing image, which will redirect writes to the higher layer, leaving the original image untouched. Semantically the same as making a copy but without wasting a bunch of space.) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazyc

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-09 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 6/9/2020 5:39 AM, Nicolas George wrote: How do you add "status=progress" to a process that has already been running for three days? You can't, of course. I was merely suggesting using this in future invocations. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wik

Re: How long will this take?

2020-06-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 6/8/2020 11:01 PM, David Wright wrote: I, too, determine progress with # kill -USR1 I'd suggest simply adding "status=progress" which gives you a summary every second including bytes written, elapsed time, and average transfer rate. -- Chris Howie http://www.chri

Re: USB HDD issue with buster-backports kernel

2020-06-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 6/8/2020 10:56 AM, Christopher David Howie wrote: > * On the 5.5 kernel, I was getting throughput between 10MB/sec and > 20MB/sec. At apparently random points, dd would stop reporting any > progress and a "usb-storage" process in top would be consuming 100% > CPU. An

Re: USB HDD issue with buster-backports kernel

2020-06-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 6/8/2020 11:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > What about dmesg? Sorry, yes... I forgot to mention. dmesg was absolutely silent when the drive stopped responding. After unplugging it, I of course got a flood of errors from dm-crypt about being unable to write to the disk. -- Chris Howie h

Re: Firefox over JACK in Debian Testing

2020-06-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
sinks as your system can handle and use the PA volume control application to switch audio streams between different PA sinks (and therefore JACK sources). Then you can wire everything up on the JACK side, as usual. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazy

USB HDD issue with buster-backports kernel

2020-06-08 Thread Christopher David Howie
0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.5.17-1~bpo10+1 (2020-04-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ PGP fingerp

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

2019-11-02 Thread Christopher David Howie
anged data (preventing corruption/loss of data already copied off-site). The remote system also syncs its local copy to B2, so I have three geographically-distributed copies. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a reg

Re: question about network connections

2019-10-26 Thread Christopher David Howie
ire packets. Of course, if you don't need the whole payload then this might not matter. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferen

Re: GRUB not applying Intel Microcode?

2019-10-23 Thread Christopher David Howie
hooks/intel_microcode script is responsible for adding the appropriate update files, scripts, and tools to the initrd. > 1. Is microcode getting applied? If you have this package installed and have rebooted since the last microcode update, then almost certainly. -- Chris Howie http:/

Re: dropbear-initramfs possible with open-iscsi during boot, using different NICs? [SOLVED]

2019-10-23 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 10/22/2019 12:22 PM, Christopher David Howie wrote: >> In a way, yes, but the kernel commandline is unsuitable for this. >> What you need is a init-premount script (see initramfs-tools(7)) which >> configures either second or both NICs with "ip" from busybox or >

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-23 Thread Christopher David Howie
ayed here so you can go back and change your mind if you want to do guided partitioning after entering the manual editor. All of your disks and existing partitions are displayed here; if a disk is empty, select it and press enter to create a partition table. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

2019-10-22 Thread Christopher David Howie
On October 22, 2019 9:17:15 PM UTC, elvis wrote: >Raid is really simple, till something goes wrong :-) I reckon most data > >loss is from people taking wrong options to fix things from >inexperience >rather than raid losing the data. Also from the wrong assumption that RAID levels with redundanc

Re: Signs of hard drive failure?

2019-10-22 Thread Christopher David Howie
eeing these indications of failure in the smartctl output? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ PGP fingerprint: 2B7A B280 8B1

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-22 Thread Christopher David Howie
ng in the text-mode installer. The option to do partitioning manually is among the guided options, you just have to select it. See the attached screenshot. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please

Re: dropbear-initramfs possible with open-iscsi during boot, using different NICs?

2019-10-22 Thread Christopher David Howie
configures either second or both NICs with "ip" from busybox or > "udhcpc". Thanks for this pointer. I'll set up a scratch VM to experiment with these tools. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond w

dropbear-initramfs possible with open-iscsi during boot, using different NICs?

2019-10-21 Thread Christopher David Howie
rd to accomplish this? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ PGP fingerprint: 2B7A B280 8B12 21CC 260A DF65 6FCE 505A CF83

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade (SOLVED)

2019-09-11 Thread Christopher David Howie
has already been reported there: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=913062 Perhaps the problem is hardware-specific. It doesn't seem like everyone has this problem, so there must be something our systems all have in common to trigger this. -- Chris Howie http://www.ch

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

2019-09-11 Thread Christopher David Howie
.cgi?bug=913062 -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ PGP fingerprint: 2B7A B280 8B12 21CC 260A DF65 6FCE 505A C

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade

2019-09-10 Thread Christopher David Howie
t the same problem. I resolved this issue by removing light-locker and installing xscreensaver instead. Note that this required removing a few metapackages, and then marking the dependent packages that I wanted to keep as manually installed to prevent apt from removing most of my deskt

Re: System freeze during boot with nvidia GPU on jessie

2014-03-24 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 03/23/2014 10:31 PM, Christopher David Howie wrote: > I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 card, and I've been unable to get this > card working correctly in jessie, including even booting the system > after installing. > > The system hangs at "Waiting for /dev to be

System freeze during boot with nvidia GPU on jessie

2014-03-23 Thread Christopher David Howie
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel -8<----- -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers If you correspond with me on a regular basis, please read this document: http://www.chrishowie.com/email-preferences/ PGP f

Re: ath5k-based card not working

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Howie
/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00955.html I didn't know madwifi was non-free... ? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ath5k-based card not working

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Howie
do to power it up, but I have no clue what. Hints? I am running 2.6.26-1-amd64. According to the HCL this card should work since 2.6.25. Thanks, -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Palm not being identified (no ttyUSB* being created)

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Howie
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks: > > A few days ago my Palm (Tungsten T) was syncing just fine using > gnome-pilot, and today it simply will not. I've tried a myriad of > things, from rebooting Linux to soft rese

Re: Palm not being identified (no ttyUSB* being created)

2008-04-08 Thread Chris Howie
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Mumia W.. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having problems syncing my Palm TX. I started using kernel 2.6.24 > > (under Etch), and I see that the

Re: Palm not being identified (no ttyUSB* being created)

2008-04-08 Thread Chris Howie
n successfully talk to it using "-p usb:" but gpilotd cannot -- in fact it cannot seem to talk to it no matter what device I use (ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, pilot, usb:). -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Palm not being identified (no ttyUSB* being created)

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Howie
he Palm. udevmonitor.txt - One connect/disconnect while running udevmonitor. Tips are very appreciated; I have a few files I need to install on it soon. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and addre

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Howie
ol...so I could remote login using SSH and > look at some passwords that I have forgotten. > > Any ideas? vim + encfs. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Howie
ooted and built the module for the new kernel. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: Change default directory in a package

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Howie
tool for this work ? The only mechanism I can think of would be to download the source package and reconfigure it with a different prefix. This can break other packages that depend on it, however. Generally you should not ever need to do this anyway. -- Chris Howie http://www

Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 13, 2008 1:56 PM, Amogh Hooshdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forgot to mention that I use Debian AMD 64 bit. Is this the cause of > the problem? Yes it is. Sun has still not distributed a Java browser plugin for 64-bit on any OS. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrisho

Re: Getting older debian packages

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Howie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://snapshot.debian.net/package/glibc -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Howie
right to me. Scope doesn't change in a loop. All > of this code is in the same scope, so the print statement will work > fine. > Try again. 8< $ perl -le 'my $last = 1; while (true) { my $last = 2; last; } print $last;' 1 8< -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Howie
entical to "my" except that you *can* reach that variable from other packages. A "my" declaration inside of a function just limits the scope and lifetime of the variable to that function. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: Etch: emacs or emac21?

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Howie
(Resending to the list. Sorry for the duplicate, Rodolfo.) On Jan 10, 2008 11:18 AM, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 10:58 AM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'. Now in Etch we h

Weird keymapping going on with VNC

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Howie
ard scancodes somewhere, which would explain why 5 acts like backspace if keyboard scancodes are based on position instead of the ASCII chart. (I must admit my ignorance on the topic.) However, this idea does not make sense given that "a" registers correctly in every situation I ha

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 9, 2008 10:04 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to place the last line read > when reading from a file? My suspicion is there > is no such thing but i do want to confirm.. > What do you mean by "place?" -- Chris Howie ht

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
a question is not > easy. > Noted. (I usually do this, though I am admittedly a bit lazy today.) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
ing a certain lightness to the topic. Apparently that did not work, but holy crap man... did you think I was making fun of you or something? On Jan 9, 2008 3:03 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 January 2008 19:58, Chris Howie wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
given to a similar site has eaten over 3,200 messages since the same date, which is ~4 per day. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
; > Thanks in advance. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 8, 2008 2:32 PM, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it's time to revisit the idea of allowing only members to post? > Or people could stop talking about it and get back to their lives, since it was fixed some hours ago. -- Chris Howie http://www.ch

Re: DVD image download issue Opera, Konqueror, and Firefox/iceweasel

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
it i > did not check all the mirrors, though stopping at the > same spot is certianly odd > Jigdo? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 8, 2008 10:45 AM, Joel Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, it hasn't. I've continued getting them right up until I sent the > unsubscribe message. > About 20 minutes ago this was posted: http://cord.de/blog/index.php?entry=entry080108-144

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
rganizers can > implement some anti-spam measures, I'll be happy to join again in the > future. There's no reason for this quantity of spam to be making it through > on a mailing list. > It's already been fixed. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
d blame you if you unsubscribed until the spam stops. I considered doing the same thing but really it doesn't take that much time to flag the spam, and this is the only list I'm on that seems to be getting hit this hard (or at least the only list that lets this much through). -- Chris Howie ht

Re: Archiuves for debian-user missing?

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
; Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian > http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, > on-line books and sceptical articles) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] &g

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 7, 2008 4:09 PM, Quincy Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spam here too! > > I notice no spam in the Ubuntu users list maybe they have a better filter? > Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! :) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Howie
have probably flagged the same messages too, causing gmail to retroactively classify them as spam for you. (Maybe, not sure if that's how their filter works, but it'd be cool.) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: ttys1 displaying odd output

2008-01-06 Thread Chris Howie
rstanding the meaning of this output > Maybe the cat got loose while that VT was active? Just kidding... kinda. Anyway, those also look suspiciously like console escape sequences for e.g. changing color, clearing the screen, and whatnot. `man console_codes`. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: chown all files on a data drive

2008-01-05 Thread Chris Howie
7;m not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish. If you want everyone to have access to the drive you can do something like: # chown -R root:root /share/other # chmod -R o+rwX /share/other If you only want your user account to have access then something like: # chown -R youruser /share/o

Re: strange Shorewall entry

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Howie
:8030/ It could also have been a browser plugin, JavaScript... who knows. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: libqt3c102-mt

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Howie
;libqt-mt", so any > Idea How this problem can be resolved ? > > Thank you in advance, > Gustavo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Howie
] > > > > and those need legacy 96xx driver, so no bumping... > > Well, you're screwed. I see three options: > 1. Use nv. > 2. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130039 > 3. Use the console. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is w

Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 4, 2008 11:18 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Howie wrote: > > And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why closed source drivers suck. :) > > But economically speaking, while sucking, I go look for the GeForce 6200 > cards and shell out about $

Re: strange Shorewall entry

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Howie
008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 255 -8<- Maybe their download server runs on an alternate port? (Though I cannot seem to telnet to this server on 8030 or 80.) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Re: X11 not displaying clearly

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Howie
to fonts at all, since bitmaps are being drawn with the same effect. It looks suspiciously like someone is setting a stencil that everything gets drawn with. (Not saying that's what it is, but that's really what comes to mind.) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers

Xen doesn't boot on sarge

2006-10-13 Thread Chris Howie
86 root=/dev/hda1 ro console=tty0 module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-xen-686 savedefault Working non-Xen entry: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.17-2-686 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17

Re: apt-get fails through broken proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Chris Howie
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I just wonder if anyone has a possible workaround on > my end, before giving up. Maybe you can tunnel out with ssh? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a-->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Howie
Dirk wrote: > Chris Howie wrote: >>If you want an answer, ask, don't attack. It sounds like trolling. >> >>Now fuck off. > > I get "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" > when I log into my ftp server. > > It worke

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Howie
appen on a release that can be skipped if you directly upgrade from a testing distribution to a newer testing distribution. At least it did a fair job of nuking my box. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> U

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Howie
don't attack. It sounds like trolling. Now fuck off. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--)

Re: X freezes after switching back from a VT

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Howie
Chris Howie wrote: > The output of `lspci -v` is attached. Or not. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)

X freezes after switching back from a VT

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Howie
is locked. (Things are still running, because I can ssh in, but X doesn't even respond to SIGKILL.) The output of `lspci -v` is attached. Googling on the video card does not seem to yield any information on this problem. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Howie
27;re done unmount and > watch Linux throw it all on! Unless you're like me, and you're mounting a volume to put one large file on it and actually want to see a progress bar while the thing writes so you can go do something else. (That was a lot of clauses.) -- Chris Howie http:/

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Howie
ware. Can I do that while etch is in freeze? I would highly recommend leaving your sources.list pointing at etch until after the freeze is over, then point at testing. Upgrading across releases (for that is what will happen if you track testing) can cause some bizarre problems now and then. --

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Howie
mode. Is there a reason you cannot use scp? Even with an old 766MHz I was able to image a 10gb hard drive with a chain of 'cat | ssh "cat > file"' in around a half hour over 100mbit. If you set up ssh keys you won't need a password and can thus automate it if required

Re: apache-ant deb package ?

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Howie
Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: > is there an apache-ant deb package ? couldnt find with apt-cache search :'( That's because it's just called ant. apt-cache search apache ant apt-get install ant -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3

Re: Watch out! In Etch, apt-get upgrade breaks KDE on every machine I upgraded...

2006-02-20 Thread Chris Howie
s well. Note that you'll want to unhold libxft2 (echo libxft2 install | dpkg --set-selections) after this is fixed. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o+

TwinView dead space -- restrict cursor?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Howie
the meta modes, and this is what X sees as the display size. But is there a way to keep the cursor from entering the dead space? Possibly with a release key combination (e.g. holding Shift while moving the mouse would allow it to enter dead space). -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -

Re: Modifying the title of a Firefox window?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Howie
s where someone is logged in, their name, what WM/DE they are running, etc -- even for the console VTs. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Howie
Chris Howie wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > >>After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping >>the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and >>ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. > > > Welcome to the

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Howie
e symptoms I've been having. Try booting the kernel with the "noapic nolapic" parameters. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(-

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Howie
acpi' but that does nothing. =( -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--) b- DI+> D++ G>+++ e

Re: Any way to play AAC streams?

2006-02-07 Thread Chris Howie
rick? I'm running Sid with > everything up to date. I find the easiest way to play those is to convert them to WAVs with faad, then to something more suitable, like Ogg Vorbis. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--

Re: vi trying to connect to X

2006-02-06 Thread Chris Howie
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I think vim is trying to change the title of the Konsole window to > Vim. Setting the title is done through escape codes, not X: echo -e '\033]2;Hello, World!\a' -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS

Re: vi trying to connect to X

2006-02-06 Thread Chris Howie
Karsten M. Self wrote: > You've apparently got the gvim variant of vim installed, and it may be > doing stupid things presuming it's got an X display active. vim tries to connect X for access to the X clipboard. :help x11-selection -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com

Re: module load sequence

2006-02-02 Thread Chris Howie
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Chris Howie escribe: > >>Lei Kong wrote: >> >>>How do I make sure ide_generic module is loaded before libata and >>>ata_piix? I need to do this on my thinkpad z60t, because the dvd rom >>>won't be recognize

Re: module load sequence

2006-02-01 Thread Chris Howie
Lei Kong wrote: > How do I make sure ide_generic module is loaded before libata and > ata_piix? I need to do this on my thinkpad z60t, because the dvd rom > won't be recognized otherwise. echo ide_generic >> /etc/modules -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -B

Re: k3b in etch?

2006-02-01 Thread Chris Howie
to testing. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--) b- DI+> D++ G>+++ e>++ h(--)>--

Re: nForce AC97 equalizer

2006-02-01 Thread Chris Howie
lizer settings. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--) b- DI+> D++ G>+++ e>++ h(

Re: /dev/sequencer, 2.6.15, CMI8738

2006-02-01 Thread Chris Howie
s even dumber. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--) b- DI+> D++ G>+++ e>++ h(--)>--- !r

Re: /dev/sequencer, 2.6.15, CMI8738

2006-02-01 Thread Chris Howie
one and actually renders the file in software and gives the card the wave. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)

Re: /var becomes read-only every day

2006-01-31 Thread Chris Howie
Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Every day /var (which is on its own partition) becomes read-only. If /var is on a separate partition and is mounted with '-o errors=remount-ro' then check dmesg and see if some error is triggering the remount. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BE

Re: Kernel Source

2006-01-31 Thread Chris Howie
install the NVidia drivers after doing all of the above...? That's what m-a does. You just have to reconfigure X, which is what the dpkg-reconfigure is for. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL

Re: Kernel Source

2006-01-31 Thread Chris Howie
r can I not download the 2.6.x kernel source > via apt...? Again, you only need the headers. # apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) module-assistant # m-a a-i nvidia # apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings # modprobe nvidia # echo nvidia >> /etc/modules # dpkg-reconfigure xse

Re: Azureus and the TCP port 6881

2006-01-31 Thread Chris Howie
ntional (it's happened before). -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--) b- DI+> D++ G>+++ e&g

Re: Azureus and the TCP port 6881

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Howie
John Hasler wrote: > Chris Howie writes: >>Watch ISPs try to filter that. The TLS/SSL wrapper keeps them from >>filtering by analyzing the protocol. > > They may simply block anything they can't analyze. That's a recipie for disaster for any ISP -- they

Re: Azureus and the TCP port 6881

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Howie
oughly the same schedule. Watch ISPs try to filter that. The TLS/SSL wrapper keeps them from filtering by analyzing the protocol. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o+

nForce AC97 equalizer

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Howie
media controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d0) :02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+

Re: Azureus and the TCP port 6881

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Howie
(some implementations of passive FTP, for example). It also makes p2p traffic more difficult to track (though still relatively simple). -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E

Re: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Howie
Read the mailing list signature and save yourself the hassle and us the meaningless messages. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE

Re: Azureus and the TCP port 6881

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Howie
our router/modem and make sure it's forwarding the port to your machine. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5?

Re: Xvnc giving errors after kernel upgrade

2006-01-28 Thread Chris Howie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Chris Howie said: >>Fatal server error: >>could not open default font 'fixed' > > Well, obvious question; is the fixed font somewhere on your system? If > so, can Xvnc find it? I mean if the server's giving a clear indication

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