Re: Radeon driver and Xfree86

2006-08-13 Thread Nick Wright
> I too have been experiencing "lock ups" every so often, but I don't > think it's because of my graphics card (ATI Rage 128 Pro). With me it > happens a while after I leave xmms playing a bunch of mp3's (by then > xscreensaver has been active for a while). Sometimes the music will > just st

Radeon driver and Xfree86

2006-08-12 Thread Nick Wright
Hi All, I have been using the proprietary driver from ATI to run my radeon 9600 in a dual-screen setup. Unfortuantely the computer occasionally locks up (no kernel panic or anything helpful to go on here). I realise there are any number of reasons (hardware, software) that might be the cause of t

Re: Exim4 does not respond to some hosts

2006-08-01 Thread Nick Wright
> > > > (1) rfc1413_hosts and rfc1413_query_timeout (for ident > > calls). Firewalls sometimes block ident connections so that they > > time out, instead of refusing them immediately. This can cause > > this problem. See Q5023 for a discussion of the usefulness of > > ident. >

Exim4 does not respond to some hosts

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Wright
Hi, I'm having issue with my mail server (exim4) recieveing incoming connections from certain hosts. When telnetting to my machine on port 25 from the particular problem host I get: Escape character is '^]'. The EXIM banner never shows (after waiting 5 minutes the connection gets closed due to

USB / ipod kernel driver crash

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Wright
Hi, I've just hooked up an ipod to my USB port and I get the following in /var/log/messages, and subsequent disabling of all USB ports until reboot (see below..) I googled around a bit and found a few posts suggesting kernel bugs were to blame. My first approach will be to upgrade from a 2.6.8 ke

Re: Fluxbox + Firefox slow

2006-07-22 Thread Nick Wright
> What video driver are you using? are you sure its "nv" ? check you > /etc/X11/xorg.conf or XF86-config4 file. if you using the generic "vesa" > driver then that slow browsing would happen for sure. it doesn't always > have 2d accelleration from what i have seen. thats why its generic. > hope t

Fluxbox + Firefox slow

2006-07-22 Thread Nick Wright
I use fluxbox as my window manager. Its pretty sweet for most stuff -- light and fast. However when scrolling around in firefox the system is brought to its knees (CPU load spikes to 80-90%). This also happens quite a bit when altering the focus between firefox and other windows. I use a focus-on-

Re: small GTK "Open file" dialog

2006-07-21 Thread Nick Wright
> Hi! > > I have a little cosmetical problem but it is annoying. By default my > GTK2 standard dialogs (open, save, ...) are very small. Is there any > configuration file where I can set those dimensions? > Yeah I have a simmilar thing I think.. When I go to save stuff from firefox it gives me a

Re: apt-cdrom on iso mount

2006-07-21 Thread Nick Wright
> Why not? > Are you saying you never actually burned the CD image? > > (the Packages file is not in the expected place, etc -- please > > correct me if I'm wrong about this!). > > FWIW; the protocol is "file:///" _not_ "file://" Well I burned the DVD but I dont want to use it :P I had another

Re: Can't ping

2006-07-20 Thread Nick Wright
> > check the route tables too > > route -n: > 84.60.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 > 0.0.0.0

Re: apt-cdrom on iso mount

2006-07-20 Thread Nick Wright
> >I'm having some trouble getting apt to use a mounted .iso image on my > >hdd. > >[...] > >I now have this in my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > >deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 > >(20060419)]/ unstable contrib main > >[...] > >Media Change: Please insert the dis

apt-cdrom on iso mount

2006-07-20 Thread Nick Wright
I'm having some trouble getting apt to use a mounted .iso image on my hdd. I've set it up in my /etc/fstab as: /root/debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso /mnt/deb_iso1 iso9660 loop,ro 0 0 and then ran the following # apt-cdrom -d /mnt/deb_iso1 -m add Using CD-ROM mount point /mnt/deb_iso1/ Identifying

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-01 Thread Nick Wright
Ok, I was actually running ssh with the -X option and it wasn't working then either. I've noticed that when I ssh to the box in question I get this message: Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding. The display variable is not being set either. Exporting the display variable manually does wo

x-forwarding with ssh

2002-02-28 Thread Nick Wright
Hi there. Currently when I try to run X apps via an ssh login I get the error message xterm Xt error: Can't open display: Is this a problem with ssh and my x-forwarding? if so, how do you change the x-forwarding options in ssh? if not, what is the problem and how do I fix it? :) thanks, Nic