Re: [process priority] Questions about re/nice

2005-12-22 Thread belbo
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] >> >> > > $ alias mplayer="nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer" > > Or a script. > > As to whether this may cause prolems with starving other processes, > I don't know. Certainly, if possible, another solution is preferable. > > Mike I've already considered this soluti

[process priority] Questions about re/nice

2005-12-22 Thread belbo
ility increasing priority of foreground processes? I can't find other solutions to my audio skipping problem. Thank you in advance, Belbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-20 Thread belbo
Thomas Jollans wrote: > belbo wrote: > > >>Peter Nuttall wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote: >>> >>> >> >>[...] >> >> >> >>>>Yes, my Xorg has -10 prior

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-19 Thread belbo
Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote: [...] >>Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnome is quite slow even with -10. X How >>can >>I put value down? Which value can I try? Does it make any sense increase >>player >>priority?

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-18 Thread belbo
Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:26:22PM +0100, belbo wrote: > [...] > The only thing that springs to mind is that you might have X niced to > some value like 10 and its stealing too much cpu time. renice can fix > this. Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnom

[audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-18 Thread belbo
can I try? Thanks, bye, Belbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HDD problem] Strange remount read-only

2005-11-26 Thread belbo
Bruno Buys wrote: > belbo wrote: > >> Bruno Buys wrote: >> >> >>> belbo wrote: >>> >> >> [...] >> >> [...] >> I did "fsck.ext3 -c /dev/hdb5". It finds many badblock, but it is >> useless. How >> c

Re: [HDD problem] Strange remount read-only

2005-11-26 Thread belbo
Bruno Buys wrote: > belbo wrote: [...] >> >> >> journal_bmap: journal block not found at offset 5132 on hdb5 >> Aborting journal on device hdb5. >> __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data >> journal commit I/O error >> ext

[HDD problem] Strange remount read-only

2005-11-26 Thread belbo
Hi guys, I've got this problem 4-5 times a day. My kernel 2.6 sends this message about an ext3 partition (of 60GB): journal_bmap: journal block not found at offset 5132 on hdb5 Aborting journal on device hdb5. __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data journal commit I/O error ext3_

[gnome] Nautilus freezes

2005-11-26 Thread belbo
runtime ii nautilus 2.10.1-5 file manager and graphical shell for GNOME ii nautilus-data 2.10.1-5 data files for nautilus Thanks and bye, belbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

[root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-24 Thread belbo
Hi, I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like this solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian? Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Gnome] Error pop-up: there's already a gnome-panel

2005-11-19 Thread belbo
are probably 2 gnome-panel entries, one right and one wrong, but where? What can I do? Which files can I look at? Thanks, Bye Belbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[hdd problem] Strange errors

2005-11-09 Thread belbo
ll): << This automatic read-only remount is quite annoying. What can I do? Bye, Belbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[skype] X server and skype, that's a problem

2005-10-20 Thread belbo
ity causes distortions on mic input channel. I know, it seems strange, but I don't find any other explanation. Do you have any idea or solution about it? Bye (and help me with my poor English :-)) Belbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

[boot optimization] How to speed up the boot?

2005-09-26 Thread belbo
e manually configured for my hardware, so I imagine that I can remove something with no risk. Do you know if there are some other way to speed up the boot process? Thank you in advance, belbo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[kde/qt] Unicode/special char problem

2005-09-20 Thread belbo
Hi, when I type a special character (àòèéçìù) in a Gnome/GTK1.2/GTK2 application, it works fine, as on the mozilla-based application. On the contrary, on the KDE/QT I've got 2 special characters instead of the right one, for instance: è => Ú ç => ç and so on. This is probably a unicode-related

[nvidia driver] Twin View + TvOut

2005-09-15 Thread belbo
quot;MetaModes" "1600x1200, NULL; 1280x1024, NULL; 1024x768, 1024x768" #OLD CRT #Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200, 1024x768; 1280x1024, NULL; 1024x768, 1024x768" #other options I recommend: Option "RenderAccel" Option "HWcursor" Option