Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2014 11:27:25 Joe wrote: >> We started with keyboard and mouse with the Pi, and then found it was >> controllable by our TV remote control, through the HDMI connection. It >> Just Worked. > > Lucky you. > > Lisi Anyway, the poi

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 07 July 2014 00:50:04 Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/06/2014 06:16 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I think that I have bitten off more than I can chew. I should stick > > to "normal" computers. I grock them. :-( > > Please forgive, but I have to ...it's "grok" :) Ric :-( Thanks, Ric. -- To UN

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/06/2014 06:16 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I think that I have bitten off more than I can chew. I should stick to "normal" computers. I grock them. :-( Please forgive, but I have to ...it's "grok" :) Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 July 2014 11:27:25 Joe wrote: > We started with keyboard and mouse with the Pi, and then found it was > controllable by our TV remote control, through the HDMI connection. It > Just Worked. Lucky you. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread ken
On 07/05/2014 11:11 PM Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from the occasional glitc

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 11:16:01 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I'm also having trouble using the remote. I have found lots of stuff > via Google that says go to here, then go to there, but absolutely > nothing that says *how* to get there. I have managed to open the > video folder, and turn the m/c

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 July 2014 23:44:46 Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/05/2014 05:45 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2014 22:32:25 Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 07/05/2014 03:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> Loads of people have streaming Internet. It must be possible. And > >>> yes, once I hace a box

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 July 2014 04:11:27 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: > >> Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] > >> device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: >> Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] >> device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from the >> occasional glitch when a provider thoughtlessly changes

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
2014/07/06 1:51 "Lisi Reisz" : > > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: > > Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] > > device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from the > > occasional glitch when a provider thoughtlessly changes his protocol. >

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/05/2014 05:45 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2014 22:32:25 Ric Moore wrote: On 07/05/2014 03:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Loads of people have streaming Internet. It must be possible. And yes, once I hace a box that is adequate, I may need to do something with my network. Will

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 July 2014 22:32:25 Ric Moore wrote: > On 07/05/2014 03:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Loads of people have streaming Internet. It must be possible. And yes, > > once I hace a box that is adequate, I may need to do something with my > > network. > > Will XBMC do the job with your hard

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/05/2014 03:39 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Loads of people have streaming Internet. It must be possible. And yes, once I hace a box that is adequate, I may need to do something with my network. Will XBMC do the job with your hardware?? If it will run, then running it as a dedicated server-on

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 July 2014 18:45:50 Brian wrote: > On Sat 05 Jul 2014 at 17:51:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: > > > Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] > > > device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from t

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Jul 2014 at 17:51:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: > > Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] > > device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from the > > occasional glitch when a provider thoughtlessly

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 17:51:32 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: > > Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] > > device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from > > the occasional glitch when a provider thoughtlessly ch

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 July 2014 17:30:19 Joe wrote: > Joel mentioned the Raspberry Pi, which is a very low-power [ARM] > device, which does the UK catchup channels pretty well, apart from the > occasional glitch when a provider thoughtlessly changes his protocol. Not for me it doesn't. And I was told th

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 15:06:04 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Having just bought myself another doorstop (except that this one is > too light even to stop a door) in the form of: > http://www.amazon.co.uk/XstreamTec-MX-version-Internal-Included/dp/B00F0PZZIW > I am doing what I should have done in the f

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
One more thought -- On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Having just bought myself another doorstop (except that this one is too light > even to stop a door) in the form of: > http://www.amazon.co.uk/XstreamTec-MX-version-Internal-Included/dp/B00F0PZZIW > [...] Have you asked abo

Re: Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
I have not done this, but these questions come to mind: On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Having just bought myself another doorstop (except that this one is too light > even to stop a door) in the form of: > http://www.amazon.co.uk/XstreamTec-MX-version-Internal-Included/dp/B0

Advice needed re TV internet media machine.

2014-07-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
Having just bought myself another doorstop (except that this one is too light even to stop a door) in the form of: http://www.amazon.co.uk/XstreamTec-MX-version-Internal-Included/dp/B00F0PZZIW I am doing what I should have done in the first place and asking for advice. I want to be able to strea

Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed

2014-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140411_1642+0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 11 April 2014 16:23:49 Paul E Condon wrote: > > This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, > > Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? > > There is no findutils package in Wheezy backports. > > https://packages.debian.org/

Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed

2014-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140411_1853+0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 04:58:56PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > > As Lisi Reisz notes, findutils is not in wheezy-backports. A search on > > packages.debian.org reveals that a package of findutils 4.5.12 was created > > for experimental on 2013-09-28, bu

Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed

2014-04-11 Thread Florian Ernst
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 04:58:56PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > As Lisi Reisz notes, findutils is not in wheezy-backports. A search on > packages.debian.org reveals that a package of findutils 4.5.12 was created > for experimental on 2013-09-28, but for whatever reason the maintainer has > not acted

Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed

2014-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140411_1639+0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 11 Apr 2014 at 09:23:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > root@big:/etc/apt# aptitude -t wheezy-backports install findutils > > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 72 not upgr

Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed

2014-04-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/04/14 16:23, Paul E Condon wrote: This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? An alternative source of findutils that fits with Wheezy? Where? How? You don't appear to have made a mistake. As Lisi Reisz notes, findutils is not

Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed

2014-04-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 11 April 2014 16:23:49 Paul E Condon wrote: > This is pretty clear indication that wheezy-backports won't help, > Or did I make a mistake? What mistake? There is no findutils package in Wheezy backports. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=findutils&searchon=names§ion=all&suite=

Re: Using wheezy-backports, advice needed

2014-04-11 Thread Brian
On Fri 11 Apr 2014 at 09:23:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > root@big:/etc/apt# aptitude -t wheezy-backports install findutils > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 72 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unp

Using wheezy-backports, advice needed

2014-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I have discovered, with help form Bernhard Voelker, a user of openSUSE, that the version of findutils that I am using (4.4.2) contains a bug that explains crashes in my use case. He is using (4.5.12) and recommends >=(4.5.10) I have attempted to use wheezy-backports using instructions at: http://b

Re: Advice needed: Proper package maintainer for Bug Report

2014-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 ian 14, 17:35:06, Curt wrote: > On 2014-01-21, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > If the computer still locks up my first guess would be the radeon driver=20 > > (package xserver-xorg-video-radeon). > > My understanding was that the "bug" occurred when he tried the > proprietary display driv

Re: Advice needed: Proper package maintainer for Bug Report

2014-01-21 Thread Curt
On 2014-01-21, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If the computer still locks up my first guess would be the radeon driver=20 > (package xserver-xorg-video-radeon). My understanding was that the "bug" occurred when he tried the proprietary display driver and disappears when he reverts to the open source o

Re: Advice needed: Proper package maintainer for Bug Report

2014-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 ian 14, 14:40:39, Paul wrote: > > I am unsure whether to report the bug to Xorg, Mesa (Gallium) or Debian. > Please provide a link. Your advice is appreciated. I would try to reproduce the bug with less software: - use startx instead of gdm3 - use a window manager like openbox instead

Advice needed: Proper package maintainer for Bug Report

2014-01-20 Thread Paul
Hi, Please advise whom I should report the following bug: I experience a total computer lockup shortly after booting the computer. No particular application is involved. The scenario occurs while working in the Gnome 3 desktop environment (gdm3). Keyboard and mouse input is ignored. The screen i

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed [question]

2011-04-21 Thread Klistvud
Thanx to all who shared their thoughts, you've been really helpful guys (as always). As many pointed out, the crux of the question is my ISP who's only giving me one IP number. You've helped me understand why a switch won't do and why a router is needed. So, for the time being, I will kee

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Dom
On 21/04/11 02:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Dom put forth on 4/20/2011 1:25 PM: I run Smoothwall on an old Athlon (K6) system that I was given. I The K7 is the original Athlon. The K6 series chips had no marketing name other than "K6", i.e. K6, K6-2, K6-2+, K6-3, K6-3+, etc. The only issue I h

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Zoran Kolic
Howdy! I already found good advice in one of the posts on your question. Personally, I'd stick with pair of linksys wrt54gl, putting dd-wrt on both or three of them and ma- king it do the work. The site has tutorials for all of situations one might experience. For another approach, there is better

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed [question]

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Paul, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm lurking here, looking to better understand a problem that I've never had to confront: NAT, I understand requires translation tables, one entry for each active tcp connection. This takes RAM. It also takes enough CPU cycles to maintain this table --- set up n

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dom put forth on 4/20/2011 1:25 PM: > I run Smoothwall on an old Athlon (K6) system that I was given. I The K7 is the original Athlon. The K6 series chips had no marketing name other than "K6", i.e. K6, K6-2, K6-2+, K6-3, K6-3+, etc. > The only issue I have is that the latest upgrade to Smoothw

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Dom
On 20/04/11 18:52, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/20/2011 06:08 AM, Klistvud wrote: [snip] What I had in mind is something like this: http://www.ehow.com/how_6823201_use-switch-hub-instead-router.html . Unfortunately, there are many posts on the Internet affirming that such a configuration can't and

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/20/2011 06:08 AM, Klistvud wrote: [snip] What I had in mind is something like this: http://www.ehow.com/how_6823201_use-switch-hub-instead-router.html . Unfortunately, there are many posts on the Internet affirming that such a configuration can't and won't work, because a switch can't give

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed [question]

2011-04-20 Thread PaulNM
Paul E Condon wrote: > > Andrew, > > I'm lurking here, looking to better understand a problem that I've never > had to confront: NAT, I understand requires translation tables, one entry > for each active tcp connection. This takes RAM. It also takes enough > CPU cycles to maintain this table --

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed [question]

2011-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110421_003957, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Klistvud wrote: > >I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've > >heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, > >and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband > >modem. Then, th

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Klistvud wrote: I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband modem. Then, the two families would connect their respective routers (we

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 01:08:22PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Unfortunately, there are many posts on the Internet affirming that > such a configuration can't and won't work, because a switch can't > give out two IP's if your ISP just gives you one. So, in doubt, I This is the crucial point. If your

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Klistvud: > Dne, 20. 04. 2011 11:25:27 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): >> Klistvud: >>> >>> I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've >>> heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, >>> and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jochen Schulz [110420 05:48]: > Klistvud: > > And here's what I need advice for: > You are looking for a router (OSI layer 3), not a switch (OSI layer 2). > It needs to have three distinct interfaces (1xWAN, 2xLAN). If it runs ... > I think even a simple Linksys WRT54GL would suffice. AFAIK you

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 04. 2011 11:25:27 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): Klistvud: > And here's what I need advice for: > > I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've > heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, > and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our c

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Klistvud: > And here's what I need advice for: > > I'm planning to purchase a wired (consumer grade) switch since I've > heard they're inherently more robust than (consumer grade) routers, > and I'm planning to connect it *directly* to our cable broadband > modem. Then, the two families would conn

[OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-19 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! Any networking guru lurking on the list? Here's the situation. There's basically two (interrelated) families sharing our broadband connection. In the other family, there's this person who's downloading large numbers of files around the clock. As we've just upgrad

Re: Advice needed to upgrade a xen domU from sarge to etch

2007-08-15 Thread Peter Colton
Hello all, I said that gplhost had not replied to my email about help with a domU dist-upgrade. They did reply but the reply was in my gplhost account. So all OK now, regards peter colton On Wednesday 15 August 2007 16:18, Peter Colton wrote: >

Advice needed to upgrade a xen domU from sarge to etch

2007-08-15 Thread Peter Colton
Hello all, I need a bit of advise on upgrading a xen domU from sarge to etch. I emailed gplhost where the domU is hosted. To see if they could give me some pointers on howto upgrade a domU but unfortunely I have not yet got any replie. If I where upgrading a standard debain install I w

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-06-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
There is a mailing list for sed [EMAIL PROTECTED] for those interested in keeping tabs on this editor and exchanging tips. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, S

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-05-31T17:05:04+0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > I need to delete some words out of a large file containing > information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do > this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to > do it. Two example lines are as of be

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 11:05, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, I need to delete some words out of a large file containing information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to do it. Two example lines are as of below:

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, S

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Bob McGowan
Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, I need to delete some words out of a large file containing information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to do it. Two example lines are as of below: "181","1324.014027"

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-05-31 17:05 +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=20082

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Piers Kittel
On 31 May 2007, at 17:49, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payloa d t ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP",

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Larry Irwin
t;$f1\",\"$f2\",\"$f3\",\"$f4\",\"$f5\",\"$f6\"" done Enjoy, Larry - Original Message - From: "Piers Kittel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:05 PM Subject: Sed advice needed Hello all,

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Georg Heinrich
Piers Kittel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Thu, 31 May 2007 17:05:04 +0100: >What's the best way to do this? I've been reading the man pages of >sed, cut and awk but I can't quite figure out how to do this. Any >ideas? The sed man page is not very helpful I'm afraid. A pretty good manual is

Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I need to delete some words out of a large file containing information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to do it. Two example lines are as of below: "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111"

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-23 Thread Land Haj
>I thought all the kernels were SMP-enabled now, no? Didn't Debian do >away with the distinction between SMP and non-SMP kernels? At least, >when I look at what's available with aptitude, all the kernel images >labelled with "-smp" are given as "for transition only." Unless I'm mistaken the 486

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-23 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 12:50 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > With 4 GB of RAM, you probably don't need a swap at all. Since you have > a duel core machine, make sure you use an smp kernel. Everything should > work fine and you'll have a fine system that I and others can be jealous > over. I thought al

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Land Haj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm afraid I'll encounter more stuff like this with that kernel. What > other smp-kernel would be a good choice for my hardware? Maybe the -k7 image will do? HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstei

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Land Haj
'm afraid I'll encounter more stuff like this with that kernel. What other smp-kernel would be a good choice for my hardware? /landhaj - Original Message From: Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:00:59 AM Subjec

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it > > became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 > > time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use stable > > instead, star

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: [snip] >>. It seems people have blinders on today. He said he wanted to use the >> 32-bit version and he currently uses the 64-bit version. One can't >> downgrade a system from 64-bit to 32-bit easily. IMO, one would be >> better

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:20:44 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] > > But there is another possibility you should consider. Rather than > > reinstalling, you could change your apt sources right now, run > > 'ap

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:25:16 -0700 (PDT) > Land Haj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before >> it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Land Haj wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it >>> becam

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Land Haj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before > it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will > have 0 time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use >

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Land Haj wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it > > became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 > > t

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Land Haj wrote: > Hi! > > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it > became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 > time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use stable > instead

Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-22 Thread Land Haj
Hi! I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0 time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use stable instead, starting with etch. Ideally I should make the move in the next few day

Re: crt card advice needed

2006-09-16 Thread Arafangion
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:03:12 +1000, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to be able to run X with debian. Older monitor died and had an ati card with it that does work the new monitor. The new monitor is an Gateway ev910 crt which was also known as a sony trinitron with single

crt card advice needed

2006-09-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
I want to be able to run X with debian. Older monitor died and had an ati card with it that does work the new monitor. The new monitor is an Gateway ev910 crt which was also known as a sony trinitron with single gun so is very cool in temperature when it runs. The ati card will not work in X and

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-30 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Sunday 29 January 2006 9:24 pm, Stan Banash wrote: > Guys, > > This where I am to date with the driver. I compiled the hpt302.ko module > and transferred it to a diskette. When the installation process failed to > find the hard disk partition, I did the Alt-F2. I mounted the 3.5 inch > drive a

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
0854.html A > > Anyone have any suggestions on where to go from here? > > Thanks, > Stan > > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:45 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subj

RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-29 Thread Stan Banash
Advice Needed On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:19:27 -0800 "Stan Banash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hendrik and Dave, > > Thanks for the info it is much appreciated. Dave please send the link, I > would like to review the info. Although, my situation is not exactly the >

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Stan Banash wrote: Thanks for the info it is much appreciated. Dave please send the link, I would like to review the info. Although, my situation is not exactly the same as yours. In my case the Optiplex bios disables the IDE controller on the motherboard when a second one (the Rocket 133) is ad

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
lot here and hopefully > others are too. > > FYI: Dave, I added your response to the chain here so that the record is > complete. > > Thanks, > Stan > > -Original Message- > From: Dave Witbrodt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:32 PM

RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Jon Miller
Stan, What I would do is the following: As you've stated run the primary IDE on the 20GB drive and remove the secondary drive. Compile the kernel (2.6) with the correct driver. When completed, add the 250G drive back and try to access that drive. I didn't have the same problem but a similar pro

RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
fully others are too. FYI: Dave, I added your response to the chain here so that the record is complete. Thanks, Stan -Original Message- From: Dave Witbrodt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:32 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice N

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Dave Witbrodt
However, I would still like to know how to get the driver into the debian installer image. It seems that there should be a way for the installer to deal with this situation. Like maybe identifying hardware for which no driver is available in the install and asking the user to provide it during

RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Stan Banash wrote: > That is the path I am currently on. So far I have moved the primary drive > (20 GB) over to the IDE controller (Intel 82371 PIIX4 chipset) on the > motherboard. The 250 GB drive is set as the secondary on the Rocket 133 > IDE > controller. I am getting ready to install the 2.

RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
Justin, Thanks for the assist. I'll try those options this weekend and let the list know the results. Stan -Original Message- From: Justin Guerin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:58 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Neede

RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
hts? Stan -Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:40 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:49:51 -0800 "Stan Banash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 27 January 2006 14:32, Stan Banash wrote: > All, > > I am currently trying to build out a new Debian system > and am having some issues with getting the IDE PCI > card drivers installed. I'm relatively new at setting > up Debian and have been working this issue for several > days now. T

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
see if the HPT302.ko driver was included - it is > not. > > Thanks, > Stan > > -Original Message- > From: Matt Zagrabelny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 2:21 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Nee

RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 2:21 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:32 -0800, Stan Banash wrote: > All, > > I am currently trying to build out a new Debian system > and am having some issues

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:32 -0800, Stan Banash wrote: > All, > > I am currently trying to build out a new Debian system > and am having some issues with getting the IDE PCI > card drivers installed. I'm relatively new at setting > up Debian and have been working this issue for several > days now.

IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
All, I am currently trying to build out a new Debian system and am having some issues with getting the IDE PCI card drivers installed. I'm relatively new at setting up Debian and have been working this issue for several days now. That said, here are the specifics: System: Dell Optiplex GX1P, 7

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-20 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:13:31AM -0500, J French wrote: > We are setting up Debian Linux on a new server for a PostGreSQL database. In > the past, on FreeBSD, I used the dump utility with the live filesystem > (snapshot) switch to backup the running database. Does dump on linux support > live

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-20 Thread wim
You might check out bakula or afbackup, they're both on sourceforge I think. Trying google will also work :-) Cheers & success! Wim On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:22:13AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:13:31AM -0500, J French wrote: > > Debian (or linux in general)? I need a r

Re: OT [Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs]

2005-09-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:55:31PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alberto Zeni wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > There are some Madams here as well. :-) > > It has come to my attention

OT [Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs]

2005-09-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:55:31PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alberto Zeni wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > There are some Madams here as well. :-) It has come to my attention (thanks Mike McCarty) that in English, "Sir" can mean "Sir or Ma'am" (though tha

Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs

2005-09-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alberto Zeni wrote: > Dear Sirs, There are some Madams here as well. :-) > So, I wanted to submit all that to Debian bugs tracking system but they > sent my message back saying that I hadn't specified the bug affected > package and asked me to submit it

Advice needed about submitting bugs

2005-09-19 Thread Alberto Zeni
Dear Sirs, A few days ago I have installed Debian 3.1 r0 "Sarge" on my PC. Everything went all right except X-server which didn't start. In fact at the end of the process the system tried to start it twice but unsuccessfully, then I recived a message asking me to submit such bug to Debian bugs

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-19 Thread Tom Vier
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:13:31AM -0500, J French wrote: > Debian (or linux in general)? I need a robust backup because this will be a > production server. Advice is appreciated. You cannot use dump on a read/write mounted fs - the kernel does not keep writes from the fs coherent with the block

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