Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?
On Fri, 10 May 2002 01:32, Michael Hothorn wrote: > I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18 on an IBM i1200 Thinkpad. I am using > ext2 filesystem for all partitions (but swap:-). It happend more than > once, that I left the machine on battery and left the office for more > than 3h > > Has anyone a thinkpad (or any other laptop) running a journaling > filesystem (reiserfs, xfs, ext3)? Is it safe (in the kernel > config it's still mentioned as EXPERIMENTAL) and running stable? I've run ext3 and ReiserFS on several Thinkpads without any problems at all. > And: How to switch from ext2 to journaling? I have recent mondo/mindi > backups of the machine. But what about booting from it with LILO? LILO works in the same way on ReiserFS(*) and Ext3 as it does on Ext2. For converting your root file system to Ext3 see the large discussion on Debian-devel. (*) Provided you use a recent version of LILO, use the woody version not the Potato version. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?
Thank's to all of you. I think I'll try ext3 and see how it works. bye michael Linux is user friendly, it's just a bit picky about it's friends Michael Hothorn University of Heidelberg http://www.hothorn.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Michael Hothorn wrote: >I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18 on an IBM i1200 Thinkpad. I am using >ext2 filesystem for all partitions (but swap:-). It happend more than >once, that I left the machine on battery and left the office for more >than 3h Well, it shouldn't hurt. I used Thinkpad 560X and it had the ability to either automatically suspend or even hibernate when the battery is about to end. There's a Linux utility for controlling the behaviour, called tpctl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian Linux on my Laptop
On Wed, 08 May 2002 21:39:51 -0700 "Justin News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install linux on my IBM Thinkpad 560E. Unfortunately, i > don't have a CD ROM and I'd appreciate any help someone can offer. > I've installed linux before using CD ROMS and had no problems... but > i'm lost as to how to install linux without CDs. I also have a network > card in my laptop so is there a way to do a network installation? i've > done some searching on the web but the instructions that i've found > are rather vague. > > If anyone can help me out i'd appreciate it. Also, if you need more > information about my computer and configuation i'll be more than happy > to discuss it. Linux-Laptop-HOWTO descibes many non-usual ways to install linux and there is info about your case as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
crash and acpid
Hi everyone. Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In fact I wouldn't normally need it, but my computer has crashed lately a couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. Two questions then: 1)How do you change /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn to power off when I press the button? In them manual there's just event=button/power.* action= but that doesn' work 2)I have debian sid on, has any of you had problems with xscreensaver freezing the whole x (I'm using xfree 4.1, I believe)? And the question that puts together the two previous once: if x is frozen, but the machine is still working (although also the keyboard was doing nothing), and you have acpid to power off the computer when you press the power button, would that work, or would it freeze as well as the keyboard? Thanks a lot for you advice Ale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002 18:44, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In > fact I wouldn't normally need it, but my computer has crashed lately a > couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I > couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. Two questions then: If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive program like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be a better solution. I have the following in my init scripts: echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the kernel to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. It works well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x as far as I recall). -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK
Hello, I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every track, but these never get killed, and just pile up until the system process limit is hit. When the offending application is finnished the zombie child processes are killed as well (by init?), but not before then. Searching Google seemed to indicate it might be a problem with init, but I checked inittab against one on another debian box and couldn't see any major differences (but I didn't realy know what I was looking for, so I included it below). The problem only starts to occur a few hours after boot. Other friends said it might be an issue with my kernel(custom 2.4.18), but I rebuilt it from scratch (new kernel soruce) and that didn't help. I vaguely remember (I realize that's unhelpfull) this starting to occur after I fiddled around with pcmcia-cs and wavelan to try and get my wavelan card to work, I used versions of those packages that I compiled my self, and recompiled the kernel as well to get it to work. Could this be related, if so how might I go about trying to tell? I would be greatfull if anyone has any suggestsions/ ideas of where to start looking? Thanks for you time, Neill Smith Included below: PS-A lsmod /etc/inittab kernel config $PS -A PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ?00:00:04 init 2 ?00:00:03 keventd 3 ?00:00:00 kapmd 4 ?00:00:01 ksoftirqd_CPU0 5 ?00:00:01 kswapd 6 ?00:00:00 bdflush 7 ?00:00:00 kupdated 9 ?00:00:00 khubd 10 ?00:00:01 kjournald 85 ?00:00:00 kjournald 86 ?00:00:01 kjournald 129 ?00:00:05 portmap 200 ?00:00:00 syslogd 203 ?00:00:00 klogd 208 ?00:00:00 rpc.statd 213 ?00:00:00 apmd 224 ?00:00:00 inetd 278 ?00:00:00 sshd 283 ?00:00:11 xfs 285 ?00:00:10 noflushd 294 ?00:00:00 atd 297 ?00:00:00 cron 301 ?00:00:00 gdm 310 tty1 00:00:00 bash 311 tty2 00:00:00 bash 312 tty3 00:00:00 bash 313 tty4 00:00:00 bash 314 tty5 00:00:00 bash 315 tty6 00:00:00 getty 384 ?00:00:00 oafd 5157 ?00:00:00 lpd 8884 ?00:00:00 gdm 8885 ?00:18:43 XFree86 9018 ?00:00:00 gnome-session 9042 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent 9046 ?00:00:00 gnome-smproxy 9056 ?00:00:00 esd 9058 ?00:00:04 sawfish 9062 ?00:00:01 panel 9066 ?00:00:00 gnome-name-serv 9081 ?00:00:01 deskguide_apple 9084 ?00:00:00 mixer_applet 9090 ?00:00:00 battery_applet 9093 ?00:00:02 tasklist_applet 9121 ?00:00:00 wombat 9130 ?00:00:00 bonobo-moniker- 9156 ?00:00:00 evolution-alarm 9258 ?00:00:01 gnome-terminal 9261 ?00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe 9262 pts/000:00:00 bash 9315 ?00:01:14 mozilla-bin 9326 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9327 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9328 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9329 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9330 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9335 pts/100:00:00 bash 9338 pts/100:00:02 ssh 9373 ?00:00:00 evolution-addre 10157 pts/000:00:05 evolution 10162 ?00:00:00 evolution-execu 10168 ?00:00:00 evolution-calen 10179 ?00:00:04 evolution-mail 10190 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10191 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10192 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10193 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10196 ?00:00:03 evolution-mail 10199 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10201 ?00:00:00 gconfd-1 10211 pts/200:00:00 bash 10214 pts/200:00:02 pan 10215 pts/200:00:00 pan 10216 pts/200:00:00 pan 10217 pts/200:00:00 pan 10218 pts/200:00:00 pan 10219 pts/200:00:00 pan 10220 pts/200:00:00 pan 10221 pts/200:00:00 pan 10222 pts/200:00:00 pan 10223 pts/200:00:00 pan 10224 pts/200:00:00 pan 10225 pts/200:00:00 pan 10226 pts/200:00:00 pan 10227 pts/200:00:00 pan 10228 pts/200:00:00 pan 10229 pts/200:00:00 pan 10230 pts/200:00:00 pan 10231 pts/200:00:00 pan 10232 pts/200:00:00 pan 10233 pts/200:00:00 pan 10234 pts/200:00:00 pan 10235 pts/200:00:00 pan 10236 pts/200:00:00 pan 10237 pts/200:00:00 pan 10238 pts/200:00:00 pan 10239 pts/200:00:00 pan 10240 pts/200:00:00 pan 10241 pts/200:00:00 pan 10242 pts/200:00:00 pan 10243 pts/200:00:00 pan 10244 pts/200:00:00 pan 10245 pts/200:00:00 pan 10246 pts/200:00:00 pan 10247 pts/200:00:00 pan 10248 pts/200:00:00 pan 10249 pts/200:00:00 pan 10250 pts/200:00:00 pan 10251 pts/200:00:00 pan 10252 pts/200:00:00 pan 10253 ?00:00:
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive program > like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be a better > solution. > > I have the following in my init scripts: > echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys > > That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the kernel > to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. It works > well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x as far as I > recall). The problem is that when it happened yesterday, the keyboard was completely frozen and wasn't getting even soft reboot like control alt del -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002 19:40, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive > > program like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be > > a better solution. > > > > I have the following in my init scripts: > > echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys > > > > That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the > > kernel to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. > > It works well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x > > as far as I recall). > > The problem is that when it happened yesterday, the keyboard was > completely frozen and wasn't getting even soft reboot like control alt del SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE Linux might ;). -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be > intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE Linux > might ;). I see. Then how do you do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:07, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be > > intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE > > Linux might ;). > > I see. Then how do you do that? Do what? Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. Block SAK using SE Linux? Not certain yet, I'll work it out next month. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do what? > > Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. Ops, you're right, I didn't explain very well did I? I meant: did you write that line in inittab or /etc/default/init or something else? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:13, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do what? > > > > Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. > > Ops, you're right, I didn't explain very well did I? I meant: did you > write that line in inittab or /etc/default/init or something else? I put it in /etc/init.d/SAK and created an appropriate sym-link. But you could just insert it in some other script. Don't put it in /etc/rc.boot as the key-maps are likely to get re-loaded after those scripts (and wipe it out). -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: i8.1k: Framebuffer and APM problems
--- Begin Message --- Hi folks, I have just install Debian Woody on my new i8.1k. I have A10 BIOS, Geforce2Go, +2.4.18 Linux and I have install vesafb and configure it for 0x305 mode. Every thing seems to work good till my system has blank screen. After 'press any +key' when tha sreen come back it is not crashed exectly but I have split it in to +pices: 70% i 30%. It seems that the framebuffer has moved the display. It is not +so easy to explain, but I hope you catch my problem. It doen't depends on NVdriver because it looks the same when the driver is in or +it is not in kernel. TB. --- End Message ---
Re: Creating a Network Boot Disk
ciao Justin News, > network boot disk so I can mount the CD ROM of my windows box onto my > laptop. That way i can i can install linux as if i had a CD ROM on my > laptop. It seems that to do a network installation of debian using floppy > disks is more trouble than it's worth. I have done it to install a cluster of PC without cdrom, via network. You need a floppy with "kernel level autoconfiguration" active. When kernel wake up, it ask on the net it's ip/netmask to a DHCP server. Then it mount / via NFS After that, you can run any script to install debian on your HD (I have done a script that fdisk/mkfs/tar x debian.tgz automaticaly) good luck! -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa www.fastflow.it/~paolop paolop...matapp.unimib.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In Right. acpid ships with something like 'power' defined as the power button. You need to change the name in the acpi rules to look at /proc/acpi/button/power, and use whatever's in there (in my case PWRF). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > faster the 4x. > > $ dmesg > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly. > The write speed is a configurable option in the CD burning programs. It sounds like the default might be set to 4x, to run it at 16x you'll need to set it explicitly (the GUI burner programs will typically remember your settings for next time). Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > > faster the 4x. > > > > $ dmesg > > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly. > > > > The write speed is a configurable option in the CD burning programs. > > It sounds like the default might be set to 4x, to run it at 16x you'll need > to set it explicitly (the GUI burner programs will typically remember your > settings for next time). > > Drew But do make sure to test that discs you burn at high speeds are mountable - I've made coasters here and there by burning them too fast, including coasters because they do mount up, but their el-torito boot image is scorched too fast, and one reallt subtle one where a truly paranoid check (diff against the tree I just mkisofs'd from) revealed about 5 files didn't match themselves... I'd have been really sorry if I let that one go to the developer team who needed it, so I was *really* glad I'd checked! * Heather Stern * star@ many places... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Crash in Compaq 700 (was: crash and acpid)]
"Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > Alessandro Speranza wrote: > > .. > > but my computer has crashed lately a > > couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I > > couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. > [snip] > > 2)I have debian sid on, has any of you had problems with xscreensaver > > freezing the whole x (I'm using xfree 4.1, I believe)? > > .. > > In a related case, my Compaq Presario 701 crashes when I use blazer > (xscreensaver's demo) and with xine. It works fine with VMWare, Gnucash, > Opera, Netscape, Pan, and OpenOffice in a regular basis. I use woody. > (don't ask me about acpid, however, I'm still with 2.2.19) > > -- > Linux User #98419 -o)| Engineering Purity Test - 69.4% > http://counter.li.org /\| Hacker Purity Test - 81.6% Nerd > ICQ 94335020 _\_v | Purity Test - 59.2% > | > | -- Linux User #98419 -o)| Expansion Slots: The extra holes in http://counter.li.org /\| your belt buckle ICQ 94335020 _\_v | | | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato
Hi! My friend has got this Dell Inspiron 2500, and I have some problems installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel 2.2.19 hangs at the initialization of the md (raid) driver, so I installed 2.2.19-idepci. Which boots, but doesn't seem to have i810 or ipx/ncpfs support... Is it possible to pass a kernel option or something so that md does not load with the stock kernel 2.2.19? Has anyone a working configuration for XFree < 4 for this machine? It would be xserver-svga then, wouldn't it? -Andre pgpHnziSa2xSJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > > faster the 4x. > > > > $ dmesg > > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly. > > > > The write speed is a configurable option in the CD burning programs. > > It sounds like the default might be set to 4x, to run it at 16x you'll need > to set it explicitly (the GUI burner programs will typically remember your > settings for next time). > If I set the speek to 8x it writes at 4x. If I set the speed to 12x (the medias max) it fails all together. The same media is written to on my debian desktop at 8x with no trouble. 8x is the max for the desktop's burner. -- Kevin C. Smith | "A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve neither." Debian GNU/Linux (sid) |-- Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla 0.9.9 and Java
I don't know if anyone else is having this same issue, but I am having a problem with Mozilla 0.9.9 in that it does not seem to accept the Java plugin. This is a touch annoying as everything I have read documentation-wise says that it should be working fine I installed it off the web-page, which said it installed fine - restart the browser - nothing. I installed manually, and restarted the browser - again nothing. Even the "plug-ins" page doesn't show the java plugin. Now, I am certain this is something with Debian as my b/f's Redhat box works fine with Mozilla 0.9.9 and the java plugin. If anyone has solved this issue, could they let me know how they did it? It is annoying me a touch as I need Java support in my web-browser, and I don't like running windows for it. Regards, Cassandra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 0.9.9 and Java
На 11 май 2002 г. (събота), в 2.21 Cassandra Lynette Ludwig писа: > I don't know if anyone else is having this same issue, but I am having a > problem with Mozilla 0.9.9 in that it does not seem to accept the Java > plugin. > > This is a touch annoying as everything I have read documentation-wise says > that it should be working fine I installed it off the web-page, which > said it installed fine - restart the browser - nothing. I installed > manually, and restarted the browser - again nothing. Even the "plug-ins" > page doesn't show the java plugin. > I have Sun's JRE 1.3.1 installed in /usr/local/jre and a symlink from /usr/local/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ (standard place where system-wide mozilla plugins live, if mozilla is installed from a standard deb package) When you install Java make sure it actually starts (by running /usr/local/jre/bin/java) as this might be the problem in your case. Regards, Pavel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: >> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: >> > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. I have the cdrw >> > 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any faster the >> > 4x. >> > >> > $ dmesg >> > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E [...] > If I set the speek to 8x it writes at 4x. cdrecord spits out a banner stating that it's running at 4x, or you timed the thing and despite trying to write at 8x it's only managing 4x in real time? Alternately, is it writing the data nice and fast but taking forever fixating the disk or whatever -- is there a specific part of the process that's taking so long? > If I set the speed to 12x (the medias max) it fails all together. ...with the error message? > The same media is written to on my debian desktop at 8x with no > trouble. 8x is the max for the desktop's burner. *nod* I suspect that what you are discovering is that your laptop device doesn't have the stability that desktop hardware has and, as a result, you are seeing problems getting data to disk in time. Daniel -- Words--so innocent and powerful as they are standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian Linux on my Laptop
On Wed, 08 May 2002 21:39:51 -0700 "Justin News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install linux on my IBM Thinkpad 560E. Unfortunately, i > don't have a CD ROM and I'd appreciate any help someone can offer. > I've installed linux before using CD ROMS and had no problems... but > i'm lost as to how to install linux without CDs. I also have a network > card in my laptop so is there a way to do a network installation? i've > done some searching on the web but the instructions that i've found > are rather vague. > > If anyone can help me out i'd appreciate it. Also, if you need more > information about my computer and configuation i'll be more than happy > to discuss it. Linux-Laptop-HOWTO descibes many non-usual ways to install linux and there is info about your case as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
crash and acpid
Hi everyone. Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In fact I wouldn't normally need it, but my computer has crashed lately a couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. Two questions then: 1)How do you change /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn to power off when I press the button? In them manual there's just event=button/power.* action= but that doesn' work 2)I have debian sid on, has any of you had problems with xscreensaver freezing the whole x (I'm using xfree 4.1, I believe)? And the question that puts together the two previous once: if x is frozen, but the machine is still working (although also the keyboard was doing nothing), and you have acpid to power off the computer when you press the power button, would that work, or would it freeze as well as the keyboard? Thanks a lot for you advice Ale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002 18:44, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In > fact I wouldn't normally need it, but my computer has crashed lately a > couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I > couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. Two questions then: If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive program like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be a better solution. I have the following in my init scripts: echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the kernel to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. It works well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x as far as I recall). -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK
Hello, I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every track, but these never get killed, and just pile up until the system process limit is hit. When the offending application is finnished the zombie child processes are killed as well (by init?), but not before then. Searching Google seemed to indicate it might be a problem with init, but I checked inittab against one on another debian box and couldn't see any major differences (but I didn't realy know what I was looking for, so I included it below). The problem only starts to occur a few hours after boot. Other friends said it might be an issue with my kernel(custom 2.4.18), but I rebuilt it from scratch (new kernel soruce) and that didn't help. I vaguely remember (I realize that's unhelpfull) this starting to occur after I fiddled around with pcmcia-cs and wavelan to try and get my wavelan card to work, I used versions of those packages that I compiled my self, and recompiled the kernel as well to get it to work. Could this be related, if so how might I go about trying to tell? I would be greatfull if anyone has any suggestsions/ ideas of where to start looking? Thanks for you time, Neill Smith Included below: PS-A lsmod /etc/inittab kernel config $PS -A PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ?00:00:04 init 2 ?00:00:03 keventd 3 ?00:00:00 kapmd 4 ?00:00:01 ksoftirqd_CPU0 5 ?00:00:01 kswapd 6 ?00:00:00 bdflush 7 ?00:00:00 kupdated 9 ?00:00:00 khubd 10 ?00:00:01 kjournald 85 ?00:00:00 kjournald 86 ?00:00:01 kjournald 129 ?00:00:05 portmap 200 ?00:00:00 syslogd 203 ?00:00:00 klogd 208 ?00:00:00 rpc.statd 213 ?00:00:00 apmd 224 ?00:00:00 inetd 278 ?00:00:00 sshd 283 ?00:00:11 xfs 285 ?00:00:10 noflushd 294 ?00:00:00 atd 297 ?00:00:00 cron 301 ?00:00:00 gdm 310 tty1 00:00:00 bash 311 tty2 00:00:00 bash 312 tty3 00:00:00 bash 313 tty4 00:00:00 bash 314 tty5 00:00:00 bash 315 tty6 00:00:00 getty 384 ?00:00:00 oafd 5157 ?00:00:00 lpd 8884 ?00:00:00 gdm 8885 ?00:18:43 XFree86 9018 ?00:00:00 gnome-session 9042 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent 9046 ?00:00:00 gnome-smproxy 9056 ?00:00:00 esd 9058 ?00:00:04 sawfish 9062 ?00:00:01 panel 9066 ?00:00:00 gnome-name-serv 9081 ?00:00:01 deskguide_apple 9084 ?00:00:00 mixer_applet 9090 ?00:00:00 battery_applet 9093 ?00:00:02 tasklist_applet 9121 ?00:00:00 wombat 9130 ?00:00:00 bonobo-moniker- 9156 ?00:00:00 evolution-alarm 9258 ?00:00:01 gnome-terminal 9261 ?00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe 9262 pts/000:00:00 bash 9315 ?00:01:14 mozilla-bin 9326 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9327 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9328 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9329 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9330 ?00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9335 pts/100:00:00 bash 9338 pts/100:00:02 ssh 9373 ?00:00:00 evolution-addre 10157 pts/000:00:05 evolution 10162 ?00:00:00 evolution-execu 10168 ?00:00:00 evolution-calen 10179 ?00:00:04 evolution-mail 10190 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10191 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10192 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10193 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10196 ?00:00:03 evolution-mail 10199 ?00:00:00 evolution-mail 10201 ?00:00:00 gconfd-1 10211 pts/200:00:00 bash 10214 pts/200:00:02 pan 10215 pts/200:00:00 pan 10216 pts/200:00:00 pan 10217 pts/200:00:00 pan 10218 pts/200:00:00 pan 10219 pts/200:00:00 pan 10220 pts/200:00:00 pan 10221 pts/200:00:00 pan 10222 pts/200:00:00 pan 10223 pts/200:00:00 pan 10224 pts/200:00:00 pan 10225 pts/200:00:00 pan 10226 pts/200:00:00 pan 10227 pts/200:00:00 pan 10228 pts/200:00:00 pan 10229 pts/200:00:00 pan 10230 pts/200:00:00 pan 10231 pts/200:00:00 pan 10232 pts/200:00:00 pan 10233 pts/200:00:00 pan 10234 pts/200:00:00 pan 10235 pts/200:00:00 pan 10236 pts/200:00:00 pan 10237 pts/200:00:00 pan 10238 pts/200:00:00 pan 10239 pts/200:00:00 pan 10240 pts/200:00:00 pan 10241 pts/200:00:00 pan 10242 pts/200:00:00 pan 10243 pts/200:00:00 pan 10244 pts/200:00:00 pan 10245 pts/200:00:00 pan 10246 pts/200:00:00 pan 10247 pts/200:00:00 pan 10248 pts/200:00:00 pan 10249 pts/200:00:00 pan 10250 pts/200:00:00 pan 10251 pts/200:00:00 pan 10252 pts/200:00:00 pan 10253 ?00:00
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive program > like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be a better > solution. > > I have the following in my init scripts: > echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys > > That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the kernel > to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. It works > well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x as far as I > recall). The problem is that when it happened yesterday, the keyboard was completely frozen and wasn't getting even soft reboot like control alt del -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002 19:40, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive > > program like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be > > a better solution. > > > > I have the following in my init scripts: > > echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys > > > > That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the > > kernel to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. > > It works well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x > > as far as I recall). > > The problem is that when it happened yesterday, the keyboard was > completely frozen and wasn't getting even soft reboot like control alt del SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE Linux might ;). -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be > intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE Linux > might ;). I see. Then how do you do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:07, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > SAK will save you even in situations where C-A-D won't. C-A-D can be > > intercepted by the X server, almost nothing stops the SAK (although SE > > Linux might ;). > > I see. Then how do you do that? Do what? Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. Block SAK using SE Linux? Not certain yet, I'll work it out next month. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do what? > > Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. Ops, you're right, I didn't explain very well did I? I meant: did you write that line in inittab or /etc/default/init or something else? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:13, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do what? > > > > Enable SAK? I explained in my previous message. > > Ops, you're right, I didn't explain very well did I? I meant: did you > write that line in inittab or /etc/default/init or something else? I put it in /etc/init.d/SAK and created an appropriate sym-link. But you could just insert it in some other script. Don't put it in /etc/rc.boot as the key-maps are likely to get re-loaded after those scripts (and wipe it out). -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: i8.1k: Framebuffer and APM problems
--- Begin Message --- Hi folks, I have just install Debian Woody on my new i8.1k. I have A10 BIOS, Geforce2Go, +2.4.18 Linux and I have install vesafb and configure it for 0x305 mode. Every thing seems to work good till my system has blank screen. After 'press any +key' when tha sreen come back it is not crashed exectly but I have split it in to +pices: 70% i 30%. It seems that the framebuffer has moved the display. It is not +so easy to explain, but I hope you catch my problem. It doen't depends on NVdriver because it looks the same when the driver is in or +it is not in kernel. TB. --- End Message ---
Re: Creating a Network Boot Disk
ciao Justin News, > network boot disk so I can mount the CD ROM of my windows box onto my > laptop. That way i can i can install linux as if i had a CD ROM on my > laptop. It seems that to do a network installation of debian using floppy > disks is more trouble than it's worth. I have done it to install a cluster of PC without cdrom, via network. You need a floppy with "kernel level autoconfiguration" active. When kernel wake up, it ask on the net it's ip/netmask to a DHCP server. Then it mount / via NFS After that, you can run any script to install debian on your HD (I have done a script that fdisk/mkfs/tar x debian.tgz automaticaly) good luck! -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa www.fastflow.it/~paolop paolop...matapp.unimib.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: crash and acpid
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Some days ago, some of you sugested that I installed acpid on my presario > 700. I did, and yesterday I was trying to use, but I didn't quite > manage. I think I have to tell linux which one is the power button, in > order for acpid to process the script and power off, just pressing it. In Right. acpid ships with something like 'power' defined as the power button. You need to change the name in the acpi rules to look at /proc/acpi/button/power, and use whatever's in there (in my case PWRF). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > faster the 4x. > > $ dmesg > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly. > The write speed is a configurable option in the CD burning programs. It sounds like the default might be set to 4x, to run it at 16x you'll need to set it explicitly (the GUI burner programs will typically remember your settings for next time). Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > > faster the 4x. > > > > $ dmesg > > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly. > > > > The write speed is a configurable option in the CD burning programs. > > It sounds like the default might be set to 4x, to run it at 16x you'll need > to set it explicitly (the GUI burner programs will typically remember your > settings for next time). > > Drew But do make sure to test that discs you burn at high speeds are mountable - I've made coasters here and there by burning them too fast, including coasters because they do mount up, but their el-torito boot image is scorched too fast, and one reallt subtle one where a truly paranoid check (diff against the tree I just mkisofs'd from) revealed about 5 files didn't match themselves... I'd have been really sorry if I let that one go to the developer team who needed it, so I was *really* glad I'd checked! * Heather Stern * star@ many places... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Crash in Compaq 700 (was: crash and acpid)]
"Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote: > > Alessandro Speranza wrote: > > .. > > but my computer has crashed lately a > > couple of times (or better it froze, I don't know if it crashed, because I > > couldn do anything with it) with just xscreensaver on. > [snip] > > 2)I have debian sid on, has any of you had problems with xscreensaver > > freezing the whole x (I'm using xfree 4.1, I believe)? > > .. > > In a related case, my Compaq Presario 701 crashes when I use blazer > (xscreensaver's demo) and with xine. It works fine with VMWare, Gnucash, > Opera, Netscape, Pan, and OpenOffice in a regular basis. I use woody. > (don't ask me about acpid, however, I'm still with 2.2.19) > > -- > Linux User #98419 -o)| Engineering Purity Test - 69.4% > http://counter.li.org /\| Hacker Purity Test - 81.6% Nerd > ICQ 94335020 _\_v | Purity Test - 59.2% > | > | -- Linux User #98419 -o)| Expansion Slots: The extra holes in http://counter.li.org /\| your belt buckle ICQ 94335020 _\_v | | | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell Inspiron 2500 and potato
--NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! My friend has got this Dell Inspiron 2500, and I have some problems installing potato (don't want woody yet) on it. The stock kernel 2.2.19 hangs at the initialization of the md (raid) driver, so I installed 2.2.19-idepci. Which boots, but doesn't seem to have i810 or ipx/ncpfs support... Is it possible to pass a kernel option or something so that md does not load with the stock kernel 2.2.19?=20 Has anyone a working configuration for XFree < 4 for this machine? It would be xserver-svga then, wouldn't it? -Andre --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE83DKDWkhBtALlJZ0RAj83AKDcN+xlBDKMtWPOH9wCGy+JsEn51gCeO8wr UnLJcpRwobG6U+0ev9wdx0Q= =tLbv -END PGP SIGNATURE- --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. > > I have the cdrw 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any > > faster the 4x. > > > > $ dmesg > > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E > > > > Anyone know how to get this thing to work properly. > > > > The write speed is a configurable option in the CD burning programs. > > It sounds like the default might be set to 4x, to run it at 16x you'll need > to set it explicitly (the GUI burner programs will typically remember your > settings for next time). > If I set the speek to 8x it writes at 4x. If I set the speed to 12x (the medias max) it fails all together. The same media is written to on my debian desktop at 8x with no trouble. 8x is the max for the desktop's burner. -- Kevin C. Smith | "A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve neither." Debian GNU/Linux (sid) |-- Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla 0.9.9 and Java
I don't know if anyone else is having this same issue, but I am having a problem with Mozilla 0.9.9 in that it does not seem to accept the Java plugin. This is a touch annoying as everything I have read documentation-wise says that it should be working fine I installed it off the web-page, which said it installed fine - restart the browser - nothing. I installed manually, and restarted the browser - again nothing. Even the "plug-ins" page doesn't show the java plugin. Now, I am certain this is something with Debian as my b/f's Redhat box works fine with Mozilla 0.9.9 and the java plugin. If anyone has solved this issue, could they let me know how they did it? It is annoying me a touch as I need Java support in my web-browser, and I don't like running windows for it. Regards, Cassandra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 0.9.9 and Java
На 11 май 2002 г. (събота), в 2.21 Cassandra Lynette Ludwig писа: > I don't know if anyone else is having this same issue, but I am having a > problem with Mozilla 0.9.9 in that it does not seem to accept the Java > plugin. > > This is a touch annoying as everything I have read documentation-wise says > that it should be working fine I installed it off the web-page, which > said it installed fine - restart the browser - nothing. I installed > manually, and restarted the browser - again nothing. Even the "plug-ins" > page doesn't show the java plugin. > I have Sun's JRE 1.3.1 installed in /usr/local/jre and a symlink from /usr/local/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ (standard place where system-wide mozilla plugins live, if mozilla is installed from a standard deb package) When you install Java make sure it actually starts (by running /usr/local/jre/bin/java) as this might be the problem in your case. Regards, Pavel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:14:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: >> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:34:16PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: >> > Still working on the new Dell Inspiron 8200. I have the cdrw >> > 16x10x24, but have not been able to get it to write any faster the >> > 4x. >> > >> > $ dmesg >> > hdb: TEAC CD-RW CD-W216E [...] > If I set the speek to 8x it writes at 4x. cdrecord spits out a banner stating that it's running at 4x, or you timed the thing and despite trying to write at 8x it's only managing 4x in real time? Alternately, is it writing the data nice and fast but taking forever fixating the disk or whatever -- is there a specific part of the process that's taking so long? > If I set the speed to 12x (the medias max) it fails all together. ...with the error message? > The same media is written to on my debian desktop at 8x with no > trouble. 8x is the max for the desktop's burner. *nod* I suspect that what you are discovering is that your laptop device doesn't have the stability that desktop hardware has and, as a result, you are seeing problems getting data to disk in time. Daniel -- Words--so innocent and powerful as they are standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
