Re: ATI radeon 8500 no dri

2004-05-29 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:37, Manu wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem for a while That I do not know how to > solve. > > when I execute the following I have : > Paris~$ glxinfo | grep Direct > direct rendering: No > > I cannot see any error on the XFree86 log... > I have attached the log to this e

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 19:14, David Fokkema wrote: > > If you are running Gnome you could try something like > > gksu "/etc/init.d/fam stop" > > umount the cd followed by > > gksu "/etc/init.d/fam start" > > My brother has problems unmounting his zip drive. It is _always_ famd > which is bl

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:23, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > IIRC: > lsof /dev/cdrom > or > fuser /dev/cdrom > > and then doing a > kill -s 9 > as root helps here. > Not being sure whether that's sane, safe, whatever. But it often helps > here. I often find it is because I am sitting in the /cdrom

Re: books on debian

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 02:12, dircha wrote: > Fernando Cardenas wrote: > > I am still new to linux, can somebody suggest me books on debian? > > Thanks. > > Have you checked the Debian Documentation page [1] yet? > > There are very few Debian-specific books - and I know of none more > useful tha

Re: Xvideo not working with ATI drivers under Debian

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 05:05, Alon Altman wrote: > Hi, > I've attached my XFree configuration and log file. The problem is that my > ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP card does not work with Xvideo under X11 under Debian. > The same card worked correctly under Mandrake. > > When I run "xvinfo" I get: > X-Video

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:00, Ogya Chief wrote: > > I will check the modem documentation to see what is required. > As an example here is the pertinent line for one of my modems cat /etc/wvdial.conf | grep X3 Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 X3 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 But check your modem manual your settin

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 13:04, Katipo wrote: > If you don't have a dial tone, nothing will dial out, it doesn't matter > what string you attach to it, you've got a dead line. > You have to attend to that variable before you can go any further with > any sort of analysis. Not true! The dial tone

Re: ppp setup problem

2004-05-19 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 09:11, Ogya Chief wrote: > It failed > with the message "NO DIALTONE". I also tried with pppconfig and I got the > same message. That's a big clue. Try plugging a 'phone into your wall socket and try dialling out. Did you hear a dial tone? If that works try plugging in you

Re: "blocking" hosts

2004-05-18 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 14:59, David Cunningham wrote: > Not really. This is helpful but will only block access to those services > that are compiled against tcp wrappers. To block all access you can use > iptables or add a blocked route to your routing table. For example: > > route add -net 194.