Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-09 Thread Warren Dodge
On Apr 9, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite badly: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.85 seconds = 69.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.53 seconds = 41.83 MB/sec Hm

Re: External DVD-burner

2004-03-03 Thread Warren Dodge
On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:45:19AM -0500, Hamid wrote: Hi I have an external DVD burner which is connected to ieee1394 port. I guess that I need to load ieee1394.o and raw1394.o modules as the first step. But I don't know how to create somet

Re: True-type fonts from Windows

2004-01-20 Thread Warren Dodge
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 12:25 pm, Ryan Mackay wrote: > > # apt-get install msttcorefonts > > I found this didnt install xfstt, just placed the fonts in the right > place and did what it had to do to make them usable. > > If it isnt workin for ya try > > $ apt-get install xfstt > $ /etc/init.d/xf

Re: my treo won't sync

2003-08-04 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, Tom Vier said: (Saturday 02 August 2003 10:49 am) > usbmgr sees it, i still have the same problem. i have to press the hotsync > button before /dev/ttyUSB* will show up. when i run pilot-xfer or kpilot, > they want me to hit it again. if i don't, they complain that the

Re: my treo won't sync

2003-08-01 Thread Warren Dodge
> i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes > it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb > char dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right > after hitting the sync button, it works for the visor. treo just isn'

Re: Need Help:w/KDE3 unstable error message "can't start kdeinit" check your install

2003-03-18 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, John Foster said: (Tuesday 18 March 2003 01:12 pm) > I just did a dist upgrade from a mixed system to pristine unstable :-) > I deleted all od the /.kde stuff in both /home/mydir and /root after > restarting the system when kdm stars it runs for about 3 seconds the > s

Re: KDE questions

2003-01-16 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, Paul Johnson said: > OK, having gotten tired of dealing with nautilus, I gave KDE a shot. > ... > I've started to get curious about a few things, though... > ... > 3) How do you say "drawer" in KDE? Having all the icons on the panel >without being able to drawer s

Re: UT2003 Installation on Debian

2003-01-07 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, HNIX said: > Have anyone successfully installed UT2003 on Debian? I am having a > problem that the install_sh script is detecting floppy disk instead of > cdrom. I tried linking cdrom to fd0. it still does not work. Please > help. I have no problem installing it on Mand

Re: [debian-user] kde3 widget themes gone

2002-12-12 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, RĂ¼diger Kuhlmann said: (Thursday 12 December 2002 06:33 am) > >--[Matias Hermanrud Fjeld]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > After i rebooted my sid machine this morning, for the first time in one > > week, all my kde3 widget themes were gone. Only the qt builtin ones are >

Mozilla 1.2 libjsj.so

2002-12-09 Thread Warren Dodge
Has anyone else had this problem? When I start any of the 1.2-series mozilla's installed from standard sid .debs I get the following error: /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libjsj.so: undefined symbol: __vt_24nsASingleFragmentCString I don't see any bugs against mozilla-

Re: X 4.2 & virtual terminals

2002-11-11 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, nate said: > Mark Copper said: > > I just upgraded to testing to get X 4.2 because it supports my card. Now > > X starts fine but (1) I can't cltrl-alt Fx to a virtual terminal, (2) > > /etc/init.d/xdm stop not only kills X but it also kills any further > > output to t

Re: strange behaviour ripping an audio cd on a dvd drive

2002-10-28 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, Lukas Ruf said: (Monday 28 October 2002 03:27 am) > on my computer there is a dvd drive from which I can download any > files when > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom > got executed. > > However, when I try to rip my audio cd by using grip, the disk drive > does not get

Re: nvidia screen resolution

2002-09-24 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, Lance Hoffmeyer said: (Monday 23 September 2002 11:17 pm) > I just install a Elsa Gladiac MX on my system. > I have the nvidia card working but I cannot get > any resolution other than 640x480? > > Here is my XF86config-4 file setting: > > > Section "Monitor" >

Re: True Type fonts, anti-aliasing

2002-09-21 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, Michael Kristensen said: (Saturday 21 September 2002 05:51 am) > > Try this: > > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ > > ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/* > > Can some one point what packages > > need to be installed to get both TrueType and > > anti-aliasing going?

Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)

2002-09-12 Thread Warren Dodge
have. I don't know why the information files are in a different directory than the fonts, or really why this fix works (other than fooling programs into thinking all the files are together). If anyone knows why it works, or more importantly, a better way to handle the problem, please let us a

Re: Linux IDE RAID question

2002-05-07 Thread Warren Dodge
The general consensus seems to be that the cheap ATA RAID cards (around $100 USD) are not worthwhile. They don't implement RAID in hardware, they rely on drivers to do the actual work. The more expensive ATA RAID cards (around $300 USD) do implement RAID in hardware and work well. I recently in

Re: IDE-SCSI, CD-RW, ZIP drive weirdness

2002-04-18 Thread Warren Dodge
If you have another ATAPI CD-ROM, you would want to add this line to your /etc/modutils/aliases file and run update-modules: pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd This causes the IDE driver to load before ide-scsi. It then takes control of the ATAPID CD-ROM -- anything that it hasn't b

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-13 Thread Warren Dodge
If I remember right, the VNC X session is controlled from: /home//.vnc/xstartup which is very similar to an xsession file. On Saturday, April 13 2002 20:57, hanasaki wrote: > How do i get gdm to run on the vnc server when a client connects? It is > just going inot the session -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: scanner problem

2002-04-13 Thread Warren Dodge
The SANE page is at http://www.mostang.com/sane The list of SANE supported SCSI scanners is at http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html Which has a link to supported parallell-port scanners at http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html Unfortunately, your scanner isn't listed

Re: Recent changes in woody broke vmware: AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED?

2002-04-07 Thread Warren Dodge
The VMWare 3.1 beta takes care of the problem. BTW, the updated libc6_2.2.5-4 package was the particular one that VMWare 3.0 couldn't deal with. On Saturday, April 06 2002 23:11, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello. > > I am still using vmware 2.0.4 on a Debian woody system with kernel 2.4.18. > I