Re: Opinions XFS

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [...] > As for the features, there was an article in the Linux Gazatte that I'm > looking up now... > > http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html > > that does some real-world benchmark comparisons. Its from May, 2004 and > the kernel is a 2.4. However, it may be useful

Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian unstable). It has 1GB of memory I am wondering two things a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? - Is it faster? - Are the packages less stable? - Does it need significantly more memo

Re: ifup fails but iwconfig

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:30:19 +0200, pizzapie_linuxanchovies wrote: > Agricolae--thanks for the suggestion. There is no Network-Manager on my > install, but fortunately your idea kept me going long enough to *nearly* > find the solution. > > Turns out I made a mistake in my original post. If the

Adaptec 2100s

The message: PCI: unable to reserve mem region #1:.. for device :00:09.0 is the most likely place where the system failed. The driver could not initialize properly, so the RAID cannot be used and your system goes to "waiting for root filesystem". If the message actually tells you wha

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian > unstable). It has 1GB of memory > > I am wondering two things > > a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? > - Is it faster? > - Are the packages less stable? > - Doe

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/07 03:25, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian > unstable). It has 1GB of memory > > I am wondering two things > > a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? > - I

Re: Opinions XFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/07 21:44, David Brodbeck wrote: [snip] > > I think there's a bit of Not Invented Here syndrome with XFS that causes > people to be wary of it, but in my experience it's a rock-solid I'd have to modify that. Instead of NIH, my worry is that

Re: Opinions XFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/07 20:09, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] > > Not this thread again. I went from ext3 to JFS because I have frequent > power failures and Sarge's ext3 would get invisible mysterious errors > that ended up with a corrupted file system, espe

Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

* a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? * - Is it faster? I don't know - never ran my Opteron in 32-bit mode. I was wishing 64-bit floating point operations would be faster but they're not because AMD didn't really improve the math unit. In principle it should be faster if

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

On Saturday 04 Aug 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/04/07 03:25, Alan Chandler wrote: > > b) Is there a simple transition path? > > Reinstall from scratch, and pray that your /home is on a seperate > partition. Well the only home that matters - ie mine is - this is essentially just a personal ma

ifup fails but iwconfig and dhclient works?

It sounds like your network script is running while the wireless driver hasn't finished setting up. I have an EPX form computer out in the field and it's got an rt2570 in it. Because of the peculiar way that machine operates, I use pre-up/post-down to load and unload the driver; the driver it

Re: Opinions XFS

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:43:46AM +0200, J?rg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Debian Administration :: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison > on Debian Etch > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 > Great article. As Ron points out, a UPS answers many of the power-failure questio

Re: converting file system

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:42:57AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:23:17PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > This is a great reason to be using LVM with separate LVs. Need to > > convert? Create a new LV, make the new filesystem, tar the data over to > > it. Whe

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:19:09PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 04 Aug 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 08/04/07 03:25, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > > b) Is there a simple transition path? > > > > Reinstall from scratch, and pray that your /home is on a seperate > > partition. > > Well

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

On Aug 2, 5:10 pm, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience > using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Yes. That's what crossover is for. Purchasing a copy of crossover will support the development of wine. > in this case Open

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

On 8/4/07, Francois Duranleau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/3/07, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Francois, > > > > I agree with Doug: CRC errors shouldn't be ignored. At _best_ they are a > > sign that something in your system is marginal. At worst you end up > > reading and

Re: Issues with ethernet in testing/lenny

percy tiglao([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get > Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it > did not autodetect my ethernet card. It is a 82562V-2 integrated card, > at least according to

working with two nics (lan and wlan)

Hello, I have a headless machine on my home network with a LAN card and a wireless card. If my lan cable is connected to its lan card, it gets an IP automatically from my firewall machine. But if I activate the wireless card, the networking seems to hang or freeze. My lan card is on 192.168.

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

Francois Duranleau wrote: >> I tried to change the IDE cables (I had a few spares from my father's >> computer). >> I happened to notice that I had a 40 pins cable. I replaced it with a 80 pins >> cable. I have two, I tried both: nothing changed. I still have CRC errors. >> BTW, >> there is only

Re: working with two nics (lan and wlan)

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:40:14AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a headless machine on my home network with a LAN card and a wireless > card. If my lan cable is connected to its lan card, it gets an IP > automatically from my firewall machine. But if I activate the wireless > card, th

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

Marko Randjelovic wrote: > option. If you need Acroread, first install ia32-libs-gtk from Ubuntu. Just for the record, I installed today ia32-libs-gtk from officials unstable repos in Debian... Regards, Jose Luis. -- ghostbar on Linux/Debian 'sid' x86_64-SMP - #382503 Weblog: http://ghostbar.at

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

On 8/4/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian > unstable). It has 1GB of memory > > I am wondering two things > > a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? > - Is it faster? Yes. Unlike true 64-bit

Re: Opinions XFS

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Sergio Belkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should

Re: ext3fs errors with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.4.27

Francois Duranleau([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 8/4/07, Francois Duranleau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/3/07, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Francois, > > > > > > I agree with Doug: CRC errors shouldn't be ignored. At _best_ they are a > > > sign tha

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/07 12:53, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > On 8/4/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian >> unstable). It has 1GB of memory >> >> I am wondering two things >> >> a) What are t

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

On 8/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/04/07 12:53, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > >> a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? > >> - Is it faster? > > > > Yes. Unlike true 64-bit architectures like PowerPC, there is a penalty > > for executing 32 bit code on a

Re: Blurry fonts in OpenOffice and qt4 appliations

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 22:54:10 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Fri August 3 2007 21:50, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:15:39PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Fri August 3 2007 12:48, Vasil Benov wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > The fonts in OpenOffice and qt4(skype

Re: ntfs mount errors

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:51:50 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:17:21PM -0400, Phill Atwood wrote: > > > > > > > > Success. Although I can't say that I really understand. Setting > > umask=0222 in the /etc/fstab file did the trick. I don't und

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/07 14:31, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > On 8/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 08/04/07 12:53, Andrew J. Barr wrote: a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? - Is it faster? >>> Yes. Unlike true 6

xmms2

The system is Debian Sid except for the git kernel. The first four attempts to start the server failed. The fifth attempt was successful. shell: 13:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms2 play Log output will be stored in /home/ssg/.cache/xmms2/xmms2d.log xmms2 started 13:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [ 321.

Re: xmms2

Hi Steven. Steven, 04.08.2007 23:01: > The system is Debian Sid except for the git kernel. The first four > attempts to start the server failed. The fifth attempt was successful. You might want to rebuild XMMS2 including debugging symbols. Get the source, and add "-d ultradebug" to WAFFLAGS in

Re: xmms2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/07 16:01, Steven wrote: > The system is Debian Sid except for the git kernel. The first four > attempts to start the server failed. The fifth attempt was successful. > > shell: > > 13:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms2 play > Log output will b

Re: Opinions XFS

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:51:08AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:43:46AM +0200, J?rg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > Debian Administration :: Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison > > on Debian Etch > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 > > >

Re: working with two nics (lan and wlan)

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:40:14AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a headless machine on my home network with a LAN card and a wireless >> card. If my lan cable is connected to its lan card, it gets an IP >> automatically from my firewall machine. But if I

Seeing files shared from an Apple computer

I enabled "Personal File Sharing" on an iMac on my LAN, but can't seem to see the files from KDE. I have a pretty full installation of KDE (testing), including kdnssd, and I have avahi and friends installed (but dbus is not enabled). avahi-browse does seem to show the service: it lists the name o

Re: Issues with ethernet in testing/lenny

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:35:50AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > percy tiglao([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get > > Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it > > did not autodetect my ether

Re: Opinions XFS

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:14:28PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > magic sysrq key... Alt-SysRq-S to sync the filesystems followed by > Alt-SysRq-U tu remount readonly. then reboot. > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/457 > > > doesn't *always* work, but I've gotten to work

Re: Opinions XFS

Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 05.08.2007 01:34: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:14:28PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> magic sysrq key... Alt-SysRq-S to sync the filesystems followed by >> Alt-SysRq-U tu remount readonly. then reboot. >> >> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/457

Re: Seeing files shared from an Apple computer

On 8/4/07, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I enabled "Personal File Sharing" on an iMac on my LAN, but can't seem > to see the files from KDE. I have a pretty full installation of KDE > (testing), including kdnssd, and I have avahi and friends installed (but > dbus is not enabled). > > av

Get display back?

I am a new Debian user . Had Etch installed and tried to install the Nvidia driver without success. Now i cannot get the display working when i boot Etch ! Just a blank screen? Can someone tell me how to get the display back from boot up please? Thanks jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Get display back?

Jeff wrote: I am a new Debian user . Had Etch installed and tried to install the Nvidia driver without success. Now i cannot get the display working when i boot Etch ! Just a blank screen? Can someone tell me how to get the display back from boot up please? Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to Virtua

Apt-mirror and merge with security updates local repo

Hello to all :) I've got a little question or may I say problem, for you; if you can help me. Today I had started creating a mirror using apt-mirror of a http://ftp.uevora.pt for the apt-get process, because my ISP give unlimited traffic in the portuguese network, but outside portugal I had only 3

less, exit but left content on screen

Package: less Version: 394-4 Severity: wishlist I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x' or something so that the content just viewed is left on screen, instead of being cleared and restored to the screen before invoking 'less'. But I found there is no such capability i

Re: Get display back?

Jeff wrote: Kent West wrote: Jeff wrote: I am a new Debian user . Had Etch installed and tried to install the Nvidia driver without success. Now i cannot get the display working when i boot Etch ! Just a blank screen? Can someone tell me how to get the display back from boot up please? Try

Re: Get display back?

Kent West wrote: ... that's fairly indicative that the either the video system or the system as a whole is locked up. If your CAPS lock or Numlock indicator toggles when you press on the corresponding key, that's indicative that the entire system is not locked up; you might can ssh into your

odd xorg-video-intel problem

[ package: xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2:2.1.0-2 ] Since I updated xserver-xorg-video-intel, my LCD started to complain that it is in a non-preset mode, that is, the monitor displayed a message "Nonpreset Mode" for 5 seconds when X started. The resolution is set to the native 1280x1024. How

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:06:19PM -0400, Tong Sun wrote: > I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x' or > something so that the content just viewed is left on screen, instead of > being cleared and restored to the screen before invoking 'less'. But I > found there is no s

Re: Get display back?

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >... that's fairly indicative that the either the video system or the > >system as a whole is locked up. > > > If your CAPS lock or Numlock indicator toggles when you press on the > corresponding key, that's indicativ

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

Tong Sun writes: > I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x'... Try 'less -X'. Note that this disables termcap initialization and deinitialization. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:26:59AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >You can achieve the desired behaviour by adding a bookmark containing a > >"%s" which will be filled with the entered string. > > > >So to add a search for debian bugs just add the following bookmark: > > > >http://bugs.debian

Re: odd xorg-video-intel problem

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:52:03AM +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote: > [ package: xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2:2.1.0-2 ] > > Since I updated xserver-xorg-video-intel, my LCD started to complain > that it is in a non-preset mode, that is, the monitor displayed a > message "Nonpreset Mode" for 5 secon

testing asterisk for security

Hi I somehow feel that I reach more users here. Anyone around, who uses asterisk? It would be nice, if some people could give the following packages a try. Atm, asterisk is being prepared for a DSA/DTSA . Therefore, it would be nice, if people could check the testing[0] and stable[1] packages (

Bzflag Segfaults

I am currently running Debian testing and since doing my daily update two days ago am unable to run Bzflag. The program immediately Segfaults back to the prompt and occasionally causes gdm to restart as well. Is anyone else having this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: odd xorg-video-intel problem

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> Since I updated xserver-xorg-video-intel, my LCD started to complain >> that it is in a non-preset mode, that is, the monitor displayed a >> message "Nonpreset Mode" for 5 seconds when X started. > > does the monitor then recover? Yes. Except for the message, the

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

Hi Tong, You probably want the -X flag. See http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/faq.html#tite for more details. --Mark On 8/4/2007 6:06 PM, Tong Sun wrote: > Package: less > Version: 394-4 > Severity: wishlist > > I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x' or > someth

Re: odd xorg-video-intel problem

On 8/4/07, Takehiko Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ package: xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2:2.1.0-2 ] > > Since I updated xserver-xorg-video-intel, my LCD started to complain > that it is in a non-preset mode, that is, the monitor displayed a > message "Nonpreset Mode" for 5 seconds when X s

scanner problem

My Cannon Lide 20 scanner does not work on Etch. It only works if i start it as root. Is there an easy way to fix this? Thanks Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scanner problem

On 8/5/07, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Cannon Lide 20 scanner does not work on Etch. It only works if i > start it as root. Is there an easy way to fix this? > Thanks > Jeff You need to add yourself to the 'scanner' group. As root, run: gpasswd -a scanner being your username. -- An

Re: scanner problem

Andrew J. Barr wrote: On 8/5/07, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My Cannon Lide 20 scanner does not work on Etch. It only works if i start it as root. Is there an easy way to fix this? Thanks Jeff You need to add yourself to the 'scanner' group. As root, run: gpasswd -a scanner bei

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

> is because there is a penalty for executing 32-bit code, one which is There is none (if you use the 32bit subset of the AMD64 architecture). But there is a penalty for using the x86 architecture instead of the amd64 architecture. This penalty is not specific to the Athlon64/Opteron/younameit, b

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > Yes. Unlike true 64-bit architectures like PowerPC, there is a penalty > > > for executing 32 bit code on amd64/em64t processors. Most certainly incorrect. In fact natively compiled AMD64 64-bit compiled code *may* run fas

Re: odd xorg-video-intel problem

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:33:14PM +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >> Since I updated xserver-xorg-video-intel, my LCD started to complain > >> that it is in a non-preset mode, that is, the monitor displayed a > >> message "Nonpreset Mode" for 5 seconds when X started.