Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte > IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to > provide a number of vital details. > > I have been running a dual-boot Debian/W2000 scheme,

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:46:47PM -0400, Eric Estes wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that > has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a > replacement asap. > Hi Eric, I am disappointed no one has replied to this as it

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've completed recovery now and have ended up with maybe a few gigs of files > (out of hundreds of DVD's) that can't be covered. I think that's a pretty > good recovery rate... and the files that were lost aren't exactly rare, so I > should be able to fi

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset > > and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. > > having never tried arecord I tried it out - o

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 17:45, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: > > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a > > > headset and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-10-03 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:36:46PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote: > [snip] > > > > Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy > > with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :

Re: i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/03/2007 05:04 PM, Michael Habashy wrote: > I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. > Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different > passwords. I use fail2ban for this for ssh. fail2ban can also help with your apache attacks. > Or too many tcpip r

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:44:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Doug is absolutely correct. Putting a 30MB file into the clipboard > is going to is a lot of resources. It'll use a lot of resources -- but if I understood the OP correctly, the resources weren't bein

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is > that they do NOT understand the specifics of my lvm over software raid > 5. The specifics required probably all reside under /etc -- o

Re: Spring clean

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:39:05PM +0100, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I will > have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you referring to? I > enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick s

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:36:54PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > If you can't pull the data with ftp or somethin, what about using lynx? > Text browsers don't have to render. Download the text and save it to a > file. Or if its already being viewed, 'Print' it

Re: Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

2007-10-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:29 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a remote host through an ssh session. I have logged into the remote host using "ssh -Y " and at the prompt of the remote host, I

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:02:41PM -0700, Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dpkg performs no key checking, at least on packages in the Debian > > archive. There was some experimental code to stick embedded signatures > > into .de

Re: Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:09:12PM -, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > So I'm curious. I thought with Stable (Etch at the moment) the only > updates automatically installed are security updates. And when I > search the changelog, it does not mention Vim: > > http://ft

Re: Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread William Lynch
> > up after the raid5 is brought up. Is there any way to delay the startup of > > the raid5 until after usb drives are seen? > > grep rootdelay /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ udev -A6 > > linux rootdelay=10 at the boot prompt will wait for 10 seconds That did it perfectly.

VNC install--possible dependency error?

2007-10-03 Thread Carl Fink
Here's a transcript: NewPicking:/home/carlf# apt-get install vnc4server xvnc4viewer vnc-java xtightvncviewer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: vnc4-common Suggested packages: vncserv

Re: Any way to dist-downgrade?

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Yang
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:04:05PM +0800, Michael Yang wrote: Hi All: Due to one hang issues of apitude, I upgraded my linux-images, but didn't resolve the issues. Then I did "apt-get dist-upgrade", after which the aptitude issue is resolved, also after which m

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:13:49AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > odds are your power supply is on its way to the power supply cemetery. > > I doubt that, because this laptop is only one year old. I'm kind of hoping that the power supply doesn't have t

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord' A SOLUTION

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset > > and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. > > having never tried arecord I tried it out - o

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:33:27PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/2/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> Hi, > > It looks weird - CRC errors? Is the DVD scratched badly? I'm afraid I > cannot help you; maybe you should try asking on some mplayer forums/groups? > > BTW, have you tried the kaffeine already? It worked better than mplayer > with DVDs for me. > > Kind regards, > Michal R. Hoffmann

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord' A SOLUTION - POSTSCRIPT

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 16:49, David Fox wrote: > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset > > and when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. > > having never tried arecord I tried it out - o

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> What happens if you run cdck to check the quality of the DVD? I installed cdck from the deb repo and ran it. A lot of errors. There are a lot: ! unable to read sector 195007, reason: Input/output error ! unable to read sector 195008, reason: Input/output error ! unable to read sector 195009,

How to access RS-232 console from terminal?

2007-10-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I know this may seem so obvious but I have no experience with this at all. Basically I want to access the console interface of a network interface device using RS-232. I am pretty sure linux/unix has built in support for this but how does it work? Do I just plug it in? Where do I se

Sarge php4-cli no mysql support?

2007-10-03 Thread Simon
Hi There, We have a sarge box that we have just installed php4-cli on, but there seems to be no mysql support? Can anyone confirm this? I have php4-mysql installed. What can i do here? Here is the Configure Command from phpinfo() with the command line client. Configure Command => '../configure

Re: VNC install--possible dependency error?

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:37:19PM -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Here's a transcript: > > NewPicking:/home/carlf# apt-get install vnc4server xvnc4viewer vnc-java > xtightvncviewer > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state inform

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:34:51AM -0400, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte > > IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to > > provide a number of

Re: How to access RS-232 console from terminal?

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:29:40PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I know this may seem so obvious but I have no experience with this at > all. Basically I want to access the console interface of a network > interface device using RS-232. > > I am pretty sure linux/unix has built

Re: How to access RS-232 console from terminal?

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Sims
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:29:40PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I know this may seem so obvious but I have no experience with this at > all. Basically I want to access the console interface of a network > interface device using RS-232. ... > And I usually need to transfer files via the 1K

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to TTY1, among other

Re: Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

2007-10-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:51:42 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:29 +0530 > > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a > >> remote host throu

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