Re: new email test to debian user

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 16:19 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > sent 4:18 PM, EST 12/1/08 > > and I am subscribed to whitelist. > > > -- > Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Replying as requested by my hosted site. -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTEC

another new email test as requested by hosted provider

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
test, ignore, checking headers for relay time. sent 4:43 EST 12/3/08 -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important is good computing power and a good screen at 15.4"

Re: cupsys installation

2008-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
d removing it breaks tons of things.). I suppose you could always get the source and recompile it for your secure installation? Baring that, start trying the dpkg --force-depends-version and start installing the packages one by one until you have a working cupsys. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser da

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
. xfs is real good at large files. There are no large files in /boot. Now, I suppose that TODAY a lot more rescue toys have xfs installed, so this might not be such a big deal. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
To be, or not to be, those are the parameters. >01:45:01 up 1 day, 1:22, 1 user, load average: 1.71, 1.52, 1.17 > > Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
hing like gtkdiskfree for the cli impaired. In general, you want to know how much disk (read LVM partition) is used, how much is free, any tool you use would be good. > > [snip] > > -- > > To be, or not to be, those are the parameters. >01:45:01 up 1 day, 1:2

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
packages. Install one at a time using --architecture for dpkg and retry skype. When the magic total is correct, skype will install. Please read dpkg --force-help dpkg --force-anything can bork your box. This did work on my box, it might not work on yours. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser d

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:24:40 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:15:40 Star Liu wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > > > > wrote: > > > On Thursday 2008 December 18 20:15:00 Star Liu wrote: > >

Re: Creative Zen mp3 Player

2008-12-20 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jefferson I have a Zen Stone 2G mp3 player. It just works in Debian Testing. Plug it in and an icon is made on the desktop in the same way as a usb disk or cd. On my box, Rhythmbox opens up as well. So: I can use Rhythmbox to listen to my music or a file browser/cli to move recordings to it.

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
owever, you will need a win box to manage it. If you get xen working, come over to my house and instruct me! See package xen-linux-system- -- Damon L. Chesser, VCP da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Happy New Year

2008-12-31 Thread Damon L. Chesser
To all, I have enjoyed reading the many posts and solutions you have provided in the last year. May you all have a Happy New Year and thanks for the education. Sincerely, -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
w/ parts to my workplace so > downtime was minimal. > > Anyway, I'm not sure my experience with a laptop is "norm". You probably > should get multiple (>3) opinions on vendors/models you are considering. Well, had my Dell Vostro 1500 for one year now. No issu

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 02 January 2009 13:20:05 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:22:39AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > had my Dell Vostro 1500 for one year now. No issues. I can run it for 5 > > or 6 hours on battery. As for price, I never buy anything > $500 USD

gdm and network-manager issues

2008-01-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
x this behavior? If I go to init 1 and back up, it all works. If I reboot, it will not work auto-magically. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

2008-01-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Please check http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver > updates or > (EE) NVIDIA(0): downgrade to an X server with a supported driver ABI. > (EE) NVIDIA(0): === > > But despite setting -ignoreABI in gdm.conf, still persists. > > Hugo I conclude that

Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

2008-01-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 06:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > > > > I conclude that this is perhaps due to the DRI being loaded and/or > > running the latest binary

Re: gdm and network-manager issues SOLVED

2008-01-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:44 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Just returned back to debian (been using Ubuntu for a while) and > dist-upgraded to sid (as is my habit). All works but I have two > annoying things I don't know how to fix. > > 1. When I boot up I see thi

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ties to make any and all decisions on my personal existence, thanking them very politely anyway. Regards, That kind of "freedom talking" will get you marked as a radical!! Next thing you know, you will be talking about "source code". I think we need to watch you!

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
controller and the HDs and your back up. If your controller dies, you lose everything with out a replacement controller (and it has to be exact or at least based off the same chipset/embeded system family). HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
e gently, and I won't do it again. no, responding like you did, is by def. bottom posting. ---comment- -response-- and i just found out my left and right arrow above the ',' and '.' keys don't work, in fact none of my upper row keys work ,

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
t aware of any advantage over ext2 vs ext3 on /boot. as for ReiserFS, I would not put anything into it in light of Mr. Reiser's troubles. I do not know the future of it. Now I will read the rebuttals and learn! HTH! P.S If you want to know the best religion contact me off list (joking!

badCRC

2008-01-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
. Could this be related or a seperate issue? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-271-8699 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: badCRC

2008-01-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/19/08 10:00, Damon L. Chesser wrote: from messages: Jan 19 10:19:25 dam-main kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jan 19 10:19:25 dam-main kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84

laptop adapter on a desktop

2008-01-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I have a few laptop ide laptop HDs lying around. I can use an adaptor to run it from my IDE controller on the MB. My question is this: Is there any draw back to doing this? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 1:03 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1 and in the GUI (gdm). Running Sid, up to date This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go, "hm". Any ideas? and I can do sudo su.

unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
up to date This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go, "hm". Any ideas? and I can do sudo su. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-271-8699 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-20 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Marc Auslander wrote: You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything is funny. That was a good idea, but all files are their defaults (or so I assume, all options are commented out) -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
daemon called, doing nothing." Where XXX is and rc/init job. What's that about? http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=8007 Thanks -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works SOLVED sort of

2008-01-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: subject says it all, from auth.log: Jan 19 15:56:06 dam-main su[5800]: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication failure; logname=damon uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=pts/2 ruser=damon rhost= user=root Jan 19 15:56:09 dam-main su[5800]: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure Jan

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
and two different apt-get -f install, all was well (required one reboot to fix HAL). If any of this bothers you, perhaps you should stay with stable. And this was a dist-upgrade to sid, I don't know if I would have found that issue in testing or not. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTE

cpufrequtils

2008-01-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
manually set the freq (full when running vms, slower when not needed) and that way I will not always be sucking down the juice. What would a good userspace tool be? dual core amd cpus. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpufrequtils

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
slow. So, I think I really need to switch to userspace and manually switch to full throttle when I need to get vm work done. snip Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpufrequtils SOLVED

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: I run vmworkstation. I do not want my desktop to use ondemand. cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors userspace conservative ondemand powersave performance when I edit /etc/init.d./cpufrequtils ...snip # Set ENABLE to "true&qu

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
consuming programs it caused the cpu too hot and an automatic shutdown is resulted. I want to keep the CPU usage low for those programs to avoid the forced shutdown. In the mean while I'm also looking for an external CPU cooler. :) Manu Run cpufreqscaling, powersave? -- Damon L. Chesser

[Fwd: Re: Kernel panic with a recompiled LVM kernel.]

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Original Message Subject:Re: Kernel panic with a recompiled LVM kernel. Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:21:12 +0100 From: ienabellamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
;startx" and see if it starts. This will rule in or out gdm. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 4:46 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jimmy, I have not yet looked over your files, but try to boot into single user mode (grub screen, normaly the 2nd line) and as root, type "startx" and see if it starts. This will ru

Re: getting gnome out of xfce4 in debian

2008-01-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
back anymore today, HTH! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting gnome out of xfce4 in debian

2008-01-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 6:04 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try running update-alternatives. You might be able to pick what term is opened by default. You can take a look in /etc/alternatives to see what can be changed. I don't remember what the native

two sound card problems

2010-09-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Debain Sid. 2.6.32-5-amd64 lspci -l |grep -i audio: 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2) 05:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series] I actually stopped using Debian for about a year because of th

Re: adding testing repositories

2010-09-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:40 -0500, tom wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 21:25 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:42 -0500, tom wrote: > > > Is it recommended to add testing repositories to package list in > > > Synaptic for lenny? > > >

Re: Squeeze System "Bricked" after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 10:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > I have a Panasonic subnotebook (CF-R3) that has been functioning > superbly for months under Squeeze with Xfce/gdm. It has an integrated > Intel video system and a Japanese / English keyboard with which I have > used the standard kerne

Re: Squeeze System "Bricked" after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 13:31 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 09/04/2010 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > You could also try wicd-curses if that's installed, or use X with the > > vesa driver. Here's an /etc/X11/xorg.conf for that: > > > > --8<---cut here---start

Re: two sound card problems

2010-09-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 21:20 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Debain Sid. > > 2.6.32-5-amd64 > > lspci -l |grep -i audio: > > 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 > Audio Controller (rev a2) > 05:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies I

cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: da...@dam-main:~$ sudo powernowd -d PowerNow Daemon v1.00, (c) 2003-2008 John Clemens /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/affected_cpus: No such file or directory err=2Found 2 scalable units: -- 1 'CPU' per scalable unit /sys/devices/system/

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:14 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 > partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? It is not practical at all since if you loose the drive, you loose both partition, thus defeating the purpos

Re: AMD 'cool & quiet' stopped working in squeeze (and lenny?)

2010-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 18:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100925_233536, Aniruddha wrote: > > I have found some information at the link below. Apparently only > > mobile processors are supported. You could try: > > > > modprobe processor > > modprobe powernowd-k8 > > > > > > http://technowi

Re: AMD 'cool & quiet' stopped working in squeeze (and lenny?)

2010-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 22:37 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 18:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20100925_233536, Aniruddha wrote: > > > I have found some information at the link below. Apparently only > > > mobile processors a

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 05:34 +, s. keeling wrote: > Damon L. Chesser : > > For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: > > Well that's pretty damned sad. :-P I really don't get cpufreq* > myself. Methinks it's far too young software. >

Re: question/answer website for user support: shapado.debian.net

2010-10-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:33 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 04. 10. 2010 17:07:51 je T o n g napisal(a): > > > > OMG, I hope that is NEVER possible. Why? Take a look at, or > > participate > > in ubuntu forum and you will know why. You'll get endless flood in > > nonsense replies, "I agree", "bump

RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 00:24 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > SNIP > > > > > > I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for > partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of > action. Windows comes with a resizer: right click on "my computer" > manage >diskmanager. The

Re: Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Damon L . Chesser
See: http://www.damtek.com/D-I.php use this as a guide, try to get Sarge if you can, and you can pretty much just follow it, only if you use the CD, then make that change in the apt-sources part, i.e. pick CD, not the internet. If you can not get Sarge, then you can still use my howto as a gen

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