Re: heaps possible of conf/multimedia/codec/xorg troubles

2008-07-08 Thread Lachlan
thanks, i'll give the log a look when i get home and see what i can find. the vesa driver was one thing i forgot so i'll look into that was well. this was my first ATI card and it's worked quite well for the 6 months since i bought it. this last week has been the first major issue i've had. On We

Re: Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

2009-06-17 Thread Lachlan
2009/6/18 Neal Hogan : > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Petrus Validus > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am installing Lenny on a Toshiba Tecra A8.  During the software >> selection screen by default the options "Desktop Environment" "Laptop" >> and "Standard System" are checked. >> >> Usually I just

Open-iscsi on a Etch DVC server

2009-06-18 Thread Lachlan
open-iscsi version 2.0.730-etch1 DVC (etch server) http://www.commandsystems.com.au/?q=node/27 ~# uname -a Linux dvc master 2.6.26-bpo.1-686-bigmem #` SMP Tue Sep 2 18:42:50 UTC 2008 i686 SAN (hitachi sms 100) http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/simple-modular-storage.html i've been fol

Re: Graphical Interface Crashes

2009-06-22 Thread Lachlan
2009/6/23 Andreas Juch : > Am Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:06:11 -0500 > schrieb Curtis Tyndall : > >> I have recently installed Debian 5.01 Lenny on my machine.  I used a >> network mirror during the installation.  However, during the initial >> boot after the installation, my graphical interface always cr

Re: Dropbox in Lenny 64bit

2009-06-22 Thread Lachlan
2009/6/23 Kelly Harding : >> >> >> Tried the Ubuntu package without success.(Dependency error) Also tried the >> source package but no luck either. >> Got as far as sudo make install. but said i was not in the sudoers file? >> Jeff >> as root you can add your username to /etc/sudoers to enable sud

SOLVED: update to xserver-xorg-core (2:1.6.1.901-3) killed performance

2009-06-25 Thread Lachlan
>been running what was fairly stable sid system but once i log in to >gnome it comes to a screeching halt, with slow redraw and pretty much >slow everything else graphically.the xorg-core package was updated >this morning and started causing problems immediately after restarting > >Sid/Squeeze >2.6

Re: X performance issues

2009-06-26 Thread Lachlan
2009/6/27 Sridhar M.A. : > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:27:45PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >   > >   > Lachlan reported a similar problem here earlier.  Solved by disabling >   > UXA. >   > > No luck here. problem persists :-( > can you send me your xorg.conf and /va

Re: X performance issues

2009-06-26 Thread Lachlan
2009/6/27 Sridhar M.A. : > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:38:20AM +1000, Lachlan wrote: >   > >   > can you send me your xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log so i can >   > compare yours to mine? >   > i'll do some more testing with UXA on/off but that'

logfiles for shutdown (gdm restarts after starting shutdown)

2009-06-30 Thread Lachlan
when i click on shutdown on my sid system it starts to shutdown and then GDM will restart with the logon screen so i have to shutdown again. this only happens when i run shutdown from the menu and not from pressing the power button. is there a shutdown log i can check? it's a really weird behavio

Re: Nautilus default view is...bad.

2009-07-01 Thread Lachlan
> > Can someone remind me how I get Nautilus to behave like a normal file manager? > You know, one that is useful, with a side pane and a toolbar and actual > navigation buttons? > Edit -> Preferences -> Behaviour -> Always open in browser windows -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: Nautilus default view is...bad.

2009-07-01 Thread Lachlan
>> Edit -> Preferences -> Behaviour -> Always open in browser windows > > I swear, that option was not there when I checked a few minutes ago. It just > magically appeared now! > > Honest... ;) > > Thanks! you can also get there from the command line nautilus-file-management-properties and gconf

Re: Looking for Tyler MacDonald .

2009-07-02 Thread Lachlan
> I see that he posted on here on May 14, 2009 despite > refusing to respond to my efforts at communication for the past year. > If anyone knows how to put him in contact with me please do. I'm a > paying customer and require help. something tells me you won't be getting very much help if you have

Re: Catalyst on new install

2008-10-05 Thread lachlan
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 20:31 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:18 +0200, Pal Trendweaver wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to install Catalyst on my newly installed computer, however > > the aticonfig --initial doesn't update my xorg.conf properly. > > I'm new to ATI (I've used

Re: Writing Permission of Widows partition

2008-10-07 Thread lachlan
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:07 +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I mounted windows xp partion as follows: > "mount -o iocharset=cp949 -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows -o > umask=" > > As a result, reading the windows partition is OK, but the writing is > denied. > The directory of /mnt/wind

Re: can't install Debian

2008-10-07 Thread lachlan
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 04:51 +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Have tried several times to install debian on my system without success. > > Which Debian? > > > It seems unable to recognise my network connection yet I have no trouble > > installing Ubuntu (or any other sys

kernel 2.6.27

2008-10-07 Thread lachlan
does anyone know if 2.6.27 will make it into lenny? my wireless is a iwl5100 (intel wireless link 5100) and i haven't had any luck with 2.6.26-1 as far as firmware in /lib and lame attempts at loading modules i'm lost on it so i'm hoping that 27 is my saviour -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

ping hostnames ala windows ping.exe?

2008-10-09 Thread Lachlan
i've started using lenny for my work pc and there's a feature of the windows ping.exe that i'm trying to find in linux. something in windows i've used a lot is pinging by hostname to find the ip of the pc i'm looking for. a lot of things i've been doing require me to enter the ip not hostname. i'

Re: ping hostnames ala windows ping.exe?

2008-10-09 Thread Lachlan
2008/10/10 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri,10.Oct.08, 15:08:56, Lachlan wrote: >> i've started using lenny for my work pc and there's a feature of the >> windows ping.exe that i'm trying to find in linux. >> >> something in windows i

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-09 Thread Lachlan
uot;unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > are you able to set the real name to Hal and then set the username as something else? from gdm i can log is as either lachlan (real name) or user (username) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008-10-12 Thread Lachlan
2008/10/13 Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 12 2008, Adrian Levi wrote: > >> I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using >> kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like >> to try it out. >> >> The kernel compiles correctly using the usual

Re: friend cannot see me on msn

2008-10-19 Thread Lachlan
2008/10/20 Andreas Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > I just added a friend of mine on msn. I can see her and I can send messages > to her but when I'm online it looks to her like I'm offline and none of her > messages reach me. She tried to send an invitation to me several times but > none of t

Re: Reactvate my yahoo mail

2008-10-20 Thread lachlan
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 08:45 +0100, Abdulquadri Iyiola wrote: > Hi, > > > > Please how do I reactivate my yahoo mail? > > > > Please get back to me. > > go here to activate your account again. > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > __

Re: High cpu usage with compiz

2008-10-21 Thread lachlan
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:04 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > I would like to use compiz. Unfortunately this is problematic since my > system lags because of high (50%) cpu spikes. 3d acceleration is > working. Is there anything I can do to solve this? are you running lenny? what version of ati driver ar

Re: hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread Lachlan
2008/10/27 Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/10/27 L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have P5GC-MX motherboard which has on one IDE hdd slot and two SATA HDD >> slots. I have installed primary IDE DVD drive, secondary IDE IDE HDD 80GB >> and Primarty SATA 160GB SATA HDD. BIOS shows as >

simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread Lachlan
i been have tremendous trouble getting my network to see hostnames and and other pc's. it will see everything randomly one day and then be missing the next. my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that i'm

Re: simple home dns, dhcp server.

2008-11-03 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/4 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:58PM +1000, Lachlan wrote: > >> my idea to fix this is to have an old laptop (old as in i upgraded 3 >> months ago, running lenny but hasn't been updated since august) that >> i'

Re: ALSA not loading at system boot

2008-11-05 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/6 Vinicius Massuchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Anton, > >> Anton Piatek escreveu: >> >> do "lsmod>before" then run "alsaconf" and then run "lsmod>after". Now >> do "diff before after" and post the results i had exactly the same problem. when you run alsaconf get the names of all the sou

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-09 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/10 David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Testing breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it takes a >> long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could be days and >> it could be months at times.

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/13 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice edit

Re: Vbox -vs- OpenVZ?

2008-11-13 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/14 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dennis Wicks wrote: >> >> Greetings; >> >> Just saw a mention of another interesting product; OpenVZ. >> >> Has anybody done any comparison between VBox and OpenVZ? >> >> Any opinions about which is better? My vote is for vbox. Virtualbox OSE has serv

Re: xrandr Dual head screen different resolutions open source radeon driver

2008-11-16 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/17 Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09:37 Mon 17 Nov , Bob wrote: >> I'm running lenny and I have a 22" CRT @ 1600x1200 as my left screen and >> a 24" widescreen LCD @ 1920x1200 as my right screen. >> >> When I boot up both screens come up at 1600x1200 and I have to run the >> fo

Re: [OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/19 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:02:11 +0200 > "Clifford W. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > >> If only they could use all that energy and time for doing good instead, >> imagine how much better Debian/Linux would be if that energy was spent on bug >> fix

Questions about Debian

2000-04-10 Thread Lachlan Robinson
wondering (before I download the rest) if the rest of the package has some GUI features. Thankyou for your time! Lachlan Robinson. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

slink archive?

2001-01-09 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Is slink archived anywhere? A year ago I installed slink on my venerable 486/8MB system and it worked like a charm. Now, slink is apparently gone from the net, so if I just want to install a few packages for my 2.0.38 kernal, how do I do it? I'm a big fan of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" phi

Driver compilation question?

2006-06-04 Thread Lachlan Patrick
I want to get some devices working, but it seems I need to compile the drivers for these particular devices. Q: Is there somewhere that keeps compiled drivers for various versions of the [Debian] kernel to save users from having to download all that source code and fiddle around? The drivers are:

How to find software?

2006-03-28 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Hi, I'm looking for LaTeX or alsaplayer. Anyone have any idea which Debian 3.1r1 CD these packages might be on? Loki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to find software?

2006-03-29 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Lachlan Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for LaTeX or alsaplayer. > Anyone have any idea which Debian 3.1r1 CD > these packages might be on? > > Loki > Thanks to all who replied. One other question: is there an up-to-date Printing How-To somewhere? I nee

Installation: esd and latex?

2006-03-21 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Hello, I've been installing a Debian 3.1r1 system, burning CDs as necessary. So far I've only used CD 1 and 2 from the set. I'm fairly new to Debian 3.1, and I've some questions, and general feedback about the installation process. NB: I had some trouble getting sound to work on my Soundblast