bad performance on playing video

2001-10-14 Thread ad
I use Xine to play VCD, DVD and other video files, the audio performance is good, but the performance is awful, lots of lag. My CPU is PIII 1G, 764Mb ram, and AGP card with 4Mb ram. So I don't think my hardware is not powerful enough to play video. I set up MTRR support. What else should I do to in

problem occured while ripping audio CD

2001-10-14 Thread ad
Something weird happened while I ripping audio CD, such error message shows as below.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cdparanoia -vsQ -d /dev/cdrom cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

Debian Etch and time zone problem

2007-11-15 Thread ad
Hi! How can i make Debian etch use localtime zone as Etch's system time? I've a dual boot system with winxp. My bios uses local time zone as hardware clock. winxp also uses that. But Etch uses UTC. I want Etch to recognize Local time zone. I don't want to use UTC. How can i prevent Etch from u

Re: Debian Etch and time zone problem

2007-11-15 Thread ad
On Thursday 15 November 2007 16:08, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:22:28AM -0500, ad wrote: > >recognize Local time zone. I don't want to use UTC. How can i prevent > >Etch from using UTC(prevent UTC time from loading)? > > Edit the file /etc/

Re: Debian Etch and time zone problem

2007-11-15 Thread ad
On Thursday 15 November 2007 16:08, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:22:28AM -0500, ad wrote: > >recognize Local time zone. I don't want to use UTC. How can i prevent > >Etch from using UTC(prevent UTC time from loading)? > > Edit the file /etc/

Iceweasel window control button and beryl problem

2008-01-13 Thread ad
Hi! I'm having strange problem with Iceweasel and beryl. I've installed beryl with Gnome. When I run iceweasel browser and make the mouse pointer wait over any window control button(miniminze, maximize or close button) the button doesn't glow properly. I see a box with distorted images instead of

debian question

2003-04-01 Thread Hans Ad
I am a beginning Debian user, I',m installing it now. A friend of mine wants to help me. He lives in a different city. He asked me to make a SSH server on my linux machine and forward a port of my switch, so he can configure my machine from his PC (over the internet). now my question is.  

Re: Re: More about ATI

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Why not see for yourself? Look at the log file /var/log/syslog (root access required) Search for lines similar to these: {timestamp hostname} kernel: [7.531710] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode {timestamp hostname} kernel: [7.531719] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R200_cp.bin

Re: Re: hang during boot - mount: only root can do that

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Permissions can be a proper pain ;P Had some problems myself a couple of times that ended up being solved by simply invoking chown or chmod to apply correct settings... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
First of all, I am not very experienced and use the i686 architecture, but what I did might help: I've put a variety of partitions on the 2 disks I use for the purpose of dual booting. One holds the filesystems etc. for the other OS, intended for legacy applications that I still use... may use. I

Re: Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
Regardless of the possibility to use the space, I ALWAYS leave the first cylinder of a disk unused (aligning partitions to cylinder boundaries). I find the idea of using the first cylinder for "optimal" space usage a bit ridiculous, to be honest. With thousands of cylinders on a disk, if not more,

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
(Suggestion) check the mount options in /etc/fstab. For example, the lines for one of the user-accessible partitions on my external hard drive looks like this: # "Resources" partition on external HD (/dev/sdd2) UUID=---- /mnt/Resources.src ext4 user,noauto,relatime 0

rkhunter database update - which method is recommended?

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
aware, both synaptic and aptitude rely on apt, but I feel that it's wise to handle any security-related issues as low-level as possible. Does anyone have other suggestions to consider? Regards, Ad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
I was happy to have a MEPIS Live CD around with ext4 support. I've used it to move data about and pre-partition/pre-format the partitions, except for the ones used for sRAID. I don't know if MEPIS supports the architecture you're using, but maybe Knoppix would be more suitable. Knoppix has it's De

Re: Re: rkhunter database update - which method is recommended?

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
These days, when replying, I reply through the first link under "Reply To" below a message. I am then taken to gmail, where I compose my reply and send it. Then I simply click the Back button to get back to the original message. This time, I used the second option to reply to you directly, on-list

Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
This is starting to enter an area where I can't say too much with full certainty. Below I'll give a few hints that may or may not work. After that, I'll probably withdraw, as I won't have much more useful info to add right right now. In addition, using the capitaI i for normaI L, as this stupid wi

Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ad L.
I am not sure where to file this bug report, because it's a kerneloops caused by a bug. This is what happened: 1. USB2 hard disk disconnected and immediately reconnected, which could be caused by a known bug in certain EHCI controller chips 2. An X process probably got terminated and restarted 3.

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ad L.
send out a proper, useful bug report. Anyway, thanks again. I hope that it'll reflect in a good contribution towards even better open source software. Regards, Ad (hoping I'm replying in the proper way) 2011/10/7 Camaleón > > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:46:22 +0100, Ad L. wr

Re: When was Debian installed

2011-10-08 Thread Ad L.
My simplest bet would be this one: head /var/log/dpkg.log One of the very first lines would read: [date] [time] install base-files [initialVersion] I'm not sure if the log ever gets replaced or moved, but my system says that. Tool used: head (showing the first lines of a file) Related tool: tail

Re: Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-10-08 Thread Ad L.
Silently seconded. But I guess it's human nature to simply not listen until it turns out that was a wrong choice. And plenty never learn afterwards either. Anyway, on topic: Most tools allow you to tell the Linux kernel the amount of sectors, heads and cylinders the disk has. It should simply be

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