help with corrupted lvm/RAID disk

2006-06-07 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I had a wierd hard crash with amarok running & on the first reboot I had a dpkg error when installing/reinstalling some stuff. On the next reboot gdm wouldn't start, ando n the third I couldn't log in even at the console. I've tracked down my Ubuntu Dapper LiveCD and am trying torecov

help! /usr/lib/ corrupted on XFS! [was: help with corrupted lvm/RAID disk]

2006-06-07 Thread Matt Price
On 6/7/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- My main system is in an LVM Volume Group called Anarres-64-main, with two partitions: root: the root system home: /home forgot to mention that /dev/mapper/Anarres--64--main-root is an XFS file system. sorry about the red he

monitoring network uptime

2006-06-09 Thread Matt Price
LOUSY programmer. THanks, Matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

windows in xen on intel core-duo?

2006-06-13 Thread matt . price
Hi folks, I've just bought a new dell latitude d820, which is lovely. It came with windows pre-installed, and I thught that this time (since I have a huge hard drive) I might leave it installed in a shrunken-down partition. What I'm wondering is whether I can get windows to run from inside li

abcde cddb lookup has stopped working?

2008-07-18 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, i use abcde to rip cd's to ogg and flac. in the past it's worked great but i have a bunch of new cd's to burn and for some reason, abcde has stopped contacting the cddb servers. I get this error: Executing customizable pre-read function... done. Getting CD track info... Querying the C

Re: hibernate desktop?

2006-09-12 Thread Matt Price
On 9/12/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Anybody done this successfully? Details? H the suspend capabilities of the linux kernel are improving, but not foolproof. if your BIOS supports ACPI susp-to-memory or susp-to-disk you vcan mess around with the files in /etc/acpi. m

Re: Dell Latitude D820

2007-04-12 Thread Matt Price
On 4/12/07, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Anybody Successfully runing any Debian ( based ) Distribution with "Xorg" on a "Dell Latitude D820" http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_Latitude_D820/4507-3121_7-31792100.html Etch? i've been running ubuntu feisty on this machine for some time,

gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Matt Price
hi, i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that ran Free software, or was at least intercompatible with my debian & ubuntu based machines. we wi

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: gps and linux?]

2007-06-02 Thread Matt Price
On 6/1/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > hi, > > i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am > planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on > purchasing a gps

2.6.18 and ipw3945

2006-09-27 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, i'm running ubuntu edgy with a self-compiled 2.6.18 kernel on my dell latitude d820. I did the kernel compile because the standard kernel suspend wasn't working for me; suspend2 usually works great on this machine but is having a little trouble at the moment... anyway i've run into

Re: 2.6.18 and ipw3945

2006-09-28 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/06, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price wrote: > anyway i've run into a little trouble with my kernel. the ubuntu kernel > ships with the ipw3945 wireless driver installed. the debian sources, > however, don't, and the suspend2 patches don&#x

bind my hibernate key to some command?

2006-10-04 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, running a debian 2.6.18 kernel on a mostly-ubuntu edgy system, I'd like to find a way to bind the "hibernate" key on my laptop to some function. the laptop is a dell latitude d820 as far as I can tell the keypress is not being intercepted by acpi. acpi_listen records when the "StandBy"

switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-05 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I occasionally need to use the native acceleration of the nonfree nvidia x driver, but my laptop will neither suspend nor hibernate when they're loaded. I'd like to set up a situation where I can log in to my main x session most of the time, but optionally log in to an x server running with a

Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-06 Thread Matt Price
On 10/6/06, Avinash Sultanpur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Matt, On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:34:06AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > I occasionally need to use the native acceleration of the nonfree nvidia > x driver, but my laptop will neither suspend nor hibernate when they're &g

Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-11 Thread Matt Price
On 10/8/06, Avinash Sultanpur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:37:34PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > ah. I hadn't realized this needed to go in my startup scripts -- I'd > read about it on a suspend2 mailing list and included it in my > hibernate

routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-19 Thread Matt Price
hi, i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip addresses/ranges from the vpn. my situation is as follows: I work mostly from home and rely on the university's vpn to be able to access online journals. ths works fine., but

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-19 Thread Matt Price
On 10/19/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet >

debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-25 Thread Matt Price
hi, I'm having a little trouble with the rss feed from planet debian. using firefox 2.0's native "live bookmark" features, I can generate a bookmark which fetches the titles of articles from planet debian. but when I try to click on them. I often get messages like the following: Firefox doesn't

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-27 Thread Matt Price
On 10/27/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price wrote: > >David Welton: Passing information to Rails droppables > from draggables >urn:uuid:73683519-cc21-4c2e-90b2-5bf2955fc359 > http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2006/10/25/passing

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-31 Thread Matt Price
On 10/28/06, Benj. Mako Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > can I file a bug somewhere against planet debian? anyone know? > > I've CC'd mako, its maintainer. The underlying software package, FWIW, > is planet. The bug is in the Planet 2

rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?

2006-10-31 Thread Matt Price
hi, my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kind of machine (limited speed &

sort amarok playlists on multiple fields?

2005-12-11 Thread Matt Price
I'd really like to be able to do that. thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

OOo crashes, fails to restore!!

2005-12-12 Thread Matt Price
st a day's work. partly myself to blame. but partly something is broken in ooo! have to sign off before I start crying. matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- --

Re: OOo crashes, fails to restore!!

2005-12-12 Thread Matt Price
On 12/12/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > sorry for the exclamation points. Just lost a crucial day's work -- > > in fact this is breakdown-inducing stuff -- failed to save regularly, > > and OOo crashed without warning.

quickly add jfs support to kernel?

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Price
out--of-tree modules, so it's a real pain to compile the whole thing again. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

setting proper resolution on my lcd

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Price
using default mode "1920x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "960x600" (hsync out of range) (II) --- (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (wid

Re: setting proper resolution on my lcd

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Price
On 1/19/06, Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:42:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > just got a brnad new dell 1905fp, which mostly works great. Having > > trouble getting it to display at its native 1280x1024, thou

OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Price
ell never used windows except at web kiosks & things). so, any suggestions? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Price
On 1/20/06, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my > > debian boxes I just added a line like: > > > > 192.168.2.111 ourhome > > >

system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
do that. Can anyone give me some advice? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a ppc-specific problem On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or > > temporarily disable udev, or something,

2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/22/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old > > fashioned way. If that does not work, "mknod /dev/hda b 3 0". > > >

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but > > udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 > > kernel based on my 2.6.10config,

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but > > udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 > > kernel based on my 2.6.10config,

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (23/01/06 07:34), Matt Price wrote: > > To: debian users , > > debian users > > From: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by >

switching / to lvm

2006-01-26 Thread Matt Price
sing the package that would have installed these scripts, or whether that package needs to be reinstalled. Haven't found an obvious candidate. Appreciate the help as always. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`

daylight savings error on reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Matt Price
ibernate/resume funciton. Now I notice that it happens on normal reboot as well. Any ideas how to diagnose & fix this problem? Thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `-

Re: daylight savings error on reboot

2006-04-28 Thread Matt Price
Hi Folks, On 4/27/06, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm having a wierd phebomenon. Every time I reboot, the clock gets > > set back an additional hour, as though my ocmputer were adjusting for >

tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-02 Thread Matt Price
further? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:49:13PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having a problem with hard crashes on my box (sid, not quite up to > date). They seem to happen in a variety of circumstances -- th

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thanks andrew. these hardware monitors -- are they things like xseonsors and mbmon? I've just apt-get installed those and will try them out. other suggestions st

Re: daylight savings error on reboot

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
Apologies for a late reply. On 4/28/06, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe my system clock is set to UTC, and I don't have any other OS > operating on the system. If your system clock is set to U

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:22:48AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > er, having a little trouble here -- xsensors comes up blank! not sure > if that means I'm missing the requisite kernel drivers. any way to > t

dvd-9 --> dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
rom it; - dvdrip almost always freezes up my user interface & in any case, once it's finished ripping the files don't appear to have been transcoded and I can't tell what precisely I'm meant to do next. anyway, I would really appreciate any hints folks have or links to use

transcode erros [WAS: Re: dvd-9 --> dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine]

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
Hi Andrew, On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > I've had good success with dvdrip, though I use it slightly differently. I'm ripping my dvd's and saving them as .avi's on my file

sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
info please let me know. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > as discussedi nan earlier thread (sorry don'th ave it handy!) I'm > having trouble with hard freezes on my system. I've installed sensord > and lm-sensors and find tha

Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/4/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price wrote: > May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3013 RPM, div = 8) [ALARM] > Fan2 is the CPU fan in most instances. Does it turn? Did it ever turn? H the CPU fan is

Re: [Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/4/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - I do have 3 drives plugged in to this system, and 768 Megs of RAM, but on the other hand it's a 400W power source. Unfortunately the "mirror test" doesn't work that well for me since I don't know what to look f

kded crash while running amarok in xfce

2006-02-02 Thread Matt Price
yone have any suggestions? thanks, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching / to lvm

2006-02-03 Thread Matt Price
On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Kirchner wrote: > > On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>You can play with things as you like, but I wouldn't do it. > >>I had problems with LVM and got rid of it. Over on Fedora, > >>I've only seen one say "I'm glad

long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues

2006-02-18 Thread Matt Price
close all open windows in tht time. So firefox is still eating cycles, eventhough the windows are all gone. so it would bereally niceto know what exactly makes firefox behave this way. Thanks, Matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' :

Re: long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues

2006-02-19 Thread Matt Price
On 2/18/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 04:42:52PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > so it would bereally niceto know what exactly makes firefox behave > > this way. > Hi Matt, > you should google about firefox issue because as of late I

networked music player that plays local AND remote files

2006-02-25 Thread Matt Price
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cvs for media files?

2006-02-27 Thread Matt Price
uestion. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs for media files?

2006-03-01 Thread Matt Price
On 2/28/06, Michael Schurter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > However, the most important tool that AFAIK is missing, is a audio/video > differencing tool - like diff for video. Without an AV diff tool you > cannot resolve conflicts if two people change the

gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
years of using these programs, I still don't understand them very well and wondered whether someone might clarify the relations among them & the prospects for using gstreamer in the way I've just described. Thanks as always, Matt ------ .''`.

lost mysql root password

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
able, or whatever. I am *not* a cracker, I'm just a little incompetent. APpreciate any help you might give. Thanks, Matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

Re: lost mysql root password

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
Thanks everyone for your help, see below for more: On 3/3/06, anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 March 2006 09:49 am, Matt Price wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > a while ago I switched over to mysql-5.0, then forgot about it > > entirely. Now I&#x

Re: lost mysql root password

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
> > do: > > select hex(User) from user where User LIKE 'root%'; > > > that should give you the hex values of the characters that are there. > > > > > have all four. I guess there must be some white space in the username > > somewhere. Is there an easy way to identify the precise value of a > > my

automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-02 Thread Matt Price
Ho folks, My partner needs to print out copies of all the content in her mid-sized, statically-generated website (I know this is a stupid idea, but it's for her tenure file and there are lots and lots of stupid elements in this process). This seems like something one ought to be able to do autom

Re: automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-03 Thread Matt Price
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: ... wget -m -k http://some.website.com/ and then: #! /bin/bash find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read file; do html2ps -gn $file > "$file".ps ; done find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | whil

xorg slowdown?

2005-09-07 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, a few days ago I semi-accidentally installed xorg on my laptop, a PII-300 with 192 megs of ram. (If I recall correctly, openoffice.org2 pulled in some dependencies and then I installed the rest of the xorg packages to give me a more fully functioning system). Everything works fine, exc

2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-09 Thread matt . price
Hi there, am finally upgrading my system from a 2.4.25 kernel to 2.6.11-1-k7. The trnasition is going ok so far, except for a few problems (see my next message or two) of which the first concerns the nvidia closed-source drivers. I have downloaded the nvidia-kernel-source modules (1.0.7174-4)

kernel 2.6.11 problem #1: "No APM support in kernel"

2005-09-09 Thread matt . price
Hi there, so one more problem with the new 2.6.11 kernel, moving up from 2.4.25. Every time I execute a bash command as a normal user, I get the message "No APM support in kernel" . It's not fatal or anything, but it's annoying. I'm not sure where it comes from -- the mesage doesn't show up whe

applying kernel patch to more recent kernel version?

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
Hi there, I am trying to patch the current 2.6.11-1-k7 kernel (2.6.11-7) with the kerenel-patch-suspend2 package. When I run make-kpkg --added-patches suspend2 --config menuconfig --append-to-version -suspend2 configure kernel_image modules_image I get the following error message: E: no applic

acpi & other power-control questions for desktop

2005-09-10 Thread matt . price
Hi folks, I've moved my desktop home from work and among many other changes, I now occasionally want the thing to power down. Ideally, though, I'd like to avoid having to reboot when I start back up again. THe mainboard supports acpi, so I at first figured sleep would be easy. On my laptop,

Re: applying kernel patch to more recent kernel version?

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: > Hi there, > I am trying to patch the current 2.6.11-1-k7 kernel (2.6.11-7) with the > kerenel-patch-suspend2 package. When I run > > make-kpkg --added-patches suspend2 --config menuconfig > --append-to-version -suspend2 configure kernel_image modules_im

Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
Ms Linuz wrote: > > Look at your /etc/modules and make sure there is 'nvidia' ( without > quote ) line exists. > If not, add nvidia in your /etc/modules > > thanks, tried that, didn't work for me. I think the problem is somehow more fundamental (had tried manually loading the drivers b4 starti

slow dns lookup

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
gaash, latest in a barrage or problems related to movingm y computer from work to home. at work, this computer was exposed directly to the internet; for DNS it used the university dns servers Now it sits at home, and uses the cheap wireless router as the primary DNS. DNS is MADDENINGLY slow, muc

Re: slow dns lookup

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
David Clymer wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 02:08 -0400, Matt Price wrote: > >>gaash, latest in a barrage or problems related to movingm y computer >>from work to home. >> >>at work, this computer was exposed directly to the internet; for DNS it >>used the uni

Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
Ms Linuz wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >>Ms Linuz wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Look at your /etc/modules and make sure there is 'nvidia' ( without >>>quote ) line exists. >>>If not, add nvidia in your /etc/modules >>>

suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk on a desktop computer

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I'm wondering what my best options are for getting my desktop to enter a suspend state. I want to be able to suspend the thing becuase : -it's noisy as hell - it's an energy pig - i hate waiting for a fresh reboot Also I'd ideally like to have it wake up by itself in the middle of the

Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-13 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, Bob Proulx wrote: >Matt Price wrote: > > >>Ms Linuz wrote: >> >> >>>Matt Price wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Ms Linuz wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Look at your /etc/modules

Re: suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk on a desktop computer

2005-09-13 Thread Matt Price
Hi Bob, seems to be my day to hear from you! Bob Proulx wrote: >Matt Price wrote: > > >>I'm wondering what my best options are for getting my desktop to enter a >>suspend state. >> >> > >The suspend2 kernel patches. > > > >&g

font sizes in thunderbird's mailbox display?

2005-09-14 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the menubar, in the toolbars, and especially in the mailbox display -- I've just installed Stacked View Extension -- which is great! -- but it leav

expose internal network to the outside world

2005-09-14 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I have 2 computers on a home network, connected to DSL through a modem and a cheap SMC router (Barricade g = SMC2804WBRP-g). I would like to be able to ssh into both of them form the outside world. I have successfully set up "inadyn" to associate a stable URL (x.dyndns.org) with my dy

Re: expose internal network to the outside world

2005-09-15 Thread Matt Price
sage. Offending key in /home/matt/.ssh/known_hosts:8 RSA host key for x.dyndns.org has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed. This is a minor annoyance but for now I can live with it! thanks again, matt >Good luck. > >On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:16:

Re: font sizes in thunderbird's mailbox display?

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
Michael Marsh wrote: > On 9/14/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird >>for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the >>menubar, in the toolbars, and especi

quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
to go about this? am I missing any steps? is there a better way to do it? thanks much, matt -- -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
ok then, just clarifying (don't want to screw this up):On 9/20/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Gregory Seidman wrote:> } fdisk /dev/hdb, and set up / and swap partitions faster way to copy partitions from one disk to another iswith sdisk or  "cat file | fdisk " can't f

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
Hi Ron,On 9/20/05, Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:20:33AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:> Hi,>> I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging> workstations without cd drives.  THese are donated boxes with small hard > drives (as

automatically partition disk as in deb-installer?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
at you think. Thanks as always! matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

control of modules?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
module not found" errors on boot, and I'd like to figure out which files to change and which command to run to stop this. The debian reference manual says to run update-modules, but the man page says this is an obsolete command. So, any hints? Thanks, matt -- .&

Re: automatically partition disk as in deb-installer?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: * > > sfdisk -d /dev/hdf > /var/scratch/hde.out > > WARNING Will Robinson! > > The output from sfdisk is not always usable as input > to sfdisk, even on the same disc, let alone another! > &

GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
sponding BIOS drive. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# grub-install hd4 The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. --- s... what's going on? I've been workingo n this for a while and need to have it working soon any suggestions? really REALLY appreciate y

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/05, William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:05:05PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > > When booting, kernel panic tells me unable to mount root fs (which is > > reiser 3.6). I'm positive I compiled support inside the kernel for it. > > Other than that, I can't see

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-30 Thread Matt Price
ummm... well, you guys sureh ave been busy while I was away... I'm afraid Mike's right -- doubtless this wwas clearer to him than to alvin b/c he was helping me out in an earlier, similar thread. I am trying to duplicate these disks and make them bootable. Here's the situation: about 25 machin

bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-09-30 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/05, Jan C. Nordholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:27:24PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > on a system that's been running debian for several years, I seem to > > have several systems for organizing modules o

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-10-01 Thread Matt Price
On 9/30/05, Edward J. Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > that helps some -- got rid of most of the messages except one about > > shpchp, which is not listed in my /etc/modules, so don't know the > > origin. Unfortunately cna't post

Re: boot stalls on ntpdate [was bootlog, control of modules]

2005-10-04 Thread Matt Price
On 10/3/05, Edward J Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edward J. Shornock wrote: > > A moot point now... > > > sysvinit (2.86.ds1-4) unstable; urgency=low this is great, thank you. I now have bootlogd running! (found htis out when I finally had an opportunity to reboot, bit of a stressful we

start firefox in particular desktop (under XFCE4)

2005-10-05 Thread Matt Price
I love XFCE4, but one bummer is that its session manager doesn't see firefox, so it won't get restarted automatically when I log in. The workaround is to put an executable file in ~/Desktop/Autostart with the single line: /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox this then gets executed on every startup. But I

gpg: export just my keys, not whole keyring?

2005-10-11 Thread Matt Price
idea about gpg, mini-howto notwithstanding. Help greatly appreciated! thx, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses

Re: gpg: export just my keys, not whole keyring?

2005-10-12 Thread Matt Price
On 10/12/05, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On onsdag 12 oktober 2005, 06:30, Matt Price wrote: > > I get a huge file (don't have room for it!) > > even : > > gpg --export [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ring.gpg > > I think you need to use the KeyIDs,

Re: gpg, Releae.gpg, and Ubuntu...

2005-10-12 Thread Matt Price
--rfakeroot -m"Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" then I did all the necessary changes to the disk (add packages to pool, mostly) after which I have the following in a script # generate Packages, release, releases.gz sudo rm $BUILD/dists/breezy/Release.gpg $BUILD/dists/breezy/Rel

Re: gpg, Releae.gpg, and Ubuntu...

2005-10-17 Thread Matt Price
OK, finally got this ironed out -- the problem was not with gpg, which I was using correctly (if blindly) but with my script, which put the Release file in the wrong spot. In any case, for hte archive, here's a wiki page describing how to do what I was after: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallCDCusto

sorg: understanding InputDevice, dev assignments, and mice

2005-10-25 Thread Matt Price
what I want to know is: - how do I determine which device each physical mouse is/should be attached to? - what stanzas do I need in xorg.conf to ensure that all the mice, and ESPECIALLY the internal pointer, always work? appreciate the help! matt ---

Re: err... XORG, not sorg: [was: sorg: understanding InputDevice, dev assignments, and mice]

2005-10-26 Thread Matt Price

Re: sorg: understanding InputDevice, dev assignments, and mice

2005-10-27 Thread Matt Price
On 10/26/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:23:38AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > > > what I want to know is: > > > > - how do I determine which device each physical mouse is/should be attached > > to? > > You c

make-kpkg & changing "append-to-version"

2005-11-01 Thread Matt Price
ongs the build process, which tends to lead to additional errors with someone like me. THanks, Matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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