Public wireless access and basic security.

2003-02-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
by people listening nearby. I am currently using Mozilla Mail as my client, but hope to swith to Mutt in the future. thanks, Nick Lidakis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public wireless access and basic security.

2003-02-28 Thread Nick Lidakis
Narins, Josh wrote: It sure is cold outside. Where are you using public wireless? -Josh Narins NY, NY I'm a New York City Paramedic, and with downtime between calls, I can surf from my ambulance. I usually sit at one of the public WAP's, like New World Coffee at 84 street and Lexington

Re: DVD/CDRW drives support

2003-03-18 Thread Nick Lidakis
Matej Most laptop combo drives (i.e. DVD-Rom/CD-R/W) are ide devices, selecting scsi emulation in the the kernel config (or loading the modules) is usually all that is needed to get this working. My Thinkpad X23 with a attached media slice and combo dvd-rom cr-r/w works fine. Nick Lidakis

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Garrett P. McLean wrote: hi, i've been trying to get scsi emulation working. i've compiled and installed my own custom kernel the debian way and i enabled the following as modules: ide-cd, scsi_mod, sr_mod, sg, and ide-scsi. i've also added a file called ide-cd to /etc/modutils with the follow

Xcdroast, cdrecord and SafeDisk Copy protection

2003-01-20 Thread Nick Lidakis
I'm having trouble making backups of games I think are protected with Safedisk. The reason I backup these games (Battelfiled 1942 and Rogued Spear) is that I have to have the CD in the drive in order to host a game. After time the discs can get scratched to the point of not being recognized. Wh

ATI drivers 3.2.5, kernel 2.6-test4 and modules

2003-09-18 Thread Nick Lidakis
I have been trying my hardest to get ATI's 3.2.5 driver (the 3.2.5 are supposed to be kernel 2.6 compatible) module to compile with kernel 2.6-test4 on my Debian unstable box. I have read the kernel doc's concerning modules, but I can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. I don't have any

Re: ATI drivers 3.2.5, kernel 2.6-test4 and modules

2003-09-19 Thread Nick Lidakis
Mental Patient wrote: Lots of stuff changed from 2.4 to 2.6 and the ati drivers arent' totally prepared for it. Zinx on #ati (freenode) has a port that I'm using with my ATI 9800 + 2.6.0-test5. You can get it here: http://zinx.xmms.org/misc/tmp/fglrx-module-3.2.5-for-2.6.0-test.tar.gz Nothing

Re: X 4.1.0 - is there gatos code?

2002-10-25 Thread nick lidakis
X4.1 does not support the 7500 at all, you need 4.2. The gatos drivers for 4.2 are superior to those included with X, esp if you need to do any Xv. Mike Just out of curiosity, do they plan to merge this code into the Xfree tree? Is there any reason why one has to go looking for thi

Re: Speed

2002-10-28 Thread nick lidakis
nate wrote: C. Brewer said: Debian 3.0= 47secs not sure what kinda computer you have but i don't even get to my LILO prompt for at least 30 seconds from power on. nate I just purchased a Solek 75drv5-c motherboard. One of the reasons I settled on this board were for it's insanl

Re: Speed

2002-10-28 Thread nick lidakis
C. Brewer wrote: The following may be unappetizing to trolls: - From power on to KDE- Mandrake 8.1=1min 52secs RedHat 7.1= 1min 35secs Debian 3.0= 47secs (with setups as close as possible by distro) Debian Unstabe 32 seconds to XDM (with having to press enter at the lilo multi-boot prom

Re: Installing Debian on IBM Thinkpad X24

2003-09-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: So I got myself one of these nifty things. It's really nice but it won't be perfect until I can get Debian on it. The problem is doesn't have a floppy or cd drive. I did notice it can boot from the network. Would it be possible to do some kind of TFTP type deal? It's ru

Re: Intel 82562ET NIC on Intel D845GEBV2

2003-06-04 Thread Nick Lidakis
ourclan wrote: Hello I am trying to install Debian using a Debian CD (just downloaded latest stable ISO) to a Intel D845GEBV2 Motherboard. This motherboard as an integrated Intel 82562ET NIC. So I try to have it install the eepro100 module, but it doesn't install. I did check and the NIC is ena

Re: pb with eepro100

2003-06-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
Manu wrote: Hi I am having some issues with my pc. I have an intel card and I know it works with the knoppix distribution 3.2 as I have tried it and was connected . I have compared the modules and the only differences between debian and knoppix was the mii.o. In fact this module is a dependance f

agpgart module, gui, and system responsivness

2003-06-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
I am currently running debian unstable on a dual p3 (1Ghz CPU's) tyan (via apollo pro 133a) motherboard for my daily computing needs when I'm home. I've been reluctant to upgrade because, well, it works and it's rock solid stable. But I have always noticed one annoying thing. Mozilla is slow. S

Linux and Intel's Hyperthreading

2002-12-31 Thread nick lidakis
I was looking to replace my 1Ghz P3 and motherboard with a stable, but fast mb/cpu combo that was fully supported by a recent linux kernel. I was looking a an Intel 845PE motherboard with a 3.0Ghz cpu. My question is, how is Hyperthreading supported under linux? Is it a matter of enabling SMP

Debian as a Personal Video Recorder??

2003-01-13 Thread nick lidakis
Is there anyone here on the list that is using Debian as a personal video recorder? Anybody able to get an unattended machine to record a couple of different shows a week? I think I'm gonna need a WinTV card, as these seem to be linux supported, but apt-cache search doesn't turn up any relevant

how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread nick lidakis
I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont have enough space to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out a 300MB partition. /var seems t

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread nick lidakis
David Raeker-Jordan wrote: nick lidakis wrote: I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont have enough space to ho

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-16 Thread nick lidakis
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:11:00AM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: Yes, I usually clean once a while, but a recent upgrade neds 50+ MB and I;m short on space. I'll try the aforementioned recommendations. Although moving your apt cache is probably the better sol

Re: MOUSE won't function

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Joris Huizer wrote: OK for everybody - I was *still* not sure about the mouse so I asked my dad who has all the hardware info (he did the buying so he has the info :-S) The mouse is a Logitech MouseMan(r) Wheel, 3 buttons with wheel USB I hope this will make things clear! --- Bob Proulx <[EMAI

Re: X11

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Winkler wrote: I had a similiar problem with an ATI AIW 8500dv. I ended up upgrading to xfree86 4.2 from 4.1, (which necessitated an upgrade from "Woody" to "Testing") this fixed the problem, I specified the radeon driver. Here is a link to the ATI website where they provide instructions

test

2003-12-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
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Re: xcdroast and 2.6.9 in Debian

2004-11-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roy Pluschke wrote: There appears to be a problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 kernels and cdrecord. This problem is well documented -- see for example: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3644 You either have to apply a patch or burn cd's as root. Some people are also having trouble burning audio cd's whe

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
Otto Wyss wrote: Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 'ello Otto On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:44:59PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's in the xfce4-mcs-plugins package. You might need the gtk2-engines-xfce package too. I have it inst

Dallas Semiconductor Thermochron iButtons and tempature logging with Debian/Linux

2004-12-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is there anybody on the list using or experimenting with Dallas Semiconductor IButtons? I recently ordered the DS9490B 1 wire USB bridge and a DS1921G-F5 Thermocron temperature logger. I am going to use the device to log temperatures throughout the duration of a few backpacking trips, with atten

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
Rogério Brito wrote: Indeed. One thing that has puzzled me is that scrolling in www.macslash.org is simply *slow* on my system while I am using Debian. On the other hand, when I boot Windows 2000 SP4 on this very same machine, I have no problems with slow scrolling on that site. I wouldn't eve

potato to sid upgrade error 32 broken pipe

2001-08-01 Thread nick lidakis
Had an extra hard drive lying around, decided to give sid a twirl. Installed minimal potato without X. Changed sources to point to unstable. Typed apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade as usual. Halfway thru upgrade I get: --- 90 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 toremove and 3 not

debian linux and SMP

2001-08-20 Thread nick lidakis
Does anyone on the list have any experiences with debian or linux on a Tyan Tiger 230 SMP board? Is there a list for people running debian SMP? Thinking of purchasing this board with 2 933eb intel proc's. Any info would be appreciated. Nick

stepping and /proc/cpuinfo

2001-08-26 Thread nick lidakis
What exactly is cpu stepping? I just realized that my dual cpu's have different stepping, one is 6 and the other 10. These CPU's were purchased on the same day. I can't seem to find any relevant info when I tried a google search.

APIC IO erros

2001-08-31 Thread nick lidakis
This isn't specific to debian per se, but here goes.. I recently upgraded to a Tyan Tiger 230 with dual 1Ghz P3 cpu's. After compiling with 2.4.7 on debian woddy dmesg showed no errors. Trying to compile kernel 2.4.8 returns a APIC IO error which i know nothing about. Doing a google search ret

MPEG video trouble Radeon 64 MB DDR

2001-09-09 Thread nick lidakis
System: Tyan Tiger 230 w/dual 1 GHZ P3 512Mb ram 3com NIc 3c590 Ensoniq 1371 soundcard OS's Debian woody, debian SID, win98 SE via moblie rack HD swap Problem: Newly purchased Radeon 64MB VIVO works with openGL with all 3 O

documentation for Xfree updates?

2002-01-12 Thread nick lidakis
Where can I find the documentation for the Xfree updates? Testing went from ver. 4.1-9 to 4.1-11 and I can't seem to find the changelog on my system or on the Xfree website. I also tried a google search. Any ideas?

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: That's right: MX-440 + Nvidia driver 1120.200 FPS TNT2 - 440.800 FPS Running 2 cards with two monitors, two kbds, two mice for two users, and 2 X servers from Sarge and the Nvidia driver. Hugo May I ask if that video card has a fan or if it's of the silent heatsink only

Recommendations on SCSI controller for Debian desktop

2004-07-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
I was looking into replacing the hard disk on my debian box with a 36GB 15k Fujitsu SCSI disk. I was hoping that by doing this I would be able to reduce boot times and increase system responsiveness. I would like to hear about people's experience with SCSI disk on the desktop, and hope they co

debian based dtstro that's designed for flash USB sticks > 64Mb

2004-07-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Have been searching on Google and on linux.org for a debain based linux distribution that is bootable from usb flash memory but will also allow you to apt-get pacgakes and install on the USB media as needed. I will be using with a 256MB flash key. Most of the distros I have found on google f

Re: debian based dtstro that's designed for flash USB sticks > 64Mb

2004-07-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, may be you can start here: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/index.html hth, Jerome Nick Lidakis wrote: Have been searching on Google and on linux.org for a debain based linux distribution that is bootable from usb flash memory but will also allow you to apt

Re: Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R

2003-07-02 Thread Nick Lidakis
Dave Howorth wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of buying a machine based on the Intel 875P chipset, probably using either the Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R motherboard, and I'd appreciate any advice as to whether/how the hardware works with Debian (Woody with whatever changes are required would be

Re: Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R

2003-07-03 Thread Nick Lidakis
Dave Howorth wrote: Hi Nick, Thanks for that. I read the review but was still left with some questions. (This may just be due to my lack of expertise in kernels). It seems that the reviewers didn't get even Intel's RAID 0 to work, and they installed on a 'PATA' drive and were only able to see

Re: Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R

2003-07-03 Thread Nick Lidakis
Michael Epting wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:18:52PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: They were using a 2.4.20 kernel or a pre 2.4.21 kernel IIRC. I plan on using it with PATA drives, so I can't offer any advice on SATA. I prefer the Intel board cause it lacks all the bells and whistles

Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

2003-07-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I have recently purchased a new machine (Athlon XP 2500+ w/ 333MHz FSB, 1 GB RAM, Radeon 9000 Pro). I have manage to figure out that by messing with the chipset settings in the BIOS I can change the speed of the CPU's opertation. I.e., setting a speed of 166 MHz comes u

Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

2003-07-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: The problem I am having now is that I can't even run it at the _rated_ clock speed. I have to run it my 2500+ as a 1900+ to keep it from locking up. Did you assemble this machine yourself? Are you sure the CPU cooler is rated for your proc? Did you apply thermal grease

Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
I just purchased a Radeon 9700 Pro (new MB also, Intel 875PBZ)so I could play America's Army in Linux. I used to play with a Radeon 8500LE, debian testing, a custom kernel and ATI's drivers for 3d acceleration. At this time last year ,IIRC, Debian testing had Libc 6.2, which according to the ATI

Re: Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: I was able to accomplish this by following ATI's well-enough written HOWTO (it is the "Release Notes" link). Their driver is compatible with the newer version of libc in unstable. I am currently running this setup right now. Just use their Xfree4.2.x and libc dri

Re: Libc 6.2, Debian and compiling modules for ATI Radeon 9700

2003-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: 812 FPS!! I get about 780fps with that PBuffer GLXGears thing (fgl_glxgears, right?). And I have a FireGL X1 (allegedly r300 core -- Radeon 9700?)!! Which card did you say you had? :P I purchased a Tyan Tachyon 9700 Pro, the only 9700 pro I know that comes withh a o

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
Rus Hughes wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro running with XFree86 (version 4.2.1) in Debian Unstable. After reading the readmes, I turned the fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm into a deb with alien and installed it. I rolled my own kernel (2.5.73), and tried to build the Fir

ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
I thought someone on the list might want to know that ATI released updated drivers for their Radeon Fire GL and consumer 8500 series and above video cards. The release notes are exactly the same as the previous version, but I thought I might give them a spin since Xv was a bit broken in the last

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Johnson wrote: Anything's gotta be better than what I've got right now...anybody know the ETA of seeing this in Debianized form? Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM install with Debian. I got it going ina few minutes usi

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Rus Hughes wrote: Sorry for not replying sooner but I've only just now had time to try it out. I did exactly as you said, although they updated the driver on the site to: Driver Version X4.2.0-2.9.13 on July 22 (I also downgraded to the 2.4.21 kernel) and the fglrx module compiled and installed pe

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM install with Debian. I got it going ina few minutes using

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: If you start out with your root FS on one device and later move it to another device, basically what you are doing, there are two things you need to do: 1. Tell the (new) kernel about the change 2. Update /etc/fstab. I'll elaborate a bit on #1. If you have booted 2.4.25 an

3ware escalade 8006 SATA RAID recommendations; dual boot windows

2004-06-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
I have been meaning to upgrade my hard disk setup to a RAID array 0 to help increase system responsiveness and reduce system applications start up times. After some research using google, it seems that the 3ware escalade line of RAID SATA cards, specifically the 8006-2LP 2 port RAID card, fit t

Broken system libgcc_s.so.1 errors after ungraceful shutdown

2004-02-23 Thread Nick Lidakis
I seem to have broken my debian unstable. I completed a apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade on Saturday to install Xfree 4.3. Everything installed fine, but the power to the laptop was interrupted accidentally and I didn't get a chance to power up the machine until today. I keep getting erro

Re: Broken system libgcc_s.so.1 errors after ungraceful shutdown

2004-02-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Lidakis wrote: I seem to have broken my debian unstable. I completed a apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade on Saturday to install Xfree 4.3. Everything installed fine, but the power to the laptop was interrupted accidentally and I didn't get a chance to power up the mach

Re: Broken system libgcc_s.so.1 errors after ungraceful shutdown

2004-02-25 Thread Nick Lidakis
Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:29:45PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: find / -name libgcc_s.so.1 tells me that rit esides in /lib on my desktop machine, would it be safe to copy it over to the laptop? If it's the exact same version as should be on the laptop, I'd guess

[Fwd: Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?]

2004-03-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
--- Begin Message --- Number Six wrote: What am I not getting? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/06/1436223&mode=nested http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html The release date for 3.7.0 on the ATI site is 3/2/04. But the fglrx-4.3.0-*_3.7.0-3_i386.deb .debs I download

Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?

2004-03-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
Number Six wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:38:52PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Thanks for the excellent information, adding the list back in as they would also like to know. One thing I just noticed is mplayer is using the "x11" -vo device even though in debconf I specified &q

dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0

dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives.

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: [SNIP] Updating mozilla chrome registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 68: une xpected EOF while looking for matching

Debian and ACPI: success stories on the desktop?

2004-02-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is there anyone on the list who has had success using ACPI and suspend to RAM on a home desktop machine? If so, are the results consistent and reliable? I would like to have my debian box instantly available for searching the web, but would feel guilty to leave an electron guzzling p4 3ghz machi

cdrom, kernel 2.6 and ripping audio cd's

2004-04-08 Thread Nick Lidakis
Under kernel 2.4, I was using scsi emulation for the dvd-rom and cd burner and USB mass storage on my sid . Scsi emulation worked fine as a normal user. I'm a member of the following groups: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups nick cdrom audio src video After switching over to kernel 2.6.4 with ATAPI C

Re: USB camera is not recognised as a SCSI device

2004-04-23 Thread Nick Lidakis
Tom Peters wrote: Following the HOWTO's I try to mount my digital USB camera in the following way: sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device May I ask what type of media your digital camera is using, and is it removable? I ask this because I has trouble m

CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on one detail: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y. I can not find this kernel option anywhere when attempting to confi

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Celejar wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:29:40 -0400 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on one

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Celejar wrote: Well, like many kernel options, it does depend on other things. For example, if swap (General Setup / support for paging anonymous memory (swap)) isn't enabled, you won't get an option for software suspend. >From 'kernel/power/Kconfig': config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND bool "S

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Wayne Topa wrote: Nick Lidakis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Celejar wrote: In 2.6.18, it's under 'Power Management Options'. Check 'Software Suspend'. Celejar No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Lidakis wrote: I posted clearly that those options were not available and even copied over the menuconfig screen in my previous post. So, you telling me that the options are there helps me little. What I am asking (and, yes, I did try Google) is: I'm I misconfiguring the kernel c

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Stefan Monnier wrote: No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.20 from kernel.org. These are my options in either kernel: The stock 2.6.18-4-686 kernel has it enabled, but the 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem doesn't have it at all (not even disabled). Maybe that can help you,

Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-06-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Orestes leal wrote: Hi Folks, I want that some of the members of the group comments something about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like Doom3, etc in linux with a performance closely like win32 and Dir

xine, mplayer or any media player segfaults

2006-12-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
As of a couple of days ago, any media player that I try on my Debian Sid box segfaults, no matter what video file format. Same goes after installing VLC. After doing a search, I think I might want to use a program called strace to try to figure out what's going on. I have to admit that I am t

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sid Arth wrote: Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and what do you mean by trimming? Ill try to fix it myself if I can. On 9/26/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: or any other email clien

Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first sent it this morning. I am need of some help with a USB device under Debian; trying last night multiple times to no avail. I have a Dallas Semiconductor Thermochron temperature data logger that I am trying to set. The data lo

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Oleg Verych wrote: 27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first sent it this morning. Oh, man, are you serious? First. No one interested in you prev. email sending failures, right. Because this is a noise, not information. No one

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Kevin Mark wrote: Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. Insulting folks about background, sexual orientation, or language IN ONE POST is beyond the pale. While folks here ocasssionaly make slight taunts or comments at one another, it is expected that newcomers r

Re: k3b crashing when track added for audio cd

2007-10-14 Thread Nick Lidakis
H.S. wrote: I did run it from the command line to see what was going wrong. Didn't get much info through. The debug errors within k3b say something about no permission to use the device. Can any ones else using Testing confirm that he can make an audio cd from a flac file on a fully updated sy

Re: intall nvidia driver on debian lenny

2007-10-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Bogdan Marian wrote: Hello. Yes, it was running with the free version of the driver. I can successfully start if i change the Driver section to "nv" from "nvidia". In fact, that's how i'm able to send you this mail. I had a similar problem once; realized I forgot to do "apt-get install n

strange whiteglass cursor behaviour in Xorg with mozilla & thunderbird

2006-05-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
I will do my best to describe the problem (feature?) I witness when using the whiteglass cursor theme under Xorg. I have been using the the whiteglass cursor since it first became available (Xfree 4.0?) in Debian unstable, but have always noticed one annoying aspect: When using the whiteglass c

Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
I was having trouble with my monowall router running off a compact flash. I decide to reinstall the monowall boot image onto the CF card. In the process I must have mistyped and accidentally wrote the image to my boot partition i.e. /dev/sda1. The machine now boots into monowall instead of Gru

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
Kilian wrote: nick lidakis wrote: I was having trouble with my monowall router running off a compact flash. I decide to reinstall the monowall boot image onto the CF card. In the process I must have mistyped and accidentally wrote the image to my boot partition i.e. /dev/sda1. The machine

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-06-01 Thread nick lidakis
Dmitri Minaev wrote: I am afraid that nothing can be done to recover this installation. You still can try to recover some of your data. If your partition table is damaged, you may find TestDisk useful. See: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk TestDisk has helped me to recover my data when I

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-08 Thread nick lidakis
Michelle Konzack wrote: MSI is crap... I prefer a Bullet-Proof Tyan!!! Greetings Michelle Konzack I prefer Tyan also, but with the latest Tyan Tomcat K8E I purchased, you still need a DOS floppy to do a BIOS upgrade. What is up with that? I did manage to Google some esoteric instr

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-08 Thread nick lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:33:51AM -0400, nick lidakis wrote: In comparison, my Asus A8N-SLI Premium board can be updated just as you described: from just burning a CD-ROM with the latest BIOS. All this before loading the OS. Not only that, but hitting F8 gives you

Re: google earth and sid...

2006-06-13 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: hello i can't get the brand new google earth for linux (R) (C) (TM) working. installation is OK but i get this : $ googleearth : [splashscreen] Segmentation error has anyone solved this ? -- Nicoco Works fine here on my unstable box with kernel 2.6.15. Using an NVIDIA

changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-02 Thread Nick Lidakis
I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons that Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that matter, e.g. Abiword) is using. It seems to using the the stock gnome icons I have installed. I don't have Gnome or Xfce

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-03 Thread Nick Lidakis
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:46:39 -0400 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons that Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Liam O'Toole wrote: You have two choices: 1. Keep your copy of ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (which looks like it was written by the theme switcher) and put further customisations in ~/.gtkrc.mine 2. Replace the contents of ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the following: gtk-theme-name="Clearlooks_Cairo-Breathe"

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-28 Thread Nick Lidakis
oneman wrote: On 28-jun-2008, at 18:30, Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a mini case with a VIA motherboard and CPU. It has an on-board ethernet port. I'd like to use it as a Linux firewall/NAT router to replace the (wired only) LinkSys I have now. It only has one PCI slot, but I want to be abl

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Frank McCormick wrote: Thanks Brian, but I think I am gonna get myself an Nvidia-based card :) The NVIDIA card might not be any better. I have issues, with the proprietary drivers, with slow scrolling using either a Quadro NVS 285 or a GTX 7800 on a 1600x1200 DVI panel. The open source dri

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Frank McCormick wrote: Hummn.Tried both sites and they work well on my machine - the shame site does tend to drive up the cpu needle. Would you (or anyone else, especially if you're using and Intel or NVIDIA driver) mind trying this site? http://www.tempus-vivit.net/taverne/thema/935 Thi

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: I went to that page, but all I saw was a relatively simple web forum. NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE Iceweasel 3.0-rc2 What about scrolling through the posts? And sluggishness? Are ya using the NV or Nvidia driver? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: The "inner" scroll region? No sluggishness or slowdown. Noticeable CPU usage by /usr/bin/X11/X when I rapidly jerk the scroll bar up and down, but that's normal. Are ya using the NV or Nvidia driver? Sorry. The

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
H.S. wrote: . Slows mine too. Mozzila Iceape browser 1.1.9-5, Debian Testing, 1.9 GHz Pentium, 1.25 G RAM and using Nvidia driver from Unstable repositories of Debian. I'm running unstable as well with its current driver: 173.14.09 I'm running one DVI panel (IBM L200P) at its native 1600x12

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
John Hasler wrote: Brian writes: I would argue that this is a problem with Firefox, not whatever video driver you're using. I've noticed that fixed background images really cause Firefox to choke, especially with smooth scrolling enabled That would explain why it works fine for me. I use smoo

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: > A y2k-vintage Gateway VX1120 (Hitachi Diamondtron flat-screen CRT) at 1280x1024 with GNOME & Metacity. (I see no reason to waste resources on eye candy.) Would you mind posting your xorg.conf? I have tried EXA and XAA options to no avail. My desktop is a minimal Openbox a

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: > You can use a userContent style sheet to do that. Add this line * { background-image: none ! important; } to the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default/chrome/userContent.css Thanks for that. It seemd to have mostly fixed the sluggishness on the page (http://www.

Re: Supported hardware

2008-07-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
Stefan Neacsu wrote: Hello! I recently tried to install the latest stable debian version on a Asus A7k laptop, but the installer fails to identify my hard drive. Here is the configuration: CPU: AMD Turion 64 x2 TL60 Video: Ati Radeon HD 2600 RAM: 2048 HDD: Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 SATA 250 GB WLAN

Posting to list about a project completed w/ Debian software is OT or not?

2008-07-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is it too off topic to post about a project completed with Debian software? I don't have any specific problems with the solution I have put together, but thought I would share and would like some constructive criticism in regards to the way I integrated the software together. Figure I would as

OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-19 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: - Mark it [OT] and post away! Thanks... Just thought someone could benefit from this application, or I could receive some constructive criticism on some of choices I had made. I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server since early last year f

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel 3: agony of the snail

2008-07-20 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: Most of you will yawn, and think, "there he goes again", but this why I don't like display managers. Can you elaborate? With a display manager one cannot kill X to make new changes, like the aforementioned libraries, to take effect? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

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