Re: Nvidia and 4 monitors in 7.1

2013-06-25 Thread Dan Serban
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:18:45 -0700 Dan Serban dser...@lodgingcompany.com wrote: [snip] [1] http://paste.debian.net/10492/ [2] http://paste.debian.net/10491/ So, nothing huh? Is what I want to do impossible in Wheezy? -- Dan Serban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Nvidia and 4 monitors in 7.1

2013-06-21 Thread Dan Serban
. [1] http://paste.debian.net/10492/ [2] http://paste.debian.net/10491/ -- Dan Serban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2013062845.00c78...@ws77.int.tlc

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-16 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:33:31 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 15 iul 12, 23:51:15, Dan Serban wrote: No real input from the developer, and no real action has been taken. The developer has quite clearly (IMO) stated his view/intentions[1]. Seems quite

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-16 Thread Dan Serban
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:52:01 -0500 hvw59601 hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Dan Serban wrote: snip The bug is reported here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616308 Reading through that bug report, it seems that this has been an issue for some time, a patch is provided

Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread Dan Serban
For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or minimizing/maximizing a window. Scrolling speed is horrendous as well. For the months

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-15 Thread Dan Serban
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:40:26 -0600 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: [snip] This is an 8 port card, so 16 drives will require 2 cards. Unless you plan to connect 4 SATA drives and 4 EIDE drives to the mobo ports...ick Indeed it is, I was planning on adding the second after I've

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-14 Thread Dan Serban
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:32 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Mmm, I don't know how reliable it can be that information :-? (+ means the flag is enabled and - means it is disabled) Regardless lspci output, I would ensure the BIOS POST data displays the right bus frequency

Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-13 Thread Dan Serban
Hello all, I have recently upgraded my Tyan S2885 motherboard and repurposed it to become a file server. In doing so, I picked up a Supermicro SAT2-MV8 which is based on a Marvell chipset. So far everything comes up good, an am planning on 16 hard drives total, the first 4 that I've hooked up

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-11 Thread Dan Serban
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:15:19 +0100 Andreas Weber ae...@worldwideweber.ch wrote: My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist on the QWERTY keyboard? No, it's not. Only if you always work on your own

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-11 Thread Dan Serban
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:07:44 + Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 10 Jan 2012, Dan Serban wrote: That site is down at present. My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-11 Thread Dan Serban
have any other questions. Regards, Weaver. While I have a das keyboard, the answer is correct. Unicomp might have a layout that is hardware based. I'd try them at http://pckeyboards.com -- Dan Serban, IT Systems Administrator The Lodging Company Reservations LTD. - 1.250.869.4931 ext 6252

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-10 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:35:52 + Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 06 Jan 2012, Dan Serban wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:39:03 -0800 Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: Hello all. I've been interested in this subject for some time, because of the greater typing speed

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-10 Thread Dan Serban
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 11:06:48 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 21:37, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 06 January 2012 18:44:22 Raf Czlonka wrote: What's wrong with simply re-arrange the keys on your existing keyboard How do you do that?  I

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-06 Thread Dan Serban
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:39:03 -0800 Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: Hello all. I've been interested in this subject for some time, because of the greater typing speed potential and lowr incidence of RSI and have even delayed moving from two finger typing with an idea of implementing a Dvorak

On understanding Linux I/O problems.

2011-03-23 Thread Dan Serban
Recently I have been running into different issues related to IO problems on different machines. Diagnosing faulty hardware, bandwidth limits and IO caused by different problems which took me quite some time to figure out and I'm still not 100% clear if I've fixed them. So, I'm asking, what

Re: On understanding Linux I/O problems.

2011-03-23 Thread Dan Serban
On 03/23/11 03:18, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Dan Serban wrote: So, I'm asking, what do most sysadmins use to diagnose IO problems? dmesg, blktrace, perf tools (linux-tools-2.6), on top of those you already mentioned. Appreciate the pointers, perf

Making netinst images

2011-03-14 Thread Dan Serban
After playing around with preseeding, I'd like to make a small change to the netinst iso. Simply changing the Install menu item to include a few other options passed to the installer process. Is there an easy way to achieve this? I found a howto on rebuilding the .iso's provided by debian, but

Re: Runaway process detection.

2011-02-28 Thread Dan Serban
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:23:37 -0800 Dan Serban dser...@lodgingcompany.com wrote: Because of a bug in gtk, iceweasel and others (google helped me find the bug reports) nautilus for some users pegs at 100% cpu use because .xsession-errors fills up at incredible rates, which in turn basically

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] Hi, Being the stubborn

Runaway process detection.

2011-02-27 Thread Dan Serban
I've run into a bit of a problem that I'd like to tackle: I'm running lenny in an appserver setup with ltsp. Everything works dandy, and until I have tested the upgrade path to squeeze (possible x.org issues) I'd like to tackle an annoying problem I keep running into. Because of a bug in gtk,

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Dan Serban
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:31:56 + Peter Tynan peter.ty...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things I've never understood about Debian is why the wiki is so inactive when compared to other distributions, the simple fact ... [snip] ... netizen I do not register, I do not make my suggestion and I

Debian way of compiling a kernel.

2011-02-09 Thread Dan Serban
Ages ago, when amd64 wasn't part of the debian collection, I used to compile kernels myself using make-kpkg. This worked wonderfully, when I had to debug driver patches etc. (all is now of course stable). Since then I've forgotten this process, but this is not my problem. I wanted to test a

Re: USB key requirement.

2011-01-13 Thread Dan Serban
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:46:41 -0800 (PST) Emanoil Kotsev delop...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Dan Serban dser...@lodgingcompany.com wrote: I figured that after the root partition is mounted (nfs), I would have an init.d script that would work its magic.. if it's

Re: USB key requirement.

2011-01-11 Thread Dan Serban
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:52:06 +0100 deloptes delop...@yahoo.com wrote: My case is different in the sense that I'm not decrypting my block volumes, just halting a boot sequence. There is something wrong with the setup of your case. If you are doing a diskless boot from a share ...

Re: [OT]: Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-11 Thread Dan Serban
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:18:48 -0600 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Dan Serban put forth on 1/10/2011 7:52 PM: On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:04:19 -0600 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: [snip] http://www.hardwarefreak.com/server-pics/ Which gallery system are you

Re: USB key requirement.

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:46:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 09 ian 11, 21:42:03, Dan Serban wrote: So, I'm currently switching my 9 workstations around the house to diskless boot. They mount nfs shares that reside on top of an encrypted raid server

Re: USB key requirement.

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:07:31 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Dan Serban wrote: So, I'm currently switching my 9 workstations around the house to diskless boot. They mount nfs shares that reside on top of an encrypted raid server. This is all fine and good. What

Re: USB key requirement.

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:45:29 + Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 09:42:03PM -0800, Dan Serban wrote: So, I'm currently switching my 9 workstations around the house to diskless boot. They mount nfs shares that reside on top of an encrypted raid server

[OT]: Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:04:19 -0600 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: [snip] http://www.hardwarefreak.com/server-pics/ Which gallery system are you using? I quite like it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

USB key requirement.

2011-01-09 Thread Dan Serban
So, I'm currently switching my 9 workstations around the house to diskless boot. They mount nfs shares that reside on top of an encrypted raid server. This is all fine and good. What I'd like to do: On a specific workstation, on boot, i'd like to require that a specific usb memory stick be

Multiple xorg instances.

2010-12-21 Thread Dan Serban
Hello, I once ran multiple X server instances in the past, the details of how I got it running elude my memory. Though I do remember that I had to login whenever I went to the second virtual terminal (vt8). I don't want to do this, what I want to do is run a script which starts X on the next

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Dan Serban
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:46:11 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 18 nov 10, 21:37:32, Dan Serban wrote: I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they ever fast. While I like claws mail, last time I looked at it it was lacking IMAP IDLE

Re: apt-listbug weirdness

2010-11-18 Thread Dan Serban
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:03:01 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hi, I am enjoying the use of apt-listbug. Just now it died saying it couldn' t find /dev/tty :-( Tried it 2x. Then I ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in script mode and it ran... Go figure. A bug in

Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-18 Thread Dan Serban
After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to Firefox, then falling in love with iceweasel. Today, sad as it is, is when I feel that I must announce that I decided to: # aptitude purge iceweasel icedove I

Re: debian lenny installation issues

2010-09-30 Thread Dan Serban
On 09/29/10 23:43, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:31:46 +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: almost six months ago, i have installed debian lenny on my machine. at the time of installation i have faced three issues : issue 1 : after configuration of dhcp server, it will ask for domain

Re: Will Multi-Monitor work with my setup?

2010-09-23 Thread Dan Serban
On 09/22/10 11:12, Kent West wrote: Off-and-on for the past two years I've had multi-display working; for the past year, nada. It worked until an update on my Sid box. Since then, I've tried wiping my drive and reinstalling Stable, and swapping out between my three available cards. A lot of

OpenIPMI in Lenny is mysterious to me.

2010-09-22 Thread Dan Serban
Hello list, I am admittedly hopelessly noob with IPMI, though I don't think I'm too noob with Linux in general, I apologise if any of my questions are elementary. I've googled this ad nauseum so I've come here for some help with this. After installing ipmitool and openipmi in Lenny I am

Re: [Was: OpenIPMI is mysterious] Bugs in Lenny

2010-09-22 Thread Dan Serban
On 09/22/10 07:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Dan Serban wrote: [1012115.235704] ipmi_devintf: Unknown symbol compat_alloc_user_space This module and the running kernel are not compatible with each other. snip So what you're telling me

Re: OpenIPMI in Lenny is mysterious to me.

2010-09-22 Thread Dan Serban
On 09/22/10 03:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 22/09/10 18:54, Dan Serban wrote: # modprobe -a ipmi-si ipmi-devintf which results with the following STDERR: WARNING: Error inserting ipmi_devintf (/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.ko): Unknown symbol in module

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Serban
jeremy jozwik wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: ...and might be able to comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? CJ in a recent point and shoot camera surgery i regret using compressed air cans.

Re: samba - smb.conf

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Serban
Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: Hello guys, I have two questions, the first one is how to generate a new "smb.conf" ?? dpkg-reconfigure samba And the second question is regarding the aptitude on Debian Lenny. I tried to removed the samba with "dpkg -r samba" and reinstall it with

Re: USB stick checkup - is heavy daily use taking its toll?

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Serban
Chris Jones wrote: I have been using a run-of-the-mill 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for nightly backups for c. 6 months and I am curious as to wear and tear. The smartctl utility does not give me much information: SMART Health Status: OK + a cryptic Read defect list: asked for grown list but

Re: ATI or Nvidia

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Serban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillermo Garron wrote: Hi, I have my system as dual boot, Debian Etch and ubuntu Gutsy, I am asking on the Ubuntu list, which is my best option nVidia or ATI, actually I have an ATI Radeon X300, and I want to change it. Difficult question as

Re: Ping my modem........

2007-08-28 Thread Dan Serban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie wrote: Never having used ping, and not really understanding the man page for it:- When I ping my modem: what command/option/s should I use? Is the following a normal reply from a satellite modem to ping:- ping: sendmsg: Operation

Re: Icedove 2.0.0.0-4, filters failing to match.

2007-06-20 Thread Dan Serban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mihira Fernando wrote: Dan Serban wrote: Fortunately, or unfortunately I subscribe to some fairly busy mailing lists and use icedove to manage incoming messages with Message Filtering. After upgrading to 2.0.0.0-3 (and thus blowing away my

Re: Icedove 2.0.0.0-4, filters failing to match.

2007-06-20 Thread Dan Serban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:31:54PM -0700, Dan Serban wrote: [...] I added a custom header definition to icedove X-Original-To and if it contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] it should move it to the appropriate folder

Icedove 2.0.0.0-4, filters failing to match.

2007-06-19 Thread Dan Serban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fortunately, or unfortunately I subscribe to some fairly busy mailing lists and use icedove to manage incoming messages with Message Filtering. After upgrading to 2.0.0.0-3 (and thus blowing away my settings) and then to 2.0.0.0-4 my message filters

X fonts

2006-11-07 Thread Dan Serban
Hello all, I've been using debian for ages it seems now and have one question that's been nagging at me for a while. Through X and in some cases on a local tty I get some odd characters. This usually happens in a terminal in X (any of them) and when viewing web pages through firefox or

Hints on module handling.

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Serban
Now that 2.6 is running rampant and has been for some good time... I'm curious how the current correct way to set module parameters is in a udev environment. modutils module-init-tools depmod modprobe.d modules.conf etc..etc... The list goes on and on, and I'm confused. Someone, please point

Re: Hints on module handling.

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Serban
Linas Žvirblis wrote: Dan Serban wrote: Now that 2.6 is running rampant and has been for some good time... I'm curious how the current correct way to set module parameters is in a udev environment. [...] The list goes on and on, and I'm confused. Someone, please point me to some