On 9/13/11 3:15 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote:
Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
administration mistake and how did you recover?
Years ago on my main workstation back in my slackware days, I was
upgrading samba from the source tarballs.
I had everything compiled and
On 6/8/2011 15:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
What's bluetrack? I agree with not wanting wireless, though.
Bluetrack in mice is a proprietary Microsoft made tracking method for
their optical mice. Physically, they have larger holes for the emitter
and the light is blue instead of red.
A quick
On 3/16/11 11:42 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
Hi,
I do not know how to summarize my problem in a short sentence, sorry
for the meaningless title.
I cannot access *.dropbox.com here. But lucky I have a ipv6 tunnel
working. So I have an idea here:
redirect all queries to
On 12/20/2010 20:45, Petrus Validus wrote:
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy
On 8/5/10 11:18 PM, Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
Hi There,
Sorry if this is a bit 'Off The Topic' discussion. I am planning to get
fileserver dedicated for iSCSI.
My option is to grab Thecus N4200 or to build OpenFiler with any Duo-Core
CPU,
1G RAM, RocketRAID 644 controller, and other
On 7/18/10 6:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 07/18/2010 06:03 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
[snip]
Try this:
http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-linux-dapper/
IIRC, I had this problem on an old Linux install I was using for MythTV,
and it did come
On 7/17/10 11:02 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Hi,
My Google-fu must not be up to snuff, because I've Googled much without
any luck.
USB Audio
32-bit Sid
ALSA 1.0.23+dfsg-1
Flash 10.1r53 (from adobe.com)
Iceweasel 3.6.4-1 (experimental)
vlc 1.1.0
users are in group audio
Sound plays fine
On 6/18/2010 15:58, ABS Doug wrote:
On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory
built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the
display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology
On 6/15/10 1:09 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
As for the SAS, what errors are you seeing? Do you see the megaraid-sas
(I believe that is the correct one, depends on the chipset used on your
particular PERC) even load?
Server is Dell R410, so I think controller is perc 6/i
*snip*
I also may
On 6/15/10 11:59 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
Looks like problem is on iDrac, because it is connected as scsi device.
solution was: deattach iDrac after boot and fix the root device on
grub commandline.
There you go, Dell's virtual media stuff throwing it off.
For the record, USB storage
On 6/15/10 11:50 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
I tried to install Debian Lenny on Dell Poweredge R140 with no success.
First problem is with netword card bnx2? It is not working with
default install, but
with this workaround it works:
- http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (this image support bnx2
rudu wrote:
Le 29/04/2010 20:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit :
rudupere wrote:
Bingo !!
That was it, an old bug from nvidia drivers.
The workaround that worked for me :
Append the line :
options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0
to the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc.conf
A big thank you to Justin
rudu wrote:
In single user mode, I can login on the first virtual console but every
other ctrl+alt+Fn I hit only gives me a black screen with a prompt
flashing in the upper left corner ...
IIRC, in single user mode, this is normal.
Launching a graphic session with startx instead of gdm/kdm
James Brown wrote:
I installed a driver for my Xerox Phaser 3117 from the openprinting
project http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting
and it works nice.
I think that it it possible to try such for 6280DN
Umm, no, no, n...
The Phaser 3117 is one of those
Rick Thomas wrote:
The Lenny businesscard iso at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso
is only 36 MBytes.
It contains everything you need to start the installation. It will
dynamically download all the other packages you need for
Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote:
Hi Justin,
This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC
check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel.
It looks like the system can not see RAIDs at all.
May be I need to install some Dell modules for my RAID controller to be
Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote:
Check that the megaraid_sas driver is loading. When I installed Etch, I
had to rebuild the initrd with that module after the initial install.
Could advice on how I can check this please? I reckon that this is my
problem as when system is trying to boot - it looks like
Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote:
In short:
Dell Power Edge 2970; 6X3 HDDs: 2-RAID1, 4-RAID5
Etch on a 2950 at work.
Installed latest Debian on RAID1, which is VD-00. Installation went through
without any issue.
After installation system can not boot. Checked BIOS and there are only 3
options to
Justin The Cynical wrote:
Short version:
Does a stock 2.6.26-2-686 32-bit lenny kernel have vmi support compiled in?
*snip*
Figured this out today.
Apparently VMWare, in their infinite wisdom, made VMI support depend on
the guest OS selection. As etch (the latest supported debian version
Short version:
Does a stock 2.6.26-2-686 32-bit lenny kernel have vmi support compiled in?
Longer version:
I make heavy use of VMWare Server 2 on a 64-bit lenny host, 32-bit guests.
I was looking at ways to improve performance and noticed that VMI
Paravirtualization was not turned on. I
Charles Kroeger wrote:
virtually any board easily available today is going to make use of DDR2 memory
What about DDR3 memory, is that preferable?
IMO, YMMV, IMNAL, etc and so on, DDR3 would only be of any real use with
higher end CPU and motherboards that can take advantage of the extra
Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi:
My old K7S5A (SiS735 chipset) Athlon i386 lenny desktop has died and I
am wondering how to set up a new one for the same service (running
32bit graphic scientific programs, besides office use, and
establishing scp connection with my amd64 computing machines).
That
Paul E Condon wrote:
*snip*
Lenny, and Debian stock linux kernel, 2.6.26-1-686. Is this host
capable? If not, what is the current thinking about when IPv6 might
actually arrive? Or is it likely to be one of those things, like World
Peace, that has been in future and likely always will be --- in
Steve Kreyer wrote:
Hi *,
thank you all for your help on this issue. With Justins advice on the
nvnews forum thread I was able to fix it using the
Glad it helped. This bug has been around for a /long/ time, and it
seems the fix is different for a lot of people.
In my case, I narrowed it
Steve Kreyer wrote:
Hi all,
I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary
driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the graphic
card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off.
This is an old issue with the NVidia binary blog drivers.
Chris Davies wrote:
It's now become /really/ awkward to install Debian on DELL 2950s or any
other kit containing Broadcom NICs. You need to have a USB stick
that contans the relevant firmware package, and have that present
during the installation process. In and of itself this is only mildly
Andrei Popescu wrote:
*snip*
The one starting with Personally, I think... and ends with enumerating
compatibility issues with some other OSes?
My point was that PAE isn't exactly the best idea out there, there are
known issues with it (the list of other operating systems and
environments
Bret Busby wrote:
And, from that, and, the material that has so far been posted, my
understanding is:
1. the original poster actually has 4 x 64 bit CPU's in his server that
he was asking about, and
2. the response above indicates that yes, 4G (and maybe more) RAM can be
used with 32 bit
Daniel Suleyman wrote:
Dear ALL.
I have HP proliant DL380 G4 with 12 GB ram.
I want to install debian lenny on it. Orocessors are 32bit.
Installing debian from standard small cd debian-500-i386-netinst.iso
will allow me to use whole 12 GB or additional setup will be needed?
If you only have a
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
On 21 Mar, Justin The Cynical wrote:
(about VMware Server 2.0)
And if you find a better way to access the server under Linux that
that $%#$^%! web UI crap, please let me know!!!
Use version 1 instead?
1.0.8 is the latest, it was updated even after 2.0 was released
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-03-20 21:43 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
The older gcc 4.1.3 is not available in debian.snapshot.net .
But it is available from the Debian mirrors in the gcc-4.1 package:
,
| % LANG=C gcc-4.1 --version
|
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Justin I would call SuperMicro, I see their phone number in the manual.
Well, I didn't call, I emailed. This is what I got in response:
The ECC function is automatically enabled when you plug in an ECC
memory. Attached is a testing BIOS that will show ECC mode on the
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
I manual says it detects the type of memory installed and it says with
ECC that it takes 25-40 seconds for video to start, I would say that is
the time needed to check RAM, so I would say that it is auto, 2-4 in the
manual.
Actually, it reads that it /may/ take 25-40
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:03:39PM -0800, Justin The Cynical wrote:
I recently picked up a SuperMicro X7SBE board and populated it with ECC RAM.
Among my random wanderings, I realized that I didn't recall seeing
anything in the BIOS or manual on if the ECC
Long time lurker with a fresh install of Lenny x64
I recently picked up a SuperMicro X7SBE board and populated it with ECC RAM.
Among my random wanderings, I realized that I didn't recall seeing
anything in the BIOS or manual on if the ECC functionality is even
turned on. I've googled around
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Justin The Cynical wrote:
Long time lurker with a fresh install of Lenny x64
I recently picked up a SuperMicro X7SBE board and populated it with
ECC RAM.
Among my random wanderings, I realized that I didn't recall seeing
anything in the BIOS or manual on if the ECC
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