determining serial link speed?

1997-07-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! Is there any easy way to find out, what speed my modem connected to the ISP? (using ppp & chat on Debian Linux m68k Amiga). I want to be sure that it connected at 28800 baud and not at 14400. -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios

Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

1997-07-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
have anyway: The 386 or 486 has a Microsoft Serial Port Compatible mouse. I couldnt try a working driver module for that one. Microsoft Bus mouse did not work, PS/2 mouse did not work... I tried every mouse driver that has been in the list... any ideas? -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald

german distributors of Debian 1.3 CD-ROM?

1997-07-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! Are there any? I read in a thread here I dont find now something about a bookstore called Lehmann which distributes it with a printed manual. Anyone got the address of that bookstore or an ISBN-number of the thing? -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages

staroffice / netscape debian packages?

1997-07-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
to buy a ppc based machine next year, either a CHRP or a Amiga successor ;-) -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

system broken... ;-(

1997-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
I want to get this system running again without sitting ours before the computer... I should not have tried the instable dist I know, but after a mistake one is more clever than before. -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

x11 font&res setting

1997-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
. -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

x11 font&res setting

1997-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
... -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How I fixed my trashed Debian system

1997-08-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
least that will teach me not to use an unstable distribution once again on a system I need for work. (It at least should tell me that;-) -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

installing debian packages to an other fs as root

1997-08-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
like a way to get it to boot from a rescue discs, but I dont think that this is possible as I have to get the packages from the internet cause the cd-rom drive is broken and I have only Debian 1.2 CD. -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios --

dpkg from rescue disc

1997-08-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! Is it possible to run dpkg from a system only booted by an rescue disc. If that libreadline package is still on the harddisc I then might be able to fix my system really easily. -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

system rescued, some quirks left

1997-08-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
here, I tried in a shell. I re-installed all base packages with dpkg and there a no dependency problems anymore. In which package can I find the above two commands? -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: kernel for m68k 68060 amiga 4000 tower ?

1997-08-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
fixed kernel image or installed the old files (but I dont want to redownload base13.tgz all again.) -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . T

StarOffice installation

1997-08-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
. That might stop swapping. -- |_| _ |o _ _ Martin Steigerwald | |(/_||(_)_> http://home.pages.de/~helios -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: looks better

2007-09-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi George, Am Montag 10 September 2007 schrieb George Adamides: > Dear Martin and all, > Thank you for your help. OK I used the commands you suggested > aptitude install xserver-xorg kde-core and > aptitude install kdat > and I believe things were OK. > > Now I have the following info > > >> geor

Re: NOT QUITE: headphones still don't work.

2013-09-17 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Hendrik, Am Dienstag, 17. September 2013, 00:32:49 schrieb Hendrik Boom: > On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:02:29 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:43:21 +0100, Klaus wrote: > >> Can this be another instance of a muted Master switch? What do get for: > >> > >> $ amixer info > >> $ am

Re: SSD as Cache?

2013-11-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Jochen, hi Paul, Am Freitag, 8. November 2013, 17:24:22 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Paul Johnson: > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:12 AM, basti wrote: > >> Can this cache moved to SSD? > >> Months ago I read articles about SSD and Flash Memory like: > >> - "Disable logging on SSD" > >> - "Disable ca

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Miles, Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 11:09:07 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2014, 01:45:50 schrieb lee: > >> Martin Steigerwald writes: > >>> Am Montag, 22. September 2014, 23:50:46 schrieb lee: >

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 14:51:01 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > John Hasler wrote: > > Miles Fidelman writes: > >> the technical committee selects takes a vote that essentially imposes > >> systemd on all of the upstream developers and packagers > > > > Where the hell do you get that from? > >

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 13:08:50 schrieb The Wanderer: > On 09/26/2014 at 12:44 PM, Martin Read wrote: > > On 26/09/14 16:09, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> - but the resulting impacts should be taken up with each and > >> every upstream developer? > > > > As far as I can see, the issue that p

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 19:08:13 schrieb Ric Moore: > On 09/26/2014 05:08 PM, green wrote: > > Ric Moore wrote at 2014-09-26 14:18 -0500: > >> Change is certainly needed when any pimple face kid can edit and hide his > >> doings from a text log with nano. I think the change is necessary to

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 27. September 2014, 22:04:38 schrieb lee: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > On Vi, 26 sep 14, 01:58:44, lee wrote: > >> Again, I consider it to be totally futile to try to convince the makers > >> of systemd to fix the issues it brings about. They cannot be unaware of > >> them, so obvious

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 27. September 2014, 22:13:21 schrieb lee: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > > Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 10:43:14 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > >> On Vi, 26 sep 14, 01:58:44, lee wrote: > >> > Again, I consider it to be totally futile to try to convince t

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 27. September 2014, 22:55:36 schrieb lee: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > > Why do I think that you do not want change from the *current* situation? > > Cause what you do, in my oppinion does not facilitate change. > > I think I see why you think so. What

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 04:35:03 schrieb lee: > Martin Read writes: > > On 27/09/14 21:04, lee wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990177 > > > > Your complaint about the interface is reasonable. The systemd > > developers' decision to not change the interface in respo

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 13:36:27 schrieb Dan Ritter: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 01:02:16PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > On 09/26/2014 at 12:26 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Sep 20

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 13:02:16 schrieb The Wanderer: > > Martin, > > > > I don't think anybody's complaining about those features. Those > > are excellent features that should be done in PID 1. > > Actually, some people (I believe including me) are in fact complaining > about the inclus

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 22:41:04 schrieb Reco: > Hi. > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:02:16 -0400 > > The Wanderer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > On 09/26/2014 at 12:26 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Fr

Re: About dependency creep

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 13:00:08 schrieb Peter Nieman: > On 25/09/14 18:16, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > The KDE project has spent *years* of development to reduce dependency > > creep. > I don't think KDE is the problem here. I don't remember ever having

Re: systemd and server use (was: Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream)

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 23:21:36 schrieb martin f krafft: > also sprach Steve Litt [2014-09-26 18:26 +0200]: > > If systemd was just a PID1 with the features you enumerate above, > > I'd be dancing in the street, not looking for a way out. > > Beautiful. I had to: > https://twitter.com/ma

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 23:50:45 schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 > > > > Ric Moore wrote: > > > On 09/27/2014 02:49 PM, lee wrote: > > > > Just ask yourself: Why would someone choose to download

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 12:55:32 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 23:50:45 schrieb Chris Bannister: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 > > > > > > Ric Mo

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 07:51:14 schrieb The Wanderer: > On 09/28/2014 at 05:34 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > It may also be true that systemd upstream won´t be willing to > > implement the change you want to see. But if you choose to keep > > your power with

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 11:18:22 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:02:35 +0200 > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 14:51:01 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > Miles Fidelman writes: >

Re: systemd and server use

2014-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 12:51:52 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:09:48 +0200 > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > As far as I remember Lennart or another systemd developers explained > > in detail why it was done this way, and that it can´t be done

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 6. Oktober 2014, 17:42:14 schrieb Steve Litt: > Hi all, > > Several of my posts to lists.debian.org have not made it to the list, > as defined by both my inbox and the list archive. These posts all had > something in common, and it was *not* swearwords or gratuitous > personal insults.

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2014, 09:28:51 schrieb The Wanderer: > On 10/07/2014 at 02:58 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > As Don pointed out, it's the threads that have been clipped, as it > > were, not the topics: I think it's probably just as well, as those > > threads themselves were started by either a so

Re: About chromium in Jessie - "API keys missing" and Clang

2014-10-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Florent, Am Montag, 13. Oktober 2014, 09:43:40 schrieb Florent Peterschmitt: > Hello, > > I'm curious about two thing in the chromium browser package in Debian > Jessie: > > - I (we?) get a message about Chromium API keys missing. Does that > avoid Chromium being able to speak with google fo

Re: how to boot in les than 8 minutes

2014-10-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2014, 18:52:41 schrieb Pierre Frenkiel: > hi, > it seems that tha last version of systemd in jessie (215-5+b1) > has a big number of bugs, among which the very long time to shutdown, mainly > for samba (5 minutes). Trying to kill samba manually before the shutdown > did n

insane hibernation policy (war: Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?)

2014-10-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Joe, Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2014, 21:17:48 schrieb Joe: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:44:23 -0500 > > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my > > laptop running Sid but find tha

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: > > So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? > > Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? > > > > Just wondering. > > See above and unless you are a tester or developer you may want to > roll-b

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Raffaele, Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2014, 10:18:49 schrieb Raffaele Morelli: > Here are some interesting things one should be aware of before > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html > > Read enough about but still haven't read something really valuable against > systemd from e

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 07:04:12 schrieb Jape Person: > On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Don Armstrong wrote: > >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>> which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, > >>> including: > >>> > >>> -- > >>>

Debian and upstream choices

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
I understand people creating new threads partly now, as any thread with the magic word list admins seem to put into the thread filter easily Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 13:40:49 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usab

Debian and upstream choices (was: Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD)

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 13:40:49 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usable Jessie > > with one of the defaults DE and with no systemd utilities, i decided > > the following. In the companie's pc's i support, i'l

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Jimmy, Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 09:17:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: > >>> So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? > >>> Or something t

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 12:34:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 11:37:51 schrieben Sie: > >>> Its Jessie/Sid that are under some circumstances difficult to use > >>> without > >>> s

Re: Debian and upstream choices

2014-10-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Please do not Cc me personally. Hello Lee, Am Montag, 27. Oktober 2014, 00:05:03 schrieb lee: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > > Maybe I failed at avoiding personal attacks, but I still think I didn´t. > > On > > any account, my attempt to bring this upstream did not prod

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-10-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello Hans! Am Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2014, 10:27:50 schrieb Hans: > Dear maintainers, You only reach the systemd maintainers by pure luck this way. I know one is subscribed to debian-user-german, I am not sure about debian-user. I suggest you use BTS or dig for a debian systemd maintainers ma

Re: Mount order after systemd update

2014-11-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 2. November 2014, 16:17:05 schrieb Martin Manns: > Dear all Hi Martin, > After switching to systemd, I would like to get back the following > behavior: > > Mount multiple lvm-crypt volumes with password entry on startup. > Mount several loopback devices from files within these volume

Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X

2014-11-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. November 2014, 22:21:27 schrieb Joel Roth: > Hi list, Hi Joel, > I need larger mouse pointers. > > I'm running sid, using i3 and icewm as window managers. > AIUI cursor images are set through X, and do not belong > to the window manager. > > My first attempt was: Wow, what a cha

Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X - SOLVED

2014-11-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. November 2014, 05:55:58 schrieb Joel Roth: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 12:15:09PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 22:21:27 -1000 > > > > Joel Roth wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I need larger mouse pointers. > > > > > > I'm running sid, using i3 and icewm

Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X - SOLVED

2014-11-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. November 2014, 07:24:04 schrieb Joel Roth: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 05:58:38PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Samstag, 8. November 2014, 05:55:58 schrieb Joel Roth: > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 12:15:09PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > Hi. >

Re: Not this again

2014-11-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 18. November 2014, 00:29:15 schrieb golinux: > UGH! Looks like Gregory Smith has returned with a new handle - > SystemBlues. Does anybody read his swill? No. And I see no point in discussing this here in yet another somewhat systemd related thread. I regularily delete all his mails

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014, 18:47:38 schrieb Renaud OLGIATI: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 14:22:13 -0700 > > Aaron Toponce wrote: > > > It's a waste. They shouldn't have left. I'm pretty neutral about > > > systemd as I'm only an end user but I disklike having it forced upon me > > > this way. > > >

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 08:35:00 schrieb Erwan David: > Le 02/12/2014 23:15, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > > Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014, 18:47:38 schrieb Renaud OLGIATI: > >> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 14:22:13 -0700 > >> > >> Aaron Toponce wrote: > >

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 12:39:26 schrieb Laurent Bigonville: > Le Wed, 03 Dec 2014 10:18:36 +0100, > > Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > > Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 08:35:00 schrieb Erwan David: > > > Le 02/12/2014 23:15, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > >

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:47:34 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:19 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > >>> Hmm. Could you post the output of > >>> > >>> grep flags /proc/cpuinfo > >>> > >>> so that we can see whi

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Stan, Am Montag, 27. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 8/27/2012 8:27 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I run an SSD on my MCP61P so lack of NCQ has no impact > >> whatsoever--SSD's have no moving parts, and all seeks > >> are instantaneous. > > > > While I haven't heard of NCQ improving re

OT: SSD, NCQ and I/O depth (was: Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?)

2012-08-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Sorry that I post twice, but in hindsight I thought I´d give this a more descriptive subject. Please reply to this second post. Hi Stan, Am Montag, 27. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 8/27/2012 8:27 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I run an SSD on my MCP61P so lack of NCQ has no impact >

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 8/28/2012 2:01 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hi Stan, > > > > Am Montag, 27. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > >> For a desktop user workload, there will be no noticeable performance > >> diff

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:01:41 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:47:34 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> > Camaleón wrote: > >> >

Re: where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Yuwen Dai: > Dear all, > > I downloaded the latest Wheezy AMD64 version DVD iso image, trying to > install it on a HP notebook with a RTL8169 NIC. When the installer > detects network, it hangs. I could switch to other ttys and open a > busybox shell, but it

Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:27:20 +0530, bakshi12 wrote: > > I have gone through some online docs on ubuntu derived upstar-job > > mechanism and its simplicity has drawn my attention. Same time the > > apparent incompatibility with sysv-init is also there

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-09-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Bret Busby: > >> I do hope that Debian 7 implements memory paging, or swapping. > > > > I'm not completely sure what you mean by this :-? > > It seems to have stopped working properly, in about Debian 5, and I > hope that Debian 7 gets it working again. > >

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-09-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Then press F6 to change the sort function. Use the up and down cursor > keys to select VIRT for sorting by size of virtual memory usage. What > programs are the top virtual memory consumers on your system? (On > mine it is usually firefox.) Bas

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-09-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Bret Busby: > > Then press F6 to change the sort function. Use the up and down > > cursor keys to select VIRT for sorting by size of virtual memory > > usage. What programs are the top virtual memory consumers on your > > system? (On mine it is usually firefo

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-09-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Bret Busby: > Hello. Hello Bret, > In the ongoing saga of the inability of the 64 bit version of Debian 6 > to swap properly, so that an i3 CPU with 8GB of RAM and a 40GB swap > partition, runs about as fast as an 8086 trying to run MS Windows 3, a > possible

Re: systemd

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. September 2012 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > > If you are determined to avoid Lennart's code, you're going to have > > to > > > stop running the Linux kernel: > ... > > Kernel patches from Lennart were properly reviewed, and accept

Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 6. August 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:15 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > Somehow, I find your claim that neither OpenSUSE nor Ubuntu will > > start being installed "on most machines" difficult to believe... > > > > My personal experience is that Ubuntu boots and perfor

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. September 2012 schrieb Klaus Pieper: > Hello debian gurus, > is it possible to recover anything from this flash card? > Klaus > > [ 1008.061896] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk SDDR-113 > 9412 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 > [ 1008.063822] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > [

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > More about cheap flash thats often optimized for FAT 32 on Linux: As for cheap it that sentence. The 32 GB Sandisk Extreme was about 28 Euro. It can theoretically do 45 MB/s. Thats almost 1 Euro per GB. Achievable with an Intel

Re: Getting 3D graphics support out of my ATI Rage XL video chip?

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Stephen Powell: > Hello, list. I've recently installed Debian Wheezy on a "new" (to me) > computer with an ATI Rage XL video chip. Here is an excerpt from > the output of "lspci -nn -vv". (Line wraps have been inserted to > keep well within the customary 80-

Re: new installation preserving /home partition

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Mauricio Calvao: > Hi > > I currrently have a desktop running old Debian 5 (lenny). I myself > installed some programs outside apt management, both > because there were no deb packages for them and because I need some > more recent versions. Thus, I have final

Re: Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb T o n g: > Hi, > > > Subject: My app-defaults won't work for emacs any more > > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 01:25:20 + (UTC) > > > > I haven't updated my emacs for quite a while and today when I update > > it, I notice that the new emacs is not following my app

Re: Installation

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:37:55 -0700, Weaver wrote: > > I know how hard it can be to see the forest when you are too close to > > the trees, so I thought I would re-post something I put up in another > > forum where Miguel de Icaza's recent communicat

Re: Storage server

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: > > This is Debian. Since 1997 or so, you have had the ability to > > upgrade from major version n to version n+1 without > > reinstalling. You won't need to reinstall unless you change > > architectures (i.e. from x86_32 to x86_64). > But, isn't compl

Re: Storage server

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/7/2012 12:42 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: […] > > Now, the next thing: I know it's tempting to make a single > > filesystem over all these disks. Don't. The fsck times will be > > horrendous. Make filesystems which are the size you need, plus a >

Re: Storage server

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. September 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Unfortunately I have some recent FUD concerning xfs. I have had some > recent small idle xfs filesystems trigger kernel watchdog timer > recoveries recently. Emphasis on idle. Active filesystems are always > fine. I used /tmp as a large xfs fi

Re: Storage server

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:26:13PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 9/7/2012 11:29 AM, Veljko wrote: > > > > > > > I'm in the process of making new backup server, so I'm thinking of > > > best way of doing it. I have 4 3TB disks and I'm thinking of

Re: Storage server

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 08:23:36PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Are you serious about that? > > > > You are planning to mix backup, productions workloads and testing on > > a single *desktop class* machine? >

Re: Storage server

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:26:13PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 9/7/2012 11:29 AM, Veljko wrote: > > > I'm in the process of making new backup server, so I'm thinking of > > > best way of doing it. I have 4 3TB disks and I'm thinking of > > > pu

Re: Storage server

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > And, of course, thanks for your time and valuable advices, Stan, I've > > read some of your previous posts on this list and know you're storage > > guru. > > It wasn´t Stan who wrote the mail you re

Re: Storage server

2012-09-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: > Well, it did sound a little to complex and that is why I posted to this > list, hoping to hear some other opinions. > > 1. This machine will be used for > a) backup (backup server for several dedicated (mainly) web servers). > It will contain in

Re: Getting 3D graphics support out of my ATI Rage XL video chip?

2012-09-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Stephen Powell: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:18:43 -0400 (EDT), Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Is that chip on a graphics card? > > No, it is built into the motherboard. Is this a server board? What do you want to use it for? -- Martin '

Re: Getting 3D graphics support out of my ATI Rage XL video chip?

2012-09-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Stephen Powell: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:24:00 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > > ... > > the VGA chipset is about 8 years (or so) old so > > don't expect astonishing results :-) > > I said the computer was new TO ME. I never said it was NEW. > This is a serve

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Weaver: > Nothing anywhere near as complex as an expert Debian install, which is > what I prefer now. You compare an *expert* Debian install with a regular Windows install? Not a fair comparison it seems to me. From what I read you can even install Debian to

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Weaver: > > Don't know about Debian, it's been a while since I installed that, > > but I have installed a few others, > > and in most cases the only things you have to input are your > > language, your keyboard, and your > > time zone. And whether you will use

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > I quite much agree to the installation stuff. > > > > > > > > I put Linux on the laptop I bought with my father for my father. He > > used Firefox and Thunderbird and some crappy photo management > > software. > > > > > > > > I put KDE on it plu

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:23:52 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > (...) > > >> > Well that just works. > >> > >> (...) > >> > >> A

Re: Storage server

2012-09-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 10. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:28:09PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Consider the consequenzes: > > > > If the server fails, you possibly wouldn´t know why cause the > > monitoring information wouldn´t be available any

Re: Storage server

2012-09-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 10. September 2012 schrieb Jon Dowland: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:51:05PM +0200, lee wrote: > > Some people have argued it's even better to use software raid than a > > hardware raid controller because software raid doesn't depend on > > particular controller cards that can fail and c

Re: Storage server

2012-09-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 10. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: [… no backup before and then backup as necessary evil …] > > If so, if I would be in the position to say no, I would just say "no > > thanks, search yourself a different idiot for setting up such an > > insane setup". I understand, you probably do n

Re: Storage server

2012-09-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 10. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: […] > > > In case I don't get that card, > > > should I remove /boot from RAID1? > > > > Post the output of > > > > ~$ cat /proc/mdstat > > > > I was under the impression you didn't hav

Re: Storage server

2012-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 14. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > Thus my advice to you is: > > Do not use LVM. Directly format the RAID10 device using the mkfs.xfs > defaults. mkfs.xfs will read the md configuration and automatically > align the filesystem to the stripe width. Just for completeness: It

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 15. September 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 7. September 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > > > Unfortunately I have some recent FUD concerning xfs. I have had > > > some recent small idle xfs filesystems trigger kernel watchdo

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 14. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/14/2012 7:57 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 14. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > >> Thus my advice to you is: > >> > >> Do not use LVM. Directly format the RAID10 device using t

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Kelly, Am Samstag, 15. September 2012 schrieb Kelly Clowers: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 9/14/2012 11:29 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner > >> wrote: > >>> On 9/13/2012 5:20 AM, Veljko wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11

Re: Storage server

2012-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/16/2012 7:38 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I have always recommended to leave at least 10-15% free, but from a > > discussion on XFS mailinglist where you took part, I learned that > > depending on use case f

Re: rigmarole about debian and radeon

2012-09-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 15. September 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:04:47 +0200, lavcina wrote: > >>So first problem in KDE: HDMI output is not always enabled. In what > >>way "breaks"? Please describe what happens, what's what you see. > > > > > > > > > > yes that's the case. The kde Monit

Re: Wheezy managesieve segfault

2012-09-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 18. September 2012 schrieb Denis Witt: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:32:43 + (UTC) > > > [Dovecot] Managesieve segfault with dovecot 2.1.8 > > http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2012-September/068130.html > > > > Although both versions differ (Wheezy has 2.1.7), the error is quite >

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