Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-30 Thread Geoff Reidy
Long Wind wrote: Thank Geoff! with usb3 disk plugged to lenovo running buster i see msg below, but i'm not sure if usb3 is used May 31 10:21:18 debian kernel: [13385.174292] usb 5-6: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-pci Definitely looks like usb 2, the ehci driver also points

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

2021-03-21 Thread Geoff Reidy
l0f...@tuta.io wrote: $ apt policy linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.3-amd64:   Installed: 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1   Candidate: 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1   Version table: *** 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1 100     100 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports/main amd64 Packages  

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Geoff Reidy
Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: Well, as the subject suggests, I'm a bit fed up with the logic behind how installed programs are sorted out in the Applications menu. The need to go hunt down an installed application seems yester century. I just installed Picard, and it does not show up in Sound and

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-12 Thread Geoff Reidy
I've never had an Intel GPU but always had the impression they were pretty solid, but my opinion is changing. Note that kernel 5.5 may still have issues: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Linux-5.5-Intel-Missed-Graphics Regards, Geoff

Re: Xoscope(1) on Debian 9?

2018-01-28 Thread Geoff Reidy
Hi John, The binary in the debian package was compiled without alsa support, you've reminded me to file a bug for it. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888704 Regards, Geoff John Conover wrote: Has anyone got Xoscope(1) on Debian 9 amd64 to work? It looks as if it does not

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-03 Thread Geoff Reidy
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, it's working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm

Re: 2.6.25 kernel and NVIDIA driver

2008-07-24 Thread Geoff Reidy
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: pardon me if this was already beat to death, but I was away last week.. Today I booted into my new 2.6.25-2 kernel and I tried to run my normal NVIDIA...-pkg1.run script. It complained about the XEN kernel and failed. So snip I can't use

Re: How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Geoff Reidy
Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/11/08 12:26, Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 02:23:59PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I was able to add the button to the toolbar by customizing it. And there is that option in the Message menu. However, both the button and the menu entry are

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Geoff Reidy
Chuck Payne wrote: Hi, I am trying to update a couple packages, I don't want to update everything and when I do like apt-get upgrade calmd I get a list of some 400 other pacakges that will be ugprade and I don't want that. apt-get upgrade will upgrade all packages, try apt-get

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:42:45AM +, andy wrote: Andrei Andrew Thanks for the suggestion(s). I am presuming that there is a Debian-way of compiling one's own kernel with the configs and bigmem image. Can someone point me in the direction of some decent

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 07:26 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: They're the standard GNOME dialogs, and you're absolutely right. They fall into the Microsoft Error: cool-looking, terrible usability. But apparently GNOME is immune to user comments. They are inferior (and this is

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
Marko Randjelovic wrote: andy wrote: Thanks Geoff. I had also read that during the course of my earlier research on this issue. But ... :~$ uname -r 2.6.18-3-686 Viola! 686 and still no 1GB mem recognised, only 3/4s (776400KB) of it, as seen below: :~$ free total

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 02:02 +1100, Geoff Reidy wrote: It's awful, if I just type in /usr/bin I get /usr/src//bin because of it's autocompletion, so you have to type slowly and watch what it's doing. I can't reproduce this. Also when I try to open an app from /usr

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
andy wrote: Geoff Reidy wrote: Marko Randjelovic wrote: andy wrote: Thanks Geoff. I had also read that during the course of my earlier research on this issue. But ... :~$ uname -r 2.6.18-3-686 Viola! 686 and still no 1GB mem recognised, only 3/4s (776400KB) of it, as seen

Re: laser printer recommendation for personal use?

2006-09-15 Thread Geoff Reidy
B.Hoffmann wrote: Talking about b/w laser printer. As it's for personal use the highest page number per minute is not essential, and 4MB memory would probably be overkill. Important to me is 1.) usb connectivity these days and/or 2.) ethernet to connect to my router (D-link DI-604) for

Re: Really slow glxgears, excellent speed in Planet Penguin

2006-06-22 Thread Geoff Reidy
Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, Nvidia GX 5200 (128MB RAM) xorg 7.0.22 nvidia binary driver 1.0-8762 linux-source-2.6.16 (home-rolled kernel) As the subject mentions, I get good speed in Planet Penguin, and also in Google Earth, and also in glxheads but glxgears in *slw*. Any thoughts?

Re: wine 3d very very slow, toolchain problem?

2006-02-20 Thread Geoff Reidy
Rodney Gordon II wrote: Recently I have built my own compilation of wine on Debian, three different revisions (0.9.6 .7 and .8). All of these versions are compiled correctly. I have noticed an odd problem with these builds of wine, and the commercial cedega fork of wine on Debian. My dilemma: I

Re: lmsensors alarm....

2005-09-26 Thread Geoff Reidy
Simon wrote: Hi There, We have a one of our servers producing a sensord: Sensor alarm in the syslog. Its a dual athlon box and here is the output of #sensors: (Any idea of whats happening here? Im sure that there is no case sensor web1:/proc# sensors w83627hf-isa-0c00 Adapter: ISA

Re: Bizarre ls Behavior

2005-07-22 Thread Geoff Reidy
Ron Johnson wrote: Unfortunately, I can't determine it's package using the usual tool: $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[ dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[ dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. $ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/[' dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. $ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\[' coreutils:

Re: Updating woes (debian sid)

2005-06-13 Thread Geoff Reidy
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: I worte just a sec ago a message about debian mirrors. Could it be that the problem I am facing here is due to that one? Anyone else getting this problem? Thanks, ib The non-US packages are now part of main so those line in sources.list are no longer required.

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-06-02 Thread Geoff Reidy
Geoff Reidy wrote: CoolFox wrote: 1) Load the right module for your ethernet device 2) ifconfig eth0 3) route add default netmask 0.0.0.0 gw (ip of your gateway) if it is already done, try : /etc/init.d/networking restart tun is the right module, it creates an interface that e.g. a guest

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-06-02 Thread Geoff Reidy
Jon Dowland wrote: Geoff Reidy wrote: It would take about 10 seconds to verify this! modprobe tun ifconfig tun0 Debian sid 2.6.11 kernel. Is this too much to ask? anubis:/home/jon# modprobe tun anubis:/home/jon# ifconfig tun0 tun0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-06-01 Thread Geoff Reidy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Have you tried Google? It could be one of several things and there are literally hundreds of mailing list and support forum posts encompassing pretty much every version of the kernel on every distro out there. Try that first. -Roberto I've tried google already

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-06-01 Thread Geoff Reidy
CoolFox wrote: 1) Load the right module for your ethernet device 2) ifconfig eth0 3) route add default netmask 0.0.0.0 gw (ip of your gateway) if it is already done, try : /etc/init.d/networking restart tun is the right module, it creates an interface that e.g. a guest OS on qemu can use

tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-05-31 Thread Geoff Reidy
Hi all, I am running sid and since upgrading kernel-image-2.6.11-1-k7 from version 2.6.11-3 to 2.6.11-5 I can't get a tun interface to work. The tun module is loaded and the device is there: crw-rw 1 root root 10, 200 2005-05-31 20:25 /dev/net/tun but the interface won't come up: #