growisofs fails

2007-09-08 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm suddenly getting failures when trying to write to DVD. The discs are Verbatim DVD+R - same as always. Trying to write a DVD .ISO to disc, K3B shows this in the debug output: growisofs --- Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdc:

Triple/Quad screen options

2007-06-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm Looking for your experiences using three or more monitors under Linux? We use two to four screens at work (depending on our exact requirements). Using two screens on a dual-head card works mostly OK, at least for my legitimate work needs (some things like fullscreen mplayer

Re: mail server for offline system

2007-06-24 Thread Hans du Plooy
Owen Heisler wrote: Postfix, exim4, or any other decent mail server in Deiban that (preferrably) can be configured easily with will suffice. The server must support Maildir folders, honor the ~/.forward file (perhaps they all do?), and not attempt to deliver non-local messages when a specified

Re: /lib/init/rw

2007-06-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
Bob Proulx wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: What does this do? It is used by the initscripts. Among other things see this bug and read the message from Henrique de Moraes Holschuh on Mon, 1 Jan 2007. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23403863 Bob Thanks, there's some useful

/lib/init/rw

2007-06-14 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, What does this do? jduplooy:~# df -lh FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 52G 42G 7.7G 85% / tmpfs 503M 0 503M 0% /lib/init/rw--- ?? jduplooy:~# ls -lha /lib/init/rw/ total 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

tmpfs question

2007-06-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I have a virtual server from Bytemark, running what was installed as Sarge and upgraded along the way to Etch. For some reason there are two tmpfs mounts, both 72MB in size - about half my memory each: # df -lh FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ubdc

Re: Etch sasl weirdness [solved]

2007-06-10 Thread Hans du Plooy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:22:40PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: What I did notice is that /etc/defaults/saslauthd mentions /etc/saslauthd.conf, but there is no such file. I also don't see a client config file. # ldap -- use LDAP (configuration is in /etc

Re: Etch sasl weirdness

2007-06-09 Thread Hans du Plooy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Sorry for the delay in replying. On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:31:17PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, I'm setting up an Etch server for postfix with smtp auth. I changed /etc/default/saslauthd so that the mux file gets made under /var/spool/postfix/var/run

Etch sasl weirdness

2007-06-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm setting up an Etch server for postfix with smtp auth. I changed /etc/default/saslauthd so that the mux file gets made under /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd. I restarted saslauthd, and checked that it's working right. It is making the file in the right place, and ps

escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / But it does nothing. Why? How do I do this? Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans du Plooy escribió: Hi guys, I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / But it does nothing

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Hans. Hans du Plooy, 13.05.2007 16:51: I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / No, just type the parenthesis, no escaping necessary. Thanks

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
william pursell wrote: Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part... which will replace occurences of \) with a single space Not what I had intended, I just wanted to replace ) with a space. Actually I wanted to

Re: Bookmarks across browsers

2007-05-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:41 -0400, KS wrote: I was wondering how to keep my set of bookmarks available across all the www-browsers I have on my system. Not sure which browsers this will work for, but it's quite nice to keep FF on my notebook and work PC in sync:

Re: Fullscreen on dual monitors

2007-04-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 11:25 -0400, P Kapat wrote: If you are using KDE, then right-click on desktop Configure Desktop (or thru kcontrol) Display Multiple Monitors Enable all the checkboxes... Thank's, I'll look at it on Monday when I'm back at work. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Fullscreen on dual monitors

2007-04-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 16:37 +0800, Bob wrote: When you do this does one of your screens shimmer? I do but only very seldom on the secondary screen, mostly when I have something with a bright background (say a blank document in OpenOffice). But since my secondary screen is pretty much exclusively

Fullscreen on dual monitors

2007-04-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I am using two 19 LCD screens on a Radeon 7000 card, using the radeon driver (not fglrx, it does not support this card). I have it set up using MergedFB which gives me one big desktop that is 3D accelerated too. I have WindowsXP running in VMware for some testing, and I'd like to get

Re: Debian Etch - CLARIFIED

2007-04-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, April 17, 2007 16:57, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: What I am after is recommendations on how to go about it, someone did post a tutorial which was nice - however it is from the pespective of installing Debian a fresh, which I can't use! Hi Steven. You didn't hint at your level of

Re: Debian Etch LAMP

2007-04-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, April 16, 2007 17:28, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: Hi folks, I am using Debian 4.0 as my new server - yey! I have installed it using the XFCE cd as I love XFCE and I am/will be using freenx to control it as well as SSH (whenever I get freenx working - grr) SO! What I need is

Re: Debian Etch LAMP - Continued :D

2007-04-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 19:34 +0100, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: Hans wrote... --- http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch --- This looks nice really, but I need a version for after the thing is installed lol, I don't want to re-install

Re: Remote desktop client - OSX [solved]

2007-04-14 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 16:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Hmmm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Remote_Desktop I followed that and got a link to a howto, but it didn't work. It has a config file with options that are not in either the vncviewer or tightvncviewer manpages, and I don't

Re: Dlink 500TX

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, April 12, 2007 12:17, Pete Clarke wrote: Hi there, Does anyone know if the DLink 500TX card (gigabit fiber) is supported in Etch's 2.6.18 kernel..? I have recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch, previous I was running kernel 2.4.27 and had the jt1lin driver compiled and working, it

Remote desktop client - OSX

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm trying to connect to an OS X desktop that has remote desktop enabled. As far as I understand this is a VNC type connection, but I'm not having any luck connecting. Is there something specific I have to do? Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Remote desktop client - OSX

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, April 12, 2007 16:14, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:03:41PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to connect to an OS X desktop that has remote desktop enabled. As far as I understand this is a VNC type connection, but I'm not having any luck

Re: Remote desktop client - OSX

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, April 12, 2007 17:33, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Hmmm. Now you have me thinking. I have only used it once on my Mac. I am relatively certain that they licensed RDP. I seem to recall that they advertise you can connect to a Mac from Windows using remote desktop, which would make it a

eth0_rename

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
When I load my wireless driver, be it ndiswrapper or bcm43xxx, the interface comes up as eth0_rename or wlan0_rename, and I see this in dmesg: wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:a5:2a:04:28 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x40a2801, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: '', 14E4:4318.5.conf wlan0:

Re: Remote desktop client - OSX

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 18:53 +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, April 12, 2007 17:33, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Hmmm. Now you have me thinking. I have only used it once on my Mac. I am relatively certain that they licensed RDP. I seem to recall that they advertise you can connect

Re: eth0_rename

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 22:07 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: Hans du Plooy, 12.04.2007 22:00: When I load my wireless driver, be it ndiswrapper or bcm43xxx, the interface comes up as eth0_rename or wlan0_rename, and I see this in dmesg: ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0

Re: eth0_rename [solved]

2007-04-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 22:53 +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:31:00PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: I deleted the z25_persistent-net.rules before and ran /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces - it generated a new file with the device names as they currently were

Re: linux/config.h missing - can't build modules

2007-04-11 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, April 11, 2007 10:15, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:42:09PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: I'm having trouble building modules, and I'm not too clued up on how the kernel build system works. I get this error: If this will be the only error, then you are quite happy

linux/config.h missing - can't build modules

2007-04-10 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm running the latest 2.6.21-rc kernels (to have my ACPI work - you know, switch on the fans when the CPU get too hot). I'm having trouble building modules, and I'm not too clued up on how the kernel build system works. I get this error: theluggage:/usr/src/modules/spca5xx# make

Re: linux/config.h missing - can't build modules

2007-04-10 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:56 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: Now I checked, in the kernel source of 2.6.18 as shipped with Etch/Sid, config.h is in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18/include/linux/config.h but in 2.6.21 there is no config.h in include/linux/ How do I get around this? It is

Re: Wireless G WPA2 PCI Card Suggestion Please

2007-04-08 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 10:06 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: I am suitably impressed with the bcm43xx driver--I've been using it with the Airport Extreme card in my PowerBook G4. I've used it too, with the AirForce One 4318 in my Acer laptop, but I can't get it to do WEP, and it seems to

Some cleanup questions

2007-04-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm just cleaning out old packages on my Sarge_upgraded_to_Etch server. Noticed these two: ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se Do I need both? Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Some cleanup questions [solved]

2007-04-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, April 5, 2007 12:25, Joe Hart wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se Do I need both? Do you use apache? or apache2? One is version 1.3 and the other

Re: fetchmail syslog messages

2007-04-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
Apr 3 12:40:02 big fetchmail[4337]: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != mail.mesanetworks.net Apr 3 12:40:02 big fetchmail[4337]: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate I get this too on my notebook since switching it to Debian. I'm using the same config file,

Re: ATI/AMD Radeon XPRESS 200M free driver

2007-04-03 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:00 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: May I call your attention to the ATI/AMD Radeon XPRESS 200M Linux Driver Petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/x200MLin/petition.html I've added mine. On my one and a half year old HP I still lack hardware 3D with the radeon

Re: Mach64 - Etch - Xorg DRI

2007-04-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 13:01 -0400, cga2000 wrote: Has anybody gotten direct rendering to work with the legacy mach64 Rage Pro Mobility card .. with the etch version of Xorg? The ATI web site does not provide drivers for this antique so I'll have to use the one that's provided with Xorg. $

bcm43xx vs NetworkManager (was Re: ndiswrapper problem)

2007-03-24 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 00:03 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: Bizarrely, the interface seems to lose power or something every 1-2 minutes. Not my connection to the AP - this is a lower level, it happens even if I'm running airodump-ng. All of a sudden I just see nothing. Only way to fix

Hostname (none) after dist-upgrade

2007-03-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I did a dist-upgrade from sarge to etch on a server and all went well, except for one thing. At console, I now see this: root@(none):~#hostname (none) root@(none):~# hostname -f hostname: Unknown host BUT: root@(none):~# cat /etc/hostname rimwards.obscured.tld root@(none):~# cat

Hostname (none) after dist-upgrade

2007-03-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I did a dist-upgrade from sarge to etch on a server and all went well, except for one thing. At console, I now see this: root@(none):~#hostname (none) root@(none):~# hostname -f hostname: Unknown host BUT: root@(none):~# cat /etc/hostname rimwards.obscured.tld root@(none):~# cat

Re: Hostname (none) after dist-upgrade [solved]

2007-03-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 13:49 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Thy this. echo rimwards /etc/hostname rimwards.obscured.tld is the FQDN Spot on! Thanks! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Vanilla kernel and third party driver difficulties

2007-03-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm running etch, and for the sake of my notebook's ACPI, I'm running the the latest 2.6.21-rc4 kernel. There are some third party drivers that I need, and since 2.6.21-rc3 module-assistant fails to compile any of them, and I get the same error accross the board:

Re: cheap LCD display

2007-03-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, March 16, 2007 16:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): any advice is more than wellcome ! I got this for my Mac Mini:

ATI fglrx driver and notebook brightness ajustment

2007-03-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, On my notebook, HP nx6125 (ATI X300 graphics), if I use the included radeon (oss) driver, I can ajust the screen brightness with the fn keys on the keyboard, and if I unplug AC power, the screen dimms automatically. But if I used the fglrx driver, this doesn't work correctly. It does

Re: ndiswrapper problem

2007-03-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:24 -0500, Celejar wrote: Are you aware that the bcm43xx driver (included in recent kernels) supports Broadcom wireless chips natively? I'm using it with the built in Broadcom wireless chip on my laptop (Broadcom BCM4318 AirForce One 54g rev 02) and it works quite well.

Re: Converting Debian Testing to Stable

2007-03-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, March 7, 2007 16:55, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I installed Debian Testing on a computer, and now want to convert it to Stable. Is it correct if I (1) Replace testing with etch in APT sources, (2) Wait for Etch to become Stable, and then (3) Dist-upgrade? And what is currently the

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:55 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works like on Windows systems, though. I've ran it through crossover office - not through vanilla wine though. It does work, but there are limitations. For one thing,

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:43 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using the -f switch of maildirmake. Believe me, it can save you lots of grief. Otherwise

Re: gigabit nic

2007-03-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:24 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:36:44PM +, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:27 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Can't really go wrong with an Intel or 3Com (are they still making new stuff?). Careful. Intel's

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote: Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go with. There's really very little difference. Dovecot is supposedly a little faster, but if you reached the

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-28 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, February 28, 2007 00:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Here [0]: 4. I have an Adaptec 1210SA SATA RAID card. Why doesn't Linux support my hardware RAID? The Adaptec 2x20 series are hardware raid cards, use the aacraid module, and to the linux kernel look no different to Adaptec SCSI

Re: Etch not booting on Adaptec 2420sa

2007-02-28 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, February 28, 2007 14:22, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 12:15:26PM -, Hans du Plooy wrote: The Adaptec 2x20 series are hardware raid cards, use the aacraid module, and to the linux kernel look no different to Adaptec SCSI Raid cards that use the same driver

Re: gigabit nic

2007-02-27 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:27 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Can't really go wrong with an Intel or 3Com (are they still making new stuff?). Careful. Intel's onboard controllers of late are often rebranded Marvel Yukons - and they're useless. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Queue management for qmail

2007-02-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, Does anyone know a program similar to this for qmail? http://pfqueue.sourceforge.net/ Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: When you're a rank noob (was Re: Old Computer Parts)

2007-02-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
Then that's what you say at the beginning of your email. :) These two quotes are guaranteed to garner sympathy: I'm a noob and I don't know enough to know where to begin to look. Internet access is flaky, slow and expensive. Differs from list to list, I guess. In the days when I was

HP nx6125

2007-02-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I've had this notebook for more than a year now, and I'm still battling with it's ACPI. The biggest problem is that the fan control is irregular. Trip points are reached or exceeded, and acpi -t shows the correct temperature and that the fan is on, but the fan isn't. There is an entry

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 14:54 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running Sarge. It works fine. The computer was heading to the dump and I thought I could rescue it and put it to some use. It does not have a GUI, and doesn't need one. I

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: I think a lot of the questions that are asked in this mailing list could be self answered, but it seems that there are a lot of people who never bother looking for an answer when then think a guru will take time from their precious day to

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 23:19 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: I saw on the net a little linux computer that consists pretty much of a network card and a serial port. www.picolinux.com I think. I thought Wrong url, here's the correct one: http://www.picotux.com/ Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:55 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Celejar wrote: In Hilbert's hotel, when all the rooms are full and a new guest arrives, the management just moves everyone down one room and places the newcomer into the first room, which is now vacant. When a countably infinite

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 23:34 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 1/30/07, Dave Witbrodt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Etch now since Sunday night, and everything is working really smooth. Everything seems a lot faster, too. No doubt some of that is due to the improved video card,

Second NIC won't play

2007-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I have to identical Intel 100mbit network cards in my workstation. Just one was plugged in and picked up DHCP when I installed, and configured itself accordingly. I'm not trying to make the second one talk via a crossover cable to my notebook. But I cannot get the interface up. #

Re: Second NIC won't play

2007-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:23 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: I have to identical Intel 100mbit network cards in my workstation. Just one was plugged in and picked up DHCP when I installed, and configured itself accordingly. I'm not trying to make the second one talk via a crossover cable to my

Re: Dual head setup [solved]

2007-02-15 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:03 +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: It would be unstable because the radeon module has little more than basic support for the X600. Was this dual head in an extended desktop mode (as opposed to mirror)? Do you by any chance still have this config file around? Huh,

Radeon 7000 Dualhead 3D working - HOWTO

2007-02-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
OK, after som head_against_wall incidentes, I have it working on Debian Etch. This should work for the Radeon 7500 too, because they use the same driver. First, make sure you have these packages installed: xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-video-ati xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-dri xfonts-base libxinerama1

Re: Dual head setup

2007-02-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi Greg, thanks for your reply To get my video card working and stable, I had to use the fglrx module provided by ATI. (http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html Mine is a Radeon 7000 - not supported by fglrx, but supported by the opensource radeon driver. Before I did all the above, I did get

Dual head setup

2007-01-31 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm banging my head against this one - with little effect... I just installed Etch on my workstation, which has a Radeon 7000 and two Dell 19 LCD screens. I'm trying to set up an extended desktop - sort of need it that way to be able to work efficiently. I followed various howtos and

net install using USB flash disc

2007-01-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm having no luck following this howto: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en I just get the following: Non-System disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready I tried both methods and various combinations of either - no luck. Is there anthing

Re: net install using USB flash disc

2007-01-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
I'll have to ask IT to install a CD-ROM for me (could take days). Thanks Hans On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 19:19 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 18:54, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, I'm having no luck following this howto: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-03 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:40 -0500, Marty wrote: Nevetheless, I seem to recall not getting full memory bus speed specifically with the 1800+ on the KX400+, but I could be mistaken. The only reason why you wouldn't have been able to get the full memory bus speed is if the memory couldn't do it.

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-02 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 17:40 -0500, Marty wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Why would the CPU speed limit the amount of memory you can use? If the motherboard can handle 3GB, the CPU will handle 3GB. Hans I meant in terms of performance, not capacity. I don't recall the specifics

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 14:39 -0500, Marty wrote: I recommend at least 1G of DDR SDRAM, which KX400 fully supports, but may not fully utilized by the 1800+. Why would the CPU speed limit the amount of memory you can use? If the motherboard can handle 3GB, the CPU will handle 3GB. Hans -- To

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 13:33 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: considering but perhaps not. After all my objective is just to capture the digital video stream and burn it to a CD or DVD. If it is just to capture and not to capture and encode/transcode on the fly, an AthlonXP 1800+ (1.5GHz) is

Re: Looking for music player software

2007-01-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 14:42 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: I know exactly what you mean. The UI of XMMS was one of the things that made me go looking for another player, years ago. He he, I used XMMS for much longer than I should have for just the opposite reason. I'm a longtime Winamp user, and

Re: postfix w/ SASL

2006-12-27 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 19:12 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about doing this via .deb? Doesn't look like it will work or I'm missing a lot of something... Hi Tom, I've only managed to do this once before (on SUSE) and I wish I had written a howto based

Re: Release date of Debain Etch

2006-12-24 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 18:25 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 22:29 +0530, Raghu Kodali wrote: It was announced that Etch will be released in Dec 2006. Can anybody tell me when it will be released (as stable). I am not brave enough to upgrade to a testing Etch. I am

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: use dpkg with --force-all Thanks, that did it. Couldn't install telnetd because apt would moan about the deps. But at least I got ssh sorted out. Now just apache still seem to be broken - working on that. might help. good luck.

cleanup after dist-upgrade

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
OK, I got all the problems sorted out after doing dist-upgrade on a live production server :-) What's the best way to clean this up? By the looks of it I now have two versions of mysql installed. mysql -V does give me the 5.0.30 though: # dpkg -l | grep mysql rc courier-authmysql

Re: cleanup after dist-upgrade

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:29 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: What's the best way to clean this up? By the looks of it I now have two versions of mysql installed. mysql -V does give me the 5.0.30 though: [snip] I just noticed: ii mysql-server-4.1 5.0.30-1 mysql database

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh [solved]

2006-12-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:24 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:18:14AM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:28 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: use dpkg with --force-all Thanks, that did it. Couldn't install telnetd because apt would moan

apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, Going from sarge to etch, I'm getting this: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: ssh: Depends: openssh-client but it is not

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failes on ssh

2006-12-18 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:26 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, Going from sarge to etch, I'm getting this: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have

Intel D915GEV board problem

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone else has problems with Debian on this board? I have Etch installed. About three out of four boots hang at random. What happens is it starts normally, but somewhere in the boot proccess the display gets corrupted and the machine hangs. Doesn't happen at the

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 15:30 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under a default Debian Sarge. Hard to say, you provide no details on the hardware - what model motherboard, etc. If so, where can I

http://cdimage.debian.org/

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
Is http://cdimage.debian.org/ down? I'm getting time-outs all day. Tried from my UK server too - same result. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:31 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and the AMD 64 version of Etch? I expect very little. I was just wanting to do a similar thing - make a DVD of my Sarge-AMD64 CDs. But cdimage.debian.org

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 02:12 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: I am going to do this as an exercise to learn about jigdo and also to find the most efficient way of downloading a full distribution from the mirror sites. Jigdo certainly is efficient. The nice thing about it is if you download

Etch ISO images

2006-12-14 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I want to download the latest current testing images. What is the difference between the first three images, and the -binary images after that in: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/ Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:38 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: I own two dedicated web servers and they run Red Hat and CentOS but what makes them different to Debian? I have done a lot of reading and research on Debian and my impression of, particularly stable is that it is one of the most

Re: SATA PCI

2006-12-08 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:18 +0800, Bob wrote: I have no experience with the PCI-E card, it's a 2 port card so that would support a max of 10 drives, also it employs a different chipset the sil3132 for PCI-E vs the sil3124 for PCI-X however they use the same driver sata_sil24 so it should

Two gateways on same network

2006-12-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm setting up a Debian antispam mail relay. I have two gateways on the network (two separate internet connections): 4mbit ADSL = 192.168.1.6 128k line = 192.168.1.1 Both have NAT firewalls, both forward port 25 to the Debian box. I'm trying to do the following: Always use

Re: Two gateways on same network

2006-12-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 20:50 +0100, srg krn wrote: It is normal that if I connect to your public IP (say IPa) from the 128k line my connection times out. THE REASON IS: It is normal because I am in Internet and my machine sends the SYN [snip] Thanks, the why I understand - it's the how...

Re: SATA PCI

2006-12-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:43 +0800, Bob wrote: Sorry delay RL. http://www.stardom.com.tw/others%20satacard.htm 4 port PCI-X Nice! I lilke the e-SATA express card - solves a few minor storage headaches for me! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Adding additional postfix server to init daemon

2006-12-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:23 -0800, Adam D wrote: I just have created additional postfix servers on the mail server and would like to add the additional configs into the init daemon but looking at the scrip from LaMont Jones I am not able to decipher where to put the additional servers. I have

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)? 1. Postfix. 2. Amarok. Yes, both run on other *nix, so it's not strictly Linux, but in both cases the authors were very clear that they have no plans to make it run on Windows.

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Well, sure. If FreeBSD had been easy to install in year 2000, had a large community, and apps like Netscape (or was Mozilla released by then?) then I maybe would have tried FreeBSD. They had, actually. I remember going to an internet cafe

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:20 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: My concern is that we are going to have only one server. So if there was a hardware problem, with software raid I could just temporarily move the disks to an ordinary workstation and serve the data from there. With hardware raid, I

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:58 +0100, Björn Gustafsson wrote: On the contrary, the amarok team has stated that a windows port can/will happen with the 2.0 codebase ( http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/225-Porting-to-Windows-part-2.html for example ). The post referred to in the first

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-27 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 18:13 -0800, Jeff Goodman wrote: 2. HP of late has a filthy habit of boobytrapping their notebooks to not take generic components. My nx6125, for example, will not work with any hard disc other than the 80GB Seagate (with HP firmware) that it came with. Sure you

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