Fan control and laptop battery

2011-04-18 Thread Ivan Marin
Hi all, I'm using Debian sid on a Dell XPS, Core i7 with Nvidia. The battery duration and the fan control is much better on Windows 7 than on Debian, unfortunately. I'm trying to improve this situation, so 1) Can I trust on powertop and implement what it is telling me to do? For example, I

Opinions about Laptop and Debian - Nvidia vs Radeon

2010-11-27 Thread Ivan Marin
Hi all, I'm planning to get a laptop soon and gonna run Debian on it. I'm gonna need a few things: - HDMI/DVI output support, as I usually use a 22' Dell external monitor; - A good processor, at least i5/i7 Lynnfield/Arrandale; - A good video card, with good 3D support on Debian - I develop a

OT - Backup of HA server on external drive

2010-04-22 Thread Ivan Marin
Hi all, I have to make a backup plan for a server that is physically very far away from me right now. If for some reason this server goes south, I have to have a plan and it has to be done quickly. The problem is that the personnel that is on site doesn't know squat about Linux (or computers, for

Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Ivan Marin
Hi all, I've seen a lot of traffic lately about how to compile a fresh kernel, from debian ou vanilla, in this list. After the changes in make-kpkg and kernel-package, I'm now completely lost. Before the changes, I just had to issue make-kpkg with --initrd (and others) flags, and 1) the kernel

Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Ivan Marin
(I'm posting again because, for some reason, my emails are not getting to the mail list. Sorry about that.) Hi all, I've seen a lot of traffic lately about how to compile a fresh kernel, from debian ou vanilla, in this list. After the changes in make-kpkg and kernel-package, I'm now completely

Re: Re: Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Ivan Marin
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:40:46 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: It sounds to me like you want to get pristine kernel sources directly from kernel.org and compile them and run them on a Debian system. I've never done that, but others tell me that they do it. Of course, this is not supported

Xorg keeps using more memory

2009-11-18 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello all, I'm using Debian Sid amd64, with xorg version 7.4+4, and the Nvidia driver. Everything runs smoothly, but after some time (a day or two) Xorg keeps using more and more memory. For example, when Xorg is just started, it uses 858m shared and 30 resident. After two days, it grows to 1300m

External HDD drive with ext4 mount only as root

2009-11-05 Thread Ivan Marin
): internal journal on sdb1:8 EXT4-fs (sdb1): delayed allocation enabled EXT4-fs: file extents enabled EXT4-fs: mballoc enabled EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode /media/.hal-mtab: /dev/sdb1 10000 ext4nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal /media/nostromo Ivan Marin

Intel C++ Compiler, Debian Sid and libstdc++5/6

2009-10-14 Thread Ivan Marin
not like to hunt down the libstdc++5 package and install it by hand. Did anybody succesfully used the intel compilers on sid? Any pointers? Thanks! Ivan Marin

Virtual Memory and long use

2009-09-22 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello all, I'm running Sid (kernel 2.6.30) on a Core i7 with 4G of memory. Everything runs smoothly until some programs hit the VM (like using eclipse, amarok, iceweasel and azureus at the same time). Even if one of the memory hoggers is killed, or all of them, if the VM was hit and some swap was

Re: Ticketing system [OT]

2009-01-24 Thread Ivan Marin
2009/1/24 Allan Wind allan_w...@lifeintegrity.com On 2009-01-24T11:30:45, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Recommend me a nice, easy to use free and open source software for support ticketing system on linux adn please tell me why do you like it :) We use Request Tracker 3.6 at work. It has a

Pixelview PlayTV Xtreme GlobalTV not working

2008-10-27 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello all, Did anybody succeeded in running a Pixelview PlayTV Xtreme Global TV on debian? The chip is printed as conexant 23883-39, and lspci identifies this board as Conexant cx2388x/1/2/3 (rev 5). I've tried putting options cx88xx card=74 on /etc/modprobe.d/options. I've tried lots of

Video Capture card for mythtv

2008-10-01 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello everybody, I'm mouting a TV/Cable station, and would like some advice. I have three choices for capture cards: PINNACLE PC/TV PRO 110I TV/FM - R$ 200,00 PL PCI TV/FM PROLINK PLAYTV XTREME C/CONTROL - R$ 120,00 PL PCI TV/FM ENCORE TUNER PRO C/CONTROLE - R$ 85,00 (the

Problem with rsync between debian sid and nfs from opensuse

2008-05-20 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello everybody, I'm trying to do a rsync from my home directory (Debian Sid i386) to a NFS mounted on this system, but mounted from a OpenSuse 10.3. The permissions are right on both ends (Debian and OpenSuse), and the rsync starts ok, but after a few gigas rsync error: some files could