Re: What time is it, really?

On 2018-08-09 11:54 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 04:15:36PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > Additionally, from > > http://doc.ntp.org/current-stable/ntpq.html#rv (rv allows > > one to read the offset for a particular association > > directly), "Note that time values are repr

atime not updated after 24 hours

I have two file systems of the same type (ext3) and mounted with the same options (rw, relatime, data=ordered). On one of them, reading a file whose atime is older than 24 hours updates the atime. On another, it doesn't, even if the atime is several months old. Those file systems are local, whic

Re: Invalid UTF-8 byte? (was: Re: utf)

On 2018-04-04 14:55 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > I have given you advice (for free), you are not taking it. Too bad for > you. Good day. Is advice that comes with condescension truly free ? -- André Majorel I trust bugs.debian.org to not publish my email addr

Re: utf

On 2018-04-02 08:00 +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 02/04/18 02:05, mess-mate wrote: > >howto change the system utf to eu character set ? > > Why? UTF (especially UTF-8) is vastly superior for all purposes: I wouldn't say that. UTF-8 breaks a number of assumptions. For instance, 1) every ch

Re: utf

On 2018-04-01 16:05 +0200, mess-mate wrote: > howto change the system utf to eu character set ? If, by "eu", you mean ISO 8859-1 or -15, here is the procedure that works for me : 1) Run dpkg-reconfigure locales and select some appropriate non-UTF-8 locales. When asked what the defau

Re: Language of applications are not translated if the default language is changed

On 2017-12-23 19:21 +0100, john doe wrote: > I have install Debian 9 using as the default language 'C'. > I want to add some new languages, and for this I do 'dpkg-reconfigure > locales'. > I'm currently using Gnome and Mate. > > How can I add support for those new languages so all > applications

Re: Youtube - newbie guidance

On 2017-12-23 09:06 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Just be prepared for the site owner's indifference, even > hostility, to any such tool. None of them will keep working > when YouTube is arbitrarily changed, which happens a number of > times each year. Right. You occasionally have to install a new v

Re: A sox Question about the silence Module

On 2017-12-21 14:17 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > sox -t .wav input.wav -t .wav output.wav silence -l 1 0 '-39d' -1 0.5 '-45d' > > The field containing 0.5 which is the second-to-the-last field > is the only thing that does not work. The script records while > there is sound but the 0.5 seco

Re: OT: Help with sort (and maybe awk or sed)

On 2017-05-20 09:19 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as > > follows: > > > >* [[][]] > > > > e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]] > > > > I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that. > > In my quick test, > >

Wrong mtimes on memory card, mount -o tz=UTC ineffectual

The mtimes of the files on a VFAT file system on a memory card used by a digicam are off by two hours. My time zone is CEST, which is two hours ahead of UTC so I thought that mounting the file system with -o tz=UTC might fix that. It doesn't. In fact, in makes no difference whatsoever. Apparently

Re: debmirror, GPG, Stretch

On 2017-05-11 21:44 +0200, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 03:21:17PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > > This is where a list of key IDs used for ftp.debian.org would > > come in handy. But if it exists, it's not easy to find. > > > > No doubt keys

debmirror, GPG, Stretch

After downloading Release and Release.gpg, debmirror hangs (uses 100% CPU until killed). My guess is that there's a bug in the signature verification code that is triggered by the absence of the key in /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg and friends (this being a Debian 8 system). Unfo

Re: "command not found"

On 2016-12-06 14:21 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > I've run across this a number of times in the past, but it's usually a > permissions problem, easily fixed. Not this time. > > holtzm@localhost:~$ ls -l .fetchmail > -rwx-- 1 holtzm holtzm 365 Nov 26 14:05 .fetchmail > > Sure looks like it aug

Re: Power Cut

On 2016-10-30 12:25 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:06:30 +0100 > Andre Majorel wrote: > > On 2016-10-29 23:37 -0700, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > > > > > Can you please do me favor and let me know if there is any log > > > on my debian server th

Re: Power Cut

On 2016-10-29 23:37 -0700, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > I am using a debian server for cdr billing and mediation > device on a remote network. I am experiencing problem that I > am suspicious it comes from main supply power cut at the > remote site. The power supply to the remote site comes from > batte

Re: Script vs command line behaviour

On 2016-10-12 08:40 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:34:22PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > # The systemctl stop for svnserve may not work as I haven't got around to > > # making a stop script for it. > > # So kill the process the old fashioned way > > ps -ef | grep svnser

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

On 2016-09-30 14:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 30 September 2016 10:31:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I'm not the only one to complain. > > For goodness sake!!! This is Debian. Open Source. Choice. > Your call. Either rewrite Aptitude and publish a fork; use > it; or don't use it.

Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

On 2016-09-29 14:57 -0400, Marc Auslander wrote: > I see what you mean. I must assume that the other packages have > survived my upgrades from previous versions and are still in my > package database. Sorry for the misleading post - it shows I don't > know how aptitude works :-) "emacs21" "emac

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

On 2016-09-28 10:46 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > Things like that should not happen. But this is not a bug in the perl > > packages. This is a misfeature of apt / aptitude, which want to remove > > packages instead of holding the new packages (well, AFAIK, aptitude > > ha

Re: lynx - not all sites readable

On 2016-09-15 11:08 +0200, Hans wrote: > Due to your suggestion, I tried elinks. For my personal taste > I like the colour setting of lynx more. My Elinks have colour disabled so use the xterm's colours (in my case, black text on white-ish background). I often end up doing this as most terminal a

Re: lynx - not all sites readable

On 2016-09-14 17:46 -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:06:29PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > One of these days, I'd like to put a website up and permit only text > > browsers like links and lynx and edbrowse full access and either > > block all of the graphical browsers o

Tool that says whether IP addresses are routable or reserved

Is there a tool which would take IPv4 addresses on the command line and say whether or not they are regular and routable ? host(1) is not very useful for that as it doesn't seem to distinguish between an address which happens not to used by a domain name at this time (eg 9.9.9.9) and one which cou

Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

On 2016-08-16 18:35 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > qobi@upplysingaoflun>all+n cat /etc/mailname > tlamachilistli: > tlamachilistli.ecn.purdue.edu > zhineng: > zhineng.ecn.purdue.edu This "all+n" intrigues me. What is it ? -- André Majorel One of the advan

Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd

On 2016-08-07 10:19 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2016, Andre Majorel wrote: > > > 1. run invoke-rc.d daemon-package stop > > 2. update config file > > 3. run invoke-rc.d daemon-package start > > That works, but it doesn't take in

invoke-rc.d & systemd

I'm working on a program to make changes to a daemon's configuration file. The man page helpfully warns against doing that without immediately restarting it. Do you think the following would work on any Debian system, regardless of its current run level and choice of init system ? 1. run invoke-r

Re: nosh and redo have moved

On 2016-08-05 11:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > So far, no links have included what I'd call a blow by blow, which > resulted in his projects being moved. It's not in any of the links in his message but in https://jdebp.eu/about-the-site.html In a nutshell, Virgin Media shut http://homepage.n

Re: nosh and redo have moved

On 2016-08-05 12:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Point taken. The pruning is an attempt to keep each individual > mailbox readable in a reasonable length of time by kmail. A > couple of my folders have no expiry, are over 2Gb in size. It > takes a good 45 seconds to sort and display the list when

Re: Downloading and naming

On 2016-07-31 10:59 +0200, Brian Wengel wrote: > I'm talking about media. The debian developers should erase > CD/DVD from their brian, and only focus on the technologies we > use today and have used for many years. My main computer, the one on which I'm writing this, cannot boot off USB. Install

Re: Newer mutt in stable

On 2016-07-26 18:35 +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2016-07-26 14:38 keltezéssel, Andre Majorel írta: > >This will be the next step. Good point about build dependencies, > >will need to find a way around that. I have a feeling that brute > >force will be involved. > > o

Re: Newer mutt in stable

On 2016-07-19 13:51 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Andre Majorel writes: > > > Things I'd rather not do : > > - install from source, > > - install a package from unstable or testing in case it drags in > > new versions of libc etc., > > This is the f

Newer mutt in stable

The version of Mutt in Debian 8 (1.5.23-3) has a very annoying bug (https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/rev/755a18da99bc). I'd like to upgrade to 1.5.24 or newer. Unstable and testing have Mutt 1.6.0-1 but I don't see any back ports of Mutt for stable. Things I'd rather not do : - install from source, -

Re: off topic Question of the day..

On 2016-07-16 13:49 +, Curt wrote: > She was putting her foot down, but it went into her mouth. Did she ? In any case, hearing someone from the US poke fun at the UK for being late in updating their unit system "vaut son pesant de cacahuètes", as people might say around these parts. :-) --

Re: Installation issue

On 2016-07-17 00:42 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 16 Jul 2016 at 20:57:55 (-0700), Adolfo Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi there, I've tried to install from Internet but during the > > process I get across choosing a mirror, after I choose it it > > takes me to a screen with a title "choose a mirror of

Re: C source

On 2016-07-15 11:54 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > As your includes are written above, the C compiler would look > for a file md5.h in the current compilation directory: most > probably there isn't one, since whatever package you installed > will put it in a standard system location, typically u

Re: Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.

On 2016-07-11 02:53 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Debian Jessie with Firefox 47.0.1 from Mozilla Debian Team. Firefox uses > "automatic cache management", which is default. The problem showed up > just recently. > > Today for a test sake I streamed a movie https://archive.org/details/ > Soyl

Re: 7z command works fine on command line but not in script

On 2014-02-19 09:47 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Hello. > > I made a script to extract music from a jamendo archive, but for a > reason I do not know, 7z does not accept the command line. I also > echoed it, to be able to know what it tries to run, and it works > fine when ran on

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

On 2014-02-17 12:26 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > But for 99.9% of Linux users most of the features in X11 are > useless That's a pretty bold statement. Do you have a link listing all the features of X, so we can get an idea of which of them are used by less than 1 in 1000 Linux users ? I hope

Re: raid problem

On 2013-11-30 19:48 +0100, François Patte wrote: > If I summarize the situation: the faulty disk (with badblocks) > is sdd3, but it is the only active disk in the md1 array and I > can fully access the data of this disk which is normally > mounted at boot time, while the disk sdc3 has no badblocks

Re: debian-multimedia.org

On 2013-11-30 14:16 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 14:02:22 +0100 > Andre Majorel wrote: > > >at http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ ? Has Christian Marillat's > >repo moved ? > > Yes. It's at http://deb-multimedia.org/, and has been for &

debian-multimedia.org

Am I the only one who sees cyrillic script and photos of bikes at http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ ? Has Christian Marillat's repo moved ? $ whois debian-multimedia.org Domain ID:D168841859-LROR Domain Name:DEBIAN-MULTIMEDIA.ORG Created On:01-Jun-2013 14:30:15 UTC Last Updated On:01-Aug-2013 03:4

Re: raid problem

On 2013-11-29 23:43 +0100, François Patte wrote: > I have a problem with 2 raid arrays: I have 2 disks (sdc and sdd) in > raid1 arrays. > > One disk (sdc) failed and I replaced it by a new one. Copying the > partition table from sdd disk using sfdisk: > > sfdisk -d /dev/sdd | sfdisk /dev/sdc >

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

On 2013-11-20 17:45 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: > > > An attribution wouldn't have hurt but it's plain to see that Jon > > was replying to Emilio's message, not Ron's. Or don't mailers >

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

On 2013-11-19 21:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:52PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > I think Jonathan was directing his comments to Emilio, not > > you. It's difficult to know for sure as he didn't use a > > name, or quote some of the offending message. An attribu

Re: disks differ after cloning with dd

On 2013-11-11 15:06 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I do not remember having seen so much unused space on first disk. > Could dd have written stuff there, when I only asked it to read > there? dd writing to the argument of if= would be a bug. A major one. > 2: the 2 disks are USB d

Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor

On 2013-10-24 15:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Our church runs a once a week after school program for the > children of a neighboring elementary school { in U.S. > education-speak it is a "title 1 - severely underprivileged > school"}. We run on donated hardware. Up to now the machines > came

Re: Dying hard drive?

On 2013-10-18 11:43 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Do a smartctl -A /dev/sd[abcd] - look for non-zero raw read errors > and reallocated sector counts. And Current_Pending_Sector ! > I've found, at least for the WD drives I use in my servers - > anything other than a 0 raw-read-error count is a s

64-bit VM on 32-bit host OS on 64-bit hardware

Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running Debian i386 ? The hardware would be a recent AMD CPU, so Pacifica/AMD-V is available. The virtualisation systems I'm most interested in are KVM and Xen but if this sort of configuration is not possible under every platform virtual machine

Debian mirror analysis by release

Is there a program out there that will scan a Debian mirror (E.G. created by debmirror) and, for each file in it, list the release(s) by which it's used ? Thanks in advance. -- André Majorel bugs.debian.org, a spammer's delight. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

sshfs more like NFS (or vice-versa)

Are there any alternatives to sshfs that offer proper multi-user support ? By which I mean letting user alice@client access a remote file system as both bob@server and (by using sudo on client) root@server. Of course there is NFS over SSH but then some configuration is needed on the server and bei

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

On 2012-04-10 20:48 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > In my case I simply set up a separate mirror for Lenny and pointed the > upstream source to my local mirror. Then ran the mirror script to > pull the packages from the existing local mirror into the new lenny > mirror. The packages transfer very qui

debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

One of the releases I'm debmirror-ing (Lenny) has disappeared from the mirror I'm mirroring off. Before I remove that release from the debmirror command line, I'd like to save those packages somewhere. First thought is to generate a list of file names from dists/lenny/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz and

Radeon, KMS, OpenGL and black screens

As far as I can tell, enabling KMS causes the screen to go black shortly after "ib test succeeded in 0 usecs" and disabling it prevents hardware 3D acceleration. Any ideas ? Yes, drm, drm_kms_helper and radeon are loaded before startx and no, it's not new hardware (RV370). Thanks in advance. --

eeepc-acpi-scripts update & breakage

I made the mistake of upgrading eeepc-acpi-scripts (to 1.1.11) and some things have stopped working. Notably - Fn-F1 used to suspend to RAM, it's now a no-op, - likewise for closing the lid, - Fn-F7 used to toggle the backlight, it's a now a no-op, - guessnet has become a boat anchor. What is one

Re: wget question

On 2010-08-03 15:56 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > All I want to do is download all the files in a specific directory. > http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/ > > But wget http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/ just gets the index.html > file, wget http://media.mises.org/mp3/MU2010/* returns an error, an

Re: match across line using grep

On 2010-08-03 09:57 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > On 08/03/2010 05:39 AM, Andre Majorel wrote: > > On 2010-08-03 19:37 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > >> On 2010???08???03??? 17:53, Andre Majorel wrote: > >>>>> $ printf 'a\nb' | grep -zo a.*b > >>

Stubborn USB card reader

I'm having trouble reading Compact flash and SD cards on the same card reader. I'm not absolutely certain but it *seems* that once a medium of either type has been inserted, it will ignore the other type. Wherever the state is kept, it's not in the module. modprobe -r usb-storage; modprobe usb-sto

Re: match across line using grep

On 2010-08-03 19:37 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010???08???03??? 17:53, Andre Majorel wrote: > >> > $ printf 'a\nb' | grep -zo a.*b > >> > > >> > (The above should output something /if/ -z would make egrep > >> > not consider

Re: match across line using grep

On 2010-08-02 14:56 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > I'm grepping a bunch of files each have a segment code that > executes a SQL. My problem is that the query spans across > several lines and I can't seem to make grep honor (?s) for > that. Here's an example: > > grep --E 'select.*from.*;' . "--E" ?

Interactive diff rsync

Anyone knows of some software that will compare two trees and, for each file that differs, show you a diff and ask whether you want to update the destination file ? It must run in a terminal (no GUI) and it must be able to access the source tree through an SSH tunnel, like rsync. Thanks in advanc

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

On 2010-07-16 23:43 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 16 iul 10, 21:03:42, Andre Majorel wrote: > > > perl -e '$bytes = int (1e4 + 1e6 * rand); > > for $n (1..$bytes) { $noise .= chr (int (rand (256))) } > > while (print $noise) {}' >/mnt/sdc1/z

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

On 2010-07-15 13:55 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 15/07/10 01:38 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scd bs=1M > > Yes, but that would wipe out everything, the OS as well. > > I was looking for just making the already deleted files > unrecoverable by a casual user. In other words,

Key logger

Can anyone recommend a key logger for Debian ? I don't need replay or any fancy functions, just stats about which keys get pressed the most. Support for X is essential, support for the console is not. Even raw keycodes would do. -- André Majorel Use reportbug an

Re: Compiling source code with my own flags

On 2010-06-28 21:32 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-06-28 21:07 +0200, Tomasz Maluszycki wrote: > > (for me -O3 is stable... I didn't had any problem with it) > > Depends on the program, I think. In general, -O3 produces bigger > binaries (than -O2) that may or may not run faster. Mozilla

Asus EEE PC 1001HA & NFS hangs

Am I the only one to get frequent NFS hangs on an Asus EEE PC 1001HA ? For no apparent reason, NFS mounts become catatonic and processes using them end up in state D. This is with Debian testing and kernel 2.6.32-5. -- André Majorel bugs.debian.org - spammer's d

Single-host netperf

[2nd attempt] Hello. Anybody knows how to run netperf or similar in "loop" mode ? Packets exiting through eth0 and returning through eth1. (netperf -H $eth1_ip) doesn't work as the kernel takes the shortest way and bypasses the ethernet interfaces completely. -- André Majorel

Re: Inquiry: How to set the crontab job permanently

On 2009-07-27 01:21 -0400, hadi motamedi wrote: > Please be informed that the added lines that we put in the crontab job > list under root are as the followings : > 30 23 * * * cp ~www/db_backup/cdr/RoamingCDR* /home/www > This line is added by issuing "crontab -e" . But we will loose our > added

Extract attachments from message/partial emails

Anyone knows of a program, preferably command line, that can extract attachments from a mailbox file full of message/partial emails ? Thanks in advance. -- André Majorel Use reportbug and get spammed ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

X has lost Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus/Minus

Since I upgraded X from old testing to current testing, - Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus and Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Minus do nothing (no DontZoom in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I checked), - my modelines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf seem to be ignored (no trace of them in /var/log/Xorg.0.log). It's still possible to switch

Re: [:ascii:] character class

On 2008-11-25 01:49 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2008 November 24 10:54, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > Andre Majorel wrote: > > > I seem to remember that the non-standard [:ascii:] character class > > > was once supported. Now grep and

[:ascii:] character class

I seem to remember that the non-standard [:ascii:] character class was once supported. Now grep and sed give the error "Invalid character class name". Am I misremembering ? More importantly, is there a way to get it back ? Thanks in advance. -- André Majorel Eve

Convert HTML document to use relative links ?

Is there is program to make all links relative in HTML documents saved in wget -x fashion ? (http://foo.com/a/b.html saved as ./foo.com/a/b.html.) For example, - if ./foo.com/a/b.html contains and ./foo.com/images/d.jpg exists, replace that tag - if ./foo.co

atimes not updated through NFS

After upgrading an NFS server from kernel 2.6.12 to 2.6.23, the atime of files is not updated any more when clients read them : client$ ll -u --time-style +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S /nfsmnt/zz -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 0 2007-12-21_14:58:11 /nfsmnt/zz client$ md5sum /nfsmnt/zz d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998e

Re: Sed advice needed

On 2007-05-31 17:05 +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=20082

Tool to list sections and their size

Is there an existing tool to list all the sections in a release along with, for each section, - the cumulated Size of the available packages in that section and - the cumulated Size (not Installed-Size) of the packages in that section that are currently installed on the system ? Thanks in a

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

On 2007-02-02 09:25 -, Pete Clarke wrote: > > You mean that was not the issue ? You have a problem then. I'd > > disconnect all the drives but one and see if I can isolate a > > culprit. > > Yep, set the SATA I jumper before setting the drives up. Ah. Sorry. > > SATA should not be as sucept

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

On 2007-02-02 07:56 -, Pete Clarke wrote: > >I'd still prefer to have all my RAID drives be the same manufacturer > >+ model. Maybe that's just an ingrained habit I picked up in the > >1990s. > > Indeed ... I thought it would be better to have all the same, as > I remember different brands o

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

On 2007-02-02 07:14 -, Pete Clarke wrote: > >There was/is an issue with certain Maxtor SATA hard disk drives. > >In some cases, it is necessary to force them to SATA-I mode (1.5 > >gb/s). There's a jumper in the back for that. > > Yep, set that :-) You mean that was not the issue ? You have

Re: Pathetic SATA performance

On 2007-02-01 20:34 -, Pete Clarke wrote: > I have a file server, running Etch, with the following specs: > > P4, 1.7Ghz > 512MB Ram > 2 x SI based SATA I controllers > 4 x Maxtor 250GB SATA drives > > It is set up with software RAID 5, and the overall performance > is terrible. > > bungo:~#

Re: How to prevent the console from going black ?

On 2007-01-31 14:27 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:14 +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: > > Is there a kernel boot parameter or /proc magic to disable the VGA > > console blanking ? (Equivalent of TIOCLINUX subcode 10 value 0 on > > all VT.) > > th

How to prevent the console from going black ?

Is there a kernel boot parameter or /proc magic to disable the VGA console blanking ? (Equivalent of TIOCLINUX subcode 10 value 0 on all VT.) If not, is there a kernel compile-time parameter to disable that feature entirely ? Thanks. -- André Majorel lists.debi

Re: radeon + X300 = garbled screen on switching video mode

On 2005-12-14 09:18 +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: > Running xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 i386, driver "radeon" with an > Asus card based on an ATI X300 (RV370). > > Works fine in 1024 x 768 but if I try to switch to another mode > (800 x 600, 640 x 480, 320 x 200),

radeon + X300 = garbled screen on switching video mode

Running xserver-xorg 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 i386, driver "radeon" with an Asus card based on an ATI X300 (RV370). Works fine in 1024 x 768 but if I try to switch to another mode (800 x 600, 640 x 480, 320 x 200), the screen looks garbled, "sheared" as if the scanline length was off by a small amount. Swit

woody: backspace and altgr broken in X

Since I've apt-get upgrade'd from hamm to woody last friday, backspace and altgr are broken in X. console + bashOK console + Vim OK X + xterm no-op X + xterm + Vim like del ! X + xterm + Mutt no-op X + xterm + Slrn prints a "~" X + Netscape no-op According to xev, backspa

Problem resolving $(hostname) with DHCP

I've just moved to a site where they use DHCP with W95 clients. I've managed to configure my (and a colleague's) good ol' Hamm to insert in the network with dhcpcd 0.70-5 but some problems remain : >From To Operation Results - - -- --- Linux NT SMTP