Big Buck Bunny - Free Content Computer Animated Film Created Using Blender

2008-07-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all!

I've written about it here:

http://www.whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=6088

(It's in Hebrew, but there are links.)

The Peach project has released its end-product - Big Buck Bunny - created 
entirely using FOSS, under a CC-by licence:

* http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_(film)

I watched it and really liked it.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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RE: NIC woes with Debian MSI MS-7507

2008-07-16 Thread ronys
 Hi Rami,

Thanks - getting the latest driver from the vendor fixed the problem.
The vendor's tarball builds a module outside the source tree, and works fine
with rmmod/insmod. Getting it to build as part of the kernel source tree so
that initrd will pick it up was a bit of a hassle, but that's probably my
lack of experience.  All's well that ends well, though.

Cheers,

Rony

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Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Subject: Re: NIC woes with Debian  MSI MS-7507

Hi,
  It is probably a BUG in the driver.

 Google didn't find anything useful

Build your own search engine ; don't use google :)

Accoding to this link, the same issue also occurred (ethtool returns
FIBRE for r8168).

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg43754.html
Since that this message is from 2007, I would consider getting the linux
driver
from the vendor site:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=13PFid
=5Level=5Conn=4DownTypeID=3GetDown=false

version 8.006.00is quite recent ( 22/4/2008).


 The second , less probable option,
is that the motherboard does not support this chipset;
There were (very rare ) cases in which such was the case; but these
things happen. This can easily
be checked with their support.


Regards,
Rami Rosen

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM, ronys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,

 Debian etch (latest stable) distro installed on the above PC results in an
unusable onboard NIC.

 /var/log/messages tell me that the NIC is
 Jul 15 19:15:54 hostname kernel: eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf8822000,
00:1d:92:a1:96:19, IRQ 177

 The module for it is found and loaded:
 Jul 15 19:15:54 hostname kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI
loaded

 However, the NIC never gets an IP address from DHCP. Even worse, ethtool
shows that it's totally confused as to its identity:
 # ethtool eth0
 Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes:  Not reported
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: FIBRE
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: pumbg
Current message level: 0x0033 (51)
Link detected: yes

 (FIBRE port when it really should be TP - Twisted Pair)

 Google didn't find anything useful. My current workaround is adding
another NIC, which works fine, but is unacceptable in the long term.

 This occurs on two different PCs that have the same motherboard, so it's
not a fluke hardware issue.

 Also, if I play around with ifup/ifdown AFTER booting it, I can sometimes
get it to work, but only at 10MB/sec (connected to a 100 MB/s switch).

 Any ideas?

 Rony


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Re: NIC woes with Debian MSI MS-7507

2008-07-16 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Rony,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:07:19PM +0300, ronys wrote:
  Hi Rami,
 
 Thanks - getting the latest driver from the vendor fixed the problem.
 The vendor's tarball builds a module outside the source tree, and works fine
 with rmmod/insmod. Getting it to build as part of the kernel source tree so
 that initrd will pick it up was a bit of a hassle, but that's probably my
 lack of experience.  All's well that ends well, though.

Why do you need those NIC drivers in initrd? Is this driver needed for the 
initial boot phase?

baruch

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RE: NIC woes with Debian MSI MS-7507

2008-07-16 Thread ronys
Good question.

I may have something wrong when trying to install the module manually, since
putting in in /lib/modules/... and running depmod didn't work under reboot,
so I just assumed that it was required by the kernel before / was mounted.

Rony

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Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:55 PM
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Subject: Re: NIC woes with Debian  MSI MS-7507

Hi Rony,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:07:19PM +0300, ronys wrote:
  Hi Rami,
 
 Thanks - getting the latest driver from the vendor fixed the problem.
 The vendor's tarball builds a module outside the source tree, and works
fine
 with rmmod/insmod. Getting it to build as part of the kernel source tree
so
 that initrd will pick it up was a bit of a hassle, but that's probably my
 lack of experience.  All's well that ends well, though.

Why do you need those NIC drivers in initrd? Is this driver needed for the 
initial boot phase?

baruch

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time stamp of LV creation?

2008-07-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello,

Is there any way to find out when was an LVM2 volume last:
1. Created
2. Accessed
3. Modified?

I'm looking for something similar to inode's ctime/mtime/atime.

Otherwise - is there a way to attach some arbitrary attribute onto the
volume's meta-data, so an automatic script can record things it does
to the volume?

I'm asking this because I regularly rebuild Xen DomU's inside Logical
Volumes (on CentOS 5) and would like to have a feel of the age of
volumes I find lying around (there is a limit to how far a naming
convention can take you). I can probably record in files inside the
volumes but then it's a bit complicated to access these files from the
Dom0 (need to kpartx the volume, mount it etc).

Thanks,

--Amos

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Measuing speed of USB2/External HD Interface

2008-07-16 Thread Noam Rathaus
Hi,

How can I verify the speed of the USB2 device?

It is an external HD, and access to it appear slow

hdparam reports 750Mb/s but actual write and read time appear slower.

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