Re: [SLUG] SB Live (EMU10K1) configuration.
Alexander W Stanley wrote: I've got the same chip (emu10k1) but have never tried to do it like this because I have an inbuilt card that I can use for music output (read: AC'97). If you've got an inbuilt/integrated it might be worth looking into it as the output isn't too bad, particularly not for music :) I do have an inbuilt audio device but a buggy BIOS only allows one media device to be detected. I do not know how to get around this. I have yet to see if a BIOS upgrade exists that would mix. I would be happy with this solution if it could be made to work. Regards Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debian RAID1 rebuild mirror after single drive failure
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:26:54PM +1100, Michael Brown wrote: Hi all, I've got a debian woody system running in RAID1 degraded mode at the moment because there is no hot spare currently. mdadm isn't installed, just the bog stadard raidtools I think. I've taken out the dead drive, and I have a spare to replace it with, but I'm wondering what I have to do now. I'm guessing I can't just put the new drive in and have it autodetect and start rebuilding. Do I have to format the drive so that it is exactly the same as the other drive, or can I just assign it as a hot spare and then have the array automatically rebuild? I've never had to deal with software RAID before, so I'm not entirely sure how to do it. It's been running fine in degraded mode for a while now, but naturally I'd prefer to rebuild the mirror and add another hot spare as well. I've read the software RAID howto, but I'm still a bit confused. I would place the drive in the machine, partition it up the way you want, the same as the old drive I would guess Are you sure you haven't got mdadm install ? If so remove the old dead partition from the raid set and then readd it back in. can't remember the old raidtools syntax Any ideas? Cheers, Michael Brown -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:39:46PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). Reason: I'm going to convert my dad's pc to Ubuntu (he's shipping it to me), I'm having trouble connecting thru the Hel$tra network and his ADSL modem. But if I could get him to ssh to me and I could get back in... (today I spent 3 hours on voip with him, trying to remote desktop into his 'doze box. It took that long just to get port 22 3389 forwarded on the modem, dyndns config'd and him setup with an a/c on 'doze messenger. Couldn't tcptraceroute him on 22 or 3389 tho. Oh the pain). you could have tried xwindows across the net ? get him to log in type export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0 - adjust to point to your machine and then get him to type xterm. bang remote access. I am guessing a bit slow though. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [Fwd: Re: [CTTE] SLUG after LCA]
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:15:11AM -0800, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: If this is going to be just a talk, it would honestly take 10 mins, with as many minutes of QA as possible to follow. I can also do the Google and Open Source talk, which takes about an hour. I am honestly happier with the interactive sessions myself - more interested in what the community needs to know. Thoughts? Apologies for the delay, we've been flat out. :-) The interactive session sounds really good, and will probably suit our audience really well. Would you be able to send a quick blurb through to put on the SLUG calendar? Cheers, Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (Sydney Linux Users Group) http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ (linux.conf.au 2007) http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SLUG Christmas BBQ
Dear all, it seems the weather gods are not very favorable of a BBQ tomorrow at Coogee Beach. The weather forecast reckons another day like today - and cold. So, we're unfortunately having to call off our end-of-year function. I suggest that whoever is still keen to go, try the Coogee Bay Hotel instead for a good steak and a beer - say 12:30pm. We haven't reserved anything, but with this weather and people doing christmas shopping, I expect there to be plenty of space. Reply to this email before 10am tomorrow, and I'll try and reserve a last-minute table if there is enough interest. Cheers, Silvia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] SB Live (EMU10K1) configuration.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What motherboard is it in question? :) I'll take a look around. Also, when loading multiple sound cards on certain boards you need to load them up as a module rather than as integrated/rolled-in/compiled-in (although I'm not sure why, this does actually seem to make a difference). Hoo Roo, Alex. Chris Johns wrote: Alexander W Stanley wrote: I've got the same chip (emu10k1) but have never tried to do it like this because I have an inbuilt card that I can use for music output (read: AC'97). If you've got an inbuilt/integrated it might be worth looking into it as the output isn't too bad, particularly not for music :) I do have an inbuilt audio device but a buggy BIOS only allows one media device to be detected. I do not know how to get around this. I have yet to see if a BIOS upgrade exists that would mix. I would be happy with this solution if it could be made to work. Regards Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFgoNig5/KyzD/6f0RAhSDAJ9iT6DwUG5JmNQIahAN1OvG22WkfACfTYwW gqZY1MLpiIs6SagvhAyIJ0o= =lOp6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?
On Friday 15 December 2006 20:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). When he ssh's to you: ssh -R :localhost:22 your server Then once he's logged into, you can just ssh -p localhost For my dad I gave him a desktop icon 'ToTigger' that said ssh -R 1200:localhost:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] and installed his public key on tigger. Now he clicks the desktop icon to open the connection. Also I needed to fiddle the adsl modem so (obviously modem at 192.168.1.254) ssh -p 1234 -R 1201:192.168.1.254:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] now I browse localhost:1201 to get the modem setup page This is easier than the VPN route (although we used winders OpenVPN for my daughter travelling the world, that's easy, but linux openVPN needs root access to establish). James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] A8N-SLI Delux Motherboard
To Marty Richards , Michael Kedzierski, Alexander W Stanley and many others. Thank you all for coming back With cures for my motherboard problems. I tried many things but the real success came when i reset the bios udma to off. on rebooting, all my drives came to life like magic. All six (6) sata drives are now working,although 2 are on a PCI-Sata converter, this card had a tendency to disappear when 3 or 4 sata 2 were connected into the system,but is now working. The only thing i find difficult to understand is, why does the 1st sata drive become the second sata drive and the 3rd sata drive became the first, at least as far as software is concerned. My boot drive is on the sata 3 connector! This board is supposed to be top of the line,but even so, it does seem to have a problem. Many thanks to all who came back on this problem,but at least my system is running well. Thanks to all Gerald -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLI Delux Motherboard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day Gerald, Glad to see the problem has been solved, at least partially enough to see it boot! I'm guessing you're facing a similar problem to the one I faced and that is that when UDMA gets reset to (or set to DISABLED/NULL/0/OFF) that it seems to trip the re-define functions on the board and set everything off. I've honestly reconsidered (albeit not too seriously) replacing the board for something better (perhaps a pentium 233mmx with a working motherboard? :P). The problems seem to spring forth from the flaky controllers on the board (the chipset fan doesn't move enough air or dies, the NVRAID is, well, trash, and a few other problems that spring up with audio on a few people's boards (although I suspect that they have not taken the greatest care with them). This change occurs, as stated above, by certain changes to the BIOS (which seem to be automatically tripped by other faults). You will/may need to re-order the devices manually, or, if you so choose, you may reorder them manually so that they behave as you wish them to. These options are under something like Boot Priority found on the third or fourth menu in the BIOS. This seems to drive more than just the boot priority though. It's almost anyone's guess as to why they have done what they've done or why the board is as bad as it is. Hoo Roo, Alex. Gerald wrote: To Marty Richards , Michael Kedzierski, Alexander W Stanley and many others. Thank you all for coming back With cures for my motherboard problems. I tried many things but the real success came when i reset the bios udma to off. on rebooting, all my drives came to life like magic. All six (6) sata drives are now working,although 2 are on a PCI-Sata converter, this card had a tendency to disappear when 3 or 4 sata 2 were connected into the system,but is now working. The only thing i find difficult to understand is, why does the 1st sata drive become the second sata drive and the 3rd sata drive became the first, at least as far as software is concerned. My boot drive is on the sata 3 connector! This board is supposed to be top of the line,but even so, it does seem to have a problem. Many thanks to all who came back on this problem,but at least my system is running well. Thanks to all Gerald -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFgpPNg5/KyzD/6f0RAvjZAJ9S346HMW2FHVqdB1J3+VAdCY+n6ACfZlpQ Nyt5kunCiSwxxTSeMxoaPvw= =99em -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Programming language
What would be the easiest programming language to learn? Important variables: (1) my technical knowledge of Linux is limited though I love the philosophy of openness and (2) I am 80 years old, so at my age 'simple' also implies 'soon'. Not being pessimistic about my life span, but a race is on. John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Programming language
On Sat Dec 16, 2006 at 08:37:06 +1100, john gibbons wrote: What would be the easiest programming language to learn? Important variables: (1) my technical knowledge of Linux is limited though I love the philosophy of openness and (2) I am 80 years old, so at my age 'simple' also implies 'soon'. Not being pessimistic about my life span, but a race is on. This will turn into a religious war pretty quickly, but, I would probably say Python or maybe Ruby. IMHO, these languages have the flattest learning curve, while still being a pretty nice language. PHP also has a pretty easy learning curve, but it is IMHO, not a very nice language to program in. Good luck! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?
On 12/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is easier than the VPN route (although we used winders OpenVPN for my daughter travelling the world, that's easy, but linux openVPN needs root access to establish). I keep my vpn up all the time. :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?
On Saturday 16 December 2006 09:39, you wrote: On 12/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is easier than the VPN route (although we used winders OpenVPN for my daughter travelling the world, that's easy, but linux openVPN needs root access to establish). I keep my vpn up all the time. :) Me too but we are talking about a system for our fathers. Mine is in the UK. Trying to bootstap his system ie the modem-firewall allows VPN and you've setup a virtual server and you're running VPN in the first place so you can connect to his machine so you can setup for the gaffer ... Also FROM a linux box to an openVPN server needs root access I promise: [on the phone] open a console window now type ssh ... is easier :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?
If they run windows, I find logmein.com as the best remote support thingo by far. penetrates nat etc pretty well. https://secure.logmein.com/go.asp?page=support_faq#basics-04 client runs on linux, but server (on target PC) is windows only unfortunately. I think that a decent (read simple to use) NAT penetrating solution for this problem is definitely needed on Linux. thanks dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but we are talking about a system for our fathers. Mine is in the UK. Trying to bootstap his system ie the modem-firewall allows VPN and you've setup a virtual server and you're running VPN in the first place so you can connect to his machine so you can setup for the gaffer ... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debian RAID1 rebuild mirror after single drive failure
I thought I just go ahead and play around with it, and actually managed to get it working again! I had to use fdisk to partition it the same as the other drive, and then use raidhotadd -a to add it back into the array. after that it stated rebuilding automatically and was done in about 15 minutes. A fair bit easier than I thought, but took quite a lot of looking up. Cheers, Michael On 15/12/06, Alexander Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:26:54PM +1100, Michael Brown wrote: Hi all, I've got a debian woody system running in RAID1 degraded mode at the moment because there is no hot spare currently. mdadm isn't installed, just the bog stadard raidtools I think. I've taken out the dead drive, and I have a spare to replace it with, but I'm wondering what I have to do now. I'm guessing I can't just put the new drive in and have it autodetect and start rebuilding. Do I have to format the drive so that it is exactly the same as the other drive, or can I just assign it as a hot spare and then have the array automatically rebuild? I've never had to deal with software RAID before, so I'm not entirely sure how to do it. It's been running fine in degraded mode for a while now, but naturally I'd prefer to rebuild the mirror and add another hot spare as well. I've read the software RAID howto, but I'm still a bit confused. I would place the drive in the machine, partition it up the way you want, the same as the old drive I would guess Are you sure you haven't got mdadm install ? If so remove the old dead partition from the raid set and then readd it back in. can't remember the old raidtools syntax Any ideas? Cheers, Michael Brown -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFgmlFkZz88chpJ2MRAnZSAJ9owPMAJ7xhR0hp4FKy/ROmCojg0QCfTHu6 YYxS2UEz9e5TtT6yvEypDaE= =x7EA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PCLOS 0.93a Big Daddy
I wonder if anyone can help with this problem? I am running Big Daddy on a Compaq Presario B800 Laptop. It does almost everything, like working with the Intel wireless system, very well. Playing DVD's and CD's it also does well --- BUT it does not produce and sound at all. I have tried all the usual setting in KDE or via PCLos CC. It does not make a sound. Your thoughts on this subject would much appreciated. As a point of interest HP say they do not support Linux on this machine. Gentoo also worked reasonably well but i could not get VLC to work. PCLos works fine except for sound. Gerald -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
