Re: Solved: Re: DVDs reproduction a little slow

2003-06-01 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Saturday 31 May 2003 02:16 pm, Sara Gil Casanova wrote:
  Check that DMA is turned on on the DVD-ROM
 
hdparm -d /dev/hdc

 No, it wasn't. I turned it on on the hard disk, but did'n't think of the
 DVD-ROM. I can't try it right now with any DVD, but I guess now it will
 work fine.

 Thanks a lot :)
make sure you place an entry in hwtools as well so that your settings last 
beyond a reboot.


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Re: My first question on Debian

2003-05-29 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:57 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
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   Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc,
   simply remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a
   single reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near perfect.
 
  Solaris is often called Slowlaris. Not without reason. I have a couple
  of old Sun workstations at work, and I installed Debian on them.
 
  Also does Solaris provide this on Intel hardware!? I really don't
  think so. If any of the hard disks fail on my intel computers I just
  replace it with a cheap IDE disk. The SCSI disks in my sun computers
  are probably worth more than the rest of the old computers themselves.
 
  Bijan
 
  I don't think that Solaris is so slow on x86.
  And yes, there is Solaris for Intel hardware.

 I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to
 hot-swap IDE hard disks.

 Bijan

hotswaping IDEs require hardware level ability as well as kernel level 
abilities. X86 lacks all core hardware hotswapability...periferal hardware is 
fine but swaping things like CPUs, Memory, harddrives, etc is impossable on 
X86.

Jeremy


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Re: DVD VMG info ?

2003-05-29 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:49 am, David selby wrote:
 Am happily playing with gmplayer  xine. I have come across some DVDs
 which xine refuses to do anything with and gmplayer reports cant open
 VMG info!

 Can anybody shine any light on this ?

 Dave

do you have libdvdcss2 installed?


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Re: howto listening to Audio CD after enabling ide-scsi

2003-05-27 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:16 am, Aryan Ameri wrote:
 On Tuesday 27 May 2003 16:14, Jeremy Petzold wrote:
  On Tuesday 27 May 2003 06:48 am, Aryan Ameri wrote:
   Hi there:
  
   On my ThinkPad A31 which has a mix of sarge/sid installed on it, I
   have enabled ide-scsi emulation, since I have a combo (DVDROM CDRW)
   drive. To enable ide-scsi I have added
  
   alias scd2 srmod
   alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
   options ide-cd ignore=hdc
  
   through the use of /etc/modutils/actions to /etc/modules.conf and
   added append=hdc=ide-scsi to /etc/lilo.conf
  
   And yes, I can burn CDs with no problem.
  
   But now I can't listen to Audio CDs. My CD drive (as you have
   guessed) is now /dev/scd2 but when I issue the comman 'cdplay
   /dev/scd2' cdplay gives the 'nodisc' message to me. Same with kscd.
   These are Audio CDs which I listen to them in Mandrake, and with my
   CD player.
  
   Am I missing anything here ?
  
   Cheers
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   Aryan Ameri
 
  make a sym link from /cdrom to /dev/hdc
 
  you should have no problems after that
  also download hdparm and hwtools and

 I once installed hdparm, and while I haven't done anything with it,
 rebooted my system. After that, I couldn't boot into Debian anymore, I
 had to boot Knoppix, chroot and then remove hdparm from there. I again
 rebooted and debian came up with no problem. I mean I didn't do
 anything whith hdparm, I just installed it, rebooted (straight after
 installing it) and couldn't boot into my system anymore. Strange I
 guess.

  set up 32 bit i/o and DMA for your hard drive and optical drive.

 I don't underestand what this means. Can anyone explain what is a 32 bit
 i/o and DMA and what is the advantage of setting u such a thing?

that was a pretty odd problem.hmm...

but DMA is Direct Memory Access. the Drive can send data directly to the main 
memory rather than sending the data to the CPU first which will slow down 
throughput (bad for watching DVDs and writing to hard drives and CD-RW etc) 
and the 32 bit i/o will let you take advantage of your full PCI buss (which 
is 32 bit unless you have high end hardware..in that case it might be 
64...but unlikely...dunno for other than i386 so YMMV)

Jeremy


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how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Jeremy Petzold
how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it through 
kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it in mozilla 
help so I am hoping that one of you may have had an experience with this.

thanks,

Jeremy


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Re: how to get MOzilla to print to Cups printer through kprint

2003-05-27 Thread Jeremy Petzold
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:08 pm, Donald Spoon wrote:
 Jeremy Petzold wrote:
  how can you get mozilla to print to the cups printer I have? be it
  through kprint or directly through cups? I could not find any info on it
  in mozilla help so I am hoping that one of you may have had an experience
  with this.
 
  thanks,
 
  Jeremy

 If you have the cupsys-bsd package installed, then the
 Default/Postscript selection in Mozilla works just fine for me.
 Recent changes in X (from testing) have introduced Xprint on my system,
 which I am just  starting to expore.  It is supposed to interface recent
 versions of Mozilla with CUPS too, but I don't know enuf about it to be
 able to advise you...sorry.

 Cheers,
 -Don Spoon

doe sit just send the data directly to cups?


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Re: Scroll mouse?

2002-04-07 Thread jeremy petzold
On Sunday 07 April 2002 01:22 am, Crispin Wellington wrote:
 On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 08:38, Jeremy Petzold wrote:
  Florentin Ionescu wrote:
  what mouse ?
  
  On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, jeremy wrote :
  | Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:00:32 -0500
  | From: jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
  | Subject: Scroll mouse?
  | Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 16:06:51 -0800
  | Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
  |
  | I have the ZAxisMapping set correctly in my XFree86-4.conf file but I
  | do not seem to be able to get scrolling to work...any Idea what is
  | wrong?\
  |
  | Thanks
 
  logitech optical USB using a USB to PS/2 adapter

 Make sure the protocol of the mouse is set to imps/2 not ps/2

 Crispin Wellington

can I manualy edit that? what file do I go into? XFree86config-4? or what?

thanks

Jeremy Petzold


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Re: Scroll mouse?

2002-04-06 Thread Jeremy Petzold

Florentin Ionescu wrote:


what mouse ?

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, jeremy wrote :

| Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:00:32 -0500
| From: jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
| Subject: Scroll mouse?
| Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 16:06:51 -0800
| Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
|
| I have the ZAxisMapping set correctly in my XFree86-4.conf file but I do not
| seem to be able to get scrolling to work...any Idea what is wrong?\
|
| Thanks
|
|
|


logitech optical USB using a USB to PS/2 adapter



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