Re: Strange behaviour with gigabit ethernet

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Ingram
> Are you sure your switch supports full duplex? Hi Joe, yes, I believe it is full duplex. It is a Netgear GS108 and says it can handle 2Gb/s on each port. Also, during the transfer from Windows -> Samba share, nothing was going in the other direction anyway, and it actually sped up when I se

Re: Strange behaviour with gigabit ethernet

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Monday 30 January 2006 7:22 pm, Dexter wrote: > Hi, > i`ve not much idea about this, but i`d check if windows ethernet card > has aslo 1G speed. "FIFO overflow error" sound like somebody is pushing > more, then somebody else is able to receive. > Was speed of the copying Samba -> Windows realy 1

Strange behaviour with gigabit ethernet

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Ingram
Hi List! I recently upgraded my home network to gigabit ethernet, replacing my old 10/100hub with a Netgear gigabit switch. I was doing some transfer speed experiements between my Linux machine and my windows machine, copying things to and from a samba share and I ran into some problems. Basi

Re: Amarok Crashing ...

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:50 +0200, Hervé Piedvache wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using SID ... and on several computers since last update ... I get this > message from Amarok > > #amarok > amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. > amaroK: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use

Re: Re: MythTV

2005-06-28 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 07:04 -0400, disciple wrote: > Thanks a ton everyone. This puts me in the right direction. It seems > easy enough based on what you folks have said. I'm still relatively new > to Debian, but learning everyday. MythTV is my project for the > summer... :o) ... This is goin

Re: MythTV

2005-06-28 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 20:12 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday June 27 2005 1:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This MythTV sounds really cool. I've been reading about it for a > > few weeks now, and would like to try it. I have a couple of > > questions for those that have it running. > >

Re: Can't run kdm, but gdm is fine

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 08:11 -0600, Kent West wrote: > My guess, and this is just a guess, is that KDM did not finish > installing properly, or has a bug. I notice it's been a few days; if > you're still having the problem, I'd suggest another round of: > > # apt-get update > # apt-get dist-upgra

Can't run kdm, but gdm is fine

2004-11-25 Thread Andrew Ingram
Hi list. I've installed Sid on a new box at work to replace the old crappy bit of hardware I used to have. My old box used kdm but when I installed Debian this time, gdm was the default. No problem I thought! After a while, I started missing the way that kdm and kde worked together so I did an apt

Re: Openoffice won't start

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:04, Kent West wrote: > Andrew Ingram wrote: > > >>What happens when you start "oowriter" from a shell e.g. xterm? Whats > >>the output? > >> > >> > > > >OpenOffice.org lockfile found (/home/andrew/.openo

Re: Openoffice won't start

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Ingram
> What happens when you start "oowriter" from a shell e.g. xterm? Whats > the output? OpenOffice.org lockfile found (/home/andrew/.openoffice/1.1.2/.lock) Using existing OpenOffice.org I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "" sh: line 1: crash_report: command not found Then the pop-up

Re: Openoffice won't start

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:29, Wayne Topa wrote: > Andrew Ingram([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Has anyone seen this behaviour? Stopped working yesterday I think, after > > an upgrade. It seems to work in a read only mode when run as root, but > > as my user,

Openoffice won't start

2004-07-13 Thread Andrew Ingram
Has anyone seen this behaviour? Stopped working yesterday I think, after an upgrade. It seems to work in a read only mode when run as root, but as my user, I get: "An unrecoverable error has occurred. All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart" The console

Re: Good Linux backup program

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew Ingram
Thank you everyone for your suggestions! I'll look at all the suggestions (including the non-gui ones!) and decide which best fits my needs. It's great to have a nice list of things to try as I hadn't heard of most of the ones you guys pointed out. Thanks, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Good Linux backup program

2004-06-25 Thread Andrew Ingram
Hi! Just wanting to know if anyone on here has any recommendations for backup programs for my Debian box. I'm looking for a program with a nice, easy to use gui, which can do automated backups of parts of the filesystem and then store the backup on a smb mount. I'd like something that makes it eas

Re: 2.6 LVM problem

2004-05-11 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 01:49, Kirill Lapshin wrote: > Stephan Seitz wrote: > > But you need lvm2 for kernel 2.6.*. And I don't know if there is an > > upgrade path to use the old lvm1 with lvm2. It should be > > backwards-compatible, but it uses different config files. > > > > The lvm2 package does

Re: 2.6 LVM problem

2004-05-10 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:38, David Cannings wrote: > On Monday 10 May 2004 10:55, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device > > Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? > > Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/de

2.6 LVM problem

2004-05-10 Thread Andrew Ingram
I have a box which runs 2.4.22 just fine but wanted to try out 2.6.5 as some of the extra features from 2.6 would be very welcome. The box has several "normal" partitions (ReiserFS) and one partition that is configured with LVM (for future expansion, at the moment it's just one partition on the mai

Think I've messed up X :(

2004-03-15 Thread Andrew Ingram
Last week, when I did an apt-get update (I'm on Sid btw), I was told that: The following packages have been kept back: x-window-system-core xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev Now, normally when I see that, I do an apt-get install of the packages so that apt then tells me it can't install them be

Problem with XMMS

2004-02-18 Thread Andrew Ingram
I just upgraded from 2.4.21 to 2.6.2 today (I'm running Sid btw) and thought I would check that all the "bits" are working (network/audio/video etc etc). I'm no longer using OSS, switched to ALSA. KDE has artsd running and I have sound running on the desktop and from mplayer just fine. Thought I'd

Re: building a tivo?

2003-11-26 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:57, Matt Price wrote: > Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of > cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? I imagine one of the big > tricks is justtuningthe hcannel -- or am I wrong? I have done this. All you need to know is at: www.mythtv.org

Re: AD 1980 audio driver

2003-10-16 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:41, Adam Galant wrote: > Hello. > > Does any anyone know how to set this up? > > I've tried OSS (not ALSA) via82cxxx_audio driver (is this the right one?), > got working (ie. adjustable) mixer, but no audio output. > > My system: > ASUS A7V8X (manual says it has AD1980 c

RE: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Andrew Ingram
> -Original Message- > From: Jason Stechschulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 October 2003 15:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client? > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:57:53PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > Does anyone have any more up to date information on

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:42, Sindre wrote: > > The BIOS is pre-OS, so that logo must be displayed by Windows. > > Your facts are right, but your conclusion is wrong, the bios is actually aware > if the last booted OS did use smp or not. > My quad cpu compaq report 3 of the cpus as failed if I reb

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 07:59, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:19, Greg Norris wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > [snip] > > Sounds easy enough! Might explain why

Re: HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:19, Greg Norris wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > Can anyone tell me if there is anything special I should enable in my > > kernel (or any other Debian configuration) to make the most out of an > > In

HyperThreading CPUs under Debian

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Ingram
Can anyone tell me if there is anything special I should enable in my kernel (or any other Debian configuration) to make the most out of an Intel P4 processor with HyperThreading? Just realised my kernel has SMP disabled which might have been a mistake, but I can't find a definitive answer by googl

Re: quake 2 mouse problem

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:36, Mental Patient wrote: > Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:50:12 +0200, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > > > > >>Hi List, > >> > >>I just found out about "apt-get install quake2" :) > >>

Re: quake 2 mouse problem

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:19, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:50:12 +0200, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > > I just found out about "apt-get install quake2" :) > > Everything is fine apart from my mouse. It works only horizontall

quake 2 mouse problem

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew Ingram
Hi List, I just found out about "apt-get install quake2" :) Everything is fine apart from my mouse. It works only horizontally, but far too quickly, and doesn't seem to respond to the speed setting in the game settings. I'm using KDE and a Xinerama setup (I think Xinerama could be the problem here

Re: Need help watching TV in Linux

2003-09-11 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:26, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > Ronald Castillo wrote: > > > [TV tuner card] > did you try tvtime (http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/)? Have a list at their > compatibility site tho... > That looks like a nice bit of software. I might try that. Also, you might want to take a l

Re: Gvim and Xinerama

2003-08-21 Thread Andrew Ingram
use that > behaviour. > > -- Brad > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > > I've just managed to get Xinerama set up on my Debian system and I'm > > very happy with it. I have encountered one problem though! My favourite > > editor (gvim) will n

Gvim and Xinerama

2003-08-20 Thread Andrew Ingram
I've just managed to get Xinerama set up on my Debian system and I'm very happy with it. I have encountered one problem though! My favourite editor (gvim) will not work under xinerama. The window comes up, but gvim hangs and needs to be killed. I have tried this with the gvim from apt, and from sou

Re: Cannot Connect to some website on linux

2003-07-28 Thread Andrew Ingram
> At 11:48 PM 7/27/2003 -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > >I use Debian Woody, with cable modem connected to the computer via eth0 > >, it get the ip via dhcp during bootup. The problem I have is that I > >cannot connect to the site www.thatpetplace.com , it just timed out. > >I've tried it on variou

ADI 1980 sound support

2003-07-17 Thread Andrew Ingram
I'm looking to build an HTPC running Debian. The case I want requires a micro-ATX form factor motherboard and I have found one which looks good: the ASUS P4P800-VM. I want as many things onboard as possible since you do not get many PCI cards on a micro-ATX mobo. This mobo has the onboard sound

Re: Free Original copy of Never Winter Nights for Linux going!(and its original)

2003-07-14 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 12:36, Mark C wrote: > Once upon a time Mark C was quoted as saying: > > Hi, > > Yes you read the title correctly, being a complete idiot I ordered 2 > > copies of nwn from tuxgames, I could of sent it back, but I went on > > holiday after receiving it and missed sending it ba

Re: What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 18:34, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:33:44AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > Maybe htdig or mnogosearch is what you're looking for? > > > > Those two seem to be for web sites. What about for indexing an arbitrary > > collection of text files? > > http://s

What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-25 Thread Andrew Ingram
I'm sure I saw glimpse in the apt repository at some point. I'd like to start using it now but when I do apt-get install glimpse, I get: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package glimpse has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that th

Re: Ximian Evolution unuseable in sid, downgrade doesn't help

2003-05-30 Thread Andrew Ingram
Happened to me too :( Did you also remember to downgrade libcamel0 ?? That needs to be downgraded before Evolution. I checked on incoming.debian.org and didn't notice a newer version to fix it either. Look like we are stuck with the downgraded one for a while :( On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 20:14, Lea

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 15:25, Hugh Saunders wrote: > which is why riscOS is so flippin quick and my a3000 boots quicker than > a 1.1ghz pentium :) Exactly! I love Acorn machines and I don't think I would have gone into IT without the exposure to them that I had at a young age. I still own a BBC B

Re: Naming coredumps

2003-02-20 Thread Andrew Ingram
Thanks to all that replied to this. For some reason I didn't receive the emails from the list but I just checked on the web archive and I did get replies! Thanks again. On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 17:31, Andrew Ingram wrote: > I managed to get coredumps working on my debian woody ma

Naming coredumps

2003-02-18 Thread Andrew Ingram
I managed to get coredumps working on my debian woody machine (I previously had the ulimit for coredumps set to 0). The problem I have now is that they are just called "core". I was expecting them to be named .core. or something like that. Can anyone tell me how I can set up the system so that cor

Re: Mysql download question

2003-01-12 Thread Andrew Ingram
Excellent, thanks for the information! Regards, Andrew On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:21, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:43:55PM -0000, Andrew Ingram wrote.. > > > Hi everyone. I'm a newbie to Debian (using it because I got a new job > > and

Mysql download question

2003-01-12 Thread Andrew Ingram
Title: Message Hi everyone. I'm a newbie to Debian (using it because I got a new job and we use it there). I'm really enjoying using it and it has been very stable and good to work with for me.   What I would like to know is whether I can get MySQL as an "apt" package, and if so, what lines