Re: KDE doesn't connect to HAL

2007-12-14 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:11, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Run > lshal --monitor > and plug in the usb drive. Post the output that you get. (You might have > to wait a few seconds; CTRL-C stops the monitoring.) great hint! Thanks! I get: # lshal --monitor Start monitoring devicelist: ---

Re: KDE doesn't connect to HAL

2007-12-12 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Dear Charlie, On Tuesday 11 December 2007 22:55, Charlie wrote: > You have installed hal? > > # apt-get install hal yes, I did. And /usr/sbin/hald (which is part of the hal package) is running. Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

KDE doesn't connect to HAL

2007-12-11 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, I've several (KDE) etch systems that can't access removable devices attached to the system. In detail: When I plug in an usb memory stick, nothing happens. No syslog entries or whatsoever. But I can see the device with "lsusb". When I klick on an icon in the konqueror "Storage Media" menu,

Re: Howto activate KDE kicker system tray applet?

2007-09-24 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
> Gebhardt Thomas wrote (on debian-user@lists.debian.org): > > ich habe verschiedene Etch-Rechner (und auch diverse Kubuntu-Varianten). Oh, sorry. This should have gone to debian-user-german, not to debian-user. For whatever reason I klicked on the wrong button. Please excuse the additio

Systemmonitor im KDE Kicker aktivieren?

2007-09-21 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hallo, ich habe verschiedene Etch-Rechner (und auch diverse Kubuntu-Varianten). Bei einigen dieser Rechner wird bei der Auswahl der verfügbaren Miniprogramme der "Systemmonitor" angeboten, bei anderen nicht. Ich grüble nun darüber nach, was ich tun muss, damit auf allen Rechnern der Systemmonitor

(S)ATA exceptions, disk frozen

2007-04-17 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, we have about 60 opteron servers running sarge amd64 with a 2.6.20.3 vanilla kernel (previously they were running 2.6.18.1; I installed the newer kernel in the hope that the problem would disappear). At a rate of about 1-2 per week the SATA disk in a server freezes and I have to reboot. Becau

Re: scsi device naming / driver built in kernel 2.6.x

2005-12-13 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, On Monday 12 December 2005 23:28, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > But there is an alternative: compile the host-adapter with the rootfs disk > _into_ the kernel. This way, it will always be the first host adapter. > Then, compile the other host adapter driver as module. udev or hotplug will > automat

Re: scsi device naming / driver built in kernel 2.6.x

2005-12-12 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, On Monday 12 December 2005 14:52, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > There is a work out with udev See the article in > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/126. > same principle can be applied for your USB hard drive. (should probably read ... can be applied for your SCSI hard drive) Sorry, I fo

scsi device naming / driver built in kernel 2.6.x

2005-12-12 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, can someone please give me a hint/a pointer to docs on how to solve the following problem: A server has both an internal and an external raid controler (scsi driver gdth and aic7xxx, respectively). Unfortunately the external raid becomes /dev/sda, the internal raid becomes /dev/sdb. When I bo

installing system wide firefox extensions

2005-09-26 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, i wonder,whether there is a documented and preferred way to install a firefox extension on a debian system such that all users can access it. Thanks for any hint! Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Marvell Gigabit not working (SuSE 9.3 ok)

2005-06-20 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, > The sk98lin driver in the vanilla kernel does not support all cards, > esp. Yukon2 cards. > > You should try the vendor driver: > > http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/ > Thank you very much for your help! The vendor driver works well with kernel 2.6.11 . So, the next challe

Marvell Gigabit not working (SuSE 9.3 ok)

2005-06-17 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, I'm trying to get a Marvell onboard Gigabit chip (Intel mainboard D925XECV2) working on a freshly installed sarge system (Intel P4) # lspci -v ... :04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 4361 (rev 17) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3078

Re: kde sid: freezes on logout

2004-12-08 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, > This is probably an artsd sound server problem. Go to Control Center/Sound > System and disable Real-time priority. That should do. thanks, you're right! There are several known workarounds: - use kernel 2.6 - use OSS rather than ALSA - do not set arts to use realtime priority - do not as

kde sid: freezes on logout

2004-12-07 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, yesterday I upgraded most of the kde related packages from sarge to sid (want to use kmail 3.3 S/MIME features). The transition was fairly smooth except that the system freezes (mouse pointer freezes, sound stops suddenly, system not responsive to key presses) when I leave a kde session, so I

Re: howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-09 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Thursday 09 September 2004 10:28, matt okeson-harlow wrote: Hi, > you could use the sudo command > > if it is not already installed: > > # apt-get install sudo > > read the man page for sudo to see how to setup what you are looking for thank you! I'm aware of sudo and I'd probably start with

howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-09 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, it is possible to delegate the adding and removing of users to a non-root account without getting too much security hassle? (no alteration of system accounts possible, ...) If so, is there an easy established/preferred/canonical way to do this? Thanks, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: DRI and tuxracer ok, flightgear and torcs slow

2004-04-19 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Monday 19 April 2004 15:48, James Vahn wrote: Hi, > it no longer worked. Everything else is fine, glxgears included. I've no > solution, but would wager that nobody can run Flightgear on a Sarge/Sid > box at the moment. I would expect to see some bug reports against xlibmesa-gl in that case,

Re: DRI and tuxracer ok, flightgear and torcs slow

2004-04-18 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Thursday 15 April 2004 15:30, James Vahn wrote: Hi, > Having the same trouble here with Flightgear too, just last week it > began running at 1 FPS. I strongly suspect "xlibmesa-gl" but that's > just a guess. I've been running Sarge all along, the problem seems > to have started about 2 weeks a

Re: DRI and tuxracer ok, flightgear and torcs slow

2004-04-18 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:38, Chris Metzler wrote: Hi, > I dunno, but I've been wondering too. Ever since I upgraded from > X 4.2 to 4.3, my OpenGL performance has gone into the toilet. I > used to be able to play bzflag normally; since I upgraded to 4.3, > I've had to lower many graphics pa

DRI and tuxracer ok, flightgear and torcs slow

2004-04-15 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, during the easter holidays I upgraded from woody to sarge (and kernel 2.4.19 -> 2.4.25). Now my kids complain about slow-motion (< 1 fps) within several games. I have an ATI Rage 128 graphic chip, dri is working. glxgears shows about 500 fps which is in the same range as before the upgrade.

Re: AW: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-04-15 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 14:39, Simmel wrote: Hi, > Would you please be so nice to provide me with more info on this, I > seriously thinking of reinstalling the machine as I really would like to > sue Debian, instaed of RH. Do you have a small Howto, or else, to provide > to me? sorry for the de

Re: Intel MB SE7501CW2

2004-03-23 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 12:49, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Hi, we have a dozen SE7501CW2 running here with debian woody. They are installed with FAI and a custom kernel. Don't know whether the will work with the default installer. I even got Serial over LAN (including BIOS redirection) r