Re: Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny - FIXED

2009-06-03 Thread Larry Irwin
plugging the camera directly into a USB port worked. I tested "camserv", "skype" and "ekiga" and they all have video now... Thanks for your help! (and I really like your web links... I'm an old physics hack...) Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny

2009-05-21 Thread Larry Irwin
I did get the microphone to work after the ia32 libs were installed. (not quite sure why...) But, the sound quality from the mic is pretty bad... Concerning the webcam... On Tue, May 19, 2009 12:39 Florian Kulzer wrote: A Logitech QuickCam is plugged into a USB port. We need the vendor and dev

Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny

2009-05-18 Thread Larry Irwin
a was not quite segregated from ide on some motherboards...) TIA, Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Widescreen resolution ignored in xwindows/gdm

2009-04-14 Thread Larry Irwin
from /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I only left 16:9 modes that were evenly divisible by 8 (like 1920x1080) in xorg.conf. I've played a bit with videogen to try to get a modeline entry, but it does not allow you to set lower limits and it goes below the limits a lot... Any ideas out there? Thanks,

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Larry Irwin
I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ? thanks

ide-scsi no longer in modules

2008-04-17 Thread Larry Irwin
I had using hd[x] and ht0... (I'm having issues with the tape i/o just locking up using ht0...) What is the most reliable way to set it up? Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-21 Thread Larry Irwin
Could you do something as simple as: cat - > /dev/lp0 ? - Original Message - From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:27 AM Subject: Re: typewriter function for an impact printer? On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +, Ramsay D. Seiels

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread Larry Irwin
Tapes are still the lowest cost, reliable method for backups and archiving. I've heard about issues with DLT's but never experienced any problems with them. The Travan drives are no longer produced, and they had a poorly designed spindle/band mechanism that failed within a year in most cases...

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-05 Thread Larry Irwin
Michael Pobega wrote: What is d-u's preferred method of backups? We have 300+ Linux servers in the field that we support. We use BackupEdge from www.microlite.com Our tech support staff has handled crashed systems very easily using their RecoverEdge bare metal recovery utilities since we start

SATA-REV-CD-Intel Installation

2007-10-09 Thread Larry Irwin
t the SATA and IDE devices are all trying to grab onto hd[ab]... I've tried a bunch of different BIOS settings for the IDE and SATA subsystems... (I think I've tried every combination...) Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, Larry Irwin V.P.Development CCA Medical Ph: 864-233-2700

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Larry Irwin
On: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:21 PM Hal Said: There are always those who want everything and won't be happy no matter what they get. Oddly enough, I find a lot of people complain more about something they get for free than something they pay for. I've only had one item I've ever identified

Re: Installing Sarge problem

2007-08-13 Thread Larry Irwin
of servers in the field). And like Joe said, it's always good to have multiple kernels available... I have 3 on every server in the field. 2 of the active smp based kernels (identical copies, so if one gets damaged you can boot to the other...) and 1 of the previously compiled stabl

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

2007-07-25 Thread Larry Irwin
Try this... http://www.webssh.org/?t=webssh Slow, and not running on https, But if in dire need, it can suffice... Later, Larry - Original Message - From: "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:14 AM Subject: how to ssh to a linux box from an interne

Re: ML-320 compatible dot-matrix printer

2007-07-13 Thread Larry Irwin
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:33:03PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Hello, I have an Origional IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer. I know from previous installations that the only way I found to get it to print postscript was with the gs-esp ML-320 driver. However, I've always used lprng

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-14 Thread Larry Irwin
; at the top of each one, effectively disabling cups. vi /etc/init.d/cups* 3) install lprng 4) install your home-grown lprng management tools. Enjoy! Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-08 Thread Larry Irwin
in a monthly and have 2 spares for use after any failure. Never use a previously good tape after any failure. - Always use a new/spare one... Enjoy, Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Larry Irwin
Here's one way: # Put the sample lines into a file called inline.txt for inline in `cat inline.txt | tr -d " "` #remove spaces for cut do # Remove quotes Tmp=`echo $inline | tr -d "\""` # Break into fields... f1=`echo $Tmp | cut -f1 -d","` f2=`echo $Tmp | cut -f2 -d","` f3=`echo $Tmp | cut

Re: Z8000 (WAS Woody on 486 problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Larry Irwin
age...) Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

2007-02-21 Thread Larry Irwin
isks/heads) Later, Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-04 Thread Larry Irwin
Forget my last email... too quick on the keyboard... The "auto" declaration is for physical interfaces only... It should have looked like this when you were done: #Physical interface auto eth0 #Base address iface eth0 inet static address 70.87.206.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 gatewa

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-04 Thread Larry Irwin
0 gateway 70.87.206.49 Don;t know why you need to put all of them on a single interface... But that should work. Later, Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian install to init 3?

2006-12-08 Thread Larry Irwin
On 12/8/06, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just installed Debian form the binary-1 CD and Internet. The system used Gdm/Genome by default. How do I make not to start X-windowes so that I can up dist-upgrade etc. (I think that it is level 3)? I change all our Debian servers (~200 of '

Re: ls sort order again

2006-10-17 Thread Larry Irwin
ent values. I have always used LANG="C" or "POSIX" which pays attention to the case: Readme SRC bin palm sco If you want the other rules use LANG=en_US (or just for the sort order, LC_COLLATE="en_US") to get: bin palm Readme sco SRC Later, Larry Irwin -- To UNSUB

Log of shutdown procedure

2006-09-20 Thread Larry Irwin
view a detailed log of the sequential events triggered by shututdown? I would like to view a single log to determine which item in the shutdown process is causing it to hang... Thanks for any ideas on how to troubleshoot this one... Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Automatic logout for inactive login sessions

2006-09-07 Thread Larry Irwin
cked login, sysconfig/*, pam, etc. and did not see anything related to this concept... Thanks for any ideas you may have, Larry Irwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Irwin
It is so much better to use hardware raid. And it's even better if you properly utilize a dual-channel raid controller. Set up both channels for raid usage. Stripe along the channel and mirror the stripes across the channels. This eliminates the i/o penalty for mirroring and gives you the boost fr

Re: rsync, ssh, scp: How to send via eth1 or higher ?

2006-07-28 Thread Larry Irwin
is there any way, to send files over a device greater than eth0 ? If eth0 is online, ssh, scp and rsync always wants to send over eth0. In the manpages I found no way to change it. All you have to do is to bind ssh to the ip address for eth1 (or whichever eth you want) For incoming connection

Re: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar

2006-07-27 Thread Larry Irwin
problems... - Original Message - From: "Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:45 PM Subject: Re: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:05:26PM -0400, Larry Irwin wrote: If you can successfully extract each bz

Re: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar

2006-07-27 Thread Larry Irwin
| tar tvf - Later, Larry Irwin - Original Message - From: "Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:34 AM Subject: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar I have a big .tbz file that I need to unzip and read, but I got a error me

Re: Just one share that any and all my users can write / delete from it - samba wont hear of it

2006-07-26 Thread Larry Irwin
in name must be the same on every PC that you want to have access to the share. Workgroup setups have less complications than Domain setups where samba is concerned... That should fix it from the Linux/samba perspective. Later, Larry Irwin [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP

Re: cp sucks or do I not know enough?

2006-07-25 Thread Larry Irwin
uot;tokens=1 delims= " %%A in ('today') do (set GDATE=%%A) Still not as intuitive as VAR=`the output of the execution of this program`, but it does the same thing. So... as you work in shell, start building your C:\bin library. You'll be glad you did! Larry Irwin V.P. Development

Re: cp sucks or do I not know enough?

2006-07-21 Thread Larry Irwin
The --reply=yes is not needed if you are using the binary executable "cp" If your "cp" is an alias, other issues arise... check ~/.bash*, /etc/bash* and /etc/profile   These samples work with "cp" and not the bash alias to "cp"...   #Copy a bunch of files to current location cp /foo/* .   #Rec

Re: ssh communication issue

2006-01-05 Thread Larry Irwin
Larry Irwin wrote: Our ssh connections work fine on all our servers when we connect via the local network. But, when we ssh from the internet, there are long pauses where i/o is not displayed/echoed to the screen on our Debian servers. We experience 10 to 30 second pauses after a screen or 2 of

ssh communication issue

2006-01-05 Thread Larry Irwin
Our ssh connections work fine on all our servers when we connect via the local network. But, when we ssh from the internet, there are long pauses where i/o is not displayed/echoed to the screen on our Debian servers. We experience 10 to 30 second pauses after a screen or 2 of display on Debi

Re: mac address

2005-12-22 Thread Larry Irwin
ping each of the ip addresses then: arp -a -n -v to see the associated mac addresses. - Original Message - From: Tony Heal To: Debian Users Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:31 PM Subject: mac address how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a

How to stop hda->sr0 assignment

2005-12-22 Thread Larry Irwin
r the cdrom and the REV drive are re-assigned from hda & hdb to sr0 and sr1... How can I stop this re-assignment from occurring? Can it be done in the kernel args in the grub entry? (I need for them to be on hda and hdb during a recovery bootup...)   Thanks for any pointers, Larry Irwin