Re: Poor glxgears perfomance with unstable and radeon 7500

2006-04-08 Thread Linas Zvirblis
I can't achieve to get good performance from my ati radeon 7500. [...] 8036 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1607.024 FPS Would you expect more from such card? I get... 3137 frames in 5.0 seconds = 627.234 FPS ...on GeForce2 MX200 32MB. So your 1600 FPS seems normal to me. what is surprising me

Re: AudioCD mount kernel 2.6.16-1

2006-04-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Mirco Piccin wrote: Can anyone help me? A world without music is like a world without...opensource!! Totally! I'm running a Kernel 2.6.16-1, and i've this problem: I'm not able to play audiocd! :-( Before upgrade kernel i remember there was not problem. Now, if i insert audiocd, dmseg

Re: soundcard via ac97

2006-04-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Mark Walter wrote: Does this mean my soundcard is not supported from alsa ? That is possible, but I have a similar card (VIA 8233) and, as far as I know, they both are supported. In case you have not resolved your problem yet, please post output of cat /your/kernel.config | grep -e SND\|SOUND

Re: Getting Thunderbird to use Firebird as default browser

2006-04-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Don Jackson wrote: I wish to (again) be able to click on a URL link in an email in Thunderbird and have that link brought up on Firefox rather than Konqueror. Some time ago, this was possible, but I cannot find the magic combination of settings to do this any more. You could try usind

Re: soundcard via ac97

2006-04-01 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Mark Walter wrote: Is this the wrong driver as I can't hear sound with xmms or xine ? Did you check sound levels with alsamixer? They are all mute by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Will wine|win4lin|VMWare save my XP bacon?

2006-03-31 Thread Linas Zvirblis
John wrote: Is there a third family of choices? Would wine, win4lin, VMWare or something else be able to run XP where it is? Not sure about your original problem, but as for emulation, it goes like this: Wine allows you to run Windows applications (and games), not drivers and not the

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-08 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Adam Funk wrote: In that case, should linux-image-2.4.27 indicate Conflicts to prevent apt from letting them both be installed simultaneously? I guess it should. But to tell you the truth, I cannot see a package named linux-image-2.4.27 anywhere, only kernel-image-2.4.27. Either I am blind, or

Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!

2006-03-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Patrick Wiseman wrote: I guess I missed something in the weekly update of my testing system. I needed to recompile my 2.4.27 kernel (because USB mass storage suddenly broke, on which I'll post seperately if I can't figure it out). So, I go to 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.4.27_...' and it bails

Re: can't find /selinux

2006-03-05 Thread Linas Zvirblis
ericradt wrote: I am running sarge,kernel 2.6.14,and choose all option about selinux for N when compile kernel, but the error can't find /selinux is appear every boot,how can i get rid of this error, You do not have to do anything. This is not an error, but an indication that SELinux is

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-22 Thread Linas Zvirblis
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Please post output of top -b -n 1 after you start loosing memory. When firefox screen went blank output as below [...] This does not seem to be a full list. Any comments. CPU usage of Firefox is indeed a bit high, but everything else seems normal. This looks like a

Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?

2006-02-21 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Adam Funk wrote: I had assumed that pmount's dependencies would be sufficient for it to work, so I'm curious: why aren't they? Well, it is possible to use pmount without HAL if you pass all the parameters to it yourself. Many people do just that, and there is no reason to force HAL on them.

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread Linas Zvirblis
ochnap2 wrote: Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. If I remember correctly, you need to put users in camera group to grant access. But do not quote me on that, I do not own a camera. -- To

Re: sarge iso cd

2006-02-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I saw some posts talking abour debian 3.1r1. what is this r1? This _is_ Sarge + security updates. Just go to [1] and look for up-to-date mirror that contains this release. Look at [2] to find out what was updated. [1] http://www.debian.org/CD/ [2]

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole. In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various points of time sequentially as below. first one when I started machine. ... Any

Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?

2006-02-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Adam Funk wrote: $ pmount-hal /dev/sdb1 Error: could not connect to dbus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: No reply within specified time Are DBus (package dbus) and HAL (package hal) installed and running? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am not BLAMING but SUSPECTING firefox from bacports NOT from debian. I did not mean to use word blame in any negative way. I think memory leak will not be regained after the application is closed. It will. Even after closing the application causing leak, memory can't

Re: Debian equivalent to service?

2006-02-05 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Rob Blomquist wrote: Under RH, to type service sensord restart will kill and restart sensord. I can't find an equivalent command. Is there one? Otherwise, how to I kill and restart a service? Can I find a list of running services, the same as service -s? /etc/init.d/service

Re: keyboard is stopping

2006-02-04 Thread Linas Zvirblis
It is unlikely (TM) that woody on its own causes keyboard hangs. it's only from time to time not precisely to say ... A couple of questions: 1) Are you using NVIDIA video card and their propiertary drivers? 2) Does pressing Num Lock or Caps Lock change the keyboard leds? 3) Can you still

Re: package manager question

2006-02-02 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Hello, I've been reading some stuff about apt, dpkg and I wonder if it is possible to have more control on package's dependencies. Is there other package managers for debian that are able to support it? I've found this at www.debian.org As you can see in the above example, APT

Re: Kernel compile fails.

2006-01-26 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: I have a box with Sid with the latest upgrades, (almost cause dist-upgrade wants to remove a lot of stuff) Anyway, fact is that I can't compile any kernel on the Linus tree. This, for more than a month. Could anyone please help me find out which package

Re: gv bug, maintainer please?

2006-01-26 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Does anyone know who the gv maintainer is? Martin A. Godisch I have a bug report for him. Bug are not reported against maintainers, but against packages they maintain. Read [ http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Matt Price wrote: So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't know how to do that. Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing

Building Linux 2.6.16-rc1-git4

2006-01-21 Thread Linas Zvirblis
I cannot get 2.6.16-rc1[-git4] to build, so am seeking advice here. make vmlinux gives me this: /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo ' CHK include/linux/version.h'; mkdir -p include/linux/;if [ `echo -n 2.6.16-rc1-git4

Re: File system overhead

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
did you execute the df command as root? if not, it might report less free space. there is a reserved space (5% is default for ext2/3, iirc, however you can set it up differently) that is available only for root... and since you report 5% in your case... You can set the percentage of reserved

Re: File system overhead

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Tony Heal wrote: OK below is what I have. I have another question now. If the 'reserved' space is for root, why does root need space on all partitions for? For example why would I need to reserve space for the root user on /home, /tmp, /opt, /tmp. I can see this as being need for /var and

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
You might already know about this. But I will say it anyway. There are various alternatives for matlab and maple in Debian Linux. You can use octave instead of matlab. It is probably not a 100% replacement but it is reasonably good. Instead of maple, you can use maxima inside texmacs. All the

Re: Bug in translation of aptitude

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I found a bug in aptitude italian translation: the help (called with ?) is not displayed. So I would like to fire a bug, I looked around and it seems that the bug must be fired aptitude for package, is it right? Is there a place where all translation bugs must be sent

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Maybe he's asking about labels? That's kind of the gmail feature I wouldn't find in any email client. It would be sort of email directories as under any email client plus soft links between them? Any ways, if someone knows about such thing I would like to know as well, :) Something like

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

2006-01-18 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Does anybody know the correct procedure for eliminating this daemon from booting? Should I be using update-rc.d or do I have to manually edit config files? I use sysv-rc-conf to edit runlevels (there are also other tools that do the same), but the best solution is, of course, to uninstall the

Re: Error inserting genrtc

2006-01-14 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Dan Jacobson wrote: Looking at the hwclock docs, I suppose this is unsightly but harmless?: # grep rtc /var/log/boot Sat Jan 14 00:38:28 2006: Setting the system clock:modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting genrtc (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-k7/kernel/drivers/char/genrtc.ko): Device or resource busy

Re: gpm problem

2006-01-14 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: This is the problem: At times, after a copying and pasting operation, the mouse cursor disappears and the last item copied appears at the prompt all the time. In midnight commander, with the gpm option enabled, all lines are selected all the time when the mouse is

Re: Re-installing lost package

2006-01-14 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Is my solution safe and appropriate? Should stable be included in my sources.list permanently? It is pretty safe and I would recommend leaving Stable in sources.list because of security updates. You can set the default release in /etc/apt/apt.conf like this: APT::Default-Release release;

Re: Where to find latest unstable kernel src without messing sarge?

2006-01-14 Thread Linas Zvirblis
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: camera and mounting

2006-01-12 Thread Linas Zvirblis
I get this message when I try to open: mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist Please check that the disk is entered correctly. Any sugestions? Well, does it exist? Post output of ls -al /dev/sd*. Also try installing hal-device-manager. It gives you a great deal of information

Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome

2006-01-10 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Brian Clark wrote: Yes, although it will work, surely that isn't the best solution. It is a common thing to do, but... Unless I've done something else wrong, I'm starting to think it's a bug. ...I have just read the documentation and tested this method. It does indeed not work. I seems

Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome

2006-01-09 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Brian Clark wrote: After upgrading to OpenOffice.org 2.0 in testing, it doesn't seem to pick up and use GTK widgets, themes, et cetera, unless I run it from a shell (see below). I have this: ~$ cat /etc/openoffice/openoffice.org export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=Gnome (I've also tried `export

Re: what file removes modules at boot?

2006-01-09 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Dan Jacobson wrote: /etc/modules is for adding modules at boot. What is the file for taking away modules at boot? /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist But you should probably create your own file so that it will not be overwritten on upgrades. Something like... /etc/modprobe.d/local-blacklist

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

2006-01-08 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Richard Lyons wrote: Anyone else had funny behaviour from mc lately? I have a recent sid install with mc 1:1.6.1-1. It was working yesterday (or maybe the day before). Today, when I call it, the terminal (xterm, mrxvt, or in console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

2006-01-08 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Richard Lyons wrote: I had not even installed debsums! Getting it now. Some packages do not provide checksums (boo to them!), so on your first run debsums can report A LOT of broken packages. It might take very long, but I do suggest you reinstall all of them. The checksums will be

Re: How to disable 'rivafb' at boot ?

2006-01-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
alan bonard wrote: Can anyone suggest how to disable 'rivafb' at boot ? Did you try video=vesafb? If you do not want any frame buffer, not loading the modules (assuming they are compiled as modules) should do it. Search the list for loadable kernel modules if you do not know how to prevent

Re: java for jabref

2006-01-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Please, what is the common way for java development under debian sarge? Is it better to develop under solaris and simply run and test it under debian ? netbeans and eclipse are both open source, so they should qualify for debian. Eclipse 3.1 is already in Debian Unstable. I was pretty

Re: amixer no longer working when using 2.6.15

2006-01-06 Thread Linas Zvirblis
John Covici wrote: Hi. I am trying to use kernel 2.6.15 and whenever I try to use amixer I get the following error: ALSA lib simple_none.c:1216:(simple_add1) helem (MIXER,'Front Playback Volume',0,0,0) appears twice or more amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument I am using Debian

Re: amixer no longer working when using 2.6.15

2006-01-06 Thread Linas Zvirblis
This does look like incompatibility between kernel drivers and ALSA libs. I strongly suggest you try Experimental ALSA packages. It may also be that your ALSA libs are newer that the kernel drivers. In that case you might want to try building latest ALSA modules from source (package

Re: Unthreaded Perl and Apache mod_perl

2006-01-06 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Does anyone have a good step by step how to source for recompiling a debian package? Take a look at apt-src and apt-build packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The print screen key

2006-01-06 Thread Linas Zvirblis
The print screen key is next to the BS key on my keyboard. Every time when I miss the BS key but hit the print screen key, a screen snapshot is printed from my (InkJet) printer. This has been so annoying that I decided to solve it. I'm using fluxbox, but I didn't find any such action in its

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

2006-01-05 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Richard Lyons wrote: The increasing frequency of 'help help help' messages from new users who arrive at a command line console and don't know what to do next is a good sign: more people moving from doze to Linux, more moving from fedora and suze to debian. But there is a real danger of scaring

Re: apt-get Ign followed by Hit/Get

2006-01-04 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Chris Stiles wrote: I have noticed that on several sources in my sources.list file I'm getting a Ignore followed by Hit/Get like so, when running apt-get: Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages I assume that it

Re: apt-get Ign followed by Hit/Get

2006-01-04 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Chris Stiles wrote: Okay - in that case wouldn't Hit more logically come before Ign - and how to explain Ign followed by a Get ? Though the latter only occurs on a local archive i've built with apt-move. Well, that was a very rough explanation. Ign can also occur in slightly different

Re: Sound device not shared

2006-01-04 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Presumably your sound card has only one channel. To play sounds from more than one program together, you must use another program to mix them together. Two such programs are esd and arts. To use those, the programs playing the sounds will have to support output to esd or arts respectively. But

Re: 2 eth and boot

2006-01-03 Thread Linas Zvirblis
I have a box with 2 eth (1 intel, 1 3com) each time it boot, eth0 and eth1 are different: boot one: intel=eth0 3com=eth1 boot two: intel=eth1 3com=eth0 well, not alwais change, it seams to be random. How i make to alwais be the same? Interesting... i have two identical cards and they are

Re: setting up the text-console on a compaq presario 2100 laptop

2006-01-03 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Sorry for not being specific enough. when I sad a bit small I was talking about the part of the screen used by the console -- alredy from booting. That is getty is not responsible, but I now recalls, that the problem also exits when Windows fails to boot. I'll just take a look at the settings