Re: Test thunderbird

2008-10-30 Thread MLewis
Richard Möhn wrote: Please excuse me for hitting the wrong button and not sending the mail to the list. Here now in the right way: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:33:25AM +0100, Jesus arteche wrote: I'd like to test how good thunderbird is with a huge amount of mails...Someone knows how can i test

Lenny RAID1

2008-10-29 Thread MLewis
I have a machine running RH9 with RAID1 that I am planning to move to Lenny. 1) I believe that I can exclude the existing RAID array when doing the install without harm to the RAID array or the data. Is this correct? 2) Once Lenny is installed, how to add the RAID array? Or perhaps this is a

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic [SOLVED]

2008-10-28 Thread MLewis
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,28.Oct.08, 17:09:40, MLewis wrote: Maybe my monitor is too old. NEC MultiSync P1150. Could be. It would probably be enough to put the H-Sync and V-Sync ranges for your monitor in xorg.conf. Haven't done this in a while so I can't give you exact de

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread MLewis
Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] to find out which driver is used. If you see the Xorg nvidia module is loaded, check "glxinfo | grep direct" and "glxgears" (package mesa-utils) to see if direct rendering is working. glxinfo & glxgears were not found. Install the mesa-utils package, then use these

Re: I get too many emails

2008-10-28 Thread MLewis
PRHarris wrote: Since joining your discussion group, I have been deluged with emails. Please remove me from your membership files. prharris [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank you Patrick Harris In the headers of every message on this list, you will find the following help

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread MLewis
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 14:17:25 -0500, MLewis wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: [...] > That is how things are these days, with the latest Xorg being able to detect everything automatically, in theory at least. (Only a very minimal xorg.conf is written by "dpkg-rec

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread MLewis
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,28.Oct.08, 14:17:51, MLewis wrote: Thanks for the link Jack. Very good instructions, but I'm missing something. When I do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg I am not asked about any video options at all. Something I must have missed along the way. You're n

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread MLewis
Jack Schneider wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:52:43 -0500 MLewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm new to the list and Debian, but not new to Linux. I have been running RH for 10+ years and recently was very impressed with Debian and decided to make the switch. Congrats to the tea

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread MLewis
Jochen Schulz wrote: MLewis: I'm running Lenny Beta2. There is no such Debian version. What you probably have is lenny (in its current or an earlier state), installed by the Debian Installer beta2. (Sorry for the nitpicking, it's just that Debian doesn't have any releases whic

Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread MLewis
I'm new to the list and Debian, but not new to Linux. I have been running RH for 10+ years and recently was very impressed with Debian and decided to make the switch. Congrats to the team that puts Debian together, it looks like a well thought out distribution. Also, thanks much for an update