Re: Problem: ICH7 stalls on transfer from PATA to SATA

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Update: it seems I was off track. Simultaneous reading from a PATA and SATA drive (diff on 1GB files) does NOT slow down the computer. Also, and more importantly, file transfers from one SATA partition to another DOES slow down the computer. Furthermore, a transfer from a SATA partition to t

Problem: ICH7 stalls on transfer from PATA to SATA

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I have an ECS 945p-a v1.1 motherboard which has an ICH7 chipset. I have connected to this three SATA drives, a PATA HD, and a PATA DVD drive. When I try to copy a large block of data (1GB file) from a PATA drive to a SATA drive, it brings my system to a near stop. The CPU meter hits

Re: Best way to document console steps on a web page?

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Lee Braiden wrote: As for comments and user editing etc... either start looking into wikis etc., or talk to a web developer, and have him/her make it for you, if you don't know how yourself. p.s.: this is a web development question, not a debian one ;) Thanks for the quick response. The bullets

Best way to document console steps on a web page?

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I've documented several Debian installation processes and would like to publish them so other might benefit. I would like to format the steps as clearly and easily as possible. Common HOWTOs look like: % cd /tmp % wget www.someapp.org/theapp.tgz % tar -xzvf theapp.tgz % su # cd install

Re: Man not presenting the "-" character properly - charmap issue??

2004-06-04 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
On Friday 04 June 2004 04:43 am, Conall O'Brien wrote: > > The dash in front of "copy files and directories" is OK, but not the > > later ones. > > > > Any idea what gives? > > What enviromental variables have you set? The output of "locale" without > any parameters will tell you. > > > Personally,

Re: dpkg-reconfigure locales and German Umlauts with English Messages

2004-06-03 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
On Thursday 03 June 2004 01:24 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I'd also advise you to have the default locale be "None" > when dpkg-reconfigure locales asks you. Just set LANG in > your ~/.bashrc. You can also unselect all of the locales > you selected, leaving only en_US.UTF-8 to be generated. Why no

Man not presenting the "-" character properly - charmap issue??

2004-06-03 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, Many of my man pages have problems with the character "-". Sometimes the character is shown correctly. Other times I get a box or more. I use UTF8 on my sid system. $locale charmap UTF-8 For example, "map cp": ... >cp - copy files and directories > > SYNOPSIS >cp [O

Re: Raid superblock woes - what keeps trying to move my raid drives at boot?

2004-05-19 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
I should mention that I have no /etc/raidtab file and that my /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf is as follows: > DEVICE /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdc2 /dev/hdd2 > ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/hdb2,/dev/hdc2,/dev/hdd2 Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Raid superblock woes - what keeps trying to move my raid drives at boot?

2004-05-19 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I have a working raid0 setup, on partitions hdb2, hdc2, and hdd2. However, every time I reboot, something makes the system look for the raid parts on the whole drives instead of the partitions. From dmesg: > device-mapper: 4.0.5-ioctl (2003-11-18) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > md: md d

Re: iptables and 2.4.25 - iptables suddenly missing after kernel-image upgrade. how to fix?

2004-05-17 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
On Sunday 16 May 2004 10:37 am, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > Uppercase doesn't work on my woody/sid system with 2.4.22-1-686 either, > lowercase does: ARRRGGG!!! So simple... Thank you very, very much for your help. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

iptables and 2.4.25 - iptables suddenly missing after kernel-image upgrade. how to fix?

2004-05-16 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, On my woody server, I have been using iptables for a while. I recently upgraded the kernel-image to 2.4.25-1-686, and lost iptables functionality. Now I get: > # iptables -t NAT -L > iptables v1.2.6a: can't initialize iptables table `NAT': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)

mdadm and siI680 - can't make a superblock on secondary channel?

2004-05-16 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I have a Sid system running 2.4.25-1-k7. I have an onboard VIA chipset and a PCI siI680 ide controller card. I have three drives that comprise a raid-0 array. These drives have been part of another array earlier. The problem is that I cannot create a new functioning raid-0 array with

Re: Spamassasin on Woody - standard install using spamc fails??

2004-04-12 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Peter Sebastian Masny wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231082 Hrmph. Old spamassassin incompatible with new perl in stable. Using the proposed-update spamassassin (woody4) did not fix the problem. Probably have to use testing version, which means testing for a bunch

Re: Spamassasin on Woody - standard install using spamc fails??

2004-04-12 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
On a further note, zmore /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/sample-spam.txt.gz | spamassassin -P Does work, but it takes about 15 sec. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spamassasin on Woody - standard install using spamc fails??

2004-04-12 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Bojan Baros wrote: > Peter Sebastian Masny said: >>Anyone have an idea what is going on? >> >>Peter >> > > > Hello Peter. > > If you want to add spamassassin to all users I suggest you do this in > /etc/procmailrc: > > :0fw > | /usr/bin/spamc

Spamassasin on Woody - standard install using spamc fails??

2004-04-12 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I have a working woody mailserver with postfix and procmail I wanted to try spamassassin tagging and did the following: apt-get install spamassassin librazor-perl enable spamd in /etc/default/spamassassin /etc/init.d/spamassasin restart then in my user .procmailrc I added :0fw |/usr/bin

Epson Photo 825 and CUPS - Print slightly off center, how to fix

2004-04-06 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I have CUPS working fine with my Epson Photo 825 printer (shared from a windows computer). The (text) print is good but shifted about 4 mm to the left. When I print the CUPS test page, the page frame edge is exactly on the top and bottom edge, but the right side shows the frame edge

Docbook and jade - setup failed/not complete - "is not a function name" errors - what is wrong?

2004-03-27 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I'm trying to use docbook to make my HOWTOs nice and pretty, however, my system install is flawed. (testing/unstable) My XML is structurally OK. ( I also get the same errors with other's xml code). The only line possibly involved is: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx

/dev/cdrom and 2.6 - what should /dev look like and how do I get there the Right Way

2004-03-20 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I want to try to get my cd burner working with 2.6, but the mappings in /dev are weird. My cdrom is on hdd (not hdc). /dev contains: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 11 Dec 14 22:31 cdrom -> /dev/cdrom0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 8 Dec 14 22:31 cdrom0 -> /dev/hdc lrwxrwxrwx

Re: samba/stable 2.2.3a-13 -- samba doesn't accept connections after upgrade -- solved

2004-03-13 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Peter Sebastian Masny wrote: Hello all, I just installed the 2.2.3a-13 security patch for samba (and smbclient and samba-common). Now samba refuses connections. Error connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Connection refused) 2487: Connection to failed SMB connection failed I have samba

samba/stable 2.2.3a-13 -- samba doesn't accept connections after upgrade

2004-03-13 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hello all, I just installed the 2.2.3a-13 security patch for samba (and smbclient and samba-common). Now samba refuses connections. Error connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Connection refused) 2487: Connection to failed SMB connection failed I have samba through inetd, which is running. Re

Re: 2.6, modules, and ALSA

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Guest, Simon wrote: Hi Peter, Well, I can get rid of them by renaming /lib/modules/2.6.2-1-k7/kernel/sound/oss but that seems like inviting trouble and is certainly not the Right Way. Have you got discover installed? By default it tries to discover your sound card at boot time, and helpfully

Re: 2.6, modules, and ALSA

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Well, I can get rid of them by renaming /lib/modules/2.6.2-1-k7/kernel/sound/oss but that seems like inviting trouble and is certainly not the Right Way. now to keep ALSA from crackling... Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: 2.6, modules, and ALSA

2004-02-17 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Gerard Ceraso wrote: > I am also using the via modules, I only compiled in the ALSA into the > kernel and left all of the oss stuff out, and it works fine for me. > --- > Gerard Ceraso > http://devslash.org I'm trying to use only precompiled kernels, so this isn't an option (and shouldn't be nece

Re: 2.6, modules, and ALSA

2004-02-17 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Adam Aube wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2004 11:08 pm, Peter Sebastian Masny wrote: > >> Hi, I'm using kernel-image-2.6.2-1-k7. >> I have included "snd-via82xx" in my /etc/modules and run update-modules >> (modules-init-tools installed). > > >

2.6, modules, and ALSA

2004-02-17 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi, I'm using kernel-image-2.6.2-1-k7. I have included "snd-via82xx" in my /etc/modules and run update-modules (modules-init-tools installed). My dmseg says: via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate. Please try dxs_support=1 option and report if it works on your machine.