Re: Teletext viewer for saa7134 chips

2005-09-08 Thread Stephen Tait
At 15:41 08/09/2005, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:40:35PM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote: Hi, Is there a teletext browser for saa7134 based tv tuners? AFAIK this is a DVB Chip and DVB has no teletext. The replacement for teletext/videotext is called EPG. apt-cache search epg

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Tait
At 14:33 26/08/2005, Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann wrote: On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 12:23 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: I got an Ibead 400: 1GB flash RAM and a 'proper' USB mass storage interface. Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage that plays oggs? My rio karma crapped out and

Re: Problems with software RAID on SATA

2005-08-24 Thread Stephen Tait
At 19:43 19/08/2005, you wrote: At 17:52 19/08/2005, you wrote: At 15:44 19/08/2005, you wrote: Quoting Stephen Tait [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As you can see, the only mention of md2 is the md: md2 stopped line, whereas of course I'd be expecting a raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2

Re: Problems with software RAID on SATA

2005-08-19 Thread Stephen Tait
At 16:37 18/08/2005, you wrote: Quoting Stephen Tait [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm just in the process of setting up a Sarge server to be used as a sort of backup server. The main PATA discs are used to boot the OS offof software RAID1, with the rest of the disc space used in JBOD for not-so

Re: Problems with software RAID on SATA

2005-08-19 Thread Stephen Tait
At 15:44 19/08/2005, you wrote: Quoting Stephen Tait [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As you can see, the only mention of md2 is the md: md2 stopped line, whereas of course I'd be expecting a raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors message. Does anyone more au fait with kernel software RAID

Re: Problems with software RAID on SATA

2005-08-19 Thread Stephen Tait
At 17:52 19/08/2005, you wrote: At 15:44 19/08/2005, you wrote: Quoting Stephen Tait [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As you can see, the only mention of md2 is the md: md2 stopped line, whereas of course I'd be expecting a raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors message. Does anyone more au

Problems with software RAID on SATA

2005-08-18 Thread Stephen Tait
dmesg etc. stuff doesn't seem to tell me anything I don't already know. If anyone has experienced this before or has any pointers as to how I can troubleshoot it, I'd be much obliged! Stephen Tait P.S. before all you hardware types tell me that the SI3112 sucks, yes I know

Re: NFS problems

2005-07-20 Thread Stephen Tait
At 22:02 19/07/2005, you wrote: No, kernel NFS can be either compiled or loaded as a module into a custom kernel. Does anyone know which NFS server I *should* be using? Does anyone know why lockd fails to run? But the userspace daemons (/sbin/rpc.lockd and /sbin/rpc.statd) don't seem to

Re: NFS problems

2005-07-20 Thread Stephen Tait
At 18:43 20/07/2005, you wrote: At 22:02 19/07/2005, you wrote: No, kernel NFS can be either compiled or loaded as a module into a custom kernel. Does anyone know which NFS server I *should* be using? Does anyone know why lockd fails to run? But the userspace daemons (/sbin/rpc.lockd

NFS problems

2005-07-19 Thread Stephen Tait
I've just been rejigging my file server following the upgrade to Sarge and have finally tried to sort out some niggling problems. Mainly, lockd doesn't seem to be running - I see the following entries all the time in my client machines (all gentoo): nfs warning: mount version older than

Re: Weird samba (sarge) problem - not following symlinks? - same on NFS too

2005-06-21 Thread Stephen Tait
As an update to my previous problem, I have just switched everything possible over to NFS and the same problem occurs - namely the client machine sees the symlink literally (i.e. server has the symlink as Television - /home/share/tv/, and the client also sees the symlink as Television -

Weird samba (sarge) problem - not following symlinks?

2005-06-13 Thread Stephen Tait
I've just updated my system from Woody to Sarge, and am now encountering a weird problem with Samba: My debian PDC box, tamora, serves files to the rest of my LAN via Samba. My MythTV backend (banquo, running Gentoo and a basic samba config for when I have to grab files from it via windows)

[OT] Splitting multipage TIFF files

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Tait
Hi all! A client has landed us with a bunch of CD's containing several large multipage TIFF images. I ran them through our usual conversion tools (namely a find script that passes the images through tiffsplit), and all seemed fine and dandy. However, on inspecting the output, it seems that

Re: SSH host-based auth in a cluster

2004-10-18 Thread Stephen Tait
At 22:55 18/10/2004, you wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:19, martin f krafft wrote: Yes, you read right, I want all the machines in a cluster to trust each other, based on SSH keys and IPs. But I am not arriving. This is with Sarge and SSHv1 disabled, so only protocol two. So let's say I have

Keyed SSH login problem

2004-10-11 Thread Stephen Tait
I'm having a great deal of difficulty setting up two computers to log into one another for automated backup purposes. For the moment, I'm just trying to get one machine to log into the other non-interactively, and since it's over the internet I was going to use SSH. Generated a v2 DSA

Re: Keyed SSH login problem

2004-10-11 Thread Stephen Tait
At 17:40 11/10/2004, you wrote: I just went through this yesterday, and here is my recipe. On machine 1: 1. Create your public/private key (I used dsa): ssh-keygen -t dsa 2. Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to machine 2 using ssh-copy-id: ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub machine2

Removing password-based auth for login

2004-10-11 Thread Stephen Tait
This is somewhat tangential to my other thread, which is by-and-large sorted now, but I thought it might be worth a repost since it is an entirely different problem. I have a bunch of users that have now been set up to use SSH keys for all login purposes; however, they currently have password

Re: Grub won't timeout

2004-10-07 Thread Stephen Tait
At 01:26 08/10/2004, you wrote: My Grub won't timeout. It just sits there forever waiting for me to press enter. I've gone through many rewrites of the config file and have recompiled, reinstalled, and reintalled it on the boot sector. Still nothing. My config file is below. Any ideas? #

Missing /proc/scsi files...?

2004-09-28 Thread Stephen Tait
Does anyone know what is going on with /proc/scsi/* in 2.6.8...? I'm trying to run the 3ware disc management daemon on my 9500 (3dm2), which fails because it can't find /proc/scsi/3w-9xxx. In /proc/scsi I only have scsi and device_info... zaphod:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host:

Re: Missing /proc/scsi files...?

2004-09-28 Thread Stephen Tait
At 13:50 28/09/2004, you wrote: Does anyone know what is going on with /proc/scsi/* in 2.6.8...? I'm trying to run the 3ware disc management daemon on my 9500 (3dm2), which fails because it can't find /proc/scsi/3w-9xxx. In /proc/scsi I only have scsi and device_info... I'm currently running

Re: samba versus nfs

2004-09-24 Thread Stephen Tait
At 12:58 24/09/2004, you wrote: Hello, If I have a file server that has a samba server installed and is accessed by both linux and WinXP machines do I really need NFS installed and running? My understanding is that samba is more secure than NFS and since one can mount a samba server from a linux

Help with rsyncd...?

2004-09-23 Thread Stephen Tait
I've been trying to set up some method of using rsync, which will eventually be deployed to copy company data from one office to the other (it's a one way job, so I don't need unison) and have so far had no luck whatsoever. What I was aiming for was something akin to the debian push mirroring

Re: Help with rsyncd...?

2004-09-23 Thread Stephen Tait
At 16:03 23/09/2004, you wrote: I've been trying to set up some method of using rsync, which will eventually be deployed to copy company data from one office to the other (it's a one way job, so I don't need unison) and have so far had no luck whatsoever. What I was aiming for was something

Re: sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-23 Thread Stephen Tait
At 17:02 23/09/2004, you wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:17 am, Christian Benito wrote: I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a debian box. The two windows machines share a laser printer that is attached to one of them. I'd like to be able to print from the debian machine

Re: Improving Performance for SATA Drives

2004-09-22 Thread Stephen Tait
At 19:46 22/09/2004, you wrote: At boot time, running kernel 2.6.7-1-k7, I notice it sets all 4 of my SATA ports to UDMA/100. However, they're all supposed to be able to do SATA 150. Normally I would use hdparm to try and tweak things to make it work faster, but the 2.6 kernel recognizes SATA as

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-20 Thread Stephen Tait
At 14:09 20/09/2004, you wrote: BTW Flash technology is OPEN Source, it's NOT proprietary. Too much is said that's not accurate regarding Flash. I was under the impression that flash is open source in the same way as PDF; the format is open, but the big-time applications (FlashMX, Acrobat) are

Re: Copying partitions on same disk

2004-09-16 Thread Stephen Tait
At 05:15 17/09/2004, you wrote: How do copy my / containing directory root boot tmp bin proc etc to a different partition of same disk. I used dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sda4 but it seems to hang. cp -up could not handle /tmp correctly Thank in advance for your reply. Prashant kumar home page

Re: MP3 recording and editing

2004-09-13 Thread Stephen Tait
At 12:01 13/09/2004, you wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for recording and editing mp3's from the line in on my sound card? Combine Audacity with LAME and you've got yourself a fairly decent sound editor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Soundcard Support???

2004-09-11 Thread Stephen Tait
At 17:11 11/09/2004 +0100, you wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:05:40 -0400, jwyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a dell dimension 8300 with a soundblaster live! cardthe debian drivers Emu10k1 or SB will not make it work...no sound at alli'd really like to HEAR (pun..lol) from someone

Re: IDE Bus rescan

2004-09-09 Thread Stephen Tait
At 15:25 09/09/2004, you wrote: Is there a way to rescan the IDE Bus under Linux. (Not looking at the need of HW). The only thing I want to know, is if I can rescan the Bus after power on. I heard about hdparm -U and hdparm -R, but does it really make a rescan and realizes the new HD? Thx Pir

3ware woes, seem to be missing vital /proc files...

2004-09-07 Thread Stephen Tait
Different this time, I promise! After much mucking about, the 3ware 9500 is working beautifully as I would expect and is sitting there with a nice fat 750GB LVM. But I can't get 3DM2 (3ware Disk Management daemon mk. 2) to run. It complains about not being able to start a listening socket...?

Re: Problem with ethernet card ?

2004-09-06 Thread Stephen Tait
At 13:10 06/09/2004, you wrote: Hello All, I am facing a problem with my cache server as it automatically down/bzy its one interaface and then aftersome time again up it. when i have checked logs it give me following msg. debian:~# tail -f /var/log/messages Sep 6 17:07:54 debian kernel: NETDEV

Samba slowdown - hosts.deny responsible?

2004-09-04 Thread Stephen Tait
I've just been migrating my other Linux boxes over to NFS, instead of samba, for mounting their remote drives from the Debian. Got it all working perfectly after I managed to lock myself out of SSH - d'oh! Thought the machine had died, and ruined my 130 day uptime. Oh well. But now I'm

Re: installer with kernel 2.6.8 ?

2004-09-04 Thread Stephen Tait
Has there been any further info on this? I too have just done a (very cumbersome - install onto IDE, build kernel with 3w-9xxx, transfer install to RAID arrays) install onto a 9000 card and would love to be able to build myself a customised installer for the next time I have to do it. I found

Re: gui sftp client (using rssh on server)

2004-09-03 Thread Stephen Tait
At 15:59 03/09/2004, you wrote: you can do something similar in konqueror. If memory serves me correctly; kio:fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hauppage 350 pvr

2004-08-30 Thread Stephen Tait
At 22:28 30/08/2004 -0400, you wrote: I finally got one of these PVR cards in my boxen. myth tv appears to have installed OK, but I haven't really had a chance to get things working. mythweather is about it. However, back to Debian. lirc isn't. I copied the files over from the examples for

Re: Configuring PHP4 for Apache

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Tait
At 19:40 27/08/2004, you wrote: Hi, I thought I had this configured correctly, because it was working at one time (like yesterday). I have installed PHP4 with the lastest Apache. What happens when I try to load for example the phpinfo() — which I have named view.php it will read it in as a file

Transferring install to another HD

2004-08-26 Thread Stephen Tait
Hi there, I just want to double check I'm going to be doing this right, or am at least on the right track. I've finally managed to make myself a kernel that'll boot directly offof my 3ware 9500 RAID card, but I had to make this on a regular PATA drive, since I need to be able to install

Re: Transferring install to another HD

2004-08-26 Thread Stephen Tait
At 15:00 26/08/2004, you wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:03:10PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote: Once all the files have done transferring, I'm guessing all I have to do is do a chroot /mnt/newdrive /bin/bash, and then run the LILO thing to get myself a boot block in my MBR. That'll do it. Also

Re: Transferring install to another HD

2004-08-26 Thread Stephen Tait
At 15:46 26/08/2004, you wrote: Not on _my_ computers you won't. That's a completely unreliable way of restoring the directory. Why doesn't someone read the man page for cp? It tells you how not copy /proc. man cp Personally, I prefer tar ... | tar which seems to work far better for me than cp.

Re: Editing video

2004-08-26 Thread Stephen Tait
At 19:40 26/08/2004, you wrote: Hi group, My father has recorded some video on his camera and he wants to edit this on his computer. The camera doesn't have digital video output or something like that and his box doesn't have a capturing device. But, he has a dvd recorder and has recorded the

Re: Known file-sharing client

2004-08-26 Thread Stephen Tait
At 20:03 26/08/2004, you wrote: Hey Does anyone know a good filesharing program for linux besides xmule? greets dirk Depends what you're after...! There are a zillion and one BitTorrent (the only P2P I use now anyway) clients available for Linux. One of the most popular, Azareus, is java based,

Re: Modems for Linux?

2004-08-26 Thread Stephen Tait
At 21:24 26/08/2004, you wrote: Hi, My existing dialup modem does not have linux drivers (its one of those winmodems), and so am planning on buying a new modem for my machine. I checked around the net for a list of modems that are known to work with linux (hardware modems preferred, if not

Re: Motherboard recommendation?

2004-08-24 Thread Stephen Tait
At 09:49 24/08/2004 -0500, you wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:19:49 +1000 Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Rumpf wrote: Hi, I'm about to buy a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend a board that is known to work well with free software drivers. I just don't want to buy another

Re: migration to debian from NT4 :)

2004-08-20 Thread Stephen Tait
At 13:56 20/08/2004 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:10:12 +0200, Gabriel Granger wrote: Many thanks to all for the advise :) cant wait to put a sledge hammer through our NT4 PDC ;) but what will

Re: TCO - Windows vs Linux

2004-08-18 Thread Stephen Tait
I had loads of fun reading it, as did a few of my colleagues. I have to admit I first dissmissed it due to its title, until I realised they spell ownership with 0 (zero). /M I read the /. thread on this as well; I don't know which I found funnier - the article itself, or the number of people

Re: 3ware woes

2004-08-12 Thread Stephen Tait
At 22:05 11/08/2004 -0400, you wrote: On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:06, Stephen Tait wrote: At long last, we've finally got a RAID card for the office file server! It's a lovely 3ware 9000 series with 8 SATA ports, and looks very lovely indeed. But I can't get it working for the life of me

Re: 3ware woes

2004-08-12 Thread Stephen Tait
Gah, hate replying to myself, but there you go. Does anyone have any idea how I compile the 3w-9xxx source for 2.4.19? I've gotten the 2.4 source tarball from 3ware's website, which includes the following files: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/3w-9xxx/driver$ ls 3w-9xxx.c 3w-9xxx.h 3w-9xxx_fw.h

3ware woes

2004-08-11 Thread Stephen Tait
At long last, we've finally got a RAID card for the office file server! It's a lovely 3ware 9000 series with 8 SATA ports, and looks very lovely indeed. But I can't get it working for the life of me. I use two 3ware 8000's at home (one under Debian, one under Gentoo), and have had zero problems