Re: Disk Activity Causes Video Stuttering

2006-06-25 Thread Simon Morgan
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:00:28PM +0100, Simon Morgan wrote: > I'm having trouble with mplayer that seems to be highlighting a bug or general > inefficiency in the ata driver when used with the VIA VT8235 chipset used in > the ASUS A7V8X motherboard. > > The problem is that

Disk Activity Causes Video Stuttering

2006-06-25 Thread Simon Morgan
Hi, I'm having trouble with mplayer that seems to be highlighting a bug or general inefficiency in the ata driver when used with the VIA VT8235 chipset used in the ASUS A7V8X motherboard. The problem is that whenever a video is being played and there is any reasonable amount of disk activity (e.g

Stuttery Video Playback

2006-06-24 Thread Simon Morgan
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope! Ok, so I'm having real trouble playing videos under either FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Playback on OpenBSD is really choppy/stuttery, FreeBSD is a lot better but still enough to be annoying. I only have access to a FreeBSD installation right now so I'll stick

Re: cannot ssh to machine on lan when it has no internet connection

2005-08-27 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/26/05, Adi Pircalabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could also search your /etc/hosts.allow for the following line: > ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny No luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: cannot ssh to machine on lan when it has no internet connection

2005-08-26 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/25/05, Ben Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this will work or not but try setting up /etc/hosts to > reflect your LAN. I had a friend who had issues when, even though he was > connected to the Internet, he had DNS messed up on his FreeBSD system. > I'm thinking the SSH server

Re: cannot ssh to machine on lan when it has no internet connection

2005-08-25 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/25/05, Ben Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this will work or not but try setting up /etc/hosts to > reflect your LAN. I had a friend who had issues when, even though he was > connected to the Internet, he had DNS messed up on his FreeBSD system. > I'm thinking the SSH server

cannot ssh to machine on lan when it has no internet connection

2005-08-25 Thread Simon Morgan
When I try to SSH to a machine on my LAN when its Internet connection is down I get the following: OpenSSH_3.9p1 Debian-1ubuntu2, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interacti

Re: sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/18/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You really, really want to give your machine a real hostname, which is in the > DNS, reverses properly, and has MX records for the domains it handles mail for > set up, if you want to run sendmail and do mail correctly. > > If you are only rela

sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Simon Morgan
When my system boots it freezes for an extremely long time at a certain point in the boot process. Hitting CTRL-C at this point I'm informed that the loading of sendmail has been cancelled which obviously indicates that it's what is responsible. Looking into the issue I've seen a number of people