[OT] Understatement

2007-10-30 Thread Dan Jenkins
From a BBC article on IPv6 vs. IPv6 (Vint Cerf is pushing for the transition as he anticipates address exhaustion in 2010/2011): > IPv6 will create 340 trillion trillion trillion separate addresses, > enough to satisfy demand for decades to come. Umm, 340 undecillion (3.4 × 10^38 ) allows for 70

Re: Problem with Xsession

2007-10-30 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/30/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * We do not seem to be going through the /etc/profile, $HOME/.bash_profile > sequence. From what I understand, that is typical behavior . Remember that not everybody uses bash, so cshr/tcsh/etc users will be wanting something different.

Re: CD burner woes

2007-10-30 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, the fact that wodim spit out "DING DING DING" in the middle of > the output may point to compiler/linker issues... :-D > Don't (repeat: DON'T) rely on the output of (wodim/cdrecord/readom) > -scanbus. Use "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" in

Re: CD burner woes

2007-10-30 Thread Drew Van Zandt
It turns out that kernels 2.6.18 through 2.6.20 (roughly) had issues with a fair number of CD burners. Mine was one, and I've upgraded the kernel since I last burned a CD. Upgrading to 2.6.22 fixed the issue. Apparently the device was getting flagged as "so bad it's not worth talking to" every t

Problem with Xsession

2007-10-30 Thread Steven W. Orr
I have a farm of Debian Sarge machines. The login process for this setup was never properly established. (I have no idea why.) * We do not seem to be going through the /etc/profile, $HOME/.bash_profile sequence. I seem to have solved that problem by adding this script to /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40b

Re: CD burner woes

2007-10-30 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:29:12 -0400 > From: "Drew Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I used to be able to burn CD's on this laptop, now I can't. Here's the info > that's probably most relevant: > > 1) I can read CD's just fine. > 2) uname -a returns: > Linux pi 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00

Re: CD burner woes

2007-10-30 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:55 -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > The symptom is that it can;t write the CD. It runs all the prep, then > the burn itself fails. > scsidev: '1,0,0' > scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 > Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 > Wodim version: 1.1.2 > SCSI buffer size: 64512 > wodim: Can

Re: CD burner woes

2007-10-30 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:29, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > I used to be able to burn CD's on this laptop, now I can't... > 1) I can read CD's just fine. I had one like that, and it was the laser that was going. They often "degrade" rather than failing outright. In such cases, the laser can

Re: CD burner woes

2007-10-30 Thread Drew Van Zandt
The symptom is that it can;t write the CD. It runs all the prep, then the burn itself fails. scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Wodim version: 1.1.2 SCSI buffer size: 64512 wodim: Cannot do inquiry for CD/DVD-Recorder. TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA atapi: 1 Errno: 5

Re: CD burner woes

2007-10-30 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/30/07, Drew Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to be able to burn CD's on this laptop, now I can't. So, um, like... what happens when you try to burn a CD? :) What's your command line (or GUI clickstream)? Do you get an error message? A program crash? Does it go through t

CD burner woes

2007-10-30 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Hey all... I've been trying to figure this out with a lot of help from Google, but I'm still not getting any traction on the problem and would like a push to keep me from spinning my wheels... I used to be able to burn CD's on this laptop, now I can't. Here's the info that's probably most rele

Re: problem buring iso to external usb dvd

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Shawn K. O'Shea writes: > My only suggestion would be to try cdrecord instead and see if it > can do the job. cdrecord is also included in FC5 and can burn dvds. > The syntax looks like: cdrecord -v speed=X dev=A,B,C cdimage.iso I'm pretty sure that my problem is solved. No incantation of growi