Re: [SLUG] Removing a snd module

2007-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/08/07, Denis Crowdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this has worked for me in the past (distant though), but now I just get a long list of module is in use messages, despite trying to shut down everything that might be using the card. I have tried fuser, and the entries under

[SLUG] drive woes

2007-08-05 Thread Rufi_Dukes
after finally enabling mulitmedia in my new computer the other day, and watching one video, today i burnt an iso of some other distro, but noticed that i could only use the second drive; and neither drive would play audio or video, but i *did* manage to burn the cd... then, 2 hours later i come

Re: [SLUG] drive woes

2007-08-05 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Rufi, you should be able to eject the drive with just the power cable plugged in and not the IDE cable. (If it is an IDE cable that is). Power should be enough to eject. You can power down the machine and disconnect the drive IDE cable and power on the machine and eject the DVD.

Re: [SLUG] epson 1670 as a network scanner on Fedora 7

2007-08-05 Thread Glen Turner
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 13:57 +1000, Craig Warner wrote: But when I try to telnet to the 6566 is a Connection refused, and scanimage -L on the Ubuntu client produces nil response. Any suggestions? Here's a list. I use Fedora, so translate accordingly. 1) If you are running IPtables you need

[SLUG] Router, NAS with ext3

2007-08-05 Thread Sebastian Spieß
Hi all, I want to get myself a WLAN rounter and a external HDD which can be attached to the router. I thought of getting a normal router and a NAS enabled 3.5 case for a HDD. It then came to me that mounting ext3 partitions could be a problem with the NAS. Does one have exp with that kind

[SLUG] which new mobile to replaced old mobile PDA

2007-08-05 Thread Sebastian Spieß
Hi group, until now I am using a rather old Handsprind visor PDA for my adressbook keeping and calender and a mobile (Siemens S65) for calls/text. having completely moved to ubuntu lately I am looking for a new mobile which can replace both older devices. So can anyone recommend a mobile

Re: [SLUG] drive woes

2007-08-05 Thread Ken Wilson
cd burner software usually selects which drive it will use, with options to change. ken Rufi_Dukes wrote: after finally enabling mulitmedia in my new computer the other day, and watching one video, today i burnt an iso of some other distro, but noticed that i could only use the second drive;

Re: [SLUG] disk full

2007-08-05 Thread Ken Wilson
Thanks Erik No large files with find. Unable to unmount partitions to check under their mount points. Once shut down unable to reboot, Live cd showed that my rsync script had copied files to the mount point and then mounted a filesystem on top. Ken Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Ken Wilson wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Home Linux Server

2007-08-05 Thread Sebastian Spieß
hi, a good german computer magazine has released a debian based server bundle, with many to suite tailored scripts. surely the download page and the scripts are in germany, but as it is a debian fork... why not give it a try... http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/srv/download.shtml the actual cd

Re: [SLUG] disk full

2007-08-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:16:52AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Since you have everything in different partitions you are only interested in what happens on /dev/sdc1, you might try: sudo find / -xdev -type f -printf %15s%p\n |sort -r | head -50 to find the 50 biggest files

Re: [SLUG] disk full

2007-08-05 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:16:52AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Since you have everything in different partitions you are only interested in what happens on /dev/sdc1, you might try: sudo find / -xdev -type f -printf %15s%p\n |sort -r | head -50

Re: [SLUG] Removing a snd module

2007-08-05 Thread Denis Crowdy
Amos Shapira wrote: On 05/08/07, Denis Crowdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this has worked for me in the past (distant though), but now I just get a long list of module is in use messages, despite trying to shut down everything that might be using the card. I have tried fuser, and the

Re: [SLUG] disk full

2007-08-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:08:11AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:16:52AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Since you have everything in different partitions you are only interested in what happens on /dev/sdc1, you might try:

Re: [SLUG] disk full

2007-08-05 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Sonia Hamilton wrote: sort -r should be sort -nr here for this to work. I think the printf with the width specifier gets around the problem that sort -nr is supposed to fix :-). It doesn't when I try it; it worked after I put the n in... Ahh, that rings a bell. What are your locale

Re: [SLUG] Removing a snd module

2007-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/08/07, Denis Crowdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: On 05/08/07, Denis Crowdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this has worked for me in the past (distant though), but now I just get a long list of module is in use messages, despite trying to shut down everything that