Re: [SLUG] Dual monitor mode in Ubuntu 7.04

2007-06-03 Thread Dave Airlie
I have recently upgraded from a windoze/Redhat world to a windoze/Ubuntu. So far things have been OK. There is one issue that I have, and that is my VGA output on my Dell Inspiron 5100 won't work. I had to add stuff into my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to get different resolutions working. You

Re: [SLUG] Dual monitor mode in Ubuntu 7.04

2007-05-22 Thread Dave Airlie
You could try using mergedfb, I'm surprised with the latest drivers it doesn't pick up the vga output and enable mergedfb automatically.. Dave. On Mon, 21 May 2007, Scott Waller wrote: Hi I have recently upgraded from a windoze/Redhat world to a windoze/Ubuntu. So far things have been

Re: [SLUG] Running Google Earth in Ubuntu

2007-04-11 Thread Dave Airlie
Google Earth probably needs to have direct rendering and 3D capability, because it uses OpenGL to draw the textures and such. The open source ati driver likely won't give you direct rendering on a 9200 card, and you'll need to install the proprietary fglrx drivers from ATI to get 3D support.

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Airlie
I won't send you the Xorg.0.log output just yet because LIBGL_DEBUG=all glxinfo spits out the following: libGL error: dlopen /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-01 Thread Dave Airlie
I have a ATI Radeon X300 SE (RV370) on an x86 Dapper system. According to the xrog.conf file I'm running the fglrx driver from the linux-restrited-modules and I have the following X modules selected: Apart from the stock answer of use the open source drivers :-) You have a client side

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-01 Thread Dave Airlie
lsmod | grep fgl fglrx 391756 8 agpgart36784 2 fglrx,intel_agp In Xorg.0.log I find: (II) LoadModule: GLcore (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined

Re: [SLUG] Strange Xorg log information exceeds DDC maximum

2006-11-13 Thread Dave Airlie
The message is: (1920x1440,PHILIPS 107T) mode clock 339.068MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz I'm using a 17 Philips 107T5 monitor set to 1024x768, attached to an Kubuntu 6.06 box. The monitor is quite fine and I've not experienced any problems with it. Your monitor reports a maximum pixel

Re: [SLUG] Setup of acpi to get Suspend/Hibernate Working

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Airlie
Ah yes I stated the problem incorrectly. Suspend works 'out-of-the-box' but resume doesn't. :-) I tried using this vbetool last night but its already in the acpi scripts so should be working. So I have now really no idea on how to fix it. try moving the sdhci module aside, reboot and see

Re: [SLUG] I so hate X windows...

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Airlie
You can't run a TV at 1280x1024 normally, normal TV resolutions are a lot smaller, btw you hate NVIDIA's drivers, X windows just loads them.. Dave. On Fri, 5 May 2006, Michael Fox wrote: Guys/Gals, I've spent the last few hours playing around with xorg configs in an attempt to use nvidia

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

2005-12-19 Thread Dave Airlie
Right. Which is what I've found too. Which led me to wondering: Jeff: how do you plan to do this UP/SMP kernel efficiently? The kernel implements spin_lock as a macro that gets compiled out when building for UP: I've heard chat on lkml about using alternatives (the kernel ones) to do this..

Re: [SLUG] Laptop recommendations

2005-11-14 Thread Dave Airlie
Thanks Matt, thats really good to know. I would much prefer a place where I can walk in and run a knoppix CDROM to test a machine. Dell makes this a little hard :-). There is a Dell stand in the Bondi Junction Westfield in front of JB Hifi or the floor above/below it... they might let you

Re: [SLUG] HP dv4121ap xorg probs (video and touchpad)

2005-10-22 Thread Dave Airlie
Ooh errr! All I got was a blank screen after restarting X. Good job I'd created a back up. Any other suggestions? Don;t suppose you got an Xorg.0.log from the i810 driver? it'll contain much needed information... Dave. Dave Airlie wrote: I'm trying to change the refresh rate

Re: [SLUG] HP dv4121ap xorg probs (video and touchpad)

2005-10-22 Thread Dave Airlie
I'm trying to change the refresh rate to get rid of the flicker, but am having trouble finding the specs for the card. Also, I'm not sure how to enter the device name etc in xorg.conf. Try using the i810 driver.. change the vesa line to i810 .. remove the VideoRAM and UseFbDev lines.. Dave.

Re: [SLUG] OT: GPG for Windows (Outlook)?

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Airlie
Now, the situation at hand: a user needs to get some sensitive data (files) from an external source but the external source insists the only way to do this securely is with a passworded zip. This is creating a problem (see above). Now, I use GPG+Kmail and can encrypt/sign/decrypt messages

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Help Please

2005-07-01 Thread Dave Airlie
Just got a new laptop with wireless inbuilt and I realised I have never tried setting up wireless before so I may need sme guidance please. dmesg is finding the card (see Below) but I'm getting errors. I tried iwconfig but no luck yet. Can anyone shed me a little light on what to look for

Re: [SLUG] Sun hardware query

2005-04-20 Thread Dave Airlie
Last time I had to do this I had to find some docs on the web, fiddle with one of those little jumper boxes and then make a custom cable. guess I might need some help if I get one. Will wait and see if the deal goes through or not. Certainly would be an interesting machine to install

Re: [SLUG] Date of installation of Fedora update

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Airlie
Is there a way I can see in chronological order all the updates I've downloaded and installed, so that I can get a better idea of which update may have caused my problem? at a guess the kernel ... second guess alsa-*... I'd try booting the old kernel and ssee if it works.. you do still have

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Copyright assignment + the GPL [Was: Streaming media servers]

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Airlie
Again, this is false. It is *mindshare* and *momentum* that keeps everyone concentrating on the same branch, not technical quibbles like revision control methodology. Linux is a good example of mindshare and momentum over distributed development - the distros all stick to similar branches

Re: [SLUG] Two concurrent Gnome Desktops?

2005-02-06 Thread Dave Airlie
The mechanism setting the permissions of your audio device is almost certainly pam_console. If it bothers you, you can turn it off and fall-back to the old way of doing things by putting /dev/dsp in the audio group etc. take a look at /etc/security/console.perms.. Dave. -- David Airlie,

Re: [SLUG] Controlling address space layout

2005-01-17 Thread Dave Airlie
dynamically linked program in linux? Alternatively, are dynamically linked libraries always going to be in the same place? once upon a time maybe.. with all these prelink and random patches floating about it really depends on what kernel you are running.. It would be convenient for my

Re: [SLUG] Windows on Linux

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Airlie
The Codeweavers guys are doing some awesome work, and yeah, I always recommend that people use one of the commercially backed versions of WINE atm. The way it works (AFAIK) is that Codeweavers keep their own tree, and work on that in order to get support for the apps they've got targetted in

Re: Getting X working again. was Re: [SLUG] Test sorry

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Airlie
Don't forget with linux drivers are kernel based. So I'm not sure what mga_drv.o and vga_drv.o are, but they're not what your looking for. Kernel modules are hiding in /lib/modules/2.4.x/ don't forget to replace the x with the final version number of your kernel. The mga drivers is hiding in

Re: [SLUG] Invalid Module Format smp kernel

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Airlie
but the ppp_generic module is hard-wired to be only for a 586? So this module will only load on a i586, seems hard to believe such a fundamental issue could be in the kernel packages this late in the game, Where do I go from here? at a guess run up2date or use yum to get the latest FC2

Re: [SLUG] Kill an unkillable process

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Airlie
Don't want to reboot just now, any other ideas (gun, knife, poison) that'll get rid of it? if its stuck in D state.. it ain't going anywhere ever... nothing can kill it !!! reboot is the only way to fix it ... Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Laptop

2004-12-09 Thread Dave Airlie
laptop across the LCD and external screen. My first reaction would be no because you only have a single video card which is outputing it's display to either one, the other or both. However, I'm hearing claims that this can be done and want to know if this is true or not. Obviously the card

Re: [SLUG] fedora

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Airlie
Secondly, the startup of both Ubuntu and Fedora take considerable time - I mean minutes. On a standalone system, used for dialup internet, what are some services that can be stopped ? if you are running the FC3 graphical boot, make sure you have the latest rhgb from the updates installed, it

Re: [SLUG] Gimp Transparency Was Re: Photoshop in Linux

2004-12-02 Thread Dave Airlie
convert -transparent white in.png out .png might do it .. On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, seeing as we are on the subject I've got a nice diagram in dia, that I'd like to put on a web page, I've been exporting it as a PNG and that works find except that I'd like the

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

2004-11-30 Thread Dave Airlie
This thread made me wonder: If people were brought up on Gnu/Linux the way most people are brought up on Windows, would they then find linux really easy, and Windows counter-intuitive and confusing? Is it simply what you learn first that defines what you find easy? well it's a fairly

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-08 Thread Dave Airlie
could not help with in the slightest. It may have kept the intruder stuck with no where to go. I am still confused why SELlinux would have prevented the escalation to root? There was a method by which a common program could intrude on the kernel, does it stop you from executing code? It

Re: [SLUG] Re: Preventing attacks

2004-11-08 Thread Dave Airlie
I do now believe you do not know what Kerberos is, what it does, what it can do, and why people love it. http://www.isi.edu/gost/brian/security/kerberos.html might be worth reading for anyone who a) wonders what all the fuss is about, b) may not totally understand what kerberos

Re: [SLUG] Preventing attacks

2004-11-08 Thread Dave Airlie
The only way to know is set up two computers; run tcpdump or ethereal; and connect plain telnet. Then, set up two computers; set up kerberos; run tcpdump or ethereal; and connect kerberised telnet. I'm waay to lazy to do anything like that so I'll go read the FAQ: in summary, some apps

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-04 Thread Dave Airlie
You are the ONLY person on this thread maintaining your point of view. Every other poster has pointed out why you are wrong. Those other posters are not all misinformed or dictatorial. Among them are major contributors to the Linux kernel, senior systems administrators, security

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-04 Thread Dave Airlie
Wrong, again. One of the Generic Security Policies, amongst many: *Exclude all parts of the OS that are not required. And so, says it all. but why stop at the kernel? why not build your own glibc with NSS turned off? who needs name service switch on a firewall, who needs bash tab

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-04 Thread Dave Airlie
A blanket statement that compiling your own kernels is required for a secure system was made by u, a lot of people have pointed out your statement is incorrect in the general case, you feel retracting that statment will make you look stupid in public, whereas in fact arguing it is

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-04 Thread Dave Airlie
The reason for re-compiling is to implement one of the many Generic Security Policies, namely: Include only those OS components that are required. There are scores of rationalies for this. Why do you not apply this to Solaris then? or glibc components of Linux? the kernel is not the be

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-03 Thread Dave Airlie
Yes, it is. Oscar, quite seriously, the concept of building a kernel has absolutely nothing to do with security. Someone has been telling you tall stories. gotta agree with Jeff, I just use Debian or FC kernels on most firewalls I've built or late.. the distro will probably respond to a

Re: [SLUG] Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

2004-11-03 Thread Dave Airlie
This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: That's why I compile and cut those codes I do not understand and end up with fewer lines that I understand. This round goes to Oscar. I think that's like calling the American election at this stage :-) Oscar has not analysed every line of

Re: [SLUG] Maybe trying out gentoo again

2004-11-03 Thread Dave Airlie
I don't mean to come across as negative towards Gentoo, nor it's maintainers. All distributions have their place, I just believe the benefits of Gentoo are quite often misunderstood. This pretty much sums up my views on Gentoo, the reasons people quote for using it are not always valid or

Re: [SLUG] Maybe trying out gentoo again

2004-11-02 Thread Dave Airlie
its painful. A hand-tuned system is much more likely to satisfy me, and once installed shold be blazing fast. Thanks for the feedback It'll be blazing fast if you put it on a blazing fast machine, it'll be crap and slow if you install it on a P120 troll walks out from under bridge... the

Re: [SLUG] matrox video cards

2004-10-21 Thread Dave Airlie
traditionally matrox cards have always been top stuff, especially in the open source community. If you want a decent open source support 3D graphics card, a Radeon 8500/9100 or FireGL 8800 are the best supported from a DRI point of view, But the ATI closed-source drivers are v.crap, and

Re: [SLUG] matrox video cards

2004-10-21 Thread Dave Airlie
and doom3 doesn't work on either open or closed drivers (we are putting a bit of work into getting the open drivers supporting doom3 better at the moment but how long it takes is anybodys guess...) ive heard to the contrary with nvidia drivers. sorry I meant to say on ATI cards... NVIDIA

Re: [SLUG] matrox video cards

2004-10-21 Thread Dave Airlie
so nvidia is now the way to go. well thats an interesting shift from previously when nvidia was the one to boycott and everyone loved the ati radeon No we still love the ATI radeon r200 chips, the newer ones we disklike :-), r200 radeons are the best open source supported, i915 but for

Re: [SLUG] Real Time Clock for Linux

2004-10-18 Thread Dave Airlie
a deviation of less than 1 millisecond to support applications that require real time, or a near enough real time environment. Why? I'm porting a time critical telephony product from Solaris to Linux. do you mean real time in the correct sense, which has little to do with clock rate and way

Re: [SLUG] Maximum process ID

2004-10-14 Thread Dave Airlie
I'm developing a database application that uses the inserting processes pid. Problem is that I'm wondering how big this pid should be? /* * This controls the default maximum pid allocated to a process */ #define PID_MAX_DEFAULT 0x8000 /* * A maximum of 4 million PIDs should be enough for

Re: [SLUG] Are remote X sessions (XDMCP) reconnectable?

2004-10-11 Thread Dave Airlie
Is this possible with GDM and XDMCP or will I get a new session everytime I connect to GDM? new session.. you really want something like VNC. the vino project may do something close to what you want, http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/remote-desktop-2.html Not sure how mature it is yet..

Re: [SLUG] Passwords

2004-10-08 Thread Dave Airlie
if you have win2k setup in compatibility mode you can use pam_smb (shameless self plug...) or the samba winbind software also will do it although it is a bit more complex.. Dave. On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: Hi All Hopeing someone can help me, i want to be able able to use

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-07 Thread Dave Airlie
Note may. Usually they build up inhouse teams. try building up an inhouse team of Linux/OSS people it's a dreadful job, I'm the Linux person in my company and we use Linux in a wide range of things, It took ages to get someone to take over some of what I do, and finding anymore good Linux

Re: [SLUG] Stallman at UTS

2004-10-06 Thread Dave Airlie
Did anyone see him speak yesterday at USYD? How was it? well apart from his late arrival (he doesn't like mobiles or non-public transport :-) he gave quite a good talk on copyrights, from the history of it until where it is going wrong, I think RMS is always worth going to, he is a pretty good

Re: [SLUG] Sharing SATA disk

2004-09-26 Thread Dave Airlie
you might want to do hdparm -u1 /dev/hdwhateverdisk Dave On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Rod Butcher wrote: I'm running 2.6.7 kernel with low-latency patches for audio file processing. It seems to me that when 2 separate apps are writing to the SATA hard disk (e.g. copy contents from IDE CDRom and

Re: [SLUG] Xorg not listening on Net

2004-09-23 Thread Dave Airlie
Thanks John, that tipped me off and I've got it working now. For the archives, My install of Fedora Core 2 uses gdm to start X from inittab so editing startx won't do it. Instead edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and uncomment the line saying #DisallowTCP=true and make it DisallowTCP=false This

Re: [SLUG] questions about strip

2004-09-13 Thread Dave Airlie
Although you can probably strip some of the symbols. I suggest reading the man page. strip has some options.. you can usually drop the debug options... Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX /

Re: [SLUG] GMail invites.

2004-09-10 Thread Dave Airlie
Dudes, if you have to broadcast gmail invites to random people on mailing lists, please do so on slug-chat, not the main slug list. this just happened on the ILUG (Irish list), can the list admins nuke the posts out of the archives, as you start getting muppets who have nothing to do with the

Re: [SLUG] Spare Sun Serial Splitter?

2004-08-25 Thread Dave Airlie
I always thought you could just use a standard 25-9 cable if you only wanted one port... but I could be wrong.. it's been a long time since I was that involved with a Sun :-) Dave. On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: Hey gang, Does anyone going to the meeting tomorrow night have a spare

Re: [SLUG] cd and tab-completion

2004-08-23 Thread Dave Airlie
You're using bash? zsh's completion is already smart like that and knows about what files a command takes, so tab completion of cds arguments only offers directory names. grab a proper bash_completion http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml it mostly rocks.. I do need to tweak it a bit for

Re: [SLUG] argh! dieing mouse!

2004-08-12 Thread Dave Airlie
I think I get something similiar I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Alt-F7 and it starts to work again.. Dave. On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Peter Hardy wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 14:11, Taryn East wrote: Ok, so at work we're running red hat (shrike), and I have a fairly standard, cheapo mouse - which is

Re: [SLUG] argh! dieing mouse!

2004-08-12 Thread Dave Airlie
I think I get something similiar I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Alt-F7 and it starts to work again.. Erm, what are these keyboard shortcuts supposed to do? They're not listed under the standard gnome defaults... doh sorry .. switch to the text console and switch back to X .. it re-inits the mouse

Re: [SLUG] Running Gnome in Xnest

2004-08-10 Thread Dave Airlie
gnome-session I think is the command.. Dave. On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I don't run Gnome myself, but my mother in law does. I'm figure out how to set up an identical setup to her so I can talk her through problems over the phone. An obvious solution is to

Re: [SLUG] Doors and sockets

2004-08-10 Thread Dave Airlie
Anyone know if doorfs has been ported to Linux? Or, for that matter, why are doors supposed to be more efficient than sockets? never used it but http://www.rampant.org/doors/ Also I'm not sure on Linux doors would be more efficient than local UNIX sockets, Solaris might have its own reasons

[SLUG] vmware problem...

2004-08-09 Thread Dave Airlie
Someone mentioned this morning that they had issues with vmware on FC2 ( deleted the mail before my brain remembered it knows something about it..) http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/ has vmware-any-any-update79.tar.gz which are unofficial sources for newer kernels for the lower layers of vmware.. they

Re: [SLUG] re: creating a minimal bootable system that does filesharing etc from compactflash card?

2004-08-07 Thread Dave Airlie
I started playing with it but really didnt like the performace of a flash, it writes like a rocket when it starts and then slows down badly, when it starts getting full. Also read somewhere that a flash does have limited read writes, its a big number but I think if something like the swap

Re: [SLUG] re: creating a minimal bootable system that does filesharing etc from compactflash card?

2004-08-06 Thread Dave Airlie
Not too sure that many minimal systems have samba installed, why wouldn't you use a hard disk... the main reason for using CF and flash is to remove any spinning parts and save power in a box that sits doing a job, file sharing needs disks so why not use disks? Pebble Linux is the main CF one

Re: favicon ? Re: [SLUG] Slides from Debian SIG

2004-07-23 Thread Dave Airlie
Andrew, I see you have favicon thing in your pages; LINK rel=icon href=/favicon.ico type=image/ico LINK rel=shortcut icon href=/favicon.ico type=image/ico can you just enlighten me on this, pls ? I have vague recolletion that favicon is a thing IE wants..? and, I regulary see it in my

Re: [SLUG] Sparc Ultra 2, duel processor question.

2004-07-01 Thread Dave Airlie
groan is that what you call a hardware shootout? /groan sorry I couldn't resist for the original poster grab a sparc64 kernel and rebuild it for SMP... Dave. On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Del wrote: grammarnazi You probably want a dual processor kernel, not a duel processor kernel, unless the

Re: About LPI exams (was Re: [SLUG] Semester 2 Linux Courses)

2004-06-27 Thread Dave Airlie
answers on before you submit the next question. example what does the 'man' command do ? if you type 'man' on the computer you will find out exactly what it does. this does not prove you ability to be a system administrator. according to LPI. yeah I've always hated this aspect of those

Re: [SLUG] Mangled console - One of life's mysteries

2004-06-24 Thread Dave Airlie
try typing reset and hitting enter.. or ctrl-d might log it out and reset it .. or if still a shell.. do echo ^vESCc thats Control-V then Escape key then c.. Dave. On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, David wrote: I have a Debian woody box run in console mode only. While I was logged into another woody

Re: [SLUG] Developing FOSS while employed developing proprietary software

2004-06-02 Thread Dave Airlie
Trolltech? MySQL? There's a pretty big list of profitable software companies that release their golden geese under FOSS licenses. (FOSS == Free and Open Source Software, you don't have to say FOSS/OSS.) You do have to note that these are companies that started with complete copyright on their

Re: [SLUG] Dialogic Voice modem for Linux

2004-05-26 Thread Dave Airlie
I thinking about spending the companies hard earned ($1200+) and getting one to use as an automated messaging system running on Linux using vgetty. I've tested the system out using a Netcomm roadstar, which takes Rockwell 2/4, but the sound quality is crap and the modem fails to detect the

Re: [SLUG] Linux on an xbox

2004-05-06 Thread Dave Airlie
actually a lot closer than you think.. xbox2 is according to prelim reports PPC/ATI based .. again that is hersay rumour and conjecture :-) Dave. On Thu, 6 May 2004, Dean Hamstead wrote: haha yes, that would be correct. being the powerpc-linux bigot that i am, im suprised i blasphemed such

Re: [SLUG] mouse stops moving when copying

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Airlie
and check which mode is set, eg: PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 I have udma5 enabled. also hdparm -u1 might help for some mice .. Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Dave Airlie
There is nothing that says that you have to allow your employees to have email access other than that which is work related. They might scream, but screw them... Their screams are sweet music to the BOFH, and me :-) Now picture this, you are the IT admin and you've no personal e-mail

Re: [SLUG] Terminal Access to VMS from Linux

2004-03-18 Thread Dave Airlie
You try messing with xterm and the stuff on the Ctrl-Left/Middle/Right menus? Dave. On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, I need to access an openVMS machine by telneting from my Linux Box. So far I've tried several different terminal software programs but can't seem to get

Re: [SLUG] Pine: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding

2004-03-13 Thread Dave Airlie
you can get patches for 4.58 for this at http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/ I've rebuilt pine with this and UTF8 support.. Dave. On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Simon Bowden wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, David wrote: I've been exchanging email with a guy and have twice got the following

Re: [SLUG] rights of root from su

2004-03-11 Thread Dave Airlie
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server ./setup: cannot connect to X server :0 so I have to logout as user and login as root on X11... why? this works on RH/Fedora but it is a bit of a nasty hack :-), for Debian after su'ing do export

Re: [SLUG] Best way to get to the BSP?

2004-03-07 Thread Dave Airlie
towards the wonders of public transport. From the look of the street directory, Redfern is a bit closer to the EE building than Central, but I'm not sure if the time difference in walking times is worth the extra hanging around I'll need at Central or Hurstville (remember, I'm coming

Re: [SLUG] making sun vi act like gnu vi

2004-03-01 Thread Dave Airlie
sun vi is just that sun vi, Linux vi is vim, so install vim on Solaris, www.sunfreeware.com is your friend.. Dave. On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Simon Males wrote: On the uni solaris machine, vi is just plain yucky. Is there some hidden file that I can copy across so I can use solaris vi like linux

Re: [SLUG] So Linux is American.....read on!

2004-02-14 Thread Dave Airlie
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Michael Lake It's disapointing to see such drivel written by the senior editor of LinuxWorld Magazine. I do hope that future articles are written more carefully. Drivel is a profoundly Australian word. hey wait until you sign the Free

[SLUG] wierd window cycle problems in FC1

2004-02-05 Thread Dave Airlie
I'm running FC1 with a default GNOME desktop (upgrade from RH9.0 using upgrade method).. and I'm getting some wierd window cycle behaviour on ALT-TAB... I'm used to ALT-TAB just cycling through my current desktops windows, but since the FC1 upgrade it seems to also include some windows from

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-02-03 Thread Dave Airlie
can you nominate where you want to send 3d programs or graphic intensive programs to? I have been interested in Xinerama but haven't invested time \ or money in to testing it out. I don't really grok all the 3D interactions with Xinerama. for a lot of cases Xinerama and 3d don't

Re: [SLUG] file transfer with speed limit

2004-01-17 Thread Dave Airlie
rsync --bwlimit can be made run over ssh... export RSYNC_RSH=ssh Dave. download the files from my on server. and i dont like to install with QOS and stuff like this. dont want to change my kernel config for this. TIA, gottfried -- David Airlie, Software Engineer

Re: [SLUG] (slug) Networking problems

2003-12-18 Thread Dave Airlie
a) are you using cross-over cables instead of straight Cat-5?? (may be a silly question but I've seen it happen)... b) ifconfig 192.168.2.1 on one side and 192.168.2.2 on the other and try and ping back and forward... use tcpdump on every interface and look for packets... Dave. On Fri, 19 Dec

Re: [SLUG] Java Runtime and Mozilla

2003-12-18 Thread Dave Airlie
please kill the HTML mail.. I wondered why it was 12k Anyhoo, ns4 is most certinaly the wrong directory I'm no sure with your java runtime what is correct it could be ns600 or ns610 or something like about:plugins in Mozilla is your friend :-) also if you are using RH8.0 the plugin will

Re: [SLUG] [c programming] - semaphores

2003-12-17 Thread Dave Airlie
semaphores. everything goes OK until it tries to link. this fails with the message undefined reference to sem_open. to make this happen do i have to link against a library? if so, which? -lpthread might do what you want .. also Linux doesn't support shared Posix semaphores (i.e. between

Re: [SLUG] dd speed (copying whole disks)

2003-12-14 Thread Dave Airlie
Check that you have DMA switched on both drivers with hdparm .. otherwise this could take a long time :-) Dave. On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Simon Males wrote: Im copying 40g drive onto a 120g drive. I am using a CD live type linux distro. using the command # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=2048k

Re: [SLUG] dd speed (copying whole disks)

2003-12-14 Thread Dave Airlie
- www.anticd.org Dave Airlie wrote: Check that you have DMA switched on both drivers with hdparm .. otherwise this could take a long time :-) Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person

Re: [SLUG] delete crashes ...

2003-10-30 Thread Dave Airlie
Sounds more like a race condition, maybe link with efence to see does someone mess up some memory without the lock or something... Other than that the best way I've discovered to find race conditions is to be Andrea Arcangeli (the kernel developer - some of the races he used to find were scary)

[SLUG] nice memory editor type thing...

2003-10-16 Thread Dave Airlie
I do a fair bit of messing around with lowlevel hardware type things on Linux and I'm wondering if anyone has come across a decent (text based) memory editor that'll allow writing of values to random IO ports and pci configuration ports etc... If not I'm getting tempted to write one :-) Dave.

RE: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-08 Thread Dave Airlie
a bit UNIX experience can tell you), it's just too hard. Virus writers just don't have the in depth knowledge to break the security models imposed by UNIX based OS platforms. Of course, I think you underestimate virus writers, if Linux becomes very popular (like Windows popular) I can see

Re: [SLUG] Inbuilt macros/defines in gcc

2003-10-01 Thread Dave Airlie
gcc -v show up wht is passed into cpp for my RH8.0 box, I can see all the standard ones.. Dave. On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote: Hi All, How can I quickly find out what internal #defines are set by gcc during compile ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Rajnish

Re: [SLUG] dealing with a 'locked up' machine B4 big red switch ?

2003-09-30 Thread Dave Airlie
I'm not sure if it's present in standard distribution kernels, but it may be worth trying the alt-sysrq key combos. sometimes you might have to switch it on at bootup in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq, /etc/sysctl.conf and older RHs used to have some value in some file in /etc which escapes me ...

Re: [SLUG] The final Word

2003-09-29 Thread Dave Airlie
Do be honest Jon if you ever do what's proposed here (the bouncing) I would pay up and table a motion to have you removed from the SLUG mailing list, you complain that you get some spam, and you have to pay for it.. awww poor you, you then end up paying probably 100 times as much generating crap

Re: [SLUG] per user ip accounting suggestions?

2003-09-29 Thread Dave Airlie
we use ipacct from http://ramses.smeyers.be/homepage/useripacct/ on a system I used to admin, we used to update the patch by hand to whatever kernel we were runnning... (being kernel hackers helped a lot :-) Dave. On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I've looking for a package that

RE: [SLUG] Subscriptions....

2003-09-29 Thread Dave Airlie
Okay can a paid member bring a motion to remove Jon from the list, The person/organization running the list has the duty to ensure that trolls/pests/dumbasses/people who know nothing about running a mailing list but think they do are removed and beaten with a large hammer... QED. You cannot

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.6 (again)

2003-09-28 Thread Dave Airlie
looks okay to me, it doesn't have to have the index page to work... all the kernels are there... www.au is also only a pointer to planetmirror and pacific anyways.. Dave. On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, DE LUCA Ben wrote: hmm what happened to http://www.au.kernel.org/ it looks a little un healthy

Re: [SLUG] Financial Membership

2003-09-28 Thread Dave Airlie
http://www.paypalsucks.com/ I have had no experience with paypal but given sites such as these I would be wary. I have used kagi (something like that) to pay for some sofware last year and there are many other alternatives to paypal which dont seem to have to anti-web sites. this is a very

Re: [SLUG] trouble booting.....Mounting local filesystems

2003-09-26 Thread Dave Airlie
pass init=/bin/sh to your kernel boot line (using grub or lilo) then do mount -n -o remount,rw / vi /etc/fstab mount -n -o remount,ro / Dave. On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi people, I've done something stupid to my /etc/fstab. I made some changes because I wasn't having much

Re: [SLUG] Yuk

2003-09-26 Thread Dave Airlie
I think people have to realise (and I didn't really want to enter this thread but what the hell), that connecting to the Internet and mailing lists means you will get some spam, deal with it, if you want to be on SLUG live with the fact that unless you can do better (and step up) the admins are

RE: [SLUG] Virtual server is down...

2003-09-23 Thread Dave Airlie
If your an admin you should seriously go on a training course :-), or buy some books!! one of the two DNSs is sufficent for your site to show up on the net again, your toplevel requires two to start a domain, but once it has found two it should work with one from then on... You might want to

Re: [SLUG] Martians, multipath routing tangle...

2003-09-22 Thread Dave Airlie
thinks they are martians. Is there a config option that will allow this to work? As I see it, a packet arriving at an interface whose destination address is that interface should usually be allowed, no matter what its source address is (providing it's not the 127.0.0.0 network, of course!)

Re: [SLUG] kill procesname, how ?

2003-09-22 Thread Dave Airlie
God you people just don't understand GNU utils :-) info kill :-P Dave. On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Mike MacCana wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 09:56, Colin Humphreys wrote: I'd say the man page is bogus Sounds reasonable. A very large amount of Linux man pages seem to be unmaintained. man

Re: [SLUG] kill procesname, how ?

2003-09-22 Thread Dave Airlie
I don't see how that's relevant. OK, the man page is wrong, does the existence of an info page somehow change this? Last I checked, the entire world (or, more importantly, the OSS community) hadn't decided on info as a standard. And man seems to be the defacto standard. And the problem info

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