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[Alug]directory for backups
by Syd Hancock 14 Jun '03

14 Jun '03

I'm playing with our little home network, migrating some more functionality from windows to linux. I want to backup files from a couple of machines onto an area on my main linux box and I'm interested in opinions on best custom and practice. 1. Is it advisable to have a separate partition for the file-store area or is a separate partition sufficient? 2. Where should it be in the directory tree on the 'server' - as a subdirectory of /home or as a separate directory under / or elsewhere? 3. Are there any standard conventions for this? TIA Syd

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Re: [Alug]Linux and TFT panels
by Barry Samuels 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

Thanks to the various people who responded. Wayne Stallwood said: > Have you set the HorizSync and VertRefresh rates in your config file > to those specified by the monitor manufacturer ? Yes I have Adam Bower said: > Thats along my lines of thought, most of the panels I have played > with have an > auto-adjust button that resizes the screen. Does yours have one, and > does it > work? Yes it does have one but I haven't tried it when the display is squashed. > Also if you turn the screen off and on again does that make it work? Yes. I hadn't though to try that but it does correct the problem. > Of course one other option is that can you get DVI output from your > graphics > card and into your screen also? I have a Matrox G400 which appears not to have a DVI output although the TFT panel does have a digital input. Dan Beimborn said: > Running xvidtune will help you create your exact modeline, and > strangely enough so will AdvanceMame video setup program. Once you > have that modeline in for your desktop resolution, it should always > work. I tried that but it made no difference. It could be that the line I added to XF86Config-4 wasn't correct. I reproduce the relevant sections below: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Viewsonic VG191" HorizSync 30.0-82.0 VertRefresh 50-75 #ModeLine "1280x1024" 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Matrox G400" Monitor "Viewsonic VG191" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection The modeline, now commented out, was the one xvidtune gave me. Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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[Alug]Macs
by Craig 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

At the moment, I am thinking about ditching my 3 months old laptop to get a ibook. Why? My housemate bought one last friday and it is _gorgeous_. Okay, that would be a bit of a understatement but I am using a imac at work on and off. But dang, I'm still impress with the ibook. Is it a smart move to ditch this laptop to switch over? Many people I have spoken to are doing this! If anyone on this mailing list is using OS X. Please convince me if I really want to make the switch. So far, I am really appealed by the o/s, battery life and most of all, it's unixy feel! ;) I'm interested to hear your thoughts! -- (o_ - Craig Butcher //\ - IT Technician / Unix Support MTH/ENV @ UEA V_/_ - http://www.wizball.co.uk

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[Alug]Trackball Problem
by BenE 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

I bought myself a Logitech Trackball yesterday (the confusingly called marble mouse), but am having a bit of trouble setting it up. Instead of a scroll wheel it has 2 buttons which are meant to act in the same way (one button scrolls up, the other down). As it stands currently the two scroll buttons act as middle mouse buttons but the scrolling doesn't work. My XF86 config file has the mouse set up as a 5 button mouse (I tried 4 button but it didn't like that *at all*) with buttons 4 & 5 set up as the Y axis. Also, to confuse matters I'm left handed, but I've solved that problem through judicious use of xmapmod (and my early attempts at playing with xmapmod (accidently) proved that I can get scrolling working, just not on the right buttons <g>) Can anyone offer any help please? (I'm using XFree86 4.1.2 (I think)) cheers, BenE

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Re: [Alug]Norwich meetings
by gt＠pobox.com 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

Ian Bell <ian(a)redtommo.com> wrote : > On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 7:36 am, Syd Hancock wrote: > > snip > > > > In the meantime: the next Norwich evening meeting will take place at > > the British legion Hall, Aylsham road, thursday 19th June from 8-11 > > pm. > > Unfortunately I won't be able to make this one. The dog goes in for major > surgery nest week so life is on hold. > > Ian > Neither will I, owing to being in Zhenzhou (central China) currently and for the next couple of weeks. But at least my hotel room has free 128k broadband. Reckon I ate the dog tonight for dinner. -- GT

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[Alug]Samba LDAP
by Andy Trevor 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

Hi, I am looking for some help with setting up a Samba PDC using LDAP to authenticate I have a working LDAP server that can authenticate unix users Samba users can authenticate using smbclient ok I am having real problems getting the Windows 2000 clients to join the samba domain Any help will be much appreciated Thanks Andy

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Re: [Alug]Linux and TFT panels
by Dan Beimborn 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

I run on a flat panel with a DVI and it's always rock-solid, but I recall at my last job a number of the workstations we had needed to have the refresh rate set in XF86Config so that there was only one choice, 60hz. From messing around with running Linux on arcade monitors (no, really!) I can tell you that the image not being centered like that is quite likely a timing issue. Running xvidtune will help you create your exact modeline, and strangely enough so will AdvanceMame video setup program. Once you have that modeline in for your desktop resolution, it should always work. A second complication I had that was similar was with my laptop- it supports a key combination to use the external display, which is somewhat confusion to X. Basically, you had to start it either on the local, on the secondary, or on both displays. Setting it to external only would result in it sometimes "Remembering" the higher refresh rate, causing my display to go off to the right of the screen just like you describe! SO my advice is to try to make sure your XF86Config *only* allows the correct refresh rate, and make it be one that you have centered as best you can using xvidtune or AdvanceMame's video mode generator. DB

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[Alug]Re: Linux and TFT
by richard 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

I'm running a laptop system and once had problems with a text based installer (for Debian 3.0). I found an option in my BIOS to 'stretch output to fit screen' (or something along those lines. I don't know whether a similar BIOS option might be available but it fixed my problem. Rich. > I have just replaced my monitor with a TFT panel. > When X is started (I have changed XF86Config-4 appropriately) the > image > will sometimes appear perfectly positioned but at other times the > right-hand edge of the image appears in the centre of the screen with > the rest disappearing off the left edge and the image looks a little > distorted. If I then switch to a text console and back to the > graphics console the image is displayed correctly. > I have never seen this with my old monitor neither does it happend on > my laptop (TFT screen). Can anyone suggest why it should happen? > Barry Samuels > http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk > The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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[Alug]Linux and TFT panels
by Edenyard 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

Barry Samuels wrote: > > I have just replaced my monitor with a TFT panel. > ...then Adam Bower wrote: > > Thats along my lines of thought, most of the panels I have played with have an > auto-adjust button that resizes the screen. Does yours have one, and does it > work? Also if you turn the screen off and on again does that make it work also? > For what it's worth, my experience with Linux and TFTs got off to a very frustrating start. My Linux box runs SLackware 8.1 and has an ATI AGP video card identified as 'ATI 3D Pro Turbo' which I'd managed to set up quite nicely with my Dell 15" CRT monitor and everything seemed to work well - even the screen blanking after about 15 minutes. When I received an LG Flatron 1510S LCD to try on extended loan, I read its book, set the vertical rate to 60Hz for all modes as suggested and was met with a blank screen on starting X. I tried every combination of settings I could think of, but it wouldn't have it. Eventually, I swapped my XF86 config file for one provided by Slackware called XF86config-fbdev, which I think uses a plain VESA driver. At last pictures, but that's about all. Now the screen blanking doesn't work in X at all and there's a curious effect when the screen tries to blank in non-X working: the normal white text blanks, but any highlighted text (e.g., in 'man' pages) remains displayed - very odd. I also had problems when I tried to use the Flatron LCD to install Suse 8.1 on a friend's PC. No matter what settings I tried, the image on the screen would flash on and off every 1 or 2 seconds while X was running. Eventually I gave up and used a CRT monitor for the rest of that installation job. I know that that particular PC installation has been used since with a Philips LCD without any apparent problems, so maybe Flat Ron hasn't quite got the hang of something! Maybe not all LCDs are equal? The LG Flatron 1510S has one of those autoselect buttons mentioned by Adam, but I find that it generally manages to hit a setting that's far from optimal, especially when working at less than its maximum 1024x768 resolution. That applies equally in Linux and also in DOS, which is where I spend most of my working hours. I've found that the best way to set the clock and phase settings on the LCD is to display a screen full of very small dots (the 'grid' on a CAD programme works very wellfor this) and then adjust 'clock' and 'phase' to remove any visible interference patterns visible between the grid structure and the LCD's dot structure. If you get these settings wrong, some vertical lines (depending on where on the screen they fall) get smeared horribly across several of the LCD's pixels - useless for CAD! Interestingly, when I tried the Knoppix CD (kindly provided by Adam) on my box, it ran up, detected my video card and LCD and managed to set the correct parameters first time using an ATI driver. And it managed to pick a good-looking smaller than normal font for the text display whilst booting up - something I've never succeeded in doing with Slackware. All I told Knoppix was that the vertical rate should be 60Hz at the boot prompt. Cheers, Gerald.

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[Alug]Linux and TFT panels
by Barry Samuels 13 Jun '03

13 Jun '03

I have just replaced my monitor with a TFT panel. When X is started (I have changed XF86Config-4 appropriately) the image will sometimes appear perfectly positioned but at other times the right-hand edge of the image appears in the centre of the screen with the rest disappearing off the left edge and the image looks a little distorted. If I then switch to a text console and back to the graphics console the image is displayed correctly. I have never seen this with my old monitor neither does it happend on my laptop (TFT screen). Can anyone suggest why it should happen? Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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