Promise Ultra 100 TX2 (PDC20268)
Hi i am new to the mailing list and hope i hope i have done everything well so far :) also i am relativly new to unix and debian ... i just want to aks if the Ultra 100 TX2 is supported by debian and if yes can you tell me which kernel (kernel-patch) or driver i need ? thank you for all advice and your help with best regards Michael Schlembach [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
First, i'm not on the list, so please cc to me.
I saw exactly the same problem on a friends laptop, when he trtied to upgrade
to testing.
Maybe it's caused by a misconfigured apt or sth. completely different, but i
should mention that
I run a local apt-proxy version 1.3.6 from Debian stable - without any
problems, since half a year.
Now i tried to upgrading to testing. After 'updating' to the new sources list
from aptitude ('u') the package lists
seem to have been downloaded into the apt-proxy cache properly. For example:
<<
/home mi: ls -l /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/
-rw-r--r--1 aptproxy nogroup 2,8M 2004-04-30 21:00 Packages.gz
-rw-r--r--1 aptproxy nogroup81 2004-04-30 21:18 Release
But when i start aptitude and it loads the apt cache, there's this error message:
<<
Apt errors
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing tqsllib0 (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/localhost:_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
There's no package list available, afterwards.
When i request a new (offline) upgrade, it says
<<
Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying..
Segmentation fault
The same occurs with unstable.
Updating the package list still works for stable (woody).
The package lists for testing and unstable (main) are quite large (> 2,5 MB)
compared to stable.
However i don't understand what's going on.
This box has 256 MB (mostly unused) RAM and a lot of swap. It runs a kernel
2.4.5 which never
showed any memory problem.
Any idea will be greatly appreciated !
-- mi.
- Appendix I: apt-proxy.conf
<<
# Change this path if you do not want to keep your cache under var
APT_PROXY_CACHE=/var/cache/apt-proxy
# - Debian Main
# deb http://APTPROXY:/debian stable main contrib non-free
add_backend /debian/\
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/debian/\
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/\
# - Debian Non-US
add_backend /non-US/\
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/non-US/\
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/
# - Debian Security
add_backend /security/ \
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/security/ \
http://security.debian.org/
# - Openoffice: Backports to woody
add_backend /debian-openoffice/ \
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/debian-openoffice/ \
http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/debian-openoffice/
# - GNOME-2.2: Backports to woody
add_backend /gnome/ \
$APT_PROXY_CACHE/gnome/ \
http://mirror.raw.no/
## OTHER VARS ##
# Automatically delete old debs when we download a newer one
# after this many days of the older not being accessed.
# Comment out to avoid, set to 0 for `instantly' (not recommended;
# sometimes the new versions are broken
CLEANUP_DAYS=14
# Once every n days, look through tree to erase any debs which
# haven't been accessed in that long (eg. obsolete, rarely used, etc).
# Comment out to disable.
# CLEAN_SWEEP=60
# Maximum number of versions of each package to keep in cache
# directory. Version purging is carried out immediately after a new
# version is downloaded.
# XXX Specific number for every package server
MAX_VERSIONS=3
# Maximum frequency of Packages/etc. updates from back end (minutes)
# Keep high to speed things up.
BACKEND_FREQ=240
# Number of seconds for rsync to wait before timing out.
RSYNC_TIMEOUT=20
# Number of seconds for wget to wait to connect before timing out.
WGET_TIMEOUT=20
# Uncomment to change the path to wget, or add extra options. For
# example, if you are behind a firewall that does not allow active
# FTP, use WGET="wget --passive-ftp"
#WGET=wget
# Uncomment to change the path to rsync or add extra options.
#RSYNC=rsync
# Uncomment to keep stats of successful backend transfers in the log.
#KEEP_STATS=1
# Uncomment this for debugging messages
# DEBUG=true
# HTTP/FTP proxy: apt-proxy uses wget to retreive files. Wget uses
# the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables, which can be set
# like this:
#export http_proxy=http://proxy:8080/
#export ftp_proxy=http://proxy:8080/
- Appendix II: etc/apt/sources.list
(here: pointing to testing)
# __ EXPERIMENTAL:
#
# deb http://APTPROXY:/debian project/experimental/main/binary-$(ARCH)/
#
# __ UNSTABLE:
#
#deb http://localhost:/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://localhos
Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied
I think it's a problem with the way exim is configured. Exim is mailing the report locally. So that's why we couldn't find anything about cron-daily, man-db, or file permissions ! I can see the same error on two freshly installed Debian unstable boxes, with completely different archs and settings. I need to track it further, just wnated to drop a note to the archives. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=209185 keep it rolling micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:11:32 - marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb said... > > After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it > > seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really > > chugging on dealing with my document which was a mere 25 pages of prose > > so far. Unless I planned on breaking it up by chapters and figuring out > > how to merge it all together later I didn't see AbiWord being able to > > deal with the 300-600 pages I am shooting for. > > Ok, by a circuitous route, we've got to why I asked my earlier question. > > The reason I asked is that I write books yet haven't found anything to > match WinEdt, which is a Windows editor, for handling chapters and LaTeX > on Linux. In all other cases, I use vim. > Personally I work with either lyx or emacs + auctex, but you may want to have a look at texmaker which is much more similar to winedt (and it has both linux and windows versions so if you like it and have to work on both linux and windows you can use the same software) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opening binary data from MSVS under linux
I have a stream of unsigned long numbers saved from visual studio (2005) that I'm trying to open under linux, but the format seems to be very strange (doesn't seem to be neither big endian nor little endian). For example, the set of numbers 2, 288, 2624, 490 (or in hex 0x2 0x120, 0xA40, 0x1EA) comes out (in hex) 02 00 00 0020 01 00 0040 0D 0A 0000 EA 01 00 Any idea what the format is and how to read it? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:19:38 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > michael wrote: > > > I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. Firstly, I'm wary of > > using a graphics editor to do the job and pdfedit [1] seems to reject > > many of the PDF files I've just tried because they are "linearised" > > according to the bug report [2] > > > > So what joy have others had, or is this the Holy Grail [3]? > > > > I think you are looking at it the wrong way. PDF is supposed to be an "end > format". It is not designed for re-editing the documents. The practical > solution to this problem is that, you should get hold of the document that > was exported into pdf, edit the original document and export it back to pdf > again. > > For example, if you are writing a .tm file and exported it into .pdf. Then > you need to get the .tm file, edit it and then export it again. > Yes, but for me for example it would be very useful if I could add notes to papers I download to reference in my work (academics, it's what you are supposed to do ;-). I don't have access to the originals (with pdf's you rarely do actually, people give you the pdf in the first place to make sure that you see it properly, not to edit it). I would have been happy if there was something that could do highlighting, notes, lines and really ecstatic if it could actually do equations ... thought of writing something like that once but never got the time to dig in. > > hth > raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:19:53 -0800 "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 6:04 AM, Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On 12-Feb-08, at 8:49 AM, michael wrote: > > > > > I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. Firstly, I'm > > > wary of > > > using a graphics editor to do the job and pdfedit [1] seems to reject > > > many of the PDF files I've just tried because they are "linearised" > > > according to the bug report [2] > > > > > > So what joy have others had, or is this the Holy Grail [3]? > > with evince v2+ (lenny & up) you can enter data into pdf files and > print them. Is that what you need? I do this on i386 and amd64 on > lenny. > Do you mean just fill in forms or actually add notes to the file? (since I didn't find anything of the sort) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opening binary data from MSVS under linux
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:54:18 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:34:16PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:28:19PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 05:05:36PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Micha wrote: > > > > > > I have a stream of unsigned long numbers saved from visual studio > > > > > > (2005) that I'm trying to open under linux, but the format seems to > > > > > > be very strange (doesn't seem to be neither big endian nor little > > > > > > endian). For example, the set of numbers 2, 288, 2624, 490 (or in > > > > > > hex 0x2 0x120, 0xA40, 0x1EA) comes out (in hex) > > > > > Your first 0x2 should be 0x002 to keep padding correct. > > > > > > > > > > > 02 00 00 0020 01 00 0040 0D 0A 0000 EA 01 00 > > > > 02 00 00 0 20 01 00 00 40 0A 00 00EA 01 00 > > > > > > > ^ > > > > > where did the D come from? > > try using a longer string of hex integers. I bet the 0D comes up at a > regular interval so that all you have to do is ignore 0D's at that > interval and then it looks like little-endian hex to me. > Tried that at the time but it turns out that I'm just too used for linux (over ten years windows free except for the last job :-(, anyway, turns out that I'm just stupid or dumb, the file was written in text mode, where windows makes the distinction but linux doesn't. Now I just need to find a way to convert the files under linux since there are quite a few of them and without find and some bash script a 10 second job will take a couple of hours. Will dos2unix work on a binary file written in text mode? Thanks > > > > So the question is, what is the program doing to put that '0D' there. > > > That whold block doesn't follow the pattern of the other three. > > > > s/\n/\r\n/ ??? > > yeah, sort of. I'm guessing it put's in 0D at a regular interval in > that no "line" is more than 9 bytes long. seem's kind of silly > though. > > A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opening binary data from MSVS under linux
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:53:44 +0200 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:05:36 + > Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Micha wrote: > > > > I have a stream of unsigned long numbers saved from visual studio (2005) > > > > that I'm trying to open under linux, but the format seems to be very > > > > strange (doesn't seem to be neither big endian nor little endian). For > > > > example, the set of numbers 2, 288, 2624, 490 (or in hex 0x2 0x120, > > > > 0xA40, 0x1EA) comes out (in hex) > > > Your first 0x2 should be 0x002 to keep padding correct. > > > > > > > 02 00 00 0020 01 00 0040 0D 0A 0000 EA 01 00 > > > ^ > > > where did the D come from? > > That was what I was wondering about, but found the solution, appearing later > > > > > > > > > Any idea what the format is and how to read it? > > > > > > I don't have a hex calculator handy (and I don't have time at the moment > > > to do it by hand). Please verify the decimal to hex converion. > > > > I verified it several times and even rewrote the same data from linux and got > what you and I were expecting. > > > Psst... > > > > printf "%04X\n" 2 288 2624 490 > > 0002 > > 0120 > > 0A40 > > 01EA > > > > I am aware of that, if that's what I have seen I would have had no issues, > had I? > BTW, I just re-read the mail and it seems that it might come over a bit offensive. No such intent was made, just less than 5 hours a night for a couple of nights ... sorry if any offence was taken. > You are assuming that I am directly stupid and not just indirectly stupid ;-) > > Anyway, I found the problem. The binary data was written by mistake in text > mode under windows instead of binary mode. That's why msvs opened it > correctly but matlab and linux (and the hex editor) messed it up. > > This brings me to the next question. Is there a way to open a text file > (containing binary data) from windows under linux correctly (will dos2unix do > the work for binary data or does it only convert carriage returns? > > > But don't tell anybody > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opening binary data from MSVS under linux
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:05:36 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Micha wrote: > > > I have a stream of unsigned long numbers saved from visual studio (2005) > > > that I'm trying to open under linux, but the format seems to be very > > > strange (doesn't seem to be neither big endian nor little endian). For > > > example, the set of numbers 2, 288, 2624, 490 (or in hex 0x2 0x120, > > > 0xA40, 0x1EA) comes out (in hex) > > Your first 0x2 should be 0x002 to keep padding correct. > > > > > 02 00 00 0020 01 00 0040 0D 0A 0000 EA 01 00 > > ^ > > where did the D come from? That was what I was wondering about, but found the solution, appearing later > > > > > > Any idea what the format is and how to read it? > > > > I don't have a hex calculator handy (and I don't have time at the moment > > to do it by hand). Please verify the decimal to hex converion. > I verified it several times and even rewrote the same data from linux and got what you and I were expecting. > Psst... > > printf "%04X\n" 2 288 2624 490 > 0002 > 0120 > 0A40 > 01EA > I am aware of that, if that's what I have seen I would have had no issues, had I? You are assuming that I am directly stupid and not just indirectly stupid ;-) Anyway, I found the problem. The binary data was written by mistake in text mode under windows instead of binary mode. That's why msvs opened it correctly but matlab and linux (and the hex editor) messed it up. This brings me to the next question. Is there a way to open a text file (containing binary data) from windows under linux correctly (will dos2unix do the work for binary data or does it only convert carriage returns? > But don't tell anybody > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:56:06 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/02/2008, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but for me for example it would be very useful if I could add notes to > > papers I download to reference in my work (academics, it's what you are > > supposed to do ;-). I don't have access to the originals (with pdf's you > > rarely do actually, people give you the pdf in the first place to make sure > > that you see it properly, not to edit it). > > > > I would have been happy if there was something that could do highlighting, > > notes, lines and really ecstatic if it could actually do equations ... > > > > thought of writing something like that once but never got the time to dig > > in. > > Doesn't Acrobat (adobe) let one add notes to a PDF? That feature > sounds familiar. Acrobat yes (although I found it hard to work with). Acrobat reader AFAIK, no. I saw a couple of programs that set the pdf as a background and allow to write over it (don't remember the names at the moment), but they were all rather limited > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:03:39 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/02/2008, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Acrobat yes (although I found it hard to work with). Acrobat reader AFAIK, > > no. > > > > I saw a couple of programs that set the pdf as a background and allow to > > write over it (don't remember the names at the moment), but they were all > > rather limited > > > > Gimp? I just opened a PDF with Gimp just fine. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il When it's a multifile pdf that you want to mainly read and just annotate along the way, gimp is not a viable option. One other problem with most anotators BTW is that they don't change the file but store the changes somewhere else, which means that they are dependent on where the file resides and what it's name is, which makes it hard to send the annotations. > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:00:32 + Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > michael wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:41 +, Chris Lale wrote: > > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies. > > acroread-l10n-en: Depends: acroread (>= 8.1.2-0.0) but it is not > > installable > > E: Broken packages > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > I'm running Debian Etch on AMD64 arch. Thanks, Michael > > > > > > Acroread is not available for AMD64, you will need to run a 32 bit > chroot environment. Its fairly easy to set up (I've got one :) ) but > may be overkill if acroread doesn't do what you need. Google will help > if you decide to go this route. > > HTH > > Wackojacko > > Just installed acroread 8.1.2 from marillat on an amd64 system and it works just fine (from the dependencies it does use the 32bit libraries though so it's probably the 32bit version) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvidia, external monitor and problems maximizing to one screen
I have a thinkpad laptop with nvidia Quadro NVS 140M graphic card, running unstable with xfce4 desktop. I'm having issues connecting an external screen. using nvidia-settings I've managed to get the second screen to work in twinview mode as an extension to the current screen, or overlapping current screen. Problem is that as an extension, if I maximize a window, it maximizes to both desktops. I tried restarting xfwm and starting fvwm and compiz using fusion icon but it didn't change the behavior. Tried enabling xinerama in xorg.conf but then nvidia-settings said that it can't find the xrandr extension and wouldn't enable the second screen. I also tried adding twinview option to the video card section in xorg but it didn't seem to do anything. Using overlapping windows doesn't seem to work either since the main screen will only go down to 1280x1024 and the external projector will only go up to 640x480 so it doesn't show the entire screen Will be happy for any ideas Thnaks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New User
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:51:02 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/19/08 01:12, Byron Watkins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to ween myself from Windows. A couple of months ago > > I > > installed Debian on my new amd64 box and I am generally quite impressed > > by the amalgam. There are a few items that I have been unable to > > address satisfactorily, however. > > Congrats and good luck! > > (You seem to be running Etch. If this is your home box, I urge you > to move up to Lenny/Testing, or even Sid. Current (or relatively > currently) versions of software, kernels, etc. > > > First, I am a programmer in one of my hobby lives. I love C and > > C++ > > and I have installed the gcc and g++ packages on my new box. I have not > > yet found a good integrated developer environment, however. About the > > only thing good about Windows, in my opinion, is their Visual C++. > > > > Second, I am an electrical engineer, so I would like to get > > closer to > > the hardware. In order to do so, it would be nice to find a tutorial > > explaining the standard ways Linux implements plug and play, hardware > > access permissions, and communication between hardware and applications. > > You'll need to become a kernel geek. There are plenty of books and > web pages on the subject. Try to find stuff written during or after > year 2005. > > Here's a place to start: > http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ > > > Third, I would like to find a good book to teach me how to > > accept and > > to process mouse, keyboard, graphics tablet, etc. input and how to > > generate and to operate the graphical windows used in Debian. I > > understand that the Gnome and/or KDE interfaces are available and it > > would be nice to know what the differences, similarities, and > > compatibility issues are from the programmer's perspective. I think I > > am using Gnome, so my first priority is programming for Gnome, but if I > > can program for both, even better. > > There are several levels here. both kde and gnome are split into two levels. There is the interface library (for displaying windows, abstraction of things such as threads, networks and file systems) and the overhead libraries. For kde that would be kde for the apps aimed at the kde desktop and qt (currently at version 4 although 3 is still alive and kicking) for apps that just want the "kde" interface but don't need full blown kde desktop integration. with gnome it is the gnome desktop interface and gtk (currently version 2) interface library. Personally I avoid apps that use full gnome and kde (I feel that kde is much worse than gnome in that respect) since they fire up a bunch of background services that don't die after you close the apps. for development environments, there is kdevelop for kde, anjuta for gnome and eclipse which is primarily java based. For more hard core people there is emacs or vim (watch out, holly war which is better) and several programing editors. All are better and worse than visual studio, depending on what features you are looking for. There are also a lot of extra tools such as stand alone debuggers (with gdb, a text interface debugger, the engine behind most if not all), profilers, memory debuggers, code tagging and search, project management, etc. have a look at the following for a start with gtk2 http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk-tutorial/stable/ Another option is wxwidgets (www.wxwidgets.org) which is a cross platform interface library. If you are a little careful things will compile and run with a native interface on linux, windows and mac (plus in a more limited version also on palm). Linux version uses gtk. qt4 has a gpl library for windows (costs money for commercial license, I think also for mac. gtk2 has a windows version, but not as stable, not sure about the mac again. > > Any recommended literature and relevant references and/or urls > > are > > quite welcome and will be appreciated. > > You need to go over to gnome.org and join their devel list and ask > them these same questions. Probably also the gtk-devel (that might > not be the exact name) list. Hope you've got a thick skin, though, > since I've heard that some of them can be a bit "impatient" with > newbies. > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHuuzWS9HxQb37XmcRAseaAJ9aFWTi8bfnxdoqD3+uGAjTrIMkzQCgwy0J > JOb/xkERWalmXfGsrl6H0og= > =/W7X > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia, external monitor and problems maximizing to one screen
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:58:59 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha wrote: > > I have a thinkpad laptop with nvidia Quadro NVS 140M graphic card, running > > unstable with xfce4 desktop. > > > > I'm having issues connecting an external screen. > > > > using nvidia-settings I've managed to get the second screen to work in > > twinview mode as an extension to the current screen, or overlapping current > > screen. Problem is that as an extension, if I maximize a window, it > > maximizes to both desktops. I tried restarting xfwm and starting fvwm and > > compiz using fusion icon but it didn't change the behavior. > > > > Tried enabling xinerama in xorg.conf but then nvidia-settings said that it > > can't find the xrandr extension and wouldn't enable the second screen. > > I also tried adding twinview option to the video card section in xorg but it > > didn't seem to do anything. > > > > Using overlapping windows doesn't seem to work either since the main screen > > will only go down to 1280x1024 and the external projector will only go up > > to 640x480 so it doesn't show the entire screen > > > > Will be happy for any ideas > > Thnaks > > > > > > Do you want/need both screens active? If not, you may want to try what > I do when using a projector for slide shows or movies: > > 1. Select the external screen settings and set it to twinview. > 2. Select the laptop display screen settings and disable it. > 3. Apply the changes. > ... > 4. When done, select the laptop display and set it to twinview. > 5. Select the external display and disable it. > 6. Apply. > > This works well for me, maybe it will for you as well. > Tried that, will try again, but last time I did it, it just killed X. Will try again if it's supposed to work. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contact and calendar synchronization with mobile phone (bluetooth)
I am looking for a way to synchronize my mobile phone (sony ericson k610i) with my linux machine over bluetooth. so that I can avoid keeping outlook around for that reason only. That requires two things: A synchronization method (tried opensync but it doesn't seem to properly synchronize and only against very few things). A calendar/contact manager. Not necessarily in one program, as long as synchronization isn't a problem. Preferably not kde or gnome (kde is much much worse, but they both start up a bunch of daemons that keep lying around afterwords, and as I don't use neither I would rather skip them). What I found out up to now is that opensync synchronizes mostly ok against google calendar, but that is web based and I would rather not depend on the internet and a third party to keep my data safe and allow proper access. iceowl seems ok but it doesn't seem like it can sync with opensync, onless it's synchronization with a remote calendar will work here. Dind't find any proper contact manager though (gnome/kde or otherwise). Does anyone out there have a working solution that would allow working and synchronizing the data both on the laptop and the phone? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SOLVED]Re: Programs for bluetooth
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:49:10 + Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:34:50 + > > Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Andrius wrote: > >>> Hi lads, > >>> > >>> any advices what to use for connection with phone via bluetooth > >>> please? > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Andrius > >>> > >>> > >> Find myself. > >> > >> Andrius > > > > > > Can you list them here for us? It means that future google searches may > > flag up this thread form the archives. > > > > Thanks, > > > > M. > > Here we go - kbtobexclient - Bluetooth OBEX client. > Version for KDE. For Gnome name of file is a little bit different. > It is a push client. How to receive files from mobile still do not know. > for files this is the obex protocol. Relevant packages are: # aptitude search obex i cobex - Connector for mobile devices i A gnome-vfs-obexftp - GNOME VFS module for OBEX FTP p libobexftp-dev - object exchange file transfer library v libopenobex-dev - i A libopenobex1 - OBEX protocol library p libopenobex1-dev - OBEX protocol library - development files i obexfs - mount filesystem of ObexFTP capable devices i obexftp - file transfer utility for devices that use the OBEX protocol p obexpushd - program for receiving files via Bluetooth or IRDA i openobex-apps To recieve files you want obexpushd to listen as a daemon or obexfs or obexftp to connect to the phone and pull the files. for synchronization there is opensync. version 0.35 or 0.36 is in experimental, but hasn't reached 64bits yet. Not sure what is good, tried google calendar at the time and it seemed ok but not for me. there is a sunbird driver which I haven't tried. Looking for opensync-format-vformat to be installable and then it's possible to subscribe to a remote calendar using iceowl and still keep the file in vcalendar format. Waiting to test that out. Haven't found anything good for contacts yet, hoping to find something similar or just write one when i get the time, should be too difficult. > Regards, > > Andrius > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linux compatible battery powered wireless webcam
I am upgrading a vision lab in my uni and we are trying to set up wireless controlled robots that can be used for vision exercises. One of the other things I'm trying to do is make sure that the lab runs linux and not windows. The robots will be the lego nxt robots, hopefully controlled over bluetooth (I know that they can be controlled over bluetooth, not sure yet how hard it is to do under linux). To the current issue. We need a wireless camera solution that we can attach to the robot (previous version used a usb camera but it is limited due to the wires). One of my thoughts is to use a wireless 802.11b/g or bluetooth webcam and I was wondering how would I go about connecting such a device to linux (including getting the video input in software, hopefully directing it also into matlab) and if anyone has experience with any such devices that will connect to a linux box. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting the mobile phone via USB
I would guess obex. have a look at obexftp and obexfs On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:50:16 +0100 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I didn't find information about my problem. I would like to connect to > my computer my mobile phone > (http://www.samsung.com/ph/products/gsm/gsm/sgh_z170.asp) via USB. The > mobile phone is correctly detected : > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04e8:6601 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Z100 > Mobile Phone > > Which software to use for managing my pictures, videos of my mobile > phone ? There aren't a lot of information on Google about ! > > Thanks, > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Logitech cordless quickcam (does it work with linux?)
Any has experience with the wireless Logitech cordless quickcam? I want to know whether it works with linux, or if anyone has experience with a different wireless battery powered webcam. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thunar file manager (hal) vs. ntfs-3g
I have a problem with mounting external drives that use ntfs-3g. When I plug in my external drive it shows up in thunar but it won't mount with the error that ntfs file system is not recognized (I removed the ntfs module since I need rw support). on the other hand if I use pmount /dev/sdb1 it mounts just fine and then thunar can access that drive (after it was mounted). As far as I have been able to figure out, thunar uses hal for mounting the drive, thus it is hal that doesn't know how to use ntfs-3g. I changed the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi before to handle this but it gets annoying since it is overwritten with hal updates. Is there a way to get hal (or thunar) to use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs when it is installed? I don't know if it is related, but unmounting also used to give a lot of trouble with this drive when it was working with an error saying that an unknown error occurred, although the drive was unmounted correctly. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:59:54 +1100 Jaime Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > > I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l *jre* > > ||/ Name VersionDescription > > +++-==-==- > > ii sun-java6-jre 6-04-2 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) > > > > Is there anything special i need to do to make iceweasel recoginise it? > > > Try installing one of the following plugins, depending on the version > that you want to you use: > > sun-java5-plugin > sun-java6-plugin > > To install, as root, enter into a console: > > apt-get install sun-java#-plugin > > (where # is the version that you want.. i.e. "sun-java6-plugin"). > > Hope this helps. > > are you using a 64bit system? (amd64) since AFAIK the plugin doesn't work at the moment under 64 bit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using linux as an audio gateway for bluetooth phone
Is it possible to stream music from my bluetooth phone (ericson) to my linux box as an audio gateway (have the music sound from my pc speakers)? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:41:53 +1100 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:05:44AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Alex Samad wrote: > > > > SNIP > >> well for 2.6.22 you couls also just do a m-a a-i vmware-server-kernel > >> and a apt-get install vmware-XXX > >> > >> my problem was with 2.6.24. > >> > >> I try and do it with apt if possible > > > > If you make a .deb from alien and use dpkg -i, it is as if you are using > > apt. The packagemanager knows it is installed. Apt is not magical. It > > is a front end to dpkg. > true > > > > > I can't remember how I hit on this method, however I can tell you I > > don't like installing *.tar.gz unless I am making a .deb. Using Alien > > --with-scripts makes me a .deb. So far in Debian Sid and in Ubuntu 7.10 > > this method has worked for VMworkstation and VMserver and you don't have > > to muck with mod assistant. > I will have to have a look at it. I guess before 2.6.24 module assist > wasn't a problem from installing it some a few days ago for a test, the problem is that it won't install directly since one of the headers for the kernel driver includes (IIRC the include name) asm/bitops.h instead of linux/bitops.h so I had to pause (Ctrl-Z) the compilation in the middle and fix the file. If there is a debian package or you know how to get at the module files then this can probably be avoided. > > > > > > Damon L. Chesser > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network
For some reason, after one of the recent upgrades network manager (or at least nm-applet) stopped dynamically recognizing my network. Wired and wireless. If I plug in the cable it doesn't see it and it doesn't get updated with wireless network mode. Not sure if it is a debian update or a kernel update. I use a custom compiled kernel. Do I need some kernel option compiled in or some other package to get things recognized? Thanksx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using linux as an audio gateway for bluetooth phone
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:57:52 +0100 e s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha wrote: > > Is it possible to stream music from my bluetooth phone (ericson) to my linux > > box as an audio gateway (have the music sound from my pc speakers)? > > > > thanks > > > > > looks like I was wrong, as the BlueZ site is > http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices > > Looks nice, but it's the opposite of what I'm trying to achieve, I'm trying to stream music from my phone to my computer, not stream my computer to the headset (in effect, I want my computer to act as the bluetooth headset) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:17:11 -0500 "Tom Goulet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/08, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hello,.. > > > > How should i set Thunderbird to work with local mail : > > for instance Kmail know's how to access /var/mail/username and get > > messages from there. > You can also setup a local imap server and then access your mail through imap > Hmm, it looks a little tricky, but > http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq says that you can > import Mbox files into Thunderbird. > > It says that you do it by copying an Mbox file to the "Mail/Local > Folders" directory within your "profile directory". > > By the way, /var/mail/username files are Mbox files. > > So you might end up running something like this: > > The shell command would end up looking something like this: > cp /var/mail/username ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/blergh.default/Mail/Local\ > Folders > > Then restart Thunderbird. > > Tom > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I have no > > idea why. > > Are you running stable or testing/unstable? > > The statement: "Unfortunately, I have no idea why." indicates you should > not be running testing. > I'm running unstable, and most things I have a pretty good of how the system works, but the inner workings of hightech rarely working things like network manager I know little about. AFAIK it gets it's notification through dbus and I guess that the problem is in there somewhere. I can setup the network manually quite nicely with iwconfig, iwlist, wpa_supplicant and dhclient so the bookends are working ok. dmesg shows eth0 connection messages, so that is working fine also. I wanted to know that it's not the kernel and Markus verified that. That leaves network-manager to blame and I don't know that part very well. I did write variations to most of the rest myself for embedded systems so saying that I don't know enough to run testing is a bit extreme and very condescending, and by that line, since you can't give any pointers yourself I am guessing that you are running stable since you shouldn't be running testing unstable either ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I have no > > idea why. > > Are you running stable or testing/unstable? > > The statement: "Unfortunately, I have no idea why." indicates you should > not be running testing. > I'm not sure if there is progress, but some more info I removed the relevant interfaces from /etc/network/interfaces as per instructions I saw on an ubuntu forum. Network-manager does bring up the relevant interfaces, but it doesn't see any wireless aps although iwlist wlan0 scan shows them. It also doesn't see the changes to the wired network (connect/disconnect) unless I restart dbus (doesn't help wireless though). Since it's a wpa2 network it's a pain to start manually. wlassistant doesn't connect either -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I have no > > idea why. > > Are you running stable or testing/unstable? > > The statement: "Unfortunately, I have no idea why." indicates you should > not be running testing. > Did some more googling, turns out that there are some major problems with network-manager at the moment (seems to be caused by some incompatibility with libglib2.0 2.16.1-2) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's heppening to Debian? Mono?
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:08:39 -0400
machiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All apologies, I posted this earlier to the wrong list.
>
> Won't someone please tell me why Debian is installing mono by default with the
> installation of Gnome on Lenny?
>
You can open the package in aptitude (probably synaptic but I don't know it).
If you look near the bottom of the package description there is an option of
packages which depend on ...
if you press enter on it, it will open and show you all packages depending on a
given package and their install status.
> Tue Mar 25, 12:13 # aptitude install gnome
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages are BROKEN:
> gamin
> The following packages have been kept back:
> rpm{a}
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>
>
>
> libmono-addins0.2-cil{a}
> libmono-cairo1.0-cil{a} libmono-corlib1.0-cil{a} libmono-corlib2.0-cil{a}
> libmono-data-tds1.0-cil{a} libmono-data-tds2.0-cil{a}
> libmono-i18n1.0-cil{a} libmono-i18n2.0-cil{a} libmono-security1.0-cil{a}
> libmono-security2.0-cil{a} libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil{a}
> libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil{a} libmono-system-data1.0-cil{a}
> libmono-system-data2.0-cil{a} libmono-system-web1.0-cil{a}
> libmono-system-web2.0-cil{a} libmono-system1.0-cil{a}
> libmono-system2.0-cil{a} libmono0{a} libmono1.0-cil{a} libmono2.0-cil{a}
>
>
>
> mono-common{a} mono-gac{a} mono-jit{a} mono-runtime{a}
>
> ...
>
> tomboy{a}
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> abiword{a}
> 0 packages upgraded, 262 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 54.5MB/283MB of archives. After unpacking 780MB will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gamin: Conflicts: fam but 2.7.0-13.1 is to be installed.
> Resolving dependencies...
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> fam [Not Installed]
>
> Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
> gnome-desktop-environment recommends fam
> gnome-screensaver recommends rss-glx
> nautilus recommends fam
> Score is -541
>
> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] HELL NO!
>
> AndWTF is this: $ aptitude search mono
>
> ..
>
> p libmono-microsoft-build2.0-cil - Mono Microsoft.Build
> libraries p libmono-microsoft7.0-cil- Mono Microsoft
> libraries p libmono-microsoft8.0-cil- Mono Microsoft libraries
>
>
> Doesn't anybody else think it's bad-medicine to be including potentially
> dangerous code in the default installation? I want to hear from devs that
> mono is free from potential liability. Do you know for sure? I am sure that
> there are others that are getting that queasy feeling in their stomachs about
> including mono in the default install.
>
> It has been pointed out to me that Gnome now "needs" Tomboy. However, Tomboy
> has its own dependencies -- mono. Is Gnome still a good idea? Why not Xfce4?
>
> And for a note-keeping application what's wrong with Notecase?
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Re: Debian is losing its users
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:49:32 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wei Chen wrote on 2008-03-26 14:28: > > > > Oh. Sorry. This page: http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian > > - From this [1] it would appear, that debian is presently outperforming > suse and fedora, but all three are strongly outperformed by ubuntu [2]. > > Since ubuntu is based on debian, it would appear that more people are > searching for debian packets than ever before. > From people i meet, ubuntu has a lot of exposure and a lot of new home users start with it at the moment, a lot probably has to do with it coming on a live cd so that you can try it out before committing to it. On the other hand, quite a few people I know that started with ubuntu eventually move to debian. I'm guessing that they don't need search for that word too much at that point. Also, most time I put debian in the search term it is when I have problems and I want a debian specific solution, maybe your results just show that there are a lot less problems with debian rather than a lot less users? ;-) > I doubt that a simple counting of search strings is a reliable measure > of usage, though: > > - From comparing the results on 'windows' and 'linux' of that site, it > would appear that only about three times as many people prefer the first > to the latter [3]. > > Johannes > > [1] > http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian%2C+suse%2C+fedora&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > [2] > http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian%2C+suse%2C+fedora%2C+ubuntu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > [3] > http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian%2C+linux&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFH6nCMC1NzPRl9qEURArbtAJ9MRDGpbCoe3Iso8+GjYK9gZgt27ACcDa/p > cpFjBg9a/Dlq9CPpkLBp4eU= > =QZ/H > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > >
kernel panic - not syncing, attempt to kill the idle task
My friends laptop that I installed debian on for him started to give a kernel panic this morning with the message, kernel panic, not syncing, attempt to kill the idle task. I don't have physical access to it at the moment. We tried removing power and battery and pressing the power button to drain capacitors, but it didn't help. Tried booting in safe mode but it didn't help either. He doesn't have another kernel installed at the moment. Would this be a hardware (disk/memory) issue or can something else be put to blame? Could it be that just the kernel binary was corrupted and needs to be replaced? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sony VAIO support, anyone have experience?
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:59:09 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:32:49PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am wanting to buy a new laptop primarily to move away from PowerPC so > > that my machine is better supported by a default Debian installation. > > > > I really like the look of the VAIOs but wanted to know if anyone has any > > feedback on how well supported they are. I don't want to be patching > > kernels or hacking my xorg to get things running smoothly. > I don't know how the modern ones are. Had one bought about five years ago and everything was supported at the time. On the other hand the customer support was the worst I ever ran into. I got better support for no name mp3 players bought in the flea market. It had a bad cpu which burned out, after assuring me three times that there was not problem to get warranty repair they charged me 250$ to get a warranty repair and all this time the support shift supervisor constantly avoided me. Couldn't get a single non template reply from the support. A company my dad worked for had an even worse experience with a 5000$ video camera. I would suggest avoiding them like fire in a swamp full of acid. Go with thinkpads (X or T series, not lenovo c or n series) or dells. > Huh? I think you might be using the wrong distribution. Are you > confusing hacking with configuring? > > > Wireless would be nice too, preferably without using non-free software. > > That depends on the chipset. Maybe look for a laptop without built in > wireless and buy a "supported" pcmcia card? > > There are some websites which can help you decide whether a particular > laptop has any gotchas with Linux, google on "laptop linux" > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sony VAIO support, anyone have experience?
I'm guessing that this was intended for the least, redirecting. On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:54:02 +0530 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have vaio FE series. I could install etch in addition to Vista. Of > course it needs tweaking. It is available in the net. > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:59:09 +1300 > > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:32:49PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am wanting to buy a new laptop primarily to move away from PowerPC so > > > > that my machine is better supported by a default Debian installation. > > > > > > > > I really like the look of the VAIOs but wanted to know if anyone has > > > > any feedback on how well supported they are. I don't want to be > > > > patching kernels or hacking my xorg to get things running smoothly. > > > > > > > I don't know how the modern ones are. Had one bought about five years ago > > and everything was supported at the time. > > > > On the other hand the customer support was the worst I ever ran into. I got > > better support for no name mp3 players bought in the flea market. > > > > It had a bad cpu which burned out, after assuring me three times that > > there was not problem to get warranty repair they charged me 250$ to get a > > warranty repair and all this time the support shift supervisor constantly > > avoided me. > > > > Couldn't get a single non template reply from the support. > > > > A company my dad worked for had an even worse experience with a 5000$ video > > camera. > > > > I would suggest avoiding them like fire in a swamp full of acid. Go with > > thinkpads (X or T series, not lenovo c or n series) or dells. > > > > > Huh? I think you might be using the wrong distribution. Are you > > > confusing hacking with configuring? > > > > > > > Wireless would be nice too, preferably without using non-free software. > > > > > > That depends on the chipset. Maybe look for a laptop without built in > > > wireless and buy a "supported" pcmcia card? > > > > > > There are some websites which can help you decide whether a particular > > > laptop has any gotchas with Linux, google on "laptop linux" > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"
(Please first cc to me, if i got a reply i will switch to reading the archive) Hello, This is Debian Sid, and since a few months i got this error message (sent via local mail): /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied and i just can't come up with any explanation. Perhaps somone can give me a hint ? This is what i can find so far: /var is mounted as: /dev/hda10 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) The permissions are: drwxr-xr-t 17 root root 4.0K 2006-04-02 03:00 /var drwxrwxr-x 26 root root 4.0K 2006-08-12 20:49 /var/cache/ drwxr-sr-x 16 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 /var/cache/man The last one contains: drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-25 02:03 cat1 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-15 16:49 cat2 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-15 16:49 cat3 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-02-02 10:48 cat4 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-24 02:25 cat5 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2003-07-23 02:36 cat6 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-03-11 07:47 cat7 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-25 02:03 cat8 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2004-05-17 04:07 cat9 drwxr-sr-x 3 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 fsstnd -rw-r--r-- 1 man root 2.0M 2006-08-16 00:15 index.db drwxr-sr-x 3 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 local drwxr-sr-x 3 man root 4.0K 2006-08-18 00:06 oldlocal drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4.0K 2002-03-18 13:08 opt drwxr-sr-x 7 man root 4.0K 2006-05-07 15:58 X11R6 None of the subdirectories of /var/cache/man contains any file, (besides some index.db ). Apparently, manpages are stored in /usr/hsare/man, instead, but that has drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4.0K 2006-05-28 13:00 man/ on all levels. - Which seems a little bit weird to me; but /var/cache/man seems to have been installed by package man-db, too. I can see man-db 2.4.3-3 and manpages 2.34-1 are installed. Well, maybe that's not actually Sid but 'testing' since i downgraded the sources list to 'testing' some week ago, but it will last some more weeks until a full turnover, and the error message was sent afterwards and all the time anyway. The cron.daily script will re-create a missing /var/cache/man with exactly the existing permissions: if ! [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then # Recover from deletion, per FHS. mkdir -p /var/cache/man chown man:root /var/cache/man chmod 2755 /var/cache/man and /etc/crontab has all cron scripts running as root. Maybe this here is the bit of the script which leads to the error ? start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /bin/sh \ --oknodo --chuid man -- -c \ "find /var/cache/man -type f -name '*.gz' -atime +6 -print0 | \ xargs -r0 rm -f" I have lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-07-24 18:21 /bin/sh -> bash* The 'man' command is aliased for 'root' by a function here (invoking pinfo) but i assume system calls it always by full path: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-08-12 20:50 /usr/bin/man -> ../lib/man-db/man -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85K 2005-09-21 14:23 /usr/lib/man-db/man So...what ? ° /\/
Re: "/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Hmm. nosuid on mounts may just not honor the set user id for | executables. On the other hand, the manual page tells me that nosuid | makes it ignore suid bits. (see man mount). So, semantically, those | permissions are just rwxr-x-r-x, and even if yuur user is in the 'root' | group, he cannot view the directory contents (because 'x' in a | directory means permission to enter & view the contents). I see, some years ago I configured /var in fstab like: /dev/hda10 /var ext2 owner,exec,errors=remount-ro and though i knew i din't think too much about that 'owner' implies nosuid. | First, try mounting /var without the nosuid part. (How do i trigger a normal cron man-db run ?) ... I'll see tomorrow. | The way this ought to work (and I thought it did) was for example, | a hypothetical user looks at a frequently used man page I seem to remember in the past one got asked at installation time if manpages should be cached that way, or not, and i used to asnwer yes. But AFAIKR there wasn't such a question at the last etch install i did (few days agao). Maybe they ditched it altogether. Thanks for your suggestion, i'll report if it worked. micha ° /\/
Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied
| Thanks for your suggestion, i'll report if it worked. No, sorry, even with /var mounted 'suid' i got still the same error mail... /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian meets HP Proliant DL320
Hello there! If anyone is running Debian on an HP Proliant machine I would appreciate information about how to solve the problem that the "virtual keyboard / mouse" is registering as usb device in a neverending loop. My solution will look like: blacklisting the uhci_hcd module - but to be honest: I'm not too satisfied with this option. So if there would be niftier approaches I'd be happier. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP DL320 USB Problem
George Borisov wrote: micha wrote: What do you mean by "...Despite this, I still had problems. ..." (http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg446512.html) I do not need USB (USB 1.0 it is I guess for this uhci_hcd module) on my server. Will there appear other problems when disabling uhci_hcd? I have a feeling that the /etc/modutils/local.aliases fix did not work - the module would at some point be loaded after a reboot. The problem with removing this module is that the iLO keyboard stops working, so you can not use iLO once Debian had booted. :-( Did you find a way to solve this problem in the end? I compiled a kernel without UHCI support. Hope this helps, I finally got it with some important hints from jef e. You can get around this problem by installing a kernel >= 2.6.17 because this problem is solved there. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian meets HP Proliant DL320
On 3 Sep 2006, at 12:18, René Seindal wrote: Micha wrote (31-08-2006 22:26): Hello there! If anyone is running Debian on an HP Proliant machine I would appreciate information about how to solve the problem that the "virtual keyboard / mouse" is registering as usb device in a neverending loop. My solution will look like: blacklisting the uhci_hcd module - but to be honest: I'm not too satisfied with this option. So if there would be niftier approaches I'd be happier. I run debian testing on a HP Proliant DL320 without any problems at all, and I have the uhci_hcd module loaded. I have never seen the problem mentioned. -- René Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) What kernel version have you installed? After installing 2.6.17 it worked out for me... Of course I would like to see other solutions - maybe a stable solution. Thanks, Michael
Re: install kernel from testing on sarge
On 5 Sep 2006, at 06:50, Vladi Lemurov wrote: Hi there! I use debian sarge and would like to install the latest kernel from "testing" (I need it to set dvb interfaces down without getting the server hung), but keep all other packets from "stable" distribution, so I could update them, install new and so on. Is that possible, I mean "debian-way" (Of course, I can simply take sources and compile the kernel myself, I am quite experienced at that, but I switched to debian to minimize compiling packages and would like to learn how to deal with such situation "debian- way"). Could you point the paper where it is described? Thanks, Vladi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course you can add the testing branche to your apt sources.list. This would give the option to install any kernel in etch. Afterwards you can delete the etch line in you branches tree so that no other packages are installed from etch. The only problem you should keep in mind: a newer kerner requires newer packages. Some programs that are depending on these packages too will have to be upgraded to the latest version or they won't work (correctly)... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Smidt wrote: > I just installed Debian. Grub failed to load but lilo worked. Now > that everything is installed, how do I replace lilo with grub? > > You apt-get install grub and then grub should work. If it fails, you should check the error messages and have a look at menu.lst (or grub.conf not shure how it is called right now) and manually install grub (via grub-install dev/hd-whatever) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFB5LHt8ni3uY9iegRAuxYAJ0QrIyPRByF0YAbJMKVxr97hOhhhQCfdp+v N1ALjfXn0SS3oMQnpHBWAgI= =f0vH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Source code editor
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:19:34 +0300 Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > >>> I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used > >>> nano, but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities > >>> eg constant view of current row number, file browser and selection, > >>> cutting, pasting and copying functions. I also tried to use motor, but I > >>> got segmentation fault after execution... :-/ I am using Etch. > >> You will not find any "real" IDEs in Linux. However, vim/gvim can do what > >> you describe. Emacs (another powerful editor) is also capable of doing what > >> you describe. > >> > >> hth > >> raju > >> -- > >> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > >> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ > >> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ > > > > Well that is not entirely true. One you will find (all beit back level) is > > Eclipse. Now many people think of Eclipse as a Java IDE, but it is much > > more and includes CDT for developing C and C++ code. It has line numbers, > > file browsing and selection, context help, debugging etc all build in. It > > also can work with various version control systems like CVS, SVN and the > > like, and also has support for tracking bugs in Bugzilla, JIRA and Trac (in > > version 3.3). > > > > You do need to install Java to run it, an it is not exactly light weight. > > > > Personally I would not use the Debian packaged version (3.2.2-5) but > > rather I would use version 3.3 which is easy to download and install. I > > use it with Sun Java-6 which is available as a Debian package. > > > > David > > > > > > > > Eclipse is used in graphical user environment only. I wished to find a > shell program. :-) > For a proper "ide" that works in the shell I would say you best bet is either vim or emacs. vim's mode of operation is that you have two modes, a command mode and an editing mode. emacs is more in the spirit of "Standard" editors where you use key modifiers for commands instead of a command mode. Other than that they are both very powerful with a lot of extensions and syntax highlighting (I believe that it should also work in shell mode, it does work in the console) > > Tero Mäntyvaara > >
Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install
I need to install debian for a friend of mine that got new machine. Apart for the network card driver (which is actually a relative of mine) and the graphics card which is intel instead of nvidia the install should be about the same. I thought to save some headache and just copy over the whole linux partition and just fix up the small tidbits (network driver, graphic driver and fstab). Since these are two laptops, moving the hardrive over won't work so I need to do it over the network. What would be the best way to do this? Should I boot the new laptop with ubuntu or something or do a base debian install? Is there a better way, and how do I make sure that the permissions and owners don't change and that /proc, /sys, /dev etc. are not copied? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backing up an entire hard drive
I need to wipe my hardrive for some repair and I want to back it up. I would prefer to just backup the debian partition and not the entire harddrive. Is it possible to do either with dd? seems like it should work for the entire drive, would it work for a single partition if I restore previous partition sizes? How do I backup my active drive/root partition? do I need a live cd or is it possible to do from a running system? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no text or icons in xserver (gdm and xfce)
I tried configuring my new computer with ati x3100 graphics card If I use debian's default configuration don't get any text or icons at all on screen, that includes gdm, xfce menus and toolbars, terminal, etc with the vesa mode forced it works and with ubuntu, same xorg.conf and compiz it works any ideas? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no text or icons in x with intel x3100 (gdm and xfce)
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:31:38 +0300 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried configuring my new computer with ati x3100 graphics card > of course it's an intel x3100, not ati ... > If I use debian's default configuration don't get any text or icons at all on > screen, that includes gdm, xfce menus and toolbars, terminal, etc > > with the vesa mode forced it works and with ubuntu, same xorg.conf and compiz > it works also > > any ideas? > > thanks > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian crash randomly
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:50:32 -0700 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:00:03PM -0700, mond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard > to say: > > Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: received event "ac_adapter ACAD > > 0001" > > Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: notifying client 2612[106:111] > > Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: notifying client 2720[0:0] > > Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: executing action "/etc/acpi/power.sh" > > Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: action exited with status 0 > > Apr 26 23:28:41 Pavilion acpid: completed event "ac_adapter ACAD > > 0001" > > Do you always get this message before the freeze? > > > Apr 26 23:28:52 Pavilion gdm[2713]: WARNING: > > gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 > > What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old say after a crash? > > Daniel > > also, do you have any keyboard lights flashing? If its a kernel crash the control lock and num lock should be flashing. If not, do the control and or num lock respond (turning on the leads). Do you have another machine that you can use to try and log in over the network to see if the computer is still responsive? (if it's just the user interface or the entire system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:01:19 -0500 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > In the same vein, you can also utilize wifi and powerline ethernet. > > I use wifi and it can go through some material(wood, plasterboard) and > > covers open spaces. You can also set up various parabolic antennas to > > connect distant points. Powerline ethernet works by sending ethernet > > over the mains in your structure. Not sure of how relaible it is, as > > I've never used it. > > HTH > > -K > > I have used powerline networking, and it is fairly reliable, but really > suffers in speed at times. WiFi is to be preferred, I think. Also, it > has security issues. If two powerline networks are sharing the same > circuits (power from the same transformer, such as two houses in the > same neighborhood, or separate apartments in the same building) traffic > on it must be encrypted, so no advantage there, over WiFi. It is > subject to the vagaries of a typical modern household, with all of the > interference from motors starting, etc. > > My cousin used (I think he still does but not sure) a phone line adapter. It's good for home and possibly soho usage but I guess anything more then 2 or 3 machines will probably be too much. Its an adaptor that connects to the phone line but I don't recall right now if it's ethernet or usb (possibly usb since I guess it needs power). I can find out if you want. Its called hpna, have a look at http://www.homenethelp.com/network/phoneline.asp I don't know if it can go across the local switchboard but I guess that it might. It should pass to the next house though since you have your own line to the local switchboard (building/few houses) and from there the data is combined for going onward and band limited, I'm guessing enough to ruin the info but can't guaranty anything. the local phone company offered this option for a while but didn't make much noise about it. It wasn't cheap though. About 100$ for an adaptor and 200$ for an adsl/hpna modem. It's simple to setup, but if you don't have thick walls/floors that stop wireless it will be more versatile. With wpa2 encryption it should also be secure enough. Another option if you need good network is to thread the house with cat cables, would require a switch, but that is not too expansive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian crash randomly
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:27:25 -0500 "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/04/2008, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mond wrote: > > > However, recently my Debian(sid) crash randomly and frequently. > > > > > > Jordi writes: > > > Of course it does. It's sid. > > > > > > It's been many years since Sid has crashed here. > It rarely crashes here apart for some issues with hibernation and wireless driver both of which I wouldn't be to operate under stable anyway. > > Well, it's been about two days since it crashed over here. I'd file a > bug report, but I don't know exactly how to make it crash, and since > it keeps moving, well, living on sid is an adventure all around, not > for the faint of heart. > Testing is not for the faint of heart. When you do get problems it's there for months, not hours or days at most like sid. > Just because "works for me" doesn't mean that we should be > recommending sid to new users. > Actually i recommend sid to everyone except for servers where stable is more suitable. Testing is only stable near releases, otherwise it's much less stable then sid and stable is so archaic that you get stuck in backports hell if you need anything more recent than two years old. > > > > If you don't like bugs, don't use sid. > > > > > > Seems to me that he is just trying to discuss the problem so that he can > > fix it and/or file a useful bug report. > > > Well, a new Debian user using sid just for the fun of filing bug > reports seems like a brave one. > > - Jordi G. H. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian crash randomly
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:30:52 -0500 "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/04/2008, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually i recommend sid to everyone except for servers where stable is more > > suitable. > > You must enjoy debugging a lot, then. Sid really *is* unstable, like ... Sid really *is* *stable* *unlike* the name sounds. Not sure what you did to make it give you trouble. > its name sounds, and like we can witness with Mond and with me. Newer > software is hardly ever necessary. For the fabled "desktop use", > stable is pretty good (websurfing, MSFT office documents, chatting, > multimedia), and there is no way I'm installing anything but stable on > grandma's machine. Stable doesn't crash, it does what it's supposed to > do, and it gives free software a good name. > But supports nearly nothing current. Firefox is ancient. Doesn't run most flash sites. Openoffice is pre dinosours and especially in terms of office compatability it has come a long way. Latex now support unicode and stuff. Lyx which I use a lot has an immense amount of new features. Octaves is actually usable. I can go on ... stable is what gives free software a bad name because unknowledged people things that it is old, featureless, useless and with no eye candy (which fortunately or unfortunately people want) There are also numerous packages nowadays that make life for the windows user (and some linux users) more tolarable. Take for example automatic mounting of external drives (pmount, pmount-hal, hal and their frontends), easy network management (network-manager and nm-applet), ntfs write support (ntfs-3g), bluetooth applet, ... And no, I don't enjoy debug and I don't get to debug anything I didn't write and mess up myself or work on donating new features to existing packages. > Backports are rarely necessary, and if there is a user savvy enough to > know that they want something newer than what's in stable, I recommend > them to try a backport, and if that doesn't work, then to compile from > source. Otherwise, I really question why do they need newer software. > Compiling a source tends to be more intimidating to most people than using unstable and most new sources a hell to compile on stable. > Hardware compatibility is a different issue. If they have hardware > that's too new for the etch kernels, then I will recommend testing, i never recommend testing > with many reservations. But I don't recommend unstable to anyone > unless they're willing to tolerate the occasional crash and possible > data loss. This is Debian's official position too regarding the three > distributions. "The unstable distribution is where active development That is a common misconception, search the mail group history on some dev notes on the subject. There was a long talk regarding changing the names of the distributions due to this. It's been suggested: stable -> server testing -> don't use this one unstable -> desktop > of Debian occurs. Generally, this distribution is run by developers it's where modern packages that have not yet been tested to death by debian devs live but that have usually been tested rather well by the developers. The only issues I've ran into are the ocational library version incompatibilities that are always resolved in a day or two. and appart for the one issue in the last 10 years where I had to downgrade qt4.4 to qt4.3 and keep it at that version for a couple of days due to binary incompatability with lyx and once where I had to hold libglibc2.0 for a couple of days, don't recall why, I haven't had any instability. > and those who like to live on the edge." Debian newbies presumably For those who like living on the edge there is experimental. Which I use regularly and I haven't had any issues there either. > don't want to live on the edge. Debian also recommends that you run > stable, and they don't make a distinction between running stable on > servers or on "desktops". > Stable is meant for servers not desktops > I run testing most of the time, with the occasional non-critical Which in my experience *is* really *unstable* except around release freezes > unstable package, but that's because I like bugs. :-) When I can, I > will poke around the source code to see if I can find why a particular > piece of software is segfaulting. > > - Jordi G. H. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
connecting bluetooth device with bluetooth applet
I am trying to find out how to connect a bluetooth device with the bluetooth applet. I find a lot of references on the net to using the input service under the preferences, but it doesn't exist on my system. I used hidd and hcitool but was wondering if there is a gui frontend. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian crash randomly
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:56:49 -0500 "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/04/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unstable means that it's changing frequently *NOT* that it's more likely > > to crash. > > Then why does it crash more in my anecdotal and unscientific experience? > > - Jordi G. H. > > I seems to me that you are the only one that complains that it always crashes, so either it's your hardware or your experience that's problematic ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to disable the touchpad when pluging usb mouse?
Is it possible, and if so how to automatically disable the touchpad when plugging in a usb mouse to the laptop? this is a dell vosotro laptop with the touchpad using the synapics driver Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Option to call apt install package to local directory
On Sat, 10 May 2008 14:27:15 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +1000, hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the > > package to my local directory rather than /usr? > > I don't know of any such option for dpkg (which is what apt uses to > actually install the packages), but maybe you should explain what your > real goal is. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see 'man hier') was > created for a purpose. > > Regards, > Andrei I'm also not aware of such an option. Depending on the package you may be able to download only using apt-get -d install ... and then open it yourself. To open the package you have ar x and then there should be a file something like data.tar.gz that contains the actual installation tree -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Option to call apt install package to local directory
On Sat, 10 May 2008 15:35:19 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 02:27:15PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:00:33PM +1000, hce wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > What is the command to make "apt-get install package" to install the > > > package to my local directory rather than /usr? > > > > I don't know of any such option for dpkg (which is what apt uses to > > actually install the packages), but maybe you should explain what your > > real goal is. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see 'man hier') was > > created for a purpose. > > > There are 2 things related to the OP request: > A)download the DEB to an alternative location > B)install the DEB to an alternative location > A is possible. B has limitations like the FHS. > -K > > > Not sure how difficult it is but it may be possible to force installation using chroot (the program may need that to find it's files anyway) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cropped fonts
I have an issue with my friends laptop that I'm trying to set up with debian (unstable). For some reason the fonts are cropped from the top. I tried removing font hinting and it greatly improved things but hasn't solved it completely. Changing dpi doesn't seem to help (at most it changes which letters are cropped). removing antialiasing for fonts does solve the problem but they look terrible. The machine is a dell vosotro 1400 with intel graphics gm965 with the intel driver on a 14.1 inch screen and 1280x800 resolution. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cropped fonts
On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:50:00 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/11/08 10:31, Micha wrote: > > I have an issue with my friends laptop that I'm trying to set up with debian > > (unstable). For some reason the fonts are cropped from the top. I tried > > removing font hinting and it greatly improved things but hasn't solved it > > completely. Changing dpi doesn't seem to help (at most it changes which > > letters are cropped). removing antialiasing for fonts does solve the > > problem but they look terrible. > > > > The machine is a dell vosotro 1400 with intel graphics gm965 with the intel > > driver on a 14.1 inch screen and 1280x800 resolution. > > I see that occasionally. Usually in Iceweasel & Icedove. Scrolling > up and back down "fixes" the problem. > > This might not be what you are referring to, though. > I found the issue after a lot of searching. turns out this video card requires the experimental Intel driver to work correctly. Seems like the framebuffer driver is suffering from the same problem although not as severe, as it seems aggravated by anti aliased fonts and really aggravated by font hinting. > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > We want... a Shrubbery!! > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIJ2oIS9HxQb37XmcRAjNKAKCjE4wFFbqLoDP+g4HbAhCHSxnX1ACfXb2d > scyE+n0EAgypxwGeDZFRK4M= > =hOyR > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome
On Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:12 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi writes: > > Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my > > gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar > > icons and make better use of screen space? > > You could dump Gnome entirely. Don't know about gnome, you can probably use thinner title bars. menu bars you probably can't do much about. At least with xfce you can configure full screen mode to hide borders (and title bar). with fvwm you can configure the titlebar to be on the side (did it when I had a 14" screen). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome display fonts have disappered
On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:19:27 -0500 "A. Lester Buck III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I had a bit of corruption appear on the system disk for my Debian > testing system. The file systems all check fine now, but the Gnome > display shows no text fonts. Everything else is fine, I can login (it > doesn't show my username as I type), and as I mouse over the menu bars, > various tooltips light up as normal. I can lauch applications, but > everything is lacking the text labels and menus. Would anyone have an > idea how I might reinstall the Gnome system fonts or otherwise correct > or debug this issue? > > Thanks a lot, > > Lester > > I believe that this is a setup issue but don't know how to solve it. Had it with a friends laptop that I copied my system to. Ended up doing a clean install and everything worked find. Did have to upgrade the intel X driver to experimental to get the fonts right, they were partially cropped at some point. Would love to know the cause of this though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome
On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:09:02 -0500 (CDT) Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion > > and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just > > want to optimise screen usage, but to get some efficiency back to the > > way I interact with my coputer. > > I'm not sure if I've tried Ion before. I've tried many window managers. > Anyway, this post inspired my to try, or retry, Ion and I might have found > my new favorite window manager. After I tweak a few things I think I'm > going to be hooked. The only thing I've found so far that is > disappointing is that my favorite image viewer, xv, does strange things > under Ion. For example, if I start xv to view several images, it displays > the first image stretched or shrunk to completely fill the screen, even > if it smegs up the aspect ratio in the process. Cycling through the other > images, most are displayed at the correct size, but they're displayed on > top of the first image, which stays on the screen. I've seen it exhibit > similar behavior under XFCE. Running it with -nodecor, which removes the > window decorations, under XFCE seems to work around that quirk. It > doesn't help under Ion. I might have to switch to a more modern image > viewer. I've tried qiv a few times, and it seems to work well under Ion. > fvwm can also be configured to be light on both screen an machine resources on my previous laptop I got it to startup with about 20 mb of ram including a running terminal (urxvt). I also configured it to have the titlebar on the side (it was a 14" 1024x768 screen) and a shortcut to remove the titlebar all together. As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I use gqview though. > > > Kevin > http://www.RawFedDogs.net > http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org > Bruceville, TX > > Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. > Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!! > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
browsing phone over bluetooth with bluetooth applet (under xfce)
I have bluetooth applet installed and installed everything I could find related to bluetooth and obex. When I right click on the bluetooth applet I still see browse device grayed out. I tried google but all I get was reference to just working under ubuntu, nothing debian related. How do I enable browsing devices under the bluetooth applet so that I can easly download files from the phone? I got send file working, but not recieve ... using obexftp I can see the phone, so it's there and browsable, I must be missing something. I also couldn't get the applet to search for devices to connect to. I am using xfce, and trying to keep the gnome/kde packages to a minimum so I hope this doesn't entail installing nautillus thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root, -1 unkown
On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:28:52 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What the h*ll is that? > > > > > > Running Debian Sid, KDE4-devel from experimental. > > > > Where/when does "this" show up? > > Running the kde4/krunner top functionality, showing all processes. > > > Do the columns show any title? Is this for all processes, some processes, the only thing it shows? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: maple constantly crashes
On Wed, 28 May 2008 01:18:30 +0800 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Maple 11 is fine on my 64 bit Etch box: > have you tried Maple 12 ? > what do you mean by `compositing' ? > are you using Compiz stuff ? > It's related to what compiz does, but xfce knows how to use some of it also (transparency and shadows under windows depend on it). Probably others as well. did you have an issue with the installation BTW that the links to the java virtual machine were wrong and had to be fixed by hand? Could be that my copy of maple is bad, will try to get a different copy. unfortunately I don't have access to maple 12 at the moment to try out. Maybe I'll try to downgrade the guy to 32 bit, I know that java has some issues with 64. Thanks though > Jerome > > Micha wrote: > > i installed linux with maple (11) on it for a friend on his new dell > > (vosotro 1400). For some reason maple constantly crashes for him (every > > about 5 minutes) and leaves behind mangled files. On my machine it seems to > > run fine, although I haven't stress tested it. When it crashes the files > > that were open just seem to be half written to. > > > > Tried reinstalling with the default java implementation and also linking to > > the sun java installation but to no avail > > > > could it be that it is not compatible with 64 bit linux, compositing or > > something with debian unstable that doesn't match? > > > > thanks > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:06:38 + "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Monday Morning > > Try this link: > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sun+java&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all > First of all that is for the stable distribution (although I don't know which one the op is using). Anyway, if you look at the package sun-java6-plugin you will see that it is only available for the i386 platform, not the amd64 platform > > > On Wednesday, 28 May 2008 3:13 pm, Robert Jerrard wrote: > > Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an > > AMD64? I thought www.blackdown.org was the place to get it but that site > > does not seem to exist. > > > > Any suggestion? > > > > Thanks, Bob > > > > -- > > Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics, > > Concordia University College of Alberta, > > 7128 Ada Blvd., Edmonton, Alberta, T5B 4E4, Canada. > > Phone: (780) 479-9291, Fax: (780) 474-1933. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Homepage management system?
I am looking for some framework to allow easily setting up homepage for all the people in my uni lab. The idea is to setup some template that they can fill out as no one is getting around to it (A home page, publications page, not much more) Preferably I want something that can be setup in a user html directory and not run it's own server. That is either a program to allow the easy generation and maintenance of webpages based on templates or some content management system that is easy to setup and can preferably be installed and run for a user public_html directory (i.e based on php or cgi scripts and not it's own server) as it would reduce the bureaucracy of trying to convince the university to give us web access to one of the lab computers. I'm afraid that I don't have the time to design and write the template myself so I need something ready-made. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: skype, amd64, libc6-i386 and ia32-libs
On 8/20/2009 7:25 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:30:06 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: After returning from vacation I updated my testing, amd64 system. By the way, does anybody know why they had to break things first? I did not expect that from debian! I rather think that the name of the version you're running answers that question. If you don't want things to break, run "stable". The problem is that it's also so ancient that unless you are running a server things will be too far from current as well. What should it be so ancient?! I'm running stable on server and client and I'm not missing anything - except bugs! I can't run stable on my workstation since it doesn't support the nic. I also do development for core 2 duo/quad and core i7 using sse and such. Things change a lot in current gcc which means I need the latest of that also. I don't recall the version of openmpi and such in stable but it's also too old. I also develop for cuda (nvidia gpu) which means I need the latest nvidia binary driver and toolchain. This means a current X. My laptop won't run stable either (not support for almost anything), xfce is way old, lyx is several versions back, wireless is much better with current versions. hal has gone a long way so my bluetooth mouse is now properly supported. And this only scratches the surface. On the other hand, on my server where I need a stable Apache and such I run stable (although with a backport of git as that is what the clients use ...) so you see, I can't run stable even if I wanted to. I'm not sure if it will even install on most of my computers. You are falling into the same hole as most and mixing the everyday meaning of debian's stable,testing and unstable with the debian distribution meaning. I don't understand this?! Debian is so flexible that almost nothing breaks - you are just missing the right parts ;-) regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT] Online downloadable books
On 8/22/2009 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: http://www.4shared.com I downloaded a book I was looking for: Takeuti-Zaring's Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory. It comes in .djvu format. I'd be curious to know how it was formatted that way: certainly not by scanning it page to page. I think in future more and more books will be available on line, and many already are; but the problem is with old editions: either scanning them page after page, either re-write them from scratch. Another book I was looking for: Quine's Set Theory and Its Logic, was not anywhere in internet. Can anyone suggest a place where it's downloadable? Rodolfo You are talking about illegal copies of the books, I don't think that this is the right list for that. Some books are also available as ebooks, you can check amazon if they sell the books you want as ebooks. They are usually in pdf form quite often with drm. I've never ran into a book legal distributes as djvu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fetchmail and Gmail
... From user's point of view it is something "additional". Instead of configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to set it up both in MUA (retrieve mail from local mail box) and fetchmail configuration file. It's not that difficult. Really. In my (ordinary user) opinion configuring mail program from its gui and text file somewhere in the filesystem is more difficult than editing only one place. And, believe me or not, there are people who That is your opinion, others don't think that way. That is why there are different options. Plus, fetchmail is MUCH older than gui email programs. Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail This way I can easily switch mail clients, also my mail client doesn't have to be running all the time using up memory and cpu. prefer graphical interfaces for some tasks, finding them more convenient than command line. The latter (IMHO) has very limited functionality of password encryption handling, Sure it doess, with POPS. Maybe I haven't been understood well. My mail provider gives me a password. In mail program I add it to some wallet or let mail program to encrypt it after setting up. If I want to use fetchmail, I have to write it there in plain text (correct me if I'm wrong), which is not what I like doing. no gui integration Boo fscking hoo. I beg your pardon? - it is needed to launch text editor to edit specific file... Again, boo fscking hoo. Does this setup have any advantages? Yes, it does, since it fetches your mail *for you* from your ISP's POP server, and can send it to an MTA, which passes it thru SpamAssassin and then an MDA, which then filters your email into separate folders depending on topic or sender. So? Where's the advantage? My mail program fetches mail *for me* from my ISP's POP server, passes it thru any filter (let it be spamassassin), then writes it to separate folders depending on basically anything. Fetchmail, MTA, MDA avoided, whereas the same purpose achieved. Easier. Another benefit: for the longest time, ISPs had very small mailbox sizes, and some still do. fetchmail/getmail running in daemon mode or through cron every X minutes will keep your ISP mailbox relatively empty, even if you go away on vacation. Only if my computer (desktop) stays powered on all the time which is not the case. And mailboxes are big enough. It is counterintuitive Remember, *ix is both a desktop and serve at the same time. Thus, break out of your Windows Mentality. It seems that you strongly believe in that. Please, don't underestimate others technical knowledge. I am able to set up fetchmail et al, but I don't find it necessary nor logical. Let the engine be complicated as hell (fetchmail, MUA, MTA, MDA, spamassassin, others), but also let user only touch the steering wheel and ignition button. and non ergonomic, isn't it? "Ergonomics" has nothing to with fetchmail. But it has something to do with setting up your working environment. Unless "automatically fetching mail so that you don't have to" is considered ergonomic. The above makes no sense to me, sorry. Are there any mail programs which allow seamless integration with fetchmail/getmail? All MTAs and MDAs, and Maildir, seamlessly integrate with fetchmail. Are there any mail programs, which allow all mail server settings (server, port, user, password, ..) to be passed to/handled by fetchmail? Like a checkbox "don't download it by yourself, let fetchmail to do it for you". Regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT] Online downloadable books
On 8/24/2009 2:17 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: mi...@post.tau.ac.il To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] Online downloadable books Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:26:42 +0300 On 8/22/2009 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: http://www.4shared.com I downloaded a book I was looking for: Takeuti-Zaring's Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory. It comes in .djvu format. I'd be curious to know how it was formatted that way: certainly not by scanning it page to page. I think in future more and more books will be available on line, and many already are; but the problem is with old editions: either scanning them page after page, either re-write them from scratch. Another book I was looking for: Quine's Set Theory and Its Logic, was not anywhere in internet. Can anyone suggest a place where it's downloadable? Rodolfo You are talking about illegal copies of the books, I don't think that this is the right list for that. Some books are also available as ebooks, you can check amazon if they sell the books you want as ebooks. They are usually in pdf form quite often with drm. I've never ran into a book legal distributes as djvu The format is described on djvu.org. there's also a GPLed version of the library. L The format is free, not problem with the format. Books distributed in djvu form generally aren't (at least I never ran into such). All books I've seen in this format are scanned copies, and if you check the cover of just about any book you will see a notice telling you that it is illegal to make full or partial copies without authorization. The few free books I've seen were always pdf format. BTW, if you want to find bootlegged books, google is your friend. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT] Online downloadable books
On 8/24/2009 6:48 AM, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:26:42 +0300 Micha wrote: ... You are talking about illegal copies of the books, I don't think that this is the right list for that. Some books are also available as ebooks, you can check amazon if they sell the books you want as ebooks. They are usually in pdf form quite often with drm. I've never ran into a book legal distributes as djvu And you an Israeli, too (or at least posting from an Israeli email address and with an Israeli name) ;) Jnul makes hundreds of books Guilty as charged ... ;) freely available online in djvu format: http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/heb/digibook.html Didn't run into that one, looks interesting. First time I've seen non-copyrighted books in djvu form. Up to now I've only seen project Gutenberg and opensourced books and since the text file is available they are generally distributed as text of pdf although I've just checked and there are quite a few others these days, djvu is not one of them (I think that it's optimized for scanned texts) In high school I found some nice books about magic circa 17th century, how to summon demons in such in the huji library in one of the collections. Wonder if they are up there also (although damned if I know where to find a proper sword for the spell) Perhaps you meant that modern, copyrighted books are not generally legally available in djvu format. You read my mind And if you look at the title the OP mentioned it doesn't seem to be out of copyright or opensource http://www.amazon.com/Set-Theory-Its-Logic-Revised/dp/0674802071 http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-axiomatic-theory-Graduate-mathematics/dp/0387906835/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251116935&sr=1-2 only 25$ and 35$ but still ... and both have a link to Tell the Publisher! I’d like to read this book on Kindle Although can't say I like the way amazon handles kindle. Good idea, too restrictive. This one looks nice though once the price drops enough and I think that it runs linux BTW http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fetchmail and Gmail
On 8/24/2009 3:05 PM, Rob Gom wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote: [cut] Ok, so now I see the reasons to move: 1. Power& flexibility: (if one needs something more than what mail application can offer) Yes, in many cases it is, but the "separate tools" approach is more flexible and more powerful. [cut] 2. Mail program limitations: Initially moved my mail retrieval+sorting outside the GUI client because it couldn't download mail in a separate thread. Then I also moved the (this is also my case - KMail famous bug) As for: "Storing the password encrypted in some file has no benefit over storing the password in plain text, because anyone who gets the hash will be able to access your mail. And if you don't use SSL for connecting to the mail server you can encrypt the password as much as you like on your system, because it will be transmitted in clear over the wire. A potential attacker doesn't even have to break in your system." To clarify: I don't send passwords in plain text over the net (mainly SSL/TLS). And I believe that storing passwords encrypted is always safer than storing them unencrypted. On the other hand I forgot my password several times (way too many password protected accounts each with it's own password restrictions) and it saved me that I could just open the file and see the password. After I download the mail it's on my system anyway, and if you occasionally change the password then the problem is solved Regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail
On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to put mail in separate folders. what benefit would I get from procmail? 1. The ability to move from kmail to something else if you want without rewriting your rules. 2. The ability to pull mail without having kmail running (via a cron job or fetchmail daemon) 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where it resides and can back it up and human read it If you don't care about these three than nothing (some consider the third a downside, not an improvement but that's personal preference not an absolute) On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to do that explicitly from the command line It's all down to personal preferences. I played around a lot at the time looking for a mail client I'd be happy with (Still haven't found one) and worked quite a bit with mutt (I'm not sure if it even supports pulling mail itself) so fetchmail + procmail was the best option for me. If this is a remotely accessible machine, you also have the advantage of being able to use a gui mail client locally and a text one remotely or serve your folders via an imap server and then you are not limited at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Microsoft Wireless Mouse
On 8/27/2009 3:21 PM, David Baron wrote: It is on the heavy side but works well. Got tired of the double and triple clicks happening with other rodents. This one has a receiver that plugs into a USB. Is there any way to get it working through one of those UBS->PS2 adapters (it did not come with one)? Doubt it. The support has to be part of the plug, the ps2 to usb converter (the one to connect a usb mouse to the ps2 port) is a dumb one and depends on support from the mouse. I doubt that the wireless usb plug does anything other than usb hid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Nvidia cards
On 8/27/2009 3:14 AM, JoeHill wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello List,
you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid.
Yeah, that's what I just saw. Unfortunately I get this:
node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
nvidia-glx
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-vfs-obexftp{u} libevolution5.0-cil{u} libhesiod0{u} libkadm5srv5{u}
libopal3.6.1{u} libpam-cracklib{u} libpt2.6.1{u} libusb-1.0-0{u}
libzephyr3{u} nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-686{u}
nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem{u} padevchooser{u} paman{u} paprefs{u}
pavumeter{u} pulseaudio-module-gconf{u} pulseaudio-module-zeroconf{u}
toolame{u}
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 18 to remove and 426 not upgraded.
Need to get 7129kB of archives. After unpacking 33.2MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-glx: Depends: nvidia-kernel-185.18.31 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
nvidia-glx
Score is -9881
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Does this mean that nvidia-glx will be upgraded?
You need to install the kernel module package as well or download the module
source and build the package using module-assist if you are using non-stock kernel
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one dual port ethernet card vs. two single port cards for clustering - any advantages/disadvantages
I'm looking to setup a cluster for out uni lab and am debating at the moment for the internal network between the cluster machines (4 machines which are supposed to be all connected to each other) whether to use on dual port pci-e ethernet card + one single port pci-e or the onboard card vs. using three single port pci-e cards and the onboard card as an external internet connection (they will serve a dual purpuse as cluster machines and workstations) besides the obvious issue of leaving one (first,third options) or two (second option) pci-e slots free can anyone tell if there is are any other considerations that I'm not aware of ? (mainly are there differences in bus/cpu/speed overheads) The price difference is not too big (at most 250 NIS per machine for 4 machines) so it may be nice to save the money but only if there are no hidden performance costs I'm not aware of. Namely the debate is between Intel PCI-E 10/100/1000 EXPI9300PT + (http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/adapters/pro1000pt/pro1000pt-overview.htm) Intel PCI-E 10/100/1000 EXPI9402PT dual port (http://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000pt-dualport/pro1000pt-dualport-overview.htm) or Internal Intel 82573E/82573L Gigabit Ethernet controler Intel PCI-E 10/100/1000 EXPI9402PT dual port (+ a cheapo 100mb card for Internet connection) or Internal Intel 82573E/82573L Gigabit Ethernet controler Intel PCI-E 10/100/1000 EXPI9300PT x 2 (+ a cheapo 100mb card for Internet connection) or Intel PCI-E 10/100/1000 EXPI9300PT x 3 -- The last option has the advantage of a homogenous setup, the second third would be cheapest the second leaves the most pci-e ports available thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Issue with intel's cluster openmp
I'm trying to run intel's cluster openmp on my machine. For some reason it
crashes with a SIGBUS (Bus Error) when I run it on my machine. The exact same
executable with the same libraries works fine on a different one (although it
is itanium).
I'm guessing that I got some memroy configuration wrond in the kernel. I got
some reference that /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space needs to be set to zero
but that doesn't seem to help.
Running the program (a very simple hello world program) through strace shows
that it's crashing at
[...]
munmap(0x7f7ff000, 4194304) = 0
getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0
sysinfo({uptime=1112, loads=[18880, 14240, 12192] totalram=2091474944,
freeram=1390821376, sharedram=0, bufferram=622592} totalswap=6138953728,
freeswap=6138953728, procs=122}) = 0
statfs("/tmp", {f_type=0x58465342, f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=35835794,
f_bfree=12664879, f_bavail=12664879, f_files=143413184, f_ffree=142913999,
f_fsid={2050, 0}, f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0
brk(0x248c000) = 0x248c000
open("/tmp/__itmk_swap.6482", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = 3
unlink("/tmp/__itmk_swap.6482") = 0
lseek(3, 268435455, SEEK_END) = 268435455
write(3, "\0"..., 1)= 1
mmap(0x7fffdf3fb000, 536870912, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0) = 0x7fffdf3fb000
--- SIGBUS (Bus error) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGBUS +++
My guess is that mmpat with MAP_FIXED is what's crashing (it depends on the
program always using the same memory addresses for dynamic memory).
I'd be glad for any ideas
Thanks
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Re: Issue with intel's cluster openmp
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:09:34 +0100 michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12 Sep 2008, at 02:57, Micha wrote: > > > I'm trying to run intel's cluster openmp on my machine. For some > > reason it > > crashes with a SIGBUS (Bus Error) when I run it on my machine. The > > exact same > > executable with the same libraries works fine on a different one > > (although it > > is itanium). > > are you saying that you're moving an executable from one arch (not > stated) to another (Itanium) and it works for the latter but not the > former? What arch[itecture] is the former??? M > > It was compiled under core 2 duo running 64 bit linux and compiler. Thinking about it, this may be the issue although I tried to force it to compile for the core due and it didn't help. Will try again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Issue with intel's cluster openmp
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:01:38 +0300 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:09:34 +0100 > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 12 Sep 2008, at 02:57, Micha wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to run intel's cluster openmp on my machine. For some > > > reason it > > > crashes with a SIGBUS (Bus Error) when I run it on my machine. The > > > exact same > > > executable with the same libraries works fine on a different one > > > (although it > > > is itanium). > > > > are you saying that you're moving an executable from one arch (not > > stated) to another (Itanium) and it works for the latter but not the > > former? What arch[itecture] is the former??? M > > > > > > It was compiled under core 2 duo running 64 bit linux and compiler. > Thinking about it, this may be the issue although I tried to force it to > compile for the core due and it didn't help. Will try again. > > checked it out with all compiling options I could think of, doesn't seem to be an itanium issue but rather and mmpa issue. This line is whats failing and I'm guessing due to kernel options (this is a custom kernel) mmap(0x7fffdf3fb000, 536870912, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system
After my camera died on a recent trip I bought a new one (nikon s52 if it helps). Due to some bug and bad timing on button presses the camera trashed the file system somehow. Based on the number of images it can write to disk it seems that the images are still there, but what I see under the directory is some directories with trashed file names that can't be used and some files with a size of 1TB that are junk (on a 2GB card). I'm looking for a way to rescue the images (jpegs) if possible. I tried rstudio under windows but it only found some AVIs but not the images (at least using the basic settings). Are there any programs (linux, windows or mac) that may be able to recover the images, or any other way to do it? It was a new (and formated) card so that there is a chance that the images written in some order but I don't know enough about this hardware. The card is a 2GB transcend secure digital (sd) thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:07:44 +0100 Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: > > > Micha a écrit : > >> After my camera died on a recent trip I bought a new one (nikon s52 if it > >> helps). Due to some bug and bad timing on button presses the camera > >> trashed the file system somehow. Based on the number of images it can > >> write to disk it seems that the images are still there, but what I see > >> under the directory is some directories with trashed file names that > >> can't be used and some files with a size of 1TB that are junk (on a 2GB > >> card). > >> > >> I'm looking for a way to rescue the images (jpegs) if possible. I tried > >> rstudio under windows but it only found some AVIs but not the images (at > >> least using the basic settings). > >> > >> Are there any programs (linux, windows or mac) that may be able to > >> recover the images, or any other way to do it? > >> > >> It was a new (and formated) card so that there is a chance that the > >> images written in some order but I don't know enough about this hardware. > >> > >> The card is a 2GB transcend secure digital (sd) > >> > >> thanks > >> > >> > > Hi, > > > > with Linux I guess Tesdisk and Photorec are your best bet, photorec did > > a great job for me once. With windows and Mac I guess products from > > diskinternals.com and prosofteng.com can do a similar job through a nice > > gui, but they don't come for cheap. > > If you want win/mac freeware just have a look on softpedia.com. > > > > Tom > > > > > > why don't try a card reader > I tried 3. I wouldn't be able to access the card at all without one ... Like I said, it's not the card that's the problem it's the file system that is ruined, and even that partially, it's the file inodes (or whatever they are called under fat) or directory entries that were junked. I'm guessing that due to some concurrent read/write without a mutex or something like that. > regards > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:06:51 + "thveillon.debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha a écrit : > > After my camera died on a recent trip I bought a new one (nikon s52 if it > > helps). Due to some bug and bad timing on button presses the camera trashed > > the file system somehow. Based on the number of images it can write to disk > > it seems that the images are still there, but what I see under the > > directory is some directories with trashed file names that can't be used > > and some files with a size of 1TB that are junk (on a 2GB card). > > > > I'm looking for a way to rescue the images (jpegs) if possible. I tried > > rstudio under windows but it only found some AVIs but not the images (at > > least using the basic settings). > > > > Are there any programs (linux, windows or mac) that may be able to recover > > the images, or any other way to do it? > > > > It was a new (and formated) card so that there is a chance that the images > > written in some order but I don't know enough about this hardware. > > > > The card is a 2GB transcend secure digital (sd) > > > > thanks > > > > > Hi, > > with Linux I guess Tesdisk and Photorec are your best bet, photorec did > a great job for me once. With windows and Mac I guess products from > diskinternals.com and prosofteng.com can do a similar job through a nice > gui, but they don't come for cheap. > If you want win/mac freeware just have a look on softpedia.com. > Thanks, you saved my @ss. Photorec did the job whithout a hitch. Took the windows programs half an hour to find nothing. Photorec found all the lost images in 2 minutes. > Tom > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hunting a Math Application
Octave is getting more mature and is much more usable these days. It is mostly matlab compatible in syntax. scilab used to be better than octave, don't know the state at the moment, but the syntax is different than matlab. PDL as mentioned is a perl extention that also has a limited command line interface. Very not matlab. If you want programing libraries, the linear algebra standards are blas for vector and matrix operations and lapack for linear systems. There is a free library and the intel optimized version is also free for personal use under linux (mkl). There are a multitued of other libraries if you tell your requirements I can sujest a few. For programing by the way, fortran is a lot closer to matlab than c/c++ and for mathematical work (matrices mainly) can be a lot more powerful. you can also always get a free matlab compatible matlab from bittorrent ;-) On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 18:18:25 -0500 Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10:36 Sun 26 Oct , Wu, Kejia wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? > > > > I feel very grateful to any suggestion. > > > > > Another idea, is pdl which is a very powerful math system based > upon perl. you can do major matrix calculations and data > visualization all in a very perlish way. > > it was built by astronomers who wanted a free matlab based on > a great and natural scripting language. > > it is awesome. > > i also use maxima and xmaxima and octave. > > mitchell > > > > > > Regards, > > Kejia > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hunting a Math Application
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:01:37 -0600 "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > 2008/11/3 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > you can also always get a free matlab compatible matlab from bittorrent ;-) > > I have strong opinions as to why this is not a viable solution: > > http://everything2.com/title/mathematica+and+free+software > It was meant as a joke, that's why the smiley is there. And as for your post I only partly agree with it. Yes, it would be nice if it would be completely free, but also software development costs money, and you see where the free projects stand with relation to the costly ones. I don't really use mathematica so I don't know much about it, but at least with matlab, for a lot of the important mathematical functions it gives you references to what algorithms it's implementing. What they don't give you is their optimization and source code . By the way, again for mathematica, there are a lot of open source libraries that you can use to achieve the same goal. Some of them are actually used for mathematica. The main thing that they are selling you is actually the user interface. > Cheers, > - Jordi G. H. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slim Desktop Manager
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:46:56 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:25:07AM -0600, lee wrote: > > Well, maybe I should learn more about using framebuffer stuff > > why? If you are satisfied with X, you have no real reasons. > I have to admit that even in X I have several consoles always open as they can make things work a lot better. I don't switch to the console for two reasons, I do use some X apps (I prefer to browse with firefox, and even that is not always enough due to badly written pages) and the second is that I like mouse copy/paste and I don't feel like setting up the mouse for the console. [ ... ] > > > (though > > openoffice still sucks to the point of unusability in that) > > the idea itself of a office suite sucks, and I have no use for it. > anything worth writing can and should be written in either text or latex (there are a few alternatives to latex, I admit). It will always look better than any office suite. [ ... ] > > > and phone software. > > I do not use them, but being audio (no video) I think that if and when a > console developer will need it, it will be ported. Obviously I am not > considering proprietary things. > There are text voip programs (forgot which one now, sorry). Albeight not skype though (but they are netmeeting compatible). [ ... ] > > > them, there might be a substitute than you can run on a console, but it > > is so much easier to use the GUI application. > > This is a very correct argument. It is the same as my argument, except > that (1) in my argument console and X interchange their roles; (b) in > your case you are equally able to use console and GUIs, and in my case I > ame completely lost with GUIs > I have run into one woman in one of the forums (escapes me which one at the moment) who couldn't use gui at all due to a visual disorder, she couldn't make out the layout. Have heard of a few others with similar problems, for starters, blind people would have a hard time using x, I don't know exactly how it works but there are Braille readers for the console. > > ATM, I have 5 terminals open plus claws plus firefox plus plan plus > > emacs, I'm logged in on two consoles and gnome-panel is running (to > > provide a few icons, the dictionary plugin and a clock). Eventually add > > gimp, gaim, gnumeric or openoffice, ekiga. How would I do that with > > only 6 available consoles? The wonders of screen and additional virtual consoles (I actually cut them down to 3 since I don't need more. [ ... ] > > > See the attached screenshots, one is of lynx, the other > > one is firefox, both showing the same forum. > > Now which one is more useable/user friendly? That would depend on your preferences, but I don't see why a text interface would be worse. Even in firefox I usually kill most flash and stuff and I'm left with text tables ... > > lynx. Infinitely. > > The first evident thing is colors. But one can configure both lynx and > mozilla to use (and force) whatever colors one prefers (infact, this is > one of the first things I do when I have to meet mozilla: edit > preferences ... fonts and colors, and set a sane minumum dimension for > fonts, and *force* a decent shaped font, and *force* colors like green > [or white] on black) > > The other evident thing is that lynx does not display annoing and > useless icons. But fortunately you can set mozilla such that it does not > display images automatically (unfortunately mozilla no more has a old > and useful feature of netscape: do not show images by default, but a > command can show the images in the displayed page without changing the > default. But there should exist mozilla extensions for this now) > [ ... ] > > Obviously, you can take a digital photo of the monitor, but I do not > have a digital (or not digital) camera, and I have no real interst in > images (even if I have a strong interst in music; the two things might > be related since is find images _very_ disturbing when listening or > playing music). > A different discussion, but there is actually a syndrome where people mix the senses and can hear pictures or see sounds. Personally I have a problem describing feelings in words since I feel and think more in color and images then words. I also prefer analog cameras since they have a lot more soul (same as records compares to cds) and I would still be using them if it weren't so difficult processing slide film where I live. [ ... ] > > You can do all that on a console. But isn't it so much easier to do it > > under X11? > Depends on your habits, way of thought, visual limitations and progrematic requirements. I do a lot of work in the console (x or vt) and then only thing I miss in the vt is the mouse which I never feel like setting up. [ ... ] > > > That would all be possible if there was a solution for the > > problem with the fonts. > > I am not convinced that my problem is _only_ with fonts. > sounds more like an issue w
Re: Very slim Desktop Manager
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:11:12 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/17/08 21:44, s. keeling wrote: > > Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I have to admit that even in X I have several consoles always open as > >> they can make things work a lot better. I don't switch to the console for > >> two reasons, I do use some X apps (I prefer to browse with firefox, and > >> even that is not always enough due to badly written pages) and the second > >> is that I like mouse copy/paste and I don't feel like setting up the mouse > >> for the console. > > > > Not to mention, gpm config is a black art. I have no clue how to gpm > > my mouse, and haven't for years. > > The Shame, oh The Shame! > > > I knew how long ago, but gpm is not > > easy these days. > > Time to install Vista... > Wouldn't do it if my life depended on it ;-) > > What protocol does a three button, serial, logitech > > mouse use? None of what I've tried work. M/N:M-M35? > > I played with it at the time but I still have the trauma of trying to properly configure gpm to work with the touch pad and an external mouse and make all this cooperate with X while keeping the scrolling feature of synaptic in X and allow the external mouse to be hotplugable. I guess I'm scared of trying to integrate the previous with a bluetooth mouse ... > $ apt-cache show mdetect > Package: mdetect > Priority: optional > Section: utils > Installed-Size: 40 > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 0.5.2.1 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) > Filename: pool/main/m/mdetect/mdetect_0.5.2.1_i386.deb > Size: 16516 > MD5sum: 0efa44bd926f8d9782b601c3cc8ab20d > SHA1: fe27a7d522abece6f6fdb1b7bb84fd77c2df08a4 > SHA256: 97d50dd128e444c98aae7e118c03c878df4ff7aa7414048af7fb0b930ba3e702 > Description: mouse device autodetection tool > mdetect is a tool for autoconfiguring mice; it is typically used > as the > backend to some user-friendly frontend code. mdetect writes the > autodetected > mouse device and protocol (as used by gpm) to standard output. It > can be > invoked so as to produce output appropriate for XFree86 X server > configuration files. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slim Desktop Manager
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:15:15 -0600 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:44:54AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > > > Not to mention, gpm config is a black art. I have no clue how to gpm > > my mouse, and haven't for years. I knew how long ago, but gpm is not > > easy these days. What protocol does a three button, serial, logitech > > mouse use? None of what I've tried work. M/N:M-M35? > > It worked out of the box for me, I have a Logitech Trackman Marble > FX. It has 4 buttons, and at least three of them work. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/gpm.conf > # /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1) > # > # If mouse response seems to be to slow, try using > # responsiveness=15. append can contain any random arguments to be > # appended to the commandline. > # > # If you edit this file by hand, please be aware it is sourced by > # /etc/init.d/gpm and thus all shell meta characters must be > # protected from evaluation (i.e. by quoting them). > # > # This file is used by /etc/init.d/gpm and can be modified by > # "dpkg-reconfigure gpm" or by hand at your option. > # > device=/dev/input/mice > responsiveness= > repeat_type=none > type=exps2 > append='' > sample_rate= > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > What gpm doesn't like is when by using setfont the number of lines on > the screen changes, but restarting it fixes that. It eventually > doesn't like starting X11, but that is probably because I still have > X11 configured to access the mouse instead of using gpm because I > didn't use gpm before. For the protocol: > > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" > EndSection > > but then I lose the touchpad capabilities related to synaptic such as scrolling and tap lock to drag, no? > Just give it a try and install it, if it doesn't work, you can still > remove it. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xft description of a font
I am running compiz (using fusion icon) for some unknown reason at the moment and for some reason if I run urxvt without xft fonts then occationally it stops drawing some of the text properly (messes it up) so to keep things short, I'm looking for how to describe my favorite font as a xft font I currently have in .Xresources: URxvt.font: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 which i believe should translate to an etl font how do i translate it to something that would work with -fn command line as the following doesn't produce the desired font urxvt -fn "xft:family=Fixed:foundary=etl:weight=medium:pixelsize=16.0" -rv thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:00:56 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I struggled to get 4965 wireless working on my TravelMate 6592, and > succeeded only once having installed firmware-iwlwifi from non-free. > Is there a way to achieve this without going the non-free route? > > Here's the relevant line from "lspci -v": > > 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or > AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) > Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1101 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 218 > Memory at c800 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > Capabilities: > Kernel driver in use: iwl4965 > Kernel modules: iwl4965 > > I'm guessing it's a mini-pci, although it doesn't make a difference. That card will not work without the non-free firmware. If you don't want to use non-free firmware you need to buy a card that doesn't require firmware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternative to network-manager
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:21:38 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Brian McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:49 AM > > Subject: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager > > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would > > > like to avoid using it. > > > > Debateable, but hey - it's your computer. > > > > >So, is there any other graphical tool that allows for easy set-up > of > > > networking (especially wireless), listing networks in reach and > allowing > > > automatic connection to them? > > > > Try http://wicd.sourceforge.net > > I have never had a problem with network manager after the Ubuntu 7.10 > release. No problems in Debian; no problems in Ubuntu. I am not sure why > there is so much hate against it. Maybe I am that lucky user for this > package. ;-) > At least for me, it disconnects the network a lot and occasionally requires a full restart if the wireless ap restarts (an issue with the cheaper home routers that occasionally lock up) > Still, I have never heard of wicd and I have to admit it looks pretty > good. There are certainly a few options that I wish network-manager had. > Do you use it? Or did you just stumble across it? I am contemplating > installing it on my dev box when I get home... > > Thanks for the suggestion! > ~S~ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:06 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:48:46AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would > > > like to avoid using it. > > > > Debateable, but hey - it's your computer. > > > I was actually surprised to find it enabled by default in some recent > Lenny installations. > > > > > >So, is there any other graphical tool that allows for easy set-up of > > > networking (especially wireless), listing networks in reach and allowing > > > automatic connection to them? > > > > Try http://wicd.sourceforge.net > > Anybody bothered packaging it for Debian? > From the download page on sourceforge it turns that you should add to apt sources: deb http://apt.wicd.net sid extras -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:06:13 +0800 "中和刘" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when a user visit my website, it's easy to get the ip address of the > user, but i think IP address is not as stable as mac address, so I > hope I can get the mac address of the user according to its IP > address, is it possible? thanks > It's not possible. You can only get mac addresses using arp on the local lan. You can't even be sure that you got a correct ip address if your users are going through a proxy or nat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian non-us
It doesn't exist anymore for new releases for quite some time now. unless you installed a very long time ago things from non-us that were deprecated since then you can safely remove it (and I double that there are such packages, certainly nothing important) On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:41:33 -0500 Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running stable and I just noticed that non-us.debian.org is not > available and "apt-get update" gives me a bunch of errors. > > I understand that the law has changed over here and that I may not need > this any more in my sources.list. > > Now, is there a document that would confirm this and explain what I > should do to fix this. > > I have a feeling I just need to remove references to non-us mirrors in > /etc/sources.list and run apt-get update but I don't want to hose my > debian system either. > > Thanks! > > CJ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:59:29 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian-multimedia now has a native 64 bit flashplayer in Experimental. I > haven't tried it yet so I don't know how well it works. I tried that one and it didn't work initially with nspluginwrapter installed. I downloaded it directly now and installed and during installation I found out that nspluginwrapter left some files behind. Now that I've removed them it works fine. Don't know if the original experimental version from multimedia.org works also (I just overwritten that version with the downloaded one). by the way, nspluginwraper tends to be a very serious cpu hogger, don't know if it's that or flash but we'll see in a bit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:36:11 -0800 Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 16:44 +0200, Micha wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:59:29 -0600 > > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Debian-multimedia now has a native 64 bit flashplayer in Experimental. I > > > haven't tried it yet so I don't know how well it works. > > > > I tried that one and it didn't work initially with nspluginwrapter > > installed. I downloaded it directly now and installed and during > > installation I found out that nspluginwrapter left some files behind. Now > > that I've removed them it works fine. Don't know if the original > > experimental version from multimedia.org works also (I just overwritten > > that version with the downloaded one). > > > > by the way, nspluginwraper tends to be a very serious cpu hogger, don't > > know if it's that or flash but we'll see in a bit > > There isn't a 64-bit acroreader plugin yet, is there? nspluginwrapper > is needed for that as well... It is a renegade app on our systems, > leaving ld-linux.so.2 hanging after any use, which then slowly chews up > memory until the system grinds to a halt. > without the acroread plugin it should just open pdf files in an external acrobat reader which is a preferably behaviour as far as I'm concerned so I don't use it. > > Kenward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X
On 17/03/2010 16:57, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Micha Feigin schreef: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on the touchpad again with the modern debian? It used to be in xorg.conf then it was hal with a file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/, what is it now? I'm using debian unstable with xfce as windows manager (so gnome/kde settings are not relevant) Thanks Ok, if I get things correctly, I need to setup a udev rule for each mouse (touchpad, trackpoint, bluetooth mouse) to set the options for each one. Is there a reference somewhere as to how to do this? I think you'll find some infor on https://wiki.kubuntu.org/X/InputConfiguration Dou you have a synaptics touchpad? When I get home, I can mail you my udev rule for tapping and two-finger scrolling. Sjoerd Yes, it's a synaptic (it's a thinkpad t61) thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ba0f47a.5050...@post.tau.ac.il
Re: Interrupting a hibernate
Try escape, works with tux on ice,maybe others as well ב-18/03/2010, בשעה 04:11, alephn...@hcoop.net (Alok G. Singh) כתב/ה: When I was using uswsusp, hitting Backspace would interrupt the suspend. Now I just use pm-utils and there appears to be no way of cancelling a suspend once initiated. Is there a way ? -- Alok And Bruce is effectively building BruceIX -- Alan Cox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq8ucrba@klein.localdomain
Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)
On 18/03/2010 09:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:07:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: Therefore, I have no problem with proprietary Flash, even though I understand the problems that it causes. I wish that more proprietary software, such as Solidworks and MS Office, were available for Debian or Linux in general. Is there any real life functionality of MS Office that OpenOffice.org is not providing? My experience is that more than 90% of the users would be happy with Abiword+Gnumeric. The problem is collaboration. There are quite a few word documents that don't open properly in open office (hebrew usually typesets wrong, math doesn't work at all ...) Powerpoint files are also a complete mess in openoffice. Personally though I use lyx for anything I can get away with. Luckily in university mathematics no one knows word. Almost everyone apart for a few students that haven't converted yet use latex. But, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm aware that there are some applications that will not have free (as in free speech) replacements very soon. I'm thinking of Autocad and Photoshop[1] in particular. My only hope here is that as soon as GNU/Linux will have a big enough user-base (30%?) the respective companies will provide native GNU/Linux versions themselves. [1] no, Gimp is no Photoshop replacement for professional use definitely true Regards, Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ba1e1fb.2010...@post.tau.ac.il
