Re: Xorg Freezes, only root..

2006-06-09 Thread Cederik León De León Acuña
Hi All: Christopher, many thanks for all your recomendations: problem solved, Basically i had a lot of self compiled packages such KDE and many others, the problem was the major libc6 family upgrade, conflicts with my old packages and new libs, etc, ... Erasing the ancient packages and runing

Re: CUPS 1.2: /dev uris will not work (by design)

2006-06-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:32:49AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > E [09/Jun/2006:13:14:16 -0400] [Job 112] Unable to open USB device > > "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": Success > > Re-add the printer to CUPS using a supported URI (which will use the > printer's serial number or something like

Re: Save to set folder with mutt

2006-06-09 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:01:29PM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I receive mail form debian-user and have always sent it to my > debian-user folder using "C" then deleting it from my inbox. Is there an > easier way to have all emails from debian-user sent to my debian-user > folder automatically af

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:55:01PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > That seems to explain my playout problems. The remaining issue, which > seems to be unrelated, is my inability to rip... have you tried using 'abcde'? it seems more fault-tolerant than KAudioCreator was on my system. it also may

Re: loading module on boot

2006-06-09 Thread David Zelinsky
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 23:18:39 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote: > >I can't get ide-cd to load automatically on boot. I put it in > >/dev/modules-2.6 and the boot messages say it's being loaded, but when > >I log in and run lsmod it's not there, and udev

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-06-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 12 May 2006 11:30:12 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is what maildir format is. A maildir is a directory with lots of > text files in them. each text file is a single email with all its info > intact. My setup (for a long time) (optional fetchmail), postfix

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/9/06, Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:41:17PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > I also had > to reboot for the server to actually be able to start, but I have no > idea why. The reboot might have cleared some temp file that was > confusing it. This ma

Re: cups 1.2: (usb) printer supposedly not connected

2006-06-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 09 Jun 2006, Rick Pasotto wrote: > So the printer *is* in fact connected. Why does CUPS think otherwise? /dev/usb/lp* URI, maybe? Delete the printer from CUPS and readd-it, that may fix it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the da

CUPS 1.2: /dev uris will not work (by design)

2006-06-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> E [09/Jun/2006:13:14:16 -0400] [Job 112] Unable to open USB device > "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": Success Re-add the printer to CUPS using a supported URI (which will use the printer's serial number or something like that). This is true for all USB, and probably all parport URIs. I have no idea what i

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:41:17PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > I also had > to reboot for the server to actually be able to start, but I have no > idea why. The reboot might have cleared some temp file that was > confusing it. This may sound silly, but did you try a '/etc/init.d/dm stop && /

Re: problem with etch2 netinstaller on laptop

2006-06-09 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:27:23PM +0400, Maxim Mezhekov wrote: > Trying to install Ubuntu 6.06 or Fedora Core 5 it's were best desktop linux. We're not trying to establish what's the 'best' desktop linux distro here. We're debian users supporting the needs of other debian users. If you don't lik

Re: problem with etch2 netinstaller on laptop

2006-06-09 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:16:46PM +0200, Roberto Bernetti wrote: > Hi > I'm trying to install Debian on a fujitsu-siemens Si1520 with the following > characteristics: > I experienced the following problems: > the sarge netinstaller is not able to detect the Hard Drive so I tried to use > the

Totem?

2006-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
We discussed totem on this list a few weeks back, and people said I should use 1.4 because 1.2 (what's in Etch) isn't that good. Since then, 1.4 hasn't moved into Etch, even though no bugs that I can see at bugs.debian.org would seem to prevent its doing so. I'm not a developer, maybe I just don'

Re: Xorg Freezes, only root..

2006-06-09 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:29:52AM -0500, Cederik León De León Acuña wrote: > Hi all: > > After an dist-upgrade, only root can use the xwindows system, in XFREE > 4 i had no problem, but since yesterday the XFREE -> Xorg "upgrade" > turns my Laptop, almost unusable under X ... > > I figured out t

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:23:20AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Why? Because WauWau, Havoc, and the rest of their happy-go-lucky band are convinced that they know far, far, far better than you how you should be using your computer. Which would be fine, after all... it's easy to ignore Gnome. Except

Re: install app.rpm in Debian Stable?

2006-06-09 Thread John Hasler
Dee writes: > Is it simple to add rpm support to Debian? There is an rpm package for Debian. _Don't_ _use_ _it_. It is only there to support the 'alien' package (and also for LSB, but you don't need to know about that). Install alien and use it to convert the rpm to a deb if you must. > I have

xrog upgrade borked ALOT

2006-06-09 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Debian testing. After doing an upgrade earlier this week, and having xorg upgraded, the following; ical Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name "Black" mrxvt mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: can't determine colour: Black mrxvt: aborting emacs

Re: 2.6.15.1 kernel upgrade and DRI problem solved

2006-06-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:53:30 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:08:36 +0200 > Frank Blendinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you (have to) use a kernel < 2.6.16 you could try adding 'Option > > "OldDmaInit" "TRUE"' to your xorg.conf as they suggest the

install app.rpm in Debian Stable?

2006-06-09 Thread W.D.McKinney
Is it simple to add rpm support to Debian? I have an app that only comes in rpm format I need to run. -Dee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cups 1.2: (usb) printer supposedly not connected

2006-06-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
After upgrading CUPS the other day it now claims that my usb printer is not connected. If I physically disconnect the usb cable from the computer and then reconnect it the logfile shows: Jun 9 22:04:53 mnr kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 5 Jun 9 22:04:53 mnr kernel: drivers/usb/class/us

Re: 2.6.15.1 kernel upgrade and DRI problem

2006-06-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:08:36 +0200 Frank Blendinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you (have to) use a kernel < 2.6.16 you could try adding 'Option > "OldDmaInit" "TRUE"' to your xorg.conf as they suggest there. I haven't > tried for myself though, I'm running fine with a 2.6.16 kernel now. Agai

Re: 2.6.15.1 kernel upgrade and DRI problem

2006-06-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:40:13 +0200 Frank Blendinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem with a G400 and solved it by installing a 2.6.16 > kernel (debian package did it for me). Thanks, Frank. I'll pursue that route. One question, when you say "debian package did it for me") do yo

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:51:53 -0500 Ron Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David R. Litwin wrote: [snip] > > Note that there are no swap partitions. This is because I use > swap *files*, which give you much more flexibilit

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:51:53 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David R. Litwin wrote: > > Hallo friendly list: > > > > I've decided that windows has to go and a swap has to come. So, I'm a gonna > > clear the hard drive of my Toshi

Re: New DVD+-R/RW/RAM drive

2006-06-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
So far it's okay. I was able to burn a CD and read it okay. (However cdrecord and cdrdao both have this thing about not recognizing the cd in the drive after burning; I needed to eject and reinsert the cd to get the cd to mount.) The DVD-RAM part works okay too though only if formatted with an

Re: Re: Slow Dell M70

2006-06-09 Thread oscar
>Which distribution are you running? -I am using Debian testing 2.6.16.9, with xorg 7.0.20. >What is your video card? -My video card is Nvidia Quadro FX G01400 and trying to use nvidia driver 8762. >Are there any third party software installed? -No third party software installed. >Assuming you ar

ejecting CD in a program....

2006-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone know the reason for this mysterious behaviour?: I am writing a little application which has to wait for a CD to be loaded into the drive, obtain some data from the CD, and then eject it ready for the next one What I have found is that if there is initially no CD in the drive, the progr

Make Note - debian-user@lists.debian.org

2006-06-09 Thread Library
Our hours have changed! Please be advised we are open for our summer hours now. If you are not currently using the museum, please disregard this message. Please - do not reply, this mailbox is not checked. Notification for: debian-user@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: X applications won't run after xorg upgrade [Update]

2006-06-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > swhe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On 6/8/06, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Florian Kulzer([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > >> > > >> A number of people seem to have problems with the upgrade,

Re: x11 and unplugging / plugging usb mouse w/o restarting X11 ?

2006-06-09 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Johannes Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-09 23:14]: > is it possible to unplug / plug an usb mouse w/o restarting the > x server (and the mouse recognized again by X11 if it's plugged > in)? Yes. I just did so to verify it ;-) (using Xorg 7.0) - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PRO

Re: color management using free software?

2006-06-09 Thread Bruno Buys
David Purton wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:29:21PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: Hi all, I am trying to collect every piece of software/documentation about color management that can be done using free software, preferably under debian. I am planning to write a book about photography using f

x11 and unplugging / plugging usb mouse w/o restarting X11 ?

2006-06-09 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hi, is it possible to unplug / plug an usb mouse w/o restarting the x server (and the mouse recognized again by X11 if it's plugged in)? -- Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS 1.2: doesn't actually print

2006-06-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:36:06PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm on a complaint roll today. > > After upgrading cupsys to 1.2 (Etch), CUPS starts but my Laserjet 1012 is > always "not ready". Yes, it is, Mr. Computer. I can print to it fine from > a Windows box, for instance. > > I'm not a newb

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-09 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-09 04:25]: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am 2006-05-26 19:08:47, schrieb Felix C. Stegerman: > > > > > So it comes down to: > > > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on a production server when it > > > comes to security? > > > > YE

Re: Debian stable & SATA drive

2006-06-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:49:32AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:23 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:09:40PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > I have a running system using Debian stable. I want to use stable, but > > > am planning on changi

Re: slow loading of GTK programs

2006-06-09 Thread David Siroky (net)
Well, I'll answer myself - the second question was correct - there are caches which need to be built - fonts cache (fc-cache) and themes cache (gtk-update-icon-cache). Created cache files had only read rights for user root (maybe depends on umask) so "chmod a+r" must be made. Have a nice day! D

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running etch on an AMD-64. I have (mostly) finished the xorg6.9 -> 7.0 transition, which you have probabl head about in mu other messages on this list. Have installed nvidia-kernel-drivers after building them from the nvidia-kernel-sou

Re: Save to set folder with mutt

2006-06-09 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:01:29PM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I receive mail form debian-user and have always sent it to my > debian-user folder using "C" then deleting it from my inbox. Is there an > easier way to have all emails from debian-user sent to my debian-user > folder automatically af

help me

2006-06-09 Thread mumtaz hassan
Dear Sir     For my attempt to obtain my password by using LINUX operating system , I encounter some problems. While I received message contain on "sorry is cannot, interface, but the access concentrator of your provider did not respond. Please check your network and modem cables. Another reaso

Sony USB camera mounts read-only

2006-06-09 Thread Larry Hunter
Folks, I recently purchased a Sony DSC N-1 camera. Plug it into to two different debian boxes (both running fairly current unstable distributions on kernel 2.6.16-2) and it nicely automounts as a USB drive. However, it mounts read only, which is problematic. I'm just looking at the internal me

Save to set folder with mutt

2006-06-09 Thread Joseph Smidt
I receive mail form debian-user and have always sent it to my debian-user folder using "C" then deleting it from my inbox. Is there an easier way to have all emails from debian-user sent to my debian-user folder automatically after I read it? -- -

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:03:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:00:32PM +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > ?ann 2006-06-09, 08:57:21 (-0400) skrifa?i [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > > > > > which complains > > > > > > xserver-xorg

alsa underruns on 2.6.16-ck11

2006-06-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I am getting alsa underruns while running mpg321 in a textconsole in kernel 2.6.16-ck11. I am also getting them with xmms if I run the nv driver in either xorg (sid) or xfree86 (sarge), but *not* when I run the closed source nvidia driver. Anybody else have alsa sound troubles with lat

I/O errors with Dell PV122T Autoloader

2006-06-09 Thread Tim Boring
Does anyone have any experience with a Dell PowerVault 122T Autoloader? I'm trying to get one set up on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server running Sarge, but I'm getting I/O errors. Here's what I've done so far: 1. I've confirmed that the o/s recognizes the autoloader. After a reboot, a quick check of

php4-sybase bug?

2006-06-09 Thread Mark Rinaudo
I'm running Sarge with all the latest security updates. I'm running Apache, php4 with the php4-sybase module installed for the application to hit a MSSQL 2000 server. I installed everything via apt-get. It installed php4 4.3.10-16 and all of this dependent packages including php4-sybase 4.3.10-16

Re: problem with etch2 netinstaller on laptop

2006-06-09 Thread Maxim Mezhekov
Trying to install Ubuntu 6.06 or Fedora Core 5 it's were best desktop linux.On 6/9/06, Roberto Bernetti < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:HiI'm trying to install Debian on a fujitsu-siemens Si1520 with the following characteristics:processor centrino duo t2300video intel 945gmnic intel pro/100 and w3945ab

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:59:41AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes,

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:38:37PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:20:16 +0200 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However if I attempt to play an audio CD using KsCD, it displays the > > track name and duration correctly and the counter counts up plausibly, > > but n

Re: mail delivery

2006-06-09 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:17:42PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Csanyi Pal wrote: > > > >>What are the contents of /etc/mailname? Does exim use it? > > > > The contents of /etc/mailname is: > > > > csanyipal.info > > > > How can I know does exim use it? > > > Obviously, Exim is not us

Re: firefox connects to undesired place

2006-06-09 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 09 June 2006 10:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > by doing > > lsof -i > > I have noticed that firefox connects my box to > > aXXX-XXX-X-XXX.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com Akmai is a load sharing network. Many sites use it. Can't do anything about it except not use those sites

Re: monitoring network uptime

2006-06-09 Thread Ali Jawad
If you setup an apache server...you might wana check out several php scripts available online which might provide you with all the info you requested..check out darkstat and check out...systeminfoand others...On 6/9/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks,I have a server running in a

firefox connects to undesired place

2006-06-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, by doing lsof -i I have noticed that firefox connects my box to aXXX-XXX-X-XXX.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com where X stands for a decimal digit. I do not like it: since my observation I am trying to filter cookies, but apparently this come from somewhere else. Any idea ? Jero

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:20:16 +0200 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However if I attempt to play an audio CD using KsCD, it displays the > track name and duration correctly and the counter counts up plausibly, > but no audio is produced, even with all faders fully up. Try Digital-Aufdio-

slow loading of GTK programs

2006-06-09 Thread David Siroky (net)
Hi! Today I made an upgrade of my Debian (unstable) system. I was a hell with those x11-common dependencies :-) But now almost everything is fine except all GTK programs are starting very long time. Much longer then before the upgrade. I used "strace" and I realized that those programs are trying

Debian install server / local mirror for netwrok install, without using any of the internet debian mirror / just two downloaded DVDs?

2006-06-09 Thread Muhammad Kamran Azeem
Hello and greetings, This is my first mail to debian community, so I would not like to throw my question straight on your face. First my intro: I am with RedHat for past 5 years, and I know I can manage things. Clustering is one thing which is sort of forcing me to have a taste of debian too.

Re: How to install acroread

2006-06-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On 6/9/06, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok thanks to everybody here is what I did sudo echo "deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907 gpg --armor --export 1F41B907 | sudo apt-key

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > > Yes, you are right - Totem does appear to play CD's just fine. > > > (although it do

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > Yes, you are right - Totem does appear to play CD's just fine. > > (although it does seem to be lacking freedb support for nameing tracks) > > my first g

CUPS 1.2: doesn't actually print

2006-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
I'm on a complaint roll today. After upgrading cupsys to 1.2 (Etch), CUPS starts but my Laserjet 1012 is always "not ready". Yes, it is, Mr. Computer. I can print to it fine from a Windows box, for instance. I'm not a newbie, so I thought I'd use the logs to figure out the problem. Here is the

Re: Re: samba domain controller

2006-06-09 Thread Ejay Hire
First, Please forgive me for breaking the in-reply-to header. I had this identical problem today, and was able to solve it by adding an A record for the server to the default dns suffix domain of the pc's. I.e. our domain is bollocks.com, and the server is pdc.bollocks.com. The dns suffix on the

Re: How to install acroread

2006-06-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Ok thanks to everybody here is what I did sudo echo "deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907 gpg --armor --export 1F41B907 | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install acroread

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:00:32PM +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > ?ann 2006-06-09, 08:57:21 (-0400) skrifa?i [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > > > which complains > > > > xserver-xorg postint warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been > > customised > > Hm

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 17:05 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:26:38PM +0300, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > > Are you able to play it in Totem? On my system Totem is the only player > > that plays audio CDs. Haven't bothered to fix the others - maybe one > > day. > > If Totem

monitoring network uptime

2006-06-09 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I have a server running in a University netowrk, and it periodically becomes inaccessible for hours at a time. I've spoken the the network admins, who aren't exactly linux- friendly, and they insist the problem must be with my box (I htink it's something to do with the ethernet jack & t

Re: How to install acroread

2006-06-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On 6/9/06, NZG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 09 June 2006 11:15 am, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I would like to know what is the recommended way to install acroread Have you tried kpdf? I ditched acroread a few months ago for it. I cannot find in the menu how t

OpenOffice Calc interface uses huge font size

2006-06-09 Thread George Borisov
Hello, I've just installed OpenOffice Calc on Debian (unstable) for the first time. The problem is that the interface font used it simply huge! I am running Xfce4. I have checked my DPI settings and these are set to 96x96. I have also tried the font replacement thing suggested in README.Debian b

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > Yes, you are right - Totem does appear to play CD's just fine. > (although it does seem to be lacking freedb support for nameing tracks) my first guess is that the other players are trying to play with a different sound system tha

Re: How to install acroread

2006-06-09 Thread Hugo Brites
On Friday 09 June 2006 17:15, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know what is the recommended way to install acroread > (I need Digital Signature support, and xpdf does not seems to handle > that). > There used to be a package in debian-unofficial, as indicated in a > google-

Re: How to install acroread

2006-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know what is the recommended way to install acroread > (I need Digital Signature support, and xpdf does not seems to handle > that). > There used to be a package in debian-unofficial, as indicate

Re: How to install acroread

2006-06-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On 6/9/06, NZG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 09 June 2006 11:15 am, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I would like to know what is the recommended way to install acroread Have you tried kpdf? I ditched acroread a few months ago for it. I cannot find in the menu how to import a public certificat

Re: How to install acroread

2006-06-09 Thread NZG
On Friday 09 June 2006 11:15 am, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >   I would like to know what is the recommended way to install acroread Have you tried kpdf? I ditched acroread a few months ago for it. NZG

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:26:38PM +0300, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > Are you able to play it in Totem? On my system Totem is the only player > that plays audio CDs. Haven't bothered to fix the others - maybe one > day. > If Totem also doesn't play, I have no more ideas. > Hi Nyizsnyik, Yes, you

Re: glibc-2.3.2.ds1 source not building

2006-06-09 Thread NZG
Yesterday I discovered that I can also build it on a stable distro, but I get the previously mentioned errors when I try to build on a testing distro. I am asssuming something about the build system has fundamentally changed between revisions. Can anyone shed more light on this? thx, NZG On T

How to install acroread

2006-06-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, I would like to know what is the recommended way to install acroread (I need Digital Signature support, and xpdf does not seems to handle that). There used to be a package in debian-unofficial, as indicated in a google-cache search in: http://www.debian-unofficial.org/packages.html but n

Re: Making a mixed audio and data CD with cdrecord?

2006-06-09 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-06-08, Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Googling for <> and < may > help, too. In particular, there's a "README.cdplus" floating around > that gives instructions on creating these kinds of discs. It's always easier to google for something when you know what it's really called! Th

Re: Why does Firefox's middlemouse.contentLoadURL keep getting reset?

2006-06-09 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-06-08, René Seindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The bizarre thing is that this is (as far as I can tell) the *only* >> customized behaviour that gets reset to the default. > > Add this to your user.js file in the profile directory: > > user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL",true); Thank

Re: External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to already have a partition table that contains a single partition, /dev/sda1. As you are talking about UFS and all those other file systems, my guess is that this is a Mac OS X volume or something - wh

Re: Debian stable & SATA drive

2006-06-09 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:23 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:09:40PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I have a running system using Debian stable. I want to use stable, but > > am planning on changing my hard drive configuration to include SATA. > > Sarge will detect

Re: External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread Arafangion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Could anybody offer any advice on the best route to get the drive > mounted ext3 on Sarge? Or, if indeed, I could just use the back-up > drive formatted UFS? The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to already have a partition table th

Re: Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:49 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I am experiencing a strange problem accessing audio CD's on Fujitsu > P7120 running Etch using the internal CD/DVD drive. Kernel is 2.6.15. > > I just tried playing an audio CD, which I wasn't expecting to have > trouble with because I know

Re: VMware free server beta

2006-06-09 Thread George Borisov
Linas Žvirblis wrote: > David Baron wrote: > >>> "elevator=cfq" >>> > > This sets a default I/O scheduler (a driver that organizes reads and > writes to a disk in a certain way) to CFQ. It should improve > interactivity, but can sometimes degrade performance. I did not read the > thread, so do no

Audio CD problems..

2006-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
I am experiencing a strange problem accessing audio CD's on Fujitsu P7120 running Etch using the internal CD/DVD drive. Kernel is 2.6.15. I just tried playing an audio CD, which I wasn't expecting to have trouble with because I know my audio is working (I have been playing WAV files using xmms and

Re: 2.6.15.1 kernel upgrade and DRI problem

2006-06-09 Thread Frank Blendinger
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:40:13PM +0200, Frank Blendinger wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:43:45PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > No, but that in itself doesn't explain why DRI would work in 2.6.12-1 > > and suddenly not work on 2.6.15-1. > > I had the same problem with a G400 and solved it by

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:23:20 -0400 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They're terrible. If GNOME has to be the basis for programs like > Firefox, surely they could avoid "different for different's sake" and > use standard selection dialogs. If I click on a file and want to > save it in a part

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-09, 08:57:21 (-0400) skrifaði [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > which complains > > xserver-xorg postint warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been > customised Hmm, seem to remember someone else posting about this a short while ago (within a month), ha

GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
They're terrible. If GNOME has to be the basis for programs like Firefox, surely they could avoid "different for different's sake" and use standard selection dialogs. If I click on a file and want to save it in a particular directory, it's minimum five clicks now and there's no way to visually na

Re: Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-09, 13:33:12 (+0100) skrifaði Digby Tarvin: > Looks more like a problem with booting to the wrong filesystem. We > probably need to know what the first few error messages were rather > that the final result. Have you changed to boot config recently? > What is the kernel command line?

Re: FreeNX package

2006-06-09 Thread Oliver Jato
hi, add this to your apt sources: deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/unstable/ sid nx deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/unstable/ sid nx Am Freitag, den 09.06.2006, 13:20 +0200 schrieb Benjamí Villoslada: > Exists one FreeNX official package? For Debian Sid. > > TIA > Gr

Re: 2.6.15.1 kernel upgrade and DRI problem

2006-06-09 Thread Frank Blendinger
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:43:45PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:31:25 +0200 > Žá??ek Kryštof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you have the libgl1-mesa-dri package installed? > > No, but that in itself doesn't explain why DRI would work in 2.6.12-1 > and suddenly not work

Can x11 be useful on a conference call?

2006-06-09 Thread Richard Bronosky
I seem to be on a conference call everyday where I have a horrible time communicating what would be easy to demonstrate in person. I keep thinking that we need to use one of our Debian work stations as a VNC server and have everyone on the call log in and watch as the presenter uses xterm, Firefo

External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread debian
Hi, all. I've recently installed Sarge on an old Pentium II machine via CD/Network as a test box to evaluate the system and am extremely impressed. I installed the Desktop environment and am using KDE 3.3 as my desktop. I've painlessly got it entered onto my LAN (sharing with OS X), got

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-09 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:09 PM 6/8/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Marty Landman wrote: 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread hendrik
I'm running etch on an AMD-64. I have (mostly) finished the xorg6.9 -> 7.0 transition, which you have probabl head about in mu other messages on this list. Have installed nvidia-kernel-drivers after building them from the nvidia-kernel-source package. I still have to get glx working, server-

problem with etch2 netinstaller on laptop

2006-06-09 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Hi I'm trying to install Debian on a fujitsu-siemens Si1520 with the following characteristics: processor centrino duo t2300 video intel 945gm nic intel pro/100 and w3945abg HD SATA fujitsu 60 GB cdrw/dvdRW DL NEC audio intel HDA I experienced the following problems: the sarge netinstaller is not

Re: Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:04:39AM -0400, Brent Clark wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > > >At 1149839151 past the epoch, Brent Clark wrote: > > > >>I seem to be experiencing problems booting up (Thank goodness for Knoppix) > >> > >>There are a host of errors, but the end message is: > >> > >>Target fi

Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-09 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-09, 05:27:46 (-0700) skrifaði Leonard Chatagnier: > How does one read in human readable terms a log file > that is a binary file such a faillog? There are other > binary log files that I would like to check but don't > know how. > I'm sure debian wouldn't put the file there if it > cou

Reading /VAR/LOG Files????

2006-06-09 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
How does one read in human readable terms a log file that is a binary file such a faillog? There are other binary log files that I would like to check but don't know how. I'm sure debian wouldn't put the file there if it couldn't be accessed in human readable terms; I'd just like to know how. An an

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-09 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:09:52PM -0400, Marty Landman wrote: > > >At 01:20 PM 6/5/2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >>Modern hard drives have a built-in self-diagnosis system called SMART. > >>The corresponding Debian package is called "smartmontools". You can > >>install this package (or boot f

Re: procmail postprocess directory in Maildir format howto?

2006-06-09 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149817191 past the epoch, mlaks wrote: > How do I run procmail on [a Maildir] to separate out the > files to other subdirectories. ... > the crucial line is formail -s procmail <.newmail && the -s flag to formail splits the input up into seperate mail messages and invokes the selected program

FreeNX package

2006-06-09 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Exists one FreeNX official package? For Debian Sid. TIA -- Benjamí http://blog.bitassa.cat .

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