Re: 3pg play-back and conversion

2006-06-20 Thread Surachai Locharoen
my mplayer can show video but no sound for me. I use realplayer for open that file. Surachai. เมื่อ อา. 2006-06-18 เวลา 22:00 +0200, LeVA เขียนว่า: 2006. június 18. 21:26, Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-kde@lists.debian.org,: > Hi > > Does anyone know of a programe that can play-back 3PG

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Bill Wohler wrote: In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well. I share the sentiments that the upgrade was a non-event for such a major upgrade (at le

RE: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Lynn Kilroy
From: Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main That was cr

Order of hardwaredetection

2006-06-20 Thread wim
Hi all, I recently upgraded my debian system from stable to testing but I have a little problem with my soundcards. The order detected by esd can change after a reboot so sometimes esd starts using the wrong device. Is there any way to force this detection? I guess I'll have to do it during

Re: SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:20:02 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] Is there an ATI Debian package? Yes, but only in unstable. The packages of interest are fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src. The latter can conveniently be built using module-assistant. I use t

Re: wlan in different environments -- one time with static network address, one time with dhcp

2006-06-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Johannes Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > how do I configure my network (w/o reediting /etc/network/interfaces > all the time) to work in different network environments: > > environment 1: static IP, static host name > environment 2: dynamic IP over dhcp > ? Install wh

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread Nate Duehr
David E. Fox wrote: Let's apply a little engineering here: If I restate your concerns as requirements, what do we come up with? Dar seems to be able to do the job (i.e., backup) well enough, although it is a bit clunky. But it does it better than mindi/mondo at a reasonable compression rate, w

Re: immigrate Debian from an older disk to a newer one?

2006-06-20 Thread John Miller
Don't forget about the master boot record and partition tables. I used mondorescue to mirror my desktop here at work, but I've also used dd with good results. I don't think a plain cp command would get the partition information, and anyhow, it's not likely that your new disk is partitioned with t

immigrate Debian from an older disk to a newer one?

2006-06-20 Thread Wei Hu
I'm planning to replace my older disk (13G) with a larger/newer hard disk (750G) and to maintain the machine as it is. what I want are replace the old disk with the new disk including the Debian (2.6.16) operating system and keep all the setups. Will it wok if I shutdown all daemons, copy all fil

Re: Netboot's vmlinuz for installer-i386 (Was: where is vmlinuz for netboot?

2006-06-20 Thread Joey Hess
Dr Bean wrote: > Checking this a bit more, I see that for installer-powerpc > netboot and netboot-minimal have vmlinuz (or vmlinux). Why is it > that for i386, on the other hand, there is no netboot vmlinuz? > > I think I am missing some knowledge that is assumed here. For i386 it's the file "li

Netboot's vmlinuz for installer-i386 (Was: where is vmlinuz for netboot?

2006-06-20 Thread Dr Bean
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, I wrote about my uncertainty about vmlinuz: > There are cd-rom and hd-media vmlinuz's but no netboot ones. > Should I actually be choosing the hd-media vmlinuz and initrd.gz, > rather than the netboot ones? Checking this a bit more, I see tha

Re: OT: DVD Writers

2006-06-20 Thread Jim Smith
David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:35:38 +0200 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know this is off-topic, but I am using a Debian box ;-) but can anyone recommend a decent DVD writer? Not off topic at all. Mine is a dual layer that came from CompUSA made

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Colin
Kent West wrote: > If you want the newest, cutting-est-edge stuff, you can add unstable (or > testing) to your file, and then you're likely to get updates a lot more > often. This is a bad thing to recommend to a newbie because they probably don't know how to get out of trouble when it occurs. -

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Colin
Default User wrote: > Hello. > This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: > > > > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > > >

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Wohler
Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:19 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > > > sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" > > > (totally off topic, but a thought maybe worth sharing:) > > I used to pull similar tricks to redirect output to a file writab

Re: multiple epiphany process SOLVED

2006-06-20 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
there is a bug in the script /usr/bin/liferea. it is already recorded as bug #364084 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364084) i now launch /usr/bin/liferea-bin directly and everything works just fine :) i hope this will help someone thanks and excuse me for the autosolved post

Re: Debian stable & SATA drive

2006-06-20 Thread Michael M.
Owen Heisler wrote: On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 14:19 -0700, Michael M. wrote: Owen Heisler wrote: This doesn't really answer my question; maybe you misunderstood (didn't understand my babbling). I just want to know how long it will be (date/release/revision) until Debian stable will work wi

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-20 Thread Joris
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:19 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" (totally off topic, but a thought maybe worth sharing:) I used to pull similar tricks to redirect output to a file writable only by root. it can be done without spawning a

Re: XMMS can no longer play CDs [solved]

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Wohler
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15.06.06 17:40, Bill Wohler wrote: >> As of the last update or two ago (etch), XMMS no longer plays CDs. > > It seems that you should add not /dev/cdrom, but the /cdrom/. The cd audio > player will substitute /cdrom/ for /dev/cdrom. Actually

Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Wohler
In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well. I share the sentiments that the upgrade was a non-event for such a major upgrade (at least now that the prob

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

2006-06-20 Thread DonDashGuitar
My thanks to Arthur H. Edwards and Greg Folkert for helping me resolve my video difficulties. As I suspected, my own lack of knowledge about computer video in general was the root problem. I can't prevent ignorance but I won't become complacent about it. The education, and the adventure, continu

USB mouse slow after logout

2006-06-20 Thread nikodeb nikodeb
Hi all,I have a problem with my SUN usb mouse under X.When I log into X I can use both touchpad and usb mouse, but when I logout from X the USB mouse is getting slow and impossible to use.while the touchpad still works fine. I have tried the following when the mouse is slow but the problem remains

Re: switching between desktop and consoles takes long time

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:39:14 -0400 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > > Is there anything which prevents you from installing the nvidia > > drivers again? On my old RIVA TNT2 64 switching between console and > > X takes about 2 seconds. > > > > http://packages.

Re: XMMS can no longer play CDs

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Wohler
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is actually being reported by other users [1] yet I couldn't get > into the Bugzilla as of June 19th., 1845 UTC. I browsed the README [2] > however and I found out that the author of the CD Audio Player module > says that you need to add the mou

Re: wlan in different environments -- one time with static network address, one time with dhcp

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:09:54 +0200 Johannes Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > how do I configure my network (w/o reediting /etc/network/interfaces > all the time) to work in different network environments: > > environment 1: static IP, static host name > environment 2:

Re: default utf8

2006-06-20 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Dienstag, 20. Juni 2006 11:27 schrieb Gabor KUM: > Hello! > > Can you somebody write me how to set utf8 file encoding as default > when opening a file in KDE applications? > I'm not sure what you mean. Do you have a text-file encoded in utf8 and it is not displayed correctly? Then you can look

Error on glide3 undefined symbol

2006-06-20 Thread Franco Gorziglia
Hello All,I'm a debian enthusiastic since three years ago, but I never can make the graphic acceleration work, but i feel that I'm close.Now I'm running debian sid with Xorg 7.0 and my card is a 3dfx Voodoo 5, and all seems right except when the system load the glide libraries, and this is what hap

wlan in different environments -- one time with static network address, one time with dhcp

2006-06-20 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hello, how do I configure my network (w/o reediting /etc/network/interfaces all the time) to work in different network environments: environment 1: static IP, static host name environment 2: dynamic IP over dhcp ? -- Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: altering middle-click behaviour in epiphany (was Re: multiple epiphany process)

2006-06-20 Thread Willie Wonka
I wrote; > I think Linux just mounted my 3 winblows partitions without me telling > it to -- I guess it's time to reboot ...but it's > likely more KDE's fault (and the lack of enough RAM) than the > underlying kernel's Yeppers; Once I finally closed down KDE (2 Windows - each with many Tabs),

Re: find dangling symlinks

2006-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Zellner wrote: > Hello, > > how do I find dangling symlinks? Visually, or all of them in a tree? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites a

Re: find dangling symlinks

2006-06-20 Thread Derek
try cleanlinksOn 6/20/06, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/20/06, Johannes Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> how do I find dangling symlinks?$ find -L -type lshould do it.  "-L" tells find to follow symlinks, and "-type l" (that's a lowercase ell) matches symlinks.  Since the only s

Re: find dangling symlinks

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/20/06, Johannes Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how do I find dangling symlinks? $ find -L -type l should do it. "-L" tells find to follow symlinks, and "-type l" (that's a lowercase ell) matches symlinks. Since the only symlinks that will show as symlinks when they're automatically

Re: find dangling symlinks

2006-06-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 22:16 +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: > Hello, > > how do I find dangling symlinks? Perhaps the package called "symlinks" would help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

find dangling symlinks

2006-06-20 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hello, how do I find dangling symlinks? -- Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ldap mailing list

2006-06-20 Thread John Miller
I don't know of any ldap-specific Debian lists. The debian-user list's probably a good place to start, along with the debian-isp list. The OpenLDAP lists are good as well, even though they're not Debian-specific. --John Brendan Simon wrote: Is there a more specific mailing list for ldap qu

Re: xcircuit in debian testing

2006-06-20 Thread Will
According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xcircuit.html , the maintainer of xcircuit has abandoned the package...so yeah, that might be an issue.  But it also said that the package was never entered into testing becuse of bugs, and because it says that it never had an older version in testing. O

RE: how to compile sarge's default kernel

2006-06-20 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
No it looks for modules in the -386 directory, as long as you try to compile the -386 kernel sources -Original Message- From: Serena Cantor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 4:46 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: how to compile sarge's default kernel I load

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Thompson
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:19:36 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. > > All I could get out of darmonizer was "waiting for the " > a

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Thompson
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 > > > > Incrementals are still going to take some time provided one has to > > load the backup media onto the system before proce

Re: altering middle-click behaviour in epiphany (was Re: multiple epiphany process)

2006-06-20 Thread Willie Wonka
Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1150783598 past the epoch, Willie Wonka wrote: > > Since Epiphany is based upon the XUL Gecko engine that > > Moz/FF uses (I think I said that correctly) - it also > > incorporates the magical--> 'about:config' > > Wow I didn't know that! I've been looking for a way of > d

xcircuit in debian testing

2006-06-20 Thread Carl Jackson
Hello, I am not sure who to contact regarding this. But xcircuit used to be in testing and as of this week 19 June, 2006 it has disappeared. It still appears to be listed in stable and unstable distributions. Can you please advise how to get it back into testing or who to contact? Thanks in

RE: apt-get'snt working

2006-06-20 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Have you tried to force install without dependencies? Have you it CTRL+C during installation?   What happens if you do apt-get install sendmail?   What is the output of apt-show-versions?   From: Fourat Zouari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 5:52 PM

Re: remote terminal

2006-06-20 Thread Kent West
edwardsa wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: How can I run some process in a telnet session close the session and live the previous process still run ? It is possible ? nohup (no hang up) is a unix command that allows a process continue. normal: runsomething option & (to background) to retain proc

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Kent West
Joey Hess wrote: Kent West wrote: somewhat meaningless to have a testing/unstable security line). It's no longer meaningless to have a security line for testing. Same format as the one you'd use for stable will work. Ah; thanks for the update. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Default User
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 12:54 -0500, Default User wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:54 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Default User wrote: > > > Hello. > > > This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: > > > > > > > > > > > > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > > > > > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Default User
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 12:46 -0500, Default User wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 18:52 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On 6/20/06, Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: > > > > > > > > > > > > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > > >

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:03 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 6/20/06, edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? > > I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm > > using metacity as the window mana

Re: remote terminal

2006-06-20 Thread edwardsa
nohup (no hang up) is a unix command that allows a process continue. normal: runsomething option & (to background) to retain process: nohup runsomething option & Art Edwards gustavo halperin wrote: Hello How can I run some process in a telnet session close the session and live the previous

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 edwardsa wrote: > I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new > schema > > focus_new_windows > > has two possible values: "smart" applies the user's normal focus > mode, and "strict" results in windows started from a terminal NOT

remote terminal

2006-06-20 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello How can I run some process in a telnet session close the session and live the previous process still run ? It is possible ? Thank you, Gustavo Halperin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newer twiki package?

2006-06-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 12:17, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > >One solution is to file a wishlist bug asking for a new version of > >twiki. You can use reportbug program to report bugs. > > There is already one sent 111 days ago without

Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome (your not going to believe this!)

2006-06-20 Thread edwardsa
I have just found the metacity.schemas file and find that a new schema focus_new_windows has two possible values: "smart" applies the user's normal focus mode, and "strict" results in windows started from a terminal NOT being given focus. Now, if I start a window from a terminal, why the hell w

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/15/06, Joseph Smidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I installed Debian I selected to not allow root login thinking that would enable sudo and disable root. But when I logged into gnome it kept asking for the root password to do admin things, so I set a root password and it works. How did

Re: Can I update unstable from USB memory stick?

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/18/06, Arafangion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 18 June 2006 14:37, Joseph Smidt wrote: > Is there a way I could download all the daily uploads for Unstable onto a > memory stick, take that memory stick home and update my computer from my > memory stick? I have a very complicated com

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Joey Hess
Kent West wrote: > somewhat meaningless to have a testing/unstable security line). It's no longer meaningless to have a security line for testing. Same format as the one you'd use for stable will work. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm using metacity as the window manager. Try Applications->System Tools->Configuration Editor on your Menu Ba

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: > In the previous incarnation of gnome/X11 (sarge), when I click on the > main window of an application, an associated window would be placed on > top of all applications. In the testing dis

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Kent West
Default User wrote: Hello. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main That was created by Debian S

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/20/06, Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-20 Thread Default User
Hello. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main That was created by Debian Stable after a fresh in

Re: switching between desktop and consoles takes long time

2006-06-20 Thread H.S.
Liam O'Toole wrote: Is there anything which prevents you from installing the nvidia drivers again? On my old RIVA TNT2 64 switching between console and X takes about 2 seconds. http://packages.debian.org/testing/x11/nvidia-glx-legacy I see that the nvidia-glx package is not available in Etch

Can't give focus to newly created windows: approximate repost

2006-06-20 Thread edwardsa
I'm running the standard window manager for gnome, metacity, and I cannot find a way to Automatically give focus to newly created windows Is this a "feature" of metacity? If not, where can I find the switch/file? Art Edwards -- Arthur H. Edwards Senior Research Physicist Air Force Research L

Re: Newer twiki package?

2006-06-20 Thread James Westby
On (20/06/06 18:17), Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > >One solution is to file a wishlist bug asking for a new version of > >twiki. You can use reportbug program to report bugs. > > There is already one sent 111 days ago without answer

altering middle-click behaviour in epiphany (was Re: multiple epiphany process)

2006-06-20 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1150783598 past the epoch, Willie Wonka wrote: > Since Epiphany is based upon the XUL Gecko engine that > Moz/FF uses (I think I said that correctly) - it also > incorporates the magical--> 'about:config' Wow I didn't know that! I've been looking for a way of disabling tabs in epiphany. So I br

Re: Newer twiki package?

2006-06-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: One solution is to file a wishlist bug asking for a new version of twiki. You can use reportbug program to report bugs. There is already one sent 111 days ago without answer of the maintainer. There is a bug concerning the s

Re: multiple epiphany process

2006-06-20 Thread Willie Wonka
Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: > Willie Wonka wrote: > > Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: > >> hello folks, > >> > >> i recently left firefox for epiphany (mch faster) but i > > experience > >> issues when opening links from external applications. > >> instead of opening links in a new tab in epiphany's window

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread edwardsa
Thanks for the response. How do I get to the window manager preferences? I have looked pretty carefully through the desktop preferences. I'm using metacity as the window manager. Art Edwards Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: In the previous incarnat

where is vmlinuz for netboot?

2006-06-20 Thread Dr Bean
I have a dual-boot computer with another linux distribution on it. I intend to install sarge using my GRUB bootloader, downloading everything over the network and overwriting the other distribution. I think this section of the installation guide applies to me. http://www.us.debian.org/./releases

Re: Etch upgrade breaks WP8 [SOLVED]

2006-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6/8/06, I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello:I don't know if it's a permanent break, but WP8 (that's the UN*X version of WordPerfect) throws a 'Floating point exception' after a current Etch upgrade. (Later, it started segfaulting instead.)After much hair-tearing (which I can ill afford) I finally

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-20 Thread Zane Dodson
Hello Anil, On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:36:49PM +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: | OK, I figured out the problem, but not the solution. The output is | actually from a SQL query. The output looks like this (when echoed): | | Serial_Number | TLO03 | | It is getting the field name and the field valu

Re: multiple epiphany process

2006-06-20 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
Willie Wonka wrote: Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: hello folks, i recently left firefox for epiphany (mch faster) but i experience issues when opening links from external applications. instead of opening links in a new tab in epiphany's window, each application launch a different epiphany proces

nvidia 6800 GS Random Choppy Performance

2006-06-20 Thread Andrew Nelson
Hello all, I have a EVGA 6800 GS video card that doesn't seem to be working correctly. Here's the symtoms. 1. System runs perfectly fine for a bit. 2. Some random moment in time later everything becomes very choppy. 3. Start up a 3d app like ppracer or glxgears. (for just a second or two) 4 2D

Re: Newer twiki package?

2006-06-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 08:16, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > The twiki package in Debian is 20040902-3, which is quite old. The > current version fixing several security issues is 4.0.2. One solution is to file a wishlist bug asking for a new version of twiki. You can use reportbug program to re

Re: SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:20:02 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > Is there an ATI Debian package? Yes, but only in unstable. The packages of interest are fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src. The latter can conveniently be built using module-assistant. I use these on my Thinkpad, a

Re: smsclient

2006-06-20 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-19, 16:18:23 (+0200) skrifaði debian: > Hello, > > Is there an alternative for smsclient ? > I need a program to send sms from command line. > i have some problems with it and the mailing list is appearantly not > working anymore. A simple apt-cache search sms showed many results.

Re: managing packages

2006-06-20 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> And I'm also looking for documentation about `aptitude' because I've heard > that there is such way to tell aptitude to install a package from a specific > distribution there is really good documentation in /usr/share/doc/aptitude however, that is really comprehensive. you probably just want to

managing packages

2006-06-20 Thread Cedric BRINER
hi, I'm wanting to upgrade the ssh pacakge which is quite too old now, with the version from backport. after writing the /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=sarge Pin-Priority: 500 Package: openssh Pin: release a=sarge-backports Pin-Priority: 999 I've try a: apt-

Re: multiple epiphany process

2006-06-20 Thread Willie Wonka
Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: > hello folks, > > i recently left firefox for epiphany (mch faster) but i experience > issues when opening links from external applications. > instead of opening links in a new tab in epiphany's window, each > application launch a different epiphany process. As a cons

Re: SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:51:34 -0700 > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:04:58 -0700 >>> Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> [SNIP] >>> [snip] >>now imagine th

Newer twiki package?

2006-06-20 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! The twiki package in Debian is 20040902-3, which is quite old. The current version fixing several security issues is 4.0.2. Does anyone know a source for a newer debian package of twiki? Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan SeitzE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-20 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:44:00 +0300 > > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The other script (darmonizer) defaults its size to the full 4 gigs. > > All I could get out of darmonizer was "waiting for the " > and then it just stops. > > dar i

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anil Gupte wrote: > OK, I figured out the problem, but not the solution. The output > is actually from a SQL query. The output looks like this (when > echoed): > > Serial_Number TLO03 > > It is getting the field name and the field value as two

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 19 Jun 2006, David E. Fox wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:11:54 -0500 >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Here is some relevant data from my system: >> Is anyone else on the list trying googleearth with a M

multiple epiphany process

2006-06-20 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
hello folks, i recently left firefox for epiphany (mch faster) but i experience issues when opening links from external applications. instead of opening links in a new tab in epiphany's window, each application launch a different epiphany process. As a consequence : - epiphany is launched

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-20 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:56:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Can I just delete all this /usr/src stuff? > > Well, I did, and the system still boots. Now, when it tries to start X > it complains that there isn't any nvidia driver, rather than that the > avaliable driver has an inc

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:36 +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: > OK, I figured out the problem, but not the solution. The output is actually > from a SQL query. The output looks like this (when echoed): > > Serial_Number > TLO03 > > It is getting the field name and the field value as two lines. So t

Re: Windows-toolbar behavior in gnome

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 -0600, edwardsa wrote: > In the previous incarnation of gnome/X11 (sarge), when I click on the > main window of an application, an associated window would be placed on > top of all applications. In the testing distribution, when I do the same > thing, a tile on the bo

Re: XMMS can no longer play CDs

2006-06-20 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:45 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 15.06.06 17:40, Bill Wohler wrote: > > As of the last update or two ago (etch), XMMS no longer plays CDs. XMMS > > sends tons of messages like the following to the syslog if I click on > > the ^ button, enter /dev/cdrom, and clic

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-20 Thread Anil Gupte
OK, I figured out the problem, but not the solution. The output is actually from a SQL query. The output looks like this (when echoed): Serial_Number TLO03 It is getting the field name and the field value as two lines. So there is a newline before the TLO03 not a space. So I tried

Re: how to get libX*.la ?

2006-06-20 Thread LeVA
2006. június 20. 01:40, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Debian-User: > LeVA wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to compile a software which needs a lot of libX*.la files. > > Which package(s) contains these files? (I thought the -dev packages does) > > In unstable (Xorg

default utf8

2006-06-20 Thread Gabor KUM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Can you somebody write me how to set utf8 file encoding as default when opening a file in KDE applications? - -- Gabor KUM www.kumgabor.hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEl7+Vhbtp3V69

SOLVED: Re: CUPS 1.2.1 error - printer not connected

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: [ ... ] Were the modules lp, parport, and parport_pc loaded during boot? Did udev create /dev/lp0? (My Sid box currently does not create /dev/lp0 unless I modprobe lp.) Well-guessed! /dev/lp0 did not exist. I created it with # modprobe lp and restarted CUPS with

ldap mailing list

2006-06-20 Thread Brendan Simon
Is there a more specific mailing list for ldap questions on Debian? I don't see any, so maybe something like these may be handy? debian-ldap ??? debian-sysadmin ??? Brendan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: switching between desktop and consoles takes long time

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:55:24 -0400 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Debian Etch, installed from scratch a few weeks ago, when I switch > from my desktop to a console (by pressing the CTRL+Fn keys), it takes > extraordinarily long time -- around 6 seconds -- to get to the > c

Re: SOLVED Re: xorg 7 and ATI proprietary driver (fglrx)

2006-06-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:51:34 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:04:58 -0700 > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [SNIP] > > > ... > > The next thing I would check is that various symlinks in /usr/lib/ > > point to the fglrx

Re: CUPS 1.2.1 error - printer not connected

2006-06-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:17:30 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > I have a fresh install of Etch (Testing) with CUPS 1.2.1-2 using local > parallel port lp0. I can install a printer (HP Laserjet 4 driver), print > a test page and print from applications. If I reboot and print anything, > CUPS begins p

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Jun 2006, David E. Fox wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:11:54 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Here is some relevant data from my system: > > Is anyone else on the list trying googleearth with a Matrox G400 or > G450? > I have a Matrox G550; it doesn't run on that.

Re: Open Office 2: where can I find italian hypenation pakage?

2006-06-20 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-06-15, 09:53:40 (+0200) skrifaði Mirto Silvio Busico: > >> Hi all, >> sorry for cross-posting, but I don't know which is the right list. >> >> I need to use the italian localized version of oo2 on a Debian Etch >> distribution >> >> In the Debian testing

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: XMMS can no longer play CDs]]

2006-06-20 Thread David Moreno Garza
- Forwarded message from Jose Parrella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:53:14 -0400 From: Jose Parrella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: XMMS can no longer play CDs] X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i4

CUPS 1.2.1 error - printer not connected

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Lale
I have a fresh install of Etch (Testing) with CUPS 1.2.1-2 using local parallel port lp0. I can install a printer (HP Laserjet 4 driver), print a test page and print from applications. If I reboot and print anything, CUPS begins processing and then displays the error "Printer not connected; wil

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