Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Osamu Aoki wrote: ... We have SSH as best practice. I think there is telnet over ssl too (never used). Why you want shell acces to another machne over tcp? If you are knowingly doing this, I am curious what kind of sitation justify such thing? Some kind of user-mode-linux etc? Still, you can

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Mumia W.
S Clement wrote: > I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things > puzzle me. > > Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and > kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am > missing. > > Is it worth hunting for a way to change th

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > If you are using gdm as the display manager, but are using kde as your > desktop > environment then the only problem I can see is that both gnome and KDE > libraries are being loaded into memory. Nope. AFAIK [KG]DM doesn't load the helper programs associated wi

Re: OT: Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > The Great Pyramid of Las Vegas. *snort* Great, now every time I drive by the Luxor I'm going to have that in my head. >.< -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do... -

How do I tell Aptitude to Ignore a Broken Package?

2006-07-10 Thread Jeff Stevens
All, I've installed anjuta from unstable on my testing box using 'dpkg --ignore-depends anjuta'. Of course, 'aptitude upgrade' throws a dependency error so I'm unable to upgrade. Is there an elegant way to tell aptitude to ignore the broken dependency? I suppose I could edit /var/lib/dpkg/statu

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 10 July 2006 23:13, Mark Fletcher wrote: > --- S Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and > > two things puzzle me. > > > > Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have > > examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to > > use.

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Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 07:39:40PM -0700, S Clement wrote: > Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde > seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. I don't use either, S. Too much complexity for me. I use icewm. Debian itself doesn't c

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 07:39:40PM -0700, S Clement wrote: > I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. > > Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems > to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. > > Is it

Re: Mozilla browser bookmark

2006-07-10 Thread Welly Hartanto
Kent West wrote: Welly Hartanto wrote: I just realized that all of my mozilla's bookmark has just gone. And everytime I start mozilla-browser all of the bookmark I had put previously is gone. I have checked on the debian reportbugs and none seem the same. So, is it just me or what ? Anybody kn

Re: OT: Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: >> the Great Pyramid at Gizeh (or is it Giza, I can never >> remember which is right) > It's Pisa. the Great Pyramid of Pisa. The Great Pyramid of Las Vegas. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/L

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 S Clement wrote: > I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things > puzzle me. You're in the deep water now. Prepare to swim... > Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both > and kde seems to me to be easier to

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Hodgins Family
> > > > Where did you get that logo? When it came up on the > > gnome desktop it immediatlely reminded me of > > something being flushed down the drain. I hope it > > doesn't mean that! > > Actually, the logo is a logarithmic spiral, which has > the interesting property that it employs what th

Re: OT: Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > the Great Pyramid at Gizeh (or is it Giza, I can > never > > remember which is right) > It's Pisa. the Great Pyramid of Pisa. > > Oh, wait, that's "Leaning Pyramid of Pisa", or, er, > um, ... never mind. Yeah, that was the Gol

Re: Mozilla browser bookmark

2006-07-10 Thread Kent West
Welly Hartanto wrote: I just realized that all of my mozilla's bookmark has just gone. And everytime I start mozilla-browser all of the bookmark I had put previously is gone. I have checked on the debian reportbugs and none seem the same. So, is it just me or what ? Anybody knows how to fix it

Re: regex for top-posting?

2006-07-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 7/9/06, John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Gnus, W Y c Interesting. I'm looking more for something on the server side of things. I googled some discussion of how Gmane filters for top-posting, and how evil that was, or something, but I have yet to find how one might do such filt

Mozilla browser bookmark

2006-07-10 Thread Welly Hartanto
I just realized that all of my mozilla's bookmark has just gone. And everytime I start mozilla-browser all of the bookmark I had put previously is gone. I have checked on the debian reportbugs and none seem the same. So, is it just me or what ? Anybody knows how to fix it ? Thanks a lot. msl

OT: Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Kent West
Mark Fletcher wrote: the Great Pyramid at Gizeh (or is it Giza, I can never remember which is right) It's Pisa. the Great Pyramid of Pisa. Oh, wait, that's "Leaning Pyramid of Pisa", or, er, um, ... never mind. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Kent West
S Clement wrote: Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. I don't know that "Debian" "prefers" one over the other; it's just that if both are installed, one of them has to be the default;

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- S Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and > two things puzzle me. > > Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have > examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to > use. There must be something I am missing. > It's a very persona

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Kent West
Roberto Sanchez wrote: S Clement wrote: Is it worth hunting for a way to change the default? Simply go into your package manager and uninstall GNOME and install KDE. Everything else should just fall into place. No need to uninstall Gnome (as long as you have sufficient disk space to keep bot

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
S Clement wrote: I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. Welcome. Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. "We" don't really prefer one or the other,

Why?

2006-07-10 Thread S Clement
I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. Is it worth hunting for a way to change the default? Where did you get that

Re: Where are screen saver functionality provided

2006-07-10 Thread T
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:13:44 +0800, Katipo wrote: >>In my Debian testing, I don't have the xscreensaver package installed. >>However, there are still lots of xscreen saver functionality available. > ... the > xlockmore/xlockmore-gl packages (under the X11 category of the ncurses > aptitude interf

Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Kent West
Haines Brown wrote: > live CD (not too sure what that is). > A bootable CD running a live OS, such as Knoppix. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Haines Brown wrote: [snip] I've seen the directions for editing /etc/shadow, but also the warning that this is dangerous and need not be done. Therefore my second approach, which has the advantage of not depending on a cd drive or live CD (not too sure what that is). It is supposed to work, but

Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but > > I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two > > methods: > > > > 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: > > > >$ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd

Stallion ONboard multiport serial card with Sarge?

2006-07-10 Thread DJ
Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for several weeks with no luck. I changed over from Redhat with 2.2 kernel to Sarge. Great! But my hardware includes a Stallion ONboard ISA card. This worked fine before, but now I get: devfs_register(cue): could not append to parent, err: -17 ...when I

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-07-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: ... I solved the problem by installing extra fonts; I cannot remember exactly which fonts I installed but from memory (and synaptic ;-)) I installed the following packages (the first being the most important one I think): ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-arabeyes ttf-junicode ttf-

Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Kent West
Haines Brown wrote: I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run th

Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Haines Brown wrote: I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run th

Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Haines Brown wrote: I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run th

OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-10 Thread Ian Brandt
Hi, I'm trying to get OS X 10.4.7's Terminal.app to play nice when ssh'ing into my Debian Etch box. I've run `infocmp -L > xterm-color' on my Mac (I have Terminal.app set to report xterm-color), and compiled the result on my Debian box with the following output... $ tic -svx xterm-color "xterm-

"forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run the chroot and the passwd

No sound on flash movies

2006-07-10 Thread Iván Alemán
Hello list, While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, I have tried the following solution with no luck https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...ree/+bug/29760 Any thoughts? Thanks -- Iván Alemán ~ [[ m o f o ]] ~ Debian (SID) -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version:

Re: Where are screen saver functionality provided

2006-07-10 Thread Katipo
T wrote: Hi In my Debian testing, I don't have the xscreensaver package installed. However, there are still lots of xscreen saver functionality available. I presume that those programs would take up much space. I'd like to find them and remove them. Are they all come from the 7K /usr/X11R6/li

Where are screen saver functionality provided

2006-07-10 Thread T
Hi In my Debian testing, I don't have the xscreensaver package installed. However, there are still lots of xscreen saver functionality available. I presume that those programs would take up much space. I'd like to find them and remove them. Are they all come from the 7K /usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.so.

Re: eth0: flipped to 10baseT appears on login prompt

2006-07-10 Thread Mikko Fallenius
I've been away from the internet for a few days. Thanks Pol, Jean-Sebastien and Florian. I'm sorry that I didn't make clear enough that I did NOT have any network problem. There really was only the eth0 message on the console I wanted to get rid of. It messed up the login prompt like this: dwarf

Re: Solution: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:49:48PM -0400, T wrote: > Thank you all who replied. > > My own personal Fluxbox menu will help > > - add a menu not supplied by the author/maintainer > - add my own shortcuts > ... > The "Debian" sub-menu will point to the auto-updated system menu, and also > I can ke

Re: Solution: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread Derek
Thanks,I just tried this and it works good.I put the debian menu in the main menu on mine.On 7/10/06, T < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Thank you all who replied.My own personal Fluxbox menu will help - add a menu not supplied by the author/maintainer- add my own shortcutsOn Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:08:45 -

Re: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:08:45PM -0400, T wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:13:17 +0300, Linas wrote: > > >>> How could I make that happening to Fluxbox? > >> > >> do you have the menu-xdg package installed? > > > > "menu-xdg" is not needed. Fluxbox (the one in Debian at least) uses > > standard

Re: mozilla & tabs open

2006-07-10 Thread gustavo halperin
Soma R wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I have currently Mozilla and Firefox. In Firefox when I click over any link with left-button-mouse together with the Ctrl key a new Tab is open, but in Mozilla nothing is happen. Also if I use middle-click nothing happen. In the preferences, ther

Solution: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread T
Thank you all who replied. My own personal Fluxbox menu will help - add a menu not supplied by the author/maintainer - add my own shortcuts On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:08:45 -0400, T wrote: > Is it possible to keep my own menu, while link to the system menu via a > "Debian" sub-menu? yes, here is h

nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-07-10 Thread Robert Baldwin
i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org. when i try to install nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist here (on the mirror). however the nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-kernel-legacy-source packages are there. when i viewed this mirror with firefox, sarge

Re: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Wayne Topa wrote: >> Do not run "update-menus" as a normal user, unless you really want to >> have your menu not to update automatically. It is a feature, not a bug. > > One of the benefits of the menu system is that users can add items to > 'their' X menus to ~/.menu. As they are not read, when

Re: wireless settings not being read from /etc/network/interfaces

2006-07-10 Thread Anton Piatek
Jeff D wrote: > Anton Piatek wrote: > >> Hi, >> My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this: >> >> iface eth1 inet dhcp >> essid "ant-wifi" >> channel 01 >> wireless-key ... >> >> yet if I just run "ifup eth1" the card does not connect. once I run >> "iwconfig eth1 channel 01" the ifup command wo

Re: wireless settings not being read from /etc/network/interfaces

2006-07-10 Thread Jeff D
Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this: iface eth1 inet dhcp essid "ant-wifi" channel 01 wireless-key ... yet if I just run "ifup eth1" the card does not connect. once I run "iwconfig eth1 channel 01" the ifup command works perfectly. Do i need to add something to

wireless settings not being read from /etc/network/interfaces

2006-07-10 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this: iface eth1 inet dhcp essid "ant-wifi" channel 01 wireless-key ... yet if I just run "ifup eth1" the card does not connect. once I run "iwconfig eth1 channel 01" the ifup command works perfectly. Do i need to add something to the config file to mak

Re: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Linas ?virblis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > It sounds that you have run "update-menus" as a normal user some time in > the past. In that case your menu structure is probably saved in your > home directory and is out of reach for global "update-men

Re: xpdf -fullscreen (maybe not Debian specific)

2006-07-10 Thread Hubert Chan
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:05:01 +0900, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, # Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:07:15 -0400 >> I just checked, and when I do xpdf -fullscreen, there are no buttons >> or scrollbars. > Ok, this is another hint: maybe it's a configuration issu

Re: cdrecord - strange failure -SOLVED

2006-07-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jul 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I had to burn 20 CDs. All but one of the first 18 went off OK; I put the > single failure down to a faulty disk. But after I'd done 18 they all > started failing. I tried a disk from a different source but the same > thing happened. I then tried to burn dis

Re: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread Linas Žvirblis
> Is it possible to keep my own menu, while link to the system menu via a > "Debian" sub-menu? No, I do not think this is possible. It is, however, possible to add your own entries by adding custom menufiles to "~/.menu/" directory. The syntax is described here [1]. Although you may want to read

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:10 -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> [...snip...] > >> Anyway, the problem goes away with a 2.6 kernel. This is with no > >> changes to BIOS or any of the package configurations. This > >> gives _me_ an acceptable soluti

Re: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread T
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:13:17 +0300, Linas wrote: >>> How could I make that happening to Fluxbox? >> >> do you have the menu-xdg package installed? > > "menu-xdg" is not needed. Fluxbox (the one in Debian at least) uses > standard Debian Menu system, and has been doing that for as long as I can >

Re: mozilla & tabs open

2006-07-10 Thread Soma R
gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I have currently Mozilla and Firefox. In Firefox when I click over any link with left-button-mouse together with the Ctrl key a new Tab is open, but in Mozilla nothing is happen. Also if I use middle-click nothing happen. In the preferences, there aren't nothing

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-10 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [...snip...] Anyway, the problem goes away with a 2.6 kernel. This is with no changes to BIOS or any of the package configurations. This gives _me_ an acceptable solutionfor now. What do you mean "for now"? I mean, until I either unders

NFORCE CK804 SATA problem

2006-07-10 Thread Chris Willard
Hi All, I am trying to compile a 2.4.26 kernel so I can add my PC to my cluster. The system will not boot as it can not find the SATA drivers! Where can I get a kernel patch (or other solution) to enable the CK804 SATA? Regards, Chris Willard -- /* _\|/_ (o o) +oOO-{_}-OO

Re: rhythmbox (& gstreamer)

2006-07-10 Thread Hans van Middendorp
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:28:41 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans van Middendorp on 09/07/06 17:06, wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:21:12 +0100 > > Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hans van Middendorp on 04/07/06 19:38, wrote: > >>> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:20:36 +0100 > >>

mozilla & tabs open

2006-07-10 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I have currently Mozilla and Firefox. In Firefox when I click over any link with left-button-mouse together with the Ctrl key a new Tab is open, but in Mozilla nothing is happen. Also if I use middle-click nothing happen. In the preferences, there aren't nothing specific for this behavio

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Ron Johnson wrote: >> $ mp3check -a file.mp3 >> file.mp3: >> anomaly: bitrate 192kbit/s > ^^^ > > That doesn't look good. The question is, why bitrate of 192 kb/s is considered anomaly? roberto, could you please explain what do you mean by "higher rate"? I am not a native English speaker,

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-10 Thread Roger Leigh
helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:10:11:01:59+0100] scribed: >> If you now choose "add printer" (using the web interface), choose scsi >> as the backend, and it should find the printer. >> >> If it doesn't, let us know what happens when you do this.

Re: Package question

2006-07-10 Thread Aurélien Morelle
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Aurélien Morelle wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Aurélien Morelle wrote: you could alternatively try dpkg -S msgfmt What output does this yield? It yields this output : gettext: /usr/lib/gettext/msgfmt.net.exe gettext: /usr/bin/msgfmt gettext: /usr/share/man/man1

Re: MPlayer and Debian Sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo. > > I'm reporting the procedure I followed to install successfully > (it seems) mplayer. > > Bye, > Rodolfo See: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=7335 for a more complete procedure (also for listening to audio CD's). Rodolfo -- T

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 roberto wrote: > On 7/10/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> roberto wrote: >> > On 7/10/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > here it is: >> >> > file mymusic.mp3 >> >> > my

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Johnson wrote: > On Jul 9, 2006, at 4:38 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> Better support for h/w. (For example, you may want to install >> a SATA card in your machine. I don't know how well 2.4 >> supports SATA.) >> >> The 2.6 kernel is where

Re: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> How could I make that happening to Fluxbox? > > do you have the menu-xdg package installed? "menu-xdg" is not needed. Fluxbox (the one in Debian at least) uses standard Debian Menu system, and has been doing that for as long as I can remember. It sounds that you

Re: 2.6 kernel image for AMD-K6-2

2006-07-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Andrew Sackville-West [Mon, Jul 10 2006, 09:34:17AM]: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:09:41AM -0700, Helen Easthope wrote: > > Debian users, > > > > Is there a straightforward way to get a 2.6 kernel image for an > > AMD-K6 machine? The 2.4 image works fine but the 2.6 AMD-K7 > > image

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible, and how?, to play audio CD's with mplayer? > I saw it can play audio files, but didn't manage to play audio > CD's. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Marcum) writes: > You've compiled MPlayer without cdparanoia. Install that (and it's > -dev p

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo wrote: > I'm looking for an audio and CD command line player, > but it seems that `cdplayer' only plays CD's but not audio files, > whereas `m3u123' viceversa only plays audio files but not CD's. > > Any command line tool that plays both? David E. Fox wrote: > I can't think of any speci

Re: Re: DNS and resolv.conf

2006-07-10 Thread Tyler Smith
"I'm curious how you got into the spot you're in, where resolv.conf isn't working." No idea. I physically packed up my computer, shipped it across the country, and plugged it into the same model wireless router/modem that I had been using before. The ISP is different, so I can only assume that

Re: Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:08:06PM -0400, T wrote: > Hi > > How can I incorporate the Debian menu system in my Fluxbox? > > This is a very basic piece of puzzle that I'm missing and can't find it on > the Internet. > > The menus could easily become out of sync with what programs were actually >

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 21:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Rich Johnson wrote: > > I also notice that there's a big discrepancy in the readahead. > > What are the tradeoffs of bumping this number? It just preloads > > the disk controller's cache, right? > > Good question. It is the difference betwee

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread roberto
On 7/10/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 roberto wrote: > On 7/10/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > here it is: >> > file mymusic.mp3 >> > mymusic.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 192 kBits, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo >> >> Install the

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-10 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jul 9, 2006, at 4:38 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Better support for h/w. (For example, you may want to install a SATA card in your machine. I don't know how well 2.4 supports SATA.) The 2.6 kernel is where all new features like "more efficient ext3" are released. Even if 2.4 does everything y

Re: 2.6 kernel image for AMD-K6-2

2006-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:09:41AM -0700, Helen Easthope wrote: > Debian users, > > Is there a straightforward way to get a 2.6 kernel image for an > AMD-K6 machine? The 2.4 image works fine but the 2.6 AMD-K7 > image fails on this Compaq Presario 5330. I think you want the -686 kernels. THere

python2.4 gtk2 broken

2006-07-10 Thread Kai Schroeder
Hi, i've recenctly installed debian sid and i can't run any python2.4 apps that use gtk. if i run democracyplayer e.g. i get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/democracyplayer", line 8, in ? import pygtk ImportError: No module named pygtk /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/

Re: How to diagnose kernel panic?

2006-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 03:56:12PM -0400, Mark Copper wrote: > I have a server that is brought down by a kernel panic every two weeks > on average. Nothing untoward gets in the logs and the on-screen panic > message starts with something like >Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in int

Fluxbox and Debian menu

2006-07-10 Thread T
Hi How can I incorporate the Debian menu system in my Fluxbox? This is a very basic piece of puzzle that I'm missing and can't find it on the Internet. The menus could easily become out of sync with what programs were actually available, with some menu items that didn't work, and other programs

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 roberto wrote: > On 7/10/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > here it is: >> > file mymusic.mp3 >> > mymusic.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 192 kBits, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo >> >> Install the packages mp3val mp3info mp3check checkmp3. >> >> One

Re: diagnosing hard-locks

2006-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:04:57AM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If transcode jobs run well, I think your CPU is ok, even though i > think 56C is quite hot (my barton XP 3200 is about 42 C now, 48C when > transcoding). huh. well, I'll l

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread roberto
On 7/10/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here it is: > file mymusic.mp3 > mymusic.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 192 kBits, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo Install the packages mp3val mp3info mp3check checkmp3. One of them may be able to diagnose the problem. the problem is not of that single

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 roberto wrote: > On 7/10/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 10.07.06 07:52, roberto wrote: >> > hello, i have a little problem with mp3 files: when i try to listen to >> > some mp3 then the audio comes out at a very higher rate

Backing up before upgrading

2006-07-10 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
I want to try out sid (and etch if I can't get sid to work). If I used dd to make and image of my / partition and the mbr, would I be able to use those images go back to that snapshot of sarge like nothing changed? Is there anything else that needs imaging to ensure this will work? -- swk -- T

Re: "netlink_lookup: write failed: Connection refused"

2006-07-10 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-07-05, Jim Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added tcp_diag to the list of modules getting loaded at boot time. > That is the module it is looking for. I added it with modprobe and that seems to have fixed the problem. I'll add it to the boot configuration too. Thanks, Adam -- To

Upgrading squid 2.5.14-1 to 2.6.1-2

2006-07-10 Thread nx13464a
Upgrading from squid 2.5.14-1 to 2.6.1-2: Restarting Squid HTTP proxy: squidFATAL: Bungled squid.conf line 30: http_port 3128, 80 Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE1): Terminated abnormally. Restarting Squid HTTP proxy: squid2006/07/10 15:39:39| parseConfigFile: line 1658 unrecognized: ' httpd_

RE: MYSQL, sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
    From: L.V.Gandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:33 AM To: debian-user Subject: MYSQL, sarge   Where does mysql stores database in sarge? Which version? # mysqld --version   You can use the following to find the files # find / -iname *.my

Re: MYSQL, sarge

2006-07-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:03:25PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >Where does mysql stores database in sarge? /var/lib/mysql/ >How to back up data base? http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/218 >If I want to change data in a field say symbol in table say shares from >sa

MYSQL, sarge

2006-07-10 Thread L . V . Gandhi
Where does mysql stores database in sarge? How to back up data base? If I want to change data in a field  say symbol  in table say shares from say abcd to lmn, how to do it?-- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/linux user No.205042

Re: printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel B.
charles norwood wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:27 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: ... Also, given that the spurious characters appear at different places in the printout when I try again suggests that something random is going on (dropped or extra characters in the output stream), which doesn't sound

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread roberto
On 7/10/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10.07.06 07:52, roberto wrote: > hello, i have a little problem with mp3 files: when i try to listen to > some mp3 then the audio comes out at a very higher rate than it should > be and this happen with whichever player i use how d

SID, Gnome and default media player

2006-07-10 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! I want to use xmms as default "music" player but nautilus want to open totem when i pressed return. How can I change this. The same for the default movie player. CU Michael -- ,''`. Michael Ott, e-mail: michael at zolnott dot de : :' : Debian SI

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 10.07.06 07:52, roberto wrote: > hello, i have a little problem with mp3 files: when i try to listen to > some mp3 then the audio comes out at a very higher rate than it should > be and this happen with whichever player i use how did you get that mp3? > Playing MPEG stream from 883 - mymusic.

Re: Upgrade question

2006-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 18:56:14 +0545, Paras pradhan wrote: > Michael, > > Yes i did using apt-get. I am using etch and have gnome 2.14 now. > > Is it possible to see the new related packages that can be upgraded > using synaptic for main package gnome-core? I don't know about synaptic, but if

farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-10 Thread roberto
hello, i have a little problem with mp3 files: when i try to listen to some mp3 then the audio comes out at a very higher rate than it should be and this happen with whichever player i use i have also tried using mpg123 and the output is the following: *** $ mpg123 mymusic.mp3 High Performance MP

Re: Top and GKrellm/Torsmo

2006-07-10 Thread psycheye
> Hi all. > I've seen this strange thing, monitoring my laptop resources. > If in the same moment I launch 'top' (shell) and 'torsmo' or 'gkrellm' > (gui), those are the results: > - top > Mem: total 1555704Kused 1355420K free 200284K > - gkrellm > Mem Total 1519MB - Mem Free 1133MB > - Tors

Re: Upgrade question

2006-07-10 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Paras! > Yes i did using apt-get. I am using etch and have gnome 2.14 now. > > Is it possible to see the new related packages that can be upgraded > using synaptic for main package gnome-core? In synaptic you can see in status the upgradeable packages. But I thing that you have the lastes v

Re: Package question

2006-07-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Aurélien Morelle wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Aurélien Morelle wrote: you could alternatively try dpkg -S msgfmt What output does this yield? It yields this output : gettext: /usr/lib/gettext/msgfmt.net.exe gettext: /usr/bin/msgfmt gettext: /usr/share/man/man1/msgfmt.1.gz but it searche

Re: Upgrade question

2006-07-10 Thread Paras pradhan
Michael, Yes i did using apt-get. I am using etch and have gnome 2.14 now. Is it possible to see the new related packages that can be upgraded using synaptic for main package gnome-core? Thanks Paras. On 7/10/06, Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Paras! > I have a question regard

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-10 Thread helices
* Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:10:11:01:59+0100] scribed: > helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Once selected, try running > >> > >> /usr/lib/cups/backend/scsi > > > > # sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/scsi > > direct scsi "Unknown" "SCSI Printer" > > Great. That's what y

Re: Upgrade question

2006-07-10 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Paras! > I have a question regarding related packages upgrades. > > > Four weeks back i upgraded my gnome 2.10 to gnome 2.14 using etch and > command apt-get install gnome-core and upgradeed to gnome 2.14 > successfully.. At that time the related packages were still moving to > the etch

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