Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Leinier C. Salfran
El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 14:26 +0800, Ye Fei escribió: > Sorry, I think it is a laptop, but it seems not a laptop. > Forget that link which is for laptop. > Sorry for misleading. > YF > On 2006-07-25, Ye Fei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > maybe you can check http://www.linux-on-laptops.com

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:14:43AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > In other words, if one is willing to put in minimal effort YES! Go for > it! Gamers I know ONLY care about gaming. They have no motivation to swith, because no "cool" games are unique to Linux. -- Carl Fink

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:47:03AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm using Etch, with up-to-date CUPS. I can print fine from most > applications (e.g. OpenOffice.org, Firefox) but not from Adobe Acrobat > Reader (v7 from the Marillat collection). In fact, I can print a Social > Security form from xpd

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Ye Fei
Sorry, I think it is a laptop, but it seems not a laptop. Forget that link which is for laptop. Sorry for misleading. YF On 2006-07-25, Ye Fei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > maybe you can check http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html > to find whether there is your ibm model. > Gook luck > yf

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? I learned to program on that beast in 1975... now I feel old... -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate wit

RE: Just a thought

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
Actually: XP can run games written for it a some but not all games written for previous windows version. One can of course boot up CDs for self-booting games. Linux, on the otherhand: Can run games written for it. These include knockoffs of most windows classics such a solitaire and freecell.

Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Fink
I'm using Etch, with up-to-date CUPS. I can print fine from most applications (e.g. OpenOffice.org, Firefox) but not from Adobe Acrobat Reader (v7 from the Marillat collection). In fact, I can print a Social Security form from xpdf, but not Acrobat. (Unfortunately xpdf screws up the margins and

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Fink
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! --

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
bob hole wrote: This happened to my brother,try moving ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla.bak or something and then try it.I deleted a bunch of stuff in ~/.mozilla(pretty much everything except my bookmarks,extentions and plugins) and that fixed it. I moved ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozill.bak and then restarted

Re: small GTK "Open file" dialog

2006-07-24 Thread brett
Nick Wright wrote: I have a little cosmetical problem but it is annoying. By default my GTK2 standard dialogs (open, save, ...) are very small. Is there any configuration file where I can set those dimensions? Yeah I have a simmilar thing I think.. When I go to save stuff from firefox it gives

Printing in a4, duplex

2006-07-24 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi all, I'm using Debian stable and trying to print in A4, duplex mode on a network printer. I've made some progress, but I think I'm missing one piece still. In CUPS (v1.1.23), I've selected "duplex" and my media size is A4. I have this in a2ps.cfg: ## Enable duplex printing O

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia content to Flash 9.0 due to security problems they had with the previous version, and Adobe has yet to come up with Flash Player 9.0 for

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Ye Fei
Hi, maybe you can check http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html to find whether there is your ibm model. Gook luck yf On 2006-07-25, Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi There, > > Can anyone verify if Debian will run on a IBM xSeries 360? The specs > for this server are: > > - 4 x Intel Xeon P

Gimp 2.2.6 - libcairo2

2006-07-24 Thread djhack
Results of perl script below: --- begin --- /lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 (0x400ea000) libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 (0x400f7000) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x40101000)

gimp 2.2.6 - libcairo

2006-07-24 Thread djhack
/lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 (0x400ea000) libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 (0x400f7000) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x40101000) libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia content to Flash 9.0 due to security problems they had with the previous version, and Adobe has yet to come up with Flash Player 9.0 for Linux. They have a blo

Re: System Quits Responding-Swap Issue Or What?

2006-07-24 Thread Kent West
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Runing unstable on a Dell dimensions XPS T450 with 128 > Mb Ram and 384 Mb Swap Partition on a 13 Gb HD. I run > KDE with usually 4 or 5 session Konsole windows open > and the Mozilla browser and perhaps an embedded modia > player open-nothing else. Before a few minutes

System Quits Responding-Swap Issue Or What?

2006-07-24 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Runing unstable on a Dell dimensions XPS T450 with 128 Mb Ram and 384 Mb Swap Partition on a 13 Gb HD. I run KDE with usually 4 or 5 session Konsole windows open and the Mozilla browser and perhaps an embedded modia player open-nothing else. Before a few minutes pass(< 5 min.), the HD starts making

xine works from startx, not from kdm

2006-07-24 Thread Kent West
If I log in via KDM or GDM, xine just shows a scrambled, frozen window while playing a DVD (sound works). But if I log in via "startx", xine works fine. This is true with different users. One user, I deleted the ~/.xine directory, but that made no difference. The only thing I see in "xdpyinf

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 July 2006 10:00, Matej Cepl wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > What Jabber client do you use? What the best? > > I use kopete because of integration to KDE (and decent IRC > client), but what's the best is very loaded question. Run > > apt-cache search jabber client > > and you will ge

Re: help

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 July 2006 06:57, rajesh rajesh wrote: > Hi this is rajesh >i have a problem in linux, > everytime i install linux , it starts in command > prompt > how can i start linux in gui mode Linux only has text mode. You probably mean, how do I get some kind of desktop enviro

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 July 2006 06:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Thanks. > What Jabber client do you use? What the best? Psi is my preference. It's in main, though there's a dev branch that's adding Jingle (VOIP) to it right now, too. http://www.psi-im.

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 July 2006 13:46, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:46 > -0600 Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within > my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, > > did polemicize thusly: > > Port games

Re: fazer hp692c funcionar

2006-07-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Caio Iglésias Bertazzi wrote: Estou usando uma hp692c deskjet com o debian sarge 3.1 r1 e ela não funciona nem com o mozilla nem com o comando lpr em modo texto ,alguem pode me dar uma dica de o que fazer? Instala o cups. A 692c é bem suportada. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Sack
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:06:11PM +0100, Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office) wrote: > > Uninstalled Athens Toolbar. Working fine so far. > > Athens toolbar then... > You have a safe way to reproduce the crash with athens toolbar installed? - Alexander -- GPG messages preferred.| .''

Re: cp sucks or do I not know enough?

2006-07-24 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:03:27AM +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: > BlankI have read man cp and cp --help (same thing), but I cannot figure out > how to shorten this: > > cp --reply=yes /foo/* . > > No -u does not work as expected and nor does -f > > Also, is there an equivalent of xcopy and I mean a

libcairo2 and gimp 2.2.6

2006-07-24 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/24/2006 05:12 PM, djhack wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: I am starting to suspect that the libcairo2 dependency comes indirectly from some other library that you have installed. Can you check your system for non-Debian(-sarge) libraries? aptitude search '~i~slibs!~Odebian' Result: ilib

libcairo2 and gimp 2.2.6

2006-07-24 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/24/2006 05:12 PM, djhack wrote: [...] aptitude search '~i~slibs!~A(sarge|stable)' Result: - returns nothing. Run this Perl program and post the output: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; for (`ldd /usr/bin/gimp-2.2`) { my ($file) = (split ' ')[2]; print $file, "\n";

Re: Non Sarge libraries.

2006-07-24 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/24/2006 04:08 PM, djhack wrote: How would you find and purge"non-Sarge libraries"? [...] Try to keep things in the same thread. For this issue, continue to make posts in the "libcairo2 and gimp 2.2.6" thread. And please don't snip attributions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-24 Thread Ice
Is anythin else using /dev/dsp while you are trying to play sound on flash movies in Firefox?  That would stop the sound from working as only one prog can ouput to /dev/dsp with the OSS driver.  Try replaceing "aoss" to "alsa"  if your card supports the alsa protocol.  or try turning off all apps t

Re: No sound support for KDE

2006-07-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Markus Petermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jul 24 17:34 -0500]: > Hello, > > I have a problem with the audio output of KDE 3.5.3 (the KDE version > currently used by Debian Etch Testing): There is absolutely no sound output. > > After the first launch of KDE I got a pop-up with the error messag

Re: cp sucks or do I not know enough?

2006-07-24 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:47:06PM -0400, Larry Irwin wrote: > BlankThe --reply=yes is not needed if you are using the binary executable "cp" > If your "cp" is an alias, other issues arise... check ~/.bash*, /etc/bash* > and /etc/profile type 'alias' to see any current aliases signature.asc Des

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Sack
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:02:33PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: > "Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a > > segfault. This is new. > > > > Anyone else? > > Yeah I am getting regular segfaults wi

Re: USB not working on Dell PowerEdge 850

2006-07-24 Thread Mark Hansen
My problem what recompiling the kernel without having done a make mrproper ... and/or ... make-kpkg clean so, I guess the changes to the .config were not getting reflected in the kernel image. -- Mark Ice wrote: Interesting.. Are you sure your kernel supports your motherboard completely? H

Re: can´t ether-wake from the internet

2006-07-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Kv wrote: if u are in your gateway in ssh is like your are in lan... then you should wake up your local computers .. with logged in the gateway, you can wake the other computer?? Yes. Isn't that weird? On 7/24/06, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/24/06,

Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Simon
Hi There, Can anyone verify if Debian will run on a IBM xSeries 360? The specs for this server are: - 4 x Intel Xeon Processor MP 1.4Ghz - 4gb DDR Registered SDRAM DIMM memory - 2 x 72gb 10k Ultra160 Hard drives - Serveraid 4LX Ultra 160 SCSI RAID controller - 1.44 Floppy drive and CDRom - Integ

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-24 Thread [KS]
Wulfy wrote: > Wulfy wrote: >> Wulfy wrote: >>> Does anyone else still have this problem? Not only do I now have no >>> sound, but the video doesn't play either... I've tried everything I >>> can think of to no avail... >>> >>> Any idea how to fix? >>> >> >> Does no-one have any idea how to fix t

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-24 Thread bob hole
This happened to my brother,try moving ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla.bak or something and then try it.I deleted a bunch of stuff in ~/.mozilla(pretty much everything except my bookmarks,extentions and plugins) and that fixed it. On 7/24/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wulfy wrote:> Wulfy wrote:>> D

Re: install cd for sid

2006-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I usually install sid by dist-upgrading from a sarge install > cd. But that's a pain. This is the place for sid install cd's? Why not to use ISOs for testing -- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ -- there is not that much difference between the two currentl

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: Wulfy wrote: Does anyone else still have this problem? Not only do I now have no sound, but the video doesn't play either... I've tried everything I can think of to no avail... Any idea how to fix? Does no-one have any idea how to fix this? I noted that according to Adobe,

Gimp 2.2.6 and non-sarge libs.

2006-07-24 Thread djhack
I am starting to suspect that the libcairo2 dependency comes indirectly from some other library that you have installed. Can you check your system for non-Debian(-sarge) libraries? aptitude search '~i~slibs!~Odebian' Result: i libmysqlclient15off -mysql client database library apti

My ldd output for Gimp-2.2.6

2006-07-24 Thread djhack
Mumia W. wrote: >I just started reading this thread, so I hope I'm not asking >anyone to rehash a lot of the discussion. > >I'm using Sarge, and I recently upgraded my gimp to >2.2.6-1sarge1 per the security recommendation. I used >"aptitude --download-only upgrade" followed later by "aptitude >up

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Angelina Carlton
"Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a > segfault. This is new. > > Anyone else? Yeah I am getting regular segfaults with the following message , | The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System

Re: USB not working on Dell PowerEdge 850

2006-07-24 Thread Ice
Interesting.. Are you sure your kernel supports your motherboard completely?Have you tried upgrading to a later kernel?What happened when you tried to manually instert the kernel modules?'# dmesg | tail' or so could tell us more. On 7/24/06, Mark Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to get

No sound support for KDE

2006-07-24 Thread Markus Petermann
Hello, I have a problem with the audio output of KDE 3.5.3 (the KDE version currently used by Debian Etch Testing): There is absolutely no sound output. After the first launch of KDE I got a pop-up with the error message: "Sound server information message: Error while initializing sound driver:

Virtual PPPoE

2006-07-24 Thread Yura
HI, It is possible to ask you about a help. I however can be connected to the internet. I am connected to the local network. I do not have modem. In a network there is service which includes the internet. Type connection of PPPoE. It is a not modem! [ WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface ] Network Adapte

Re: install cd for sid

2006-07-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I usually install sid by dist-upgrading from a sarge install cd. But that's a pain. This is the place for sid install cd's? http://www.debian-unofficial.org/images.html I guess it's not. I found the Wiki on it and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg0238

Non Sarge libraries.

2006-07-24 Thread djhack
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 16:26:31 -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > On 07/23/2006 02:50 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >[...] > >Maybe we should do a sanity check first. Can you tell me what the md5sum > >is for your /usr/bin/gimp-2.2? Here is what I get for the file which I > >extracted from the -1sarge1 p

Re: install cd for sid

2006-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I usually install sid by dist-upgrading from a sarge install cd. > But that's a pain. > This is the place for sid install cd's? > > http://www.debian-unofficial.org/images.html > > Couldn't find any in the official images. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ T

Thanks latest Sarge ClamAV!

2006-07-24 Thread John Fleming
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Re: Is there a 2.6.16-2-686-smp header mismatch?

2006-07-24 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 03:52:07PM -0400, S Scharf wrote: >I just installed the etch linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp package on my >machine >along with linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686-smp. I than tried to run the >vmware-config.pl to use the new kernel. I get: > > >What is the

Failed to load kernel module acpi

2006-07-24 Thread Markus Petermann
Hello, currently I try to install Debian Etch Testing on my HP compaq nx7010 laptop and met a problem when I try to set up ACPI: When I try to load the acpi kernel module I get the error message saturn:~# modprobe acpi FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686/kernel/arch/i38

install cd for sid

2006-07-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I usually install sid by dist-upgrading from a sarge install cd. But that's a pain. This is the place for sid install cd's? http://www.debian-unofficial.org/images.html Couldn't find any in the official images. Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Any success in installing Linux Lotus Notes Client 7.0.1 on Etch?

2006-07-24 Thread Bruno Voigt
Hi all, the Linux-Version of the Lotus Notes client 7.0.1 is now available. It is intended for Redhat 4 with Mozilla 1.7. Had someone already success in installing it on Etch? For me the installer exits after complaining that it could not validate the mozilla version, although the latest mozilla p

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:46 -0600 Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: > Port games to linux and the adoption rate would skyrocket (IMHO). In my

Re: really confused about root's shell - please clue me up

2006-07-24 Thread John Hasler
'man bash' and read the section titled INVOCATION. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wireless : best policy / pratice to start it

2006-07-24 Thread Ryan Gandy
Wireless encryption is a good start, preferably 128-bit. If you have an access filter on your router to govern which machines access the network, enable it also and give the router your MAC address as its first/only entry. Not to state the obvious, but change your router's password from the def

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
> Port games to linux and the adoption rate would skyrocket (IMHO). > Linux has a wealth of games and my daughter uses it every day. The only thing for which I boot up windows is music production because of all the projects already on windows software. I look forward to discarding the windows eve

really confused about root's shell - please clue me up

2006-07-24 Thread LeVA
Hi! When my root's shell is `/bin/bash' in the /etc/passwd file, and I do `su' as a simple user, then the root's .profile (/root/.profile) gets executed. After setting the root's shell to `/bin/sh', and do `su' as a simple user, then the root's .profile doesn't get executed until i run su as `

Wireless : best policy / pratice to start it

2006-07-24 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I'm looking for the best policies / practices to start wireless networking. Briefly I use wireless in following locations: -home: wpa via wpa_supplicant -public (bars..etc..): no wep/wpa Both works fine. Currently I start a console logged with user root to call ifup with related params.

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Kemp wrote: > > Disable all your extensions one by one until the problem goes away. > > If that works then report back here and let us know which one(s) > caused the problem. Extensions present:- Greasemonkey Athens Toolbar Mouse gest

Re: can´t ether-wake from the internet

2006-07-24 Thread Bruno Buys
On 7/24/06, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Bruno Buys wrote:> This is odd: I can ether-wake my desktop from another computer on my home> lan, but I can´t ether-wake it while ssh´ing to my gateway from an outside> computer (win pc at work). However, I can ether-wake an

USB not working on Dell PowerEdge 850

2006-07-24 Thread Mark Hansen
I am trying to get USB working on my Dell PE 850 with no luck. I cannot even communicate with USB subsystem, as /proc/bus/usb does not exist! Can anyone give me any pointers? Details below. My USB Controllers show up as UHCI and on EHCI: debian02:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.3# lspci -v ... snip

Re: can´t ether-wake from the internet

2006-07-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Bruno Buys wrote: This is odd: I can ether-wake my desktop from another computer on my home lan, but I can?t ether-wake it while ssh?ing to my gateway from an outside computer (win pc at work). However, I can ether-wake another sarge machine running in a abit+athlon with v

Re: Old versions Backports?

2006-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
> Is there an official web page on the debian site that deals > with backports? First item in google search "Debian backports" ;-) Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-12

Re: Old versions Backports?

2006-07-24 Thread Art Edwards
For newer hardware, one might have to use a kernel from testing or unstable so that hardware can be recognized. e. g. I just bought a socket A motherboard with an onboard nvidia ethernet device. 2.6.15 doesn't recognize many of the nvidia pci devices, but 2.6.17 does ( I found out from the knoppix

can´t ether-wake from the internet

2006-07-24 Thread Bruno Buys
This is odd: I can ether-wake my desktop from another computer on my home lan, but I can´t ether-wake it while ssh´ing to my gateway from an outside computer (win pc at work). However, I can ether-wake another sarge machine running in a abit+athlon with via-rhine eth card. Why is that? The system i

Re: Firestarter bug?

2006-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 21:09:14 -0500, Default User wrote: > Very strange. > > I installed Firestarter on Debian Stable (i386). It is picking up the > routine periodic dhcp send events from my router, and sending them to to > the tty consoles, where they overwrite part of the screen. These are

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > What Jabber client do you use? What the best? I use kopete because of integration to KDE (and decent IRC client), but what's the best is very loaded question. Run apt-cache search jabber client and you will get what's available. Most widely used on Linux are: * Kopete (

Re: changing the default shell

2006-07-24 Thread Horacio Goetendia
Hello Daniel:Sorry by my englishYou should change in the config file :   /etc/adduser.confin the part: (change to the shell that you want to use)  DSHELL=/bin/bashYou can found a list of valid login shells in :        /etc/shellsAtentamenteHoracio Goetendia Bonilla2006/7/24, LeVA < [EMAIL

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 14:40:04 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > setting to take effect, though (if I remember correctly). I never had to > > use the gnome-control-center after that, and the text rendering in all > > my GTK2 applications is fine. > > Not working here and K

changing the default shell

2006-07-24 Thread LeVA
Hi! I wish to change the default shell on my debian system. I want this change to affect all current and all future users. I guess this is a simple job, because I just have to install the new shell, add it's binary's name to the /etc/shells file, and execute chsh @USERS. So much for the curren

Re: just some thoughts [now OT and silly]

2006-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:57:46 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: [...] > Even more > important are games. My children run XP because the games run on XP. There > are now a few games ported to linux that I'm trying to check out, but > there ha

Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
It results in corruption of multiple directories in your filesystem, after you perform the fix shown in the FAQ, it will move hundreds of thousands (potentially) of files/directories/sockets/etc to /lost+found, so back up your data before! One way to fix: rsync your existing data elsewhere, fo

If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html Check the FAQ, there is a 1 line bugfix patch available here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115315508506996&w=2 Discussion here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=115342610512955&w=2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: libcairo2 and gimp 2.2.6

2006-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:39:46 +, djhack wrote: > Mumia W. wrote: > >I just started reading this thread, so I hope I'm not asking > >anyone to rehash a lot of the discussion. > > > >I'm using Sarge, and I recently upgraded my gimp to > >2.2.6-1sarge1 per the security recommendation. I used >

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Art Edwards
I agree with the argument about people engaged in the creative arts. I just started using lilypond, which does put out some very nice looking charts. It may also be the least intuitive code I've touched in maybe five years. There is a windows tool called bandbox that works very well. What I don't

Re: libcairo2 and gimp 2.2.6

2006-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 16:26:31 -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > On 07/23/2006 02:50 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >[...] > >Maybe we should do a sanity check first. Can you tell me what the md5sum > >is for your /usr/bin/gimp-2.2? Here is what I get for the file which I > >extracted from the -1sarge1 packa

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 05:25:32PM +0100, Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office) wrote: > Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a > segfault. This is new. Probably a result of the recent security update? I'd suggest it is the result of an extension which was erron

Re: kmail won't send attachments.

2006-07-24 Thread Pol Hallen
> Using Kmail in Sarge and it won't send attachments, only text mail. > I would appreciate any help with this. > > Thanks in advance, > Charlie Hi sometimes if u run kmail from shell u can see the debug (possible error) messages :-) if u dont resolve the problem try add new user and send a emai

Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-24 Thread Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a segfault. This is new. Anyone else? - -- A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFExPR

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 24 juillet 2006 16:26, Joey Hess a écrit : > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > dpkg-repack (from sid dpkg 1.13.22) gives warnings when repacking > > python packages: > > > > ... > > warning, `./dpkg-repack-5343/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined > > field `Python-Version' > > ... > > > > What ef

Re: i stumped

2006-07-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:25:36 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: < my problem removed> > Do you have the "zeroconf" package installed? It is known to cause this > kind of [expletive deleted]. If you uninstall it everything should come > back to normal (after "ifdown eth0" followed by

Re: help

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * rajesh rajesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060724 15:57]: >i have a problem in linux, > everytime i install linux , it starts in command prompt > how can i start linux in gui mode > my debian verson is sarge 3.1 During the installation you will get asked, which tasks to install.

Re: which process is writing to disk?

2006-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Lubos Vrbka wrote: > i sometimes see the following happenning on my notebook. every few > seconds, i can hear a tick from the harddrive. it seems, that some > process writes just a little bit to disk and the heads are immediately > parked. the sound is quite annoying. it doesn't happen all the t

Re: help

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 July 2006 16:57, rajesh rajesh wrote: > Hi this is rajesh >i have a problem in linux, > everytime i install linux , it starts in command > prompt > how can i start linux in gui mode > my debian verson is sarge 3.1 >please help me out i have just downloaded 16 cd

Re: help

2006-07-24 Thread Jabka Atu
rajesh rajesh wrote: Hi this is rajesh i have a problem in linux, everytime i install linux , it starts in command prompt how can i start linux in gui mode my debian verson is sarge 3.1 please help me out i have just downloaded 16 cd's from your site _

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > dpkg-repack (from sid dpkg 1.13.22) gives warnings when repacking python > packages: > > ... > warning, `./dpkg-repack-5343/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field > `Python-Version' > ... > > What effect does this have? Can the .deb be used or not? It's harmless,

help

2006-07-24 Thread rajesh rajesh
Hi this is rajesh i have a problem in linux, everytime i install linux , it starts in command prompt how can i start linux in gui mode my debian verson is sarge 3.1 please help me out i have just downloaded 16 cd's from your site

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] Thanks. What Jabber client do you use? What the best? Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-24 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 24 July 2006 09:13, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > I just stumbled on these instructions: > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/202/1/ > > I'm mainly interested in fixing my kernel timer resolution to be fine > enough for Rosegarden MIDI, but I'm curious about kernel making all > th

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients (was: A question about chatting)

2006-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've been trying many of the above tools. > I confess that it's not clear to me what the advantage should > be in using Jabber with its more or less complicated system > of gateways instead of Gaim or other multi-protocol IM client > that connect "natively" to ICQ or MSN > i

Re: Audio Player for FLAC

2006-07-24 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Tony Terlecki wrote: > Any other suggestions for decent payers that can handle seeking in > FLAC tracks without any interruptions between tracks? mpd (Music Player Daemon) supports gapless flac playback, and seeking works just fine too. It's also very fast

Re: cups problem

2006-07-24 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi all: I have just downgraded the cupsys files using this repository and cupsys is working fine now. http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2005/04/20/debian/pool/main/c/cupsys/ It seems there is something wrong with the current etch cupsys package. Thanks. Paras. On 7/24/06, David Baron <[EMAI

NetworkCard of IBMthinkCentre

2006-07-24 Thread H S Rai
I installed Debian3.1 on IBM Think Centre using CD. It has BroadCom's NetXtreme fast ethernet card. The driver is present. But it is not loaded automatically. On issuing command: # /sbin/modprobe tg3 It says "cannot find proper PCI device base address, aborting. /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kern

Re: cups problem

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 July 2006 14:41, Paras pradhan wrote: > Just removed , purged and re installed cupsys. same problem. > > > > Paras. > > On 7/23/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Several people (including me) have had to purge ("apt-get --purge remove > > cupsys") and reinstall CUPS to make

Re: cups problem

2006-07-24 Thread Paras pradhan
Just removed , purged and re installed cupsys. same problem. Paras. On 7/23/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Several people (including me) have had to purge ("apt-get --purge remove cupsys") and reinstall CUPS to make it work. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROT

Re: mozilla tabextensions problem since security upgrade

2006-07-24 Thread Alexander Sack
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:09:04AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Hello, > > I have mozilla-1.7.8 installed and this is the second time that > tabextensions caused problems after security upgrade (dss 1053). > > The first time it happened after DSA-810, when I worked around the problem >

Re: audio tag tool and utf8

2006-07-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michael Ott wrote: Hi! Using audio tag tool to change the tags for MP3. sound juicer set the tags for one album in Russian letters, but do not set year. But audio tag tool cannot display the Russian letter and also cannot save it correct. How can i set UTF-8 for audio tag tool or is this a bu

Re: wireless network card

2006-07-24 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1153696655 past the epoch, Faheem Mitha wrote: > I've been trying to find locally a wireless network card > that works with Linux to install on my host's laptop. The > cards available at the local retail outlets seem to only > work with proprietary drivers, and I don't want to use > proprietary

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