Re: CUPS hosed again?

2006-09-06 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:37, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:17:37 +0200, PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > it seems as if in the last few days CUPS has been changed (broken!) > > again. After an apt-get dist-upgrade in etch I get > > > > "Parallel port busy; will retr

Re: psql comands

2006-09-06 Thread Mumia W.
On 09/07/2006 12:23 AM, Iuri Sampaio wrote: [...] I couldn't open the docs at http://www.devroom.org/index.php?article_id=10 don't you have a htm, or pdf version? The "Download" link at that url points to a .tar.gz archive file. The documentation is probably inside it. Un-tar that file wit

psql comands

2006-09-06 Thread Iuri Sampaio
So far I got the follow situation... I have psql commands working properly as postgres user. And I need to set it up on other users   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql -su: psql: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$       env | grep path   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ env | grep PATH LD_LI

Gnome unstable

2006-09-06 Thread Martin Möller
Hi all, I'd like to install the unstable version of Gnome (via Garnome). Is this possible with testing, or do I have to use sid? -- Martin Möller Using Debian etch/testing for amd/64

Trying to boot from USB HDD - linuxrc/initrd problem?

2006-09-06 Thread Robert Glueck
I've installed Xandros 4, a Debian derivative, on an external USB hard disk drive, and I'm trying to boot it from there. My laptop is able to boot USB storage devices, and I've succeeded in doing that with several other Linux distros (including the Debian-based Ubuntu and MEPIS), booting both

Printing area problem, Cups or latex?

2006-09-06 Thread T
Hi This is a strange problem that I really hope someone here can answer: Updated from Sarge to Etch, I just noticed that my label printing does not work any more. I used to use the Latex "labels" package to do label printing. But today, when I try it, the printed content is way off the place.

How to fix not cleanly closed mysql?

2006-09-06 Thread Jeff Zhang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After an abnormally shutdow, /etc/init.d/mysql start givs the message: Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.. how to fix it? Need I rebuild

Firefox/CUPS printer properties

2006-09-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
A recurrent problem which has plagued the combination of Firefox and CUPS several times is back again, with the system upgrade which I made yesterday or the day before: Within the Firefox browser (version 1.5.0.4), the parameters "gap from edge of paper to margin" set by "printer properties" butt

Re: Debian LIVE CD

2006-09-06 Thread Derek
Havent tried it,but this might be what your looking for"$ apt-cache show bootcdPackage: bootcdPriority: extraSection: utilsInstalled-Size: 224Maintainer: Bernd Schumacher < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>Architecture: allVersion: 2.53Depends: mkisofs, cpio, fdutils, file, dosfstools, realpath, bootcd-i386 | boo

Kubuntu Sources.list To Get latest Mozilla-mplayer Version

2006-09-06 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Hello Users, I have Kubuntu Dapper 6.0.6-1 uptodate installed and want to try a later version of mozilla-mplayer or mplayerplug-in than v3.17 which is Kubuntu's latest and which doesn't play embedded videos; neither did sid when I switched to Kubuntu for user friendliness. So, I added these mirror

Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-06 Thread Owen Heisler
I am wondering if there is any reason why the Debian installer doesn't allow multiple partitions in a RAID5 array or an encrypted volume. It is possible to have multiple partitions in a RAID array, right? And what about for encryption? What I'm wanting to do is have a RAID5 array on three drives

Re: Re: Hauppage Nova-T PCI DVB receiver card fine in 2.6.8, broken in2.6.16

2006-09-06 Thread Steve Duncan
Hi Thank you very much for your time and attention. Here are some clarifications (sorry about the crummy formatting). > This should not be necessary with udev, which should automatically create your DVB devices. Since you are starting with sarge config files, I suspect you are missing the r

Re: how can I start one script as soon as screensaver start ?

2006-09-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/06/2006 04:20 AM, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: > My question : how can I start one script as soon as screensaver start > ? > Check the manpage: $ man xscreensaver-command It says: > For example, suppose you want to run a program that turns down the > volume on your machine when the screen blank

Re: Debian LIVE CD

2006-09-06 Thread T
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:28:08 -0400, Stephen Yorke wrote: > 1. Creating a LIVE CD with Debian Testing ... > > ... Debian LIVECD ... Ok...give up on iBuild > > Second, I have been playing with the Morphix Tools... build it is empty... Others have suggested Knopsis & dfsbuild. I've been

Re: configuring mysql server

2006-09-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 21:46, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > I am not sure if there is a better way but I recommend to you this one. > > Set bind-address= 0.0.0.0 someone on the mythtv mailing list said comment it out all together. But same effect I think I already have the port protec

Re: how can I start one script as soon as screensaver start ?

2006-09-06 Thread Derek
I have no idea,but im gonna just say it,replace the screensaver binary with a shell script,then you can have the script launch the screensaver and your script.I have know clue if that will work,just an idea On 9/6/06, KLEIN Stéphane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My question : how can I start one scrip

Re: configuring mysql server

2006-09-06 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The debian package says that be default the mysql server is installed with networking disabled. /etc/my.cnf file has a paramerter for [mysqld] of bind-address = 127.0.0.1I am running mysqld on a machine with 3 interfaces127.0.0.1 (ie the loopback)192.168.0.

configuring mysql server

2006-09-06 Thread Alan Chandler
The debian package says that be default the mysql server is installed with networking disabled. /etc/my.cnf file has a paramerter for [mysqld] of bind-address = 127.0.0.1 I am running mysqld on a machine with 3 interfaces 127.0.0.1 (ie the loopback) 192.168.0.20 (my lan interface) 82.44.22.127

Re: sound q: is this possible?

2006-09-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.09.06 09:58, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I record streaming mp3 music with mplayer. > > I use snd to edit the .wav file. > > Then I convert it with sox to the right frequency and use lame to cut an > mp3 file. lame can resample the file itself. > For the last few recordings I notice that th

Re: USB stick

2006-09-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Stephen McGregor writes: > >I run 2.4.27 . All I did was add > > > >/dev/sda1 /usbvfatuser,rw,group,auto 0 > > 0 > > > >to /etc/fstab , and away I went. On 05.09.06 10:59, Alan Chandler wrote: > The problem with that is, if anything else (such as a

kernel/vesa video modes

2006-09-06 Thread T.J. Duchene
I use the "vga=792" parameter at the end of the "kernel" line in grub, so that the resolution is changed to 1024x768 at 24 bit. I would like to use 1280x960 at 24 bit instead, but haven't been able to find how to anywhere. All the tables I've found exclude 1280x960. Does anyone know what I need

kernel/vesa video modes

2006-09-06 Thread Owen Heisler
I use the "vga=792" parameter at the end of the "kernel" line in grub, so that the resolution is changed to 1024x768 at 24 bit. I would like to use 1280x960 at 24 bit instead, but haven't been able to find how to anywhere. All the tables I've found exclude 1280x960. Does anyone know what I need

Re: Issues upgrading cpu

2006-09-06 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:36:45PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > On 9/6/06, Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:51:48AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > >> I upgraded

Re: Debian LIVE CD

2006-09-06 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
"Stephen Yorke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello all... > > I am new to this group (just signed up today) but I am have two > problems: 1. Creating a LIVE CD with Debian Testing [...] Check out "dfsbuild" in the repositories. Cybe R. Wizard -- Press 'START' to stop Winduhs -- To

wierd dpk package message Solved.

2006-09-06 Thread edwardsa
FYI. I was able to fix this problem. The statoverride file resides in /var/lib/dpkg For some reason, it had the following entry: hplip root 755 /var/run/hplip The file statoverride-old was empty I performed radical surgery and made statoverride-old into statoverride. So, the maintainer of h

Re: Debian LIVE CD

2006-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: Stephen Yorke wrote: Hello all... I am new to this group (just signed up today) but I am have two problems: 1. Creating a LIVE CD with Debian Testing 2. PXE/TFTP Boot server within a M$ DHCP Environment I'm afraid I know next to nothing about either task, but if I were tryin

Re: Issues upgrading cpu

2006-09-06 Thread Bruno Buys
On 9/6/06, Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:51:48AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote:> I upgraded my cpu to a sempron with 64bit extension (Sempron 3400+ for> 754, to be precise). After some googling and reading, I still can't > f

sound q: is this possible?

2006-09-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I record streaming mp3 music with mplayer. I use snd to edit the .wav file. Then I convert it with sox to the right frequency and use lame to cut an mp3 file. For the last few recordings I notice that the sound volume varies during the recording so I have to be lowering or raising the s

Re: Debian LIVE CD

2006-09-06 Thread Kent West
Stephen Yorke wrote: Hello all... I am new to this group (just signed up today) but I am have two problems: 1. Creating a LIVE CD with Debian Testing 2. PXE/TFTP Boot server within a M$ DHCP Environment I'm afraid I know next to nothing about either task, but if I were trying to tackle the fi

Debian LIVE CD

2006-09-06 Thread Stephen Yorke
Hello all... I am new to this group (just signed up today) but I am have two problems: 1. Creating a LIVE CD with Debian Testing 2. PXE/TFTP Boot server within a M$ DHCP Environment I come from a M$ background (hey, had to get my start somewhere and it is paying the bills) but frequent the *NI

Re: postfix in unstable does not auth to smarthost

2006-09-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albert Dengg) wrote: > for me the following setting works on 3 machines: > > relayhost = [mail.gmx.net] > sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd > smtp_sasl_security_options = n

Re: More packages should provide gcc-docs ?

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/6/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sarge, I recently did this: $ aptitude show gcc-docs State: not a real package That's actually not the right package name. There's no "s". Provided by: gcc-2.95-doc $ aptitude search 'gcc-.*doc' p gcc-2.95-doc- Documen

console outputs for root printed also on printer

2006-09-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i realized that from time to time, things that are printed on the screen (for root) are also printed on the printer. i'm not sure whether the printed stuff exactly copies the things on the screen. however, for example i was running aptitude and wanted to install some things related t

More packages should provide gcc-docs ?

2006-09-06 Thread Mumia W.
On Sarge, I recently did this: $ aptitude show gcc-docs State: not a real package Provided by: gcc-2.95-doc $ aptitude search 'gcc-.*doc' p gcc-2.95-doc- Documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, p gcc-3.3-doc - Documentation for the GNU compilers (g

Re: Issues upgrading cpu

2006-09-06 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:51:48AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > I upgraded my cpu to a sempron with 64bit extension (Sempron 3400+ for > 754, to be precise). After some googling and reading, I still can't > figure those out: > > - Why do some instructio

pavuk: does it work for anybody? (segfaults here)

2006-09-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Just tried to use pavuk, it seems pretty unstable just trying to configure the download scenario and then reliably segfaults when starting the download (both with X frontend and commandline). There are bugs already filed (200+ days old) for this (as far as I can tell, they also mention segfaul

Re: postfix in unstable does not auth to smarthost

2006-09-06 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 07:37:06PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am trying to relay my mail through my new provider, instead of > gmail. This is mail.log after a postqueue -f > ... > postfix config: > > # postconf -n > alias_d

Re: Blury fonts in OOo

2006-09-06 Thread Morten O. Hansen
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:07 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Morten, > I was just reading an article on digg.com about this very thing: OO.org > does in fact use its own font stuff. go to the site to find the linux > and fonts article for more info. Thanks :-) The article is here [1] if anyone else

Re: Debian Sarge screen refresh rate

2006-09-06 Thread Mumia W.
On 09/06/2006 02:57 AM, Rocky Ou wrote: Hey, I used dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to configure my monitor refresh rate to Vertical 70-75 and Horizontal 80-85. in /etc/X11/XFConfig86-4 it shows what I just configured with dpkg-reconfigure. The problem is it actually does not act that way. Th

how can I start one script as soon as screensaver start ?

2006-09-06 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
My question : how can I start one script as soon as screensaver start ? I try this bad solution : in "gnome-screensaver-2.14.3/src/gs-monitor.c", at the beginin of "listener_active_changed_cb", I've add this code : char *command; command = "myfoobarscript"; execv(command); but it don't work.

Debian Sarge screen refresh rate

2006-09-06 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey,I used dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to configure my monitor refresh rate to Vertical 70-75 and Horizontal 80-85. in /etc/X11/XFConfig86-4 it shows what I just configured with dpkg-reconfigure. The problem is it actually does not act that way. The actual refresh rate is far more less. It is

Fwd: CUPS hosed again?

2006-09-06 Thread Chris
I just noticed three instances of gs running and hogging my cpu... I tried three times to print a test page to the printer. Probably not a coincidence... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: CUPS hosed again? Date: Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:17 From: "PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschle