Re: audio / video system - & energy efficiency

Adam Hardy wrote: > One question: all this has got to be relatively quiet which is difficult > with the chips all humming away trying to stay cool, and another factor > is the power consumption - my plan is to leave the server on most of the > time so that the others in the house can use it without

Re: (SOLVED: I think) opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote: I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a

Re: opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

Marc Shapiro wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote: I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a while, now, with no p

Can bot use Fn+F7 to switch LCD/CRT on Thinkpad X60s

I have use ibm_acpi module in my kernel(2.6.18), and I can use Fn+F4 to suspend to RAM and Fn+F12 to suspend to disk. But the system do not respond to Fn+F7, so I can not switch the LCD and external CRT. Moreover, when I run "echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video" in the terminal, no any respon

Xorg crashes after installing mouse cursors

Hi all, I have a Debian testing/unstable amd64 system. It was working fine and then I installed a couple of cursor packages like "crystal-cursor" and "comix-cursor". Changed the mouse cursor from default to crystalblue -medium. Everything was fine. Then I rebooted. Now Xorg fails at star

SOLVED: Re: SD card not being read from a card reader

H.S. wrote: Hello, I am having trouble reading an SD card from a card reader (USB). The card works okay in the digital camera (Canon A520) and I can read and delete images from the card is the camera is directly connected to the computer via a USB cable (use digikam for the operations). l

Mdadm Corruption

Hi Linux Pepole, I have a debian box (sarge (I think)) with a 2.6.8-3.386 kernel. I recently upgraded to 2.6.18 to get checkarray working in Mdadm (it needs a kernel high than 2.6.15 to function) as there is not a lot of point in having a raid system if it doesn't keep an eye on itself :) Anyhow

Re: LCD screen resolution and projector

On 12/5/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:58:44AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > What happens from within X if you use C-A-KPminus to reduce resolution? The LCD resolution will be change, but the MAX projector produces is 800x600. I also used C-A-backspace t

Re: LCD screen resolution and projector

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:58:44AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > My resolution of LCD is 1024x768. When connecting to most projectors, the > resolution produced by projectors is 800x600, my comupter still keeps > 1024x768. The graphics card is ATI, driver is raedon. If I use vesa > dr

Re: audio / video system - & energy efficiency

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:12:00AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich on 04/12/06 16:37, wrote: > >Adam Hardy wrote: > >>I'm aiming to put together a PC with Etch as the OS, to use in my living > >>room as a hifi, TV and DVD player. > One question: all this has got to be relatively qu

LCD screen resolution and projector

Dear all, My resolution of LCD is 1024x768. When connecting to most projectors, the resolution produced by projectors is 800x600, my comupter still keeps 1024x768. The graphics card is ATI, driver is raedon. If I use vesa driver, the resolution will be 1024x768, but only the project or LCD wil

Re: emacs -nw in UTF-8 xterm does not work

Claus Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I converted my Debian etch system to an UTF-8 environment. > > Emacs in X: Works fine > xterm: Works find > Emacs in xterm: Trouble (e.g. within mutt) > > While characters are displayed correctly, both for files with UTF-8 > and with iso

Re: emacs -nw in UTF-8 xterm does not work

On 2006-12-05 00:34:49 +0100, Claus Fischer wrote: > I converted my Debian etch system to an UTF-8 environment. > > Emacs in X: Works fine > xterm: Works find > Emacs in xterm: Trouble (e.g. within mutt) > > While characters are displayed correctly, both for files with UTF-8 > and wi

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an archive or compression format that includes the ability to > not only detect errors but to correct them? (e.g. store ECC data > elsewhere in the file) If there was, and I could write it directly to > the disk, then that would solve the blocks-

Re: installing Linux

sol-100 wrote: > > Hi there! > > I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I've > downloaded your CD image but It cannot be installed. > May I have your help, please? > Let's start with the obvious: Is there only one ISO file on the CD or are there a couple of files a

Re: [Thinkpad] System Freeze w/audio CDs

What CD player program are you using? Does it freeze as soon as you stick the disk in? If so, what desktop are you using? KDE? Gnome? XFCE? Can you play other sounds/music files? Can you rip audio with CDParanoia? Which optical drive do you have? On 12/4/06, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello

Loading /tmp/kmap/blankmap

One of my sarge boxes has now twice done the same extremely weird thing. I'm using a text console and up pops output from /bin/loadkeys: "Loading /tmp/kmap/blankmap". The keyboard then ceases to respond apart from allowing me to switch VTs. X is still fine so I can reactivate the keyboard by loadi

SD card not being read from a card reader

Hello, I am having trouble reading an SD card from a card reader (USB). The card works okay in the digital camera (Canon A520) and I can read and delete images from the card is the camera is directly connected to the computer via a USB cable (use digikam for the operations). However, if I i

Re: apt-cdrom and dvd's

On Mon December 4 2006 17:20, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I tried using apt-cdrom add to let me scan my Sarge 3.1 r4 DVD I just > burned. > > But the machine sniffed for a CDROM in the CD RW drive and didn't go for > the DVD in the DVD RW drive.. > > But there is no apt-d

apt-cdrom and dvd's

Dear Debian folks, I tried using apt-cdrom add to let me scan my Sarge 3.1 r4 DVD I just burned. But the machine sniffed for a CDROM in the CD RW drive and didn't go for the DVD in the DVD RW drive.. But there is no apt-dvd add command or so it seems? Unless there is a hidden dumbness

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:33:39 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] But you have failed completely to notice that installation and garbage collection/disposal are conceptually, and should remain physically, separate actions. You have failed completely to realize that

Re: audio / video system - & energy efficiency

Johannes Wiedersich on 04/12/06 16:37, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I'm aiming to put together a PC with Etch as the OS, to use in my living room as a hifi, TV and DVD player. I've been using kaffeine on my thinkpad with an external usb DVB-T card (cinnergy T2) and since recently with an external

Re: audio / video system

Raffaele Morelli on 04/12/06 13:36, wrote: 2006/12/4, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:57:10AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Does anyone know of a good source of info or even have much experience > doing that themselves? I thi

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:35:03AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Monday 04 December 2006 11:23, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Monday 04 December 2006 10:06, Scarletdown wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wr

Re: Aptitude - Removing Unwanted Holds

Hi Arlie, On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:57:54AM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > For some bizarre reason, aptitude seems extremely fond of holding > packages at prior versions. This has resulted in at least one csae of > my system being afflicted by a known - and fixed - bug. > > I use aptitude in its

backup archive format saved to disk

Hello, I'm going to be backing up to a portable ruggedized hard drive. Currently, my backups end up in tar.bz2 format. It would be nice if there was some redundancy in the data stream to handle blocks that go bad while the drive is in storage (e.g. archive). How is this handled on tape? Is it b

Re: Newbie trying to install FrostWire.

"Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cool. It works now, thanks. So I guess I should assume that my Java is > installed correctly and that the problem with JRisk is also a one off > that is app related? Yeah, it appears java works as you can run the first app, as for the other one, I do no

Mixing stable and unstable distros

Hi everyone, Does mix (stable and unstable) debian distros affects on anything? I have postgresql installed and it gives me an error: In /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.1-main.log I see this error: > > 2006-12-03 22:54:02 UTC FATAL: could not access private key file > "server.key"

Re: Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

Baz wrote: What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? And, if I'm looking to install Ubuntu, will it simply overwrite Debian? You'll lose your menu at least. Also, you will lose the ability for it to read your file system(s). I think it would be best to re-install GRUB after

Re: device /dev/sda16 not exist?

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:06:08 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:14 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: >> > >> > I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. >> > >> > But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get: >> > >> > % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/ >> > mount: s

Re: Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0 and Java applets

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 16:52 +0100, Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Hi All, > > Ever since I upgraded to Iceweasel (Firefox 2.0) while a Java applet is > > loading the entire browser freezes. Most Java applets aren't very > > large on the sites I frequent, but the Na

Re: Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0 and Java applets

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 10:58 -0800, Aenoch Lynn wrote: > On 12/04/2006 07:37 AM Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Ever since I upgraded to Iceweasel (Firefox 2.0) while a Java applet is > > loading the entire browser freezes. Most Java applets aren't very > > large on the sites I frequ

Re: Sarge 3.1 installed. Can i add SATA support?

On 12/4/06, Javier Viegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, i have Debian Sarge 3.1 installed as a file server, and i need to add another hard disk, as i already have the 4 ide ports bussy i can use sata ones to add a big sata hd, the problem is that sarge 3.1 doesn´t support sata controle

Re: Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0 and Java applets

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:25 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Ever since I upgraded to Iceweasel (Firefox 2.0) while a Java applet is > > loading the entire browser freezes. Most Java applets aren't very > > large on the sites I frequent, but the Nati

dist-upgrade with aptitude from sarge to etch is problematic

Hi, Although I like aptitude and I advocated its use, I have to admit I have been using etch aptitude recently. I am now a bit cautious about it. I have to admit upgrading from sarge stable to etch using sarge iversion of aptitude is a problematic as describerd in Bug#401317 if your system has m

Re: Re: aterm segmentation fault

Thank you for the suggestion, however the problem ended up being my motherboard. Not long after I asked for help I began to get even more strange errors, and when being forced to reboot again I couldn't even get into my bios. A new motherboard and some repair work took care of the problem

emacs -nw in UTF-8 xterm does not work

I converted my Debian etch system to an UTF-8 environment. Emacs in X: Works fine xterm: Works find Emacs in xterm: Trouble (e.g. within mutt) While characters are displayed correctly, both for files with UTF-8 and with iso-8859-1 encoding (emacs detects that automatically), the key

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Monday 04 December 2006 10:06, Scarletdown wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > > Part of this discussion concerned the cost of DL media vs single > > > layer.At the time DL was about $8/disk while com

some text not showing up in PS file printed from a webpage

Hello, Could somebody help me understand why I am not getting some symbols if I print this webpage: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mastascu/eLessonsHTML/Freq/Freq5.html to a PS file from Mozilla (1.7.12-1.2, on Debian Etch) using gs 8.54.dfsg.1-5? In the ps file, I am missing the "w" sym

Re: Mozilla resolving host problem

On 12/02/2006 01:40 PM, David Shultz wrote: > Whenever I browse any website, mozilla says > "Resolving www.google.com " and waits for about > 15 seconds to resolve the host. I've disabled > ipv6 but the problem is still there. Also I've > checked the isp nameserver and they

Re: Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

On 12/4/06, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? And, if I'm looking to install Ubuntu, will it simply overwrite Debian? -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division I think that if you install Ubuntu and install GRUB in the s

Re: Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:31:34PM -0800, Baz wrote: > What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? if GRUB is on the MBR, then you'll probably get a GRUB prompt and that's all, unless you have menu.lst stored somewhere else. you'll have to manually instruct GRUB how to boot -- I

Sarge 3.1 installed. Can i add SATA support?

Hi everyone, i have Debian Sarge 3.1 installed as a file server, and i need to add another hard disk, as i already have the 4 ide ports bussy i can use sata ones to add a big sata hd, the problem is that sarge 3.1 doesn´t support sata controlers. I have an Asus mother (P4P800-E Deluxe) wich hav

Re: Newbie trying to install FrostWire.

On 12/4/06, Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many thanks. The install went smoothly, but I am experiencing some > problems with Java based apps. FrostWire never seems to connect to a > network and I have to force quit it to quit the app. ch

Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? And, if I'm looking to install Ubuntu, will it simply overwrite Debian? -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division

Re: The same hardware different ethernet device names

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:16:18AM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > I've got several Intel server platforms on every platform I > upgraded BIOS to the latest version and installed Debian Etch. On five > of them I have two ethernet interf

Re: Checking integrity of cached debs

Winston Smith wrote: > Is there an easy way to check the integrity of cached debs and remove > corrupt ones? Also, is there an easy way to check the integrity of the > unchanging parts of installed packages? Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > You can install debsums for that, > > Description: V

Re: kde's kwin killed - now problem with desktop 1

On Monday 04 December 2006 14:18, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Have you tried simply starting kwin again? I haven't used KDE for a > while, but IIRC, you do K-menu -> Run command -> enter "kwin". You > could also launch kwin from a terminal, of course, just to see what > happens, but it will probably be k

Re: kde's kwin killed - now problem with desktop 1

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:34:43 -0800 Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My manager's computer hung up this morning. He's running sarge with > two monitors. We ssh'd in from another computer and ran top. We saw > an instance of kwin running that was hogging the cpu. We killed it. > Now on

Re: Aptitude - Removing Unwanted Holds

Hi, Thanks. It looks like you've solved my problem, and farthermore provided guidance for avoding new problems of the same kind. I apologize for troubling the list with what turned out to be an RTFM question. I'm afraid I'm a bit of an old fogey - I do 'man ' and 'man -k ', and if that provides

kde's kwin killed - now problem with desktop 1

Hi, My manager's computer hung up this morning. He's running sarge with two monitors. We ssh'd in from another computer and ran top. We saw an instance of kwin running that was hogging the cpu. We killed it. Now one of his desktops is acting poorly. When he opens a terminal there is no title ba

Re: Illegible PDF (KDE and Sid) (SOLVED (maybe))

El Dilluns 04 Desembre 2006 21:58, Joshua J. Kugler va escriure: > Hmm...mine says "Embed fonts in postscript data when printing" and it's > checked.  That is odd. And have font files in «fonts path»? In my KPrinter configuration is empty (yes, is odd; few weeks ago this works fine in my KDE :?)

Re: Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

Hi Folks, Thanks to these two people, my system no longer has this problem. Aptitude had taken it into its addled little mind to 'hold' kdelibs at 4.3.5a.dfsg.1-3. Overriding this (and upgrading to 4.3.5a.dfsg.1-5) fixed the problem. Next step, debug aptitude ;-) On Dec 02 2006, Florian Kulzer

Re: High Availability E-Mail Solution? Seeking Recommendations

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 05:44:57PM +0800, Tim Post wrote: > > If you had 3 - 5 dual core opterons, all having a public (10/100) and > private (gig-e) nic [ private being connected to an isolated gig > switch ] that you could devote to trying to make an 'armored' MX > cluster.. what would you use?

Re: Illegible PDF (KDE and Sid) (SOLVED (maybe))

On Monday 04 December 2006 11:43, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > El Dilluns 04 Desembre 2006 19:42, Joshua J. Kugler va escriure: > > Make sure you haven't enabled KPrinter's "Hangman" mode. > > > : > > I've changed the KPrinter configuration: Fonts section > unselect «don't > embed PostScript

Re: Aptitude - Removing Unwanted Holds

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:57:54 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > For some bizarre reason, aptitude seems extremely fond of holding > packages at prior versions. This has resulted in at least one csae of > my system being afflicted by a known - and fixed - bug. > > I use aptitude in its curses based

Re: device /dev/sda16 not exist?

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:14 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. > > > > But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get: > > > > % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/ > > mount: special device /dev/sda

Re: Illegible PDF (KDE and Sid) (SOLVED (maybe))

El Dilluns 04 Desembre 2006 19:42, Joshua J. Kugler va escriure: > Make sure you haven't enabled KPrinter's "Hangman" mode. : I've changed the KPrinter configuration: Fonts section > unselect «don't embed PostScript fonts when print» (I read this message in catalan, this english version

Re: SATA PCI

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:43 +0800, Bob wrote: > Sorry delay RL. > http://www.stardom.com.tw/others%20satacard.htm > 4 port PCI-X Nice! I lilke the e-SATA express card - solves a few minor storage headaches for me! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian people, > > This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little merit. I > bought myself a new Benq DVD rewriter and stuffed in my box. This one can > handle dual layered DVDs as well as the single ones. > > I then realised after nosing around in

Aptitude - Removing Unwanted Holds

For some bizarre reason, aptitude seems extremely fond of holding packages at prior versions. This has resulted in at least one csae of my system being afflicted by a known - and fixed - bug. I use aptitude in its curses based gui mode. I typically do 'u', to find out what new versions are availab

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

On Monday 04 December 2006 11:23, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Monday 04 December 2006 10:06, Scarletdown wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > > > Part of this discussion concerned the cost of DL media v

Re: Newbie trying to install FrostWire.

"Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many thanks. The install went smoothly, but I am experiencing some > problems with Java based apps. FrostWire never seems to connect to a > network and I have to force quit it to quit the app. check this thread on their forum: http://frostwire.com/forum

Re: play sound when battery is low (new laptop)

You could write a shell script which verifies the status of the battery using the acpi command and play a sound for example with mpg321 or mplayer when the battery is under some threshold. On 4 Dec 2006 08:01:12 -0800, Joerg Lensing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi NG, how can I play a sound when

Re: Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0 and Java applets

Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, Ever since I upgraded to Iceweasel (Firefox 2.0) while a Java applet is loading the entire browser freezes. Most Java applets aren't very large on the sites I frequent, but the National Weather Service radar loops and satellite loops are rather large, and/or

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

On Sunday 03 December 2006 18:04, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:08:18 + > > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >Dear Debian people, > > > > > >This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little mer

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

I guess it's just a problem of configuration and/or ppd-stuff. it seems so. we installed ppds for HPLJ4100 and HPLJ2300 from linuxprinting.org (standard postscript, no hplip - we had that up till now) and the settings can be changed from individual users, i.e., duplex can be turned off or cha

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

On Monday 04 December 2006 10:06, Scarletdown wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > Part of this discussion concerned the cost of DL media vs single > > layer.At the time DL was about $8/disk while compared to maybe > > $1.00/disk for SL, not a good value, imho. The eco

Re: audio / video system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/06 04:57, Adam Hardy wrote: > I'm aiming to put together a PC with Etch as the OS, to use in my living > room as a hifi, TV and DVD player. > > I've been surfing around alot looking for interesting sites or mailing > lists where people are do

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:08:18 + >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> *maybe*. We had some of this discussion before sarge released, when >> there was a chance that we might make sarge fit on a single DL >> DVD. See the debian-cd mailing l

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > Part of this discussion concerned the cost of DL media vs single > layer.At the time DL was about $8/disk while compared to maybe > $1.00/disk for SL, not a good value, imho. The economics may have > changed. DL disks are still rather pricey

Re: Illegible PDF (KDE and Sid)

On Monday 04 December 2006 04:19, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Hi, > > Lately KPrinter makes illegible PDF: > http://itaca.bitassa.cat/~benjami/tmp/kdepdfkaput.pdf > > I can print Postscipt files with Iceweasel and convert it to correct PDF > with ps2pdf. > > PDF printer in Control Center have this

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

On Monday 04 December 2006 10:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:11, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:51 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > >>> Once it gets to that size would dual layered DVD iso images be > >>> considered to be par

Re: some text not showing up in PS file printed from a webpage

H.S. wrote: Hello, Could somebody help me understand why I am not getting some symbols if I print this webpage: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mastascu/eLessonsHTML/Freq/Freq5.html to a PS file from Mozilla (1.7.12-1.2, on Debian Etch) using gs 8.54.dfsg.1-5? In the ps file, I am missin

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

Alan Ianson wrote: On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:11, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:51 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Once it gets to that size would dual layered DVD iso images be considered to be parked in the repositories? Seems like there have been talk about this, but it

Illegible PDF (KDE and Sid)

Hi, Lately KPrinter makes illegible PDF: http://itaca.bitassa.cat/~benjami/tmp/kdepdfkaput.pdf I can print Postscipt files with Iceweasel and convert it to correct PDF with ps2pdf. PDF printer in Control Center have this order: gs -q -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite

Re: newly dist-upgrade messed my fontconfig?

On 12/3/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings all, I did a "aptitude -f dist-upgrade" an hour ago and found the fontconfig package is upgraded and now the text on many websites looks dim (seems that the Nimbus font is now take in charge), I checked my fontconfig configuration files in

play sound when battery is low (new laptop)

Hi NG, how can I play a sound when battery gets low? I use etch with gnome. Tx Jörg

Re: audio / video system

2006/12/4, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:57:10AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Does anyone know of a good source of info or even have much experience > doing that themselves? I think the agnula web site and related list could be a good start. http://agnula.org/ che

Re: System Freeze w/audio CDs

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:50:45 -0800 Baz wrote: > I installed "etch" on a Z60t Thinkpad a few days ago. Now, the entire > system freezes when I attempt to play an audio CD. Although I'm new > to Linux, this sounds major; as in, I'll likely need to reinstall > it. Of course, the experience, which l

LVM on raid1: looking to future, RFC

Hello, My testing box is an amd64, 1 G ram with dual 80 GB Seagate SATA drives, running Etch. I'm new to the LVM/raid1 concept. Following advice I received here (or was it on amd64; no matter, its not amd64 specific), I currently have both disks partitioned the same: 1 small

System Freeze w/audio CDs

Hello. I installed "etch" on a Z60t Thinkpad a few days ago. Now, the entire system freezes when I attempt to play an audio CD. Although I'm new to Linux, this sounds major; as in, I'll likely need to reinstall it. Of course, the experience, which leads me to this assessment comes from working

Palm Zire 31 (USB) as serial terminal via USB-serial?

I've heard reference to being able, in a pinch, to use a palm pilot as a serial terminal. Of course, those palm's predated USB (and presumably USB serial port dongles). I'm wondering if anyone has heard of being ale to do this on a Palm Zire 31 which has a USB port not a serial port. It would ma

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

On 12/4/06, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick Wiseman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 12/3/06, Jianwei Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Incidentally, I'm on a Debian Etch/testing system and Firefox is still > Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:22:54PM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wish mine worked like that. I got it from a box store. Here in Italy. > > It'll be very difficult to persuade MediaWorld that it is faulty. > > I have

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Hi folks, I'm running etch. I recently upgraded my kernel from a self-built 2.4 to the Debian kernel package version 2.6.17-2-k7. Now, my logs are filled with (10-20 per hour): Dec 4 08:56:52 reidster ntpd[2331]: frequency error -512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM There doesn't seem to be any s

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[Initially posted on alt.os.linux.debian, no replies.} I believe that one can trim down a standard debootstrap installation (currently 180MB for sarge and over 230 MB for etch) hacking one of the related scripts (eg: usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sarge) and modifying the 'base' variable, e.g.: bas

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

Patrick Wiseman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 12/3/06, Jianwei Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Incidentally, I'm on a Debian Etch/testing system and Firefox is still > Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 > Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5

Re: audio / video system

Adam Hardy wrote: > I'm aiming to put together a PC with Etch as the OS, to use in my living > room as a hifi, TV and DVD player. I've been using kaffeine on my thinkpad with an external usb DVB-T card (cinnergy T2) and since recently with an external usb audio card (Terratec phase 26) on debian e

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Hi All, Ever since I upgraded to Iceweasel (Firefox 2.0) while a Java applet is loading the entire browser freezes. Most Java applets aren't very large on the sites I frequent, but the National Weather Service radar loops and satellite loops are rather large, and/or their sites are slow, an

Re: Happy success with LVM and RAID

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:30:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 06:03:44PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > This juggling to keep all the balls (disks) in the air sounds familiar. > > Non-partisan caution: before you settle on Reiserfs, read some recent > > threads about R

Re: audio / video system

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:57:10AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I'm aiming to put together a PC with Etch as the OS, to use in my living > room as a hifi, TV and DVD player. how hifi? live tv, recording tv or just watching stuff recorded elsewhere? > > I've been surfing around alot looking for in

Re: opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

Adam Hardy wrote: Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote: I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a while, now, with no problems. When I switc

Can't get etch rc1 kppp or ndiswrapper wireless to connect to the net.

Hi, kppp won't load as user but will as root, even so won't connect. Ndiswrapper is loaded, states it is connected to lan but will not connect to net. Anyone have any ideas? It is driving me crazy. A few weeks ago etch was working on the net. Ndiswrapper fine, kppp worked in root ethernet conn

Using aspell-id package from Ubuntu? Was "Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie)."

I have tried to get a aspell to work with Evolution, to get spellchecking in Indonesian to work. I even downloaded aspell5-id-1.2-0.tar.bz2 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/id/ and compiled, but still no luck. The only response I got from the Evolution list was to ask why aspell-id wasn't i

Re: audio / video system

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:57:10AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Does anyone know of a good source of info or even have much experience > doing that themselves? You might want to read this article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8658 -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROT

[SOLVED] Re: Marvel Sata Controller: how drivers work?

Install mvsata driver onto debian sarge with kernel 2.6 series, suppose you have `Linux 2.6.8-3-686-smp'. apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-686-smp cd /usr/src tar -xjf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 ln -s kernel-source-2.6.8 linux-2.6 cd linux-2.6 cp /boot/config-2.6.8-3-68

Re: evolution+spamassassin don't detect spam (Etch)

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:54 -0800, JP wrote: > michael wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 04:55 -0800, JP wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I have recently started to use evolution as my mail client. However, I > > > can't figure out how to make it work with spamassassin to detect the > > > tons

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:36:10 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:17:10AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > ... I can easily > > configure/use aptitude such that the "installation" and "garbage > > disposal" actions are carried out in separate steps, but I choose not to > > do s

Marvel Sata Controller: how drivers work?

On my Debian Sarge I can't started my new Marvel Sata Controller. Onto cdrom there are source code drivers, but I have not idea how to use them. Can you help me? lspci: :03:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX5081 8-port SATA I PCI-X Controller uname -a Linux pr

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