edbrowse (how to make missing sslcerts file)

2007-01-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
1) make sure the package ca-certs is installed first nd it's current. 2) in /etc/ssl/certs/ directory do command cat * >ssl-certs then 3) when the .ebrc file is bein edited in home directory put certfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-certs in the .ebrc file. 4) edbrowse can thereafter visit pages with ss

Re: smooth upgrades

2007-01-13 Thread tom arnall
spoke too soon. firefox keeps dying with the message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:\ /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol:\ cairo_scaled_font_get_font_options and sometimes i get with th

Re: Backports in Debian Etch

2007-01-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:33:53PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Hi people, when I used Sarge I've downloaded a nmap backport in order to > get experience with this type of packages. Now I'm using Etch and when I > go to www.backports.org I see that backports are only for Sargedo > you know if a

Re: What was SA thinking?

2007-01-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > 7.0 is a pretty aggressive score for rejecting at SMTP time. I think that > if you configure it to be like that, you are guaranteed to have some > spurious blocking. Try relaxing the reject-at-SMTP score (I /dev/null > mails at 22.0). Uh... yeeaaahhh. Let's see, when

debian icecream question

2007-01-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
does some utility exist that can be used outside of X for locating and describing available icecast streams? Alternately, what would one look for with google to find these streams? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-13 Thread Abu Zaher
My question is slightly related to this post, so I'm posting it here. I'm currently running my Sid on a 40GB hdd which is running out of life, In a few days I'll buy a new 80GB. Now what is the best way 2 dump my whole / to my hdd so that I can boot and do all my stuff from that hdd? I mean the a

WEP encryption and ndiswrapper

2007-01-13 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone was having a similar problem: I can connect to my wireless network using ndiswrapper, but only if I have WEP encryption turned off. Otherwise, it never connects. I tried with Ubuntu a while back, and it worked fine. Anyone know why Debian would have any p

Re: debian.midco.net down?

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 08:33:05PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > anyone else seeing this? debian.midco.net/debian/ is 404 not found... > > A Yes, but if you remove the debian/ directory, you get a directory listing indicating that something is there. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sa

debian.midco.net down?

2007-01-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
anyone else seeing this? debian.midco.net/debian/ is 404 not found... A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Problem in running postgres

2007-01-13 Thread Abu Zaher
Hi, I'm currnetly running Debian Sid. When my system boots up, I get this error: psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"? So i cant run postgresql. Moreover, wh

Re: How to get network speed in text

2007-01-13 Thread ][
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:54:33 +0100, Bob Hentges wrote: >> Is there any way to get the eth0 cumulative network speed in clear text? >> >> Each GUI shows their own download speed. The xnetload can show overall >> eth0 cumulative network speed. But how can I get it in clear text? > > I may not have

Re: Open with unzip in nautilus

2007-01-13 Thread ][
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:57:11 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> I'm trying to add an "Open with unzip" menu for the .zip files in >> nautilus for my wife, so that she can unzip those .zip files without >> drop into terminal. > Do you have file-roller installed? It provides a nautilus extension > whic

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Patterson
on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:47:41AM -0800 Herb Howe mumbled: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > Here's the setup: > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers

Re: Backports in Debian Etch

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:33:53PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Hi people, when I used Sarge I've downloaded a nmap backport in order to > get experience with this type of packages. Now I'm using Etch and when I > go to www.backports.org I see that backports are only for Sargedo > you know if a

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Patterson
on Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:46:04PM -0500 Grok Mogger mumbled: > This sounds like if I know for a fact that the device I'm > interested in uses "Chipset Awesome 100c", then I could start > grep'ing through the kernel source for parts and permutations of > the chipset name hoping to find some ma

Backports in Debian Etch

2007-01-13 Thread Alejandro
Hi people, when I used Sarge I've downloaded a nmap backport in order to get experience with this type of packages. Now I'm using Etch and when I go to www.backports.org I see that backports are only for Sargedo you know if are there backports for Etch ??? Where can I check them ?? Thanks

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Wayne Topa
John W. Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > FWIW: My usb stick did not mount as sda* because I was mounting it in a card > reader of several slots. My hardware management system decided that each slot > was "sde*" so check you syslog output & look at the output of dmesg. > > Wh

Re: Killing a process that doesn't exist!?

2007-01-13 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:00:26 +0100, Glen Yu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a script that I normally run (called "extract.sh") but can't seem to > run it today because everytime I run it, it says that it's already running > :| , but if I do "ps -ef | grep extract", nothing shows up. The log fil

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #111

2007-01-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried running xrefresh and if so what happened? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What was SA thinking?

2007-01-13 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:20:47 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 09.01.07 09:58, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Recently a ton of mail running through SA has been hitting the soft-limit >> for spam. I have it set tight, 5.0 for mark and pass. 7.0 for reject at >> SMTP. Mail from this list, from

Re: dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network?

2007-01-13 Thread Bruno Buys
Liam O'Toole wrote: >On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0200 >Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network >>interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need >>that dpkg dialog. >>Can someone here recall that? The

Re: Open with unzip in nautilus

2007-01-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:25:52 + (UTC) "][" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to add an "Open with unzip" menu for the .zip files in > nautilus for my wife, so that she can unzip those .zip files without > drop into terminal. > > I added the menu, but when clicking the popup me

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2007-01-13 Thread mouss
David Jardine wrote: Well, I wasn't aware that the OP wanted to lose his error messages, but then on re-reading his post it occurred to me that he might not want to lose anything - he doesn't want the output redirected so he wants it on the screen. Have we all been getting it completely wr

Re: kernel upgrade orientacion

2007-01-13 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 1/10/07, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:50:17AM -0600, German Velazquez wrote: > Buen dia, alguien podria orientarme sobre la forma mas segura y sencilla de > actualizar el kernel en debian. > > tengo el 2.4...quisiera actualizar al 2.6.6... ¿

Re: perl: how to suppress system()'s output or quiet down `tar`

2007-01-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:07:28PM +0100, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > From a perl script I call 'tar' with system(). But with every system() > call I get the output from tar to my console: "tar: Removing leading / > from absolute path names in the archive" and it messes up my perl > script's output.

Re: APT::Default-Release accepts code-names? (long)

2007-01-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:19:08PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Greg Folkert: sorry for the CC, but you kept ignoring my other messages > about this. > > Dear all, > > In the thread 'smooth upgrades' that was still running a few days ago > there was the question of release names vs. code-names

Re: APT::Default-Release accepts code-names? (long)

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:54:50 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now 'etch' has priority 990 vs 500 of sid. This will keep the system > > running *unstable* (when etch is released apt will want to upgrade > > to next testing). > > ummm... this, as I understand it, is not co

Re: Ghorgeous Blond TRANASEXUAL Pvosing In Byikini Outdoor

2007-01-13 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, a spammer wrote: > > [hashbuster] > > Take that! > http://from.mayroty.com/ > Bcusty Tzanned Brunette [garble raunch] The previous junk was apparently brought to you courtesy of the Python Video/Webfinity/Dy

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Grok Mogger
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:50:19 -0500 Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it safe to say that drivers are really for a chipset, not a device? And so therefore, support for a device really boils down to "is the chipset supported?" not "is the device supported"? Yes,

Re: dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network?

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Bruno Buys wrote: > I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network > interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need that > dpkg dialog. You're overengineering this a little bit. Check out /etc/network/interfaces with a text editor and this manual page fo

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Grok Mogger
Kevin Ross wrote: Here's a code snippet from ne2k-pci.c, the NE2000-clone NIC driver: static struct { char *name; int flags; } pci_clone_list[] __devinitdata = { {"RealTek RTL-8029", REALTEK_FDX}, {"Winbond 89C940", 0}, {"Compex RL2000", 0}, {"KTI ET32P2", 0}, {"NetVin NV5000SC", 0}, {

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Grok Mogger
Kevin Mark writes: >> wizbang 1000 (chipset A) uses kernel module P wizbang 1000 (rev. 2, chipset B) uses kernel Q. > John Hasler wrote: They also sometimes have the chips labeled with their own labels so that somebody has to do some reverse engineering to find out what is really in there.

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-13 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:46:29PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >> probably the simplest way is to just make a new /var on the new drive >> and move all of it there. >> -add new HD to

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:14:58PM -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: > > Having a comprehensive list of supported chipsets would be useful, though. > If > some text-parsing wizard out there would like to write such a program, it > would > be interesting. now if only manufacturers would put the chips

Re: APT::Default-Release accepts code-names? (long)

2007-01-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:19:08PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Greg Folkert: sorry for the CC, but you kept ignoring my other messages > about this. > > Dear all, > > In the thread 'smooth upgrades' that was still running a few days ago > there was the question of release names vs. code-names

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2007-01-13 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:45:56PM +0100, mouss wrote: > Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > >Dave Sherohman writes: > > > > > >>On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > >> > >>>On 1/12/07, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 a

Re: DVD menu creator

2007-01-13 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:41:45 + andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all > > Although I have been using the command line to write up quick and dirty > xml files to use in the process of burning DVD video files to disk, I > was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for a (graphical) dv

Re: xsane usb problem

2007-01-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:23:00AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > A binary scan works, a color scan stalls the scanner. > > A posting to sane-devel on 1/6/07 drew no responses. > > The backend maintainer pointed out that "If the USB system stalls, the > scanner can not get rid of it's data".

Open with unzip in nautilus

2007-01-13 Thread ][
Hi, I'm trying to add an "Open with unzip" menu for the .zip files in nautilus for my wife, so that she can unzip those .zip files without drop into terminal. I added the menu, but when clicking the popup menu for the .zip files, nothing get unzipped. I don't use nautilus, so I have no clue wh

Re: smooth upgrades

2007-01-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:55:35PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > i did the dist-upgrade y'day and e'thing i can remember to look at is fixed. > what a treasure this maillist! yay! enjoy. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GPL X-rays

2007-01-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi David, I am working on a library called GDCM. I am always looking for DICOM know to break other readers. Could you please send me a copy of this DICOM dataset ? From the top of my head mecon does not support RGB DICOM but is robust to a couple of known DICOM bugs. GDCM is a DICOM library re

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "The kernel comes with it's own documentation section. Some good > reading there." > > Sounds great. Where can I find that? =P # aptitude install linux-doc- where is the version of your kernel. The package might have been called kernel-doc- in sarge

Re: smooth upgrades

2007-01-13 Thread tom arnall
i did the dist-upgrade y'day and e'thing i can remember to look at is fixed. what a treasure this maillist! tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2007-01-13 Thread mouss
Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Dave Sherohman writes: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 1/12/07, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:45:44PM +0530, vikrant vig wrote: Nohup.out got larga enough and I don'

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 22:01 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> "The kernel comes with it's own documentation section. Some >> good reading there." >> >> Sounds great. Where can I find that? =P > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/l

Re: How to read from an built in card reader ?

2007-01-13 Thread Jabka Atu
im using Debian (Mentally?)Unstable no new sd or mmc in dev .. also in dmesg only said : ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :06:04.2 disabled sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.12 sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman sdhci: SDHCI controller found at :06:04.2 [1524:0550] (r

Re: dri with radeon x200

2007-01-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello /me. Mathias Brodala, 13.01.2007 20:03: > If that is the case, then have you should take a closer look […] Yep, me have should take a closer one also. Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: dri with radeon x200

2007-01-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Andras. Andras Lorincz, 13.01.2007 18:45: > On 1/13/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Andras Lorincz, 13.01.2007 13:45: >> > I'm using debian testing on my laptop that has x200 graphics chipset. >> With >> > the ati proprietary drivers, 3D acceleration is working but those >>

could you plz recheck a bug with firefox ?

2007-01-13 Thread Jabka atu
Howdy ... yesterday i have upgraded 16 systems from stable woody to stable edge. the systems are very senstive to bugs errors (file servers) so this is the reason for old distros. here is the issue : on two machines that wore with sarge i had issues with firefox & chrome : postrm script failed

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2007-01-13 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Dave Sherohman writes: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: >> On 1/12/07, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:45:44PM +0530, vikrant vig wrote: >> >> Nohup.out got larga enough and I don't want to redirect nohup output >> >> neith

Re: Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 1/12/07, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:45:44PM +0530, vikrant vig wrote: > >> Nohup.out got larga enough and I don't want to redirect nohup output > >neither > >> to nohup.out nor to any

Re: APT::Default-Release accepts code-names? -- answer :)

2007-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:19:08PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: ... > Dear all, > > In the thread 'smooth upgrades' that was still running a few days ago > there was the question of release names vs. code-names in the > Default-Release option. The docs ... > > Now 'etch' has priority 990 vs

Re: How to get network speed in text

2007-01-13 Thread Bob Hentges
On 1/13/07, ][ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Is there any way to get the eth0 cumulative network speed in clear text? Each GUI shows their own download speed. The xnetload can show overall eth0 cumulative network speed. But how can I get it in clear text? I may not have totally understood wh

Re: How to get network speed in text

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:42:39PM +, ][ wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to get the eth0 cumulative network speed in clear text? > > Each GUI shows their own download speed. The xnetload can show overall > eth0 cumulative network speed. But how can I get it in clear text? > Something like

Re: dri with radeon x200

2007-01-13 Thread Andras Lorincz
On 1/13/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andras. Andras Lorincz, 13.01.2007 13:45: > I'm using debian testing on my laptop that has x200 graphics chipset. With > the ati proprietary drivers, 3D acceleration is working but those drivers > don't support AIGLX, so I would like

How to get network speed in text

2007-01-13 Thread ][
Hi, Is there any way to get the eth0 cumulative network speed in clear text? Each GUI shows their own download speed. The xnetload can show overall eth0 cumulative network speed. But how can I get it in clear text? thanks tong -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.n

Re: How to read from an built in card reader ?

2007-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:47:55PM +0200, Jabka atu wrote: > Hello && good evening.. > > i have a built in card reader but i don't know how to enable and how to > mound cards, > > here is my lspci > 06:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-712/4 Cardbus Controller > (rev 10) > 06:04.1 FLA

Re: PCI-E Gb LAN controller support

2007-01-13 Thread Rob Sims
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:05:14PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > My new ASUS motherboard has PCI-E Gb LAN controller on-board. I can't > get the Etch installer to recognize it. Should I be able to? Or is > it too new for Etch? ( I don't really need 1 Gb ethernet, but I would > like to be able to us

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread macondo
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:11:09 -0500 macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Weeks from now, when all this mess is fixed, you will get all the drivers by default, [...] What do you mean by that? The mess i'm referring to, is the actual problem we're having now with the confi

Re: PCI-E Gb LAN controller support

2007-01-13 Thread swhe
http://atl1.sourceforge.net/ "We missed our goal of getting the driver accepted into the 2.6.19-mm tree, so we've set our sights now on making it into the 2.6.20-mm series kernels, with inclusion in the 2.6.21 mainline kernel. No guarantees, though." go to ASUS's website to download correspond dr

Re: dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network?

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0200 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network > interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need > that dpkg dialog. > Can someone here recall that? The machine is sarge. > thanks mu

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:11:09 -0500 macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Weeks from now, when all this mess is fixed, you will get all the > drivers by default, [...] What do you mean by that? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einste

Re: Installation fails on Toshiba 410CDT

2007-01-13 Thread Stephen
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:02:10PM + or thereabouts, operator wrote: > /put a hd and a cd drive into the usb ports. install to the hd and run > from there. > operator There are no USB ports. -- Regards Stephen +

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 03:22:33PM +0100, Mertens Bram wrote: > > I agree that some things require a GUI but IMHO not much of these > require root privileges. > > The Oracle installer indeed requires the use of it's GUI. However: > the installation should not be performed as root! One of the fi

Re: dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network?

2007-01-13 Thread Francis Healy
--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to > reconfigure the network > interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip > address, and I need that > dpkg dialog. > Can someone here recall that? The machine is sarge. > thanks much! > Have you tried editin

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:27:11AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > AFAIK cdrecord can be installed setuid (dpkg-reconfigure ...). Then add > yourself to the cdrom group. While this is not the best solution it's > still better than burning cdroms as root. > If you are in the cdrom group and the c

Re: Php 5 documentation

2007-01-13 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Lorenzo. Lorenzo Bettini, 08.01.2007 18:24: [ PHP5 documentation ] I can't seem to find such a package in Debian... should I add some particular repository? $ apt-cache search php5 doc php5-common - Common files for packages built from the php5 source php5-json

xsane usb problem

2007-01-13 Thread Thomas H. George
A binary scan works, a color scan stalls the scanner. A posting to sane-devel on 1/6/07 drew no responses. The backend maintainer pointed out that "If the USB system stalls, the scanner can not get rid of it's data". I tried scanimage -B to increase the buffer size but this did not help. Ac

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:54:57 -0500 macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why install 'vesa' when you can install your card's driver? 'vesa' is > not the best choice, unless you got problems your card. My way you > get all the drivers. > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > video the xserver-xorg-video-vesa

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread macondo
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:50:34 -0500 macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not? i just want to make sure something is not missing. I thought we were talking about a low end machine. I wouldn't install stuff I will certainly not need. I fact I wouldn't do that on any machi

Re: Second sound card is too much hassle?

2007-01-13 Thread Bruno Buys
Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: >Bruno Buys writes: > > > >>I have the need for a second mic in on my computer, and I was wondering >>if I plugging in a spare emu10k1 card was a good idea. The computer has >>onboard sound realtek alc658 (so says alsamixer), working ok. With two >>cards, how does s

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread macondo
Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi all again. Why install 'vesa' when you can install your card's driver? 'vesa' is not the best choice, unless you got problems your card. My way you get all the drivers. Install VESA driver..why? Well, i tell you my experience: i've worked a lot with old pc

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:39:07AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:30:33 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > [snip setuid arguments] > > You're probably right. I haven't thought of it that way. IIRC you said > your setup is also not typical. Maybe you sh

Re: dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network?

2007-01-13 Thread Bruno Buys
Liam O'Toole wrote: >On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0200 >Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network >>interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need >>that dpkg dialog. >>Can someone here recall that? The

How to read from an built in card reader ?

2007-01-13 Thread Jabka atu
Hello && good evening.. i have a built in card reader but i don't know how to enable and how to mound cards, here is my lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:30:33 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] [snip setuid arguments] You're probably right. I haven't thought of it that way. IIRC you said your setup is also not typical. Maybe you should work on that. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don'

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:27:11AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:28:50 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > first of all you have to remember that: > > > > # usermod -G adm myuser > > > > .. wipes out all your other groups .. so you have to try and figure > >

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:50:34 -0500 macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not? i just want to make sure something is not missing. I thought we were talking about a low end machine. I wouldn't install stuff I will certainly not need. I fact I wouldn't do that on any machine. > If indeed it's th

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Mertens Bram
On 2007-01-09, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI. [...] > Except that many apps are GUI apps and expect that you will already have > elevated priviledges when you run them. The Oracle installer and the > CrossOver Office configuration tool are two that c

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all again. Why install 'vesa' when you can install your card's driver? 'vesa' is not the best choice, unless you got problems your card. My way you get all the drivers. Install VESA driver..why? Well, i tell you my experience: i've worked a lot with old pc (pentium 133 mhz, MMX 200, pent

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread macondo
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:24:30 -0500 macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As for your xorg problems, install the following packages: xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all Why the -all packages? xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse s

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Friday 12 January 2007 12:01 pm, Wayne Topa wrote: > Herb Howe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > > > Here's the setup: > > > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > >

Re: getting xorg working on an old box .....

2007-01-13 Thread macondo
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:24:30 -0500 macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your main problem is the configuration of xserver-xorg but you don't offer any of the errors that you should be getting (EE) Actually he did in the first post. Sorry, i didn't get the first one. Ge

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-13 Thread Mertens Bram
I would like to add another suggestion to the list: * Choose a proper subject for your message Messages without a subject or with a subject like "Help!!!" are more likely to be ignored than messages with a subject clearly describing the problem. HTH Bram -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network?

2007-01-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0200 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network > interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need > that dpkg dialog. > Can someone here recall that? The machine is sarge. > thanks mu

dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network?

2007-01-13 Thread Bruno Buys
I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need that dpkg dialog. Can someone here recall that? The machine is sarge. thanks much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: OT: Configure Evolution instead (was: Please stop using Horrendous Coloring (or coloring period))

2007-01-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 11:29 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > I see you use Evolution. Does Evolution support a similar feature? If > it doesn't, Evolution would be a very weak MUA[1] and you should > replace it with a better alternative. Evo doesn't support it yet, see http://bugzilla.gnome

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Hugh Lawson
Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to respond. It's helped a > lot. I'd still like some more help though if you can spare it. =) Hear! Hear! This has been really informative. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: dri with radeon x200

2007-01-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Andras. Andras Lorincz, 13.01.2007 13:45: > I'm using debian testing on my laptop that has x200 graphics chipset. With > the ati proprietary drivers, 3D acceleration is working but those drivers > don't support AIGLX, so I would like to use free radeon drivers. The > problem > is that I cann

dri with radeon x200

2007-01-13 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I'm using debian testing on my laptop that has x200 graphics chipset. With the ati proprietary drivers, 3D acceleration is working but those drivers don't support AIGLX, so I would like to use free radeon drivers. The problem is that I cannot get dri working with the free drivers. The only er

Re: perl: how to suppress system()'s output or quiet down `tar`

2007-01-13 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
LeVA writes: > From a perl script I call 'tar' with system(). Why not use the Archive::Tar perl module? It is available in the libarchive-tar-perl package, and very easy to use (see man 3pm Archive::Tar if you have it installed). -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

perl: how to suppress system()'s output or quiet down `tar`

2007-01-13 Thread LeVA
Hi! From a perl script I call 'tar' with system(). But with every system() call I get the output from tar to my console: "tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive" and it messes up my perl script's output. I understand why tar is saying this, but I can not use the -P swi

OT: Configure Evolution instead (was: Please stop using Horrendous Coloring (or coloring period))

2007-01-13 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Greg Folkert writes: > PLEASE STOP USING COLORING. It is exceptionally offensive. Especially > YOUR choices. I don't use coloring. > Please use only straight text, no HTML. or other techniques to "get the > cool coloring". In gnus the following can be used to avoid reading HTML mails automatica

APT::Default-Release accepts code-names? (long)

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Greg Folkert: sorry for the CC, but you kept ignoring my other messages about this. Dear all, In the thread 'smooth upgrades' that was still running a few days ago there was the question of release names vs. code-names in the Default-Release option. The docs http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-

Re: Can't not see my desktop icon and desktop background.

2007-01-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:17:15 +0700 Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use debian etch. I close nautilus while it working. afterthat gnome > desktop not show icon and background. Do you know how to fix it? > > kan > Try running the command 'nautilus --no-default-window' in a termi

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:28:50 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > first of all you have to remember that: > > # usermod -G adm myuser > > .. wipes out all your other groups .. so you have to try and figure > out what groups you were in (or restore from a backup) .. and then > issue a: >

Re: alsaconf needed every boot

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:51:30 -0800 "Francisco Zabala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the module in /etc/modules file, but this fails. The required > > module is snd-intel8x0. I'm using Debian Etch, with KDE. For me it just worked. I just installed alsa-base and alsa-utils. > I just went throug

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:47:05 -0500 Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > If the default kernel that comes with Debian has all these built > in drivers and modules, then shouldn't there be some way to just > get a list of every supported device? What about generic drivers l

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:50:19 -0500 Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it safe to say that drivers are really for a chipset, not a > device? And so therefore, support for a device really boils > down to "is the chipset supported?" not "is the device supported"? Yes, but not 100%. Along

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Some of the truly annoying problems crop up when you have > BarWidget 175t manufactured before some date using chipsets from company > C and BarWidget 175t manufactured after a certain date using chipsets > from company D, but there is no change in model number. Users

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