Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread John O'Hagan
On Saturday 03 February 2007 04:32, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:45:39 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > My Th

liquidwar/liballegro4.2 error?

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Hi! I have used the allegro library, but always compiled from source to get the latest version (which works fine). Now - when trying out the debian package I get the following error when trying programs using it: $ liquidwar liquidwar: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/liballeg.so.4.2: undefi

Re: old hardware, newer Debian

2007-02-02 Thread Mike McClain
> s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I just installed sarge on a box I've happily been running woody on > > for 5 years and find I can't run X cause the Trident tvga 9800b > > chipset is no longer supported in the xserver-xfree86 v4.3. Any > > Try the s

Work to do: was godammit

2007-02-02 Thread Incoming
This is terribly embarrassing. First let me apologize for the 'godammit' post. The problems are real enough, but this particular list was meant more as a checklist than anything else and was not supposed to be sent anywhere. Gotta be more careful. That having been said, let us deal with the pro

Vim colour syntax

2007-02-02 Thread Stephen
Hello Friends: After upgrading to Etch, vim doesn't show colour syntax anymore. I've checked all the places I can find a vimrc and/or .vimrc, ensuring that each has 'syntax on'. Still, I'm not getting syntax colouring. Any ideas? -- Regards Stephen A.

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:40:02PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > wouldn't consider a *N*X are doing so. And they're not prepared. > > > > so in other words... its a good thing! > > > > Yes. It tells us that our documentation isn't up to their needs. > > Doug. Well, I'd say that t

Re: SoundBlaster AWE64 ISAPNP on etch

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:49:23AM -0500, Oliver Twist wrote: > Cannot get sound up and running on etch. > > I know there are a million+ posts on the new regarding sound on linux. I > have tried to do my homework by searching the debian list archives, > googling, and I have also read the follow

SoundBlaster AWE64 ISAPNP on etch

2007-02-02 Thread Oliver Twist
Cannot get sound up and running on etch. I know there are a million+ posts on the new regarding sound on linux. I have tried to do my homework by searching the debian list archives, googling, and I have also read the following HOWTO's: linux sound HOWTO AWE 32/64 HOWTO I've learned a lot, bu

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Stefan Monnier wrote: As for Thinkpads, I am so used to Hyper keys on the keyboard (aka Windows-key :)) that I found these notebooks very uncomfortable. AFAICT (I'm about to receive mine), the Thinkpad keyboards do have "windows keys" now. And they're among the rare laptops with 3 buttons

Re: very small linux box

2007-02-02 Thread s. keeling
Andrew Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am after a very small linux/debian pc. I want something like a > laptop with a keyboard & screen but of really small size. (Maybe > PDA size) http://www.oqo.com/ -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http:

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-02 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > We're really not sure what the poem actually is > about. Here it goes: ><>!*''# >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >!*'$_ >%*<>#4 >&)../ >|{~~SYSTEM HALTED Yes, but what does it do when you run it? It _is_ Perl, is it not? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Iceweasel not displaying Yahoo mail images

2007-02-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 02 February 2007 12:45, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I use an AMD64 computer with up-to-date Debian unstable, 1386 port. I > use the old Yahoo email interface. > > I use Yahoo email to read messages sent from Yahoo groups. The messages > often contain thumbnail images and links. Recently Icew

Re: greylistd / exim4 troubles -- how to troubleshoot?

2007-02-02 Thread Tony Rowe
On 2007-02-02, Monique Y. Mudama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if this package "just worked" for anyone and if not, how > they got it to work, especially with exim4 and a monolithic exim4.conf > that was converted from an exim3 installation, on unstable. > > greylistd-setup-exim4 only

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-02 Thread ChadDavis
If you want Whizzbang, Wizard style, auto-magic crap, then why use a powerful OS? I use vim when learning a language and then usually try to find power tools ( auto-magic ) to speed up rote tasks once I know what I'm doing. From my point of view, and learning style, and obsessive compulsion t

Re: netbot'd ?

2007-02-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:02:18PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > What do you call having been infected by a program that sends thousands > of emails out without you knowing it.? [snip] > 3. This is a dialup account, so the IP changes all the time. I call it fictional. Dialup, not o

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-02 Thread s. keeling
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:43:13PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > as has already been said, natural sponges, having protien content, > > > would surely have some reaction in a microwave. That s

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> I think that has more to do with Opera marginalizing themselves by >>> expecting people to put up with *more* ads or pay for a web browser. >> That has little to do with what the websites do with the user agent >> string than anyth

Re: Iceweasel not displaying Yahoo mail images

2007-02-02 Thread Edward C. Jones
What is the title of the "user-agent string thread"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:40:02PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:45:35PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:40:24PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:04:00AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > >

Re: Boot logs ?

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:21:08PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:04:51 -0500 > Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 February 2007 21:57, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > > Welcome to testing (Etch), at

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 04:45:35PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:40:24PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:04:00AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:13:50AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: > > > I'm

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 02:31:50AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:40:24 -0500 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that we need a big "NEW to UNIX-Like Operating Systems like > > Debian?" button on the front page of the web site. It could take them

Re: Boot logs ?

2007-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:04:51 -0500 Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 21:57, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > Welcome to testing (Etch), at least for the moment. As soon as > > > Etch goes stable, that sources.list is set

Re: Boot logs ?

2007-02-02 Thread Ed
On Thursday 01 February 2007 21:57, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > Welcome to testing (Etch), at least for the moment. As soon as > > Etch goes stable, that sources.list is set up to take you > > automatically to Lenny. You can forestall that (stay with Etch), > > if you wish, by replacing the st

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:40:24PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:04:00AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:13:50AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: > > > On 2/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I don't suppose

Re: Multiple IP addresses on eth0 - which is "canonical"?

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:18:46PM -0500, George Adams wrote: > Hello. I have the following setup in /etc/network/interfaces to bind two > IP addresses (let's say 11.22.33.44 and 11.22.33.45) onto my one NIC: > --- > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback

Re: boot + lvm ?

2007-02-02 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > I had to repartition an create a separate /boot. > I do that systematically since, 100Mo as the first partition. So that I can > use grub again, which is less dangerous. I also like having a small RAID-1 /boot and keep it mounted

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:40:24 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that we need a big "NEW to UNIX-Like Operating Systems like > Debian?" button on the front page of the web site. It could take them > to a short introduction about what *N*X is like, and how to get > docume

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-02-02 Thread Colin
Dave Witbrodt wrote: > Colin wrote: >> Dave Witbrodt wrote: >>> Thanks for the tip. As it turns out I already knew about this. It's >>> just that AMD/ATI just released a brand new driver package this month, >>> and I wanted that: >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy fglrx-kernel-src

Re: Outlook clients and Linux Debian

2007-02-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Aww crud, Gmail's reply-to handling or the Debian lists are broken... whichever.. don't feel like starting that flame-fest again, but I replied direct to Paul. Oops, sorry Paul. On 2/2/07, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/1/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hervé Piedvache

Re: [OT] Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:43:17PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:47:59 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't > > think anyone on this list is clairvoyant. > > I knew you would say that... > Hmm. So, *you* are the clairvoyant list subscriber :-) I

Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:38:43PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > I'd love to have a backup of the Sarge install, but have never been quite > sure how to take it . I've read a bit about rdiff, but have never tried it. Please have a backup of _your_ data (e.g. /home). Tar it. Then: burn

Re: netbot'd ?

2007-02-02 Thread John Hasler
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > Anyway I received via my ISP's email server several emails that claimed > my box sent out thousands of emails over the weekend. The message was not from your ISP. > It asked me to open + execute an attached file for an explanation of how > to avoid it. (Which I did not

Re: get the sun-java5-plugin without browser

2007-02-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 15:36 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I run FireFox from upstream. > > But I find out that if I install sun-java5-plugin to run java apps I > also get iceweasel. > > Is there a way to avoid that? You could use equivs to create a dummy iceweasel package and then make the sy

Re: get the sun-java5-plugin without browser

2007-02-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:36:58 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I run FireFox from upstream. > > But I find out that if I install sun-java5-plugin to run java apps I > also get iceweasel. > > Is there a way to avoid that? > > Hugo > > You could download the JRE f

[ot] Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-02 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2007-02-02, hendrik wrote: [] > As a developer, I also inderstand that XML is a crazily complicated > specification, probably much more complicated than needed to do its job. Full ACK! BTW, emacs' (one of) xml mode editing (named nxml, i believe), was s slwly on my 2G AMD64 laptop, so

Multiple IP addresses on eth0 - which is "canonical"?

2007-02-02 Thread George Adams
Hello. I have the following setup in /etc/network/interfaces to bind two IP addresses (let's say 11.22.33.44 and 11.22.33.45) onto my one NIC: --- auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 11.22.33.44 ne

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-02 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:23:17PM -0800, RParr wrote: > Johannes Graumann wrote: > > Actually, I find it somewhat ironic. Most of the programming > development IDEs force you to use a less than vi-or-emacs level editing > environment and brag about their ability to enhance productivity through

get the sun-java5-plugin without browser

2007-02-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I run FireFox from upstream. But I find out that if I install sun-java5-plugin to run java apps I also get iceweasel. Is there a way to avoid that? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-02 Thread Nigel Henry
I have 3 Debian installs apart from Kubuntu. Each one was originally installed from Woody 3.0r2 cdroms. All 3 were upgraded to Sarge which was on testing at the time (there were a few problems). When Sarge went stable I kept 2 of the installs on stable, and the 3rd I left on testing, which is my

Re: netbot'd ?

2007-02-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:02:18PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, What do you call having been infected by a program that sends thousands of emails out without you knowing it.? Anyway I received via my ISP's email server several emails that claimed my box sent

Re: netbot'd ?

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:02:18PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > What do you call having been infected by a program that sends thousands > of emails out without you knowing it.? > > Anyway I received via my ISP's email server several emails that claimed > my box sent out thousands of

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:19:48PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > These messages look similar -- but not identical -- to the ones I had > > while installing an etch system -- and eventually I came to suspect the > > file-system-damage bug in the Debian 2.6.18-3 k

Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:35:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > On 2/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:59:30PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > >> On 2/2/07, Incoming <[EMAIL PROTECTE

netbot'd ?

2007-02-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, What do you call having been infected by a program that sends thousands of emails out without you knowing it.? Anyway I received via my ISP's email server several emails that claimed my box sent out thousands of emails over the weekend. It asked me to open + execute an attached file for

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:04:00AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:13:50AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: > > On 2/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I don't suppose you have a grub-disk (floppy based. Why doesn't someone > > >make a grub-sti

Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:19:12PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On 2/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:59:30PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > >> On 2/2/07, Incoming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, ot

Re: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

2007-02-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/07 14:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:53:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Running Sid. >> >> debian-archive-keyring is already the newest version, and nothing >> out of the ordinary seems expired. Atta

no sound on mplayer + .nsv stream

2007-02-02 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Would anyone with mplayer and some knowledge of streams be able to explain why I can't get sound on this stream. This is a Catalan radio station with some added (looped video). When I run: $mplayer http://85.92.138.33:8500/;stream.nsv I get the vido bit ok but no sound? I'm running Debian Etch 2.6.

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-02 Thread RParr
Johannes Graumann wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: These are to Oxygen what nano is to emacs ... childsplay. If you want Whizzbang, Wizard style, auto-magic crap, then why use a powerful OS? I say its: "Go back to Windows and Visual * something studio Pro-Live-Vista Crap" And leave our

RE: very small linux box

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Andrew Critchlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 7:30 AM > To: Debian Mailing List > Subject: very small linux box > > Hi everyone, > I am after a very small linux/debian pc. I want something > like a laptop with a keyboard & screen but of really small > size.

Re: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:53:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > Running Sid. > > debian-archive-keyring is already the newest version, and nothing > out of the ordinary seems expired. Attached is the output from apt-key. which package? I saw this from debian-multimedia a couple times in

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

2007-02-02 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Running Sid. debian-archive-keyring is already the newest version, and nothing out of the ordinary seems expired. Attached is the output from apt-key. Googled around, but only see pages from June-2006. Have searched thru the last 4 months of d-u archives, but no joy. Anyone have a hint?

RE: Pathetic SATA performance

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin Ross
> -Original Message- > From: Pete Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:15 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Pathetic SATA performance > > > For SATA, you need to add "-d ata" to the command line, i.e.: > > > > # smartctl -d ata -a /de

Re: unable to mount root fs on unknown--block(0,0)

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:14:13AM -0800, Tong Sun wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody happens to know what might cause this, > which is what I get when booting my USB disk via grub? > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root > fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > I searched for the answer, b

Re: Re: Will Debian include Ubuntu changes?

2007-02-02 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Thanks for the responses to contact debian-installer and debian-boot. I'm already using Etch, so I know the modules aren't there. I'll try to do a little work and find the source code for whatever kernel is in unstable and see if I find it. I did already look at packages.debian.org, but I co

Re: Mess with files that you are not allowed to touch

2007-02-02 Thread Bob McGowan
Tong Sun wrote: Hi, It never occurs to me that I am able to mess with files that I'm not allowed to touch, but watch this: $ echo good > safe $ chmod a-w safe $ cat safe good $ ln safe unsafe $ chmod a+w unsafe $ echo bad > unsafe $ cat safe bad I.e., I am able to change the content of t

unable to mount root fs on unknown--block(0,0)

2007-02-02 Thread Tong Sun
Hi, Does anybody happens to know what might cause this, which is what I get when booting my USB disk via grub? Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I searched for the answer, but seems most of them suggested bad disk, eg, http://www.mail-archive.com/l

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:35 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/31/07 23:27, David E. Fox wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:22:21 +0200 > > > > > > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I thought Dexter's Laboratory would be more

Re: very small linux box

2007-02-02 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Critchlow wrote: Hi everyone, I am after a very small linux/debian pc. I want something like a laptop with a keyboard & screen but of really small size. (Maybe PDA size) Anyone know if one of these is available? thanks I'd like to suggest the Archos PMA4XX. I have a

Re: Iceweasel not displaying Yahoo mail images

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:45:35PM -0500, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I use an AMD64 computer with up-to-date Debian unstable, 1386 port. I > use the old Yahoo email interface. > > I use Yahoo email to read messages sent from Yahoo groups. The messages > often contain thumbnail images and links. Re

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-02 Thread Michael M.
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:34:45PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: more and more I think I should be building and selling debian-installed computers... But would they sell ;-) I know i can count on you to buy o

Iceweasel not displaying Yahoo mail images

2007-02-02 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use an AMD64 computer with up-to-date Debian unstable, 1386 port. I use the old Yahoo email interface. I use Yahoo email to read messages sent from Yahoo groups. The messages often contain thumbnail images and links. Recently Iceweasel (aka Firefox) has not been displaying these images and l

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:13:50AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: > On 2/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I don't suppose you have a grub-disk (floppy based. Why doesn't someone > >make a grub-stick?)? From that you can run grub manually. > > > > Well, from a user-l

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 02 February 2007 18:32, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:45:39 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > My Thin

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 17:32:30 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:45:39 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > M

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I tried with saytime, realplayer, and connecting to the BBC and using > their player. > > I was not familiar with speaker-test; I just ran it and it gives pages > and pages of error, so something is wrong! > Sorry: should have given an example: ithac

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Stefan Monnier wrote: > Actually, I'm surprised at how most "linux-laptop" vendors offer mostly > laptops with 2 buttons only, given that X11 has traditionally been used > with 3-button mice, and so many applications make use of all 3. My Thinkpads actually have 5, though two are just 'duplicates'

Mess with files that you are not allowed to touch

2007-02-02 Thread Tong Sun
Hi, It never occurs to me that I am able to mess with files that I'm not allowed to touch, but watch this: $ echo good > safe $ chmod a-w safe $ cat safe good $ ln safe unsafe $ chmod a+w unsafe $ echo bad > unsafe $ cat safe bad I.e., I am able to change the content of the file that is re

Re: best log checker

2007-02-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 20:47 -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I'm trying to find a good log checker. > > Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore. > > I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I > tried logwatch. It has an ignore file

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As for Thinkpads, I am so used to Hyper keys on the keyboard (aka > Windows-key :)) that I found these notebooks very uncomfortable. AFAICT (I'm about to receive mine), the Thinkpad keyboards do have "windows keys" now. And they're among the rare laptops with 3 buttons, which is *very* convenie

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:45:39 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > My Thinkpad Z61M has no sound (apart from beep). > > > > > > > > I've inst

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:26:13PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >Really? What should I learn? I've given specific things where your > >knowledge of/experience with databases is clearly deficient. Care to > >be specific and refrain from making sweeping statements

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:45:39 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > My Thinkpad Z61M has no sound (apart from beep). > > > > > > I've installed Alsa and running alsaconf brought up the rig

Re: very small linux box

2007-02-02 Thread didier gaumet
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:30:07 +, Andrew Critchlow wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am after a very small linux/debian pc. I want something like a laptop > with a keyboard & screen but of really small size. (Maybe PDA size) > Anyone know if one of these is available? Hi, Sharp Zaurus are Linux Qtopi

Re: Laptop Recommendations? Thinkpad

2007-02-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 09:56 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Negative points: > > The Z61p BIOS doesn't proivide a switch to Enable the Core2DUo > VT-functionality yet. > On the X60's and T60 it is already available. > That prevented me to use Xen HVM. > Hopefully Lenovo will add this feature wi

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:34:25AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > how ironic is it that you have to keep around a notoriously unreliable > > operating system to prove to the manufacturer that their hardware is > > failing... > > I manage two Thinkpads: my

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > My Thinkpad Z61M has no sound (apart from beep). > > > > I've installed Alsa and running alsaconf brought up the right sound > > device: > > > > Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7

Re: icon for wifi in metacity

2007-02-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 17:11 +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > with etch I have metacity installed on my laptop. It is great, in the > task bar there is an icon which shows the state of the battery and an > icon which shows the state of the connection internet with the ethernet > card, but is it possi

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 2007, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > It tells me everything is installed correctly. I ran alsamixer and set > > everything to the maximum loudness but still I can hear nothing. > > > > What now? > > By default the channel

Re: resize2fs on LVM2 on hardware RAID5

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:54:14AM +0100, Pim Bliek wrote: > # mke2fs /dev/vg00/backups -O resize_inode > # tune2fs -j /dev/vg00/backups > # lvextend -L 65G /dev/vg00/backups > # resize2fs /dev/vg00/backups 65G > resize2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) > Resizing the filesystem on /dev/vg00/backups to 170

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:03:16PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > First the good news: after some repairs, the system appears to be > 'clean' again, running as usual. > > The box has three hard disks: /dev/hda with the root partition and > /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd with a raid1 for data. I agree

Re: Debian testing, alsa and cups

2007-02-02 Thread Chris Lale
tony mollica wrote: Hello. Been thru the (RT)FM and maybe missed it but didn't find it. Upgraded stable to testing, and it worked with much difficulty and repeated 'aptitude dist-upgrade' and ended up with two mildly annoying situations with ALSA and CUPS. You can save trouble upgrading fro

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:18:05AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > are you sure its not a hardware issue? anything in the logs that > > points to the problem? Does it come out of the freeze or do you have > > to kill the whole box? > > Nothing in syslog, and no message i

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > These messages look similar -- but not identical -- to the ones I had > while installing an etch system -- and eventually I came to suspect the > file-system-damage bug in the Debian 2.6.18-3 kernel (sometimes > because of a race condition a buffer is not written to ha

Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:59:30PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On 2/2/07, Incoming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, otherwise known as > >rants or flames, don't waste my time. > > > > Oh t

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-02 Thread Terrence Brannon
On 2/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't suppose you have a grub-disk (floppy based. Why doesn't someone make a grub-stick?)? From that you can run grub manually. Well, from a user-level point of view, I have no interest in extended tinkering. If Gentoo did it rig

icon for wifi in metacity

2007-02-02 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, with etch I have metacity installed on my laptop. It is great, in the task bar there is an icon which shows the state of the battery and an icon which shows the state of the connection internet with the ethernet card, but is it possible to get an icon which shows the state of connection

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Personally, I run something like samhain, not so much to check for > intrusion as to monitor data integrity. > > I wonder if the failed /dev/hdb took out the controller (ide0) and so /dev/hda > got corrupted. No idea how to figure that out. > Its too bad that your sy

Re: very small linux box

2007-02-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/07 09:30, Andrew Critchlow wrote: > Hi everyone, I am after a very small linux/debian pc. I want > something like a laptop with a keyboard & screen but of really > small size. (Maybe PDA size) > > Anyone know if one of these is available? In

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 01/31/07 23:27, David E. Fox wrote: > >> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:22:21 +0200 > >> > > >> > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I thought Dex

Re: sarge freezes after failure of raid disk, incurring fs corruption on unrelated disk

2007-02-02 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:03:16PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > First the good news: after some repairs, the system appears to be > 'clean' again, running as usual. > > The box has three hard disks: /dev/hda with the root partition and > /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd with a raid1 for data. > > /--

Re: No sound in Thinkpad Z61M after configuring ALSA

2007-02-02 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > It tells me everything is installed correctly. I ran alsamixer and set > everything to the maximum loudness but still I can hear nothing. > > What now? By default the channels which have a mute switch are muted. Did you check in

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:04:29 +0100, Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 2/1/07, Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi there, > Hi. >> >> Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, >> that makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial >>

very small linux box

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Critchlow
Hi everyone, I am after a very small linux/debian pc. I want something like a laptop with a keyboard & screen but of really small size. (Maybe PDA size) Anyone know if one of these is available? thanks

Re: Cdrecord with a 2.4 kernel

2007-02-02 Thread Sonixxfx
Woohoo, reloading works indeed. The files are visible when I use the -eject flag and mount the cd afterwards. Thanks for the helping part Regards, Ben 2007/1/30, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: #include * Sonixxfx [Tue, Jan 23 2007, 03:11:47PM]: > Hi, > > I am trying to burn multisession

GDM's logon screen problem

2007-02-02 Thread DC A
I've recently installed debian etch. changed vertical refresh rate system wide. My problem is Gnome Logon Screen's vertical refresh rate won't change to system's vertical refresh rate. Is there anyway to fix this? Thanks. _ Your Sp

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dmitri Minaev wrote: On 2/1/07, Tim Wescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying for Windows. HP nx6110 is shipped with Freedos or Novell Linux Desktop 9 and works good with Ubuntu 6.10. This: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product

Re: greylistd / exim4 troubles -- how to troubleshoot?

2007-02-02 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2007-02-02, Monique Y. Mudama penned: > > This is what I tried in my exim4 config, inside the check_recipient > block. The commented-out bits were causing complaints in exim4's > mainlog, which I will readily admit isn't a great reason for > commenting them out without understanding what they d

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/1/07, Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Hi. Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... Desperation takes over: is there n

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