Вопрос

2007-02-12 Thread Gorev
Здравствуйте. Извините за вопрос новичка. Нахожусь на стадии выбора дистрибьютива Linux. На форуме поддержки не смог подобрать кодировку для отображения кириллицы. Подскажите, пожалуйста прямую ссылку на iso образ. Все пояснения на сайте не прояснили, что на каком образе находится. Нужен вариант д

usb invisible beyond hubs

2007-02-12 Thread Kai Martens
Hi there, Followed the instructions and purged hotplug, but now nothing I plug into my usb ports gets detected, and no entries in either kernel or daemon message logs show any hint that anything happened at all. The devices (mouse and disk) power up, so I doubt that the ports are simply dead.

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Manu Hack
On 2/12/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then it stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recognize the hard drive. The hard drive does not

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/12/07 11:49, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >>> Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one >> page of a document you

print server switch

2007-02-12 Thread Tuani Panggabean
hi all how to configure printer with my debian-sarge. (printer Hp laser-jet 1320 ipaddress 192.168.10.9) thanks Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://a

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-12 Thread Kent West
Galangster wrote: > How do i install > fglrx-driver_8.31.5.orig.tar.gz > or > fglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb > i dont kno the first thing about this Become root; enter "dpkg -i fglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb". This assumes that you have an AMD 64-bit proc

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/07 23:18, Galangster wrote: > How do i install > fglrx-driver_8.31.5.orig.tar.gz > or > fglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb > i dont kno the first thing about this Don't know the first thing about it? Use Ubuntu. > Zip In Zip on Out (c ya, pe

installation help urgent

2007-02-12 Thread Galangster
How do i install fglrx-driver_8.31.5.orig.tar.gz or fglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb i dont kno the first thing about this -- Zip In Zip on Out (c ya, peace out, sianara, bye bye)

ATI Radeon Dual Head with TV-out

2007-02-12 Thread ][
Hi, I'm using the ATI Proprietary Linux driver fglrx-driver v8.28.8-4 under Debian Testing, xorg 7.1.0-8. I managed to get the Dual Head working with aticonfig --initial=dual-head However, I am not able to make the mplayer play the movie on my TV. I.e., I can get my desktop to run fine on bo

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 22:40 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 18:20:55 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 19:57 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:37:48 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I recently updated

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: [snip] more important than on the Windows. Luckily, there are backups available. But I want to get a general idea of how tough it would have been if there were no backups. It's good that you have backups. Good data recovery is expensive. The laptop used to work fi

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/07 20:12, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: [snip] > The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding > noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then > it stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recog

Re: ..help my doorbell server recognize the doorbell ding-dongs...

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Arnt Karlsen writes: > ...all I need is something _simple_... How about a relay and a serial or parallel port? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 03:12 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:22:39AM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 01:58 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:37:48AM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I recently updated Sid, and fou

Re: KDE peculiarities and questions

2007-02-12 Thread Michael M.
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 14:54 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > The behavour described in my questions two and three may be due to the > same cause. I think that if gdm, and possibly other parts of the Gnome > desktop environment, remain unpurged from a box where KDE is preferred, > some Gnome app

Re: debian astrolog package tips

2007-02-12 Thread mrweb
On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:03:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > This is funny. I did not know about the astrolog package. > > At least "apt-cache show astrolog | grep Sect" > does NOT return Section: science > > Stops a grave bug being

..help my doorbell server recognize the doorbell ding-dongs...

2007-02-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..I need help getting my doorbell server recognize the doorbells, I started with the usual basics, and I figured a wee simple loop ougghtta do the job nicely, like in: while listen to doorbell microphone compare microphone with ding-dong sample if ding-dong's

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Greg Folkert wrote: > Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An > update to your howto. For those who do not know, Greg is talking about http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.html I used to think, there is no way that page could further

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Kamaraju Kusumanchi writes: > One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then it > stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recognize the hard drive. The > hard drive does not spin. I believe that the problem could be a bad > controller or a bad motor. So it needs to be taken into

Re: How do I find what debian package ships a given program?

2007-02-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 05:52 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:19:16PM EST, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 16:40 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > Is there a debian utility that returns the name of a package that ships > > > a given program..? > > > > > > ie. - You're look

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-12 Thread Max Hyre
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 20:24:54 +, john gennard wrote: > I have an IBM T20 Laptop and want to put on it Etch > (Kernel 2.6.18-3) with Kde. I'm writing this from Gnome on my T20---KDE should work just as well once X is running. It finds my Trackpoint, which works fine. I've never tried a

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:12 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Can someone recommend a professional data recovery service center (in USA) > to recover a ext3 filesystem on a 60 GB IDE laptop hard drive? The hard > drive belongs to a Toshiba Satellite p25-s507 laptop and has both Debian > Etch (ext

professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Can someone recommend a professional data recovery service center (in USA) to recover a ext3 filesystem on a 60 GB IDE laptop hard drive? The hard drive belongs to a Toshiba Satellite p25-s507 laptop and has both Debian Etch (ext3) and Windows XP (NTFS) installed. The documents on Linux are more im

Re: KDE peculiarities and questions

2007-02-12 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:23:49PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > > 3. On both the laptop and desktop I seem to be stuck with the Gnome > > login manager. Selecting options in the System Administration>Login > > Manager of the KDE control manager are not implemented. Is there file

Re: removing files from mirror

2007-02-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:00:33PM -0800, onlineviewer wrote: > Hello All, > > I am in the process of downloading a debian mirror locally. Can i > safely delete the orig.tar.gz files ? > What purpose do they serve ? > They provide the original upstream sources for the binary packages. Regards,

Re: How do I find what debian package ships a given program?

2007-02-12 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:19:16PM EST, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 16:40 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Is there a debian utility that returns the name of a package that ships > > a given program..? > > > > ie. - You're looking for program "pgm" .. so you type "whichpkg pgm" > > from t

Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]

2007-02-12 Thread Mike McClain
> 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. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -P xserver-xfree86 [EMAIL P

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-12 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 February 2007 20:17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > BTW, Benjamin Franklin opposed Patents, argued against that clause > of the Constitution, and placed all his discoveries and inventions > in the Public Domain. I'm

Re: Using GUI

2007-02-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Kelly wrote: > Hello, > > I am having trouble getting a new install of Debian 3.1 r4 and it boots > to the command line prompt. I want it to have a graphical interface. > As is it is useless to me. Could someone point me in a direction of a > tutorial on how to install with GUI or how to get a

ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-12 Thread mas
I have a laptop with Ati Xpress 200 graphics (onboard) card. I am trying to install the latest (8.33-6) driver from ati. Presently, I am running debian testing with a self compiled kernel (2.6.19). Everything goes well, debs are created and install without any problems. But, when I try to modprobe

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Dave Sherohman writes: > Yes, copyright infringement is illegal. Yes, it does fall under criminal > law as of the passage of the DMCA. Criminal copyright infringement preceded the DMCA. It still is not theft, however. This is a matter of settled law with clear precedents. Calling someone who h

Re: moving partitions

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:43:59PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I have 2 machines: one is a laptop, the other is an old desktop. > I wouldn't want to use NFS for this task. It's designed for file sharing, > not for file transfer. > good point. > > You can then transfer a partition with >

Re: moving partitions

2007-02-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I have 2 machines: one is a laptop, the other is an old desktop. >> Neither has a CD/DVD burner nor do I have broadband internet access >> yet however both machines have NIC cards so I thought I could buy a >> few feet of CAT5 ethernet cable and connect them to transfer >> everything from the la

Re: network analyzer

2007-02-12 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:34:34 -0500 Chris Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all, > > I am looking for recommendations for a network analyzer for a 1200 > pc, multiple switches and routers, size network. > > Nagios groundworks opensource

network analyzer

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I am looking for recommendations for a network analyzer for a 1200 pc, multiple switches and routers, size network. Nagios groundworks opensource looks promising. Mapping and showing possible problems looks good. Google searches bring ba

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:53:33PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > >I believe his point was that copyright violation is not theft. > > I believe he is wrong, in the USA, at least. You might investigate the > DMCA. AIUI, copyright violation has been moved from being a tort to >

Re: moving partitions

2007-02-12 Thread greenproc
Zach wrote: > I have 2 machines: one is a laptop, the other is an old desktop. > Neither has a CD/DVD burner nor do I have broadband internet access > yet however both machines have NIC cards so I thought I could buy a > few feet of CAT5 ethernet cable and connect them to transfer > everything from

Re: News Flash

2007-02-12 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:01:16PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Arguably, since corporations are legal *persons* but have a potentially > indefinite lifespan, 125 years (or life + 50 years) *is* a limited time. With all due respect, this is why I've stopped accepting thoughts on copyrights o

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:30:33PM +, John K Masters wrote: [... typical panic about removing gnome-desktop-environment ...] > > Just a thought. Being informed that gnome-desktop-environment is being > removed would tend to scare the pants off most people, me included. > Would it not be bette

REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Miles Fidelman wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: BTW, where in the Constitution of these USA does it state that Copyright must be limited? Well, this is getting WAY off topic, but... Article I, Section 8. The actual language in the constitution states that "The Congress shall have the power to ..

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:54:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: John Hasler wrote: There is no theft involved here. Are you aware of the details of the case? How do you know that no theft was involved? I believe his point was that copyright violation is not theft. I

Re: Using graphical environment

2007-02-12 Thread Francis Healy
Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am having trouble getting a new install of Debian 3.1 r4 and it boots to the command line prompt. I want it to have a graphical interface. As is it is useless to me. Could someone point me in a direction of a tutorial on how to install with GUI or how

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-12 Thread John K Masters
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:15:02 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:01:29PM +, John K Masters wrote: > > I haven't tried anything yet. I'm using apt-get > > as I've never really got along with aptitude. Installation was done > > with a netinstall C

removing files from mirror

2007-02-12 Thread onlineviewer
Hello All, I am in the process of downloading a debian mirror locally. Can i safely delete the orig.tar.gz files ? What purpose do they serve ? Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:01:29PM +, John K Masters wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:51:52 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:36:08PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > [snip] > > > Sound Juicer is one of those dependencies and so the > > >

Re: moving partitions

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:45:02PM -0500, Zach wrote: > I have 2 machines: one is a laptop, the other is an old desktop. > Neither has a CD/DVD burner nor do I have broadband internet access > yet however both machines have NIC cards so I thought I could buy a > few feet of CAT5 ethernet cable and

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 20:24:54 +, john gennard wrote: > I have an IBM T20 Laptop and want to put on it Etch > (Kernel 2.6.18-3) with Kde. The installation without GUI > is fine, but Kde will not launch. Error messages in > /var/log/kdm.log indicate that the installer assumed the > laptop has

moving partitions

2007-02-12 Thread Zach
I have 2 machines: one is a laptop, the other is an old desktop. Neither has a CD/DVD burner nor do I have broadband internet access yet however both machines have NIC cards so I thought I could buy a few feet of CAT5 ethernet cable and connect them to transfer everything from the laptop to the de

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 18:20:55 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 19:57 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:37:48 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently updated Sid, and found that Ctrl-Alt-Fx does not work > > > anymore. Video

to get the kerntypes file

2007-02-12 Thread Eric Yin
Hi I need to use LKCD, so I need the kerntypes file. The Debain I used is 2.6.8-2-686-smp which i installed 1 years ago(with the 2 DVDs). when i installed the LKCD from the DVD, it tell me to install kernel-package to get the kerntypes file. I installed the kernel-package, go to the kernel s

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/07 23:50, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: >> I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word >> "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20: "no screens" in X

2007-02-12 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, john gennard wrote: > I have an IBM T20 Laptop and want to put on it Etch > (Kernel 2.6.18-3) with Kde. The installation without GUI > is fine, but Kde will not launch. Error messages in > /var/log/kdm.log in

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > > I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the > > > word "c

Re: Etch fails to load components from CD/DVD

2007-02-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
redhat penguin wrote: hi, I've tried the CD, DVD and Netinstall but everytime it fails to load the Components from CD. It says: Failed to copy file from CD. Check integrity of the CD. Now when i go to check the integrity i get: The ./pool/contrib/a/avifile-divx-plugin_0.7.44.20051021-2.2+b1_i3

Re: Mactel questions...

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:25:40AM +, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Hello everyone, this was originally posted on the Debian forums but I thought > I'd give the user list a try as well. > > I'm thinking of getting an Intel based IMac and the only information I could > find on the 'net was about s

Re: Using graphical environment

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:49:06PM -0600, Kelly wrote: > Hello, > > I am having trouble getting a new install of Debian 3.1 r4 and it boots > to the command line prompt. I want it to have a graphical interface. > As is it is useless to me. Could someone point me in a direction of a > tutorial on

Re: Using graphical environment

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:40:40PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Alternatively, if you want to stick with Sarge for some reason you can > post here the errors that X tells you. Somebody should be able to guide > you along (Although since Sarge is stable, I'm going to jump to > conclusions and assu

Re: Inability to configure printer

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:15:52PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >On 2/11/07, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried today to add my only printer to CUPS from a P3 box running Etch. > I first used CUPS's own installation wizard > (http://localhost:631/admin). I answer

Re: Etch and Sarge X-server failures on two different boxes the same day

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:56:04PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Then, on 6 February -- completely out of the blue -- I booted the > computer, which I had set to log on automatically to my user. Instead > however of seeing the KDE desktop, I got an xterm screen, which I > assumed was a fail-safe xterm

Re: debian astrolog package tips

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:03:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > This is funny. I did not know about the astrolog package. At least "apt-cache show astrolog | grep Sect" does NOT return Section: science Stops a grave bug being reported :-) -- Chris. == Don't forget to check that your /etc

Re: Introduction

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:39:19AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > I am interested in the process of configuring a Debian system from the > > configs of an 'Ubuntu live CD' or a 'Knoppix' or a 'Damn Small Linux' > > business-card CD. > > > > Anyone know of any docs? > > > > If you're interested in th

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word > > "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue using mutt). > >

Re: A very simple documentation framework.

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:05:07AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > If one were using a GUI it would probably be a possibility for me, but > there's a lot more typing for XML tags than there are in Tex. Tex is > also very similar to Lout (or rather, Lout is rather similar to Tex) so > that ease

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:12:42PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > >If you want a GUI, use Lyx. If you want to just use Vim, then use > >straight LaTex. Or auctex with emacs. > Thanks Doug. I will definately have to check it out. Most of my work > is fiction and doesn't need to TOC or the index, but

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:08:14PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > If you are a vim user & insist on working in something gui you may want > to take a peek at this: > > http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net Have you managed to get it working with vim7.x? -- Chris. == Don't forget to check that your /etc

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-12 Thread John K Masters
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:51:52 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:36:08PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: [snip] > > Sound Juicer is one of those dependencies and so the > > gnome-desktop-environment > > package can obviously not being kept if you want

Re: StartX problem

2007-02-12 Thread Kent West
conn intel wrote: USING $ startx $(which xterm) -- :6 , I am getting the blank screen as said and using ctrl alt backspace i am able to return back to the command prompt. Here is the output of 'lspci' attached with the email. Note :: I am getting vertical strips when default system boots or

X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-12 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop. The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I replaced Gnome with KDE, as I had been using KDE since I converted to

Re: StartX problem

2007-02-12 Thread conn intel
Hello Friends, Thank You for your responses. I have work around what you all have said :: USING $ startx $(which xterm) -- :6 , I am getting the blank screen as said and using ctrl alt backspace i am able to return back to the command prompt. Here is the output of 'lspci' attached with the em

Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-12 Thread john gennard
I have an IBM T20 Laptop and want to put on it Etch (Kernel 2.6.18-3) with Kde. The installation without GUI is fine, but Kde will not launch. Error messages in /var/log/kdm.log indicate that the installer assumed the laptop has a Synaptics Touchpad and this cannot be detected. /proc/bus/input/dev

Re: Using graphical environment

2007-02-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kelly: > > I am having trouble getting a new install of Debian 3.1 r4 and it boots > to the command line prompt. I want it to have a graphical interface. > As is it is useless to me. Could someone point me in a direction of a > tutorial on how to install with GUI or how to get a new install

Re: Very Basic Help Needed

2007-02-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jan Sneep: > > I managed to download and successfully run the latest stable NetInstall > version last week-end, but now I'm having a very frustrating time finding > documentation on how to some pretty basic stuff. Hm, ok. First things first: it is better not to reply to a message on this list if

Re: KDE peculiarities and questions

2007-02-12 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> I have KDE installed on all three of the boxes my spouse and I use. The >> box with Sarge installed, a P4 desktop, uses KDE 3.3.?; whereas the >> other two, one a P3 desktop and the other a P2 Tecra 8000 Toshiba >> laptop, have Etch, which uses KDE 3.5.5. Th

aMSN-0.96-2.tcl84.x86.package on Etch

2007-02-12 Thread Nigel Henry
I have the webcam working on aMSN on Kubuntu 5.10, and FC5, and am trying to get it working on Etch. Etch only had the 0.95 version of aMSN, and the webcam doesn't want to work with it. On Kubuntu I dl'd the latest version of aMSN 0.96-2.tcl84.x86.package, and this is installed using the autopac

Re: Re: X interface for ohphone

2007-02-12 Thread Peter Easthope
Ron Johnson said, rj> Presumably you ran "man ohphone", and did not glean any pertinent information? Correct. There are several video options beginning with --videodevice, which appear to pertain to configuration for video calls. With xfce4 running, starting ohphone should automatically prod

Re: [Debian-User] re: Network Install

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Admin wrote: [...] > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Could I simply do an FTP of some > Debian mirror? What I don't like about this FTP idea or the installer > as far as that goes is that many of the applications I want are not > available exc

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:36:08PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello John. > > John K Masters, 11.02.2007 23:23: > > I have been running etch for a few weeks now and am very happy. > > However, after trying a couple of CD ripping programs I decided to > > stick with grip. On trying to remove s

Re: Etch fails to load components from CD/DVD

2007-02-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
See post at bottom, as per custom on this list. I've also sent this to the debian-user list, also per custom. I subscribe to the list so you don't have to send it to me directly. On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:43:55PM +, redhat penguin wrote: On 2/12/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Very Basic Help Needed

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:34:04AM -0500, Jan Sneep wrote: > Hi, Hi! > > I managed to download and successfully run the latest stable NetInstall > version last week-end, but now I'm having a very frustrating time finding > documentation on how to some pretty basic stuff. congratulations. Its sc

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-12 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Joe Hart wrote: > Talk about smart software. > > Thanks for the tip. OHOOO :-) Yes this one is awesome !! And it works perfectly here! And if someone is looking for the url, it's right here ;-): http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/114-thunderbird-+-reply-to-list-...-here-it-comes.html -

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2007-02-12 Thread Yenidünya Dergisi
Yeni Dünya Dergisi YENİ DÜNYA'DAN GÖRKEMLİ BİR ŞEHİR ÖZEL SAYISI Millî ve manevî hassasiyetlerimize karşı dürüst ve samimi duyarlılığı ile tanınan Yeni Dünya Dergisi Ş

Re: sound problem

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:53:47AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Arvind Marathe wrote: > > > thanks Jonathan, but have altready done that. And tried both as root and > > user, doesn't work. Also i have added 'user' to group 'audio'. I suspect > > it is something very trivial, but i am clueless as

Re: Uncompressing gif Files that May or May Not be gif's

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:44:54AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > John Hasler writes: > > I once did a google search describing Email messages > consisting of random text with a binary attachment and this may > be a variant of what is called the "bugbare" virus in which a > .gif file is th

Re: Etch fails to load components from CD/DVD

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:29:59PM +, redhat penguin wrote: > hi, > > I've tried the CD, DVD and Netinstall but everytime it fails to load the > Components from CD. It says: > Failed to copy file from CD. Check integrity of the CD. Now when i go to > check the integrity i get: > The > ./pool/

Re: xorg mouse/touchpad issues on a sony laptop

2007-02-12 Thread Robert D. Crawford
Paolo Bientinesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert, > > it sounds like you're not using the Synaptics driver. That leads to a > different set of problems with tapping and scrolling (which I'm still trying > to solve), but it fixes your speed issue. > > You should post your xorg.conf file. I

Re: Very Basic Help Needed

2007-02-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 12 February 2007 17:34, Jan Sneep wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to download and successfully run the latest stable NetInstall > version last week-end, but now I'm having a very frustrating time finding > documentation on how to some pretty basic stuff. > > I haven't looked at trying to find

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/07 11:49, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 >>> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one page of

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Joe Hart wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 >> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use. >> If you are doing something small (one or two pages) and atypical it >> might be faster to just us

Re: Uncompressing gif Files that May or May Not be gif's

2007-02-12 Thread Joe
Martin McCormick wrote: The .gif file which was attached to this Jabberwakian spew was called attempt.gif and passed the "file " test with flying colors. Since the message body makes no sense and has no hyperlinks, the .gif almost has to be the mechanism to louse things up. I o

Re: Introducing the CompatDB.org project

2007-02-12 Thread Philipp Esselbach
Hello Roberto, I only briefly looked at the site and at the spec, so I might have missed something. Do you intend for this XML to be written by hand or is this to be generated by some automated tool? If the former, please reconsider and use a simpler plain text format that can be transformed i

X interface for ohphone

2007-02-12 Thread Peter Easthope
Debian Users, The package description for ohphone mentions that it supports X. Yet when started in xfce4 in etch with "ohphone -nl &", no graphics appear. How is the graphical interface invoked? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSU

Re: [Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/07 07:54, Tyler Smith wrote: [snip] Tyler, I tried to send you a private email, but Sorbs blocked it, saying that my (super large) ISP has zombies that send out spam. Do you have a different address? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

Re: Introducing the CompatDB.org project

2007-02-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:15:21PM +0100, Philipp Esselbach wrote: > > The current specifications of the CompatDB.org 1.0 XML document format > can found here ? http://www.compatdb.org/specs-1.0.txt and daily > snapshots of the compatibility lists here - > http://www.compatdb.org/page9.html. Compa

Re: Etch fails to load components from CD/DVD

2007-02-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:29:59PM +, redhat penguin wrote: > The ./pool/contrib/a/avifile-divx-plugin_0.7.44.20051021-2.2+b1_i386.debfile > failed the MD5 checksum verification. > Can someone please tell me what i can do to fix this?> 1. Failed installation reports should be submitted as

Re: yet another newbie tutorial

2007-02-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:19:23AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > >Thanks for this, although the file seems to be corrupt; can you post it > >as plain text? > > > looks like a corrupted open office file Since when was OO an interchange format. Whatever happend to good old (La)Tex or .dvi? O

Re: Uncompressing gif Files that May or May Not be gif's

2007-02-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:44:54AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Thank you. I had forgotten about that great utility. The bad > news is that the .gif files in the virus messages are either > genuine gifs and the infection mechanism is hidden somewhere else > or the gif file looks so au

Re: Very Basic Help Needed

2007-02-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jan Sneep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070212 10:35]: > I managed to find > http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Samba_Linux/Windows_networking > which was sort of helpful ... unfortunately the documentation doesn't > explain what the various things are or how to get them running ... If you are

Re: [SOLVED -- sort of] Re: "You have inserted a blank disc. What would you like to do?"

2007-02-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:59 -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > I got the same behavior on a Nec DVD drive. Solved he problem, partly, by > > flashing it to a new firmware I found googling. (Sorry I did not kept trace > > of where). I said partly because it still does not

[SOLVED -- sort of] Re: "You have inserted a blank disc. What would you like to do?"

2007-02-12 Thread Michael S. Peek
Thierry Chatelet wrote: I got the same behavior on a Nec DVD drive. Solved he problem, partly, by flashing it to a new firmware I found googling. (Sorry I did not kept trace of where). I said partly because it still does not recognize double layer dvd, as it is suppose to. Oh, his was a brand

Re: yet another newbie tutorial

2007-02-12 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
On Monday 12 February 2007 15:46, TimeX Gu wrote: > It looks like a web page in French Not really. Most of the content of the website is french. But the concerned document is in english. I am sorry if the OO file is corrupted, I will upload it again and see. As far as I knew it was not corrupted

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