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

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 00:59, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 00:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 00:09, Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Kevin Mark wrote: I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a noise cover oth

check superblock

2007-02-20 Thread pinniped
Make sure the RAID device is set to be 'persistent'. Also check backwards through scripts to see where md2 might fail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Internet Dial-up Connection Setting

2007-02-20 Thread Khurram Pirzada
Hi everyone, I have somewhat different problem. I use Lucent Dual Chipset modem which is on PCI slot 1 (under XP) at COM3. Additionally I have Realtek RTL8139 family PCI Fast Ethernet at NIC #1 & 2. Last night I installed Debian and skipped to configure internet setting later. Later when I trie

Re: make-kpgp && git-bisect

2007-02-20 Thread Frank Hartmann
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could try: --append-to-version -foo, which will create: > linux-image-2.6.17-foo. > > >> dpkg -l gives: > >> ii linux-image-2.6.172.6.17 2.6-1.gitbisect > Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.172.6.17 > >> I noticed too, t

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

2007-02-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 00:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 00:09, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Kevin Mark wrote: > >> I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a > >> noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-( > > > > Yup, yup and yup. Of c

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

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 00:09, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: >> I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a >> noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-( > > Yup, yup and yup. Of course having to wor

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

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 00:15, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 02/20/07 23:52, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/07 15:45, Alan Chandler w

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

2007-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/20/07 23:52, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 02/20/07 15:

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

2007-02-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Kevin Mark wrote: > I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a > noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-( Yup, yup and yup. Of course having to work on some model or another of green-bar printer for the past year-and-a-half lemme tell you,

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

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 23:52, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/20/07 15:45, Alan Chandler wrote: >>> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:29, Miles Fidelman

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

2007-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/20/07 15:45, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:29, Miles Fidelman wrote: > [snip] > > in about 1982 I was in the market for a line printer so that my team

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 23:21, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:14:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/20/07 17:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> I too discovered checkrestart a while back. However, my experience with >>> it was so disap

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

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 15:45, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:29, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] > in about 1982 I was in the market for a line printer so that my team > could print out their software listings and was pursuaded by the our HP

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:14:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/07 17:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > I too discovered checkrestart a while back. However, my experience with > > it was so disappointing, that I ended up cooking up my own script using > > lsof and the init scripts in /

Re: Debian "Etch" OpenGL libraries

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 09:21, Srikanth Venigandla wrote: > Hi, I am trying to install a software called Geant4 on my debian > "Etch" installation of x86_64 architecture (intel EMT64). I > figured out that OpenGL libraries installation is incomplete on > my system

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 17:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:27:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> However, I recently discovered the debian-goodies package, which has >> the *incredibly* useful app "checkrestart". Run it after you >> upgr

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +, andy wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem >> to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor

Re: 2.6.20 kernel in unstable?

2007-02-20 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:45:41AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:04:50PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > > Etch being in freeze does not proclude new packages being > > accepted into sid. Although I expect that the kernel team > > are busy working on the kernels

Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-20 Thread José Pablo Fernández
I have a raid1 setup with three partitions: md0, mounted on /, composed of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 md1, mounted on swap, composed of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 md2, mounted on swap, composed of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 I am not sure how it was installed because it was done a long time ago, I don't e

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:17:31 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/20/07 13:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch -I picked up a > > new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core > > p

[FIXED] Re: Broken software raid... but not really

2007-02-20 Thread José Pablo Fernández
it was just a syntax problem in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf (actually, a semantic one, I missed to list DEVICES). Now I have a problem that is more or less the reverse, I'll post that in another thread. On Tuesday 20 February 2007 23:35, José Pablo Fernández wrote: > I have a software raid1 that won't

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-20, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> I don't doubt that you've got a pretty light-weight setup there, but >> you haven't mentioned anything that requires you to run X yet... :) >> >> just pointing it out. > > Even if he shut down X, he isn't

Broken software raid... but not really

2007-02-20 Thread José Pablo Fernández
I have a software raid1 that won't come up at boot but if I assembly and start it (mdadm -A /dev/md2 /dev/sda3 -R) it will just start and then the system would just work. The other raids just work (md0, md1). Any ideas about what is wrong and/or how to find out? -- José Pablo Fernández [EMAIL P

Re: why not try lilypond

2007-02-20 Thread Kent West
Bob McGowan wrote: > David Baron wrote: >> On Friday 16 February 2007, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I have not seen anyone in this thread suggest lilypond ? >> >> There are several GUI notation programs around opensource. > > Generally, I prefer denemo, for reasons related to typing, but both do

Promoting Small Business Consulting To Entrepreneurs

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Howitt
Hello, I came across your website in a search for Small Business Consulting and thought I would write. I work with http://www.EvanCarmichael.com, the #1 website in the world for small business motivation and strategies with over 150,000 regular monthly entrepreneur readers. We are creating a n

Re: making kivio run under gnome....

2007-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:19:23AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > As I understand it kivio is a flowcharting software that runs under KDE A program has dependecies. kivio has its. Kde is a desktop enviroment that used qt widgets. I suspect kivio depends on those same q

Re: Debian "Etch" OpenGL libraries

2007-02-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 20 2007 07:21, Srikanth Venigandla wrote: > Hi, >I am trying to install a software called Geant4 on my debian "Etch" > installation of x86_64 architecture (intel EMT64). I figured out that > OpenGL libraries installation is incomplete on my system. I tried posting > the error me

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:27:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/20/07 15:13, andy wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem > > to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor

Re: Debian "Etch" OpenGL libraries

2007-02-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:21:29PM +0300, Srikanth Venigandla wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install a software called Geant4 on my debian "Etch" > installation of x86_64 architecture (intel EMT64). I figured out that First, the x86_64 is properly called amd64 (they were the original creators of i

Debian "Etch" OpenGL libraries

2007-02-20 Thread Srikanth Venigandla
Hi, I am trying to install a software called Geant4 on my debian "Etch" installation of x86_64 architecture (intel EMT64). I figured out that OpenGL libraries installation is incomplete on my system. I tried posting the error message in Geant4 website where I got the suggestion to check Open

Tab-completion for file URLs in Firefox?

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Cooper
I recently switched from Galeon to Firefox^W Iceweasel. One thing I miss is the ability to navigate to a local file using tab-completion, the same way you do in bash. For example, if I type "file:///u" in the URL bar and then hit tab, Galeon expands this to "file:///usr/", and waits for me to typ

Re: New Sid iceweasel "already running" when opening second link from T-bird

2007-02-20 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 09:23, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Hi On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:47:20AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Before yesterday's upgrade of Sid's Iceweasel (and the subsequent creation of a new profile --

making kivio run under gnome....

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, As I understand it kivio is a flowcharting software that runs under KDE I am trying to make it work under gnome... Is this likely to be possible? I am running Debian Etch on an AMD64 Sempron 3200 box I installed it with synaptic. At the moment it tries to run but doe

RE: preprocessor/linker c++ error

2007-02-20 Thread Kevin Ross
> -Original Message- > From: ccostin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:28 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: preprocessor/linker c++ error > > What's wrong with the followind C++ code ? > > $ cat file1.cc > #include "file.hh" > void f1(int x,int

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/02/07 18:43), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > > The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated. > > Rebooting after a general upgrade will make no difference. > > > Nonsense. It will kill your uptime---the

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

2007-02-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:45:16PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I no longer have anything to do with that area - but I would say today > that we still cannot produce documents with the consistency and > completeness (proper version control of all documentation, with the > version numbers aut

Re: /dev/sda1 --> /dev/hda1 ???

2007-02-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:38:16PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > >root=/dev/sda1 > > to: > >root=/dev/hda1 > > Um... Is this bad or something? Why does /dev/sda1 not work for my > custom kernel when it works for the distribution kernel? Did I set > something wrong in my kernel conf

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated. > Rebooting after a general upgrade will make no difference. > Nonsense. It will kill your uptime---the true measure of one's geekiness :-) Regards, -Roberto --

Re: Re: mixmaster mails sent, but not received by recipient

2007-02-20 Thread Niels Larsen
Thanks :-) Here is a short abstract from my exim4 log: /var/log/exim4/mainlog 2007-02-19 21:25:17 1HJF4X-y4-SI => x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=local_user T=mail_spool 2007-02-19 21:25:17 1HJF4X-y4-SI Completed 2007-02-19 21:27:34 1HJF6k-yP-V2 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=xx P=local S=

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:27:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > However, I recently discovered the debian-goodies package, which has > the *incredibly* useful app "checkrestart". Run it after you > upgrade (and restart X) to see what is still using old file > versions. Using kill or a slightly

Re: Re: agpgart & nvagp

2007-02-20 Thread Alive Software Design
In order to stop the loading of the agpgart on boot you need to set the agp=off option on the kernel boot line. To test it out reboot your computer and change the boot line temporarily to see if it helps. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NvAGP -- Jeremy Wilkins 306-382-8977 --

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-20 Thread Greg Trounson
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:30:52 -0500, Carl wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:12:53AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote: I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I thought that MP

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread andy
Clive Menzies wrote: On (20/02/07 21:13), andy wrote: Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this: after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally considered a wise thing to

Re: Ragged font rendition with xserver-xorg 1:7.1.0-11

2007-02-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 20:20 -0500, William Walter wrote: > Font rendition on Gnome is messed up. Some part are lighter than the > rest. I've turned on subpixel smoothing and hinting. Neither of them > have worked. What am i missing in this case? Make sure your system is completely up to date, espe

Re: GFS to share one AOE partition on two servers

2007-02-20 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mardi 20 février 2007 17:47, Adrian Chapela a écrit : > Hello, > > I want share a partition on two servers. > > Now I can't compile a pool.o module that is required by the documentation. > > Anyone knows how I can share a GFS partition on two servers. I don't > want a cluster to serve data, I wa

Re: Email receiving problems

2007-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:04:26 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I wonder if you need this in main.cf? > > mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop It can be done like this as well, but the OP needs to uncomment the relevant line in /etc

squid problem can't emulate http log

2007-02-20 Thread michael
Hello, Installed squid on my etch box. (squid 2.6.5-4) Set emulate_httpd_log on and restarted squid. access.log still hows the native format. My sarge box, (squid 2.5.9-10) doesn't have this problem. Can switch emulate log on or off and the access.log will show the changes. Wondering if possibl

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:52:24 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > ..write new bios code for old 386 irons to use todays new big ass > > disks is trivial to you? > > Linux doesn't use the BIOS. You just need something the BIOS > supports for a boot disk. Once t

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

2007-02-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 16:29, Miles Fidelman wrote: > FYI: Just for perspective, I'm also old enough to remember designing > control logic for film processors used for in preparing print the > old-fashioned way (you know, half-tone separations, prepared with > screens and cameras) - and, for

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread John Hasler
andy writes: > after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally > considered a wise thing to reboot the computer to check the take or can > one have a reasonably good degree of confidence that as far as is > reasonable to predict, all will be well? No need to reboot unless you

/dev/sda1 --> /dev/hda1 ???

2007-02-20 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hi Debian gurus, I've just taken the plunge and compiled my own kernel -- 2.6.20.1 -- to reconcile a problem with buggy sound drivers. (Now granted that the last time I compiled a linux kernel, it was for version 1.2.13, but I followed the instructions and got a pair of *.deb packages. Kudos to

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:27:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > However, I recently discovered the debian-goodies package, which has > the *incredibly* useful app "checkrestart". Run it after you > upgrade (and restart X) to see what is still using old file > versions. Using kill or a slightly

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/02/07 21:13), andy wrote: > Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem > to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this: > > after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally > considered a wise thing to reboot the compu

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +, andy wrote: > Hi all > > Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem > to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this: > > after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally > considered

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 13:26, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I hope this message reaches you; your own email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > is bogus, and I myself do not subscribe to the list. > > Ken Heard wrote: > [snip] > > Now we are getting somewhere. It seem

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 15:13, andy wrote: > Hi all > > Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem > to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this: > > after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it

Kontakt na inzerciu.

2007-02-20 Thread peter ing.
Inzercia zoznamenie č. 67198 Môj počitač mi neotvorí kontakt "obalku", zrejme Linux, ako mi môžete pomôcť.     Ďakujem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Kontakt na inzerciu.

2007-02-20 Thread peter ing.
Inzercia zoznamenie č. 67198 Môj počitač mi neotvorí kontakt "obalku", zrejme Linux, ako mi môžete pomôcť.     Ďakujem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 13:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch -I picked up a > new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core > processorput my hd from my old machine in it...and WOW! I > thought Etch was fast b

a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-20 Thread andy
Hi all Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this: after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally considered a wise thing to reboot the computer to check the take or can one

Re: Re gpm and swapping mouse buttons

2007-02-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Mike McClain wrote: From: Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re gpm and swapping mouse buttons [ was: Re: old hardware, newer I also had to change my GUI mouse settings, swapping the buttons there as well. This is the part I don't know how to do, how to swap the buttons in X. BTW Bob,

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: >> For better performance (mainly copying from the CD to the DVD or vice >> versa) IMO you're better off using the CD to the slave of the HD. >> >> Joe > Wouldn't that tend to cause problems when when writing data from HDD to > CD and also a

Re: Today's ALSA Update in Etch killed my sound

2007-02-20 Thread Chris Lale
Michael Pobega wrote: This morning I logged on to my computer to find that there were a few updates to install. Syslinux, and ALSA are the ones that stood out from memory. So after installing I played around, and accidentally powered down my computer. I've restarted now to find that the ALSA u

Re gpm and swapping mouse buttons

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McClain
> From: Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re gpm and swapping mouse buttons [ was: Re: old hardware, newer > > I also had to change my GUI mouse settings, swapping the buttons there > as well. This is the part I don't know how to do, how to swap the buttons in X. BTW Bob, I really foun

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I don't doubt that you've got a pretty light-weight setup there, but you haven't mentioned anything that requires you to run X yet... :) just pointing it out. Even if he shut down X, he isn't going to see any speedup. He's already using all the CPU. Mike -- p="p

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-20 Thread John Stoffel
Sjoerd> What to install when you would like to give TeX/LaTeX a try? tetex is the package you want to use. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Øyvind Røtvold wrote: Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% by system, which conflicts with the line item for paup, a user process, which shows 99

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:34:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/07 10:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:50:16 +0800, Elvis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, What does it mean by "challenging hacks"? ..write new bios code for old 3

Re: No keyboard in gdm-greeter on reboot

2007-02-20 Thread John Stoffel
Hugo and the rest, I found a solution to my problems with not having a keyboard on a fresh bootup when GDM was my login chooser. It looks like it's an issue with how I had my kernel setup to use a serial console, so I could catch various bootup errors on another system. Once I pulled all my con

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread KS
Joe Hart wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch -I picked up a new computer >> last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core processorput my hd from my old >> machine in it...and WOW! I thought Etch was fast before on my 450mhz P3.This >> however is jus

Re: opensource nvidia, xinerama

2007-02-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 20:10 +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > I have a nvidia 7600 card. It has one VGA _and_ on DVI output. > I also have one DVI to VGA (harware) converter. > Two screens, strictly the same. > I intend to run Sid. > Is there any possibility that the Xinerama mode will

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread strawks
On mar, 2007-02-20 at 19:15 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch - > I picked up a new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core > processorput my hd from my old machine in it...and WOW! I thought > Etch was fast before on my 450mhz P3. > > Th

re: How to mount Solaris disk as slave?

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McClain
On further reflection I bet I had ufs built into the kernel when I got the previously referenced 'Partition check:' boot message that showed the Solaris slices. That was on a Slackware 4.0 install that I only have a few notes from left. If it's any help here's the contents of the vfstab: #

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-20 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I hope this message reaches you; your own email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is bogus, and I myself do not subscribe to the list. Ken Heard wrote: > I was using version dosemu-1.3.3.tgz. After configuration I ran > it, first as my user. The following was returned: > "You do not have the DO

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch -I picked up a new computer > last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core processorput my hd from my old > machine in it...and WOW! I thought Etch was fast before on my 450mhz

Re: graphiccard wouldn't work correctly

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tobias Manthei wrote: > HW: > CPU:AMD Athlon64 4000+ > Mainboard:Asus A8R-MVP > HDD: 160GB SATA > graficcard: Sapphire Radeon X1900GT (ATI) PCIe > > OS: Debian/Sarge > actually using kernel 2.6.18.2-amd64 > want to use kernel 2.6.20 > Xserver: Xfree86

Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Palmer
>booting from some type of rescue disk > and doing the fsck from it is the most reliable and safest way to deal > with a corrupt root partition. Unless that rescue disk has old filesystem tools on it, then it has the potential to do more damage than good. If you can still boot from the fs going in

Re: New box

2007-02-20 Thread Bruno Buys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch - I picked up a new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core processorput my hd from my old machine in it...and WOW! I thought Etch was fast before on my 450mhz P3. This however is just the lead in to a questi

Re: mixmaster mails sent, but not received by recipient

2007-02-20 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On 2/19/07, Niels Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am using debian etch (testing) and mixmaster 3.0b2-3 When sending mails with mixmaster, the mails never reach their destination mail address. I first run mixmaster-update --verbose, and then mixmaster. Everything looks perfect, and the mail

Re: Which USB WLAN adapter to get?

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Palmer
Ralink based cards for sure.. The cheapest ones being the conceptronic USB dongles. 20 euro or so from PC City in Spain. The advantage with these is that they have good free drivers, don't require firmware, and have nice extra functionality like packet injection. The conceptronic ones can also be m

New box

2007-02-20 Thread fmccormick
I know this is OT, but I am running Debian Etch  -I picked up a new computer last light - 2.4 ghz with a dual core processorput my hd from my old machine in it...and WOW! I thought Etch was fast before on my 450mhz P3.This however is just the lead in to a question I am hoping the gurus here

opensource nvidia, xinerama

2007-02-20 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hi, I have a nvidia 7600 card. It has one VGA _and_ on DVI output. I also have one DVI to VGA (harware) converter. Two screens, strictly the same. I intend to run Sid. Is there any possibility that the Xinerama mode will work? I mean: sharing a laaarge desktop on the two screens (not cloning/

Re: why not try lilypond

2007-02-20 Thread Bob McGowan
David Baron wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not seen anyone in this thread suggest lilypond ? I cannot pretend to be an expert, but its results for me so far are really quite delightful. Documentation is very good. It does guitar TABS and all that sort of th

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-20 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: some normalization is obviously happening in the export to .wav. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want the un-normalised data, you'll probably have to leave it in aud format until you get aroundt to mixing/editing or whatever. Of course, you need to fi

Re: Re: your file

2007-02-20 Thread info
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Autoresponder Sehr geehrter Absender, vielen Dank für Ihre Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wir werden sie schnellstmöglich an den zuständigen Kollegen weiterleiten. Sollten Sie jedoch zu einem unserer Produkte technische oder inhaltliche Fragen haben, wenden Sie sich

Re: Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs

2007-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Justin Hartman writes: > I just don't think this is normal as my experience with apt is that it > respects all configuration files and settings. Apt doesn't know anything about your home directory and never touches anything there. It deals only with system files. It was Firefox itself that did t

Re gpm and swapping mouse buttons [ was: Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]]

2007-02-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Mike McClain wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) Subject: Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED] Any idea why my gpm mouse doesn't work at the CL after starting X until after stopping and starting it a couple of times? It is only a problem right after starting X, then once it's w

Re: Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs

2007-02-20 Thread Justin Hartman
On 2/20/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, they clearly just changed the search path for user profiles without putting in an interim check to relocate old profiles. Anyone filed this bug yet? its kind of a silly oversight. KS sent the link to the bug below in an earlier

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:34:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/07 10:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:50:16 +0800, Elvis wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> What does it mean by "challenging hacks"? > > > > ..write new bios code for old 386

Re: Email receiving problems

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 11:00, Kelly wrote: > Ron thanks for the reply, > > I added the command 'mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop' to the main.cf > file. I sent a test email and the email did not go through at all. I > got this in reply: > __

Re: Help! Corrupted filesystem

2007-02-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Mankuthimma wrote: Hi, Should I fsck from a Knopix CD or do it from my Knoppix hd install or do it from the Debian command line? Does it matter at all? Best option. Boot from knoppix and fsck the partition # fsck /dev/hdXX Am I correct in assuming that I need to mount the partition in rea

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:34:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/20/07 10:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:50:16 +0800, Elvis wrote in message > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> What d

Re: Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs

2007-02-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:51 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > well, they clearly just changed the search path for user profiles > without putting in an interim check to relocate old profiles. Anyone > filed this bug yet? its kind of a silly oversight. No, as was pointed out in other parts of

Re: Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:07:36AM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Firstly apologies for the incorrect spelling of iceweasel it's > been a long morning! > > I upgraded from 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2 (unstable) to version 2.0.0.1+dfsg-3 > (unstable) > > Seems like a minor release to me so still perplexed

re: How to mount Solaris disk as slave?

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McClain
> From: Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: re: How to mount Solaris disk as slave? > > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 21:31 -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > > Did your boot messages (dmesg) not show your Solaris slices? > > Mine showed hda11-17 as slice0-6 even though fdisk said my last > > partit

Re: Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:51 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > well, they clearly just changed the search path for user profiles > > without putting in an interim check to relocate old profiles. Anyone > > filed this bug yet? i

Re: apache2 hostname problem

2007-02-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:34:32AM -0800, Laser144 wrote: > > Oops: typo... > > Corrected it, but still cannot access websites unfortunately. > Any other suggestions? > What does the error log say? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexe

RE: Email receiving problems

2007-02-20 Thread Kelly
Ron thanks for the reply, I added the command 'mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop' to the main.cf file. I sent a test email and the email did not go through at all. I got this in reply: _ Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/maildrop" ___

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Arnt Karlsen writes: > ..write new bios code for old 386 irons to use todays new big ass disks > is trivial to you? Linux doesn't use the BIOS. You just need something the BIOS supports for a boot disk. Once the kernel is up it will handle your large disk fine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Which USB WLAN adapter to get?

2007-02-20 Thread Dan H.
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Murray Cumming did a series of blog posts, trying to find the best > supported wireless USB adaptor. His latest post reviews the four he > found best. Thanks. Actually since this had to be quick I just went and bought the cheapest no-name stick at some electronics discoun

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