Re: Resolution gets displayed incorrectlly(with nvidia driver)

Original Message Subject:Re: Resolution gets displayed incorrectlly(with nvidia driver) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:12:44 +0100 From: redhat penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Im using

How to hide config error in Aptitude?

This NTLMAPS makes a config error due to which Aptitude complains everytime I run it. I configured NTLMAPS manually; how can I inform Aptitude that its configuration was successful? -- Masatran, R. Deepak pgpPlhKhrOVSA.pgp Description: PGP signature

problem with Chinese file names

I use sarge, have a file that use Chinese (GB code) in file name. reading/writing it in ext2 seems OK, but I have problem copying to vfat partition. - Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:14:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you read the origional Fortran for the 704? Its a hoot (its on > ibm's website). For the interested, a quick google search found the following url - fortran ii listing for the 704. I guess it's the compiler

no mic with snd_hda_intel in Sony vaio fe880

I have dual boot vista and etch in Sony vaio fe880. lspci shows as below. 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Unknown device 81ef Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 74 M

Re: Booting without swap or make debian knows my swap

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:07:42AM +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: > I just broke one disk which contained the swap partition of my system. > Lucky me, the other disk that holds my file system is ok. > But somehow I can't boot. It looks like the system trying to find out > the lost swap. > I've already crea

Booting without swap or make debian knows my swap

I just broke one disk which contained the swap partition of my system. Lucky me, the other disk that holds my file system is ok. But somehow I can't boot. It looks like the system trying to find out the lost swap. I've already created a new swap partition and changed the /etc/fstab so the swap wil

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..I have seen web stuff pointing to Ariel Sharon being unhappy joining > W's war on terror on NATO's side because of the full 4 Geneva > Conventions, instead lobbying these Wannsee language games, this is why > it took them so long (November 2001) to join in. You reall

Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 22:54 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:48:30PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! > > > > I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. > > > > Nautilus seems to w

Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:48:30PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! > > I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. > > Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a cou

Re: script command operation question

Thanks much! On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Joey Hess wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote: When script is run to catch what other commands output and what input they're given, does script delay writing any of typescript until a user exits from the script command? An accessibility situation over on gnome-access

bios time is not sdhowen by debian

I have dual booting sony vaio laptop booting both vista and etch. System time ie bios time is shown by vista. But etch shows 7 hrs less. I am in PDT. Both linux and windows are configured to PDT time zone. In rcS, utc=no is there. Still this time problem is there. Even if change after reboot, debi

Re: Newbie = Networking Question?

On 04/06/2007 05:20 PM, Randy Patterson wrote: > I have searched for a way to mount that directory to the local > file systems and use it from there but can't seem to find > exactly how to do that. I would like to mount it to something > like; > > /home/randy/workspace You can use the smbmount uti

Re: Is there a C# for Debian-Etch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks escribió: > I was trying to install a package, Gnome-RDP, and it popped > up a message that it can't find c#. > > Is there one? If so where? Can't find one on debian.org. If you want to compile cpp then use g++, installing with apt-ge

Re: Is there a C# for Debian-Etch?

Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I was trying to install a package, Gnome-RDP, and it popped up a message that it can't find c#. Is there one? If so where? Can't find one on debian.org. Perhaps you need Mono? (Gnome-RDP is a ssh client with profiles, and other neat stuff ... It sounds like it anyway.)

Is there a C# for Debian-Etch?

I was trying to install a package, Gnome-RDP, and it popped up a message that it can't find c#. Is there one? If so where? Can't find one on debian.org. (Gnome-RDP is a ssh client with profiles, and other neat stuff ... It sounds like it anyway.) As always, many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Newbie = Networking Question?

I have a Windows Adv Ser 2003 box with a shared NTFS partition on it that that I need access to. On my Debian/Etch box I can start Konqueror and look at my Samba Shares and see; smb://myserver/HostedSites I want Eclipse to see this and use it as a workspace but can't seem to find a way to do t

Re: MBR Confusion

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:30:57AM +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > > onto the external drive. > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attache

Re: MBR Confusion? (was: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error)

> I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because grub complains with "error 21." I'm thinking that when the

Re: Etch: how to make own xen domU kernel ?

All of those commands should be run from /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18. i.e. where the linux-source-2.6.18 package was unpacked. "4. run make menu config and enable Xen in configuration." I guess this step could be omitted and replaced by just copying appropriate config-2.6.18-4-xen file from pre

Re: how to determine X window identifier

* Ed G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070406 15:56]: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:02:20 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> >> For diagnostics, I would like to use "xev" to view the keycodes, >> but I do not know how to determine the X window identifier of the >> XEmacs window. > > Use the xwininfo(1) command.

Re: hdparm question

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 18:13 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If memory serves this might be a western digital drive. postgresql > recommends disabling drive cacheing if it's on when it's installed or > upgraded so that if the data base is in use and a power failure happens > you don't loose the da

shared memory in computational chemistry

My quantum mechanical computational software (running on amd64 etch with 3700mb per node, total ram 16GB) is implicitly using shared memory segments to speed up transfer outside the kernel. It is unable to allocate a 38731776bytes segment, and the computation dies. In fact, command "ipcsl -l" retu

Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a couple of launchers in a side panel that do "nautilus /H/hunters/public_html" or similar and they work fine. Also /apps/naut

Re: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error

> > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I > > want to build an etch i386 system on it. ... I want to chroot into > > that system to do some more stuff, but the chroot fails: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash chroot: cannot > > run command `/

Re: script command operation question

Jude DaShiell wrote: > When script is run to catch what other commands output and what input > they're given, does script delay writing any of typescript until a user > exits from the script command? An accessibility situation over on > gnome-accessibility-list needs some output so we can get a

Re: script command operation question

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:19:40PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > When script is run to catch what other commands output and what input > they're given, does script delay writing any of typescript until a user > exits from the script command? An accessibility situation over on > gnome-accessibil

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

--- Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:55:57 -0700, zfh wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > ..are you referring to the passengers onboard flight > UA93 on 9/11??? > On "Let's roll!" these civilians _became_ lawful > combattants under > Arnticle 4A(6) in the 3'rd Con

Re: Etch: how to make own xen domU kernel ?

Thanks for the resonse, Predrag On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:01:01AM +0200, Predrag Gavrilovic wrote: > To be more precise, > link http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382699 > shows how to manually patch official debian kernel source with > official debian xen patches. One solution wo

script command operation question

When script is run to catch what other commands output and what input they're given, does script delay writing any of typescript until a user exits from the script command? An accessibility situation over on gnome-accessibility-list needs some output so we can get a screen reader debugged. A

Re: hdparm question

If memory serves this might be a western digital drive. postgresql recommends disabling drive cacheing if it's on when it's installed or upgraded so that if the data base is in use and a power failure happens you don't loose the data in the cache that didn't manage to get saved to disk before

Re: backup-restore question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: > Chris Parker wrote: > Question being is it possible to restore a backup from a win32 (2003 > server) ntfs filesystem via tape onto a linux machine. I want to be > able to test our backups to make sure all is restorable. If this i

Re: Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

On 4/6/07, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:48 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > What nVidia modules are you using? 9129 was the last version that > supported the NV18 chipset. I know, I have an exact duplicate of the > card. Looks like he's using the free nv driver.

Re: how to determine X window identifier

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:02:20PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > LONG-TERM GOAL: > > Running X on an i386 system with the US PC-104 keyboard and "Dvorak > classic" key mapping, I would like to change the behaviour of the > Ctrl, Alt, and Win keys, and perhaps also the Menu key when running > X

Re: Disk Space Calculation - Some Space missing - Where did it Go?

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 13:40 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:26:46PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just want to know a little bit about disk space calculation. > > > > I have a hard disk of 500 GB as shown here. > > > >

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:13:50PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..for further court martial litigation advice, hire me or a lawyer. > The only thing for which I would hire you would be to prosecute me. Your complete divorcement from reality would certainly guarantee that the jury would acquit :

Re: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:42:10PM +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to > build an etch i386 system on it. I partitioned the drive, and used > debootstrap to lay down a minimal i386 system on the drive. The problem > is that I want t

Re: how to determine X window identifier

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:02:20 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > IMMEDIATE NEED: > > For diagnostics, I would like to use "xev" to view the keycodes, but I > do not know how to determine the X window identifier of the XEmacs > window. Use the xwininfo(1) command. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Disk Space Calculation - Some Space missing - Where did it Go?

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:26:46PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Just want to know a little bit about disk space calculation. > > I have a hard disk of 500 GB as shown here. > > = > websrv-1:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda >

Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error

I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to build an etch i386 system on it. I partitioned the drive, and used debootstrap to lay down a minimal i386 system on the drive. The problem is that I want to chroot into that system to do some more stuff, but the chroot fails

Re: Configuring networked printer

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 21:23 +0100, andy wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > So, I guess it worked? Just so that someone else reading this, having > > similar issues, can be sure it did work. > > > Your suggestion worked very well, Greg, and I can now print from both > machines. > > Thanks for your

Re: Configuring networked printer

Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:55 +0100, andy wrote: Greg You are brilliant - thank you SO much!! All the best So, I guess it worked? Just so that someone else reading this, having similar issues, can be sure it did work. Your suggestion worked very well, Greg, and I

Re: Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:48 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > What nVidia modules are you using? 9129 was the last version that > supported the NV18 chipset. I know, I have an exact duplicate of the > card. Looks like he's using the free nv driver. Anyway, getting a backtrace of the crash, preferably

Re: Configuring networked printer

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:55 +0100, andy wrote: > Greg > > You are brilliant - thank you SO much!! > > All the best So, I guess it worked? Just so that someone else reading this, having similar issues, can be sure it did work. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competit

Re: Configuring networked printer

Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:21 +0100, andy wrote: Hmmm - Box A (printer connected) is configured to "Share published printers connected to this system" (check) but not "Show printers shared by other systems" (uncheck). Box B (no printer) is configured only with "Show printer

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > On early BSDI machines, (notice this is the > commercial BSD version), due to inability of BSDI to see drives properly > in some instances... > > Everything except the first drive, was mounted on /drives/$drivename/ > >

Re: Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 14:38 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > Hi. > > I had a successful setup a long time ago with Xorg and xinerama > in Debian sid. I use 2 monitors and 2 video cards. > > It used to work well, but now I doesn't work anymore, even with the > same configuration file I had before.

Re: mount via auto does not give write rights

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:11 +0200, Andreas Duffner wrote: > Hi, > having the following in my fstab > > /dev/hdb5 /mnt/Fat32Data vfat auto,users,exec,rw,umask=0 0 0 > > it mounts when I start the system. > But if I try to write, it does not allow so. > > If I just umount and mount again, it w

Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

Hi. I had a successful setup a long time ago with Xorg and xinerama in Debian sid. I use 2 monitors and 2 video cards. It used to work well, but now I doesn't work anymore, even with the same configuration file I had before. I didn't have the time to debug, until today. Has something similar h

Re: Configuring networked printer

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:21 +0100, andy wrote: > Hmmm - Box A (printer connected) is configured to "Share published > printers connected to this system" (check) but not "Show printers > shared by other systems" (uncheck). > > Box B (no printer) is configured only with "Show printers shared by > o

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 18:12 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:41:02PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > >> It seems that many guides say to put your windows partition in > >> /mnt/windows or /media/windows. That would suggest to me that that is > >> the plac

Re: Configuring networked printer

Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 19:44 +0100, andy wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 19:12 +0100, andy wrote: 8< [[ snip ]] Thanks Greg I have now set the "share" advertising checkbox as you suggested, saved changes and the CUPSd restarted. This is the

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

- Original Message From: Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, April 6, 2007 12:15:29 PM Subject: Re: Beautifying Debian Etch On 4/6/07, eklektik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed Etch recently, with the help of the good peo

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:37:09PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > > some launchers I had set up are gone. > > > Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? > > Some

Re: Configuring networked printer

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 19:44 +0100, andy wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 19:12 +0100, andy wrote: > > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 16:25 +0100, andy wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > > > > > OK - have fixed the old issue re: the OOo c

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

> I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > some launchers I had set up are gone. > Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? Some easy suggestions: Perhaps starting nautilus, via the keyboard, might help (p

Re: Configuring networked printer

Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 19:12 +0100, andy wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 16:25 +0100, andy wrote: Hi all OK - have fixed the old issue re: the OOo configuration printing - it just required me to stop and restart the print server :) Next

Re: Configuring networked printer

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 19:12 +0100, andy wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 16:25 +0100, andy wrote: > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > OK - have fixed the old issue re: the OOo configuration printing - > > > it > > > just required me to stop and restart the print server :) > > >

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

> Keep the following packages at their current version: > fam [Not Installed] > Leave the following dependencies unresolved: > libgnomevfs2-0 recommends fam > nautilus recommends fam > Score is -341 > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] > > I chose not to accept this right now. Do I need to add th

mount via auto does not give write rights

Hi, having the following in my fstab /dev/hdb5 /mnt/Fat32Data vfat auto,users,exec,rw,umask=0 0 0 it mounts when I start the system. But if I try to write, it does not allow so. If I just umount and mount again, it works. Why do I not have write rights with the automount ? Thanks in advanc

Re: Configuring networked printer

Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 16:25 +0100, andy wrote: Hi all OK - have fixed the old issue re: the OOo configuration printing - it just required me to stop and restart the print server :) Next issue - I'm wanting to be able to print from Box B to the USB printer which is loc

how to determine X window identifier

LONG-TERM GOAL: Running X on an i386 system with the US PC-104 keyboard and "Dvorak classic" key mapping, I would like to change the behaviour of the Ctrl, Alt, and Win keys, and perhaps also the Menu key when running XEmacs-gnome-nomule. I wish the following behaviours: -> left-hand Ctrl ke

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 22:54 +0530, Siju George wrote: > Thankyou so much :-) That is good news. > How about JFS's Speed compared to ext3, ReiserFS. XFS etc in your observation? ext3 is fast, but mainly is slower than ReiserFS, JFS and XFS. JFS is very fast. It has some problem when working with

Disk Space Calculation - Some Space missing - Where did it Go?

Hi, Just want to know a little bit about disk space calculation. I have a hard disk of 500 GB as shown here. = websrv-1:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500106813440 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6080

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:54:28PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about JFS's Speed compared to ext3, ReiserFS. XFS etc in your > observation? > I din't try XFS; I forget the sp

Fwd: Etch: XEN domU networking

Are you referring to setting an IP address in DomU's configuration file? If it is so, you don't have to. Although it was present in some HOWTOs, and i believe xen-tools create such configuration files, it is not necessary. You can leave DomU's network configuration to just vif=['bridge=xenbr0'] ,

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:54:28PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about JFS's Speed compared to ext3, ReiserFS. XFS etc in your > observation? > I din't try XFS; I forget the specifics but there seem to have been problems. Even on my

Re: Configuring networked printer

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 16:25 +0100, andy wrote: > Hi all > > OK - have fixed the old issue re: the OOo configuration printing - it > just required me to stop and restart the print server :) > > Next issue - I'm wanting to be able to print from Box B to the USB > printer which is located on Box A

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:58:41PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:52:30PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > >> I got a Server Installed with LVM by a third part

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:58:41PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:52:30PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > >> I got a Server Installed with LVM by a third party. > >> the /var/www is on LV /dev/vg1/www > >> df -h Shows

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:52:30PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > I got a Server Installed with LVM by a third party. > > the /var/www is on LV /dev/vg1/www > > df -h Shows /var/www is only 394 GB > whereas lvdisplay shows /dev/vg1/w

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

Dennis G. Wicks: > > I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > some launchers I had set up are gone. Are you using Gnome? Then it sounds like nautilus either isn't running or has been configured not to manage the desktop any

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > some launchers I had set up are gone. > > I have been searching and

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

On 4/6/07, eklektik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I installed Etch recently, with the help of the good people of this mailing list. Now, it works perfectly, but I hate its look. So I decided that I completely redesign the desktop. Now the work is complete and I wrote a short article in my b

Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. I have been searching and doing diffs to try and locate the problem, but no luck. Too many differences. Also, right-clicking on the desktop does n

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:41:02PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > >> It seems that many guides say to put your windows partition in >> /mnt/windows or /media/windows. That would suggest to me that that is >> the place where ot

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

> The article includes screenshots and original artworks. Do you like > the redesign? You can read the article here. It looks good. I may try it myself. I'm curious about the panels of your xfce setup. In mine, when I installed xfce, there was both a top and bottom panel (it was a while ago th

Re: backup-restore question

Chris Parker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Question being is it possible to restore a backup from a win32 (2003 server) ntfs filesystem via tape onto a linux machine. I want to be able to test our backups to make sure all is restorable. If this is possible how to do it i

Re: Configuring OOo to use printer

On 4/6/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff Zhang wrote: On 4/6/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings all > > I have bought a new printer (Epson Stylus DX6050) and have been able to > configure it fine using CUPS and it prints the test page and also from > text files. The syst

Configuring networked printer

Hi all OK - have fixed the old issue re: the OOo configuration printing - it just required me to stop and restart the print server :) Next issue - I'm wanting to be able to print from Box B to the USB printer which is located on Box A. Box A is 192.168.1.40 I have changed the /etc/cups/cupsd

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:05:52 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 07:53:01AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0

NFS: client cannot read server files

I am using a P3 desktop as the NFS server, which is labeled BDS, and a P2 laptop as the NFS client, which is labeled LAP. Both computers have Etch installed with the latest upgrades. On the server (BDS), the command "exportfs -v" returns the following: /home/ken LAP(rw,async,wdelay,

Re: Configuring OOo to use printer

Jeff Zhang wrote: On 4/6/07, *andy* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Greetings all I have bought a new printer (Epson Stylus DX6050) and have been able to configure it fine using CUPS and it prints the test page and also from text files. The system (E

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:39:47 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:33:39PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:20:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> > No, the media has suspect motives. The Red Cross gen

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:41:02PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > It seems that many guides say to put your windows partition in > /mnt/windows or /media/windows. That would suggest to me that that is > the place where other file systems go. That's where my question stems > from as to why /mnt and /m

Re: why a sound works for output and not for input??

> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:41 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > I was suprised by the sound card on my laptop (Compaq ), it is great > > and run correctly for the output and can hear all audio cd's and audio > > file, but I can't record. > > > > The card is detected correctly same propreties

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS.

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS.

Re: ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 06:52:30PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > I got a Server Installed with LVM by a third party. > > the /var/www is on LV /dev/vg1/www > > df -h Shows /var/www is only 394 GB > whereas lvdisplay shows /dev/vg1/www to be 400 GB > I use JFS for everything, running Etc

Re: Configuring OOo to use printer

On 4/6/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings all I have bought a new printer (Epson Stylus DX6050) and have been able to configure it fine using CUPS and it prints the test page and also from text files. The system (Etch) recognises it as default and all seems fine. But ... OOo still wa

Re: Resolution gets displayed incorrectlly(with nvidia driver)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 redhat penguin wrote: > I've installed the nvidia drivers, reconfigured x server but i get > smushy fonts and overall smushy desktop. > My screens MAX res. is: 1280X800(WXGA) and if i try and use 1280X800 the > whole desktop/picture squeezes together a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:27:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:53:31PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:33:28 -0700, zfh wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> >> > Sorry to break into your offtopic rants, but I can't resist this

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >> This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. > >> (see man hier and the debian policy manual). > >> > >> There are four places

Resolution gets displayed incorrectlly(with nvidia driver)

I've installed the nvidia drivers, reconfigured x server but i get smushy fonts and overall smushy desktop. My screens MAX res. is: 1280X800(WXGA) and if i try and use 1280X800 the whole desktop/picture squeezes together and gets displayed in the middle with about 4 inches of free space left aroun

Configuring OOo to use printer

Greetings all I have bought a new printer (Epson Stylus DX6050) and have been able to configure it fine using CUPS and it prints the test page and also from text files. The system (Etch) recognises it as default and all seems fine. But ... OOo still wants to print to my old (now removed) printe

ext3 Partition 6GB less than underlying logical volume even after resizing using resize2fs

Hi, I got a Server Installed with LVM by a third party. the /var/www is on LV /dev/vg1/www df -h Shows /var/www is only 394 GB whereas lvdisplay shows /dev/vg1/www to be 400 GB == websrv-1:/var/www# df -h Filesystem

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 07:53:01AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > >

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Dist

Re: Reporting a bug (was: fglrx driver problems)

Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On my surprise, today I checked again and saw direct rendering is > enabled. It looks like the problem was reaired in some recent kernel > upgrade, but I didn't notice it yesterday, because two days ago I > uninstalled libgl1-mesa-dri, because it was listed by deborphan.

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manon, This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see man hier and the debian policy manual). The FHS is a policy document about what directories can be where and what they're used for. Thanks Doug. I will do

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