Re: Please help - printing gone after upgrade to Etch

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:34:51AM +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: >> After upgrading to Etch, now printing (DeskJet 840C) is gone. >> Reason: >> % ls -l /dev/lp* >> ls: /dev/lp*: No such file or directory >> There is no more device created by udev. I have turned

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Is there an option I can make a "boot CD" like the boot floppy option > present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of installation? You can use the netinst CD as a rescue disk. Just boot with option 'rescue' or 'rescuegui'. Regards

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

"Martin Marcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > of course I'd like to regain the space that the /usr directory on the > / partition uses. Could I just "telinit 1" umount the /usr mountpoint > empty out the /usr directory remount again and telinit 3 back to > normal? I think you can do it without t

Re: same problem

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:32:58AM -0400, KS wrote: > >>> meh. ctrl-r marks the whole thread as read and puts you at the next > >>> unread mail. thpbtbthth!!! > >>> > >> Icedove/thunderbird: "t" marks the whole thread as read and puts you at > >> the next unread mail. ;) > > > > shift-t .*Katz;d

you may have to reconfigure

You may have to reconfigure the printer. Add the printer in the system setting. make sure the printer is connected and On(Once i struggled why its not detected and the cable was loose!!). In the setting you could select the correct driver and it'll work from then on. After upgrade somehow your ol

i also had the problem

I also had the problem earlier. I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales as root and configured the locale as english and it started working permanently after that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

its there

From what i remember when i installed octave2.1-forge the files got installed without problem and when i ran help command in octave the functions were already available in the list it gave. I think they should be callable out of the box here too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: octave-forge usage?

Miles Bader wrote: Hi, thanks for the response, but I think I'm asking a slightly different question than you answered. I know how to use octave generally, but I want to use some of the specialized functions which are distributed in the "octave-forge" package in debian (actually "octave2.9-forge

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 22:38 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 5/3/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > Also It's not only compiler optimizations what you get from source > > > base distros, it's dependencies control. > > > > Dependency controls... like what apt or aptitude does

Re: Activating gnome-screensaver from /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > So you have to somehow get that variable out of your X session, maybe > by putting that set | grep command at the end of your .xinitrc or > whatever you use to launch X. and then you've got to somehow export > that variable so that the gnome-screensaver-command can ac

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:18:37AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 21:44 -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > > Gentlefolk: > > > >The discussion of `stable' vs. `etch' vs. `lenny' > > vs. ... got me to thinking. Is there any reason to offer > > `stable' as an entry in sources.list? I

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >So, my modest suggestion is that `stable' as a name > should be eradicated. Roughly no downside, only closer > adherence to the principle of least astonishment. If you remove 'stable', then you kind of have to remove 'testing' too. Otherwise, people who

Re: Re: Problem with xmms on debian etch 4.0 stable

> On 5/3/07, Vidyadhar Gadgil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With XMMS 1:1.2.10+20061 installed on debian etch 4.0 stable, the menu > display does not show up properly after right-clicking, the items > cannot > be read. I don't think this is a problem with xmms per se, probab

Re: problums gtng speeling chucker to wrok wit AbiWord

Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:35 +0800, Bob wrote: 8< snip run sid dude, you know you want it. Yeah, not man enough for Sid as my DTE, hell, I'm not even man enough for Lenny yet, I'll give it a month or two. Bawk, bawk. I've been running SID for years. I just don't ha

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:39 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/4/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Questions for you: > > > > 1. Please describe you model and make of Motherboard, hard > drive > > controllers, video cards and if you are using 1 or more hard > > drives.

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

On 5/3/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Also It's not only compiler optimizations what you get from source > base distros, it's dependencies control. Dependency controls... like what apt or aptitude does? > There are things one might compile against, that others might think as

Re: Activating gnome-screensaver from /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > it is possible... I just did it!! > > I wanted to see if I could figure this out as a way to help learn > about environments. The key here is that you've got no > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS defined. And you've got to get the right > one. Here's how I hacked it. > > fr

Re: same problem

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:00:19PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: >> On 05/03/2007 01:43 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:10:22PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > ack! >

Re: debian way to start firewall

On Thu, 03 May 2007 17:30:47 -0700, Tom Furie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:04:53AM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote: You might as well put some iptables-restore at the endo of the "up" of each interface in /etc/network/interfaces. This lets you control your firewall per

Re: Please help - printing gone after upgrade to Etch

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:34:51AM +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > After upgrading to Etch, now printing (DeskJet 840C) is gone. > Reason: > % ls -l /dev/lp* > ls: /dev/lp*: No such file or directory > There is no more device created by udev. I have turned off and on, but to no > avail. > Ye

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap [SOLVED]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:09:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 00:41:32 +0100, David Claughton wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > I am afraid it is time to start grasping at straws now: > > >> - try "gb" instead of "uk" for XkbLay

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 21:44 -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > Gentlefolk: > >The discussion of `stable' vs. `etch' vs. `lenny' > vs. ... got me to thinking. Is there any reason to offer > `stable' as an entry in sources.list? Its drawback seems to > be: > > o Every so often `stable' whacks you w

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

On 5/4/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Questions for you: 1. Please describe you model and make of Motherboard, hard drive controllers, video cards and if you are using 1 or more hard drives. 2. One the off chance, did you let the installer install grub on

Re: same problem

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:00:19PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 05/03/2007 01:43 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:10:22PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> ack! > >>> mutt... :-) > >> Evolution! Exce

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap [SOLVED]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:09:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 00:41:32 +0100, David Claughton wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > I am afraid it is time to start grasping at straws now: > >> - try "gb" instead of "uk" for XkbLayout > > > > Well, would you believe it

Re: Activating gnome-screensaver from /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:32:02AM +0200, Marcus Libäck wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to activate gnome-screensaver from /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh so > that the screen is locked when I resume the laptop. With xscreensaver it just > seems to be a matter of running something like: > # su $user -c "xscr

Re: Not solved)Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:13:09PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > Oh, I use sarge, which defaults to kernel 2.4 > It seems I can't use initramfs I *think* mkinitrd is what you want but I'm really not sure. try apropos initrd A > > --- Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Serena Cantor([

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:10 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Hello, > > I tried Etch netinstall and after rebooting, I do not get a grub menu. > Even XP seems to be gone even though I booted using knoppix and the > partition was alright, except the NTLDR was missing. So had to recover > using the XP CD. >

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:44:10PM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: >Gentlefolk: > >The discussion of `stable' vs. `etch' vs. `lenny' > vs. ... got me to thinking. Is there any reason to offer > `stable' as an entry in sources.list? Its drawback seems to > be: > > o Every so often `stable' wh

How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

Hello, I tried Etch netinstall and after rebooting, I do not get a grub menu. Even XP seems to be gone even though I booted using knoppix and the partition was alright, except the NTLDR was missing. So had to recover using the XP CD. I have tried thsi twice and still after the reboot of Etch net

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:10 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> For every report of "Woot! Compiling from source kicks butt. Why > didn't > >> I do this earlier", I can find 1 that disagrees with you and 1 that > says > >> "maybe it is worth it for max performance, but WOW, 196 hours to > get a > >>

Please help - printing gone after upgrade to Etch

After upgrading to Etch, now printing (DeskJet 840C) is gone. Reason: % ls -l /dev/lp* ls: /dev/lp*: No such file or directory There is no more device created by udev. I have turned off and on, but to no avail. Yes, the printer is found (dmesg): parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-styl

SATA issues with Albatron KX600S motherboard and debian etch

Hi There, We have a Albatron KX600S motherboard with a single IDE 40GB drive (with debian etch installed) and 2 x 200GB SATA (was going to software RAID 1 these). But we cant see /dev/sda or /dev/sdb and get the below in the dmesg. Any thoughts/tips/pointers on how to get these working? Thanks! S

A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

With a brand new ATI board I have found that I need to go outside the latest kernel (2.6.21) to get the driver for the LAN chip (an RTL 8111). It is available, but not in anyone's package, of course. Is there a generic way that I can set it up under /usr/src/modules and have it compile as a deb pa

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

Gentlefolk: The discussion of `stable' vs. `etch' vs. `lenny' vs. ... got me to thinking. Is there any reason to offer `stable' as an entry in sources.list? Its drawback seems to be: o Every so often `stable' whacks you with about seventeen million updates, with the chance that

Re: sid: nVidia fails with x.org (SOLVED)

El Dimecres 02 Maig 2007, Ron Johnson va escriure: > Hmmm, wait.  Did the nvidia module get reloaded, or are you now > running with the nv driver? No, I'm running nvidia module: $ lsmod |grep -i nvidia nvidia 6835988 22 agpgart29896 2 nvidia,intel_agp i2c_core

Re: octave-forge usage?

Hi, thanks for the response, but I think I'm asking a slightly different question than you answered. I know how to use octave generally, but I want to use some of the specialized functions which are distributed in the "octave-forge" package in debian (actually "octave2.9-forge" I think). When tha

Re: debian way to start firewall

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:04:53AM -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > You might as well put some iptables-restore at the endo of the "up" > of each interface in /etc/network/interfaces. This lets you control > your firewall per interface and have only the needed rules alive. Wouldn't you be better

(3rd Not solved) how to remove a module in the boot process

I have never used etch upgrade means learning new things I don't have time and energy I am happy with sarge --- Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:43:09PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > can't run update-initramfs > > which package contains it? > > I see

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

Florian Kulzer wrote: I think I understand now why it did not work: There is more to this keysym business than what meets the eye ... [snipped very informative explanation] Great work, Florian! I always find it fascinating when I get a glimpse into how something works "under the covers".

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:29:47PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:10:23PM +0100, Andrew Lindley wrote: > > I have 2 machines running Woody and not enough desk space for both > > screens and keyboards. I'd like to be able to run X sessions on both > > machines from o

Re: looking for mac-to-linux backup recommendations - thanks!

Thanks to all for suggestions re. backup options - still not sure which one I'll use. FYI: Peter, I'm using SuperDuper already, for local cloning - works like a charm. Used to use CarbonCopyCloner (free), but SuperDuper is a bit more polished, and for thirty bucks, what the heck. Miles

Activating gnome-screensaver from /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh

Hello, I'm trying to activate gnome-screensaver from /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh so that the screen is locked when I resume the laptop. With xscreensaver it just seems to be a matter of running something like: # su $user -c "xscreensaver-command -lock" But with the gnome-screensaver equivalence I get t

Re: Not solved)Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:13:09PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > Oh, I use sarge, which defaults to kernel 2.4 > It seems I can't use initramfs If ever you want to upgrade to Etch, the release notes make it pretty clear that you first must upgrade Sarge to a 2.6 kernel. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Not solved)Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:43:09PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > can't run update-initramfs > which package contains it? I see that you use Sarge. I don't have a sarge system anymore and the initrd program has changed. Is upgrading to Etch a possibility for this box? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Not solved)Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

Oh, I use sarge, which defaults to kernel 2.4 It seems I can't use initramfs --- Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > can't run update-initramfs > > which package contains it? > > > > maybe the initramfs-tools package > > Descri

Re: Not solved)Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

Serena Cantor([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > can't run update-initramfs > which package contains it? > maybe the initramfs-tools package Description: tools for generating an initramfs This package contains tools to create and boot an initramfs for packaged 2.6 Linux kernel. The

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snip] I did some more narrowing down. The problem was almost certainly with LDAP. Our LDAP server was heavily overloaded (19! Never seen a 15-minute load average that high before...) because we had an index on the wrong key (uid instead of uidNumber, and all

Kernel panic on Unload Xserver-xorg with driver i810

It happens only with AMD64 port, before I was using x86 port and all work great, I have an EMT64 capable processor and runs debian great, all services work fine except xserver-xorg with driver i810, let me say that the error is just when unloading X, before that I can reach my desktop, use the Ren

Not solved)Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

can't run update-initramfs which package contains it? --- Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:20:54AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/03/07 02:49, Serena Cantor wrote: > > > I think aic7xxx is not loaded in the same way as other modules. > > > Usually,

(Not solved)Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

I can't find /etc/initramfs-tools/, it does not exist. I use sarge, do you use etch? I have /etc/mkinitrd/modules, aic7xxx is not listed, no modules is listed Thanks anyway! PS: in lilo.conf I find initrd.img, no aic7xxx --- Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 200

Re: Problem with xmms on debian etch 4.0 stable

On 5/3/07, Vidyadhar Gadgil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With XMMS 1:1.2.10+20061 installed on debian etch 4.0 stable, the menu display does not show up properly after right-clicking, the items cannot be read. I don't think this is a problem with xmms per se, probably with gtk? Anyway, I am not sur

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:55:49AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > >On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: > >>I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. > >>The setup is as follows: > >> > >>/home is nfs-mounte

Re: where is the w32codecs for amd64 testing?

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:14:47PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:56:36PM +0200, Raphael wrote: > > Dear Users, > > > > The last time I googled a lot for w32codecs-package for mplayer. But, I > > can't find them for amd64 system (debian testing). > > > > Is it stil

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Hello everyone, I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. The setup is as follows: /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD box nsswitch is set to use LDAP for passwd, shadow, a

Re: same problem

On 05/03/2007 01:43 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:10:22PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> ack! >>> mutt... :-) >> Evolution! Except I just use my clicky-pointy thinger on the little >> triangle in fron

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 19:47:44 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:27:35AM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 00:49:38 +0100, David Claughton wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > >> I would experiment like this: > > >> xmodmap -e 'keycode 67 = F1 F13 XF

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap [SOLVED]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 00:41:32 +0100, David Claughton wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I am afraid it is time to start grasping at straws now: >> - try "gb" instead of "uk" for XkbLayout > > Well, would you believe it - that fixed the problem! > > I still can't quite believe it was as simple a

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

On Thu, 3 May 2007 11:24:56 -0400 "Jan Sneep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: May 3, 2007 10:44 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list > > > > m

Re: How to cross compile Debian -> Windows ???

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:57:41PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > 1 program, multiple platforms? Well some things (like ghostscript) have different makefiles for different OSs, but shared code. Some use configure to try to detect a billion parameters and work everything out based on that. Eit

Re: try vlc player instead

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:54:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Incidentally, the posts coming from that forum also > > break threading so that mail programs do not properly group the > > Eh, the threading is fine, it's a followup to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> indeed. my

Re: same problem

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:10:22PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > ack! > > mutt... :-) > > Evolution! Except I just use my clicky-pointy thinger on the little > triangle in front of the root of the thread. Then I just get one l

Re: [UNVERIFIED SENDER] RE: To Where have smbpassd's contents moved?

On 4/27/07, Jeff Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe you are looking for /var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb ? That was it; thanks! -- Kent West *Westing Peacefully *

Re: same problem

On Thu, 03 May 2007 12:10:22 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:18:04AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > > > After spending a few months on this list, I have to say I really hate > > > web

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

For every report of "Woot! Compiling from source kicks butt. Why didn't I do this earlier", I can find 1 that disagrees with you and 1 that says "maybe it is worth it for max performance, but WOW, 196 hours to get a workable complete system, I'm not so sure" ... The reason I say this, is even if

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

On 5/3/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.03.1434 +0200]: > > Exactly my opinion too, i was more interested in hearing why I would > > wan't stable instead of the hardcoded name. I just can't think of any > > r

Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

Ron Johnson schrieb: > Check out the /etc/modutils directory, and /etc/modules.conf. Here it's /etc/modules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to cross compile Debian -> Windows ???

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:32:54PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Do you have a better (==simpler) sollution? Depends what you are actually trying to do. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

Biggest contenders for optimisation are the kernel and libc. Most applications are mainly a series of calls to these two so won't directly benefit from by being compiled with *magical* flags. Debian supply both optimised kernels and to a lesser degree optimised libc packages. Use of SIMD extensi

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.03.1434 +0200]: > > Exactly my opinion too, i was more interested in hearing why I would > > wan't stable instead of the hardcoded name. I just can't think of any > > reason to do that and practically have really use f

Re: How to cross compile Debian -> Windows ???

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:54 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:32:54PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > Do you have a better (==simpler) sollution? > > Depends what you are actually trying to do. 1 program, multiple platforms? -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.

Re: try vlc player instead

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Incidentally, the posts coming from that forum also > break threading so that mail programs do not properly group the Eh, the threading is fine, it's a followup to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In mutt: 0 May 01 Douglas Allan T +-> 0 May 03 hildebrand_us +->tr

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:54:10AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: On 5/3/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Somewhere in the debian documentation is a warning that after going to single-user mode a return to multi-user is not guaranteed to work. too bad

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Sneep wrote: [snip] > > I just check my sources.list file and interestingly the default when doing a > clean NetInst is to point to the Etch folders on the miror site, not > "stable". > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:59 +0100, yag wrote: >> Hi >> >> I would like to know whether installing from source rather than >> from the repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or >> something else. I didn't notice a

RE: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 3, 2007 11:54 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list > > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:24:56AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > > > > > > -Original Mess

Re: where is the w32codecs for amd64 testing?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/07 16:56, Wackojacko wrote: [snip] I am able to play most file formats on amd64 OS, including WMV-HD, with mplayer. S... what *can't* you play? Well I haven't actually found anything I can't play lately, but then

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:59 +0100, yag wrote: > Hi > > I would like to know whether installing from source rather than > from the repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or > something else. I didn't notice any difference when comparing > mplayer's behavior, although compiling it

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

On 5/3/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe writes: > Sure, you can compile things yourself, but then you have to do all the > dependency checking yourself Download the Debian source package. Run 'apt-get build-dep ' to install the build dependencies. Edit the source to taste. Edit

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

Joe writes: > Sure, you can compile things yourself, but then you have to do all the > dependency checking yourself Download the Debian source package. Run 'apt-get build-dep ' to install the build dependencies. Edit the source to taste. Edit debian/changelog and up the version number. Run 'dp

Re: How to cross compile Debian -> Windows ???

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 18:02 +0200, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Why are you using configure? autoconf may be useful at times but it > isn't a magical cure to all porting issues. Do you have a better (==simpler) sollution? -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmege

Re: how to remove a module in the boot process

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 02:16 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/03/07 02:05, Serena Cantor wrote: > > I install sarge on a scsi disk that use aic7xxx module > > then I change scsi card, but aic7xxx still probes during boot > > how to remove aic7xxx from boot? > > Check out the /etc/modutils director

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:10:23PM +0100, Andrew Lindley wrote: > I have 2 machines running Woody and not enough desk space for both > screens and keyboards. I'd like to be able to run X sessions on both > machines from only one of the machines. When I ran SuSE I could use > xhost + to allow re

Re: ibm T40 and xorg.conf SOLVED

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:59:53PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > As far as problems with device nodes go: udev is the usual suspect. To Yes, you were absolutely correct Florian: apt-get install udev* did the trick. > dpkg -l xfont\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' Correct once agai

Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:45 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070503 08:21]: > > > I was wondering if it would be possible to configure the mouse pointer > > to disappear when not in use. I know I can just move it out of the way > > into a corner somewhere, not a

Re: How to cross compile Debian -> Windows ???

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:07:44AM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > I have written a small "Hello world" program that I want to cross > compile from Debian to Windows using the Mingw32 package. I can run > "configure" both on Debian and on Windows without problem. > > Can anyone give me the corre

Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

On 2007-05-03, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just install unclutter and run it after logging in. How to do the latter > automatically depends on your WM / desktop environment. And believe me, > when you are used to this behaviour, it /becomes/ a burning issue when > it's not availabl

Re: same problem

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:18:04AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > how apropos this all is. I've sent a nice little feedback to the > > > debianhelp.org folks. I pointed out that they were causing

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

"Martin Marcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you generally use stable in your sources.list or do you actually > use sarge/etch/whatever. I usually use the code names, mostly because lately when I have installed a new system, the testing distro had gotten far enought hat I feel comfortable ru

Re: what's with epiphany?

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:50:43PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Man, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Epiphany. Very frequently, when I visit http://www.thestar.com, and click a news link, it crashes. What is up with that? After the initial crash, it's usually fine, b

Re: ps Start time oddness

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:44:21AM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2007 08:20, Robert Waldner wrote: > > I have one machine (i386, up-to-date Etch) that always displays the > > "Start" time in ps as 13 minutes (invariably) in the past, eg: > > > > qusrv02:~# hwclock --systohc > >

Re: problums gtng speeling chucker to wrok wit AbiWord

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:14:50AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:54:34AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:50:58AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > > Bawk, bawk. I've been running SID for years. I just don't have problems. > > >

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:24:56AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: May 3, 2007 10:44 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list > > > > mildly humorous

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

On Thu, 3 May 2007 11:24:56 -0400 "Jan Sneep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a NetInstall CD of Sarge that I made in January and when I did > the update last week I lost everything. I found I couldn't use that > CD it get Etch installed. It would crap-out because it was trying to > replace the

Re: kernel recompile compile

Kushal Kumaran wrote: On 5/2/07, Andrew Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone tell me how to, or point me to a good website that tells you how to recompile/compile a kernel? The normal way? and the debian way? I need to be able to add and remove built in modules of the kernel such

Re: ps Start time oddness

On Thursday 03 May 2007 08:20, Robert Waldner wrote: > I have one machine (i386, up-to-date Etch) that always displays the > "Start" time in ps as 13 minutes (invariably) in the past, eg: > > qusrv02:~# hwclock --systohc > qusrv02:~# date > Thu May 3 12:42:02 CEST 2007 > qusrv02:~# ps auxw |grep

Re: ssh-keygen

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:16:23AM -0400, KS wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:40 -0400, KS wrote: The warning had following in it, is the :3 in the end the line number? Add correct host key in /home/foobar/.ssh/known_hosts to get

Re: Gnome Evolution in etch and sarge

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:02 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/03/07 09:33, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Greg > > > > Thank you for your answer > > > > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 15:17 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 17:01 -03

RE: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 3, 2007 10:44 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list > > mildly humorous to think someone could be *surprised* by a debian > release ;-O. Actually I

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:47:16PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > yag wrote: > > Hi > > > > I would like to know whether installing from source rather than from the > > repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or something > > else. I didn't notice any difference when comparing mplayer's b

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