alsactl restore failed ...

2007-05-06 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I just did apt-get update and upgrade (unstable) and now I get this message at boot: Setting up ALSA ... warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'alsactl: load_state: 1327: no souncards found ...' ... done What can I do to solve this problem ? tia -- Gérard

Re: (solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Serena Cantor wrote: > Thank you for your efforts! > I convert it to pdf with ps2pdf, then open it with Adobe Reader of Windows, > it's fine. Please don't top post on this list. It seems to me that reverting to using windows to view Unix documents i

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: >> > On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, De

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-06 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (l

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wood wrote: > I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. > > My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx > driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full > 1680*1050 resolution

RE: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
Now here is the weird thing ... I did a Gnome -> Places -> Find Files searching for ppd thinking that if there is an existing folder I should use it ... well along with a few other files it found in the /usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/linuxpriting.org-gs-builtin/Samsung folder a file called Samsung-ML-

Re: Fixed fonts in Debian

2007-05-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Spam detection software, running on the system "mouse.travisbsd.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see [EMAIL PROTECTED] for detai

Re: reporting problems with unstable

2007-05-06 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Arnfinn Ringvold wrote: > Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such > problems and would only be unnececarily bothered by regular users > sending in reports? Anybody can report bugs. I have always found that developers/maintainers are excited to receive bug reports and fix them. Bugs

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's > >> and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get a

Re: getting à Tn B "loopi" puppet cam to work?

2007-05-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 12:27:08PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > running through a store i came across that webcam disguised as a > dog-puppet (http://www.t-nb.com)... and bought it without much thinking > about drivers... > > now at home i would like to get it working, but alas i ca

Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-06 Thread Tim Wood
I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full 1680*1050 resolution. The problem now as reported in Xorg.0.log: (II) Module fglrx: vend

moto4lin & my razr v3

2007-05-06 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
hey, i'm having some trouble accessing my new motorola razr v3 on my debian etch system. i'm using moto4lin & i can get to the point where the phone is seen as p2k, but then i get all of this crap: [error] Unable to get phone model [error] Unable to get drive name [error] Unable to get f

(solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-06 Thread Serena Cantor
Thank you for your efforts! I convert it to pdf with ps2pdf, then open it with Adobe Reader of Windows, it's fine. --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 15:10 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > I have sarge and gv, I find tutorial below is useful: > > > > http://www.i

Beryl on Etch / Nvidia Geforce FX 5200

2007-05-06 Thread David E. Fox
A friend of mine was kind enough to gift me an nvidia Geforce 5200 (128 megs) for my old athlon 1000 system. I'm currently running etch. Following the beryl wiki, I got the packages from their repository, installed them, and beryl sort of works. By sort of, I can get some of the screen effects to

Re: usb/cups printer problem

2007-05-06 Thread slvr00gt
I have exactly the same problem. I tried your suggestion and changed lp0 to lp2 ( in my case printer is attached to device number 2). It didn't help at all. Same "printer not connected" message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-06 Thread David Claughton
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from For example? - These are *big*corps* with 1000s of users/customers. If it were a problem on their side I think they would have found and fixed it by now. I wouldn't be so sure about that. Of

Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 15:10 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have sarge and gv, I find tutorial below is useful: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/unix-tutorials/courses/unix.ps > > however, it can't be displayed properly by gv > > what's the problem? It doesn't display properly in a few view

why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-06 Thread Serena Cantor
I have sarge and gv, I find tutorial below is useful: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/unix-tutorials/courses/unix.ps however, it can't be displayed properly by gv what's the problem? Don't pick lemons. See

RE: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-06 Thread Jan Sneep
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Grieveson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 5, 2007 7:41 PM > To: debian-user > Subject: Re: How do I setup printer? > > The easiest way to set up a printer is to install the package > printconf, and then run it. It's a similar utility to alsaconf (tha

Re: Recent upgrade killed matlab [and everything java related]

2007-05-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 6 May 2007 10:24:09 -0600 "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 01:58:49 Micha Feigin wrote: > > Recent upgrades of sid killed matlab 7 (sp2) for me. When I try to start > > it with the jvm active (gui) I get the error: > > > > MATLAB: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 6 May 2007 19:11:34 +0530 "Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's > > > and yahoo.com's) and w

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 08:57:17PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > - I *am* running Iceweasel/FireFox. > > > > - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed > > them from, and have done so for weeks, months, and years. It has > > to be a problem with Debian, I

Re: Fixed fonts in Debian

2007-05-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 08:44:36PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> I am currently using Etch, and loving it. However, my query is related >> to monospace fonts in Debian. >> >> The release of Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty has prompted some of my >> friends to move from F

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:27:26PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > I mounted (read-only) some of the virtual volumes, to see if the data is > still there... it seems as if there is some 'offset' on the file system, > i.e. > when looking at some file it contains stuff that should be in a completely > d

Re: Fixed fonts in Debian

2007-05-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 08:44:36PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I am currently using Etch, and loving it. However, my query is related > to monospace fonts in Debian. > > The release of Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty has prompted some of my > friends to move from Fedora Core to Debian and Ubuntu.

Re: From "Etch" to Testing ("Lenny")

2007-05-06 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/6/07, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The reason I am using the 2.6.11 one is that udev seems to be inconsistant with the ordering of devices in /dev/video on bootup. Kernel 2.6.11 (no udev) sets my TV card as /dev/video0, and the webcam as /dev/video1. Booting with the 2.6.17 ker

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 12:57:23PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:38 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > Samba and NFS are two different protocols for the same stuff and can be > > used independently. If you need to access the server from XP then you > > definitely need Sam

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I appreciate the help and the effort, but come on people! > > - I *am* running Iceweasel/FireFox. > > - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed > them from, and have done so for weeks, months, and years.

Re: From "Etch" to Testing ("Lenny")

2007-05-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 06 May 2007 18:28, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:07:53 andy wrote: > > Has anyone any experience yet in changing their sources.list from "etch" > > (back) to "testing" (i.e. "Lenny")? If so, has it been a smooth > > transition, any problems or gotchas? > > > > I su

Re: Problems in installing Windows in VMWare 5.5 on debian

2007-05-06 Thread Jan Schledermann
Liao Xuefeng wrote: > Hi, > I have installed vmware workstation 5.5 in debian etch r0, but it has > problems in installing windows xp. some files cannot be found in CD-ROM or > ISO (both I have tried). Anybody who installed windows successfully in > vmware on Linux? > > Yours > sincerely. >

Re: %20MATLAB: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock'failed.

2007-05-06 Thread Micha Feigin
I was hopeful but it didn't solve the problem, thanks anyway (assuming I don't need to do it before X starts) It seems to be something with the java awt actually and should be corrected by either sun or x.org I haven't managed to figure out which from google. running matlab as matlab -nodesktop -

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I appreciate the help and the effort, but come on people! - I *am* running Iceweasel/FireFox. - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from, and have done so for weeks, months, and years. It has to be a problem with Debian, Iceweasel, their implementation of JavaScri

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread David Fuchs
I mounted (read-only) some of the virtual volumes, to see if the data is still there... it seems as if there is some 'offset' on the file system, i.e. when looking at some file it contains stuff that should be in a completely different file... or it tells me attempt to access beyond end of device.

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:38 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:41:47PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > > So before I start really getting to far into this, can I get sharing > > going on my home network with just samba or do I also need NFS? I want > > to be able to re

Re: Debian policy on copyright

2007-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:40:58 Joey Hess wrote: > Another way to look at this problem is the question of whether this > program violates copyright: > > for int x in 0 .. inf; do print x; done > > I claim that it does not, even though it will eventually output the > HD-DVD key, and much later, th

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 09:38:44AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:41:47PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > > So before I start really getting to far into this, can I get sharing > > going on my home network with just samba or do I also need NFS? I want > > to be abl

Re: From "Etch" to Testing ("Lenny")

2007-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:07:53 andy wrote: > Has anyone any experience yet in changing their sources.list from "etch" > (back) to "testing" (i.e. "Lenny")? If so, has it been a smooth > transition, any problems or gotchas? > > I suppose, more generally, when is a good time to switch if one wants a

Re: OOo-Base

2007-05-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Hi, > > On 5/6/07, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Man, I just tried OOo-Base, and it stinks. I used to use Lotus > > > Approach, and it was great. > > > I can't even cut and paste the table entries into Calc. I try > > > printing the forms, and it only prints half. >

Re: Recent upgrade killed matlab

2007-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 01:58:49 Micha Feigin wrote: > Recent upgrades of sid killed matlab 7 (sp2) for me. When I try to start > it with the jvm active (gui) I get the error: > > MATLAB: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed. > Aborted > > Any idea what this is, is it solv

Re: tv-out, nvidia

2007-05-06 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 30/04/07 20:59, wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 20:33:27 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Don Hayward on 26/04/07 16:25, wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: I've got a hot nvidia 7950GT GPU which is supported by nvidia's latest driver 1.0-9755. It's running with a TV in my l

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread David Fuchs
thanks for the help. here's what I did: I booted single-user with init=/bin/sh, and md0 mounted read-only. everything works so far, I get to the shell w/o any errors. at this point, md1 is not started but I can start it with mdadm -A --auto=yes /dev/md1. mdadm -D /dev/md{0,1} shows state: clean

[Solved] Re: tv-out, nvidia, nvtv etc

2007-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 04:38:12PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > >Are you sure you can feed S-Video to that input? On my TV there are two > >SCARTs in the back but only one of them works with S-Video and I also > >have to switch with the remote to SVHS2 and not AV2 (which only gives > >BW). Read your

Re: tv-out, nvidia, nvtv etc

2007-05-06 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrei Popescu on 01/05/07 19:42, wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:17:20PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: So far I've got a black-and-white picture, no colour, and the picture's too big for the screen, so I lose the top and bottom edges. I suspect the no-colour problem may be due to the cabling -

Fixed fonts in Debian

2007-05-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Users, I am currently using Etch, and loving it. However, my query is related to monospace fonts in Debian. The release of Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty has prompted some of my friends to move from Fedora Core to Debian and Ubuntu. Everything seems smooth, but one friends doesn't like

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-06 Thread John Hasler
Deboo writes: > Now I changed the mode of the /etc/resolv.conf to not writable by even > root and made it unmutable and still it's hapenning. Who is changing the > nameserver to 192.168.0.1 and how? Do you have resolvconf installed? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-05-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> somethin2coolwrote: > > I seem to be mising some basic features (like search). On 28.04.07 18:25, Amy Templeton wrote: > Is slocate installed? If so, it's invoked with "locate > somestring" (minus the quotes). Otherwise, you can probably > use "find," invoked in the same way. afaik, findutils c

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 03:25:02PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > I have just upgraded my sarge system to etch, following exactly the upgrade > instructions at http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/. > > now my system does not boot correctly anymore... I'm using RAID1 with two > d

Re: AMD 64 DVD Installer for Debian Lenny Hangs

2007-05-06 Thread Wackojacko
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:31:03PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: I've tried both the DVD installer for AMD 64 and the i386 CD installer for Debian Lenny. The installer hangs in the same spot with both media installation types. The installer hangs after this message is printed to the screen:

Re: debian verizon.net and smtp

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 04:04:50PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 05/05/2007 02:55 AM, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > I am a subscriber to verizon dsl and I choose yahoo as my email > > provider. I use fetchmail to getmail and exim4 to send mail. I use mutt >

Re: MATLAB: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:44:16PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Since a recent upgrade to sid I've started getting this error whenever I try > to > startup matlab. This seems to come from the java environment since disabling > java removes the error (

Re: running an MSExcel add-in under linux spreadsheet.....

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:58:53AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists > > Does anyone know if there is a way to run a MIcrosoft Excel add-in outside > MSExcel? Is there any software like OpenOffice or even gnucash that can > read in

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-06 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's > and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. is that by ip address or by name? Well it should

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-05-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 12:33:44PM +0300, Yuriy Padlyak wrote: > Thank you for your reply. Looks like you're suggesting installation, but > I have Etch 4.0 installed already. Wondering if it's possible to put > existent /boot on ext3 partition and LVM volume group on RAID1. Or > possibly it will

mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

2007-05-06 Thread David Fuchs
hi all, I have just upgraded my sarge system to etch, following exactly the upgrade instructions at http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/. now my system does not boot correctly anymore... I'm using RAID1 with two disks, / is on md0 and all other mounts (/home/, /var, /usr et

Re: Sid and Xorg

2007-05-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:12:25AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> OK did it all, driver is now intel, sync rates commented out and all >> sub-sections display removed. >> >> Xrandr now reports the proper number of v

Re:%20MATLAB: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock'failed.

2007-05-06 Thread Waqar Malik
Most probably this error needs to be updated by Mathworks. Meanwhile, before starting matlab, set the following variable. It will allow you to work with matlab. export LIBXCB_SLOPPY_LOCK="1" Regards. Waqar Malik http://people.tamu.edu/~waqar_am -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysinfo -ram

2007-05-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On 04/27/07 15:37, somethin2cool wrote: > > bash: dmidecode: command not found > > > > and apt-get install dmidecode is not found > > > > Synaptic says the package is installed On 27.04.07 16:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > That just means that it's not visible to non-privileged users. it's probably

getting à Tn B "loopi" puppet cam to work?

2007-05-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! running through a store i came across that webcam disguised as a dog-puppet (http://www.t-nb.com)... and bought it without much thinking about drivers... now at home i would like to get it working, but alas i can't get anything out of it... in the syslog i only see that some device was at

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-05-06 Thread Yuriy Padlyak
Thank you for your reply. Looks like you're suggesting installation, but I have Etch 4.0 installed already. Wondering if it's possible to put existent /boot on ext3 partition and LVM volume group on RAID1. Or possibly it will be easier to reinstall and restore configuration. Douglas Allan Tutt

Re: Epiphany error

2007-05-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 20:59:46 -0300, J. Pablo Fernández wrote: >Hello, >I am getting this warning message from Epiphany very often: > >"Epiphany could not connect to the session message bus. Your default >settings will not be available." > >When I start to get it I get it for the whole session.