Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread Serena Cantor
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks! > > in etch, it is auto-configed > > > > Now I want to config it in sarge. I enter > > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > > > but I don't know which mouse option I should select.

2.6.18-4-686 broke 8139too

2007-05-12 Thread Adrian Levi
After an upgrade from Sarge networking no linger works. I can see no reason for it. I have attached lspci -vvv, dmesg, and ifconfig eth0 and /proc/interrupts for both kernels 2.6.8-2-686 works perfectly. Error message is: May 13 13:12:39 earth kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x4

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread Kent West
On 5/13/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks! in etch, it is auto-configed Now I want to config it in sarge. I enter dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 but I don't know which mouse option I should select. and which kernel module I should load? In a text-mode VT, try the comm

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! in etch, it is auto-configed Now I want to config it in sarge. I enter dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 but I don't know which mouse option I should select. and which kernel module I should load? --- heba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/5/13, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >

Re: how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread heba
2007/5/13, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have just bought a new mouse. It's USB optical how to change the lines in XF86Config-4? Thanks! with this shell command: dpkg-reconfigure and change the mouse configuration. regard, heba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

how to specify optical USB mouse in XF86Config-4

2007-05-12 Thread Serena Cantor
I have just bought a new mouse. It's USB optical how to change the lines in XF86Config-4? Thanks! You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:02:20AM +, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 2007-05-13, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I like aptitude and have it installed too but it doesn't show packages > > which apt-cache search readily does and shows longer lists than > > apt

Re: etch - X doesn't start, video mode not supported

2007-05-12 Thread Tim Johnson
On Sunday 13 May 2007 03:39, Kent West wrote: > If the problem is related to your xorg.conf settings as implied above, then > the problem is that X is overdriving your monitor, meaning that X did > indeed start. Aha! > If X did not start, then you would've been in text mode, in which case it's

Re: etch - X doesn't start, video mode not supported

2007-05-12 Thread Kent West
On 5/12/07, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 01:59, Kent West wrote: > > You might should've tried Ctrl-Alt-PgUp to cycle through the available > > modes. The Installation offered video mode in a checkbox fashion (I.E. multiple selections) and I *thought* I was on

Re: Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 5/12/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:26:09AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi, all: > > I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at > one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs > w

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-13, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like aptitude and have it installed too but it doesn't show packages > which apt-cache search readily does and shows longer lists than > aptitude at times. That's surprising, since I thought aptitude was built around the apt stuff. Which pack

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-13, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (fortunately, > I can jump the mouse around using keybindings in stumpwm (providing > I'm not ripping a backup of some of my music off of a CD or doing > some other resource-intensive task), but unfortunately can't make > it click from the k

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread H.S.
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 17:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: Hello, If I try to enlarge the fonts (CTRL+Wheel) in iceape of this website: http://gallery.menalto.com/ the menus, or those little gray background windows, on the right hand jump into the middle of the page after a few magnif

Re: etch - X doesn't start, video mode not supported

2007-05-12 Thread Tim Johnson
Hi Kent: On Sunday 13 May 2007 01:59, Kent West wrote: > > You might should've tried Ctrl-Alt-PgUp to cycle through the available > > modes. The Installation offered video mode in a checkbox fashion (I.E. multiple selections) and I *thought* I was on a different monitor and picked as the high

Re: 32 & 54 bit shared libraries -- how to?

2007-05-12 Thread stevem
On Friday 11 May 2007, Joe Hart wrote: > While the 64-bit processors can run 32 bit code, the way it works, AFAIK > will not allow one to mix 32 bit code and 64 bit code in the same > userspace. That is why 32 bit libraries don't work. They work fine if > the program that is calling them is 32 bi

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/12/2007 05:56 PM, Stephen Cormier wrote: [...] without the links it does not list my newest kernel in the grub splash screen first so I would have to select it manually instead of getting to boot into it without an action on my part. Stephen /boot/grub/menu.lst has a "default" option

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > > > I'd have her hide for using .docs anyway - if the documents > > aren't all readable text-only (with a screen reader for the > > blind/visually impaired or any other appropriate techn

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread John Hasler
Amy writes: > By "decoders" I mean things like antiword that remove all the nasty > binary blobs and leave the ASCII text. Format converters. > Does the new version of M$-Word include some sort of code for embedding > movies now? Probably, but that's irrelevant. > On what level is that even nec

Re: etch - X doesn't start, video mode not supported

2007-05-12 Thread Kent West
Oops; this was supposed to go to the list instead of the OP; I'm still trying to get used to using the GMail interface since my uni "outsourced" our email to the educational version Google Apps for Your Domain. As soon as I get mail/IMAP figured out on a Debian box I've got stashed on campus, I th

Re: Menu question

2007-05-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:11:49PM -0300, Tim wrote: > I've scoured google, but I can't seem to find a solution to how to change my > menu format. > > Currently my menu items are listed like this: > Web Browser (Iceweasel Web Browser) > Web Browser (Konqueror) > Mail Client (Kmail) > etc. > > I w

Menu question

2007-05-12 Thread Tim
I've scoured google, but I can't seem to find a solution to how to change my menu format. Currently my menu items are listed like this: Web Browser (Iceweasel Web Browser) Web Browser (Konqueror) Mail Client (Kmail) etc. I would like to change them to just include the program name without the des

Re: 32 & 54 bit shared libraries -- how to?

2007-05-12 Thread Brendan
How does one get this less-powerful, but cooler-sounding, 54 bit processor? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread Amy Templeton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M.A. Cater) wrote: > There is a serious point [about proprietary formats] to be made > to your college. Archiving, readability, public record. I've only > been dealing with computers for about 22 years: I've used what > were then leading word processors - Wordstar 2000, Wo

Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-12 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can someone help diagnose this problem on Debian Sid ? I am trying to get the photos off a Minolta Dimage E201 digital camera. It is recognized : May 12 20:44:15 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 10 May

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:18:10 -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: > > > > As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX > > node for a new printer. > > > That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, > nobody would have h

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks Sven and Karl for explain and solved problem. I changed freshclam cron file like below: 8 */1 * * *clamav [ -x /usr/bin/freshclam ] && /usr/bin/freshclam /dev/null 2&>1 and i dont receive mail anymore. I created cron file for test like below: */1 * * * * root /bin/mkdir /home/cr

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread Amy Templeton
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/11/07 10:33, Amy Templeton wrote: > > John Hassler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amy Templeton wrote: > > Well, sweet! So the impression I'm getting is that reverse > > engineering is basically protected by law? > I wrote: > > When done for interoperab

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread Amy Templeton
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/11/07 10:33, Amy Templeton wrote: > [ka-SNIP!] > > On a positive note, I recently did actually get through to > > someone (next year she plans not to use any .docs on her little > > area on the school website)! > Great. What techniques did you use to

Re: [OT] Terminology

2007-05-12 Thread Amy Templeton
Ye gods but this thread got out of control. I would respond, but I accidentally deleted a lot of it with an overzealous delete command in gnus (I passed it a 20 instead of a 2, somehow). Nice to know people are *passionate,* at least. Amy -- I like work. It fascinates me--I can sit and look at i

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/12/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:32:36AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > How do you list all the available packaes with apt-get? aptitude in interactive mode has several ways of listing packages. > And all the packages for the console? Views -> New Debt

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread un1xer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Very often when I click on a link on a web page >> or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that >> purports to be from the server on the remote host. >> >> But, if I paste the same

etch - X doesn't start, video mode not supported

2007-05-12 Thread Tim Johnson
Hi I just installed etch, and x doesn't start, the monitor says video mode not supported. I chose to power off the computer at this point. I presume the method to correct this will to restart in text mode, and edit xorg.conf for the proper video mode for the monitor. 1)Will choosing "recovery

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same url into Opera it pops right up with the page. Then if I go back to Iceweasel and click

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Stephen Cormier
On May 12, 2007 07:27:05 am Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > That is not what he is saying you get for your example. > > > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 > > D

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:31:59AM +0300, Semih Gokalp wrote: > Thanks Sven for reply. > > My freshclam cron files like below: > > 8 */1 * * *clamav [ -x /usr/bin/freshclam ] > > i only removed "&& /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null" so cron is still > running. The *cron* is still running. But

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks Sven for reply. My freshclam cron files like below: 8 */1 * * *clamav [ -x /usr/bin/freshclam ] i only removed "&& /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null" so cron is still running.I looked syslog and its contain the fallowing message: May 13 00:08:01 server /USR/SBIN/CRON[1644]: (clamav) CM

Re: dircolors on white background

2007-05-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 12 May 2007 15:21:35 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone got a set of values for dircolors that is readable on an > xterm, etc. with white background. The standard set of colors is fine > on a black background but very hard to read on a white background. > > TIA, >

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Grok Mogger wrote: I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions. Here are our interpretations. Could someone please tell me which interpretation is rig

dircolors on white background

2007-05-12 Thread Paul Scott
Has anyone got a set of values for dircolors that is readable on an xterm, etc. with white background. The standard set of colors is fine on a black background but very hard to read on a white background. TIA, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 17:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > If I try to enlarge the fonts (CTRL+Wheel) in iceape of this website: > http://gallery.menalto.com/ > > the menus, or those little gray background windows, on the right hand > jump into the middle of the page after a few magnification s

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:59 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > >> In this interpretation, "wa" is really like "blocked" CPU time. > >> The CPU has processes that are not really doing anything, > >> because they

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 12:10:57AM +0300, Semih Gokalp wrote: > Ok.I removed "&& /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null" in freshclam cron files and > solved my problem. Bad idea. I'd choose one of the following options: a) dpkg-reconfigure the clamav-freshclam package and choose to not run freshclam auto

Re: Clamd nicely

2007-05-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:20:08PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Is there a way (and would it be desirable) to "nice" clamd? Probably best in > the init.d script. Just modify it according to your needs? Other option would be to open a wishlist bug against the package to discuss it with the responsib

Re: SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-12 Thread Franck Joncourt
Maybe there is something around : > > debug1: An invalid name was supplied > > A parameter was malformed > > Validation error wrong username. -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Semih Gokalp
Ok.I removed "&& /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null" in freshclam cron files and solved my problem. -- Iyi calismalar.Basarilar... Semih Gokalp Istanbul/Turkiye

In case of troubles with a well known forum

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hi all, I just subscribed to the debianhelp forum and posted a reply to the latest "offender". According to my experiment the trick is to not write anything in the subject line and, of course, quote some context (though I haven't found a way to quote e-mail-style). The result is not perfect, but u

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks for reply Sven. Yes,of course i know configure freshclam cron but you know i can configure minute,hours,day,month,day of week and user.I can't see about mail configuration parameters in freshclam cron file(/etc/cron.d/clamav-freshclam) ? it seems like below: 8 */2 * * *clamav [ -x /u

Re: SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-12 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kirill Kuvaldin escribió: > Hello, > > I'm experiencing fairly weird issue when my linux box (running > Debian 4.0 powerpc) with the SSH server (SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 > Debian-9) has stopped accepting incoming connections from a moment of > time with

Clamd nicely

2007-05-12 Thread David Baron
Is there a way (and would it be desirable) to "nice" clamd? Probably best in the init.d script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound and no sound

2007-05-12 Thread amp
[quote]No, but when you push the reply button a blank screen comes up. I just figured that the reply would be attached to the thread so I didn't need to reply with the same subject line and context. Sorry I am kind of new on this forum so a little slack would be nice. chad[/quote] I just regi

SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-12 Thread Kirill Kuvaldin
Hello, I'm experiencing fairly weird issue when my linux box (running Debian 4.0 powerpc) with the SSH server (SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9) has stopped accepting incoming connections from a moment of time without any obvious reason. Any attempts to establish a connection fail before I'm bein

[solved] Re: Problems with cdrdao

2007-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> On my laptop, when I do: >> >> $ cdrdao scanbus >> >> , I get the following output: >> >> - >> Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> SCSI interface

Re: Updated Sid today, xorg cannot find "nvidia" driver

2007-05-12 Thread Michał Wróbel
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Michał Wróbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyway, I wanted to report that I am using nvidia-glx-legacy and >> after I have upgraded my Debian Sid today, my Xorg refused to start >> up after reboot. The log message was exactly the same as quoted below. > Do you have any sp

Re: Updated Sid today, xorg cannot find "nvidia" driver

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michał Wróbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I wanted to report that I am using nvidia-glx-legacy and > after I have upgraded my Debian Sid today, my Xorg refused to start > up after reboot. The log message was exactly the same as quoted below. Do you have any special reason for using the l

Re: Strange aptitude problem

2007-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 19:08:54 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Does anyone have a package installation command that will reproduce > this on up-to-date unstable? I think I may have a fix, but through > various stupidities I lost my test case and can't confirm it. I currently see the following

Re: Updated Sid today, xorg cannot find "nvidia" driver

2007-05-12 Thread Michał Wróbel
First of all, I'd like to emphasize that I haven't read all the posts related to this problem thoroughly, since there is probably more than one reason of such behavior. Anyway, I wanted to report that I am using nvidia-glx-legacy and after I have upgraded my Debian Sid today, my Xorg refused to st

Dansgardian Antivirus Fuctionality

2007-05-12 Thread David Baron
I more than occasionally get a big warning on bootup about dansgardian virus database not being up-to-date. I have an up-to-date clamav working on my box. Is there a way to set dansguardian to make use of clamd rather than its own stuff? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 23:02:11 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:01:39AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > Actually, sort of. The issue was that someone pointed out that the > Bible "redefined" pi to be 3. My point was that if people want to > criticize the Bibl

Re: Re: debconf problem in foomatic-filters

2007-05-12 Thread Felix Lechner
Florian, Thank you for the helpful pointers. Further examination showed an inconsistency in the debconf database. The template "foomatic-filters/gspath" was reserved by "foomatic-filters/textfilter" (the user defined by debconf-communicate). Deleting the entry manually in /var/cache/d

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Grok Mogger
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions. Here are our interpr

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Thilo Six
Kushal Kumaran wrote the following on 12.05.2007 10:26: > This is not really a solution, just a workaround, but have you tried > installing a local DNS cache? pdnsd requires no configuration to set > up. pdnsd is neat. thanks. bye Thilo -- i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE - some friend of mine gpg ke

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 10:40 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS look

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:15 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup

Re: Problems with cdrdao

2007-05-12 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my laptop, when I do: $ cdrdao scanbus , I get the following output: Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SCSI interface library - (C) Joer

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: http://gallery.menalto.com/ >> >> With my test (with iceweasel and konqueror), it depends on how large you >> make the text. If it goes beyond a certain level, yes the windows move. >> The way I see it, it is poor web

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-12 Thread cga2000
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: > 3. in the parent script, where you use your script, change it to be: > > HTTP_proxy=$(getproxyip) .. you can take it one tiny step further by using an array: . child: cz=($c0 $c1 $c2)/* .. $c4 .. etc.

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:18:10AM -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: > > > > As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX > > node for a new printer. > > > That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, > nobody would have

Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-12 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 05/11/07 19:36, s. keeling wrote: > > > > machines though. OSF/1 wasn't originally available for non-Ultra > > processors. > > Ultras? UltraSPARCS? I may have used the wrong name. What's the ca. '96 DEC processor line for workstations/small servers? -

sound and no sound

2007-05-12 Thread chadjensen
Hello all, I have a machine. One user logs in (using gnome) and has sound. The second user logs in (also using gnome) and does not. When the second user double-clicks on the volume applet he gets the following error: The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Nick Jacobs
Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: > > As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX > node for a new printer. > That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, nobody would have had a problem when upgrading from devfs/hotplug. It looks to me as though we h

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > I've installed the "Etc

Re: [GENERAL] postgres upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:36:45AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2. > > Apparently the upgrade I just ran through installed a second database > on my server. > > I was hoping that the debian configuration would migrate this for me. > I recall there was once a t

Re: I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:23:03AM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > It is because he is posting through the forum at debianhelp.org. Of > course, since there is no note there indicating that the posting go > through to a mailing list and context would be helpful. The best thing > would be for

Re: Ffmpeg and Ipod

2007-05-12 Thread Mark Grieveson
> > > Do I need any special repostory with a better version of ffmpeg? > > > Thank you for your attention. > > > > Take a look here perhaps: > > > > http://debian-multimedia.org/index.html > > > > /Magnus > I added deb http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia sarge main to >my repostories up

Re: Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:26:09AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi, all: > > I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at > one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs > when I get to the net-drivers-1 disk. It either hangs immedia

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 08:26, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same ur

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > > Interestingly, if I

Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs when I get to the net-drivers-1 disk. It either hangs immediately (so that Alt-F4 no longer works to show me the log) or at some percen

Re: I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:50:14AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:25:49PM +0200, chadjensen wrote: > > > > I had the same problem just barely and I fixed by going to the "users and > > groups" section and giving permissions to the user. It must be a bug in an > > update or

Re: Etch AMD64 fun and excitement

2007-05-12 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 May 2007, Curt Howland was heard to say: > I think I will try getting/compiling the latest module from Nvidia > themselves, to see if there is any difference. The card is > specifically listed as compatible, this "hang the machine" behav

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 08:26, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > Very often when I click on a link on a web page > or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that > purports to be from the server on the remote host. > > But, if I paste the same url into O

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:56 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 5/12/07, Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:37:07PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > On 5/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > > After installing, I noticed t

Re: [GENERAL] postgres upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Ray Stell
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:36:45AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Meanwhile, can I just use pg_dumpall to pull from 8.1 and then reload > into 8.2? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item3.6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

postgres upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2. Apparently the upgrade I just ran through installed a second database on my server. I was hoping that the debian configuration would migrate this for me. I recall there was once a time when it would ask you about moving data from old to new databases.

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread KS
Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/11/07 16:33, H.S. wrote: >>> Hello, >>> If I try to enlarge the fonts (CTRL+Wheel) in iceape of this website: >>> http://gallery.menalto.com/ >>> the menus, or those little gray background windows, on the right hand >>> jump into the middle of the page

Re: I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:25:49PM +0200, chadjensen wrote: > > I had the same problem just barely and I fixed by going to the "users and > groups" section and giving permissions to the user. It must be a bug in an > update or something that wipes out the users permissions. users and > groups->

Re: Announce: DebianArt

2007-05-12 Thread cga2000
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:42:38PM EDT, André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira wrote: >Can you test? Please register and put your artworking :D I had no problems navigating and displaying the artwork on this web site with the ELinks text-mode browser and ImageMagick. Nice job. >Thanks to Vales

Re: epiphany-browser and iceweasel do not start

2007-05-12 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 13:04 schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:27:46PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: (...) > > > When I copy the xulrunner directory additionally > > to /mnt/hda1/usr/share/xulrunner epiphany-browser comes up and runs. > > > > I am even more sur

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > After installing, I noticed that the Internet browsers were taking a > really long time to pull up

More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same url into Opera it pops right up with the page. Then if I go back to Iceweasel and click the GO button or do a re

Re: Solved

2007-05-12 Thread csanyipal
Hello! On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:58:31PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > My system is Debian Etch. > > After I downloaded the new linux-source-2.6.18, compiled it and > installed the new custom kernel, I get error messages on console prompt > when logged in: > -bash: id: command not found > -bash:

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/11/07 16:33, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, > >> If I try to enlarge the fonts (CTRL+Wheel) in iceape of this website: >> http://gallery.menalto.com/ > >> the menus, or those little gray background windows, on the right hand >> jump into the middle of the page after a few magnif

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:07:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Each gospel is only telling the part of the story that he sees as > relevant to his audience. > I like to think of the Gospels as akin to getting the same news story from CNN, the NYT, FoxNews and the BBC (and I don't mean when they

Re: Etch AMD64 fun and excitement

2007-05-12 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 = The Intel wireless card should work fine if it's the 2200 or 3945 model. I personally use the 3945 model under AMD64 Debian. = Yes, it is the 3945. Did you have to use the Intel driver, or did it come already in the stock kernel? =

Re: linux-image-2.6-* dependency issues [was Re: Business card iso]

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:01:38AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Is it a bug of l-i-2.6-* that it doesn't depend on the latest kernel > (i.e. 2.6.20-3). AIUI, that package should always depends on the > latest 2.6 kernel, but apparently, it doesn't http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

Re: Ffmpeg and Ipod

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hackarre wrote: > El ds 12 de 05 del 2007 a les 11:35 +0200, en/na Magnus Pedersen va > escriure: >> hackarre wrote: >>> Hello everyone! >>> >>> I'm quite new in Debian, I used to use Ubuntu. Everything is great but >>> the problem is to convert my vid

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the > like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal > about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions. > Here are our interpretations. Could so

Re: epiphany-browser and iceweasel do not start

2007-05-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:27:46PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > When I copy the xulrunner directory additionally > to /mnt/hda1/usr/share/xulrunner epiphany-browser comes up and runs. > > I am even more surprised about that than about the not working relative link. >

after compiling the kernel 2.6.18 bash error message & no X Window

2007-05-12 Thread csanyipal
Hello! My system is Debian Etch. After I downloaded the new linux-source-2.6.18, compiled it and installed the new custom kernel, I get error messages on console prompt when logged in: -bash: id: command not found -bash: [: : integer expression expected and after gdm login I get error message

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