Re: amalgamating address books

2007-06-09 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/09/2007 10:02 PM, Helen Easthope wrote: Debian users, I've imported the address book from my old Win 98 system into Icedove where it resides as Addresses. Can Addresses be amalgamated into the "Personal Address Book" which already existed in Icedove? If so, please give a hint of how this

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:28:18AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Joe wrote: > > > > >Both Nautilus and Konqueror do it exactly the same way as Windows > >Explorer, click once in a heading to sort by that heading, click again > >to reverse the sort. The heading will show a small arrow pointing up > >or down

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:56:03 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > andy wrote: > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> As root > >> > >>tzconfig > >> > >> Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) > >> > >>hwclock --systohc > >> > >> Set the BIOS clock to UTC > >> > >> In KDE

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread H.S.
Joe wrote: Both Nautilus and Konqueror do it exactly the same way as Windows Explorer, click once in a heading to sort by that heading, click again to reverse the sort. The heading will show a small arrow pointing up or down according to the sort direction. You do need to use list view, rather

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:57:24AM +, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Still two question remains in my mind. First: What good is Alien for? Alien is very useful if all you have is an .rpm. It can't solve all possible problems, but it's generally better than using rpm d

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread H.S.
Stephen Cormier wrote: On June 9, 2007 12:47:46 am H.S. wrote: Hello, This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files automatically with a f

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread H.S.
Mathias Brodala wrote: Ah, yes. You cannot reorder files’ positions within Bulk Renamer’s list. (I will file a feature request for this if there isn’t already one.) Thank you. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

2007-06-09 Thread Valentin
Small correction: Changing the kernel version *does* make it bootable again. The kernel under the first one was just another 2.6.21 ;) I've googled a bit and found that >=2.6.20 often seems to do that. Can somebody tell me how I could change that or how to tell cryptsetup to use the new devices?

USB PORT BEHAVIOUR

2007-06-09 Thread Oscar Blanco
Hi there, I've got a question for quite a long time. When I remove a memory stick, MP3 Player or IPod from an USB port running debian, first I umount device but power supply still. It does not happen in WinXP. Is it dangerous for the USB Device, how could I mend it? Kind regards, Ciao. -- Osca

Re: gnome-alsamixer configuration problem

2007-06-09 Thread Oscar Blanco
Hi Marcelo, This is a question more than an advise, but have you run # alsaconf from a konsole as su? After this proceeding, alsa mixer should work. Kind regards, Ciao. -- Oscar Blanco García Ingeniero Electrónico - Universidad Nacional de Colombia Teléfono: Casa: +57 1 687 0019

Re: which package in sarge and which package in etch can convert mpeg to avi? and 2 more questions

2007-06-09 Thread Oscar Blanco
2007/6/8, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: does ffmpeg works? some codecs don't work. 2 more questions: 1) I have a MP3 player, attached to PC via USB line. Now it works with Windows, how to make it work under sarge? (how to mount USB disk?) 2) which package in sarge and which package in et

amalgamating address books

2007-06-09 Thread Helen Easthope
Debian users, I've imported the address book from my old Win 98 system into Icedove where it resides as Addresses. Can Addresses be amalgamated into the "Personal Address Book" which already existed in Icedove? If so, please give a hint of how this is done. Thanks,... Helen E.

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Eric, On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:19:14PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I want to use mysql for my storage in Amarok. I have created a db down > on my server (in the basement), but now I can't figure out how to get my > other workstations to connect to the server. Bear in mind that by defau

Re: please [no networking during netinst and corrupt iso]

2007-06-09 Thread Oscar Blanco
2007/6/6, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:26:13PM +0200, walter wrote: > If I can't install from `netinst' I must try with 21 CDs!! or 3 dvd!! So > I think including some free modules like rt2500 or the kernel source and > gcc in netinst will help a big number

Re: gzipped text in links2

2007-06-09 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:22:14 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:06:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:45:26 -0400 > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:27:22AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > >

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-06-09 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Although I would have replied sooner; there was a death in the family. Hope you remember or kept the thread! Gayle Lee Fairless([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > It's worth a try, but the bad 770 locks up when it get to the pcmc

KDevelop

2007-06-09 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi all, If you have experience in KDevelop I amd using KDevlop C/C++ and have following questions: 1. How can I specify path to my my "include" directory? I used Automake configuration but it didn't work! 2. I can not debug my code however the code is compiled in "debug" mode. How can I act

cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

2007-06-09 Thread Valentin
I just rebooted after installing a new kernel and now I get this message during the booting process: hda: setting up cryptographic volume sda7_crypt (based on /dev/sda7) cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found /dev/sda7 is my encrypted root partition. I tried booting with my old kernels, bu

Re: Icedove

2007-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michael Marsh wrote, on 04/06/07 00:29: On 6/3/07, Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: >> me too, but another problem is that it does not open the browser when >> clicking on an url :-( > > Works for me... really? Are you using gnome? I'm using KDE... Ditto for me,

Re: need kernel help (2.6)

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:25:50PM -0400, Zach wrote: > On 6/9/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Why build from source? What do you need that the binary kernel images > >don't provide? > > Hi Roberto, > > I wanted a leaner and faster kernel and I wanted my sound card > support

Re: need kernel help (2.6)

2007-06-09 Thread Zach
On 6/9/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why build from source? What do you need that the binary kernel images don't provide? Hi Roberto, I wanted a leaner and faster kernel and I wanted my sound card supported at kernel level. Also it was learning experience. Strange. My u

Re: need kernel help (2.6)

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:07:10PM -0400, Zach wrote: > I just upgraded my kernel in Debian testing release from 2.4.27 to > 2.6.18 and ran into some problems I would appreciate help with. > > I built the kernel from the Debian kernel source package which has > some bug fixes and patches not found

need kernel help (2.6)

2007-06-09 Thread Zach
I just upgraded my kernel in Debian testing release from 2.4.27 to 2.6.18 and ran into some problems I would appreciate help with. I built the kernel from the Debian kernel source package which has some bug fixes and patches not found in the upstream (official) kernel sources but I asked around a

did my message get through?

2007-06-09 Thread Zach
please help, i posted 2 days ago with 4 specific problems i have after upgrading from 2.4.27 kernel to 2.6.18 kernel and i've not received a single reply. i really would appreciate some help with this. zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: RAW image file

2007-06-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:25:10PM -0400, Bernard wrote: > Hi, > > What kind of applications can open and use RAW image file created by > digital cameras? Does such applications exist for Linux? > > Thanks, Like all good companies, they did not make the RAW format universal, only the term RAW. S

Re: Printers won't run

2007-06-09 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 19:16:01 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:24:08 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [ snip: We are trying to solve a problem with CUPS when printing on a remote printer which is shared on a Windows machine.

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Michael
thx Bob. (Is there any list you're not subscribed :) Using 'null' is slightly shorter than my 'sed' command...but somehow i can't help it's still not really straight enough. Doing complicated things just to have quite common formatted filenames handled, is so *uncool* for a modern shell ! If

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Michael
thx. How can i set the IFS ? I couldn't find it mentioned in the manpage. And /etc r: grep ' IFS' /etc/* /etc/bash_completion: local IFS=$'\t\n' xspec #glob /etc/bash_completion: local IFS=$'\n' /etc/bash_completion: local IFS=$'\n' /etc/bash_completion: local IFS=$'\n' /etc/bash

Re: problems with totem (SOLVED!)

2007-06-09 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 14:52 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > didn't know about vlc. I went to its web page and I liked its > > functionality. So I decided to give vlc a try... things went equal

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael wrote: > (pls reply to me i'm offlist) > > This may be somewhat OT but i know many debianos are shell experts. > I always got these problems with whitespaced filenames using shell > or fileutils commands , and currently use to do much circumstance > with tr, sed, print, and what-the-heck.

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 09-06-2007 a las 23:21 +0200, Michael escribió: > (pls reply to me i'm offlist) > > Hello, > > This may be somewhat OT but i know many debianos are shell experts. > I always got these problems with whitespaced filenames using shell or > fileutils > commands , and currently use to do muc

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Michael. Michael Wördehoff, 10.06.2007 00:34: > I am asking for recursive operations like chmod/chown -R, working > on multimedia files in deep hierarchy with possibly both dirs and folders > whitespaced. OK. So where’s the problem? The tools mentioned can handle names with whitespaces (and e

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Michael Wördehoff
I am asking for recursive operations like chmod/chown -R, working on multimedia files in deep hierarchy with possibly both dirs and folders whitespaced. (pls CC to me) micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:39:36PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > > I do have a firewall, but the machine that I am trying to connect from > is also behind the firewall, so that shouldn't be the issue. Looking at > the config file from MySQLAdministrator it looks like it is setup to > liste

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-09 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:46:11PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: Not sure, I don't seem to have anything in any of my error logs. I have looked in /var/log/mysql and in the main logs in /var/log and I don't see any type of errors being logged. I can login just fine f

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:46:11PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > Not sure, I don't seem to have anything in any of my error logs. I have > looked in /var/log/mysql and in the main logs in /var/log and I don't > see any type of errors being logged. I can login just fine from > phpmyadmin and

Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2 - almost solved

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:08:59PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:36:19AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:26:52PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > > > > Hmm. Why are you using www-pgsql? It is not a dependcy of tutos2 or > > any of its dependencie

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 17:27:59 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 14:52 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: [...] > > Please try either player using the standard XPutImage driver--e.g. > > disable Xvideo--and tell us what that does. Usually the video > > output driver is called

Re: Etch: Gnome, Hal & Iomega Clik 40

2007-06-09 Thread Jacob L. Anawalt
Jacob L. Anawalt wrote: > Does lshal include any merged information when showing it's output? > The answer appears to be yes. I joined #hal on freenode and mbiebl pointed out that storage.bus in /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/10-ide-drives.fdi wasn't matching my pcmcia device. So I put

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-09 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Roberto ? wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:19:14PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: I have also tried connecting to the MySQL server using MySQLAdmin from my laptop and I can't figure that out either. Anyone know how to do this? What errors are you getting? What do the logs on the serv

Re: RAW image file

2007-06-09 Thread Gabor Nagy
Idézet Bernard 2007. június 8. 23.25 keltezésű leveléből: > Hi, > > What kind of applications can open and use RAW image file created by > digital cameras? Does such applications exist for Linux? > First you havet to install dcraw, than you can view the RAW image files with ng-xim. http://sign-el

shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Michael
(pls reply to me i'm offlist) Hello, This may be somewhat OT but i know many debianos are shell experts. I always got these problems with whitespaced filenames using shell or fileutils commands , and currently use to do much circumstance with tr, sed, print, and what-the-heck. I just think, in

Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2 - almost solved

2007-06-09 Thread csanyipal
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:36:19AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:26:52PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > > > Before installing tutos2 I created with postgres user the "www-data" > > user on postmaster and give him rights to create database. > > > > Then I created the

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . S�nchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:19:14PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > I have also tried connecting to the MySQL server using MySQLAdmin from > my laptop and I can't figure that out either. Anyone know how to do this? > What errors are you getting? What do the logs on the server say? Regards, -

Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-09 Thread Eric A. Bonney
I want to use mysql for my storage in Amarok. I have created a db down on my server (in the basement), but now I can't figure out how to get my other workstations to connect to the server. I have tried typing in the name of the server and I have tried using the actual ip address of that machi

Re: Bash doesn't ignore whitespaces

2007-06-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-06-08 23:11:58 +0200, Valentin wrote: > Hi everybody. I've just installed lenny on my notebook and already have > the first problem :) > It seems that when I try to pipe stdout to other programs, bash doesn't > ignore whitespaces. > Example: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg |grep foo > [EMAIL P

Re: sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

2007-06-09 Thread David Baron
Place the following in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./ They have images, sources, headers, various modules for current Kernels with Ingo Molnar's realtime preemption patches. I would use the 2.6.21-rt1 version for now (avoid the rt4, the rt7 works fine but

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 14:52 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > didn't know about vlc. I went to its web page and I liked its > > functionality. So I decided to give vlc a try... things went equal

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 9, 2007 12:47:46 am H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers > (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by > dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files > automatically with a file pattern? >

epiphany: how enable pdf output?

2007-06-09 Thread Eric d'Alibut
My epiphany instance (2.14.3-2) appears to offer the option of printing to a pdf, but when that is tried, informs me that such printing is not supported. What do I need to get that option working? Does the package 'epiphany-extensions' do that for me? Its deb page doesn't mention pdf... Best r

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
andy wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As root tzconfig Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) hwclock --systohc Set the BIOS clock to UTC In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and point that at Europe/London Hope this helps, Andy Thanks Andy

Re: em8300 DXR3 anyone?

2007-06-09 Thread Lance Simmons
On 6/9/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:14:16AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: How do you know it is not working? Are you getting some sort of error message? Sorry, I should have been clearer. Current versions of libxine1 _do_ support em8300, but only

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 19:24:04 +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] >> As root >> >> tzconfig >> >> Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones) >> >> hwclock --systohc >> Set the BIOS clock to UTC >> >> In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and po

Re: Etch sasl weirdness

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:22:40PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > What I did notice is that /etc/defaults/saslauthd mentions > /etc/saslauthd.conf, but there is no such file. I also don't see a > client config file. > # ldap -- use LDAP (configuration is in /etc/saslauthd.conf) So, unle

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread Joe
H.S. wrote: Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi. H.S., 09.06.2007 05:47: This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files automatically with a file pa

Re: Etch sasl weirdness

2007-06-09 Thread Hans du Plooy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Sorry for the delay in replying. On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:31:17PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, I'm setting up an Etch server for postfix with smtp auth. I changed /etc/default/saslauthd so that the mux file gets made under /var/spool/postfix/var/run/sasl

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > didn't know about vlc. I went to its web page and I liked its > functionality. So I decided to give vlc a try... things went equal as > with totem, I have audio but not video in vlc, I tried with mpd, w

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 09:14 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:53:11PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > I have done a fresh install of etch. When i try to view a video with > > totem, nothing is shown, the totem screen is black, but sound is ok. I > > can liste

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST) i

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:04:51PM +0100, andy wrote: ZONE_TMP_FILE=`mktemp` && find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ -type f -print0 |xargs -0 md5sum >>$ZONE_TMP_FILE && grep `md5sum /etc/localtime |cut -f1 -d\ ` $ZONE_TMP_FILE && rm -f $ZONE_TMP_FILE 4c9f9c5c5f86

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 07:04:51PM +0100, andy wrote: > > ZONE_TMP_FILE=`mktemp` && find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ -type f -print0 |xargs > -0 md5sum >>$ZONE_TMP_FILE && grep `md5sum /etc/localtime |cut -f1 -d\ ` > $ZONE_TMP_FILE && rm -f $ZONE_TMP_FILE > > 4c9f9c5c5f86bcc5465c08831ef59e75 /usr/sh

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: Hi Roberto How do I find out what /etc/localtime links to? It is a binary file. There doesn't appear to be a config file, nor any man pages. Interesting. On one system of mine it is a binary f

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: > > > >>Greetings Debianistas > >> > >>My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing > >>Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote: > > > Hi Roberto > > How do I find out what /etc/localtime links to? It is a binary file. > There doesn't appear to be a config file, nor any man pages. > Interesting. On one system of mine it is a binary file, yet on the other it is a sy

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always one hour ahead of real time. I have checked th

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-09 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:06:26PM +0530, Mahesh M wrote: > Hi, > > Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how well it > works, I tried the following command: > deluser root > And to my surprise, root was deleted. Is that good? Self-termination, >

Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote: > Greetings Debianistas > > My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing > Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always > one hour ahead of real time. > I have checked the BIOS clock which i

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Daniel, On 6/9/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: aptitude will try to remove packages that it thinks you don't need any more. Usually it gets this right, but sometimes it guesses wrong. When it does, just cancel the removals and it will understand that you really want that soft

gnome-alsamixer configuration problem

2007-06-09 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, after installing gnome-alsamixer, I get the following message when I try to run it: "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for GNOME ALSA Mixer. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly." The details of the error are quit long, but all of the

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:06:26 +0530 "Mahesh M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how well it > works, I tried the following command: > deluser root > And to my surprise, root was deleted. Is that good? Self-termi

Re: AGP & DRI on a Radeon Xpress 1150

2007-06-09 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jacob S wrote: > Howdy List, > > I'm trying to setup Debian Etch on a new Dell Inspiron 1501. X is > working great so far, except that I cannot get DRI enabled. I can > modprobe radeon and tell the xorg.conf to use the radeon driver, but > glxinfo still reports no DRI. > > Looking in the xorg.log

KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-09 Thread andy
Greetings Debianistas My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings and somehow this is always one hour ahead of real time. I have checked the BIOS clock which is set to the regular time and I don't think that it is set to UT

Re: Sarge -> Etch = udev problems

2007-06-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 22:58:53 -0500, Jacob S wrote: > Howdy List, > > This being gone at school for 5 months and then trying to fix 6 > computers when I get home all at the same time is getting old. :-) > > My latest problem is on a Thinkpad that I upgraded from Sarge to Etch. > The upgrade in

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:06:26PM +0530, Mahesh M wrote: > Hi, > > Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how well it > works, I tried the following command: >deluser root > And to my surprise, root was deleted. Is that good? Self-termination, > suisid

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 16:23 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 19:47:52 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 23:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 14:53:11 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I have

Is this a bug?

2007-06-09 Thread Mahesh M
Hi, Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how well it works, I tried the following command: deluser root And to my surprise, root was deleted. Is that good? Self-termination, suiside!!! I dont know if this is a bug, or if it has been kept for some kind

Re: Printers won't run

2007-06-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 19:16:01 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:24:08 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> [ snip: We are trying to solve a problem with CUPS when printing on a >> remote printer which is shared on a Windows machine. ] >>> Seems to

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. H.S., 09.06.2007 18:22: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Hi. >> >> H.S., 09.06.2007 05:47: >>> This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers >>> (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by >>> dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can easily encounter situations in which, due to incomplete > support of codecs, the audio works but the video does not. The fact > that flashplayer can display video output suggests to me that your > pro

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

2007-06-09 Thread H.S.
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi. H.S., 09.06.2007 05:47: This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files automatically with a file pattern? Thun

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:08:09AM +, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi, > > On Etch, after having successfully removed OOo 2.0 and installed OOo 2.2.0, > after an aptitude update/upgrade aptitude complains: > > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: >

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread Manon Metten
Hi John, On 6/9/07, John Verhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also this is a good place to look for unofficial packages: http://www.apt-get.org/ Thanks, I'll add this to my bookmarks. Greetings, Manon.

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Doug, On 6/9/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... I used mc (midnight commander) to poke into the rpm just as if (maybe it is) a tarball and installed everything under /usr/local. This was before /opt was in the hier. Now that /opt is in the hier, I would suggest that yo

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread John Verhoeven
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Raquel, > > On 6/9/07, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, Acroread .deb is available through Christian Marillat at > > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org. > > Gee, thanks! I didn't know that either. > > Greetings, Manon. Also this is a good

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:53:11PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > I have done a fresh install of etch. When i try to view a video with > totem, nothing is shown, the totem screen is black, but sound is ok. I > can listen the sound but nothjing appears in totem screen. This happens > with vi

Re: gzipped text in links2

2007-06-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:06:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:45:26 -0400 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:27:22AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > Let's just ensure that we're doing the same thing; I hit 'g', then > > > enter somet

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:03:33PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Note that the use of external drives like USB for "disaster recovery" > is not a very good idea. You need to store your backups remote from the > computer being backed up, and you need at least three backups used in > rotation. So, u

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:57:24AM +, Manon Metten wrote: > Second: What to do if no debian package exists at all? Eg: suppose Adobe > Acrobat would only be available as an .rpm package (and not as a tarball > like now). What should I do in such a case? I did this once but I forget what for.

Re: Sarge -> Etch = udev problems

2007-06-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:58:53PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > My latest problem is on a Thinkpad that I upgraded from Sarge to Etch. > The upgrade installed a 2.6.18-*-486 kernel and udev, which I changed to > a 2.6.18-*-686 kernel (and udev). Now whenever I boot the laptop it has > a ton of permis

hi. i think i may know

2007-06-09 Thread dagoode
hi... i'm not a debian user, but a mandriva 2007 user. my wife's laptop keyboard quit working in X. nothing would work. keys, caps lock, num lock... nothing. if i booted into failsafe mode, i.e. command-line with root,... no problem. if i booted up and went into x i could authenticate fin

Re: linux-kernel-headers

2007-06-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 19:06:51 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Friday 08 June 2007 10:37, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:28:32 -0500 > > > > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I am needing the linux kernel headers to compile software for a wireless > >

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 19:47:52 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 23:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 14:53:11 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have done a fresh install of etch. When i try to view a video with > > > t

Re: em8300 DXR3 anyone?

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:14:16AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > I can't get DXR3 (em8300) support working with libxine1. The sarge > version still works, but none of the newer versions of libxine1. Does > anyone have experience compiling libxine1 with em8300 support? How is > it done? > How do

Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2 - almost solved

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:26:52PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > Before installing tutos2 I created with postgres user the "www-data" > user on postmaster and give him rights to create database. > > Then I created the tutos database as "www-data" user. Everywhere must I > use ' "www-data" ' in co

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Raquel, On 6/9/07, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, Acroread .deb is available through Christian Marillat at http://www.debian-multimedia.org. Gee, thanks! I didn't know that either. Greetings, Manon.

Re: Etch sasl weirdness

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Sorry for the delay in replying. On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:31:17PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm setting up an Etch server for postfix with smtp auth. I changed > /etc/default/saslauthd so that the mux file gets made under > /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd. I restarted

Re: Problem sasl2-sql.

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:34:11PM +0300, Semih Gokalp wrote: > password_format: plaintext is a default if not set nothing about > password_format in smtpd.conf. > > I have tried like below: > > password_format: crypt (for md5 and blowfish) > or > password_format: crypt_trad (2 character salt cry

em8300 DXR3 anyone?

2007-06-09 Thread Lance Simmons
I can't get DXR3 (em8300) support working with libxine1. The sarge version still works, but none of the newer versions of libxine1. Does anyone have experience compiling libxine1 with em8300 support? How is it done? -- Lance Simmons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org

2007-06-09 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 11:57:24 + "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Second: What to do if no debian package exists at all? Eg: suppose > Adobe Acrobat would only be available as an .rpm package (and not > as a tarball like now). What should I do in such a case? > > Greetings, Manon. Ac

Re: RAW image file

2007-06-09 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:25:10PM -0400, Bernard wrote: > Hi, > > What kind of applications can open and use RAW image file created by > digital cameras? Does such applications exist for Linux? > > See the article DEEP IMAGES in the July issue of Linux Journal. I found it helpful. Tom George

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