Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

Hi Mike, McCarty, Someone has told me before that we should install another package to import images from Digital Camera. I remember that's the package 'gphoto2'. It will detect almost Digital Camera from different vendors. But it's just command-line, then we should install gtkam for using :) Let

Re: DVD drive no longer mounts - More info

So I have had time to look into this problem some more and I have concluded that it really is a hardware issue. It seems my drive is on its last legs and this was just a symptom of that fact. Thanks to everyone who tried to help out, though. -- David Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: mount windoze partition for user automatically

On 07/30/2007 11:09 PM, Phill Atwood wrote: I've got a 40GB drive and the first 20GB contains Windoze XP. I can mount this manually fine. I can mount it automatically too. But if I try to access it as non-root I get: $ cd /windoze bash: cd: /windoze: Permission denied Permissions on my /windo

Re: FretsOnFire on Debian-Testing?

Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to use frets on fire under Debian Testing? Yes. I'm using lenny with a 2.6.22 kernel, ATI Radeon 9550 with 3D acceleration. > > I'm getting a red screen on startup, with sound effects, but no visible > interface. The same problem as this b

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On 07/30/2007 09:19 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] I've tried several of the solutions suggested and am still stuck. In the BIOS, Virus Protection was already disabled, and I tried turning off P

Re: Part 2: Got both problems fixed

On Mon July 30 2007 22:06, Brad B wrote: > Here's the log file from the nVidia installer. It might be easier to > understand my problem if you see this. > > I've already installed the libc package from debian.org, and it worked > fine. So no problem there. But the installer isn't picking it up? Ha

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Mon July 30 2007 22:00, David Fox wrote: > On 7/30/07, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You will need to have non-free (and probably contrib) along with main in > > your > > main debian archive lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. > > I already checked that - I do have non-free and contrib

Part 2: Got both problems fixed

Here's the log file from the nVidia installer. It might be easier to understand my problem if you see this. I've already installed the libc package from debian.org, and it worked fine. So no problem there. But the installer isn't picking it up? nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-install

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 7/30/07, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You will need to have non-free (and probably contrib) along with main in > your > main debian archive lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. I already checked that - I do have non-free and contrib enabled. Reading into the thread a bit you may

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On Mon July 30 2007 19:27, David Fox wrote: > Alan Lanson wrote: > > module-assistant prepare or m-a prepare > module-assistant auto-install nvidia or m-a a-i nvidia > > > OK I tried that, it fails with the message that there's no > nvidia-kernel-source available. You will need to have non-free (a

Re: A question of fonts

On Mon July 30 2007 13:40, andy wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > >> Alan Ianson wrote: > >> > >> > > > > If you type env in a term what is lang= set to? You can adjust that > > setting by running "dpkg-reconfigure locales". > > > > I think etch uses utf-8 by default. A better solution would be if > >

Got both problems fixed.

Thanks for responding to my questions. xorg.conf was pointing to my other card. I'm having trouble installing the driver for my nVidia card. I have to exit and close X, then open this shell script to install it. When I get there, I'm told that there's a problem with something in my kernal, and i

Re: mounting usb frustration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote: > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm > device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can s

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/07 22:31, Kieu Minh Thang wrote: > Hi Mike, McCarty, > Someone has told me before that we should install another package to > import images from Digital Camera. I remember that's the package > 'gphoto2'. It will detect almost Digital Camera fr

mount windoze partition for user automatically

I've got a 40GB drive and the first 20GB contains Windoze XP. I can mount this manually fine. I can mount it automatically too. But if I try to access it as non-root I get: $ cd /windoze bash: cd: /windoze: Permission denied Permissions on my /windoze directory are: dr-x-- 1 root root

FretsOnFire on Debian-Testing?

Hi, Has anyone been able to use frets on fire under Debian Testing? I'm getting a red screen on startup, with sound effects, but no visible interface. The same problem as this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433997 Anyone got it working? Anyone know if its possible to

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: based on this I would see what you can see in the partition table: fdisk -ul /dev/sdc As I mentioned, it can't open it at all. It gives no report whatsoever. and I'd say you've probably got a corrupted partition table and the device and windows happens to be bro

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On Jul 30, 8:30 pm, arijit sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, Iceweasel is Firefox without the "Talkback" component, > which is not open and matches debian-philosophy. The name and logo are also nonfree in Firefox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

mounting usb frustration

I would suggest reading the USB docs in these links: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html It is convenient to use persistence to ensure that all removable USB devices retain their name regardless of how many times you plug them in and remove them. This also allows you

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 7/30/07, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if that is a debian version driver or not. I could not find > any info on the driver version 1.0-9755 that you have installed. If it is > a debian driver, do an "aptitude remove nvidia-glx" and make sure all it's > dependant package

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:34:13PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> what is the output of tail -f /var/log/syslog > > See below... > >> when started before plugging the device in until after its plugged and >> settled. If this a regular flash memory stick/card? For examp

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > [... stuff about trying grub and various partition options] > > I have not yet tried the suggestion of making a grub disk

Re: laptop sid upgrade. network works till startx then get agpgart kernel error and no network connectivity

On 17:19 Sat 28 Jul , Florian Kulzer wrote: > Other options to try are "pci=routeirq", "acpi=off" and "nolapic" (plus > combinations of all of the above). I was away for a few days Florian! Great ideas! The one that works was acpi=off. Once I added that in, I no longer had crash of network aft

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

Hi Mike, McCarty, Someone has told me before that we should install another package to import images from Digital Camera. I remember that's the package 'gphoto2'. It will detect almost Digital Camera from different vendors. But it's just command-line, then we should install gtkam for using :) Let's

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

David Fox wrote: On 7/28/07, *David Fox* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hints? OK well, running the patched driver available was a good suggestion, but it fails miserably on my system. here's the attached error log Looks like you need to remove the old

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: Greetings, I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to the product description section, you do n

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 7/28/07, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hints? OK well, running the patched driver available was a good suggestion, but it fails miserably on my system. here's the attached error log nvidia-installer.log Description: Binary data

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

Alan Lanson wrote: module-assistant prepare or m-a prepare module-assistant auto-install nvidia or m-a a-i nvidia OK I tried that, it fails with the message that there's no nvidia-kernel-source available.

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] I've tried several of the solutions suggested and am still stuck. In the BIOS, Virus Protection was already disabled, and I tried turning off Power Management. I've tried the different Acc

Re: Not able to find qwtplot3D

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:46:29PM -0500, Ashivni Shekhawat wrote: >I am new to Debian. I have trying to install qwtplot3d on my > machine; however I get the following error: > > # apt-get install qwtplot3d > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find p

Re: Not able to find qwtplot3D

On 7/30/07, Ashivni Shekhawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! >I am new to Debian. I have trying to install qwtplot3d on my > machine; however I get the following error: > > # apt-get install qwtplot3d > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find packag

Re: mounting usb frustration

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:13:03PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm > device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can sync once more. Care to

Dual Core problem with Linux-image-xen

Hi I'm having problem with my AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ and the 2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64 kernel I installed my Etch with the standard 64bit 2.6.18-4 kernel and then i installed the 2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-amd64. Then both cores on the CPU where visible under /proc/cpuinfo and htop. And I setup Dom0

Re: mounting usb frustration

USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can sync once more. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read m

Not able to find qwtplot3D

Hi! I am new to Debian. I have trying to install qwtplot3d on my machine; however I get the following error: # apt-get install qwtplot3d Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Couldn't find package qwtplot3d The package qwtplot3d is available on ftp.debian.org at htt

Ninja 0.1.2-1

Ninja 0.1.2-1 sounded like a useful idea. I think it has led me to find a possible flaw in screen. Running Debian Sid, linux-image-2.6.23-rc1-070729 (custom make-kpkg build), Xorg, enlightenment, Eterm, screen, I plugged a USB wireless network stick into the system. Since I had not fully conf

Re: dpkg purge problem

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:15:19AM +0300, Sasho Angelov wrote: > When I try to purge old linux image: > > sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 Why do you need to force things? This may be a clue. What package manager do you use and why don't you use it to remove this? [snip]

Debian Day 2007, August 18th ?

Hello, I was able to find only scheduled Debian Day 2007, August 18th events at Brasil. Please, if you know about other places with events scheduled, update the Debian wiki page [0] directly instead of replying this message. Regards. Andre Felipe Machado http://www.techforce.com.br [0] http://wik

Re: Apt-get errors with dynamic NMAP out space

On Monday 30 Jul 2007, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > On 7/30/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apt-get errors out as show below when trying the read the package > > lists. How do I get out of it. > > > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > E: Error occurred while processing libsdl1.2debian

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: what is the output of tail -f /var/log/syslog See below... when started before plugging the device in until after its plugged and settled. If this a regular flash memory stick/card? For example, my camera uses bog-standard compact flash cards (about 1.25 in

Re: Apt-get errors with dynamic NMAP out space

On 7/30/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apt-get errors out as show below when trying the read the package lists. > How do I get out of it. > > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occurred while processing libsdl1.2debian-all (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with > MergeList > /var/

Apt-get errors with dynamic NMAP out space

Apt-get errors out as show below when trying the read the package lists. How do I get out of it. E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occurred while processing libsdl1.2debian-all (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:37:58PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory > stick. Here's the setup... > > CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick > > The HUB is from Radio Shack. The Dazzle is a device used to > interface the memory stick with USB. T

dpkg purge problem

When I try to purge old linux image: sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 (Reading database ... 259033 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 ... Purging configuration files for linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 ... Searching for GRUB installation direc

Re: where is linux-2.6_2.6.22-2.diff.gz?

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:32:06AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But why there and not in ftp.debian.org? I think Joey Hess mentioned some problems with ftp.d.o, but you might want to search the archives for the exact quote. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't under

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/07 12:43, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:35:08PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> The closest to that which I have seen is that the larger a directory >> gets, the longer it takes to open a GTK File dialog. And it jus

Re: A question of fonts

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 21:45:07 +0100, andy wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> This could also be a problem with your settings for font display rather >> than with the fonts themselves. [...] >> Maybe you can post your font settings and we can have a look: >> >> awk '/fontconfig/,/^$/' /v

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

Rogério Brito([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Jul 27 2007, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > I haven't used it a lot yet, but transmission seem pretty good so far. > > It's available in the Debian repo. > > One good thing about "transmission" (which I am not sure if it is > present on "rt

Re: pidgin problem

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:01:54 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Dear all, >I am using unstable brench. Today I did an "apt-get update; apt-get > upgrade; reboot", then my pidgin can not response to keyboard at all. I can > not key in anything, but my mouse works well (click, and paste t

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:37:58PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory > stick. Here's the setup... > > CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick > > The HUB is from Radio Shack. The Dazzle is a device used to > interface the memory stick with USB. The

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

Mike McCarty wrote: My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory stick. Here's the setup... CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick The HUB is from Radio Shack. The Dazzle is a device used to interface the memory stick with USB. The memory stick is a Sandisk 128 MB memory stick for a

Re: A question of fonts

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:28:13 +0100, andy wrote: [...] I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with Xmms and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly Xmms is the worst of the bunch. This could also be a problem with

Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory stick. Here's the setup... CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick The HUB is from Radio Shack. The Dazzle is a device used to interface the memory stick with USB. The memory stick is a Sandisk 128 MB memory stick for a camera. Using her la

Re: A question of fonts

Alan Ianson wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: If you type env in a term what is lang= set to? You can adjust that setting by running "dpkg-reconfigure locales". I think etch uses utf-8 by default. A better solution would be if packages were utf-8 capable. It may be that xmms and iceweasel are n

Re: mounting usb frustration

Haines Brown wrote: I mounted a USB flash card with a reader OK once, but failed the second time. With two hard disks, an external USB mass storage deveice and with a USB-key, all mounted using sda-sdd interfaces, # mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /media/reader mount: special device /dev/sde1 doe

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:30:41 +, Robert Cates wrote: > ... I then re-installed Etch (from scratch) with still the same > problem, until I decided to turn off (disable) the Power Managemen

Re: curses-interface ftp client with resume?

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:51:14PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:44:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I'm on dialup and often access the internet via a slow computer by sshing into my fast computer (which has the modem). Right now, if I

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:35:08PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > The closest to that which I have seen is that the larger a directory > gets, the longer it takes to open a GTK File dialog. And it just > burns up the CPU. If there's more than 12000 files, the File dialog > will "never" open. > W

Re: Debian4 network install woes [WAS: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM]

michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:01 +0100, michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 14:47 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: michael wrote: Folks, I've a new machine Its likely that the machine has more bearing on this problem than the CDROM itself. We need more information regarding the Motherboar

Re: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM

michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:03 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: michael wrote: iTCO_wdt 20625 0 iTCO_vendor_support12741 1 iTCO_wdt snd_page_alloc 19025 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_core 35777 1 i2c_i801 rtc_cmos 17017 0 sr_mod

Re: utf8 Problems

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 18:31:19 +0200, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Hi debian-user! > > I converted to utf8 in the hope that my non ASCII character problems > would disappear. They are now ... different. Having your system on utf8 means that you should be able to display and use all sorts of special

Setfont

Hi, I have a minimal installation of Debian Etch (with xserver-xorg-core installed) that gives me an error message when I run the script -at the bottom of this email. The message says, " setfont: command not found mapscrn: command not found " Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? This scr

Re: IM on a home debian network

hi, On 7/29/07, Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a > combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there > a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network?# as pointe

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:35:08PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > The closest to that which I have seen is that the larger a directory > gets, the longer it takes to open a GTK File dialog. And it just > burns up the CPU. If there's more than 12000 files, the File dialog > will "never" open. And, a

Re: to netatalk+samba+nfs or not

hi, On 7/27/07, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Friday 27 July 2007 18:45:13 Andrew Sackville-West, vous avez écrit: > > > > can't answer your question directly, but doesn't apple support nfs? yes > > And SMB... and yes (somewhat) the reason why i'd like to use netatalk too is

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/07 10:57, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:41:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> You *know* that if all you say is "it just keeps doing something and >> effectively hangs", you'll get fussed at for sending a useless message. >

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

On Jul 27 2007, Kelly Clowers wrote: > I haven't used it a lot yet, but transmission seem pretty good so far. > It's available in the Debian repo. One good thing about "transmission" (which I am not sure if it is present on "rtorrent") is that it features peer exchange, which seems to be an extens

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

Hi, I recently made a huge mistake, which might help you... I did a apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, and all seemed to go very well, but then I rebooted and Etch with the default 2.6.18 kernel could/would not find my two NICs. I then wiped everything and installed Fedo

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

On Jul 28 2007, Michael M. wrote: > Between aptitude, mc, rtorrent, cplay, and one or two others, I'm > developing a real fondness for ncurses apps. Then, you might want to check "Music on Console" (moc). It is a really impressive program. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PRO

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On 7/30/07, Stef Daniels VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, >I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for > the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel > on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to > t

[solved] Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:40:47PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > OK, here's a narrowed down clue. This happens only when the "File > System" option is involved. When I do Edit->Preferences and choose > "File System" as the default save location, it just hangs in a similar > fashion. And my default

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:40:47PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > OK, here's a narrowed down clue. This happens only when the "File > System" option is involved. When I do Edit->Preferences and choose > "File System" as the default save location, it just hangs in a similar > fashion. And my default

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Hi Stef. Are you a Windows user? Regards, Ma*scnr*thias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > What changed is the name and logo in compilation time, nothing else also be aware that some extensions don't like Iceweasel as opposed to FireFox or SwiftFox. this will hopefully change in the near future since i suspect that it is looking for some type of "sig

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > Greetings, >I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for > the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel > on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to > the product description section,

Using HAL from Python?

I am writing a small GTK+ StatusIcon application that manages internal touchpads and external mice on laptops. I would like to interface with HAL to detect when a USB mouse in plugged in--is anyone aware of Python HAL bindings or are we just supposed to use python-dbus to talk to HAL? -- Andrew B

Re: Compile Question

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 01:49:30PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > The past day or so I've been learning to compile different programs. It's > now something that seems very easy, which I thought was very hard prior to > this. > > I wanted to know if some of you find it better to compile your pro

Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Greetings, I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to the product description section, you do not get the essential style an

Re: IM on a home debian network

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:54:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:30:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or > > $watch -n 20 "from -c" > > > > VC 3 is for net-related curses stuff (current

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:57:03AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I'm not seeing this when saving a simple file with mousepad (the GTK > file dialog does take an annoyingly long time to start up, though, > which I believe has been discussed on the list a while back). OK, here's a narrowed down clue. This

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:07:05 +0530 Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian user, > > I am having this problem with the GTK+ file dialogs that whenever I > try to save a file in any GTK+ based applications, it just keeps doing > something and effectively hangs. Is someone else facin

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:41:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > You *know* that if all you say is "it just keeps doing something and > effectively hangs", you'll get fussed at for sending a useless message. Right. The window becomes unusable, I am unable to regain control over the application, and

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/07 10:37, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian user, > > I am having this problem with the GTK+ file dialogs that whenever I > try to save a file in any GTK+ based applications, it just keeps doing > something and effectively hangs. Is someone

Re: bindgraph [solved]

koffiejunkie wrote: Gilles Mocellin wrote: Just try the newer version, no need to backport it since it's just a perl script. You can use pinning or just downlad appart the deb file from testing. Aah, awesome. The package from testing works like a charm! Thanks for the help. Damn, I tho

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:42:53AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > OO doesn't do PDFs does it? At least all I get is garbage on the screen. I'm sure it can save to pdf, don't know about viewing though. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albe

Re: Using Wine to do my Tax (Australia)

On 07/30/2007 05:35 AM, Keith Bates wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone using the Australian Taxation Office's infamous e-tax package has been able to get it going under wine. I'm using debian testing and have just downloaded wine from the repository. I've configured wine (mostly using the defaults)

GTK+ File dialog hangs

Dear Debian user, I am having this problem with the GTK+ file dialogs that whenever I try to save a file in any GTK+ based applications, it just keeps doing something and effectively hangs. Is someone else facing the same problem? I am on sid, by the way. libgtk2.0-0 version 2.10.13-1 Thanks! K

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:07:36 -0400 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Steve, > > Have you tried booting with a noapic option? Older machines > > sometime require that; Mine does, and it's a similar age to yours. > I haven't tried this, but I'll look into this and the other > suggesti

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:51 +0100, Brad Rogers replied: > Have you tried booting with a noapic option? Older machines sometime > require that; Mine does, and it's a s

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:12:05PM -0500, "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 07/29/2007 02:20 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. > > Can anyone point me to example of PDFs that have fillable forms? I just > wa

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:43:26 -0400 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Steve, > I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an > install on a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, > this is as far as it gets: Have you tried booting with a noapic option

Re: etch installation probs (CD?)

On Mon July 30 2007 07:10, michael wrote: > Folks, I've a new machine with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. When trying > to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially > recognises the CD and starts the installation but fails at the screen > where the CD drive is to be recognised (for

Re: IM on a home debian network

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:33:14PM -0400, Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a > combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there > a program available that will provide instant me

etch installation probs (CD?)

Folks, I've a new machine with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. When trying to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially recognises the CD and starts the installation but fails at the screen where the CD drive is to be recognised (for continuing the installation). I've tried various m

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:35:19 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty [sent several helpful discussions on how to get around the lba problem with grub]. Thanks very much. It make take me a few days to try these, but in any case I'll report on the outcomes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Debian4 network install woes [WAS: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM]

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:01 +0100, michael wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 14:47 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > > michael wrote: > > > Folks, I've a new machine > > > > Its likely that the machine has more bearing on this problem than the > > CDROM itself. We need more information regarding the Moth

Re: pam_limits and nice value: does it work?

Hello again, I found the solution,its not the 'nice' directive but the 'priority' which does the trick. I misunderstood the man page in this case. Bye, udo. On 23.07.2007, at 20:59, udo waechter wrote: Hey all, we want to make all programs from remote users run by a nice value. I have made p

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:24:08AM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:19:40 -0400, From: Douglas Allan Tutty replied: > > What happens if you reboo

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:28:04PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > If you can, try to get the boot files placed before the 1024th cylinder > boundary. Sometimes this is at 0.5GB, 2.1GB or 8GB. Try a partition > layout like so: > > /boot (primary #1, 2.1GB) > / (primary #2, 37.8GB) > swap (logical #5

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

Mumia W.. wrote: On 07/29/2007 02:20 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. Can anyone point me to example of PDFs that have fillable forms? I just want to play with the various form-filling features in OO.o, Evince, pdftk and

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