network problem in debian 4

2007-08-31 Thread vhoang
Running into same problem. Clean install of Debian 4. Need to do some more digging. If anyone finds out, please post. System works fine until a ssh connection is initialized, then boom, intermitten ping responses. Could just be a coincidence with ssh. Same test system was working befor

Re: hard disk crash

2007-08-31 Thread steef
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 23:19:26 +0200, steef wrote: hi you all out there, one of my hd's crashed completely for unknown reasons. i tried several solutions without any result. knoppix 5.0 recognized the partition with data (/dev/hda1) but refuses to mount it: 'i coul

Re: hard disk crash

2007-08-31 Thread steef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know what filesystems you are using, but most fileststems have a repair utility. I would try that running that manually on the unmounted partitions first. http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/fsck.htm i am sorry: i forgot to tell that fsck (freom another hdin th

Re: Locale won't set

2007-08-31 Thread Csányi Pál
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:07:13PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm runing debian etch, and things worked until recently when I tried > > to reconfigure locales. Somehow I found myself in a position where I > > can't reconfigure locales, and snooping online suggest

debian port of timidity doesn't work here

2007-08-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if so which format and what tool does that conversion? If midi files aren't possible to

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Presumably, you have something like .kde, .kderc, or Desktop in your > > home directory. Does grep find anything about LD_LIBRARY_PATH in any > > of those? > well, there is a .kde directory wh

Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

2007-08-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-30 23:46:39 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> I have no problems with this recent change on my x86 machine. >> Also, if I understand correctly, most programs no longer use >> "legacy" pty's. And ttyrec, which still uses them, fails with >> the new kernel. The fact that

lvm mirror or mdadm mirror or raid 5

2007-08-31 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a machine with 3 sata drives. Currently i have raid 1 / raid 1 /boot raid 5 - pv I have been looking at why not to raid 5 and I would go to raid 10 but I can only put 3 drives in my machine. Currently have 3x250G and am looking at getting 3x500G, if I go to mdadm raid1, then I hav

Re: New installation - cannot increase the screen resolution

2007-08-31 Thread Chan Lee
Hi Johannes, Thanks for your info - I did follow your guide and BINGO ! The screen now looks nice & sharp as it's drawing 1280x1024. I didn't know that it's X config related, as I thought it's GNOME issue - turns out GNOME is based on X stuffs - I'm completely newbie to Debian

how can I find out if ttf native hinting is enabled?

2007-08-31 Thread gavron
Does anyone know how I can figure out if native hinting for truetype fonts is enabled? I've been running etch for a couple months now and I understand that this is the way to go with quality fonts such as Microsoft Verdana. That's the screen font I use wherever I can and it does not render quite

re: hard disk crash

2007-08-31 Thread icelinux
I do not know what filesystems you are using, but most fileststems have a repair utility. I would try that running that manually on the unmounted partitions first. http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/fsck.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?

2007-08-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:32:49PM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > It's also perfectly possible to disable switching to a VT from X11. I > seem to remember Ubuntu does by default, which I always discover just > when I have a problem that I need to switch to a terminal for... > Untill the X serve

Re: NMI received, likely on the PCI bus

2007-08-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:22:21PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > "NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a > hardware problem. > > In the last couple of days I've received this worrying message during > re-awakening from suspend to disk. It doesn't seem to happen in

Re: Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

2007-08-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:38:01AM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I have been trying to find out the exact and proper way to set the > host and domain name on Debian and it's clear as mud. Searching the > internet gives all sorts of conflicting answers. Of course. Debian changes. UNIX changes.

kbuild fouls, trips, and sabotges ipw3945 wireless card installation

2007-08-31 Thread dan baker
I have heard from a user on irc #debian that I can use modules to get the ipw3945 wireless card working. I downloaded ipw3945-modules-2.6.22-1-686_2.6.2 2+1.2.1-1_i386.deb and installed it using kpackage. The log from kpackage shows that it installed: RESULT=$? (Reading database ... 15037

Re: aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?

2007-08-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 20:24:43 +0200, Chris wrote: > On Friday 31 August 2007 18:42, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Chris writes: > > > sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends > > > > > > can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example): > > > > > > The following packages are RE

Re: Aptitude behaving strangely

2007-08-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:46:15PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > My aptitude (uptodate Sid) has been behaving rather strangely lately. When > > doing updates, it seems to always hang for long periods of time while > > displaying

Re: hard disk crash

2007-08-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 23:19:26 +0200, steef wrote: > hi you all out there, > > one of my hd's crashed completely for unknown reasons. i tried several > solutions without any result. knoppix 5.0 recognized the partition with > data (/dev/hda1) but refuses to mount it: 'i could not determine the

hard disk crash

2007-08-31 Thread pinniped
somebody out there who can give me a helping hand to repair somehow the hd or point me to a method/way or program to rescue at least my holiday-photographs from france i put on the hd two hours before the crash...? The most important thing is to avoid using the disk as much as possible (do not

Re: Aptitude behaving strangely

2007-08-31 Thread Wayne Topa
Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > My aptitude (uptodate Sid) has been behaving rather strangely lately. When > doing updates, it seems to always hang for long periods of time while > displaying the line: > > 99% [5 Packages 4308] > > or similar. No processor, ne

Re: Suspend problem on T60 (moved)

2007-08-31 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:11:07PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I'm running Etch on a Lenovo T60. Up to now, I haven't had a > problem suspending my computer by shutting the lid. (I've now sent this message to the debian-laptop list, which I should have done originally. Apologies for the du

Re: lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
I do not use Thunderbird and never tried Lightning, but this is what I found with some after trying both and little bit of 'find'ing... On 8/31/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my > > home comp

Re: hard disk crash

2007-08-31 Thread Peter Greff
Am Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:19:26 +0200 steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > hi you all out there, > > one of my hd's crashed completely for unknown reasons. i tried several > solutions without any result. knoppix 5.0 recognized the partition > with data (/dev/hda1) but refuses to mount it: 'i could

Re: Opera vs Kmail, Kontact, Konversation

2007-08-31 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. P Kapat, 01.09.2007 00:29: > One thing that annoys me > is that if you come across a .torrent file on the net, using opera, it > doesn't give you a option to just download the .torrent file or even > better open with another application. Never tried to change that behaviour? See Preferences →

Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?

2007-08-31 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:04:14PM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager, > > but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the screen > > is locked with a

Re: Opera vs Kmail, Kontact, Konversation

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
On 8/31/07, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Notice, that Opera can do all of this (email, usenet, rss feeds, irc, web > surfing, contacts... and more, inside one app, and all at the same time. And also download torrents!!! > Now that I said that is anyone running Opera using All of its abil

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue... > > Here is .bashrc: (kindly bear with the unnecessary aliases and may be > > broken lines. Also for anonymity I have changed the ac

Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager, > but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the screen > is locked with a screen-saver. I do not quite understand the issues!! (1) What go

Re: Xen dom0 non-PAE kernel frustrations

2007-08-31 Thread Remco Bressers
Bill Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:40:26 +0200 Remco Bressers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using apt-get to install a xen image and hypervisor won't work, so i tried compiling my own kernel. After a lot of hard work (i'm used to FreeBSD),

Re: Xen dom0 non-PAE kernel frustrations

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:40:26 +0200 Remco Bressers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using apt-get to install a xen image and hypervisor won't work, so i > tried compiling my own kernel. After a lot of hard work (i'm used to > FreeBSD), i managed to comp

ip / iproute obeleted? Secondary IPs vs. IP Aliases

2007-08-31 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I'm trying to install some software that is able to add secondary IP addresses to the computer. I've alway used to useing ip aliases, with ifconfig, for example.: eth0:1 The docs I'm reading recommend using "secondary ips" instead of aliases. It says that IP Aliases are deprecated in favor of "

Xen dom0 non-PAE kernel frustrations

2007-08-31 Thread Remco Bressers
After 10 years of FreeBSD fun, i started out with Debian because of the excellent HP software support on it and Xen support which FreeBSD lacks bigtime. I'm pretty happy with the result, but i'm getting really frustrated by my Xen installation. In the domU i am going to run an OpenFiler image, w

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue... > > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No I am not sourcing any other file... I can provide the two files here >

hard disk crash

2007-08-31 Thread steef
hi you all out there, one of my hd's crashed completely for unknown reasons. i tried several solutions without any result. knoppix 5.0 recognized the partition with data (/dev/hda1) but refuses to mount it: 'i could not determine the filesystem etc. etc. ' the debian etch network installer

Suspend problem on T60

2007-08-31 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I'm running Etch on a Lenovo T60. Up to now, I haven't had a problem suspending my computer by shutting the lid. This morning, I tried to do this and it didn't work; it locked the screensaver, but did not suspend. When I re-entered my password, there was a message from Gnome Power Manager saying t

Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?

2007-08-31 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-30 > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:27:56 +0530 > "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager, > > but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the screen > > is loc

Re: Editing a text file with sed

2007-08-31 Thread Joe Hart
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:26:25 Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/29/2007 08:17 AM, Joe Hart wrote: > > I am having trouble using sed to edit text files, heres a good example of > > what I am looking for: > > > > > > This is a test > > file, what I am > > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > > >

Aptitude behaving strangely

2007-08-31 Thread Celejar
Hi, My aptitude (uptodate Sid) has been behaving rather strangely lately. When doing updates, it seems to always hang for long periods of time while displaying the line: 99% [5 Packages 4308] or similar. No processor, network or HDD usage seems to be occurring. It subsequently generally fin

Re: aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?

2007-08-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/31/2007 01:24 PM, Chris wrote: That at least explains the behavior, and makes sense I guess. But I'd actually like it to really install all "recommends", for all packages I have installed. This Perl script won't do the installs for you, but it should give you a look at what you mig

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
Here is some more information: On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue... > > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...snip...] > > > The funny part is though onl

I hope You are satisfied now :)

2007-08-31 Thread dunkel
The original problem was: "However if I run "snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 192.168.1.36 system" on the stable box, with 192.168.1.36 the IP address of the testing box, i get: Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.36 snmpd is up and running, I can ping both ways, there are no firewalls in place. What cou

Opera vs Kmail, Kontact, Konversation

2007-08-31 Thread Rick
Notice, that Opera can do all of this (email, usenet, rss feeds, irc, web surfing, contacts... and more, inside one app, and all at the same time. Now that I said that is anyone running Opera using All of its abilities.? and if so, ANY problems have you notice? (corruption?) loss data ?..etc

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue... On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No I am not sourcing any other file... I can provide the two files here if > > necessary.. > > That might be worthwhile. Here is

Re: lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my >> home computer and at my univ computer. I want to keep Lightning data on >> both computer in sync. Any idea how to go about doing this?

Re: lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

2007-08-31 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my > home computer and at my univ computer. I want to keep Lightning data on > both computer in sync. Any idea how to go about doing this? (for now, I > am not interested in installing a calendar server o

NMI received, likely on the PCI bus

2007-08-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
"NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a hardware problem. In the last couple of days I've received this worrying message during re-awakening from suspend to disk. It doesn't seem to happen in ordinary booting. I googled for similar messages and found a few but no ver

Re: aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?

2007-08-31 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:09:49 +0200 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends > > can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example): > > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: > libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxalan2-java-gcj > > Than

Re: aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?

2007-08-31 Thread Chris
On Friday 31 August 2007 18:42, Sven Joachim wrote: > Hello, > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends > > > > can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example): > > > > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: > > libjaxp1

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No I am not sourcing any other file... I can provide the two files here if > necessary.. That might be worthwhile. > > set -x > Ok, I did that. The outcome is the following: > When I login remotely (thru ssh) or on a VT, I see the variables from

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:55:52AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Unless you REALLY know what you're doing, upgrading from Ubuntu to > > Debian (And vice-versa) is nearly impossible and unsupported by the > >

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 31 09:13 -0500]: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:09:23 +0100, Rolando Pereira wrote: >>> [ "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ] wrote [ pretending to be Bob Proulx ]: I love Debian so much that when I see the Debian boot screen my rocket

Re: Locale won't set

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haines Brown wrote: > I'm runing debian etch, and things worked until recently when I tried > to reconfigure locales. Somehow I found myself in a position where I > can't reconfigure locales, and snooping online suggests there's no > simple solution.

Re: Locale won't set

2007-08-31 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Haines. Haines Brown, 31.08.2007 18:49: > There seems to be no problem with my system's supporting en_US: > > $ locale -a > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot se

Re: aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?

2007-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
Hello, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends > > can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example): > > The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: > libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxalan2-java-gcj The aptitude manual says: -r, --wi

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX Solved!

2007-08-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Sometimes, I don't exactly feel like the brightest bulb on the tree, ( insert your favorite euphemism for dull-wittedness.) When I originally posted my problem and said that the only thing the scripts that refused to run had in common was that I had put them there, I was very close

Re: Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

2007-08-31 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jonathan Wilson wrote: Can anyone who /knows/ tell me what the proper officially correct ways of setting the hostname and the FQDN are, please? Thanks, JW -- in /etc/hostname : myhostname in /etc/hosts: 10.0.0.120 myhostname.mydomain.com myhostname set thos

Locale won't set

2007-08-31 Thread Haines Brown
I'm runing debian etch, and things worked until recently when I tried to reconfigure locales. Somehow I found myself in a position where I can't reconfigure locales, and snooping online suggests there's no simple solution. $ locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or di

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:23:20 +0200 > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> kde is by no means perfect. The last time I tried gnome, however, it >> was far worse. > >> Just one example: I still hate that all or mos

Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

2007-08-31 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I have been trying to find out the exact and proper way to set the host and domain name on Debian and it's clear as mud. Searching the internet gives all sorts of conflicting answers. First, I thought the way to do it was to put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. Then I ended up with host.domain.domain

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread P Kapat
Ok, getting back to this library path issue: Here is Michael's response and my current reply: On 8/29/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should probably send replies to the list, so that other people can > see if/how responses helped. Yes I should, thanks. Its just the bad habit

lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

2007-08-31 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my home computer and at my univ computer. I want to keep Lightning data on both computer in sync. Any idea how to go about doing this? (for now, I am not interested in installing a calendar server of any sorts). Thanks,

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 8/30/07, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Unless you REALLY know what you're doing, upgrading from Ubuntu to > > Debian (And vice-versa) is nearly impossible and unsupported by the > > Debian community (If you did try it, we probably wouldn'

aptitude full-upgrade - why does it not install Recommended packages?

2007-08-31 Thread Chris
sudo aptitude full-upgrade --with-recommends can anyone tell me why it still reports (for example): The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxalan2-java-gcj Thanks, Chris -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: problems installing etch: no HD detected

2007-08-31 Thread Pol Hallen
> The installed HD is a Western Diginal Scorpio HD (WD800BEVS), using the > SATA port 1. I wonder if I need any special module to be loaded during > the installation... Hi Maybe, might be a controller problem. So, debian don't see any hard disk. Try switch to shell and do dmesg command. Or try dai

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick wrote: > have the typical kde panel below to launch my apps, and applets, virtual > desktop HOWEVER, its getting crowded... I would like to do the > following "IF Possible" > > is there a way to add a new panel, and have it display only "Op

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:23:20 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kde is by no means perfect. The last time I tried gnome, however, it > was far worse. > Just one example: I still hate that all or most of the gnome > applications I use (firefox and OO.o are the most prominent)

Amarok + mp3 embedded album art

2007-08-31 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, I'm seeing a strange issue. I was busy sorting my music collection, fixing tags with easytag (1.99.13-0.0 from debian-multimedia), and adding album art to the files (embedded). Then, I noticed that Amarok (1.4.4-4) displays garbled image art. I'm not enitrely sure if Amarok is fee

Re:problems installing etch: no HD detected

2007-08-31 Thread ossmaillist
so sorry I sent the reply to the wrong address!it's my first time to use maillist. i meant, for your laptop, perhaps you should use the up-to-date kernel, 2.6.22.* version. it might contain the proper drivers for your hardware. 在2007-08-31,"Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写道: Hi! I n

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Grieveson wrote: > Perhaps it's time to try gnome. kde is by no means perfect. The last time I tried gnome, however, it was far worse. Just one example: I still hate that all or most of the gnome applications I use (firefox and OO.o are the mo

Re: problems installing etch: no HD detected

2007-08-31 Thread michael
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi! I need to install etch in a notebook which has MS-Vista installed. I have shrinked the HD (using diskpart from inside Vista) in order to get room for etch. I am using the etch netinstall cd, and the gui-expert mod

problems installing etch: no HD detected

2007-08-31 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I need to install etch in a notebook which has MS-Vista installed. I have shrinked the HD (using diskpart from inside Vista) in order to get room for etch. I am using the etch netinstall cd, and the gui-expert mode with the following parameters: "acpi=off pnpbios=off noapic noapm" (I need the

Can't get USB Audio to work

2007-08-31 Thread Barry Samuels
I have a record deck with a USB connection which I last used about 9 months ago. The setup was working then and, as I remember, it was pretty straightforward to set up. Since that time there have been many Debian updates and I'm almost certainly using a later kernel. When I came to use it this

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Sam Leon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love Debian so much that when I see the Debian boot screen my rocket takes off!! Me too Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:09:23 +0100, Rolando Pereira wrote: [ "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ] wrote [ pretending to be Bob Proulx ]: I love Debian so much that when I see the Debian boot screen my rocket takes off!! I wish I had a hamster powered rocket... I wish you had not s

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolando Pereira wrote: > (And if he had nothing to do, how come my email went to his mailbox > directly?) ... because someone sent an email with his forged from-address: Excerpts of the source of the 'original' email [snip] Received: from esc69.midph

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Rolando Pereira
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:09:23 +0100, Rolando Pereira wrote: [ "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ] wrote [ pretending to be Bob Proulx ]: I love Debian so much that when I see the Debian boot screen my rocket takes off!! I wish I had a hamster powered rocket... I wish you had not s

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:09:23 +0100, Rolando Pereira wrote: > [ "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ] wrote [ pretending to be Bob Proulx ]: >> I love Debian so much that when I see the Debian boot screen my rocket >> takes off!! > > I wish I had a hamster powered rocket... I wish you had not sent your reply

Re: Asking about installation Debian Linux

2007-08-31 Thread 应富鸣
On 8/31/07, €(r)!(c) Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi dear Mr/Mrs, > > > Several days ago, I succeded download the DVD version of DVD intel x86 for > Debian Linux and when I wanted to install Linux during the process of > installation I got the problems. > The DVD RW isn't able to be detected

Sarge_2.4.27-3__kernel_panic

2007-08-31 Thread pinniped
Now I can't boot into either the newly installed K6 kernel or the older 386 version and get the following messages at boot time from either pivot_root: no such file or directory /sbin/init: 432 cannot open dev/console no such file kernel panic: attempted to kill init ! The trick is to

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-31 Thread 应富鸣
On 8/31/07, Rolando Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 应富鸣 wrote: > > On 8/31/07, Britton Kerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just bought a computer that came with ubuntu and would like to switch > >> it to pure debian. Is there a standard way to do this that someone > >> could point me to?

xen-pae and headerfiles

2007-08-31 Thread Frank
By default the xen-pae version is installed but I don't need it because the maschine has only 512MB. Should I still use pae and how could I get rid of pae packages? Also by default no xen header files are installed. Are they optional or what for xen uses it? etch01:~# apt-get install xen-l

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-31 Thread Rolando Pereira
应富鸣 wrote: On 8/31/07, Britton Kerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just bought a computer that came with ubuntu and would like to switch it to pure debian. Is there a standard way to do this that someone could point me to? (Though I will say that little hack where the shell tells you which pac

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Rolando Pereira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love Debian so much that when I see the Debian boot screen my rocket takes off!! I wish I had a hamster powered rocket... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hdparm configuration help

2007-08-31 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After the recent udev + hdparm problems, I'm > thinking > > of reconfiguring hdparm (hdparm currently is not > > configured, just reinstalled, so I'm assuming it's > > currently using default settings) > > >

Re: Editing a text file with sed

2007-08-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Hart wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:01:20 Adam W wrote: Single quotes go around the whole sed script unless you are using a separate sed script file. try sed 's/\n//' 1.txt > 2.txt - Adam On 8/29/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 15:17:46 +

Sarge_2.4.27-3__kernel_panic

2007-08-31 Thread Cousin Stanley
Greetings A few days ago I moved a hdd with a Sarge installation that had run for a little over 3 years in an old Compaq box to another old HP box because the power supply in the Compaq died and the HP power supply wouldn't fit the Compaq :-) The Compaq box had a Cyrix proc

Re: New installation - cannot increase the screen resolution

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chan Lee wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Debian using DVD set from CheapBytes > into a new HP Pavilion Slimline s3020n desktop. It has > Nvidia GeForce 6150LE graphics adaptor driving 1280x1024 > resolution. > > Thrying to increase

New installation - cannot increase the screen resolution

2007-08-31 Thread Chan Lee
Hi, I just installed Debian using DVD set from CheapBytes into a new HP Pavilion Slimline s3020n desktop. It has Nvidia GeForce 6150LE graphics adaptor driving 1280x1024 resolution. Thrying to increase the screen resolution using the Screen resoultion preference tool, however, I

Re: conexant hsf drivers and linux 2.6.22 [eid-20070828-fee]

2007-08-31 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi it seems to work now (?) probably it was a problem of the first boot? Linuxant support (Jonathan) wrote: Hi, the latest version of the driver (7.60.00.09) should work well on the 2.6.22 kernel. If not, Lorenzo should send a dump to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that can be generated with the 'hsfc

Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

2007-08-31 Thread Paul Scott
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-08-29 20:40:28 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: So have I been missing the main point? Is the recent change in CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS the problem? I have no problems with this recent change on my x86 machine. Also, if I understand correctly, most programs no longer

Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

2007-08-31 Thread Paul Scott
Wayne Topa wrote: OK from your Aug 26 post CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=Y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT+256 ^ That should be = Not + That should not have happend, unless you ignored the warning at the top of the file. " # Automatically generated make config: don't edit" These are bot