Re: DPI change from Etch to Lenny?

"Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The DPI of my Debian Testing system has changed. The change, I inferred from > "xdpyinfo", is that Stable is at 96 DPI while Testing has unexpectedly changed > to 75 DPI. Is this an intentional change, or is it a bug? I think the gdm init files _

DPI change from Etch to Lenny?

The DPI of my Debian Testing system has changed. The change, I inferred from "xdpyinfo", is that Stable is at 96 DPI while Testing has unexpectedly changed to 75 DPI. Is this an intentional change, or is it a bug? -- Masatran, R. Deepak -- To UNSUBSCRIB

getting debian fully working on System76 computers

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:59:16 -0400, "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:07:08AM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > > > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:00:55 -0400, "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > ---

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

On Sep 5, 6:00 pm, blues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 4, 10:40 pm, icelinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Linux and Open Source in general are definitely the future. > > > In an odd paradox, we can never get rid of copyrights or licenses because > > then we could not require those com

Re: Can you point me to a Yellow Dog group plz...

On Sep 5, 9:30 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/05/07 20:37, blues wrote: > > > I am now trying to get my IMac up and running with Yellow Dog 4.1, and > > I am stuck pretty soon into the gameI have several computers in > > th

Synaptic cannot find Release.gpg files

I have a PC with an AMD Athlon 64 3500x chip. I use Debian unstable, i386 port. For about the last week, synaptic has been unable to find the following files: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release.gpg http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg What is the problem

KDSETKEYCODE: No Such Device. Cannot Set scancode xx to keycode xxx.

Hi guys: I installed debian 4.0R1 etch on my DELL pc and have been working on it for days. All of a sudden when I reboot the system (maybe has some thing with what I did on gnome package management), the system can not start X automatically, and there are many error messages during startup: " fai

Re: Can you point me to a Yellow Dog group plz...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/07 20:37, blues wrote: > I am now trying to get my IMac up and running with Yellow Dog 4.1, and > I am stuck pretty soon into the gameI have several computers in > this room, and all of them can get online no problem...except this > IMac..

Re: Problems regarding sound ... Or udev?

Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > vivek shah wrote: > > > > I am using Debain Etch on my Acer laptop and it was running > > fine till the sound stopped working suddenly. I was playing a movie on > > [snip] > > Please note I did no upgrade or package install when this problem > > occured.

Can you point me to a Yellow Dog group plz...

I am now trying to get my IMac up and running with Yellow Dog 4.1, and I am stuck pretty soon into the gameI have several computers in this room, and all of them can get online no problem...except this IMac...the ethernet cable is plugged in, and I see eth0 in my network configuration window..

Re: Whois DNS help needed

Rick wrote: have a problem, need to find out how many websites, belong to a dns server... (don't know the websites) example: if name server is: "ns1234.comp.com" http://whois.domaintools.com That website should perform the operations that you require. Julian De Marchi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Whois DNS help needed

have a problem, need to find out how many websites, belong to a dns server... (don't know the websites) example: if name server is: "ns1234.comp.com" how can I find out how many website are link to that name server ?, what command syntax would be used, or what application, if at all possible. M

Disk not listed in /dev/disk/by-uuid

I am having problems mounting one of my USB disks by its UUID. (snip) Any hints, pointers, or advice would be greatly appreciated. Do you really mean USB disk (HD via USB) or USB sticks? I'm just curious; the USB flash memory may not have a UUID. A possible workaround is to use 'udevinfo'

Re: Netatalk stopped working on Sid

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Peter Gutbrod wrote: > Netatalk worked on my Debian box some times ago, but I didn't use it much. > So I can't really say when it actually broke. This week I've updated Sid via > aptitude and found Netatalk (2.3.0-6) to be broken. > > I get the following in syslog of the debian

Managing grub/menu.lst with multiple distros

Hi all, I have been trying to find out how to get grub updated for both Debian(Sid) and the recently installed Gutsy(pre-release). Ubuntu's installed installed Grub on hd0 automatically without prompting and I had to reinstall it using Debian's /boot. Is there a way that each of them can update g

Network cards changed after kernel upgrade in Etch

Hi! I am having problems when I upgrade the Etch in my servers. The NICs designations are changing. For example, in a machine the NIC was eth0 with 2.6.18-4-686 kernel. After the first upgrade, the NIC was renamed to eth1. The same fact occurs with 2.6.21-2 kernel (Etch-backports). What is the cau

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

On Sep 4, 10:40 pm, icelinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Linux and Open Source in general are definitely the future. > > In an odd paradox, we can never get rid of copyrights or licenses because > then we could not require those companies or persons who sell open source > software to make the

Re: Two Xorg processes?

Florian Kulzer ha scritto: I would log out and check if the second Xorg process is still there, to see if the problem is tied to your account or not. Still there. Then I would temporarily switch to xdm or gdm and check if the anomaly is still occurring. This will hopefully tell us if we have

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

On 09/05/2007 02:57 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: [...] The 'licensing limitations' concern the fonts themselves. Many fonts, including non-free, licensed ones, are allowed to be embedded into pdf's. Then there are fonts that are not allowed to do so, but which still can be included as a subset, i.e

Re: Two Xorg processes?

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 22:53:22 +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote: > Florian Kulzer ha scritto: >> Did you at some point in the past use "Switch User" to start a new >> session on tty8? It would be interesting to know what options are used >> when the second Xorg process is started. Here is what I see:

Re: Disk not listed in /dev/disk/by-uuid

> what does 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/' and 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/' show? I did not mention this clearly enough, the disk is not shown AT ALL in /dev/disk/by-uuid. Be a better Globetrotter. Get better t

Re: Two Xorg processes?

Florian Kulzer ha scritto: Did you at some point in the past use "Switch User" to start a new session on tty8? It would be interesting to know what options are used when the second Xorg process is started. Here is what I see: $ pstree -a $(pgrep -P1 kdm) kdm -config /var/run/kdm/kdmrc ├─Xorg -

Bluetooth mouse not connecting using Lenny

Hi List, Since my upgrade to Lenny, my mouse doesn't connect automatically anymore. To get my mouse working, I have to remove my USB bluetooth dongle and put it back. I've compared the modules before and after but everything is the same. Any one a suggestion what's going wrong? Kind regards,

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

Mumia W.." > Sjoerd Hiemstra: > > Nelson A. de Oliveira: > > > Mumia W..: > > > > See if you can get the barcode font embedded in the PDF file. > > > > > > The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use > > > here. We don't have control over the PDF. > > > We want to change all mach

Re: inserting line breals

On 9/5/07, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > The following one-liner should do it (it works for me): > > > > perl -pe '$_ .= "\n"' > > > > You could also do the following: > > > > perl -pi.bak -e '$_ .= "\n"' > > > > will now contain the double-spaced text, and .bak >

Re: inserting line breals

Michael Marsh wrote: On 9/5/07, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found a perl script on the 'Net that does a very good job of recursively searching a directory of sub-directories and files. I pipe the output to the 'mail' program and email it to myself. However it would help the readabil

unable to install Dell Photo Printer 720

This what I did: - downloaded the driver. The Dell 720 is a rebranding of Lexmark and RedHat has a package for the driver. - I untarred the tarball - used alien to create .deb files - used dpkg -i to install the .deb files - used "Add a Printer" - it detected my printer USB port but could not of

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote: Hi, No idea whats gone wrong - I did a get updates thing using dselect whilst installing some other software and find loads of my configurations have changed. I guess its a result of this: http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070817 Firs

Re: Setting [u|f]mask on a bind mount

On 09/01/2007 01:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Glen Pfeiffer wrote: >> I tried mounting a directory like so: >> >> mount --bind -o umask=0117 /home/files /home/glen/files >> >> What I am shooting for, is that all files created in >> /home/glen/files will have the permissions 660. > > But those are

Re: emacs can't find fonts---fixed, but not explained

Max Hyre wrote: >I've installed plenty of fonts (xfonts-100dpi, > xfonts-75dpi, msttcorefonts [for shame!], gsfonts-x11, &c., > but emacs22 finds roughly zilch. I had occasion to reboot, and now everything works fine. Any ideas about /that/? -- Best wishes, Max

Re: inserting line breals

On 9/5/07, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found a perl script on the 'Net that does a very good job of > recursively searching a directory of sub-directories and files. I pipe > the output to the 'mail' program and email it to myself. However it > would help the readability of the text

Re: Two Xorg processes?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 22:13:39 +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote: > Florian Kulzer ha scritto: >>> I have noticed that I have two Xorg processes running >> Did you already try to log out and restart kdm? > > Yes. It happens at every boot. > > I wouldn't bother if I were at least sure that the second Xo

inserting line breals

I've found a perl script on the 'Net that does a very good job of recursively searching a directory of sub-directories and files. I pipe the output to the 'mail' program and email it to myself. However it would help the readability of the text if I could add an extra line break (carriage retu

Re: Rogue Directory

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Yesterday I created a new directory on my workstation so I could > mount a few NFS mounts on it. As root, I typed "mkdir /thresh" and > it worked, or seemed to. I realize I didn't actually list it, I just > tried mounting the imported filesyste

emacs can't find fonts

I've installed plenty of fonts (xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, msttcorefonts [for shame!], gsfonts-x11, &c., but emacs22 finds roughly zilch. Our story so far: I'm running vanilla etch w/Gnome, except for a) emacs22 from unstable, and b) blowing away X and Gnome, then reinstalling. (Thi

Re: crontab -e

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:43:16AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/03/07 19:46, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:22:28PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > >> I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > >> #crontab -e > >> I get the nano editor. I would really rather us

Re: Filtering Syslog-NG

Allan Wind wrote: On 2007-09-05T11:06:56-0400, Nathan wrote: destination d_ALL { file("/var/log/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$HOST/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY"); }; I need to filter out the logs from one host and have it go to a different destination. I setup the following destination: destination d_CUDA

Re: Rogue Directory

On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: Yesterday I created a new directory on my workstation so I could mount a few NFS mounts on it. As root, I typed "mkdir /thresh" and it worked, or seemed to. I realize I didn't actually list it, I just tried mounting the imported filesystems on

Re: Rogue Directory

On 09/05/2007 12:03 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Yesterday I created a new directory on my workstation so I could mount a > few NFS mounts on it. As root, I typed "mkdir /thresh" and it worked, > or seemed to. I realize I didn't actually list it, I just tried > mounting the imported filesystems on

Re: LVM

On Sep 5, 2007, at 6:02 AM, Jeff Fisher wrote: Create a new logical volume of the exact same size, unmount the original logical volume, then do: dd if=/dev/vgsource/lvsource of=/dev/vgdest/lvdest bs=262144 This should be the fastest, and guaranteed to copy all the attributes. The speed impr

Re: crontab -e

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Maarten Verwijs wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:38:03PM -0700, Raquel wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:24:16 +0200 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm, I thought it was configured using the update-alternatives system. However, when I run (as root): #update-alte

Netatalk stopped working on Sid

Netatalk worked on my Debian box some times ago, but I didn't use it much. So I can't really say when it actually broke. This week I've updated Sid via aptitude and found Netatalk (2.3.0-6) to be broken. I get the following in syslog of the debian box, when I try to contact to a new clean (without

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:39:57 -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: [...] > lprng lets me set up my own filters. The only filters I need are > easy: pnm2ppa and a little something that prepends some postscript > that tells my HP 4050 JetDirect to be in duplex mode. > > One of the simple tasks that I

Rogue Directory

Yesterday I created a new directory on my workstation so I could mount a few NFS mounts on it. As root, I typed "mkdir /thresh" and it worked, or seemed to. I realize I didn't actually list it, I just tried mounting the imported filesystems on it and it worked. Now when I list it, I get: ?-

Re: A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:39:27AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Great idea! File a wishlist bug against debconf. > > There was a sub-thread about this back in March: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/03/msg02895.html > > Andrei said that there was work in progress for a merge > option

Re: Filtering Syslog-NG

On 2007-09-05T11:06:56-0400, Nathan wrote: > destination d_ALL { > file("/var/log/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$HOST/$R_YEAR-$R_MONTH-$R_DAY"); }; > > > I need to filter out the logs from one host and have it go to a > different destination. > > I setup the following destination: > > destination d_CUDA {

Re: Opera vs Kmail, Kontact, Konversation

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:49:13PM -0400, Rick 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. > Now that I said that is anyone running Opera using All of its abilities.? > and if so

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

On 09/05/2007 09:39 AM, Steve Newcomb wrote: [...] One of the simple tasks that I have never succeeded in getting Cupsys to do, even after many hours of fiddling, was to describe the same printer hardware in two ways, one simplex and one duplex. [...] I had an unfortunate run-in also where I co

Re: crontab -e

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/07 19:46, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:22:28PM -0700, Raquel wrote: >> I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command >> #crontab -e >> I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. >> Ho

Re: "libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file"

Thanks Florian. I will install the apt-file tool. I believe I have a later version of the libgtk2.0-0 package installed, so I think Eclipse must be having touble finding the file. I'll post a message to an Eclipse forum to see how I can fix this. Thank you for your help. Scott Huey On 9/4/07,

Re: crontab -e

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:38:03PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:24:16 +0200 > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I thought it was configured using the update-alternatives > system. However, when I run (as root): > #update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim >

Filtering Syslog-NG

I've got several hosts all dumping their syslog logs to a dedicated box running syslog-ng. As it stands I used the following line in the syslog-ng.conf file to create seperate files and directories for the different boxes. destination d_ALL { file("/var/log/$R_YEAR/$R_MONTH/$HOST/$R_YEAR-$R_

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 09/04/2007 01:35 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: > > I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed > > lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly, > > it worked fine. > > > > How did cupsys get installed? I doubt that it

Remote SNMP respo

Hi Guys, I have configured snmpd server in my debian server and i am able to see only local snmp requests and when i try to do remote host using snmp i am getting the following error ERROR: netsnmp : No response from remote host I tried the following solution You just need to think about checking

Re: Display JPEG compression

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/07 09:28, Oscar Diaz Fernandez wrote: > > You can try with: identify -verbose image.jpeg I'm not sure that JPEG images store "compression level" like zip files do. > > > On 9/5/07, *Benjamí Villoslada * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Display JPEG compression

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 15:46:52 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows what command line program can display the compression info from > JPEG files? Thanks! One possibility is using the "identify" command from the imagemagick package: $ identify -verbose The-Horse-in-Motion.j

Re: Grub issues on Mac Mini?

KS wrote: > Charles Turner wrote: >> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:16:31 -0400, KS wrote: >> >> >> Also, is your Grub version Grub2 or the old one? My 09012007 AMD64 >> netinst uses Grub2... >> > > Grub version. I haven't checked but I have a strong feeling that it > wasn't the Grub2 version. I wil

Re: Is it a BUG????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ramesh j wrote: > This issue is not in windows. It boots properly after entering it > shows the system date is wrong. But in Debian it takes long time to > boot because of check disk. would u think it is a problem and it > should be fixed in the upcom

Re: Display JPEG compression

You can try with: identify -verbose image.jpeg Regards, Óscar Díaz. On 9/5/07, Benjamí Villoslada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Anyone knows what command line program can display the compression info > from > JPEG files? Thanks! > > Regards, > > -- > Benjamí > http://blog.bitassa.cat >

Re: package l 2.6.21-2-486 #1 Wed Jul 11 03:17:09 UTC 2007 i686 Lenny printing bug

On 4 Sep., 17:40, Rod Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi what am I doing wrong, how on earth can I send ths bug to debian so > they will accept and understand and perhaps even act on it? > 4x rejections with > > Your message didn't have a Package: line at the start (in the > pseudo-header follo

Re: linux on ipod nano?

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:37:45AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 15:08 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > > Gtkpod has two strange charactistics, but seems to be ususally > > workable. The oddities are > > > > - if you create an extra copy of the ipod by mistake (or w

Re: DVD plays but drive always spins full speed...

On 4 Sep., 23:50, Orbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > New to the list here so I hope this is an appropriate pots. > > I just installed Etch. To get the dvd player going I also installed: > w32codecs, > and libdvdcss2. Well dvd's play on totem and gxine ok but the driver spins > upreal > fa

Display JPEG compression

Hi, Anyone knows what command line program can display the compression info from JPEG files? Thanks! Regards, -- Benjamí http://blog.bitassa.cat .

Tomcat5, postgres.jar agh

Hi Guys, I'm trying to access psql from Tomcat5. I got the correct driver because my command-lind test program works fine. So I copied the driver into /usr/share/tomcat5/common/lib, like the documentation says. Then I kept getting Error occurred: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Something un

Re: LVM

Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Yuriy Padlyak<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ok, but I don't know how to move ext3 file system or it's content >> without loosing any file attributes, etc either :) >> > > Create a new logical volume of the exac

Re: linux on ipod nano?

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 15:08 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > In fact, I mis-reported in the original post. I am using gtkpod, not > gpod. Gtkpod has two strange charactistics, but seems to be ususally > workable. The oddities are > > - if you create an extra copy of the ipod by mistake (or wh

cgal (libcgal-dev) bizarre licensing

libcgal-dev looks really handy ... but then on the website (www.cgal.org) I noticed it uses the obnoxious[1] "QPL" license, so I thought "oh I can't use it with my (GPL) app." ... but then I noticed some parts of cgal actually use the LGPL, including the functionality I want to use (surface subdi

Re: /etc/timezone got lost

On 5 sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > During one of the last upgrades of the package tzdata on testing > (Lenny/Sid) the file /etc/timezone was deleted and not re-created. > Has anyone else experienced this? > With the command > dpkg-reconfigure tzdata > /etc/timezone is restored. I had the

Re: LEDs, gnome-power-manager, and ThinkPads

* Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 05 02:53 -0500]: > Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to turn the light to the CD-ROM off when I suspend and then > > back on when I resume. This can be done by calling "echo 4 on >| > > /proc/acpi/ibm/led" and "echo 4 off >| /proc/acp

RE: /etc/timezone got lost

you can actually recreate the /etc/timezone by creating a new symbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/ and then check to see which applies to you. so ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/{check to see what applies to you here} /etc/timezone During one of the last upgrades of the package tzdata on testin

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:56:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > G.W. Haywood wrote: > > ~$> echo "24 * 365.25" | bc > > 8766.00 > > > > but I only did this to illustrate the more compact use of some system > > tools, in this case 'echo', 'bc' and a pipe. :) > > While I am a long time bc user and w

Re: LEDs, gnome-power-manager, and ThinkPads

Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to turn the light to the CD-ROM off when I suspend and then > back on when I resume. This can be done by calling "echo 4 on >| > /proc/acpi/ibm/led" and "echo 4 off >| /proc/acpi/ibm/led". Can these > commands be run by gnome-power-manager when sus

/etc/timezone got lost

During one of the last upgrades of the package tzdata on testing (Lenny/Sid) the file /etc/timezone was deleted and not re-created. Has anyone else experienced this? With the command dpkg-reconfigure tzdata /etc/timezone is restored. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: libpango update broke iceape synaptic and more

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 21:55:21 -0500, Don wrote: > Steve Kemp wrote: >> On Tue Sep 04, 2007 at 11:54:23 -0500, Don wrote: >>> I am using "sid" and yesterday my update/upgrade broke iceape, synaptic, >>> and some others. I've had problems with libpango before, but this one >>> has me stumped.

Re: Is it a BUG????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ramesh j wrote: > Hi all, > > This is Ramesh, I am using Debian 4.0 etch. Recent days i have > experienced some problem on booting Debian in my PC. > > Problem Description: - > > 1. My BIOS battery is getting down so my syst

LEDs, gnome-power-manager, and ThinkPads

I'd like to turn the light to the CD-ROM off when I suspend and then back on when I resume. This can be done by calling "echo 4 on >| /proc/acpi/ibm/led" and "echo 4 off >| /proc/acpi/ibm/led". Can these commands be run by gnome-power-manager when suspending and waking up? -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL

Re: hard disk crash revisiited

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: dear florian, pinneped and others, thanks to your help (and some further study of myself) did I succeed this afternoon in recovering 50GB of data from a completely crashed hd (see a former thread). dd_rescue and fsck did the job in this case. thanks agai