Re: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts

2007-09-08 Thread Robert Epprecht
Mumia, thanks a lot for taking your time. "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 09/08/2007 10:49 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I don't know exactly the function of APP_CHARSET_MAP in >>> /etc/console-tools/config, but you could try setting it

The current status of tetex -> texlive transition?

2007-09-08 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am running up-to-date Etch on my desktop. I would like to upgrade to Lenny recently. I wonder the current status of tetex -> texlive transition. Is there going to be any known problem during the upgrade? Do I need to purge some related packages

Re: read/write compressed fs

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:34:54PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/08/2007 06:53 PM, Alex Samad wrote: >> Hi >> I have a separate lvm for my /usr/share/doc, I would like to have this on >> a compressed fs, just recently loaded libgcj-doc which took up ~500Mb for >> a 45M deb file mainly text file

Re: Vote for Debian on Lenovo

2007-09-08 Thread arijit sarkar
On Sunday 09 Sep 2007 3:55:21 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:20:29AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 > > thanks for the head up. vote cast, interesting to note that Untunbu is > leading the pack by a lot with deb a distant sec

Re: Always falling to grub prompt

2007-09-08 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:53:20PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > It's late and I'm tired but something looks wrong to me. > Do you have 4 hard drives or is this one (1) HD with > > You say /dev/hdd [(hd1,0)] > > But to me /dev/hda -> (hd0,0) > /hdb -> (hd1,0) > /hdc ->

etc/X11/xorg.conf format change?

2007-09-08 Thread Michael M.
I recently reinstalled Debian Lenny and have just realized that my new /etc/X11/xorg.conf has some substantial differences from the version I had previously. (I was also using Lenny previously, upgraded from Etch rather than installed from scratch.) Gone are the "Files" and "Modules" sections. Y

Re: need deb package help

2007-09-08 Thread PhxVyper
> > try "apt-cache search php mcrypt" > Hi, All this does is show me what I already know - that php5-mcrypt is installed (which I did yesterday). What I need to know is how do I take a deb package libapache2-mod-php5 that I have installed and get it to work with php5-mcrypt? The PHP site says t

Re: Always falling to grub prompt

2007-09-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Victor Munoz([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello. It's been about a week that I've been unable to boot normally. > Every time I get the grub prompt, and then I have to go through the > sequence of commands "root/kernel/initrd/boot". I understand that this > may occur due to some de

Re: read/write compressed fs

2007-09-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/08/2007 06:53 PM, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I have a separate lvm for my /usr/share/doc, I would like to have this on a compressed fs, just recently loaded libgcj-doc which took up ~500Mb for a 45M deb file mainly text files. is there a debian way of doing that ? Alex Although it relate

Re: Always falling to grub prompt

2007-09-08 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:07:39PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > > Disk /dev/hdd: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x00014f58 > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id

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

2007-09-08 Thread tomviolin
I had the same problem when adding a new SCSI disk. I found that the device did show up in /dev/disk/by-id so I added the following line to my /etc/fstab. /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1RaidWeb.Com_00489HP0006-part1 /media/backup_raid ext3 defaults,acl 0 3 It worked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Always falling to grub prompt

2007-09-08 Thread Victor Munoz
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:45:03PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > can you manually load the menu.lst? > > grub> configfile (hd1,0)/grub/menu.list > > should get you a menu. Its at least easier than type all the root, > kernel etc lines. Thanks for the tip, didn't know the command, but n

Re: need deb package help

2007-09-08 Thread bUg.
PhxVyper пишет: Hi, I'm very new to Debian and deb packages. I have installed a number of different deb packages for Apache, PHP5, etc. The libapache2-mod-php5 package I installed has a number of extensions built in, but there are some that are missing that I need. php5-mcrypt php5-xmlrpc a

need deb package help

2007-09-08 Thread PhxVyper
Hi, I'm very new to Debian and deb packages. I have installed a number of different deb packages for Apache, PHP5, etc. The libapache2-mod-php5 package I installed has a number of extensions built in, but there are some that are missing that I need. php5-mcrypt php5-xmlrpc are just a couple.

Re: Always falling to grub prompt

2007-09-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 07:45:36PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > Hello. It's been about a week that I've been unable to boot normally. > Every time I get the grub prompt, and then I have to go through the > sequence of commands "root/kernel/initrd/boot". I understand that this > may occur due to som

Re: growisofs fails

2007-09-08 Thread koffiejunkie
David wrote: Still, it sounds like hardware problems if you didn't change any config between it working then stopping working. The forum posts were mainly for people who had the problem from the start. Well, I'm running Lenny, so things are changing every day. It looks like it might be a medi

read/write compressed fs

2007-09-08 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a separate lvm for my /usr/share/doc, I would like to have this on a compressed fs, just recently loaded libgcj-doc which took up ~500Mb for a 45M deb file mainly text files. is there a debian way of doing that ? Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Always falling to grub prompt

2007-09-08 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. It's been about a week that I've been unable to boot normally. Every time I get the grub prompt, and then I have to go through the sequence of commands "root/kernel/initrd/boot". I understand that this may occur due to some defective file, but I can't see anything abnormal in menu.lst, devic

Re: Asus P5k SE Debian Etch

2007-09-08 Thread Richard Riley
Unfortunately that is not really an option as I don't have another SATA system or access to any Debian using freinds and colleagues. I understand that by replacing the IDE DVD with a SATA drive it should work. Sounds the easiest solution. Although I dont't suppose any one out there can make a lat

Re: Vote for Debian on Lenovo

2007-09-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:20:29AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 thanks for the head up. vote cast, interesting to note that Untunbu is leading the pack by a lot with deb a distant second (something like 900+ for U with 200+ for deb) and then the rest are

Re: Asus P5k SE Debian Etch

2007-09-08 Thread Bruno Voigt
rgr wrote: Has anything more come of this? I have tried etch-custom with no joy. Anyone? I have the same Mobo as the OP. Asus p5K SE. It boots from the dvd but fails to mount it saying no cdrom found. There doesn't appear to be a suitable device node when examining /dev from a terminal either.

Vote for Debian on Lenovo

2007-09-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Asus P5k SE Debian Etch

2007-09-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:20:10PM +0200, rgr wrote: > > Has anything more come of this? I have tried etch-custom with no joy. > > Anyone? I have the same Mobo as the OP. Asus p5K SE. It boots from the dvd > but fails to mount it saying no cdrom found. There doesn't appear to be a > suitable de

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-09-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 22:25:02 +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: > 2007/9/8, Florian Kulzer: > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 19:00:58 +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: [...] > > > I reverted too to the "nv" driver and I have no crash so far, but > > > some application just can't to start. > > > > > > I get the erro

Re: File Browser defective

2007-09-08 Thread David
> It appears to have retained the directory hierarchy, and deleted about > 1.3GB of photographs with an average file size of about 1MB. > It's possible that your files were moved somewhere else under your home directory (maybe trash or a temporary dir). I assume also that the directory you're talk

Re: growisofs fails

2007-09-08 Thread David
> I found a few forums threads (for other distros) where people reported > the same problem, but there was no conclusive solution. > Here is one thread which might be useful: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=185567 Basically the guy upgraded to the latest OS version (Mand

Re: growisofs fails

2007-09-08 Thread David
> > Weird thing is, it does actually write to the disc - the first couple of > MB at least. If I put the disc in afterwards, it's got the correct label > and table of contents. The rewritable discs I have (DVD+RW) work just > fine, and the Verbatim discs work just fine when I use an external USB

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-09-08 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/9/8, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 19:00:58 +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: > > > A few days ago I reverted to the "nv" driver and so far so good (it's > > > still a bit early to be sure though though). Interestingly, the > > > occasional APIC error I used to see in

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-09-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 19:00:58 +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: > Hello! > > > A few days ago I reverted to the "nv" driver and so far so good (it's > > still a bit early to be sure though though). Interestingly, the > > occasional APIC error I used to see in dmesg (a couple a day at most?) > > seems t

Re: Suspicious PAM messages

2007-09-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.07.07 11:11, Alok G. Singh wrote: > Of late (a week or so) I have started noticing some strange syslog > messages: > > su: PAM [dlerror: libselinux.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: > Cannot allocate memory]: 2 Time(s) > su: PAM [dlerror: libsepol.so.1: failed to map segment f

growisofs fails

2007-09-08 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm suddenly getting failures when trying to write to DVD. The discs are Verbatim DVD+R - same as always. Trying to write a DVD .ISO to disc, K3B shows this in the debug output: growisofs --- Executing 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdc: "

Re: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts

2007-09-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/08/2007 10:49 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't know exactly the function of APP_CHARSET_MAP in /etc/console-tools/config, but you could try setting it for the VC's in questions, e.g. APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc8=iso05 APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc9=iso05 This *d

Re: Loading and blacklisting modules

2007-09-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 07:03:09PM +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote: > I have already a file in modprobe.d that blacklists floppy. Now it contains > also the line > > install snd-usb-audio /sbin/modprobe snd-via82xx && /sbin/modprobe \ > --ignore-install snd-usb-audio > > However, floppy is still load

Re: How to restore restore grub after a Windows reinstall?

2007-09-08 Thread Cavan Mejias
Ok thanks knoppix really comes in handy! On 9/6/07, V A R G U X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 2007/9/6, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Alfredo Finol F wrote: > > > El jue, 06-09-2007 a las 22:07 -0400, Cavan Mejias escribió: > > > > > >> I think my windows XP partitio

Hello

2007-09-08 Thread Hírlevél Szolgálat
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File Browser defective

2007-09-08 Thread Bret Busby
I have been using the File Browser from the menu, in Debian 4.0, and it shows, using the Help->About, as being Nautilus 2.14.3. I had it open, in one of the directories where I store photographs that I have taken with a digital camera, and I also had gFTP and a couple of documents in Open Of

Re: LAMP Server setup help

2007-09-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:16:49AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > Hey, > > I have setup a test system on my home network in the past to develop & test > PHP apps by installing an ISAPI PHP dll in IIS. It worked great but now I > trying to setup a LAMP server on Debian/Lenny. I ran the following

Re: Loading and blacklisting modules

2007-09-08 Thread Davide Mancusi
Andrei Popescu ha scritto: See 'man modprobe.conf'. So, that's where the man page for modprobe.d is... There is an example for just what you need for 1. For 2. a simple 'blacklist' should be enough, but post back if it doesn't work (some modules are a bit stubborn). I have already a file i

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-09-08 Thread Pál Csányi
Hello! > A few days ago I reverted to the "nv" driver and so far so good (it's > still a bit early to be sure though though). Interestingly, the > occasional APIC error I used to see in dmesg (a couple a day at most?) > seems to have dried up. I reverted too to the "nv" driver and I have no cras

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

2007-09-08 Thread Csányi Pál
> A few days ago I reverted to the "nv" driver and so far so good (it's > still a bit early to be sure though though). Interestingly, the > occasional APIC error I used to see in dmesg (a couple a day at most?) > seems to have dried up. I reverted too zo the "nv" driver and I have no crash still

Re: Loading and blacklisting modules

2007-09-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:05:08PM +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote: > I am trying to solve two problems: > 1. Load my sound-card module ("snd_via_82xx") before "snd_usb_audio" (I > have a webcam with integrated mike); for some reason, sound won't work if > they are loaded in the opposite order; > 2.

Re: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts

2007-09-08 Thread Robert Epprecht
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know exactly the function of APP_CHARSET_MAP in > /etc/console-tools/config, but you could try setting it for the VC's > in questions, e.g. > > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc8=iso05 > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc9=iso05 This *does* has an effect: if I press german umla

Asus P5k SE Debian Etch

2007-09-08 Thread rgr
Has anything more come of this? I have tried etch-custom with no joy. Anyone? I have the same Mobo as the OP. Asus p5K SE. It boots from the dvd but fails to mount it saying no cdrom found. There doesn't appear to be a suitable device node when examining /dev from a terminal either. (Same wit

Re: mail filters (was Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy)

2007-09-08 Thread David
> > I use gmail, and I have a mail filter which says 'if the "to" > > contains debian.org, then tag with "debian" and bypass the > > inbox'. Filters like that make your mail much more manageable :-) > > This is a flawed strategy, because debian-user@lists.debian.org > might be in the CC list. Or e

LAMP Server setup help

2007-09-08 Thread Randy Patterson
Hey, I have setup a test system on my home network in the past to develop & test PHP apps by installing an ISAPI PHP dll in IIS. It worked great but now I trying to setup a LAMP server on Debian/Lenny. I ran the following command; aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 But got the f

Loading and blacklisting modules

2007-09-08 Thread Davide Mancusi
I am trying to solve two problems: 1. Load my sound-card module ("snd_via_82xx") before "snd_usb_audio" (I have a webcam with integrated mike); for some reason, sound won't work if they are loaded in the opposite order; 2. Avoid to load the "floppy" module at each boot, since I do not have a fl

Re: How to get a list of installed packages

2007-09-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Franz Edler wrote: > > Sorry if the question is too simple. I just started with debian-etch. > I now tried to figure out how I can get a list of actually installed > packages. > Is there a simple answer? > Do you really want a list of all the packages

Re: downgrade

2007-09-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:35:15PM +0800, Henry Yuniarfan wrote: > how to downgrade debian etch from 4.r1 to 4.r0 > Reinstall? More to the point, what is the problem? Since 4.0r0 and 4.0r1 only differ by security fixes, why would you want to? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: downgrade

2007-09-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:35:15PM +0800, Henry Yuniarfan wrote: > how to downgrade debian etch from 4.r1 to 4.r0 Downgrades are officially not supported and in your case I don't even know of a proper way to find the updated packages. Just out of curiosity, why do you need this? Maybe there is a

Re: How to get a list of installed packages

2007-09-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Franz Edler wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if the question is too simple. I just started with debian-etch. > I now tried to figure out how I can get a list of actually installed > packages. > Is there a simple answer? 'aptitude search ~i' or in interactive mode

Re: How to get a list of installed packages

2007-09-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, short answer: dpkg --get-selections Jerome Franz Edler wrote: Hi, Sorry if the question is too simple. I just started with debian-etch. I now tried to figure out how I can get a list of actually installed packages. Is there a simple answer? Regards franz -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbeno

Re: How to get a list of installed packages

2007-09-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Franz Edler wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if the question is too simple. I just started with debian-etch. > I now tried to figure out how I can get a list of actually installed > packages. > Is there a simple answer? Yes. dpkg -l A better answer would be dpkg

downgrade

2007-09-08 Thread Henry Yuniarfan
how to downgrade debian etch from 4.r1 to 4.r0 thanks before

Re: How to get a list of installed packages

2007-09-08 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Franz Edler wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if the question is too simple. I just started with debian-etch. > I now tried to figure out how I can get a list of actually installed > packages. > Is there a simple answer? dpkg --get-selections > installed_packages_list.txt Another option that you migt wan

How to get a list of installed packages

2007-09-08 Thread Franz Edler
Hi, Sorry if the question is too simple. I just started with debian-etch. I now tried to figure out how I can get a list of actually installed packages. Is there a simple answer? Regards franz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts

2007-09-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/08/2007 06:31 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote: [...] I do have console-tools but don't know what to do with it. Changing /etc/console-tools/config adding SCREEN_FONT_vc8=lat0-sun16 (and similar lines) does not change anything. Thank you, Robert Epprecht I don't know exactly the function o

Re: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts

2007-09-08 Thread Robert Epprecht
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 07:53:06 +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> I have activated more text consoles by adding lines like the following >> to /etc/inittab >> 8:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty8 >> If I try to type german umlauts on these new consoles I

Re: debian port of timidity doesn't work here

2007-09-08 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:49:12 -0500 (CDT) Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

mail filters (was Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy)

2007-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/07 03:45, David wrote: > On 9/8/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No. I don't expect my question generate so many replies. I have >> to sign off the list so I wrote "solved" in the hope of stoping >> good guys answering my quest

Re: text consoles 8-12 and german umlauts

2007-09-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 07:53:06 +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I have activated more text consoles by adding lines like the following > to /etc/inittab > 8:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty8 > 9:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty9 > [...] > > If I try to type german umlauts on these new consoles I

Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-08 Thread David
On 9/8/07, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. I don't expect my question generate so many replies. I have to sign off > the list so I wrote > "solved" in the hope of stoping good guys answering my question again. Might I suggest setting up mail filters so that list-related mails go d