Re: PATH to java in X11

2007-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2007 06:39 PM, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: I've created /etc/environment file like this JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.5.0_12" export JAVA_HOME PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin" export PATH Don't set the PATH this way. Specify the path list fully: JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.5.0_12 PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-09-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:52:51PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > Is there really no FLOSS app that can handle PDF signatures? I suppose > the institution could use PGP or some other better supported > technology, but as long as they choose to use Acrobat's solution, do I > really have no choice

Re: resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:11:50PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: That's what I'm doing. But is it possible to increase the size for apt-get upgrade and apt-get install? Right now I can use that 5G for personal use but for the main thing like in /usr what's the best way t

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/07 21:42, Marty wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:59:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a remote server, I ran into sever

Re: [FIXED] Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-30 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Greg Vickers wrote: > OK, I found out that Debian Etch uses a new input layer, and that the IR > inputs are in /dev/input/eventX where X corresponds the event number of > your input devices in 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices' > > So my IR device is /dev/input/event1, instead of

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/07 21:42, Marty wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:59:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: >>> While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a >>> remote server, I ran into several problems: >>> >>> 1) Selecting

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Sam Leon
Daniele Salatti wrote: Sam Leon wrote: Daniele Salatti wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, but I have a problem: every time I restart postfix I get this message: /usr/sbin/postconf: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: no version information available (r

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:31:36AM +0200, Daniele Salatti wrote: >>> I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, >>> but I have a problem: every time I restart postfix I get this >>> message: >>> >>> /usr/sbin/postconf: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: no version information

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:59:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a remote server, I ran into several problems: 1) Selecting the text using the Iceape edit->select-all menu option pegs the 2.8GB CPU at 100% for tens of

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-30 Thread Vivek.M
Thanks guys (Joey, Florian), I'll try that. (Sorry for the SPAM, it was inadvertent - i did issue a cancel from google-groups, but it doesn't seem to have worked) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:11:50PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > That's what I'm doing. But is it possible to increase the size for > apt-get upgrade and apt-get install? Right now I can use that 5G for > personal use but for the main thing like in /usr what's the best way > to make use of that 5G?

Re: resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:08:53PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > Even floppy boot is not available. > My old Thinkpad can do netbooting. Can your laptop? Or are you saying that the _only_ way to boot this thing is with its internal hard drive? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:59:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: > While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a remote > server, I ran into several problems: > > 1) Selecting the text using the Iceape edit->select-all menu option pegs > the 2.8GB CPU at 100% for tens of seconds, althoug

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:31:36AM +0200, Daniele Salatti wrote: > I can't use it because of this error (I think). It's installed...but > someway not working. I'm following an how-to, and when I reach this > point (http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/#id28 - Authenticated > SMTP) I can't

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-09-30 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > A financial institution refused to enable electronic delivery unless it > detected Acrobat Reader installed on my system. How are they doing this detection? Could you spoof it? > [Our] statements are created using Adobe Acrobat software and a digital > signature is added for se

Re: resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Manu Hack
On 9/30/07, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > >> I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was > >> running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP > >> p

Re: resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Manu Hack
On 9/30/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > > I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was > > running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP > > partition. Now the problem

Re: euro symbol in xterm (fvwm)

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:36:09 -0400, I asked how to select a font for xterms under fvwm that would display UTF8 codes. On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:37:38 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra replied: > This was discussed in this list some time ago. JW Stumpel pointed to > his site explaining how to do it: "Configuri

Re: PATH to java in X11

2007-09-30 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
I've created /etc/environment file like this JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.5.0_12" export JAVA_HOME PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin" export PATH The first time I started and logged into gdm, it failed. Then I went to /etc/ and changed environment permissions. Ok, I managed to log in, but PATH doesn't have /opt

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/07 16:52, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > A financial institution refused to enable electronic delivery unless it > detected Acrobat Reader installed on my system. When I challenged it > on this, mentioning that I use non-proprietary apps for PDF r

Re: Help Please

2007-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (I can only confirm that the 2.6.22 version of sc92031.c has the text > "Rsltek 8139D PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver" in the source code.) ^^ Is that a typo, or is a wishlist bug in order? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insuff

Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Marty
While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a remote server, I ran into several problems: 1) Selecting the text using the Iceape edit->select-all menu option pegs the 2.8GB CPU at 100% for tens of seconds, although it is much faster in subsequent attempts. 2) Each repetitio

Re: webmail for low-end VPS

2007-09-30 Thread KS
John K Masters wrote: > Can anyone recommend a webmail app suitable for a low-end VPS. I already > have Postfix/Courier setup. > > It looks like I have three choices: > 1. Squirrelmail > 2. Roundcube > 3. Imp4/Horde > > I have used squirrelmail before and was not impressed but have heard > that I

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right - got X working (dunno how - just ran through dpg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg again with same inputs and suddenly it gives me > something) but with crappo resolution. > > Here's my Xorg.conf: (what dpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg wrote): > > # /etc/X

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:53:17AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > > >What GUI are you referring to? > > > > I think they may have been referring to synaptic package manager or > > adept package manager. > > > > Actually the GUI he was referring to is the native aptitude ui, which is an

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Daniele Salatti
Sam Leon wrote: Daniele Salatti wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, but I have a problem: every time I restart postfix I get this message: /usr/sbin/postconf: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/pos

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Sam Leon
Daniele Salatti wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, but I have a problem: every time I restart postfix I get this message: /usr/sbin/postconf: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/postconf) Any idea

problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Daniele Salatti
Hi! I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, but I have a problem: every time I restart postfix I get this message: /usr/sbin/postconf: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/postconf) Any idea on how can I fix it? I

problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Daniele Salatti
Hi! I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, but I have a problem: every time I restart postfix I get this message: /usr/sbin/postconf: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/postconf) Any idea on how can I fix it? I

FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-09-30 Thread Celejar
Hi, A financial institution refused to enable electronic delivery unless it detected Acrobat Reader installed on my system. When I challenged it on this, mentioning that I use non-proprietary apps for PDF reading, the response was as follows: > Due to the security placed on certain items, such a

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-30 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:59:26 +, Chris Davies wrote: > Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 >> Photo. > >> Neither work with Debian Linux. > > Check the location of the firmware file, esfw41.bin. A few upgrades

Re: euro symbol in xterm (fvwm)

2007-09-30 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Steve Kleene wrote: > I'm testing UTF8 performance on my Etch machine. Everything seems > fine with one exception: the Euro symbol doesn't display in my xterms This was discussed in this list some time ago. JW Stumpel pointed to his site explaining how to do it: "Configuring xterm for UTF-8".

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlity? I cannot > >> work out what package it's in. > > > > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ apt-file search xf86config > > sorry - just wh

Re: resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP partition. Now the problem is I started running out of space for the et

Re: resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was > running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP > partition. Now the problem is I started running out of space for the > etch. I want to resi

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:12:50PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > I've been stumped before trying to configure X on an old sarge system. > What solved my problem when all else failed was to load knoppix, > then extract the needed info from knoppix's X config file. Ugly, but > effective. > I ne

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:09:31PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: > Right - got X working (dunno how - just ran through dpg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg again with same inputs and suddenly it gives me something) > but with crappo resolution. > It looks like its giving you 1024 x 768. What do you thi

Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

2007-09-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/28/2007 05:21 PM, Peter Smerdon wrote: > Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the >> system to turn the program off at certain times, and turn it back on at >> other times. > > You can probably use use `cron' to achiev

Re: /proc/net info ?

2007-09-30 Thread Predrag Gavrilovic
According to http://lartc.org/ chapter 13 you can find more info in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt of linux kernel documentation, and they also mention http://ipsysctl-tutorial.frozentux.net/ 2007/9/28, chloe K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all > > How can I find out all info about /proc/net ?

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/30/2007 05:00 PM, Martin Waller wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> Did you try dexconf? > I did now. It just did nothing - no error message, no output of any > kind, nothing. > Is it just me or was it easier when stuff wasn't dumbed down to > 'attract windows users'? I was never very qui

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
Right - got X working (dunno how - just ran through dpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg again with same inputs and suddenly it gives me something) but with crappo resolution. Here's my Xorg.conf: (what dpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg wrote): # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuratio

Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

2007-09-30 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:16 -0400 > > Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wonderin

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:25:49PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: > My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use > xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot > work out what package its in. As you see, "The Debian Way" is to use dpkg-reconfigure. Ofte

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:10:08PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: Thanks for yours and other's input to my irritating problem :) Did you try dexconf? I did now. It just did nothing - no error message, no output of any kind, nothing. Changed nothing. Thanks

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 30 September 2007 21:39, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 30 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's, > > and have been googling a bit, and found this. > > > > http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html

webmail for low-end VPS

2007-09-30 Thread John K Masters
Can anyone recommend a webmail app suitable for a low-end VPS. I already have Postfix/Courier setup. It looks like I have three choices: 1. Squirrelmail 2. Roundcube 3. Imp4/Horde I have used squirrelmail before and was not impressed but have heard that Imp4 is resource hungry. That leaves Roundc

Re: Help Please

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 16:13:59 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 30 September 2007 15:27, ankit . wrote: > > Sir > > > > Please help me to install intex RTL 8139d nic on debian 4.0. Debain is > > unable to detect the nic on it's own. What should I do to install the nic. > > > > The technical

Re: gnome-power-manager and hibernate-disk

2007-09-30 Thread Gerard Robin
I am sorry, I confused the lists debian-user and debian-laptop ;-) -- Gérard

Re: gnome-power-manager and hibernate-disk

2007-09-30 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:48:53AM +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: From: Franklin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-laptop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: gnome-power-manager and hibernate-disk X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.079 tagged_

Re: resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
You might want to try the gparted live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). Boot from it and resize partitions on the fly. Good Luck. -- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2007 03:01 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:18:29PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/30/2007 11:16 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: I realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's, and have been googling a bit, and found this. http://pkg-freebob.alioth

Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:10:08PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: > Thanks for yours and other's input to my irritating problem :) Did you try dexconf? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital sig

resize the partition with /

2007-09-30 Thread Manu Hack
Hi all, I have a problem with an old desktop running etch. Before it was running XP + etch dual boot. But recently I have deleted the whole XP partition. Now the problem is I started running out of space for the etch. I want to resize the partition so that I can install more programs and stuf

[Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
--- Begin Message --- Ralph Katz wrote: On 09/30/2007 01:25 PM, Martin Waller wrote: duh! My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot work out what package its in. Also, in the debian reference manu

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
s. keeling wrote: Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlity? I cannot work out what package it's in. (0) heretic /home/keeling_ apt-file search xf86config doc-linux-html: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Xinerama-HOWTO/editxf86config.ht

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:18:29PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/30/2007 11:16 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: >> I realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's, >> and have been googling a bit, and found this. >> http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html >> [...] > > I'

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlity? I cannot > work out what package it's in. (0) heretic /home/keeling_ apt-file search xf86config doc-linux-html: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Xinerama-HOWTO/editxf86config.html doc-linux-html: usr

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 30 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's, > and have been googling a bit, and found this. > > http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html > > It says to add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list, but aft

Re: how to automatically start bittornado seeding when sarge boot finish

2007-09-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:16:07AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I want to make my sarge box a seeding peer in bittornado > > Which script should I edit to add bittornado command? One option is /etc/init.d/rc.local > how make bittornado logging info on status of seeding? I don't know, did you r

Re: Re: etch + xp

2007-09-30 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
if you lose your MBR, I think the easiest way to recover it is booting from debian cd in rescue mode type "rescue" before installation starts then go to console, mount your hd, chroot to it and re-install grub $ mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt # I'm guessing that it's hdc1 where root ( / ) is. $ cd /mnt $ chr

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
Vivek.M wrote: > 2. Is there a way to tell the debian kernel module not to load certain > modules. Blacklisting doesn't seem to be the right way from what i > understood of the man modprobe.conf page. I've got pcspkr, rtc, ipv6, > ali_agp, processor etc loaded and i don;t want to rmmod them - i'd >

gdm 2.18.4 on X.org 7.3 using an ATI Radeon Mobility R250 video card - Does not look right.

2007-09-30 Thread Levi Campbell
When I first installed Debian, gdm worked like it should, but after doing a dist-upgrade, it comes up looking garbled. I can fix this problem temporarily by going to a console and restarting gdm. I'm pretty sure it's a configuration issue but I don't know enough about X11 to be able to tell, Where

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
Vivek.M wrote: > 1. I have copied my Debian CDs to hard-disk and have added the > required sources.list lines. The problem is that, when i do a apt-get > install pkg, it tries to load from the internet since they have the > latest pkg. Since i pay for data transfer, i was wondering if there > was a

Re: Re: etch + xp

2007-09-30 Thread Gargi
Hi Pierre, > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:41:48AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> >> I am running etch in a machine with two HDs. Etch is running in the >> master HD (hdc), the second HD (hdd), the slave, is empty. In the >> second >> hd (hdd) I need to install windows xp. I wonder how t

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/30/2007 01:25 PM, Martin Waller wrote: > duh! > > My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use > xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot > work out what package its in. > > Also, in the debian reference manual, at > http://www.debian.org/doc

Re: Re: etch + xp

2007-09-30 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007.09.30 13:14, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > But I want to install XP in another disk, different from which etch is > installed. So XP will install its own bootmanager into the mbr of this > different disk. Am I wright? Remember that I can tell the bios from what > disk the system boots.

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2007 12:25 PM, Martin Waller wrote: duh! My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot work out what package its in. Also, in the debian reference manual, at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/r

Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/07 12:25, Martin Waller wrote: > duh! > > My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use > xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot > work out what package its in. > > Also, in the debian refere

Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

2007-09-30 Thread ndemou
On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:16 -0400 > Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the > > > system to turn the program off at certain

Re: Mail<->News gateway seems to be broken

2007-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/07 12:03, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:36:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 09/30/07 09:36, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:58:11AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> As for the mails you

Re: Mail<->News gateway seems to be broken [Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: canon printer driver question]]

2007-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2007 09:36 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:58:11AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: As for the mails you are receiving directly (like I do as well), you will have to setup a filter :( Ah, no. I've got better things to do with my time. I just won't post for a fe

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2007 11:16 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: I realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's, and have been googling a bit, and found this. http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html [...] I'm not a Sid user, but evidently you have to install linux-patch-rt and

Re: euro symbol in xterm (fvwm)

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm updating my own post. On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:36:09 -0400, I asked how to select a font for xterms under fvwm that would display UTF8 codes, and I mentioned: > The problem is likely in my old ~/.fvwm2rc, which shows: > > Style * Font -adobe-times-bold-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > There

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 30 September 2007 19:16, across.the.universe wrote: > hi, > > you might want to try http://www.64studio.com - this is what i am using. > > across.the.universe Ideally I was looking to resolve the problem on my Etch, and Lenny installs. Someone I know on the LAU list has just mentioned 6

euro symbol in xterm (fvwm)

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm testing UTF8 performance on my Etch machine. Everything seems fine with one exception: the Euro symbol doesn't display in my xterms (under fvwm). If I go with iceweasel to http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/multilingual1.html a Euro symbol is nicely displayed. If I copy and pas

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hallo! Du (Mumia W..) hast geschrieben: > > > I'm getting multiple duplicate messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] . At > > Do I understand correctly that this bot sends out this message when > you post to d-user? linux.debian.* are mail to news gateways to the

'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Waller
duh! My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot work out what package its in. Also, in the debian reference manual, at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xsrvr, it refers t

Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread across.the.universe
hi, you might want to try http://www.64studio.com - this is what i am using. across.the.universe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail<->News gateway seems to be broken

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:36:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/30/07 09:36, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:58:11AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > >> As for the mails you are receiving directly (like I do as well), you > >> will have to setup a filter :( > > > >

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-09-28 22:18:22, schrieb Nigel Henry: > I read a while back that earlier versions of lilo could only have 6 entries > on > the menu. My lilo version is 1:22.6.1-9.3. AFAIK 12 entries with a maximum lenght of 16 chars each Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadmi

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-30 Thread Jabka Atu
Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Jabka, > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:38:14PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: >> Sep 29 18:34:30 acerium mysqld[16628]: 070929 18:34:30 [ERROR] Can't >> start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Cannot assign requested address >> Sep 29 18:34:30 acerium mysqld[16628]: 070929 18:34:30 [ERROR

Re: PATH to java in X11

2007-09-30 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
In my /etc there is no environment file Must I create one? Thanks On 9/30/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:01:57 -0300 > "Henrique G. Abreu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've read many forums and threads in debian lists, but no solution > > worked to

Weird usb memorystick problem

2007-09-30 Thread Iwan
Hi, I recently noticed weird behaviour with my USB memorystick. This is on AMD64 unstable, with: linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64 udev 0.114-2 I have defined the following udev rule: ATTRS{idVendor}=="13e0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2517", KERNEL=="sd*", SYMLINK+="usb/stick%n", OPTIONS+="all_partitions"

Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
I realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's, and have been googling a bit, and found this. http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html It says to add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list, but after running apt-get update, and opening synaptic, I can't find

Re: Re: etch + xp

2007-09-30 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi Pierre, On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 17:15 +0200, Gargi wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 4:42 PM > Subject: [?? Probable Spam] Re: etch + xp > > > > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:41:48AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapp

Re: PATH to java in X11

2007-09-30 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:01:57 -0300 "Henrique G. Abreu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read many forums and threads in debian lists, but no solution > worked to me. > > I've downloaded and unpacked to /opt the jdk1.5.0_12 > I didn't used apt-get because I need this specific version. > > Then,

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Pallas
helices wrote: > I have several rather complex debian systems, including software raid 5 > and lvm, &c. > > Occasionally, in the past, I have upgraded a debian system, after which > it no longer boots successfully. Unfortunately, for these complex > systems, neither the install/boot media, nor kno

Re: Mail<->News gateway seems to be broken

2007-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/07 09:36, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:58:11AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> As for the mails you are receiving directly (like I do as well), you >> will have to setup a filter :( > > Ah, no. I've got better th

PATH to java in X11

2007-09-30 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
I've read many forums and threads in debian lists, but no solution worked to me. I've downloaded and unpacked to /opt the jdk1.5.0_12 I didn't used apt-get because I need this specific version. Then, I need to set java environment variables globally And include /opt/jdk1.5.0_12/bin to PATH I ins

Re: Re: etch + xp

2007-09-30 Thread Gargi
- Original Message - From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 4:42 PM Subject: [?? Probable Spam] Re: etch + xp On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:41:48AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: I am running etch in a machine with two HDs. Etch is runnin

Re: A problem with netinstall (pppoe, Etch, no DHCP)

2007-09-30 Thread Thilo Six
Aleksei wrote the following on 30.09.2007 14:12 <<-snip->> > My internet is through pppoe, but at no point netinstall asks > login and parol. So apparently I should install just base system, then > configure pppoe and then go on with apt-get. You need to enter: install modules=ppp-udeb at the

Re: etch + xp

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:41:48AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > I am running etch in a machine with two HDs. Etch is running in the > master HD (hdc), the second HD (hdd), the slave, is empty. In the second > hd (hdd) I need to install windows xp. I wonder how to do that in order > to get

Re: Mail<->News gateway seems to be broken [Was: Re: [Fwd: Re: canon printer driver question]]

2007-09-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:58:11AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > As for the mails you are receiving directly (like I do as well), you > will have to setup a filter :( Ah, no. I've got better things to do with my time. I just won't post for a few days. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

2007-09-30 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:16 -0400 Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the > > system to turn the program off at certain times, and turn it back on at > > other times. > > You ca

Re: Help Please

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 30 September 2007 15:27, ankit . wrote: > Sir > > Please help me to install intex RTL 8139d nic on debian 4.0. Debain is > unable to detect the nic on it's own. What should I do to install the nic. > > The technical specification of the nic I am using: > > http://www.intextechnologies.com

Help Please

2007-09-30 Thread ankit .
Sir Please help me to install intex RTL 8139d nic on debian 4.0. Debain is unable to detect the nic on it's own. What should I do to install the nic. The technical specification of the nic I am using: http://www.intextechnologies.com/computerperi1.aspx?cat=Computer%20Peripherals&sub=Ethernet%20C

Re: Problems capturing audio with Intel ICH5...

2007-09-30 Thread Andrea Giuliano
Many thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know if things get better. Best regards. Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:59:04 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 22:51:30 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: Maybe gnome-mixer does not give you a

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:59:26PM -, Chris Davies wrote: > Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 > > Photo. > > > Neither work with Debian Linux. > > Check the location of the firmware file, esfw41.bin. A few u

how to automatically start bittornado seeding when sarge boot finish

2007-09-30 Thread Serena Cantor
I want to make my sarge box a seeding peer in bittornado Which script should I edit to add bittornado command? how make bittornado logging info on status of seeding? Looking for a deal? Find great price

[apt-get] : failing update

2007-09-30 Thread hyjial
Hi list ! I am running Etch on a quite old Thinkpad laptop which had not been connected to internet for over two weeks. Before this I had experienced no problems using apt-get update. When I tried it yesterday night, here is what I got : Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [18

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