Re: FreeAgent USB HDD

2007-11-29 Thread andy
joseph lockhart wrote: The new seagate usb hard drives spin down after aprox 3 min, this then causes the computer to get a "waiting" response that it interperates as a bad device while the device spins back up, but being logged as a bad device it will not let you access the drive. basically you n

Re: OT: Programming Robots

2007-11-29 Thread Adrian Levi
On 30/11/2007, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots. > Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux > applications that he should consider? If so, how best to get started? > > Tom For me part of t

RE: vi issue in etch

2007-11-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: vi issue in etch Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have my keyboard setup as us and in the console e

Re: vi issue in etch

2007-11-29 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have my keyboard setup as us and in the console every key works > correctly. In vi though everything is messed up! The standard shortcuts > don't work. While following a tutorial, after an apt-get of a series of > apps I noticed it start working like it s

Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

2007-11-29 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Still having to manually delete the "To:" address after hitting > "Reply-to-all" though. > Try knode instead of icedove. It has better support for mailing lists. In particular, you can have a shortcut to reply to a post and it gets sent to the mailing list automaticall

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.11.29 21:32, Owen Heisler wrote: > Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are > ignored. > If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch > and > the command fails. In that same case, typing "sttartxx" and enter probably >

LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

2007-11-29 Thread Bob Goldberg
OK; I agree - problem is DEFINITELY ldap authentication; forget about exim my exchange server is setup to accept clear text, and anonymous OK (even though I'm not trying to be anon). here's the thing - I have no idea what is going on between ldapsearch, and my exchange server. I've tried ne

random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are ignored. If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch and the command fails. In that same case, typing "sttartxx" and enter probably would have worked, with "startx" being run. The enter key

vi issue in etch

2007-11-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Hi everyone, I have my keyboard setup as us and in the console every key works correctly. In vi though everything is messed up! The standard shortcuts don't work. While following a tutorial, after an apt-get of a series of apps I noticed it start working like it should? Is there something speci

[debian-user] Browser Question -- Not urgent --respond if you have time

2007-11-29 Thread Ted Hilts
I am trying to pin down a general kind of problem occuring with a number of applications on both Windo and Linux. This is not urgent so look at this problem if you have time or interest. I am having a problem with a number of capture type applications one of which is a Firefox add-on. Bu

adduser / chfn asking for root password

2007-11-29 Thread Pigeon
When I try to add a new user, adduser is calling chfn in such a way as to cause chfn to ask for the root password. Output from adduser looks like this: # adduser test Adding user test' ... Adding new group test' (1010) ... Adding new user test' (1010) with group test' ... The home directory /home/

Re: LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

2007-11-29 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Nov 28, 8:40 pm, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > at the end of the day, this is what I want: my > > > debian(etch)/exim machine to accept all internet Email to my > > > domain, ignore all else, a

Re: [OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-29 Thread s. keeling
Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> e) Skype seems secure, but the Germans[1] might have cracked > >> it and be blowing smoke in order to get Bad Guys to use > >> encrypted Skype, > >> > >> [1] > >> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/s

Re: OT: Programming Robots

2007-11-29 Thread Peter F Bradshaw
Hi Thomas; On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: > My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots. > Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux > applications that he should consider? If so, how best to get started? You might want to look at

Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

2007-11-29 Thread Klein Moebius
* David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-28 18:56:04 -0800]: > Could you share setup scripts and/or howto's ? I started to get this > working when I migrated to gmail a few months ago, but never got it > working the way I wanted. There was some confusion on how to set up > ssl certificates (and t

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD

2007-11-29 Thread joseph lockhart
The new seagate usb hard drives spin down after aprox 3 min, this then causes the computer to get a "waiting" response that it interperates as a bad device while the device spins back up, but being logged as a bad device it will not let you access the drive. basically you need to clear the log so t

Re: LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

2007-11-29 Thread bobg . hahc
On Nov 28, 8:40 pm, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > at the end of the day, this is what I want: my debian(etch)/exim machine to > > accept all internet Email to my domain, ignore all else, and relay on to my > > exchange5.5 server. This means

LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

2007-11-29 Thread Bob Goldberg
Apologies for any duplicate posts I'm reading this thread on google (groups), and I apparently can't reply/post from there reply to s.: hi s. yes, I have...(google searches) but none of my searches has revealed any information that actually works. All I can get out of exim is "Unrouteabl

Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Smith
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Has anybody tried gmail's IMAP interface in icedove? In my case, icedove is able to retrieve the message headers, but crashes as soon as I attempt to read a message. I am using icedove 2.0.0.6-1 on sid. Try run

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:39:39PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 12:47:02PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I installed vim-latexsuite which installed vim-addon-manager. Then I > > entered 'vim-addons install latex-suite' to enable it. Now when I enter > > 'vim-addons show'

LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

2007-11-29 Thread Bob Goldberg
at the end of the day, this is what I want: my debian(etch)/exim machine to accept all internet Email to my domain, ignore all else, and relay on to my exchange 5.5 server. This means I want exim to validate email recipients thru ldap lookups. seems like a simple enough task, even one that many

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread David
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: snip Note that I run an Athlon64 3800+ with one 1 GB stick. Runs just fine. 4GB is not a "minimum size" There are a lot of CPUs around now that people are installing into things like personal PCs and word processor/spreadsheet work stations that will operate just fin

Re: get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-29 Thread Danesh Daroui
Thank you so much it worked... Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:20:02 +0100 > Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi all, >> >> I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there >> is any possible way to find out the speed and type of CPU and available >

Re: ATI X1050 fglrx freezes garbage

2007-11-29 Thread Bernhard Kuemel
Hi! > The card works perfect with the r300 driver. What was your problem? I just switched back to the xorg ati/radeon diver since I could not remember. So ... Flightgear (fgfs) says: *WARN_ONCE* File r300_render.c function r300Fall

Re: get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-29 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:20:02 +0100 Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there > is any possible way to find out the speed and type of CPU and available > memory via command line. Is it possible? If yes, how? cat

get info about memory and CPU

2007-11-29 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi all, I have access to a remote server via SSH. I would like to know if there is any possible way to find out the speed and type of CPU and available memory via command line. Is it possible? If yes, how? Regards, Danesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-11-29 Thread andy
andy wrote: Hi all Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard drive. I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and all was fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at all. There is nothing loaded on media and it seems that as far as my

Re: getaddrinfo broken on amd64 etch system

2007-11-29 Thread Aaron Hall
[Resending (after joining whitelist) since original reply didn't show up after 2 days. Apologies if this *does* appear twice.] On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Bill Kelly wrote: > Greetings, > > This is my first post here, so I hope I'm following the protocols > correctly. > > I've done a netinstall of etch

Re: Problem with cheapo USB hub

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:06PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through repeated cycles of connect-disconnect, wi

FreeAgent USB HDD

2007-11-29 Thread andy
Hi all Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard drive. I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and all was fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at all. There is nothing loaded on media and it seems that as far as my system is con

Re: lost key

2007-11-29 Thread joseph lockhart
ran aptitude update again and the key seems to be back, it was kind of strange though thanks anyways jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 this user is penguin powered Be a better pen pal. Text or c

Re: Install Question

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:18 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Install Question > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:33

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

2007-11-29 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On Nov 28, 2007 6:17 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It offers a couple of option to disable/configure it. However what I > find disturbing is how gmail 'knows' what extensions I have installed on > my machine. Is there a bug in iceweasel/firefox that leaks out some > informatio

Re: Problem with cheapo USB hub

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:06PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're > no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through > repeated cycles of connect-disconnect, with no devices actually appearing: > > Nov 28 1

Re: OT: Programming Robots

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Csanyi
2007/11/29, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/11/29, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots. > > Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux > > applications that he should consider? If

Disk Spin-down problems: nmbd to blame

2007-11-29 Thread brian
Hi running Debian etch on an NSLU2. USB2 Disk will spin-down by itself after 10 minutes idle. /dev and /var/log are on RAMFS. Slug2:~# mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,no

Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:30:10PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > I have a big disk that I cannot backup due to space constraints and want > to encrypt it. It is an ext3 external WD MyBook drive. I keep movies > music and backups on there so its nothing I cannot lose, but I would > hate to spend ti

Re: Logitech mouse V220 : tilt wheel buttons not working

2007-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
strawks wrote: Hello, I have two inputdevice sections because I have 2 mice. Where did you get the advice not to use evdev? Here is one of them: I would like to use evdev since the tilt buttons won't work with the mouse driver. The problem is that the Device option (/dev/input/event6 in your

Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

2007-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Has anybody tried gmail's IMAP interface in icedove? In my case, icedove is able to retrieve the message headers, but crashes as soon as I attempt to read a message. I am using icedove 2.0.0.6-1 on sid. Try running iceweasel with the -sa

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

2007-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:56:23 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] privacy implications? Disabling javascript renders most sites pretty useless. I have played around with noscript for a couple of months before turning it off. "Most sites pretty useless"?

Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

2007-11-29 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:44:28AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > reliable drive space can be a pain. Where can I buy a new drive under 8 > GB for my 486? It calls any larger drive an error. go to the BIOS and set it to "no drive is present" for such a drive. You cannot use it as boot drive (b

nvidia quadro nvs 140 and etch

2007-11-29 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Is it difficult (possible?) to backport the nvidia 100.14.19 packages to etch? I have noted some changes in the packaging, placing and naming of some files that is evident in the pre/post inst and rm scripts. Anything else to take into consideration? Background is that I'm helping a collegue wit

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

2007-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kelly Clowers wrote: Firebug sets the value of the DOM element window.console to "Firebug" and creates the elements window.console.firebug and console.firebug Thank you for that info. This indeed should be the way gmail detects the presence of firebug. I just hope sites do not start taking

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

2007-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: Disabling javascript renders most sites pretty useless. I have played around with noscript for a couple of months before turning it off. Why? Noscript is great... Sure, it is. Maybe I should give it another try, but it was too much of a bother to "

Re: OT: Programming Robots

2007-11-29 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/11/29, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots. > Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux > applications that he should consider? If so, how best to get started? > > Tom Hello, wow ! great for y

OT: Programming Robots

2007-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots. Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux applications that he should consider? If so, how best to get started? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

2007-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/07 08:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:56:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Hard drives aren't *that* expensive, are they? > > This is a pervasive attitude. Yes, unless you have a recent box, adding > reliable dri

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:23:24PM +0900, David wrote: > I.E.Broadbent wrote: > >AN UPDATE: > > > >Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug, ... some further news I have > >just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs > >(BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantit

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

2007-11-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:11:39PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 7:06 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > AIUI, enabling JavaScript enables the remote site to run javascript on > > your box. It doesn't do any sort of audit of what it will run. So I > > wo

Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

2007-11-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:56:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hard drives aren't *that* expensive, are they? This is a pervasive attitude. Yes, unless you have a recent box, adding reliable drive space can be a pain. Where can I buy a new drive under 8 GB for my 486? It calls any larger driv

no sound through HDMI

2007-11-29 Thread Chris Purves
Hello, I have posted on the alsa-user mailling list two days ago with no response, so I thought I would see if the Debian community can help me out. I have been trying for the last week to get sound through my HDMI port with no success. I have a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard http://www.giga

Re: Top-posting (was Re: CD to acc)

2007-11-29 Thread Pantor
David Brodbeck wrote: On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Robert Hodgins wrote: But then some genius gave us the > sign to allowed us to select how far back in a thread we wished to read and also saved our scroll wheels many many miles of rolling through text that we had already read only to fin

4.0: Problems with samba browser of the Konqueror

2007-11-29 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Hi I have problems to get samba browser of the Konqueror work in my workgroup. How could I reset the all networking setting to state as they where after Debian installation? Or should I do some changes to Konqueror settings? Tero Mäntyvaara -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-29 Thread Samuel Bächler
Ctan.org recommends http://ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/ as a document to start with. Cheers Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude failed to install fglrx-driver on unstable

2007-11-29 Thread Romain JACQUET
Jörg-Volker Peetz a écrit : Romain JACQUET wrote: When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there is no candidate version! [...] aptitude why fglrx-driver No justification for fglrx-driver could be constructed. This only tells you if fglrx-driver is

Re: Font problem with GTK in KDE

2007-11-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
ispmarin: > > I'm using KDE from debian lenny, and some GTK apps, like icedove. When > I log on my session, the fonts from the GTK apps have the wrong size - > they are all much bigger than I configured. I have to manually start > gnome-control-center and use the Font Manager - as soon I click the

Font problem with GTK in KDE

2007-11-29 Thread ispmarin
Hello all, I'm using KDE from debian lenny, and some GTK apps, like icedove. When I log on my session, the fonts from the GTK apps have the wrong size - they are all much bigger than I configured. I have to manually start gnome-control-center and use the Font Manager - as soon I click the Font Man

Re: apache2 freezes @sarge

2007-11-29 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:11:39 +0100 Miro Dietiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list > > I trapped into an apache2 freeze thing (debian sarge, apache2 > libapache2-mod-php4) > > After certain time (from few minutes to many hours) apache simply > freezes. Freeze meaning here: Processes still pr

Re: aptitude failed to install fglrx-driver on unstable

2007-11-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Romain JACQUET wrote: > When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there > is no candidate version! > [...] > aptitude why fglrx-driver > No justification for fglrx-driver could be constructed. This only tells you if fglrx-driver is a dependency of which package (aptitude(

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread David
I.E.Broadbent wrote: AN UPDATE: Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug, ... some further news I have just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs (BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities for DRAM/Processors/hardware/etc?) ... he has spotted (must get

Re: Font size under X

2007-11-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 14:25:31 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I am facing a peculiar problem. Currently am running debian unstable. > The fonts under X are too small. What do you mean by that? Did you check the absolute sizes with a ruler? One "point" should correspond to 1/72 of an inch; a 12pt f

apache2 freezes @sarge

2007-11-29 Thread Miro Dietiker
Hi list I trapped into an apache2 freeze thing (debian sarge, apache2 libapache2-mod-php4) After certain time (from few minutes to many hours) apache simply freezes. Freeze meaning here: Processes still present but no processing time on them. Each request is not responded but queued (showing

How to get colors and spinners in boot messages?

2007-11-29 Thread Klein Moebius
OK, here goes. I would really like to be able to modify my bootup messages to have some color, similar to what a Knoppix boot does. Maybe not as garish, something to my taste. I've looked at bootsplashes, but they tend to be bulky and usually ugly in execution. The bootsplash package requires a

aptitude failed to install fglrx-driver on unstable

2007-11-29 Thread Romain JACQUET
When I try a "aptitude install fglrx-driver", aptitude claims that there is no candidate version! aptitude install fglrx-driver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Buildin

Font size under X

2007-11-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I am facing a peculiar problem. Currently am running debian unstable. The fonts under X are too small. I can get around this problem by playing with the dpi setting under gnome, but I feel that is not the correct way of doing it. What surprises me is that of the 4 machines I am using (all debian

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread I.E.Broadbent
AN UPDATE: Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug, ... some further news I have just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs (BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities for DRAM/Processors/hardware/etc?) ... he has spotted (must get myself a new pair of sp

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread I.E.Broadbent
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:29 +0900, David wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:24, I.E.Broadbent wrote: > >> Anyone have any comments or suggestions please. > >> > >> Anyone heard of any problems with the CPU's or Boards mentioned above? > >> > >> Thanks, Ian > > >