Re: Etch installation media doesn't boot (neither NETINST CD, nor floppies), but other distros do... :-(

2008-02-15 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 16 February 2008 08:24, Siraaj Khandkar wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've been a very happy Debian user for sometime now, but yesterday > ran into my second major install issue (the first being the X > configuration back in 1999). > > -- > Siraaj Khandkar > > Did you try your boot-cd o

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff D
gary turner wrote: Mike Bird wrote: On Thu February 14 2008 10:31:10 gary turner wrote: koko:/home/gt# dpkg -s libapache2-mod-php5 Package: libapache2-mod-php5 Status: install ok installed Please post that to the list again but this time with all the headers. You can skip the description if

Re: unstable libc6 latest update

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:08:48PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Has a broken script in it so the package gets hung between the big rocks > and the deep blue sea. I reverted to stable to get beyond it but can't > install and use gnome-orca. An old dos box is in use because the westell > modem

Etch installation media doesn't boot (neither NETINST CD, nor floppies), but other distros do... :-(

2008-02-15 Thread Siraaj Khandkar
Hello everyone, I've been a very happy Debian user for sometime now, but yesterday ran into my second major install issue (the first being the X configuration back in 1999). I wanted to install a minimum Debian system on an old Dell PowerEdge 350 server, but the NETINST CD is just ignored

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-15 Thread gary turner
Mike Bird wrote: On Thu February 14 2008 10:31:10 gary turner wrote: koko:/home/gt# dpkg -s libapache2-mod-php5 Package: libapache2-mod-php5 Status: install ok installed Please post that to the list again but this time with all the headers. You can skip the description if you like. We still d

unstable libc6 latest update

2008-02-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has a broken script in it so the package gets hung between the big rocks and the deep blue sea. I reverted to stable to get beyond it but can't install and use gnome-orca. An old dos box is in use because the westell modem finally decided to go belly up. The libc6 package turns out to be a d

Re: which to download

2008-02-15 Thread Kent West
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2008 04:59, Christopher Cristobal wrote: I would like to use Debian, but in not techy I didnt know which should I use or download. Im would like to install to my 2 PC. Im using P3556Mhz 128Mb but I dont know the Mobo Brand. My other PC is Celero

Re: which to download

2008-02-15 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 16 February 2008 04:59, Christopher Cristobal wrote: > I would like to use Debian, but in not techy I didnt know which should I > use or download. Im would like to install to my 2 PC. Im using P3556Mhz > 128Mb but I dont know the Mobo Brand. My other PC is Celeron 1.6G P4ECSMobo > 256Mb

Re: which to download

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:59:59PM -0800, Christopher Cristobal wrote: > I would like to use Debian, but in not techy I didnt know which should > I use or download. Im would like to install to my 2 PC. Im using > P3556Mhz 128Mb but I dont know the Mobo Brand. My other PC is Celeron > 1.6G P4ECSMobo

which to download

2008-02-15 Thread Christopher Cristobal
I would like to use Debian, but in not techy I didnt know which should I use or download. Im would like to install to my 2 PC. Im using P3556Mhz 128Mb but I dont know the Mobo Brand. My other PC is Celeron 1.6G P4ECSMobo 256MbSDRam. Hopo that You could help me deal with my problem. Thanks

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Post the _exact_ contents of /etc/resolv.conf. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
OK, I can ping local & external sites. I still can't browse by name, but entering the IP no in the browser allows me to connect to some sites. I've added more ISP dns numbers to /etc/resolv.conf I've still no idea what's wrong :-( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: sata and esata: trouble

2008-02-15 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > thanks for the replies > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:49:44AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> I have an external SATA hard drive plugged via esata to my Debian box, >>> whereas my inte

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Mitch writes: > Why I want static IP addresses so don't want DHCP turned on. Then you are going to have to get the IP numbers of your ISP's nameservers and put them in /etc/resolv.conf. You'll need to get rid of any packages that mess with /etc/resolv.conf. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Yang
Here is the error message when I open the audio file: [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you removed NetworkManager? > > no, how do i do that ? > With aptitude. Ok, Done that, now what -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Am 2008-02-10 19:26:30, schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: >> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:09:55PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > >> > > No. I have no need for Arabic, really, I was just checking how Arabic >> > > is displayed o

Problems setting the audio for shoutcast client.

2008-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I don't wanna broadcast my music, i wanna listen to someone else's. I've tried a http://somewhere.com/whatever.pls into xmms, mp3blaster and even xmms2/esperanza (worthess install) to no avail. I can get the stream with icecream, but i can't redirect it. Using icecream -stdout http://somewhere.com

RTL-8185 Wireless Card Problems

2008-02-15 Thread Schiz0
I'm running Debian Lenny on a Gateway laptop. lspci says: - 08:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20) - I'm using the drivers from http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net and "iwlist wlan0 scan" DOES det

Re: Black screen of death

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Ron Savage wrote: > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > Nope, as I explained. But thanx for replying. > > The real answer is in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/% > gconf.xml. > -- you didn't mention gnome vs kde.. I don't have a ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default but I do

Re: right click and resize selected images in Konqueror

2008-02-15 Thread H.S.
Dotan Cohen wrote: The KIM package does that as well: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=11505 BTW, doesn't look like it is in Debian. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Black screen of death

2008-02-15 Thread Ron Savage
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 07:45 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: Hi Paul > /etc/X11/xorg.conf Nope, as I explained. But thanx for replying. The real answer is in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/% gconf.xml. -- Ron Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://savage.net.au/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:48:50AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: >> On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: >>> Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the >>> movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just >

Re: "apt-listbugs list postix" doesn't tell error ...

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:14:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:56:13PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Also, I suppose there is a possibly faulty assumption that since > > apt-listbugs is designed to be run through an apt frontend then typos > > aren't real

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:27:14PM +, Andrius wrote: > Andrius wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:47:52PM +, Andrius wrote: >>> To configure MTA (exim4) is half hour job and it is easy. How many time person must spent for configuring Mutt? >>> >>> For m

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrius
Andrius wrote: Andrius wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:47:52PM +, Andrius wrote: To configure MTA (exim4) is half hour job and it is easy. How many time person must spent for configuring Mutt? For mail to be able to send to the internet you have to activate addr

Re: compaq nx6120

2008-02-15 Thread Gabor Hasenfrasz
Dear Beny, I had an nx6325 notebook. ACPI features can be solved in 2 ways. First is very annoying and difficult that to edit the DSDT table. You can find more at http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php I think it's quite difficult and it's just fades the problems. (Strange that HP was one of

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrius
Andrius wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:47:52PM +, Andrius wrote: To configure MTA (exim4) is half hour job and it is easy. How many time person must spent for configuring Mutt? For mail to be able to send to the internet you have to activate address rewriting in

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrius
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:47:52PM +, Andrius wrote: To configure MTA (exim4) is half hour job and it is easy. How many time person must spent for configuring Mutt? For mail to be able to send to the internet you have to activate address rewriting in your MTA ([EMAI

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:55:01PM +, Andrius wrote: > True, Mutt is really for these who wanna be a *geek*-n00b. > But using simpliest UNIX command - sorry, it is not n00bish. To learn use > mail need max hour. While for Mutt. you must devote yourself to become a > mutant for a months. At

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:35:18PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I'm confused. Can you not just enter the passphrase for the encrypted > > volume and unlock it? Or is there something I'm missing here that > > likely applies to my own encrypted system... > > > > I tho

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:47:52PM +, Andrius wrote: > To configure MTA (exim4) is half hour job and it is easy. > How many time person must spent for configuring Mutt? For mail to be able to send to the internet you have to activate address rewriting in your MTA ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:34:48PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:56:20PM +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > > On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, we'll start from here. > > thanks > > > > > Have you removed NetworkManager? > > no, how do i do

Re: new network config- WAS: Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:47:15AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri February 15 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > link-local  169.254.0.0 > > > > > >   > > >  what is this   ^^^ > > > > Per google and wikipedia. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address > > > > Quite normal th

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Henry
Ron Johnson wrote: Hmmm.  Your OP, then, is confusingly written.  Or I'm stupid.     I have debian lenny on a server with full disk encryption Does this mean that your /, /usr, /home etc were all encrypted, and that you lost Important Stuff like /home? well I wouldn't call anyone stupi

Re: Missing option in GNOME Control Center

2008-02-15 Thread H.S.
Dotan Cohen wrote: Now, I admit, one could argue these are not examples of unreliability since Gnome fails consistently :) But (1) above has been going on for so long and that I now have serious doubts whether Gnome (Nautilus, more specifically) developers really care about Webdav access

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Terminal Crazy
On 15 Feb, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mitch Crawford wrote: > > DHCP server is OFF in the router. > Well, turn it back on and make sure you have a dhcp client running on > the Debian box (Network-manager purports to do this). -- John Hasler Why I want static IP addresses so don't wan

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Henry
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I'm confused. Can you not just enter the passphrase for the encrypted > volume and unlock it? Or is there something I'm missing here that > likely applies to my own encrypted system... > > I thought that if you had a passphrase key in one of the luks slots > then that

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you removed NetworkManager? > > no, how do i do that ? > With aptitude. what would the command be ? (I have no idea) > I'm a bit confused. > Do we have two peopl with networking troubles using the same thread? > Mitch Crawford AND P

compaq nx6120

2008-02-15 Thread Beny Spira
Hi there My compaq nx6120 runs a Debian 4.0r2 and a kernel 2.6.18-6-686. Most features work nicely, but there are a couple of quite annoying problems I couldn't find a clear answer: 1) My mouse very often dies and dmesg gives the following message: uhci_hcd :00:1d.0: host controller process

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Joe
Dave Sherohman wrote: Some years ago, I was working on a web-based voicemail/telephony interface and discovered that the then-current version of MSIE would look at the last portion of retrieved URLs and, if they looked like a recognized file extension, it would completely ignore Content-Type and

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:15:30PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Mitch writes: > > ifconfig is showing inet6 addr with the 169.254.176.243 net address, > > You probably have zeroconf installed. Remove it. network-manager used to screw setups as well. If you use /etc/network/interfaces to configur

Re: Icedove doesn't drag and drop for me

2008-02-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 14/02/2008, Javier Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My icedove doesn't drag and drop my emails from inbox to folder. 2 > > weeks ago I used drag and drop it without problem. > > > > I upgrade my (sid) sys

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > If you *formatted* (i.e., run mkfs on) the "server" (how can you > > format a *machine*, as opposed to just a drive partition?), then > > wouldn't you have lost everything anyway by wiping clean the partition

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-15 Thread michael
On 14 Feb 2008, at 08:23, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 14/02/2008, Tadeusz Bak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can annotate PDF files in free *Acrobat Reader* (I am using Debian package, version 8.1.2) and all annotations are saved in the same PDF file. However, some flag in the PDF file must be

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread John Hasler
Mitch Crawford wrote: > DHCP server is OFF in the router. Well, turn it back on and make sure you have a dhcp client running on the Debian box (Network-manager purports to do this). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, February 15, 2008 10:41 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > But he can barely dog paddle and has dived into the deep end. > That's a recipe for failure and embitterment towards Linux. Or the best troll ever. :P -- Steve Lamb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrius
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 12:10, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 10:47, Andrius wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Yang
Is there anything wrong in the output? On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the output of "lsmod | grep snd": > > snd_hda_intel 310460 0 > snd_pcm_oss38720 0 > snd_mixer_oss 15840 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm70116

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrius
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 11:16, William Pursell wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/15/08 10:47, Andrius wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/15/08 10:07, Andrius wrote: Returning to the question about Mutt. Why to complicate a life when all mailin

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 12:10, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/15/08 10:47, Andrius wrote: >> >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 02/15/08

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 11:16, William Pursell wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/08 10:47, Andrius wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/15/08 10:07, Andrius wrote: > Returning to the question about Mutt. > Why to complicate a life when all mailin

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-15 17:16:16 +, William Pursell wrote: > That's a bit harsh. Sometimes, /usr/bin/mail really is best. > $ mail user -s subject < file > is often the best way to get the job done. You can do something similar with Mutt, and you benefit from MIME (e.g. if subject has non-ASCII charact

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-15 16:07:20 +, Andrius wrote: > Returning to the question about Mutt. > Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple > command 'Mail'? That's the same thing here. :) vin:~> which mail mail: aliased to mutt -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/15/08 10:47, Andrius wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/15/08 10:07, Andrius wrote: > >>> Returning to the question about Mutt. > >>> Why to complicate a

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:56:20PM +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, we'll start from here. > thanks > > > Have you removed NetworkManager? > no, how do i do that ? With aptitude. --- I'm a bit confused. Do we have two peopl with net

Re: PAL to NTSC (DVD)

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Davies
Christopher Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A colleague just returned from a trip overseas, and he purchased > some DVDs along the way. One of them is incoded in PAL, however. Is > there an easy way to copy the DVD and convert it to NTSC, preferable > retaining subtitles, alternate languag

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:07:20PM +, Andrius wrote: > Returning to the question about Mutt. > Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple > command 'Mail'? If you can, go ahead. I presonally like to be able to use MIME, get mail from a remote IMAP server, and suc

Re: Freeze in iceweasel

2008-02-15 Thread Adam Hardy (debian)
-- in reply to author="Dvorzhetsky" >Hello, > >debian lenny: kernel 6.23 686, intel 3945 iwl, ati x1400 fglrx. >iceweasel: lenny, addon bookmark sync&sort, dictionaries, >mozilla-kaffeine, flash. > >I experience some freezes with iceweasel. They last from a few sec up to >30 or maybe more. Then ic

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread William Pursell
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/15/08 10:47, Andrius wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/15/08 10:07, Andrius wrote: Returning to the question about Mutt. Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple command 'Mail'? What the hell does that mean? That is reflections about

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 10:47, Andrius wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/15/08 10:07, Andrius wrote: >>> Returning to the question about Mutt. >>> Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple >>> command 'Mail'? >> >> What the hell d

re: apache log question

2008-02-15 Thread joshua Folcik
I found a solution, I had the same problem. The reason was I have virtual hosts defined, and the tool that I used to create them made a file called system-config-httpd.conf in the conf.d directory. I just had to look for the section that covered that virtual hosts and add this line in red (aga

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, we'll start from here. thanks > Have you removed NetworkManager? no, how do i do that ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-15 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:19 + Stephen Allen wrote: > There are Reader permissions to annotate but AFAIR only with the > latest Acrobat v 1.7, which have to have been enabled by the author > using the Arobat Pro application. But yes one can annotate with the > free Reader, if a specific PDF is suc

Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > In Etch, with stock Etch kernels, you should just need the coresponding > nvidia kernel package.  I never have to install the headers. > kernel, or kernel-headers.. I'm almost positive I hd to install the kernel headers, but I sure could be wrong

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > If necessary, pull out everything that is not basic.  Since you > installed from CD without networking, you'll still have the packages. > I'd even go so far as to ensure that you have a backup of /etc/ before > you start then purge everything you r

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrius
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 10:07, Andrius wrote: Returning to the question about Mutt. Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple command 'Mail'? What the hell does that mean? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA U

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:31:19PM +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > > We need a proper network layout with IP addresses, router settings, etc. > > ISP > | > 4 Port ethernet Router 10.0.0.254 / 255.255.255.0 >| | | | >| | | Acorn RiscPC 10.0.0.1 / 255.255.255.0 >|

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 10:07, Andrius wrote: > Returning to the question about Mutt. > Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple > command 'Mail'? What the hell does that mean? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/08 08:57, Andrew Henry wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> If you *formatted* (i.e., run mkfs on) the "server" (how can you >> format a *machine*, as opposed to just a drive partition?), then >> wouldn't you have lost everything anyway by wiping cl

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can only use fixed IP if the router to which you are connecting is > under your control as well. If it will only use DHCP then you have to > use it for the network connection between this box and the router. I think the router uses DHCP

Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > well, you normally only need the linux-headers package corresponding to > the linux-image package you have installed.  You can remove the rest. > The linux-headers-*all* package simply exists to pull in all the other > header packages.  You'll need t

Re: mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:07:20PM +, Andrius wrote: > Returning to the question about Mutt. > Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple > command 'Mail'? Why not just telnet port 25 and type raw SMTP? You can use mail, no question. Mutt adds a lot, is stable a

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > /etc/resolv.conf: > > nameserver 192.168.10.1 > >   > > What box is this^^? that is my netgear wireless router WGR614 V6 > > >  :/etc# cat networks > > default   0.0.0.0 > > loopback  127.0.0.0 > > link-local169.254.0.0 >

pm-hibernate doesn't resume (Thinkpad X61 tablet)

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I have just finished setting up my new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet PC. I am running Debian testing with a self-compiled kernel 2.6.24.2. Generally it works very nicely and I am pleased with it; however, hibernate/resume does not work correctly. Specifically: using either

Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:11:30AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > 2.6.18-4-686 ?2.6.18-6-686 ? 2.6.18-6-vserver-686 ? ? ?2.6.22-2-686 > > > 2.6.18-5-486 ?2.6.18-6-686-bigmem ?2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 ? ? > > > 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:21:01PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > > Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the > > movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just > > copy > > the WMV file to

Re: [OT] things to look for in a flatpanel monitor

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:57:42PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 15/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So why would anybody give up a 21" CRT? Sure you need a bigger desk, > > but isn't that good for the ego too? > > Heat, space, electricity... > Truth is, I prefer to look

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:13:23AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:17:33AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:29:27AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > > > > > > /etc/resolv.conf: > > > nameserver 192.168.10.1 > > > > What box is this^^? >

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:05:10AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > link-local169.254.0.0 > > > > ? > > ?what is this ? ^^^ > > beats the H&LL out of me! > > > > It sounds like your box has conflicting config tools installed. ?If you >

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > so I rebooted and tried to put in your init=/bin/sh but no matter where I > > put it, I got errors, so I tried booting into 2.6.18-6 single user mode. > > ifonfig then showed eth0 active and working! > >   > The init=/bin/sh goes as a kernel comm

xrandr -o right crashes X display

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Setting up my new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet PC, and I am trying to make the screen rotate 90 degrees right for tablet use. This crashes the display, as is documented many other places, but none of the suggestions found via google have fixed the problem. Kernel is 2.6.24

mail vs. Mutt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrius
Returning to the question about Mutt. Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple command 'Mail'? Regards, Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,

2008-02-15 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:11:30 -0500 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > 2.6.18-4-686  2.6.18-6-686   2.6.18-6-vserver-686 > > >  2.6.22-2-686 2.6.18-5-486  2.6.18-6-686-bigmem > > >  2.6.18-6-vserver-k7 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686  2

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:00:01PM +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought you said that the router was the DHCP server and that the > > debian box we're working on should use DHCP (as a __client__). > > I think it is Paul that is having

new network config- WAS: Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > link-local  169.254.0.0 > > > >   > >  what is this   ^^^ > > Per google and wikipedia. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address > > Quite normal though. > > I have not read the context but this is FYI. ok, this seems to tell me when

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu February 14 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > OK, initscripts; something to work on step by step. > > Here's what I'm hearing. > > 1.  Power off > 2.  Power on > 3.  Boot progresses, init runs > 4.  system comes up but network doesn't come up > 5.  ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0

Re: [OT] things to look for in a flatpanel monitor

2008-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14/02/2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't googled this, but in looking around for a flatpanel LCD > monitor, what are the positive things to look for and the negative > things to avoid? Since the world is moving to flatpanels... > > Hugo > Viewing angle, and

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:17:33AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:29:27AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > > > /etc/resolv.conf: > > nameserver 192.168.10.1 > > > > What box is this^^? It looks to me the consumer broadband router which also serves as DHCP

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-15 09:19:25 +0800, hhding wrote: > permission is right > > you should add you to group fuse OK, I've reported a bug against the sshfs documentation: According to the sshfs documentation: quote from /usr/share/doc/sshfs/README Once sshfs is installed (

Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:35:38AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu February 14 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > If everything is separate, you may have more kernels installed than you > > need. ?Look in /lib/modules and see how many directories (one for each > > kernel) you have. ?I only ke

Re: udev and ethernet connections

2008-02-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:02:24AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > What I used to set up communications was the pppoeconf package. That's > what wrote those lines and made any modifications. Hmmm... this assumes too much for user configuration situation. Rewrite rule of pppoe is not the best str

Re: Most recent linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 fails to install debian-user@lists.debian.org,

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > 2.6.18-4-686  2.6.18-6-686   2.6.18-6-vserver-686      2.6.22-2-686 > > 2.6.18-5-486  2.6.18-6-686-bigmem  2.6.18-6-vserver-k7     > > 2.6.22-3-686 2.6.18-5-686  2.6.18-6-amd64     2.6.18-6-xen-686 > > 2.6.18-6-486  2.6.18-6-k7   

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Henry
You know, i've read at least 5 or 6 HOWTOs on dmcrypt and LUKS and how to implement it, and not one of them made any real note about storing the backup *keys* in a safe place. They all just talk about passphrase security. Not that I can lay the blame at their feet...just that they howtos are lack

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 15 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought you said that the router was the DHCP server and that the > debian box we're working on should use DHCP (as a __client__). I think it is Paul that is having simialr problems No this is a fresh install of debian 4.0r2. I have tried

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 15 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > # The primary network interface > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > > > this is also probably why I keep seeing errors about unable to set the > > system clock via ntp. no network=no ntp > > Never heard of "network=no ntp".  

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Henry
Ron Johnson wrote: > > If you *formatted* (i.e., run mkfs on) the "server" (how can you > format a *machine*, as opposed to just a drive partition?), then > wouldn't you have lost everything anyway by wiping clean the partition? > well those weren't the answers I wanted to hear. :( The disk in que

Re: [OT] things to look for in a flatpanel monitor

2008-02-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 15/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why would anybody give up a 21" CRT? Sure you need a bigger desk, > but isn't that good for the ego too? Heat, space, electricity... Truth is, I prefer to look at pictures and video on a CRT, but for text, LCDs are much easier on th

Re: [OT] things to look for in a flatpanel monitor

2008-02-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:36:29PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 14/02/2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My current LCD, the panel in my Dell Inspiron, has the terrible > property of different contrast at different vertical angles. So, for > some uses (photos, video) I stand the

Re: Install succeeds but unable to mount root partition (solved)

2008-02-15 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi Sorry, my mistake. I overlooked the RAID option for my SATA disk in BIOS. When changing this to IDE, everything was fixed. Regards Gudjon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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