Would we have a replacement for Xorg?

2008-02-17 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, I do not know why, firefox is very slow in my box. While I checked out this with my friends, and some information on internet. The answer is because Xorg, a very-slow-rendering graphics system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Changed device for camera..

2008-02-17 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Ron Johnson shared this with us all: >--} On 02/17/08 21:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >--} >> >--} >> On 02/17/08 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >--} On 02/17/08 00:54, Charlie wrote: >--} > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kushal Kumaran shared this with us all: >--} >> --}

Re: Sound Juicer and Amarok collection failure on Etch

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 17 February 2008 18:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:41:15PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Recently, I discovered that CDs ripped using Sound Juicer no longer > > register properly in Amarok. This used to work fine, but now when I > > The problem is that sound-jui

Re: wget vs lynx

2008-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:18:25AM +0100, Carlos Rivera Cordero wrote: > On 17/02/08 10:48, Anas Husseini wrote: > > wget is receiving a 403 error (Forbidden) when trying to retrieve a special > > web page, while lynx (and other text and graphical web browsers) succeeded > > to > > get this page.

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:33:10AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 02:49:24AM -0600, gary turner wrote: > > Jeff D wrote: > >> > >> run apache2ctl -t > >> > >> it should tell you what it thinks is wrong with your apache config > >> > > Thanks, Jeff. That yields the er

Re: Changed device for camera..

2008-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/08 21:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On 02/17/08 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/17/08 00:54, Charlie wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kushal Kumaran shared this with us all: >> --} On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:41 +1100 >>

Re: Changed device for camera..

2008-02-17 Thread ariestao
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/17/08 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> On 02/17/08 00:54, Charlie wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kushal Kumaran shared this with us all: > --} On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:41 +1100 > --} Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>

Re: Changed device for camera..

2008-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/08 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On 02/17/08 00:54, Charlie wrote: >>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kushal Kumaran shared this with us all: --} On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:41 +1100 --} Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --} -

Re: Sound Juicer and Amarok collection failure on Etch

2008-02-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:41:15PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Recently, I discovered that CDs ripped using Sound Juicer no longer > register properly in Amarok. This used to work fine, but now when I The problem is that sound-juicer is broken, and no longer properly creates ID3 tags when ripp

Re: Changed device for camera..

2008-02-17 Thread ariestao
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/17/08 00:54, Charlie wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kushal Kumaran shared this with us all: >>> --} On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:41 +1100 >>> --} Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> --} >>> --} > Something changed after this mornings upgra

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:24:24PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:42:26AM -0800, 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

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Yang
I have upgraded the dist to 2.6.24-1-686, the problem still exists. I tried the ways I can do to install the driver successfully, but still has no sound to output. - I downloaded the latest alsa driver 1.16 and it's compiled successfully, and the alsa-lib alsa-util can be installed without proble

nvidia, external monitor and problems maximizing to one screen

2008-02-17 Thread Micha
I have a thinkpad laptop with nvidia Quadro NVS 140M graphic card, running unstable with xfce4 desktop. I'm having issues connecting an external screen. using nvidia-settings I've managed to get the second screen to work in twinview mode as an extension to the current screen, or overlapping curre

apt-get download rate limiting SOLVED

2008-02-17 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I'd like to run 'apt-get -d upgrade' and limit the download rate to half the 130 KB/sec capacity of my DSL line, so it doesn't get in the way. I tried adding a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/76download containing this Acquire { http { Dl-

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This to me suggests that you have a dns related issue. I'd check to make > sure you have no entries in /etc/hosts for 1.0.0.0 , then you check > your nameservers each by: host ftp.debian.org 10.0.0.254 , then replace > the 10.0.0.254 with each dns se

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread John Hasler
Why are you running any DNS services? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User- Network Problem

2008-02-17 Thread John Hasler
Where did you get those nameserver IPs? -- John Hasler -- 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,

2008-02-17 Thread Steve Mazurek
Thanks. I had three kernels on the desktop and I removed 2.6.18-4. The upgrade ran without any trouble. However, the Thinkpad only has 2.6.18-5and 2.6.18-6, so I'll have to remove something else. --Steve On Feb 14, 2008 5:14 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 20

Re: string.replace not working - D'OH!

2008-02-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Feb 17, 2008 3:48 PM, I wrote: [earlier missive deleted] > > I realized that the string.replace function doesn't actually do > anything to the string, so I have to assign b.replace to a variable > and write that back, something like 'var c = b.replace...', then > document.body.innerHTML = c. Th

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

2008-02-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 17/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:22:03AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 17/02/2008, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Could you elaborate on the 6-bit / 8-bit bit a bit? When I do finally > > get an LCD (probably in another six month

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:12:03PM +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the > libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. > > I have a static IP 10.0.0.6 255.255.255.0 > There are NO proxies running anywhere that i'm aware of. > > I have 3 o

Re: sata and esata: trouble

2008-02-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sarunas Burdulis wrote: -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

Re: unstable libc6 latest update

2008-02-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jude DaShiell wrote: Has a broken script in it so the package gets hung between the big rocks and the deep blue sea. I always heard this to be "between a hard rock and the deep blue sea" Sorry, does readability matter? I reverted to stable to get beyond it but can't install and use gnome-o

Re: sata and esata: trouble

2008-02-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/08 15:36, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:20:44PM -0500, S Scharf wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1. for boot, the kernel command line has to be root=LA

Re: string.replace not working - D'OH!

2008-02-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Feb 17, 2008 11:38 AM, I wrote: > At this URL (which happens to be Brown v. Bd. of Ed.), > http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/347/347.US.483.html, I'm > trying to convert data which looks so, " 123 U.S. 456", into a link, > so, " 123 U.S. 456". > > T

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Mitch Crawford wrote: I _DON'T_ think this _IS_ a dns issue anymore. I can ping external addresses & traceroute finds them it just appears to be the web browsers that can't. Anybody got any idea Check the browser's configuration? (Proxies and the like?) -- Bones: "The man's DEAD, Jim!" Ed

New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
I _DON'T_ think this _IS_ a dns issue anymore. I can ping external addresses & traceroute finds them it just appears to be the web browsers that can't. Anybody got any idea? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Cannot get PS/2 touchpad to work on old laptop

2008-02-17 Thread Bob Cox
I have one small problem with a Debian install on with a very old laptop (P266, 64MB, 800x600) which is badged as a 'Lifetec' but is really a Twinhead Slimnote 9TE. It has a touchpad, or 'pointing device', as the manufacturer calls it, which the spec says is a "TwinTouch II". It originally ran Win

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

2008-02-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom 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... Thanks people, very helpful responses. Especially the #colors of 16.7

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Jeff D
Mitch Crawford wrote: OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. I have a static IP 10.0.0.6 255.255.255.0 There are NO proxies running anywhere that i'm aware of. I have 3 other machines connected to this 4 port router all whic

New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
Ok, I noticed when the machine booted, a lwresd ( lightweight resolver daemon) which appears to be running as well as bind ? What DNS services should be running? or are multiple ones compatable with each other? How do I check for clashes etc ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Henry
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > get annoying gnome out of the way and try it from the cli. > > cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/path/to/usb/device crypt-usb > > enter passphrase > > mount /dev/mapper/crypt-usb /mnt/temp > > and see what happens > > A finally! a voice of reason :) I had already come to the

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hhhm, I have: > hosts: files dns > You could at least try putting 'dns' immediately after 'files'. had tried before, & now looks like that > The only thing I can find related to mdns (and which seems relevant > here) is avahi-daemo

Floatin Point Exception when trying to install Debian Etch (r2)

2008-02-17 Thread Ronald
hey all, I'm trying to install Debian Etch to get rid of Fedora. However, the installation fails and I failed to find a workaround myself. The problem is that the installation starts, but after I choose my language and keyboard it starts to scan my computer. The progress bar keeps going from

Re: lost my 'menu' key

2008-02-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-17, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 17:58:02 +, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in fluxbox: >> >> from ~/.fluxbox/keys: >> None Menu :RootMenu >> >> Until recently this worked just fine. However, it ha

Re: sound not working

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
This was probably meant for the list, but I messed my muttrc and got a wrong reply-to On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:08:43PM +0900, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote: > here are some more outputs > > results from hwinfo --sound > > 20: PCI 1f.5: 0401 Multimedia audio controller > [Created at pci.281] > UDI:

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's that comma doing there? typo, since I've not got the network working yet! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 17, 2008 2:09 PM, Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about /etc/hostname? Is it identical to that in Exim4 config file? /etc/hostname is "debian", while /etc/mailname is "localhost.localdomain". I think I fixed it, though. I copied over my old /etc/hosts, which had, among other thi

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Andrius
Michael Marsh wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 1:41 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: 1) There's nothing in /var/mail (I've configured exim4 to use the traditional /var/mail mbox spools). AFAIK it is empty until the first mail.

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread John Hasler
Mitch writes: > Looking in /etc/nsswitch.conf > I have a line > hosts:files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > I presume this is the order used to find hosts... and does it look > correct? Change it to: hosts: files dns Also get rid of avahi-daemon if you have it. That mdns stuf

Re: lost my 'menu' key

2008-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 17:58:02 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in fluxbox: > > from ~/.fluxbox/keys: > None Menu :RootMenu > > Until recently this worked just fine. However, it has now stopped > working. I checked with xev, and now the menu key c

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 17, 2008 1:41 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > > 1) There's nothing in /var/mail (I've configured exim4 to use the > > traditional /var/mail mbox spools). > > AFAIK it is empty until the first mail. Try somethi

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:16:00PM +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > Looking in /etc/nsswitch.conf > I have a line > hosts:files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > I presume this is the order used to find hosts... and does it look correct? Hhhm, I have: hosts: files dns You

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 17, 2008 1:20 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:27:19 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > Yes, I know. I've run that several times, to no benefit. I've > > diff'ed my current /etc/exim4 against my last backup (a few days > > before the crash), and they'

Re: iceweasel

2008-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/08 07:58, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Is iceweasel v2.0.0.12 from the debian etch repository the same version > as firefox? I assume so but I just want to make sure. > > I'm having some minor issues browsing and I can't figure out what the > probl

Re: Changed device for camera..

2008-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/08 00:54, Charlie wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Kushal Kumaran shared this with us all: >> --} On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:41 +1100 >> --} Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> --} >> --} > Something changed after this mornings upgrade. >> --} >

RocketRAID, SATA disks and booting problem

2008-02-17 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Hi, I have installed Debian 4.0r2 AMD64 on filesystem witch has been build on top of LVM system. LVM is on top of software-raid1 device md0 with two SAMSUNG SP1614C disks. Disks are connected to RocketRAID 1640 SATA-controller. Everything works well. But if I connect two other disks to contr

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > 1) There's nothing in /var/mail (I've configured exim4 to use the > traditional /var/mail mbox spools). AFAIK it is empty until the first mail. Try something like echo "test mail" | mail -s test your_username > 2) Messages that s

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:27:19 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > Michael Marsh wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > > > I've recently had to re-install, due to a drive failure, and as usual > > > the hardest thing to configure properly is exim4. Even with the exact > > > same configuration as my previous

lost my 'menu' key

2008-02-17 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in fluxbox: from ~/.fluxbox/keys: None Menu :RootMenu Until recently this worked just fine. However, it has now stopped working. I checked with xev, and now the menu key comes up as: KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x121, r

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Siraaj Khandkar
On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Frank McCormick wrote: Unix dosen't work without a root account. I think this guy uses Ubuntu, which disables root login by default (passwd -l root) No I run Debian Sid on this partition. There I go assuming again, my bad! :-) I did totally forget that t

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
Looking in /etc/nsswitch.conf I have a line hosts:files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 I presume this is the order used to find hosts... and does it look correct? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Siraaj Khandkar
On 17 Feb 2008, at 04:46, Frank McCormick wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:15:54 -0900 Siraaj Khandkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Frank McCormick wrote: It may also be that gksu saved the old password in keychain, and he set the keychain's password to be the same as

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

2008-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:22:03AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 17/02/2008, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you elaborate on the 6-bit / 8-bit bit a bit? When I do finally > get an LCD (probably in another six months or so, if I can help it), I > want to know about this. One of the main

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:58:55 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:44:10AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > Did you run 'passwd' or 'sudo passwd'? > > > > I ran passwd...as I was only changing my password. > > Of course, but I thought maybe by habi

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:33:17 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:50:45AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:40:03 +0530 > > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > gksudo ls > > > That should prompt you for yo

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 17, 2008 12:14 PM, Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I've recently had to re-install, due to a drive failure, and as usual > > the hardest thing to configure properly is exim4. Even with the exact > > same configuration as my previous setup (I've

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's that comma doing there? typo also other typo #ip address shows eth0 shows 10.0.0.7 when it is actually 10.0.0.6 > Also note that all nameserver lines after the first three will be > ignored, and your "domain" and "search" lines are at b

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 17 Feb, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can the other machines in your LAN ping 10.0.0.6 ? yes, no problem > A few days ago, upon routine (daily) upgrading with Synaptic, I > discovered that network-manager (which previously was not working > correctly on this machine) was obtain

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

2008-02-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 17/02/2008, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 6-bits/colour means the monitor can give you 2^6+2^6+2^6 colours = > 262,144 where as an 8-bit/colour would mean it can give you 16,777,216 > colours. > > With the 6-bit/colour they use some kind of dithering to reproduce > 16.2million colours. (bu

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Andrius
Michael Marsh wrote: Hi all. I've recently had to re-install, due to a drive failure, and as usual the hardest thing to configure properly is exim4. Even with the exact same configuration as my previous setup (I've been doing full backups of /etc), I can't get it to work. I'm seeing two proble

Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:46:19PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 2/16/08, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Believe it or not, the best mouse - strictly from a usability > standpoint for me - is a $14 cheapie optical mouse with two buttons > and a scroll wheel in the middle. It's extrem

string.replace not working

2008-02-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: A new repository of US caselaw[1] has recently been released, and I'm trying to make it a little more useful. At this URL (which happens to be Brown v. Bd. of Ed.), http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/347/347.US.483.html, I'm trying to convert data which looks so, " 123 U.S. 456", int

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:24:13AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:38:03PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > >>On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:54:33 -0500 > >>"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:15:07PM -0500, Fr

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:50:45AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:40:03 +0530 > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > gksudo ls > > That should prompt you for your current user password (if configured > > so in /etc/sudoers) > > >Accepts old password.

exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
Hi all. I've recently had to re-install, due to a drive failure, and as usual the hardest thing to configure properly is exim4. Even with the exact same configuration as my previous setup (I've been doing full backups of /etc), I can't get it to work. I'm seeing two problems currently: 1) There

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:33:14PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:25:50 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:11:52PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:39:12 +0100 > > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:25:50PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:11:52PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:39:12 +0100 > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > > How do you supply options to modules? I could try it anyway. >

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:25:50 +0100 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:11:52PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:39:12 +0100 > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > > How do you supply options to modules? I could try

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat February 16 2008 22:39:22 gary turner wrote: > libxml2 is > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib$ ls -al | grep libxml > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-02-16 10:11 libxml2.so.2 -> > libxml2.so.2.6.31 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1166856 2008-01-19 12:54 libxml2.so.2.6.31 Those look OK.

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:44:10AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Did you run 'passwd' or 'sudo passwd'? > > I ran passwd...as I was only changing my password. Of course, but I thought maybe by habit you could have run 'sudo passwd' which would have enabled your root account. BTW, did you

Re: iceweasel

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:58:09PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Is iceweasel v2.0.0.12 from the debian etch repository the same version as > firefox? I assume so but I just want to make sure. > > I'm having some minor issues browsing and I can't figure out what the > problem is. The symptom is th

Re: do fsck even when on battery

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:13:56PM +0100, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to force fsck even when the laptop is on battery? > Currently the checkfs.sh script checks for this with on_ac_power, and > won't do fsck on my filesystems during boot when I'm using the laptop > on battery.

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:11:52PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:39:12 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > How do you supply options to modules? I could try it anyway. > > > > You add them to your modprobe command line, like so: > modprobe snd-h

Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:04:12 -0500 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Frank, > Wireless works well on my wife's HP with XP... but the mouse > obviously does not like Linux. Strange, that: I use a Logitech cordless optical mouse with Debian Lenny. No problems whatever. >Wit

Re: iceweasel

2008-02-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080217 08:00]: > > Is iceweasel v2.0.0.12 from the debian etch repository the same version > as firefox? I assume so but I just want to make sure. > > I'm having some minor issues browsing and I can't figure out what the > problem is. The symptom is that icewease

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mitch Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080217 06:14]: > OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the > libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. > > I have a static IP 10.0.0.6 255.255.255.0 > There are NO proxies running anywhere that i'm aware of. > > I have 3 other machin

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread John Hasler
Tony writes: > What's that comma doing there? Also note that all nameserver lines after the first three will be ignored, and your "domain" and "search" lines are at best useless: remove them. I hope that the "//" delimited comments are not actually in the file. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:40:03 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please try the following from a terminal in gnome: > > gksu ls > That should prompt you for the root password and should fail if the > root account does not have a password. It fails on any password. As I said ro

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:15:54 -0900 Siraaj Khandkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> > >> It may also be that gksu saved the old password in keychain, and he > >> set the keychain's password to be the same as the old password, and > >> now it's j

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:13:07 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:40:37PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > So what was the command to change the password when there is no > > > root account? > > > > Passwd is how I change passwords. > > Did you

iceweasel

2008-02-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Is iceweasel v2.0.0.12 from the debian etch repository the same version as firefox? I assume so but I just want to make sure. I'm having some minor issues browsing and I can't figure out what the problem is. The symptom is that iceweasel freezes up completely for 10 to 15 seconds on various

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

2008-02-17 Thread KS
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 17/02/2008, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My Sony monitor has "shut down" too. By shut down I mean that it isn't >> showing anything, and that I haven't opened it up to see if it can be >> repaired another time. So I went checking what is there in the market >> these days

do fsck even when on battery

2008-02-17 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Hi! Is it possible to force fsck even when the laptop is on battery? Currently the checkfs.sh script checks for this with on_ac_power, and won't do fsck on my filesystems during boot when I'm using the laptop on battery. ps.: please cc me Thanks! Daniel -- LÉVAI Dániel Public key ID = 4AC0A

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:39:12 +0100 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > FWIW, I have the same problem on an Acer Aspire 1640Z. Onboard > > > sound card is in my case listed as > > > Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 17 Feb at 12:12 Mitch Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the > libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. [snip] > > /etc/resolv.conf > nameserver 10,.0.0.254 // router nameserver What's that

New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Mitch Crawford
OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. I have a static IP 10.0.0.6 255.255.255.0 There are NO proxies running anywhere that i'm aware of. I have 3 other machines connected to this 4 port router all which can connect ok & have

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:49:37AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > FWIW, I have the same problem on an Acer Aspire 1640Z. Onboard sound > > card is in my case listed as > > Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
> Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > FWIW, I have the same problem on an Acer Aspire 1640Z. Onboard sound > > card is in my case listed as > > Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High > > Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) > > but the rest seems identical.

Re: debian unstable postgresql-8.3 installation problem

2008-02-17 Thread Tobias Nissen
jeffry s wrote: > i got the message during installation > > bayau:/var/log/postgresql# apt-get install postgresql-8.3 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > postgresql-8.3 is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 622 not upgraded

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:40:37PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > So what was the command to change the password when there is no root > > account? > > Passwd is how I change passwords. Did you run 'passwd' or 'sudo passwd'? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't

Re: sound not working

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:14:41AM +0900, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote: > i've checked alsamixer to make sure all the settings are unmuted. On my laptop I have to *mute* the "Headphone Jack Sense" control to get any sound. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it w

Re: scoll mouse problems

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:04:12AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >Without dragging this out...my regular mouse is a MS optical which I > paid $25 for about 2 years ago. I use a mousepad but it seems to work > as well on the desktop. AFAICT optical mice work best on patterned and light colour

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > FWIW, I have the same problem on an Acer Aspire 1640Z. Onboard sound > card is in my case listed as > Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition > Audio Controller (rev 04) > but the rest seems identi

Re: Password problems

2008-02-17 Thread Jonathan Doe
On Saturday 16 February 2008 09:51:08 pm Frank McCormick wrote: >    From the desktop it's being run as gksudo synaptic. In a terminal > sudo synaptic accepts the new password. I'll have to wait 15 minutes > before trying gksudo synaptic :) Since it would appear to only happen with gksudo, I suppo

Re: wget vs lynx

2008-02-17 Thread Carlos Rivera Cordero
On 17/02/08 10:48, Anas Husseini wrote: > wget is receiving a 403 error (Forbidden) when trying to retrieve a special > web page, while lynx (and other text and graphical web browsers) succeeded to > get this page. > > What may be the cause? Your server does not like wget user agent, in fact it

Re: wget vs lynx

2008-02-17 Thread Carlos Rivera Cordero
On 17/02/08 10:48, Anas Husseini wrote: > wget is receiving a 403 error (Forbidden) when trying to retrieve a special > web page, while lynx (and other text and graphical web browsers) succeeded > to get this page. If you give the url it should be easy for anyone to check and figure out what's g

wget vs lynx

2008-02-17 Thread Anas Husseini
Hi, wget is receiving a 403 error (Forbidden) when trying to retrieve a special web page, while lynx (and other text and graphical web browsers) succeeded to get this page. What may be the cause? P.S. wget is behaving properly with other websites. -- To move or to be moved