Latest WebKit with Debian Etch

2008-02-28 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey Guys, Any of you have any luck compiling any of the latest nightly builds of webkit (more specifically webkitgtk)? Whenever I try to compile, I get some sort of error during the make procedure. I was curious to know if any of you had any luck compiling it. The reason for this: http://softw

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 29/02/2008, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer is on > fire. Upon inspection I found no signs of fire but I fear that if I do not > find the fire soon m

Re: (OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-28 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
komodo wrote: On Wednesday 27 of February 2008 20:57:22 Angus Auld wrote: --- Jean-Louis Crouzet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Angus Auld wrote: This are just my observations and experiences with Flash-player and Linux of late. I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and the fact that

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread andy
Jochen Schulz wrote: andy: Jochen Schulz wrote: My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer is on > fire. Upon inspection I found no signs of fire but I fear that if I do not > find the fire soon my printer will die, PLEASE HELP!!! URGENT AS I NEED TO > PRI

Re: Intel Graphics Drivers

2008-02-28 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 29 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from > www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some > problems. You do know that they are already packaged for Debian, right ? xserver-xorg-video-intel is the package. You probably need t

Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-28 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Hello Everybody, I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: o Formatted my pen drive as a single 2GB FAT16 partition (/dev/sdb) o Did a "# syslinux -sf /dev/sdb" to make it bootable o Downloaded "http://cdimage.debian.org/debia

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 22:49, s. keeling wrote: Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i can't find a

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 22:49, s. keeling wrote: > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to >> me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i >> can't find anythign to m

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 22:27, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:41:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> *complete* VT220 emulators and Cisco VPN client software. > > does it mean that the packages that one can find with > apt-cache search ci

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread s. keeling
Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to > me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i > can't find anythign to make iit do this, but i';m guessing it's possible. Don't use gmail. -- Any technolo

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:41:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > *complete* VT220 emulators and Cisco VPN client software. does it mean that the packages that one can find with apt-cache search cisco vpn are incomplete like the vt220 terminal emulators? -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena an

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Chuck Rhode
s. keeling wrote this on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:03:40AM +0100. My reply is below. > There was an ancient, giant snail sort of thing (whose name escapes > me) which spent it's life floating in the ocean wherever the > currwent took it. Some fossils are a few feet across. Ah, yes, the ammonites:

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:17:50PM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I occasionally even get emails from people who say they use > aptitude over other package managers because of this feature, despite the > fact that the version of Debian they're running includes my imp

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 06:09:48PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Next time I have a spare box, I'll work on having an OpenBSD main system > with Debian in a chroot once I tried it with FreeBSD 4.x chroot /debian/ gave a nice bash prompt, but anything needing to access /dev/ or /proc/ had seri

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Doug MacFarlane gmail.com> writes: > OK _ ran alsaconf and it went fine. I was already in the audio group (I > remembered that one . . . ) and then I ran alsamixer and the channels are > unmuted but still no sound . . . > > What next? What commands should I execute to get the data I > need to

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-02-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Steve wrote: > I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I > can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows > box using putty or similar). I've tried openssh but of course that is > a client. Can anyone tell

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'd be very interested in Debian, with aptitude, etc, with the OpenBSD > kernel. To me, this would be the best of both worlds. http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD?highlight=%28freebsd%29 -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insu

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread s. keeling
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 28 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > > >> > > >> Debian could use an image revamp, last night i was messing with a > > > > > > There is a revamped image with a new logo

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:33:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? > >>> Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fon

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

2008-02-28 Thread Rick Dooling
On Feb 28, 7:30 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think he means "No" it won't require a reinstall (in response to "will > I have to reinstall"). > Thank you all. I'll try it next week. RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:06:37PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > > the FreeBSD

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 07:03:31 pm Doug MacFarlane wrote: > OK _ ran alsaconf and it went fine. I was already in the audio group (I > remembered that one . . . ) and then I ran alsamixer and the channels are > unmuted but still no sound . . . > > What next? What commands should I execute to get

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi bluebottle.com> writes: > > Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > > 1. Who would like to help me with the Sound Card issue? We can do it via > > email > > offline from this list. I've never been really good with loading modules > > and drivers . . . > > > > Run alsaconf to set u

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 05:55:27 pm Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/28/08 19:39, Alan Ianson wrote: > >> On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: > >>> Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to > >>> me as well? the solaris list does thi

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? >>> Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fonts, never use tt fonts

Re: Usermount

2008-02-28 Thread debian
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount anything. Starting usermount, I get this message: "There are no filesystems which you are al

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread David Fox
On 2/28/08, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my > machines are Athalons. Mine is as well. And it's going to stay alive for at least the foreseeable future - even after being in service since spring 2001. :) If true, one

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

2008-02-28 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/29/08, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. > > I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to > it, connected via Ethernet. > > The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three connection

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:03:40AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can't call it the Debian Shrimp since its nees so much memory... > > Bite your tongue: > > (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ free > total used free sharedbuffers

custom kernel pathes & custom kernel modules

2008-02-28 Thread Peter Townson
Good morning all, I have two problems (that are debian related). 1. I need to automatically applying a kernel patch to the sources at build-time (make-kpkg). 2. I need to build custom kernel modules at the same time The intent is to generate a VERY

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:44:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Also, can anybody confirm the above problem does not occur for him? > > > > Well, I never use OO.o, never use non-latin fonts, never use tt fonts. > > I write with LaTex and turn the dvi into whatever I need. I'm I'm > > printing I

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > > the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to crea

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-02-28 Thread hhding
first of all, pls examine setting of your DNS --- the file /etc/resolv.conf Can your resolv the domain name such as www.google.com? And can you access it? pls try to test the accessability by wget http://www.google.com. If it works for you, please try to resolve the domain name of mirror.paci

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 19:20, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I Congrats! > can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows > box using putty or similar). I've tried openssh but o

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/08 19:39, Alan Ianson wrote: >> On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: >>> Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to >>> me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes lif

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 19:39, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: >> Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to >> me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i >> can'

Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-02-28 Thread Steve
Hi, I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows box using putty or similar). I've tried openssh but of course that is a client. Can anyone tell me where to start looking. I'm guessing that it's a daem

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 19:17, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > >> I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing >> "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so >>

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 19:19, Rich Healey wrote: > Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to > me as well? It already does, so obviously what you and I mean by "send my emails to me" are different. So... Huh? > the sol

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: > Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to > me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i > can't find anythign to make iit do this, but i';m guessing it's possible. It does get sent to

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 02:25:18 pm Doug MacFarlane wrote: > 3. Windows emulation. My parents will visit in 2.5 weeks and will want > Pretty Good Solitaire because it has a game called Thirteen Packs in it > that is an old family favorite. Pysol might do the trick. There are quite a few solitai

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:15:40PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/28/08 13:51, Rick Dooling wrote: > >> I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that > >> just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. > > > >> If I replace with any soc

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Doug MacFarlane wrote: > 1. Who would like to help me with the Sound Card issue? We can do it via > email > offline from this list. I've never been really good with loading modules > and drivers . . . > Run alsaconf to set up the driver, add yourself to the audio group, run alsamixer to unmut

My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i can't find anythign to make iit do this, but i';m guessing it's possible. Cheers Rich -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing > "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so > never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which > one is it? > > Also,

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/08 13:51, Rick Dooling wrote: >> I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that >> just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. > >> If I replace with any socket A Athlon, say, a 2600,

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:49:47PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. > > I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to > it, connected via Ethernet. > > The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:25:18PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. > After > suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable > package > management, I'm BACK!!! > > Boy did I miss you guys . . .

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:44:37PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I >> don't find a discussion of this. >> >> Does anyone know why the -k7 precompil

Re: Sending a bug report with reportbug fails

2008-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:20:22PM +0200, Joona Kiiski wrote: > Here is more info. ".reportbugrc" is standard generated stuff without > any modifications. [...] This all looks ok. "No route to host" means AFAIK network problems, but your network seems to be ok. Maybe just try again? > By the wa

Re: consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages

2008-02-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:53 AM, Johann Spies wrote: Over the years, every time I have reinstalled Debian, I have saved the mail files. Now I have a dozen or more files, with many duplicate messages. Is there an archiving utility or other reasonably simple approach whereby I can process these m

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:53:40PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Am 2008-02-26 19:26:36, schrieb Richard Lyons: > > Oh Michelle, it's _you_ that sends me all those "Dear {EMAIL}, Try > > {PRODUCT} today FREE!!!..." emails. And I thought it was spammers who > > were too dim to

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-02-28 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello If a document containing some Indic fonts is printed, those fonts come out to be different on paper. English fonts are okay though. However, if the document is saved first as a PDF file and then that PDF printed, all fonts come out okay on the print

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. I'm going to run VMware Workstation or Server - I use Dragon Naturally > Speaking to do speech to text conversion of meetings that I record on my > Olympus > pocket recorder. Unless you have a better idea . . .

wireless card fried?

2008-02-28 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hi Since yesterday I can't use my wireless card anymore, an Intel 2200bg. iwconfig and dmesg report that the kill switch is on, which is confirmed by >cat /sys/bus/.../ipw2200/rf_kill >2 Any attempt to change that value is fruitless. Switching on and off the wireless switch does nothing. Only so

Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

2008-02-28 Thread Kent West
I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to it, connected via Ethernet. The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three connection methods: Windows Fileshare (Samba/smb/cifs), Apple Files

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:15:14PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > I am on "my own" machine and I am able to write to local drives. I've > successfully installed Opera, but I can't install Openoffice (because > that requires root -- oops, "administrator" privileges) nor cygqin > (because its can't go throu

Xorg.0.log on accessible gnome install attempt

2008-02-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
After having done a clean install of debian and gotten it up to unstable and having done a clean install of gnome and gnome-orca then having removed execute persissions from /etc/init.d/gdm script I rebooted computer and logged in. I ran startx and got some interesting error messages. One of

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 00:03, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] > > DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying mandrake (driva) is better, just that the > installer is prettier, and lets face it, since you only run it once, why > not make installing an eyecandy experience. Doug calls

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:21:32PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Whilst I like Debian, I'm surprised that the maintainers can let this > > situation prevail. But I guess it's

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:30:23PM -0800, debian azul wrote: > Debian does not need a friendly mascot. That is ridiculous. Debian is well > known because it is great work not because its appearance is nice or cool. > There are many projects that have been working in beautiful distributions > from D

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:03:37PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying mandrake (driva) is better, just that the > installer is prettier, and lets face it, since you only run it once, why > not make installing an eyecandy experience. Because then it doesn't run well on non-ey

Re: KDEgraphics-kfile-plugins_3.5.6-Oubuntu4_i386.deb

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 16:28, henry wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > I want to install the kdegraphics-kfile-plugins_3.5.6-Oubuntu4_i386.deb > in my Ubuntu 7,10 operating system but I get a window with a problem > reported. Look the attachment. > What can I do to solv

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >>> My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny >>> can operate with? >> >> No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards >> that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact >> solution anym

KDEgraphics-kfile-plugins_3.5.6-Oubuntu4_i386.deb

2008-02-28 Thread henry
Dear Sirs, I want to install the kdegraphics-kfile-plugins_3.5.6-Oubuntu4_i386.deb in my Ubuntu 7,10 operating system but I get a window with a problem reported. Look the attachment. What can I do to solve this problem? Thanxs in advance! Henry Hendriks NL <>

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/29/08, Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. > After > suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable > package > management, I'm BACK!!! > > Boy did I miss you guys . . . > > So I

I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. After suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable package management, I'm BACK!!! Boy did I miss you guys . . . So I ran the 4.0 r3 netinst, and just for giggles ran an apt-get update and apt

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 13:51, Rick Dooling wrote: > I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that > just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. > > If I replace with any socket A Athlon, say, a 2600, instead, same FSB > and

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>[snip] >> In your case, I would go with either Debian Stable or Ubuntu. Why Debian >> Stable? Because Debian stable is very reliable, stable and never crashes. > > O

replace cpu on debian etch

2008-02-28 Thread Rick Dooling
I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. If I replace with any socket A Athlon, say, a 2600, instead, same FSB and such, will I have to reinstall Debian, or will the same Kernel and install work okay with my cu

Re: libpcre3 security update on lenny not installed

2008-02-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thanks for your support. Meanwhile the security team has released the correct update for testing/lenny with version number 7.4-1+lenny1. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread andy
Jochen Schulz wrote: andy: My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore but it involv

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 14:47, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu February 28 2008 10:29:54 am Curt Howland wrote: >> I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I >> don't find a discussion of this. >> >> Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled

finding network printers

2008-02-28 Thread Jimmy Wu
Excuse me for the noobishness of the question, but I have been googling around and haven't had any luck. It seems all the howtos and guides out there about adding network printers assume prior knowledge of all the information and IP of the printer one would like to add. I was wondering if there w

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: > > My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny > can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore but it involves telling the kernel how

Re: usbcore and ndiswrapper for toshiba laptop

2008-02-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 18:56:21 -0500, diane mittnik wrote: > Toshiba laptop A215-S7422, debian etch installed > # uname -a: 2.6.22-4-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 10:29:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > I'm following the instructions here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 10:29:54 am Curt Howland wrote: > I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I > don't find a discussion of this. > > Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my > machines are Athalons. I've been wondering about this to.

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I don't find a discussion of this. Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my machines are Athalons. Curt- - -- November 5th:

Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread andy
Hi all My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? I have a Lenny machine with an FSB800 board using an Intel P4 chip and has 2 x DDR2-533 RAM slots. I know that the board is supported in Linux http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=03/08/1

No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I don't find a discussion of this. Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my machines are Athalons. Curt- - -- November 5th: $4.3Million Dollars In O

Re: Digikam - Camera not recognized correctly

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/23/08 13:41, Chris wrote: > after a recent upgrade in testing, digikam does not recognize my Olympus > fe-190 camera correctly anymore. Instead, it reports the camera as a Olympus > C-310Z and fails to connect. > > Using PTP USB mode it is po

Intel Graphics Drivers

2008-02-28 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some problems. I downloaded the necessary source trees from their git repository using the links provided in the downloads section of that page. I have been trying to compil

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

2008-02-28 Thread e s
Alfredo Finol wrote: e s wrote: Pol Hallen wrote: La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " try to kill the process that run ssl-cert Pol and how do you do that from the install CD? -e just you have to go to tty2 or tty3 (with ctrl+alt+

Re: Usermount

2008-02-28 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. > Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount anything. Starting usermount, I get this message: "There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmou

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:20:07AM +, Kjo wrote: > I booted on an install CD ins rescue mode and tried this tuto : > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Rescue/Crypto > > # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hda2 sda2_crypt > works > > # vgchange -a y [vg] > works > > # mount /dev/[vg]/root /targe

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 09:54, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: [snip] > > Ubuntu. > > Why? Because it works. > > Consumers don't care about freedom. If they did, they're all be using > FOSS on the desktop right now and MS would go bust within days. > Consum

Re: Printer driver

2008-02-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:28:08 -0500, Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: > I am trying to setup a Dell 1710n printer on Lenny, but I do not know which > model/driver it is compatible with. All I know it is made by Lexmark. I have > tried a range of HP and Lexmark models, at no avail. Has anyone used a Dell

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

2008-02-28 Thread Alfredo Finol
e s wrote: Pol Hallen wrote: La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " try to kill the process that run ssl-cert Pol and how do you do that from the install CD? -e just you have to go to tty2 or tty3 (with ctrl+alt+f2 or ctrl+alt+f3), a

Re: Printer driver

2008-02-28 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haven't used that Dell model, but it looks roughly like a Lexmark e230. If you don't have a specific driver for it, (and dell doesn't provide them?) try a generic postscript which should work. Point your browser at it and it'll probably have link

Printer driver

2008-02-28 Thread Loeghmon T. Nejad
I am trying to setup a Dell 1710n printer on Lenny, but I do not know which model/driver it is compatible with. All I know it is made by Lexmark. I have tried a range of HP and Lexmark models, at no avail. Has anyone used a Dell printer like this with Debian? Thank you all. -- Regards,

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

2008-02-28 Thread e s
Pol Hallen wrote: La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " try to kill the process that run ssl-cert Pol and how do you do that from the install CD? -e -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Help with man page display in Etch

2008-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:54:13AM -0600, cothrige wrote: > Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:47, Michelle Konzack wrote: > >> Woops! This manpage seems to be written in UTF8 > >> > >> Do you have tried to us man under an UTF8 locale like en_US.UT

gnome-volume-manager

2008-02-28 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Is anyone else having problems with gnome-volume-manager? I'm running Sid with apt-get upgrade last run yesterday. gvm is not running as a daemon and when I run "gnome-volume-manager" at a bash prompt either as a regular user or as root I get the error that the command is not found. It is in

Re: windings and acroread

2008-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:56:54AM -0800, Ulrich Scholz wrote: > > I don't believe you.  (Well, maybe it was 3 years ago, but not > > today.  Do you havehttp://www.debian-multimedia.orgin your > > sources.list?) > > I do: > > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main On my machine I get

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:04:53PM +, michael wrote: > I just noticed a "amanda" dir in > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head > total 1831672 > drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ > {} > drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ > > which I

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

2008-02-28 Thread Pol Hallen
> La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. > Instalando " ssl-cert " try to kill the process that run ssl-cert Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[snip] > In your case, I would go with either Debian Stable or Ubuntu. Why Debian > Stable? Because Debian stable is very reliable, stable and never crashes. Oh, yes it does :( As a recent convert

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

2008-02-28 Thread e s
Jose Manuel wrote: La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " Saludos Jose Manuel Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] exactly the same error here, 65%, and I made two different CDs hope it will be fixed I want Lenny! -e -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problem with KVM switch and Screen Res...

2008-02-28 Thread Frank Charles Gallacher
Thnx 1.0E6 Raj, it worked a treat!!! (I am amazed at the response and accuracy of debian lists; I must be learning how to suck eggs...) TA, fcG. On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:07 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am running Debian GNU/Linux ("etch" k

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