conf management for many debian boxes

2008-06-07 Thread Donald
Hi, I was wondering if there was an application that was a repository for managing files/configs across many Debian and/or Linux boxes. I'd like to not reinvent the wheel if such an application exists, and if not, get to work on one as it seems like it would be a very handy tool. I manage about

Re: mkdir no longer works

2008-06-07 Thread Steve Mazurek
Thank you for your replies. I didn't try using aliases, but there was an unescaped special character, ' , in the directory name. I omitted it and the directory now exists and I can use it. Again, thanks for the speedy replies. On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Gnome URL icon associations

2008-06-07 Thread Marty
In my debian Etch system, the default browser is iceape, the link /etc/x-www-browser points to /usr/bin/iceape, and mozilla is the selected default browser using the gnome Desktop->Preferences->Preferred Applications applet. I am not familiar with gconf configuration. Regardless of the defaul

Re: .xsession-errors

2008-06-07 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Raju On 6/7/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manon Metten wrote: > > > > > The only problem I have lately is Firefox 2.0.0.14 crashing regularly. > > Everything else is running fine. > > > No. The opcode errors do not correspond to the firefox crashes. The best way > t

Re: mkdir no longer works

2008-06-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 05:27:19PM -0700, Steve Mazurek wrote: > I can no longer create directories with mkdir, neither as root from the > command line nor from within the terminals in the xwindow graphics system. > (I am using etchnhalf, linux image 2.6.22-4-686 on a Thinkpad T42) In > either cas

Re: mkdir no longer works

2008-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/08 19:27, Steve Mazurek wrote: > I can no longer create directories with mkdir, neither as root from the > command line nor from within the terminals in the xwindow graphics > system. (I am using etchnhalf, linux image 2.6.22-4-686 on a Thinkp

mkdir no longer works

2008-06-07 Thread Steve Mazurek
I can no longer create directories with mkdir, neither as root from the command line nor from within the terminals in the xwindow graphics system. (I am using etchnhalf, linux image 2.6.22-4-686 on a Thinkpad T42) In either case, when I type mkdir directory-name or mkdir path directory-name and hi

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/07/2008 09:10 AM, Сергей Овчар wrote: In Etch the Intel i965 video controller is not supported yet, but may be supported in Lenny. If it is supported it is probably in package xserver-xorg-video-i810. Uhm. Is this a different i965 card I don't realise? It's in the xserver-xorg-video-i

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat June 7 2008 17:04:02 Mag Gam wrote: > Does this page, > http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2006-October/msg00014.html, hold > any validity? The poster makes a good argument, but by seeing Damon's > response it makes no sense to go thru the trouble. I would be willing to > try this if I

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 20:04 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Thanks thats the exact same question I have. > > Does this page, > http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2006-October/msg00014.html, > hold any validity? The poster makes a good argument, but by seeing > Damon's response it makes no sense to g

Recommendation for an E-commerce solution on Etch

2008-06-07 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I would like to hear if anyone could recommend a specific e-commerce solution (in PHP) running on an Etch production machine? I have been looking at the Wordpress E-commerce plugin, and on the Drupal plugin, but the Drupal plugin is still in Alpha stage. I have also been looking at PHPShop, w

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
Thanks thats the exact same question I have. Does this page, http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2006-October/msg00014.html, hold any validity? The poster makes a good argument, but by seeing Damon's response it makes no sense to go thru the trouble. I would be willing to try this if I get so

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 11:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Striping is a GREAT idea IFF you want serious speed, but don't care > about your data. If one of the disks goes flaky, *all* the data on > the stripeset goes poof. > > So, *never* use striping on a production server!! Unless you hate > the

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 17:05 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Thanks for the responses all. > > I want RAID 5 but without mirroring. The data is important but not > that important. > I am planning to use LVM. > > If the controller creates a stripe size of 16k, do I need to do > anything special with physi

Re: Anyone use Linux to author DVDs?

2008-06-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 04:05:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm using DVD Styler (from debian-multimedia.org) because it's > simple, and I know nothing about authoring. The disks I *have* made > work great from vlc, but not stand-alone pla

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > How does your DNS server resolve subkeys.pgp.net? I see five different Follow up to my last fup; no, maradns isn't the solution, sorry. Using the IPs works, DNS times out apparently. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advance

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/08 16:05, Mag Gam wrote: > Thanks for the responses all. > > I want RAID 5 but without mirroring. The data is important but not that > important. Ummm, there is NO mirroring in RAID 5. Never has been. > I am planning to use LVM. > > If th

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/08 11:15, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Otherwise, use RAID 0, 10, 0+1 or 5. My mistake: not RAID 0, but RAID 1. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -B

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 02:17:47 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > > > Sorry to jump in mid thread, but since this issue has popped up I > > thought I'd mention a problem I've been having. > > > > $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 330C4

Re: Anyone use Linux to author DVDs?

2008-06-07 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm using DVD Styler (from debian-multimedia.org) because it's > simple, and I know nothing about authoring. The disks I *have* made > work great from vlc, but not stand-a

Re: Anyone use Linux to author DVDs?

2008-06-07 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 16:05:37 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I'm using DVD Styler (from debian-multimedia.org) because it's > simple, and I know nothing about authoring. The disks I *have* made > work great from vlc, but

Re: Can't install driveles system from USB memory stick: ISO not found.

2008-06-07 Thread Johannes Graumann
Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a driveles system via an USB memory stick like so: > > - get > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz > -get > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-

Can't install driveles system from USB memory stick: ISO not found.

2008-06-07 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I'm trying to install a driveles system via an USB memory stick like so: - get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz -get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso - ch

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 23:56 +0400, Сергей Овчар wrote: > Hi. > Can anyone help me configure my videoadapter i965(notebook acer4315)? Is > there in Lenny any drivers? How can I configure it? Drivers, downloaded from > http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html, I can't build. > dpkg-reconfigure x

Anyone use Linux to author DVDs?

2008-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm using DVD Styler (from debian-multimedia.org) because it's simple, and I know nothing about authoring. The disks I *have* made work great from vlc, but not stand-alone players. Anyone have thoughts about what I'm doing wrong? - -- Ron Johnson,

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
Thanks for the responses all. I want RAID 5 but without mirroring. The data is important but not that important. I am planning to use LVM. If the controller creates a stripe size of 16k, do I need to do anything special with physical extends (in pvcreate or vgcreate) ? Do I need to do anything sp

Re: Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 09:25 +0400, Сергей Овчар wrote: > > > Hi Sergei, > > On 05/06/2008, Сергей Овчар <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anyone help me configure my videoadapter i965(notebook acer4315)? > > There shouldn't be any need to configure that. It uses the free > > (свободный) intel

Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts

2008-06-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/7 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > #! /bin/bash > # > # pdfstripsfonts: a simple wrapper script that invokes ghostscript > # to remove all embedded fonts from a PDF document (work in progress) > > if [ -z "$1" ] > then echo "Usage: ${0##*/} input_pdf [output_pdf]" > exit 1 > fi > INFI

ath5k anyone?

2008-06-07 Thread Bill Wohler
Hey folks, Has anyone had any luck with the ath5k driver? I've installed linux-image-2.6.25-2-686. My /etc/network/interfaces file says: auto ath0 iface ath0 inet static wireless_essid wireless_key address netmask gateway W

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:52:24PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > With the RAID array I am planning to use RAID 5 so my data is still > protected. My confusion is going with RAID striping (picking the right > size). Also, Does the filesystem layout need to be specific when I do > striping? If I am using 1

Re: Java webstart in amd64

2008-06-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 08:11:41PM +0200, Peter Robinson wrote: > Dear all, > > although I have seen some pages with advice on how to get java working > in amd64 / testing, I am still a bit confused. Is the best way to go a > chroot environment? In particular, I have not had great experiences w

Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts

2008-06-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/07/2008 11:52 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:25:10 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: [...] And the program "pdffonts" tells me that WEFAKP+GuttmanYad-Brush_00 and SWNCWI+GuttmanYadLight_00 are still embedded in the file. Hmm, these two fonts are missing in the /NeverEmbed li

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The other reason why I hate gmail is that it, like Outlook, naturally top-posts... On 06/07/08 11:52, Mag Gam wrote: > With the RAID array I am planning to use RAID 5 so my data is still > protected. My confusion is going with RAID striping (picking

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 22:21:24 +0400, Сергей Овчар wrote: > > > Most probably, the intel driver is used anyway; you can check this with > > > > grep '/drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so So far it looks OK... > > If you are unhappy with t

Re: Cross-platform debootstrap/bootlaoder woes

2008-06-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 03:55:11PM +0200, André Berger wrote: > I would like to install Lenny i386 onto an external USB HDD, for use > with a T-Online S100, from a PPC Etch box. The problems are: I can't > compile grub on the PPC box; and I can't chroot to the i386 system. > While I can edit $HDD/e

Re: Re: Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 07/06/2008, Сергей Овчар <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't understand what is the bullshit? Why dpkg-reconfigure > does not asked me about video adapter? The bullshit is that Xorg now does autodetection better than the Debian scripts could, so it doesn't have to ask you questions. At any r

Weird error while upgrading fglrx-glx.

2008-06-07 Thread Carlos Parada
Hi, I've got the following error when performing an apt-get dist-upgrade. Can you help me? Unpacking fglrx-glx (from .../fglrx-glx_1%3a8-4-1_i386.deb) ... Removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/diversions/libGL.so.1.2 by fglrx-driver' dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/lib/lib

Re[2]: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Сергей Овчар
> Most probably, the intel driver is used anyway; you can check this with > > grep '/drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so > If you are unhappy with the autodetected resolution: see "man xrandr". Resolution is ok. I unhappy with 3d acceleration

Java webstart in amd64

2008-06-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Dear all, although I have seen some pages with advice on how to get java working in amd64 / testing, I am still a bit confused. Is the best way to go a chroot environment? In particular, I have not had great experiences with gcjava and prefer the sun version of java, but no javaws is available

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 02:17:47 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] > Sorry to jump in mid thread, but since this issue has popped up I > thought I'd mention a problem I've been having. > > $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 330C4A75 > gpg: requesting key 330C4A75 from hkp server sub

Re: "apt-get install imagemagick" also installs libqt4-*

2008-06-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Florian Kulzer wrote: > $ aptitude why imagemagick libqt4-core > i imagemagick Dependslibmagick10 > i A libmagick10 Dependslibdjvulibre21 (>= 3.5.20) > i A libdjvulibre21Recommends djvulibre-desktop > i A djvulibre-desktop Recommends djview4 | djview3 | djview | evince >

Re: "apt-get install imagemagick" also installs libqt4-*

2008-06-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 10:17:45PM +0530, mwnn wrote: > Hi, >I am using Debian lenny. When installing imagemagick, the apt-get > package management utility seems to be installing "libqt4-*" stuff > (which I think is unnecessary). > > /***

Re: "apt-get install imagemagick" also installs libqt4-*

2008-06-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 22:17:45 +0530, mwnn wrote: > Hi, >I am using Debian lenny. When installing imagemagick, the apt-get > package management utility seems to be installing "libqt4-*" stuff > (which I think is unnecessary). > > /*

Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts

2008-06-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:25:10 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/07/2008 07:29 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> [...] >> I would be interested to know if these fonts are still listed as >> embedded if you run pdffonts on the final -NOFONTS.pdf. I will ask >> Dotan to send me his original file; mayb

"apt-get install imagemagick" also installs libqt4-*

2008-06-07 Thread mwnn
Hi, I am using Debian lenny. When installing imagemagick, the apt-get package management utility seems to be installing "libqt4-*" stuff (which I think is unnecessary). /*/ bash# apt-get install imagemagick Reading pac

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
With the RAID array I am planning to use RAID 5 so my data is still protected. My confusion is going with RAID striping (picking the right size). Also, Does the filesystem layout need to be specific when I do striping? If I am using 128k stripes, should I start my filesystem on 129k and end with ma

Autonomous CPAN connections

2008-06-07 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows which packages generate autonomous CPAN connections. My connection logs show a high activity (dport 80) for several servers to one of the CPAN sites (cpan-sj.viaverio.com). When I researched it, I noticed that it has been going on for a long time. thanks, -j

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 11:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/07/08 07:27, Mag Gam wrote: > > > > I have a RAID controller with 256MB of on board cache and its connected > > to 12 500GB SATA disks. I am planning to create 2 RAID groups (6 disks

Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts

2008-06-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/07/2008 07:29 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] I would be interested to know if these fonts are still listed as embedded if you run pdffonts on the final -NOFONTS.pdf. I will ask Dotan to send me his original file; maybe there is some document security option which has to be overridden.

Re: C++ Mailing List

2008-06-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/07/2008 08:39 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone recommend to me a good Debian/Linux C++ mailing list? I couldn't find one on Debian.org or Cplusplus. Another that I found gave me a bounce message. Is the Boost mailing list my best option? Thanks i

Re: USB for potato

2008-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/08 03:44, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:28:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 06/06/08 12:46, Fabio Guerinoni wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running >>> potato (Deb

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/08 07:27, Mag Gam wrote: > > I have a RAID controller with 256MB of on board cache and its connected > to 12 500GB SATA disks. I am planning to create 2 RAID groups (6 disks > each), but I don't know what is the optimal stripe size should be.

Re: USB for potato

2008-06-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Fabio, Am 2008-06-06 12:46:36, schrieb Fabio Guerinoni: > Hi, > I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running > potato (Debian 2.2). I wanted to load a module, for a USB interface > storage. Apparently, nothing comes with the original distribution.. > .. and the pac

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 02:17:47 +1200 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Chris, > The weird thing is, it works for other people. Googling on the radix64 Including me; I imported all three of the keys you mentioned without problems. Sorry, but I don't know enough about GPG & the serve

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/08 09:17, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:45:47PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:41:08 +0200 >> Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello Jochen, >> >>> $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --rec

Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 16:03:33 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The > problem > seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. dpkg is > unable > to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so'. This does not seem to

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please wrap your lines properly. ] On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 18:10:08 +0400, Сергей Овчар wrote: > > > In Etch the Intel i965 video controller is not supported > > > yet, but may be supported in Lenny. If it is supported it is probably > > > in package xserver-xorg-video-i810. > > > > Uhm. >

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat June 7 2008 08:32:27 Mag Gam wrote: > I haven't even approached the file system level yet. The application is a > basic fileserver which will host our professor's mechanical engineering > images. These images can be anywhere from 20MB to 300MB so I would consider > them "normal files". > > I

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 11:32 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Damon, > > I haven't even approached the file system level yet. The application > is a basic fileserver which will host our professor's mechanical > engineering images. These images can be anywhere from 20MB to 300MB so > I would consider them "n

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
Damon, I haven't even approached the file system level yet. The application is a basic fileserver which will host our professor's mechanical engineering images. These images can be anywhere from 20MB to 300MB so I would consider them "normal files". I am hoping some hardware people can chime in a

Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-07 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat June 7 2008, Chris Lale wrote: > Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The > problem seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. > dpkg is unable to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so'. This does not > seem to be mentioned in any bug

Xorg broken in Lenny

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Lale
Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The problem seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. dpkg is unable to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so'. This does not seem to be mentioned in any bug reports. Here is some of the output: # aptitu

Re: Bad component signal?

2008-06-07 Thread Gino Heusdens
I recently changed my vga cable with a component cable a my mythtv mediacenter. From the moment i made the switch the image quality is bad. There are brown/darker thick lines rolling from bottom to top witch are very annoying while watching movies or tv. With the vga cable the image was better b

Re: Automatic debiian installation

2008-06-07 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[sorry for cross-posting, I guess this thread should move away from debian-devel, but I'm not subscribed to any of the others] > Hello, > > I would like to use a system to install automatically all my debian pc. > But > i don't know wich could be the best between FAI and PRESSEED. > > Somebody co

Re: USB for potato

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 17:44 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:28:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 06/06/08 12:46, Fabio Guerinoni wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running > > > potato (Debian 2.2). I wanted to lo

Cross-platform debootstrap/bootlaoder woes

2008-06-07 Thread André Berger
I would like to install Lenny i386 onto an external USB HDD, for use with a T-Online S100, from a PPC Etch box. The problems are: I can't compile grub on the PPC box; and I can't chroot to the i386 system. While I can edit $HDD/etc/fstab and such, I can't seem to write an i386 bootloader onto the d

Re[2]: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Сергей Овчар
> > In Etch the Intel i965 video controller is not supported > > yet, but may be supported in Lenny. If it is supported it is probably > > in package xserver-xorg-video-i810. > > Uhm. > > Is this a different i965 card I don't realise? It's in the > xserver-xorg-video-intel driver. The manpage

pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:45:47PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:41:08 +0200 > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Jochen, > > > $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 3710949B > > gpg: requesting key 3710949B from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net > > gpg: key

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 08:27 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > > I have a RAID controller with 256MB of on board cache and its > connected to 12 500GB SATA disks. I am planning to create 2 RAID > groups (6 disks each), but I don't know what is the optimal stripe > size should be. Are you going to use the R

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Ken Heard
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 07/06/2008, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In Etch the Intel i965 video controller is not supported >> yet, but may be supported in Lenny. If it is supported it is probably >> in package xserver-xorg-video-i810. > > Uhm. > > Is this a different i96

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 08:42:58AM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 07/06/2008, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In Etch the Intel i965 video controller is not supported > > yet, but may be supported in Lenny. If it is supported it is probably > > in package xserver-xorg-video

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 07/06/2008, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Etch the Intel i965 video controller is not supported > yet, but may be supported in Lenny. If it is supported it is probably > in package xserver-xorg-video-i810. Uhm. Is this a different i965 card I don't realise? It's in the xserver-

Re: C++ Mailing List

2008-06-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Would someone recommend to me a good Debian/Linux C++ mailing > list? I couldn't find one on Debian.org or Cplusplus. Another that I > found gave me a bounce message. Is the Boost mailing list my best > option? Thanks in advance. > > TW Why not just post on this li

Re: .xsession-errors

2008-06-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Manon Metten wrote: > > The only problem I have lately is Firefox 2.0.0.14 crashing regularly. > Everything else is running fine. No. The opcode errors do not correspond to the firefox crashes. The best way to track down the iceweasel crashes is to disable all the add-ons and start iceweasel in

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Ken Heard
It appears that you do not have the xserver-xorg-video-* packages installed. In Etch there are 37 of these, the "*" indicating a specific manufacturer. You can install all of them by installing package xserver-xorg-video-all. Then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg should be able to find the one you

Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts

2008-06-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 21:48:32 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/6 Florian Kulzer: > > You can select which page is opened, but you cannot edit more than one > > page at once. > > That's going to be a problem 20 documents (10 pages each) a week > before the final exam! > > > Here is an extreme

Re: PDF reader that overrides fonts

2008-06-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 13:30:17 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/06/2008 12:02 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> [...] >> Here is an extremely quick-and-dirty, I-guarantee-for-nothing (!) bash >> script to remove embedded fonts. It takes only one argument, the name of >> the original PDF file, and it ge

Re[3]: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Сергей Овчар
> > > Are you having problems with that? > > > > Some. > > It has not been recognised automatically. > > That's very strange. What does your xorg.conf look like right now? Quote Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kb

RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Mag Gam
I have a RAID controller with 256MB of on board cache and its connected to 12 500GB SATA disks. I am planning to create 2 RAID groups (6 disks each), but I don't know what is the optimal stripe size should be. Also, once I stripe on the RAID controller I am planning to use LVM. Is striping a good

Re: USB for potato

2008-06-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:28:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/08 12:46, Fabio Guerinoni wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running > > potato (Debian 2.2). I wanted to load a module, for a USB interface > > storage. Apparently, nothing c

Re: USB for potato

2008-06-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:46:36PM -0500, Fabio Guerinoni wrote: > Hi, > I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running > potato (Debian 2.2). I wanted to load a module, for a USB interface > storage. Apparently, nothing comes with the original distribution.. > ..

Re: how to display on another machine

2008-06-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:47:17AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi everybody, > I want to run a program and display the graph on another machine. > I declared : > export DISPLAY=192.168.10.10:0.0 > ran on the local machine ( which not 192.168.10.10 ) > gedit > > I want to receive the outp