Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-17 22:48, H.S. wrote: > So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for virtual > machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your experiences will be > appreciated. I've been running VMware some time ago, but it required con

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Rich Healey
H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used > it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for > students back then. > > This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines > installed) and wanted to reinstall

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-17 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} Ron Johnson wrote: >--} >--} >> An ordinary user might not have resources to have a machine > running --} >> 24/7. >--} > >--} > Why not? >--} > >--} >--} 1. Because it is expensive and waste of res

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used it > for a > few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for students back then. > > This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines installe

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-17 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Dotan Cohen escreveu: >> I have a user who processes documents from other people. In Windows >> she would select 20+ documents (all of the same type, usually pdf, gs, >> or word files) and make a single PDF document out of them. She could >> then easily take that PDF

Re: [OT] How to Analyze/Study Source Code?

2008-07-17 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Just wondering how you guys go about studying code? Do you read every > single source file and then make notes? Or is there a tool that goes > about and draws out relationships between source code files? > > I ask this because I am looking into addin

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-17 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Ron Johnson wrote: >> An ordinary user might not have resources to have a machine running >> 24/7. > > Why not? > 1. Because it is expensive and waste of resources. 2. If you are running a machine 24/7, the room better have good air conditioning to reduce all the heat generated. Air cond

Re: unable to load ipw2200 module

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:59:45AM +0200, oneman wrote: > I've got a Dell Latitude D810 and I tried to get the wireless to work. I > installed the ipw2200 driver, but get an error in dsmesg: > > dull:/home/oneman# dmesg | grep ipw > ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0m

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:53:25PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: ... > > These troubleshooting suggestions really don't help explain to me why > dhclient would override the settings in /etc/network/interfaces for one > NIC and not the other though. And why would it override manual > settin

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 17 19:55 -0500]: > Nate Bargmann wrote: >> >> I recall there was Desqview X out about that time. I'm not sure if it >> had much to do with the X we now know and love. > > Yes, it did. It really wasn't Desqview at all, it was a program to turn > you PC i

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:13:16AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2008 00:23, David Barrett wrote: > > Otherwise, if you're just looking for something to run Windows under a > > Linux GUI environment, I recommend VirtualBox. > > +1 to that. Love VirtualBox There's the latest version

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Thomas Preud'homme wrote: The Friday 18 July 2008 00:24:04 Andrew Sackville-West, you wrote : On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:30:42PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackv

unable to load ipw2200 module

2008-07-17 Thread oneman
I've got a Dell Latitude D810 and I tried to get the wireless to work. I installed the ipw2200 driver, but get an error in dsmesg: dull:/home/oneman# dmesg | grep ipw ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0mq ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation ipw2200: De

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Allums
Nate Bargmann wrote: I recall there was Desqview X out about that time. I'm not sure if it had much to do with the X we now know and love. Yes, it did. It really wasn't Desqview at all, it was a program to turn you PC into an X terminal. I think it flopped as a product. And when Win 3.0 ca

Re: Debian UPS

2008-07-17 Thread Mark Allums
Lóránd Erik wrote: 2 - Why is that, in console, under Debian Etch, i hit CapsLock, and not all the letters, that i type are uppercase, but they are mixed, like this: TfZrJtSD?? :S Keyboard dying? (Flaky Shift key?) Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

could anyone connect to mysql-server by mono(C#) on debian?

2008-07-17 Thread Star Liu
I got a strange error when i connect to mysql-server by mono(C#), little information can be got on google, and no one answers me on the mono mail lists, so i try to ask here, here is my code: Here is the code, it compiles successfully using System; using System.IO; using System.Xml; using System.

(solved on my own) Re: need help on configing CD-Writer in sarge

2008-07-17 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks anyway! --- On Thu, 7/17/08, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: need help on configing CD-Writer in sarge > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 3:07 PM > I have sarge, which use kernel 2.4 > In kernel

Re: Webcam setup

2008-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:56:40 +0100 "Michal R. Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/07/08 22:38, Frank McCormick wrote: > [] > > > > video quality is kind of crappy ( it is a Microsoft camera after all) > > but it does work. Thanks > > The ca

Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Even after reading: http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/06/21/a-much-simpler-fix-for-the-r8169-link-down-problem and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=538448 and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_RTL8168 I still cannot get passed the network configuration. I cou

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-17 Thread Star Liu
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Anton Liaukevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor music123, > nor vlc utter sound. > > My hardware: >Sound is integrated (AC'97) >motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 >northbridge: nForce 2

Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think

2008-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
[breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated] On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > You should contact debian-www about that. I think I recall a discussion > > about the children-distros page b

Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434

2008-07-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:34:03AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Even after reading: > http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/06/21/a-much-simpler-fix-for-the-r8169-link-down-problem > and > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=538448 > and > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_RTL8168 > > I

Interactive 'd-i preseed/late_command string'

2008-07-17 Thread Shachar Or
Hello list! I am setting up an automatic installation using preseed. I'm using the 'd-i preseed/late_command string' option to make it wget a script and run it. My challenge is to make this script run in foreground because it is interactive. How can I do that in d-i? Blessings! -- Shachar Or

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Shachar Or
On Friday 18 July 2008 00:23, David Barrett wrote: > Otherwise, if you're just looking for something to run Windows under a > Linux GUI environment, I recommend VirtualBox. +1 to that. Love VirtualBox There's the latest version in backports. The Guest Additions for Windows are fantastic. -- Sha

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Friday 18 July 2008 00:24:04 Andrew Sackville-West, you wrote : > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:30:42PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17,

Re: Cannot find /dev/parport0 - Solution

2008-07-17 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:50:06PM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Anyway I figured it is a udev problem that is causing the /dev/lp0 file > (that I used to have the printcap pointing too) to go away. > > This is an older computer so I think the udev is not working properly and > br

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
H.S. wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> >> VMServer is still free of cost to use. VMWorkstation gives you some >> more > > er ... What is the difference between the two? (sorry, not much > experience with VM stuff). One thing that is different (at least in VMware server 1.0.X) is that VMware

Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434

2008-07-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Even after reading: http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/06/21/a-much-simpler-fix-for-the-r8169-link-down-problem and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=538448 and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_RTL8168 I still cannot get passed the network configuration. I could not find the "Wake-on-la

Re: Squirrelmail:115 Can't Open SMTP Stream.

2008-07-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Semih Gokalp wrote: > Secure SMTP servers use tcp 465 port by TLS default.Source address: > http://www.squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-5.html#ss5.5 > i tried but did not work. >From there, it seems Squirrelmail supports both TLS-on-connect (which uses port 465) and STARTTLS, which I think is pre

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:30:42PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [...] > I have two NIC

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Kent West wrote : Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: H.S. wrote: So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for virtual machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your experiences will be appreciated. I was succesfully used kvm and qemu. There is also 'virtualbox-ose' in Debian arch

Re: Posting to list about a project completed w/ Debian software is OT or not?

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 16:47, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Is it too off topic to post about a project completed with Debian > software? I don't have any specific problems with the solution I have > put together, but thought I would share and would like some constructiv

Posting to list about a project completed w/ Debian software is OT or not?

2008-07-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is it too off topic to post about a project completed with Debian software? I don't have any specific problems with the solution I have put together, but thought I would share and would like some constructive criticism in regards to the way I integrated the software together. Figure I would as

Re: Webcam setup

2008-07-17 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 16/07/08 22:38, Frank McCormick wrote: [] Shortly after I sent this I figured it out - the needed module gspca for my particular web-cam (a Microsoft VX-3000) is in the repositories. When it was installed, all the problems vanished. The video quality is kind of crappy ( it is a Microsoft ca

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 Contro

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread David Barrett
H.S. wrote: Hello, Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for students back then. This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines installed) and wanted to reinstall the new vers

Re: Squirrelmail:115 Can't Open SMTP Stream.

2008-07-17 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks for reply. I don't know how (and if) SquirrelMail can be configured to use STARTTLS. It > is possible, however, to configure exim to listen on another port using the > TLS-on-connect convention. Secure SMTP servers use tcp 465 port by TLS default.Source address: http://www.squirrelmail.or

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread H.S.
Kent West wrote: I'm rather content with virtualbox-ose, but you have to be careful to run a kernel with all the pieces needed (linux-image + virtualbox-ose-modules to match). I'm currently running a -486 kernel Can't the modules be built with module-assistant? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: need help with chroot

2008-07-17 Thread David Barrett
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mié, 16-07-2008 a las 21:13 -0400, Thomas H. George escribió: The man page and a google search gave minimum info except for the link to www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tip.en.html. Following by I think that document is a little out of date. The 'MAKEDEV gen

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread H.S.
Damon L. Chesser wrote: VMServer is still free of cost to use. VMWorkstation gives you some more er ... What is the difference between the two? (sorry, not much experience with VM stuff). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Kent West
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > > So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for virtual > > machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your experiences will be > > appreciated. > > > I was succesfully used kvm and qemu. There is also 'virtualbox-ose' in > Debian archi

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 17 July 2008 04:48:14 pm H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used > it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for > students back then. > > This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines > ins

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used > it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for > students back then. > > This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:48:14PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used > it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for > students back then. > > This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual mac

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 >>> Controller on a Biostar TA 770 A

Re: [Mostly Solved] Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices

2008-07-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 19:36:16 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:04:45 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 20:30:05 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > ... > > > > $ pdffonts PDF/A_simple_test_page_for_common_fonts.pdf > > > name type

Re: Cannot find /dev/parport0 - Solution

2008-07-17 Thread Account for Debian group mail
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > > Hello Again, > > I just upgraded our print server/samba machine from sarge to etch. > > In the /var/log/dmesg file i see: > > parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. > parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] > parport0: P

virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread H.S.
Hello, Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for students back then. This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines installed) and wanted to reinstall the new version of VMWare

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 Controller on a Biostar TA 770 A2+ motherboard. This is an Etch AMD64 install, but I have added the 2.6.25-amd64 kern

Re: regexp q.

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:22:53AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: ... > Besides, Andrew's eyes need time to heal ;) no hope of that. I just need to finally bite the bullet and grok some more regex. The only issue with Florian's now snipped line is that its so daunting I don't know where to start. And

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 17 July 2008 03:06:14 pm Arthur A wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu,17.Jul.08, 10:58:19, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> More than likely I'm doing something wrong, but rather than spend time > >>> figuring it out I figure it would be easier to just gather the info > >>> myself. > >> >

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu,17.Jul.08, 09:19:06, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use fluxbox, with no desktop (no kde, no gnome no xfce, ...). But I >> have the problem of not being able to configure the fonts for the gtk >> guis... Fo

Re: Don't edit posts and claim OP posted it!!

2008-07-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 17 July 2008 07:54:08 am Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:31:01AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Thursday 17 July 2008 04:27:00 am John Devereux wrote: > > > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:28:38PM +0100, Steven Maddox (

Re: Cannot find /dev/parport0 - ANY SUGGESTIONS?

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:35:23PM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > > Hello Again, > > I just upgraded our print server/samba machine from sarge to etch. > > In the /var/log/dmesg file i see: > > parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. > parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 > Controller on a Biostar TA 770 A2+ motherboard. This is an Etch AMD64 > install, but I have added the 2.6.25-amd64 kernel as I could not get the

Re: Xorg vesa driver stopped working after kernel upgrade

2008-07-17 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:20:50PM +0200, Salvo Isaja wrote: > Hi there, > I use Debian for a few years now (since Sarge was Testing), the Testing > distribution, regularly dist-upgrading it. I have an ATI Radeon X1300 > graphics card, hence "vesa" driver in Xorg ("ati" and "radeon" don't > s

Re: dumb question about tar

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 13:16, David Denney wrote: > Hello all, > When you tar a file (i.e. a backup) to a destination disk, does tar build > the file on the destination disk, or does it create it in a tmp file, > memory, etc then move it to the final destination?

Order Request.

2008-07-17 Thread John Williams
Dear Customer ,   My name is John Williams ,got your company profile on reallybigsearch.com and i am  so much interested in your product for I will like to order Pig Stalls  and i need you to email me with the types you have and thier  price quote for the Type S  ? I want you to email me back wi

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,17.Jul.08, 22:06:14, Arthur A wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Thu,17.Jul.08, 10:58:19, Ron Johnson wrote: >> More than likely I'm doing something wrong, but rather than spend time figuring it out I figure it would be easier to just gather the info myself. >>> That's... well,

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 14:06, Arthur A wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Thu,17.Jul.08, 10:58:19, Ron Johnson wrote: >> More than likely I'm doing something wrong, but rather than spend time figuring it out I figure it would be easier to just gathe

Cannot find /dev/parport0 - ANY SUGGESTIONS?

2008-07-17 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello Again, I just upgraded our print server/samba machine from sarge to etch. In the /var/log/dmesg file i see: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6MP This looks correct. In the /etc

Re: Disk Drive Message: Drive side 80-wire cable detection failed

2008-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
[please answer to the list, others may have valuable input] On Thu,17.Jul.08, 13:40:12, David Baron wrote: > On Thu,17.Jul.08, 08:06:14, David Baron wrote: > > This comes early on in the bootup so missed it until now: > >=20 > > hdd: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to

dumb question about tar

2008-07-17 Thread David Denney
Hello all, When you tar a file (i.e. a backup) to a destination disk, does tar build the file on the destination disk, or does it create it in a tmp file, memory, etc then move it to the final destination? I have to think it builds it in the destination location, but want to make sure. Thanks Da

need help on configing CD-Writer in sarge

2008-07-17 Thread Serena Cantor
I have sarge, which use kernel 2.4 In kernel's config file, I find "CONFIG_IDE=m" I try to config with commands below: modprobe ide-cd ignore=hdb modprobe ide-scsi Then, "cdrecord -scanbus", but can't find CD-Writer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: network not starting at boot

2008-07-17 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:32 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > michael: > > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> > >> Plaese post the contents of the interfaces file. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/network$ cat interfaces > > # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,17.Jul.08, 10:58:19, Ron Johnson wrote: More than likely I'm doing something wrong, but rather than spend time figuring it out I figure it would be easier to just gather the info myself. That's... well, that's the Windows Way. No, that would be rebooting the com

Re: Switching keyboard language with Ctrl+Shift in the KDE

2008-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,17.Jul.08, 19:52:32, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > I want to use "Russia" & "USA" keyboard layouts and switch them with > Ctrl+Shift. I had added "Russia" & "USA" to active layouts so that I can > switch them with left-mouse-click in the tray. But I hadn't be able to > find option for layout sw

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,17.Jul.08, 19:07:45, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor > music123, nor vlc utter sound. First make sure you have the needed alsa packages installed. That should be alsa-utils and alsa-base. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't expla

Replacing refit by grub-efi

2008-07-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hi there, I have a mac book pro which boot via refit and then grub and works almost perfectly on debian (except a few things including suspend to (ram|disk). The partitions are : sda1 : EFI sda2 : MacOS X sda3 : / (Debian) sda4 : linux-swap sda5 : /home This morning the system was booting via

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,17.Jul.08, 09:19:06, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I use fluxbox, with no desktop (no kde, no gnome no xfce, ...). But I > have the problem of not being able to configure the fonts for the gtk > guis... For example I can't make the tab menus, readable for me on > icedove, iceweasel, ice

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 20:03:00 +0300, Anton Liaukevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Bob Cox wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 14:48:22 +0300, Anton Liaukevich >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> I had scanned my hdd with native WD scanner and hadn't detected any >>> error. M

Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 Controller on a Biostar TA 770 A2+ motherboard. This is an Etch AMD64 install, but I have added the 2.6.25-amd64 kernel as I could not get the Marvell controller to work at all with the 2.6.18 kernel. Other than that

Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434

2008-07-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I just downloaded the latest cd for debian : http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-40r3-amd64-netinst.iso But the network card does not work. This is a Realtek RTL8111/8168B. Looking on google I found a couple of suggesion: * http://ubuntuforums.org/showth

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-17 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I once purchased a pack of cookies and found the date of packing to be a > couple of weeks in the future! Huh? Why do you think that that was the date of packing? Food packages normally have _expiration_ dates (not packing or manufacturing dates), which naturally wou

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:00:34 -0600 "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Javier Vasquez: > >> > >> Is there a configuration file I can create by hand under > >> ~/. which would help me accomplish getting the fo

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Javier Vasquez: >> >> Is there a configuration file I can create by hand under >> ~/. which would help me accomplish getting the fonts I'd >> like to see? > > IIRC ~/.gtkrc-2.0. I don't have an example at hand but you will

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,17.Jul.08, 10:58:19, Ron Johnson wrote: > > More than likely I'm doing something wrong, but rather than spend time > > figuring it out I figure it would be easier to just gather the info myself. > > That's... well, that's the Windows Way. No, that would be rebooting the computer and hop

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 17 July 2008 18:54, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 07/17/08 11:07, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > >> Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor > >> music123, nor vlc utter sound. > >> > >> My hardware: > >> Sound is integrated (AC'97) > >>

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 11:28, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/17/08 11:07, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor music123, nor vlc utter sound. My hardware: Sou

mysql ndbcluster

2008-07-17 Thread Sajith T S
(Please CC me in the replies, even if it is for yelling at me to ask elsewhere. Preferably state where "elsewhere" would be. :) Thanks. I'm asking here because apparently distributions were not shipping "clustered" mysql earlier, and you had to download mysql-max or some such and build from source

Re: Resp.: drbd WAS working fine; but now fsck can't open /dev/drbd? ??

2008-07-17 Thread Bob
Hi Lucas - happy to share my little bit of knowledge :) I've got 2 servers - a primary & a secondary. Each has 2 hard drives: the first, /dev/sda, is a typical linux config'd drive. the second, / dev/sdb, specifically /dev/sdb1 is setup to be my cloned partition across the 2 systems. I used pack

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:19:06 -0600 "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use fluxbox, with no desktop (no kde, no gnome no xfce, ...). But I > have the problem of not being able to configure the fonts for the gtk > guis... For example I can't make the tab menus, readable for m

Cannot find /dev/parport0

2008-07-17 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, I just upgraded our print server/samba machine from sarge to etch. In the /var/log/dmesg file i see: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6MP This looks correct. In the /etc/printcap file

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/08 11:07, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor music123, nor vlc utter sound. My hardware: Sound is integrated (AC'97) motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 northbridge: nForce 2 Ultra southbrid

Switching keyboard language with Ctrl+Shift in the KDE

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
I want to use "Russia" & "USA" keyboard layouts and switch them with Ctrl+Shift. I had added "Russia" & "USA" to active layouts so that I can switch them with left-mouse-click in the tray. But I hadn't be able to find option for layout switching in "Keyboard Shortcuts" (excepting for "Switch to N

Re: Resp.: drbd WAS working fine; but now fsck can't open /dev/drbd? ??

2008-07-17 Thread Bob
Hi Lucas - happy to share my little bit of knowledge :) I've got 2 servers - a primary & a secondary. Each has 2 hard drives: the first, /dev/sda, is a typical linux config'd drive. the second, / dev/sdb, specifically /dev/sdb1 is setup to be my cloned partition across the 2 systems. I used pack

Re: network not starting at boot

2008-07-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Plaese post the contents of the interfaces file. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/network$ cat interfaces > # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or > # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more informatio

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 11:07, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor music123, nor vlc utter sound. My hardware: Sound is integrated (AC'97) motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3

Re: drbd WAS working fine; but now fsck can't open /dev/drbd? ??

2008-07-17 Thread Bob
;-) well - as a followup to my followup... I've confirmed that the drbd module IS loading. The problem fsck is having is that drbd is marking the partition as secondary, and as such, it is not RW accesssible. So now this is looking like a drbd config problem; but all does look fine; so I'm stil

Re: regexp q.

2008-07-17 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:45:03PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: ... The insane approach (dedicated to Andrew S-W, who is a great perl aficionado): #! /usr/bin/perl -w #read file open ( FH, "test.txt" ); $string = ; close ( FH ); # match and count while ( $string

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 14:48:22 +0300, Anton Liaukevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > I had scanned my hdd with native WD scanner and hadn't detected any > error. Memory scan (memtest86+) also hadn't detected any error. > Moreover, Windows XP on another partition of this hdd working

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 11:07, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor > music123, nor vlc utter sound. > > My hardware: > Sound is integrated (AC'97) > motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 > northb

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:14:05 +0300 Anton Liaukevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >> > > > > As Ron has written you may face a problem with the driver which is being > > used by the kernel for managing this disk. > > Try the following to see which driver is being used. > > > > readlink /sy

Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor music123, nor vlc utter sound. My hardware: Sound is integrated (AC'97) motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 northbridge: nForce 2 Ultra southbridge: MCP AC'97 codec: from Realtek My software: Deb

Re: clean way to package 3rd party software

2008-07-17 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi, Mumia W.. wrote: > > I think you're looking for DESTDIR. > Thanks a lot, but unfortunately it's not a simple configure-able package. I would not go as far as calling it abomination but it's a melange of VDT (virtual data toolkit) and Globus. Thanks anyway! Cheers Carsten -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Bash: pipe once more

2008-07-17 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Allan Wind wrote: > cd does not seem to do its thing when stdout is redirected to a pipe, > however it does work with a (temporary) file: Actually, cd does do its thing--it's just that its thing applies to the subprocess shell in the pipe instead of the shell it would normally apply to (when no

Re: clean way to package 3rd party software

2008-07-17 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/17/2008 01:35 AM, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Hi all, Hello Carsten. in our scientific collaboration we are currently using a big pile of software which comes bundled with its own installer (pacman). Since doing a full repackage, of all subcomponents is currently out of the question I woul

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 10:44, Arthur A wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/17/08 07:57, Arthur A wrote: > [snip] > > Why can't you use reportbug? > >> >> > Thanks, as for why, I'm not entirely sure. It gets setup ok, seems to > run fine, but it always fails at

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/17/2008 10:19 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: Hi, I use fluxbox, with no desktop (no kde, no gnome no xfce, ...). But I have the problem of not being able to configure the fonts for the gtk guis [...] Try launching the gnome-settings-daemon; it may improve the font size immediately; if not,

Re: running an old windows 98 progam under debain linux

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 10:20, gordon wrote: > cant seem to get my hands on an old machine that will boot with win 98 > or win me. so i would like to know if i can run that program on a AMD > 939 machine under Linux debain. Did you install wine? > lawn is dryi

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