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

2008-07-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,18.Jul.08, 19:57:19, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2008 13:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,19.Jul.08, 00:43:13, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > I receive most of my emails through my ISPs POP server (ex. all list > > > > traffic), but I can't use their SMTP server to relay as th

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 06:40:31PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >> > >> as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files. The > >> checkrestart command from "debian-goodies" is supposed to do the same > >> thing more comfortably, but this does not work for me at

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 18:48, Nate Duehr wrote: > David Fox wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Oh wow, that name brings back some memories... > >> My brother sent me a microfiche scan at the library of an old >>

Re: Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?

2008-07-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 01:18:48AM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > Le vendredi 18 juillet 2008, Sven Joachim a écrit : > > On 2008-07-18 19:59 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > > A few minutes ago I was reading this list and discovered ctags. I > > > wanted to install it and I try a apt-file

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

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 20:07, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 07/17/08 10:44, Arthur A wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: Why can't you use reportbug? >>> Thanks, as for why, I'm not entirely sure. It gets setup ok, seems to >>> run fi

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Paul Scott
Carl Fink wrote: >> >> as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files. The >> checkrestart command from "debian-goodies" is supposed to do the same >> thing more comfortably, but this does not work for me at the moment (see >> bug #491235). >> > > There were lots, and rest

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Paul Scott
Carl Fink wrote: > OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both > Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? > > Could it be that I've been reluctant to restart X (up for 74 days) despite > installing several upgrades? > That page looks fine here on IW3 but it still renders

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 06:07:41PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:25:35 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both > > Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? > > Epiphany is also based on the Gecko rendering engine,

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

2008-07-18 Thread s. keeling
Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- On Thu, 7/17/08, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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-

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

2008-07-18 Thread s. keeling
Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 17 July 2008 03:06:14 pm Arthur A wrote: > > > > hmmm... well, again, I do appreciate the positive feedback regarding the > > bug report that I've now filed. Unfortunately, I have to turn down your > > kind offers to help me use reportbug, and ri

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

2008-07-18 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 07/17/08 10:44, Arthur A wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > 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 the end before even trying to send the > > repor

Re: Baffled by a badly borked system

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 04:43:14 pm celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure where to start. I'm running Sid. The system has been up > for several days, with numerous hibernate (suspend to disk) / resume > cycles. The system is partially up to date (not totally, since I only > have intermittent net

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

2008-07-18 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 18 July 2008 13:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,19.Jul.08, 00:43:13, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > I receive most of my emails through my ISPs POP server (ex. all list > > > traffic), but I can't use their SMTP server to relay as they don't > > > allow a different From, not even after a

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:34:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Finding the button to turn on PGP/MIME is no easy feat. For anyone > looking, it's: > Compose Window->OpenPGP->"Default Composition Options"-> >"Signing/Encryption Options" Or Edit->Account Defaults>OpenPGP->"Always use PGP/MI

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-18 Thread Nate Duehr
David Fox wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh wow, that name brings back some memories... My brother sent me a microfiche scan at the library of an old newspaper (vintage 1986) which featured Fry's ads from that time period. Wow. He told me that h

Re: Baffled by a badly borked system

2008-07-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:54:38 +0200 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-07-18 22:43 +0200, celejar wrote: > > > I'm not sure where to start. I'm running Sid. The system has been up > > for several days, with numerous hibernate (suspend to disk) / resume > > cycles. The system is p

Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 06:54:09 pm Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 23:20:14 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Giving up on this one... I cannot understand what is going wrong > > with my xorg setup. If I reboot my computer I am loosing X. Looking at > > the log

Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 23:20:14 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Giving up on this one... I cannot understand what is going wrong >> with my xorg setup. If I reboot my computer I am loosing X. Looking

Re: Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?

2008-07-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 18 juillet 2008, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2008-07-18 19:59 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > A few minutes ago I was reading this list and discovered ctags. I > > wanted to install it and I try a apt-file ctags | grep bin which > > didn't show anything. > > > > Then I told myself

Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 23:20:14 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > Giving up on this one... I cannot understand what is going wrong > with my xorg setup. If I reboot my computer I am loosing X. Looking at > the log I cannot see anything wrong: > > http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/thing

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 17:39, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [snip] >> > To ensure that /data/03 is /dev/sda1. Ah, ok. > May be, try lazy unmount? I want to know what's happening. Lazy umount is, to me, distateful except when using network services like nfs. - -

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 00:34]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/18/08 14:50, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > On 2008-07-18 21:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Since I am not really sure if this will work now, I'd appreciate a short > >> feed back.

Re: Sound and video freezes intermitently in Debian Lenny.

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 16:24, Carlos Parada wrote: > Hi, I've got a very weird problem with audio and video playing in my > Debian Lenny laptop. > > It all started 3 or 4 days ago... now when I play music with Rythmbox or What did you do 3 or 4 days ago? > whe

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-18 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/18/08 17:17, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The standard trick, of course, is to run lsof and grep it's output. >>> But that didn't help. Googling found reference to fuser, but that >>> didn't help either. >>> >>> Any other ideas? >>> >

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 17:17, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The standard trick, of course, is to run lsof and grep it's output. >> But that didn't help. Googling found reference to fuser, but that >> didn't help either. >> >> Any

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 14:50, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-07-18 21:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Since I am not really sure if this will work now, I'd appreciate a short >> feed back. > > I guess, I should have restarted thunderbird in order for thi

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-18 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > The standard trick, of course, is to run lsof and grep it's output. > But that didn't help. Googling found reference to fuser, but that > didn't help either. > > Any other ideas? > > # umount -v /data/03 > umount: /data/03: device is busy > umount: /data/03: device

Re: abcde cddb lookup has stopped working?

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 12:58, Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > i use abcde to rip cd's to ogg and flac. in the past it's worked great > but i have a bunch of new cd's to burn and for some reason, abcde has > stopped contacting the cddb servers. I get this err

Re: checkrestart (was Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?)

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 15:12, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:20:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 07/18/08 11:50, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: >>> The Friday 18 July 2008 18:07:41 Florian Kulzer, you wrote : >> [snip] as root. This should l

Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The standard trick, of course, is to run lsof and grep it's output. But that didn't help. Googling found reference to fuser, but that didn't help either. Any other ideas? # umount -v /data/03 umount: /data/03: device is busy umount: /data/03:

Sound and video freezes intermitently in Debian Lenny.

2008-07-18 Thread Carlos Parada
Hi, I've got a very weird problem with audio and video playing in my Debian Lenny laptop. It all started 3 or 4 days ago... now when I play music with Rythmbox or when I play streaming videos en Youtube, for example, in Firefox, both freeze intermitently... I mean, audio/video freezes for an indet

Xorg not working: empty backtrace

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, Giving up on this one... I cannot understand what is going wrong with my xorg setup. If I reboot my computer I am loosing X. Looking at the log I cannot see anything wrong: http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/thingies/Xorg.0.log There is no 'EE' entry Thanks for suggestion, -- Mathieu

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.07.08 20:30]: > There are many procmail recipes floating around that convert inline pgp > into mime. I see that you're a mutt user, so the closest example to hand is > presumably /usr/share/doc/mutt/PGP-Notes.txt.gz. Or google will find > numerous others, includ

Re: Baffled by a badly borked system

2008-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-18 22:43 +0200, celejar wrote: > I'm not sure where to start. I'm running Sid. The system has been up > for several days, with numerous hibernate (suspend to disk) / resume > cycles. The system is partially up to date (not totally, since I only > have intermittent net access). Today

Baffled by a badly borked system

2008-07-18 Thread celejar
Hi, I'm not sure where to start. I'm running Sid. The system has been up for several days, with numerous hibernate (suspend to disk) / resume cycles. The system is partially up to date (not totally, since I only have intermittent net access). Today, I rebooted it, and now it is badly borked.

Re: checkrestart (was Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?)

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:20:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/18/08 11:50, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > The Friday 18 July 2008 18:07:41 Florian Kulzer, you wrote : > [snip] > >> > >> as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files. The > >> checkrestart command from "debi

Wireless can't dhcp my AP after kernel update

2008-07-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi, After the most recent kernel update, my laptop can't get a dhcp from my access point (a linksys wrt350n) anymore, it receives time-outs instead. I'm connecting with an 4965N intel wireless card. It still works with other AP, all which don't run in the N-mode, so I suspect there's the problem.

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Friday 18 July 2008 07:44:04 Volkan YAZICI, vous avez écrit : > 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. > > >

Besoin d'aide

2008-07-18 Thread Abou B
 Slt chèr ami.   Vous recevez aujourd'huit mon message car j'ai été guidé sur vous grace à mon instinct.Pour cela et avec le respect que je dois avoir pour vous,je vous en suplit de bien vouloir lire mon message jusqu'au dernier mot et d'essayer de me faire garder espoir.    Je m

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-18 21:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Since I am not really sure if this will work now, I'd appreciate a short > feed back. I guess, I should have restarted thunderbird in order for this to take effect... gbbblll Johannes -BE

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-18 19:34, Sebastian Günther wrote: > Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users, > > please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated. > > I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients > from Redmond refuse to be stadard com

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-18 12:57, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Does anyone know a solution for .doc files? I know that she works with > .doc files as well. from man ooffice: openoffice(1) Name openoffice - OpenOffice.org office suite [...] -p filename...

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

2008-07-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 00:43:13, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I receive most of my emails through my ISPs POP server (ex. all list > > traffic), but I can't use their SMTP server to relay as they don't allow > > a different From, not even after authentication. > > I think you may be confusing "relay

Re: APT Mirror Priority

2008-07-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,18.Jul.08, 22:25:40, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK, there's no way to set priority on the mirrors that are defined in the > sources.list file. > > Let us assume that we have two mirrors listed in the sources.list file. > Eg: a local apt-proxy and ftp.us.debian.org > > It is obv

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

2008-07-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,18.Jul.08, 21:14:54, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-07-18 19:18 +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > >> main:~# apt-get source pidgin/etch-backports >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree... Done >> E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin/etch-backports >> main:~# apt-get source pidgin=2.3.1 >>

Re: Webcam setup

2008-07-18 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 18/07/08 01:35, Frank McCormick wrote: -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) >

slight OT: backups

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
In the last couple of weeks, I have seen this come up a few times, including from myself. Thought I would just post this here for reference in the hope that it will help. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-backup/index.html -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linked

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:29:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > There are many procmail recipes floating around that convert inline pgp > into mime. I see that you're a mutt user, so the closest example to hand is > presumably /usr/share/doc/mutt/PGP-Notes.txt.gz. Or google will find > numerous others

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Günther wrote: > Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users, > > please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated. > > I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients > from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here? > > So go to to your enigmail pref

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

2008-07-18 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Andrei Popescu wrote: 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 opt

Re: Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?

2008-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-18 19:59 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > A few minutes ago I was reading this list and discovered ctags. I wanted to > install it and I try a apt-file ctags | grep bin which didn't show anything. > > Then I told myself maybe I already had it and tried a tab completion. > > As I did

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 01:34:18 pm Sebastian Günther wrote: > Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users, > > please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated. > > I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients > from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here? > >

abcde cddb lookup has stopped working?

2008-07-18 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, i use abcde to rip cd's to ogg and flac. in the past it's worked great but i have a bunch of new cd's to burn and for some reason, abcde has stopped contacting the cddb servers. I get this error: Executing customizable pre-read function... done. Getting CD track info... Querying the C

Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?

2008-07-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hi there, A few minutes ago I was reading this list and discovered ctags. I wanted to install it and I try a apt-file ctags | grep bin which didn't show anything. Then I told myself maybe I already had it and tried a tab completion. As I did have this tools I wanted to know which package instal

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:34:18PM +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: > I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients > from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here? Uhm, actually, every enigmail setup I've used in the past 2 years has defaulted t

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-18 19:18 +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > main:~# apt-get source pidgin/etch-backports > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin/etch-backports > main:~# apt-get source pidgin=2.3.1 > Reading package lists... Done

Re: Xorg: missing fixed fonts

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
It's been a long time debian installation didn't went so wrong...(dell & ibm in the past were a lot more smoother). so I was missing "xfonts-base" package...don't ask I do not know why in the world it was not installed/or got removed somehow. Because my ethernet would go off without warning, I ha

[rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Sebastian Günther
Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users, please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated. I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here? So go to to your enigmail preferences and turn this annoying traditiona

Alt-F7 query

2008-07-18 Thread Barrie Stott
I've been struggling with a problem for some days now and not getting any nearer a solution. I'm running Debian unstable with a 2.6.25-2-686 kernel. (I'm also running kbd rather than console-tools.) Suppose I have gvim open (in insert mode so that characters typed appear in the on-screen buffer) i

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Thanks, Daniel, for this helpful information. >> >> I just discovered another similar paradox. I tried to get source package for >> pidgin from backports.org. That reposi

APT Mirror Priority

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, AFAIK, there's no way to set priority on the mirrors that are defined in the sources.list file. Let us assume that we have two mirrors listed in the sources.list file. Eg: a local apt-proxy and ftp.us.debian.org It is obvious that apt-proxy is faster than f.u.d.o. What I'd want is that apt

Re: Xorg vesa driver stopped working after kernel upgrade

2008-07-18 Thread Salvo Isaja
Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ha scritto: Have you tried the radeonhd driver? I'll try it this evening, thanks for the hint. But, in any case, isn't it strange that just running a kernel newer than 2.6.18 makes *vesa* stop working? Bye, Salvo -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-07-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Thursday 17 July 2008 23:21:03 Semih Gokalp, you wrote : > 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 server

checkrestart (was Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?)

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 11:50, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > The Friday 18 July 2008 18:07:41 Florian Kulzer, you wrote : [snip] >> >> as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files. The >> checkrestart command from "debian-goodies" is supposed

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 18 Jul 2008 22:30:31 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > This is what I did: > > followed this guide:  http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to > install nvidia the debian way.  I have also installed nvidia with the > nvidia installer.  Both ways will work, at least for Sid. > > then I insta

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 12:32:29 pm Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:07:51 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Truly I don't know.  My desktop has two monitors (Nvidia driver).  I have > > yet to try to connect a monitor to my laptop, but I bet it will work.  I > > have wondered about thi

Re: Xorg vesa driver stopped working after kernel upgrade

2008-07-18 Thread Salvo Isaja
Il Friday 18 July 2008 15:30:04 Salvo Isaja ha scritto: > Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ha scritto: > > Have you tried the radeonhd driver? > > I'll try it this evening, thanks for the hint. I've just tried the radeonhd driver, and I experience a problem similar to the vesa driver: if I boot linux 2.6.1

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Friday 18 July 2008 18:07:41 Florian Kulzer, you wrote : > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:25:35 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in > > both Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? > > Epiphany is also based on the Gecko rendering engine, isn'

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:09:50 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 19:54:18 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253989 > > err. "iSCSI Hangs on reboot"? > You probably meant something else. > Oops!! Here's the correct link

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:07:51 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Truly I don't know.  My desktop has two monitors (Nvidia driver).  I have > yet to try to connect a monitor to my laptop, but I bet it will work.  I > have wondered about this as well.  I know people on this list have used an > external monit

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:25:35 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both > Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? Epiphany is also based on the Gecko rendering engine, isn't it? If you use an Intel integrated graphics card with XAA accelera

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
--On torsdag, juli 17, 2008 16.08.49 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 succ

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

2008-07-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
--On torsdag, juli 17, 2008 19.52.32 +0300 Anton Liaukevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 b

Xorg: missing fixed fonts

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I have finally a -somewhat- working debian box, but after much struggling with the nvidia driver I cannot see any of the fixed fonts. How can I report something more usefull ? Or if anyone with a cristal ball understand what is going on my side, please suggest a solution. Thanks ! --

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:01:31PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I do not believe it, since I am admin a Courier-Imap Server with 73.000 > users ith 2.8 million legitim messages and 8 million spams per day. And a d-u troll. > I would never use mbox for such stuff... and of course, a ma

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Thanks, Daniel, for this helpful information. > > I just discovered another similar paradox. I tried to get source package for > pidgin from backports.org. That repository > was explicitly pinned

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-07-18 Thread John Devereux
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008/7/2 John Devereux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Wine seems to be getting pretty good now, so perhaps you can find >> something meant for windows. >> > > And when you do, whether or not it works in wine, make sure that you > write to the developer and let

Re: SCIM problem

2008-07-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:33:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:03:38PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:15:32AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> > >> Usually, my advice for such case are one of the following > >> 1. wait 1 or 2 days and

Build non-pae kernel from debian kernel source

2008-07-18 Thread Wilfried HUMBERT
Hi all, I'm facing a problem to build a non-pae kernel from debian kernel source. Here's what i have done: #apt-get source linux-2.6 #cd linux-2.6-2.6.18.dfsg.1 #./debian/rules debian/build debian/stamps #make -f debian/rules.gen setup-i386-xen-686 #cd build/build-i386-xen-686 #make menuconfig

Re: window title

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 09:55, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Is it possible to set a gnome window title from the command line, for > example, in a bash script? Is this what you are looking for? http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/Bash-Prompt/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-5.html -

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Thanks, Daniel, for this helpful information. I just discovered another similar paradox. I tried to get source package for pidgin from backports.org. That repository was explicitly pinned at 500 and testing at 290. But, look main:~# apt-get source pidgin Reading package lists... Done Building de

window title

2008-07-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
Is it possible to set a gnome window title from the command line, for example, in a bash script? -- "When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and van

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 09:25, Carl Fink wrote: > OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both > Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? > > Could it be that I've been reluctant to restart X (up for 74 days) despite > installing several up

Re: manipulate initrd from Debian installer

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-15 00:14:44, schrieb Denny Schierz: > hi, > > i have to recompile a kernel (2.6.25.9) to get some hardware working, > for example network cards and 3ware SCSI SATA controller from the > installer (debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso). But I'm unable to create a > valid kernel and/or initrd

Re: manipulate initrd from Debian installer

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-14 17:51:38, schrieb Mark Allums: > $ cp /boot/config > $ make gconfig < if using gnome, otherwise some variant > $ make-kpkhg clean > $ make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image modules_image looks a litle bit weird... make-kpkg --append-to-version=my_kernel --config gconfig conf

Re: Query about OCR package(s)

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-15 00:08:45, schrieb Osamu Aoki: > Yes ... From PDF? I do not know but implimenting it is simple with some > filtering. The OP can use "netpbm" to pipe the PDF through the module and then into the ORC software... Have a nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 wi

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-14 17:15:41, schrieb Sam Leon: Please can you trim you rpostings next time please? > Welcome to the club. I used to feel the same way when I first found > debian (ubuntu showed it to me). I don't worry about it too much any > more. I like how it will keep all the newbies away from

Re: Maildir vs mbox again (was: IMAP is teh r0x0rz!)

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Jochen, Am 2008-07-14 00:31:03, schrieb Jochen Schulz: > I don't see a problem with several thousand files in one directory: Me too > # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > $ time ls -1 ~/Maildir/.debian.user/cur | wc -l > 10997 > > real0m2.529s > user0m0.284s > sys 0m0.332s

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-13 14:06:51, schrieb Steve Lamb: > My apologies to Ron, I slapped reply and not reply-to-all and trim. :( > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > That's qmail's fault, not that of Maildir. > > No, that is a design problem in Maildir. Granted I wouldn't want my MTAs I do not believe it, s

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-14 16:51:37, schrieb Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp): > I hope you didn't type up all that, at least on the topics I raised... > it was a waste... > > My topics were.. > 1) Lets try a version of Debian Etch without the binary firmware Then some parts of Debian GNU/Linux would not more work o

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 08:56:11 am Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > This might be a bit off-topic. Anyway, I am looking for a Debian based > Linux distribution (liveCD or something that can be installed on a > pendrive) that is mostly command line oriented (just a fluxbox like > WM may

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? Could it be that I've been reluctant to restart X (up for 74 days) despite installing several upgrades? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitp

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 10:24:18 am Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253989 > > > I had one question. > > X.org 7.3 http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.3 > Xserver autoconfiguration (most of xorg.conf becomes useless) > RandR 1.2 support on Intel, AT

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:02:30AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > > For Free Software purists, note that while there's a GPL version of > > VirtualBox itself, the Guest Additions for Windows are *not* Free Software. > > Ahm... I think that Windows itself is a problem for Free Software Purists :). > H

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Carl Fink wrote: I have 3.0~rc2-2 on my Testing system. This page: http://savethecracker.blogspot.com/ among others comes out as repetitive 1-inch graphical segments of various parts of the page jumbled together. It's apparently a Gecko problem, because Epiphany does the same thing now that I

DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253989 I had one question. X.org 7.3 http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.3 Xserver autoconfiguration (most of xorg.conf becomes useless) RandR 1.2 support on Intel, ATI, and some G80 boards (autodetection of available modes, dynamic resizin

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

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 08:47, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > 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

RE: running an old windows 98 progam under debain linux

2008-07-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> -Original Message- > From: gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:21 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: running an old windows 98 progam under debain linux > > cant seem to get my hands on an old machine that will boot with win 98 > or win me. s

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-18 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Bob Cox wrote: 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. Memory

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