Re: Grub Question

2008-10-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Just install grub on all your disks, so that your system boots irrespective of the boot order in the bios. Also, it is better to use UUID for specifying the root filesystem in menu.lst as well as in fst

CUPS - Epson - printing fails with "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..."

2008-10-26 Thread Pigeon
Have just tried to install an Epson Stylus Photo 1270 under CUPS/Gutenprint and found that although the log messages from hotplug indicate that the printer is connected correctly, all print jobs stall with "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..." and the same message results from queryi

Re: hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/27 Lachlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/10/27 Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] >> Ubuntu is based on Debian but is a much faster moving distribution. >> Debian Etch is now several years old and being a stable release no >> major changes like this would be pushed into it. I haven't l

How to activate PCMCIA ethernet card in ThinkPad?

2008-10-26 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a Lenovo ThinkPad R61 which has a built-in ethernet card, designated eth0, which command "lspci" identifies as follows: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) While this card works, by comparison with my de

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

2008-10-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 23:58 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kenward Vaughan: > > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 23:29 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Kenward Vaughan: > >>> > >>> Speed set to 7056 KB/s > >>> /usr/bin/wodim: DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed > >>> 40x. > >> > >> This mig

USB Soundcard: Too Little Bandwidth?

2008-10-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have Debian Etch running on a Soekris net5501 (info: http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm). It's a 433 Mhz system with a CS5536 (seen as a 586 chip) and it has a USB 2.0 interface on it. I'm using a USB sound card by Startech. Here's what I get from lsusb on that: Bus 001 Device 019: ID 0d8

Re: hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread Lachlan
2008/10/27 Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/10/27 L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have P5GC-MX motherboard which has on one IDE hdd slot and two SATA HDD >> slots. I have installed primary IDE DVD drive, secondary IDE IDE HDD 80GB >> and Primarty SATA 160GB SATA HDD. BIOS shows as >

Re: hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/27 L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have P5GC-MX motherboard which has on one IDE hdd slot and two SATA HDD > slots. I have installed primary IDE DVD drive, secondary IDE IDE HDD 80GB > and Primarty SATA 160GB SATA HDD. BIOS shows as > FIRST IDEMASTER DVD > FIRST IDE SLAVE

Re: Alternatives to Google Groups?

2008-10-26 Thread Doug Mitton
Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, [Slightly OT, I know, but this list contains many technically savvy people who are able to answer well...] I run a mailing list which is currently hosted by Google Groups. We've been having ongoing problems with reliability (i.e., messa

hard disk nomenclature

2008-10-26 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have P5GC-MX motherboard which has on one IDE hdd slot and two SATA HDD slots. I have installed primary IDE DVD drive, secondary IDE IDE HDD 80GB and Primarty SATA 160GB SATA HDD. BIOS shows as FIRST IDEMASTER DVD FIRST IDE SLAVE80GB IDE DRIVE THIRD IDE PRIMARY MASTER 160 GB SATA

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/10/26 Wu, Kejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? Octave is very close to Matlab. It implements virtually all of the core Matlab functions, and it has the same syntax, unlike Scilab or the Python numeric libraries. You might want t

Re: Exception from 'reportbug'

2008-10-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Oct.08, 15:09:11, Wu, Kejia wrote: > Hello all, > > I tried to report some bug via reportbug tool, but failed. Maybe, I > should configure something firstly? The follows is the failure message: > -- > Report will be sent to "Debi

Re: automake/debian packaging

2008-10-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 October 2008, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'automake/debian packaging': >I have written some C code that I would like to package as a dynamic >library using automake/autoconf and thence as a debian package. I am >afraid I have had zero experience with these tools, an

Re: pobega wants to keep up with you on Twitter

2008-10-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:17:17PM +, pobega wrote: > To find out more about Twitter, visit the link below: > > http://twitter.com/i/09f5b9476f6a879efa44146305086a09a28ae7b4 > > Thanks, > -The Twitter Team > > About Twitter > > Twitter is a unique approach to communication and networking ba

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

2008-10-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kenward Vaughan: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 23:29 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Kenward Vaughan: >>> >>> Speed set to 7056 KB/s >>> /usr/bin/wodim: DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed >>> 40x. >> >> This might be your problem. Did you already try burning in a slower >> mode? > >

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

2008-10-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 23:29 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kenward Vaughan: > > > > Speed set to 7056 KB/s > > /usr/bin/wodim: DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed > > 40x. > > This might be your problem. Did you already try burning in a slower > mode? > > J. It's on auto, so I h

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

2008-10-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kenward Vaughan: > > Speed set to 7056 KB/s > /usr/bin/wodim: DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed > 40x. This might be your problem. Did you already try burning in a slower mode? J. -- If nightclub doormen recognised me I would be more fulfilled. [Agree] [Disagree]

Exception from 'reportbug'

2008-10-26 Thread Wu, Kejia
Hello all, I tried to report some bug via reportbug tool, but failed. Maybe, I should configure something firstly? The follows is the failure message: -- Report will be sent to "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Submit this

automake/debian packaging

2008-10-26 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi all, I have written some C code that I would like to package as a dynamic library using automake/autoconf and thence as a debian package. I am afraid I have had zero experience with these tools, and the documents I have found online are either too simple or too complex to get started. Sorr

pobega wants to keep up with you on Twitter

2008-10-26 Thread pobega
To find out more about Twitter, visit the link below: http://twitter.com/i/09f5b9476f6a879efa44146305086a09a28ae7b4 Thanks, -The Twitter Team About Twitter Twitter is a unique approach to communication and networking based on the simple concept of status. What are you doing? What are your frie

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Zhan wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:36:00 +0800, Wu, Kejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? >> >> I feel very grateful to any suggestion. >> >> Regards, >> Kejia >> >> > > I would give octave, scilab and freema

how to get headset controls to work

2008-10-26 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have a Microsoft LifeChat LX 3000 USB headset. It has volume and mic controls on it. How can I make those controls work on Debian Testing or Unstable? More generally, how does one go about making any such controls on USB headsets work? BTW, I can control its volume using "alsamixser -c

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

2008-10-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 12:09 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > After copying one CD, I find cdrecord losing it's permission to write to > the blank for a second, new CD. Any thoughts why this is happening? > Info is in the debugging output below. I was running Fluxbox after a ... Restarting K3B an

Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

2008-10-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
After copying one CD, I find cdrecord losing it's permission to write to the blank for a second, new CD. Any thoughts why this is happening? Info is in the debugging output below. I was running Fluxbox after a reboot. FWIW I have difficulties as well getting the Plextor drive to be recognized un

Re: High Disk Temperatures

2008-10-26 Thread Manon Metten
Hi David, On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got my new WDC800 disk up and running, LVM (fantastic tool!). 2.6.26-rt now > boots without problems. > > I have noted that during high disk access rates, the temperature of the WDC > soars (from a 33c idle to up

Re: Recording from XM radio

2008-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/08 07:46, Mark Neidorff wrote: [snip] Two questions: Yesterday, I spoke with a sales droid from the cable company (Cablevision). He said that I could continue to get a static IP through them. If you can confirm that Cablevision will offer me a static IP, please let me know. Every

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread Zhan
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:36:00 +0800, Wu, Kejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? I feel very grateful to any suggestion. Regards, Kejia I would give octave, scilab and freemat each a try and then decide which is th

Re: installation problems with debian

2008-10-26 Thread Simon Paillard
Hello Raju, debian-www is about discussing the Debian website. I forward your mail to the list debian-user which is the right list where to ask for help. http://www.debian.org/support By the way, you should give more information to help people understanding your issue, for example how you get in

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread tyler
"Wu, Kejia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? > Octave is the closest you'll get, but R (a dialect of S) and maxima (similar to Mathematica) might also be useful. Cheers, Tyler -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:36:00AM -0700, Wu, Kejia wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? > > I feel very grateful to any suggestion. GNU Octave. Freemat may also work, though I have never tried it. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To U

Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread Wu, Kejia
Hi all, Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? I feel very grateful to any suggestion. Regards, Kejia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install a cvs version after a tar.gz package

2008-10-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I installed in my Debian Etch box AUCTeX, version 11.84, from the tar.gz tarball. Now I want to update the program with its cvs version. How can uninstall the version already installed? Or maybe I can override the old one installing straight away the cvs version? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -

Re: mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:43:56 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello JoeHill, > Oh yeah, once it starts, I can switch to online mode. It's just so > totally annoying ;) I don't doubt it. :-( > Pretty sure at this point it's not Claws, it's probably just following > some other setting s

Re: Alternatives to Google Groups?

2008-10-26 Thread Doug Mitton
In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Sorry, this is a second attempt, the first seems to have disappeared into the ether.] Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, [Slightly OT, I know, but this list contains many technically savvy people who are able to answer well...] I run a m

Re: mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-26 Thread JoeHill
Thilo Six wrote: > JoeHill wrote the following on 25.10.2008 22:14 > > > When I start either my mail client, Claws, or Firefox web browser, they are > > in offline mode. > > > > I'm thinking this is not a setting in either of those apps, since I cannot > > get Firefox to change even by setting

Re: mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-26 Thread JoeHill
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:40:49 -0400 > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello JoeHill, > > > I checked and work_offline is already set to 0. That's good to know > > because now I'm really sure this is something in either a system > > setting or something left over from

Re: mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-26 Thread Thilo Six
JoeHill wrote the following on 25.10.2008 22:14 > When I start either my mail client, Claws, or Firefox web browser, they are in > offline mode. > > I'm thinking this is not a setting in either of those apps, since I cannot get > Firefox to change even by setting 'online' to 'true' in about:confi

Re: [OT] skype

2008-10-26 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Anybody use skype with a dialup modem? Hugo yes but in that case only for chatting :-) -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DI, Univ. Torino ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it MUSIC: http://www.purplesuc

Re: mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:40:49 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello JoeHill, > I checked and work_offline is already set to 0. That's good to know > because now I'm really sure this is something in either a system > setting or something left over from a Gnome setting? Ack. Sorry, no idea

Re: Grub Question

2008-10-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and > >root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf > > > >I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst > >(also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro si

Recording from XM radio

2008-10-26 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi Folks, I'm currently running Etch and KDE as my desktop. I'm considering changing my Internet (and audio/viedo) setup. The goal is to save some money. I currently have a static IP which I get via DSL (so I can run my mail and web servers). One of my hobbies is collecting a radio show that

icedove resources?

2008-10-26 Thread Larry Moore
In Icedove, where is the window size resource for the rss setup/config window? The out-of-the-box size is too large to read and access the date boxes in the upper left. -- 'That's right,' he said. 'We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.' - 'Small Gods' by Terry Pratchett -- To UNSUBS

Re: .bash_aliases setup

2008-10-26 Thread zhuzhixin
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Sorry for being a nitpick, but you don't need execute permissions as > long as you only *source* the file (which is what was done here). The > OP's problem was due to the fact that he forgot to add the 'alias' > statement. > > Regards, > Andrei Thanks very much:-) Reg

Re: Grub Question

2008-10-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst (also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0). The MBR is unchanged and the system still bo

Re: Sound broken in recent Lenny update

2008-10-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Oct.08, 10:02:26, Anton Piatek wrote: > /etc/modprobe.d$ grep snd-pcsp * > alsa-base:install snd-pcsp /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcsp > $CMDLINE_OPTS && /lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-pcsp > alsa-base:# Keep snd-pcsp from beeing loaded as first soundcard > alsa-base:option

Re: High Disk Temperatures

2008-10-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-26 11:06, David Baron wrote: > I have noted that during high disk access rates, the temperature of the WDC > soars (from a 33c idle to up to 44c!). Such high temperatures are not > desirable. I don't think that 44 °C is too high a temperature for a hard disk. How do you come to your d

Re: .bash_aliases

2008-10-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel wrote: Please disregard my last email. As it generally is, just as a I sent the email I saw the problem. I thought I was the only one that did that! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: High Disk Temperatures

2008-10-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: Got my new WDC800 disk up and running, LVM (fantastic tool!). 2.6.26-rt now boots without problems. I have noted that during high disk access rates, the temperature of the WDC soars (from a 33c idle to up to 44c!). Such high temperatures are not desirable. Is there an app

Re: Sound broken in recent Lenny update

2008-10-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:02:26AM +, Anton Piatek wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > My sound has stopped working in a recent update to Lenny - I think the > problem is related to the loading of the snd-pcsp module taking the > wrong index as sound tries to play acro

Re: .bash_aliases setup

2008-10-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Oct.08, 18:51:51, zhuzhixin wrote: > I think the file .bash_aliases need permission to execute. For when you > open a terminal, it invoke ~/.bashrc which will invoke .bash_aliases. > Hope this will be help. Sorry for being a nitpick, but you don't need execute permissions as long as

Re: how to setup a local website for storing some debian packages?

2008-10-26 Thread Anton Piatek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2008/10/26 Alex Samad : > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:16:14AM +0800, Star Liu wrote: >> sometimes we have some standalone packages to install, it's not in the >> offical mirrors. I'm a web developer so I hope I can make a local >> website to store these

Re: .bash_aliases setup

2008-10-26 Thread Anton Piatek
2008/10/26 zhuzhixin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel wrote: >> Greetings to the list! >> >> Apparently I am missing something which is frustrating me a bit. I have a >> user account on a Debian Etch system which is needing some additional >> aliases and rather than muck around

Re: .bash_aliases setup

2008-10-26 Thread zhuzhixin
GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel wrote: > Greetings to the list! > > Apparently I am missing something which is frustrating me a bit. I have a > user account on a Debian Etch system which is needing some additional aliases > and rather than muck around with .bashrc, I would rather the aliases be > p

High Disk Temperatures

2008-10-26 Thread David Baron
Got my new WDC800 disk up and running, LVM (fantastic tool!). 2.6.26-rt now boots without problems. I have noted that during high disk access rates, the temperature of the WDC soars (from a 33c idle to up to 44c!). Such high temperatures are not desirable. Is there an app or daemon that can be

Sound broken in recent Lenny update

2008-10-26 Thread Anton Piatek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My sound has stopped working in a recent update to Lenny - I think the problem is related to the loading of the snd-pcsp module taking the wrong index as sound tries to play across that device instead of my soundcard running alsaconf reloads the module

Re: downgrading a single package

2008-10-26 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:24 AM, T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:33:45 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >>> I was experiencing with an unstable package, now I'd like to >>> downgrade this package... > >>> $ apt-cache policy nfs-common >>> nfs-common: >>> Installed:

Re: mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-26 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:14:12 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I start either my mail client, Claws, or Firefox web browser, > they are in offline mode. > > I'm thinking this is not a setting in either of those apps, since I > cannot get Firefox to change even by setting 'online'

Re: how to setup a local website for storing some debian packages?

2008-10-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:16:14AM +0800, Star Liu wrote: > sometimes we have some standalone packages to install, it's not in the > offical mirrors. I'm a web developer so I hope I can make a local > website to store these packages, then I add a line "deb > http://localhost/debian unstable main co