Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

2008-11-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,28.Nov.08, 23:47:12, A. F. Cano wrote: [...] > and lspci -v says this: > > 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) [...] > The drivers the system loads automatically (8139cp and 8139too) generate > no errors, but doing ifup eth0 (

Re: X11 Forwarding with Lenny?

2008-11-28 Thread Frederik Kriewitz
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:05 PM, swm38 swm38 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't get X11 Forwarding working with lenny as server. > Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0 I had the same problem on 3 machines I upgraded from etch to lenny. But I don't know how to solve it/what's causing it.

Pata problem

2008-11-28 Thread John Batistic
Following a Sid re-install to a sata drive, Debian does not recognise the XP pata drive. Mobo: ASUS P5K SE Dual boot: gldr on XP Kernel : 2.6.26-1-686 The previous install was LVM and both drives were recognised. This install is not LVM. Knoppix recognises both drives. fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda:

Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:47:12PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device > SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > eth0: ERROR while ge

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:32:24PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > Which is why is is important to correct misinformation on the list. You got all wrong: People will start thinking you're a twat when you try to do that ... -- "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." http://adin.dyndns.or

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:10:17PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > >> BTW, I agree a bit with an earlier poster that you a being a bit of a > >> twat. This mailing list isn't really appropriate for epistemological > >> discussions. > > > > Me, three. > > One more. Hm, it's interesting to see how u

Re: gnome-terminal application launcher and wget background running

2008-11-28 Thread H.S.
Marco Romano wrote: > > It's a wget feature: > http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Signals.html#Signals Ah! Thank you. This clarifies a lot. However ... > When you close a gnome-terminal it sends a SIGHUP to the shell which in > turn do the same with its child processes (wget incl

PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

2008-11-28 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I needed a PCI ethernet card for an old P3 system and so I did some research to make sure it was supported and got the first one that showed up on an ebay search. At least it was cheap. The sellers all claim that they were RealTek (RTL8139D) and they are detected as such. This is what lshw

RE:Truecrypt as A User

2008-11-28 Thread floyd
>I am using truecrypt to encrypt my partition. But I can't access my >encrypted partition as a user. Is is must run as a root? > Go to /etc/sudoers and add to: #User privilege specifications *your login name* All=(ALL) ALL /etc/sudoers is a read-only file s

Re: checkgmail

2008-11-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:13:39PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Is your machine up-to-date? du you run often "apt-get update; apt-get > dist-upgrade"? what about trying to reinstall that libwww-perl package > or checkgmail (after upgrading)? > Following up on my earlier mail, I di

Re: testing email from Damon Chesser, debian-user list

2008-11-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hi Damon, No, I did not receive the email. I'll test again on the box (once only) and see what happens if I type in the wrong password. The mess up happend as part of a multi-mode failure: At the same time, I wanted the ext3 filesystems mounted with data=journal, so I changed it in fstab but fo

Re: Driver webcam PWC.

2008-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/28/08 21:16, hoang phi ho wrote: hi all. i have install debian by lenny image in my NSLU2, but i don't know lenny has support driver webcam PWC? i have try hit command line: >insmod pwc.o >>orror: no such file or directory everyone have use webcam logitech quickcam pro 3000, please h

Driver webcam PWC.

2008-11-28 Thread hoang phi ho
hi all. i have install debian by lenny image in my NSLU2, but i don't know lenny has support driver webcam PWC? i have try hit command line: >insmod pwc.o >>orror: no such file or directory everyone have use webcam logitech quickcam pro 3000, please help me to install this driver step by step. B

Re: checkgmail

2008-11-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:13:39PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > How did you installed checkgmail? using apt-get/aptitude or something else? > apt-get. > this is provided by 'libwww-perl' package, that is one of the > dependencies of 'checkgmail' package in lenny, so wierd. >

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Napoleon
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:01:01AM -0600, lee wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: also want to be able to record sound from the stereo headphones jack of my radio and the stereo audio out from my XM radio. The headphone connector is for h

Re: gnome-terminal application launcher and wget background running

2008-11-28 Thread Marco Romano
H.S. has written: I then tried the same thing in KDE where konsole opens. In this case though closing the konsole also quits wget. So this works okay. So on the surface it appears to be a problem in Gnome ... or a feature. Any tips how this can be explained or where the problem is? It's

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-28 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/11/28 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/28/08 10:11, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >> >> 2008/11/22 Girish Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Has anyone had any success in using the new 64-bit Adobe Flash player >>> for Linux on Debian? -- >> >> Yeah. I put it my local ~/.mozilla/pl

Re: Driver for DSL Router connected via USB?

2008-11-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 2008 November 28 18:27, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:14:49PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Friday 2008 November 28 17:05, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > I'm trying to get this: >

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:36:58PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Friday 2008 November 28 15:28, lee wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote: > Is it even possible to measure a mere po

Re: How to reposition the K desktop unlocking widget?

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 02:00, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 2008 November 21 21:50, Andrew Reid wrote: > > I've recently set up a Debian system for a colleague with > > an NVidia video card that can do dual-monitors. > > This was spectacularly easy to set up with "TwinView", it

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 28 November 2008 16:28, lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote: > > > Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? > > > > You mean, in principle? Of course. > > > > Put your two wires of unknown p

Re: Driver for DSL Router connected via USB?

2008-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:14:49PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 2008 November 28 17:05, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > I'm trying to get this: > > > System Type: SpeedStream 4200-Series > > > Config Part #:

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 2008 November 28 17:36, Napoleon wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Friday 2008 November 28 15:28, lee wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > >>> On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote: > Is it even possible to measure a mere potent

Re: Driver for DSL Router connected via USB?

2008-11-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 2008 November 28 17:05, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I'm trying to get this: > > System Type: SpeedStream 4200-Series > > Config Part #: 003-6100-G0a > > Firmware Part #: 004-D241-A0U > > MAC Address: 00:18:D1:82:65

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Napoleon
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 2008 November 28 15:28, lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote: Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? You mean, in principle? Of course. It takes energy to defec

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Napoleon
lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:59PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: lee wrote: Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? Of course. That's what voltage is. Hm, true, voltage is impossible without current flowing b

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:01:01AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > also want to be able to record sound from the stereo headphones jack of my > > radio and the stereo audio out from my XM radio. > > The headphone connector is for headphone

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread John Hasler
lee writes: > But how do know that there is voltage when you cannot measure it or > otherwise make evident that there is? As far as I understand it, you > cannot do that without current flowing. You can do it for water pressure > without water flowing, but I don't see how you could do it for voltag

gnome-terminal application launcher and wget background running

2008-11-28 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am trying out the application launcher in gnome. If I create an application launcher that starts with a wget command (while /not/ using the "-b" option), it starts off okay: the gnome-terminal opens and wget starts working. However, if I close that gnome terminal, wget appears to continu

Re: typing keys in scripts

2008-11-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:12:39 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 2008 November 27 22:20, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > I need to kill my screen reader when opening emacs. So I'm writing a > > script. I can kill it on the keyboard with insert and numpad enter. So > > is there anyway to

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:24:18PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I'm no EE, and I may be wrong about this, but I think you're confusing > "voltage" (difference in potential) with "volt" (a specific amount of > difference in potential). You are right, I confused that, sorry. -- "Don't let them,

Re: Driver for DSL Router connected via USB?

2008-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:58PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I'm trying to get this: > System Type: SpeedStream 4200-Series > Config Part #: 003-6100-G0a > Firmware Part #: 004-D241-A0U > MAC Address: 00:18:D1:82:65:9E > > working via USB. It works just fine over ethernet but I d

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 27 November 2008 17:40, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 15:38, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > In case I have to say it, I'm very frustrated trying to get ALSA sound > > working on my Debian ETCH (up to date) box. > > > > My motherboard has built-in sound. Ne

Driver for DSL Router connected via USB?

2008-11-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm trying to get this: System Type: SpeedStream 4200-Series Config Part #: 003-6100-G0a Firmware Part #: 004-D241-A0U MAC Address: 00:18:D1:82:65:9E working via USB. It works just fine over ethernet but I don't have a extra ethernet cable to let my family borrow until I can visit again and

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration) >Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:16:47 -0200 > >>lee escreveu: >>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> >>> >

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:14:16PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:59PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > > lee wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > >>> lee wrote: > Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? > >>> Of course. That's what volta

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Kent West
lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:59PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: lee wrote: Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? Of course. That's what voltage is. Hm, true, vol

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/28/08 10:11, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/11/22 Girish Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Has anyone had any success in using the new 64-bit Adobe Flash player for Linux on Debian? -- Yeah. I put it my local ~/.mozilla/plugins directory though. Piece of shit segfaulted within the first

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 2008 November 28 15:28, lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote: > > > Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? > > > > You mean, in principle? Of course. > > It takes energy to defect particles o

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:48:59PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > lee wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: >>> lee wrote: Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? >>> Of course. That's what voltage is. >> >> Hm, true, voltage is impossible without current flow

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Napoleon
Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:10:32PM -0600, lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences between them. This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it. If y

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Napoleon
lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: lee wrote: Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? Of course. That's what voltage is. Hm, true, voltage is impossible without current flowing because of how voltage is defined. No current <--> no voltage, and volt

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:29:45PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:45:39 -0600 > lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hm, I'm not sure what you mean by "electrical theory". > > The study of electricity. No, I didn't really study that. > > > Voltage, or Potential Difference as it

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:40:45PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > lee wrote: >> It's likely that voltage and water pressure exist even when you don't >> measure them, but without measuring them (or otherwise observing their >> effects), you don't know that they do. Not oberserving something >> doesn't me

Re: CLI Image viewer: top left, no resize.

2008-11-28 Thread Jeff Pugh
>On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:03:39 -0600, Jeff Pugh in >gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > If I understand what you ask correctly, you can apt-get install zgv, > It's a cli tool I just learned about, reading the linux cookbook. >Doesn't it require "X" ? No, and I was amazed at the picture quality. $ ap

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:19:13PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:10:32PM -0600, lee wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences > > > between them. > > > > > > This

Re: Upgrading hplip

2008-11-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 2008 November 28 03:49, Alex Samad wrote: > > Using the aptitude CUI, I open up the hplip package info, highlight the > > 2.8.6.b-1 version, and press '+'. This results in some breakage and a > > suggestion. The first suggestion involves removing hplip; I reject that > > action for hpli

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote: > > Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? > > You mean, in principle? Of course. > > Put your two wires of unknown potential difference at > opposite ends of an evacuated t

Re: not all messages getting through to the list

2008-11-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,28.Nov.08, 12:08:39, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > I have noticed a huge delay in time before my messages get posted to the > list or even a complete lack of them getting through at all. > > This is a test to see if they are getting posted. Local time sent 12:19 > pm, 11/27/08 > --

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:10:32PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences > > between them. > > > > This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it. > > If

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > lee wrote: >> Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? > > Of course. That's what voltage is. Hm, true, voltage is impossible without current flowing because of how voltage is defined. No current <--> no voltage, and voltage is s

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences > > between them. > > > > This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it. > > If you have a mu

Re: Possible DNS issue in Debian/Lenny?

2008-11-28 Thread Mike Chorak
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:04:32AM -0600, Mike Chorak wrote: Alex Samad wrote: can you show us /etc/nsswitch.conf, also /etc/resolv.conf and try dig google.com I am guessing you have the mdns in nsswitch (just a guess off the top of my head) # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Exampl

Re: Possible DNS issue in Debian/Lenny?

2008-11-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:04:32AM -0600, Mike Chorak wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> >> can you show us /etc/nsswitch.conf, also /etc/resolv.conf and try >> dig google.com >> >> >> I am guessing you have the mdns in nsswitch (just a guess off the top of >> my head) >> > > # /etc/nsswitch.conf > # >

not all messages getting through to the list

2008-11-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I have noticed a huge delay in time before my messages get posted to the list or even a complete lack of them getting through at all. This is a test to see if they are getting posted. Local time sent 12:19 pm, 11/27/08 The above email never showed up

Re: Possible DNS issue in Debian/Lenny?

2008-11-28 Thread Mike Chorak
Michael Shuler wrote: On 11/28/2008 06:07 AM, Michael Shuler wrote: Facebook is still going to load slowly due to 30 second TTL on the A record for www. and 10 minute TTL on inconsistent NS records. They are announcing a set of NS records from the .com TLD servers, then handing out completely d

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Napoleon
lee wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences between them. This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it. If you have a multimeter that can measure voltage or current, bo

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Napoleon
lee wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:37:26PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: lee wrote: But how do know that there is voltage when you cannot measure it or otherwise make evident that there is? As far as I understand it, you cannot do that without current flowing. You can do it for water pressure witho

NetworkManager - IPmasq - DHCP

2008-11-28 Thread Tomas Kral
Dear List, I am on Etch, and I use NetworkManager, DHCP to obtain dynamic address of my broadband provider UPC, along with /etc/init.d/networking scripts, plus ipmasq. All is standard 'apt-get installed' through sources lists. Always when a new lease is negotiated by dhcp client, a new ip address

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 13:10:32 -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences > > between them. > > > > This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it. > > If y

Re: x11vnc and kde

2008-11-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Leon wrote: > Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> I'm trying to start a new KDE session with either of the following: > > I can't remember what package provides /usr/bin/Xvnc though. I think > x11vnc is only for currently running user x sessions. Yup. $ ap

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:45:39 -0600 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello lee, > Hm, I'm not sure what you mean by "electrical theory". The study of electricity. > > Voltage, or Potential Difference as it's also known, is always > > there. > Still, how do you know that? :) Oh, I see, you're be

Re: Truecrypt as A User

2008-11-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:40:14PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > I am using truecrypt to encrypt my partition. But I can't access my > encrypted partition as a user. Is is must run as a root? Mounting is (usually) an activity that requires root privileges. I don't use truecrypt on linux, so someone

Re: RAM limit?

2008-11-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:57:34PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > does the 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel support up to 6GB? Well, assuming you have a 64-bit processor. :) > does it support PAE? How can i check/enable? $ fgrep pae /proc/cpuinfo > performance issues in using PAE? PAE can't be as effici

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
lee escreveu: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >> A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences >> between them. >> >> This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it. >> > > If you have a multimeter that can m

blogging tool

2008-11-28 Thread Bogdan
Hey, I'm looking for an equivalent for Windows Live Writer, which, I must admit, is pretty good. I'm on Debian Sid / KDE 4.1 here, but I've had no luck with installing KBlogger :(. Any other suggestions? Thanks, -- ing. Bogdan MARIAN Timisoara, ROMANIA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAI

Re: Proxies with Linux?

2008-11-28 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:46:21PM +0100, Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: > Hi, i would like to use proxies with my browser but Iceweasel and > Ephifany don't have the configuration for this. Of course they do. Did you check under Preferences->Advanced->Network? FoxyProxy makes this a little easi

OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:59:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > A voltmeter has two connectors and shows the potential differences > between them. > > This is unlike an Ampermeter that shows the current flowing through it. If you have a multimeter that can measure voltage or current, both mode

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:43:41PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:37:26PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > > lee wrote: > >> > >> But how do know that there is voltage when you cannot measure it or > >> otherwise make evident that there is? As far as I understand it, you > >> cannot do that

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:16:02AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:11:47 -0600 > lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello lee, > > > > flowing. And you still have voltage at your outlet, even though > > > no current is flowing. > > How do you know? > > Have you never studie

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:37:26PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > lee wrote: >> >> But how do know that there is voltage when you cannot measure it or >> otherwise make evident that there is? As far as I understand it, you >> cannot do that without current flowing. You can do it for water >> pressure wit

Re: Ati driver stopped working after update

2008-11-28 Thread mk
--- On Fri, 11/28/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Ati driver stopped working after update > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Received: Friday, November 28, 2008, 12:58 PM > mk escreveu: > > Hello, > > > > Yest

Re: BandwidthD [Was bandwidth logger/report]

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:06:53AM -0800, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > installing bandwidtd with deb package will have problem with dependencies: > > libgd2-noxpm > libgd2-xpm You probably shouldn't try to install these two at the same time. It looks like the first one is the library without xpm s

Re: Seeking advice on networking

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:00:31PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > My question is if the workstation is on remote site, not on local > network. What will be the server settings on the mail client. If on > external IP how can the remote mail client find the mail server which > it needs to connect. P

Re: Ati driver stopped working after update

2008-11-28 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
mk escreveu: > Hello, > > Yesterday, I updated my flgrx drivers on Lenny, using synaptics. Now, the > driver doesn't work. I had to go back to radeonhd driver to be able to use > the system. Has anyone experienced similar glitches? Could anyone suggest a > solution to this problem? > Before the

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:45:55AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:06:05AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: > > > > How do you use enlightenment as window manager with KDE? > > > > > > I > > just choose Fluxbox from the kdm menu at login. I expect it would > > just be a matter of installi

Ati driver stopped working after update

2008-11-28 Thread mk
Hello, Yesterday, I updated my flgrx drivers on Lenny, using synaptics. Now, the driver doesn't work. I had to go back to radeonhd driver to be able to use the system. Has anyone experienced similar glitches? Could anyone suggest a solution to this problem? Before the update the driver worked f

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 01:22:44PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > See package Filelight. Very useful to "see" where all your disk space > > is used and by what. > > That reminds me of konqueror's file size view.

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:06:05AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: > > How do you use enlightenment as window manager with KDE? > > > I'm not familiar with Enlightenment window manager, but I do have > Fluxbox installed as an alternate wm, and it works fine w/KDE. I > just choose Fluxbox from the kdm m

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:53:26AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Arthur Marsh wrote, on 28/11/08 20:33: > >> >> The 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 kernel allowed me to modprobe eata and I >> received similar messages to those quoted above. >> >> The next newest kernel I can download is 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686

Re: Proxies with Linux?

2008-11-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:46:21PM +0100, Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: > Hi, i would like to use proxies with my browser but Iceweasel and > Ephifany don't have the configuration for this. Is this ture. (Not in sid version) Edit -> Preference -> Advanced -> Network -> Connection -> Setting I

Re: x11vnc and kde

2008-11-28 Thread Sam Leon
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'm trying to start a new KDE session with either of the following: FD_SESS=kde x11vnc -N -usepw -http -ssl SAVE -xvnc FD_SESS=startkde x11vnc -N -usepw -http -ssl SAVE -xvnc but all I get is a default X server. I've also tried configuring ~/.vnc/xstartup to lau

Re: checkgmail

2008-11-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 16:43, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Presently I am running testing(i386) on my machine. I installed checkgmail and > when I try to run it, a window pops up telling : How did you installed checkgmail? using apt-get/aptitude or something else? > CheckGmail v1.1

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:35:04AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > -- Jack, the separator you used there (a line containing just two dashes followed by a space is considered to be the signature separator. Hence most of the people on the list saw the following as a signature: > Hi, folks th

Re: CLI Image viewer: top left, no resize.

2008-11-28 Thread S.D.Allen
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:03:39 -0600, Jeff Pugh in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > If I understand what you ask correctly, you can apt-get install zgv, > It's a cli tool I just learned about, reading the linux cookbook. Doesn't it require "X" ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: kpdf disable font smoothing

2008-11-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:48:50AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to disable font smoothing/antialias in Kpdf? How? I do not use kpdf but ... Did you try to configure fontconfig XML with local preference? What is your ~/.fonts.conf. http://fontconfig.org/wiki/ -- To

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/28 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/11/22 Girish Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Has anyone had any success in using the new 64-bit Adobe Flash player >> for Linux on Debian? -- > > Yeah. I put it my local ~/.mozilla/plugins directory though. Piece of > shit segfaulted w

using multiple LUKS volumes with keyfiles

2008-11-28 Thread Alex Maurer
I want to use multiple LUKS crypted volumes (LV of LVM) with Debian. At now it works with one volume and passphrase, I type in on logon. The targen is to have multiple volumes and to type-in only the passphrase of one of them and open another crypted volumes with keyfiles stored on the first vol

Proxies with Linux?

2008-11-28 Thread Carlos Carrero Gutierrez
Hi, i would like to use proxies with my browser but Iceweasel and Ephifany don't have the configuration for this. How can i use proxies in Linux? What browser could i use? Thank you very much, I appreciate your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-28 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/11/22 Girish Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Has anyone had any success in using the new 64-bit Adobe Flash player > for Linux on Debian? -- Yeah. I put it my local ~/.mozilla/plugins directory though. Piece of shit segfaulted within the first ten seconds of use bringing down Debian Fireslug

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: ALSA sound recording frustration >Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:15:50 -0600 > >>On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 07:06:42PM +0200, Rob de Graaf wrote: >> >>> > The headphone connector is for headphones, it

checkgmail

2008-11-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, Presently I am running testing(i386) on my machine. I installed checkgmail and when I try to run it, a window pops up telling : CheckGmail v1.13svn Copyright © 2005-6, Owen Marshall Sorry! CheckGmail can't find the following package(s) on your system. These packages are nee

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-28 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:02:01 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat,22.Nov.08, 07:59:29, John Hasler wrote: > > Debian-multimedia now has a native 64 bit flashplayer in > > Experimental. I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how well it > > works. > > It needed some hacking to

Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-11-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 28/11/08 20:33: The 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 kernel allowed me to modprobe eata and I received similar messages to those quoted above. The next newest kernel I can download is 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686. kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 had problems after modprobe eata Is there

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread Thomas H. George
I just had a long struggle with Alsa and Lenny as I had sound from playing a cd but nothing from input to the mobo sound card. I finally learned to switch the alsamixer to capture (tab) and try different capture choices (arrows, space bar) until I found the correct setting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Seeking advice on networking

2008-11-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Host - Debian Etch Workstation Guest01 - mail server for routing Guest02 - mail server, hostname01. localIP01, domain01 Guest03 - mail server, hostname02, localIP02, domain02 Guest04 - mail server, hostname03, localIP02, domain03 etc. all mail servers running postfix as MTA on Debian E

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-28 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I see the poll has cooled and in that case I'll post my own favourites. It's still open if you there's any late entries, and I will post the results early next week. Here goes: desktop OR window manager: * GNOME development: * Geany, Python, GTK2 misc utilities: * grep, Sudo, debmirror, Lsof, le

Re: automatic gdm log in

2008-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Is it possible to get gdm to log me in automatically to a certain account with out me having to enter a username or password? It's a home pc so security isn't an issue, but I'm blind and I have to log in to gdm with out any feadback, and it would just be easier if it aut

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > See package Filelight. Very useful to "see" where all your disk space > is used and by what. That reminds me of konqueror's file size view. Just that kde's thing looks squared, not round. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--

Re: Possible DNS issue in Debian/Lenny?

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Shuler
On 11/28/2008 06:07 AM, Michael Shuler wrote: > Facebook is still going to load slowly due to 30 second TTL on the A > record for www. and 10 minute TTL on inconsistent NS records. They are > announcing a set of NS records from the .com TLD servers, then handing > out completely different short-TT

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