Re: DD command

2008-12-18 Thread Juha Tuuna
rjubio wrote: > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? It depends on your hardware, are you writing or reading and other possible I/O on that disk. On a laptop I got 3MiB/s on average. You do the math. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: DD command

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
I seemed to remember it showing me progress, but I think my 40 gb took about half an hour. It was a while ago, so I dunno... Cheers, Daniel On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:36:45PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

DD command

2008-12-18 Thread rjubio
How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:15:11AM -0800, Rob Starling was heard to say: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:11:10AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > (a) save "aptitude search '~i'" and "aptitude search '~i~A'" > > > > (b) run "aptitude install -o 'Aptitude::Auto-Install=false' > >

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:45:50PM +0100, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > On 2008-12-17 20:14 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote: > > This one is recent: > > http://www.ducea.com/2008/12/08/howto-upgrade-from-debian-etch-to-lenny/ > > Seems to be okay, if terse. One caveat, though: it has been report

Re: kernel help

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
Thanks for all the replies, I'll try a few things, but I'll probably end up staying with what I have since madwifi doesn't seem to like the newer kernel (compilation errors). Cheers, Daniel On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 06:23:37PM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 12/18/2008 03:20 PM, Daniel Dalton w

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:15:40 Star Liu wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > > wrote: > > On Thursday 2008 December 18 20:15:00 Star Liu wrote: > >> I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the > >> deb package from skype official websit

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-18 Thread Star Liu
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 2008 December 18 20:15:00 Star Liu wrote: >> I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the >> deb package from skype official website is from etch(maybe also i386), >> so how to install skype on sid

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-18 Thread Star Liu
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Star Liu wrote: >> >> I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the >> deb package from skype official website is from etch(maybe also i386), >> so how to install skype on sid amd64?

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 18 20:15:00 Star Liu wrote: > I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the > deb package from skype official website is from etch(maybe also i386), > so how to install skype on sid amd64? thanks http://debian-multimedia.org/ has skype packages for s

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Star Liu wrote: > I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the > deb package from skype official website is from etch(maybe also i386), > so how to install skype on sid amd64? thanks > I installed the static version, which has its libraries

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 06:45:00PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 2008 December 18 17:07:33 Rob Starling wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:42:20AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > On Thursday 18 De

how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-18 Thread Star Liu
I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the deb package from skype official website is from etch(maybe also i386), so how to install skype on sid amd64? thanks -- I'm a web developer using debian+mono(C#)+postgresql+xhtml+javascript+xsl+xml+css my home is http://www.starli

Re: To-do-list Application

2008-12-18 Thread linuksos
Hi, You might also be interested in: Zim - A Desktop Wiki http://zim-wiki.org/screenshots.html or Knotes fro KDE. -- lubo http://www.linuxconfig.org/ On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > >> From: Zaki Akhmad [mailto:zakiakh...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 18

System "freeze" / IBM x3650 kernel options

2008-12-18 Thread Jonas Mixter
Hi! I have an IBM x3650 server with a single quad-core 2.0 GHz Intel Xeon (and one empty CPU-slot) and 4 GB RAM. The system is running an ordinary installation of etch. I used the linux-image-2.6.18-6-686-bigmem kernel but had some strange problems with the server. It all booted fine but occasiona

Re: Deb 4.0r5 Problem

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 18 18:21:12 rjubio wrote: > I tried installing debian using netinstall of amd64 4.0r5 on my new > machine but after the installation hanged after the syslog daemon > started. Now when I used the amd64 4.0r0 the installation went just > fine. Is the 4.0r5 of amd64 stable?

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 18 17:07:33 Rob Starling wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:42:20AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote > > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > > > >1 wo

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! for all the very helpful replies. On Dec 17, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-12-17 20:14 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current sta

Re: kernel help

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Shuler
On 12/18/2008 03:20 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Is there a madwifi patch around that I could just apply to the source > of the kernel and then rebuild? I do not use madwifi, so have zero experiential help, but have you tried the existing madwifi-source package? It appears to use module-assistant,

Deb 4.0r5 Problem

2008-12-18 Thread rjubio
I tried installing debian using netinstall of amd64 4.0r5 on my new machine but after the installation hanged after the syslog daemon started. Now when I used the amd64 4.0r0 the installation went just fine. Is the 4.0r5 of amd64 stable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: kernel help

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:20:09PM EST, Daniel Dalton wrote: [..] > It's a bit of a pain since the kernel compilation does take a while, but > I guess I have to do it. So what's the best solution for this? If you haven't done so already, now may be a good time to go through your kernel's config

Re: Adobe AIR installation

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 16:44, Bogdan wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/18/08 15:45, Bogdan wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/18/08 14:48, Bogdan wrote: Hey, I cannot install Adobe Air. I downloaded the binary file, made it executable and tried to run it. It says: "An error occurred while installing A

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert Hodgins wrote: > >> At some point in the distant past, there were instructions in the release >> notes for upgrading from Debian releases other than the prior release. > > The release notes for Etch are here: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Starling
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:42:20AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

Re: Adobe AIR installation

2008-12-18 Thread Bogdan
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/18/08 15:45, Bogdan wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/18/08 14:48, Bogdan wrote: Hey, I cannot install Adobe Air. I downloaded the binary file, made it executable and tried to run it. It says: "An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be

Re: Adobe AIR installation

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 15:45, Bogdan wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/18/08 14:48, Bogdan wrote: Hey, I cannot install Adobe Air. I downloaded the binary file, made it executable and tried to run it. It says: "An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your adm

Re: Difference between Lenny/testing?

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:09:29PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:24:43AM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > 3) When you start noticing complaints on this list that stable has old > outdated software that is way behind some other distribution, that is > much more up to

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 18 12:39:20 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/18/08 12:20, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > I'm asking my self how to migrate from sarge to lenny? > > Migrate first to Etch!!! Terse, but very correct. At some point in the distant past, there were instructions in the release notes for

Re: Help: Killing TIOCMIWAIT ioctl threads

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm a developer so I followed you, though I don't know the best solution to your situation. However, this really isn't a developer list, so I doubt you'll get high-quality answers. No, I'm not sure what the best list for your question might be. Maybe kde-devel? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.    

Re: Adobe AIR installation

2008-12-18 Thread Bogdan
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/18/08 14:48, Bogdan wrote: Hey, I cannot install Adobe Air. I downloaded the binary file, made it executable and tried to run it. It says: "An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your ad

Re: Lenny/Violatile is Stable?

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 18 11:01:45 Arthur Marsh wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote, on 03/12/08 18:43: > > I'm fairly convinced this is a bug. How do I file a bug report against > > debian-volatile? I think the Debian BTS needs a package name to accept > > the bug, and I'm wondering what to

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2008 December 18 12:07:04 wauh...@yahoo.com wrote: > Is there really not one tool, which can print out the selections having > been made during the "BASIC INSTALL" and which additional apt-packages - > actually remain installed - probably from the logfiles - and which > configuration fi

Re: kernel help

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 15:20, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Here is my situation: - I have built a 2.6.26 debian kernel and generated a .deb file with aditional patches applied and built into the kernel (built in as well as modules). I also need to use the madwifi driver for my atheros, chipset wireless card. S

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Robert Hodgins
> At some point in the distant past, there were instructions in the release > notes for upgrading from Debian releases other than the prior release. The release notes for Etch are here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

kernel help

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Here is my situation: - I have built a 2.6.26 debian kernel and generated a .deb file with aditional patches applied and built into the kernel (built in as well as modules). I also need to use the madwifi driver for my atheros, chipset wireless card. So how can I add the ath_pci module to my a

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread M.Lewis
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:30:04 M.Lewis wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 17 23:00:41 M.Lewis wrote: Given a Lenny LVM setup as follows: rattler:~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy%

problem with expect

2008-12-18 Thread Pooly
Hi, I'm trying to create a script to update a password in a non-interactive way. It's working on my laptop but fails on my server. Both are running the same configuration, using Etch. This is the script: #!/usr/bin/expect -f # Change user passwd set timeout 30 strace 4 set pa

Re: Adobe AIR installation

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 14:48, Bogdan wrote: Hey, I cannot install Adobe Air. I downloaded the binary file, made it executable and tried to run it. It says: "An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator" I hav

Adobe AIR installation

2008-12-18 Thread Bogdan
Hey, I cannot install Adobe Air. I downloaded the binary file, made it executable and tried to run it. It says: "An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator" I have flash player already installed.

Help: Killing TIOCMIWAIT ioctl threads

2008-12-18 Thread David Baron
I have a program to control a speakerphone modem. One thread monitors for rings, based on xringd code, using an icotl TIOCMIWAIT. This uses one file descriptor number to the modem /dev and runs in the background. Other threads open of the modem for write access and send sequences to answer the c

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 13:01, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] There are some questions that should only be asked after Googling, because they've probably been asked before. yes, you are correct, I would like to ask google or what ever and that it could answer like you did ... I don't h

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >[snip] > > > >> Shrinking the LV is probably the most dangerous

Re: xserver-xorg under lenny

2008-12-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:22, steef wrote: > > hi list, > > how do i get the magical xserver-xorg installed under lenny on a sata-disk > so far that i can put my screen-resolution from 800x600 into 1024x768, The xserver-xorg package must be installed already, or you wouldn't have a GUI at all. S

Re: rhythmbox questions

2008-12-18 Thread Ismael Scalcon
that's because python-gst must be accompanied (that's how it's spelled?) by the version number. try do "aptitude install python-gst0.10" I was having the same problem, and yesterday installed python-gst and all was solved. 2008/12/18 lostson : > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:30:52 -0700 > Chris Burkha

Re: adding a font

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 11:12, Aneurin Price wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: I know this has been talked about before, but a google search and a search of my archives turned up nil.. I saw this nice web site that has a free font that is supposed to save 20% of the normal ink

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Ron Johnson wrote: > >> I'm asking my self how to migrate from sarge to lenny? > > Migrate first to Etch!!! this was a good advice, thanks a lot! > >> Is it more complicated question, that deserves attention? >> I was also thinking to ask here, but then ... I decided not because it's >> eleme

Re: adding a font

2008-12-18 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:12:28 + "Aneurin Price" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Paul Cartwright > wrote: > > I know this has been talked about before, but a google search and a > > search of my archives turned up nil.. > > I saw this nice web site that has a free font that is suppo

Re: kernel version of debian testing.

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 12:26, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-12-18 19:08 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/18/08 12:55, Jan Brosius wrote: Hi, Does anyone know the kernel version in the latest version of debian-testing? I saw on the internet that my hardware (more precisely my ethernet card) needs kernel 2.6

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 12:20, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/18/08 10:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing

Re: kernel version of debian testing.

2008-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-18 19:08 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/18/08 12:55, Jan Brosius wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone know the kernel version in the latest version of >> debian-testing? I saw on the internet that my hardware (more >> precisely my ethernet card) needs kernel 2.6.27-*. >> >> thanks for any

Re: adding a font

2008-12-18 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:57:30 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have a .fonts folder, but it is emtpy. All of my fonts are > in /usr/share/fonts. and I did run fc-cache, and once I restarted > kmail, the new font was available.. so I think I have my answer. In order to stay away from the realm of t

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread wauh...@yahoo.com
M.Lewis wrote: [...] Thanks Boyd. After reading through it a couple of times, it appears pretty straight forward. I had thoughts of reinstalling (with the partitioning/LVM setup right), but that would mean I'd have to sort out somehow which additional packages that I have installed since the

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/18/08 10:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lostson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 > Rick Thomas wrote: > >> Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- >>>

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Starling
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:11:10AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:51:12PM -0800, Carl Johnson was > heard to say: > > Just because a package is automatically installed doesn't mean that it > > is the choice the package manager would choose. For example many > > package

Re: kernel version of debian testing.

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 12:55, Jan Brosius wrote: Hi, Does anyone know the kernel version in the latest version of debian-testing? I saw on the internet that my hardware (more precisely my ethernet card) needs kernel 2.6.27-*. thanks for any information, $ apt-cache search linux-image | grep ^linux-im

RE: To-do-list Application

2008-12-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Zaki Akhmad [mailto:zakiakh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:45 AM > Subject: To-do-list Application > > Dear all > > I am looking for such a "post it" application. So that I can write my > to-do-list and view it on my Desktop. Any suggestion? > > - -- > Zaki Akhmad G

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-18 Thread Carl Johnson
"Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:33:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 12/17/08 22:51, Carl Johnson wrote: > > >"Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > > > >I'm not getting after you about this, because I still don't know the > > >best way to handle this. Most dependencies are a

Re: Cups Sharing Setup Problem - Resolved

2008-12-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:08:52PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 16:01:04 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Two debian boxes - one lenny, one etch, each with its own printer - > > connected to the LAN and can ping each other. > > > > Problem: Etch box can use Lenny box's

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 10:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be

Re: adding a font

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu December 18 2008, Aneurin Price wrote: > Do you know you're actually using a font server? I ask because I haven't > seen one in nearly a decade. no, no font server, but that was all I found on a google search.. Though most of the hits were from 2002-2004.. > > Have you tried simply copyin

kernel version of debian testing.

2008-12-18 Thread Jan Brosius
Hi, Does anyone know the kernel version in the latest version of debian-testing? I saw on the internet that my hardware (more precisely my ethernet card) needs kernel 2.6.27-*. thanks for any information, Jan

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:51:12PM -0800, Carl Johnson was heard to say: > "Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > > > Here's what I do (I'm on dialup). > > > > 2. backup to plain text: > > selections from /etc including fstab, inittab, networks. > > output of sfdisk (hard drive partitions) whi

Re: [SOLVED]race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-18 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 18 December 2008 16:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Nigel Henry wrote: > >> On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? > >>> > >>> I have 2 audio cards: > >

Re: adding a font

2008-12-18 Thread Aneurin Price
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I know this has been talked about before, but a google search and a search of > my archives turned up nil.. > I saw this nice web site that has a free font that is supposed to save 20% of > the normal ink useage, so I downloaded it. > http

Re: Lenny/Violatile is Stable?

2008-12-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote, on 03/12/08 18:43: On Saturday 2008 November 29 00:38, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: My line for the debian-volatile repository for lenny is: deb http://localhost:/volatile lenny/volatile Of course, this goes to my local approx which is configured like: vol

Re: To-do-list Application

2008-12-18 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:09:36 -0600 Michael Shuler wrote: > On 12/18/2008 09:44 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > > > > I am looking for such a "post it" application. So that I can > > write my to-do-list and view it on my Desktop. Any suggestion? > > 'apt-cache search todo list' shows quite a few intere

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? I'll be glad to RTFM if somebod

Re: [SOLVED]race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? I have 2 audio cards: one the builtin card of the mobo two a CA0106 PCI card. They are suppose

Re: To-do-list Application

2008-12-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Dec 2008, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear all > > I am looking for such a "post it" application. So that I can write my > to-do-list and view it on my Desktop. Any suggestion? > I use xpad for this. It isn't ideal but it produces quite nice "P

Re: To-do-list Application

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Shuler
On 12/18/2008 09:44 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote: I am looking for such a "post it" application. So that I can write my to-do-list and view it on my Desktop. Any suggestion? 'apt-cache search todo list' shows quite a few interesting options - gtodo/gtodo-applet look about right, if you are using gno

Re: To-do-list Application

2008-12-18 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote > I am looking for such a "post it" application. So that I can write my > to-do-list and view it on my Desktop. Any suggestion? This isn't what you're looking for, but here's my list of outliners and todo apps: http://hnb.sf.net/ http://vimoutli

To-do-list Application

2008-12-18 Thread Zaki Akhmad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all I am looking for such a "post it" application. So that I can write my to-do-list and view it on my Desktop. Any suggestion? - -- Zaki Akhmad -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iE

Re: [SOLVED]race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? I have 2 audio cards: one the builtin card of the mobo two a CA0106 PCI card. They are supposed to be like this: h...

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/18/08 08:07, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:33:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 22:51, Carl Johnson wrote: "Douglas A. Tutty" writes: I'm not getting after you about this, because I still don't know the best way to handle this. Most dependencies are a si

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad wrote about 'Re: LVM reorganization': >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >[snip] > >> Shrinking the LV is probably the most dangerous part. You don't want >> to > >1 word > >backup 3 words: 4 TB /home I couldn't scr

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:33:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/17/08 22:51, Carl Johnson wrote: > >"Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > >I'm not getting after you about this, because I still don't know the > >best way to handle this. Most dependencies are a single item, so this > >isn't a problem

Re: Debian IA64 Net Install

2008-12-18 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
rjubio wrote: > I've been trying to setup a server here in my office. My new server > specs is Intel xeon (quad-core) with 5 gb of memory and so far I've been > trying to install using the netinstaller but all i get is a black > screen. I tried to use my x86 installer and it worked just fine. > >

xserver-xorg under lenny

2008-12-18 Thread steef
hi list, how do i get the magical xserver-xorg installed under lenny on a sata-disk so far that i can put my screen-resolution from 800x600 into 1024x768, /var/log tells me the nv driver (nvidia-chip) was correctly installed. installing the newest nvidia-driver from their site succeeded alt

Debian IA64 Net Install

2008-12-18 Thread rjubio
I've been trying to setup a server here in my office. My new server specs is Intel xeon (quad-core) with 5 gb of memory and so far I've been trying to install using the netinstaller but all i get is a black screen. I tried to use my x86 installer and it worked just fine. Does anybody had a pri

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 02:49:40 M.Lewis wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, "M.Lewis" wrote > > > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > >> Thanks Boyd. After reading through it a couple of times, it appears > >> pretty straight forward. > > > > I've done it

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 02:49:40 M.Lewis wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, "M.Lewis" wrote > > > > about 'Re: LVM reorganization': > >> Thanks Boyd. After reading through it a couple of times, it appears > >> pretty straight forward. > > > > I've done it

Re: adding a font

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu December 18 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: > 2. I can't find/remember the command to restart the font server, other than > restarting X, is there one? from a reply by: Tzafrir Cohen Nobody uses server-side fonts anymore.   fc-cache (as root, as user) and you're done. ---

Re: Difference between Lenny/testing?

2008-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-18 13:09 +0100, Paul Cartwright wrote: > the critical information is in this line: > > When will be KDE 4 uploaded to unstable? And to testing? > KDE 4 will replace KDE 3 in unstable when Lenny is released. After some time, > it will migrate from unstable to testing. > > wait, that's u

Lenny and Broadcom NC150T 4-port card

2008-12-18 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, I recently plug in a DL380 G3 a 4-port card from broadcom (nc150T). Lenny only get 1 port (eth2) # lspci -v -v -s 06:02.0 06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705_2 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company NC150T 4-port Gigabit Combo Swi

Re: Difference between Lenny/testing?

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu December 18 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > > just curious, do you know where kde4 lives in this equation? > > right now I am running Lenny.. > > http://ekaia.org/blog/2008/11/27/faq-about-kde-42-in-debian/ the critical information is in this line: When will be KDE 4 uploaded to unstable? And

Re: race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? I have 2 audio cards: one the builtin card of the mobo two a CA0106 PCI card. They are supposed to be like this: h...@debian:/etc/udev$ cd /e

Re: Difference between Lenny/testing?

2008-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-18 12:39 +0100, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu December 18 2008, Paul E Condon wrote: >> Some time after the release of Lenny, the name of the next release >> after Lenny will become useful as a synonym of testing. Your first use >> of steps 1-5 will be in the transition to that releas

Re: Debian on Blu-ray media

2008-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-18 11:39 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: > I have never looked up bugs for this, nor filed any, because I never > blamed jigdo-lite or wget, etc., for the problems I had. Most of the > blame is in the system as a whole. It may be too fragile. Well, the cdimage.debian.org pseudopackage migh

Re: Difference between Lenny/testing?

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu December 18 2008, Paul E Condon wrote: > Some time after the release of Lenny, the name of the next release > after Lenny will become useful as a synonym of testing. Your first use > of steps 1-5 will be in the transition to that release from Lenny. just curious, do you know where kde4 live

adding a font

2008-12-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
I know this has been talked about before, but a google search and a search of my archives turned up nil.. I saw this nice web site that has a free font that is supposed to save 20% of the normal ink useage, so I downloaded it. http://www.ecofont.eu/downloads_en.html 2 questions 1. the other ttf

Re: Problem compiling

2008-12-18 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:11:08 +0100 "Jesus arteche" wrote: > Im compiling Filedrawers, I got intall all teh dependencies, the machine is > i386 with ubuntu. As already mentioned, Ubuntu isn't Debian. There are some differences, that make a difference. > But after Configure i made "make clean"

Re: Debian on Blu-ray media

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Allums
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:20:38AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Alas, the jigdos often don't work. I quit using jigdos, and went back to ISOs, for that reason. Too much productivity lost to them, too much work to fix it when it breaks. Sorry, host providers and mirrors,

Re: Debian on Blu-ray media

2008-12-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:20:38AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Alas, the jigdos often don't work. I quit using jigdos, and went back > to ISOs, for that reason. Too much productivity lost to them, too much > work to fix it when it breaks. Sorry, host providers and mirrors, but > they just

Re: Backup Image for my needs

2008-12-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman Bird wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations that are simply that will allow me to back > up the image of my Debian Etch box. I will store on windows box connected > via samba. i just want to be able to create the image, store on external HD >

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] > > Shrinking the LV is probably the most dangerous part. You don't want to 1 word backup > have the filesystem be bigger than it's LV at any point. Make *sure* any > filesystem on shrunk LVs are good before you

Re: Debian on Blu-ray media

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Allums
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-12-18 00:15 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: There will be Blu-ray images for Lenny[1]. The announcement says they should already be available in the weekly Lenny build (I think this is [2]), but I cannot see a link there (nor look at the directories as I seem to have