Re: Power saving in debian

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:24:40 -0800 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:34:34 +0100 > "Adem" wrote: > > > Hi, > > how can I use powersaving in Debian? > > I have Debian Lenny without a GUI desktop installed. > > Mostly it is accessed via ssh and svn. > > How can I configure it so

Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32. I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine. I could use a more advanced file system that has journalling, etc. So I decided to do a compromise. I formatted

Re: post doesn't show up

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried now about 5 times to post a thread on an OCR that is > opensource a Debian package and works fantastic. > But the post does not show up. > What's up? > > Hugo Hi Hugo, This message showed up. Did you send this last one from the same account as the othe

Re: Java on Debian

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:03:15 -0600 "Jordi Guti__rrez Hermoso" wrote: > 2008/12/17 Girish Kulkarni : > > 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment? And the Java Development Kit? > > The JRE includes a virtual machine for running Java programs, the JDK > is stuff like the Java compiler and associat

Re: Issues with PCF and BDF Fonts after regular lenny updates [SOLVED]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:36:39 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: I apologize I did not follow with this for a while. I just got done finals > > I realized that on my system it is actually KDE that adds ~/.fonts to > the font path when I log in. So it seems normal that it is missing from > your font

Re: Power saving in debian

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:34:34 +0100 "Adem" wrote: > Hi, > how can I use powersaving in Debian? > I have Debian Lenny without a GUI desktop installed. > Mostly it is accessed via ssh and svn. > How can I configure it so that during inactivity > the HD, CPU, fan etc lower their energy consumption?

Re: iPod

On Wednesday 2008 December 24 23:29:45 Marc Shapiro wrote: > On my Etch system, I still get 3 upgrades Are you sure this is for Amarok in specific? Usually, there's only one version of perl in stable at a time -- you may simply be out of date on those. > and 35 new > packages requiring over 4

Re: iPod

Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:43:33PM -0500, JoeHill was heard to say: I'm just not sure why I would have to install kdesktop, kicker, kamera, and konqueror for an app that syncs with my iPod. On lenny/unstable, blame amarok-konqsidebar: If you cancel install

Re: iPod

Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:43:33PM -0500, JoeHill was > heard to say: > > I'm just not sure why I would have to install kdesktop, kicker, kamera, and > > konqueror for an app that syncs with my iPod. > > On lenny/unstable, blame amarok-konqsidebar: > > dan...@emurla

Re: Custom Debian Cd with last yaboot 1.3.14

On 12/24/08 19:52, Roberto Lahoud wrote: Hi im every one, sorry for my english, im doing some tests with the debian lenny powerpc dist on a blade power6 js12, i found problem after installing the system when i try to boot, the problem was solve compiling and installing the last yaboot version 1

Re: problem with Internet configuration

On 12/24/08 18:51, raman narasimhan wrote: sir, me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net settings haven't been

Re: get list of config files (with aptitude) tha were manually changed

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:29:27PM -0500, "A. F. Cano" was heard to say: > I know that this is checked somehow as I have been asked which config > file to install or leave alone when upgrading various packages with > aptitude. I don't know any tool to do this offhand. But all the information

Custom Debian Cd with last yaboot 1.3.14

Hi im every one, sorry for my english, im doing some tests with the debian lenny powerpc dist on a blade power6 js12, i found problem after installing the system when i try to boot, the problem was solve compiling and installing the last yaboot version 1.3.14 with some other packages in a rescue mo

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

I'm going to amalgamate all of your thoughts into a single email for simplicity - not sure if that's correct protocol or not, so let me know if it would be better if I replied to each email individually. Thanks everyone for all of the help! @Rob: > do you need the OSS stuff? might it be that some

need help with net configuration

sir, me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net settings haven't been set. how can we connect his system to the Inter

problem with Internet configuration

sir, me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net settings haven't been set. how can we connect his system to the Inter

need help with net configuration

sir, me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net settings haven't been set. how can we connect his system to the Inter

get list of config files (with aptitude) tha were manually changed

I know that this is checked somehow as I have been asked which config file to install or leave alone when upgrading various packages with aptitude. What I would like is a command line (not interactive) that would give me a list of all the config files in all installed packages that were modified f

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Wednesday 2008 December 24 16:16:26 ow...@netptc.net wrote: > AFAIK the MTU is set by the initiator of the IP connection and any > intermediate router can't change it. > Larry Not exactly. The MTU is really a link-level property that's immutable. However, path MTU discovery is not required f

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:16:26PM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > >From: fn...@uaf.edu > >>On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > >>> Ken Irving wrote: ... > >>> > > >>> > A too-big MTU setting can give odd results in some cases. > >>> > > >>> > >>> but how would it c

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

> > > > Original Message >From: fn...@uaf.edu >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: tcpip stops working after some time >Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:44:45 -0900 > >>On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: >>> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:38:23 -0900 >>> Ken Irving

Re: unable to burn DVD

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:54:31AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed December 24 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > BraseroGrowisofs stderr: :-( write failed: Input/output error > > > > This seems to be the key.  Are you running out of disk space, maybe? > > paulandcilla:/home/pbc# df -h > Filesy

Re: post doesn't show up

On Wednesday 2008 December 24 15:49:46 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But the post does not show up. > What's up? > Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTw

post doesn't show up

Hi, I've tried now about 5 times to post a thread on an OCR that is opensource a Debian package and works fantastic. But the post does not show up. What's up? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Release Cycle

On Wed,24.Dec.08, 16:21:41, Daryl Styrk wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote: > > > >> Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it. > > > > Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but this sounds to me as if > > Debian Dev

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

Bob Cox wrote the following on 12/24/2008 02:46 PM: On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 14:27:50 -0600, Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com) wrote: Thanks for that tip, but what is the secret incantation needed to figure out which add-on is causing the problem? If Iceweasel crashed withing a minute or two afte

Re: Release Cycle

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote: > >> Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it. > > Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but this sounds to me as if > Debian Developers would

Re: Release Cycle

On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote: > Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it. Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but this sounds to me as if Debian Developers would release according to their mood :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 14:27:50 -0600, Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com) wrote: > Thanks for that tip, but what is the secret incantation needed to figure > out which add-on is causing the problem? > > If Iceweasel crashed withing a minute or two after starting it would be > relatively easy, but

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:38:23 -0900 > Ken Irving wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:28:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:10:46 + > > > Bob Cox wrote: > > > > Just a thought... what does traceroute

Re: exim4 question

On Sat,20.Dec.08, 16:28:20, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > In this specific case, the same result should have been possible by > reconfiguring the exim4-config. Perhaps specifying the option to ask all > questions, not only those that would be shown with the default priority. Just for the archive

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

On 12/23/08 17:32, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Every time, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. My iceweasel [1] never crashes. It's your addons. Thanks for that tip, but what is the secret incant

starting/stopping compositing in xfce4 from the command line

Is it possible to start and stop compositing under xfce4 from the command line? I trying to use screen rotation with the nvidia plugin and I found out that if compositing is enabled when rotating the screen then part of it is unusable at the rotated state (after doing xrandr -o left the I can move

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:38:23 -0900 Ken Irving wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:28:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:10:46 + > > Bob Cox wrote: > > > Just a thought... what does traceroute -I www.yahoo.com (as root) give > > > you? > > > > It seems that this works

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hi Daryl. > > Did you have to set model options for snd-hda-intel on your T61 so as to get > the sounds working? I ask because the ALSA-configuration.txt file for the > 1.0.16 alsa driver shows 3 options for the AD1984 codec, as below. > > AD198

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 19:59, Daryl Styrk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I also have a T61-7658. > > Sound works fine here. > > So, some output.. > > > > > $ lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel > snd_hda_intel 434776 1 > snd_pcm81672 2 snd_h

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:28:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:10:46 + > Bob Cox wrote: > > Just a thought... what does traceroute -I www.yahoo.com (as root) give > > you? > > It seems that this works, ping works telnet www.yahoo.com 80 mostly doesn't > work (sometimes

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 07:47:49PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 06:25, Rob Starling wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:31:12PM -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote: > > > > > > lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel returns: > > > > > > snd_hdsnd_hda_intel 324248 2 > > > snd_pcm

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I also have a T61-7658. Sound works fine here. So, some output.. $ lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel snd_hda_intel 434776 1 snd_pcm81672 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd63688 10 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,s

ffmpeg: `buffer underflow' error

I posted the problem to the ffmpeg-user mailing list getting no reply. I want to merge an audio and a video file into an mpeg file, and do: $ ffmpeg -i minpian.wav -i minpian.m2v -target dvd -acodec pcm_s16be \ -b 8000k -s 720x576 -ab 1536k -ac 2 -r 25 minpian.mpg , but get the following: [...]

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 06:25, Rob Starling wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:31:12PM -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote: > > A while back (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02415.html), > > I was having trouble getting sound to work on my Thinkpad T61. > > Although that was resolved a

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 04:31, Kyle Barbour wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A while back (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02415.html), > I was having trouble getting sound to work on my Thinkpad T61. > Although that was resolved and everything worked wonderfully, a few > days ago

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> With Emacs, I correctly open a file including chinese characters. The >> characters are correctly displayed in the text file, but when I try to create >> the ps file, with `C-u M-x pr-ps-print-buffer-preview' or `C-u M-x >> pr-ps-print-buffer-print', they are not displaye

Re: Chrony with real-time scheduler uploaded to Experimental

On Sat,20.Dec.08, 10:45:40, John Hasler wrote: > I have uploaded a version of Chrony (chrony_1.23-6rt) with support for the > SCHED_FIFO real-time scheduler to Experimental. Running Chronyd with this > feature enabled should result in decreased (and more consistent) latency. > Please test, especia

Re: unable to burn DVD

On Wed December 24 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > BraseroGrowisofs stderr: :-( write failed: Input/output error > > This seems to be the key.  Are you running out of disk space, maybe? paulandcilla:/home/pbc# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 20G 1

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On 12/24/08 10:28, Micha Feigin wrote: [snip] vivalunalitshi:tuxonice-head# traceroute -I www.yahoo.com traceroute to www.yahoo.com (87.248.113.14), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 * * * 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 f1.us.www.vip.ird.yahoo.com (87.24

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:10:46 + Bob Cox wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 23:51:02 +0200, Micha Feigin (mi...@post.tau.ac.il) > wrote: > > [...] > > > I have no idea on how to read this. It seems that regular traceroute fails > > (-n) tcp traceroute works (-n -T) and telnet www.yahoo.com 80

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hmmm... current unstable lacks Chinese tasks??? > No no it is under: > * Simplified Chinese desktop > * Traditional Chinese desktop > > e.g. Here: > i ttf-arphic-ukai 0.2.200802 > 0.2.200802 > i ttf-arphic-uming

Re: unable to burn DVD

On 12/24/08 09:05, Paul Cartwright wrote: I'm not sure when this started, I don't burn that many discs of any type.. started up braseros, to burn a DVD that was only 1.8Gb. got this error: roGrowisofs stderr: Done with: The File(s) Block(s)713532 BraseroGrowisofs

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:56:40PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I apt-get installed the following: > > ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp > > , but that didn't help. What else should I install? It should although it may be not so nice looking. > Rodolfo Hmmm... cur

Re: Which CD?

On 12/24/08 06:10, Koh Choon Lin wrote: 1. debian-40r6-i386-CD-1.iso 2. debian-update-4.0r6-i386-CD-1.iso None. Thanks for the answer, will do as such. I am interested to know the difference between the two though. Right on the http://www.debian.org/ is a link dated 18 Dec 2008: Debian

Re: How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update? (2)

Hi, On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:48:39AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 2008 December 23 09:45:42 Osamu Aoki wrote: > > The document by Estival Guillaume found by Dirk is about Etch (i.e., old > > stable) as it is written there. It links to updated page for Sarge > > (current sta

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

On 12/24/08 06:17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/23/08 17:32, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Everytime, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. My iceweasel [1] never crashes. It's your

unable to burn DVD

I'm not sure when this started, I don't burn that many discs of any type.. started up braseros, to burn a DVD that was only 1.8Gb. got this error: roGrowisofs stderr: Done with: The File(s) Block(s)713532 BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Writing: UDF Anchor end volume

Re: Which CD?

Koh Choon Lin wrote: >>> 1. debian-40r6-i386-CD-1.iso >>> >>> 2. debian-update-4.0r6-i386-CD-1.iso >> >> None. > >Thanks for the answer, will do as such. I am interested to know the >difference between the two though. http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#update-cd -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/23/08 17:32, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Everytime, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. My iceweasel [1] never crashes. It's your addons. [1] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i6

Re: Con[cat]enate two video files

On 2008-12-23 23:47:49 -0600, Anoop Aryal wrote: > do you have debian multimedia in your /etc/apt/sources.list ? > > i've got: > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main But it doesn't have a security team, has it? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible valid

Re: Which CD?

>> 1. debian-40r6-i386-CD-1.iso >> >> 2. debian-update-4.0r6-i386-CD-1.iso > > None. Thanks for the answer, will do as such. I am interested to know the difference between the two though. -- Regards Koh Choon Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Which CD?

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 03:06:43AM -0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > Dear all > > I am planning to move 4.0r5 to 4.0r6. Which of the ISOs should I be burning? > > 1. debian-40r6-i386-CD-1.iso > > 2. debian-update-4.0r6-i386-CD-1.iso None. aptitude update && aptitude upgrade You probably have p

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> With Emacs, I correctly open a file including chinese characters. The >> characters are correctly displayed in the text file, but when I try to create >> the ps file, with `C-u M-x pr-ps-print-buffer-preview' or `C-u M-x >> pr-ps-print-buffer-print', they are not displaye

Re: Con[cat]enate two video files

Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> [...] I tried to `cat' a file with no audio in it with another with audio >> >> in it, and what happens is that the audio of the second one is shifted >> >> back at the beginning of the `total' file (cat file1 file2 > total). >> >> Apart from that, it's fine. But, how

Re: How to stop squirrelmail temporarily

--- Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > Try to run the following on on your box and see what processes are > listen to > those ports: > > # netstat -lnp > > Normally these ports are used by imapd - normal and secure > connections. Hi Yuriy, On domU1 - the routing mail server # netstat -lnp | grep p

Which CD?

Dear all I am planning to move 4.0r5 to 4.0r6. Which of the ISOs should I be burning? 1. debian-40r6-i386-CD-1.iso 2. debian-update-4.0r6-i386-CD-1.iso -- Regards Koh Choon Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 05:23:32PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > With Emacs, I correctly open a file including chinese characters. The > characters are correctly displayed in the text file, but when I try to create > the ps file, with `C-u M-x pr-ps-print-buffer-preview' or `C-u M-x > pr-ps-print

Re: How to stop squirrelmail temporarily

Try to run the following on on your box and see what processes are listen to those ports: # netstat -lnp Normally these ports are used by imapd - normal and secure connections. On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Stephen Liu wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:38 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > >

Re: iPod

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:43:33PM -0500, JoeHill was heard to say: > I'm just not sure why I would have to install kdesktop, kicker, kamera, and > konqueror for an app that syncs with my iPod. On lenny/unstable, blame amarok-konqsidebar: dan...@emurlahn:~$ aptitude why amarok kicker p amar