Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-03 Thread chris
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:33:36 -0200, oxy wrote: > I changed /etc/apt/sources.list and got the followihg: > > # apt-get update > Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B] Hit > http://http.us.debian.org etch Release Ign http://http.us.debian.org > etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit ftp:

iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread Koh Choon Lin
>> Be careful with IMAP, though. One of my users has well over 500MB of >> mail on my server that she apparently doesn't know how to delete (I >> know, I know). > > How can you not know how to delete? (No, seriously, I'm not trying to be > sarcastic...) Maybe they are trying to take after Gmail -

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: > > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > > I need a utility to backup big directori

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/09 21:58, ghe wrote: [snip] Be careful with IMAP, though. One of my users has well over 500MB of mail on my server that she apparently doesn't know how to delete (I know, I know). How can you not know how to delete? (No, seriously, I'm not trying to be sarcastic...) -- Ron Johnson

Multimedia sound related keys on MacBook Pro

2009-01-03 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hello, Some times ago I had a problem with multimedia keys of my macbook pro. Indeed, I had 2 programs that manage sound related keys : pommed and another program I couldn't identify. I finally managed to find this program : it was KMilo. To desactivate KMilo you must go in configuration center

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > > The directories are quite big and i need the utility t

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread John Hasler
ghe writes: > Be careful with IMAP, though. One of my users has well over 500MB of mail > on my server that she apparently doesn't know how to delete (I know, I > know). Heh. My "user" (my wife) has about 150MB (text only) in /var/mail. Some of it is 20 years old. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBS

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I've recently had good luck with dovecot, which handles a pop3 and pop3s. > I'll also echo Ron's suggestion to move to IMAP, if possible, which is how I > set up dovecot. Dovecot also does SASL authentication for P

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 2009 January 03 19:49:35 Napoleon wrote: > I also tried to find the support forums for qpopper, but the only ones I > found hadn't had a post in over 2 years. So maybe I need to change pop3 > servers. I've recently had good luck with dovecot, which handles a pop3 and pop3s. I'll als

POP (was Re: iptables question)

2009-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/09 19:49, Napoleon wrote: [snip] I also tried to find the support forums for qpopper, but the only ones I found hadn't had a post in over 2 years. So maybe I need to change pop3 servers. Unless you are running an ISP, you should really ditch POP and move your mail to an IMAP "stor

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread Napoleon
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Napoleon wrote: I'll admit I'm still pretty green at a lot of this (lots of experience in computers, little in Linux) and don't understand everything. But I'm trying to learn, so please go easy on me :-) I've been having a problem with dictionary h

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:33:26PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I've been having problems burning DVDs using K3B recently. I know I used to > do > this, not too long ago, maybe 2-3 months.. > Now I'm getting errors, and K3B says it burns the DVD, then ejects it, but it > is empty. Or it stops

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-03 Thread Dean Chester
I noticed that this error came up on boot: alsactl restore error message alsactl: set_control: 1269 : Failed to obtain info for control #24(no such file or directory) when it was trying to start alsa. So its to do with alsa not being able to restore the previous volumes properly. Nigel here is the

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Daryl Styrk
(sniped everything because it was trashed anyway..) You who have been top posting suck Really? seriously. GWTFP. My T-61 has far surpassed what I expected of it.. Expensive?? Depends on what you consider expensive.. A $29 bag of chips is expensive.. A lappy built to take abuse and so

Re: mount old crypto partition

2009-01-03 Thread markus reichelt
* Norbert Stöffler wrote: > Any suggestions how to work around that? Have you checked http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README ? Sounds like § 2.8 is what you are looking for: "Compatibility with other loop encryption implementations" HTH -- left blank, right bald pgpyJ7218UhIi.pgp

Re: VIA Eden 1.2 Ghz processor

2009-01-03 Thread markus reichelt
* Gino Heusdens wrote: > I'm building a new server with the Jetway 7F4K1GES-LF motherboard. > It has a VIA Eden 1.2 Ghz processor on board. Is it correct that I > need the e_powersaver module for cpufreqd, or should i use > acpi-cpufreq? I find the acpi-cpufreq driver but not the > e_powersaver m

Re: Keystrokes go missing after script exits

2009-01-03 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 03 January 2009, James Youngman was heard to say: >> It's left your terminal in a non-echoing mode; this is used for >> example when asking for a password. You can fix this with

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread paragasu
I just buy a NEC Versa Laptop s5500, made in china. the lcd broke to pieces after a month i use it. luckly the support is reachable and quite friendly. But i have to spent another USD300 to replace it. I am running debian. Only work on the latest lenny kernel. It get it working except for the web

Re: memory problem

2009-01-03 Thread Ken Teague
On Sat Jan 3 14:20 , Kamaraju S Kusumanchi sent: > I think the maintainer is just trying to find the cause of the memory build > up. He is trying to narrow down the problem. He is not suggesting shifting > stable users to experimental as a long term solution. Conside for example, > another user rea

Re: Keystrokes go missing after script exits

2009-01-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 January 2009, James Youngman was heard to say: > It's left your terminal in a non-echoing mode; this is used for > example when asking for a password. You can fix this with "stty > sane". Yes, I understand it's gone into non-echo mode

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:53:09PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: [sorry sent again, since Robert dropped all mailing list CCs and I didn't notice first] On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, J

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 03 January 2009 19:30, Dean Chester wrote: > Update: I unloaded alsa with the command: alsa unload. now i can't get it > to resume as it doesn't load any modules. I think this info might help us > find a solution. Outputs of commands > alsa unload: > debian:~# alsa unload > /usr/sbin/al

Re: problem with CUPS

2009-01-03 Thread Zach
On Jan 2, 5:10 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > > The "drivers" are likely ppd files for use of cups-type stuff. The only > cups filter in foomatic-printfilters. Note that you can use foomatic > with lpd or lprng. If your problem is the spooling and not the > filtering, that may be the way to go

Re: Konqueror KDE 4, swf

2009-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/09 16:42, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: how do I play embedded swf on website such as Youtube. It seems the only viable solution is using Iceweasel. I believe so. Just use iceweasel for it. Half the websites that I use frequently, don't work on konqueror. So I

Re: problem with CUPS

2009-01-03 Thread Zach
On Jan 2, 4:30 pm, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hi Zach, > > In my first search I found this link: > > http://www.laen.org/2005/11/15/cups-request-entity-too-large/ > > If you get this CUPS error, it may mean that you don't > have write permission to your CUPS spool directory > (/var/spool/cups, by defaul

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2009-01-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:11:35PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > > lee wrote: > > > > > Well, how do yo

Re: Hibernate - Is it safe?

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dean Chester wrote: > Hi, > At the moment i seem to be putting my laptop in to hibernate and then > when i start it up again i boot in to vista. So i ask is it save to > keep doing this? > Dean I am having my share of problems with the hibernate feature in Lenny. If I shutdown the laptop (Dell I

Re: Konqueror KDE 4, swf

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > how do I play embedded swf on website such as Youtube. It seems the > only viable solution is using Iceweasel. I believe so. Just use iceweasel for it. Half the websites that I use frequently, don't work on konqueror. So I shifted to iceweasel long time back. That and ad

Re: Keystrokes go missing after script exits

2009-01-03 Thread James Youngman
It's left your terminal in a non-echoing mode; this is used for example when asking for a password. You can fix this with "stty sane". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Hello Bengt, > > sil3114 is known to cause data corruption with some disks. So far I only know > about Seagate, but maybe there issues with newer Samsungs as well? I've experienced data corruption with a SII 0680 ACLU144 (on an ST Labs' A-13

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> >>> M.Lewis wrote: Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Expe

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500 > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> >> As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, >> >> there will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, >> >> the movies work fine in

Re: memory problem

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Ken Teague wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Well, there are already many memory-related bugs. See esp 452706. The >> complainer was running out with more than 1 GB of memory. The suggested >> action was to try FF3 in experimental. > > Ouch. That has to be the poorest answer I've ever seen

Re: weird find error on fresh etch system

2009-01-03 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/13/2008 12:16 AM, Zach Uram wrote: >> >> I just installed Debian 4.0 and whenever I use find on / I see: >> >> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for ./proc/sys/net: this may >> be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turn

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2009-01-03 Thread lee
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > lee wrote: > > > > Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access > > > >

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Koh Choon Lin wrote: > Dear all > > Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand > six months is the standard for Ubuntu. > Look in http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . The current number of bugs affecting the next release is 92 (the green line). When this bug num

Keystrokes go missing after script exits

2009-01-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I have a short script to convert my video camera's files into mpegs. It works fine, and I canibalized the AviToVob script for the basic structure and looping. But it does one thing I cannot figure out: After the script completes, my console do

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >> M.Lewis wrote: >>> Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony >>> (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without >>> upgrading my entire system to Experimental? >> Just add experimental d

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:53:09PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Bernd Schubert wrote: >> [sorry sent again, since Robert dropped all mailing list CCs and I >> didn't notice first] >> >> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: >>> Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, Jan 03,

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

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dennis Wicks wrote: > Thanks for that tip, but what is the secret incantation > needed to figure out which add-on is causing the problem? > I don't think there is one. You can run iceweasel through strace and try to find a solution from the output. You can also try installing iceweasel-dbg and g

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >> As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there > >> will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, the > >> movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > M.Lewis wrote: >> >> Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony >> (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without >> upgrading my entire system to Experimental? > Just add experimental distribution in your sources.list a

Re: home directory changed

2009-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/09 04:32, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Last time i screwed up with kde 4 panel so i created a new user named user then copied all its configuration file into my current user's home. after changing ownership, all is ok but when i'm opening home on kde menu or konqueror, it directs to /home/use

Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > > my new notebook is an Acer AS5930G which uses an Intel Core 2 Duo cpu. > > I should like to install the 64 bit version of Lenny. > > Which is the correct arch for this processor? > Just for the record, the i386 works fine on that. But as others said, y

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Bernd Schubert wrote: [sorry sent again, since Robert dropped all mailing list CCs and I didn't notice first] On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:39:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:30:07 +0100 Bern

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I think I've finally stopped getting the automated: > > Warning: the warranty on your car is about to expire... > > my car is 23 years old. Never even had a warranty claim. > > Doug. What did you do Doug? I have started getting them recently. No idea what to do about

Re: how to run debsums for 'ps' and 'readline'

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
oneman wrote: >> $ dpkg -S /bin/ps >> > Thanks, that was exactly what I needed! > > for prosperity, I will keep this onliner handy for the next time I ^^ > need to do this: > > debsums `dpkg -S /bin/ps | cut -d : -f 1` | grep /bin/ps I think, you meant to say "posterity". raju

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
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 > Also consider complaining to Skype about it. Sometimes, in corporate world, things start

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dotan Cohen wrote: >> As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there >> will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, the >> movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found that >> the video cards in Dell Inspiron E1505 are defective.

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to > put files on multiple dvds. > My k3b works grea

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:09:01 +0800 "Koh Choon Lin" wrote: > > If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and > > Dells. > > Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo > models. Would there be a difference in support? > At least thinkpad is st

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. Mondo does that without any trouble. It splits the dir. in

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Bernd Schubert
[sorry sent again, since Robert dropped all mailing list CCs and I didn't notice first] On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Bernd Schubert wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:39:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: >>> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:30:07 +0100 >>> Bernd Schubert wr

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i

Re: HP Laptopn NVIDIA Graphics Driver Go 6150

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,03.Jan.09, 10:38:19, Marek D wrote: Hello, First off, thank you for all of the hard work. Second, I have a laptop HP 9410US that I had installed 4.0r5. I had everything working. The problem was in that when I wanted to install the current NVIDIA driver v177 X wo

Re: How to connect a Host to tunnel (so you can connect to foo.example.net instead of localhost:port)

2009-01-03 Thread Jabka Atu
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:20:28AM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > >> Howdy , >> >> I used to ssh tunnel's to overcome NAT problems and just for fun. >> One of the thins is to do ssh -L portonmypc:NATip:NATport >> u...@sshserverinfrontofnat >> This will bring the abiulty to use

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-03 Thread Dean Chester
Update: I unloaded alsa with the command: alsa unload. now i can't get it to resume as it doesn't load any modules. I think this info might help us find a solution. Outputs of commands alsa unload: debian:~# alsa unload /usr/sbin/alsa: Warning: Processes using sound devices: 31575(wish8.5). Unloadi

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:39:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:30:07 +0100 Bernd Schubert wrote: Hello Bengt, sil3114 is known to cause data corruption with some disks. News to me. There are a few people with lots of SI and other devices No no, you

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-03 Thread oxy
I changed /etc/apt/sources.list and got the followihg: # apt-get update Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B] Hit http://http.us.debian.org etch Release Ign http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg Ign http://http.us.d

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-03 Thread oxy
* Do you have anything in the directory /etc/apt/apt.conf.d? more /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* :: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00trustcdrom :: APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; :: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic :: APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Davies
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Some may not work even in the latest released kernel (newer than the > Debian one). Like my "Pixart" one (093a:2621), for instance. Apparently it's supported in 2.6.27 but when I tried that from experimental last night it didn't seem to work there, either. Still work

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Davies
oxy wrote: > similar posts around refer to wrong proxy configuration, wrong > /etc/apt/sources.list files etc. None seems to be my case. Look: > # apt-get update > Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg > Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed ou

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Koh Choon Lin
>>> initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if >>> you plan to use laptop intensively (say 8-10 hours a day). But if you >>> just use it for 1-2 hours a day, then it's life might be more. My DELL Latitude is approaching 8 years of heavy usage (~ 10 hours daily) and r

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:45:39 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: > > >> In general, I think Dell's hardware is unreliable. They work fine > >> initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if > >> you plan to use laptop intensively (say 8-10 hours a d

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:00:49PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there >> will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, the >> movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for th

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Mark Allums wrote: >> In general, I think Dell's hardware is unreliable. They work fine >> initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if >> you plan to use laptop intensively (say 8-10 hours a day). But if you >> just use it for 1-2 hours a day, then it's life might be

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:39:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:30:07 +0100 > Bernd Schubert wrote: > > > Hello Bengt, > > > > sil3114 is known to cause data corruption with some disks. > > News to me. There are a few people with lots of SI and other devices No no, you just

Re: cinelerra video editor

2009-01-03 Thread B. L. Jilek
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Aaron Valdes wrote: > I downloaded the source package and compiled it. > I had to download a load of packages so ./configure script would say yes > to all the requirements. > I also had to add some stuff that configure did not show that it needed > when I ran 'make

Re: HP Laptopn NVIDIA Graphics Driver Go 6150

2009-01-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,03.Jan.09, 10:38:19, Marek D wrote: > Hello, > > First off, thank you for all of the hard work. Second, I have a > laptop HP 9410US that I had installed 4.0r5. I had everything > working. The problem was in that when I wanted to install the current > NVIDIA driver v177 X would not start

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Koh Choon Lin
> Yes. And don't ever make the horrible mistake of getting any non-ThinkPad > Lenovo laptop, nor the ThinkPad SL. The Linux support is non-existant, and > it is nowhere near the quality of a true bloodline ThinkPad (models X, T, > R, W). Why not the SL line, something special about them? -- K

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:30:07 +0100 Bernd Schubert wrote: > Hello Bengt, > > sil3114 is known to cause data corruption with some disks. News to me. There are a few people with lots of SI and other devices jammed into the same mainboard who had problems but that doesn't appear to be an SI problem

cinelerra video editor

2009-01-03 Thread Aaron Valdes
I downloaded the source package and compiled it. I had to download a load of packages so ./configure script would say yes to all the requirements. I also had to add some stuff that configure did not show that it needed when I ran 'make' Then when I executed the program it still complained about mis

Re: dpkg-query

2009-01-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,03.Jan.09, 13:19:21, Antonio Diaz wrote: > Does exist a command line which allows me to look for packages of the >configured repository? Even though it is possible that I'm doing something >wrong, whenever I use the command "dpkg-query --list" I don't get the same >list of p

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Dmitriy Ugnichenko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I bougth Dell 1310 with Intel video+wifi+CPU inside. All's working like a charm, I had no problems, using debian/ubuntu on it. :D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklfdbAACgkQmrRsq68K75WFwwCeK3oNfCI7w6n16

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: > > I have an R61 Thinkpad bought new last July. Before that I had an A21p > and R50e (both IBMs, second hand). The R50e I gave to my mother and she > is very happy about it. IMO ThinkPads are not very stylish, but they are > very sturdy. Some models have Suse pre-installed. I

mount old crypto partition

2009-01-03 Thread Norbert Stöffler
Hi, I have a crypted disk that I have been carrying with me through several linux installations (SuSE, Ubuntu). Most recently I was still able to mount it on Ubuntu using the following fstab entry: /dev/hdb1 /bup ext2 encryption=twofish,noauto,user,exec Recently I switched back to Debian. I

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > > If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and > > Dells. > > Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo > models. Would there be a difference in support? Yes. And don't ever make the horrible mist

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Saturday 03 January 2009 03:31:57 Redeeman wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 22:30 +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > Hello Bengt, > > > > sil3114 is known to cause data corruption with some disks. So far I only > > know about Seagate, but maybe there issues with newer Samsungs as well? > > > > http:

dpkg-query

2009-01-03 Thread Antonio Diaz
  Does exist a command line which allows me to look for packages of the configured repository? Even though it is possible that I'm doing something wrong, whenever I use the command "dpkg-query --list" I don't get the same list of packages that the search form of Debian's web return to me ("debi

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/3 Koh Choon Lin : >> If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and >> Dells. > > Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo > models. Would there be a difference in support? > Yes, especially for non-US support. -- Dotan Cohen http://

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Michael Habashy
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:11:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/02/09 19:01, Chris Jones wrote: > > >On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > [snip] > > >> > > >>Have you considered a tape drive? > > > > >

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:19:29AM +, chris wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:39:13 -0200, oxy wrote: > > > Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0) > > Is that an ip address in brackets? Yes . Do you get the same result after an explicit 'host security.debian.org'? Alternativ

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Michael Habashy
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: > > I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. > > I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. > > The directories are quite big and i need the utilit

OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Koh Choon Lin
> If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and > Dells. Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo models. Would there be a difference in support? -- Koh Choon Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:02:16 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,10.Dec.08, 18:39:18, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote: > > >Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at > > > the drivers (especially the touc

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home directory changed

2009-01-03 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Last time i screwed up with kde 4 panel so i created a new user named user then copied all its configuration file into my current user's home. after changing ownership, all is ok but when i'm opening home on kde menu or konqueror, it directs to /home/user. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://game

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,10.Dec.08, 18:39:18, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote: > >Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at > > the drivers (especially the touchpad which tends to be alps which isn't up > > to par with the syn

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Bengt Samuelsson
Justin Piszcz skrev: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Bengt Samuelsson wrote: Hi, I need some support for this soft-raid system. I am running it as RAID5 with 4 samsung spinpoint 500G SATA300 tot 1.3T byte And it runs in http://sm7jqb.dnsalias.com I use mdadm sytem in a Debian Linux CPU 1.2Mhz 1G me

EXA working with Radeon RV350, but text-rendering very slow?

2009-01-03 Thread Brandon Simmons
After a recent upgrade of Xorg, I am finally successfully running XFCE with compositing working great with my Mobility Radeon RV350. Switched to EXA and that is working beautifully and I'm finally running with render acceleration. Found xorg is using about half the CPU that it was using with EXA di

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

2009-01-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Dirk wrote, on 2008-12-23 12:34: debian/unstable Thanks for shutting the up if you don't have the solution. If you want to retrieve a particular version of a package that is no longer in stable, unstable or testing, look at: http://snapshot.debian.net/ To find and obtain what versions

backup-manager fails to SCP

2009-01-03 Thread Jeff Chimene
Hi, Is there a bash or ssh configuration that inhibits ssh sessions from bash scripts? I'm trying to debug a problem with backup-manager-upload (0.7.7-debian1) using the "scp" mode. When I run the program interactively, it works. When run as part of backup-manager, it fails. Looking at the logs