Re: vlc still playing?

On 02/20/2009 09:27 PM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:39:05PM +0200, mihkel wrote: > I don't know a solution, but I can confirm it. I have this problem for ages now > with Debian Testing. Really annoying. Although I use vlc from debian-multimedia > repository. >

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

Chris Jones escribió: > I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: > > 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition > 2. apt-get update > 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade > > Am I missing anything? The recommended way of updating is using apti

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009/2/21 Bret Busby : > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: >> If you install the desktop task you also get OpenOffice.org that depends >> on a Java JRE. > So, to use Open Office, Java is needed? > > I understood that Open O

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I tried linux-image-2.6-686 and linux-image-686 (for PentiumX machines). > Both behave the same way. I see the kernel and initrd load, then nothing. > The old 2.6.18 still boots right up. I also tried going into the grub > command-mode and doing a 'testload' on the ke

Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts not running? Mouse frozen?

Alex Riebs escribió: > Hi. I recently installed Debian Lenny onto my Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop. I'm > having issues getting resume to work properly. I can suspend, but when I > resume and compiz was running, my screen shows up with only my cursor and > some corrupted textures. I attempted to solve

KDE 4

Following the instructions at http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of other s/w)? TIA, Mike moe:~# aptitude -t experimental install kde4-minimal Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Readi

Re: grub error in fresh installation lenny

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:24:09 -0800 (PST) Angus Auld wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 2/10/09, PierPaolo wrote: > > > From: PierPaolo > > Subject: grub error in fresh installation lenny > > To: "debian-user" > > Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 12:16 PM > > Noway. Grub legacy, Grub2... The boot up

Re: LVM and hard disk upgrade

> failure, I need to move the system to a new HDD. This new drive is > bigger than the current one, so I can't just 'dd' from old one to the > new (and I'm not even sure if this could work - because of UUIDs > different for new disk?). You can dd just fine. The result will be a disk where some par

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

> Just to add, you could install one of the linux-image-686 or > linux-image-2.6-686 meta packages. > The first one depends on the most recent linux kernel, the second one > depends on the most recent 2.6 kernel. I tried linux-image-2.6-686 and linux-image-686 (for PentiumX machines). Both beha

Forwarding, ARP proxy, Lenny, XEN & route.

Hello, After a dom0 upgrade to lenny I can not reach anymore my debian based domU from another site (exept from dom0) as well as reach another site ( exept dom0 ) from the domU. Both dom0 and domU have public IP address (x.x.y.38 and x.x.z.148) & I use xen routing mode. An overview :

Re: vlc still playing?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:39:05PM +0200, mihkel wrote: > I don't know a solution, but I can confirm it. I have this problem for ages now > with Debian Testing. Really annoying. Although I use vlc from debian-multimedia > repository. > > Vadim Kolchev kirjutas: > > Hi everyone.

Re: Java in Debian 5

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: If you choose to use Java programs, you'll obviously need Java for them. But Debian doesn't come with anything that requires a Java interpreter out of the box, so no, you can happily run

Re: Getting X working with onboard NVidia 9400

Dan Christensen writes: > I've just bought the following motherboard > > Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H, 9400G IGP, 512MB > > but can't get X to run. I'm using an old Debian etch installation, but > I have upgraded X and the kernel to lenny. I used the nvidia installer > to install driver version 180

Google Talk voice chat on GNU/Linux

Dear Debian users, In case you are interested in getting Google voice chat to work on Debian GNU/Linux, this seems to work: http://alex.eftimie.ro/2008/11/18/howto-gmail-voice-and-video-chat-on-ubuntu-linux/ HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

IEEE 1394 camera appearing as a USB camera.

A Skype forum mentions redirecting the output from an IEEE 1394 camera to make it appear as a USB camera. A trivial search hasn't yielded any help. Can anyone describe how this is done or cite instructions? Thanks, ... p. crawford

Re: testing or unstable?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Michael M. Moore writes: >> Many people have no problem with doing updates daily or nearly that >> frequently. I don't like to be updating quite so often, and I don't like >> it taking very long when I do it. Sid always has a lot of updates >

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : >> I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to >> Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon >> booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine >> into the Lenny upgrade.

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to > Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon > booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine > into the Lenny upgrade. When booting from the 2.

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom : > I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to > Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon > booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine > into the Lenny upgrade. When booting from the 2.

Re: Kernel AMD 64

Hello Alejandro, the question is rather if you want to make your server a 32 bits machine (686) or a 64 bits machine (amd64) ? If you server is meant to crunch data, the 64 bits choice may be the relevant one. hth, Jerome Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: Hi, i just installed a new server

Re: Kernel AMD 64

On 02/20/2009 06:01 PM, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: Hi, i just installed a new server runnign Debian, my server has a 32-bit, presumably? AMD 64 X2 processor, i'd like to know which one is the best kernel > for this processor. by the way, it has 2GB ram. linux-image-2.6-686 OR linux-

Kernel AMD 64

Hi, i just installed a new server runnign Debian, my server has a AMD 64 X2 processor, i'd like to know which one is the best kernel for this processor. by the way, it has 2GB ram. linux-image-2.6-686 OR linux-image-2.6-amd6 __ Correo Yahoo! Es

Re: Debian 5

Derek Woodley wrote: > Hi I like to use your debian 5, once it is installed it will not run > because my monitor stats it is 50Hz to 60Hz, because of this a white > small screen comes onto my monitor stating out of range, is this right > that i cannot run your o/s because my monitor is out of range

Debian 5

Hi I like to use your debian 5, once it is installed it will not run because my monitor stats it is 50Hz to 60Hz, because of this a white small screen comes onto my monitor stating out of range, is this right that i cannot run your o/s because my monitor is out of range of your o/s thanks Derek

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800 "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: Hello Todd, > error: unknown command 'initrd' > How can I recover from this? First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot command so the first two lines get removed. That is, the ones that begin set root= & s

Re: fish://host protocol died unexpectedly

Sam Leon wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Though I should start a new thread for this after I posted about this >> just now as a response to another user. >> >> Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or >> something because when I try to fish://u...@host I get >>

grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

I'm running 2.6.26-1-amd64 on a 64-bit system, and am primarily running a testing system with a few other packages mixed in from sid and experimental. After a recent dist-upgrade, grub 1.96 now fails to boot with: error: unknown command 'initrd' This happens for all kernels on the boot parti

Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to Lenny.  The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon booting.  The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine into the Lenny upgrade.  When booting from the 2.6.26 kernel, it never makes it t

Re: X issue? No mouse cursor in between sessions (sometimes).

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:28 PM, i wrote: this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/01/msg00139.html which got no response. I couldn't even register in the X.org's mailing list 'cos it kept giving me "mailman error"s. After pestering debian's irc channel on freenode, CutMeOwnThroat pointed m

Re: testing or unstable?

Michael M. Moore writes: > Many people have no problem with doing updates daily or nearly that > frequently. I don't like to be updating quite so often, and I don't like > it taking very long when I do it. Sid always has a lot of updates > ... always. Why would the mere fact that some DD has upl

Re: LVM and hard disk upgrade

Jacek Politowski wrote: > Hello, > > In LVM-HOWTO I found procedure for removing old drives from volume > group. Just create new PV on new disk, add the new PV to volume group, > move existing data out of old physical volume using 'pvmove old_pv > new_pv', remove old disk from volume group using 'v

Re: ifconfig data

Tzafrir Cohen writes: >On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Tanco . wrote: >> Hi Hugo, >> >> this will give you the IP :) >> >> ifconfig ppp0 | grep "inet addr:" | awk '{ print $2}' | tail -c14 > ifconfig ppp0 | awk '/inet addr:/{ print $2}' | cut -d: -f2 ifconfig ppp0 | awk '/inet add

LVM and hard disk upgrade

Hello, I have a fresh (few days old) installation of Lenny (Debian 5.0, stable) system. This installation was performed on single disk - used drive, unfortunately. As S.M.A.R.T is reporting potential disk failure, I need to move the system to a new HDD. This new drive is bigger than the current on

Re: scp GUI?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:49:12PM +0100, Nagy Daniel wrote: > I want to "scp gui" into a dd-wrt router, but it say's: > > sh: /usr/libexec/sftp-server: not found > > remote host has disconnected > > I'm searching for an "scp gui", not sftp, I tried filezilla, fish, mc, > gnome-connect, sshfs [f

Re: fish://host protocol died unexpectedly

H.S. wrote: Though I should start a new thread for this after I posted about this just now as a response to another user. Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something because when I try to fish://u...@host I get --- An er

Re: ifconfig data

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Tanco . wrote: > Hi Hugo, > > this will give you the IP :) > > ifconfig ppp0 | grep "inet addr:" | awk '{ print $2}' | tail -c14 ifconfig ppp0 | awk '/inet addr:/{ print $2}' | cut -d: -f2 -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://t

Re: Java in Debian 5

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > If you choose to use Java programs, you'll obviously need Java for them. > But Debian doesn't come with anything that requires a Java interpreter > out of the box, so no, you can happily run Debian 5.0 without Java. If you install

Re: testing or unstable?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the > official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then Etch. > > Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable Debian > version

Re: Java in Debian 5

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:11:24PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > before I rant too much, is it a must install on debian 5. No. And using it requires some effort. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il |

Re: Java in Debian 5

Bret Busby wrote: > Does this now mean that we cannot instal and run Debian 5 without Java, > or that Debian cannot fully run without Java, in the same way that some > versions of MS Windows cannot fully run without Internet Explorer? Mu. It means you can run Java programs without Sun Java or Bl

Esound & Java

Well, finally solved problem with system sounds - they sound ok now. But when ESD is enabled Java applications have no sound and vice versa. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a recent > email, but the site doesn't respond. I have tried several different > browsers but they all go into a "waiting for reply" mode and nothing > comes back. It seems to be working for me at the t

Re: debian ftp server that works with windows

Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried installing ftpd and ftpd-ssl but when serving local directory through > ftp to windows machine the see not only the file name but also the time, that > is instead of seeing directory "Music" I'm seeing the directory "22:31 Music". > Is there a better ftp daemon or some

Re: scp GUI?

I want to "scp gui" into a dd-wrt router, but it say's: sh: /usr/libexec/sftp-server: not found remote host has disconnected I'm searching for an "scp gui", not sftp, I tried filezilla, fish, mc, gnome-connect, sshfs [fuse] Is there any way?:D

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

Sholem Aleichem wrote: > "dark side", do we really want to associate ourselves with them by using the > same advertising principals? :) What better way to introduce people to the people's OS than on the people's transportation? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

Sholem Aleichem wrote: > I liked that. Shame it wasn't for a GNU/Linux system. Not sure London > underground adverts would do much good though. Microsoft thinks otherwise, advertising heavily on the overhead boards or even entire car ceilings on board Portland's MAX light rail system. Though I t

Re: Gnome system sounds

Vadim Kolchev wrote: > I want to enable gnome system sounds to have sound when i login and > logout and from different events. Installed gnome-audio package, but > still got no sound. What else should be done here? > > System>Preferences>Sound Preferences Should be the second tab labeled Sound.

Gnome system sounds

I want to enable gnome system sounds to have sound when i login and logout and from different events. Installed gnome-audio package, but still got no sound. What else should be done here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: scp GUI?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:48:47PM +0100, Nagy Daniel wrote: > Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a > folder, in Midnight Commander. Not a GUI, but I browse a remote folder using: $ scp servername:tmp/apt tmp/aptertmp/apt.he.po.diff 'servername' is

fish://host protocol died unexpectedly

Though I should start a new thread for this after I posted about this just now as a response to another user. Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something because when I try to fish://u...@host I get --- An error occurred w

Re: scp GUI?

H.S. wrote: > Nagy Daniel wrote: >> Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a >> folder, in Midnight Commander. >> >> Thank you! >> > > In KDE, try in Konqueror: > fish://u...@host Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something becaus

Re: scp GUI?

Nagy Daniel wrote: > Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a > folder, in Midnight Commander. > > Thank you! > In KDE, try in Konqueror: fish://u...@host to browse the folders at 'host' machine. In gnome you can do something similar by Places->Connect to network

had to add irqpoll for Lenny kernel; irqpoll breaks Lenny kernel

I have a machine that was running Etch (and using the 2.6.18-k7 kernel) for the entire release. It had uptimes over 100 days a few times during that period. I recently updated it to Lenny and not too long after rebooting it I saw kernel messages talking about how noone cared about IRQ 21 interrup

Re: IPMI problem compiling linux 2.6.28.5 in Debian Way

Thomas Preud'homme escribió: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 16:02:37 Adrian Chapela wrote: I downloaded the sources from www.kernel.org. But my problem starts with 2.6.28. I can compile this version but now it is impossible. Then I downloaded 2.6.28.5 and it is the same. This morning I have been

Re: scp GUI?

Look at secpanel (I've never used it). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: scp GUI?

you can mount a remote folder with sshfs and then browser that folder with any software 2009/2/20 Jeff D > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: > > > Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a > > folder, in Midnight Commander. > > > > Thank you! > > > > filezilla

Re: scp GUI?

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: > Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a > folder, in Midnight Commander. > > Thank you! > filezilla will do sftp -- 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

IMAP one way backup

The IMAP server where I work is not very reliable, and I would like to back it up each day of the week to a different directory, using cron. Although offlineimap does not provide 1-way backup, I set up offlineimap to do something like this. Basically I have an offlineimaprc file for each

scp GUI?

Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a folder, in Midnight Commander. Thank you!

Re: USB networking

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I just saw an ad for a IOGear GUN262WV. It is a USB network cable to connect > 2 PCs directly. Its listed as working with Vista & XP only. If anyone has > this cable working with Debian (I'm using Etch) would someone please tell me > how to make it ha

does CFS (the cryptographic filesystem) work for anyone in Lenny?

I am aware of bug #366929. I'm curious if it works for ANYONE? I'd like to find if there is a workaround (or SOME working config) as I have data on a CFS partition that I still need to access. I am subscribed to debian-user, no need to Cc me. Thanks, Dale -- Dale E. Martin - d...@the-martins

Re: USB networking

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:31:44AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I just saw an ad for a IOGear GUN262WV. It is a USB network cable to connect > 2 PCs directly. Its listed as working with Vista & XP only. If anyone has > this cable working with Debian (I'm using Etch) would someone please tell

Re: vlc still playing?

I don't know a solution, but I can confirm it. I have this problem for ages now with Debian Testing. Really annoying. Although I use vlc from debian-multimedia repository. Vadim Kolchev kirjutas: > Hi everyone. Got a problem. Installed vlc from stable repos - everything > is fine but when I try to

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: > mond wrote: >> On Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. >>> That's actually a good thing if you've been reading the thread about >>> .desktop "viruse

Re: whatismyip

2009/2/20 mess-mate : > Hi, since some day's couldn't connect to whatismyip.org. > Seems it's down, do it ? > I need my RAW dynamic ip address in a perl script. > BR you can check ip (and more) on http://www.spacemarc.it/test/ip.php -- Scripts: http://www.spacemarc.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

> I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a recent email, > but the site doesn't respond. I have tried several different browsers but > they all go into a "waiting for reply" mode and nothing comes back. Works for me, maybe it was a temporary outage? Stefan -- To UNS

Re: digital camera recomendations

> AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH. > Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges. I agree to some extent. But AA batteries do not come on Li-ion versions, and there's a good reason why all cameras (and laptop) batteries use Li-ion: it h

Re: whatismyip

Jeremy May wrote: Frederik Kriewitz wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Adrian Chapela wrote: www.whatismyip.com is another possibility but I think there isn't another web with a clean IP like www.whatismyip.org http://checkip.dyndns.org/ http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/checkip.html

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:22:50PM +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:47:40 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard > (cybe_r_wiz...@earthlink.net) wrote: > > > Dennis Wicks said: > > > Greetings; > > > > > > I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a > > > recent email, but t

Re: Why do xorg developers hate gamers and use that stupid mouse acceleration to anger them?

> I have to run "xset m 0 0" everytime i start a game that uses mouse and in > between... > Why does that useless/stupid mouse acceleration enable itself again and > interfere? It renders having a expensive mouse pretty much worthless. FWIW, it's most likely not done by Xorg code. Instead, I'd ex

Re: whatismyip

Adrian Chapela wrote: www.whatismyip.com is another possibility but I think there isn't another web with a clean IP like www.whatismyip.org Louie Miranda escribió: Try http://whatsmyipaddress.us -- Louie Miranda (lmira...@gmail.com ) http://www.louiemiranda.net

Re: whatismyip

Frederik Kriewitz wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Adrian Chapela wrote: www.whatismyip.com is another possibility but I think there isn't another web with a clean IP like www.whatismyip.org http://checkip.dyndns.org/ http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/checkip.html If you would l

vlc still playing?

Hi everyone. Got a problem. Installed vlc from stable repos - everything is fine but when I try to close it, the sound remains and the process remains either. Is there a way to fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: whatismyip

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Adrian Chapela wrote: > www.whatismyip.com is another possibility but I think there isn't another > web with a clean IP like www.whatismyip.org http://checkip.dyndns.org/ http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/checkip.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: whatismyip

www.whatismyip.com is another possibility but I think there isn't another web with a clean IP like www.whatismyip.org Louie Miranda escribió: Try http://whatsmyipaddress.us -- Louie Miranda (lmira...@gmail.com ) http://www.louiemiranda.net On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at

USB networking

I just saw an ad for a IOGear GUN262WV. It is a USB network cable to connect 2 PCs directly. Its listed as working with Vista & XP only. If anyone has this cable working with Debian (I'm using Etch) would someone please tell me how to make it happen? Thank you, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: whatismyip

Try http://whatsmyipaddress.us -- Louie Miranda (lmira...@gmail.com) http://www.louiemiranda.net On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:24 PM, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, since some day's couldn't connect to whatismyip.org. > Seems it's down, do it ? > I need my RAW dynamic ip address in a perl script. > BR >

whatismyip

Hi, since some day's couldn't connect to whatismyip.org. Seems it's down, do it ? I need my RAW dynamic ip address in a perl script. BR -- mess-mate May you do Good Magic with Perl. -- Larry Wall's blessing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: How to find uninstallable packages in apptiude?

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 05:08:40PM -0800, S D was heard to say: > Is there a way to get a list of uninstallable packages in aptitude? Something > like "aptitude search ..." that would return a list of packages that were > installed in the past but are currently uninstallable. I'm not sure qu

Re: digital camera recomendations

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:14:55 -0500, mitch wrote: > > I work at a nationwide chain of Camera/Imaging stores. > > AA batteries are used in Nikon, Canon and Fuji's and Panasonic. Best to > go with rechargeable batteries. Also some Pentax cameras - you just have to check, if specific camera uses

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mond wrote: > On Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >>> Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. >> That's actually a good thing if you've been reading the thread about >> .desktop "viruses". However, shouldn't gnome

live-helper

Hi, I add in my /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://backports.org/debian etch-backports main I have etch.4 Why can not instatllation aptitude install -t etch-backports live-helper cdebootstrap I have the message: It is no live-helper package Thank you

video frequenz very high

I try now debian lenny live CD (AMD64) to use. I have black monitor with message: video frequenz very high! Thank you in need Finjan

Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts not running? Mouse frozen?

Alex Riebs wrote: > Hi. I recently installed Debian Lenny onto my Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop. I'm > having issues getting resume to work properly. I can suspend, but when I > resume and compiz was running, my screen shows up with only my cursor and > some corrupted textures. I attempted to solve thi

Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts not running? Mouse frozen?

On Thursday 19 February 2009 20:24:12 Alex Riebs wrote: > It doesn't work and I'm not sure what else to try. I'm not even sure if the > scripts are running (how can I check?). You can check whether a script has run by adding a line similar to the following into each script: echo "This script has

the default exim3.x serials config

Hi, Regarding to the default exim3.x serials shipped with Debian, what mail format store config is used? mailbox or maildir? -- perl -e 'print unpack(u,"62V5N\"FME;G\!E