Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Justin The Cynical
Steve Kreyer wrote: Hi *, thank you all for your help on this issue. With Justins advice on the nvnews forum thread I was able to fix it using the Glad it helped. This bug has been around for a /long/ time, and it seems the fix is different for a lot of people. In my case, I narrowed it

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> debiantutorials.org is 4 years old, the "blog" aspect is new for new Debian > users to > write about their experiences. The site may have been available, but it was unknown until now. > I'm hearing a lot that the web is already saturated with Debian > documentation, and > you may be right.

Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Kreyer
Hi *, thank you all for your help on this issue. With Justins advice on the nvnews forum thread I was able to fix it using the $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/options options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0 workaround. I wonder that I didn't stumbled over this thread during research. However, now it's time

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Divick Kishore: > > General SMART Values: > Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity > was never started. > Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. > Self-test execution status: (

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Divick Kishore: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jochen Schulz > >> wrote: > >> Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take >> a look into /var/log/syslog and/or dmesg output. You will probably find >> messages about hard disk errors. Post them here if you have tro

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-21 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, >> Posting the output of 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' (from smartmontools, insert >> your hard drive device name) might help as well. >> The output from smatctl is fairly cryptic for me, posting it below: sudo smartctl -a /dev/hdc1 smartctl

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 20:01, H.S. wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> If you are seeking help, it might be worth supplying a URL.  The truth of >> your > > Isn't that in the subject line? Or am I missing something here? In gmail in particular, it can be easy to miss the subject line once you clic

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-21 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jochen Schulz > > wrote: > Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take > a look into /var/log/syslog and/or dmesg output. You will probably find > messages about hard disk errors. Post them here if you have trouble > interpreting

Re: Instalacion de debian

2009-04-21 Thread David Fox
2009/4/21 Jimmy Muñoz Bravo : > Buenas noches señores de Debian > Me gustaria instalar debian en mi pc.  No tengo linux y quiero aprender a > instalarlo y utilizarlo. > Les describo mi computador para que me recomienden q version de debian le Hola! Mi Espanol no esta bueno - puede escribirle en e

Instalacion de debian

2009-04-21 Thread Jimmy Muñoz Bravo
Buenas noches señores de Debian Me gustaria instalar debian en mi pc. No tengo linux y quiero aprender a instalarlo y utilizarlo. Les describo mi computador para que me recomienden q version de debian le puedo instalar: -Pentium IV de 1.8 Ghz -Tarjeta madre Intel 845 - memoria de 256 ram -Disco du

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread H.S.
Lisi Reisz wrote: > > If you are seeking help, it might be worth supplying a URL. The truth of > your Isn't that in the subject line? Or am I missing something here? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email

Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Justin The Cynical
Steve Kreyer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the graphic card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off. This is an old issue with the NVidia binary blog drivers.

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:59PM EDT, machiner wrote: > Reply to: cjns1...@gmail.com > Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400 > RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message > Below] > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400 cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:54:56PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini was heard to say: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> hce wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I installed stl-manual in Debian, but it is HTML format, I cannot see >>> from the man. Is there a STL manaual package in Debian I can use the >>> man to display

Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

2009-04-21 Thread Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato
Disk seems to be ok brand new SATA I have Solaris 10 scsi, Red Hat EL5AS sata, Windows Vista IDE on the same machine. I want to add Debian 5.0. I tried noapic acpi=offunsuccessfully. I will give it a new try and report the result here. Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 200

[OT] Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread s. keeling
Zhengquan Zhang : ... [snipped] -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Good one, but lacks originality? Cf. Goedel Escher Bach? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Re: Problems when audio capturing with headset

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:32:15 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > What output do you get for this: > > > > > > cat /proc/asound/{pcm,devices} > > > > This is the output that I've obtained: > > > > # cat /proc/asound/{pcm,devices} > > 00-01: ALC662 Digital : ALC662 Digital

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread machiner
Reply to: cjns1...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] - On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400 cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009

Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

2009-04-21 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:15:09AM -0300, Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine > but it hangs at partitioning. Why ? Are you sure the disk is ok? Have you tried running a livecd (like Knoppix) and mount the disk there? Perhaps try

Re: Chillispot for Stable

2009-04-21 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:37:06PM +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > I found that chillispot is not available in Stable Repos, it's there > in Oldstable and Unstable though. How can I install it on my stable > system? Is there any option, other than manually downlo

Re: Lenny: Rhythmbox, mp3, sound problems

2009-04-21 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:21:31PM -0400, Len Berman wrote: > Hi, > > I am having problems with sound and the rhythmbox player. Unfortunately, > the problems are not completely repeatable. The problem seems to have > started when Lenny went stable and I switched from tracking Lenny to the > stab

Re: Two problems with installation of Lenny

2009-04-21 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:24:31AM +0200, Ibrahim Shaame wrote: > I have two problems in installing Debian Leny: > > 2 - I have just acquired ASUS with AMD Phenom Quad and NVIDIA GForce. I have > installed Slamd64 ( a Slackware variant for AMD 64bit). It booted after the > first shot and X used fr

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:52:05PM EDT, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote: > > > Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older > > > fellow in particular is going gang-busters!

Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Steve Kreyer wrote: Hi all, I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the graphic card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off. I've done a lot of research concerning this issue, but have

Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Jan Muszynski
You can try what I have. Since you know you want these why do you have them as modules? Compile directly into the kernel you don'y have to worry about loading, and why ot why not it's loaded. CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y CONFIG_FB_CFB_

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

2009-04-21 Thread Graham Williams
Received Tue 21 Apr 2009 7:57am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: [...] > There should be some input device

Re: Bug#525071: 2.2.4-1+b1 automatically rebuilt against libcrypto++8 segfaults on start

2009-04-21 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Втр, 2009-04-21 at 23:50 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > + Stanislav Maslovski (Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:37:09 +0400): > > > Package: amule > > Version: 2.2.4-1+b1 > > Severity: normal > > > For your information: after todays upgrade to automatically rebuilt > > amule 2.2.4-1+b1 it segfaults on start

Re: where to download sid?

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Then *after* you are comfortable with Debian, you might find that you want >> newer upstream versions of one or more packages. If that happens, you can >> migrate the whole system to Squeeze or Si

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jeff Chimene wrote: >> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond > to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave > all right, and the permissions are the > same. The only difference is > the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are

Re: Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Jeff Chimene
> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the > same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks

Re: where to download sid?

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Then *after* you are comfortable with Debian, you might find that you want > newer upstream versions of one or more packages. If that happens, you can > migrate the whole system to Squeeze or Sid without reinstalling or yo

Re: Bug#525071: 2.2.4-1+b1 automatically rebuilt against libcrypto++8 segfaults on start

2009-04-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Stanislav Maslovski (Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:37:09 +0400): > Package: amule > Version: 2.2.4-1+b1 > Severity: normal > For your information: after todays upgrade to automatically rebuilt > amule 2.2.4-1+b1 it segfaults on start. The problem seems to be related > with libcrypto++8, as returning back

Re: where to download sid?

2009-04-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090421211641.gl4...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: >Don Raikes: >> I am wondering where I can download the sid cd isos from? > >There are none. You can use the lenny installer to install sid or >install lenny and upgrade to sid afterwards. But you will probably not >be very ha

Re: where to download sid?

2009-04-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Don Raikes: > > I am wondering where I can download the sid cd isos from? There are none. You can use the lenny installer to install sid or install lenny and upgrade to sid afterwards. But you will probably not be very happy with it if you don't know Debian (or even Linux). If you want try out De

where to download sid?

2009-04-21 Thread Don Raikes
Hi, I am very new to the debian world, but someone suggested I try out sid. I am wondering where I can download the sid cd isos from? I found the lenny cd's but not sid. -- Oracle Donald Raikes | Accessibility Specialist Phone: +1 602 824 6213 | Fax: +1 520 744 0826 |

Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Kreyer
Hi Andrei, first, thanks for your quick reply. Yes it is a self-compiled kernel. But if I install the kernel from the Debian repository Iam faced up with the same problem. Debian kernel-version is: $ uname -a Linux euklid 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 04:02:59 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

2009-04-21 Thread javier
El lun, 20-04-2009 a las 23:19 -0400, Bogdan escribió: > Hello, > > Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE ? > I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run > minefield I get: > > ./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute bi

Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,21.Apr.09, 21:54:53, Steve Kreyer wrote: > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44. My kernel config (concerning framebuffer > related configuration) looks as followed: Are you compiling your own kernel? Try the stock kernel first. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't unders

Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

2009-04-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:19:58PM -0400, Bogdan wrote: > Hello, > > Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE ? > I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run > minefield I get: > >./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute bin

Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

2009-04-21 Thread Steve Kreyer
Hi all, I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the graphic card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off. I've done a lot of research concerning this issue, but haven't found a solution

[Solved, Thanks!] Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
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Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:33:44AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Alternatively, you can set it in your shell's initialization files, > e.g. in ~/.profile?: > > if [ "$TERM" = "mlterm" ]; then TERM=xterm; fi > > You can do this on your local system or on each server you connect to. Thanks, Sven!

Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:01:44AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Because the server does not "know" your terminal (terminfo and/or > termcap). > > > Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work. > > Because terminal emulators are *mostly* compatible to xterm. Great, Now I understand! Thanks And

Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:08:48AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > And thus you can use: > > $HOME/.terminfo/m/mletrm > /etc/terminfo/m/mletrm > /lib/terminfo/m/mletrm Thanks, Tzafrir! -- Zhengquan Yow! Are you the self-frying president? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

2009-04-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:47, Bogdan wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 20:19, Bogdan wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE >>> ? >>> I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run minef

Re: OT: Hijack: EEE PC 10"

2009-04-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:01:45PM +, Lancelot du Lac wrote: > I'd recommend you follow the instructions from the now inactive debian > eeepc project: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC My netbook works If you want a Debian-ish installation, I can recommend eeebuntu from personal experience w

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Try > > $ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output testfix.pdf Sorry: please first try $ pdftk your-funny.pdf output trytofix.pdf The burst option is to split it in single pages, in case there is only one problematic page. Then one should also use a placeholder for automa

Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

2009-04-21 Thread Bogdan
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 20:19, Bogdan wrote: Hello, Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE ? I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run minefield I get: ./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute b

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-21 Thread Bob
T o n g wrote: Hi, Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- FAQ#Can_I_restore_it_to_a_s

Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

2009-04-21 Thread s. keeling
Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato : > > I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine > but it hangs at partitioning. Why ? I don't know. It had no trouble installing on my AMD64. > I need some help here. I need some more details to be able to help. I can suggest you use SystemRescu

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote: > > > Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older > > fellow in particular is going gang-busters! I would like to expand > > the site to include any of you that can

Re: How to remove source packages updating on apt-get update?

2009-04-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: > I believe Sven was correcting me and explaining that this is > absolutely normal. > > srcpkgcache.bin is not directly related to deb-src lines. It will > have contents if you have any remote sources. Ok now I got it: it is normal and so should be. -

Re: Problems when audio capturing with headset

2009-04-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:10:46 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On Tuesday, 14 April 2009 21:53:51 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Earlier, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to test the operation of my headset in Debian > > > > > GNU/Linux Squeeze to be able to use it with a softphone.

Re: TP-Link wireless usb (zd1211)

2009-04-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/4/21 Dimitris : > The TPLink zd1211 stick has a strange RF chip and it is not detected > correctly in the debian's kernel (2.6.26). In 2.6.29 it works > perfectly, try installing that kernel Thank you very much :) it Just Works™ now. Except for the connecting part, but that's msot likely my s

Re: FIXED: can't upgrade, reinstall or remove hal

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Scott
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I'm currently in an upgrade loop related to Hal. Anything I try to do to Hal gives me something like the following. I found there might have been a problem with Splashy that was just fixed but trying to upgrade it doesn't make a difference. I have re

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread H.S.
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date,

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 13:58:13 machiner wrote: > I seek recommendations for improving the site as well as new authors, > whether one article or many.  Please consider it.  The site does very well > in the search engines and it could use some new blood.  I would be > thrilled, as would the site's

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 18:16:10 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >>> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to > >>> the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave > >>> all right, and the permissions are the same. The only dif

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , J.M.Roth wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: >> aptitude search '~i~M' | awk '{print $3}' > auto_installed_packages > >I'd rather do >aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > auto_installed_packages >Your command does not work if the package state is e.g. 'i A' >(note the space)

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Norbert Zeh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

2009-04-21 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: hce wrote: Hi, I installed stl-manual in Debian, but it is HTML format, I cannot see from the man. Is there a STL manaual package in Debian I can use the man to display it? ii stl-manual 3.30-6 C++-STL documentation in HTML Yes. Man pages are in the '

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

2009-04-21 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: hce wrote: Hi, I installed stl-manual in Debian, but it is HTML format, I cannot see from the man. Is there a STL manaual package in Debian I can use the man to display it? ii stl-manual 3.30-6 C++-STL documentation in HTML Yes. Man pages are in the '

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the >>> `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, >>> and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation >>> date, which is today wheras the oth

Re: How to remove source packages updating on apt-get update?

2009-04-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <49ed872c.1e048e0a.6abf.b...@mx.google.com>, Sthu Deus wrote: >Thank You for Your time and answer, Sven: >> Not really, there is a misunderstanding here. Although its name >> suggests it, srcpkgcache.bin is _not_ a cache for source packages but >> rather a cache for packages from remote sou

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-04-21 Thread J . M . Roth
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: > > On Thursday 26 March 2009 22:09:28 Paul E Condon wrote: > >Your suggestion does raise in interesting issue: given a set of > >installed packages in a --get-selections file, and given that the > >dependency information is available in the pack

Re: How to remove source packages updating on apt-get update?

2009-04-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <49ed872c.1e048e0a.6abf.b...@mx.google.com>, Sthu Deus wrote: >I've checked the dir. w/ > >ls | grep Source > >it returned empty string. Still, after yesterday's update, I see both > >pkgcache.bin >srcpkgcache.bin > >are updated and almost of the same size: 14553423 and 14503826 >respectivel

video group permission and webcam apps

2009-04-21 Thread Seb
Hi, I've my user to the video group, and don't have problems using a webcam from Skype, Kopete (video quality sucks here though, and no way of adjusting it). On Ekiga, however, I get this permissions error: ------ Error while

Re: wwwoffle sometimes doesn't start - Address family for hostname not supported

2009-04-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, On 07.04.09 09:42, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > after upgrading to lenny, I found out that wwwoffle sometimes does not start > at boot. It reports the error: > > Apr 7 08:36:55 localhost wwwoffled[3271]: Unknown host '0.0.0.0' for server > [Address family for hostname not supported]. >

Re: Japanese write

2009-04-21 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:40:06PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> I'm new to Debian (not to the *nix community) and have been looking >> around for answers to my question. The stuff I've found a years old >> and not doesn't seem to fit my needs. I

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the > >> `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, > >>

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> In a way the OP is spamming the list, but really ... > Is is etiquette to be so nasty about it? > No, it is not etiquette to be nasty. I was helpful and gave him my suggestions, and further refined ideas with the OP off list. But I do not want other list members to say "hey, Brian got away with

Re: Japanese write

2009-04-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:40:06PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > I'm new to Debian (not to the *nix community) and have been looking > around for answers to my question. The stuff I've found a years old > and not doesn't seem to fit my needs. I apologize if I've overlooked > something obvious. > > My

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
In a way the OP is spamming the list, but really ... Is is etiquette to be so nasty about it? He is clearly a private citizen with a desire to comtribute. That his attempts fall short of your standards, merely indicates that his request is justified. I also find a dynamically changing clock a vis

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the >> `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, >> and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation da

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread machiner
Reply to: andreimpope...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:45:43 +0300 RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood [See Original Message Below] Fair enough. Thank you for your reply. --machiner - On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:45:4

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote: > Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in > particular > is going gang-busters! I would like to expand the site to include any of you > that > can muster up an hour a week or so to write tutorials or articles germai

Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

2009-04-21 Thread Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato
Hi, I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine but it hangs at partitioning. Why ? I need some help here. I appreciate. Thanks Guilherme Regis -- Luiz Guilherme lgeme...@terra.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: possible printer replacements

2009-04-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Apr 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: > Dave Thayer wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02:13PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > >> I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have > >> seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available > >> at a very goo

Re: File won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the > `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, > and > the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation dat

Re: debian with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on notebook?

2009-04-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:39:38PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: > Hello, > > since my ThinkPad T400 has two 250GB HD, i considered to install debian > testing with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on it. > > Has anyone experience with that kind of setup? > > Any significant reasons against my plan? Sounds l

existing blender is broken after building a new one from source code

2009-04-21 Thread 明覺
I installed blender by apt-get install blender and it worked very well, but after I built a new blender from its source code, the fine-work one is broken, and the built one also doesn't work, here is the error message: - minjue:~/workspace/Blender/Blender-svn/blender# bl

Re: CUPS in Lenny prints from some apps but not all

2009-04-21 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 22:20:44 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >> 1. CUPS in Lenny will *not* print: By changing the boolian value for in the following line in Icedoves's prefs.js file: print.postscript.cups.enabled from "false" (as

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I seek recommendations for improving the site 1) Under the site name there is not one, but _two_ corny taglines. Get rid of them until you find a single tagline that is witty and on topic. 2) "Maybe I should have the site translated to Australian"? What is that? Maybe you should, but I as a vis

File won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks myst

debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread machiner
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:42:02 -0400 RE: Hi, Some of you are familiar with my little tutorial site as I have seen references from some of you to articles on the site in my logs. (Thank you for the confidence) Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in particular is

Re: problems installing lenny on dell laptop

2009-04-21 Thread Thorny
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:48:55 -0700, Don Raikes posted: > Hi all, > > I am a blind user of lenny. I installed lenny using my braille display > without a problem onto my gateway desktop system. > > However, when I boot the lenny dvd or cd on my dell latitude d600 > laptop, it is not recognizing th

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-21 Thread M. Henne
Thank you Stephen for your configuration. I'll try that (at the weekend I guess) and I will report if it helped me here for KDE4. Martin Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Anyway, here's the sections from my xorg.conf: > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "TwinView" > Scree

Re: CUPS in Lenny prints from some apps but not all

2009-04-21 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 22:20:44 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >> 1. CUPS in Lenny will *not* print: >> >> 1.1 An icedove e-mail. The print window gives only one option: >> PostScript/default. It will not print to printer (no job ap

debian with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on notebook?

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Jordan
Hello, since my ThinkPad T400 has two 250GB HD, i considered to install debian testing with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on it. Has anyone experience with that kind of setup? Any significant reasons against my plan? thanks PJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: can't upgrade, reinstall or remove hal

2009-04-21 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Paul Scott wrote: I'm currently in an upgrade loop related to Hal. Anything I try to do to Hal gives me something like the following. I found there might have been a problem with Splashy that was just fixed but trying to upgrade it doesn't make a difference. I have reloaded all the packages

Re: possible printer replacements

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
John Lindsay wrote: > I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have > seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available > at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother > hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has

configuring dns server

2009-04-21 Thread kura batok
hello, i've installed dns server on my woody. i use this command: apt-get install bind9 then, i added this lines in named.conf --- zone "ayel-blog.org" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.aye"; } --- then i created a file named db.aye which contains: --- ; ; BIND data file for local loopback i

Re: possible printer replacements

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Dave Thayer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02:13PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: >> I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have >> seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available >> at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They ar

Chillispot for Stable

2009-04-21 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
Hello Debian Users, I found that chillispot is not available in Stable Repos, it's there in Oldstable and Unstable though. How can I install it on my stable system? Is there any option, other than manually downloading .deb file from http://packages.debian.org and installing using "dpkg -i" ? --

can't upgrade, reinstall or remove hal

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Scott
I'm currently in an upgrade loop related to Hal. Anything I try to do to Hal gives me something like the following. I found there might have been a problem with Splashy that was just fixed but trying to upgrade it doesn't make a difference. I have reloaded all the packages in limbo without a

problems installing lenny on dell laptop

2009-04-21 Thread Don Raikes
Hi all, I am a blind user of lenny. I installed lenny using my braille display without a problem onto my gateway desktop system. However, when I boot the lenny dvd or cd on my dell latitude d600 laptop, it is not recognizing the usb connection to either my external keyboard or braille display

Debian & LSISAS1064E B1 & LSISAS1068

2009-04-21 Thread Alexis de BRUYN
Hello Everybody, I have some troubles to install a Debian Lenny 501 amd64 on an Intel® Server Board S5000PSL with an Integrated RAID SAS controller LSISAS1064E B1 on which I have 2 SAS HDD in RAID1 mode. lspci -vnn: 04:00.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Unknown device

Re: How to remove source packages updating on apt-get update?

2009-04-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Sven: > Not really, there is a misunderstanding here. Although its name > suggests it, srcpkgcache.bin is _not_ a cache for source packages but > rather a cache for packages from remote sources, see apt-cache(8). I've read the manual but did not understand You

Re: liste de diffusion sous postfix - authentification ldap

2009-04-21 Thread oneman
Hi Franck, Cette liste est en anglais, la plupart des lecteurs ne sera pas en mesure de lire votre message ou vous aider. Il ya une liste en français: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ Good luck, Peter On 21 apr 2009, at 08:36, franck Dufau wrote: Bonjour, J’ai installé

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

2009-04-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Divick Kishore: > > make-kpkg clean > > I get error that file system is read only. Somehow just before running > this command, the file system wasn´t readonly but after running this, > my file system has become read only. Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take a

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