Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Mark Allums
Stephen Liu wrote: --- Mark Allums wrote: - snip - Only certain editions of Windows can boot from soft raid, and none of the consumer versions. Just the server/enterprise ones. One can use fake/soft raid with cheap add-in cards, like the stuff Highpoint does with their low-end cards. T

Re: how to debug "segment fault" problem in kdevelop?

2009-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <6a8fced30904251059g77a533c2yf94d6b66d6a63...@mail.gmail.com>, 明覺 wrote: >I download the k3dsurf project(a kdevelop project) and compiled it in >kdevelop successfully, but when i run it, it says "segment fault", how >could I debug it? thanks. here is the gdb info: This list isn't quite correct

Re: how to solve the dependency problem when installing kde in sid?

2009-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <6a8fced30904251018ud98b3f3na5ce6f0f0b15a...@mail.gmail.com>, 明覺 wrote: >On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:21 PM, M. Henne wrote: >> If you upgrade KDE currently, you most likely get KDE 4.2.2. >thanks, but I want to install kde3, not kde4, how could i install kde3? Then you don't want Sid, or at leas

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ >>> It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages! It doesn't cover >>> everything, but it does cover a lot.

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
prad wrote: > we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for > using one or the other. > > are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? All of them. > are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer > hardware)? That's like aski

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Mark Allums wrote: - snip - > Only certain editions of Windows can boot from soft raid, and none of > > the consumer versions. Just the server/enterprise ones. > > One can use fake/soft raid with cheap add-in cards, like the stuff > Highpoint does with their low-end cards. The advant

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > >> For servers i'd definitely go for Debian. Ubuntu's commercial and you >> can't be sure if it'll provide support in the future and how. > > Why do you think Ubuntu's commercial? You mean other than it's financial dependence

Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/...

2009-04-25 Thread jidanni
Say, if we get these errors # aptitude install linux-image-2.6.29-1-686 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29-1-686 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d102e_ucode.bin for module e100 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/e100/d101s_ucode.bin for module e100 W: Possi

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:27:41PM -0400, Justin wrote: > I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0 for the OS and 2x1TB in raid1 for > storage. On the raid0 I dualboot Windows and Fedora. The motherboard's > fakeraid is excellent because it provides a common interface between Windows > and Fedora. For th

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:32:43PM -0700, paragasu wrote: > ubuntu == debian testing, > > if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable. The problem is this, debian is definetly stable for server. But after one or two years after the stable release. The devs on the server will want the latest

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:00:15AM -0700, prad wrote: > we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for > using one or the other. > > are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? > are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer > h

linux-image-powerpc has the same broken dependency...

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug prevents an "expert" mode install from properly installing Sid unless you chose a non-default kernel. Instead of depending on linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc, in Sid, it should depend on linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc, because 2.6.26-2 doesn't exist in Sid. The 2.6.26 version may (I

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Mark Allums
paragasu wrote: ubuntu == debian testing, if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable. ubuntu = debian unstable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/26 Justin : >>  We had a boarder who used fake-raid in the fashion you mention and >> was bitten badly by a raid chip failure. No spare motherboard, no >> backups, everything gone. >> >> Adrian > > Of course, I'm well aware of the drawbacks to fakeraid and they've been > covered here pretty

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:57:08PM EDT, Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi All, > > Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG community. Audience > will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are beginners. > Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that will make

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Jeff Soules
> Why do you think Ubuntu's commercial? Because they offer for-fee professional support? 2009/4/25 Robert Holtzman : > On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > >> For servers i'd definitely go for Debian. Ubuntu's commercial and you >> can't be sure if it'll provide support in the future and

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Nuno Magalhães wrote: For servers i'd definitely go for Debian. Ubuntu's commercial and you can't be sure if it'll provide support in the future and how. Why do you think Ubuntu's commercial? -- Bob Holtzman "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-25 Thread prad
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:27:08 +0530 Kurian Thayil wrote: > Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that will > make them more interesting and love command line. > to do this, i think it is a good idea to contrast cl and gui. for instance, say you have a bunch of .txt files in a

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25:36AM -0400, Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > memory refresher with. > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > bootup. I know there was a > way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a litt

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread paragasu
ubuntu == debian testing, if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable. On 4/25/09, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi > > For servers i'd definitely go for Debian. Ubuntu's commercial and you > can't be sure if it'll provide support in the future and how. At least > with Debian you know where you'

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-25 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi Jeff, You are correct. Our state has implemented GNU/Linux in schools and they use a customized Debian GNU/Linux for that. There must be some method/way which actually shows them the power of CLI and BASH, and interesting for them. Regards, Kurian Thayil. On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jef

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-25 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi Andrew, I guess parsing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file and sending an email notification is a good one. But don't you think, that .bashrc concept and inclusion of tasks in it will be quite confusing and complicated for a beginner? I will have to explain about login and non-login shell, startu

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread green
Steve Kemp wrote at 2009-04-24 09:08 -0500: > Were my site not already present I'd not start it now - instead I'd > post to the wiki, or other sites. (The wiki is nice, but it isn't > a perfect medium because people cannot post questions, leave comments, > etc. I do think that "forum-like" s

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-25 Thread Jeff Soules
I'd suggest any tasks that they frequently do by hand. What do school teachers in your community use their Linux machines for? Any way to speed that up? Parsing text files perhaps, doing file conversions or concatenating documents they might have to deal with (pdfs?) or something like that? Typ

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 25 April 2009 12:57:08 Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi All, > > Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG community. > Audience will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are > beginners. Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that > will make the

Re: Cron - any advanced options?

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Here's a little program that I picked up I don't remember where. It's what I use when I have this sort of problem. It atomically creates a lock file and tests for a previous lock file of the same name -- properly handling processes that quit without removing the lock, etc... Rick shlo

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi For servers i'd definitely go for Debian. Ubuntu's commercial and you can't be sure if it'll provide support in the future and how. At least with Debian you know where you're standing at all times. I'd still go for Debian over Ubuntu but i'm biased, i'm kind of allergic to Ubuntu. ;) I'd proba

RE: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: p...@towardsfreedom.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: debian and ubuntu >Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:00:15 -0700 > >>we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for >>using one or the other. >> >>are there situations wher

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Mark Allums
Justin wrote: > > Is > > there any advantage compared with software raid? > > > > I only see disadvantages. Thanks, I appreciate your advice. Here's the advantage to fakeraid to me. Keep in mind it won't apply to most people. I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

2009-04-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> And now i screwed it up to: Can grub on openbsd be configured to boot > a BSD-kernel, since it's the only kernel the system has? Well if grub was preconfigured it would make it much easier, but this helped: find /bsd root (hd0,3,a) kernel --type=openbsd /bsd boot Now it complains boot is too o

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen wrote: > That sounds more like a problem than a solution. I would not try an OS > that had a 1000 page manual. I want simple, not comprehensive. Then you'd better give up computers. It takes more than 1000 pages to properly document any operating system. Try "ls /usr/share/man/* | wc

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

2009-04-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> I think i've narrowed it down to: Can the bsd bootloader boot a Debian > installer image (pxe, netboot or otherwise)? And now i screwed it up to: Can grub on openbsd be configured to boot a BSD-kernel, since it's the only kernel the system has? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: > >  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > > It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages!  It doesn't cover > > everything, but it does cover a lot.  They also have other

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,23.Apr.09, 00:13:54, Javier Barroso wrote: > >> It would be awesome seeing all the questions asked here (in this list) >> solved with a pointer to our wiki (this would mean there would be a >> team which extracts resume from the l

debian and ubuntu

2009-04-25 Thread prad
we use (and support) both, but i'd like to establish a rationale for using one or the other. are there situations where debian is preferable (eg older hardware)? are there situations where ubuntu is preferable (eg picking up newer hardware)? what's better for use on a server? ubuntu has a server

A working mic? Help still needed

2009-04-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
I am still struggling with getting a microphone going, and am getting a bit desperate. Part of the solution may be to try a different mic. This one¹ is fairly inexpensive and gets mostly rave reviews, including one that says it was fine with Linux and one that says it is good with Audacity. D

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/26 Justin : >> > >  Is >> > > there any advantage compared with software raid? >> > > >> > >> > I only see disadvantages. >> >> Thanks, I appreciate your advice. > > > Here's the advantage to fakeraid to me. Keep in mind it won't apply to most > people. > > I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0

Re: Hal monitor detection, was hal documentation

2009-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:35:18 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:02 AM, Paul Scott wrote: [...] > So why can 'Xorg -configure' detect my monitor frequencies correctly and > whatever Hal uses can't? get-edid doea correctly get the monitor name. > Does Hal depend on some kind o

Re: how to solve the dependency problem when installing kde in sid?

2009-04-25 Thread 明覺
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:21 PM, M. Henne wrote: > If you upgrade KDE currently, you most likely get KDE 4.2.2. > > Try two things (again and again): > > $> apt-get -f install > $> apt-get install kde4 thanks, but I want to install kde3, not kde4, how could i install kde3? > > 明覺 wrote in : > >>

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: > >  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > > It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages!  It doesn't cover > > everything, but it does cover a lot.  They also have othe

RE: lenny won't boot after re-install

2009-04-25 Thread Don Raikes
Hi again Nuno, I tried an experiment this morning. I used my ubuntu intrepid livecd and installed it on ty problem system. It installed fine and when I rebooted, it worked just great! Don't know what was going wrong with the lenny installer that it couldn't install properly, but I will try it

how to debug "segment fault" problem in kdevelop?

2009-04-25 Thread 明覺
I download the k3dsurf project(a kdevelop project) and compiled it in kdevelop successfully, but when i run it, it says "segment fault", how could I debug it? thanks. here is the gdb info: - This GDB was configured as "x86_64-l

Re: virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:33:04 +0200 Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > I've installed virtualbox from > > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian > > on my debian unstable. I'm trying to connect a usb device to that machine (a > > usb camera at the moment). It appears under

Re: virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-25 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Micha Feigin wrote: > I've installed virtualbox from > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian > on my debian unstable. I'm trying to connect a usb device to that machine (a > usb camera at the moment). It appears under devices->usb devices->camera 0100 > but it is grayed out and I can't

Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

2009-04-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> form of booting, but i'm still searching for BSD stuff on that > matter... I think i've narrowed it down to: Can the bsd bootloader boot a Debian installer image (pxe, netboot or otherwise)? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto

Hal monitor detection, was hal documentation

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:02 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: Reading this with interest too. I may be completly out, but things like those happend too me, then I run: 'Xorg -configure'. This gave me a xorg.conf file old fashon, and it then did work the old fashon. Waiting for

Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot

2009-04-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I have this old laptop laying around. Currently is has no CD drive and i'd hate to rely on floppies. It does have a working PCMCIA eth card and a minimal OpenBSD that sees my LAN. I can't access its BIOS and i doubt it has one... these laptops used to have the bios in a hdd partition and this

Bash Session

2009-04-25 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi All, Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG community. Audience will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are beginners. Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that will make them more interesting and love command line. Need some suggestions. I

Re: Unable to start postgresql on Debian

2009-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <3f8297b20904250126u64529f66ua75df82e466...@mail.gmail.com>, Foss User wrote: >The script is looking for /etc/postgresql/8.3 directory but it does >not exist on my Debian Squeeze. So, the init script fails. Could >someone please tell me why this happened. They were created for me, but they so

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <75g304f1754j...@mid.dfncis.de>, M. Henne wrote: >Stephen, I could not get the configuration to work. If I use the >ServerLayout that you postet, the second monitor stays black. Then TwinView is not set up properly. When TwinView is working, you only need one Screen value in the "ServerLayout

distributed synchronization solution based on the principle of shared semaphores.

2009-04-25 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi everybody, we want to develop a distributed synchronization solution based on the principle of shared semaphores. we want to distribute the functionality known for local semaphores. My solution uses a client / server architecture, where clients make transactions on the server that hosts semap

Re: trivial voip client

2009-04-25 Thread michal krajcirovic
Yes, of course, this can be done and phone spam, but to me it is :-) me on that, instead of mobile phone connected to the server and calls through it I want to use VOIP as a more elegant solution, which may not be in the server that the phone calls . I tried pjsip, but failed to start it with

Re: Things I'm missing/misconfiguring in KDE 4.2

2009-04-25 Thread Michael Biebl
M. Henne wrote: > Hi all, > > After playing with KDE 4.2 for a while, I was able to regain > some functionality of KDE 3.5, but I'm still missing some > things that I either haven't found yet or they did not exist. > > If they exist, can someone tell me how to get that function? > > 1. (program

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:03:21AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > installer could find the disk on which to install. I don't know if the > installer program has a means of adding a module then rescanning for > hard drives. Ah, I never thought of the installer failing to find the boot drive.. >

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Justin
> > > > Is > > > there any advantage compared with software raid? > > > > > > > I only see disadvantages. > > Thanks, I appreciate your advice. Here's the advantage to fakeraid to me. Keep in mind it won't apply to most people. I have 4 hard disk, 2x320 in raid0 for the OS and 2x1TB in raid1 f

Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,24.Apr.09, 01:29:42, Henk Koster wrote: > Running mixed testing/Sid, and after a recent upgrade any text file > (like a directory listing) gets printed on my CUPS printer with a > hideously stretched and enlarged (Courier) font, far removed from the > default 10 chars/inch and 6 lines/

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,23.Apr.09, 19:43:37, Davide Mancusi wrote: > Hi .*, > > I have upgraded X to v1:7.4+1 and now I'm struggling with hal > to reproduce the same configuration I had before. I managed to set up > the keyboard layouts and the xkb options, but I can't find how to change > the keyboard repea

Re: Cron - any advanced options?

2009-04-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,23.Apr.09, 03:39:44, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Depending on the script, you may also be able to accomplish this with ps > instead: > > ps ax | grep [m]y-script-name Shorter: pgrep my-script-name Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Alb

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2009 #643

2009-04-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,23.Apr.09, 09:52:05, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I guess it's because "sudo su" does not require root's password, but > users'. However this can have significant ipmact on system's security. More than 'sudo'? BTW, there is also a '-i' option to sudo. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't e

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,23.Apr.09, 00:13:54, Javier Barroso wrote: > It would be awesome seeing all the questions asked here (in this list) > solved with a pointer to our wiki (this would mean there would be a > team which extracts resume from the list and put conclusions in the > wiki, but sure nobody has time fo

Re: HP proliant ML115 G5 on debian lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:54:38PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > Well, debian has different requirements re licensing of modules. Your > > > > guess may be wrong if HP has provided a propriatary module for the > > > > kern

All locales in /usr/share/locale

2009-04-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings earthlings. While crusing around i came across /usr/share/locale. Now, i only installed 2 locales, yet my system had... a whole lot. It's an old system, so i checked a freshly installed laptop - same thing: roughly 150 locale directories. Why's that? I know 3.6MB is not much, but i disli

Re: Things I'm missing/misconfiguring in KDE 4.2

2009-04-25 Thread M. Henne
Lisi Reisz wrote in : > I use Alt+F2 in KDE 3.5.x. So do I currently. > This also works in KDE 4.2.2. If this would work inside the kicker (or whatever the name of that panel is in the new KDE), it would be exactly what I am looking for :-) -- Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Flashdrive, read-only, cannot write

2009-04-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 25. 04. 2009 09:53:18 je Matus UHLAR - fantomas napisal(a): > On 12.04.09 23:05, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > I had this flash drive for a few months and a few days ago, I > couldn't store > > data in it. I even try to reformat it but it just won't let me. Any > > suggestion before I buy a new

Re: VNC Server?

2009-04-25 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Depo Catcher wrote: What's the "linux" way of installing a Tight VNC Server? On windows, I just run the exe; on freebsd I just install for ports and/or packages. Both take under 3 minutes. I try 'apt-get install tightvnc' and it failed, saying there isn't a Debian package for this? .. that i

Re: virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-25 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Magnus Pedersen wrote: already, but are the permessions in /proc/bus/usd rw before you start That would be permissions and /proc/bus/usb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 02:01:33AM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Thanx to all for taking the time and replying. What worked for me in > the end was: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/11/msg00228.html This allows login from everywhere. Not just gdm. Do you want to allow that? I also wonde

Re: how to solve the dependency problem when installing kde in sid?

2009-04-25 Thread M. Henne
If you upgrade KDE currently, you most likely get KDE 4.2.2. Try two things (again and again): $> apt-get -f install $> apt-get install kde4 明覺 wrote in : > When i installed kde in sid, it needs kdeaddons which is not included > in sid, so i added the source of testing packages, which has the >

Re: Creating passwordless account in Lenny

2009-04-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:14:48PM +0200, Thomas Barandon wrote: > Hi, > > To my knowledge it is impossible to create an account without > password, but you can create an passwordless login with GDM (and i > think kdm). > > eg. gnome you can find this option on: > System > administration > connec

Re: "best" usb sound card with debian support?

2009-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > A few years ago I got an terratec phase 26 usb card. I need a second usb > sound card for a second computer and hear that there are better devices > available. Some of those suggested as 'better' alternatives are the > M-box mini and E-MU 0202 USB. Google makes me doubt

Re: Things I'm missing/misconfiguring in KDE 4.2

2009-04-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 25 April 2009 11:16:36 M. Henne wrote: > After playing with KDE 4.2 for a while, I was able to regain > some functionality of KDE 3.5, but I'm still missing some > things that I either haven't found yet or they did not exist. > > If they exist, can someone tell me how to get that functi

Things I'm missing/misconfiguring in KDE 4.2

2009-04-25 Thread M. Henne
Hi all, After playing with KDE 4.2 for a while, I was able to regain some functionality of KDE 3.5, but I'm still missing some things that I either haven't found yet or they did not exist. If they exist, can someone tell me how to get that function? 1. (program starter) In KDE 3.5, there was a

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: >  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages!  It doesn't cover > everything, but it does cover a lot.  They also have other books and > articles at http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html. >

VNC Server?

2009-04-25 Thread Depo Catcher
What's the "linux" way of installing a Tight VNC Server? On windows, I just run the exe; on freebsd I just install for ports and/or packages. Both take under 3 minutes. I try 'apt-get install tightvnc' and it failed, saying there isn't a Debian package for this? .. that is strange. I tried i

Anyone got sound working in kvm VMs?

2009-04-25 Thread Klistvud
Anybody tried to make sound work in a kvm virtual machine on Lenny and failed miserably? I know I did ;) Built two WindowsXP machines from scratch last nigh (one using ACPI, the other Standard PC hal), but neither outputs any sound -- although the sound card is technically "recognized" when run

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-25 Thread M. Henne
Hi again, Stephen, I could not get the configuration to work. If I use the ServerLayout that you postet, the second monitor stays black. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "TwinView" > Screen 0 "Default Screen (TwinView)" > Opt

Re: Flashdrive, read-only, cannot write

2009-04-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/4/25 Matus UHLAR - fantomas > On 12.04.09 23:05, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > I had this flash drive for a few months and a few days ago, I couldn't > store > > data in it. I even try to reformat it but it just won't let me. Any > > suggestion before I buy a new one? > > what do kernel logs s

Re: Help with Install/GRUB

2009-04-25 Thread Depo Catcher
wow, linux is pretty terrible. I did a complete install again (removing the SSD harddrive from the system completely). It rebooted and grub is working now and have two options (single user mode is the second). I try to boot to both of them and it just says File 15: File not found. Press any

Re: hal documentation

2009-04-25 Thread Paul Scott
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On 25 April 2009 08:20:17 steef wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Hi, How can I learn how to tell Hal about my monitor's frequencies so I can fix the resolution? Paul Scott hi paul, read this thread with much intererest. i knew the same problem. several times i

Re: virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-25 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Micha Feigin wrote: I've installed virtualbox from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian on my debian unstable. I'm trying to connect a usb device to that machine (a usb camera at the moment). It appears under devices->usb devices->camera 0100 but it is grayed out and I can't mark it.

dvd authoring footage from sd camcorder

2009-04-25 Thread Leonardo Canducci
I have some footage shoot with a jvc hcsd camcorder I'd like to put on a dvd. Every clip is stored as a .mod file that should be a standard mpeg-ps file with ac3 audio. Once renamed as .mpg each clip plays out of the box. I'd just like to: join all clips together and put the whole video on a dvd wi

Re: Unable to start postgresql on Debian

2009-04-25 Thread Foss User
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Foss User wrote: > I installed postgresql using the following commands: > > aptitude update > aptitude install postgresql > > I tried to start it: > > /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start > > But I don't find any process with the 'sql' string in it in the ps > list. Al

Re: Flashdrive, read-only, cannot write

2009-04-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.04.09 23:05, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I had this flash drive for a few months and a few days ago, I couldn't store > data in it. I even try to reformat it but it just won't let me. Any > suggestion before I buy a new one? what do kernel logs say? Haven't you enable write protection on the d

Re: Vuze, port 27714

2009-04-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.04.09 22:29, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I'm using lenny amd64. It's weird that vuze keeps pestering me about port > 27714 being closed since there's no rule blocking that port on iptables [...] > and i can telnet to that port on localhost the server is apparently listening only on local inter

Unable to start postgresql on Debian

2009-04-25 Thread Foss User
I installed postgresql using the following commands: aptitude update aptitude install postgresql I tried to start it: /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start But I don't find any process with the 'sql' string in it in the ps list. Also, I am unable to connect using psql. There are no logs in /var/log/

Re: usb automount disabled by installing/removing autofs

2009-04-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.04.09 01:34, Stephen Guzik wrote: > Automounting used to work fine with gnome in squeeze. Then I > installed and removed autofs and now it seems to be disabled. Does > anyone know how to recover the original behaviour? automount mounts filesystems automatically when someone's trying to acc

Re: why fake raid on motherboards?

2009-04-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090425045724.ga2...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:22:43PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20090424225855.ga...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang >> >> wrote: >> >Now I figured that most of the on chip raid controllers