Re: Nvidia driver and second screen

2009-04-29 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Micha Feigin schreef: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:18 +0200 > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> I found out that second displays are no longer detected with the closed >> source nvidia driver. Neither nvidia's nvidia-settings tool, nor xrandr >> shows the second display. Also entering som

xen, connecting to a domU

2009-04-29 Thread gcrimp
Hi all, I finally got enough of a grasp on xen to create a guest system. But I think it didn't get created properly because I can't log in to it. I tried xen-shell expecting a prompt but only got what looks like an unfinished sequence of boot args: begin excerpt Activa

Question about ipmitool and DRAC4

2009-04-29 Thread Ding Honghui
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, These days I learn to use ipmitool, it works great with DRAC 5, but I can't use ipmitool to config DRAC 4. Can anyone help me to figure out how can use ipmitool to config DRAC 4 or if there are no way to config it by ipmitool? Regards, D

Re: about gnome auto-mount

2009-04-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, so far I can remember, the icon is shown when it is mounted. hth, Jerome Zhao Difei wrote: Hi all, I noticed the auto-mount functions of gnome are now handled by nautilus, if a USB mass storage device is connected, an icon will be shown properly in the "Computer", but I cannot mount it

Re: about gnome auto-mount

2009-04-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,30.Apr.09, 11:37:52, Zhao Difei wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed the auto-mount functions of gnome are now handled by > nautilus, if a USB mass storage device is connected, an icon will be > shown properly in the "Computer", but I cannot mount it by > double-click it, and no information res

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread emikaadeo
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Now, nothing is created automatically. you need to provide a > hook script for this to happen. The user provides such scripts. For > example, to invoke mkinitramfs, I did: > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > cp /usr/share/ker

Re: Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:18:37AM +0200, Henk Koster wrote: > Thanks for your assistance. I use lp or lpr for printing text files (as > stated in the OP), e.g. > > $ ls |lp > > to print a directory listing to the default printer (I have only one > printer). That lp is really /usr/bin/lp. I've

RE: ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread Steven Jones
www.freshmeat.net would be a starting point. > Is there any web site I can go to to search for Greeting Card Software > which run on Ubuntu - Debian? > > A handfull of people have advised me to go to this platform and operating > system but it is for my wife and the only thing she does is search t

Re: ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:04 AM, George Phile wrote: > Sir/Madam, > > Is there any web site I can go to to search for Greeting Card Software > which run on Ubuntu - Debian? > > A handfull of people have advised me to go to this platform and operating > system but it is for my wife and the only thi

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:24:57PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Again on X resolutions, recently dist-upgraded unstable on amd64. Are > there any X gurus out there? > > - Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 (C51PV chipset) on an Asus > M2NPV-VM, having max 1920x1440 (@75Hz) on VGA[1]. > - Monitor

about gnome auto-mount

2009-04-29 Thread Zhao Difei
Hi all, I noticed the auto-mount functions of gnome are now handled by nautilus, if a USB mass storage device is connected, an icon will be shown properly in the "Computer", but I cannot mount it by double-click it, and no information responded, does anyone have the same issue? Cheers, Difei

Re: ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread Robert Baron
George, I just set up a couple of systems running ubuntu. I really don't see much difference between ubuntu linux and other linux distributions. Just a quick suggestion, what I have done with my wife is to set up a computer running windows because she is only familiar with windows, and I have a c

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-29 Thread Davide Mancusi
> > > I can open the keyboard configuration dialog directly by running: > > > > > > kcmshell4 keyboard > > > > > > What happens when you try this? > > > > Nothing happens. The keyboard configuration module is > > provided by /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_keyboard.so, from package > > kdebase-workspace-b

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Apr 29 2009, emikaadeo wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 29 2009, Antonio Diaz wrote: >> >>> When I compile the kernel the file "initrd" is not created in spite >>> of I'm specifying the "--initrd" option in the command line. Exactly, >>> the command that I'm using to co

Re: Nvidia driver and second screen

2009-04-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:18 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi list, > > I found out that second displays are no longer detected with the closed > source nvidia driver. Neither nvidia's nvidia-settings tool, nor xrandr > shows the second display. Also entering some monitor info directly into > x

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread emikaadeo
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29 2009, Antonio Diaz wrote: > >> When I compile the kernel the file "initrd" is not created in spite >> of I'm specifying the "--initrd" option in the command line. Exactly, >> the command that I'm using to compile the kernel is: >> >> "make-kpkg --initrd

Re: Issue with Maildir directories.

2009-04-29 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:52:57AM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi all. I have a problem with my mail servers' web interface. On our > previous mail server we used SquirrelMail, now we try to use RoundCube. But > we have a problem because RoundCube doesn't see users' Maildir directories. > Could a

Re: ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 29 April 2009, George Phile wrote: > Sir/Madam, >   > Is there any web site I can go to to search for Greeting Card Software > which run on Ubuntu - Debian?  >   > A handfull of people have advised me to go to this platform and > operating system but it is for my wife and the only thin

Re: missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Apr 29 2009, Antonio Diaz wrote: > When I compile the kernel the file "initrd" is not created in spite > of I'm specifying the "--initrd" option in the command line. Exactly, > the command that I'm using to compile the kernel is: > > "make-kpkg --initrd --revision=1:xps.10 kernel_image"

Re: ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread H.S.
Hello, George Phile wrote: > Sir/Madam, > > Is there any web site I can go to to search for Greeting Card Software > which run on Ubuntu - Debian? > > A handfull of people have advised me to go to this platform and operating > system but it is for my wife and the only thing she does is search

Nvidia driver and second screen

2009-04-29 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi list, I found out that second displays are no longer detected with the closed source nvidia driver. Neither nvidia's nvidia-settings tool, nor xrandr shows the second display. Also entering some monitor info directly into xorg.conf hasn't solved my issues. Using the open source nv driver works,

ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread George Phile
Sir/Madam,   Is there any web site I can go to to search for Greeting Card Software which run on Ubuntu - Debian?    A handfull of people have advised me to go to this platform and operating system but it is for my wife and the only thing she does is search the web, manage her email and make greeti

Re: magic sysRq

2009-04-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/4/28 Brad Rogers : > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:01:44 +0300 > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Hello Dotan, > >> Alt-SysRq-[R,S,E,I,S,U,B] in that order. > > Why "S" twice?  Or just a mistake? > As can bee seen in Abhishek's posted link, there is debate as to where in the processes should the disks be syn

Grumbles about GNOME

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew G
Running Testing/Squeeze on a home machine, I have noticed that when the GNOME libraries were recently updated a couple of things began to happen (or rather - stopped happening!). The two issues are, in no particular order of priority: * when additional file systems/ media were connected (e.g. CD,

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090429192819.gb1...@khazad-dum.debian.net>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2009.04.29.1522 +0200]: >> > As always, you MUST forbid lvm of ever touching md component >> > devices even if md is offli

missing the initrd file in the kernel package

2009-04-29 Thread Antonio Diaz
Hi, When I compile the kernel the file "initrd" is not created in spite of I'm specifying the "--initrd" option in the command line. Exactly, the command that I'm using to compile the kernel is: "make-kpkg --initrd --revision=1:xps.10 kernel_image" May be there is a problem with the a

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2009.04.29.1522 > +0200]: > > As always, you MUST forbid lvm of ever touching md component > > devices even if md is offline, and that includes whatever crap is > > inside initrds... > > One should thus fix LV

Re: aptitude: not grouping by installed/non-installed

2009-04-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,29.Apr.09, 14:38:25, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > How does one turn off grouping by installation state (installed, not > installed, > etc.) in aptitude, so that similarly-named package show up next to each other > regardless of that installation state? > > (What I'm trying to do it see where t

Re: aptitude: not grouping by installed/non-installed

2009-04-29 Thread Barclay, Daniel
I wrote: > How does one turn off grouping by installation state ... in aptitude Never mind. > (Yes, I've tried Google, but didn't think of the right search string.) Later I did. (Here's one hit: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2008-12/msg00576.html ) Daniel -- (Plain te

aptitude: not grouping by installed/non-installed

2009-04-29 Thread Barclay, Daniel
How does one turn off grouping by installation state (installed, not installed, etc.) in aptitude, so that similarly-named package show up next to each other regardless of that installation state? (What I'm trying to do it see where there are newer major versions of software I have installed, e.g.

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
I'm not sure if this post is serious, but assuming that it is: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:22:12AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) > $ man cruft > cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) It's more corre

router running Debian: Oversized Ethernet frame

2009-04-29 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have an old machine running Debian Testing and working as a router with 2.6.26-2-686 kernel. Runs iptables firewall, has two lan cards and a wireless card for nat. Earlier today it was not responding, just hanged. In the logs I noticed these lines which I have never seen before: Apr 29 0

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2009.04.29.1847 +0200]: > Absolutely. I've put Neil Brown, upstream mdadm on Bcc so he can > pitch in if this is something he'd implement or accept patches for. On second thought, there *is* the sysfs interface, but I don't think it exposes md-specific information unl

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2009.04.29.1808 +0200]: > I'm down with LVM running something like: > mdadm --has-superblock /dev/block/device > for devices that have a PV header and refusing to automatically treat them > as PVs if it returns success, as long as it doesn't affect md-on-LVM.

Cron Root Authentication Problem

2009-04-29 Thread Chris Brandstetter
Dear All, I have a Debian server using Kerberos and LDAP authentication against a Mac OS X 10.5 Server. All works great, but one problem, everytime cron runs it tries to authenticate root against the LDAP server, it completes succesfully, but I would like to try and stop the authentication at

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090429141142.ga19...@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>, martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2009.04.29.1557 +0200]: >> >One should thus fix LVM to be a bit more careful... >> >> LVM allows you to strictly limit what devices it scans for PV headers. > >That's not enough; L

Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu - how to fix it?

2009-04-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I run qemu: qemu-system-x86_64 -localtime -hda /pub/vm/deb.off/hda -m 512 And get this: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu ( 00010400) - disabling kqemu use I have: $ dpkg -l | grep qemu kqemu-common 1.4.0~pre1-2 kqemu-source 1.4.0~pre1-2 qemu 0.10.2-2 How I can

Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-04-29 Thread JoeHill
Paul Scott wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Massive update last night, went really really well, so far just one small > > issue so I'm happy. > > > > When I logged out and back in, GDM went haywire and could not start. There > > was an error, but it was up on the screen and gone too

Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Scott
JoeHill wrote: Hi there, Massive update last night, went really really well, so far just one small issue so I'm happy. When I logged out and back in, GDM went haywire and could not start. There was an error, but it was up on the screen and gone too quickly for me to remember. It kept trying, so

Obtain info about cd-r/rw

2009-04-29 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all. How can i obtain info about a cd-r/rw support? I usually use dvd+rw-mediainfo for dvd+/-* , but i don't know if ther's something similar for cd-*. Regards M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Iceweasel vs. Firefox in User-Agent (was: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working)

2009-04-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qua, 29 Abr 2009, "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: >> >> Wait a minute.  Why does the Debian-rebranded Firefox go beyond just >> changing >> the software name (the name used to identify the software to humans, >> relevant >> to the Mozilla

GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-04-29 Thread JoeHill
Hi there, Massive update last night, went really really well, so far just one small issue so I'm happy. When I logged out and back in, GDM went haywire and could not start. There was an error, but it was up on the screen and gone too quickly for me to remember. It kept trying, so I managed to ge

Re: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working

2009-04-29 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/04/29 10:26 (GMT-0400) Barclay, Daniel composed: > Eric Gerlach wrote: >> The User Agent String strikes again. >> I just had to change my UA string from "Iceweasel" to "Firefox" and all was >> well. > Wait a minute. Why does the Debian-rebranded Firefox go beyond just changing > the so

Re: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working

2009-04-29 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermos
2009/4/29 Barclay, Daniel : > Does the Mozilla license really require Debian to change the user agent > string? It doesn't, but honestly, it doesn't matter. It's the website that is broken because it's readin the UA string wrong, not the browser. I make a point of sending Firesomething UA strings;

Re: Iceweasel vs. Firefox in User-Agent (was: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working)

2009-04-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 29 Abr 2009, "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: Wait a minute. Why does the Debian-rebranded Firefox go beyond just changing the software name (the name used to identify the software to humans, relevant to the Mozilla licensing issue) and also change the _technical_ behavior, reducing compatibilit

Re: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working

2009-04-29 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Eric Gerlach wrote: ... > The User Agent String strikes again. > > I just had to change my UA string from "Iceweasel" to "Firefox" and all was > well. Wait a minute. Why does the Debian-rebranded Firefox go beyond just changing the software name (the name used to identify the software to humans,

Re: Migrating from ext3 to lvm partition type

2009-04-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:40:32AM -0300, Hashimoto wrote: > Hi guys, > > Is there any way to migrate from ext3 to lvm partition type without loss > data ? > > I know that after create a LV, is necessary format the fs. So if you > have any idea just let me know please. There was a program called

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2009.04.29.1557 +0200]: > >One should thus fix LVM to be a bit more careful... > > LVM allows you to strictly limit what devices it scans for PV headers. That's not enough; LVM knows that md exists, and LVM-on-md is about 99.8% of the sane use-cases, so L

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090429134916.gb17...@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>, martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2009.04.29.1522 +0200]: >> As always, you MUST forbid lvm of ever touching md component >> devices even if md is offline, and that includes whatever crap is >> inside initrds..

ssh with libpam_chroot

2009-04-29 Thread Matthias Faulstich
Hello! Starting with sarge, I have had set up a server for a number of users (>300) which are able to login via ssh, everyone in his own changerooted home directory. Setting up so has been recommended in "Anleitung zum Absichern von Debian". Therefore, I am using libpam_chroot. A single chang

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2009.04.29.1522 +0200]: > As always, you MUST forbid lvm of ever touching md component > devices even if md is offline, and that includes whatever crap is > inside initrds... One should thus fix LVM to be a bit more careful... -- .''`. martin f. kraf

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

2009-04-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Alex Samad wrote: > > Learned my lesson though - no real reason to have root on lvm - it's now > > on 3-disk RAID 1. > > all ways thought this, KISS Exactly. I have servers with 4, sometimes 6-disk RAID1 root partitions, because of KISS: all disks in the raid set should be

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Lancelot du Lac wrote: > >I can only join my voice to those who say this behavior is a pain. > >Since this bug appears in 3.5.10, I'm currently pinning 3.5.9 for kwin. > >(and I have to say it works well) > > > >However this much probably wo

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-29 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2009-Apr-29, at 2:40 AM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: I wouldn't mix stable and testing, get XFCE from backports if it is available or run testing. Someone on another list once told me: "As long as you can install the package from Debian unstable directly on stable, which has always b

Migrating from ext3 to lvm partition type

2009-04-29 Thread Hashimoto
Hi guys, Is there any way to migrate from ext3 to lvm partition type without loss data ? I know that after create a LV, is necessary format the fs. So if you have any idea just let me know please. Thanks.

reply for business proposal

2009-04-29 Thread Abdul Abdel
Sei stato invitato a "reply for business proposal". Dall'organizzatore : Data: mercoledì, 29 aprile 2009 Ora: 11:00 - 12:00 (GMT +00:00) Ci sarai anche tu? Rispondi all'invito qui: http://calendar.yahoo.com/abdul.abdel_2?v=126&a1=0&iid=HhB3jdt%40EN

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-29 Thread Matteo Riva
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > If you are asking this question, I should say "DO NOT MIX" although it > probably work most of time for now until testing get more newer > libraries.  For reason, please read: Your "for now" made me think that mixing packages gets closer to di

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 00:16:44 +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote: [...] > > I can open the keyboard configuration dialog directly by running: > > > > kcmshell4 keyboard > > > > What happens when you try this? > > Nothing happens. The keyboard configuration module is provided > by /usr/lib/kd

Re: server memory & swap eaten up then freaks out

2009-04-29 Thread frank
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 20:16 +0100, Pete Boyd wrote: > Before seeing this issue, this server has run fine for two years with > Sarge, and fine for a couple of months with Etch. Thunderbird 2 was > installed on workstations in December. Other than that barely any changes > have been made and nothing

RE: update to Lenny - eth not found [SOLVED]

2009-04-29 Thread Mario Batz
STRIKE Steven you are GREAT :)) I boot the system with the old kernel, download the new linux-header-files and start /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl, but it dont work. I have ESXi update2, and this use gcc4.1. I change the link of gcc from gcc-4.3 to gcc-4.1 and start /usr/bin/vmware-config-tool