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

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:54:35AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Fiddling with the monitor menu i came across this: > > DIV > 1280x1024 > 64KHz 60Hz > > ...that'll be useful for a modeline i guess - how can i make one? There are actually a ton of howtos for calculating modelines out there, most

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 20:39:06 +0200, Leonardo Canducci (leonardo.candu...@gmail.com) wrote: > I'd like to buy a netbook and install debian on it, of course. It should be: > 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > 2. linux friendly > 3. usable (decent keyboard, 9" screen

Re: shutdown in Xfce

2009-05-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,05.May.09, 20:42:13, Peter Crawford wrote: > > Andrei wrote, > > exec startxfce4 > > > > in .xinitrc and run startx. > > No improvement. The Log Out button quits the X > session. The Shut Down and Reboot buttons > produce a complaint and then quit the X session. > > Does the reboot/sh

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2009/5/6 Leonardo Canducci : > 2009/5/5 Nick Lidakis : >> You didn't mention price. Right now, Lenovo has a sale on its X series > I didn't. But I said cheap. And 1000$ is not cheap. An used X series could > do but I think it's not cheap either. actually used X40 are cheap but almost certainly I s

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2009/5/6 Michael Pobega : > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> >> 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) >> > > Eee PC 901 :D > > 8.9" screen, 2.1 lbs weight > >> 2. linux friendly > > I'm running Debian Squeeze on mine right now > >> 3. usab

Re: detailed disk usage package?

2009-05-05 Thread green
Jason Dunsmore wrote at 2009-05-04 08:26 -0600: > Zhengquan Zhang writes: > > I was doing du -ka . | sort -nr once in a while to do disk usage > > analysis. > > > > I was wondering if anybody here are using a package that can do detailed > > disk usage analysis. and the program can email a detaile

Re: List of installed package sortet by installed size

2009-05-05 Thread green
Sven Joachim wrote at 2009-05-03 03:57 -0600: > On 2009-05-03 10:44 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > How can I create a list of installed packages sortet by installed > > size? > > Install the dctrl-tools package and run the command > > grep-status -FStatus -sInstalled-Size,Package -n \ >

Re: [OT] Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090506023930.gb12...@samad.com.au>, Alex Samad wrote: >how can you create files in $HOME that the owner of $HOME can't delete >? b...@monster:~$ sudo mkdir data [sudo] password for bss: b...@monster:~$ sudo touch data/file b...@monster:~$ rm -rf data rm: cannot remove `data/file': Permission

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > > 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > Eee PC 901 :D 8.9" screen, 2.1 lbs weight > 2. linux friendly I'm running Debian Squeeze on mine right now > 3. usable (decent keyboard, 9" screen minimum) Tru

Re: shutdown in Xfce

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Witbrodt
No improvement. The Log Out button quits the X session. The Shut Down and Reboot buttons produce a complaint and then quit the X session. Does the reboot/shutdown gadget work properly for everyone else using Xfce in Squeeze? I'm using Sid, and it is working just fine. The behavior you're

RE: shutdown in Xfce

2009-05-05 Thread Peter Crawford
Andrei wrote, > exec startxfce4 > > in .xinitrc and run startx. No improvement. The Log Out button quits the X session. The Shut Down and Reboot buttons produce a complaint and then quit the X session. Does the reboot/shutdown gadget work properly for everyone else using Xfce in Squeeze?

[OT] Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:36:50PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:51:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu > > was heard to say: > >> On Sun,03.May.09, 10:18:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > Bu

Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:18:17AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Alex Samad wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Has any one been able to compile the kernel module for this kernel ? >>> >> >> I have. >> As usual you need "a fix": >> http://www.saarlinux.de/blog/?p=5 >> >> which is cont

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:47:12 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > My print to file box (Sid, IW 3.0.9) offers me a choice of ps or pdf. > > Mine doesn't. I too have the same version (3.0.9-1). I wonder if I am > missing some other package which provides this functinality in iceweasel. Beat

Help -drivers-

2009-05-05 Thread Alejandro De Leon
Ok, my laptop is almost ready, but the sound is not working. I use KDE 4.2, can help me? and although my laptop is amd64, but i change to the i386 version of the operating system. i remove the linux amd64 was giving me problems. but with the i386, I have only problem with the audio and some graph

Re: SheevaPlug

2009-05-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 4 May 2009 13:41:25 -0400 Daryl Styrk wrote: ... > over the discontinued slug? How do you go about hooking multiple drives > into the unit as I've read about with only 1 usb port? I'm sure there Use a USB hub? Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP)

Re: Firefox and privoxy: how to make ftp-connection available?

2009-05-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 May 2009 14:30:36 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I use privoxy for firefox and get a problem when I try to connect w/ > ftp. So, my question is, Is it possible to specify in Firefox: for http > - use privoxy, for ftp - direct internet connection? > > Thank You for Your time.

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-05 Thread H.S.
Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:34:22 -0400 > "H.S." wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> When I print from Iceweasel (or any other application) on Debian >> Testing, I get a choice of printers (my networked laser printer, >> CUPS/Virtual printer and postscript file printer). The first sends the >> j

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 5 May 2009 20:39:06 +0200 Leonardo Canducci wrote: > I'd like to buy a netbook and install debian on it, of course. It should be: > 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > 2. linux friendly > 3. usable (decent keyboard, 9" screen minimum) > 4. with a decent battery

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:34:22 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Hello, > > When I print from Iceweasel (or any other application) on Debian > Testing, I get a choice of printers (my networked laser printer, > CUPS/Virtual printer and postscript file printer). The first sends the > job to the networked laser

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-05 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 2 May 2009 17:51:35 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: ... > On this desktop computer, I also dual boot into Ubuntu 8.04. Ubuntu 8.04 > can do things that I have been unable to do with Debian 4.0, such as > viewing .wmv files. I can view wmv files fine on my Debian Sid; can you provide an

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:04:16PM EDT, Greg Norris wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > > Most eeepc seem to be well supported and some have a good battery > > life. nc10 seems good but it's not cheap nor friendly. dell mini 9 is > > really cheap but has li

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > Most eeepc seem to be well supported and some have a good battery > life. nc10 seems good but it's not cheap nor friendly. dell mini 9 is > really cheap but has little battery and bradcom wifi. So... what would > you recommend? I

emacs snapshot and inconsolata

2009-05-05 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am using emacs snapshot from deb http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main repo on a Debian Testing machine. I have observed that since the last several weeks, I am not able to select inconsolata as the buffer font. If I try to select inconsolata, the buffer font changes from 'fixed' but the a

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:00:56PM EDT, Stackpole, Chris wrote: [..] > My wife /loves/ her Ubuntu based Dell Mini 9. Personally, the only > drawback for me is I really don't like the keyboard. They rearranged the > key placement for some of the keys and it really messes me up sometime > (eg: the

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:42:34AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > [...] > > ergonomically sound keyboard mappings, I should give it another > > shot. > > Hvae you fingers trying to use Emacs with the Control key where IBM > moved it to on PCs? > Have you tried mapping the

issue with aliases

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Scully
I just set up a mail server with exim4 and courier imap. I'm using exim4-heavy. Everything is working as it should /except/ aliases. I have all of the aliases added to my /etc/aliases file. However, when I try to send mail to an alias I get the following ndr (Note: I sent the test message f

Re: stopwatch/worktime program?

2009-05-05 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:49:59PM -0400, Jan Muszynski wrote: > aptitude install hamster-applet > > Description: time tracking applet for GNOME > Project Hamster helps you to keep track of how much time you spend on > various activities during the day. Whenever you move from one task to > ano

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2009/5/5 Nick Lidakis : > You didn't mention price. Right now, Lenovo has a sale on its X series I didn't. But I said cheap. And 1000$ is not cheap. An used X series could do but I think it's not cheap either. > Always Innovating should be releasing their ARM based netbook soon. This is yet to com

Re: stopwatch/worktime program?

2009-05-05 Thread Jan Muszynski
Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm looking for some program to follow my work time on different projects, > preferably something that can plug into the xfce, or if not the gnome panel. > > I'm working on different projects for different people and I need to report > work hours and it's a bit hard for me to

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:56, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> I'd like to buy a netbook and install debian on it, of course. It should be: >> 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) >> 2. linux friendly >> 3. usable (

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > I'd like to buy a netbook and install debian on it, of course. It should be: > 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > 2. linux friendly > 3. usable (decent keyboard, 9" screen minimum) > 4. with a decent ba

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Harry Rickards: > -- snip lots of useful info > > Thanks for the help and pointers. Thanks for sharing your findings! J. -- Watching television is more hip than actually speaking to anyone. [Agree] [Disagree] signature

Re: fail to send an email

2009-05-05 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:55:46PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,05.May.09, 19:24:37, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > > The message to local correspondant is delivered, while the remote one is not > > . I have the standard installation of lenny, with exim4 running?? > > Do I need to sto

Re: need help on mp3 recording

2009-05-05 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:55, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 17:56, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 23:29, Long Wind wrote: > > > I have sarge or etch > > > Which package should I install for mp3 recording? > > > I install audacity, but it need libmp3lame.so > > > > >

RE: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Leonardo Canducci [mailto:leonardo.candu...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:39 PM > Subject: [OT] netbook recommendation > > I'd like to buy a netbook and install debian on it, of course. It should > be: > 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > 2. linux f

Re: fail to send an email

2009-05-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,05.May.09, 19:24:37, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > The message to local correspondant is delivered, while the remote one is not > . I have the standard installation of lenny, with exim4 running?? > Do I need to stop exim4 or to configure it ? I think you need dpkg-reconfigure exim4-con

fail to send an email

2009-05-05 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi everybody, I tried to send a message from my PC to my abelahc...@gmail.com, using mail command from terminal like this amin...@debian:~$ mail b...@debian Subject: hello abi hello abi . Cc: abelahc...@gmail.com The message to local correspondant is delivered, while the remote one is not . I

[OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Leonardo Canducci
I'd like to buy a netbook and install debian on it, of course. It should be: 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) 2. linux friendly 3. usable (decent keyboard, 9" screen minimum) 4. with a decent battery life (3h is not enough) Most eeepc seem to be well supported and some

Re: need help on mp3 recording

2009-05-05 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 17:56, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 23:29, Long Wind wrote: > > I have sarge or etch > > Which package should I install for mp3 recording? > > I install audacity, but it need libmp3lame.so > > > > According to tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-HOWTO-9.html > > bladdenc can

cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-05 Thread H.S.
Hello, When I print from Iceweasel (or any other application) on Debian Testing, I get a choice of printers (my networked laser printer, CUPS/Virtual printer and postscript file printer). The first sends the job to the networked laser printer, the second prints a PDF file in ~/PDF directory and th

Strange printing problem in iceweasel

2009-05-05 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I run lenny amd64 and standard iceweasel package. I am having difficulty in printing *some* secure (https) pages. I am not sure what causes it, but I think it does not print if there is only one page to print. Th result is the same regardless of whether I print to the printer directly or to a

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/09 09:39, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Harry Rickards: >> On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea >>> how openbox handles background images. > -- snip >> Sorry for not

Re: sound stuck in loop/reverberation

2009-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/docs/HD-Audio.html The most common problem of the controller is the inaccurate DMA pointer reporting. The DMA pointer for playback and capture can be read in two ways, either via a LPIB register or via a position-buffer map. As default the driver

Anyone here using socket AM3 motherboard MSI 790FX-GD70 or Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P?

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Witbrodt
If so, would you be so kind as to post your 'dmesg'? Thanks, Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: lvm on raid1 for a backup server or not?

2009-05-05 Thread randall
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Dear debian community, I will build up a backup server which has 2x1T + 1x250G drives. the size of the one full backup will be about 400G. My initial plan was to install debian lenny on the 250G drive. leave 2x1T drive untouched and then make software raid1 on them after

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

2009-05-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:54:35 +0100 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Fiddling with the monitor menu i came across this: > > DIV > 1280x1024 > 64KHz 60Hz > That is the current mode it is using. I don't know how to convert it into a modeline > ...that'll be useful for a modeline i guess - how can i make

Re: HDD spinup when in sleep mode, strange behaviour

2009-05-05 Thread green
komodo wrote at 2009-05-02 13:01 -0600: > Everything works fine, but now, every 30min i hear that disk is spined up, > and > after ten seconds is spinned down. So i thought that the problem is in the > smartd, which check disks every 30min's, but it isn't, becase even if i run > > hdparm -C /de

Re: need help on mp3 recording

2009-05-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 23:29, Long Wind wrote: > I have sarge or etch > Which package should I install for mp3 recording? > I install audacity, but it need libmp3lame.so > > According to tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-HOWTO-9.html > bladdenc can do the job, but which package should I install? You want libmp3

Re: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a005349.2080...@gmail.com>, User Debian wrote: [snip: a duplicate message] I responded to your earlier message. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuic

Re: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a0052f6.2000...@gmail.com>, User Debian wrote: >I would like to know if there is a command I can type with Debian to >detect if a USB key has physically connected to the computer. Check dmesg or /var/log/messages. When I plugged in my USB key I got this appended: usb 5-3: new high speed USB

Re: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-05 Thread Glyn Astill
> From: User Debian > Subject: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, 5 May, 2009, 3:55 PM > Hello, > > I would like to know if there is a command I can type with > Debian to detect if a USB key has physically connected to > the compute

[solved, Thanks]Re: detailed disk usage package?

2009-05-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
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Re: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-05 Thread Robert Hodgins
> I would like to know if there is a command I can type with Debian to > detect if a USB key has physically connected to the computer. A shot in the dark: lsusb? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-05 Thread User Debian
Hello, I would like to know if there is a command I can type with Debian to detect if a USB key has physically connected to the computer. My main concern is to get a signal, trace, alarm, etc related to the physical connection between the PC and the USB key. This command can be pooled or els

Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-05 Thread User Debian
Hello, I would like to know if there is a command I can type with Debian to detect if a USB key has physically connected to the computer. My main concern is to get a signal, trace, alarm, etc related to the physical connection between the PC and the USB key. This command can be pooled or els

Re: Package search in local repository

2009-05-05 Thread Malte Forkel
Harry Rickards schrieb: > Malte Forkel wrote: >> Andrei Popescu schrieb: >>> On Sun,03.May.09, 14:00:34, Malte Forkel wrote: Hi, is there a package that provides the functionality of the Debian package search, i.e. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.en.html#search_packa

lvm on raid1 for a backup server or not?

2009-05-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, I will build up a backup server which has 2x1T + 1x250G drives. the size of the one full backup will be about 400G. My initial plan was to install debian lenny on the 250G drive. leave 2x1T drive untouched and then make software raid1 on them after the installation. I hav

Re: SCSI Emulation with newer Kernels and Burning CD's

2009-05-05 Thread Martin McCormick
Bhasker C V writes: > The native driver can directly do all the tasks and SCSI emulation > is not needed anymore. > > For programs like growisofs, cdrecord in the option dev= > instead of giving 0,0,0 etc., you can give /dev/hdc directly. Thank you. That is great news. I figured it was

Re: SCSI Emulation with newer Kernels and Burning CD's

2009-05-05 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, The native driver can directly do all the tasks and SCSI emulation is not needed anymore. For programs like growisofs, cdrecord in the option dev= instead of giving 0,0,0 etc., you can give /dev/hdc directly. On Tue, 5 May 2009, Martin McCormick wrote: I upgraded my kernel from an old

SCSI Emulation with newer Kernels and Burning CD's

2009-05-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I upgraded my kernel from an old 2.6.5 kernel to a newer 2.6.18 kernel and noticed that the boot process ignored the passing of /dev/hdc to scsi emulation. The drive worked fine after I mounted it as /dev/cdrom rather than /dev/hcd0. Do I need to do anything different to such programs as cdrecord?

Re: hdv camcorder (hv20) to dvd

2009-05-05 Thread Leonardo Canducci
2009/5/5 Dave Thayer : > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:40:39PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: >> I have grabbed some .m2t clips from a hv20 camcorder. I'd like to put >> them toghether (no editing right now) and save the whole file in a dvd >> video. >> I'd like to: >> 1. join the m2t files (17GB tot

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

2009-05-05 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/05/05 10:54 (GMT+0100) Nuno Magalhães composed: > Does the monitor have some BIOS of its own? The panel size is > obviously wrong, but it seems as though nv won't be able to change > that... > > If 1280x1024 is all nv can do, i'll keep using it (in full mode, not > 4:3) and i guess that w

Re: different locale based on directory

2009-05-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 19:46:39 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Hallo list! > > I have a "funny" tex-file (sty and tex) that requires the deprecated > latin1 encoding. (It was originally developed for lusers of another OS). > My system is lenny and utf-8. > > Is there a way to configure my e

Re: different locale based on directory

2009-05-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,05.May.09, 11:12:29, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I've thought about that, too. However, I usually have different > documents open with kile, some of which might be utf-8, while others are > latin1. In that scenario I guess the setting will win that happens to > apply to the first opened d

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

2009-05-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Fiddling with the monitor menu i came across this: DIV 1280x1024 64KHz 60Hz ...that'll be useful for a modeline i guess - how can i make one? It does have a menu for Full/4:3, i changed to 4:3., which stole screen-area, i now have two black stripes. Even if restarting X will give me the full res

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

2009-05-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 5 May 2009 00:31:32 -0600 Dave Thayer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Nuno Magalhדes wrote: > > > Yeah i came across that but i'd assume DVI to be superior (i.e. more > > > recent, hence better) than VGA... Also, could the monitor's EDID be > > > reporting erroneous val

Re: about gnome auto-mount

2009-05-05 Thread Veloso
I found nautilus will able to mount only under root privilege (startx with root), anybody know why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: different locale based on directory

2009-05-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,04.May.09, 19:46:39, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Hallo list! >> >> I have a "funny" tex-file (sty and tex) that requires the deprecated >> latin1 encoding. (It was originally developed for lusers of another OS). >> My system is lenny and utf-8. >> >> Is there a way

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 04 May 2009 19:10:44 Harry Rickards wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Harry Rickards wrote: > >> But if they can run aptitude in the first place, surely they could > >> either su to root or use sudo to read or delete the files. Just my > >> opinion. > > > > Aptitude doesn't need root to ru

Re: BUG: Problem while booting Debian with LVDS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, I do not if it is related but just in case. With some MacMini, at least old ones, this issue exists as well: this is not a linux issue but a bootcamp issue. hth, Jerome User Debian wrote: Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer. Configurat

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Harry Rickards: > On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea >> how openbox handles background images. -- snip > Sorry for not making it clearer, but I want to change the colour of the > background of a program (a pa

BUG: Problem while booting Debian with LVDS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-05 Thread User Debian
Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer. Configuration: Embedded PC : ECM-LX800 Screen: LVDS (and not VGA) Linux: Debian ETCH version 2.6.18-6-686 The problem comes after GRUB gives the instruction on which partition to boot, BUT before that Linux k

Firefox and privoxy: how to make ftp-connection available?

2009-05-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I use privoxy for firefox and get a problem when I try to connect w/ ftp. So, my question is, Is it possible to specify in Firefox: for http - use privoxy, for ftp - direct internet connection? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Rickards
On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: Harry Rickards: I just thought I'd tell everyone about the great experience I've had recently with debootstrap. Congratulations! I used deboostrap once to install Debian on a remote machine via SSH using only the swap partition as the initial ro

Re: hdv camcorder (hv20) to dvd

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:40:39PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > I have grabbed some .m2t clips from a hv20 camcorder. I'd like to put > them toghether (no editing right now) and save the whole file in a dvd > video. > I'd like to: > 1. join the m2t files (17GB total) > 2. encode them with the