Re: Where are you

2009-05-18 Thread Harry Rickards
On 19 May 2009, at 04:45, "Santhosh Loganathan" > wrote: snipped Try reading the Decleration of Indpendence of Cyberspace, in particular the 10th paragraph. That should give you a pretty good idea of where we are. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Installing Lenny on LVM using debootstrap

2009-05-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have given up on trying to get flash working again on my existing system. I have decided, since I have a spare partition with LVM volumes for /home, /var, /usr, /tmp, and swap that I would just reformat them with mke2fs -j and reinstall using debootstrap into these volumes. I followed the i

Re: SPAMMED

2009-05-18 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 06:09:56PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > Why are we getting spammed from this debian.asconix.com?? What? do you mean the StumpWM? I'm interested to know about it. cheers, -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny

2009-05-18 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:58:26PM -0400, Larry Irwin wrote: > I have the most recent updates to amd64 Lenny on my system. > > A Plantronics headset is plugged into the standard audio plugs for > speakers and microphone. > The sound comes to the headset, but the microphone refuses to work. For au

Re: No console from X

2009-05-18 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:01:44PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 14:15:52 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:45:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:26:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:28:42PM +0

promise sx6000

2009-05-18 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Anybody know if this ATA raid controller is supported on Debian 5.0? regards Steven

Re: problem with amule

2009-05-18 Thread JoeHill
javier wrote: > Hello. > I have a problem with amule. > When I run amule on the console, the output is: > > --- > jav...@debian:~$ amule > Violación de segmento > jav...@debian:~$ > --- > Translation: > Violación de segmento = segmentation fault ( viola

Where are you

2009-05-18 Thread Santhosh Loganathan
Debian, I'd like to add you to my travel network on WAYN -Santhosh Here is the link: http://www.wayn.com/-/3250?eid=22nxo3&m=17276209&c=466577193&fm_token=01A1E00CC67B3C6A4F809B9863CBD035&v=9E4CC268 What is WAYN?

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-18 Thread Dennis Creedan
Recompiling a vanilla kernel did the trick.  Thank you SO MUCH, Elimar and Florian!! ... and I think this message is without HTML ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

problem with amule

2009-05-18 Thread javier
Hello. I have a problem with amule. When I run amule on the console, the output is: --- jav...@debian:~$ amule Violación de segmento jav...@debian:~$ --- Translation: Violación de segmento = segmentation fault ( violation ) ??? I use debian unstable. Li

Re: iptables anxiety

2009-05-18 Thread gcrimp
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:49:19AM +0930, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > After installing arno-iptables-firewall (not on this site): > > /etc/arno-iptables-firewall$ grep -r IPTABLES * > firewall.conf:IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables" > /etc/arno-iptables-firewall$ Don't know anything about arno-iptables but f

Re: postfix with policyd-weight

2009-05-18 Thread kj
mouss wrote: note also that mailscanner isn't recommended with postfix. better use amavisd-new. Hi mouss, why do you say that? I don't have any experience with it, but I have friends and clients who use it with Postfix with great success and no problems, so I'm just curious. thanks --kj

SPAMMED

2009-05-18 Thread Raquel
Why are we getting spammed from this debian.asconix.com?? -- Raquel http://www.byraquel.com Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. --John F. Kennedy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

StumpWM: an excellent tiling window manager

2009-05-18 Thread Christoph Pilka
Hi folks, besides Ion, Wmii, Xmonad and Awesome there exists the absolutely excellent tiling window manager StumpWM. StumpWM is rock stable, fast and _really_ leightweight (some hundreds kbytes). For all of you interested in StumpWM, take a look at the howto I have written for installing StumpWM o

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:13:16PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> If you told us exactly what you want to achieve, we might be able > >> to help you better. The OP did say exactly what he wants - that the output of one command should be made available to the user so that he

iptables anxiety

2009-05-18 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
After installing arno-iptables-firewall (not on this site): /etc/arno-iptables-firewall$ grep -r IPTABLES * firewall.conf:IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables" /etc/arno-iptables-firewall$ Where are the rules? -- Miguel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

qcmessenger in 2.6.29-amd64 kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Davide Mancusi
In 2.6.26-amd64 there was a kernel module called qcmessenger, but it's not there in 2.6.29. Does anyone know what happened to it? Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: executing udev rules on _un_plug

2009-05-18 Thread Cameron Hutchison
cr...@got.net (i'll teach you to turn away.) writes: >Cameron Hutchison wrote: >CH> How can I write a udev rule to be run/matched when a device is >CH> unplugged? >CH> >CH> I have a 3G modem that I wrote a rule for to run "ifup ppp0" when the >CH> modem is plugged in. I would like to have "ifdow

Re: executing udev rules on _un_plug

2009-05-18 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Cameron Hutchison wrote: CH> How can I write a udev rule to be run/matched when a device is CH> unplugged? CH> CH> I have a 3G modem that I wrote a rule for to run "ifup ppp0" when the CH> modem is plugged in. I would like to have "ifdown ppp0" be automatically CH> run when the modem is unplugged

Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny

2009-05-18 Thread Larry Irwin
I have the most recent updates to amd64 Lenny on my system. A Plantronics headset is plugged into the standard audio plugs for speakers and microphone. The sound comes to the headset, but the microphone refuses to work. A Logitech QuickCam is plugged into a USB port. Nothing I have tried will

Re: mplayer slowness and kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 13:24:33 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > With the 2.6.29 kernel (from the linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 > package), playing a movie with mplayer uses up to 95% cpu. mplayer > becomes very slow and jerky, with "stuttering" sound, and "Your > system is TOO SLOW" warnings. No twi

Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-18 11:53 +0200, Tiago Saboga wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2009-05-18 02:25 +0200, Tiago Saboga wrote: >> >>> I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to >>> make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use >>> fetchmail to get

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Oscar Nuñez
Dotan Cohen wrote: I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I am using a Firefox extension to do this: http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2 However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions th

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-18 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Michael M. Moore wrote: ... > mcu...@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Default-Release "stable"; > APT::Cache-Limit 33554432; At some time in the past, APT::Default-Release worked only with the status-based release names (stable, testing, etc.) but didn't work (and didn't report any error me

Re: No sound on fresh 5.01

2009-05-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,19.May.09, 00:15:03, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > > > Google probably knows what modules you need. > Probably, but how I can know? By searching for the chip model ;) > > Did you check dmesg for errors, what about lspci -vvv? > Here what lspci -vvv says

Re: No console from X

2009-05-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 14:15:52 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:45:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:26:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:26:50 -100

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-18 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Like you said, it does require foreknowledge of the output. So there is >> no way to make a one-size-fits-all solution, be it a command-line trick >> or a program. >> >> If you told us exactly what you want to achieve, we might be able to >> help you better. >> > > I just wan

Re: Problem with pure-ftpd

2009-05-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,17.May.09, 21:37:27, William Lebel wrote: > Hi all! > > I got a problem, When i do /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start, It does nothing... I > installed the package but there is nothing going up [I have no experience with pure-ftpd] I'm not sure what you expect to see (and how you checked). Did y

Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
Paul Johnson writes: > Tiago Saboga wrote: > >> Thanks to everyone who answered. It's what I am doing right now for this >> list (via customization, as I am not yet comfortable with all gnus >> variables), but I am subscribed to more than 10 debian lists and I would >> not like to do this manual

Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Tiago Saboga wrote: > Thanks to everyone who answered. It's what I am doing right now for this > list (via customization, as I am not yet comfortable with all gnus > variables), but I am subscribed to more than 10 debian lists and I would > not like to do this manual configuration for each of them

Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-18 Thread AG
Adeodato Simó wrote: Hello, For those following testing, this is just a quick mail to let you know that KDE4 will become available in Squeeze with tonight's mirror pulse. (It's KDE 4.2.2, I'm told 4.2.3 will shortly be uploaded to unstable.) A note for compiz users: unfortunately it hasn't been

Re: Nvidia TNT Riva 2

2009-05-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:21, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,18.May.09, 09:24:33, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> On 09.05.09 13:45, brad wrote: >> > I have an older TNT Riva 2 Model 64 graphics card. Is it possible to >> > install the correct driver for this card in Debian Lenny? >> >> I'm afra

Re: I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

2009-05-18 Thread Hugh Lawson
Here's how I got flashplayer 10 working in Sid. 1. Downloaded install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz 2. tar xvzf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz 3. the installer program didn't seem to work properly, so by brute force I put the libflashplayer.so here: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashpla

Re: swapfile

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
Forwarding to the list... Charles Roberts writes: > Tiago Saboga wrote: >> steef writes: >> >>> hi list, >>> >>> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or >>> something like that) >>> starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any >>> trouble at all.

Re: No sound on fresh 5.01

2009-05-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Kelly: > Do > lspci -v I have posted the output in another thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: No sound on fresh 5.01

2009-05-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > Google probably knows what modules you need. Probably, but how I can know? > Did you check dmesg for errors, what about lspci -vvv? Here what lspci -vvv says relating to audio card: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738

Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Adeodato Simó wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> For those following testing, this is just a quick mail to let you know >>> that KDE4 will become available in Squeeze with tonight's mirror pulse. >>> (It's KDE 4.2.2, I'm told 4.2.3 will shortly be upload

Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

2009-05-18 Thread David Fox
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi you all, > > I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) which are not connected to > the network so I usually do upgrades by downloading weekly generated dvd iso > images, burning images to a dvd-rw and running apt-cdrom add && apt-

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
Freddy Freeloader writes: > Thorny wrote: >> On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:31:05 -0700, Freddy Freeloader posted: >>> In my mind there is no good reason for this fix to go into Sid >>> and then sit there until the dependencies are satisfied for that version >>> number. >>> >> >> Well, that is the s

Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-18 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Hello, Adeodato Simó schrieb: > For those following testing, this is just a quick mail to let you know > that KDE4 will become available in Squeeze with tonight's mirror pulse. > (It's KDE 4.2.2, I'm told 4.2.3 will shortly be uploaded to unstable.) > > A note for compiz users: unfortunately it ha

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-18 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 18 Mai 2009, Freddy Freeloader wrote: It is also standard flow to fix bugs that are found in testing, not to always wait until a new version comes down from Sid. No, that's not the Debian flow. That's the purpose for which testing exists. Those bugs not found while a package is in

Re: Lenny. Locales and Interface Language

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > Thanks for your time and such in-deep explanation! -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-18 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Thorny wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:31:05 -0700, Freddy Freeloader posted: [...] I have to ask why. Why is this left up every user of testing to fix this problem themselves when the fix is so simple? [...] One possible answer to this question would be that users of "testing" are sup

Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Adeodato Simó wrote: Hello, For those following testing, this is just a quick mail to let you know that KDE4 will become available in Squeeze with tonight's mirror pulse. (It's KDE 4.2.2, I'm told 4.2.3 will shortly be uploaded to unstable.) Cheers, Yes, but sadly 4.2 i

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Yes, it's surprising and frustrating. I think the way to go is the > python module cited in another message in this thread. You could make a > standalone converter and call it in your bash script. > Thanks. Actually, it looks like it comes with a standalone converter and I plan on experimenting

Re: Lenny. Locales and Interface Language

2009-05-18 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mark Goldshtein wrote: > 1. Is a default system locale independent from an interface > language? I mean, is it possible to change a default system > locale to whatever I like and there will be no harm to English > interface I have? [..] It depends on what you mean by "changing the locale". AFAIK

Re: swapfile

2009-05-18 Thread steef
<..> mm... guess it's a hardware problem: the hd maybe as roger I don't think so. No problems with older versions, and never had any other problem with the disk - nothing in the logs, no smart warnings, no data corruption. Tiago. thanks, tiago: ok i'll have a good look at

Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

2009-05-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2009/5/18 Nuno Magalhães > > My question is: can I fool apt in order to avoid burning dvd-rw each > week? > > Hopefully yes, what a waste!!! I only see the cd stuff in sources.list > after the install... then i delete it. You can surely loopmount iso > images... won't they have a device attached?

Ruby on Rails on Debian Lenny

2009-05-18 Thread Christoph Pilka
Hi folks, beeing a RoR developer I'm often installing a complete Ruby on Rails environment on a fresh Debian desktop. Some days ago I've documented a clean way to get a properly working Ruby on Rails installation on Lenny. By the way, it's the 40th how-to in the wiki ;-) http://debian.asconix.

Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Adeodato Simó wrote: > Hello, > > For those following testing, this is just a quick mail to let you know > that KDE4 will become available in Squeeze with tonight's mirror pulse. > (It's KDE 4.2.2, I'm told 4.2.3 will shortly be uploaded to unstable.) > > A note for compiz users: unfortunately i

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-18 Thread Thorny
On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:31:05 -0700, Freddy Freeloader posted: [...] > > I have to ask why. Why is this left up every user of testing to fix > this problem themselves when the fix is so simple? >[...] One possible answer to this question would be that users of "testing" are supposed to be able t

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
Dotan Cohen writes: >> Have you tried gnuhtml2latex? I have never tried it, having always >> dealed myself with the encoding before passing the file to html2ps. >> > > Thanks, I had never heard of gnuhtml2latex until now. However, running > it gives this output: > Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will

Re: switch between Gnome and KDE

2009-05-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2009/5/18 Tony van der Hoff > Hi, > > Running testing, I've just done an update via synaptic, the first time for > several months. I now find my desktop manager has switched from KDE to > Gnome, which starts up with various errors. > > How can I switch back to KDE, please, and how do I disable Gn

using debian dvd iso image with apt

2009-05-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all, I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) which are not connected to the network so I usually do upgrades by downloading weekly generated dvd iso images, burning images to a dvd-rw and running apt-cdrom add && apt-upgrade. My question is: can I fool apt in order to avoid burning

switch between Gnome and KDE

2009-05-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running testing, I've just done an update via synaptic, the first time for several months. I now find my desktop manager has switched from KDE to Gnome, which starts up with various errors. How can I switch back to KDE, please, and how do I disable Gnome permanently? -- Tony van der Ho

mplayer slowness and kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
With the 2.6.29 kernel (from the linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 package), playing a movie with mplayer uses up to 95% cpu. mplayer becomes very slow and jerky, with "stuttering" sound, and "Your system is TOO SLOW" warnings. No twiddling of mplayer's parameters helps. When I go back to the slightly olde

Re: Grub stage1 not found then Error 2 on reboot

2009-05-18 Thread Thorny
On Sun, 17 May 2009 14:25:20 +, Andrew Malcolmson posted: > I had a working Lenny install which I somehow hosed while experimenting > with Grub. On boot, the message displays 'Grub loading stage 1.5' then > 'Error 2'. > It might be easier to speculate if you'd tell exactly what you did whil

Re: I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

2009-05-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> >>> Mark Allums wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Mark Allums wrote: >> >> flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again.  I don't think it has >> any other Sid dep

Re: how to fix where grub boots from

2009-05-18 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 18 May 2009 09:01:34 +0200, Klistvud posted: [...] > The first thing I'd try is make the SATA drive bootable (or "active") and > clearing the "active/bootable" flag from the ATA drive. This is easiest > done by means of a partition editor. But first, check your boot sequence > in the BIOS:

Re: Nvidia TNT Riva 2

2009-05-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Mon,18.May.09, 09:24:33, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 09.05.09 13:45, brad wrote: > > > I have an older TNT Riva 2 Model 64 graphics card. Is it possible to > > > install the correct driver for this card in Debian Lenny? > > > > I'm afraid that even legacy drivers in lenny do not supp

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
Dotan Cohen writes: >> I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps? >> > > It does not support UTF-8. Have you tried gnuhtml2latex? I have never tried it, having always dealed myself with the encoding before passing the file to html2ps. Tiago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Have you tried gnuhtml2latex? I have never tried it, having always > dealed myself with the encoding before passing the file to html2ps. > Thanks, I had never heard of gnuhtml2latex until now. However, running it gives this output: Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entit

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> On http://www.unicodetools.com/#html they mention a tool called iconv. > Maybe you can convert your utf-8 encoded text to whatever html2ps can > handle with iconv? > No, it needs to remain UTF-8. Thanks, though. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Samuel Bächler
I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I am using a Firefox extension to do this: http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2 However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions that I have looked int

Re: gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:54:52PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Thanks for the reply. But rxvt-unicode doesn't even render the > Devanagari characters. Three other shots in the dark: mlterm xterm xiterm -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-05-18 02:25 +0200, Tiago Saboga wrote: > >> I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to >> make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use >> fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of >> pr

Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
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Re: swapfile

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
steef writes: > Tiago Saboga wrote: >> steef writes: >>> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or >>> something like that) >>> starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any >>> trouble at all. >> It's happening too, exactly the same. That's just on

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Samuel Bächler
I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps? And then ps2pdf... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps? > It does not support UTF-8. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Tiago Saboga
I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps? Tiago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to fix where grub boots from [solved]

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 18 May 2009 03:01 am, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 18. 05. 2009 00:23:05 je Mark Neidorff napisal(a): > > Hi all, > > > > The first thing I'd try is make the SATA drive bootable (or "active") > and clearing the "active/bootable" flag from the ATA drive. This is > easiest done by means of a part

Re: Nvidia TNT Riva 2

2009-05-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.May.09, 09:24:33, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 09.05.09 13:45, brad wrote: > > I have an older TNT Riva 2 Model 64 graphics card. Is it possible to > > install the correct driver for this card in Debian Lenny? > > I'm afraid that even legacy drivers in lenny do not support that car

Re: install proprietary nvidia driver without xorg.conf?

2009-05-18 Thread 明覺
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Michael M. Moore wrote: > I thought I'd try the proprietary nvidia driver (currently using 'nv'), > so I've been reading through the how-to on the wiki here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > I'm a little concerned, though, that it might be out-o

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> If you don't mind a hands-on approach, there's this Python converter Pisa > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/572160/ > Thank you. If the script were Python and not Bash that would probably be the exact solution that I need. However, as Python does not support other features of the script (a

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Konqueror wouldn't be from the command line.  If you are willing to use > konqueror, then just 'print' it to a pdf file.  It works great. > The problem is that I am doing this from within a script, so that wouldn't work. I thought maybe with dbus it might be possible. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Aniruddha [2009.05.18.0954 +0200]: > Thanks for the answer. And what about downloading an occasional > package from packages.debian.org? (like the latest swfdec) is this > more preferable then apt-pinning? This is more or less identical to pinning, except you are simply doing it manua

Re: gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,17.May.09, 01:39:07, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000-Oct

Re: gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,17.May.09, 01:39:07, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000-Oct

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-18 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:57 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > By the way, even though one can mix testing and unstable, I suggest > to avoid that. http://backports.org contains packages backported > from testing and compiled for the stable distribution, which > integrate better with the system and ar

Re: swapfile

2009-05-18 Thread steef
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,18.May.09, 07:08:35, steef wrote: suggested?? and, indeed, how trustworthy is smartmontools (smartctl -H /dev/hdx) ? According to the Google study (about hdd failures) a bad result from S.M.A.R.T. is almost always bad, but a good result doesn't mean the

Re: Nvidia TNT Riva 2

2009-05-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.05.09 13:45, brad wrote: > I have an older TNT Riva 2 Model 64 graphics card. Is it possible to > install the correct driver for this card in Debian Lenny? I'm afraid that even legacy drivers in lenny do not support that card. TNT2 was working with 71.* driver series that aren't available fo

Lenny. Locales and Interface Language

2009-05-18 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! Would you, please, help me to explain how locales work in Lenny? I have checked docs but something remains unclear. If you have time, please, answer a few questions below: 1. Is a default system locale independent from an interface language? I mean, is it possible to change a default

Re: swapfile

2009-05-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.May.09, 07:08:35, steef wrote: > suggested?? and, indeed, how trustworthy is smartmontools (smartctl -H > /dev/hdx) ? According to the Google study (about hdd failures) a bad result from S.M.A.R.T. is almost always bad, but a good result doesn't mean the hdd is ok. Regards, Andrei

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.May.09, 00:48:44, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > > > It seems resolved in unstable, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525183 > > I have rebuilt the package from source as suggested by a user in that > bug report, but now

Re: how to fix where grub boots from

2009-05-18 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 18. 05. 2009 00:23:05 je Mark Neidorff napisal(a): > Hi all, > > A system that I am building has 2 HDDs--one is EIDE the other is > SATA. > Etch > is installed on the EIDE drive and an almost complete update from > Etch > to > Lenny is installed on the SATA drive. Normally grub boots fr