gotmail oddity

2009-07-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
I put together a .gotmailrc file as documented in the gotmail man page and ran gotmail. The message I got back was no action specified on form page. What would be doing that? So far as I can tell, there is a connect that does happen before this message comes up too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-10 Thread lee
Hi, simple question: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible? Use schedtool and assign it to a particular CPU (core)? Fine, but how do I keep this core free from other tasks? Read /Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt --- fine, this tells me that I can create group

Re: debian live with local repo problem

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:16:15AM +0200, emanuele nespolo wrote: > Hi Tzafrir ! > > Many thanks ! Well, actually I've already tried that way following > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Cache_Packages, but, I get these > errors when starting the daemon > > Starting Apt-Cacher: apt-cache

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:24:03PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > Fellow Debians, > > I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and a > shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't help > with desktop app configs. > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Expe

Re: Beer

2009-07-10 Thread Andrzej Bozek
Nick, yes I would like to go, but I guess I dont know this it.. If you can get me any idea in respect to reference point from old times ;) Andrzej 2009/7/11 Nick Hastings : > Hi Andrzej, > > do you have plans for tonight? I'm going to Finlaggans (nice bar in > Amakubo). It would be cool if you c

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-10 10:25 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: dpkg-buildpackage will compile the code and create a .deb package that you can then install. dpkg-buildpackage is a script with an associated man page. Only prob

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-10 Thread John Hasler
steve writes: > Is there a non-web-based UDE? Yes. It's called "The X Window System". Run all your "apps" remotely on one machine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-10 Thread SteveM
Fellow Debians, I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and a shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't help with desktop app configs. What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same kicker applets, same konsole profiles, same amarok

Re: Can VMware ever talk to USB scanners?

2009-07-10 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:11:33 -0400, I asked: > Has anyone here gotten a USB scanner to work from VMware 2? On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:55:41 -0700, Kevin Ross replied: > I can't help you with your VMWare problems, but have you tried > VirtualBox instead of VMWare? No, I haven't gotten around to tha

console black after x

2009-07-10 Thread whollygoat
After starting an X server, either with startx or with xdm, all the vt's go black. I can login and type commands, but I cannot see what I am doing. Switching back to the graphical console works fine (Alt+F7). Googling leads me to believe that this is a driver problem, but haven't helped me figur

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:22:07PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > tar is not compression, it's an archive (tar = Tape ARchive). You generally > > zip tarballs with either bzip (*.tar.bz) or gzip (*.tar.gz or *.tgz). I > > don't know if KDE defaults to one of these. > > > > The file manager entry sa

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

2009-07-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jörg-Volker Peetz: > > First, let's see why aptitude wants do de-install a package: > > aptitude why-not $ sudo aptitude install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing

Re: E7400 - i386 and AMD64

2009-07-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-10 23:23 +0200, Kelly Harding wrote: > 2009/7/10 Dirk Neumann : >> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:15:27 -0300 >> "Pablo Armando" wrote: > >>> >>> # cat /proc/cpuinfo >>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca >>> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse

Re: E7400 - i386 and AMD64

2009-07-10 Thread Kelly Harding
2009/7/10 Dirk Neumann : > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:15:27 -0300 > "Pablo Armando" wrote: >> >> # cat /proc/cpuinfo >> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca >> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm >                        

xdm login infinite loop

2009-07-10 Thread whollygoat
I can't login in graphically. My password is accepted, the screen goes blank and flickers like when it is starting up a session, then just returns me to the login display. I'm using xfce and xdm on a thinkpad i series laptop. I know my password is being accepted because the screen behaviour is d

Re: Can VMware ever talk to USB scanners?

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin Ross
I can't help you with your VMWare problems, but have you tried VirtualBox instead of VMWare? -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

2009-07-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
First, let's see why aptitude wants do de-install a package: aptitude why-not -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: E7400 - i386 and AMD64

2009-07-10 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:15:27 -0300 "Pablo Armando" wrote: > Hello, > > We have a new server with an Intel Core 2 Duo E7400. So only 2 CPU > exist. > > When we run Debian lenny AMD64 on it, we see this output from /proc/cpuinfo: > > # uname -a > Linux srv 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu May 28

Re: ext4 - 52.2% non-contiguous

2009-07-10 Thread Miles Bader
Miles Bader writes: > Actually shouldn't ext4 do _better_ (than ext3 etc) in such a case, > since it does allocate-on-write, allowing it to allocate contiguous > storage despite the user writes being small? btw, I meant allocate-on-write-to-the-disk, aka delayed allocation... -Miles -- Quotati

E7400 - i386 and AMD64

2009-07-10 Thread Pablo Armando
Hello, We have a new server with an Intel Core 2 Duo E7400. So only 2 CPU exist. When we run Debian lenny AMD64 on it, we see this output from /proc/cpuinfo: # uname -a Linux srv 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu May 28 21:28:49 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0

Re: No audio after recent upgrade

2009-07-10 Thread Kent West
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,09.Jul.09, 14:31:13, Kent West wrote: It's a third machine of mine, so I haven't worried about it; I've got other things to worry about. But thought I'd mention it, just for the record. This might be a different issue. Make sure you have phonon-backend-xine

connecting grub's uuids

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Scott
Debian sid. Through some update grub is now using uuid's. What else do I change so grub will boot automatically? fstab? Or where is this change documentated? I haven't found the right Google keywords yet. TIA, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

connecting lenny to active directory

2009-07-10 Thread shawn foisy
Hi all, I am a student intern here and I have been give a task of setting up a linux server for the office, and am trying to get it set up with active directory, but I keep getting this error when i try the command net ads join -W metis -S domaincontroller -U myuser ERROR: Failed to join domain:

Re: apt GPGP key expired?

2009-07-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-10 15:03 +0200, Zachary Uram wrote: > How do I fix this error, when I run 'apt-get update' it says suddenly: > > W: GPG error: http://debian.mirrors.pair.com squeeze Release: The > following signatures were invalid: > KEYEXPIRED 1246455239 Use a different mirror, debian.mirrors.pair.co

Re: Best Video Editor?

2009-07-10 Thread thveillon.debian
>Thomas H. George wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:32:38PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Thomas H. George wrote: >>> A year ago I did a little video editing using cinelerra. When I tried >>> again yesterday it wasn't working properly, running about a single frame >>> per second. >>> >>>

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-10 Thread Pete Boyd
This is how I do it on Debian Etch: RAID: http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#raid LVM: http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#lvm The same process works fine for Debian Lenny (I just haven't gotten my Lenny guide written yet) apart

Re: Best Video Editor?

2009-07-10 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:32:38PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > A year ago I did a little video editing using cinelerra. When I tried > > again yesterday it wasn't working properly, running about a single frame > > per second. > > > > I checked the web site but s

Re: Best Video Editor?

2009-07-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Thomas H. George wrote: > A year ago I did a little video editing using cinelerra. When I tried > again yesterday it wasn't working properly, running about a single frame > per second. > > I checked the web site but saw no reference to a users group. My memory > is that when I used it previous

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 06:06:21AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > what is the best tool to build debian packages from source that one > have downloaded with > > apt-get source package-name # apt-get build-dep package-name > and changed the downloaded source? Use "debuild" or "debian/rules"

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:24:19AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. > What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know which > one to use? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#_archive_and_co

apt GPGP key expired?

2009-07-10 Thread Zachary Uram
How do I fix this error, when I run 'apt-get update' it says suddenly: W: GPG error: http://debian.mirrors.pair.com squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1246455239 Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Best Video Editor?

2009-07-10 Thread Thomas H. George
A year ago I did a little video editing using cinelerra. When I tried again yesterday it wasn't working properly, running about a single frame per second. I checked the web site but saw no reference to a users group. My memory is that when I used it previously a fork was developing to an alter

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Avoid rar, it is non-free. > Thank you for the warning, Andrei, but I am more interested in the technical aspects to learn about the formats. But your argument is valid and I may decide not to use non-free software for this use case. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibb

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
> tar is not compression, it's an archive (tar = Tape ARchive). You generally > zip tarballs with either bzip (*.tar.bz) or gzip (*.tar.gz or *.tgz). I > don't know if KDE defaults to one of these. > The file manager entry says Compress -> As Zip/Tar so I suppose that the tarballs are compressed w

Re: PSI hangs when I try typing.

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Gom
Which version? May be related to QT libs usage, try upgrading those. That's the way I fixed similar problem in sid few days ago. Regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

installing alsa-driver-linuxant under Debian

2009-07-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, I've reported a problem in the linmodems mailing-list, but perhaps someone can help me here. This is quite urgent (I hope to have some answer before tomorrow). I'm trying to build alsa-driver-linuxant on a Debian/unstable machine (amd64). I got the alsa-driver-linuxant Debian package from the

Re: How to activate VESA mode on boot-up?

2009-07-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert Latest wrote: Hello folks, recently I accidentally hosed my old kernel image (it was something that ended on -k7). The only reason I'd kept it was because I couldn't get anything but the ugly boxy 80-by-something text mode console fonts to work with the 2.6.26-x-686 line of Debian prepack

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,10.Jul.09, 11:24:19, Dotan Cohen wrote: > KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. > What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know which > one to use? Avoid rar, it is non-free. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't und

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-10 10:25 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: > >> dpkg-buildpackage will compile the code and create a .deb package that you >> can then install. > > dpkg-buildpackage is a script with an associated man page. Only > problem is I can't find it on my Lenn

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-10 Thread Avi Greenbury
Dotan Cohen wrote: KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know which one to use? tar is not compression, it's an archive (tar = Tape ARchive). You generally zip tarballs with either bzip (*.tar.bz) or gz

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Kevin Ross wrote: dpkg-buildpackage will compile the code and create a .deb package that you can then install. dpkg-buildpackage is a script with an associated man page. Only problem is I can't find it on my Lenny system. Is it part of another package? build-essential may

KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know which one to use? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: no xorg.conf on debian5.02

2009-07-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
abdelkader belahcene: > > I was suprised by the xorg on debian 5.02 (the latest release). There is no > file xorg.conf in /etc/X11. X.org nowadays tries to autoconfigure itself. If everything works, you don't need an xorg.conf anymore. If it doesn't, you can write a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf wher

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:45:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach thveillon.debian >> [2009.07.09.2215 +0200]: >>> It is possible to boot from mdadm software raid1 with grub2, in Lenny >>> and Squeeze. But I would worry about the lvm, I don't think this is as >>