make deb file

to make a deb file from source i have to run make checkinstall, but how about a deb files containing scripts to be distributed to various directories? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

Debian Lenny install failing on Dell Latitude CPi A366ST during hardware detect phase

Hello everyone,/ I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi A366ST, currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does Win98. However, when I try to install Debian on it, the install hangs right after "Detecting PC card services". At first, I thought this might have to

color management?

heya list. ive been working with linux on adjusting my photos for the last 3 weeks or so. since ive started ive noticed that the way the photos look on my linux laptop are CONSIDERABLY different then the color that is shown on a windows machine. now i would not worry too much about this if it were

Im Live on webcam rite now!

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Re: Xorg is very slow.

Sorry, by "cannot", I did not mean I had any problem, it is just company policy On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:00:58PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> Really? I am sorry, I did searched about "xorg 7.4 2.6.18", nothing >> useful

Re: kmymoney & QIF vs OFX

On Sun August 9 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > If you want to find out what went wrong, please post the output of: > > apt-cache policy kmymoney2-plugin-aqbanking kmymoney2-plugin-aqbanking: Installed: 0.9.6beta-5 Candidate: 0.9.6beta-5 Version table: *** 0.9.6beta-5 0 500 http://ftp

Re: lzma Vs lzip ?

Le dimanche 09 août 2009 23:09:20, ow...@netptc.net a écrit : > > Original Message > >From: thomas.preudho...@celest.fr > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: lzma Vs lzip ? > >Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:28:34 +0200 > > > >>Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:07:52, Mark a écrit : > >>>

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

Le dimanche 09 août 2009 19:38:53, S. Fishpaste a écrit : > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a écrit : > >> I can't figure out what's wrong but from searching for a solution it's > >> seems t

Re: kmymoney & QIF vs OFX

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 14:09:17 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun August 9 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > KMyMoney2 version 0.9.x (in Sid) can import OFX files directly. > > > > The version of KMyMoney2 in Lenny should be able to open OFX files using > > the aqbanking plugin, package kmymone

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

All three solutions don't work: 1) uncomment in /etc/inputrc 2) xterm -vb 3) /etc/modprobe.d/00local.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian 5.0.2 missing KDE

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:29:15 +0200, Hans wrote in message : > I downloaded the > isoand > burned a CD. > After installation was completed and the computer (ASUS Eee-701) had > the TWM window manager. > I am NOT int

Re: lzma Vs lzip ?

> > > > Original Message >From: thomas.preudho...@celest.fr >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: lzma Vs lzip ? >Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:28:34 +0200 > >>Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:07:52, Mark a écrit : >>> Thomas Preud'homme wrote: >>> > Dead list, >>> >>> I know I look like c

Re: Debian 5.0.2 missing KDE

On 2009-08-09 22:11 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hans Gatu: >> >> I downloaded the >> isoand >> burned a CD. >> After installation was completed and the computer (ASUS Eee-701) had the TWM >> window manager. >> I

Re: lzma Vs lzip ?

On 2009-08-09 14:19:03 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > So what is the difference between lzma and lzip ? They are two different formats. Anyway lzma is obsolete and has been replaced xz, provided by the xz-utils package (still in experimental): http://packages.debian.org/experimental/xz-util

Re: Debian 5.0.2 missing KDE

Hans Gatu: > > I downloaded the > isoand > burned a CD. > After installation was completed and the computer (ASUS Eee-701) had the TWM > window manager. > I am NOT interrested in using TWM. > I expect the KDE to sh

Re: Debian 5.0.2 missing KDE

Hans Gatu wrote: I downloaded the iso and burned a CD. After installation was completed and the computer (ASUS Eee-701) had the TWM window manager. I am NOT interrested in using TWM. I expect the KDE to show

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:45:28 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 18:11:23, S. Fishpaste a écrit : >> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a é

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:33:13 +0200, Thierry Chatelet in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Sunday 09 August 2009 18:11:23 S. Fishpaste wrote: >> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a écrit :

Re: kmymoney & QIF vs OFX

On Sun August 9 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > KMyMoney2 version 0.9.x (in Sid) can import OFX files directly. > > The version of KMyMoney2 in Lenny should be able to open OFX files using > the aqbanking plugin, package kmymoney2-plugin-aqbanking. (I do not > recall having any problems importing OFX

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a écrit : >> I can't figure out what's wrong but from searching for a solution it's >> seems to have happened to others >> >> On a P3 Toshiba Laptop fresh insta

Re: kmymoney & QIF vs OFX

On Sun August 9 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > KMyMoney2 version 0.9.x (in Sid) can import OFX files directly. > > The version of KMyMoney2 in Lenny should be able to open OFX files using > the aqbanking plugin, package kmymoney2-plugin-aqbanking. (I do not > recall having any problems importing OFX

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

Le dimanche 09 août 2009 18:11:23, S. Fishpaste a écrit : > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a écrit : > >> I can't figure out what's wrong but from searching for a solution it's > >> seems t

Debian 5.0.2 missing KDE

I downloaded the isoand burned a CD. After installation was completed and the computer (ASUS Eee-701) had the TWM window manager. I am NOT interrested in using TWM. I expect the KDE to show up. Fix the iso ! /

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

On Sunday 09 August 2009 18:11:23 S. Fishpaste wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a écrit : > >> I can't figure out what's wrong but from searching for a solution it's > >> seems to ha

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a écrit : >> I can't figure out what's wrong but from searching for a solution it's >> seems to have happened to others >> >> On a P3 Toshiba Laptop fresh insta

Re: problem with installing wifi driver from source

In The Name Of God compassion merciful Thanks alot for your attentions ; Package is iwlwifi-1.2.25 to install wireless card driver .http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi In install file in The package has been said : Now you install the firmware. First, determine where to install the file.

Re: kmymoney & QIF vs OFX

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:26:21 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > my bank only exports OFX file format which Kmymoney doesn't recognize. KMyMoney2 version 0.9.x (in Sid) can import OFX files directly. The version of KMyMoney2 in Lenny should be able to open OFX files using the aqbanking plugin, pa

with gnome: xterm "no file or folder of this type

Hello, My system: Debian, Sid, Gnome, kernel 2.6.30 At this moment I encounter a strange problem: (I note that I removed gnome-terminal "and" xterm "on my system. I use only roxterm.) In the menu I add mocp (which is in the package moc, common music on line) I choose "Application in a terminal" t

Re: mke2fs checking bad blocks

On 2009-08-09 04:51, hce wrote: Hi, I have beening running following command to check an external USB 1 TB disk for more than 15 hours. I am not clear if the right corner of 244190007 is the maxinum blocks it should check or not. If it is, it seems that it has already exceeded the total blocks,

Re: Package Version Numbers

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 14:48 +1000, Jaime Tarrant wrote: [... snip ...] > You may, although it is not really essential if you also have release > preferences configured as above, put the following in > /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Default-Release "stable"; Bug #97564 is finally fixed in apt 0.7.22,

Re: Package Version Numbers

Jaime Tarrant wrote: >* Jeff Grossman (j...@stikman.com) wrote: >> I am running Debian Stable on a server. I downloaded the source >> package for PHP so I could remove the Suhosin patch. It was causing a >> lot of problems with my scripts. I have a question regarding what I >> should call the

Re: mke2fs checking bad blocks

On 2009-08-09 05:25, hce wrote: Thanks Sven. Will it be any problem if I quit it by pressing Ctr-c? If I understand it correctly, the mke2fs -c is only check the bad block, not write or format the disk, right? No problem. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

On 2009-08-09 04:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,09.Aug.09, 05:32:55, Long Wind wrote: I use sarge When I reboot/halt, the speaker beeps Is there any way to config speaker not to beep? Does your system beep whenever you trigger a shutdown or halt? The only way I know is to disable the pc spe

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:34:48, S. Fishpaste a écrit : > I can't figure out what's wrong but from searching for a solution it's > seems to have happened to others > > On a P3 Toshiba Laptop fresh install of Lenny -- I can't get the Xserver > to start. It just says no screens found yadda, yadd

Re: lzma Vs lzip ?

Le dimanche 09 août 2009 15:07:52, Mark a écrit : > Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > Dead list, > > I know I look like crap, but it's just an hangover.. I'm not dead yet :) > > > I've just discovered the package lzip whose description says: "Lzip is a > > lossless data compressor based on the LZMA alg

Re: Formating disk

hce: > > I am going to create ext3 file system to an external USB HDD for being > used as an backup storage. I am not clear if it is necessary to > reserve super user blocks (5% by default), could you please advise? I do that only for filesystems which make the system (partly) unusable when they

xserver-xorg won't start

I can't figure out what's wrong but from searching for a solution it's seems to have happened to others On a P3 Toshiba Laptop fresh install of Lenny -- I can't get the Xserver to start. It just says no screens found yadda, yadda. I don't have any xorg.conf file to dpkg-reconfigure either.

kmymoney & QIF vs OFX

my bank only exports OFX file format which Kmymoney doesn't recognize. then I see that: http://financialsoft.about.com/od/softwaretitle1/a/q05_qif.htm Quicken Deluxe 2005 Intuit made 100 changes to Quicken Premiere Home and Business 2005 based on consumer response. Among these changes is the disc

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:20:13 +0200, Long Wind wrote: > Then, how to disable beep of terminal? I run the command from xterm or > tty > I really don't know which manual I should read. For the console, try putting "set bell-style none" in /etc/inputrc. You can uncomment it in Debian's default input

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

> > > > Original Message >From: jo...@pobox.com >To: umarz...@gmail.com >Subject: Re: WRT54G WAN access failure >Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 07:40:18 + > >> >>Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >>> >>> Well, sometime the VPI/VCI value had to be correct for your ISP >especially >>> if the router is no

Re: lzma Vs lzip ?

Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Dead list, I know I look like crap, but it's just an hangover.. I'm not dead yet :) I've just discovered the package lzip whose description says: "Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with (..) a user interface similar to the one of gzip o

Formating disk

Hi, I am going to create ext3 file system to an external USB HDD for being used as an backup storage. I am not clear if it is necessary to reserve super user blocks (5% by default), could you please advise? If the super user block is not needed, I guess I should use following command, is it correc

lzma Vs lzip ?

Dead list, I've just discovered the package lzip whose description says: "Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with (..) a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2." I already have lzma installed, whose part of his description is: "This package provides a g

Re: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: USB disk fails to show at initramfs

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I installed linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 on Sid and got an error: In the very beginning at the initramfs phase only one of my 2 USB disks shows up, causing the boot to fail because partitions from that drive are in /etc/fstab. It's always the same one that fails to show

Re: mondoarchive with 2.6.30 debian kernel

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Has anybody used mondoarchive with the latest 2.6.30 Debian kernel? For me it fails with that he cannot figure out the filesystem that is used for initrd. That's because the phrase that mindi looks for in the krnel image to see what fs initrd is using has change

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

On Sun,09.Aug.09, 07:19:20, Long Wind wrote: > On 8/9/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > Hhhm, you might get away by disabling the beep of your terminal. Are you > > running the command at the linux console or from a terminal emulator? > > > > Regards, > > > > Andrei > > > > Then, how to disable

Re: (picture) image manipulation program

Adrian Levi wrote: I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and dirty image manipulation program. Main features I'm looking for are:- re-size(smaller), rotate, convert to ... I realise there is the gimp but it's probably overkill for what I want and it's features are more a

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

On 8/9/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Hhhm, you might get away by disabling the beep of your terminal. Are you > running the command at the linux console or from a terminal emulator? > > Regards, > > Andrei > Then, how to disable beep of terminal? I run the command from xterm or tty I really don

Re: mke2fs checking bad blocks

Thanks Sven. Will it be any problem if I quit it by pressing Ctr-c? If I understand it correctly, the mke2fs -c is only check the bad block, not write or format the disk, right? By the way, it has not reached the maximum blocks yet, but it seems it need to run another 3 days to finishe it. I canno

Re: mke2fs checking bad blocks

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 19:51 +1000, hce wrote: > Hi, > > I have beening running following command to check an external USB 1 TB > disk for more than 15 hours. I am not clear if the right corner of > 244190007 is the maxinum blocks it should check or not. If it is, it > seems that it has already e

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

On Sun,09.Aug.09, 05:50:33, Long Wind wrote: > by "reboot/halt" I mean the command below: > > shutdown -h now > or > shutdown -r now Hhhm, you might get away by disabling the beep of your terminal. Are you running the command at the linux console or from a terminal emulator? Regards, Andrei P.S

Re: mke2fs checking bad blocks

On 2009-08-09 11:51 +0200, hce wrote: > Hi, > > I have beening running following command to check an external USB 1 TB > disk for more than 15 hours. I am not clear if the right corner of > 244190007 is the maxinum blocks it should check or not. If it is, it > seems that it has already exceeded th

mke2fs checking bad blocks

Hi, I have beening running following command to check an external USB 1 TB disk for more than 15 hours. I am not clear if the right corner of 244190007 is the maxinum blocks it should check or not. If it is, it seems that it has already exceeded the total blocks, but it is still running. What shou

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

On Sun,09.Aug.09, 05:32:55, Long Wind wrote: > I use sarge > When I reboot/halt, the speaker beeps > Is there any way to config speaker not to beep? Does your system beep whenever you trigger a shutdown or halt? The only way I know is to disable the pc speaker completely (is there a more elegant

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

by "reboot/halt" I mean the command below: shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now On 8/9/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,09.Aug.09, 10:34:49, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > BIOS > > > > http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > Why do you assume it's the beep at power-up? The OP specific

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

On Sun,09.Aug.09, 10:34:49, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > BIOS > > http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Why do you assume it's the beep at power-up? The OP specifically mentioned 'halt'. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

BIOS http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: About Image File.

Hallo, the IntelCore-Cuo Prozessor you using is, as i khnow, a 64-bit one. So you may use the amd64 image or net-inst. so long klaus Am Samstag, den 08.08.2009, 23:10 -0700 schrieb amar sv: > Sir/Madam, > I am using Intel Core Duo processor. I am not sure to use which > of the Debian Imag

how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

I use sarge When I reboot/halt, the speaker beeps Is there any way to config speaker not to beep? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: About Image File.

On Sat,08.Aug.09, 23:10:08, amar sv wrote: > *Sir/Madam,* > * I am using Intel Core Duo processor. I am not sure to use which of > the Debian Image File for Download. > Please help me for the Right choice. > * > > *Further Details of my System.* > * Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU >T2450 @ 2.00

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

On 2009-08-09 02:41, Joel Roth wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-07 21:47, Joel Roth wrote: I'd like to ask for help setting up a used router for my brother. First of all, I get usual internet services without the router: Computer ---> DSL modem I have problems with basic configuration:

Re: (picture) image manipulation program

On 09 Aug 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:30 +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > > Adrian Levi wrote: > > > I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and > > > dirty image manipulation program. > > > > My favourite is mogrify > > I'm interested too but it

Re: (picture) image manipulation program

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:35 +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Tim Beauregard wrote: > > Adrian Levi wrote: > >> I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and > >> dirty image manipulation program. > > > > My favourite is mogrify > > oops i forgot to say all part of the imagema

Re: (picture) image manipulation program

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:30 +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Adrian Levi wrote: > > I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and > > dirty image manipulation program. > > My favourite is mogrify I'm interested too but it seems to be unavailable for Ubuntu 9.04 that my laptop

Re: (picture) image manipulation program

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Beauregard wrote: > Adrian Levi wrote: >> I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and >> dirty image manipulation program. > > My favourite is mogrify Way too early for me to be sending emails sorry! $ mogrify -geometry 64

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 12:06:31PM -0400, Jeff Soules wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-07 21:47, Joel Roth wrote: > >> > >> I'd like to ask for help setting up a used router for my > >> brother. > >> > >> First of all, I get usual internet services withou

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

Charlie wrote: > On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 02:47:18 + Joel Roth shared > this with us all: > >I have problems with basic configuration: > > > >Computer ---> Router ---> DSL modem > > I don't know anything about this kind of thing but will have a stab at > it: > > Shouldn't it be Modem > Rou

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-07 21:47, Joel Roth wrote: > > I'd like to ask for help setting up a used router for my > > brother. > > > > First of all, I get usual internet services without the > > router: > > > > Computer ---> DSL modem > > > > I have problems with basic configuration: >

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure

Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > Well, sometime the VPI/VCI value had to be correct for your ISP especially > if the router is not provided by your ISP. I had a problem once connecting > with DLink router with its default setting. The DSL modem is provided by the ISP. It provides DHCP for the comput

Re: (picture) image manipulation program

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Beauregard wrote: > Adrian Levi wrote: >> I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and >> dirty image manipulation program. > > My favourite is mogrify oops i forgot to say all part of the imagemagick package. -BEGIN PGP

Re: (picture) image manipulation program

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Levi wrote: > I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and > dirty image manipulation program. My favourite is mogrify > Main features I'm looking for are:- > re-size(smaller), $ geometry -640x480 grin.jpg > rotate, $

(picture) image manipulation program

I'd like to hear some responses for what people use as a quick and dirty image manipulation program. Main features I'm looking for are:- re-size(smaller), rotate, convert to ... I realise there is the gimp but it's probably overkill for what I want and it's features are more along the lines of pho