Re: xen pci passthrough 2.6.26.2

2009-08-17 Thread Marc Schröder
Am Montag 17 August 2009 18:39:22 schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: > > looks like it's working, but obviously not. Have you seen this: > > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Assign_hardware_to_DomU_with_PCIBack_as_m >odule no, i dont. but this describe how i use pciback if this is build as a module.

Grub Error 21 on Lenovo S10e

2009-08-17 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Hi all, before few days I have installed Squeeze on my new Lenovo S10e. After rebooting I have got Grub error 21. Grub menu.lst and fstab was little mess up, I assume it was because the usb installation. I edited them but anyway I got the same error. I'm not experienced Linux user but it seems t

Problem with ethernet connection

2009-08-17 Thread Ryan H
Hi, I am new to debian and am having trouble enabling my ethernet connection. During the installation, the installer could not configure DHCP connection. I chose to not set up the connection at that time. After installation was complete, I noticed that the internet wasn't working over my etherne

Re: GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Marshall
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:25:44AM +0100, AG wrote: [snip] > Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver is started automagically whilst I > have to kill gnome-screensaver and start xscreensaver manually. If you want to stop gnome-screensaver from starting automatically, setting the the gconf pref /apps/gnom

Re: Installing a Wireless Card

2009-08-17 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:33:48 -0500 Neal Hogan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM, wrote: > > I would like some help in completing the installation with a wireless pcmia > > card. > > I just installed 502 from CDs on a Dell laptop. I did not have the Belkin > > wireless pcmcia card (HSM mod

Re: Switching from Arch to Debian Sid.

2009-08-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>> 1. How stable is AMD64 Sid in general?  I'd like to hear users' >> opinions on this. Sid = unstable. I've been using it for over a year now (as a desktop system), no big deals. >> 2. Are Debian packages compiled with optimisations (eg -03)?  How much >> of a difference would this make to perfo

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-17 Thread Alice Ferrazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fox wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alice > Ferrazzi wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> apt-get install debian-cake > > The following packages are BROKEN: > > debian-cake: > >dependency problems - debian-cake depends

Re: Pb with install on USB stick

2009-08-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:33:26 +0200, Pierre-Jacques Legay wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a new computer (no OS inside) and would like to install a fresh Debian > Lenny 5.0.2 from an usb dongle. > After following a How To ( > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en ) given in a >

Dual-head display with video-intel stopped working on unstable update.

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Vaughan
I run unstable and update daily. Last Friday, I happened to log out and log in again---I don't do that every day---and that caused the X server to restart. When it came back up, I noticed that only one of my two monitors had any signal going to it. I'm using the integrated intel video on my mot

Recovering removed .tex files

2009-08-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Today I removed some .tex files with the `rm' command. They were not very important, of course, but now I'm thinking that I'd had better wait before removing them. I sometimes heard about the possibility of recovering erased files. Is that true? I tried `foremost' with no success. Any hint app

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-17 Thread Dave Williams
> Happy Birthday indeed, Debian. > In another month or so I'll mark ten years with Debian. I recall > downloading 8 floppy images and then doing a net install. Over dialup! Yeah, I remember downloading a distro called something like Soft Landing Systems, using my brand-new blazing fast 14.4 mod

Re: NIS woes.. Ubuntu nis client doesn't ping Debian nis Server

2009-08-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, raman: On Friday 14 August 2009 06:15:03 raman narasimhan wrote: > We have a networks lab at our college that has a fully configured windows > network. Now we are completely changing to linux. All systems in the lab > have been installed with Debian/Ubuntu. We have configured NIS server in > o

Re: Switching from Arch to Debian Sid.

2009-08-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Ananda: On Saturday 15 August 2009 04:37:53 Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm an ex-Debian user who has been using Arch for the past 6 months or > so. Some annoyances with it have prompted to give Sid a shot. I used > testing for years but got fed up of waiting for updates. I have

Re: Help - Updated Squeeze Last Night and My System is Messed Up!

2009-08-17 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Javier, > > I created a new user, and that login worked correctly. The error dialog > appeared and then disappeared, but the menu bar and lower panel appeared and > are working. > > Is there a config file I need to remove to get my origina

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

2009-08-17 Thread s. keeling
Klistvud : > > I've got a HP laptop (Compaq 6715b with a Turion 64 dual core) and it's > running quite hot. When the CPU governor is set to PowerSave, it runs > at roughly 52 C, and when the CPU governor is set to OnDemand, it > easily reaches 90 C and more. FWIW, this is my experience as

Re: GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread Tom Ashley
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 16:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-17 15:28, AG wrote: > [snip] > > > > Considered doing that, but without some switch magik, apt wants to > > remove the whole kit and kaboodle of GNOME, which is not what I wanted. > > > > So, although the most obvious solution, i

Re: software fan control

2009-08-17 Thread s. keeling
andy baxter : > Dale wrote: > > 2009/8/15 andy baxter : > >> > >> I have just built a mini-itx box with a jetway J7F4 motherboard. It's > >> great, > >> apart from the fan is a bit noisier than I had hoped - I bought it hoping > > > > Have a look at a package called lm-sensors, it has a program b

Re: GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-17 15:28, AG wrote: [snip] Considered doing that, but without some switch magik, apt wants to remove the whole kit and kaboodle of GNOME, which is not what I wanted. So, although the most obvious solution, it won't work. That's odd... # apt-get -s purge gnome-screensaver Reading

Re: [SOLVED] Sound isnt working properly

2009-08-17 Thread s. keeling
Gregor Galwas : > Ok, found the problem - kind of. > > 1. /etc/group was *READ*/write only to root. group/other were totally > forbidden. Just to verify, are you sure that was /etc/group, or might it have been /etc/group- (namely its backup copy)? The latter should be 600. > Alsa couldn't

Re: Mouse not sync'd with pointer

2009-08-17 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:23:04PM -0700, Robert Patton wrote: > I just installed Lenny in a VMware Player virtual machine and the pointer > does not match up with > the mouse.  There is a x and y offset from where the mouse x-y is and where > the desktop (gnome) > places the pointer.  This makes

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
steef wrote: > > ...AFAICT the bf24-kernel was used with woody, and, if i remember > well, had during installation of the os, to choose out of a list to > install the rtl-chip by hand. so,if i am right, go to the realtek > website, try to find the driver and install it by and. > > regards, >

Re: GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread AG
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 17. 08. 2009 10:25:44 je AG napisal(a): Hello list & happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-) I am having a bit of a problem with the services that GNOME triggers on start up, and would like some ideas on how to fix these. I really have come to like GNOM

Re: GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread AG
Chris Burkhardt wrote: AG wrote: Hello list & happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-) [...] Anyway, one of the issues I am finding is that the gnome-screensaver is triggered on start up and runs in the background, but despite being configured to kick in after 20 min

Difference between Sid's 2.6.30 and backported 2.6.30

2009-08-17 Thread Kushal Koolwal
So this is a kernel related question. What is the best way to see the difference between: the 2.6.30 kernel source from Sid: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-source-2.6.30 and 2.6.30 kernel source from Debian backports: http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-source-2.6.30 Just do

Re: what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-17 15:22, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Just did a giant Sid dist-upgrade. It caused trouble with the clock. The hwclock is kept at local time. And 'hwclock --debug --directisa' says just that. But now when the system boots it thinks that the time is UTC time and so for the local ti

what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Just did a giant Sid dist-upgrade. It caused trouble with the clock. The hwclock is kept at local time. And 'hwclock --debug --directisa' says just that. But now when the system boots it thinks that the time is UTC time and so for the local time it subtracts 5 hours. That causes e2fsck

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

2009-08-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:15, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > Section "InputDevice" >> >        Option          "SHMConfig"             "true" >> > EndSection >> > >> >>  Can't hurt to try... >> > Nope, this didn't work. X refused to restart, unable to parse xorg.conf.

Re: Building mach64.ko

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:22:49PM EDT, David Baron wrote: > Code for this dinosaur apparently exists in the kernel sources. Make > menuconfig show no options to compile it, however. > > Any way to do this? Deprecated? Not working? What're you trying to do..? DRI the bugger..? CJ -- To UNSUB

Building mach64.ko

2009-08-17 Thread David Baron
Code for this dinosaur apparently exists in the kernel sources. Make menuconfig show no options to compile it, however. Any way to do this? Deprecated? Not working? (I have very old sources that I used to build manually but these have not been touched in a couple of years, it seems, no longer o

Re: Using mouse less possible

2009-08-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >> In MS Windows, with the TAB key it is possible to move on the Desktop and >> jump between small icons and to open and close windows. >> >> I don't detect such a feature in my Gnome graphic environment. >> >> Is it possible, in your experience, and how?, to reduce the u

Re: X11 include files..

2009-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-17 12:57, I Rattan wrote: I am running Sidux and trying to compile plan9port. I see the error messages: ... x11-inc.h:13:22: error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory x11-inc.h:14:23: error: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory x11-inc.h:15:23: error: X11/Xutil.h: No such file o

Power management on older laptop.

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Jones
This is an old Dell Inspiron 7500 with an Intel PIII - (Coppermine) running debian 'lenny'. The hardware supports an early version of the SpeedStep technology that makes it possible to switch clocking between 650MHz and 500MHz. This is normally done via a BIOS option where the focus appears to be

Re: X11 include files..

2009-08-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, I Rattan writes: > what debian package may include these header files? You can search which packages include a given file using apt-file. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090816201911.gb4...@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >On Wed,12.Aug.09, 22:31:25, Tim Beauregard wrote: >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> > Volatile is for software that fails to achieve its goal if it is not >> > updated >> >> [snip] >> >> the contents of this post would make a good F

X11 include files..

2009-08-17 Thread I Rattan
I am running Sidux and trying to compile plan9port. I see the error messages: ... x11-inc.h:13:22: error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory x11-inc.h:14:23: error: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory x11-inc.h:15:23: error: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory x11-inc.h:16:24: error: X1

Re: testing upgrade from 2.6.26-2 to 2.6.30-1 and nvidia drivers

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Marshall
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:00:27PM +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Hello to all! > > With kernel 2.6.26-2 I used the nvidia packets: nvidia-glx, > nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686 in order to have 3D acceleration. > Now that testing was upgraded to 2.6.30 I can't find the equivalent > 'nvidia-kernel-2.6

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,17.Aug.09, 18:26:04, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > > Yes, my Gmail deletes messages too, when they are retrieved via POP3 > (you can make it not to). But I could use their web interface to > check that I did indeed have all those unread messages. > > Fetchmail's option combination 'ssl nokeep

Re: Help - Updated Squeeze Last Night and My System is Messed Up!

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Phillips
Javier, I created a new user, and that login worked correctly. The error dialog appeared and then disappeared, but the menu bar and lower panel appeared and are working. Is there a config file I need to remove to get my original login to work? Thanks! Mark On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Javi

Re: Mutt [Was: Iceweasel 3.5]

2009-08-17 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:35:56 -0400, Celejar in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:16:15 -0400 > "S. Fishpaste" wrote: > > ... > >> I agree Ron, that T-Bird and to some extent Slypheed-Claws, are good >> examples of GUI e-mail clients that are probably best of breed. I left > >

OT: Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-08-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:28:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-16 15:36, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:53:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2009-08-10 14:20, Mike Castle wrote: >>> [snip] air every so often. (Then again, with two cats, our laptops have mo

Re: xen pci passthrough 2.6.26.2

2009-08-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:34:23AM +0200, Marc Schröder wrote: > hi, > > i cant hide pci devices in dom0. i boot my dom0 simply with > pciback.hide=(00:11.5), but this device is allways visible. also i cant > passtrough this to domU - no errors but invisible in domU. > > in this case the 00:11.

Re: Problems with making hardlink-based backups

2009-08-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:59:20AM +0200, David wrote: > Thanks for the replies. [...] > > Basically, the problem isn't that I don't know how to use rsync, cp, > etc to make the backups, manage generations, etc... the problem is an > incredibly large filesystem (as in number of hardlinks, and act

Re: locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap

2009-08-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-17 17:55 +0200, andy baxter wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:31:04AM +0100, andy baxter wrote: >> >>> Thanks a lot. I was trying to find something like that using dpkg >>> -l and apt-cache search, but obviously missed it. >>> > some packages (e.g. mc

Re: Using mouse less possible

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:41:52AM EDT, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In MS Windows, with the TAB key it is possible to move on the Desktop and jump > between small icons and to open and close windows. > > I don't detect such a feature in my Gnome graphic environment. > > Is it possible, in your experi

Re: Using mouse less possible

2009-08-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > In MS Windows, with the TAB key it is possible to move on the Desktop and > jump between small icons and to open and close windows. > > I don't detect such a feature in my Gnome graphic environment. > > Is it possible, in your experience, and how?, to reduce the use of >

Re: locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap

2009-08-17 Thread andy baxter
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:31:04AM +0100, andy baxter wrote: Thanks a lot. I was trying to find something like that using dpkg -l and apt-cache search, but obviously missed it. some packages (e.g. mc), there are a load of errors which seem to be to do with locales. Pe

Re: locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap

2009-08-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:31:04AM +0100, andy baxter wrote: > Thanks a lot. I was trying to find something like that using dpkg -l and > apt-cache search, but obviously missed it. >>> some packages (e.g. mc), there are a load of errors which seem to be >>> to do with locales. Perl (I think) is

Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 14:41 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: [ ... ] > meaning that I have to resort to using the hard-halt via the power > button. Rebooting/Halting from Xfce works as expected (and it didn't I can't really help you with your problem, but a "hard" shutdown is almost never necessary

Re: usb hsdpa modem only detected after using it on windows

2009-08-17 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, Umarzuki Mochlis writes: > 2009/8/16, Raja R Harinath : >> Umarzuki Mochlis writes: >>> the modem is Huawei E1762 which is provided by local ISP when registering >>> for their wireless broadband service. >>> >>> this modem, weirdly, can only be detected when i used it recently from >>> windo

Re: Doubt about apt pinning

2009-08-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am confused. See below. But for your reference, please see: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_tweaking_candidate_version I think I made decent summary and examples there. On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 04:19:14PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! ... > Fo

Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:28:47AM EDT, Rob Owens wrote: [..] > What is the magic sysrq combo? I don't know anything about that. Google Search "magic sysrq" - first hit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Logging out of Xfce will stop X, but then gdm will fail to re-load X. > It will complain of some "ddm" module already built-in. Worse is that > I still get this error. > then the kernel somewhat crashes, and will not react if I send a > halt/reboot command

Re: Using mouse less possible

2009-08-17 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Is it possible, in your experience, and how?, to reduce the use of mouse the > most possible in X? If you want to radically minimize your mouse usage, there are several window managers which are designed around heavy keyboard interaction and window manipulation: - awesome

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-17 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WusQjMnD0cs while you "eat" it. Neil Sedaka? I almost threw up. -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on your hard disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Help - Updated Squeeze Last Night and My System is Messed Up!

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mark Phillips wrote: > I ran my usual apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade last night on my > Debian squeeze system. There were no errors, and when I rebooted, I was > able to login, but gnome (1) generated an error message and (2) I only > got as far as my wallpaper and items on the Desktop. No m

Re: Help - Updated Squeeze Last Night and My System is Messed Up!

2009-08-17 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I ran my usual apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade last night on my Debian > squeeze system. There were no errors, and when I rebooted, I was able to > login, but gnome (1) generated an error message and (2) I only got as far as > my wall

Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine

2009-08-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:03:04AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:45:35PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > I've got to move an old Linux OS to a virtual machine. I'm using Debian > > Lenny as a host. The guest is Suse 9.2, but I'm hoping you guys might > > have some advice fo

Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine

2009-08-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:15:46AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:03:04AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:45:35PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I've got to move an old Linux OS to a virtual machine. I'm using Debian > > > Lenny as a host. The gues

Re: GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Burkhardt
AG wrote: > Hello list & happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-) > [...] > Anyway, > one of the issues I am finding is that the gnome-screensaver is > triggered on start up and runs in the background, but despite being > configured to kick in after 20 minutes of inactivity, it does

Re: Help - Updated Squeeze Last Night and My System is Messed Up!

2009-08-17 Thread Brian
I tend to use aptitude at first instead of apt-get. You might try: aptitude -f safe-upgrade May have to run is several times. Hope that helps, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: usb hsdpa modem only detected after using it on windows

2009-08-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
i could not find any option.c or unusual_devs.h on my machine, what sould i do next? 2009/8/16, Raja R Harinath : > Hi, > > Umarzuki Mochlis writes: > >> the modem is Huawei E1762 which is provided by local ISP when registering >> for their wireless broadband service. >> >> this modem, weirdly, c

Help - Updated Squeeze Last Night and My System is Messed Up!

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Phillips
I ran my usual apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade last night on my Debian squeeze system. There were no errors, and when I rebooted, I was able to login, but gnome (1) generated an error message and (2) I only got as far as my wallpaper and items on the Desktop. No menu bar (just white band) and n

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 8/17/09, thveillon.debian wrote: > A piece of advice, if you are running a 2.6.30 kernel the testing fglrx > won't build, you have to upgrade xorg and fglrx stuff to Sid. That's > what I am running right now and it works fine. Read about "package > pinning", "/etc/apt/preferences" t

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/17/09, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > I can not help you with that way of doing things, but I have had success > running "aticonfig --initial", which creates an xorg.conf to work for a > basic system. > Thank you, this helped (I already had the fglrx driver built). On system boot X (and gdm) will

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800 MB) from my Gmail account via POP3, Fetchmail stopped after fetching 9985 messages. It now keeps saying that there are "549 read messages" on the server but clearly, there are many mor

Re: inline JPGs

2009-08-17 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Monday 17 August 2009 06:42:41 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-16 09:58, Mihira Fernando wrote: > > On Sunday 16 August 2009 08:22:57 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 2009-08-16 05:15, Mihira Fernando wrote: > >> [snip] > >> > >>> Also : > >>> Folder -> Preffer HTML to Plain Text > >> > >> Excep

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > > On 8/16/09, Klistvud wrote: >> P.S. I've also noticed that the laptop runs hotter when the free >> graphics driver is used, as opposed to the proprietary ATI one. >> > I also have an HP Dual core 2.1GHz, and it gets kinda to warm during > "idle" work (hovers a

Re: inline JPGs

2009-08-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-16 09:58, Mihira Fernando wrote: On Sunday 16 August 2009 08:22:57 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-16 05:15, Mihira Fernando wrote: [snip] Also : Folder -> Preffer HTML to Plain Text Except that this is a crime against humanity, besides being contrary to published debian-user neti

Re: testing upgrade from 2.6.26-2 to 2.6.30-1 and nvidia drivers

2009-08-17 Thread Dale
Hi, All I did when the upgrade came out was to download the Nvidia GPU drivers[1] Make sure you got the kernel headers and build-essential installed and then stop the gdm and install the Nvidia driver for your GPU product series HTH Dale [1] http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Re: Installing a Wireless Card

2009-08-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Here: http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx Pls dont use html in message to the list. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Liviu Andronic skrev: I tried to switch Debian to use the fglrx driver following the steps suggested on the wiki [1], I can not help you with that way of doing things, but I have had success running "aticonfig --initial", which creates an xorg.conf to work for a basic system. / johan --

Re: Installing a Wireless Card

2009-08-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM, wrote: > I would like some help in completing the installation with a wireless pcmia > card. > I just installed 502 from CDs on a Dell laptop. I did not have the Belkin > wireless pcmcia card (HSM model no. F5D7011. Chipset BCM4306/BCM2050) in > place during the in

Re: Problems with making hardlink-based backups

2009-08-17 Thread David
Err.. and another post on backuppc, sorry. I think that backuppc is actually going to have the same problem (with massive filesystems causing du and locate, etc to become next to unusable for the backup storage directories). The reason for this: "Therefore, every file in the pool will have at lea

Re: Problems with making hardlink-based backups

2009-08-17 Thread David
Sorry for spamming the list.. I think I didn't read the docs correctly, before posting the above. It seems that backuppc actully does keep recent snapshots that aren't in the pool... so scripts, admins, etc can get to them easily without going through backuppc scripts. It looks like backuppc actu

Re: contacts via LDAP

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:05:44PM +0200, pch0317 wrote: > Hi > In which e-mail client it is possible that import contacts via LDAP. For > example from Active Directory or eDirectory or from OpenLDAP. This is where apt-cache comes in handy: apt-cache search ldap mail | wc -l 36 r...@box:~# apt-c

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:52:00AM +0300, Alice Ferrazzi wrote: > > apt-get install debian-cake > happy birthday debian!! Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WusQjMnD0cs while you "eat" it. -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When y

Re: Using mouse less possible

2009-08-17 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 17. 08. 2009 13:41:52 je Rodolfo Medina napisal(a): > In MS Windows, with the TAB key it is possible to move on the Desktop > and jump > between small icons and to open and close windows. > > I don't detect such a feature in my Gnome graphic environment. > > Is it possible, in your experienc

Re: Problems with making hardlink-based backups

2009-08-17 Thread David
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > You might want to check out BackupPC.  It uses hardlinks and > compression.  It's got a web-based GUI which makes it pretty easy to > find statistics on disk space used, on a per-server basis. > I've been researching backuppc, and it seems like i

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-17 Thread Brian
> Cybe R. Wizard > -- > Debian Linux is a solid, comprehensive product, and a genuine pleasure > to use.  It is also great to become involved with the Debian collective, > whose friendliness and spirit recalls the early days of the Internet and > its sense of openness and global cooperation. >    

Using mouse less possible

2009-08-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
In MS Windows, with the TAB key it is possible to move on the Desktop and jump between small icons and to open and close windows. I don't detect such a feature in my Gnome graphic environment. Is it possible, in your experience, and how?, to reduce the use of mouse the most possible in X? Thanks

Re: HP DL180 G6 with Debian Lenny

2009-08-17 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Richard Pijnenburg wrote: > Hi, > > The G5 serie indeed uses the broadcom network card. > The BNX2 driver I already build back in. You need firmware-bnx2 package >> You could also try one of Kenshi Muto's customized Lenny installer >> images, they have newer ke

Re: Is there any security risk using p2p client ?

2009-08-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 05:04:21AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Always obtain your checksums via an alternate (cryptographically- > secured) path, not directly from the data they're being used to verify. The Debian package management system uses a different strategy: The path itself need not be

Re: Is there any security risk using p2p client ?

2009-08-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:05:08PM +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 02:30:11PM -0600, John Haggerty wrote: > > > >> Just use intelligence based on the fact that you are downloading random > >> programs. > >> > > > > E.g.: if you download Debia

Re: Playing 8-bit raw Audio with mplayer

2009-08-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:09:19AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one produces a raw PCM dump of /dev/dsp such as > $ cat /dev/dsp >streamfile > > The result is an unsigned 8-bit 8-KHZ audio dump captured in > streamfile. If I cat streamfile >/dev/dsp, it plays so I know > that works. Has an

Pb with install on USB stick

2009-08-17 Thread Pierre-Jacques Legay
Hi all, I got a new computer (no OS inside) and would like to install a fresh Debian Lenny 5.0.2 from an usb dongle. After following a How To ( http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en ) given in a recent post on this list, I managed to create a bootable usb device including a CD

Re: GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 17. 08. 2009 10:25:44 je AG napisal(a): > Hello list & happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-) > > I am having a bit of a problem with the services that GNOME triggers > on > start up, and would like some ideas on how to fix these. > > I really have come to like GNOME as a DE

testing upgrade from 2.6.26-2 to 2.6.30-1 and nvidia drivers

2009-08-17 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! With kernel 2.6.26-2 I used the nvidia packets: nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686 in order to have 3D acceleration. Now that testing was upgraded to 2.6.30 I can't find the equivalent 'nvidia-kernel-2.6.30-1-686' packet. Should I wait? I tried to build it from nvidia-kerne

Re: Problems with making hardlink-based backups

2009-08-17 Thread David
Thanks for the replies. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> du worked pretty well with rdiff-backup, but is very problematic with >> a large number of hardlink-based snapshots, which each have a complete >> "copy" of a massive filesystem (rather than just info on wh

GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread AG
Hello list & happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-) I am having a bit of a problem with the services that GNOME triggers on start up, and would like some ideas on how to fix these. I really have come to like GNOME as a DE and I know that it is bloated, but the UI is easy on th

xen pci passthrough 2.6.26.2

2009-08-17 Thread Marc Schröder
hi, i cant hide pci devices in dom0. i boot my dom0 simply with pciback.hide=(00:11.5), but this device is allways visible. also i cant passtrough this to domU - no errors but invisible in domU. in this case the 00:11.5 is a onboard soundcard on a testmachine. later i want passtrough a isdn ca

Re: skype, amd64, libc6-i386 and ia32-libs

2009-08-17 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Michael Ekstrand wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: After returning from vacation I updated my testing, amd64 system. After that, skype was no longer working... I understand that this has something to do with bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535645 At the present time

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

2009-08-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Section "InputDevice" > >Option "SHMConfig" "true" > > EndSection > > > > Can't hurt to try... > Nope, this didn't work. X refused to restart, unable to parse xorg.conf. Thanks all the rest for their suggestions; I will try them when

Re: Happy birthday Debian

2009-08-17 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:47:00 -0500 "Cybe R. Wizard" wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:26:20 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:34:35PM +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: > > > Debian has hit sweet sixteen today! :) > > > > > > And, yes its already 16th of August in this

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

2009-08-17 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, there is a bug in xorg. See http://bugs.debian.org/535624 But there is a update under stable-proposed-updates best regards klaus Am Sonntag, den 16.08.2009, 20:24 +0100 schrieb Andrew M.A. Cater: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 01:49:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-16 11:

Re: [SOLVED] Sound isnt working properly

2009-08-17 Thread Gregor Galwas
Ok, found the problem - kind of. 1. /etc/group was *READ*/write only to root. group/other were totally forbidden. Alsa couldn't read /etc/group and could't check if a user has the right to play audio -> ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1605:(snd1_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf) The field ipc_gid must be a

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: Slightly OT, but when you try again, use the --expunge option so that when you restart fetchmail Yes, this worked. Thanks! -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w