Re: Raid disk delimma

2009-09-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jack Schneider [2009.09.20.0044 +0200]: > I get to the "Give root password for maintenance etc." place and when I > do it will not allow me to find any logs. I can run dmesg which looks > normal. Anything that that tries to use /var -locks. etc. fails, so > it's unable to find /dev/m

Re: Font on google "advanced search" - Seamonkey - where is it set?

2009-09-19 Thread Chris Jones
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:27:35PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > > What I’m seeing is that my usual font was changed everywhere on the page > > except for the keywords entered in step 3. above. Same behavior with Firefox 3.5. Anyone seeing this with Opera, Konqueror, Dillo, IE..? CJ -- To UNSUB

nvidia xserver makes fonts big and icky

2009-09-19 Thread Britton Kerin
The nvidia packages in the latest debian work lovely, except for one thing: all my fonts come out bigger. The gnome stuff still things that my screen is at the same resolution, and the fonts the same, but they are all bigger so the editor, terminals etc. are all nasty. Any ideas how to fix? Tha

can't connect to pulse audio - connection refused

2009-09-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to install pulse audio (to get my bluetooth headset working with skype hopefully) for the moment there seem to be some permission problems. It looks like it is running in the background: micha 4569 0.0 0.1 161688 2476 ?Ssl 08:07 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --lo

Thank you for helping me install skype

2009-09-19 Thread Charlie Dorff
Hi... I just wanted to thank everyone that responded to my email. I was able to install skype and it is working great. Charlie

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-09-17 21:05:15 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > the correct instructions (but I haven't tried yet). And I suppose > > that these are official instructions (as being on debian.org). > > Try these instructions: > > http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html They w

Re: Compiling libraries and gcc

2009-09-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Marco Vittorini Orgeas wrote: > I have read a lot about it, I tried also to export ,before issue the > configure command, adjusted CPPFLAGS,LDFLAGS,PKG_CONFIG_PATH pointing > them respectively to folders under /opt/gtk/ /opt/glib etc...but it seems > to have no effect (I read in another post that

Re: Alsa Problem or Audacity Problem?

2009-09-19 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 08:00:51AM +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thomas H. George wrote: > > Question: Should Audacity have a switch to select between input sources > > or rely on Alsamixer to make the selection? > > My (Debian unstable) Audaci

Raid disk delimma

2009-09-19 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, All Somewhere (about 9/15) in my enthusiasm for Debian, Testing up2date & kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64,--updating I said (y) where I should have said (q). My system will not boot correctly. It halts with: fsck died with exit status 8 I have 4 disks, 2 in raid1, ie. 2 in use - 2 unused Disks are

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tixy: > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> However, the whole problem is that it does *not* automatically adjust >> the CPU freq, according to its load. > > When doing some video transcoding a while ago, on a Lenny install, I > noticed that it was using 100% CPU time wi

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-

network partially stops working after some time

2009-09-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a strange problem where my wireless network stops working with some sites, speciffically on of the local debian mirrors and my smtp server after some time of work and won't connect again until a reboot. Wireless is an atheros AR5414 based card in a thinkpad t61. I tried unloading and reloadi

Re: java6update15 - how, where,..?

2009-09-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 07:09:28AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:01:46AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:43:51PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > > I need java6update15 or later (if there be) on a lenny machine. > > > Now, 6-12 is in lenny and no la

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-19 Thread Chris Davies
Paul Cartwright wrote: > Every time I boot up & GDM doesn't start, my network is broken too. Is it possible that you've got something within your GUI environment that configures the network? (Network Manager springs to mind. Ugh.) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: java6update15 - how, where,..?

2009-09-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:01:46AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:43:51PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > I need java6update15 or later (if there be) on a lenny machine. > > Now, 6-12 is in lenny and no later in backports. > > > > ideas? > > Install the version from unst

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, I can no longer use my k

[Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, I can no longer use my keyboard/mouse on either after a reboot on bo

Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, I can no longer use my keyboard/mouse on either after a reboot on both machines? Has anyone experienced ant

Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, I can no longer use my keyboard/mouse on either after a reboot on both machines? Has anyone experienced anthing similar? On the x86 host it is ps2(kbd)+

Debian Testing / OpenSSH errors (channel_input_success_failure: 1: unknown)

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Package: openssh-server Version: 5.1p1-7 Why/what causes this? Sep 19 14:47:50 server sshd[17050]: channel_by_id: 1: bad id: channel free Sep 19 14:47:50 server sshd[17050]: channel_input_success_failure: 1: unknown Only relevant thing I could find was this: http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=op

Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-19 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hello, I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, I can no longer use my keyboard/mouse on either after a reboot on both machines? Has anyone experienced anthing similar? On the x86 host it is ps2(kbd)+usb(mouse). On the x86_64 host it is usb(kbd)+

Re: binary grep

2009-09-19 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Rob Gom wrote: > Hello, > thanks for your suggestions. I'm afraid grep was designed as text-oriented > tool. > I'm not sure how it will handle CR and/or LF characters when matching > pattern. IIRC grep has no multiline patterns, so it could basically > fail. > I

Re: binary grep

2009-09-19 Thread Rob Gom
Hello, thanks for your suggestions. I'm afraid grep was designed as text-oriented tool. I'm not sure how it will handle CR and/or LF characters when matching pattern. IIRC grep has no multiline patterns, so it could basically fail. I guess it would suit 95% of my needs, I'm just trying to anticipat

error en debian

2009-09-19 Thread jonathan godoy
hola necesito ayda urgente.. acabo de instalar debiaan 5 pero tambien tenia instalado ubuntu 9.4 con ext4 y no me aparece en el grub!! como hago para que salga en la lista? ahora de plano no me agrado debian.. ni la tarjeta inalambrica me reconocio.. adenas aun con open office 2.4? y kde 3 com

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Justin. Hi, Thanks, found it, the following fixed the issue: [-]echo echo input characters * [-]echoctlsame as [-]ctlecho $ stty -echoctlstty -echoctl $ Justin.

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri September 18 2009, Jaime Tarrant wrote: > > >> Rebuilding and reinstalling the nvidia driver is almost always > > >> required after kernel or OpenGL library upgrades. > > > > marc wrote: > > > It is? How do you do that? > > > > Google for sgfxi and use that. > > Chris > >   > +1 for sgfxi.

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-19 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 19 September 2009 17:02:09 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > I copy-paste from > terminals very often! I always use (tho' it requires a three button mouse): Select (from source) Centre click (where you want it to go). Doesn't always work in OOo. :-( It is one of the things that I miss the mos

Re: URL conversion from %?? to UTF-8

2009-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:45:18PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-09-19 08:39 (+0900), Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > I am looking for a method to convert URL with non-ascii character > > > > from > > > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Param%C3%A8tres_r%C3%A9gionaux > > > > to > > > > http://fr

Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool

2009-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 07:32:57AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:26:37AM +, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can > > synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on > > diffe

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-19 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Distribution: Debian Testing >>> >>> Recently, after an apt-get dist-upgrade, when I hit control-c, I get >>> the >>> following in an xterm: >>> >>> $ ^C >>> >>> It occurs with ater

linux-gate Archives

2009-09-19 Thread Charles Kroeger
Are there other archives to this group for 2009? The link: http://lists.bofh.it/pipermail/linux-gate/ at: http://lists.bofh.it/listinfo/linux-gate only shows [to me at least] 2003, not what I wanted. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > an issue that I also encountered in 2.6.26. Although I have sound in > hte computer speaker, I have none in the headphones. When I plug the > headphones (or external speakers), the computer speakers are not > muted, and there is no sound in the external devi

Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool

2009-09-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:26:37AM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can > synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on > different hosts, propagating the changes between them? > > This is mainly use to synchr

Re: Re: what is the role of release.gpg

2009-09-19 Thread belahcene
Hi, Osamu said: "I think disabling secure apt from console shell may be easier way" But, the repository is used by an official network CD like businessCard, on that CD, I think the secure apt is enabled. Disabling secure apt is correct for installtion via xpe, since in this case the install

Re: URL conversion from %?? to UTF-8

2009-09-19 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-09-19 08:39 (+0900), Osamu Aoki wrote: > I am looking for a method to convert URL with non-ascii character > > from > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Param%C3%A8tres_r%C3%A9gionaux > > to > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramètres_régionaux > > with some short script or command. What

Re: how to supply correct option to module during boot?

2009-09-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Long Wind [090919 06:39 -0400] [...] > BTW which man pages provide info about module loading during boot? modprobe.conf(5) -- Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: URL conversion from %?? to UTF-8

2009-09-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a method to convert URL with non-ascii character > > from > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Param%C3%A8tres_r%C3%A9gionaux > > to > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramètres_régionaux > > with some short script or command. What is the easiest way? >

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:14:40AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > a question about mysql. i want to reproduce all the mysql

Re: java6update15 - how, where,..?

2009-09-19 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:43:51PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > I need java6update15 or later (if there be) on a lenny machine. > Now, 6-12 is in lenny and no later in backports. > > ideas? Install the version from unstable or use java-package (hm donno if it's still actively maintained). Besi

Re: how to supply correct option to module during boot?

2009-09-19 Thread Long Wind
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Niu Kun wrote: > > Make sure your kernel is the 2.6 series. > Make a file /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf > Add the following line to it: > options bttv card=8 > You are right! Thanks! BTW which man pages provide info about module loading during boot? -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: how to supply correct option to module during boot?

2009-09-19 Thread Niu Kun
Long Wind 写道: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Niu Kun wrote: Long Wind 写道: I use etch during boot bttv module is loaded with wrong options I have to run two commands after log in: rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=8 how to supply correct option to bttv module during boot? Thanks!

Re: how to supply correct option to module during boot?

2009-09-19 Thread Long Wind
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Niu Kun wrote: > Long Wind 写道: >> >> I use etch >> during boot bttv module is loaded with wrong options >> I have to run two commands after log in: >> >> rmmod bttv >> modprobe bttv card=8 >> >> how to supply correct option to bttv module during boot? >> Thanks! >>

Sunday 20th Global Debian Mtg via VOIP - BerkeleyTIP - for forwarding

2009-09-19 Thread john_re
Get a VOIP headset, Install VOIP client SW, & join the global Debian meeting this Sunday Sept 20, 12N-3P Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC-8), 3P-6P Eastern, (7P-10P UTC?) http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/remote-attendance Lots of great, exciting new things for Debian users, as we start

Re: how to supply correct option to module during boot?

2009-09-19 Thread Niu Kun
Long Wind 写道: I use etch during boot bttv module is loaded with wrong options I have to run two commands after log in: rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=8 how to supply correct option to bttv module during boot? Thanks! You should go to "/etc/modprobe.d". grep options * You may get some kind

how to supply correct option to module during boot?

2009-09-19 Thread Long Wind
I use etch during boot bttv module is loaded with wrong options I have to run two commands after log in: rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=8 how to supply correct option to bttv module during boot? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-19 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > However, the whole problem is that it does *not* automatically adjust > the CPU freq, according to its load. When doing some video transcoding a while ago, on a Lenny install, I noticed that it was using 100% CPU time with the CPU running

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Monnier writes: >> How could I manage to make the process of using "Performance" >> automatically? > > Most likely the setting you currently have is one which automatically > adjusts the frequency based on the amount of work there is for the C

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb writes: > Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Nowadays, power management is important for all machines nowadays, and > > Not to the point where it overrides user preference or causes problems > with the machine. I've got one machine where every

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz writes: > Merciadri Luca: >> Jochen Schulz writes: >> >>> What does >>> >>> # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor >>> >>> say after bootup? >>> >> Ondemand, the same as what appears in the applet, after boot. H

Re: very slow window minimizing?

2009-09-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,18.Sep.09, 15:56:30, Eric Cooper wrote: > I'm running a squeeze desktop with gnome, metacity, etc. Some recent > upgrade seems to cause window minimizing and unminimizing to become > very slow once I have a lot of windows on my desktop. Metacity tries > to "animate" the minimizing by drawi

Re: Reinstall Debian when adding drive?

2009-09-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,18.Sep.09, 12:44:14, postid wrote: > I have an older machine (Dell Optiplex GS150) that needs more hard > drive space. I have some nonoperational hand-me-down computers from > which I can rob a drive. If I keep the original as the master and > add one of these used drives as a slave, If pos

Re: upgrade to Lenny stable (5.0.3) from Lenny TESTING MAY 15,2008

2009-09-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:21:28AM -0400, Tom Clark wrote: > I have a dual boot system (windows on one drive for web development > tools I owned) and LENNY on the other drive. > > I had a consultant do the initial system. For the last 6 months, I have > been asking on how to upgrade to the stabl

Re: Alsa Problem or Audacity Problem?

2009-09-19 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: > Question: Should Audacity have a switch to select between input sources > or rely on Alsamixer to make the selection? My (Debian unstable) Audacity 1.3.9 has input selection capabilities as has every version I've used since 2