Broken keyboard layout after lenny/squeeze upgrade.

2009-11-08 Thread Chris Jones
Over the weekend, I upgraded a sacrificial copy of my current 'lenny' to 'squeeze' and ran into a rather odd keyboard issue: Specifically, the Down and PgDown keys were no longer working. I ran xev and saw that they were respectively mapped to Super_R and Compose although I don't remember the upg

debian ibook auto suspends to ram on nonuse. how to set up for other notebooks?

2009-11-08 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have an ibook G4 laptop that has run debian powerpc sid for years. The battery really lasts a long time. I can leave it for days and it will retain its charge. I assumed it was the hardware initially. However upon reflection, I credit this, at least in part to the aggressive memory

Re: Can't chown a USB-connected GSM phone mem card

2009-11-08 Thread green
Klistvud wrote at 2009-11-08 18:05 -0600: > I'm on Lenny, working in Gnome. My Nokia phone gets automounted when I > connect it via USB to my Debian box. Is it listed in /etc/fstab, or automounted some other way? > The phone has a memory card on which all files and directories belong > to the w

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-08 Thread green
Frank Lin PIAT wrote at 2009-11-08 05:46 -0600: > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:56 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > anything unreleased and highly anticipated: > - Squeeze, what else? (especially Debian GNU/kFreeBSD) Of course, how did I forget that? +1 signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Can't chown a USB-connected GSM phone mem card

2009-11-08 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! I'm on Lenny, working in Gnome. My Nokia phone gets automounted when I connect it via USB to my Debian box. The phone has a memory card on which all files and directories belong to the wrong user. I have probably copied stuff from that user's account when I first init

Re: How to change the domainname ????

2009-11-08 Thread Wayne
Erik Grootjans wrote: Hi, I have a laptop, with a fixed ip-address, and i want to change its domainname. The current domainname is: local. So i did a compleet NEW installation of Debian 5.0 and formatted the file system during installation. I did give the new domainname: thuis.local. If i l

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:04:34 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 16:22:38 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:03:39 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > I think there could be a problem with the FrankRuehlCLM font (package > > > "culmus") or pango has a

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 16:22:38 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:03:39 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > ... > > > I think there could be a problem with the FrankRuehlCLM font (package > > "culmus") or pango has a bug with Type 1 fonts. > > I noticed that I don't seem to see this pro

Re: AVAHI cupsd warning

2009-11-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun November 8 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > FYI, this has been fixed in the version of cups in Testing  (it now uses > Avahi's native library: "libavahi-client3") great ! Just good to know there isn't anything I did wrong. I can safely ignore it, until I get to testing:) I was thinking of upg

Re: How to change the domainname ????

2009-11-08 Thread Tom H
> I have a laptop, with a fixed ip-address, and i want to change its > domainname. The current domainname is: local. > So i did a compleet NEW installation of Debian 5.0 and formatted the file > system during installation. I did give the new domainname: thuis.local. > If i look at the /etc/host fi

Re: How to set localhost name?

2009-11-08 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:45 -0600, Phil Roan wrote: > When I installed debian, I set the local host name on my computer to > local2. For a long time, everything was fine. Recently, I'm getting > mail returned to me when I send it to Windows Live Hotmail accounts. > I think the problem is that my mai

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-08 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:03:39 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: ... > I think there could be a problem with the FrankRuehlCLM font (package > "culmus") or pango has a bug with Type 1 fonts. You could try to > downgrade libpango1.0-0 and friends to their Lenny versions (provided > that this does not bre

Re: contactar

2009-11-08 Thread Pedro Insua
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:42:34PM -0600, Heber Estuardo Peralta Barrera wrote: > > > Buenos dias, > > Mi nombre es Heber Estuardo Peralta Barrera y soy Guatemalteco, estoy > interesado en ser un canal de distribucion de su version > de Linux Debian ytambien si me pudieran mandar mas informacio

Re: How to change the domainname ????

2009-11-08 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 08. 11. 2009 20:34:57 je Erik Grootjans napisal(a): > > Why is at startup the name debian.local ??? > I have asked to give the hostname debian and the domainname > thuis.local. > > Why. > And more important how can i change it > I have a desktop with a static address too; when trying to g

How to change the domainname ????

2009-11-08 Thread Erik Grootjans
Hi, I have a laptop, with a fixed ip-address, and i want to change its domainname. The current domainname is: local. So i did a compleet NEW installation of Debian 5.0 and formatted the file system during installation. I did give the new domainname: thuis.local. If i look at the /etc/host fil

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 10:27:22AM -0200, Cassiano Leal wrote: > 2009/11/7 Alex Samad : > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 04:46:52PM -0500, Colin wrote: > >> Cassiano Leal wrote: > >> > >> >I have a 4312 myself. Only way I can use the card is via the hybrid wl > >> >driver found here: > >> >http://www.br

contactar

2009-11-08 Thread Heber Estuardo Peralta Barrera
Buenos dias, Mi nombre es Heber Estuardo Peralta Barrera y soy Guatemalteco, estoy interesado en ser un canal de distribucion de su version de Linux Debian ytambien si me pudieran mandar mas informacion acerca de la instalacion y el uso con arquitecturas X86 basadas en Intel. De antemano muc

Re: Two Questions

2009-11-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz writes: > Merciadri Luca: >> >> I am a fervent user of your `F.lux' program. I am running Debian Lenny >> with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 on various computers, and here are two >> questions whose answers could enhance the next version of F.lu

Re: AVAHI cupsd warning

2009-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 09:14 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I was browsing my /var/log files this morning, and happened to tail messages. > I found these: > Nov 7 14:22:05 paulandcilla cupsd[23014]: *** WARNING *** The program > 'cupsd' > uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Av

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-08 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 08. 11. 2009 18:42:14 je John Jason Jordan napisal(a): I see you're reinstalling anyway. Just for the record: have you tried creating another user and logging is as that user? Just to see if it's just your user account that's broken, or is the entire system borked ... -- Regards and Good

Re: ksuspend_usbd : what does this daemon do ?

2009-11-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:32:01PM +1300, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > What does the daemon ksuspend_usb do ? [...] I *think* it monitors usb and suspends the usb subsystem when it's not being used. This is a powersaving feature. But that is really only a guess based on the name of

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:42:14AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: [snip recap of troubles..] > > Because I have not yet been able to figure out how to make metacity and > gnome-panel start automatically on booting as they are supposed to, > plus the additional issues recently discovered, I have

Re: OpenVPN

2009-11-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Ales. On Thursday, 29 October 2009 06:43:31 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > I was making a first attempt to establish a VPN between my house and > > the office. The scenery from the side of my house is the following > > one: > >

Re: OpenVPN

2009-11-08 Thread H.S.
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I was making a first attempt to establish a VPN between my house and the > office. The scenery from the side of my house is the following one: > > +--+ +---+ +--+

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:36:08 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." dijo: > In <20091107124017.gw11...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >John Jason Jordan: > >> I do like Debian testing so far, in spite of the issues I am having. > > > >Oh, you are using testing? I must have missed that. Y

Knowledge Base Server

2009-11-08 Thread Roman Gelfand
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Re: OpenVPN

2009-11-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Consultores. On Sunday, 01 November 2009 11:11:48 -0800, Consultores wrote: > client-to-client? As it commented in another message of this thread, I already could solve it. The client-to-client option would only allow that the clients can see themselves to each other. Thanks for your reply.

Re: Re (2): OpenVPN

2009-11-08 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Sunday, 01 November 2009 10:58:02 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Daniel, Hi, Peter. > > Now I'm doing tests but this time with the OpenVPN server in the > > office and a client in my house. > I don't understand the distinction of server and > client. For my tunnel, are the roles of hom

Only rear speaker port is working

2009-11-08 Thread Aniruddha
Hi, I have a P5QD motherboard with an on board Intel 82801JI audio card. Strangely enough only the rear speaker port is working in Linux. When I plug my 2.1 speakers in the normal green audio port I get no sound (in Windows it works therefor there should be no hardware problem). Alsamixer shows

Re: gnome-shell and Debian

2009-11-08 Thread Mr. Wang Long
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 15:44, Michael Ott wrote: > Hello Wang! > >> > Does anyone tested gnome-shell on sid? >> It works fine, but I can't find how to adjust sound volume. > What have you done to get it work. When i try to start it with > gnome-shell --replace I got an black screen and can see som

Re: Installing a Shavian font for Epiphany

2009-11-08 Thread Matt Kraai
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 01:54:29PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 21:39:55 -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to install a Shavian font so that I can take the Shavian > > tutorial at > > > > http://shavian.org.uk/learn/ > > > > using Epiphany. I've instal

Re: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Here is part of dmesg: > [ 32.017203] iwlagn :0

AVAHI cupsd warning

2009-11-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
I was browsing my /var/log files this morning, and happened to tail messages. I found these: Nov 7 14:22:05 paulandcilla cupsd[23014]: *** WARNING *** The program 'cupsd' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi. Nov 7 14:22:05 paulandcilla cupsd[23014]: *** WARNING *** Please fix yo

Re: Installing a Shavian font for Epiphany

2009-11-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 21:39:55 -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to install a Shavian font so that I can take the Shavian > tutorial at > > http://shavian.org.uk/learn/ > > using Epiphany. I've installed ttf-mph-2b-damase and unifont, as well > as used gnome-font-viewer to install

Re: Major problems 2.6.26 kernel in lenny

2009-11-08 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:12:41 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Did you try to start in runlevel 1 (i.e "recovery mode")? > What happens when you "fsck" your partition? > Your problem might be the next script (in /etc/rcS.d/). > Same thing happens in single user mode. And it doesn't complete c

Flash player gives me no audio

2009-11-08 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, I have a fresh Squeeze installation on my main desktop and it was all running smooth, except for the fact that flash player wouldn't play any sounds for me through both Konqueror and Iceweasel. I'm using KDE. All other sounds were operating correctly, which means that I could hear noti

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-08 Thread Cassiano Leal
2009/11/7 Alex Samad : > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 04:46:52PM -0500, Colin wrote: >> Cassiano Leal wrote: >> >> >I have a 4312 myself. Only way I can use the card is via the hybrid wl >> >driver found here: >> >http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php >> > >> >Unfortunately, it's not free

Re: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).

2009-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > >  When trying to setup wifi on my DELL Precision M6300, I discover > that pressing the Radio Frequency Kill Switch (Fn+F2), reported some > bizarre stuff in dmesg: > > [  147.025486] iwlagn :0c:00.0: Radio Frequency Kill

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:56 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something > doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. > Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more > than one entrant per cat

atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).

2009-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, When trying to setup wifi on my DELL Precision M6300, I discover that pressing the Radio Frequency Kill Switch (Fn+F2), reported some bizarre stuff in dmesg: [ 147.025486] iwlagn :0c:00.0: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On: [ 147.025491] Kill switch must be turned off for wirele

Re: Major problems 2.6.26 kernel in lenny

2009-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 08:12 +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > When I upgraded my Debian computer form Etch to Lenny, I had to give up > running 2.6.26 kernel for following reasons (computer has AMD Sempron 3000+ > CPU). > [..] > Now, with 686 kernel, I can no longer boot up - it just sto

Re: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: >>> Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Here is part of dmesg: >>> [ 32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting [ iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode 32.056427]

Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20091107124017.gw11...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: >John Jason Jordan: >> I do like Debian testing so far, in spite of the issues I am having. > >Oh, you are using testing? I must have missed that. You shouldn't do >that as a desktop user with no intention to dig into interna

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:54:20PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 3. Buy a 2.5" external HDD. But I'm told that when these fall, > > they're much more likely to break than flash. > > If you buy an external 2'5" SSD disk, there's no such problem. LOL, He might have a bit of trouble carrying th

Re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-08 Thread John Allen
whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5" HD in a USB linked external enclosure using "mkdosfs -c /dev/sd{ag}1". I can report the sam