Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 15:16 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kun Niu wrote: > I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint > from the output of the pidgin debug output window? > > > > > > The error message i

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-22 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kun Niu wrote: > I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint from the output > of the pidgin debug output window? > > The error message is : Our protocol is not supported by the server. The version of pidgin is 2.4.3. Best regards, Yuwen

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-22 Thread Kun Niu
I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint from the output of the pidgin debug output window? Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I have Gaim connecting problem since the beginning of December. I use Gaim in Debian Etch. I also tried Pidgin in Debian Lenny, could not connecting eithe

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:56:56 +0800 Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I have Gaim connecting problem since the beginning of December. I use Gaim > in Debian Etch. I also tried Pidgin in Debian Lenny, could not connecting > either. I didn't change any configuration in Gaim. Do you have any > sug

Re: can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN

2009-12-22 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 00:48:47 Steve Kleene wrote: > > I suggest you try look at splix package and its supported printers. > > I may try that if I have to give up on CUPS, but this is a PostScript > printer, so I thought CUPS should work. The splix package provides CUPS printer drivers for

gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-22 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I have Gaim connecting problem since the beginning of December. I use Gaim in Debian Etch. I also tried Pidgin in Debian Lenny, could not connecting either. I didn't change any configuration in Gaim. Do you have any suggestion? Best regards, Yuwen Dai

Re: Html code for playing local flash files

2009-12-22 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:48:35 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > I can play local flash files by > just clicking on them (using Lenny with Gnome). I think the only thing I > had to do to get it working was to associate flash files with Iceweasel > in Nautilus, and that was it. Interesting, - are you sure

Re: How to connect to a network HP printer?

2009-12-22 Thread Kun Niu
Really appreciate your reply. I found the package and the printer is found on my system. Thank you. :D Regards, Kun Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4b317588.20...@gmail.com>, Kun Niu wrote: I'm trying to connect to a HP LaserJet P2035n printer via TCP/IP. I wonder if anyone happ

Re: How to connect to a network HP printer?

2009-12-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b317588.20...@gmail.com>, Kun Niu wrote: >I'm trying to connect to a HP LaserJet P2035n printer via TCP/IP. I >wonder if anyone happens to know how to connect to such a machine or >show me a link which may be helpful. I'm using Debian 5.0. >Thank you for any suggestions. Install the "hplip" p

How to connect to a network HP printer?

2009-12-22 Thread Kun Niu
Dear all, I'm trying to connect to a HP LaserJet P2035n printer via TCP/IP. I wonder if anyone happens to know how to connect to such a machine or show me a link which may be helpful. I'm using Debian 5.0. Thank you for any suggestions. Regards, Kun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 07:48:05 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew Reid wrote: > > It's likely the devices aren't being recognized in the initramfs -- > > possibly they require kernel modules which are not present by default. > > But I would think that to be the case of the custom kernel, not

Re: Bluetooth A2DP

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Kamichoff
Hi Cameron - On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:01:41PM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > I am using pulseaudio and bluetoothd to drive the headset, not alsa. I > have alsa configured to use pulseaudio for output, so all alsa is > doing is routing the default output to pulseaudio. I also have USB > speak

Re: can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN

2009-12-22 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:14:11 -0500, I wrote: > I am failing to get CUPS working with a new Xerox Phaser 6280DN color laser > printer connected by USB. The OS is Debian Lenny. The printer and driver > seem to be installed OK ... However, the jobs get queued and don't print. On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 2

Re: Bluetooth A2DP

2009-12-22 Thread Micha
On 23/12/2009 01:01, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Mark Kamichoff writes: It's got me wondering, do folks out there who have the appropriate headsets actually use Bluetooth hi-fi audio on Linux? Perhaps there is a workaround for this problem that everybody's using, that doesn't appear on any Googl

Re (2): configuration file for "Automatically Started Applications"

2009-12-22 Thread peasthope
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:52:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote, > Drop a .desktop file in .config/autostart/ For perspective I read "http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html"; Desktop Application Autostart Specification. Interesting. I created an empty ~/.con

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:38:12 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: > > Unfortunately, there's no easy answer to this one.  Read, read, read, > > and learn from your mistakes (you *will* make them).  To be safe, > > always err on the side of caution and enable anyt

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:36:29 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: > > > I think I have done this before, I think I tried it for a 64bit kernel, > > > for my Duo-Core processor, but it didn't turn out well. Seems to me the > > > "configure' part takes 2 days, or w

Re: Bluetooth A2DP

2009-12-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Mark Kamichoff writes: >It's got me wondering, do folks out there who have the appropriate >headsets actually use Bluetooth hi-fi audio on Linux? Perhaps there is >a workaround for this problem that everybody's using, that doesn't >appear on any Google searches? I have been using my Philips SHB

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:26:20 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: > > Try 'make menuconfig', or copy over a config file from a running kernel > > of the same version. > > I downloaded 2.6.32.2 from kernel.org > config file from my kernel? 2.6.26.2 ? > would tha

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Robert David
Check the apropriate config from http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/ before doing make menuconfig do: make oldconfig then make menuconfig And I suppose to use tool like make-kpkg See for example: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/kernel2.6.htm Robert. Dne Út 22. prosince 2009 23:36:29 Paul Cartw

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: > Unfortunately, there's no easy answer to this one.  Read, read, read, > and learn from your mistakes (you *will* make them).  To be safe, > always err on the side of caution and enable anything not marked > 'experimental' unless you're pretty sure that you

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: > > I think I have done this before, I think I tried it for a 64bit kernel, > > for my Duo-Core processor, but it didn't turn out well. Seems to me the > > "configure' part takes 2 days, or way too many options. I seem to > > remember it asked whether i wante

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue December 22 2009, Celejar wrote: > Try 'make menuconfig', or copy over a config file from a running kernel > of the same version. I downloaded 2.6.32.2 from kernel.org config file from my kernel? 2.6.26.2 ? would that work, and what is the config file? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux

Re: can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN

2009-12-22 Thread Robert David
I suggest you try look at splix package and its supported printers. I own older Xerox Phaser 3122 (black laserjet) and it is much same as some other Samsung that has support in splix. Look also in /var/log/cups/error_log and post it. Check if you have all the foomatic stuff (foomatic-filters, fo

Re: configuration file for "Automatically Started Applications"

2009-12-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,22.Dec.09, 13:02:48, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Searches for pertinent strings in file names and > in file content hasn't found a configuration text > for "Automatically Started Applications" in the > "Desktop Session Settings" gadget in LXDE. Has > anyone found a way to add an automati

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:28:50PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > With all due respect, if you aren't prepared to deal with > > occaisional breakage, then you should be running testing. > > s/should/should not/ indeed. thanks... A signature.asc De

configuration file for "Automatically Started Applications"

2009-12-22 Thread peasthope
Searches for pertinent strings in file names and in file content hasn't found a configuration text for "Automatically Started Applications" in the "Desktop Session Settings" gadget in LXDE. Has anyone found a way to add an automatically started application? Thanks, ... Peter E.

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:46:27 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote: > > > Yes and no WRT flexibility.  Yes because you an choose exactly what does > > > and does not go into your kernel.  No, because once it's built, if you > > > want to add a new hardware device l

Re: VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,21.Dec.09, 11:51:00, Kevin Ross wrote: > option as well as a -vo option. Put this in your ~/.mplayer/config: > > vc=ffh264vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffvc1vdpau, > vo=vdpau > > I also added these for DTS and AC3 passthrough via SPDIF (you may need to > change "default" to something el

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:41:22 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote: > > 1)  Faster booting, since irrelevant drivers aren't loaded and won't > > spend time probing. > just faster booting, or doesn't it also run faster, since it isn't loaded > with > a bunch of PO

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:36:42 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote: > > 2)  From the appropriate directory, run make menuconfig (or xconfig or > > whatever you prefer) and configure appropriately > > I think I have done this before, I think I tried it for a 64bit

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:10:31 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: ... > Which wireless is fully supported by debian and free software? I don't > think there is *any* on the planet that works without proprietary, > binary non-free code. Yes, there is. Many Atheros devices are fully supported by the

Re: totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken

2009-12-22 Thread Daniel Armstrong
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:00 +, Tixy wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:13 -0500, Daniel Armstrong wrote: >> > Hi... I am currently running Debian testing upgraded with the latest >> > Gnome and totem. >> >> > When I open Nautilus: >> > >> > * tot

Re: Bluetooth A2DP

2009-12-22 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:16:25 -0500 Mark Kamichoff dijo: >It's got me wondering, do folks out there who have the appropriate >headsets actually use Bluetooth hi-fi audio on Linux? Perhaps there is >a workaround for this problem that everybody's using, that doesn't >appear on any Google searches?

Re: MaxStoreFileSize in Debian

2009-12-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:48:28 -0200, Leandro Quibem Magnabosco wrote: > cosme escreveu: >> Hola >> >> Uso proftpd en Debian lenny y quisiera implementar el MaxStoreFileSize >> para poder definir el tamaño máximo a los usuarios a ubicar archivos en >> el ftp >> >> con MaxStoreFileSize 500 Mb no func

Re: Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

2009-12-22 Thread Wayne
green wrote: Wayne wrote at 2009-12-20 09:29 -0700: green wrote: Wayne wrote at 2009-12-14 07:12 -0700: I am wondering if anyone has successfully install the Subject device on Debian? My research has shown that some have had success on Ubuntu 9.1 but I have not been able to locate any

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:27 +0100, Jean-François Pirlet wrote: > > I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? > > Hello. > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for > dai

can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN

2009-12-22 Thread Steve Kleene
I am failing to get CUPS working with a new Xerox Phaser 6280DN color laser printer connected by USB. The OS is Debian Lenny. The printer and driver seem to be installed OK, and I can successfully queue up print jobs from acroread or with a command such as this: lpr -P Phaser_6280DN test.ps H

Re: MaxStoreFileSize in Debian

2009-12-22 Thread Leandro Quibem Magnabosco
cosme escreveu: Hola Uso proftpd en Debian lenny y quisiera implementar el MaxStoreFileSize para poder definir el tamaño máximo a los usuarios a ubicar archivos en el ftp con MaxStoreFileSize 500 Mb no funciona Alguna idea??? Cosme Hola Cosme. La mejor idea es enviar esta misma pregunta

MaxStoreFileSize in Debian

2009-12-22 Thread cosme
Hola Uso proftpd en Debian lenny y quisiera implementar el MaxStoreFileSize para poder definir el tamaño máximo a los usuarios a ubicar archivos en el ftp con MaxStoreFileSize 500 Mb no funciona Alguna idea??? Cosme == Grupo Empresa

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:07:23PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > the % is greater than 97. I run the script daily from crontab. It works > > > fine. ... > Maybe post your perl. Someone responded to me. I am forwarding it here: There is a package "monit" in archive. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIB

RE: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread James Wu
I'm not sure what the scope of the discussion is (ie: mail server for personal use vs. a company mail server) so what I do might be overkill for you if you run a home server. Anyways, I run net-snmpd to pull system information which I then use nagios to check. If disk usage goes above a certain th

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:05:34AM -0700, green wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote at 2009-12-22 07:28 -0700: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:24:25AM -0500, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > > I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail > > > server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to t

Bluetooth A2DP

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Kamichoff
Hi - I've been a big fan of Bluetooth's A2DP (hi-fi audio via a Bluetooth headset) service for quite some time, mostly because of my dislike of wired headphones and the general annoyance that comes with being physically tethered to a desktop or laptop computer when working in a cubical. For quit

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 17:25:55 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail > > server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' > > and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send m

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b30e4ee.7010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >If there are >still any non-free drivers present in debian's kernel, those will be >removed. Some/many non-free, non-GPL or similar drivers are available >for Debian, but they are not released by Debian. They are not part

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread green
Osamu Aoki wrote at 2009-12-22 07:28 -0700: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:24:25AM -0500, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail > > server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' > > and look for a % full that is gre

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Wayne
Jean-François Pirlet wrote: I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? Hello. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for daily builds. Choose your arch. Iso-cd contains ISO

Re: Verizon Novatel USB760 Wireless

2009-12-22 Thread green
Wayne wrote at 2009-12-20 09:29 -0700: > green wrote: >> Wayne wrote at 2009-12-14 07:12 -0700: >>> I am wondering if anyone has successfully install the Subject >>> device on Debian? My research has shown that some have had success >>> on Ubuntu 9.1 but I have not been able to locate any

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Osamu Aoki put forth on 12/22/2009 8:28 AM: > $ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 56G 7.4G 45G 15% / > tmpfs 1.5G 12K 1.5G 1% /lib/init/rw > udev 10M 940K 9.1M 10% /dev > tmpfs 1.5G

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 12/22/2009 4:10 AM: >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: > >> All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The >> point in this thread is

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m...@neidorff.com wrote: > I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail > server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' > and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if > the %

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 12:51:46 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Why are you > trying to beat me over the head with a statement I did not make? And why are you so determined to rubbish the OP, who gave very valid reasons for eschewing cabled ethernet? Why does it, in any way, shape or form, harm you

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:24:25AM -0500, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail > server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' > and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if > the % is gr

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:02:53 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 12/21/2009 9:13 PM: > > > I run desktops / laptops, and I always build netfilter - I run > > shorewall on all my boxes. > > For me, the firewall is always going to be upstream of desktops in a properly > configured i

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
m...@neidorff.com wrote: I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if the % is greater than 97. I run the script daily from cron

Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread mark
I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if the % is greater than 97. I run the script daily from crontab. It works fine. Yeste

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 12/22/2009 4:10 AM: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: > All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The > point in this thread is the question from a particular OP who does *not* > have access to a wired ne

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Reid wrote: On Monday 21 December 2009 15:52:29 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have 2 internal ATA HDD's and 2 disks in external USB enclosures. When you boot (this is Sid) the 2 USB disks report their presence between the messages: 'Loading, please wait...' and 'Init 2.86 booting' in th

Re (3): xorg.conf for vesa

2009-12-22 Thread peasthope
CamaleA3n, > http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg > > You can follow the steps provided in *"What if I do not have an xorg > config file?"* and let xorg to generate its own "xorg.conf" file. Then > just change the "Driver" line and replace it with "vesa" :-? Right oh. I'll try to work on it next week.

Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
sathya sai put forth on 12/22/2009 3:17 AM: > Hi Stan, > > I have already thought about this. But the problem here is, we dont have > a control over neither over our DHCP server nor the system which > statically configures the IP address in our subnet. I hope that, this > true even with the real

Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?

2009-12-22 Thread Michael Wagner
* Robert Latest 15.12.2009 > I've searched the Net up and down but had to realize in puzzlement > that I seem to be the only one with this problem. After an upgrade > from stable to testing I found that xpdf had gone. Sure enough, the > > OK, but where is the "xpdf" program now? The only thing w

Re: Re (2): xorg.conf for vesa

2009-12-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:28:31 -0800, peasthope wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:50:09 + (UTC), Camaleon wrote, >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Configured Video Device" >> Driver "vesa" >> EndSection >> >> And restart X. > > Yields a black screen. Ugh :-( >> Revi

"Nothing to be done for all-am" on Lenny

2009-12-22 Thread Gav
I've not come accross this one before but I now have 2 seperate machines running Lenny that are reporting this when I'm trying to build things. On one of the machines I've built a kernel ok but when I've come to build XFCE 4.6.1 I get this message. On the other I was trying to build desmume and

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? Hello. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for daily builds. Choose your arch. Iso-cd contains ISOs, bt-cd contains torrents,

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Jackson
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote: 2) From the appropriate directory, run make menuconfig (or xconfig or whatever you prefer) and configure appropriately I think I have done this before, I think I tried it for a 64bit kernel, for my Duo-Core processor, but it did

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote: > > Yes and no WRT flexibility.  Yes because you an choose exactly what does > > and does not go into your kernel.  No, because once it's built, if you > > want to add a new hardware device later, you might have to build a new > > kernel.  With the modular pr

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote: > 1)  Faster booting, since irrelevant drivers aren't loaded and won't > spend time probing. just faster booting, or doesn't it also run faster, since it isn't loaded with a bunch of PORK? > > 2)  Security - one of these null pointer dereferences that they

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote: > 2)  From the appropriate directory, run make menuconfig (or xconfig or > whatever you prefer) and configure appropriately I think I have done this before, I think I tried it for a 64bit kernel, for my Duo-Core processor, but it didn't turn out well. Seems

Re: totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken

2009-12-22 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 09:00 +, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:13 -0500, Daniel Armstrong wrote: > > Hi... I am currently running Debian testing upgraded with the latest > > Gnome and totem. > > > When I open Nautilus: > > > > * totem-video-thumbnailer fails to create video thumbnails

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: > >> Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless. > > Most systems have wired ethernet. Few have _only_ wireless. Most laptops have > both. I'd venture to guess th

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 12/21/09, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > As I understnad it, generally speaking you don't. You *can* if you use > dpkg directly and still have the .deb files from the previous version > of a package lying around (/var/cache/apt/archives/). > I did think of manual dpkg installation of o

Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-22 Thread sathya sai
Hi Stan, I have already thought about this. But the problem here is, we dont have a control over neither over our DHCP server nor the system which statically configures the IP address in our subnet. I hope that, this true even with the real time deployment scenario. So, to overcome I will that it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.6 released

2009-12-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ritesh Raj Sarraf [Tue, Dec 22 2009, 01:24:13PM]: > I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.6. Wait a second, unless I am mistaken it's an implementation of the traditional "Using APT Offline" howto from Jason Gunthorpe, this time with additional requirement of Python. If yes

Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
sathya sai put forth on 12/22/2009 12:26 AM: > *I could also see that, our debian dhclient presently DOES NOT HAVE AN > OPTION TO IMPLICITLY SUPPORT THIS.* > > But as per RFC 2131, the client should perform a final check to detect > the IP conflict and send DHCPDECLINE message. Please find the

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-22 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 21/12/09, Tixy (debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk) wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:03 +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > You can also use the fabulous facility of snapshot.debian.net to get > > specific resources from a particular time in the past. > > > It doesn't look like snapshot.debian