Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 02:21, John Jason Jordan wrote: > That's what I thought too, but I read somewhere that you just do it > again. However *do not eject the media before redoing the image*. > Apparently that is the secret. I have done it, so I can vouch that it > works, and it does improve th

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-23 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Thu, 12/24/09, Yuwen Dai wrote: > From: Yuwen Dai > Subject: Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem > To: "David Maus" > Cc: "Kun Niu" , debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thursday, December 24, 2009, 1:59 AM > What > instant messaging service are you trying to connect to? > > > > I

RE:Optical Jukebox support in Linux

2009-12-23 Thread Alani Kuye
Now the IBM 3995 or IBM 3996 optical jukebox systems are no longer supported by IBM as Plasmon (original manufacturer) went outta business. UDO itself is long since done. Most IBM 3995 and IBM 3996 optical jukebox users are fast migrating to blu ray due to cost, non proprietary format, wide ranging

unhide-package

2009-12-23 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have installed the rkhunter (v. 1.3.2) on my Debian Lenny AMD64 system and it was installed automatically the unhide-package (v. 20080519-2) to by dependences. But when I scan the system with rkhunter -c, it alarm me about the unhide's files : /usr/s

Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

2009-12-23 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Stephen Powell wrote: Things have changed in the area of text-mode console fonts between Lenny and Squeeze. And I'm not happy about it. [snip: that was long!] By running "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup" I can get a VGA font of the right point size (as long as what I need is 8, 14, or 16).

Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

2009-12-23 Thread Stephen Powell
Things have changed in the area of text-mode console fonts between Lenny and Squeeze. And I'm not happy about it. Here is how I had things set up in Lenny. The boot loader (grub, now called grub-legacy in Squeeze) sets the video mode via the vga parameter. For example, vga=3841 sets an 80x50 vid

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-12-23 Thread Kevin Ross
stephen...@yahoo.com wrote: Just to update this old thread a bit: actually this didn't work perfectly, it only worked when I started up Linux when the PC was already switched on beforehand. When switching the PC on from cold and booting into Linux, it did not work, I think because it was trying

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-23 Thread Yuwen Dai
> > What instant messaging service are you trying to connect to? > > I use MSN. I'd been using Gaim OK in Debian Etch before December. Do this mean Microsoft suddenly changed MSN protocol recently? Best regards, Yuwen > -- David > -- > OpenPGP... 0x316F4BE4670716FD > Jabber dmj...@jabbe

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed December 23 2009, Celejar wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what you've tried, but if you're building the > kernel itself from source, you shouldn't be installing any header > packages - they're only for when you need to build stuff against a > kernel for which you don't have the source. I thin

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-23 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:18:44 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed December 23 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Back in the day I was exclusively using Debian kernel sources.  At one > > point I wanted a newer kernel version than was available via the Debian > > mirrors, so after reading in this do

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:26:45 +0100 Richard Hartmann dijo: >On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 22:12, John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> 1) The image is black and white only > >Yes, I was aware of that. You can get colored CD/DVD blanks, though. > > >> 3) The image quality sucks, although you can get better res

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed December 23 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Back in the day I was exclusively using Debian kernel sources.  At one > point I wanted a newer kernel version than was available via the Debian > mirrors, so after reading in this document that it was possible, I started > getting my source from kern

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed December 23 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I get my source from kernel.org also.  But there are instructions in that > document that tell you how to install from kernel.org sources "The Debian > Way". I see that, but I'm still having problems.. > > Back in the day I was exclusively using Debi

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

2009-12-23 Thread Justin The Cynical
James Brown wrote: I installed a driver for my Xerox Phaser 3117 from the openprinting project http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting and it works nice. I think that it it possible to try such for 6280DN Umm, no, no, n... The Phaser 3117 is one of those so-call

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/23/2009 3:46 PM: > On Wed December 23 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Paul, have you read this yet? It will be very helpful. >> >> http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html > > I was doing it a different way, getting the kernel from kernel.org. Th

Re: Customizing xscreensaver

2009-12-23 Thread Tom Furie
Hi Arthur, On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:16:05AM -0600, Arthur Machlas wrote: > I've figured out how to modify the colour scheme of the unlock dialog for > xscreensaver, though I'm wondering if it only supports a certain colour > palette. The one thing I can't change, however, is the god-awful > com

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed December 23 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Paul, have you read this yet?  It will be very helpful. > > http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html I was doing it a different way, getting the kernel from kernel.org. This looks a little different.. I'll take a look, thanks!

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 22:26, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Also, I read that there has been an update which improves image > quality. http://www.mivadika.com/images/2007/september/LightScribe.jpg Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 22:12, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 1) The image is black and white only Yes, I was aware of that. You can get colored CD/DVD blanks, though. > 3) The image quality sucks, although you can get better results by > burning twice. Doesn't LightScribe start at a random locat

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On 23/12/09 12:28:34 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Hi all, > > my new drive comes with LightScribe support. > > >From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. > LaCiE > seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on > Linux, but I am loath to try it for the sim

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:28:34 +0100 Richard Hartmann dijo: >Hi all, > >my new drive comes with LightScribe support. > >>From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. LaCiE >seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on >Linux, but I am loath to try it for the si

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-23 Thread evenso
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:42:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > Dear all > > How would I roll back system upgrades? > This is the purpose of the testing distribution, to test packages for > breakage so that bugs don't mi

Re: sawfish wm

2009-12-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:40:32 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Installed the Sawfish window manager today - along with > sawfish-themes. Picked it from the GDM login menu - and was > presented with

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

2009-12-23 Thread James Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisi wrote: > 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 shou

Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, my new drive comes with LightScribe support. >From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. LaCiE seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on Linux, but I am loath to try it for the simple reason that it's closed. Any and all help appreciated. Than

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-12-23 Thread stephen...@yahoo.com
Thanks Stan but my modem is powered from the PC - it has no other power supply. (Here is a picture of the model I have, which I found on the internet: http://www.sbazar.cz/img/big/74/2917974_1.jpg ). And I wouldn't like to leave the PC on all the time, I don't think its power would be negligib

X in uml?

2009-12-23 Thread Rodrigo Baroni
Hello everybody Does anybody know how to run X inside of user mode linux (not Xnest or similars)? Rodrigo

Re: Sid broken packages

2009-12-23 Thread Joe
Rick Thomas wrote: Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid. I understand "normal Sid churn" but these have been broken for a couple of weeks. Are they not really "broken", just (e.g.) being replaced by something else with a diffe

Re: Sid broken packages

2009-12-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-23 19:41 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote: > Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and > openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid. > > I understand "normal Sid churn" but these have been broken for a > couple of weeks. > > Are they not really "broken", just (e.g.) being replace

Re: Sid broken packages

2009-12-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Aptitude claims that gvfs, libempathy-gtk28, libempathy30, and openjdk-6-jre-lib are broken in Sid. I understand "normal Sid churn" but these have been broken for a couple of weeks. Are they not really "broken", just (e.g.) being replaced by something else with a different name? Anyb

Re: Configure Lenny client respond to snmp queries

2009-12-23 Thread vr
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:26:58 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > http://gameornot.net/umarzuki/?p=157 > > use google translate if you're not familiar with malay language > Excellent! This got me a working config and I am on my way. Thank you everyone who replied! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

sawfish wm

2009-12-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Installed the Sawfish window manager today - along with sawfish-themes. Picked it from the GDM login menu - and was presented with a grey screen, where nothing works...left/right/middle clicks produce nothing . What am I missing ?? - -- Frank

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

2009-12-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,22.Dec.09, 15:52:36, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > 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 A

RE: Configure Lenny client respond to snmp queries

2009-12-23 Thread James Wu
You probably want snmpd as the package to install for the machine to query from. Snmp as the package to install to make these queries. I suggest you get very familiar with the snmpd.conf. It is quite useful and extensible. You can pretty much interface any local script with it to make it query th

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-12-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
stephen...@yahoo.com put forth on 12/23/2009 8:37 AM: > --- On Tue, 11/3/09, stephen...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Kevin Ross wrote: >> >>> If you want to have your connection >>> be established on bootup, the "Debian >>> way" is to add your PPP connection to your >>> /etc/netwo

Customizing xscreensaver

2009-12-23 Thread Arthur Machlas
Greetings, I've figured out how to modify the colour scheme of the unlock dialog for xscreensaver, though I'm wondering if it only supports a certain colour palette. The one thing I can't change, however, is the god-awful computer-on-fire icon from 1985. I'd like to just replace that with a copy o

RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

2009-12-23 Thread stephen...@yahoo.com
--- On Tue, 11/3/09, stephen...@yahoo.com wrote: > --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Kevin Ross wrote: > > > If you want to have your connection > > be established on bootup, the "Debian > > way" is to add your PPP connection to your > > /etc/network/interfaces file, > > like: > > > > auto ppp0 > > iface

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4b30e4ee.7010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> They are not supported by the "Debian installer kernel". >> They have to be installed *seperately*. > > This is neither true, nor desired.

Re: Configure Lenny client respond to snmp queries

2009-12-23 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/12/23 vr > Hello list, > > I tried to get a lenny based box to respond to snmp queries a few months > ago but failed. This time around I am using a VirtualBox with netinst-x86 > lenny installed as my "client". The system that I will have poll lenny is > using Cacti (but does not have too). >

Re: Configure Lenny client respond to snmp queries

2009-12-23 Thread Kim Christensen
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM, vr wrote: > > Hello list, > > I tried to get a lenny based box to respond to snmp queries a few months > ago but failed. This time around I am using a VirtualBox with netinst-x86 > lenny installed as my "client". The system that I will have poll lenny is > using Ca

Configure Lenny client respond to snmp queries

2009-12-23 Thread vr
Hello list, I tried to get a lenny based box to respond to snmp queries a few months ago but failed. This time around I am using a VirtualBox with netinst-x86 lenny installed as my "client". The system that I will have poll lenny is using Cacti (but does not have too). Upon issuing "aptitude sear

Re: MaxStoreFileSize in Debian

2009-12-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 12/22/2009 12:58 PM: > And I also advised him about he was posting in both lists (English and > Spanish), but it seems he did not read my mesage or did not note my > warning, dunno :-? He can't receive our emails. His domain has an MX configuration problem: Dec 22 11:47:

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/22/2009 4:36 PM: > 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 optio

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

2009-12-23 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:03:58 +0100, Robert David wrote: > I suggest you try look at splix package and its supported printers. On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:48:47 -0500, I replied: > I may try that if I have to give up on CUPS, but this is a PostScript > printer, so I thought CUPS should work. On Wed,

Re: Compiling Linux kernel

2009-12-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-23 11:07 +0100, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Reading [1] and [2], I already found the cause of this problem. The > configuration in "Executable file formats / Emulations" must be the > following one in order to use a kernel x86_64 in userland 32. > > [*] Kernel support for ELF binaries > [ ]

Re: Compiling Linux kernel

2009-12-23 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Saturday, 19 December 2009 16:19:31 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > I assume that it must have differences between both kernels > > > versions; for that reason, as I've mentioned in another mail of > > > this thread, after to have copied the file, I followed a similar > > > procedure to whic

Re: How to connect to a network HP printer?

2009-12-23 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 23. 12. 2009 02:42:32 je Kun Niu napisal(a): Dear all, I'm trying to connect to a HP LaserJet P2035n printer via TCP/IP. I'm assuming by "connect" you mean reach its http configuration page? If so, you must either put the printer's IP number into your browser's address bar, or navigate

Re: How to connect to a network HP printer?

2009-12-23 Thread Kun Niu
Hi Mr. Wolf, The problem has been solved. Really appreciate your reply. Best regards, Kun Klaus Wolf wrote: Hi, you may look for the IP on which the printer is connected to your network. Then define in cups (http://localhost:631) a new printer and connect it with the address socket://..IP

Re: How to connect to a network HP printer?

2009-12-23 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, you may look for the IP on which the printer is connected to your network. Then define in cups (http://localhost:631) a new printer and connect it with the address socket://..IP.. best regards and a nice day klaus Am Mittwoch, den 23.12.2009, 09:42 +0800 schrieb Kun Niu: > Dear all, > I'm t

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-23 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Yuwen. On Wednesday, 23 December 2009 15:16:42 +0800, Yuwen Dai 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

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-23 Thread David Maus
At Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:16:42 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > [1 ] > > [2 ] > 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 sup