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

2009-12-26 Thread Jim McCloskey
Tom H wrote: |> vga 1: even though it is deprecated, you can still use "vga=" in |> the "linux" line. |> |> vga 2: if you would rather not use "vga=", you can set the |> resolution with "set gfxmode=" |> |> font: you need to use "pf2" fonts and set them with "loadfont |> (hd0,X)/boot/gr

query about history management in bash

2009-12-26 Thread Rajarshi Tiwari
Dear friends, Consider following situation - We write a lot commands, and make many typing errors. (e.g typed s instead of ls, eco instead of echo and so on). These miss-typed commands are also saved in history and create unnecessary crowd in the HISTFILE. Is there any way to avoid this? More prec

Re: running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt i'm still having the same failure message, there's something amiss from what i had done? Definitely. If your setup was correct, it would be working. I would like to see the output fr

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/26/2009 5:32 AM: > this DELL box is my first PC with SATA. When I opened it up a while back to > add a 2nd HD, THAT is when I found out it was SATA, and my old drives > wouldn't work! but I don't remember looking at the CDROM cables.. Sounds like the perfect time

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/26/2009 6:47 AM: > On Fri December 25 2009, Celejar wrote: >> Absolutely. I'm just warning you to be prepared for a lot of very >> frustrating "why can't the kernel find my root filesystem?" and "why >> has this piece of HW / SW suddenly stopped working". >> > > ok

Re: Help! where is this flash originates

2009-12-26 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:20:27 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > When visiting > > http://space.tv.cctv.com/playcfg/flv_info_new.jsp? > videoId=VIDE1247468077860061 > > I can view the flash movie in my firefox because there is an "embed" > tag there. Though the flash plays well, I just coul

Help! where is this flash originates

2009-12-26 Thread T o n g
Hi, When visiting http://space.tv.cctv.com/playcfg/flv_info_new.jsp? videoId=VIDE1247468077860061 I can view the flash movie in my firefox because there is an "embed" tag there. Though the flash plays well, I just couldn't figure out where the flash is originated, no matter how hard I tried.

Re: running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 08:07:39AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/12/27 Osamu Aoki > > set my cpufreq to "conservative" but does this setup shuts down wireless > card from time to time because my wireless connection sometimes goes on and > off? I do not know exactly your situation but wir

RE: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

2009-12-26 Thread Ogya Chief
> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:58:36 + > From: levi.vi...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 05:42PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > > Hi Ogya > > > I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the

Any mozilla extension to list web page urls?

2009-12-26 Thread T o n g
Hi, I remember having installed a mozilla extension which can give me a list of urls the web page contains. but I can't find it any more. What could it be? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUB

Re: Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

2009-12-26 Thread Sebastian
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 05:42PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > Hi All, > Hi Ogya > I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I > installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the > wireless card ...snip... I have a Fujitsu Esprimo laptop which us

Re: Squeeze and wireless MightyMouse

2009-12-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am award of bluez-comp, but this solution is just a postpone of the issue: comp is a short suffix for backward COMPatibility with Lenny. If you read the doc, it sound really an ad hoc soltution: I want really migrate, otherwise I would wait for the stable Squeeze. Cheers, Jerome

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri December 25 2009, Celejar wrote: > Absolutely.  I'm just warning you to be prepared for a lot of very > frustrating "why can't the kernel find my root filesystem?" and "why > has this piece of HW / SW suddenly stopped working". yeah, found that one... something about can't boot from (0,0)..

Re: Squeeze and wireless MightyMouse

2009-12-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am award of bluez-comp, but this solution is just a report of the issue: comp is a short suffix for backward COMPatibility with Lenny. If you read the doc, it sound really an ad hoc soltution: I want really migrate, other I would wait for the stable Squeeze. Cheers, Jerome Celejar

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

2009-12-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Stephen, have fill a bug report ? Cheers, Jerome Stephen Powell wrote: On 2009-12-23 at 22:01:49 -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote: What did the 'console-setup' documentation say about setting fonts? Did you at least read the comments in '/etc/default/console-setup'? I configured the packag

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 26 2009, Celejar wrote: > > kernel hacking?? > > Various options that control the behavior of the kernel, for debugging, > testing, troubleshooting, etc.  You can generally ignore this section > and turn things off, although there are some useful things there (Magic > SysRq, various

Re: debugging initrd image

2009-12-26 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 26 December 2009 15:11:59 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? You can use the "break" options (detailed in another reply) to get at it "live" during the boot, but I have often found it useful to just unpack the thing on anot

Re: de-stunnel possible?

2009-12-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2009-12-26六的 19:14 -0500,Celejar写道: > IIUC, stunnel can indeed do what you want: Thank you very much. You are right. I underestimate the tool and didn't go detail enough on it. Thanks a lot! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Change keyboard layout

2009-12-26 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:30:27 + pch0317 wrote: > Hi list > I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout. > I want to change it to polish, so I type ''dpkg-reconfigure > console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''. > But still I can't type my symbol. > What I can do? I don't think t

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-26 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:47:10 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: ... [Warning: I'm no expert, so take everything I write with a grain of salt.] > kernel hacking?? Various options that control the behavior of the kernel, for debugging, testing, troubleshooting, etc. You can generally ignore this sect

Re: de-stunnel possible?

2009-12-26 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:45:28 +0800 Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. I have a case when the client software only speaks non-SSL > protocol and wants to access a server that only offer SSL protocol. > Image a case when a sensitive server admin only offer IMAPS access to > the emails where the email soft

Re: running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/12/27 Osamu Aoki > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:59:32PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor. > > > > I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source, when i ran > > # powernowd > > Do you need user spece tool even now? > >

Re: running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:59:32PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor. > > I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source, when i ran > # powernowd Do you need user spece tool even now? Why not use kernel module since you ha

Re: Squeeze and wireless MightyMouse

2009-12-26 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:21:03 +0800 Jerome BENOIT wrote: ... > The main issue is that Bluez 4.x have a new way to deal with bluetooth > apparatus as mice and keyboards: > giving dmesg and syslog will be useless as the daemon used in Bluez 3.x were > removed in Bluez 4.x > On the other hand, the

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:40:54 +0100 Merciadri Luca wrote: ... > /Post scriptum/: sorry for the delay between my answers but it seems > to be due to the fact that this group is moderated. Not sure exactly what you mean by 'moderated', but the Debian mailing lists are not moderated in the typical

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 05:51:29PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Osamu Aoki writes: > >> > # cd /mnt/mymnttosdc5 > >> > # rm -rf * .* > >> > rm: cannot remove directory `.' > >> > rm: cannot remove directory `..' > >> > # cd > >> > # cp -a ./ /mnt/mymnttosdc5 (This style of cp avoid such trouble

problem with firefox not starting illegal instruction

2009-12-26 Thread Alex Samad
Hi seem to have a problem with iceweasel this morning it will not start - for different users - upgraded to lastest version ii iceweasel 3.5.6-1 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla un iceweasel-dom-inspector

Re: running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> 2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt > wrote: >> >>I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor. >> >>I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source >> >> >>Because you built your own, it becomes more dif

Re: running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/12/27 Dave Witbrodt Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor. I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source Because you built your own, it becomes more difficult for the rest of

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Kwaku Obeng on 2009-12-25 14:22:12: > I have been trying to download the DVD packs ... but always end up > with a corrupt copy which I am unable to boot from. I therefore wish > to make an appeal to any of you who can send me a copy of the Debian > 5.0 DVD Pack. Welcome to Debian, Kwaku. I

Re: running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/12/27 Artur Frydel > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis > wrote: > > I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor. > > I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source, when i ran > > # powernowd > > Why you don't use powernowd from debian repositor

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 26, 2009, at 6:31 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > It now works like a charm. Congratulations! But don't trust it for a second :-) > I repeated the operation, doing the same > things, and it worked, this time. Computer science is sometimes > mysterious. That is why we like it, isn't it? Well

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisi writes: > On Friday 25 December 2009 22:42:18 Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hope you will be > >> combled > > I assume this was meant to mean the same as comblé? Combled doesn't make > sense!! Yes. Sorry, `satiated' was really not the right word,

Re: debugging initrd image

2009-12-26 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 02:11:59PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? Yes, with the parameter 'break' . See http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Change keyboard layout

2009-12-26 Thread pch0317
Hi list I have problem with changing my keyboadr layout. I want to change it to polish, so I type ''dpkg-reconfigure console-data'' and choose ''qwert'' and ''polish''. But still I can't type my symbol. What I can do? I use Debian testing amd64. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: MaxStoreFileSize in Debian

2009-12-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:20:39 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > 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

debugging initrd image

2009-12-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, What is the way to debug an initrd file and drop into a shell? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Artur Frydel
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor. > I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source, when i ran > # powernowd Why you don't use powernowd from debian repositories? Have you cpufreqd? -- Best regar

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

2009-12-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-23 at 22:01:49 -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > What did the 'console-setup' documentation say about setting fonts? > > Did you at least read the comments in '/etc/default/console-setup'? I configured the package with dpkg-reconfigure console-setup and there was nothing in the config

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Osamu Aoki writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Osamu Aoki writes: >> >> > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:20:49PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> I re-tried exactly the same thing, but with the same co

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Lisi
On Friday 25 December 2009 22:42:18 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hope you will be > combled I assume this was meant to mean the same as comblé? Combled doesn't make sense!! > when you will see my previous message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Tomcat error I don't understand

2009-12-26 Thread Manuel Soto
2009/12/26 Alan Chandler : > I am moving an application that I had working on another machine under > tomcat5.5 to tomcat6 on my desktop. > > > I have got to the point where I am trying to access this application and it > is throwing an exception. > > The Root Cause is this line > > java.security.A

Setting up Atheros Ar5001 wifi

2009-12-26 Thread Ogya Chief
Hi All, I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are the wireless card and a Hewlett-Parkard laserjet P1005 printer. I have search for solutions on the internet but so far I have not found any

FW: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread Oscar Corte
Hi: Jigdo works great for me . I've even downloaded DVD's with nasty connections. It does all check sums and retries for you. http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ Regards Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:22:12 + Subject: Help Please ! From: kwakb...@gmail.com To: debi

running powernowd on debian lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
I have a cq40-115au latop with AMD Turion x2 RM-70 processor. I want to enable powernowd. After i compiled it from source, when i ran # powernowd here are the output: powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v1.00, (c) 2003-2008 John Clemens /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/affected_cpus: No such file or

Re: Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-26 Thread sathya sai
Hi All, I COULD FIX this problem with the following solution, I could distinguish the IP conflict in the network by using following command in dhclient-script. We need to install “arping” debian package for this. *arping -d -I eth0 -c 3 {IP address got from DHCP server} >/dev/null; echo $?* *T

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Osamu Aoki writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:20:49PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I re-tried exactly the same thing, but with the same contents on both > >> HDDs (proved with a diff). I had to use > >> > >> # cp

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It now works like a charm. I repeated the operation, doing the same things, and it worked, this time. Computer science is sometimes mysterious. That is why we like it, isn't it? Thanks all. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.a

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri December 25 2009, Celejar wrote: > Absolutely.  I'm just warning you to be prepared for a lot of very > frustrating "why can't the kernel find my root filesystem?" and "why > has this piece of HW / SW suddenly stopped working". > ok, so it gets deep in those menus... network, device drivers

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri December 25 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > 18MB?  Yikes!  Am I reading that correctly?  My latest custom kernel is: > > -rw-r--r--  1 root src  1.5M Dec  8 13:29 > linux-image-2.6.31.1_custom.greer.sata.1.3_i386.deb ok, so I go through and delete stuff ( make menuconfig). When I get to an en

Re: building a custom kernel-WAS: Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri December 25 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 18548960 2009-12-25 05:58 > > linux-image-2.6.31.9_custom.1.0_i386.deb > > 18MB?  Yikes!  Am I reading that correctly?  My latest custom kernel is: > > -rw-r--r--  1 root src  1.5M Dec  8 13:29 > linux-image-2.6.31.1_custom.g

Tomcat error I don't understand

2009-12-26 Thread Alan Chandler
I am moving an application that I had working on another machine under tomcat5.5 to tomcat6 on my desktop. I have got to the point where I am trying to access this application and it is throwing an exception. The Root Cause is this line java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 26 December 2009 08:04:47 Zhang Weiwu wrote: > However Africa is too far away from me. Do you know if you have a Linux > user group locally? http://linuxaccra.com/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hartwig Atrops writes: > No, nothing will be erased. Umount your new disk - the old data will be there > again. I.e. - if you want to reuse the disk space, you explicitly have to > delete data in the old directory. Thanks, Hartwig. - -- Merciadri

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Osamu Aoki writes: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:20:49PM +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> I re-tried exactly the same thing, but with the same contents on both >> HDDs (proved with a diff). I had to use >> >> # cp --recursive --update .[a-zA-Z0-9]* /

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

2009-12-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn English writes: > My belief is that a symlink is to be used when you want to refer to > a single file or filesystem from more than one place or by more than > one name. If you're wanting to use a newly added disk or partition > to replace a dir

Re: Unable to run grub setup on Squeeze

2009-12-26 Thread Tom H
> I want to setup grub on another partition. So, I tried running the > 'grub' command but it seems the command is absent. > > nifty:/home/fossist# grub > bash: grub: command not found > nifty:/home/fossist# aptitude search grub > p   ggz-grubby >     - GGZ Gaming Zone: chat bot with the ability to

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread evenso
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:22:12PM +, Kwaku Obeng wrote: >Hi folks, > >My name is Kwaku Obeng and a Ghanaian by birth. I read about Debian a few >months ago on website and I have been trying to download the DVD packs so >I can practice the tutorials on the site but always end u

Unable to run grub setup on Squeeze

2009-12-26 Thread Foss User
I want to setup grub on another partition. So, I tried running the 'grub' command but it seems the command is absent. nifty:/home/fossist# grub bash: grub: command not found nifty:/home/fossist# aptitude search grub p ggz-grubby - GGZ Gaming Zone: chat bot with the ability to play games i

post script file display differently in /every/ viewer

2009-12-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Postscript is always a pain, you can hardly expect it behave the same way. However I had more luck with PDFs. Usually PDF opens the same in all viewers. Here is an example postscript file I fought with it for half a day. It displays differently in every viewer, and print wrongly from every viewer

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Kwaku Obeng 写道: > I therefore wish to make an appeal to any of you who can send me a > copy of the Debian 5.0 DVD Pack. I can imagine somewhere went wrong during the burning process. However instead of fighting the burning problem it may be easier to skip the problem by just starting with a well-m