Re: build from source, patch does not remove cleanly

2010-01-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-31 04:43 +0100, T o n g wrote: > How would I submit patch? Would my hacked debian/patches/Acer_Aspire_5536 > alone be fine? I think so, the maintainer can apply that easily enough. Or rather he could, if the package were actually maintained. :-( Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Postgres server does not start.

2010-01-30 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Please, help me to run my postgres DB. Here is problem description. I have 2 instances in /var/lib/postgresql/8.3: main mine When I start postgres server w/ command: /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start I get: Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server: main mineThe PostgreSQL server fa

Re: Solution to Connecting to Verizon MiFi

2010-01-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne put forth on 1/22/2010 12:15 PM: > Note: If not able to connect to the internet, disable your firewall. If > you can then connect, fix your firewall. I use firehol. > > Thanks Again Stan for all of your help. That's so kind of you Wayne. I didn't do all that much, just helped you climb

Re: Solution to Connecting to Verizon MiFi

2010-01-30 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:15:36 -0500 "Wayne " wrote: > In an effort to give back to the Debian Community, here is a rundown on > How I get wireless working with Verizon's MiFi hub. Consider putting this on wiki.debian.org? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom agg

Re: remove an HTML tag and all its children from commandline

2010-01-30 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:54:46 +0800 Zhang Weiwu wrote: ... > I want to remove all advertisements in my 100 html files. They are > pretty neatly classed, like the following: > > > ... > > > However I could not simply do this: > s/.*// > > Because it is too greedy, that matches the "" till the

Re: Any way to create a new /var/lib/dpkg/status file for current Debian installation

2010-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-29, Tech Geek wrote: > --00504502ce5da6db1a047e5657d2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > So I have been using my current Debian instalaltion for almost a year now > and over this time I have installed, purged and deinstalled a lot of > packages. It seems that the status

Sound - none happening.......

2010-01-30 Thread Charlie
Hello, Always had trouble getting sound to work with Debian, never had it working with Squeeze, though I might see if I could get it going again: Acer 3614WLCi laptop $ lspci | grep -i audio 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio C

Re: remove an HTML tag and all its children from commandline

2010-01-30 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:54:46 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > I want to remove all advertisements in my 100 html files. They are > pretty neatly classed, like the following: > > > ... > > > However I could not simply do this: > s/.*// > > Because it is too greedy For not-so-simple tasks, you need

Re: build from source, patch does not remove cleanly

2010-01-30 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:14:56 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Read /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source for information how to work with > packages that use quilt. Thanks. It compiles fine now. How would I submit patch? Would my hacked debian/patches/Acer_Aspire_5536 alone be fine? Thanks -- Tong

remove an HTML tag and all its children from commandline

2010-01-30 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I believe this is a common case and must have been discussed before on various other forums like awk/sed/regular expression group. However I could not google them out. You would be helping me a lot if you simply point to a reference to a solution. I want to remove all advertisements in my 1

Re: radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???

2010-01-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 16:00, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 30. 01. 2010 16:32:02 je Joost Kraaijeveld napisal(a): >> >> Hi, >> >> Does the radeonhs driver support acceleration? > > That's a question I'm very much interested in too. I've always been under > the impression that the radeon and radeonhd dr

Re: dormant package maintainer

2010-01-30 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:12:03 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > What's the recommended way to deal with dormant package maintainer? An NMU? http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu http://wiki.debian.org/NonMaintainerUpload http://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu Celejar

Switch from X to any tty freeze the machine

2010-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Cao
This problem happens when I upgrade some xorg packages recently. When I switch X to any tty, the machine freeze. The same symptom happens when I reboot or shutdown the machine from X. But if I do not start X, it's OK to switch between tty1-6. The xorg version is: 1:7.5+2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: problem whit virtual interfaces [SOLVED]

2010-01-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:46:21PM +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote: > Camaleón ha scritto: >> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:09:48 +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote: >> >> >>> Camaleón ha scritto: >>> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:11:18 +0100, Marco Vaschetto wrote: > iface eth0 ine

RE: Sid Sound Problem

2010-01-30 Thread Ogya Chief
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:58:15 -0500 > From: linux...@gmail.com > To: ogyach...@hotmail.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Sid Sound Problem > > Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am running sid on my laptop. I cannot get any sound output at all. When > > the comput

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-01-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Klistvud on 30/01/10 23:48, wrote: Dne, 30. 01. 2010 14:35:12 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): Hi Folks thanks for the advice - I do know the website is running fine out there - I just can't access it from my LAN. From my mobile phone, fine. But not from my lan. You've checked all the usual sus

Re: Multiple RAID support in Debian?

2010-01-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Alex Samad put forth on 1/30/2010 7:38 AM: > I would normally recommend sw raid, but you already have the highpoint - > heard good things although I haven't used one. And you should so recommend in this case as well. He has a 2600 series card which is fakeraid. You have to step up to the 3500 s

Re: Does lenny use grub2?

2010-01-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 31. 01. 2010 00:43:38 je Klistvud napisal(a): Dne, 30. 01. 2010 13:21:40 je Camaleón napisal(a): computer will boot by just marking it with the boot-flag. I know, it's a bit messy O:-) Actually, for day-to-day use, toggling the boot flags may be a bit impractical ... If you only have

Re: malayalam font rendering

2010-01-30 Thread H.S.
Jeffrin Jose wrote: > hello all > > I use debian GNU/Linux. > My website is hosted on a machine > which has wordpress installed. > I have installed a plugin related to google transliteration. > when i type malayalam language i see malayalam in my blog,but > when i publish the blog i see question m

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran > into the same behaviour you described some time ago and fixed it by using EXA > as acceleration method. The applicable part from my xorg.conf is: > > --- snip ---

Re: Konqueror browser very slow

2010-01-30 Thread consul tores
2010/1/30 Lisi : > On Friday 29 January 2010 17:11:50 consul tores wrote: >> It is why i asked in that way, it looks like an inherent part of >> Konqueror in Lenny-Kde! > > No - it must be something in your particular set-up.  I am running Lenny and > KDE and although I have several browsers that I

Re: radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???

2010-01-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 01. 2010 16:32:02 je Joost Kraaijeveld napisal(a): Hi, Does the radeonhs driver support acceleration? That's a question I'm very much interested in too. I've always been under the impression that the radeon and radeonhd drivers only support basic 2D acceleration, and only for some

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-01-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 01. 2010 14:35:12 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): Hi Folks thanks for the advice - I do know the website is running fine out there - I just can't access it from my LAN. From my mobile phone, fine. But not from my lan. You've checked all the usual suspects, right? Iptables, the etc/ho

Re: Does lenny use grub2?

2010-01-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 01. 2010 13:21:40 je Camaleón napisal(a): b) Install it in the first sector of a partition -> this is my preferred solution, as it does not touch the MBR at all and you can have as many grubs as you want :-) My preferred solution too. An additional bonus is that you get rather

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-30 Thread Freeman
http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100130 |- | |Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated | |The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable |distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny"). This u

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:04 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote: > 2010/1/30 Johan Grönqvist : > > Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd > Yes I have tried both drivers and couldn't see any appreciable > difference. I use the radeonhd driver and am very happy with its performance. I ran into th

Re: Eth0 disconnects from router?

2010-01-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:24:35 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> As for your new problem, it looks like your DHCP server is set up to >> hand out 1 hour leases. If the DHCP server is built in to the router, >> as is often the case, that comes down to reconfiguring your route

Re: Firefox (and Iceweasel) are unable to play Youtube videos

2010-01-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Magalhães writes: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:58, Merciadri Luca > wrote: >> I have both `flash-plugin - Adobe Flash Player 10.0' on the two >> computers. They are executing Iceweasel v. 3.0.6, and I also tried >> with the up-to-date Firefox.

Re: build from source, patch does not remove cleanly

2010-01-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-30 19:33 +0100, T o n g wrote: > I'm trying to build uswsusp from source. It builds fine with > > debuild -us -uc > > provided that I don't change anything. But having made my modification, I > got the following error: > > -- > [

Wrong magic bytes -> corrupted file?

2010-01-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am encountering == ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. == from ldconfig. Everything seems however to work nicely. Some questions naturally arise: 1. What is the role of libwins.so? 2.

Re: Eth0 disconnects from router?

2010-01-30 Thread David Baron
> Approximately every hour, I get log entries like: > Jan 28 13:47:59 dovidhalevi pumpd[1819]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 > ... > Sometimes, it will stay disconnected (the above reconnected). I need to > manually ifup eth0. I reinstated a cron job to check and do this like I had > wh

build from source, patch does not remove cleanly

2010-01-30 Thread T o n g
Hi, I'm trying to build uswsusp from source. It builds fine with debuild -us -uc provided that I don't change anything. But having made my modification, I got the following error: -- [...] debconf-updatepo dh_clean QUILT_PATCHES=debian/

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-30 Thread Geek87
Le jeudi 28 janvier 2010 à 11:30 +0100, koen.n...@koca.be a écrit : > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:33:53 +0100, Geek87 wrote: > > > Do you have any idea? Is the technique I used bad and dirty? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Geek87 > > I don't think it's a good idea. Because if in your example se

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-30 Thread Carl Johnson
"Tilo Schwarz" writes: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:40 +0100, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> "Tilo Schwarz" writes: >> >>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:42:13 +0100, Todd A. Jacobs >>> wrote: >>> I'd like to set my scaling governor in /etc/sysctl.conf, rather than by echoing a value to:

Re: Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.

2010-01-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:48:13AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2010 08:11:06 Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > Please run packages under pure unstable system if possible to report > > bugs. > > That's *NOT* Debian policy. I said "if possible". > DDs are responsible

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike Iowa: > > 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based > system and tell when the operating system was originally installed. A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created Filesystem created: Mon J

Re: Sorting elements *and* knowing where each one has been put

2010-01-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Clive Standbridge writes: >> > However, I do not know how I can do this with the `sort' >> > function. Is >> > it even possible? (I considered 1<=i<=n through the whole message.) >> >> nl values | sort -k2 | nl | grep value_i > > If you want to sort

Re: Sorting elements *and* knowing where each one has been put

2010-01-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > In <87mxzvg816@merciadriluca-station.merciadriluca>, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: >>> nl values | sort -k2 | nl | grep value_i >>> >>> The first column is the new location, 1-based.

Re: Firefox (and Iceweasel) are unable to play Youtube videos

2010-01-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:58, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I have both `flash-plugin - Adobe Flash Player 10.0' on the two > computers. They are executing Iceweasel v. 3.0.6, and I also tried > with the up-to-date Firefox. I have this one: ii flashplugin-nonfree 1:2.8 running Sid on amd64. Try with

Re: malayalam font rendering

2010-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:52:50 +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > I use debian GNU/Linux. > My website is hosted on a machine > which has wordpress installed. > I have installed a plugin related to google transliteration. when i type > malayalam language i see malayalam in my blog,but when i publish the >

Re: Sorting elements *and* knowing where each one has been put

2010-01-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87mxzvg816@merciadriluca-station.merciadriluca>, Merciadri Luca wrote: >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: >> nl values | sort -k2 | nl | grep value_i >> >> The first column is the new location, 1-based. The second column is the >> old location, 1-based. If your values are numbers, you mig

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100130114447.ga2...@hexbrex.tri>, Sebastian wrote: >On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:36PM -0500, Wayne wrote: >> >Even if I remove the unstable and stable entries from sources.list and >> >apt/preferences no other versions show up >> >> I would not put all 3 dists in sources.list. That could/woul

Re: Sid Sound Problem

2010-01-30 Thread Wayne
Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I am running sid on my laptop. I cannot get any sound output at all. When the computer is booting up, the following error message shows: Starting Open Sound System: Failed (No Modules detected). What kernel module needs to be installed to fix this problem. It d

malayalam font rendering

2010-01-30 Thread Jeffrin Jose
hello all I use debian GNU/Linux. My website is hosted on a machine which has wordpress installed. I have installed a plugin related to google transliteration. when i type malayalam language i see malayalam in my blog,but when i publish the blog i see question marks and not the language. Please he

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-30 Thread Wayne
Sebastian wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:36PM -0500, Wayne wrote: Sebastian wrote: After the last upgrade wicd fails to start. It also stopped writing it's logs and when I call it directly by just entering 'wicd' I get following error: <---Snip---> [...snip...] I first run apt-li

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:49:43 -0500 (EST), Andreas Weber wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Slow for what purposes? 3D graphics? Real-time animated games? >> I don't do either of those things. I mainly use X for web browsing. >> I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire. >> Is the prop

Re: Re: Sorting elements *and* knowing where each one has been put

2010-01-30 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > However, I do not know how I can do this with the `sort' > > function. Is > > it even possible? (I considered 1<=i<=n through the whole message.) > > nl values | sort -k2 | nl | grep value_i If you want to sort by numeric order instead of alphabetic order, you should replace sort -k2 with

radeonhd: no acceleration DRI / AGP???

2010-01-30 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Does the radeonhs driver support acceleration? I have no performance what so ever with the radeonhd driver with my RV670 AGP Radeon HD 3850 card. Looking into the XOrg.0.log I see: (WW) RADEONHD(0): [agp] AGP not available (EE) RADEONHD(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI

RE: Authentication Mechanism Setup‏

2010-01-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:21:29 -0500 (EST), Norman Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:22:46 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:12:13 -0500, Norman Armstrong wrote: >>> Since I installed Lenny on my laptop I >>> have been experiencing a small difficulty. >>> >>> When I op

texlive-latex-base configuration error

2010-01-30 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, list! I am running testing i386. Upgrading livetex, apt gives configuration errors: I have looked around the web, and in the debian-user archives, and there is a similar bug that appeared a long time ago, like in 2007 and 2008, but it seemed to be fixed. In any case, I have found nothing

Re: hibernate suspend to both under Debian

2010-01-30 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:48:38 +, T o n g wrote: > I'm able to do both suspend to disk and suspend to RAM with hibernate, > but I'm not able to do suspend to both no matter what I tried. You need to modify the whitelist of the source code of s2ram to allow your machine to suspend and resume wit

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-30 Thread Tilo Schwarz
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:40 +0100, Carl Johnson wrote: "Tilo Schwarz" writes: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:42:13 +0100, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'd like to set my scaling governor in /etc/sysctl.conf, rather than by echoing a value to: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Re: Multiple RAID support in Debian?

2010-01-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:37:39PM -0600, Victor Padro wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if someone could help me, I'm putting together a > Server for personal use, I want to virtualize a few servers(mail, web, > ssh) and use it as a NAS, but I have a question if I can use Multiple > RAID Arrays

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Andreas Weber wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Slow for what purposes?  3D graphics?  Real-time animated games? >> I don't do either of those things.  I mainly use X for web browsing. >> I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire. >> Is the proprietary

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-01-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Charlie on 30/01/10 02:42, wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:21:50 + Adam Hardy shared this with us all: I'm mystified by this error on one website http://www.trade2win.com/ error= Address not found All other websites can be browsed fine - at least I can browse everything OK and send and rec

configuring zope+plone on lenny

2010-01-30 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
On https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/TemporaryStorageInZeo it says i had to edit zope.conf but i can only find zope.conf.inin /usr/lib/zope2.10/skel/etc/ do i edit the file as it is or i have to copy it somewhere else as zope.conf before editing? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debm

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:14:30 -0600, Mike Iowa wrote: > I have done extensive searches and have found no answers for finding out > the following information from Debian systems. > > 1. I would like to be able to tell when a package was installed. Far from perfect, but you can get some info under

Re: Does lenny use grub2?

2010-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:31:13 +0100, Matteo Riva wrote: > I have a squeeze system installed and I wanted to install a debian lenny > in another partition and I was wondering if there could be issues with > the bootloader. Does lenny use grub2 now? If not, will there be > conflicts with the two vers

Re: Fwd: Does lenny use grub2?

2010-01-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 01/30/2010 07:48 AM, Matteo Riva wrote: When I install lenny should I let the installer proceed with its own grub and put it in the master boot record? Will this overwrite the current grub2? If you have grub in MBR and in the installer you install a bootloader in the MBR, the existing o

Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-01-30 Thread Sebastian
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:36PM -0500, Wayne wrote: > >>Sebastian wrote: > >>>After the last upgrade wicd fails to start. It also stopped writing it's > >>>logs and when I call it directly by just entering 'wicd' I get following > >>>error: > >>> > >>>Traceback (most recent call last): > >>> F

Re: Sorting elements *and* knowing where each one has been put

2010-01-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > nl values | sort -k2 | nl | grep value_i > > The first column is the new location, 1-based. The second column is the old > location, 1-based. If your values are numbers, you might use (awk '$3 == > value_i') ins

Re: Sorting elements *and* knowing where each one has been put

2010-01-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Winter writes: > In the discussion above you persist in mixing the sort function with > the sort command. They are not the same, so please be more careful in > your descriptions of what it is you want to accomplish. > > To sort with a function,

Re: Konqueror browser very slow

2010-01-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 29 January 2010 17:11:50 consul tores wrote: > It is why i asked in that way, it looks like an inherent part of > Konqueror in Lenny-Kde! No - it must be something in your particular set-up. I am running Lenny and KDE and although I have several browsers that I use on different occasio

Re: Firefox (and Iceweasel) are unable to play Youtube videos

2010-01-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Magalhães writes: > Comparing which flash-related packages (and their versions) you have > on each machine? Testing other flash-encripled sites? I have both `flash-plugin - Adobe Flash Player 10.0' on the two computers. They are executing Icewea

Re: one website gives address not found

2010-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:21:50 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I'm mystified by this error on one website http://www.trade2win.com/ > > error= Address not found It works fine here with Iceweasel (lenny) (...) > I can browse the website happily from my mobile phone. I can't work out > what it might be

Re: garbages in man page output

2010-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:43 +, T o n g wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:55:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Or try by appending "-d" for debugging. > > Here's it. What's wrong? > > -- > $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man -d xrandr > [ . . . ] (...) > page_encodi

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
2010/1/30 Johan Grönqvist : > Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd >  drivers? As I understand it, they should be similar in feature set, but I > had issues (slow scrolling, among others) with the radeon driver that I do > not experience with the radeonhd driver. Yes I have tried both

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Matteo Riva skrev: Yes I am using the free driver now but the performance is poor. Actually I get a strange behavior: Have you tried both the radeon and the radeonhd drivers? As I understand it, they should be similar in feature set, but I had issues (slow scrolling, among others) with the

Fwd: Does lenny use grub2?

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
Thanks everybody for the replies, I'm still unsure on how to proceed. When I install lenny should I let the installer proceed with its own grub and put it in the master boot record? Will this overwrite the current grub2? Or should I install the lenny loader in its own partition and chainload it f

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > > before going the (hard) downgrade way, did you try using the free > "radeon" driver (or whichever is relevant for your card). I "fixed" a > computer crippled by the same problem yesterday, running an Ati > HD2600XT, and t

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Stefaan Himpe wrote: > >> I found snapshot.debian.net but it seems its last update was on 2008 or >> am I looking in the wrong place > Sorry I should have checked before pointing you there. > Make sure to backup any important files (like configuration stuff in /etc) > before you start to fiddle wi

Re: Does lenny use grub2?

2010-01-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 01. 2010 01:31:13 je Matteo Riva napisal(a): Does lenny use grub2 now? If not, will there be conflicts with the two versions? I use a wild mix of Grub legacy and Grub 2 on my two boxes and it works without a glitch, both with "chainloading" separate partitions (operating systems)

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-30 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:26:40PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > If you have the cpufrequtils package installed, then just edit > /etc/defaults/cpufrequtils to specify which you want at boot. The /etc/defaults/cpufrequtils file over-rides the value (if any) in /etc/sysfs.conf, but I think it's imp

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-30 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:19:27PM +0100, Tilo Schwarz wrote: > I use sysfs.conf: Thanks. I knew about sysctl.conf, but not sysfs.conf. I appreciate you pointing that out! -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis