Re: Limited X setup

2010-02-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 02:24:05PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > Hello, been a while since I posted, working on setting up a partition > which will run mainly console programs, however, I was interested in > setting up X to run a few programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick > search of th

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-27 Thread Cecil Knutson
Lisi, Sorry, again. I haven't much experience with the list, so I don't know what courtesies are expected. I hope you have seen that Stephen, Florian, and I were not able to resolve the sound problem in spite of the massive help Stephen gave. I think I will try Stephen's suggestion to sw

RE: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Hadi Motamedi
From: motamed...@hotmail.com To: cele...@gmail.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Upgrade to Lenny? Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:23:32 + > Thank you very much you kind guys . At now , I have the tshark installed on my Lenny . But I want to analyze my previously capture

Re: Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape

2010-02-27 Thread godo
In trying to configure iceweasel to do the same (iceweasel defaults to opening evolution, which I understand to be much the same as microsoft outlook), I open the iceweasel Edit -> Preferences -> Applications -> mailto option, and it displays the options "Use Gmail", Use Yahoo! Mail", "Always as

RE: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Hadi Motamedi
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:24:34 -0500 > From: cele...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Upgrade to Lenny? > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:47:05 -0800 > ow...@netptc.net wrote: > > [lots of quoted stuff] > > People, trim please! > > Celejar > -- > foffl.sourceforge.n

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-27 Thread Cecil Knutson
Stephen, I was going to suggest trying a different sound card on your existing system. But it's your call. That is a good idea. I'll look to see what I have. Am I right to assume that the installation will have to be repeated in order to get the sound card recognized and configured? Y

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:47:05 -0800 ow...@netptc.net wrote: [lots of quoted stuff] People, trim please! Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solv

Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer)

2010-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:05:58 -0800 Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:01:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > Osamu > > OMG! > > Osamu as in "Debian Reference Copyright 2007-2009 Osamu Aoki"? > > That was an undertaking. > > There is a great deal of clarity in the way the referenc

Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-27 Thread thib
Hello, Usually I never ask myself whether I should organize my disks into separate filesystems or not. I just think "how?" and I go with a cool layout without thinking back - LVM lets us correct them easily anyway. I should even say that I believed a single root filesystem on a system was "a

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 07:47:05AM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: [... snipped 115!! lines of unnecessary quoting ...] > >>Can you please let me know how to modify it to have ethereal > >installed on my Lenny ? > >> > Ethereal is now called Wireshark > Larry Please learn to trim your replies at

Re: Limited X setup

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 02:24:05PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > Hello, been a while since I posted, Hi Joe! > working on setting up a partition which will run mainly console > programs, however, I was interested in setting up X to run a few > programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: [...] > Before moving an image of the old [i686] partition to the new computer I > installed the amd64 kernel. I completed the install by using gparted from a > rescue disk to merge the larger new partition with the old smaller one fr

Re: Best Video Capture Device for Debian?

2010-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 08:08 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I purchased a Canon DC410 camcorder and recorded on several mini cd's > during a trip to Europe. Most of the mini cd's I can mount and edit the > foo.vob files with avidemux. Mount fails for one of the mini cd's and > my dvd player can'

-i386 to amd64

2010-02-27 Thread Charles Kroeger
I've made a new computer my first ever and I'm very pleased with it. It uses an AMD phenon II 505 build cpu on an Ausus board with 8GB ram. I used an amd64 net-installer to create the partitions and swap file on the new and larger hard drive of the new machine. Before moving an image of the old [

Limited X setup

2010-02-27 Thread joseph lockhart
Hello, been a while since I posted, working on setting up a partition which will run mainly console programs, however, I was interested in setting up X to run a few programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search of the web yielded no help. Any suggestions on where to look. Running lenny fr

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:33:51 -0500 (EST), Cecil Knutson wrote: > I get silence when trying to play a .wav file with aplay. No error > messages, just says "Playing WAVE 'Track1.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little > Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo" Rats. I was hoping you'd get an error message that mig

Re: Need a howto on virtualbox module compilation

2010-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:38:48AM +0500, surreal wrote: > I have compiled a virtualbox ose 3.1.4 binary deb and I want to make a > binary deb having vboxdrv and related drivers. I believe there is already a package that does that > > Any places where I can find the links? > > I have placed th

Re: debian squeeze tmp directory no space left

2010-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 02:01:00AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Johan Grönqvist put forth on 2/27/2010 1:05 AM: > [snip] > > No offense intended, but it sounds like some basic sysadmin skills are > lacking. Unneeded old log files should be deleted, as well as any junk left > in /tmp. User ho

Re: 2.6.32 kernel needs noapic on Acer Travelmate 430 which earlier kernels did not need

2010-02-27 Thread Dave Witbrodt
David Goodenough wrote: I recently upgraded the kernel on an elderly Acer laptop from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 and found that it hung just after initialising the pcmcia socket. Looking at the dmesg output from booting 2.6.26 there seemed to be something about ACPI interrupts, so I added noapic and it no

2.6.32 kernel needs noapic on Acer Travelmate 430 which earlier kernels did not need

2010-02-27 Thread David Goodenough
I recently upgraded the kernel on an elderly Acer laptop from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 and found that it hung just after initialising the pcmcia socket. Looking at the dmesg output from booting 2.6.26 there seemed to be something about ACPI interrupts, so I added noapic and it now boots. The machine is r

Re: Recovered!! (was Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer))

2010-02-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-27 12:04:08, Freeman wrote: ... > Following the big xserver-org/mesa seg-fault/crash I was at grub > playing space invaders. > > 1.) I could reach the diversion to maintenance mode where it > recommended running e2fsck on mounted partitions, which I eventually > did, reluctantly. I wou

Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes

2010-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:28:23 +, Kelly Harding wrote: >>> Neither of which are enterprise/stable releases in the same vein at >>> RHEL, Debian stable etc, hence not ncluded. >> >> Uh? I cannot speak for Fedora but sure openSUSE is rock-solid and has >> stable release cycle. I was using it in my

Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes

2010-02-27 Thread Kelly Harding
>> Neither of which are enterprise/stable releases in the same vein at >> RHEL, Debian stable etc, hence not ncluded. > > Uh? I cannot speak for Fedora but sure openSUSE is rock-solid and has > stable release cycle. I was using it in my servers and workstations for > the last 6 years. > > Besides,

Re: Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape

2010-02-27 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: On Saturday 27 February 2010 16:30:08 Bret Busby wrote: I am running Debian 5. I have iceweasel installed, and I have iceape installed. I use iceape because it allows me, on clicking on a mailto link, to open an iceape mail composer window. I

Re: perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

2010-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27/02/10 17:12, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.: $cat file.txt Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this: http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com, etc.. This is the second line, that

Re: perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

2010-02-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:12, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.: > > $cat file.txt > Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this: > http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com, > etc.. > This

Screen shifted to left for console and X for Acer AL2016W

2010-02-27 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have a new computer with an Intel DH55TC Motherboard. Attempts to install the i386 stable distribution failed because the installer could not find the DVD reader. I was able to install i386 testing. I have an Acer AL2106W monitor with a length/width of 1.6. When I boot the system, KDE and th

Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes

2010-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:10:56 +, Kelly Harding wrote: > On 27 February 2010 15:16, Camaleón wrote: >>> Something like this? >>> http://benjamin-schweizer.de/operating-systems-lifecycle-chart.html >> >> +1 nice chart :-) >> >> It lacks openSUSE, whose EOL is 18 months and Fedora (13 months). >>

perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

2010-02-27 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.: $cat file.txt Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this: http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com, etc.. This is the second line, that doesn't contains links.. .. This is the X

Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes

2010-02-27 Thread Kelly Harding
On 27 February 2010 15:16, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:04:16 +0100, Odd wrote: > >> Vadkan Jozsef wrote: >>> Does anybody has a list of multiple distros/operating systems comparing >>> e.g.: security support time for a version, or what are the release >>> cycles, etc.? >> >> Something

Re: Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem

2010-02-27 Thread green
Mark Allums wrote at 2010-02-26 00:06 -0700: > I would like to suggest another option. A router that can accept 3G > cellular internet air cards. I use a Cradlepoint router and a > Pantech USB modem UM175. Works astonishingly well, and you don't > have to teach Debian anything. You just need a

Re: Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape

2010-02-27 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Saturday 27 February 2010 16:30:08 Bret Busby wrote: > I am running Debian 5. > > I have iceweasel installed, and I have iceape installed. > > I use iceape because it allows me, on clicking on a mailto link, to open > an iceape mail composer window. > > In trying to configure iceweasel to do

RE: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: motamed...@hotmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: Upgrade to Lenny? >Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:00:45 + > >> >> >> >> >>> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:16:43 + >>> From: amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk >>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.

Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape

2010-02-27 Thread Bret Busby
I am running Debian 5. I have iceweasel installed, and I have iceape installed. I use iceape because it allows me, on clicking on a mailto link, to open an iceape mail composer window. In trying to configure iceweasel to do the same (iceweasel defaults to opening evolution, which I understa

Re: new mumble/apache bug

2010-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:50:56 -0700, Chris Cannon wrote: (...) > When mumble-server is installed, the apache server starts. Unless I'm > just wrong about something here, I would need some help filling out an > appropriate bug report. Thanks,Chris It could be related to this bug: *** php-zeroc-ic

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:00:45PM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > > If you can, please post any results / error messages. > > Also, you don't say what country you're in : it may be that support > > resources are available closer to hand :) > > > > #apt-get install ethereal > > But it cannot f

Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes

2010-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:04:16 +0100, Odd wrote: > Vadkan Jozsef wrote: >> Does anybody has a list of multiple distros/operating systems comparing >> e.g.: security support time for a version, or what are the release >> cycles, etc.? > > Something like this? > http://benjamin-schweizer.de/operating

Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes

2010-02-27 Thread Odd
Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Does anybody has a list of multiple distros/operating systems comparing e.g.: security support time for a version, or what are the release cycles, etc.? Something like this? http://benjamin-schweizer.de/operating-systems-lifecycle-chart.html -- Odd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,27.Feb.10, 09:03:48, Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:43:53PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > There is the wicd-curses interface. I have never tried it, though. > > > > I have. The UI is not the best, but it works. > > Funny. I would have called it the best. There are som

Re: release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes

2010-02-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, you want to visit www.debian.org Jerome Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Does anybody has a list of multiple distros/operating systems comparing e.g.: security support time for a version, or what are the release cycles, etc.? Thank you! -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- To UN

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Hadi Motamedi: > Thank you so much . At now , my Lenny has access to Internet . I > wanted to install ethereal on my Lenny by trying as : > > #apt-get install ethereal > > But it cannot find it . Ethereal has been renamed to Wireshark, so just install the latter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

release cycles, security supports for multiple OSes

2010-02-27 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
Does anybody has a list of multiple distros/operating systems comparing e.g.: security support time for a version, or what are the release cycles, etc.? Thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

RE: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Hadi Motamedi
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:16:43 + > From: amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Upgrade to Lenny? > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:55:12AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > > > Thank you . I modified my Lenny settings as the followings : > > > > -

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:55:12AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > Thank you . I modified my Lenny settings as the followings : > > - under /etc/network/interfaces > > auto lo > > iface lo inet loopback > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > iface eth0 inet static > > address 192.168.10.114 > > netmask

RE: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Hadi Motamedi
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:28:53 + > From: amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Upgrade to Lenny? > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:13:26AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > > > > > It is now running version 5.0.4 . But > > > > surprisingly I cannot

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat February 27 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > It would be wise to do your own regular checks though. The simplest way > is to 'touch /forcefsck' and reboot. I rarely reboot, except for new kernels, or yearly vacations.. is 6 months too long? Filesystem created: Mon Sep 17 06:06:03 2007 L

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:13:26AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > > > It is now running version 5.0.4 . But > > > surprisingly I cannot connect it to Internet , as I did previously . I am > > > trying as the followings : > > > > > >#ifconfig eth0 ip-address netmask netmask-bits up Herewith a cor

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-27 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 27 February 2010 06:33:51 Cecil Knutson wrote: [snipped lengthy reply with no context] Cecil - could you possibly start interleaving or even bottom posting (after suitsble culling) your replies? This is a very busy list and I have difficulty following this thread. Thanks Lisi --

Re: Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem

2010-02-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/27/2010 1:34 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 2/26/2010 1:06 AM: On 2/25/2010 11:09 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: -- partially as an emergency backup for the network, but mainly so that I can run a fax and answering machine app on the computer and get rid of my extremely

RE: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-27 Thread Hadi Motamedi
> From: b...@iguanasuicide.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Upgrade to Lenny? > Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:03:59 -0600 > > In , Hadi Motamedi wrote: > >I upgraded my > > Debian box from Sarge to Lenny . > > Did you read the Release Notes? If not, you should. > > Also not

Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer)

2010-02-27 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:01:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:41:26AM -0800, Freeman wrote: > > > In which case, I pin the rolled back version to 1001. The preferences file > > can live on in moderation for the sake of learning. > > Or, just use "sudo dpkg -i o

Recovered!! (was Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer))

2010-02-27 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:01:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:41:26AM -0800, Freeman wrote: > > > > My ego may be the more delicately balanced but my system is the more > > > > precious. :) > > > > > > This squeeze testing cycle has been rough because of major t

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-27 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:43:53PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,26.Feb.10, 08:47:46, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:24:39AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > > > anyone know how to conf

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,27.Feb.10, 13:32:15, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Ah great, thank you. I think it was still set to check after 27 mounts > or something. I had a read of the man page, and I think I have enabled > what I want now. It would be wise to do your own regular checks though. The simplest way is to 'to

Re: debian squeeze tmp directory no space left

2010-02-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Johan Grönqvist put forth on 2/27/2010 1:05 AM: > I believe the installer allows and recommends reserving some space for > the root user on partitions. The intention is that a user should not be > able to make the system unbootable by filling the disk. It's not the installer that dose this. It'