Evince rendering the New Maintainers guide improperly

2010-03-16 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Hi downloading the Debian New Maintainer guide from the debian website at http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide as a PDF and viewing using evince renders some of the index wrongly - The stuff in the sidepanel in the index under chapter 4 is rendered as =1spcontrol file

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:09:05 -0400 Wayne wrote: > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the > past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude. File a wishlist bug against aptitude. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-03-16 Thread chombee
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:51:13AM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 23. 02. 2010 16:57:26 je chombee napisal(a): >> it has a static IP so I can ssh to it >> over the internet. I think network manager (when working correctly) is >> actually perfect for it, it should keep the connection to my home >> wi

Re: make Xorg driver fails - missing Xf86Resources.h

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
Yet I demonstrated that it's in xserver-xorg-dev. However, I'm running Sid and you're Squeeze. Maybe you need to upgrade. On 2010-03-16 21:17, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: Can't find it: #apt-file -v.v search xf86Resources.h D: Using cache directory /var/cache/apt/apt-file D: reading source

Re: make Xorg driver fails - missing Xf86Resources.h

2010-03-16 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Can't find it: #apt-file -v.v search xf86Resources.h D: Using cache directory /var/cache/apt/apt-file D: reading sources file /etc/apt/sources.list D: got 'deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free' D: kept 'deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

Re: make Xorg driver fails - missing Xf86Resources.h

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 19:29, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: Hello I have a SiS 671 video card and have downloaded a source driver to see if I can make it work ... I have installed a bunch of dependencies but the 'make config' command fails complaining abou a missing xf86Resources.h file [snip] $ make i

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:48:39 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:29:16 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2? Is there no >> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? > > Modify /etc/default/grub to p

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:38:07 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: >>Chipset "G80" >> in the "Device" section might work. I'm not making any promises. > > Unfortunately, it didn't, but thanks for the tip. > >> If it doesn't, look in /v

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Tom H
>> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2?  Is there no >> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? > Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run > grub-update. Changes made directly to /boot/grub/grub.cfg will get > overwritten next upd

make Xorg driver fails - missing Xf86Resources.h

2010-03-16 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Hello I have a SiS 671 video card and have downloaded a source driver to see if I can make it work ... I have installed a bunch of dependencies but the 'make config' command fails complaining abou a missing xf86Resources.h file The below output of the make attempt: $./configure checking for a BSD

problem putting wireless card into master(AP) mode

2010-03-16 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I have HP 8530w laptop with debian amd64 2.6.32-2 and lspci -s 3:0.0 -v 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5300 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1011 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31 Memory at db10 (64-bit, non-prefetch

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 22:31 +, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 16 March 2010 04:37:18 Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I am running Lenny on my desktop and would prefer to run Debian on the eee, > > as well. So I found EeePC/HowTo/Install on the wiki and used the custom > > installer to install Lenny, as was

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will >> cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now >> used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. > > Call me a luddite but UUID < partition numbers

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 17:04, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. Call me a luddite but UUID < partit

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-16 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 04:37:18 Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am running Lenny on my desktop and would prefer to run Debian on the eee, > as well.  So I found EeePC/HowTo/Install on the wiki and used the custom > installer to install Lenny, as was suggested.  The wiki seemed to suggest > that I might h

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. Call me a luddite but UUID < partition numbers for the simple reason I can

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 14:30, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-03-16 17:29 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: That's the beauty of compiling my own kernel from linux-source-2.6.xx and installing nvidia from upstream: for months on end, I've got a stable kernel and video. Using Sid does mean, though, that occasionall

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 16:12, Aioanei Rares wrote: Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home /dev/sda8

udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-16 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
Hello, there is a Debian Etch with kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686, and udev 0.105. System has two USB SATA-II disks for backup. Since a few weeks the system can't make different between disks, all disks has same serial. # udevinfo -a -p /sys/block/sdb | grep serial ATTRS{serial}=="31AF4D71B00

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-16 21:59 +0100, Wayne wrote: > Just tried to install the source package. listbugs reports that it > has 2 bugs. > > 1. It won't compile > and > 2. bad attempt to nest fakeroot sessions. > > Testing on a 686. > > Just one more package, of many, that got to testing too fast. You got it

Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tmp /dev/sda

Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-16 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Charles Kroeger skrev: I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. Can anyone eleborate on this message in dmesg? A post that tries to elaborate is at

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:34:45 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: Hello Sven, > If you run squeeze, you need to install the nvidia-* versions from sid. > I don't know why the nvidia-graphics-drivers source package had not > been removed from testing months ago, as it's utterly broken there (the > missing n

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Wayne
Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: Hello Sven, Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which _are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from the problems that you describe here. I actually looked into installi

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-16 19:39 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0100 > Sven Joachim wrote: > > Hello Sven, > >> Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which >> _are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from >> the problems that you descri

Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

2010-03-16 Thread Tech Geek
My bad...I didn't realize opera has a Debian repository..That should certainly solve the problem... Thanks for all your inputs...

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:29:16 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2? Is there no > way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run grub-update. C

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > > Thanks, Stephen. That's very kind of you. I've changed the subject > > header, and removed references, so this should appear as a new > > thread; We'

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:07:37 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: Hello Sven, > Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which > _are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from > the problems that you describe here. I actually looked into installing them, but the

Debian VM freezes

2010-03-16 Thread christos.kolias
Hi, When I am running debian-gnome-desktop (ver. 2.22.3) VM on Sun VirtualBox (ver. 3.1.4) it sometimes freezes (i.e., when downloading a file) - my only option is to reset the VM which means losing any files I have installed, and any work I've done since it reboots from scratch. Is there any way t

Re: Fan running constantly after kernel upgrade to 2.6.32-3

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:16:15 -0400 (EDT), Eric Sheesley wrote: > I have a Dell Studio 1557 Core i7 720qm. I've noticed that in my > Debian Squeeze boot (my default) the fan runs much louder than when > booted into Windows 7. The temps are about the same but seems like > the fans don't reduc

Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

2010-03-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Tech Geek: > > So I downloaded the opera browser deb file - > opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb. What I am trying to do is first find out > what all packages does this deb file depends on and then install those > packages first (using apt-get) and then finally install this deb file (using > dpkg -

Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

2010-03-16 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 20:24:53 Tech Geek wrote: > > Alternatively, if anyone can suggest a better method on how to achieve that > would be great. > gdebi does this: http://packages.debian.org/sid/gdebi PS: Opera has Debian repo: http://deb.opera.com/ Jens. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

2010-03-16 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:24 -0700, Tech Geek wrote: > So I downloaded the opera browser deb file - > opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb. What I am trying to do is first > find out what all packages does this deb file depends on and then > install those packages first (using apt-get) and then finall

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-16 17:29 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's the beauty of compiling my own kernel from linux-source-2.6.xx > and installing nvidia from upstream: for months on end, I've got a > stable kernel and video. > > Using Sid does mean, though, that occasionally I must go into > /usr/lib/xorg/mo

Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

2010-03-16 Thread Tech Geek
So I downloaded the opera browser deb file - opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb. What I am trying to do is first find out what all packages does this deb file depends on and then install those packages first (using apt-get) and then finally install this deb file (using dpkg -i opera_10.10.4742.gcc4

Fan running constantly after kernel upgrade to 2.6.32-3

2010-03-16 Thread Eric Sheesley
I have a Dell Studio 1557 Core i7 720qm. I've noticed that in my Debian Squeeze boot (my default) the fan runs much louder than when booted into Windows 7. The temps are about the same but seems like the fans don't reduce as quickly in debian for some reason. In the most recent kernel

IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-16 Thread Charles Kroeger
I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. I'm using an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO board with 8GB of RAM so maybe freeing up 64MB of RAM isn't that big of a deal; however, I had a look in the bios setup and saw not

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Mark Allums schreef: On 3/16/2010 11:42 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which _are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from the problems that you describe here. They suffer from other problems. The main one being t

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:42:15 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-03-16 17:14 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> They suffer from other problems. The main one being that they are >> usually uninstallable. At least, in my experience, >> apt/aptitude/Synaptic refuse to install it. > > Because t

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/16/2010 11:42 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Why not use nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source from non-free which _are_ available as regular Debian packages? They do not suffer from the problems that you describe here. They suffer from other problems. The main one being that they are usually uni

Re: Gnucash segfaults

2010-03-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 22:06 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:09 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:16:32PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2010-03-15

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-16 17:14 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/16/2010 11:07 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-03-16 16:35 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: > >>> A real problem is that Debian is not compatible with the proprietary >>> driver. Routine system maintenance overwrites files and ruins >>> configuratio

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-16 Thread Chance Platt
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,16.Mar.10, 00:36:27, Chance Platt wrote: aptitude install hal udev linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 Your computer has to be running the more current kernel before udev updates .. reboot into the newer kernel and finish (aptitude full-upgrade). ...but the new kernel won

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 09:46, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:13 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-15 22:08, Stephen Powell wrote: Another possibility is to install the xserver-xorg-video-nv package from unstable, which is newer and *might* support your chipset. Or the (what's t

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/16/2010 11:07 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-03-16 16:35 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: A real problem is that Debian is not compatible with the proprietary driver. Routine system maintenance overwrites files and ruins configurations, requiring reconfiguration. The proprietary driver is not

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-16 16:35 +0100, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/16/2010 9:46 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Yes, the proprietary nvidia binary driver is another possibility. It's >> great when it works, but it breaks often with maintenance to X or >> the kernel. > > It always requires reinstalling with kernel

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/16/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > >The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with > >lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. > In the short run, an easy thing to do is

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/16/2010 9:46 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Yes, the proprietary nvidia binary driver is another possibility. It's great when it works, but it breaks often with maintenance to X or the kernel. It always requires reinstalling with kernel ABI changes, because it requires a kernel module compile

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/16/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. In the short run, an easy thing to do is remove -trunk- image and all corresponding packages, as it is a

Slow spamassassin on boot

2010-03-16 Thread josé Santos
Hi. Lately spamassassin is taking 10 seconds or so to start on boot, there is also lots of hd activity. Is there any known cause for this or maybe a bug? Thanks -- ___ José Santos | Debian Squeeze/Sid jsan...@ubi.pt | 2.6.32-amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:13 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-15 22:08, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Another possibility >> is to install the xserver-xorg-video-nv package from unstable, which >> is newer and *might* support your chipset. > > Or the (what's that hissing noise coming from B

Re: use preseeding for one package

2010-03-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:06:34AM +0100, Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > > > > > You can force the non-interactive front-end by setting > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND in the environment: > > > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

Re: xsd for human

2010-03-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks, Jerome Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I plan to implement a parser with respect to a given XSD file: is there any tools, Debian tools if possible, allowing to convert XSD files into human readable documents ? I do not under

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:28:18 -0400 (EDT), Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:03 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> My guess is that grub2 simply makes a list of all files in /boot which begin >> with linux-image, sorts them in descending order by the ASCII collating >> sequence, a

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Re: TCP Wrapper Question

2010-03-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
Do the machines get PTR records associated with them from the DHCP/DNS server? -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50e5edd5100316071

RE: TCP Wrapper Question

2010-03-16 Thread Brian O'Mahony
I didn't mention that the client machines run on a windows [Active Directory] DNS/DHCP servers. The windows nameserver is 172.16.164.100, which is referenced in /etc/resolv.conf >DNS and DHCP on the same box, so that (possibly?) DHCP can update >DNS with device names? Otherwise, how do you ma

Re: TCP Wrapper Question

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 08:14, Brian O'Mahony wrote: [snip] However things are being logged to log files, using IPs, and not machine names. Both auth and syslog have IP entries which are pretty useless to me with things being on a DHCP network [which I also have no control over]. DNS and DHCP on t

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:03 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:40 -0400 (EDT), Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > > I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel > > from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 > > and I had this same probl

Re: How to recover from corrupted memory

2010-03-16 Thread Brett
>I have some files which seems corrupted, I could not remove those >files (even "sudo rm *" won't work with errors "Operation not permitted") and I could not make a backup because of those >corrupted files. Appreciate any advice how to remove or recover from those >corrupted files? I recently had

Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jesse Sheidlower [2010.03.16.1356 +0100]: > > xrandr --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 --left-of LVDS > > No, that just gives me: > > $ xrandr --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 --left-of LVDS > warning: output VGA not found; ignoring > > Which is odd, because when I ran "xrandr --query" i

TCP Wrapper Question

2010-03-16 Thread Brian O'Mahony
I asked this a little while back, but got no answers, so I thought I would try again, as since then ive spent quite some time googling it, and can find very little information. Bascially I have a Debian 4.0 box and a Deb 3.0 box [neither of which can be updated due to custom software]. When I d

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 07:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-16 07:26, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Interesting thought. Does the system boot if you manually edit the > grub config file? The system boots fine if you select the new (-3-) kernel manually, so I would think that it would also boot

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:40 -0400 (EDT), Mitchell Laks wrote: > > I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel > from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 > and I had this same problem. > > I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or ap

Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

2010-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:06:21 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 11:40 Tue 16 Mar , Camaleón wrote: >> 1/ A backend connection method: a) local: usb, lpt b) remote/networked: >> socket, ipp, samba c) virtual: fax, pdf, etc... > > this is the first step on the web page where it 'searchs' for po

Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:50:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jesse Sheidlower [2010.03.15.1453 +0100]: > > The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at > > 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external > > monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 07:26, Mitchell Laks wrote: I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 and I had this same problem. I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or apt or aptitude update is using f

Re: How to recover from corrupted memory

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 06:05, hce wrote: Hi, I have some files which seems corrupted, I could not remove those files (even "sudo rm *" won't work with errors "Operation not permitted") That doesn't look like a *corruption* issue. and I could not make a backup because of those corrupted fi

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 05:34, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:12:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-15 10:14, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Today there are a few (none?) issues at all. Although there are still some counted applications that require a 32 bits OS to work. Counted? I meant "a sm

Remote access (was Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated ...)

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 07:06, Mitchell Laks wrote: [snip] i will look to see what comes up at work this morning and at Dad and Mom's tonight Configure their firewall (open port 23 and, if the fw is an external device, forward the port to your Dad's PC) and then ssh into his box and configure his pr

linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 and I had this same problem. I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or apt or aptitude update is using finds that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 is gr

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-16 Thread Snood
Andrei Popescu wrote: In general I prefer to keep at least one different kernel version installed, Just In Case, but in this particular case I too did get rid of the -trunk- image ASAP because: - it shouldn't have been uploaded to unstable in the first place - it messes up the usual boot ord

Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

2010-03-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 11:40 Tue 16 Mar , Camaleón wrote: > I'm not a CUPS guru, but what I understand for a "backend" is a method > used to connect the printer, a kind of "virtual interface" that allows > the communication between your printer and CUPS. > > Mmmm, better "man backend" to get detailed info :-)

Re: hp laserjet 1200 repeated printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed" usb

2010-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:59:46 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 10:49 Mon 15 Mar , Camaleón wrote: > >> It seems you are using the "hp" backend and failed what left the >> printer in a "paused" status. > > Thank you. Can you explain what you mean by 'backend' vs 'driver'? I'm not a CUPS guru

How to recover from corrupted memory

2010-03-16 Thread hce
Hi, I have some files which seems corrupted, I could not remove those files (even "sudo rm *" won't work with errors "Operation not permitted") and I could not make a backup because of those corrupted files. Appreciate any advice how to remove or recover from those corrupted files? Thank you. Ki

Re: Which Simple Video Design Application?

2010-03-16 Thread Hugo Wau
--- On Mon, 3/15/10, John A. Sullivan III wrote: From: John A. Sullivan III Subject: Re: Which Simple Video Design Application? To: "Hugo Wau" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 6:57 PM On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:30 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 3/15/10

Re: instalation issue

2010-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:12:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-15 10:14, Camaleón wrote: > [snip] >> >> Today there are a few (none?) issues at all. Although there are still >> some counted applications that require a 32 bits OS to work. >> >> > Counted? I meant "a small number" of softw

Re: xsd for human

2010-03-16 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I plan to implement a parser with respect to a given XSD file: > is there any tools, Debian tools if possible, allowing to convert > XSD files into human readable documents ? I do not understand your question since XML is sup

music in second live / Emerald

2010-03-16 Thread lee
Hi, how do you get the second live client (Emerald) to play at least music and maybe even video on amd64? There's only a 32bit client :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: use preseeding for one package

2010-03-16 Thread Chantal Rosmuller
> > You can force the non-interactive front-end by setting > DEBIAN_FRONTEND in the environment: > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,16.Mar.10, 00:36:27, Chance Platt wrote: > > > > aptitude install hal udev linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 > > > > Your computer has to be running the more current kernel before udev > updates .. reboot into the newer kernel and finish (aptitude > full-upgrade). ...but the new kernel won't inst