hi,
Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now
I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub-
legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with
version 2 only.
Comment?
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:45:53 -0300
Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:
>
> 2010/3/27 Rogerio Luz Coelho
...
> > I do this to purge exim4 and ev erything it stands for
> >
> > # aptitude install xdm
> >
> > ;)
> SORRY !!!
>
> It´s
>
> #aptitude install xmail ...
How will that
On 2010-03-27 21:47, R. Clayton wrote:
So, I don't know exactly *how* you'd format a device as "fat32".
I used "mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1"
Ah. I just do mkfs.vfat.
According to "man mkfs.vfat":
-F FAT-size
Specifies the type of file allocation tables
So, I don't know exactly *how* you'd format a device as "fat32".
I used "mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1"
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2010/3/27 Rogerio Luz Coelho
> Just do a
>
> 2010/3/3 Brian Ryans
>
> Quoting Carlos Williams on 2010-03-02 09:28:13:
>> > I thought I was purging the package, no?
>> >
>> > #apt-get remove --purge exim4
>
>
> I do this to purge exim4 and ev erything
Just do a
2010/3/3 Brian Ryans
> Quoting Carlos Williams on 2010-03-02 09:28:13:
> > I thought I was purging the package, no?
> >
> > #apt-get remove --purge exim4
I do this to purge exim4 and ev erything it stands for
# aptitude install xdm
;)
Rogerio
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:16:53 -0500
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Celejar put forth on 3/26/2010 4:20 PM:
>
> > Good to know - I guess it's just luck of the draw. I once cringed as I
> > dropped my WD external about four feet (onto carpet), but so far
> > (months later) it's still working fine.
>
> He
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 13:09 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >
> Compiling 2.2.9 from source works without installing the libraries from
> Squeeze. Is this something that should be passed along to backports?
> How is that done? Thanks - John
I was able to build an installable .deb package for
On 2010-03-27 16:19, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-26 12:45, Rick Thomas wrote:
[snip]
I've got an NSLU2 ("slug") with 32 MB RAM and 8 MB of flash doing
duty as an NTP server. It has a "Gizmo! jr" drive as it's only mass
storage. Works a trea
On 20100327_212545, T o n g wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> > I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal
>
> IIRC, the HAL and everything related to it will be phased out soon. I
> won't recommend you spend time on something that'll be outdated soon.
I sincer
Jozsef Vadkan wrote:
Why doesn't my "internet-connection" script work?
When I plug the ethcable out, it just waits...and waits...and waits...
The script: http://pastebin.com/AE9U1qdL
Depending on what you're using it for, one ping may not be enough. I've
seen ADSL routers (more than one mode
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:19:58 + (UTC)
T o n g wrote:
Hello T,
> Thanks a lot Brad, that's exactly the reason.
YW.
> mirror that I'm using, http://debian-multimedia.gnali.org/, still
> doesn't have non-free in its repo.
Odd. Since it's supposed to be a mirror site, you'd expect to actuall
On 2010-03-27, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> Intel i5 Graphics are enormously more powerful than a G550.
Good to hear that.
I just need my xterms and browser. Maybe sometime watch a youtube video,
but that's about it. And for people like me this new Intel graphics
thing seems like a perfect match. Well
On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-26 12:45, Rick Thomas wrote:
[snip]
I've got an NSLU2 ("slug") with 32 MB RAM and 8 MB of flash doing
duty as an NTP server. It has a "Gizmo! jr" drive as it's only
mass storage. Works a treat.
What's the package list?
I'm not
T o n g wrote:
> The last time I did aptitude update, I found my acroread packages (from
> debian-multimedia) are now obsolete
IIRC debian-multimedia now has a non-free section which would contain
those.
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> I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal
IIRC, the HAL and everything related to it will be phased out soon. I
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:52:10 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-27 15:12, T o n g wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The last time I did aptitude update, I found my acroread packages
> > (from debian-multimedia) are now obsolete, which contain,
> >
> > acroread, acroread-data, acroread-escript and acro
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:20:32 +, Brad Rogers wrote:
>> How can I have acroread now?
>
> Add 'non-free' to your sources.lst for debian-multimedia. It's been
> that way for since 17 Feb.
Thanks a lot Brad, that's exactly the reason.
PS. apparently I'm not the only one who is not aware of thi
Per some recent discussion here of command line mounting of plugable
storage, I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal. In the man page
for pmount-hal there is this:
The first parameter (device) must be the HAL UDI or the device node of
...
I know that I can use pmount-hal with /dev/... but it mi
On 2010-03-27 15:12, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
The last time I did aptitude update, I found my acroread packages (from
debian-multimedia) are now obsolete, which contain,
acroread, acroread-data, acroread-escript and acroread-plugins
$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
Installed: 9.1.0-0.4
On 2010-03-27 14:02, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 00:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-26 21:03, R. Clayton wrote:
Thanks for your replies to my message. Putting a fat32 fs on the thumb
drive
did the trick; the block size is 4k, matching what's on the hard drive
file
systems.
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:12:01 + (UTC)
T o n g wrote:
Hello T,
> How can I have acroread now?
Add 'non-free' to your sources.lst for debian-multimedia. It's been that
way for since 17 Feb.
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Hi,
The last time I did aptitude update, I found my acroread packages (from
debian-multimedia) are now obsolete, which contain,
acroread, acroread-data, acroread-escript and acroread-plugins
$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
Installed: 9.1.0-0.4
Candidate: 9.1.0-0.4
Version table:
On Sat, Mar 27 at 13:07, Jozsef Vadkan penned:
> Why doesn't my "internet-connection" script work?
>
> When I plug the ethcable out, it just waits...and waits...and
> waits...
>
> The script: http://pastebin.com/AE9U1qdL
I haven't looked at the script, but I wonder if you'd be interested in
the
On 2010-03-27 12:57, Perttu Muurimäki wrote:
Hi again,
Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse.
When does the freeze *start*?
For
minutes I can just stare at Gkrellm and see the clock (and everything
els
* André Berger (2010-03-27):
> Trying to conserve memory, I'm want run mpd (the Music Player Daemon)
> from inetd, on Lenny. So far, I've added
>
> mpd 6600/tcp # music player daemon
>
> to /etc/services, and I thought
>
> mpd stream tcp nowait mpd.audio /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/mpd
Johan Kullstam put forth on 3/27/2010 1:31 PM:
> Stan Hoeppner writes:
>
>> Johan Kullstam put forth on 3/27/2010 9:14 AM:
>>
>>> Pretty much all motherboards come with realtek ethernet. It's well
>>> night impossible to avoid.
>>
>> That statement is absolutely false. There are plenty of mobos
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 00:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-26 21:03, R. Clayton wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your replies to my message. Putting a fat32 fs on the thumb
>> drive
>> did the trick; the block size is 4k, matching what's on the hard drive
>> file
>> systems.
>>
>
> fat32 is still not
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 07:14, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> Pasi Oja-Nisula writes:
>>
>> Anyone have any experience with the graphics in new Intel processors?
>> Should I just leave this alone and get a low end ATI card (suggestions
>> for something that would work out of the box)?
>
> This would req
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:19:13AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Friday 26 March 2010 08:46:05 pm bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > ivman ?
> > automount ?
> >
> > I'd like something where I can encode the behavior for particular
> > devices, i.e. as I'm using the same devices over and
Stan Hoeppner writes:
> Johan Kullstam put forth on 3/27/2010 9:14 AM:
>
>> Pretty much all motherboards come with realtek ethernet. It's well
>> night impossible to avoid.
>
> That statement is absolutely false. There are plenty of mobos on the market
> with Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, nVidia, V
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:56, Pasi Oja-Nisula wrote:
>
> I have a Matrox G550 card in my old machine and video performance
> has never been an issue. If the new integrated Intel graphics are
> comparable, I'm quite satisfied.
Intel i5 Graphics are enormously more powerful than a G550.
A G550 is
I don't have Internet access from home for my laptop, so I access it
from a friend's house. At home, I have a Lenny repo set up using
reprepro (I'll call it homeRepo), and things install from there okay.
When I have network access, I install packages from the official Debian
repositories (here cal
On Friday 26 March 2010 08:46:05 pm bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> ivman ?
> automount ?
>
> I'd like something where I can encode the behavior for particular
> devices, i.e. as I'm using the same devices over and over I'd like a
> way to make sure that the same device gets mapped to the s
Hi again,
Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. For
minutes I can just stare at Gkrellm and see the clock (and everything
else) not doing anything. Everything on screen has stopped at whatever
they were doing at the moment it freezed. However, in the background
everythi
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:57:08 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
> But the actual check is done by *.fsck, which is not invoked by mount,
> but by the initscript that invokes mount (if everything is ok). I wonder
> if mount even contains the code to do filesystem checking at all[1].
>
> What I'm
On Sat,27.Mar.10, 08:52:56, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:06:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
> > If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked.
>
> Of course, yes! I forgot about that. In the environment that I work in,
> dynamic mounts of disk partitions are rare. Th
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:39:06 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,26.Mar.10, 11:53:20, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> "reboot" should not be issued from the command
>> line. "reboot" is issued as the final command in the final script
>> (/etc/rc6.d/S90reboot) run during a clean system shutdown by
On Fri,26.Mar.10, 11:53:20, Stephen Powell wrote:
> from their system menus. "reboot" should not be issued from the command
> line. "reboot" is issued as the final command in the final script
> (/etc/rc6.d/S90reboot) run during a clean system shutdown by one of the
> above methods.
Nitpick:
,-
Johan Kullstam put forth on 3/27/2010 9:14 AM:
> Pretty much all motherboards come with realtek ethernet. It's well
> night impossible to avoid.
That statement is absolutely false. There are plenty of mobos on the market
with Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, nVidia, Via, and other ethernet on board.
Hello,
Debian Squeeze, notebook Sony Vaio VGN-NR498E
$ uname -a
Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 06:32:16 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Touchpad information:
$ egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps' /proc/bus/input/devices
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
Tapping doesn't work (only on touchpad buttons)
Trying to conserve memory, I'm want run mpd (the Music Player Daemon)
from inetd, on Lenny. So far, I've added
mpd 6600/tcp # music player daemon
to /etc/services, and I thought
mpd stream tcp nowait mpd.audio /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/mpd
/etc/mpd.conf
or maybe
mpd stream
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:53:12 +0100, Jozsef Vadkan wrote:
> I want to block ads on the client side. [i mean when the people surf the
> net, they shouldn't see any ads]
>
> Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent
> squid proxy, that can filter ads? [on client side! - rou
Pasi Oja-Nisula writes:
> I just retired my 9 year old machine to home use and got a Gigabyte H55-UD3H
> motherboard with Intel Core i5 processor. Well, the first impressions
> are that maybe I should have done a bit more research since there
> are Realtek net and audio chips that might have some
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:14:30 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Usman Ajmal put forth on 3/26/2010 6:32 AM:
>>
>> I have Debian installed on two computers. On one of them it reboots quite
>> finely but I am having following problem with rebooting Debian on my second
>> computer.
>>
>> When i type
Usman Ajmal put forth on 3/27/2010 5:32 AM:
> Thanks a lot Hoeppner.
You're welcome. Glad it got ya going. :)
> After reviewing the blog post you posted, I passed "reboot=bios" to the
> kernel. After which when i rebooted my system, it did not hang.
>
> :)
I wish I could take more credit. Tha
> Hi all,
>
> ivman ?
> automount ?
>
> I'd like something where I can encode the behavior for particular
> devices, i.e. as I'm using the same devices over and over I'd like a
> way to make sure that the same device gets mapped to the same thing.
>
> Not needing X to be up and running is nice t
I want to block ads on the client side. [i mean when the people surf the
net, they shouldn't see any ads]
Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent
squid proxy, that can filter ads? [on client side! - router isn't
running openwrt, etc.]
Thank you!
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:06:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
> If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked.
Of course, yes! I forgot about that. In the environment that I work in,
dynamic mounts of disk partitions are rare. They are almost always
mounted at boot time due to an entry in
On 2010-03-27 07:07, Jozsef Vadkan wrote:
Why doesn't my "internet-connection" script work?
When I plug the ethcable out, it just waits...and waits...and waits...
The script: http://pastebin.com/AE9U1qdL
What happens when you pull the cable and then manually run:
ping -W 1 -c 4 bix.hu
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:07:49 +0100, Jozsef Vadkan wrote:
> Why doesn't my "internet-connection" script work?
>
> When I plug the ethcable out, it just waits...and waits...and waits...
>
> The script: http://pastebin.com/AE9U1qdL
It runs fine here. Just wait a few (20?) seconds.
s...@stt008:~/D
Why doesn't my "internet-connection" script work?
When I plug the ethcable out, it just waits...and waits...and waits...
The script: http://pastebin.com/AE9U1qdL
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:46:05 -0700, briand wrote:
> ivman ?
> automount ?
How about "udev" (for naming/calling devices) and mount/umount (for
mounting in command line)?
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Thanks a lot Hoeppner.
After reviewing the blog post you posted, I passed "reboot=bios" to the
kernel. After which when i rebooted my system, it did not hang.
:)
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Usman Ajmal put forth on 3/26/2010 6:32 AM:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have Debian in
On 27.03.2010 08:17, Joseph Lenox wrote:
> On 3/25/2010 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>
>> You might try using at_console and consolekit.
>>
>>
>
> I tried installing policykit and using that, got identical errors as
> without (Dbus access error).
How exactly do you users login and start th
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:29 AM, JW Foster wrote:
> I just tried to do an upgrade on testing & I,m getting several errors.
> First snip of output is regarding unknown types. I have no idea what
> this is but I seen it before.
...
> Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-alchemy'
...
Found via G
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:16:53AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Celejar put forth on 3/26/2010 4:20 PM:
>
> > Good to know - I guess it's just luck of the draw. I once cringed as I
> > dropped my WD external about four feet (onto carpet), but so far
> > (months later) it's still working fine.
>
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:46:59PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and
> > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media"
On 3/25/2010 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 25.03.2010 23:38, schrieb Joseph Lenox:
I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev
group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Adding the exact
user to the plugdev group on the local machine worked as f
On 2010-03-26 21:03, R. Clayton wrote:
Thanks for your replies to my message. Putting a fat32 fs on the thumb drive
did the trick; the block size is 4k, matching what's on the hard drive file
systems.
fat32 is still not recommended. Use vfat.
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