Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:09:22 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:49 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> "John A. Sullivan III" writes: >> >> > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:05 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >> >> Make sure that LID_LIBRARY_PATH points to the location for libcups >>

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Glenn English: > > SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 > Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x 007 000 000Old_age Offlin

Re: ssd / smart question

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Glenn English put forth on 4/15/2010 9:10 PM: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x 000 000 000Old_age Offline > FAILING_NOW 0 > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x 000 000 000Old_age Offline > FAILING_NOW 0 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x 000 000 000Old_age

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 22:09, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] still doesn't work. Setting the command line debugging variable, I found that it cannot find the PPD file. Does it only work if the CUPS server is running locally? In our case, we use a central CUPS server running on a non-standard port.

Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] not all beeps getting through

2010-04-15 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Trent W. Buck, Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:35:33PM +1000 |=- > jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > > The first few seconds of > > $ beep -l 1 > > are normal, the remainder very low volume. The number of seconds vary. > > How does one toggle auto-suspending, if indeed that is the problem? > > I be

Re: How to migrate my localhost php site to my ISP - Was: willing to learn php basics

2010-04-15 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On Thu, Apr 15 at 23:43, Bernard penned: > I have now got to a point that I have a working MySQL database > system on my localhost machine. I thought that I would not have any > problem migrating this to my ISP appropriate MySQL space, but so far > I have failed to do so. Local doc is very scarce,

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-15 Thread briand
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:03:43 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 4/15/2010 9:13 AM: > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:59:50 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > >> bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 4/15/2010 12:08 AM: > >> > >>> And .32-trunk is the running kernel, has been for

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:49 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > "John A. Sullivan III" writes: > > > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:05 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> Make sure that LID_LIBRARY_PATH points to the location for libcups and > >> also CUPS lp and lpr are in PATH. > >> > >> When you invoke the

ssd / smart question

2010-04-15 Thread Glenn English
SMART is warning a lot about a couple week old OCZ SSD. This is my first SSD, and I don't know if this is normal or I have a defective drive. Looks broken to me, but... It's connected to an Asus AT3CG-I mobo. Some output from webmin -- smart's writing in the logs quite a bit, too, about unc

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 18:45, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:37:31AM +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended, though, to use it only for downloads. It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the peop

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 7:06 PM: >> Are you guys displaced Ubuntu users who landed on debian-user after a >> tornado came through Kansas? ;) I guess you've never seen "The Wizard of Oz". > You made me dig my latest mobo's manual :) [Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3], which > says plainly : "The

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:43:21 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 19:37, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> I'm going to be filing a bug report against parted for (a) miscalculating >> the starting block of the implicit partition on an ldl (Linux Disk Layout) >> formatted disk on the s390 arch

[SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-15 Thread Mark
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Mark wrote: > Has anyone else experienced mplayer generating Fatal Error "Error > opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" after adding > debian-multimedia.org to sources.list and performing the subsequent Smart > Upgrades? I'm trying to figure

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 19:37, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] I'm going to be filing a bug report against parted for (a) miscalculating the starting block of the implicit partition on an ldl (Linux Disk Layout) formatted disk on the s390 architecture when the block size is other than 4096, and (b) no supp

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:39:42 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> In short, I need to >> (a) declare "cms_label" as a based structure, > > (above; trimmmed) >> >> (b) >> declare a pointer variable called "cms_ptr" and associate it with the >> "cms_label" structure,

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/16/2010 01:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and it works ok. Most desktop/workstation mobos do. No, that'

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/16/2010 02:33 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 04/15/2010 07:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and it works ok. Mo

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 03:07:31AM +0200, thib wrote: > Chris Hiestand wrote: >> On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: [snip] >>> That's a foolish thing to do, since blind acceptance can lead to a broken >>> system. >> >> Maybe so, but

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:37:31AM +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended, > > though, to use it only for downloads. > > It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people who > normally use aptitu

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/15/2010 6:22 PM: > On 2010-04-15 18:12, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/15/2010 2:34 PM: >> >>> That's a real pain. >>> NewEgg has no filter on netcards for mobo's >> >> Yeah, I know, it sucks. I wasted a lot of time doing research for a >> previou

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 04/15/2010 07:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and it works ok. Most desktop/workstation mobos do. No, that'

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 18:12, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/15/2010 2:34 PM: That's a real pain. NewEgg has no filter on netcards for mobo's Yeah, I know, it sucks. I wasted a lot of time doing research for a previous thread trying to hunt down mobos with Intel or non-Realtek et

How to recover boot floppy in Lenny

2010-04-15 Thread Mauricio Contreras
I have a dual boot setup and was using Lenny booting GRUB from a floppy. The floppy is busted, now when I use Supergrub to boot there's no sound. Is there any way either I can recreate the boot disk from the system to another floppy or a new CD? This Lenny install worked wonderfully! Mauricio Con

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/15/2010 2:34 PM: > That's a real pain. > NewEgg has no filter on netcards for mobo's Yeah, I know, it sucks. I wasted a lot of time doing research for a previous thread trying to hunt down mobos with Intel or non-Realtek ether chips. It's a slow process. See if y

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 4/15/2010 9:13 AM: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:59:50 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 4/15/2010 12:08 AM: >> >>> And .32-trunk is the running kernel, has been for some time, and >>> I've rebooted several times. >> >> Did up aptitude up

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: > No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will > theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and > it works ok. Most desktop/workstation mobos do. No, that's not correct. If the mobo DIMM slots are colored,

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/15/2010 3:09 PM: > Hi, > > The Wiki on dual channel memory says: > > "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually > color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each > memory module access to the memory controller, increa

How to migrate my localhost php site to my ISP - Was: willing to learn php basics

2010-04-15 Thread Bernard
Hi Avi, Hi to Everyone, Avi Greenbury wrote: Bernard wrote: Have I got to install one or more Debian packages for PHP ? '$apt-cache search PHP' gives too many results for a choice. You want to do # apt-get install php5 php-mysql apache2 Which will also pull in the php5 apache module

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:47:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 15:38, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >> >> I always try to fill the RAM slots of the board at their maximum >> capacity (at least 2 GiB.) so upgrading memory will be worth for it. >> >> > That's a bit garbled... Did you forget a w

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 15 April 2010 13:56:00 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:10:55 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:16:03 Stephen Powell wrote: > >> What I need to do is to have two structures overlay each other; so that > >> they occupy the same stor

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Florian Kulzer schreef: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 21:24:19 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [ blah, blah, blah ] > > Uh-oh, the moment I sent my last message I finally remembered that I > currently use an outdated version of the synaptics driver, because a > serious bug of video-intel forced me

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 15:38, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I always try to fill the RAM slots of the board at their maximum capacity (at least 2 GiB.) so upgrading memory will be worth for it. That's a bit garbled... Did you forget a word somewhere? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 13:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] ATX means you'll get lots of built-in features. I like my Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H mobo with AM2+/AM2 socket. 8GM RAM, 6 SATA, 1 (or 2, I forget) rear eSATA, lots of USB, a front and rear Firewire and decent on-board aud

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 13:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-14 11:12, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-13 15:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with? I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices.

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:09:08 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > The Wiki on dual channel memory says: > > "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually > color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each > memory module access to the memory controller, inc

Re: Configuring exim4 to send emails

2010-04-15 Thread Ruben Varela
Okay, I figured it out. My hostname was my domain. ru...@domain.tld:~$ uname -n domain.tld ru...@domain.tld:~$ hostname domain.tld ru...@domain.ltd:~$ hostname --fqdn domain.tld I changed this to server.domain.tld ru...@domain.ltd:~$ sudo hostname server.domain.tld and then tried sending email

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 11:09 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The Wiki on dual channel memory says: "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each memory module access to the memory controller, increasing throu

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Does that mean that placing 2 1GB modules, each into a different colored > slot, is faster than putting 1 2GB module into one slot and leaving the > other 3 slots empty? on my server board the machine will not even boot up if memory is no

Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, The Wiki on dual channel memory says: "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each memory module access to the memory controller, increasing throughput bandwidth." Does that mean that placing

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 21:24:19 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [ blah, blah, blah ] Uh-oh, the moment I sent my last message I finally remembered that I currently use an outdated version of the synaptics driver, because a serious bug of video-intel forced me to freeze my whole Xorg installation a

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 19:38:23 -0500, francis southern wrote: > On 14 April 2010 16:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up > >> my udev rules file.

Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:24:31 +0300 David Baron wrote: > Neither "normal" reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts > right > now. > > Is there something wrong there? > Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access? > > Cannot really keep system up-to-date without access to debian bts.

Re: Does Linux respect gratuitous arp replies?

2010-04-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:33:03 +0200 Axel Freyn wrote: > Hi Celejar, > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:20:31PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Does Linux respect gratuitous arp replies? This page claims that it > > does: > > > > Linux kernels will respect gratuitous ARP frames. > > > > http://linux-ip.net/

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: Hi, Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with? I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices. It would help if you told us what the primary use of the machine will be. Server or desktop? If desk

Re: C programming question

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:10:55 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:16:03 Stephen Powell wrote: >> What I need to do is to have two structures overlay each other; so that >> they occupy the same storage. To be specific, here is a structure which >> describes the

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-14 11:12, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-13 15:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with? I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices. Come on, man... You should know the dril

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-15 Thread Norbert Zeh
Mark [2010.04.13 1542 -0700]: > Hi, > > I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one > http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell > Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great > results on older dell bcm43xx cards in Lenny but bcm4310

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 12:06, Charles Kroeger wrote: On my system, sid, this command wouldn't work: $ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser this command will: $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser why is that? It better not work from an unprivileged account! -- Dissent is patriotic,

Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-15 Thread Mark
Has anyone else experienced mplayer generating Fatal Error "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" after adding debian-multimedia.org to sources.list and performing the subsequent Smart Upgrades? I'm trying to figure out if that's the cause; since other machines I have wit

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Carl Johnson
"John A. Sullivan III" writes: > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:05 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Make sure that LID_LIBRARY_PATH points to the location for libcups and >> also CUPS lp and lpr are in PATH. >> >> When you invoke the print dialog using Control+P, all the printers >> configured show up

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 08:06 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On my system, sid, this command wouldn't work: $ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser this command will: $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser why is that? Works here... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
OK..solved my own question: should have been: $ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser instead of: $ update-alternatives -display x-www-browser for the want of a dash an error message is returned. -- C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
On my system, sid, this command wouldn't work: >$ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser this command will: $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser why is that? -- C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-15 Thread Carl Johnson
Ed Jabbour writes: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:31:54 -0400, Celejar wrote: > >>> Ed Jabbour wrote: > >>> I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited >>> etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to do the same and added the dns to wicd. >>> However, I keep getting the same old dns from the router, i.e.,

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:50:53 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:05 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Mmmm, that article says something about "env" variables: >> >> *** >> Environment Variables >> >> Make sure that LID_LIBRARY_PATH points to the location for libcups and >> als

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:46:13 -0400 Wayne wrote: Hello Wayne, >Just tried to install acroread again. Won't install due to a bug > in the ia32 libs. The saga continues. All very strange, as it works nicely here. Sadly, I have no idea what to suggest. -- Regards _ / )

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:00:56 -0400 Wayne wrote: Hello Wayne, > The Acroread error is it prints the odd pages when you ask for even > and vise versa. Not really an error, just a PITA. I'd call that a major PITA, TBH. I don't usually print in that way, but tried it, just to see what happened he

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Wayne
Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:08:42 -0400 Wayne wrote: Hello Wayne, Acroread has not worked on my amd64 box in over 4 months. Stable, testing or Sid? I ask since it works here (amd64) in testing. Version of acroread is 9.3.1 Brad Just tried to install acroread again. Wo

Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-15 Thread David Baron
Neither "normal" reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts right now. Is there something wrong there? Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access? Cannot really keep system up-to-date without access to debian bts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:56:44 -0400 "John A. Sullivan III" dijo: >Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. >It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just >shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers >like all the othe

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Wayne
Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:08:42 -0400 Wayne wrote: Hello Wayne, Acroread has not worked on my amd64 box in over 4 months. Stable, testing or Sid? I ask since it works here (amd64) in testing. Version of acroread is 9.3.1 Testing. I dropped it in January after completel

Re: software sorting

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 09:48, roberto wrote: hello, i was wondering if it possible to get a list of the software used by myself, sorting them by frequence of usage; this could be helpful to know which software are uselessly in my laptop and i can uninstall them If you have (and it's a good thing to d

Re: Problem with iwl3954

2010-04-15 Thread green
James Brown wrote at 2010-04-13 07:59 -0500: > I had the dmesg message that I needed use iwllwifi-3945-2 instead > iwlwifi-3945-1. > I finded the packege firmware-iwlwifi-0.23~bpo50+1 and installed that > instead 0.14+lenny2. > Now I have the next records in dmesg: > [ 49.170257] iwl3945 :02

software sorting

2010-04-15 Thread roberto
hello, i was wondering if it possible to get a list of the software used by myself, sorting them by frequence of usage; this could be helpful to know which software are uselessly in my laptop and i can uninstall them thank you -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Vpn seems to be connected but not being used

2010-04-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
Starting a new thread: I seem to have got connected to a vpn server after reading the Debian Howto but I don't know what to do next. Here is the output of ifconfig -a, which seems to show that ppp0 is running. But I'm not connecting via it. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:48:79:88

Re: Does Linux respect gratuitous arp replies?

2010-04-15 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Celejar, On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:20:31PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > Does Linux respect gratuitous arp replies? This page claims that it > does: > > Linux kernels will respect gratuitous ARP frames. > > http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-arp.html It depends on your configuration: If you do: ech

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:08:42 -0400 Wayne wrote: Hello Wayne, > Acroread has not worked on my amd64 box in over 4 months. Stable, testing or Sid? I ask since it works here (amd64) in testing. Version of acroread is 9.3.1 -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 08:52, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Matthew Moore wrote: > Merciadri -- does the same thing happen when load a lot of tabs in other > browsers? Try it with other gecko based browsers, and then with webkit based > browsers. > At least with Epiphany and Chrome. (These are the only one I tested.) -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 09:07, Matthew Moore wrote: [snip] I also experienced this problem, and found that liberal use of noscript and flashblock really helped. Good point. While I got sick of creating noscript exceptions, I'm a great fan of flashblock and ABP. I finally g

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 04/15/2010 04:50 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Preferred applications are restricted to Gnome, while alternatives are > system-wide. > > Thanks for this precision. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompati

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-15 Thread briand
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:59:50 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 4/15/2010 12:08 AM: > > > And .32-trunk is the running kernel, has been for some time, and > > I've rebooted several times. > > Did up aptitude upgrade to the .32-trunk kernel or is your .32-trunk > kernel

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Wayne
John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just shows the custom lpr

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Matthew Moore
On Thursday April 15 2010 6:21:27 am Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 06:38, Merciadri Luca wrote: > [snip] > > > That is what I did. No ping answer, whatever the IP or DNS. Just as if I > > was not connected. But my router is still connected to the WAN, and the > > router is still connected to

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 05:56 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. > It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just > shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like > all the oth

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 04:50 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/15/2010 04:28 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: [as root] update-alternatives --config x-www-browser and choose iceweasel. Problem solved. Sorry for the trivial question, I had forgotten about this command. Shouldn't `

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. > > It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just > > shows the custom lpr printer. How do

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 04/15/2010 04:28 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > [as root] update-alternatives --config x-www-browser and choose > iceweasel. > > Problem solved. Sorry for the trivial question, I had forgotten about this command. Shouldn't `Preferred applications' be linked to the result of u

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:05 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:40:47 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:35 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Mmmm, IIRC you have to leave the default command as is (/usr/bin/lpr) > >> and select a default printer in KDE. > >>

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:09:47 -0400 Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:31:54 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > >> Ed Jabbour wrote: > > >> I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited > >> etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to do the same and added the dns to wicd. > >> However, I keep getting

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 04:28 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/15/2010 04:17 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: You're using Gnome, right? Check system->preferences->preferred applications (or something) Yep. And that is what I wanted to mention in my OP: `Iceweasel' is set as `Web

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > Step 1 is to see what x-www-browser points to: >$ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser > > After that we look in the Iceweasel config editor. Nice! == # update-alternatives --display x-www-browser x-www-browser - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/ep

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 04/15/2010 04:17 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > You're using Gnome, right? Check system->preferences->preferred > applications (or something) > > Yep. And that is what I wanted to mention in my OP: `Iceweasel' is set as `Web Browser' and `Icedove' is set as `Mail Reader.' --

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 08:17, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I am using Icedove for some e-mails. If I click on a link in a message, _most often_ Epiphany loads the page. Sometimes, Iceweasel loads the page at the place of Epiphany. My default browser is set as `Iceweasel' and Icedove should consequently alwa

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 04:17 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I am using Icedove for some e-mails. If I click on a link in a message, _most often_ Epiphany loads the page. Sometimes, Iceweasel loads the page at the place of Epiphany. My default browser is set as `Iceweasel' and Icedove should consequently a

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-15 Thread Wayne
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-14 21:58, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 4/14/2010 8:28 AM: On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: [snip] Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently supported well by Debian.

Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I am using Icedove for some e-mails. If I click on a link in a message, _most often_ Epiphany loads the page. Sometimes, Iceweasel loads the page at the place of Epiphany. My default browser is set as `Iceweasel' and Icedove should consequently always load Iceweasel, shouldn't it? Why does it

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 08:07, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Hmmm. tshark! > Next time I will be in these conditions, I will report a log, if necessary. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 08:07, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-15 07:49, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] At all, ever? Quite everything loads after some minutes, but this is really boring. Moreover, just before the `Internet crash,' I encounter messages such as `The connection to serve

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:40:47 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:35 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Mmmm, IIRC you have to leave the default command as is (/usr/bin/lpr) >> and select a default printer in KDE. >> >> Acrobat should print for the default printer. >> > While go

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:31:54 -0400, Celejar wrote: >> Ed Jabbour wrote: >> I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited >> etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to do the same and added the dns to wicd. >> However, I keep getting the same old dns from the router, i.e., >> resolv.conf keeps changin

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 07:51, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > $ apt-cache policy acroread > acroread: > Installed: 9.3.1-0.0 > Candidate: 9.3.2-0.0 > Version table: > 9.3.2-0.0 0 > 500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable/non-free Packages > *** 9.3.1-0.0 0 >

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 07:49, Merciadri Luca wrote: > [snip] > > At all, ever? > Quite everything loads after some minutes, but this is really boring. Moreover, just before the `Internet crash,' I encounter messages such as `The connection to server [...] was reinitialized.' If such mes

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 07:51, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Semi-OT from your question, but v8.1.7 is *really* old. Make that really *REALLY* old. If you're running Stable and that's what's in the Stable repos, then remove it an go directly t

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 07:49, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] For example, if I "kill -15" the Iceweasel pid then exit the GUI to apt-get upgrade and then restart xfce and Iceweasel, all the (4 or 5) windows and (total of 20-50) tabs restore. It takes 3-4 minutes for all of them to com

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:38:24 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Some tips: >> >> 1/ When you experience the network glitches, try to ping to some site >> or download e-mails to check if the lag is present in another >> connections or just browsing. > That is what I did. No ping an

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Semi-OT from your question, but v8.1.7 is *really* old. Make that > really *REALLY* old. If you're running Stable and that's what's in > the Stable repos, then remove it an go directly to adobe to get the > latest version.

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-15 06:38, Merciadri Luca wrote: > [snip] > > Hmph... > > Before opening the pages, start capturing packets (using wireshark if > you must, or tshark from the CLI). I will try this. > > Your symptoms *probably* happen to me, but I just accept it as part of > Firefox's

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread jean
Le Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:50:02 +0200, "John A. Sullivan III" a écrit : > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:35 +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:56:44 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > (http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2009/06/printing_with_adobe_reader_the.h tml). > I do see that I

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like all the other applications in o

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