Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12 May 2010 02:26, deloptes wrote: > yes, exactly that's what I mean. the latin "k" has no equivalent in other > languages (in terms of key code). Windows is doing this wisely since the > beginning by setting the switch to ALT+SHIFT, which is language > independent. I like the abbility to chang

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11 May 2010 23:02, deloptes wrote: >>> - weather >> > http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/yaWP+%28Yet+Another+Weather+Plasmoid%29?content=94106 > > This was not working in 4.3 and I couldn't start it in 4.4. > Interesting, it works on the Ubuntu box I test KDE on. >>> - korganizer >> >> Che

Re: Automounting problems.

2010-05-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am now slapping myself on the head for being so STUPID! Automount is working just fine, and has been all along. Automount does its thing as soon as a device is ACCESSED, not plugged in. I was plugging the flash drives in and looking in /mnt to see if they were showing up. The weren't. Th

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread godo
Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not the way kde4 is pushing it to the end user. +1 -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 21:37 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > > Yes, that is on my radar too. It looks to be for ubuntu but I am not sure > > of their goals. I'm kind of hoping for kde3 that can be developed and used > > as always for anyone interested and any distribution. > >

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
>Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main >repository. It does not appear to be in Sid or Squeeze as of this afternoon. (EST USA) yes. However, I notice that 'nv' is still in Squeeze-main contrib non-free: xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.17-2 but nv appears to be 'broken' if

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken - SOLVED

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, Looking on http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libc-bin and clicking on the list of files for i386, shows that ldconfig should be in /sbin/. I had been using KPackage, and found that the downloaded .deb's were in the .kpackage subdirectory of my home directory. I created a temporary directory

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > I also think the 4.4 version is pretty usable and as soon as all > applications that I need are usable I will move to kde4. > Second impression is pretty good. For sure there are many small things to do but it looks and feels ok. I'll look forward to test and file bugs on it a

Re: Debian+KDE 4.4.3 kplayer

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
kplayer is not reading my mplayers config file for dvb channels - any experience or it's a bug -- 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/hscq0o$4t...@dough.gma

Re: Debian+KDE 4.4.3 (i915 dual screen) (SOLVED)

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Xserver has a well known issue with the i915 driver and it's DRI/DRM limitation to 2048x2048 window size. So the default setup is not working because in recent versions of X it loads drm by default creating configuration that allows only "clone" of the primary display with DRI enable

Re: Kde 3.5 ... (SOLVED)

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Said in a nice way, Dotan could you put this on your list and pass it to >> kde developers. I'm missing for sure the old bulgarian phonetic layout >> where w="в" and v="ж" and this is a showstopper for me. >> > > I can't, as I am not Bulgarian and I cannot triage. It might e

Re: Debian+KDE 4.4.3

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Here we go, currently I have only done the safe upgrade, still 176 > packages to upgrade, I can remove yawp (yet another weather plasma) and > get a full upgrade or keep yawp, do the upgrade and break kde, I will > stick with the safe upgrade for awhile, cause I don't want t

Re (3): Re^n: Grub vs. linux-image-2.6.32 conundrum

2010-05-11 Thread peasthope
From: Stephen Powell Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:29:33 -0400 (EDT) > ... > "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" > ... > I don't understand what problem you are trying to solve. But it is broke! In one sense, the primary problem is failure of X. dalton:/home/peter# uname -rv 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 22:02, deloptes wrote: > >> In kde3 the "idiots" didn't think of us poor people not using latin and >> associated per default ALT+K to switch the keymap. Now if you switch from >> english to rushian/bulgarian or whatever ALT+K gives a completely

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:06:46 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:56:49 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: (...) There are still minor issues with 64bit desktops. For example, Adobe's 64bit flash player does not

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade failed because libc-bin was not installed. Now dpkg is broken. I tried a manual reinstall of the lenny libc6, as suggested in another thread on this l

Re: East Asian fonts in Lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 20:40:58 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 17:24:02 Nima Azarbayjany wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> How do you add support for East Asian fonts in Debian Lenny? For >> example, a default install of Lenny does not show some of the fonts at >> the bottom of www.debian.org. >

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:28:00 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:48, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:26:21 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> Users having problems with flash plugin on their 64 bits OS can install a 32 bits browser and run the 32 bits plugin

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 22:02, deloptes wrote: > In kde3 the "idiots" didn't think of us poor people not using latin and > associated per default ALT+K to switch the keymap. Now if you switch from > english to rushian/bulgarian or whatever ALT+K gives a completely different > keycode ... So I had

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 16:05:04 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > How can this be fixed? And shouldn't there be a big warning that trying > > to upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? > > > > Best regards, > > Chris Austin. > > What should really be the "big warning" is mix

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: > I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet > dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade > failed because libc-bin was not installed. How could this happen, given that libc6 depends on libc-bin

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> > > How can this be fixed? And shouldn't there be a big warning that trying to > upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? > > Best regards, > Chris Austin. > > > What should really be the "big warning" is mixing releases... I don't see this as possible however. How is

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade failed because libc-bin was not installed. Now dpkg is broken. I tried a manual reinstall of the lenny libc6, as suggested in another thread on thi

Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?

2010-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 13:53:00 Kent West wrote: > Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Mon, 10 May 2010 16:48:47 -0500 > > Kent West wrote: > >> Thanks, especially Brad! > > > > I think you mean Boyd; He gave you far better info than I did. > > You're right. My bad. Sorry Boyd; thanks especially to you!

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm going to write a list and post it here. ATM I can not start korganizer. I have some time, so I would like to test 4.4. Thanks for pointing me to known bugs. I really don't have the patience to search. > > p kteatime

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 20:23:37 Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue May 11 2010 12:11:42 pm Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 18:10:32 Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: > > > > Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not > > > > the way kd

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Andrei Popescu wrote: > I'd rather think it's an Xorg issue (specifically the package xkb-data, > which contains all keyboard maps). > > Regards, > Andrei I'm not quite sure about it. I'll check. AFAIK it's kde mapping (at least it was in kde3). cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: East Asian fonts in Lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 17:24:02 Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi all, > > How do you add support for East Asian fonts in Debian Lenny? For > example, a default install of Lenny does not show some of the fonts at > the bottom of www.debian.org. I used to install Japanese fonts via aptitude. But I rat

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Alan Ianson wrote: > > Yes, that is on my radar too. It looks to be for ubuntu but I am not sure > of their goals. I'm kind of hoping for kde3 that can be developed and used > as always for anyone interested and any distribution. > > I suppose I am hoping for a lot.. :) I don't think so. "We, t

Re: Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Snood
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > I don't have Nvidia myself, but tt should be a matter of installing Nouveau, > and then changing the "Driver" line in /etc/x11/xorg.conf from "nv" to > "Nouveau" > (or adding the line in the "Device" section if it doesn't exist). Good old /etc

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Lisi wrote: > I believe preserving and enhancing 3.5 is exactly the purpose of this > project: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/ it looks just lovely ;-) thanks and regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Snood
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-05-11 17:06 +0200, Snood wrote: Did some research on Nouveau drivers. Was about to download, compile, etc. Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main repository. Does that mean that going through all the machinations is

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: > >> Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not the >> way kde4 is pushing it to the end user. > > If there was enough interest, kde3 could continue to be developed as it's > own project. > > I would s

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue May 11 2010 12:11:42 pm Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 18:10:32 Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: > > > Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not > > > the way kde4 is pushing it to the end user. > > > > If there was enough

Re: Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: I don't have Nvidia myself, but tt should be a matter of installing Nouveau, and then changing the "Driver" line in /etc/x11/xorg.conf from "nv" to "Nouveau" (or adding the line in the "Device" section if it doesn't exist). Good old /etc/X11/x

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 5/11/2010 10:19 AM, James Zuelow wrote: >> Huh. I'm jealous. I've been running 64 bit Lenny and Squeeze for the >> past three years or so. When I moved to the 64 bit flash plugin, it >> would crash Iceweasel on a regular basis. No watching videos required -- >> just a

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 18:10:32 Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: > > Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not the > > way kde4 is pushing it to the end user. > > If there was enough interest, kde3 could continue to be developed as it's

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:32, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I am curious, did you all receive duplicates of my last reply? Yep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.deb

Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?

2010-05-11 Thread Kent West
Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 16:48:47 -0500 Kent West wrote: Hello Kent, Thanks, especially Brad! I think you mean Boyd; He gave you far better info than I did. You're right. My bad. Sorry Boyd; thanks especially to you! -- Kent West <*)))>< http://kentwest.bl

Re: East Asian fonts in Lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:24, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi all, > > How do you add support for East Asian fonts in Debian Lenny?  For example, a > default install of Lenny does not show some of the fonts at the bottom of > www.debian.org. Just use the package manager to install some of the font

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
I am curious, did you all receive duplicates of my last reply? -- Jordan Metzmeier

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:48, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:26:21 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >>> Users having problems with flash plugin on their 64 bits OS can install >>> a 32 bits browser and run the 32 bits plugin, which is annoying but it >>> should work. >>> >>> >> Does thi

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:15, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:07, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Kelly Clowers >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:56, Jordan Metzmeier >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Adobe's 64bit flash player does not funct

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,11.May.10, 20:58:33, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Said in a nice way, Dotan could you put this on your list and pass it to kde > > developers. I'm missing for sure the old bulgarian phonetic layout where > > w="в" and v="ж" and this is a showstopper for me. > > > > I can't, as I am not Bulgarian

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:07, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Kelly Clowers > wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:56, Jordan Metzmeier >> wrote: >> > >> > Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites >> > that the 32bit plugin will. >> >> [cit

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:56, Jordan Metzmeier > wrote: > > > > Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites > > that the 32bit plugin will. > > [citation needed] > > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers > > Again, sorry if this is a

Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?

2010-05-11 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Looking at the whole thread above, it looks like the hplip diagnostic tools aren't being used. 1) Run hp-probe. Does it find the printer? If not, this is a networking issue. Eter the printer's IP address in a browser window. If the printer can be found this way, the router is blocking ports tha

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Mark
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Kelly Clowers >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:56, Jordan Metzmeier >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites >>> > that the 32bit plugin wi

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-11 17:06 +0200, Snood wrote: > Did some research on Nouveau drivers. Was about to download, compile, > etc. Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main > repository. Does that mean that going through all the machinations is > no longer necessary? Yes, that does it me

Re: Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:06, Snood wrote: > Did some research on Nouveau drivers. Was about to download, compile, etc. > Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main repository. > Does that mean that going through all the machinations is no longer > necessary? > > If I tell apt

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/11/2010 09:02 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:56, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites that the 32bit plugin will. [citation needed] Cheers, Kelly Clowers I call bulls**t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:56, Jordan Metzmeier > wrote: > > > > Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites > > that the 32bit plugin will. > > [citation needed] > > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers > > > https://bugs.adobe.com/j

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:56, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites > that the 32bit plugin will. [citation needed] Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Said in a nice way, Dotan could you put this on your list and pass it to kde > developers. I'm missing for sure the old bulgarian phonetic layout where > w="в" and v="ж" and this is a showstopper for me. > I can't, as I am not Bulgarian and I cannot triage. It might even be a Debian issue, not a

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11 May 2010 13:50, deloptes wrote: > deloptes wrote: > > screenshot - I need at least those app/lets working to even start thinking > of using kde > > - teatime p kteatime - KDE 4 utility for making a fine cup of tea > - weather http://

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> 1/ Firefox can be downloaded from Mozilla site (and Mozilla does not > provide a 64-bit version for their browser, only 32-bit binaries). Once > downloaded, no need to install anything, just click and run. Then, you > can download the flash plugin (32 bits) and store it under Firefox > plugins fo

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 5/11/2010 10:19 AM, James Zuelow wrote: > Huh. I'm jealous. I've been running 64 bit Lenny and Squeeze for the past > three years or so. When I moved to the 64 bit flash plugin, it would crash > Iceweasel on a regular basis. No watching videos required -- just a flash > advertisement on a

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11 May 2010 13:37, deloptes wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Hi, Dotan. > I'm not sure what makes you work for KDE but I hope that you can bring our > word to them. I have really a problem talking to programmers and software > people (in most of the cases), because they already think in routines

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue May 11 2010 08:41:59 am deloptes wrote: > Don't understand me wrong. I am for improvement and progress but not the > way kde4 is pushing it to the end user. If there was enough interest, kde3 could continue to be developed as it's own project. I would support the project but I can't cont

Re: libgdk-x11 symbol lookup error (resolved)

2010-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 10 May 2010 18:22:22 Don wrote: > [M]y > /etc/apt/sources.list for some time now has contained lines for both > squeeze and sid. I'm not sure anymore my thinking on this and possibly > intended to comment out the sid lines. Is this legit for a sources.list > file or could it have been a

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10 May 2010 23:41, consul tores wrote: > 2010/5/9 Dotan Cohen : >> On 8 May 2010 22:35, consul tores wrote: >>> 2010/5/8 Dotan Cohen : What useless information? I'd like to fix that if you will be more specific. >>> >>> Who are you figuring out you are, man? >>> >> A KDE contributor

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:26:21 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> Users having problems with flash plugin on their 64 bits OS can install >> a 32 bits browser and run the 32 bits plugin, which is annoying but it >> should work. >> >> > Does this work natively or does it require a chroot? Natively...

East Asian fonts in Lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi all, How do you add support for East Asian fonts in Debian Lenny? For example, a default install of Lenny does not show some of the fonts at the bottom of www.debian.org. Thanks. Nima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Configuring X for second monitor running free-driver.

2010-05-11 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Hugo: >> Also I can not use option "DRI" in Section "Device" - Xserver does not start >> then. >and the log? What does the log say? For now I have downgraded all the xserver-xorg* packages - back to stable, therefore, now X loads with the option, at least

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> Users having problems with flash plugin on their 64 bits OS can install a > 32 bits browser and run the 32 bits plugin, which is annoying but it > should work. > Does this work natively or does it require a chroot? Sorry if this is a duplicate, I got a bounce back from the first time I attempte

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> Users having problems with flash plugin on their 64 bits OS can install a > 32 bits browser and run the 32 bits plugin, which is annoying but it > should work. > Does this work natively or does it require a chroot? -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

RE: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread James Zuelow
> user (I don't waste my time with flash games, watching flash videos on > every corner of the Internet, etc), but I've never, ever had a problem > running a 100% 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux operating system for the past > year or so. _ZERO_ issues. > Huh. I'm jealous. I've been running 64 bit Len

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:19:22 +0200 steef wrote: Hello steef, > this seems the answer where i was waiting for. Not exactly what you wanted, but I'm sure it'll suffice. > thanx agaian, You're welcome. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnev

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 5/11/2010 9:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Any other failing site that can be tested by the mere non-US mortals? :-) I've been running 64-bit for years, initially with a 32-bit browser and plugin, but now since Adobe announced the 64-bit plugin, I've never run into any issues. Granted, I live in the

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/11/2010 09:23 AM, deloptes wrote: >> Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> -- Camaleón >>> >>> http://hulu.com is an example. AFAIK its only available to people with >>> U.S. IPs. >>> >> >> I'm in europe and it's working fine, though it said that it can not show >> v

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:27:14 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Any other failing site that can be tested by the mere non-US mortals? >> :-) >> >> >> > Not that I know of. Doing a google search, it looks like hulu may be the > only issue. I had p

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Lisi wrote: >> >> I believe preserving and enhancing 3.5 is exactly the purpose of this >> project: >> http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/ > > Thanks, John, for the info. That looks very encouraging. > > Someone else had mentioned it, but as being available for Ubuntu, which I > had read as on

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:06:46 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:56:49 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> There are still minor issues with 64bit desk

Switching from NV to Nouveau in Squeeze

2010-05-11 Thread Snood
Did some research on Nouveau drivers. Was about to download, compile, etc. Saw that xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package is now in the main repository. Does that mean that going through all the machinations is no longer necessary? If I tell aptitude (ncurses) to install the package it also indic

"konwert: unknown filter -- dynafont" (console's font)

2010-05-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ I need to set the console to handle utf-8 fonts in lenny ~ with sarge I would simply go: ~ $ sudo dpkg -i konwert-filters_1.8-9_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package konwert-filters. (Reading database ... 110798 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking konwert-filters (fr

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 15:23:57 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:39 +0200, deloptes wrote: > > Alexander V. Wolf wrote: > > > Hello everybody! > > > > > > Maybe possible installed KDE3 and KDE4 paralleled? Example: KDE3 into > > > /opt with KDE4 into /usr. And maybe get answer

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:05:55 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Thanks, Tom - I may be getting confused with that. >> >> No, Lisi, you are right. Here is the thread: >> >> question about fstab in squeeze and uuid >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:06:46 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:56:49 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> There are still minor issues with 64bit desktops. For example, Adobe's >>> 64bit flash player does not f

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:00 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: > >>> > I am sure someone will correct me if I have got this wrong, so if >>> > noone does so I have probably remembered correctly. >>> >>> I don't rem

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/11/2010 09:23 AM, deloptes wrote: Jordan Metzmeier wrote: -- Camaleón http://hulu.com is an example. AFAIK its only available to people with U.S. IPs. I'm in europe and it's working fine, though it said that it can not show video because of 64bit limitation on linux. "Unable to s

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/11/2010 05:23 PM, deloptes wrote: Jordan Metzmeier wrote: -- Camaleón http://hulu.com is an example. AFAIK its only available to people with U.S. IPs. I'm in europe and it's working fine, though it said that it can not show video because of 64bit limitation on linux.

Automounting problems.

2010-05-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running an up to date Lenny box with FVWM. I do not run Gnome, or KDE. I want to have removable devices, such as flash drives and mp3 players, automount. I have read the mini How-To on automounting, but I still can't get it to work. This is the relevant data: $ cat /etc/auto.master #

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:26, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Oscar Corte > wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I would like to test Debian on a new PC. > > > > It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor. > > > > What would it be the recommended architecture/ve

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> -- >> Camaleón >> > > http://hulu.com is an example. AFAIK its only available to people with > U.S. IPs. > I'm in europe and it's working fine, though it said that it can not show video because of 64bit limitation on linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: KDE4 & KDE3 || Gnome2 & Gnome3

2010-05-11 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:39 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Alexander V. Wolf wrote: > > > Hello everybody! > > > > Maybe possible installed KDE3 and KDE4 paralleled? Example: KDE3 into > > /opt with KDE4 into /usr. And maybe get answer on this question with > > Gnome2 and Gnome3? > > > > P.S. Sorry, m

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread deloptes
Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2010-05-11 12:37 (+0200), delop...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Dotan, please, be nice. > >> I hope you have patience and talk to kde guys, because I couldn't >> stand their young undeveloped developers brains > > Yes, being nice is really nice. > > yes, it's said in a quit

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:56:49 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > (...) > >> There are still minor issues with 64bit desktops. For example, >> Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites that the >> 32bit plugin will. > > First ti

64 bit-flash failing sites (was: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?)

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 09:56:49 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: (...) > There are still minor issues with 64bit desktops. For example, > Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites that the > 32bit plugin will. First time I hear such statement. Can you please provide a sample of f

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Lisi wrote: >> > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 01:10:50 Rob Owens wrote: >> >> You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get around >> >> this issue. >> > >> >

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Oscar Corte wrote: > Hi: > > I would like to test Debian on a new PC. > > It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor. > > What would it be the recommended architecture/versioin to choose for > download an install? > > Could Intel IA-64 work righ

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/11/2010 04:40 PM, Oscar Corte wrote: Hi: I would like to test Debian on a new PC. It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor. What would it be the recommended architecture/versioin to choose for download an install? Could Intel IA-64 work right? Regards --

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-11 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-05-11 12:37 (+0200), delop...@yahoo.com wrote: > Dotan, please, be nice. > I hope you have patience and talk to kde guys, because I couldn't > stand their young undeveloped developers brains Yes, being nice is really nice. -- Feel free to Cc me your replies if you want to make sure I'l

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:59:00 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: >> > I am sure someone will correct me if I have got this wrong, so if >> > noone does so I have probably remembered correctly. >> >> I don't remember a thread on debian-user about UUIDs changing with >

What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Oscar Corte
Hi: I would like to test Debian on a new PC. It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor. What would it be the recommended architecture/versioin to choose for download an install? Could Intel IA-64 work right? Regards

Re: Re (2): Re^n: Grub vs. linux-image-2.6.32 conundrum

2010-05-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 10 May 2010 17:42:25 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> What was the problem? In the text you quoted, there was no reasonable >> change >> that could be made to grub-pc to address the issue; > > Covered in several messages beginning here in debian-user

Debian and touch-screens

2010-05-11 Thread Jose Manuel Pérez
Hi all. I´m working in a project that we would like to install in a touch-screen compact computer. My intention is to use Debian as the OS, and i'm searching for that kind of hardware with support for Debian/Linux. Most of them support Windows but it´s not clear if Debian will work as well. I'v

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:34:13 Tom H wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 01:10:50 Rob Owens wrote: > >> You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get around > >> this issue. > > > > There was a thread on this recently, and I think it w

Re: network printer and Cups

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-05-12 a las 06:58 +1930, Germana Oliveira escribió: (forwarding to the list) > exactly, thanks Camaleon, and sorry not to answer quick... im going to try > some ideas and talk to you! O.k, but better reply to list so anyone can help and benefit from your findings :-) > > > > Those mach

Re: Replace hardware without reinstall debian lenny

2010-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 01:10:50 Rob Owens wrote: >> >> You could use UUID's instead of device names (/dev/sdX) to get around this >> issue. > > There was a thread on this recently, and I think it was said that even UUID's > can change with changing ha

Re: network printer and Cups

2010-05-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:41:07 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> Big multifunction machines implements their own type of security for >> job handling but AFAIK such features only work with windows drivers and >> when printing directly to the printer, not using CUPS inbetween :-/ >> >>

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