Re: Card reader stopped working after update

2010-09-27 Thread Veronica Brandt
Thanks Brian, My husband couldn't get the case off to check inside, but looking in the slot one of the pins looks bent. I have 4 small boys so it is possible someone has been poking around, though the sd card lives in that slot permanently so they would have had to get it out first. On Mon, Sep

lenny & blue ray

2010-09-27 Thread a.kapetanovic
Hi every one, I am looking to buy a Blue Ray writer, but I don't see any software on debian Lenny to burn such a media. I think that it probably exists, so, can please someone help me ? Thanks, best regards, Amel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: ^C show up on bash command line

2010-09-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-28 03:25 +0200, T o n g wrote: > Now,when pressing ^C to abolish changes to bash command, the actual ^C > will show up where the cursor is. IIRC, previously it wasn't like this -- > editing aborted with actual command intact, without being messed up with > ^C. This looked like a bug

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2010-09-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Wayne Topa wrote: > Carlos Mennens wrote: > >/etc/init.d/networking restart > > > >Now when I do so in Debian, I get a strange error: > > > >Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may > >not enable again some interfaces ... (warning). > >Reconfiguring network interfaces...d

Mirror applications on Linux Server

2010-09-27 Thread lrhorer
If there is a better forum for this, let me know and I will post my questions there. I am building an application which needs to have high reliability. I have two essentially identical Linux servers which can host the application. Right now, I have the programs - a bash script and a c binary, r

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Alex wrote: > On 9/27/10, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Mark Goldshtein >> Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM >> Subject: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with >> functional (Fn) keys? >> To: Debian User

Re: Problems probing a LVM device with GRUB2

2010-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Tom H writes: >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Hi Tom, thanks for the guidance, see below: You're welcome. I'm sorry about the delay in responding. I screwed up and archived a few threads by mistake (not for the

Re: nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
Has the nouveau code been stripped from the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages so that it only used the NVIDIA driver module? They were still in staging, last I looked. That means that you have to enable staging drivers in the kernel source configuration and compile a custom kernel. This may not

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/27/2010 2:17 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 26 September 2010 22:36:29 Mark Allums wrote: Heavy 3D support simply requires the NVIDIA blob. No choice. Soon the Nouveau driver will change that, but for now... I disagree that Heavy 3D support requires the NVIDIA blob. You can

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Doug, On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:53:25PM -0400, Doug wrote: > On 9/27/2010 4:51 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > > >http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf > > > >All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produ

Re: [conclusion] root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:52 PM, T o n g wrote: > My bad. > > The failed environment is a linux-live environment that I built myself. > When mirroring it to HD, everything works fine. So it's actually the live > environment's problem, not sudo's. > > Thanks again for your comprehensive tips, whic

Re: Upgrade SVN in Debian Lenny

2010-09-27 Thread Sam Leon
On 09/27/2010 08:07 PM, Tech Geek wrote: I am using Debian Lenny (amd64). I need to upgrade the current version of Subversion (1.5.1) on my Lenny system to something more recent, say 1.6. I noticed that Debian backport does not have the 1.6 version but Debian testing (squeeze) has 1.6 which is wh

[conclusion] root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread T o n g
My bad. The failed environment is a linux-live environment that I built myself. When mirroring it to HD, everything works fine. So it's actually the live environment's problem, not sudo's. Thanks again for your comprehensive tips, which I'll garter bellow in case someone else need to troubles

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:22 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:16:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> Do you have the "!root_sudo" option set? > > Nope: > > $ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | grep root_sudo || echo no > no > > Thank you all the same. You're welcome. Do you have an "/etc/pam.d/sudo" fi

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:16:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: > Do you have the "!root_sudo" option set? Nope: $ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | grep root_sudo || echo no no Thank you all the same. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:34 PM, T o n g wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:16:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> What could be wrong? >>> >>> grep root /etc/sudoers >> >> % grep ^root /etc/sudoers >> root ALL=(ALL) ALL >> >> It has always been there. >

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:34 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:16:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >>> What could be wrong? >> >> grep root /etc/sudoers > > % grep ^root /etc/sudoers > root ALL=(ALL) ALL > > It has always been there. Sorry, no idea then. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Tom H
> I dont use sudo, but can you explain me,so I will go to bed with more > knowledge, why root would need sudo? It doesn't make any sense to use sudo as root without an "-u user" (and therefore to sudo to root as root) but it should work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Kousik Maiti
sudo means what super user can do, you can also do provided you have given permission in /etc/sudoers file. By default in certain system sudoers file is read only.If you want to change that file make it writeable,modify and then again make it read only. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Thierry C

Re: [SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-27 Thread briand
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:09:15 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:27:37 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > and. IT WORKS ! > > > > Talking to you from a freshly booted machine :-) > > > > First time it's booted properly in quite sometime. > > > > I'm not

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 17:58, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > I dont use sudo, but can you explain me,so I will go to bed with more > knowledge, why root would need sudo? > Thierry I have used sudo as root - but with a username as an argument. Without a username, it defaults to root, and I can't figur

Upgrade SVN in Debian Lenny

2010-09-27 Thread Tech Geek
I am using Debian Lenny (amd64). I need to upgrade the current version of Subversion (1.5.1) on my Lenny system to something more recent, say 1.6. I noticed that Debian backport does not have the 1.6 version but Debian testing (squeeze) has 1.6 which is what I am looking for. What is the best way t

OT Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
I dont use sudo, but can you explain me,so I will go to bed with more knowledge, why root would need sudo? Thierry -- 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/201

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Doug
On 9/27/2010 4:51 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian users, I have a problem opening the following PDF: http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there some

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:16:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> What could be wrong? > > grep root /etc/sudoers % grep ^root /etc/sudoers root ALL=(ALL) ALL It has always been there. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- T

configuring CUPS and LPD.

2010-09-27 Thread peasthope
Folk, Printing works well in Squeeze and I can use hints about two details. * When a text file is printed in Leafpad, the file name appears at the top of the page. Can this be suppressed? I haven't found a switch in the Leafpad menus. * When a client system submits a LPR request, it produc

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:53 PM, T o n g wrote: > > I had no problem invoking my scripts embedded with sudo as root before, > but not now in my new installation: > > r...@coral:~# echo abc | sudo tee /tmp/t > sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied > sudo: no valid sudoers sources found,

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Sjoerd, On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:20:12AM +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51 -0500 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > > > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf > > > > All PDF vie

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51 -0500 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf > > All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing > some fonts, or is there somet

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-27 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:55:22AM +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > > FWIW, another way to adjust brightness is by using a > > shell script or alias. This command cuts brightness to 25%. > > > > ---cut--- > > > > sudo sh -c "echo 25 > /proc/acpi/

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-27 Thread Alex
On 9/27/10, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Mark Goldshtein > Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM > Subject: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with > functional (Fn) keys? > To: Debian User Mailing List > > > Hello, list! > > Lenovo Y450-3M l

Re: Debian Sid questions on compiz, missing xorg.conf etc

2010-09-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 14:34, Shuanghe wrote: > Hi, dear all Debian user, > > I have a few questions regarding the Debian Sid installation, missing > xorg.conf and functionality of Compiz. > > 1. I installed a few days ago the Sid (using businesscard iso) in my Dell > Inspiron 9300 laptop. More o

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:11:32 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> Dear Debian users, >> >> I have a problem opening the following PDF: >> >> http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker- Interview-Weblayout.pdf >> >> All PDF v

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:11:32AM +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> > I have a problem opening the following PDF: >> > >> > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf >> > >> > All PDF view

Debian Sid questions on compiz, missing xorg.conf etc

2010-09-27 Thread Shuanghe
Hi, dear all Debian user, I have a few questions regarding the Debian Sid installation, missing xorg.conf and functionality of Compiz. 1. I installed a few days ago the Sid (using businesscard iso) in my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. More or less everything seems OK. There're 2 problems though that

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Camaleón, On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:10:12PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51:14 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > > > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker- > Interview-Weblayout.pdf > > It opens f

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51:14 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >> I have a problem opening the following PDF: >> >> http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker- > Interview-Weblayout.pdf > > It opens fine here with Evince (lenny).

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf > > All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing > some

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51:14 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker- Interview-Weblayout.pdf It opens fine here with Evince (lenny). > All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output.

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > FWIW, another way to adjust brightness is by using a > shell script or alias. This command cuts brightness to 25%. > > ---cut--- > > sudo sh -c "echo 25 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness" > > ---cut--- > > There are only certain fixed steps

Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian users, I have a problem opening the following PDF: http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? I use squeeze/sid, and can

Re: Xorg error with 2.6.32-5 kernel

2010-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:02:24 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-27 20:33 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Hmm. Well, it works for me using the same kernel (linux-image-2.6.32-5-686, >> version 2.6.32-23) and, presumably, the same video driver >> (xserver-xorg-video-intel, 2:2.9.1-4). Th

Re: Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations - Varnish or Squid for high volume websites?

2010-09-27 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 27 September 2010 12:44:04 Siju George, vous avez écrit : > Hi, > > Which one is better for Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations for high > volume websites? > Varnish or Squid ? > > any body using Varnish in production Environments? Yes ! 600 req/s at Varnish and only 5-10 req/s at Ap

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-27 Thread Joel Roth
FWIW, another way to adjust brightness is by using a shell script or alias. This command cuts brightness to 25%. ---cut--- sudo sh -c "echo 25 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness" ---cut--- There are only certain fixed steps that are allowable. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Xorg error with 2.6.32-5 kernel

2010-09-27 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:48:46 + (UTC), Virgo Pärna wrote: > > I hope, that this works for him, but just in case. I had different > problem - after upgrading to > squeeze X would freeze the whole computer in startup without X startup log > (also Intel graphics). > Modeset support was e

Re: Xorg error with 2.6.32-5 kernel

2010-09-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-27 20:33 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:27:33 -0400 (EDT), Manu Krishnan T.V wrote: >> On Monday 27 September 2010 06:21 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> Look in directory /etc/modprobe.d for a file called i915-kms.conf. >>> Look at the contents of that file. Does i

Re: Xorg error with 2.6.32-5 kernel

2010-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:27:33 -0400 (EDT), Manu Krishnan T.V wrote: > On Monday 27 September 2010 06:21 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Look in directory /etc/modprobe.d for a file called i915-kms.conf. >> Look at the contents of that file. Does it say >> >> options i915 modeset=0 >> >> If so, cha

Re: problem to install DEBIAN on an new notebook Satellite L505

2010-09-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:19:24 +, Herbert Guimarães Borges Ribeiro wrote: (...) > the instalation start normal by CD-ROM but after informed language and > keyboard information... the instalation inform that my Hardware CD-ROM > was not dectected... please, i need same help. Maybe you can tweak

Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Goldshtein
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Goldshtein Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM Subject: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys? To: Debian User Mailing List Hello, list! Lenovo Y450-3M laptop with: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia C

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 23:51 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and a

slapcat - unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery.

2010-09-27 Thread Walton, Bryan K
Hi everybody, So, I've got an openldap server which was upgraded last week from Lenny to Squeeze. It has a Berkeley Database backend. Since the upgrade, when I run "slapcat -l dump.ldif" on slapd to dump the directory to an LDIF file, it get the following error: bdb_db_open: database "dc=i-clic

RE: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?

2010-09-27 Thread Paulo Diovani
As far as I know, the Fn Keys function depends from model to model. So you must research on your model hardware. On my Laptop, an Acer Aspire, the brightness functions (Fn + <- / ->) works independet of the installed kernel or system, even on boot, so I think they are implemented on the hardwar

Re: nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:22:18 -0400, Mike Viau wrote: > I was just wondering what the advantages of using the nvidia-kernel-2.6 > packages were in contrast to what I am/have been using which is the > nvidia-glx package which depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms to compile the > NVIDIA driver module (with

Re: Xorg error with 2.6.32-5 kernel

2010-09-27 Thread Manu Krishnan T.V
On Monday 27 September 2010 06:21 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:05:51 -0400 (EDT), Manu Krishnan T.V wrote: I was using Squeeze for a while and recently updated my Kernel to 2.6.32-5. Since then, the graphics won't start. The system is working fine with the older kernel. The

Re: Direcionar logs para tty2

2010-09-27 Thread Alberto Luaces
"raiox.spoofing" writes: > Pessoal como poderia redirecionar um arquivo de log especifico para o > terminal tty2? > > existe um script para isso? Read the syslogd man page. It says the logs can be redirected to files and named pipes. Maybe you could do that redirecting to /dev/tty2. -- Alberto

Re: Change to 2 interfaces on 1 NIC?

2010-09-27 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 27. 09. 2010 17:17:28 je Jesús M. Navarro napisal(a): This said, I'd counsel that you should not go this path and get two NICs if at all possible. +1 -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Please reply to the list, not to me. -- To

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?

2010-09-27 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 27. 09. 2010 17:00:10 je Mark Goldshtein napisal(a): As I may see, power saving features are working already. Laptop mode tools are not installed. Probably, there is something which controls these functions already? I mean, CPU governor, what to do if lid is closing, display dimmer, suspend

Re: vbox .vdi file

2010-09-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:05:35 +0200, roberto wrote: > hello, i'd like to create a virtual machine using vbox in my lenny > laptop but unfortunately i do not hold enough space on the disk; i > wonder if it is possible to create the ".vdi" file for the VM on an > external pendrive though Yes, but...

vbox .vdi file

2010-09-27 Thread roberto
hello, i'd like to create a virtual machine using vbox in my lenny laptop but unfortunately i do not hold enough space on the disk; i wonder if it is possible to create the ".vdi" file for the VM on an external pendrive though thank you in advance -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Understanding USB disk space

2010-09-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 27 Set 2010, T o n g wrote: The following USB disk space report confuses me: $ df /mnt/usbpen Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 490020471318 0 100% /mnt/usbpen I would think that there should be some free disk space ar

Re: Change to 2 interfaces on 1 NIC?

2010-09-27 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Monday 27 September 2010 16:54:39 Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi all, > > I currently have my 6+ year old server (web, e-mail, firewall, local lan) > running with 2 NICs, one coming from the DSL router (on the 192.168.2.x > lan) and the other connected to the local lan (192.168.1.x). (all

Re: OT What's going on with virtualbox.org?

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/27/2010 1:31 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/09/10 15:04, Mark Allums wrote: What's going on with www.virtualbox.org? It seems to be down and has been for a few days. Has Oracle finally given it the axe? The following still works # wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debi

Change to 2 interfaces on 1 NIC?

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, I currently have my 6+ year old server (web, e-mail, firewall, local lan) running with 2 NICs, one coming from the DSL router (on the 192.168.2.x lan) and the other connected to the local lan (192.168.1.x). (all local users get their mail, web surfing and firewall services from my box)

Re: Problem installing mount in Sid amd64!

2010-09-27 Thread smurfd
Hey, Hmmm yes, it seems that every package hangs now.. but it started with mount. (tried to download a package and install manually by "sudo dpkg -i .deb" ... and it also hangs during "Unpacking replacement ..." phaze. I Do have alot of 'dpkg' processes that i cant kill due to this issue though,

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Mike Viau wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:49:47 +0400 wrote: >> >> Hello, list! >> >> Lenovo Y450-3M laptop with: >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce >> GT 240M] (rev a2) >> Subsystem: Lenovo Device 38fd >> Kernel driver in u

RE: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Viau
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:49:47 +0400 wrote: > > Hello, list! > > Lenovo Y450-3M laptop with: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce > GT 240M] (rev a2) > Subsystem: Lenovo Device 38fd > Kernel driver in use: nvidia > > Would you, please, to explain how to configure

Re: Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations - Varnish or Squid for high volume websites?

2010-09-27 Thread Allan Wind
On 2010-09-27T16:14:04, Siju George wrote: > Which one is better for Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations for high > volume websites? Varnish or Squid ? We are planning on rolling out Varnish in production. Squid is the grand-daddy. Your favorite search engine should pull up some benchmarks i

RE: Problem installing mount in Sid amd64!

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Viau
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:53:40 +0200 wrote: > > Hey, > > Long time on again off again, user. > > Have a sid-box up and running, last time i did a apt-get update && > apt-get -u upgrade it got stuck when it was trying to install 'mount' > > Preparing to replace mount 2.17.2-3.1 (using .../mount_2.

nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I was just wondering what the advantages of using the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages were in contrast to what I am/have been using which is the nvidia-glx package which depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms to compile the NVIDIA driver module (with the kernel headers) into /lib/modules/${kernel_ve

Re: vpn-forwaring

2010-09-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Joe: > You also need the same forwarding for the GRE tunnel (IP protocol 47) > (the conntrack modules just record links between protocols, they > don't add forwarding by themselves): > -A FORWARD -p 47 -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d VPN_SERVER_IP -j ACCEPT Ok, I have lo

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrew Reid schrieb: > However, my experience with their binary drivers has been quite > good. They're reasonably easy to install, and seem to perform > quite well for me. In particular, they have one of the best > distribution-agnostic binary-blob installers I've ever run across. Actuall

[SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:27:37 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > and. IT WORKS ! > > Talking to you from a freshly booted machine :-) > > First time it's booted properly in quite sometime. > > I'm not really clear on what exactly fixed things, although those > missing initrd lines we

RE: problem to install DEBIAN on an new notebook Satellite L505

2010-09-27 Thread Paulo Diovani
Olá Herbert... If the disc boots, but after that no CD-ROM is detected, it may be due to some faulting kernel module (for a SATA Disc Drive, I imagine). For that, I recommend you to get a newer version of Debian or Ubuntu (you can take a Debian Squeeze installation disc, even before the release)

problem to install DEBIAN on an new notebook Satellite L505

2010-09-27 Thread Herbert Guimarães Borges Ribeiro
good morning! sorry about my english. i bought an new notebook and try to install Debian version Lenny... but no successfull. the instalation start normal by CD-ROM but after informed language and keyboard information... the instalation inform that my Hardware CD-ROM was not dectect

Re: Xorg error with 2.6.32-5 kernel

2010-09-27 Thread rudu
Le 27/09/2010 10:48, Virgo Pärna a écrit : On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:51:47 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: Look in directory /etc/modprobe.d for a file called i915-kms.conf. Look at the contents of that file. Does it say options i915 modeset=0 If so, change the 0 to 1 and file it, the

unattended lenny install

2010-09-27 Thread leonardo Cuyar Morales
I remaster a debian lenny install iso with a preseed in order to have a full unattended lenny installation, but at testing fase (installation) there still showing me the package manager windows asking if I want to scan another CD. I look all the preseed examples files googling around but there i

[Sikved]Re: Squeeze AMD64 Sound/Libs Issue

2010-09-27 Thread Carlos Bergero
Well, not that I actually fix the thing, but after installing OSS, sound system, sound works ok, in the box. Sincerely, Carlos El 23/09/10 09:28, Carlos Bergero escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there list members, Last week my Squeeze box, up

Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?

2010-09-27 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! Lenovo Y450-3M laptop with: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 240M] (rev a2) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 38fd Kernel driver in use: nvidia Would you, please, to explain how to configure a system or edit configuration files in order t

Re: vpn-forwaring

2010-09-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Scott: > Output from:- > uname -r > please 2.6.26-2-686 > And, in advance - is the vpn server linux? At the present I do not know, nor I think the ISP would make it known... Though I will ask them for this or their requirements besides the sensitive data they

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年09月27日 18:25, Jochen Schulz wrote: > It would help to know what software "runs the website". Are we talking > about Apache2? No. In fact I wanted to abstract the software running on there for a reason: there is a http server (not apache2, but bozohttpd because I am developing a modified ve

Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations - Varnish or Squid for high volume websites?

2010-09-27 Thread Siju George
Hi, Which one is better for Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations for high volume websites? Varnish or Squid ? any body using Varnish in production Environments? thanks :-) --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zhang Weiwu: > > Here I re-ask the question in plain language and an improvised example: > > I have computer A that runs a website. I only want > myhost.dyn-dns.com to be able to access this website, others who > want to access the website should get denied. How do I configure > c

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/09/10 19:47, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年09月27日 16:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Would dyn-dns help? > ahhh, yes. This is exactly what I used. I know how to get dynamic dns > running, but need a way to control access to it. > > Here I re-ask the question in plain language and an improvised e

Problem installing mount in Sid amd64!

2010-09-27 Thread smurfd
Hey, Long time on again off again, user. Have a sid-box up and running, last time i did a apt-get update && apt-get -u upgrade it got stuck when it was trying to install 'mount' Preparing to replace mount 2.17.2-3.1 (using .../mount_2.17.2-3.2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mount ... and

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年09月27日 16:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Would dyn-dns help? ahhh, yes. This is exactly what I used. I know how to get dynamic dns running, but need a way to control access to it. Here I re-ask the question in plain language and an improvised example: I have computer A that runs a websit

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/09/10 13:51, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and an occasional vid

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/09/10 18:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. > > I need rather loose security that the server daemon offer services on a > TCP port, allow/deny a client's tcp incoming connection based on a FQDN. > The problem being the ip address of the FQDN is a dynamic one of the > same host, changing once pe

Re: Xorg error with 2.6.32-5 kernel

2010-09-27 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:51:47 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > Look in directory /etc/modprobe.d for a file called i915-kms.conf. > Look at the contents of that file. Does it say > >options i915 modeset=0 > > If so, change the 0 to 1 and file it, then shutdown and reboot. > If no such f

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:17:49 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > As long as you aren't wanting to do heavy 3D processing, that is the > best choice. Intel graphics do support enough OpenGL features and > run them fast enough to handle compositing window managers and a good > number of deskto

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 26. 09. 2010 16:46:38 je Enrico Weigelt napisal(a): * Rick Pasotto schrieb: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年09月27日 16:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > The problem being the ip address of the FQDN is a dynamic one of the > same host, changing once per three days. > In case I wasn't clear with the above explanation: with dynamic IP address, dns reverse-lookup won't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I need rather loose security that the server daemon offer services on a TCP port, allow/deny a client's tcp incoming connection based on a FQDN. The problem being the ip address of the FQDN is a dynamic one of the same host, changing once per three days. I know both IP table and tcpd can m

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 September 2010 22:36:29 Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/26/2010 9:46 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Don't buy Nvidia. They're totally reluctant against OSS, and their > > binary-only drivers are simply crap. > > I must differ. > > Their closed binaries are usually pretty good. > Sometimes t