Re: debian lenny installation issues

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:31:46 +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: > almost six months ago, i have installed debian lenny on my machine. at > the time of installation i have faced three issues : > > issue 1 : after configuration of dhcp server, it will ask for domain > name. is this normal ? AFAIK, yes.

Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:21:08 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:15:10 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: >> >>> Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface, >>> everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer >>> results in

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Damon L. Chesser : > For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: Well that's pretty damned sad. :-P I really don't get cpufreq* myself. Methinks it's far too young software. > da...@dam-main:~$ sudo powernowd -d > PowerNow Daemon v1.00, (c) 2003-2008 John Clemens > /sys/devices/

debian lenny installation issues

2010-09-29 Thread vishnu vardhan
almost six months ago, i have installed debian lenny on my machine. at the time of installation i have faced three issues : issue 1 : after configuration of dhcp server, it will ask for domain name. is this normal ? issue 2 : during clock setup, it tries to connect to network time server, how can

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 29 September 2010 15:18:46 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > Thanks for answer > > yes but normally gcc should be configured, where is the config file, > > for example sshd_config is a config file for ssh, vsftpd.conf

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 29 September 2010 15:18:46 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks for answer > yes but normally gcc should be configured, where is the config file, > for example sshd_config is a config file for ssh, vsftpd.conf for > ftp server and so on .., so where is the config file for gcc, j

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 5:51 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/29/2010 4:53 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Question 0: won't extending an existing lvm partition fragment it? Sorry, I missed this question. If the expansion is on a separate disk, don't worry about it, it will create multiple I/O paths and maybe

Re: usefulness of kernel option: RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing

2010-09-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, lee wrote: > how useful is enabling > >RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing > > in the kernel configuration? It does get faster. But is it the bottleneck in your system? Do you have a slow CPU, or extremely fast backing storage for it to matter? > Has anyone enab

Re: Fwd: [Mw] Gmail accounts

2010-09-29 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:09:46AM -0400, Doug wrote: > This from the amateur (ham radio) microwave list, for your information. > > (Previous message) > > Folks > It appears that the GMAIL server is not accepting microwave list mail > when you are the originator of the message. > I will have my I

Re: I don't understand why bug reporting bothers you

2010-09-29 Thread s. keeling
T o n g : > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:20:00 +, s. keeling wrote: > > > Damn, you're prolific. How anyone can come up with as many problems to > > post about as you do, I'll never understand. Sorry, that was unkind. It was just the impression I felt at the time after so long watching. > > Thi

RE: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: abelahc...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: how to configure gcc >Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:46:20 +0100 > >>hi, >>by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm >file.c >>when I use math functions. Where can I conf

usefulness of kernel option: RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing

2010-09-29 Thread lee
Hi, how useful is enabling RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing in the kernel configuration? It's an experimental option in 2.6.35.6, and google only showed that there have been some problems with it in older kernels. Has anyone enabled it and does it work? Is it working stable enough

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
This may help answer some LVM questions: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm HTH -- 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/4ca3c3ec.6020...@allums.com

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 4:53 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Hi, I followed [1] two days ago and it suited me. I had a non-LVM 160GB disk with / and /home (ext3), plus a blank 1TB. What i did was partition the whole 1TB as a "Linux LVM" partition, then set up the vg and a -home (ext4) partition. Then i mounted

Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-09-29 Thread Tyler Smith
Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:15:10 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: > >> Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface, >> everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer >> results in the printer reporting (via localhost:631/printers) that its >> s

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I followed [1] two days ago and it suited me. I had a non-LVM 160GB disk with / and /home (ext3), plus a blank 1TB. What i did was partition the whole 1TB as a "Linux LVM" partition, then set up the vg and a -home (ext4) partition. Then i mounted the LVM -home as /mount/tmp and copied my non-

Re: Samsung R540 Video Card (ATI Mobility Radeon HD545v)

2010-09-29 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: > I'm having very disappointing moments after switching from Lenovo 3000 > N200 to Samsung R540. It took half of my day to get wireless working. > Anyway, I installed the "ATI Catalyst 10.9 Proprietary Linux x86 Display > Driver"[1], but couldn't set the

Re: Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
>>> FYI, the request has been rejected with >>> >>> - I don’t think it is worth splitting. - need a better rationale >>> - WTF is that debian-user Cc? >>> >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598448 >> >> Mmm, it hasn't been rejected (at least by now). DD asks you a reason for >> ac

Re: Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for answer yes but normally gcc should be configured, where is the config file, for example sshd_config is a config file for ssh, vsftpd.conf for ftp server and so on .., so where is the config file for gcc, just this I couldn't find it. thanks a lot regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 2:31 PM, David Jardine wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 06:46:20PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to add it to the default gcc, after what I don't nee

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 2:11 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Mark: On Wednesday 29 September 2010 18:11:50 Mark Allums wrote: [...] I would have to give that some thought. I think that using LVM has to be done on a whole drive before anything else (don't do this---don't use it on an unpartitioned drive,

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Joseph Lenox
It's called a makefile. http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/make/make_toc.html On 9/29/2010 12:46 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to add it to the default gcc,

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 06:46:20PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > hi, > by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c > when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to add it to the > default gcc, after what I don't need the option -lm , just gcc file.c >

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Wednesday 29 September 2010 18:11:50 Mark Allums wrote: [...] > I would have to give that some thought. I think that using LVM has to > be done on a whole drive before anything else (don't do this---don't use > it on an unpartitioned drive, you are just asking for trouble) or on a >

Re: Issue with fast-user-switcher-applet

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:24:58 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: (...) > So, two questions: > > First, does anyone else have this problem? I don't see any Debian bugs > with fast-user-switcher-applet, but I may not be searching correctly. There is just one old bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cg

Re: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 12:46 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to add it to the default gcc, after what I don't need the option -lm , just gcc file.c thanks for help You

sendmail rejected local connection

2010-09-29 Thread T o n g
Thanks for all the explanations. On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:02:05 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > In case you want that back, (setq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent) > does the trick. Can you send mail if you do that? No... OK, so the problem is acutally sendmail. My bad. It seems to me that se

Re: How can I get rid of en_US in Iceweasel?

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 7:28 AM, Michael Tsang wrote: I use the followings: LANG=en_HK.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_HK.UTF-8:en_GB.UTF-8 I have *no* en_US.UTF-8 locales installed but Iceweasel always falls back to en_US. It's so frustrating. How can I completely prevent Iceweasel from using the en_US UI? I have zh_T

Fwd: how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread Anand Sivaram
-- Forwarded message -- From: abdelkader belahcene Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 23:16 Subject: how to configure gcc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org hi, by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to

Re: Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:41:06 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:18:46 +, T o n g wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:20:16 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> +5 >>> >>> I love Clearlooks (and GNOME icon set) and had to download from >>> upstream GNOME project in order to have it avai

how to configure gcc

2010-09-29 Thread abdelkader belahcene
hi, by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to add it to the default gcc, after what I don't need the option -lm , just gcc file.c thanks for help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: xfce4: periodic random backdrop change

2010-09-29 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:12:18 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > If you like random pictures, or want a GUI to do this, I can recommend > Wally[1] as a good wallpaper changers. It's one of the few that knows > about XFCE, too. > > [1] http://www.becrux.com/index.php?page=projects&name=wally Thanks for

Emacs Error: The encoding "nil" is not known

2010-09-29 Thread T o n g
Hi, In order to override whatever my shell environment encoding is, I deliberately set (setq ispell-dictionary "en_CA-wo_accents") so that my emacs spell checking works no matter what. However, the trick ceased to work having updated emacs to v23.2+1-4. Now I get: Starting new Ispell pro

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Purves
On September 29, 2010 12:11:50 pm Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/29/2010 11:00 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > > On September 29, 2010 11:46:05 am Mark Allums wrote: > >> On 9/29/2010 10:19 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > >>> I have a 500 GB disk that is full and I would like to use it and a new 1 > >>> TB disk to

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 11:11 AM, Mark Allums wrote: If you put LVM on a partition, you are preparing it for further operations. So, you would be overwriting some of the metadata and losing whatever data is on it data on it. I mean, losing the data that is already on the existing partition. -- To UNSUBS

Re: courier certificate regeneration.

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:09:51 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I have troubles w/ new certificates generated for courier pop server > after the old ones have expired. (...) > Then, at the immediate connection to pop server I have seen the newly > generated certificate. While next day, I again see the ol

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 11:00 AM, Chris Purves wrote: On September 29, 2010 11:46:05 am Mark Allums wrote: On 9/29/2010 10:19 AM, Chris Purves wrote: I have a 500 GB disk that is full and I would like to use it and a new 1 TB disk to create a 1.5 TB logical volume. Is it possible to do this without des

Re: emacs: send mail with sendmail

2010-09-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-29 17:01 +0200, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:31:14 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-09-29 05:04 +0200, T o n g wrote: >> >>> Having updated emacs to v23.2+1-4, I lost the "send mail (with >>> sendmail)" menu, but get a "send mail (with gnus message)" menu >>> instead.

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Purves
On September 29, 2010 11:46:05 am Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/29/2010 10:19 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > > I have a 500 GB disk that is full and I would like to use it and a new 1 TB > > disk to create a 1.5 TB logical volume. Is it possible to do this without > > destroying the data on the 500 GB di

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/29/2010 10:19 AM, Chris Purves wrote: I have a 500 GB disk that is full and I would like to use it and a new 1 TB disk to create a 1.5 TB logical volume. Is it possible to do this without destroying the data on the 500 GB disk? The manpage for pvcreate gives a warning that running pvcrea

Re: Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:18:46 +, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:20:16 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> +5 >> >> I love Clearlooks (and GNOME icon set) and had to download from >> upstream GNOME project in order to have it available in Squeeze :-/ > > FYI, the request has been rejected wi

creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Purves
I have a 500 GB disk that is full and I would like to use it and a new 1 TB disk to create a 1.5 TB logical volume. Is it possible to do this without destroying the data on the 500 GB disk? The manpage for pvcreate gives a warning that running pvcreate on a whole disk will erase the partition

Re: Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-29 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:20:16 +, Camaleón wrote: > +5 > > I love Clearlooks (and GNOME icon set) and had to download from upstream > GNOME project in order to have it available in Squeeze :-/ FYI, the request has been rejected with - I don’t think it is worth splitting. - need a better rati

Re: Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-29 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:34:19 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > [OT] Just wondering -- how does Gnome look like with "no theme"? No > desktop, menus, icons, bars at all or what? Honesty, I don't know. I don't actually use Gnome, but fluxbox. I need the theme just get my Gtk apps straight. Wondering how my

Re: Fwd: [Mw] Gmail accounts

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:09:46 -0400, Doug wrote: > This from the amateur (ham radio) microwave list, for your information. Okay, but better without cross-posting to several lists :-) > (Previous message) > > Folks > It appears that the GMAIL server is not accepting microwave list mail > when you

Учeт и Haлoги

2010-09-29 Thread Нoвинки
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Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:15:10 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: > Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface, > everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer > results in the printer reporting (via localhost:631/printers) that its > state is "Paused", and "/us

Re: How can I get rid of en_US in Iceweasel?

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:52:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:28:28 +0800, Michael Tsang wrote: > >> I use the followings: >> >> LANG=en_HK.UTF-8 >> LANGUAGE=en_HK.UTF-8:en_GB.UTF-8 >> >> I have *no* en_US.UTF-8 locales installed but Iceweasel always falls >> back to en_US. It's

Re: unable to run gsynaptics on lenny

2010-09-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/29/2010 12:54 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote: > but, when i try to run # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, i am > receiving the following error : > > xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration > file; backup in

Re: How can I get rid of en_US in Iceweasel?

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:28:28 +0800, Michael Tsang wrote: > I use the followings: > > LANG=en_HK.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_HK.UTF-8:en_GB.UTF-8 > > I have *no* en_US.UTF-8 locales installed but Iceweasel always falls > back to en_US. It's so frustrating. How can I completely prevent > Iceweasel from us

Re: lenny & blue ray

2010-09-29 Thread GeraldCC
On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 04:52:36 pm a.kapetano...@hispeed.ch wrote: > 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 regard

Re: Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-29 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 29. 09. 2010 12:20:16 je Camaleón napisal(a): > Please provide the default GNOME theme (whatever it is) in gnome-core, > instead of putting it anywhere else. The current situation for me is, I > either don't have any GNOME theme, [OT] Just wondering -- how does Gnome look like with "no

Re: Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:24:50 -0400, Tong Sun wrote: > I'm quite satisfied with the Clearlooks to be the default GNOME theme, > and I don't want anything else. > > Please provide the default GNOME theme (whatever it is) in gnome-core, > instead of putting it anywhere else. The current situation fo

Re: Fwd: Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:50:41 -0400, Doug wrote: > This is a PS to my previous post, which is included below. On Windows 7, > there is a list of 230 fonts, found in ??? \Control Panel\Appearance and > Personalization\Fonts but I don't know the entire directory tree--i.e., > I don't know how to get

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:45:12 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 9/28/2010 6:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> No installation privileges needed. Just drop (copy/paste) all your MS >> *.ttf font into your user's "~/.fonts" folder and you're done :-) >> >> >> > Because I have several Linux distros as well as WinXP on

Re: xfce4: periodic random backdrop change

2010-09-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:30:13PM -0500, Brian Ryans wrote: > I don't know how commonly known this is, but I figured it wouldn't hurt > to throw this out there. > > 1. Create a backdrops list file using xfce, or by hand. I'll call this > $LISTFILE. > > 2. Set your backdrop to $LISTFILE. > > 3.

courier certificate regeneration.

2010-09-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have troubles w/ new certificates generated for courier pop server after the old ones have expired. That's what I did: /bin/rm -f /etc/courier/imapd.pem /bin/rm -f /etc/courier/pop3d.pem /usr/sbin/mkimapdcert /usr/sbin/mkpop3dcert /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon restart /etc/init.d/

Re: [opensuse] Fwd: [Mw] Gmail accounts

2010-09-29 Thread Basil Chupin
On 29/09/2010 15:09, Doug wrote: This from the amateur (ham radio) microwave list, for your information. (Previous message) Folks It appears that the GMAIL server is not accepting microwave list mail when you are the originator of the message. I will have my ISP look into it. If you have a x..