deluge to handle torrents

2010-10-02 Thread briand
Hi all, I was trying to set up deluge to handle torrents in ice weasel, and ran into the following problem. when I go to the applications tab, there isn't actually a way to add an app against a mime type. so the question is 1 why isn't it automatically registered when deluge is installed, i.e.

Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

2010-10-02 Thread Rob Hurle
On 3 October 2010 14:15, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2010-10-03T13:53:31, Rob Hurle wrote: >> But, nothing prints from debian, Windows computers have no trouble. >> CUPS (http://localhost:631) shows "printing since..." but nothing >> appears. > > What is your Connection set to (http://localhost:631/pri

Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

2010-10-02 Thread Allan Wind
On 2010-10-03T13:53:31, Rob Hurle wrote: > But, nothing prints from debian, Windows computers have no trouble. > CUPS (http://localhost:631) shows "printing since..." but nothing > appears. What is your Connection set to (http://localhost:631/printers then click on your printer)? I have seen sim

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

2010-10-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > There are a couple of ways.  One way is to use the blkid command. > For example, > > blkid /dev/sda2 > > will return the uuid of /dev/sda2.  The other way is to issue > > ls -Al /dev/disk/by-uuid/ > > which will list all the udev-created s

Re: XFS: xfs_repair never finishes on lvm partition

2010-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Knowledge Seeker put forth on 10/2/2010 9:13 AM: > I tried an xfs_check and it said to mount and umount the filesystem and if > it does not work to run xfs_repair with -L. > I tried it a couple of times and it didn't work, so I ran xfs_repair -L > /dev/mapper/storage-home > > On Phase 6, it just

Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

2010-10-02 Thread Rob Hurle
I have a Canon LPB7200Cdn printer connected to the home network and am trying to get printing going on Lenny: r...@debian:~$ uname -a Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Sep 16 19:35:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Canon have .deb files for use with CUPS on their web site for this printer and they in

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

2010-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:54:11 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Right now, it's only a working setup for one kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64. >> If you're not going to make these changes, you might as well >> de-install the other kernels. They will not boot, so what good are

Re: Problem with eSATA Port Multiplier

2010-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 10/2/2010 5:36 AM: > On 10/02/2010 02:08 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Ron Johnson put forth on 10/1/2010 5:28 PM: >>> http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/PMP_innards.jpg >>> http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/PMP_front.jpg >>> http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/PMP_rea

Re: Debian hyperthreading support

2010-10-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/2/2010 6:08 PM, Nathen wrote: Pretty simple question really, does Debian i.e. the current Linux Kernel handle hyperthreading well? I have a server running on an Intel Atom D510, should I have HT enabled or disabled to get the best performance? Thanks. :) Recently (kernel 2.6.31 or so)

Re: Debian hyperthreading support

2010-10-02 Thread Nathen
Thanks for replying. The system is running mainly a file server so it's not very CPU-intensive, I wanted to be sure I wasn't wasting performance by having it enabled, for example. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Can connect to WPA network, but not to open network: BCM4312 card w/ b43 driver

2010-10-02 Thread Brandon Simmons
I seem to be unable to successfully be able to connect to an open access point, although connecting to a WPA network (through wicd frontend) works. I am running the latest squeeze, with kernel 2.6.32-5-686. My machine is a Dell Mini 10v. My card is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

Re: A simple GUI volume control tool for fluxbox

2010-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Nuno Magalhães : > > If you just want volume control, i use gkrellm's volume plugin. Does That's excellent! Thanks! -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rf

Re: Debian hyperthreading support

2010-10-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:08:30 +0100 Nathen wrote: > Pretty simple question really, does Debian i.e. the current Linux > Kernel handle hyperthreading well? I have a server running on an Intel > Atom D510, should I have HT enabled or disabled to get the best > performance? > Thanks. :) > > Sorry,

Re: Debian hyperthreading support

2010-10-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:08:30 +0100 Nathen wrote: > Pretty simple question really, does Debian i.e. the current Linux > Kernel handle hyperthreading well? I have a server running on an Intel > Atom D510, should I have HT enabled or disabled to get the best > performance? > Thanks. :) > > Linux h

Debian hyperthreading support

2010-10-02 Thread Nathen
Pretty simple question really, does Debian i.e. the current Linux Kernel handle hyperthreading well? I have a server running on an Intel Atom D510, should I have HT enabled or disabled to get the best performance? Thanks. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-10-02 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling : > Damon L. Chesser : > > > > error. My bios had "Cool and Quite" turned off. I did not catch that, > > I was looking for some other bios settings. I really am not a big fan > > Makes me wanna reboot and hunt around for Cool and Quiet. No such animal on an HP dv4 laptop. > I

Re: Staples "Relay (tm)" 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

2010-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Klistvud : > Dne, 01. 10. 2010 10:35:09 je Camaleón napisal(a): > > On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:15:42 +, s. keeling wrote: > > [snip] > > To avoid wild guesses, you could test your USB key on another machine, > monitoring its average read/write speed there; that way, you'd at least > know w

Re: Staples "Relay (tm)" 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

2010-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Camaleón : > On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:15:42 +, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Is it just that usb's slow, or is the box doing it wrong? Is it my > > preference for ext2? I've tried w both usb hubs and directly into > > Did you run any read/write speed tests on the flash device? No, I've just be

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

2010-10-02 Thread AG
On 02/10/10 22:54, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Le 02/10/2010 20:51, AG wrote: On 06/09/09 17:33, thveillon.debian wrote: AG wrote: Hello Sorry if this is too far OT, but I was hoping for some Debian-specific advice on obtaining and using Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. T

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

2010-10-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 02/10/2010 20:51, AG wrote: > On 06/09/09 17:33, thveillon.debian wrote: >> AG wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> Sorry if this is too far OT, but I was hoping for some Debian-specific >>> advice on obtaining and using Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. The >>> website/ forum provides some linkages to a

Re: How to upgrade kernel in Lenny, not compile a custom one

2010-10-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 02 October 2010 11:59:02 Mark wrote: > Based on what I've read, kernel 2.6.32 has fixed the broadcom 4306 rev02 > wireless card 1 MB/s speed issue and I'd like to have my Lenny system boot > into that kernel to fix this issue. The only help I've found for doing > this without doing a

zorp in squeeze -- Need tproxy Patch for iptables?

2010-10-02 Thread Matt Miller
I'm trying to configure zorp in squeeze. First off, it seems like zorp is currently usable by netfilter experts only. Is there a simple, up-to- date guide for configuring zorp in Debian that doesn't assume you're a netfilter committer, a balabit employee, or Alan Cox? That being said, I'm at the

How to upgrade kernel in Lenny, not compile a custom one

2010-10-02 Thread Mark
Based on what I've read, kernel 2.6.32 has fixed the broadcom 4306 rev02 wireless card 1 MB/s speed issue and I'd like to have my Lenny system boot into that kernel to fix this issue. The only help I've found for doing this without doing a custom compile is here ( http://www.khattam.info/installin

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

2010-10-02 Thread AG
On 06/09/09 17:33, thveillon.debian wrote: AG wrote: Hello Sorry if this is too far OT, but I was hoping for some Debian-specific advice on obtaining and using Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. The website/ forum provides some linkages to additional campaigns, but after following their instruc

Re: A simple GUI volume control tool for fluxbox

2010-10-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:02:56AM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2010-10-01, T o n g wrote: >>> I do almost everything on command line. Maybe the only GUI tool I >>> need is the sound volume control tool, but I don't have it any more >>> -- I used to use tkmixer. Now

Re: What is blocking my sound?

2010-10-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:46:48 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 09/24/10 09:21, T o n g wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:42:52 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > > > >> I normally find that it's flash-related, so look for something like > >> npviewer in the ps aux. Killing that normally resolves the prob

Re: What is blocking my sound?

2010-10-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/24/10 09:21, T o n g wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:42:52 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: I normally find that it's flash-related, so look for something like npviewer in the ps aux. Killing that normally resolves the problem. Yep, that's the trick for me as well. NB, it just "locks" it, not

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

2010-10-02 Thread briand
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > If I recall correctly, you got farther with this one than you did > with the one that had a missing initrd entry. You were able to > boot this one with a root file system override, whereas the one > with the missing initrd entry wo

Re: What is blocking my sound?

2010-10-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/24/10 07:20, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 09/23/10 18:42, T o n g wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:11:09 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Usually the fix is to close all instances of Firefox until I find the culprit, and sound returns. The alternative to above headaches is use alsa as much as possibl

Re: Cups does not find shared Windows printer while smbclient does.

2010-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:36:05 +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: (...) > Of course I know that I could just add smb://mrdarcy/hpdeskjet to the > cupsd.conf but I don't want to! This is 2010, it has to work better! :) Ah, such automatisms will terminate us :-) Why Cups cannot see the printer shared

Re: escputil won't clean printer heads

2010-10-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat October 2 2010, Camaleón wrote: > USB-connected printers sometimes fail to identify or return ink levels. > You may have to repeat the command. This is probably a timing issue in > escputil, not a flaw in the printer. > *** wow, all I had to do was run the same command again!! # escputil -

Cups does not find shared Windows printer while smbclient does.

2010-10-02 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I would like to print to a remote printer that is connected to a Windows system from my Debian (squeeze) host. Samba sees the remote printer: # smbclient -N -L mrdarcy Domain=[MRDARCY] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment -

Re: A simple GUI volume control tool for fluxbox

2010-10-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, If you just want volume control, i use gkrellm's volume plugin. Does come with other core plugins so maybe not what you want. Keybindings seem interesting. iH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: A simple GUI volume control tool for fluxbox

2010-10-02 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-10-01, T o n g wrote: I do almost everything on command line. Maybe the only GUI tool I need is the sound volume control tool, but I don't have it any more -- I used to use tkmixer. Now that it's obsoleted, I'm yet to find a GUI sound mixer plain and simple enough

XFS: xfs_repair never finishes on lvm partition

2010-10-02 Thread Knowledge Seeker
Hi, I'm using Debian Lenny box with 2 hds. The first one is used by the OS and the second one is another system witch runs in virtual machine (Virtual Box). This virtual machine also runs Debian Lenny. The vm's hd has 2 fdisk partitions, one being LVM. On the last week, due a power failure, the

Re: escputil won't clean printer heads

2010-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:04:22 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat October 2 2010, Camaleón wrote: >> escputil --raw-device=/dev/usb/lp0 --ink-level *** > > # escputil --raw-device=/dev/usb/lp0 --ink-level Escputil version 5.0.2, > Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOL

Re: escputil won't clean printer heads

2010-10-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat October 2 2010, Camaleón wrote: > escputil --raw-device=/dev/usb/lp0 --ink-level > *** # escputil --raw-device=/dev/usb/lp0 --ink-level Escputil version 5.0.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free soft

Re: Please explain X strangeness

2010-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:56:04 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: (...) > Yesterday, I unhooked the 3rd PC > from the monitor (but left the cable hooked to the monitor with an > unattached end). Today when I tried to start X, even when I see the > output of the debian box on the monitor, I got an "out of

Re: escputil won't clean printer heads

2010-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:39:40 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat October 2 2010, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> It doesn't work either with: >> >>  $ escputil -c -r /dev/usb/lp0 > > I just tried it on my system & got this: # escputil -i /dev/usb/lp0 > Escputil version 5.0.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2006

Re: escputil won't clean printer heads

2010-10-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat October 2 2010, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > It doesn't work either with: > >  $ escputil -c -r /dev/usb/lp0 I just tried it on my system & got this: # escputil -i /dev/usb/lp0 Escputil version 5.0.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details

Re: Problem with eSATA Port Multiplier

2010-10-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/02/2010 02:08 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 10/1/2010 5:28 PM: On 09/30/2010 10:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Have you tried more than one eSATA cable? Only have one. Pick up a new one from a retailer that'll give refunds on returns no (or few) questions asked. If

Re: usb-modeswitch in Lenny

2010-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:53:57 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >> RFS: Backports of usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data (DM) >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2010/09/msg00109.html >> >> Just note that those packages are not still publicly available in >> backports repo. > > I scarcely unders

Re: [solved] Backup home directory with rsync

2010-10-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
Just a little trick... Rodolfo Medina writes: > $ rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo This is equivalent: rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . rodo...@192.168.0.2: or just rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . 192.168.0.2: if you are already `rodolfo' on yo

Re: escputil won't clean printer heads

2010-10-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2010-03-15 11:57, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> On my Lenny system, I installed the following packages: cupsys cupsys-bsd >> cupsys-client libcupsimage2 cups-driver-gutenprint cupsys-driver-gutenprint >> gs-esp escputil. Everything seems to go fine with printing, and also ink >> level is correctly

[solved] Backup home directory with rsync (was: rsync issue)

2010-10-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > I wish to copy all my home directory into another machine with the --delete > option, but: > > 1) I dont't want hidden files, i.e.: `.*' to be copied; > > 2) on the other hand, there are some symlinks, beginning with `.', that I >want to be copied. > > The --exclude o

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

2010-10-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:21:56 +0800 Zhang Weiwu wrote: > 在 2010-09-30四的 18:20 +0100,Angus Hedger写道: > > 183M (ish) less without LoS > > http://www.babysecurity.co.uk/products/2077/Loc8tor-Plus-Homing-Tracker-Locator-%26-Personal-Panic-Alarm.html > >(UK link) > > Thanks a lot, this device look lik

Re: usb-modeswitch in Lenny

2010-10-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > RFS: Backports of usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data (DM) > http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2010/09/msg00109.html > > Just note that those packages are not still publicly available in > backports repo. I scarcely understood from the l

Re: Problem with eSATA Port Multiplier

2010-10-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 10/1/2010 5:28 PM: > On 09/30/2010 10:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Have you tried more than one eSATA cable? > > Only have one. Pick up a new one from a retailer that'll give refunds on returns no (or few) questions asked. If the new cable doesn't fix the problem get

[Lenny] KVM hosted lenny starts all processes with high priority

2010-10-02 Thread Didar Hossain
Hi all, I am currently attending a training session and have installed Lenny as a KVM guest. I just noticed that all the process are being assigned high priority (-2) - even the ones I invoke from the shell. Is there a kernel tunable (/proc/sys setting) that specifies the default process priority