Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 12. 10. 2010 23:47:45 je Camaleón napisal(a): Another option is switching to other desktop, like GNOME. That was the path I took. Yep, me too. Like Lisi, I needed a desktop environment to get work done, not to s/look/curse/g at. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 h

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 19:49, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Jason Heeris writes: >> Yay. I'll build one on my PC. > > Ah. To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to building a kernel exactly the same as what's in linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? I'm on a PC with amd64 arch, so I created

Re: tools to improve harddisk performance by short-stroking?

2010-10-12 Thread Zhang Weiwu
I noticed I can find out files that were never accessed after the 1st month I installed my debian without any accounting mechanism but only by atime. In fact, if I pick up a random file on my system, the chance it was never accessed since after 1month of debian installation is a bit higher than it

Re: tools to improve harddisk performance by short-stroking?

2010-10-12 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年10月10日 05:45, Andrei Popescu wrote: > IMVHO, I think at least part of the speed increase is based on the fact > that the head(s) *never* travel to the "back" of the harddisk. > A brief search found most of the files on my harddisks are *never* accessed (since the Debian system installa

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:24:58PM -0400, Mike Viau wrote: > > > OnTue, 12 Oct 2010 14:11:13 -0700 wrote: > >> > >> 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager > >> here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how to > >> switch between available Wi

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 19:38, Mike Bird wrote: > On Tue October 12 2010 19:11:29 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón wrote: >> > use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget >> > activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop.. >> >> Out

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 13/10/2010 01:24 πμ, Ogya Chief wrote: > > > > If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you should > > back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go > > about it depends on your new machine. If it came with recovery options, > > you should investigat

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue October 12 2010 07:38:31 pm Mike Bird wrote: > On Tue October 12 2010 19:11:29 Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón wrote: > > > use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget > > > activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop.. > >

Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-12 Thread vishnu vardhan
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan > wrote: > > to mount the usb flash drive : > > > > [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note > down > > the name, for e.g. sdb1 > > This is a bit tangential, but do you kno

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/12/2010 5:24 PM, Ogya Chief wrote: I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of action. The reason to make a complete system snapshot first (and not just your data) is because Microsoft is greedy and has no se

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Robert Holtzman : > > Wicd from the repos. Much more informative than nm. I can attest to that. I found wicd difficult to turn off the other day (until I looked for /etc/default/wicd). Then again, Win* guy next door, now running linux, took to nm with no problem, way before I knew anything abo

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Lisi : > > I think I'll give it one more try using your link and any tips > other people have given me by then, and if I still can't do it I'll > just install normally. No offense meant, but wrong attitude. I've been saying this since ca. '97: try again. The more installs you try, the more y

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue October 12 2010 19:11:29 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón wrote: > > use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget > > activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop.. > > Out of all the awesome things in KDE4 why would disable some

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Lisi : > > Thanks, Camaleón. I get nervous when the computer I am working on does not > belong to me!! Prudent thinking. Especially when you're logged in as root (walking around with lit sticks of dynamite in each hand). Plan. Research. Backups! Try plan on a disposable sandbox. Rinse,

Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Jason Heeris : > On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan > wrote: > > > > [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note down > > the name, for e.g. sdb1 > > This is a bit tangential, but do you know about the "pmount-hal" > [...] > works out some other mount flags fo

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón wrote: > > use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget > activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop.. Out of all the awesome things in KDE4 why would disable some of the very best? Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: setting up mouse and keyboard for X11

2010-10-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 13:01, lee wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 05:24:13PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> AFAIR, to configure X only with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file it is >> recommended to disable the "ServerFlags" option "AutoAddDevices" (see >> man xorg.conf and /usr/share/doc/xserver-x

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 10:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: >> CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I >> could be wrong > > Yikes.  You really need to track this one down, and find out whether it is > any different from a reg

Re: setting up mouse and keyboard for X11

2010-10-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:19, lee wrote: > > The keyboard layout is different on the console because Xmodmap is > ineffective on the console Not at all, it works very well in my experience >... And how´s that the other way round: > When you modify the keyboard layout on the console, will you ha

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Sam Leon
On 10/11/2010 09:37 PM, Dmitryi wrote: KDE 4 is a nightmare. How can KDE 3.5.x be installed on Debian testing? Is there a package repository somewhere? What exactly is your problem? After spending about 2 hours with kde4 I had it working very similar to 3.5. True, it did take 2 hours but now

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:20:39 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 22:47:45 Camaleón wrote: >> In fact, KDE 4.5 can be (almost 100%) configured to play the same KDE >> 3.5 did. It takes some time to get the same look&feel, but you can >> leave a quite similar desktop. > > "quite similar

RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Ogya Chief
> If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you should > back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go > about it depends on your new machine. If it came with recovery options, > you should investigate them. With the Ultimate edition, Win 7 comes

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 22:47:45 Camaleón wrote: > In fact, KDE 4.5 can be (almost 100%) configured to play the same KDE 3.5 > did. It takes some time to get the same look&feel, but you can leave a > quite similar desktop. "quite similar", "almost 100%", "configured to _play_ the same". Ouch.

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/12/2010 2:54 PM, Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the Windows partition? Kind regar

RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Ogya Chief
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: noela...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:02:28 + > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:54:57 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > > > I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 19:17 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > eduroam-open, which is open and very restricted > eduroam, which requires authentication and is less restricted. > 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager > here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:54:57 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to > partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian > installer's partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not > to damage the Windows partition?

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 18:17:15 Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > The question is how to > switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager. wicd? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: [OFF TOPIC] What is the best configuration for ADSL modem and Wireless Router?

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:23:40 -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > My home network is very very slow. My access to modem and/or router > bring up "out of time" on iceweasel. > > I have a modem TP-LINK 8816 ADSL2/2+ and a wireless router TP-LINK > TL-WR541G/TL-WR542G at home. > > Modem configurations are:

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:01:15 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Op 12-10-10 22:52, Liam O'Toole schreef: >> On 2010-10-12, Dmitryi wrote: --- SNIP --- >>> KDE used to be a real lifesaver, especially with the Guidance admin >>> modules. Now there're animations and fades and screens and whatnot >>> ge

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:27:39 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express > card. Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on > this (even if not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). They > run, however, as if th

RE: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Viau
> OnTue, 12 Oct 2010 14:11:13 -0700 wrote: >> >> 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager >> here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how to >> switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager. > > Wicd from the repos. Much mo

[OFF TOPIC] What is the best configuration for ADSL modem and Wireless Router?

2010-10-12 Thread Marcelo Laia
My home network is very very slow. My access to modem and/or router bring up "out of time" on iceweasel. I have a modem TP-LINK 8816 ADSL2/2+ and a wireless router TP-LINK TL-WR541G/TL-WR542G at home. Modem configurations are: *LAN* IP Address:                     192.168.1.1 IP Subnet M

RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Ogya Chief
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:28:15 -0700 Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed From: mamar...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:17:15PM +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > > 1. How to actually select the network to use? I was trying nm-applet but > NetworkManager seems to fallback to eduroam-open simply becase it thinks > it is "better": Left click the nm icon and disconnect. Repeat and connect

RE: Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Viau
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:27:39 +0200 wrote: > > I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express card. > Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on this (even if > not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). They run, however, as if > there were

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-12 22:27 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express card. > Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on this (even > if > not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). Games requiring 3D will crawl ra

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 12-10-10 22:52, Liam O'Toole schreef: > On 2010-10-12, Dmitryi wrote: > --- SNIP --- >> KDE used to be a real lifesaver, especially with the Guidance admin >> modules. Now there're animations and fades and screens and whatnot >> getting in the way. > > Can't you disable all those effects? Yes

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-10-12, Dmitryi wrote: --- SNIP --- > KDE used to be a real lifesaver, especially with the Guidance admin > modules. Now there're animations and fades and screens and whatnot > getting in the way. Can't you disable all those effects? -- Liam O'Toole Cork, Ireland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread David Baron
I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express card. Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on this (even if not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). They run, however, as if there were no direct rendering at all. Even chromium which ran

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Mark
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ogya Chief wrote: > Hi All, > > I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to > partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's > partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the > Windows

Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Ogya Chief
Hi All, I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the Windows partition? Kind regards, Ogya

Re: UVC cameras

2010-10-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 12-10-10 18:05, Camaleón schreef: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:57:40 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > >> On Tuesday 12 October 2010 05:00:36 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: >>> Somewhere I've read that a camera must be UVC conformant to qualify to >>> use the Vista label on the package. It wasn't an authoritat

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Dmitryi
Hey thanks. That's just it. The KDE team should just make a straight, simple UI with the start menu opening immediately and without any retarded (literally - there's a time delay) delayed menus. UI has to fly at the speed of thought, and not make itself noticeable in any way or get itself in the wa

Re: Highly recommended openoffice packages

2010-10-12 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:42 +, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:06:06 +, T o n g wrote: > > > I only want to install a minimum set, eg, openoffice.org-writer, > > openoffice.org-calc and openoffice.org-impress, but am wonder if any > > other packages are recommended and worthwhile t

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Arthur Machlas
2010/10/12 Stanisław Findeisen : > 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager > here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how to > switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager. > > For instance I could store network connection p

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 09:49 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 09:15:33 Mihira Fernando wrote: > > On 10/12/2010 01:43 PM, Lisi wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 04:20:44 Mihira Fernando wrote: > > >> The Trinity project has 3.5 repos for Ubuntu : > > >> http://apt.pearsoncompu

WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Here in campus we have 2 networks: eduroam-open, which is open and very restricted eduroam, which requires authentication and is less restricted. I have 3 questions. 1. How to actually select the network to use? I was trying nm-applet but NetworkManager seems to fallback to eduroam-open simply b

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 08:00:10 Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Lisi's message of Tue Oct 12 13:05:50 +0200 2010: > > #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt > > #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade > > FWIW, this is what I used (based on [1]): > > dpkg --clear-selections > dpkg --set-sele

Configure radius to run script under different user

2010-10-12 Thread Jennie Kingsland
Hi, Thanks for help on previous post. My startup script for Radius now works so it starts at boot time, the script is in /etc/init.d and looks like this #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/radiusd -d /usr/local/var/log/radius/radacct/ -d /usr/local/etc/raddb/ After rebooting radius starts up au

Re: UVC cameras

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:57:40 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 05:00:36 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: >> Somewhere I've read that a camera must be UVC conformant to qualify to >> use the Vista label on the package. It wasn't an authoritative source. >> >> Recently I put an inexpen

Re: Highly recommended openoffice packages

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:42:22 +, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:06:06 +, T o n g wrote: > >> I only want to install a minimum set, eg, openoffice.org-writer, >> openoffice.org-calc and openoffice.org-impress, but am wonder if any >> other packages are recommended and worthwhile to

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With dpkg such a list can be generated with for x in $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1) do [ -z "$(grep -E "Depends.* $x( |,|$)" /var/lib/dpkg/status)" ] && echo "$x" done -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Re: Problems setting up pam_tally / faillog

2010-10-12 Thread Brustkern, Maximillian
>> I know you don't think so (yet) but that is a very bad idea. It >> enables a denial of service attack. A valid user can be locked out by >> an attacker. That is bad. You're absolutely right; unfortunately, I'm attempting to bring old systems in line with unbending corporate security policy

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread B. Alexander
Hmmm. I've used this method several times before, in fact it is my primary way of building machines. On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Lisi wrote: > I am installing on a new box. I have copied the installed_packages.txt > from > the old box onto a CD. (I am physically 10 miles away from the old

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 14:00:10 Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Lisi's message of Tue Oct 12 13:05:50 +0200 2010: > > #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt > > #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade > > FWIW, this is what I used (based on [1]): > > > dpkg --clear-selections > dpkg --set-sele

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 14:14:00 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:27:55 +0100, Lisi wrote: > >> #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt > > > > went fine. :-) > > > > But > > > >> #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade > > > > runs, but doesn't install anything. :-( I must still be doing s

Re: Debian Running Radius

2010-10-12 Thread Joe
On 11/10/10 23:03, Bill Thompson wrote: The big question is why compile radius from source? If you use the Debian package for Freeradius, this is mostly done for you. Because for licencing reasons the packaged version does not have SSL support, thereby ruling out EAP-TLS and other certificate-

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:27:55 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt > > went fine. :-) > > But >> #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade > > runs, but doesn't install anything. :-( I must still be doing something > wrong. Dunno :-? This article shows the same path you are

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Lisi's message of Tue Oct 12 13:05:50 +0200 2010: > #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt > #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade FWIW, this is what I used (based on [1]): dpkg --clear-selections dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections-installed.state debconf-set-selections < debc

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 10/12/2010 05:57 PM, Lisi wrote: But #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade runs, but doesn't install anything. :-( I must still be doing something wrong. Lisi Isnt that supposed to be : #apt-get dselect-upgrade Without the -u ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bad archive mirror using customised preseed and mirror

2010-10-12 Thread Arif Ali
I have created multiple preseeds to install nodes using preseed and ubuntu, and have worked without any problems, but with lenny I am having a few issues. I hope someone on this list can help Here are my steps 1. Copy CD 1 into a directory, which is available via httpd 2. Set-up PXE/tftp so that

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
> #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt went fine. :-) But > #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade runs, but doesn't install anything. :-( I must still be doing something wrong. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Envoi de fichier(s)

2010-10-12 Thread chantal kouakou
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Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 12:54:01 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:05:50 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > I am installing on a new box. I have copied the installed_packages.txt > > from the old box onto a CD. (I am physically 10 miles away from the old > > box) > > > > I am failing in using teh l

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:05:50 +0100, Lisi wrote: > I am installing on a new box. I have copied the installed_packages.txt > from the old box onto a CD. (I am physically 10 miles away from the old > box) > > I am failing in using teh list to install. I navigated to > /media/cdrom0, then did > >

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jason Heeris writes: > Yay. I'll build one on my PC. Ah. >> Qemu defaults to X. Copying the system image to some machine that runs >> X is probably the safest solution, you can then run qemu without any >> extra privileges.. > > Done, but avahi-daemon installs without a hitch (presumably because

--set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
I am installing on a new box. I have copied the installed_packages.txt from the old box onto a CD. (I am physically 10 miles away from the old box) I am failing in using teh list to install. I navigated to /media/cdrom0, then did #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt #apt-get -u ds

Re: UVC cameras

2010-10-12 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 05:00:36 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Somewhere I've read that a camera must be UVC conformant to qualify to use > the Vista label on the package. It wasn't an authoritative source. > > Recently I put an inexpensive camera on Squeeze and got a local image in > Skype. Oddly

Re: setting up mouse and keyboard for X11

2010-10-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
lee wrote, on 10/11/10 22:01: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 05:24:13PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> AFAIR, to configure X only with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file it is >> recommended to disable the "ServerFlags" option "AutoAddDevices" (see >> man xorg.conf and /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-core/chan

Re: how to install kernel header for lenny

2010-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:43:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Long Wind wrote: >> I try to get aircrack-ng to work >> It offers a patch Aircrack-ng is available from standard repo. Doesn't the package work for you? >> When I try to install patch, it complains that no kernel header The exact mes

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 10/12/2010 02:19 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 12 October 2010 09:15:33 Mihira Fernando wrote: On 10/12/2010 01:43 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 12 October 2010 04:20:44 Mihira Fernando wrote: The Trinity project has 3.5 repos for Ubuntu : http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/install.html Also fo

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 15:59, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Jason Heeris writes: >> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 > Please install linux-image-2.6.32-5-486-dbg There is no such package: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linux-image+dbg&searchon=names&suite=testing§ion=all Yay. I'll build one

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 09:15:33 Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 10/12/2010 01:43 PM, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 04:20:44 Mihira Fernando wrote: > >> The Trinity project has 3.5 repos for Ubuntu : > >> http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/install.html > > > > Also for Debian. > > > > Li

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 10/12/2010 01:43 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 12 October 2010 04:20:44 Mihira Fernando wrote: The Trinity project has 3.5 repos for Ubuntu : http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/install.html Also for Debian. Lisi They have repos for Squeeze as well ? thought the repo was for Lenny... -- To UNS

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 04:20:44 Mihira Fernando wrote: > The Trinity project has 3.5 repos for Ubuntu : > http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/install.html Also for Debian. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

UVC cameras

2010-10-12 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Somewhere I've read that a camera must be UVC conformant to qualify to use the Vista label on the package. It wasn't an authoritative source. Recently I put an inexpensive camera on Squeeze and got a local image in Skype. Oddly the remote image was OK without the camera but garbled with the c

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
[please keep this on the list] Jason Heeris writes: > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Please install linux-image-2.6.32-5-486-dbg > Qemu won't start, it can't find a framebuffer: > > (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed > --> No such file or directory Qemu defaults

Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan wrote: > to mount the usb flash drive : > > [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note down > the name, for e.g. sdb1 This is a bit tangential, but do you know about the "pmount-hal" command? It basically uses HAL to work out a n

how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-12 Thread vishnu vardhan
i have installed debian 5.0.5 on virtualbox. i am learning about how to live without a desktop environment. i have installed fluxbox and trying to familiarise with it. i use usb flash drive almost on daily basis, plugging in and out atleast four times. i did not installed any GUI file manager. i am

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 23:44, Jochen Schulz wrote: > [ I guess Henrique's interpretation of the problem is better than mine, >  I just wanted to follow-up on this specific question. ] >> How would I know? > > $ dmesg | grep "Write cache" > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, d