Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Bob
On 02/19/2011 05:52 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On 02/08/2011 10:47 PM, Bob wrote: I was liking the look of the G555 for my farther. Anyone tried one? on the plus side nice big screen, on the down its only 1366x768 I also like the full keyboard etc.. The integrated webcam is only VGA, but is t

Re: question about storage

2011-02-18 Thread Jim Green
Hello: I think I'll probably do this, 4x2T drive in desktop and use a external closure for backup(because I am using mirroring, disk failure should be ok though). and I'll be using soft raid to avoid hardware raid card. Thank you both! Jim. On 19 February 2011 01:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: ... whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be a gsm modem, fingerprint reader, dual mode graphics, no name 802.11 card - stuff like that. Not sure what you mean b

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 05:23 PM, Francis Southern wrote: On 18 February 2011 16:39, shawn wilson wrote: as some have mentioned in this thread, even some of the "Thinkpad"s are sold with cheaper keyboards and other hardware. but, if you read some reviews, spend a little (~$1k should do imo), you'l

Re: question about storage

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 12:23 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/18/2011 08:36 PM, Jim Green wrote: I have a laptop with 120G harddrive, 2x320G external harddrive, I don't have a desktop. Now I am doing something serious storing some huge historical data to mysql database and want to have some better stor

Re: question about storage

2011-02-18 Thread David Christensen
On 02/18/2011 08:36 PM, Jim Green wrote: I have a laptop with 120G harddrive, 2x320G external harddrive, I don't have a desktop. Now I am doing something serious storing some huge historical data to mysql database and want to have some better storage solution ... I have two options 1, buy a des

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 09:58 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:16:16 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, Yes, I use nvidia, and no I won't use nouveau. Entirely your prerogative of course, but might I ask why? Performance. -- "The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery." M

Re: question about storage

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 10:36 PM, Jim Green wrote: Hello! I have a laptop with 120G harddrive, 2x320G external harddrive, I don't have a desktop. Now I am doing something serious storing some huge historical data to mysql database and want to have some better storage solution(I hate the two external hard

Re: Two node storage failover with lvm and ISCSI

2011-02-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Justin Jereza put forth on 2/18/2011 6:37 AM: >> we have two nodes connected to one big SAS storage (LSI 630j Jbod) with >> SAS HBAs and they can see all disks at same time. >> Now we want build a failover construct for lvm with ISCSI: >> >> LSI Jbod -> node* | raid | lvm | ISCSI -> Global IP ->> C

question about storage

2011-02-18 Thread Jim Green
Hello! I have a laptop with 120G harddrive, 2x320G external harddrive, I don't have a desktop. Now I am doing something serious storing some huge historical data to mysql database and want to have some better storage solution(I hate the two external harddrives I bought 4 years ago, need to power

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> on 20:34 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >>> wrote: >>> > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com)

Re: Help configuring grub-pc

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Please help ... this is kinda scary because it seems > like I could break something if I pick the wrong one! > > Thanks! > > Erin It has been some time since you wrote this so I assume all is well and you've chosen wisely. However, when things go wrong with grub-pc or in my case, grub2-pc as

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 20:34 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >> wrote: >> > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbi

Re: Can't run update-initramfs

2011-02-18 Thread Andre [debian]
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Noah Duffy wrote: > I was trying to install Plymouth on Debain Squeeze.  I followed the > basic instructions, but the only thing I was unable to run was > update-initramfs.  It just tells me that the command isn't found.  I'm > a little confused.  Is there somethin

firmware

2011-02-18 Thread robert rue
. hello debian, could you please change the kernel device firmware description to like software based dsp firmware. i dont run my debian computers much and took me awhile to understand what debian was saying about "firmware" the documention description needs to be a more better posted why the "f

Re: Can't run update-initramfs

2011-02-18 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:39:02 -0600 Noah Duffy wrote: > I was trying to install Plymouth on Debain Squeeze. I followed the > basic instructions, but the only thing I was unable to run was > update-initramfs. It just tells me that the command isn't found. I'm > a little confused. Is there somet

Can't run update-initramfs

2011-02-18 Thread Noah Duffy
I was trying to install Plymouth on Debain Squeeze. I followed the basic instructions, but the only thing I was unable to run was update-initramfs. It just tells me that the command isn't found. I'm a little confused. Is there something else I need to install or do? I did have initramfs-tools i

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Francis Southern
On 18 February 2011 16:39, shawn wilson wrote: > > > as some have mentioned in this thread, even some of the "Thinkpad"s are sold > with cheaper keyboards and other hardware. but, if you read some reviews, > spend a little (~$1k should do imo), you'll end up with a solid portable. > 1,000 USD

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread shawn wilson
> So the experience in Debian Squeeze is way better than in Windows 7, I'll > say that. > linux users always have it better than windows users :) > > There are 3 USB ports, which work great, But there's no Cardbus slot - I > guess they're eliminating those in many laptops. It has nice memory-card

Re: Migration from Lenny to Squeeze: any feedback about configuration upgrade issues ?

2011-02-18 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 08:46:13PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > I was questioned about some config files which I know I did not modify. > > > In that case, I accepted the new one blindly. > > > > This one is more weird as the config file

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:49:33 -0500 (EST), Paul Cartwright wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> >> You are not using "nuvó" at all but the nvidia driver:-) >> > > right, I knew that. >> >> To make this a bit more clear, nvidia card owners can run either: >> >> a) KMS+nouveau >> ... > > so, what is

Re: Migration from Lenny to Squeeze: any feedback about configuration upgrade issues ?

2011-02-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 08:46:13PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > I was questioned about some config files which I know I did not modify. > > In that case, I accepted the new one blindly. > > This one is more weird as the config file was modified by something, most > often a post-install scri

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/08/2011 10:47 PM, Bob wrote: I was liking the look of the G555 for my farther. Anyone tried one? on the plus side nice big screen, on the down its only 1366x768 I also like the full keyboard etc.. The integrated webcam is only VGA, but is there any real advantage to higher resolution webc

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-18 Thread Dan B.
Camaleón wrote: ... ... let me add that "any" system upgrade is capable of breaking thinks. For those who want/need a smooth upgrade I would recommend to install the new release in parallel with the old release, that is, leaving lenny at the same state and perform a new install of Squeeze in a

Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:58:45AM -0600, Noah Duffy wrote: > > Sam, I went with Stable. I picked it mostly because I'm newer to Debian > specifically. I also like the idea of not having to think about > upgrading to a new release every 6 months. If I feel I need the latest > and greatest of so

Re: Debian 6.0.0 DVD (1) installation unable to complete setup of package manager due to corrupt ftp/ mirror repositories

2011-02-18 Thread David Christensen
On 02/17/2011 11:30 PM, Saibal K Saha wrote: Have spent the last several days trying to get a usable BitTorrent download of Debian 6.0.0. Since yesterday, the automated setup has been unable to complete setup of the package manager, from various ftp/ mirror sites. Have tried multiple sites in mul

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-18 20:22 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 18/02/11 18:24, Camaleón wrote: >> To make this a bit more clear, nvidia card owners can run either: >> >> a) KMS+nouveau >> b) nvidia propietary driver >> c) vesa/fb >> d) nv (obsolete but still available, AFAICT) >> > > d) is the only option that worked

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Dom
On 18/02/11 18:24, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:05:16 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 02/18/2011 07:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: By installing nvidia driver, "nuvó" should not be loaded. Also, by disabling KMS (nouveau.modeset=0) "nuvó" should not load. wow, I just looked at my new Sq

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:34 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > >> wrote: > >> > on 18:11 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho..

Re: cannot aptitude -t experimental install perl

2011-02-18 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
[this has nothing to do with aptitude] On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:57:34AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Gentlemen, I find no way to install the experimental version of perl. > > # aptitude -t experimental install ~i~nperl > The following packages will be upgraded: > perl perl-base perl-

Re: Gnome, the screensaver and the lock screen background

2011-02-18 Thread tony mollica
Here's what I found. Simple, actually. The background image for the gnome-screensaver lock screen appears to be linked to which background image theme is being used at the time. I changed the background theme (from right- click,Change Desktop Background) and now I have the black background that

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 18 February 2011 11:54:31 Mark wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: > > I'd say give yourself 4-8 hours follow the release notes though the > > upgrade. > > Did my first upgrade last night following the Release > Notes, and this is pretty much exact

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:21:30 -0500 (EST), Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Blacklisting a module only prevents udev from loading it. That's >> because when udev loads a module it uses the "-b" switch of the >> modprobe command. However, when the

Re: xterm question

2011-02-18 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:26:37PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:39:39AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > I've looked at the man pages for xterm an

Re: Adding /dev/usb/lp0 in CUPS

2011-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:57:47PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 02/18/2011 12:03 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > >Good day. > > > >I have a lpt-printer connected through lpt-to-usb adapter (OS sees it > >as /dev/usb/lp0) to my local host. Trying to add it through cups web > >interface I see no local usb op

Re: Remmina can't connect to a "dormant" VNC account

2011-02-18 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 18. 02. 2011 18:29:36 je Liam O'Toole napisal(a): On 2011-02-18, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > This post is about two stock Squeeze installs and establishing a remote > desktop VNC connection between them. I'm using the stock Remmina client > for connecting from a Squ

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Pier Paolo
2011/2/18 Camaleón > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:40:40 +0100, Pier Paolo wrote: > > > 2011/2/18 Camaleón > > > >> By installing nvidia driver, "nuvó" should not be loaded. > >> > >> Also, by disabling KMS (nouveau.modeset=0) "nuvó" should not load. > >> > > At least in Debian Lenny and Fedora 12 it wa

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
Driver"nvidia" ^^ You are not using "nuvó" at all but the nvidia driver:-) right, I knew that. To make this a bit more clear, nvidia card owners can run either: a) KMS+nouveau so, what is this, why would I want it? b) nvidia propietary driv

Re: Moving Lenny from Virtual Machine to Physical

2011-02-18 Thread Roman Gelfand
Thanks a lot your help. The find command didn't help but rest of the information did. I went to /dev directory and it was easy to figure out the drive there. I followed the rest of your instructions and it worked like a charm. Thanks On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu,

Re: Squeeze install hangs reading CD drive

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:50:34 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > For the record, I did submit a bug report on this (bug #613835). Nice! :-) I'm curious to see how it goes. (...and thanks, I think that's the way to go when a problem arises and affects some users) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNS

Re: Hardware needed for home network

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Davies
John Hasler wrote: > If the modem is configured as a bridge it won't speak IP to the server: > just PPP (over ethernet). To get to the Internet via the modem the > other systems would need to speak PPP. So it's possible to bypass the "firewall" by using PPP? Ugh Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: xterm question

2011-02-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:39:39AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > but I don't do bind much.. just thought I'd tell Mike that nothing in > > the stupid computer is ???above his head???.. > > Thanks Chris for the vote of confidenc

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:05:16 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 02/18/2011 07:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> By installing nvidia driver, "nuvó" should not be loaded. >> >> Also, by disabling KMS (nouveau.modeset=0) "nuvó" should not load. >> >> > wow, I just looked at my new Squeeze xorg.conf devi

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/18/2011 07:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: By installing nvidia driver, "nuvó" should not be loaded. Also, by disabling KMS (nouveau.modeset=0) "nuvó" should not load. Greetings, wow, I just looked at my new Squeeze xorg.conf device section. What is the nouveau, and should we be using/not usi

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-18 Thread Doug
On 02/18/2011 07:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:11:30 +, AG wrote: I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of ex

Re: Adding /dev/usb/lp0 in CUPS

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:03:11 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I have a lpt-printer connected through lpt-to-usb adapter (OS sees it as > /dev/usb/lp0) to my local host. Trying to add it through cups web > interface I see no local usb options. My question is how I can > accomplish my goal? How about...?

Re: Adding /dev/usb/lp0 in CUPS

2011-02-18 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/18/2011 12:03 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have a lpt-printer connected through lpt-to-usb adapter (OS sees it as /dev/usb/lp0) to my local host. Trying to add it through cups web interface I see no local usb options. My question is how I can accomplish my goal? Not enough info supp

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > I'd say give yourself 4-8 hours follow the release notes though the > upgrade. > You can upgrade multiple systems at once. Most of this time is spent > waiting, > so you can do multiple systems at once.

Re: reboot hangs

2011-02-18 Thread Sebastian Gibb
On Friday 18 February 2011 17:15:01 Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:43:20 +0100, Sebastian Gibb wrote: > > I have a debian squeeze on a Intel Atom D525 Board. shutdown -h now > > works quite well but > > reboot or shutdown -r now fails > > (...) > > http://www.google.com/search?sclient=p

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/17/2011 06:33 PM, Mark wrote: Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what some of the people on this list have experienced for how much time it took to do the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully up-to-date Lenny system). well, I just finished doing that very

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

2011-02-18 Thread Csanyi Pal
Alan Greenberger writes: > On 2011-02-17, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Csanyi Pal writes: > >> That was yesterday. >> Today after I start my Desktop Machine, try again and there is no >> beep again! Moreover, I uninstalled yesterday NVIDIA driver ( as root on console run the command 'nvidia-uninstall'

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:40:40 +0100, Pier Paolo wrote: > 2011/2/18 Camaleón > >> By installing nvidia driver, "nuvó" should not be loaded. >> >> Also, by disabling KMS (nouveau.modeset=0) "nuvó" should not load. >> > At least in Debian Lenny and Fedora 12 it was not so simple as said in > debian w

Re: squeeze upgrade- user can't login

2011-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/18/2011 09:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: ok, so I trashed my Lenny system somehow. Decided to upgrade to squeeze. > Now my user cannot login anymore. Other users CAN, guest, my wife... I > have renamed .gnome2 .gconfg , not sure where to go from here. Not enough data:-) You can't login i

Re: screen resolution in Squeeze?

2011-02-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:16 Fri 18 Feb, Lars Nielsen (l...@lfweb.dk) wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed squeeze and it seems to work fine. But my screen > resolution is to low! I have a 24" wide screen and I can "only" set the > resolution to 1280x1024. Where or how do I get the right resolution on > 1920x1080 ?

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-18 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:34 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius > >> wrote: > >> > I'll generally constrain my followup to t

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-02-18, Chris wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:05:22PM +0800, Michael Tsang wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 February 2011 16:37:09 Chris wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from >> > nautilus. It works before. >> > The error message is:

Re: screen resolution in Squeeze?

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:16:06 +0100, Lars Nielsen wrote: > I have just installed squeeze and it seems to work fine. But my screen > resolution is to low! I have a 24" wide screen and I can "only" set the > resolution to 1280x1024. Where or how do I get the right resolution on > 1920x1080 ? First,

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: El 2011-02-18 a las 10:33 -0500, Chris Brennan escribió: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: By installing nvidia driver, "nuvó" should not be loaded. the non-free nvidia driver script/installer dies, complaining that nouveau is present and needs to be removed f

Re: Lenny and 2TB USB drive

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:36:11 -0600, John Salmon wrote: > I'm still living comfortably in Lenny-land. I tried to attach a 2 TB USB > drive to both of my Linux systems with no success. The drive formats to > ext3 format using mke2fs with no problem, but won't mount for use. The > same procedure work

Re: Remmina can't connect to a "dormant" VNC account

2011-02-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-02-18, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > This post is about two stock Squeeze installs and establishing a remote > desktop VNC connection between them. I'm using the stock Remmina client > for connecting from a Squeeze laptop to a Squeeze desktop. However, I > wanted t

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/17/2011 08:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:20:25 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, Exactly... (And yes, I do have module pcspkr loaded.) Same here. Maybe Joe's suggestion of using nouveau rather than nvidia would help. Assuming you use the NVi

Re: Kodak scanner not found or not working

2011-02-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:31:52 +0100 Thierry de Coulon wrote: Hello Thierry, > I enabled it in /etc/default/saned, but I have _big_ problems to find > the scanner. Scantwain sometime finds it, some time not. Xsane says no > scanner First thing to check is that the user is a member of the 'scanne

Re: screen resolution in Squeeze?

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:16:06PM +0100, Lars Nielsen wrote: > I have just installed squeeze and it seems to work fine. But my screen > resolution is to low! I have a 24" wide screen and I can "only" set the > resolution to 1280x1024. Where or how do I get the right resolution on > 1920x1080 ? Yo

Re: Kodak scanner not found or not working

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:31:52PM +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > I enabled it in /etc/default/saned, but I have _big_ problems to find the > scanner. Scantwain sometime finds it, some time not. Xsane says no scanner > found. gscan2pdf lists the scanner but can't set the optionsa and (mostly)

removed drive from mdadm raid 5 array after reboot

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I was wondering if anyone had come across an issue where after rebooting the system, mdadm is failing to reassemble the entire raid 5 array with all the drives. I am getting the array up with just /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, but the array is degraded as a consequence to missing /dev/sdd (whi

Re: What Would Cause Poor Performance (Remmina) Over SSH?

2011-02-18 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/18/2011 10:21 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 10:15 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > Use of compression had a discernible effect. To be honest I really didn't expect it to help. This is a pretty fast network. It's still slower than tsclient, but it's acceptable now.

Adding /dev/usb/lp0 in CUPS

2011-02-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have a lpt-printer connected through lpt-to-usb adapter (OS sees it as /dev/usb/lp0) to my local host. Trying to add it through cups web interface I see no local usb options. My question is how I can accomplish my goal? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

screen resolution in Squeeze?

2011-02-18 Thread Lars Nielsen
Hi, I have just installed squeeze and it seems to work fine. But my screen resolution is to low! I have a 24" wide screen and I can "only" set the resolution to 1280x1024. Where or how do I get the right resolution on 1920x1080 ? regards Lars Nielsen www.lfweb.dk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Removed drive from mdadm raid 5 array after reboot

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Viau
> Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone had come across an issue where after rebooting the > system, mdadm is failing to reassemble the entire raid 5 array with all the > drives. I am getting the array up with just /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, but the > array is degraded as a consequence to missing /d

Re: Demande d'information

2011-02-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 18 February 2011 16:57:10 ndangi francis wrote: > Bonjour, je me nomme Francis. > J'ai téléchargé Debian et je l'ai gravé sur CD, mais ça ne parvient pas a > booter au démarrage de mon PC; Mais par contre lorsque je l'exécute sous > Windows l'installeur marche (il installe une petite part

Re: Strange problem with chroot and scponlyc

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Have you found any solution yet? I get SIGHELD every time, my post is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01188.html I can't even get sshfs to work on the same machine, let alone trying from a secondary [more distant] client. The issue is the same, SIGHELD every time

Demande d'information

2011-02-18 Thread ndangi francis
Bonjour, je me nomme Francis. J'ai téléchargé Debian et je l'ai gravé sur CD, mais ça ne parvient pas a booter au démarrage de mon PC; Mais par contre lorsque je l'exécute sous Windows l'installeur marche (il installe une petite partie sous Windows et me demande de redémarrer la machine). Mais lo

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-02-18 a las 10:33 -0500, Chris Brennan escribió: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > By installing nvidia driver, "nuvó" should not be loaded. > > > > the non-free nvidia driver script/installer dies, complaining that nouveau > is present and needs to be removed firs

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On Sat, February 19, 2011 3:45 am, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I need help with this problem: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01187.html That's weird, the link pointed to the post before :confused: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01188.html Cheers AndrewM --

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
I need help with this problem: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01187.html No responses from any debian-user subscriber, nor anything from the maintainer of scponl This is one issue that is stopping me from moving forward with a new installation of Squeeze. Technically this isn't

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Pier Paolo
2011/2/18 Camaleón > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:07:51 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain way > > of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To start, > > I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb (p

Kodak scanner not found or not working

2011-02-18 Thread Thierry de Coulon
I am new to using Debian "itself" - I have been using Mepis and Ubuntu. I made a test install of Lenny, and just upgraded to Squeeze. the system seems to be working well, I installed Trinity as a Desktop. My problem is with the scanner. I use a Kodak i1220 that requires tah Kodak drivers, wich i

[OT] Re: Sourcing (very) cheap used InfiniBand hardware

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:54:48 +, Jamie White wrote: > I want to obtain some InfiniBand hardware (switch, and PCI cards for > about 4-10 PCs), not greatly fussed the age, speed or state of it, > providing it works. > > This is for what is at the moment personal projects and experimenting. > >

Re: reboot hangs

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:43:20 +0100, Sebastian Gibb wrote: > I have a debian squeeze on a Intel Atom D525 Board. shutdown -h now > works quite well but > reboot or shutdown -r now fails (...) http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&complete=0&site=webhp&source=hp&q=Atom+D525+linux+reboot+f

Lenny and 2TB USB drive

2011-02-18 Thread John Salmon
I'm still living comfortably in Lenny-land. I tried to attach a 2 TB USB drive to both of my Linux systems with no success. The drive formats to ext3 format using mke2fs with no problem, but won't mount for use. The same procedure works fine with 1 IB drives on either system. I assume this is a lim

Re: cannot aptitude -t experimental install perl

2011-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 18 February 2011 08:45:37 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-18 01:57 +0100, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > Gentlemen, I find no way to install the experimental version of perl. > > The only reasonable way to do this is to set up a dedicated chroot for > it where you can spare the packages

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 17 February 2011 17:33:24 Mark wrote: > Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what some of > the people on this list have experienced for how much time it took to do > the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully up-to-date Lenny system). I took a few hours for

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Chris wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from > nautilus. It works before. > The error message is: > > Unable to mount [device] > Not Authorized > > But if I manually mount using "sudo mount ...", it works fine. > > I

Re: What Would Cause Poor Performance (Remmina) Over SSH?

2011-02-18 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 10:15 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > > > Use of compression had a discernible effect. To be honest I really > didn't expect it to help. This is a pretty fast network. It's still > slower than tsclient, but it's acceptable now. Without compression the > screen drawing d

Re: Debian 6.0.0 DVD (1) installation unable to complete setup of package manager due to corrupt ftp/ mirror repositories

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:30:38 +0800, Saibal K Saha wrote: > Have spent the last several days trying to get a usable BitTorrent > download of Debian 6.0.0. Since yesterday, the automated setup has been > unable to complete setup of the package manager, from various ftp/ > mirror sites. Have tried mu

Re: What Would Cause Poor Performance (Remmina) Over SSH?

2011-02-18 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/17/2011 03:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:33:08 -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I really like remmina, but I have run into an inconvenience. If I use remmina directly on a local system the remote desktop sessions on Windows clients are very responsive. But when I use an SSH

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

2011-02-18 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-02-17, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Csanyi Pal writes: > That was yesterday. > Today after I start my Desktop Machine, try again and there is no beep > again! Wild guess. What does bind -V | grep 'bell-style' show? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:35:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what > > some of the people on this list have experienced for how much time > > it took to do the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully > > up-to-date Lenny system

Re: cannot aptitude -t experimental install perl

2011-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-18 01:57 +0100, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Gentlemen, I find no way to install the experimental version of perl. The only reasonable way to do this is to set up a dedicated chroot for it where you can spare the packages that you would normally use. > # aptitude -t experimental insta

Re: squeeze upgrade- user can't login

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:47:12 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > ok, so I trashed my Lenny system somehow. Decided to upgrade to squeeze. > Now my user cannot login anymore. Other users CAN, guest, my wife... I > have renamed .gnome2 .gconfg , not sure where to go from here. Not enough data :-) You

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 09:37:09 Chris wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from > nautilus. It works before. > The error message is: > > Unable to mount [device] > Not Authorized > > But if I manually mount using "sudo mount ...", it works fin

Re: cannot aptitude -t experimental install perl

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Tsang
On Friday 18 February 2011 08:57:34 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Gentlemen, I find no way to install the experimental version of perl. Are you using the unstable version of Debian? > > # aptitude -t experimental install ~i~nperl > The following packages will be upgraded: > perl perl-base perl-

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it? [ really OT ]

2011-02-18 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/17/2011 06:48 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I think this is a valid technical explanation of why some people are bothered by the video 3d technology. Disliking 3d is absolutely *not* something to be embarrassed about. Being able to watch a 3d movie without discomfort is a clear sign of a percept

Sourcing (very) cheap used InfiniBand hardware

2011-02-18 Thread Jamie White
Hi I want to obtain some InfiniBand hardware (switch, and PCI cards for about 4-10 PCs), not greatly fussed the age, speed or state of it, providing it works. This is for what is at the moment personal projects and experimenting. When I say cheap, I mean at most £400. Anyone know way I could

squeeze upgrade- user can't login

2011-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
ok, so I trashed my Lenny system somehow. Decided to upgrade to squeeze. Now my user cannot login anymore. Other users CAN, guest, my wife... I have renamed .gnome2 .gconfg , not sure where to go from here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:07:51 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain way > of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To start, > I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb (produces an > 'Error -22'). (

Re: Two node storage failover with lvm and ISCSI

2011-02-18 Thread Justin Jereza
> we have two nodes connected to one big SAS storage (LSI 630j Jbod) with > SAS HBAs and they can see all disks at same time. > Now we want build a failover construct for lvm with ISCSI: > > LSI Jbod -> node* | raid | lvm | ISCSI -> Global IP ->> Client > > If the primary node fails, start raid on

Re: Gnash killing my CPU

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:24:04 -0600, Noah Duffy wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> JFYI, there is no need to remove the package, gnash can co-exist with >> Adobe's flash player plugin. In fact, I keep both of them installed so >> in the event one fails to load some site

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:11:30 +, AG wrote: > I'm seriously considering this laptop > http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of > Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. > > Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of > experience for the user with a De

Re: cannot build-essentials

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:16:46 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 02/17/2011 02:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> I think I am having some repository issue?? >>> > >>> > aptitude update gives me this: >>> > Errhttp://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources >>> >>

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