Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 07. 03. 2011 07:55:33 je Chris Davies napisal(a): ow...@netptc.net wrote: > P.S. I am top-posting to emphasize my appreciation. You also wrote in another article that it's (apparently) easier for visually impaired readers for people to top-post. Please excuse my curiosity, but why wouldn't

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread der.hans
Am 07. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Chris Davies so: moin moin Chris, This will be an experiment as I usually reply inline :). I believe top-posting, rather than inline replies, is easier for the blind for two reasons. The first is probably mostly tech in that the screen readers don't understand the co

Re: Important to me

2011-03-06 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 06. 03. 2011 22:52:21 je beno hamid napisal(a): 1 - I am bad in writing bug 2 - And the worst in the English...[?] I want to clarify a point abou joystick linux There is a problem in several gamepad on the market ...Specifically.. .th Axis, The initial value of some Axis is Unreal...!!

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Davies
ow...@netptc.net wrote: > P.S. I am top-posting to emphasize my appreciation. You also wrote in another article that it's (apparently) easier for visually impaired readers for people to top-post. Please excuse my curiosity, but why wouldn't the inclusion of some context to show the points being d

Bridge mode vs. router mode in DSL modems

2011-03-06 Thread Jason Hsu
QUESTIONS: 1. How do I know if my DSL modem is the culprit blocking remote access to my computer? 2. Exactly what is the difference between bridge mode and router mode in a DSL modem? I read that if my DSL modem is blocking remote access to my computer, switching it to bridge mode would remed

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 21:34:58 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > unmount it. Or vice versa. I recommend that you shutdown and > reboot, DO NOT LOGIN TO GNOME, switch to a text console via > Ctrl+Alt+F1, login on the text console as root, and with luck, > that pesky u

Re: cannot play video/audio after/when streaming flash video on web browser

2011-03-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/3/7 Umarzuki Mochlis > not sure which one I'm using now > > # aptitude versions flashplugin-nonfree > i 1:2.8.2 stable > 500 > > how do i revert to gnash? > > last time i used below commands to enable flashplugin-nonfree > > # update-alternatives --rem

Re: cannot play video/audio after/when streaming flash video on web browser

2011-03-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/2/25 Camaleón > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:05:21 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2011/2/23 Camaleón > > > >> > has anyone experienced the same issue on squeeze amd64? > >> > >> What flash plugin do you have installed (adobe, gnash)? Is it native > >> for your architecture (64-bits) or are y

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Holmes
I might add to Hans' comments here that if this student of yours is low-vision, he might wanna take a look at Orca, a screen reader which is integrated in with GNOME. It has magnifier support. I personally have never used it but know it's there. Speakup which offers speech output from the ke

Fwd: disabling irq assigned to sata hard drives

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Copper
(sorry if this is a double post--I forgot to send from my subscribed e-mail address) A week later, no real progress.  One IRQ 19 disabling event. In light of bug 664400 reported at Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/664400, which looks tantalizingly similar, I should als

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread owens
You people are the best! Thanks so much. I will pass this information on to my student and try to assist him in his progress. Larry P.S. I am top-posting to emphasize my appreciation. - Original Message - From: ow...@netptc.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 3/6/2011 7:47:

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread der.hans
Am 06. Mar, 2011 schwätzte ow...@netptc.net so: moin moin, we recently had a presentation on GNU/Linux Accessibility for the Blind for PLUG. The demonstrations of EmacSpeak, Speakup and Orca were great for those of us with no experience. Speakup is now in the main kernel, so easier to access.

Re (2): Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-03-06 Thread peasthope
From: "Russell L. Harris" Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:54:52 + > The system is Debian i386, ADSL with dynamic ip, firmware router, > separate ethernet switch, ups. Russell, what Ethernet adapter is used? Which driver operates it? Thanks,... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. Sh

Re: Directory synchronization packages

2011-03-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:37:29 -0500 "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: ... > We noticed that there is a package for unison-gtk but have some > reservations. As powerful as unison is, it is no longer maintained. It seems that it actually *is* still being *maintained*, just not actively developed: "U

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 06 March 2011 19:47:19 ow...@netptc.net wrote: > List > > I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local University. > One of my students is visually impaired-not totally blind but he requires a > powerful reader for documents and the equilivant of a telescope to see the >

Problems with USB

2011-03-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Just upgraded my mobo to an ASRock M3A770DE, after the last mobo sound system was burned out by microphone feedback. Well, I'm having serious USB problems. I have a Lexar card reader that has worked perfectly well for years, and it has always b

Important to me

2011-03-06 Thread beno hamid
1 - I am bad in writing bug 2 - And the worst in the English...[?] I want to clarify a point abou joystick linux There is a problem in several gamepad on the market ...Specifically.. .th Axis, The initial value of some Axis is Unreal...!! Because some companies sell gamepad With 2 axes,But it con

Call for Participation: DiversiWeb2011 -- First International Workshop on Knowledge Diversity on the Web

2011-03-06 Thread Dimple Patel
Apologies for multiple postings *** Please forward to interested parties and relevant listservs *** Dear Colleagues We welcome your participation to the WWW2011 DiversiWeb Workshop. Kindly see below for details. Best Regard

Re: What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/06/2011 02:53 PM, Doug wrote: On 03/06/2011 05:12 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/2011 02:21 AM, Doug wrote: /snip/ since it is frowned on to cross-post, I will tell you that the message was posted 03/06/2011 at 12:28 AM, so you can look for it there. (The earlier post was by Jerry Lapha

Re: disabling irq assigned to sata hard drives

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Copper
A week later, no real progress. One IRQ 19 disabling event. In light of bug 664400 reported at Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/664400, which looks tantalizingly similar, I should also mention that I have 2 sata hard drives configured as a single RAID1 system. I'm sti

Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image

2011-03-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:38:54AM -0500, Doug wrote: > On 03/06/2011 01:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I installed kvm-qemu and enabled virtualization in BIOS. > > > >Now, I have a Windows partition I'd like to fiddle. > >It was produced thusly: > > > > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=windows_partit

Re: What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Doug
On 03/06/2011 05:12 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/2011 02:21 AM, Doug wrote: /snip/ since it is frowned on to cross-post, I will tell you that the message was posted 03/06/2011 at 12:28 AM, so you can look for it there. (The earlier post was by Jerry Lapham at 03/05/2011 at 8:14 PM. He decide

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/06/2011 01:47 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: List I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local University. One of my students is visually impaired-not totally blind but he requires a powerful reader for documents and the equilivant of a telescope to see the overhead projection

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Patricia Fraser
Hi Larry, > I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local > University. One of my students is visually impaired-not totally > blind but he requires a powerful reader for documents and the > equilivant of a telescope to see the overhead projection of my > course slides. He has expr

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:47:19AM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > List > > I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local University. One > of my students is visually impaired-not totally blind but he requires a > powerful reader for documents and the equilivant of a telescope t

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:33:56 -0500 (EST), Mark Grieveson wrote: > Then I rebooted, and proceeded to to "apt-get dist-upgrade". > Here began the problems. Hello, Mark. I don't know if this is your problem, but it's worth a try. I have had fits in Squeeze due to the udisks daemon. I'll mount a CD-

Re: Xen questions

2011-03-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrew McGlashan wrote: My first DomU machine is 1 hour slower than my Dom0 machine, how should I properly synchronize the times? There's a good discussion of clock synchronization on the debian wiki, at: http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#A.27clocksource.2BAC8-0.3ATimewentbackwards.27 FYI: I set up a

Re: Stopping the Shorewall firewall stops my Internet connection

2011-03-06 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:48:12 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 03 mar 11, 22:08:00, Jason Hsu wrote: > > > > What's going on? How can turning OFF a firewall block Internet > > access? I thought that the purpose of a firewall is to BLOCK > > connections, not MAKE connections. > > Shorewall

Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread owens
List I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local University. One of my students is visually impaired-not totally blind but he requires a powerful reader for documents and the equilivant of a telescope to see the overhead projection of my course slides. He has expressed intere

Re: problems with fluxbox after actualization to 1.3~

2011-03-06 Thread darkestkhan
> How can be scrolling needed with a higher resolution? :-? If you ever played RTS then I can tell that it is behaving like scrolling around map, if it helps > Better than guessing, why don't you tell us what's your current > resolution? Type "xrandr -q" in a console and put here the output. $ x

Re: Xen questions

2011-03-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Abhishek Dixit wrote: On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, I'm on a crash course with Xen got some quick questions. Which course :) Well, my own, self-learning. ;-) Hardware is Dual 3GHz EM64T CPUs on an IBM x346 machine. Using Squeeze amd64 installat

Re: Xen questions

2011-03-06 Thread Abhishek Dixit
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on a crash course with Xen got some quick questions. Which course :) > Hardware is Dual 3GHz EM64T CPUs on an IBM x346 machine. > > Using Squeeze amd64 installation with lvm2, all good so far.  Using 6 disks > with the Serv

Re: repository 'debports' help needed

2011-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110306_081227, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Alexander Batischev wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 05:02:34PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > >> Long ago, well before Squeeze became stable, I supmitted a bug report > >> on a package in Squeeze/testing. The fix didn't make

Re: problems with fluxbox after actualization to 1.3~

2011-03-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:19:48 +, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/3/6 Camaleón: >> On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:15:42 +, darkestkhan wrote: >> >>> I have been using resolution 1280x760 for about 1 year now, and I >>> never > [ SNIP ] >> Too high or too low? As per your description, seems to be the lat

debian per vlan spanning tree

2011-03-06 Thread Laszlo Fekete
Hello! Is it possible to configure a working per vlan spanning tree (cisco pvst) on debian? Because I configured one vlan interface on both physical interface, then create a bridge and put these vlan interfaces in it, but it seems the stp isn't working. If create a bridge simple for the physic

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:36:07 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on > Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I > commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences >

Samsung SCX 4200 stop working with libsane 1.022-1 in testing

2011-03-06 Thread Pedro A. Tonelli
My scanner suddenly stop working, I think the problem was a upgrade in libsane The command sane-find-scanner do find the scanner: "found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung], product=0x341b [SCX-4200 Series]) at libusb:001:005" But scanimage -L dont find the device: "No scanners were identified.

Re: problems with fluxbox after actualization to 1.3~

2011-03-06 Thread darkestkhan
2011/3/6 Camaleón : > On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:15:42 +, darkestkhan wrote: > >> I have been using resolution 1280x760 for about 1 year now, and I never [ SNIP ] > Too high or too low? As per your description, seems to be the latter. To high >> Is there any [ SNIP ] >> graphic driver - vesa >

Re: gpg key

2011-03-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 09:44:01 -0600 "mike cutie and maia" wrote: Hello mike, > I have looked on http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com Doesn't look right to me, try; http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ > And can not find a gpg key for it. Can someone help in this matter. You'll find instructio

Re: gpg key

2011-03-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:44:01 -0600, mike cutie and maia wrote: > I have looked on http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com > > And can not find a gpg key for it. Can someone help in this matter. > > I am using debian sid 64 You mean this? :-? http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com/dists/sid/

SCX 4200 Samsung stop working with libsane 1.0.22-1

2011-03-06 Thread Pedro A. Tonelli
Trying to use the scanner this week I not that it was no more recognized by scanimage. The command sane-find-scanner do find the scanner: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung], product=0x341b [SCX-4200 Series]) at libusb:001:005 But scanimage -L dont find the device: "No scanners were ident

Re: gpg key

2011-03-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 06 mar 11, 09:44:01, mike cutie and maia wrote: > Hi al, > > I have looked on http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com > > And can not find a gpg key for it. Can someone help in this matter. Looks like a mirror for http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ so just follow the instructions from th

Re: KVM image

2011-03-06 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Sunday, 06 March 2011 20:18:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. Hi, Sthu. > I can not mount a KVM HDD file - in the VM I create partition on the > VM device, format it, latter I can access it in KVM. > > But when I try to mount the file in host environment (not VM) it > requir

gpg key

2011-03-06 Thread mike cutie and maia
Hi al, I have looked on http://debian-multimedia.fx-services.com And can not find a gpg key for it. Can someone help in this matter. I am using debian sid 64 Thanks much mike

Xen questions

2011-03-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I'm on a crash course with Xen got some quick questions. Hardware is Dual 3GHz EM64T CPUs on an IBM x346 machine. Using Squeeze amd64 installation with lvm2, all good so far. Using 6 disks with the ServeRAID-7k presenting 6 logical -- I've RAID6-ed 3 partitions, the first for /boot,

Re: problems with fluxbox after actualization to 1.3~

2011-03-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:15:42 +, darkestkhan wrote: > I have been using resolution 1280x760 for about 1 year now, and I never > had any > problems with it, but after actualization of fluxbox ( to 1.3~ ) it > is behaving like this > resolution is too high - I have to scroll down screen to see

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences files. I first did the minimal system upgrade (apt-get upgrade), followed by

problems with fluxbox after actualization to 1.3~

2011-03-06 Thread darkestkhan
I have been using resolution 1280x760 for about 1 year now, and I never had any problems with it, but after actualization of fluxbox ( to 1.3~ ) it is behaving like this resolution is too high - I have to scroll down screen to see toolbar. Is there any way to correct this behavior, so that I can

Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences files. I first did the minimal system upgrade (apt-get upgrade), followed by the upgrade to the kern

KVM image

2011-03-06 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I can not mount a KVM HDD file - in the VM I create partition on the VM device, format it, latter I can access it in KVM. But when I try to mount the file in host environment (not VM) it requires FS type, when it is specified, it gives usual error - bad SB, mount option, et

Re: repository 'debports' help needed

2011-03-06 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 05:02:34PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> Long ago, well before Squeeze became stable, I supmitted a bug report >> on a package in Squeeze/testing. The fix didn't make it into the >> released version, but a few

Re: Debian-6 booting on old host.

2011-03-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 06 mar 11, 19:20:52, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of day. > > > I can not boot Debian 6 on a very old machine - its screen simply > distorted - just multiple lines. - I have investigated before, here, on > the list, and it was fond at that time that the problem was in X server > settings -

Debian-6 booting on old host.

2011-03-06 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of day. I can not boot Debian 6 on a very old machine - its screen simply distorted - just multiple lines. - I have investigated before, here, on the list, and it was fond at that time that the problem was in X server settings - too high color depth by default, so that adjusting of the

Lenny -> Squeeze : Apache2:LDAP SSL auth not working anymore

2011-03-06 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, after upgrading Lenny to Squeeze, ldap auth over .htacces/virtual-host.config stops working when using SSL. I've searched hours on friday and though packages are missing or broken. Apache2 brings only "Internal Server Error", but nothing in the error/debug logfiles. Apache asks for the use

Re: repository 'debports' help needed

2011-03-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-06, Paul E Condon wrote: > Long ago, well before Squeeze became stable, I supmitted a bug report > on a package in Squeeze/testing. The fix didn't make it into the > released version, but a few days ago I got an email saying a fixed > version was available in sid/unstable. Only, when I

Re: IPv4 messages from Tiger after dist-upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Steven Ayre
They're just configuration settings. You can either set them from the command line using the sysctl commands it gives you, or create a /etc/sysctl.d/something.conf file that contains: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2 net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 2 net.ipv4.conf.default.log_martians = 1

Re: What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/06/2011 02:21 AM, Doug wrote: On 03/06/2011 03:07 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/2011 01:38 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] A message I wrote in reply to a question on the Kubuntu list may be of some help. The message is called "Install Win98 on /dev/sda4" and does not actually install Windows to

Re: repository 'debports' help needed

2011-03-06 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 05:02:34PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > Long ago, well before Squeeze became stable, I supmitted a bug report > on a package in Squeeze/testing. The fix didn't make it into the > released version, but a few days ago I got an email saying a fixed > version was available in s

Re: Flash video stopped working[MAYBE SOLVED]

2011-03-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 04/03/11 17:33, Frank McCormick wrote: This popped into my mailbox a few minutes ago: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/webupd8/~3/N-XaNTty6OQ/fix-pinkred-youtube-videos-bug-using.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email I tried several of the suggestions with Chrome and didn't get fa

Re: FAT filesystem with a directory cycle

2011-03-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:38:36PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/05/2011 11:27 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:23:40PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > >> > >>Show us. Include *everything*. (Snip after 5 lines of repetition.) > > > >Okay, I get that a responsibility of

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-06 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:41 AM, George wrote: > > Something unfortunate happened: I removed grub-pc and installed > grub-legacy, but my computer still boots using grub 1.97! It seems to > work fine now, but I don't like the fact that grub and grub-pc show up > as "not installed" in aptitude, grub-

Re: What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Doug
On 03/06/2011 03:07 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/06/2011 01:38 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] A message I wrote in reply to a question on the Kubuntu list may be of some help. The message is called "Install Win98 on /dev/sda4" and does not actually install Windows to /dev/sda4, but to /sdb1. And it's XP

Re: NFS user id

2011-03-06 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:38 PM, T o n g wrote: > > My /export NFS share is shared with option "rw,no_root_squash,async", > however, on the client side, files from both the root and me are mapped > as uid/gid of 4294967294/4294967294. > > Both the root id and my id are the same on both client serve

What's not cross-posting... (was Re: Adding a bootloader to a Windows partition image)

2011-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/06/2011 01:38 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] A message I wrote in reply to a question on the Kubuntu list may be of some help. The message is called "Install Win98 on /dev/sda4" and does not actually install Windows to /dev/sda4, but to /sdb1. And it's XP, not 98. Anyway, since it is frowned on to