Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

On Sunday 03 April 2011 01:20:10 Scott Ferguson wrote: > I suspect Liam's response was made in jest :-) I'm sure it was - and a successful jest. But mine was not. In that case, context made the date's form redundant, but it _is_ a problem. Not major one, a very minor one. But a problem - an

Re: My posts to list not echoed

On 04/03/2011 12:41 AM, Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hmmm. I just viewed your email source and even though your domain is heard.name, I see gmail buried in there. So, you get a vanity domain and then use {imap,smtp}.googlemail.com? You have likely fingered the problem. Yes, I have,

Re: My posts to list not echoed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > Hmmm. I just viewed your email source and even though your domain is > heard.name, I see gmail buried in there. So, you get a vanity domain > and then use {imap,smtp}.googlemail.com? You have likely fingered the problem. Yes,

Re: wheezy downloading

On 04/02/2011 11:29 PM, wolf python london wrote: On 3 April 2011 12:18, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/02/2011 11:02 PM, ZHAO Lina wrote: [snip] BTW, do I really necessary to burn 8 DVD to install the stable version (p.s no internet connection). To *install* it? No. You only *need* the fi

Re: My posts to list not echoed

On 04/02/2011 11:25 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: All messages are send to all list subscribers. So, for some reason I am not getting sent back to me as a list subscriber the posts I make to the list. As a workaround I move from "sent" to my Icedove "debian-user" folder such posts.

Re: Problem with fonts in console

2011/4/3 James Brown : > On 03.04.2011 04:15, wolf python london wrote: >> On 3 April 2011 11:17, 张启德 wrote: >>> 2011/4/3 James Brown : I use the Debian OS on my laptopAcer TravelMate 3043. Earlier I used Debian Lenny AMD64, which I have upgraded to Debian Squeeze AMD64. >> ~$ d

Re: iceweasel 4 process not closing on exit

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 05:31:41 +0530 L V Gandhi wrote: > Thanks Ron and Simon. > 1)there is no window of firefox/iceweasel left unclosed. I tried > closing by window close button on top right and also by using menu > exit button. 2)Regarding reopening, time delay varied much. In all > cases it is sa

Re: wheezy downloading

On 3 April 2011 12:40, ZHAO Lina wrote: > Further question, > > For the downloaded three > > let's say, > > DVD-1. iso  DVD-1.jigdo   DVD-1.template > > Which one I need to burn on DVD, all of the three or only .iso > jigdo doesn't contain the real data of iso ,it's just a way to get the data . i

Re: Problem with fonts in console

2011/4/3 wolf python london : > On 3 April 2011 11:17, 张启德 wrote: >> 2011/4/3 James Brown : >>> I use the Debian OS on my laptopAcer TravelMate 3043. >>> Earlier I used Debian Lenny AMD64, which I have upgraded to Debian >>> Squeeze AMD64. > ~$ dmesg | grep -i video > [    0.971306] pci

Re: wheezy downloading

debian-6.0.1a-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo 22-Mar-2011 17:12 115K debian-update-6.0.1a-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo

Re: wheezy downloading

Further question, For the downloaded three let's say, DVD-1. iso DVD-1.jigdo DVD-1.template Which one I need to burn on DVD, all of the three or only .iso Thanks, lina

Acer OrbiCam don't work

I have a laptop "Acer TravelMate 3043" with "Acer OrbiCam": $ lsusb Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:0896 Logitech, Inc. OrbiCam That cam don't work: 1) >> > > ~$ mplayer tv:// >> > > MPlayer SVN-r31918 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team >> > > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directo

Re: Problem with fonts in console

On 03.04.2011 04:15, wolf python london wrote: > On 3 April 2011 11:17, 张启德 wrote: >> 2011/4/3 James Brown : >>> I use the Debian OS on my laptopAcer TravelMate 3043. >>> Earlier I used Debian Lenny AMD64, which I have upgraded to Debian >>> Squeeze AMD64. > ~$ dmesg | grep -i video > [

Re: wheezy downloading

On 3 April 2011 12:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/02/2011 11:02 PM, ZHAO Lina wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>  From which links I can download wheezy or sid? >> > > I don't think there's such a thing as a Sid ISO, since it's always in flux. > > Regarding links, are you asking where "the" link is, or are yo

Re: My posts to list not echoed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > All messages are send to all list subscribers. So, for some reason I am not getting sent back to me as a list subscriber the posts I make to the list. As a workaround I move from "sent" to my Icedove "debian-user" folder such pos

Re: wheezy downloading

On 04/02/2011 11:02 PM, ZHAO Lina wrote: Hi, From which links I can download wheezy or sid? I don't think there's such a thing as a Sid ISO, since it's always in flux. Regarding links, are you asking where "the" link is, or are you asking where is the one that's closest to you? In either

Problem with session.el in emacs-goodies-el, Debian whzzey AMD64

** The problem I used Debian whzzey AMD64. After I add the following in my ~/.emacs, the session.el is not work (require 'session) (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'session-initialize) If it works, we will find "Open resently ... changed" and "Open resently ... visited" under the File menu.

Re: Problem with fonts in console

On 3 April 2011 11:17, 张启德 wrote: > 2011/4/3 James Brown : >> I use the Debian OS on my laptopAcer TravelMate 3043. >> Earlier I used Debian Lenny AMD64, which I have upgraded to Debian >> Squeeze AMD64. >>> > ~$ dmesg | grep -i video >>> > [    0.971306] pci :00:02.0: Boot video device >>> >

Re: My posts to list not echoed

On 04/02/2011 10:49 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Maybe I misunderstood Ken's meaning of "echo". Tbird/Icedove will store a copy of each sent message wherever you tell it to store them. Look in Edit->"Account Settings"->(account-name)->"Copies& Folders" Yes, all messages I send

wheezy downloading

Hi, >From which links I can download wheezy or sid? BTW, do I really necessary to burn 8 DVD to install the stable version (p.s no internet connection). Thanks, lina

Re: My posts to list not echoed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > Maybe I misunderstood Ken's meaning of "echo". Tbird/Icedove will store > a copy of each sent message wherever you tell it to store them. Look in > Edit->"Account Settings"->(account-name)->"Copies & Folders" Yes, all messages

Re: Problem with fonts in console

2011/4/3 James Brown : > I use the Debian OS on my laptopAcer TravelMate 3043. > Earlier I used Debian Lenny AMD64, which I have upgraded to Debian > Squeeze AMD64. >> > ~$ dmesg | grep -i video >> > [    0.971306] pci :00:02.0: Boot video device >> > [    5.070696] input: Video Bus as > /devic

Re: apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:27:19 -0400 (EDT), jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > Why do I always have to clean up older versions by hand? > > E.g., linux-doc-2.6 pulls in the latest version automatically, > but if I don't want an ever growing number of older versions accruing, I > have to remove them by

Re: 3D video player

On 04/02/2011 08:49 PM, ceduard0 wrote: 2011/4/2 r-cassim: hi all, Is there any 3D video player for debian lenny or there any how to for playing 3D video Helo, see this game, flightgear[1], this is a flight simulator. [1]http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml#linux Or is he as

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

I'm getting behind (or maybe I started there). On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 23:04:49 + (UTC), Liam O'Toole wrote: > The log files under /var/log/cups on the host > OS will contain information on any refused connections. If I try to set up a network printer on XP at http://192.168.1.2:631/printers/L

Re: My posts to list not echoed

On 04/02/2011 08:37 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 04/02/2011 09:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and distributed. I used to have all my posts echoed an

Re: My posts to list not echoed

On 02/04/11 09:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and distributed. I used to have all my posts echoed a

Re: 3D video player

2011/4/2 r-cassim : > hi all, > > Is there any 3D video player for debian lenny > > or there any how to for playing 3D video > Helo, see this game, flightgear[1], this is a flight simulator. [1]http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml#linux > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: My posts to list not echoed

On 04/02/2011 08:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and distributed. I used to have all my posts echoed and wondered why now they are not. Is such ec

Re: My posts to list not echoed

On 04/02/2011 09:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and distributed. I used to have all my posts echoed

My posts to list not echoed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and distributed. I used to have all my posts echoed and wondered why now they are not. Is such

Re: Package ms-windows promoted from non-free to main!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 02 April 2011 07:03:20 Ken Heard wrote: >> Equo ne credite Teucri. >> Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes. >> >> Do not trust the horse, Trojans. >> Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks bearing gifts. > > I fear the

Re: apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

In <87d3l4tc0o@jidanni.org>, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >Why do I always have to clean up older versions by hand? > >E.g., linux-doc-2.6 pulls in the latest version automatically, >but if I don't want an ever growing number of older versions accruing, I >have to remove them by hand. > ># apt-sh

Re: [SOLVED] Serial Connection

On 03/04/11 02:07, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:02:38 -0400 (EDT), MAROUNI Abbass wrote: > I also used to have an IBM PS/2 Model 70. The UART on its motherboard > is a 16550A. According to the manufacturer's specifications, the > 16550A is capable of operating at speeds of up

apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

Why do I always have to clean up older versions by hand? E.g., linux-doc-2.6 pulls in the latest version automatically, but if I don't want an ever growing number of older versions accruing, I have to remove them by hand. # apt-show-versions -r -p ^linux-doc linux-doc-2.6/unstable uptodate 1:2.6.

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

On 02/04/11 23:35, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:23:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Why not use the Debian standard?? ^ It *was* a question, and I *was* soliciting an answer. >> Reasoning - it's already been extensively debated *and* voted on, it's a >> system already

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

On 04/02/2011 06:31 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In<4d96a8c3.9080...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) and *monumentally shortsighted* (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). What ma

Re: iceweasel 4 process not closing on exit

Thanks Ron and Simon. 1)there is no window of firefox/iceweasel left unclosed. I tried closing by window close button on top right and also by using menu exit button. 2)Regarding reopening, time delay varied much. In all cases it is same. Further when I restart iceweasel starts on its own. On Sat,

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

In <4d96a8c3.9080...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck >says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) >and *monumentally shortsighted* >(did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). What makes you say this is UNIX time? The UNIX standard pro

Re: Autodetect proxy not working in Iceweasel

Hi, Camaleón. On Wednesday, 30 March 2011 14:25:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > > I just installed Squid on a host of my house with Debian Squeeze. > > Then I added in my DHCP server the following configuration options: > > > > option wpad code 252 = text; > > option wpad "http://wpad.freesoftware/p

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

Le 02/04/2011 22:33, Steve Kleene a écrit : > I have a Wheezy host, an XP virtualbox client, and an old LaserJet 5MP > configured with CUPS and connected by a parallel port. How can I access this > printer from the XP client? > > In XP Add Printer, I tried to define a network printer at these URL

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

On 2011-04-02, Steve Kleene wrote: >> What sort of networking >> are you using in virtualbox? Can you tell us more about the network >> configuration within the XP guest OS? > > The virtualbox manager says > Adapter 1: PCnet-FAST III (NAT) OK, that's the default. We have established elsewhere t

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

On 2011-04-02, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:52:13 + (UTC), Liam O'Toole replied: > >> Instead tell it >> to connect to the virtual private address 10.0.2.0 or similar; see the >> output of the route command on the guest to determine the precise >> gateway address. > > Route didn

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

> What sort of networking > are you using in virtualbox? Can you tell us more about the network > configuration within the XP guest OS? The virtualbox manager says Adapter 1: PCnet-FAST III (NAT) /etc/cups/printers.conf (see the original post) does say that the printer is shared. At the CUPS w

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:52:13 + (UTC), Liam O'Toole replied: > Instead tell it > to connect to the virtual private address 10.0.2.0 or similar; see the > output of the route command on the guest to determine the precise > gateway address. Route didn't give me such an address, but ipconfig /all

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

On 2011-04-02, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:33:25 + (UTC), I wrote: > >> I have a Wheezy host, an XP virtualbox client, and an old LaserJet 5MP >> configured with CUPS and connected by a parallel port. How can I access this >> printer from the XP client? > > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 04/02/2011 04:17 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] But it's good to know that cheap video cards are available. And monitors. Acer 17" 4:3 LCD for $97 w/ free shipping. (But obviously that's 3x as expensive as the video card.) -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will se

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:33:25 + (UTC), I wrote: > I have a Wheezy host, an XP virtualbox client, and an old LaserJet 5MP > configured with CUPS and connected by a parallel port. How can I access this > printer from the XP client? On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:52:13 + (UTC), Liam O'Toole replied:

re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:16:29 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > > Time to accept the reality that time has passed by the Riva TNT2. > > NewEgg sells an AGP8X GeForce 5200 for $30 and GeForce 6200 for $35, and > they might be even cheaper on eBay. I replace hardware when it no longer meets my nee

Re: How come dist-upgrade needed in lenny?

On 2011-04-02, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > Lenny can not install bind9 update in the usual upgrade way, because > this upgrade needs two package removals and two new packages to be > installed. I think this should be mentioned in the security note of this > bind9 upgrade or otherwise inform users s

Fallacy of rebooting after updates (was Re: FAT: Filesystem panic)

On 04/02/2011 03:23 PM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: [snip] Hm, up to date Lenny with 5374942 seconds uptime? Maybe you should reboot after you do an update? Not sure how update works but if it only changes the files, and not the images of running kernel or processes... And if you do several upda

Re: accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

On 2011-04-02, Steve Kleene wrote: > I have a Wheezy host, an XP virtualbox client, and an old LaserJet 5MP > configured with CUPS and connected by a parallel port. How can I access this > printer from the XP client? > > In XP Add Printer, I tried to define a network printer at these URLs: > >

3D video player

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Re: dpkg bug regarding dependencies?

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 09:40:30PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > is this a bug in dpkg or did I miss something regarding the versioned > > dependency handling? > > This seems to be bug #20471?. Ah, thanks for pointing this out, haven't noticed it with reportbug/bugs.d.o. I actually wonder why t

accessing shared printed from virtualbox client

I have a Wheezy host, an XP virtualbox client, and an old LaserJet 5MP configured with CUPS and connected by a parallel port. How can I access this printer from the XP client? In XP Add Printer, I tried to define a network printer at these URLs: http://127.0.0.1:631/printers/LaserJet_5MP htt

Re: sshd is starting niced -2 on it's own?

On 03/26/2011 12:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Hello list. I am on Debian 5 (Lenny), always keep it up-to-date (per "aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade"), and I have a problem that I don't know how to solve (or have any idea how it appeared in the first place.) The problem is that all proc

Problem with fonts in console

I use the Debian OS on my laptopAcer TravelMate 3043. Earlier I used Debian Lenny AMD64, which I have upgraded to Debian Squeeze AMD64. > > ~$ dmesg | grep -i video > > [0.971306] pci :00:02.0: Boot video device > > [5.070696] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 2011-04-02 22:16 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/02/2011 12:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > [snip] >> >> My video card has a RIVA TNT2 chipset, which is no longer supported by >> the proprietary nvidia driver. (The legacy 71xx driver supports it, > > Time to accept the reality that time has p

Re: FAT: Filesystem panic

On 2011-04-01 13:06, George Chelidze wrote: > I'v got 2 boxes running squeeze and lenny, both up to date. On a box > with squeeze, I copied 1.8G images to a 2G flash drive and tried to move > them to my lenny box. After mounting a drive (hal) on a lenny box cpu > jumped to 100%, and after about 30

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 04/02/2011 12:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] My video card has a RIVA TNT2 chipset, which is no longer supported by the proprietary nvidia driver. (The legacy 71xx driver supports it, Time to accept the reality that time has passed by the Riva TNT2. NewEgg sells an AGP8X GeForce 5200

Re: Gnucash

lee mary wrote at 2011-04-02 07:07 -0500: > I am using the Gnucash now. In the account registry, I need to use the TAB > key to move forward which is not so convenient for me. I wonder whether there > are any software I can use to control the function key on the keyboard to > replace the TAB key

getting nouveau to work on my PC (was Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 4/2/11 3:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 10:24 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working and fai

Re: dpkg bug regarding dependencies?

On 2011-04-02 21:22 +0200, Wolfgang Karall wrote: > Hello, > > when trying to work around > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620088 I downgraded > nfs-common to the version in testing, which actually worked, even though > nfs-kernel-server has a versioned dependency on nfs-common (

dpkg bug regarding dependencies?

Hello, when trying to work around http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620088 I downgraded nfs-common to the version in testing, which actually worked, even though nfs-kernel-server has a versioned dependency on nfs-common (see below), is this a bug in dpkg or did I miss something reg

Kmail and Scribus 1.5.0 on Debian Testing.

I have been a Slackware guy for more than a decade, but recently I have encountered an intractable problem. I really need two programs for my daily work. Slack 13.0 will handle Kmail like a champ but because of elderly version of Qt4 won't compile the developmental package Scribus 1.5.0. Sla

How come dist-upgrade needed in lenny?

Lenny can not install bind9 update in the usual upgrade way, because this upgrade needs two package removals and two new packages to be installed. I think this should be mentioned in the security note of this bind9 upgrade or otherwise inform users so they do not waste time figuring out what is

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:49:39 -0400 (EDT), Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > > I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. > I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working > and failed. > ... I see you already found a solution from other posters. But be glad that you had an nv driver to go ba

Re: Certification for Debian

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 09:37:13PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > Are there certification courses available for debian ? As far as I know LPI[0] is the closest you can get. Sven [0] http://www.lpi.org/ -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fis

Certification for Debian

Hi, Are there certification courses available for debian ? Please guide. Thanks Kaushal

[SOLVED] Serial Connection

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:02:38 -0400 (EDT), MAROUNI Abbass wrote: > > Sorry forgot to mention that we are in Paris and the datacenter is in > Amsterdam. So no physical access to the servers. For your production environment, perhaps. But you led us to believe that you had two local servers side-by

Re: Cannot update wheezy

Stephen Powell wowway.com> writes: > > I had the same problem about a week ago. The solution is to do > a full-upgrade instead of a safe-upgrade. The problem is caused by > libre-office packages taking the place of open-office packages. > full-upgrade allows packages to be deleted, safe-upgrad

Re: iceweasel 4 process not closing on exit

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: > When ever I close iceweasel 4 in squeeze, process is not closing. > Hence if I restart iceweasel, it says process is running, first close > running process. > I saw from ps -ax as follows > 2111 ?    Rl 1:41 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin

Re: iceweasel 4 process not closing on exit

On 04/02/2011 08:44 AM, L V Gandhi wrote: When ever I close iceweasel 4 in squeeze, process is not closing. Hence if I restart iceweasel, it says process is running, first close running process. I saw from ps -ax as follows 2111 ?Rl 1:41 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin --sm-config-pref

iceweasel 4 process not closing on exit

When ever I close iceweasel 4 in squeeze, process is not closing. Hence if I restart iceweasel, it says process is running, first close running process. I saw from ps -ax as follows 2111 ?Rl 1:41 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin --sm-config-prefix /firefox-bin-c5rQTp/ --sm-client-id 10cdd

Re: Graphics - Radeon HD 5000 lock-ups

On 04/02/2011 07:25 AM, C. Hurschler wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 09:57 AM, C. Hurschler wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an inexpensive alternative, does anyone have any experience with the GeForce 8400GS? I put a fanless 8400GS in my wife/kids' PC. It's che

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:23:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Why not use the Debian standard?? > Reasoning - it's already been extensively debated *and* voted on, it's a > system already in place, it's the "Debian" way. > > (Is there more than one (Debian standard)?) > > >From :- > http://www.

Re: Graphics - Radeon HD 5000 lock-ups

On Friday 01 April 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:30:28 +0200, C. Hurschler wrote: > > On Friday 01 April 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > > > BTW the card seems to be a "Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450]" > > > >> Have you tried another driver (for example, "radeon" or an updated > >> version

Re: Graphics - Radeon HD 5000 lock-ups

On Saturday 02 April 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/01/2011 09:57 AM, C. Hurschler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for an inexpensive alternative, does anyone have any > > experience with the GeForce 8400GS? > > I put a fanless 8400GS in my wife/kids' PC. It's cheap, handles compiz > just f

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On Saturday 02 April 2011 12:18:03 Simon Hollenbach wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl > > wrote: > > It's neither a hack nor a joke.  See our announcement at > > http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110401 > > In my eyes that's the only thing you cant do on 1st April

Gnucash

Dear Sir/Madam I am using the Gnucash now. In the account registry, I need to use the TAB key to move forward which is not so convenient for me. I wonder whether there are any software I can use to control the function key on the keyboard to replace the TAB key. Regards, Mary Lee

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

On 04/02/2011 12:45 AM, Doug wrote: On 04/02/2011 12:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) and *monumentally shortsighted* (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). OpenVMS does it one of the two R

Issues with scponlyc on amd64 squeeze final release. [solved with patch]

Hi Thomas, [maintainer Thomas Wana] Squeeze package: # dpkg-query -l|grep scponly ii scponly 4.8-4.1 I sent you an email about issues I was having with scponly package, but you never replied :( However, I've now solved the problem and am providing a patch

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

On 04/02/2011 12:18 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/04/11 15:40, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 11:17 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson [snip] Why not use the Debian standard?? day-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > It's neither a hack nor a joke.  See our announcement at > http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110401 > In my eyes that's the only thing you cant do on 1st April, state that your prank aint one. Followed up by a "Head of Executive

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 2011-04-02 10:24 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: >> >>> I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. >>> I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working >>> and failed. >> >> I'm sorry that

Re: WLAN stick

It's a good idea to run update-usb-ids regularly since that script goes out to a central web site and updates available devices support. On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 01. 04. 2011 12:47:30 je Klistvud napisal(a): > >Dne, 01. 04. 2011 12:26:56 je Paul van der Vlis napisal(a): > > > >

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

On 2011-04-02, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/01/2011 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: --- SNIP --- >> Here in Spain we celebrate it on December 28th instead. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Other_prank_days_in_the_world >> > > What part of "Cultural Imperialism" don't you understand???

Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

On 2011-04-02, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/04/11 09:00, Lisi wrote: --- SNIP --- >> When is English English going to get a look in?? I work in OOo without a >> spell checker because I am so fed up with being told that honor is right and >> honour is wrong, fantasize is right and fantasise is

Re: Package ms-windows promoted from non-free to main!

On Saturday 02 April 2011 07:03:20 Ken Heard wrote: > Equo ne credite Teucri. > Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes. > > Do not trust the horse, Trojans. > Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks bearing gifts. I fear the Greeks _even_ when they bear gifts. That "et" is important! Lisi -

Re: Composite video from a Compaq Armada e500 to a Panasonic flat TV.

On Jo, 31 mar 11, 10:34:33, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Any ideas on finding a resolution and refresh rate in X that will > give the TV an acceptable signal? Another setting in X? Is a sync > adjustment in the menu of the Panasonic likely to solve it? Is a > trim pot. in the Panasonic like

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 04/02/2011 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working and failed. I'm sorry that nouveau did not work for you. Could you please elaborate what the

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 04/02/2011 12:34 AM, Kent West wrote: On 4/2/11 1:49 AM, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: I rebooted, but X won't work. Near the end of Xorg.0.log has the following message: (EE) NV: Kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load Indeed, nouveau.ko and its dependent drivers (eg., drm_kms_heler.k

Using tar and gpg from Konqueror

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While experimenting with tar and gpg files I discovered that right clicking on a file or directory name in Konqueror with gnugp installed behaves differently depending on its location. If the file or directory is located on an ext3 or xfs hard drive,

Re: which ISO image shall I use?/ Qué imagen ISO debo usar?

Alberto Luaces writes: > Gustavo Marcano writes: > >> greetings, just want to make sure which ISO image should I use to >> install Debian squeeze on my laptop (compaq presario CQ-50) which use >> an AMD Semprom (tm) SI-40 2 Ghz processor? >> >> I ask this because I tried to do it with x-86 archite

Re: which ISO image shall I use?/ Qué imagen ISO debo usar?

Gustavo Marcano writes: > greetings, just want to make sure which ISO image should I use to > install Debian squeeze on my laptop (compaq presario CQ-50) which use > an AMD Semprom (tm) SI-40 2 Ghz processor? > > I ask this because I tried to do it with x-86 architecture, but it > kept presenting

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On Sat 02 Apr 2011 at 09:43:55 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Blacklist the nouveau module or boot with nouveau.modeset=0. See > http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting. Having GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0" in /etc/default/grub saves some typing at every boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Android / Rythymbox

I hope someone here can help; I cant see my Android handset in any media player, so cant sync to it. It is visible as a mounted drive in gnome, and I can access it without issue. However Rythmbox, banshee et all will not show it. And I dont have a clue where to start to see why. Anyone come across

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 2011-04-02 09:43 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Better also check wether nouveau did blacklist the nv kernel module... There is no nv kernel module, and nouveau does not blacklist anything. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On 2011-04-02 08:49 +0200, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > I'm running Debian Squeeze amd64. > I'm trying to go back to using nv after trying to get nouveau working > and failed. I'm sorry that nouveau did not work for you. Could you please elaborate what the problem was? > I purged the two packages I

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 09:34:10AM CEST, Kent West said: > On 4/2/11 1:49 AM, Fumiaki Okushi wrote: > > I rebooted, but X won't work. > > Near the end of Xorg.0.log has the following message: > > > > (EE) NV: Kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load > > > > Indeed, nouveau.ko and its dep

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