2011/4/17 Varuna Seneviratna :
> > I am trying to install from a CD image of 180MB, On the way I am asked to
> > select a Mirror and also a proxy,
This may sound basic, but have you undertaken an agreement with an Internet
Service Provider?
Did you fill in all the equired information when your mo
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:33:27 +
Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
> Yes, sure!
>
> But I'm trying just to cat file.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing
> happens if I plug the printer directly to the onboard serial,
> then the content of the file is printed when I do cat file.txt
> > /dev/ttyS0!
>
> yur
Hoang Le put forth on 4/18/2011 9:55 PM:
> Dear Stan,
>
> Unfortuntately, my PC don't have an option to control fan speed in BIOS.
> Just one option: "Fan always on on AC power". This machine run really
> quietly. Is there anyway to check the fan speed from Linux?
I just realized after re-reading
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:33:27 +
Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
> Yes, sure!
>
> But I'm trying just to cat file.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing
> happens if I plug the printer directly to the onboard serial,
> then the content of the file is printed when I do cat file.txt
> > /dev/ttyS0!
>
man s
2011/4/17 Varuna Seneviratna :
> I am trying to install from a CD image of 180MB, On the way I am asked to
> select a Mirror and also a proxy, I am Using a router to connect to the
> Internet. I selected a mirror and left the proxy information blank.The
> Installation process displays a message th
Leonardo Ruoso put forth on 4/18/2011 8:34 PM:
> I have a computer without the old rs232, it's like a netbook, but it's
> running lenny. I need to plug a termal serial printer to it. usb to serial
> adapter (prolific chip) should be okay, but didn't work. When back at home,
> just plugged the print
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:33:27 +
Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
> Yes, sure!
>
> But I'm trying just to cat file.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing
> happens if I plug the printer directly to the onboard serial,
> then the content of the file is printed when I do cat file.txt
> > /dev/ttyS0!
>
you s
Dear Stan,
Unfortuntately, my PC don't have an option to control fan speed in BIOS.
Just one option: "Fan always on on AC power". This machine run really
quietly. Is there anyway to check the fan speed from Linux?
Thank you
Hoang Le
If you have the option of putting temp/fan speed under BIOS co
shawn wilson put forth on 4/18/2011 9:35 PM:
> You could also get a print server like an HP jetdirect and print to the
> server's ip.
HP does not sell an external ethernet to serial print server, only
ethernet to parallel.
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On 19 April 2011 10:34, Greg Madden wrote:
>
>
> On Monday 18 April 2011 12:20:13 pm Heddle Weaver wrote:
> > Using this programme on a Debian SID base. When I used OO Impress, I had
> > access to a full range of presentation backgrounds, which I believe came
> by
> > way of a separate package in
On Apr 18, 2011 10:16 PM, wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:34:37 +
> Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
>
> > I have a computer without the old rs232, it's like a netbook, but it's
> > running lenny. I need to plug a termal serial printer to it. usb to
> > serial adapter (prolific chip) should be okay, b
Yes, sure!
But I'm trying just to cat file.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing happens
if I plug the printer directly to the onboard serial, then the content of
the file is printed when I do cat file.txt > /dev/ttyS0!
2011/4/19
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:34:37 +
> Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
>
> >
Steven Rosenberg put forth on 4/18/2011 6:58 PM:
> On 04/15/2011 12:49 PM, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote:
>>> FWIW: O'Reilly published a Special Edition book LEARNING DEBIAN
>>> GNU/LINUX (c. 1999). It was a very good introduction and step-by-step
>>> guide to installing and using Debian. I got it for
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:34:37 +
Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
> I have a computer without the old rs232, it's like a netbook, but it's
> running lenny. I need to plug a termal serial printer to it. usb to
> serial adapter (prolific chip) should be okay, but didn't work. When
> back at home, just plugg
On 4/10/11 6:22 AM, Whit Hansell wrote:
> Re Windows and ISO's. 'Doze "don't do ISO's." IOW you can't use a
> native Windows MS product to burn ISO's to CD.
(For the archives)
Windows 7 does burn ISOs natively. You just right click and "Burn disc
image". It also supports verification of the di
I have a computer without the old rs232, it's like a netbook, but it's
running lenny. I need to plug a termal serial printer to it. usb to serial
adapter (prolific chip) should be okay, but didn't work. When back at home,
just plugged the printer to the serial and it worked. Plugged through
usbseri
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:29:26 -0400 (EDT), James Allsopp wrote:
>
> ...
> Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary
> nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can
> point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be
> very grate
On 19 April 2011 10:06, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
>
>
> "Practicing" installing the system and doing it a bunch of times also helps
> a lot.
Massive
A bunch? I've done it a million times more than necessary and everytime I've
learnt something. I've fallen asleep over the keyboard installing for
On Monday 18 April 2011 12:20:13 pm Heddle Weaver wrote:
> Using this programme on a Debian SID base. When I used OO Impress, I had
> access to a full range of presentation backgrounds, which I believe came by
> way of a separate package install. I can't see an equivalent package for LO
> Impress
Sorry. That should have gone to the list.
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From: Heddle Weaver
Date: 19 April 2011 10:33
Subject: Re: New to Linux
To: Steven Rosenberg
On 19 April 2011 09:58, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> On 04/15/2011 12:49 PM, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote:
>
>> FWIW: O'Re
On 04/16/2011 11:05 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Actually, if a new user reads the contents of debian-reference before
doing much else with Debian they'll solve that problem. The problem
behind that is that debian-reference doesn't install by default on
systems. A question like "Are you new to Linu
On 04/15/2011 12:49 PM, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote:
FWIW: O'Reilly published a Special Edition book LEARNING DEBIAN
GNU/LINUX (c. 1999). It was a very good introduction and step-by-step
guide to installing and using Debian. I got it for free from the Debian
booth at Las Vegas COMDEX 1999. This w
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:34:52AM +0200, Bj?rn Michelsen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
>
> > I am starting to feel that the database of all that is one these
> > disks is not available to me. Are the disks perhaps flawed? (hard
> > to believe, since the
Andrej Kacian writes:
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:45:58 +0200
> kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) wrote:
>
>>It has two disks WDC WD1001FALS in raid5 array (md0)
>
> Hello,
>
> just out of curiosity, why did you choose raid5 for a two-disk setup?
Sorry for late reply; Simply: I plan to add anoth
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 05:32:05PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
Hey there,
> I've been running Debian since 'sarge' was new -- other distributions
> before that -- and on Saturday I finally made the move from 'etch'
> to 'squeeze'. I reinstalled, using my eight DVDs that I had bought
> from Linu
Assembled Wisdom!
I've been running Debian since 'sarge' was new -- other distributions
before that -- and on Saturday I finally made the move from 'etch'
to 'squeeze'. I reinstalled, using my eight DVDs that I had bought
from LinuxCollections.com.
The install went beautifully, and my system is
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:06:35PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> If you have the option of putting temp/fan speed under BIOS control
> instead of operating system control, I'd do so, always.
>
> Putting such things under software control is one of the dumbest things
> this industry ever did. Usin
Do you have nvidia-glx installed? That's what I think you need.
Install nouveau (that should clean out all the Debian nvidia stuff) then
clean out the nvidia stuff that you installed privately, then install
nvidia-glx.
On 04/18/2011 11:28 AM, James Allsopp wrote:
Hi,
I've recently after Sq
If on a dhcp network, the router has to talk dhcp that's for sure.
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
> On 18 April 2011 09:29, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Nobody on this list can answer that question for you unless one of your
> > organization's network administrators also is on this e
* T. o. n. g.:
> On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:20:45 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> I would like to automate the process of setting up KVM virtual machines
>> (containing lenny and squeeze images). The straightforward doesn't work
>> because the installer does not seem to support a serial console, an
Mark Fletcher put forth on 4/18/2011 9:52 AM:
> The only issue is that I don't have enough spare power connectors on my
> PC's power supply to attach both the new and the old disks at the same
> time.
> What I want to know is how can I remove the current drive from the
> filesystem so I can remov
Using this programme on a Debian SID base. When I used OO Impress, I had
access to a full range of presentation backgrounds, which I believe came by
way of a separate package install. I can't see an equivalent package for LO
Impress in Aptitude. No news from an extremely slow Freenode #libreoffice
Leonardo Cuyar Morales put forth on 4/18/2011 9:13 AM:
> I installed ntpdate pkg in squeeze but the command don't work
The most common cause of this is that ntpdate won't execute if ntpd is
running and thus holding the socket. For example:
[root@greer]~$ ntpdate tick.wustl.edu
18 Apr 15:10:58 nt
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:25:35AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Freeman wrote:
>
> >Nice skit but there is misinformation in the "what if." The Debian list page
> >has a form for unsubscribing/subscribing multiple lists. Confirming a
> >subscription/unsubscription is a one
Hoang Le put forth on 4/18/2011 5:54 AM:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using Squeeze on HP 6930p. I notice that temperatures on Windows 7 are
> much better. Currently, with only Compiz enabled, my temperatures are around
> 60C. I can really feel the heat under my hands.
>
> I looked around the web for solu
Andrei, Stan and Paul:
Thanks for the replies. I was unaware that "/dev/disk/*"
existed. I must have missed that lesson during the last upgrade.
I appreciate your assistance.
Regards from Calgary,
Dean
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Well, from personal experience, I can tell you it isn't "1 mail" to change
your address. The unsubscribe request gets a reply, the subscribe request
needs confirmation, and the confirmation gets a reply. So, to change your
address on one list,
On 04/17/2011 07:50 PM, dbu.sat.nobrai...@antichef.com wrote:
> How can I restore full gnome login? Only a gnome-failsafe session
> works now.
>
> /var/log/gdm/:0.log shows:
> FATAL: Module fbcon not found
> SELinux disabled on system, no enabling in X
>
> $HOME/.xsession-errors shows:
> /etc/gdm
In , Pierre
Frenkiel wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
>>> "how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?"
>>
>> What difference do you think there is between those 2 operations?
>> Hint: none at all.
>
> your arithmetic seems curious.
>
> For 1 list: 4
Hi,
I've recently after Squeeze went stable, changed my sources.list from
having the keyword testing to stable.
I've tried
apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-nvidia-glx
apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-kernel-dkms
which reinstalled those files but I think that there may be a linking
problem in
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, James Allsopp wrote:
On 18/04/11 13:56, Erwan David wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp
said:
Hi, My source.list has the following;
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stab
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:52:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Anyway the disk concerned is a 1TB disk on which is mounted /opt, so I
> feel I should be able to replace it without major hassle. I have already
> backed it up fully to NAS.
>
> The only issue is that I don't have enough spare power
Jude,
There is a fundamental misconcepting about the real world here. You
presume that everyone everywhere belongs to an organization that has
a thing called 'network administrator' and that this thing is able to
receive messages from real world humans-in-the-wild.
I think that the fact that OP m
Hello the list!
My Debian (wheezy am464, upgraded from an original squeeze install)
system started complaining yesterday that one of my hard disks is about
to fail. I suspect it suffered damage in the earthquake that recently
hit Japan (I'm in Tokyo) and has been quietly deteriorating since.
Anyw
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 04:47:10PM +0200, Davide Baldini wrote:
> Wikipedia reads: "Support for Intel GMA graphic cards
> has been accepted in version 2.6.29 which was released
> on March 23, 2009."
>
> May it be easier to try a prior 2.6.29 kernel instead
> of disabling kms?
Maybe - but squeeze
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:41:35AM -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> Arvind, 11.04.2011:
> >
> > Over the weekend, i had time to investigate some more. I purged Xorg
> > and all its dependencies. Since my graphics card is intel, X only
> > requires xserver-xorg-video-intel, xserver-xorg-video-vesa,
Hi all,
I'm using Debian sid on a Dell XPS, Core i7 with Nvidia. The battery
duration and the fan control is much better on Windows 7 than on
Debian, unfortunately. I'm trying to improve this situation, so
1) Can I trust on powertop and implement what it is telling me to do?
For example, I cannot
open /etc/default/ntpdate and change the NTP_SERVERS variable with your ntp
server .
After launch with "ntpdate-debian" .
2011/4/18 Estelmann, Christian
> Check the config of your ntp-server. Is your client-IP allowed to access
> the server?
> Is there any firewall between your client and your
Check the config of your ntp-server. Is your client-IP allowed to access
the server?
Is there any firewall between your client and your server? ntp uses port
123 udp. Is the ntp-server pingable?
Am 18.04.2011 16:57, schrieb Leonardo Cuyar Morales:
I'm in root session.
There's no an error messa
On Monday 18 April 2011 09:38:52 James Allsopp wrote:
> Done, that and still get the same error; full output is
> Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Op 18-04-11 15:37, Estelmann, Christian schreef:
> What do you mean with "don't work"? Any error messages?
>
> You have to run ntpdate as root.
> snb01:~# /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp0.rrze.uni-erlangen.de
> 18 Apr 15:36:36 ntpdate[2968]: adjust time server 131.188.3.220 offset
> -0.000236 sec
>
>
> Am
Hi,
thanks for the help.
Am Montag, den 18.04.2011, 20:34 +0900 schrieb Joel Rees:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:06 PM, adris wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > how can you undo the permission "Always Trust this Publisher", once you
> > checked that box for a signed applet in Iceweasel.
>
> (Shooting from th
Done, that and still get the same error; full output is
Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
What do you mean with "don't work"? Any error messages?
You have to run ntpdate as root.
snb01:~# /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp0.rrze.uni-erlangen.de
18 Apr 15:36:36 ntpdate[2968]: adjust time server 131.188.3.220 offset
-0.000236 sec
Am 18.04.2011 16:13, schrieb Leonardo Cuyar Morales:
I installed
Aptitude is reporting the subject-referenced error for lots of
directories, after what appears to be a successful download.
Patrick
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Hello.
I think, i make a mistake. For a slapcat output theses 2 lines :
/unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery.
recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are
encountered. /
are not an error !
Simply it's because the slapd is running. If i do an ldapadd wi
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:41:46PM CEST, James Allsopp
said:
> Hi,
> My source.list has the following;
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
"how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?"
What difference do you think there is between those 2 operations?
Hint: none at all.
your arithmetic seems curious.
For 1 list: 4 clicks / 2 replies / 6 mails
For 11 lists
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:41:46 +0100
James Allsopp wrote:
Hello James,
> but I'm not sure what you mean about reloading?
Any time you update your sources you need to reload the package list, to
ensure you've got the most up to date list of packages. Using aptitude,
that's a
# aptitude update
S
On 04/18/2011 05:06 PM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
I Think as I have noted in a previous message I ran into this problem
because my router was not DHCP enabled. I will try again latter
Varuna
Enable DHCP and run the setup. Also, just to be on the sure side, check
and see if the network interface
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 08:34:47PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> On 16 April 2011 18:39, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Lisi wrote:
> >
> >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org
> >> with a subject of "unsubscribe".
> >>
> >> Have you tried this? Yo
On 18 April 2011 09:19, Lisi wrote:
>
> -- Forwarded Message --
>
> Subject: Re: When installing from a CD image How to Gain Internet Access using
> a router and What is to Enter as Proxy information?
> Date: Monday 18 April 2011
> From: Varuna Seneviratna
> To: Lisi
>
> On 18
Hi,
My source.list has the following;
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates mai
On 18 April 2011 09:29, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Nobody on this list can answer that question for you unless one of your
> organization's network administrators also is on this email list in
> which case if you're allowed to have that information that network
> administrator will not post it on this
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:50:51 +0100
James Allsopp wrote:
Hello James,
> I get this happening
> Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
Looks as though you haven't got "non-free" included. Add that, reload
and try again.
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:06 PM, adris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can you undo the permission "Always Trust this Publisher", once you
> checked that box for a signed applet in Iceweasel.
(Shooting from the hip, here, but, ...) I think the quickest way is to
remove the corresponding certificate.
You go
Hi there,
I'm using Squeeze on HP 6930p. I notice that temperatures on Windows 7 are
much better. Currently, with only Compiz enabled, my temperatures are around
60C. I can really feel the heat under my hands.
I looked around the web for solutions but haven't succeeded yet. Installed
fancontrol b
I get this happening
Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
so not really sure where to go from here.
Jim
On 18/04/11 11:43, Erwan David wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29:26PM CEST, James Allsopp
> said:
>> Hi,
>> Not rea
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29:26PM CEST, James Allsopp
said:
> Hi,
> Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary
> nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can
> point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be
> very grateful
Hi,
Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary
nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can
point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be
very grateful.
Also I find the whole kernel situation in Debian quite confusing as
op
Nobody on this list can answer that question for you unless one of your
organization's network administrators also is on this email list in
which case if you're allowed to have that information that network
administrator will not post it on this list. To explain, what you have
is a problem loc
Hi,
how can you undo the permission "Always Trust this Publisher", once you
checked that box for a signed applet in Iceweasel. The applet is being
loaded with the IcedTea6 Plugin and run by OpenJDK-6-JRE.
iceweasel 3.5.16-6
icedtea6-plugin 6b18-1.8.3-2
openjdk-6-jre 6b18-1.8.3-2+squeeze1
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Subject: Re: When installing from a CD image How to Gain Internet Access using
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Date: Monday 18 April 2011
From: Varuna Seneviratna
To: Lisi
On 18 April 2011 11:57, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 18 April 2
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Freeman wrote:
Nice skit but there is misinformation in the "what if." The Debian list page
has a form for unsubscribing/subscribing multiple lists. Confirming a
subscription/unsubscription is a one-click proportion and would be
necessary for a address change function too,
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:53:27 +0530
Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
> I am trying to install from a CD image of 180MB, On the way I am
> asked to select a Mirror and also a proxy, I am Using a router to
> connect to the Internet. I selected a mirror and left the proxy
> information blank.The Installati
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