Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/01/2011 01:34 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] Maybe I missed something along the way, but I think there is a more-or- less standard that just chops the sides off wide-screen pictures and fills the screen with the center 4x3 section of picture. That's called pan-and-scan, and you must manually spec

Re: Why had emacs 23 become so ugly?

2011-04-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-01 04:46 +0200, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, 01 May 2011 02:21:25 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I'm still running squeeze. For some reason, when I run emacs now, it >> dieplays all my C and C++ files with a variable-width font, in which the >> indentations I've been using have becom

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Doug
On 04/30/2011 11:53 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In<20110430212842.ga16...@debian.jeff>, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:04:37PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I think he wants the black bars. What he doesn't want is for the video to get stretched to fill the screen, wrecking the

Re: specific kernel configuration for graphic card driver

2011-04-30 Thread lina
Thanks for providing me the links and information. Part 1: last time I tried that one (install from squeeze one), it popped some errors like: $ more /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.831.2/source -> /usr/src/fglrx-8.831.2 DKMS: add Comple

Re: file systems

2011-04-30 Thread shawn wilson
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 4/26/2011 5:58 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> you know, i don't mind religious debates - vi vs emacs, mac vs >> windows, iphone vs android, fibre vs iscsi, trustedbsd vs selinux, >> and... xfs vs ext. however, i like an educated debate whe

Re: file systems

2011-04-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/29/2011 1:51 PM, prad wrote: Ron Johnson writes: On 04/29/2011 01:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 4/26/2011 5:40 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: But not being able to fsck the fs that I just created is unacceptable. Again, 'xfs_repair -n' is functionally equivalent to 'xfs_check'. They are two

Re: Why has emacs 23 become so ugly?

2011-04-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-05-01T02:35:30Z * Hendrik Boom wrote: > Directory listings no longer line up, and are that much more > unreadable. I think it's because "ls" command have changed its default date and time format to "locale" and some locales don't not return fixed-width strings. Here's the fix to add in you

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian

2011-04-30 Thread Zoran Kolic
> I'm addicted to Debian and I need a new notebook, but I don't like replacing > my hardware too often. > > I don't mind using Sid/Experimental. I'm running Gnome 3 on > an originally sarge computer by now and I'm very happy with it. If it would be me, I'd take different approach. I'd find hardwa

Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd

2011-04-30 Thread H Xu
On 05/01/2011 08:24 AM, H Xu wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:28:55 +0800, H Xu wrote: (next time open a new thread so things don't get mixed...) Thanks. I don't know how this new problem comes. Whatever coming mail will be blocked by postfix: Ap

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110430212842.ga16...@debian.jeff>, Jeffrin Jose wrote: >On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:04:37PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: >> I think he wants the black bars. What he doesn't want is for the video >> to get stretched to fill the screen, wrecking the aspect ratio in the >> process. > >I do not want t

Re: file systems

2011-04-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/26/2011 8:19 PM, PMA wrote: But just in point of fact if possible: What *is* XFS's position re FSCK -- just that it is excluded from the boot process, or that it can never be run? And for whichever, does XFS documentation offer a reason? I suggest executing 'man fsck'. Here's a relevant s

Re: file systems

2011-04-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/26/2011 5:58 PM, shawn wilson wrote: you know, i don't mind religious debates - vi vs emacs, mac vs windows, iphone vs android, fibre vs iscsi, trustedbsd vs selinux, and... xfs vs ext. however, i like an educated debate where both sides can site specifics and hard facts and not just say 'th

Re: Why had emacs 23 become so ugly?

2011-04-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:21:25AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm still running squeeze. For some reason, when I run emacs now, it > dieplays all my C and C++ files with a variable-width font, in which the > indentations I've been using have become microscopic. What's more, > carefully count

Re: Why had emacs 23 become so ugly?

2011-04-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 01 May 2011 02:21:25 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm still running squeeze. For some reason, when I run emacs now, it > dieplays all my C and C++ files with a variable-width font, in which the > indentations I've been using have become microscopic. What's more, > carefully counted-out A

mythnetvision on Squeeze -- anybody got it working?

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
I've installed mythnetvision from debian-multimedia, but can't seem to subscribe to any sites. Can anybody confirm for me that it does work? And were there any special tricks required? Thanks -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Why has emacs 23 become so ugly?

2011-04-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 01 May 2011 02:21:25 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm still running squeeze. For some reason, when I run emacs now, it > dieplays all my C and C++ files with a variable-width font, in which the > indentations I've been using have become microscopic. What's more, > carefully counted-out A

Why had emacs 23 become so ugly?

2011-04-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm still running squeeze. For some reason, when I run emacs now, it dieplays all my C and C++ files with a variable-width font, in which the indentations I've been using have become microscopic. What's more, carefully counted-out ASCII tables and diagrams have become unreadable. Why is this?

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Anyone know now long backports.org will be down?

2011-04-30 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 30, 2011 6:55 PM, "Mark" wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >> >> Hi Mark >> >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Mark wrote: >> > If I missed an announcement somewhere, I apologize, but backports.orgis >> > down and I'd like to know when it wil

Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd

2011-04-30 Thread H Xu
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:28:55 +0800, H Xu wrote: > > (next time open a new thread so things don't get mixed...) > >> Thanks. I don't know how this new problem comes. Whatever coming mail >> will be blocked by postfix: >> >> Apr 30 08:24:15 hostname

Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd

2011-04-30 Thread H Xu
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:28:55 +0800, H Xu wrote: > > (next time open a new thread so things don't get mixed...) > >> Thanks. I don't know how this new problem comes. Whatever coming mail >> will be blocked by postfix: >> >> Apr 30 08:24:15 hostname

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:33:54 -0500, Ron wrote in message <4dbc8e52.7070...@cox.net>: > On 04/30/2011 04:28 PM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:04:37PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > >> I think he wants the black bars. What he doesn't want is for the > >> video to get stretched to f

wireless connection problem of BCM 4312 LP-PHY wireless card with Network Manager

2011-04-30 Thread eigenroot
Hi all, I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition which was based on Debian Testing on my laptop. One problem I found was that my wireless connection was frequently dropped off after some idling. And it was not predictable: sometimes I left it overnight and the wireless was still good, but sometimes I

[Solved]: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

2011-04-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:10:08 +0300, sdc wrote in message : > By the way, is there an option to mark this mail as a > solved so others will (hopefully)not reply to it anymore? ..put [Solved] or some such on the Subject: line, like here. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karl

[SOLVED] Re: Anyone know now long backports.org will be down?

2011-04-30 Thread Mark
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Mark > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Mark wrote: > > If I missed an announcement somewhere, I apologize, but backports.org is > > down and I'd like to know when it will be back up? > > backports is now an official serv

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/30/2011 04:28 PM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:04:37PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I think he wants the black bars. What he doesn't want is for the video to get stretched to fill the screen, wrecking the aspect ratio in the process. I do not want the black bars. I need the

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 01 mai 11, 02:58:43, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:04:37PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > I think he wants the black bars. What he doesn't want is for the video > > to get stretched to fill the screen, wrecking the aspect ratio in the > > process. > > I do not want the blac

Re: update firmware?? [solved]

2011-04-30 Thread mark
On Saturday 30 April 2011 05:16:03 pm Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-04-30 22:52 +0200, mark wrote: > > Running Lenny 5.06. I need to install wine, and went through the > > process, but I got an error that said that I needed to update > > firmware for my nic. This is the text that I saw: > > > > r

Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd

2011-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:28:55 +0800, H Xu wrote: (next time open a new thread so things don't get mixed...) > Thanks. I don't know how this new problem comes. Whatever coming mail > will be blocked by postfix: > > Apr 30 08:24:15 hostname postfix/smtpd[3443]: match_hostname: > mail-pw0-f54.google

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 03:04:37PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I think he wants the black bars. What he doesn't want is for the video > to get stretched to fill the screen, wrecking the aspect ratio in the > process. I do not want the black bars. I need the picture to be fullscreen without getting

Re: update firmware??

2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 30 apr 11, 16:52:26, mark wrote: > Running Lenny 5.06. I need to install wine, and went through the > process, but I got an error that said that I needed to update > firmware for my nic. This is the text that I saw: > > r8169: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw > > This is due

Re: update firmware??

2011-04-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-04-30 22:52 +0200, mark wrote: > Running Lenny 5.06. I need to install wine, and went through the > process, but I got an error that said that I needed to update > firmware for my nic. This is the text that I saw: > > r8169: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw > > This is due t

Re: How to have separate kbd layouts per usb-keyboards?

2011-04-30 Thread Martin
Bruno Boettcher schrieb: > > so i installed for our media server 2 keyboards, one german, the other > french and now i am searching how to configure the machine to > allways assume german keyboard layout coming from a certain usb > device, and french from another... and am stuck since

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-04-30 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 26 Nisan 5771 22:59:04 David Baron wrote: > On Friday 25 Nisan 5771 16:39:11 > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > > wrote: > > > Updating to the Sid version was a catastrophe--flagged all kinds of > > > superseded syntax warning which were flagged as errors when I tried to >

update firmware??

2011-04-30 Thread mark
Running Lenny 5.06. I need to install wine, and went through the process, but I got an error that said that I needed to update firmware for my nic. This is the text that I saw: r8169: rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw This is due to changing the kernel from 2.6.26-2-486 to 2.6.35-5-

Problem with Samba on Squeeze

2011-04-30 Thread Roger Morgan
Samba is running but I can't connect to it, and when I do the following test (from the Samba server): smbclient -L servername the response (after entering correct password) is: cut here--- Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding session setup failed: Call timed out: server did not respond af

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I'm quite sure they will compete with netbookd and e-readers, but I think > mosy people who is buying standard notebooks are those with eventual > mobility. Notebooks become an alternative do desktop because of silence, > size, power consumption and, jus

Re: Anyone know now long backports.org will be down?

2011-04-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Mark wrote: > If I missed an announcement somewhere, I apologize, but backports.org is > down and I'd like to know when it will be back up? Never? backports.debian.org is where you want to go. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden

Re: Anyone know now long backports.org will be down?

2011-04-30 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Mark On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Mark wrote: > If I missed an announcement somewhere, I apologize, but backports.org is > down and I'd like to know when it will be back up? backports is now an official service and can be found under backports.debian.org. See [1]. [1] http://ba

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-04-30 Thread David Baron
On Friday 25 Nisan 5771 16:39:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Updating to the Sid version was a catastrophe--flagged all kinds of > > superseded syntax warning which were flagged as errors when I tried to > > edit them into the conf file. Commented out, got listening erro

Anyone know now long backports.org will be down?

2011-04-30 Thread Mark
If I missed an announcement somewhere, I apologize, but backports.org is down and I'd like to know when it will be back up? Thank you, Mark

Re: nVidia with Optimus

2011-04-30 Thread Vivek Periaraj
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/30/2011 09:17 AM, Vivek Periaraj wrote: It's surprising even nVidia is not able to support. The latest nVidia Read the link. Explains *exactly* why Optimus doesn't work. Thanks. I read it. They can make it to work if they really wanted to. Wh

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I suppose you want help for something a little bit specific. could you please give a little bit more detailed scene? You can adapt 16:9 to 4:3 and 4:3 to 16:9 adding "black bars" or cropping. 2011/4/30 Jeffrin Jose > Hello Everybody, > > Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen >

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/30 Ron Johnson > 1920x1080 is what you want/need, then look for a laptop that uses Nvidia. > > Note though, that the current trend is for a combo of Intel IGP for > low-power needs + Nvidia for gaming ang video. Currently, though, only the > most bleeding edge .39 kernels and x.org versio

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/30/2011 02:04 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:12:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/30/2011 11:07 AM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: Hello Everybody, Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? I don't think that mencoder i

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:12:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/30/2011 11:07 AM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > >Hello Everybody, > > > >Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen > >video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? > > > > I don't think that mencoder is the right tool for that

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/30 richard van beers > Strange, I could not select linux at Dell anymore, but I sure can still at > HP. > If I search Dell for "Linux" some models do show, seemingly having > once been offered with Ubuntu 10.10 > Im searching in the Dutch market btw. > My searches: Sony, Dell, HP and Lenov

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/30 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > How one is supposed to be able to use a 16:9 screen for any coding, report > writing, spreadsheet work, and even *reading*, I have no clue. Hell, it is > useless even for presentations, and that's saying something... > Let's see... Text Processor: it's not

Re: -- SPAM --Re: nVidia with Optimus

2011-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/30/2011 09:17 AM, Vivek Periaraj wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Will NVIDIA Optimus Inevitably Come To Linux? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTM3NA It's surprising even nVidia is not able to support. The latest nVidia Read the link. Explains

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 30 apr 11, 17:43:12, Andrew Wood wrote: > OK Ive installed the firmware and its better but not perfect. Full > screen video is still too choppy to watch. > > How do I install the closed source ATI driver? From memory this should do it (all commands need root privileges): apt-get install f

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/30/2011 09:44 AM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: 2011/4/30 Camaleón [snip] FullHD is 1080p (progressive) so you will need a laptop that can handle that resolution natively (1920x1080). Almost any of the laptop manufacturers have models for home, multimedia and entertainment that will fit your F

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/30/2011 11:07 AM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: Hello Everybody, Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? I don't think that mencoder is the right tool for that task. "Let the player handle full screen" is what I say. Anyway, 16:9 vide

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 30 apr 11, 14:19:03, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > Will notebooks standardize on 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio? > > In my (not very informed) opinion the trend seems to be towards 16:9. In my somewhat informed opinion, you will only get 16:9 from Lenov

Re: uninstall Debian 6

2011-04-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, hamed hosseini wrote: i have Debian 6 with windows 7 now i want uninstall Debian 6,how can uninstall Debian and change my boot system and restore my boot to windows 7? This article looks like it has all the answers you should need: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392 Once you are bac

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-30 Thread Andrew Wood
OK Ive installed the firmware and its better but not perfect. Full screen video is still too choppy to watch. How do I install the closed source ATI driver? On 11/04/11 15:59, Paul van der Vlis wrote: The firmware for the radeon HD is in the package firmware-linux-nonfree. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:51:45 -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: But almost no manufacturer will give me this kind of information "Debian Compatilble". Whenever I ask they say it will be Windows 7 compatible only, even when I have no issues. I recently acquired some HP notebooks

uninstall Debian 6

2011-04-30 Thread hamed hosseini
i have Debian 6 with windows 7 now i want uninstall Debian 6,how can uninstall Debian and change my boot system and restore my boot to windows 7?

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 30 apr 11, 14:19:03, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > > Will notebooks standardize on 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio? In my (not very informed) opinion the trend seems to be towards 16:9. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailma

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 09:37:25PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen > video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? > I'm not an expert, but maybe you could use '-vf expand' to do this. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/30 Andrei Popescu > On Sb, 30 apr 11, 09:50:32, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > I'm addicted to Debian and I need a new notebook, but I don't like > replacing > > my hardware too often. > > > > I suppose requiring a FullHD display is a good strategy to buy a new > > notebook and keep it for the

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, if you need an easy to install Debian than look on http://community.linuxmint.com There is a download for lmde = LinuxMintDebianEdition and that will configure and install the actual Debian with some extended features good luck and a nice day klaus Am Samstag, den 30.04.2011, 18:54 +0200

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread richard van beers
Strange, I could not select linux at Dell anymore, but I sure can still at HP. If I search Dell for "Linux" some models do show, seemingly having once been offered with Ubuntu 10.10 Im searching in the Dutch market btw. The best supported chipset seems to be Intels mobile express. HP also offers S

Re: Radeon X1550 64-bit

2011-04-30 Thread Joe
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:42:15 +0200 Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, > > I have serious problem with my ATI RV505 CE [Radeon X1550 64-bit], DE > freezes randomly and I can't understand the reason. Have a look at the driver version. Version 1:6.14.1-1 of xserver-xorg-video-radeon on 64 bit sid is b

Roundcube broken after Squeeze upgrade

2011-04-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Roundcube keeps redirecting to the login page immediately after a successful login. I briefly see the initial mailbox view, then get instantly redirected back to the login page, with some jibberish appended to the back of the URL. Something was apparently broken during the Squeeze upgrade, bu

Re (2): How to have separate kbd layouts per usb-keyboards?

2011-04-30 Thread peasthope
From: Andrei Popescu Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:33:23 +0300 > One way would be to run two instances of X, each with the respective > keyboard/layout combination. With consumer grade computers effectively a disposible commodity these days, the obvious solution is to get a second computer.

fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Jeffrin Jose
Hello Everybody, Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? -- software engineer. department of computer science rajagiri school of engineering and technology. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: mouse

2011-04-30 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:39:37 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:26:06 +0300 > Sophoklis Goumas wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 18:09, Frank McCormick > > wrote: > > > ..

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 30 apr 11, 09:50:32, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I'm addicted to Debian and I need a new notebook, but I don't like replacing > my hardware too often. > > I suppose requiring a FullHD display is a good strategy to buy a new > notebook and keep it for the next 10 years :-) I can understand wan

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/30 richard van beers > Look for HP/Dell models that can be shipped with linux. Note the > graphics chipset. Then research those for other users experiences. > Interesting -> I've tried to configure a notebook now at both Dell ( http://www.dell.com.br) and HP (http://www.hp.com.br) sites an

Re: mouse

2011-04-30 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:26:06 +0300 Sophoklis Goumas wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 18:09, Frank McCormick > wrote: > > ... > > I am running Sid up to date..and noticed this morning that I have > > lost the ability to right click on the Gnome desk

Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd

2011-04-30 Thread H Xu
On 2011/4/30 18:15, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:06:06 +0800, H Xu wrote: I've just configured a smtp server on Debian 6.0.1, but the smtp auth always fails. Here is the log from mail.log: Apr 29 05:05:49 hostname postfix/smtpd[13269]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot con

Re: mouse

2011-04-30 Thread Sophoklis Goumas
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 18:09, Frank McCormick wrote: > ... > I am running Sid up to date..and noticed this morning that I have > lost the ability to right click on the Gnome desktop and get the > usual menu. There doesn't seem to be anything in the mouse controls > menu to do with this problem. >

mouse

2011-04-30 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running Sid up to date..and noticed this morning that I have lost the ability to right click on the Gnome desktop and get the usual menu. There doesn't seem to be anything in the mouse controls menu to do with this problem. Any ideas ? - -- -

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/30 Camaleón > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:51:45 -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > > 2011/4/30 Camaleón > You can however, take a look here: > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ > > Is a list made by users. Thanks I'll use it although they say they don't deal with X drivers with is a major source of tr

Re: How to have separate kbd layouts per usb-keyboards?

2011-04-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > > One way would be to run two instances of X, each with the respective > > keyboard/layout combination. Not sure if this is feasible in your > > situation though. > > This is really a deficiency in the kernel input layer--it should be possible > to have

Re: nVidia with Optimus

2011-04-30 Thread Vivek Periaraj
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:50:52 +0530, Vivek Periaraj wrote: I just bought a dell vostro 3750 and it has intel graphics and nVidia 525M. I am afraid it uses Optimus technology to switch between the two of them. I looked around and found that there is no suppor

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:51:45 -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > 2011/4/30 Camaleón > >> > I suppose requiring a FullHD display is a good strategy to buy a new >> > notebook and keep it for the next 10 years :-) >> >> > >> FullHD will be superseded by SuperFullHD in SuperHighXtra Definition in >> 4D.

Re: How to have separate kbd layouts per usb-keyboards?

2011-04-30 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:33:23PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 29 apr 11, 19:42:30, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > > > so i installed for our media server 2 keyboards, one german, the other > > french and now i am searching how to configure the machine to > > allways assume german

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/30 Camaleón > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:50:32 -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > > I'm addicted to Debian and I need a new notebook, but I don't like > > replacing my hardware too often. > > Being a laptop you can be happy with ~5 years of lifecycle. Beside that, > you'll start facing problems

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:50:32 -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I'm addicted to Debian and I need a new notebook, but I don't like > replacing my hardware too often. Being a laptop you can be happy with ~5 years of lifecycle. Beside that, you'll start facing problems (manufacturer has completely dro

FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I'm addicted to Debian and I need a new notebook, but I don't like replacing my hardware too often. I suppose requiring a FullHD display is a good strategy to buy a new notebook and keep it for the next 10 years :-) Brazil has a program of low interest rates for computers manufactured in the coun

Re: Radeon X1550 64-bit

2011-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:42:15 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > I have serious problem with my ATI RV505 CE [Radeon X1550 64-bit], DE > freezes randomly and I can't understand the reason. Here's my xorg.conf, > any suggestion? You have to check if the freeze comes from X or is a kernel freeze. If

Re: Radeon X1550 64-bit

2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 30 apr 11, 09:42:15, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, > > I have serious problem with my ATI RV505 CE [Radeon X1550 64-bit], DE > freezes randomly and I can't understand the reason. > Here's my xorg.conf, any suggestion? Assuming you run squeeze (you didn't specify) try this: - make sure yo

Re: nVidia with Optimus

2011-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:50:52 +0530, Vivek Periaraj wrote: > I just bought a dell vostro 3750 and it has intel graphics and nVidia > 525M. I am afraid it uses Optimus technology to switch between the two > of them. I looked around and found that there is no support for Optimus > in linux yet. And n

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2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 29 apr 11, 23:11:34, chris wrote: > > > this is so far off topic and its not the first time, enough already Just report it as SPAM[1] and delete it... oups, too late. You already replied to it AND quoted it in full. Now it's impossible to clean it from the archives :( [1] bounce/redirect

Re: How to have separate kbd layouts per usb-keyboards?

2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 29 apr 11, 19:42:30, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > so i installed for our media server 2 keyboards, one german, the other > french and now i am searching how to configure the machine to > allways assume german keyboard layout coming from a certain usb > device, and french from anot

Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd

2011-04-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:06:06 +0800, H Xu wrote: > I've just configured a smtp server on Debian 6.0.1, but the smtp auth > always fails. Here is the log from mail.log: > > Apr 29 05:05:49 hostname postfix/smtpd[13269]: warning: SASL > authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No

nVidia with Optimus

2011-04-30 Thread Vivek Periaraj
Hi List, I just bought a dell vostro 3750 and it has intel graphics and nVidia 525M. I am afraid it uses Optimus technology to switch between the two of them. I looked around and found that there is no support for Optimus in linux yet. And no promises of support in the future either. The BIO

postfix cannot connect to saslauthd

2011-04-30 Thread H Xu
Hello, I've just configured a smtp server on Debian 6.0.1, but the smtp auth always fails. Here is the log from mail.log: Apr 29 05:05:49 hostname postfix/smtpd[13269]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory Apr 29 05:05:49 hostnam

Radeon X1550 64-bit

2011-04-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, I have serious problem with my ATI RV505 CE [Radeon X1550 64-bit], DE freezes randomly and I can't understand the reason. Here's my xorg.conf, any suggestion? regads Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbRu