Gnome 3 from experimental - how do you change wallpaper

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Chandler
I thought I would play around with Gnome 3 for a short while, so I installed it from Debian experimental. Its a different paradigm than I have been used to, but it seems to be quite easy to use, and I emulated my old desktop (with 5 regularly used applications in the little tray on the left qu

Mp3 Encoding (and Virtual Machine Software for Wheezy?)

2011-05-17 Thread Tin Kidneys
Hey folks, I've run into a small predicament. I just purchased a Sony E-Series Walkman, & don't have any album artwork showing on mp3's i just encoded using my Debian Wheezy system (my lame libraries are from debian-multimedia.org). Some of the mp3's i added were actually showing artwork, so

Touchpad not work - Laptop

2011-05-17 Thread Marcelo Laia
Hi, I did a fresh install and touchpad nor kbd didn't work in X. If I do Ctrl + Alt + F2, both work in console. I need to plug an USB keyboard and an USB mouse to can work in X. Here is some information: janaina@janaina:~$ uname -r 2.6.38-2-686 janaina@janaina:~$ janaina@janaina:~$ cat /proc

Re: [SOLVED] evolution is in unusable state

2011-05-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:26:41 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Folks, help is badly need here. > > 1. I have a fresh squeeze 64 bit install. While setting Evolution I've > used "Restore from backup" option to restore all my data from Ubuntu > Lucid. That seemed to work as expected. I get all my ac

Plymouth alternative for PowerPC?

2011-05-17 Thread Alexander Lardner
Hello, Plymouth (bootsplash screen) is only available for i386, I'm on an old PowerPC iMac. Is there an alternative (squeeze)? If not, is it possible to just show a static image over the boot screen, kind of like FreeBSD? Thanks! -Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

wheezy and amd64 k8 machine

2011-05-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Generates udev diagnostics I think just after base system is installed and probably in the vicinity of grub installation. With Lenny, it wasn't possible to install the new grub with this hardware so the system remained with the old grub. Earlier I was trying to do an install so I could catch

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Freeman
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:42:58AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >But that's what IMAP is for. POP is specifically designed as a > >temporary holding area (like a Post Office Box). > > > >> There are some way to read the mails from POP3 account without > >>download...ma

Re: rolling vanilla kernel on Squeeze

2011-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/17/2011 9:20 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: > On 05/17/2011 10:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> System: Squeeze >> Current Kernel: 2.6.34.1 vanilla built under Lenny long before >> upgrading to Squeeze >> Issue: Seeing two extra .debs being built by make >> >> I g

Re: rolling vanilla kernel on Squeeze

2011-05-17 Thread Perry Thompson
On 05/17/2011 10:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > System: Squeeze > Current Kernel: 2.6.34.1 vanilla built under Lenny long before > upgrading to Squeeze > Issue: Seeing two extra .debs being built by make > > I grabbed 2.6.38.6 from kernel.org yesterday and rolle

rolling vanilla kernel on Squeeze

2011-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
System: Squeeze Current Kernel: 2.6.34.1 vanilla built under Lenny long before upgrading to Squeeze Issue: Seeing two extra .debs being built by make I grabbed 2.6.38.6 from kernel.org yesterday and rolled a kernel using 'make KDEB_PKGVERSION=custom.x.x deb-pkg

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Freeman
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:48:23PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: . . . > = > = Poll 1b: 3 Additional Poll questions now: > Age, Programming years, Debian years > > As I was reading over the poll responses, I thought

Re: Dlink DWA-525

2011-05-17 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:25:17PM +0300, Алекс Скоропад wrote: > I have this wireless network card, and it work just fine with drivers > from dlink website until the last kernel update. In new kernel were > included support for some dlink wireless cards, but there are no > rt3562sta support. Expe

Re: I deleted /usr/src/linux

2011-05-17 Thread Brad Alexander
apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-`uname -r` should work... On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: > In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted > /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in Ubuntu before, > but I am seeing that it has mo

Re: I deleted /usr/src/linux

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 08:21:42PM -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > On 05/17/2011 08:15 PM, Robert Wolfe (Debian) wrote: > > On 5/17/2011 8:10 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: > >> In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted > >> /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in

Re: I deleted /usr/src/linux

2011-05-17 Thread Perry Thompson
On 05/17/2011 08:15 PM, Robert Wolfe (Debian) wrote: > On 5/17/2011 8:10 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: >> In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted >> /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in Ubuntu before, >> but I am seeing that it has more of a use in Debian. >

Re: I deleted /usr/src/linux

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: > In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted > /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in Ubuntu before, > but I am seeing that it has more of a use in Debian. > > If I was not meant to delete it, is there a

Re: I deleted /usr/src/linux

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Wolfe (Debian)
On 5/17/2011 8:10 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in Ubuntu before, but I am seeing that it has more of a use in Debian. If I was not meant to delete it, is there a way to get it back

I deleted /usr/src/linux

2011-05-17 Thread Perry Thompson
In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in Ubuntu before, but I am seeing that it has more of a use in Debian. If I was not meant to delete it, is there a way to get it back? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re (2): diamondcard

2011-05-17 Thread peasthope
> From: green > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:23:57 -0500 > I was thinking that incoming calls *are* charged. That seems to be sort of > hinted at here: > http://www.diamondcard.us/corporate?ht=/templates/shop/shop_personal-numberdetails.htm I read that the subscriber to an 800 number pays for call

Re: About Me Changes Don't Stick and Additional Drivers No Show in Main Menu

2011-05-17 Thread Memnon Anon
Peter Allen writes: > Hi > I just installed Mint 10 Debian and my additional drivers option isn't > available in the main menu.  My Graphics are horrible and I need to > see if additional drivers are available.   > > When I update my personal info in about me and close it the > information is not

About Me Changes Don't Stick and Additional Drivers No Show in Main Menu

2011-05-17 Thread Peter Allen
Hi I just installed Mint 10 Debian and my additional drivers option isn't available in the main menu. My Graphics are horrible and I need to see if additional drivers are available. When I update my personal info in about me and close it the information is not being saved. I appreciate any help.

Crippled Xorg

2011-05-17 Thread David Baron
Latest of Sid comes up with keyboard and mouse disabled. In other words, no logons either! Unplugging and replugging the USB mouse reactivated the mouse. So I borrowed a USB keyboard from a friend and plugged that in and I am in an using it right now. Xorg log has strange new message to the ef

Laptop tuning

2011-05-17 Thread Marcelo Laia
Hi, What packages you could suggest me to tuning the my wife's newest laptop? She looking for usability and "look". We use Debian from Potato (me) and from Woody (she and my sons). We use gnome! Thank you very much! --   O__   --- Marcelo Luiz de Laia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Re (3): diamondcard (so much for Skype.)

2011-05-17 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 18 May 2011 01:30, wrote: > From: Heddle Weaver > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:37:16 +1000 > > I'm in Australia, but I can't see how it would be any different. > > Open http://www.diamondcard.us/did > Look under Personal Phone Number. > > Example 1: Set the country to AU, city to Canberra, A

Re: Re: Wireless can't connect after I restart X

2011-05-17 Thread Burhan Hanoglu
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Sorry, I should have clarified: the scripts execute correctly but wireless > still does not connect.  I'll try tinkering with the /etc/network/interfaces > and see where that gets me. > Try to bring up the interface(s) manually to see if tha

Dlink DWA-525

2011-05-17 Thread Алекс Скоропад
Hi! I have this wireless network card, and it work just fine with drivers from dlink website until the last kernel update. In new kernel were included support for some dlink wireless cards, but there are no rt3562sta support. Now I removed /lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wirele

Re: Re: Wireless can't connect after I restart X

2011-05-17 Thread Borden Rhodes
Sorry, I should have clarified: the scripts execute correctly but wireless still does not connect. I'll try tinkering with the /etc/network/interfaces and see where that gets me. The problem is more irritating than intrusive and it violates that whole 'you should never have to restart Linux'*

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:42:28 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >>> On Tue, 17 May 2011 08:21:36 -0500 >>> John Hasler wrote: >>> >>> There is no way to read anything without downloading it. >> >> Obvious :-) > >Not that obvious :-P > >I can read POP3 messages from my po

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Steven
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 21:48 -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > Nokia N900 running Maemo 5, my carrier is Proximus (Belgacom mobile), > Belgium. > APD: 24, 12, 3 (maybe 4) Mind that back then, the 'programming' was only simple html and annoying javascript alert boxes. It got more serious in 2002 - 2003

Re: Squeeze boot takes 9 minutes; no sound and no 3D acceleration

2011-05-17 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 17 May 2011 15:53:33 +0300, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > Yesterday I updated Lenny to Squeeze. Lenny was working very well, but > now I have a few problems: > > 1) Booting takes 9 minutes to login screen. This seems to be because > NIS, freshclam, MTA exim4 start before networking is up and th

Re: Making /dev/md2 RAID smaller to create another partition for OpenVZ

2011-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/17/2011 11:24 AM, Sebastian Tarach wrote: > Hello, > > I have two hard drives ( sda and sdb ) which are used to create > md0,md1 and md2. I want to resize md2, sda3 and sdb3 to create another > set of partition for md3 on which I would like to setup OpenVZ. > > I already resized md2 using fa

Re: Which WLAN driver to use?

2011-05-17 Thread Elias Diem
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 03:49:16AM -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > rt2x00 is the free software driver for your card. This should work but > you might need a new kernel and you might need to edit one line in the > driver. A few days ago there was a post on the rt2x00-users mailing > list, where an

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread John Hasler
Iwrote: > There is no way to read anything without downloading it. RMAwrites: > Obvious :-) You would think so, wouldn't you? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Squeeze boot takes 9 minutes; no sound and no 3D acceleration

2011-05-17 Thread Matt Richardson
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Dom wrote: > On 17/05/11 13:53, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: >> >> Yesterday I updated Lenny to Squeeze. Lenny was working very well, but >> now I have a few problems: > > >> 2) sound no longer works. I have Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev >> 08), which seems to need

Re: apt-get update: nothing downloaded from a mirror

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 17 mai 11, 18:41:01, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-05-17 14:28:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > AFAIK apt calls dpkg to do the actual package installation, but other > > then that they are quite disconnected. I see no reason for apt to touch > > /var/lib/dpkg/available or /var/lib/dp

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 17 mai 11, 15:50:57, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:42:28 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > >> On Tue, 17 May 2011 08:21:36 -0500 > >> John Hasler wrote: > > > >> There is no way to read anything without downloading it. > > > > Obvious :-) > > Not that obvious :-P > >

Re: apt-get update: nothing downloaded from a mirror

2011-05-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-05-17 14:28:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > AFAIK apt calls dpkg to do the actual package installation, but other > then that they are quite disconnected. I see no reason for apt to touch > /var/lib/dpkg/available or /var/lib/dpkg/updates. OK. > What exactly are you trying to achieve?

Re: No apache MPM package installed

2011-05-17 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 16 May 2011 20:50:39 -0700, Alexander Lardner wrote: > I keep getting the error in the subject line when I run > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart, now the server is down. I've destroyed > every remnant of apache, put it back in, repeat, still not working. > Tried apt-get install apache2-MPM-wor

Making /dev/md2 RAID smaller to create another partition for OpenVZ

2011-05-17 Thread Sebastian Tarach
Hello, I have two hard drives ( sda and sdb ) which are used to create md0,md1 and md2. I want to resize md2, sda3 and sdb3 to create another set of partition for md3 on which I would like to setup OpenVZ. I already resized md2 using fallowing tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-resize-rai

Re: Correct usage of "-t" in shutdown?

2011-05-17 Thread Burhan Hanoglu
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Alex Lardner wrote: > Hello, > I am stumped over how to use -t during shutdown. I tried: > > shutdown -t 60 System going down in one minute! > > and > > shutdown -t 60 now System going down in one minute! > > but neither worked as expected. Help me, please! What i

Re: evolution is in unusable state

2011-05-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 17 May 2011 15:33:32 +, Camaleón wrote: > Your best bet is trying with a complete and fresh Evolution profile and > then start the migration process manually, that is, do not use the > backup wizard (or do not import calendars in the first stage, try with > just the e-mails and if all

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:42:28 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> On Tue, 17 May 2011 08:21:36 -0500 >> John Hasler wrote: > >> There is no way to read anything without downloading it. > > Obvious :-) Not that obvious :-P I can read POP3 messages from my pop3 e-mail checker while I'm not

Re: Booting a USB hard drive [SOLVED]

2011-05-17 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:27:02 -0700, Peter Bonucci wrote: > On Friday, May 13, 2011 08:25:43 am Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Finally, if all of the above fails, well, consider using the "WD My >> Passport Essential" USB disk as a paperweight... errr, I mean, as a >> backup storage unit O:-) >> >> ¹

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: But that's what IMAP is for. POP is specifically designed as a temporary holding area (like a Post Office Box). There are some way to read the mails from POP3 account without download...maybe a gateway to IMAP...some idea? Who goes to the Post Office, reads their m

Re: evolution is in unusable state

2011-05-17 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:26:41 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Folks, help is badly need here. > > 1. I have a fresh squeeze 64 bit install. While setting Evolution I've > used "Restore from backup" option to restore all my data from Ubuntu > Lucid. That seemed to work as expected. I get all my ac

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread shawn wilson
On May 17, 2011 4:30 AM, "Andrei Popescu" wrote: > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 22:49:15, giovanni_re wrote: > > > > Smartphone == a hardware object which contains a programmable computer, > > with memory & a touch screen user interface, and also contains cell > > phone system connection ability, upon wh

Re: debian package for xxxterm ? (squeeze)

2011-05-17 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 16 May 2011 13:56:19 -0500, Charles Blair wrote: > I did some unsuccessful searching. > >The site for this browser claims to have a download for > linux. Is it safe to try that? If you can see the code and you are able to understand it, yep, it's safe :-) For the rest of us -mere

Re: backports updates and ButAutomaticUpgrades/NotAutomatic

2011-05-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:42:37PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: > > >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -

Re (3): diamondcard (so much for Skype.)

2011-05-17 Thread peasthope
From: Heddle Weaver Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:37:16 +1000 > I'm in Australia, but I can't see how it would be any different. Open http://www.diamondcard.us/did Look under Personal Phone Number. Example 1: Set the country to AU, city to Canberra, Area codes to 61-26, Duration to 1 yr. The se

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread David Sanders
> > They are actually an English company called Hutchinson 3G Telecoms, > but the carrier name is 3. And to contradict myself, they're not English at all by the look of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchison_3G I really should check my facts before opening mutt! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread David Sanders
> (Yes, Sweden has a cell carrier named "3".  No, I have no idea how they > managed to get that approved as a company name.) They are actually an English company called Hutchinson 3G Telecoms, but the carrier name is 3. FWIW: HTC Hero, Android 2.3 (Cyanogen Mod 7 Stable), 3, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
Ah, what the heck... I'll play: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i, Android 2.1, 3, Sweden APD: 40, 32, 13 (Yes, Sweden has a cell carrier named "3". No, I have no idea how they managed to get that approved as a company name.) -- Dave Sherohman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 08:21:36 -0500 > John Hasler wrote: > There is no way to read anything without downloading it. Obvious :-) -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread John Hasler
Jesus arteche writes: > There are some way to read the mails from POP3 account without > download... There is no way to read anything without downloading it. If you want the messages to remain on the server don't send DELE commands. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Squeeze boot takes 9 minutes; no sound and no 3D acceleration

2011-05-17 Thread Dom
On 17/05/11 13:53, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: Yesterday I updated Lenny to Squeeze. Lenny was working very well, but now I have a few problems: 2) sound no longer works. I have Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08), which seems to need firmware loaded. I tried installing ld10k1, remains to check

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/05/11 10:52, Jesus arteche wrote: Hi, We have a problem. We are building an app which uses Roundcube to read mails. It's ok for IMAP accounts, but we need to read an account provider who just uses POP3. We need to read it without download the mails. There are some way to read the mails f

Squeeze boot takes 9 minutes; no sound and no 3D acceleration

2011-05-17 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Yesterday I updated Lenny to Squeeze. Lenny was working very well, but now I have a few problems: 1) Booting takes 9 minutes to login screen. This seems to be because NIS, freshclam, MTA exim4 start before networking is up and thus take 1 or 2 minutes to timeout. Also hald took a minute to sta

Özdilek plaj havlusu 15 TL! //Taç Çift Kişilik Nevresim Takımı 45 TL!

2011-05-17 Thread Kenttefırsat
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Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jesus arteche wrote: We have a problem. We are building an app which uses Roundcube to read mails. It's ok for IMAP accounts, but we need to read an account provider who just uses POP3. We need to read it without download the mails. There are some way to read the mails from POP3 account witho

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/17/2011 04:52 AM, Jesus arteche wrote: Hi, We have a problem. We are building an app which uses Roundcube to read mails. It's ok for IMAP accounts, but we need to read an account provider who just uses POP3. We need to read it without download the mails. But that's what IMAP is for. PO

Re: Installing into own partition schema for SSD?

2011-05-17 Thread Kai Weber
* Andrei Popescu : > > How can I tell the installer to use the prepared partitions? > > AFAIR it's a bit counterintuitive and I might have even opened a bug > report about it. I think it involves selecting a filesystem and telling > the installer to not format the partition or something like th

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Simon Hoerder
Hi, (Andrei, it was indeed meant for the list. Sorry for mailing you.) To avoid the marketing lingo I'd say a smart phone is a device which is intended to be used as a phone (if you want to distinguish it from tablets with phone capabilities) and which is beefed up enough to run an OS such as d

Re: apt-get update: nothing downloaded from a mirror

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 17 mai 11, 11:34:05, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I had to clear the /var/lib/dpkg/available file (it is now empty). > I've done: > > $ sudo apt-get update [...] > So, nothing has been downloaded and the /var/lib/dpkg/available file > is still empty. Nothing in the /var/lib/dpkg/updates dire

Re: Installing into own partition schema for SSD?

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 17 mai 11, 11:04:33, Kai Weber wrote: > Hi, > > I am new owner of an Intel SSD. After reading about the need to properly align > the partitions, logical volumes and filesystems to the SSD's erase block size > I tried to follow these recommendations[1] and install Debian (6.0.1a) into an > p

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 17 mai 11, 10:51:53, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > I did get a crash too. I updated both machines with the same version > of google chat and it worked nicely then... Which kinda' confirms there is a bug, even if there is a workaround. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian u

Squeeze 2.6.37.4 vs squeeze-backports vs kernel compiling [was IVTV Patch]

2011-05-17 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi again I found three choices to get my PVR-500 to work properly on Squeeze (2.6.32-5-amd64): The first option would be installing at least 2.6.37-4-amd64. This kernel should be a stable release where the ivtv patch is applied (Commit 0ab29c52f9efdd645d565f8be3915183819a6c3e). I found this

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:48:23PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > = Poll 1b: 3 Additional Poll questions now: > Age, Programming years, Debian years > > As I was reading over the poll responses, I thought > "It would be useful to know something about the smartphone users. > Specific

Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Jesus arteche
Hi, We have a problem. We are building an app which uses Roundcube to read mails. It's ok for IMAP accounts, but we need to read an account provider who just uses POP3. We need to read it without download the mails. There are some way to read the mails from POP3 account without download...maybe

apt-get update: nothing downloaded from a mirror

2011-05-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I had to clear the /var/lib/dpkg/available file (it is now empty). I've done: $ sudo apt-get update Ign file: ./ InRelease Ign file: ./ Release.gpg Ign file: ./ Release Ign file: ./ Translation-

Installing into own partition schema for SSD?

2011-05-17 Thread Kai Weber
Hi, I am new owner of an Intel SSD. After reading about the need to properly align the partitions, logical volumes and filesystems to the SSD's erase block size I tried to follow these recommendations[1] and install Debian (6.0.1a) into an prepared partition scheme. My preferred setup is a 1GB /b

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 11 mai 11, 17:23:48, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >> Moving on to google talk... > > Last time I tried to "video call" my mom (running pidgin on squeeze) my > pidgin crashed. That was a few weeks ago :( I did get a crash too. I updat

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 22:49:15, giovanni_re wrote: > > Smartphone == a hardware object which contains a programmable computer, > with memory & a touch screen user interface, and also contains cell > phone system connection ability, upon which potentially a properly > designed Debian GNU(Linux) subdi

Re: Wireless can't connect after I restart X

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 19:55:43, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > I've tried 'sudo service network-manager restart' and 'sudo service > networking > restart' thinking that maybe it's choked and needs restarting. Neither of > those work, though. When I 'sudo reboot', everything works again. So, what > am

Re: Wireless can't connect after I restart X

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 17 mai 11, 10:02:21, Shell Xu wrote: > Did u made /etc/network/interfaces empty? > Once I wanna report bug for network-manager, maintainer said try > backup and empty all stuff in /etc/network/interfaces first. > So, try? Not completely empty, the 'lo' entry is still needed. Regards, Andre

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 15:03:39, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > Not now... I reinstalled from scratch and after spending a few hours > learning the ins and outs of the udev bug (fix by rm -f /run, hmm) I have > a brand spanking new installation running nvidia-kernel-dkms successfully. - current udev in

Re: unique identifiers for cdrom drives

2011-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/17/2011 12:17 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110516_120833, Camaleón wrote: [snip] How does your "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules" look like? There are too many entries in it. More entries than I have ever had distinct cdrom drives installed. I think these spurious entries mayb

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-17 Thread Klaus Wolf
I am using twinkle and got my account at http://serweg.iptel.org/user/ and this works well for me. Skype works with the webcam and this is not a feature of twinkle. So perhaps this will be a way: VLC may used in linux and also on windows. As vlc also is able to stream to other ip it should anywh

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphonedo you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Miles Bader
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net writes: > I would interject that Blackberrys are widely considered Smartphones, in > fact really being the first of the bread, but only one Blackberry Model > contained a touch screen interface... "smartphone" seems to be a bit more of a marketing term than something pr

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-17 Thread Daniel Andersson
Trying Ekiga now and I can't get chat to work at all. I was not impressed I'm sorry to say. But I guess Ekiga's strength is in calls not messaging. Will maybe try that later on. /Daniel On 05/15/2011 02:13 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: 2011/5/15 Daniel Andersson mailto:dan...@daniel-gr-andersso