Re: Installing some packages needs not original DVD

2011-06-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 iun 11, 13:22:24, Tom H wrote: > > I thought that this was a bug that had been ironed out. > > The CD/DVD entries in "/etc/apt/sources.list" aren't commented out > after an install. Why should they? The CD/DVD is still faster than most internet connections. Regards, Andrei -- Offtop

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 26 iun 11, 21:58:13, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:48:44PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > > I don't use hibernate (I use suspend, though) and I can't think of any > > reason > > why running wpasupplicant would prevent it. If you suspect wifi is in any > > way > > involv

Re: Running Squeeze on a 2 GB usb stick?

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/06/11 14:17, Mark wrote: > Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically > everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have > laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal hdd for > personal use.� I plan on doing the Expert Install a

FiiO E7 USB headphone Amplifier -- no sound

2011-06-27 Thread John Magolske
I just bought a FiiO E7 USB headphone amplifier. I've read that it works fine under Linux [1], but have not had any luck getting sound out of it. When running alsamixer I see "USB Audio DAC" come up when pressing the F6 "Select sound card". Selecting that and adjusting the volume accomplishes noth

Re: X on a virtual server

2011-06-27 Thread Eric d'Halibut
SOLVED! On 6/27/11, William Hopkins wrote: > Anyway, what does `netstat -nlp |grep vnc` output? This was just the debugging tip I needed! I've lost the output, but it contained an entry '127.0.0.1:5901' which brought to mind the strange (to me) presence of the argument '-localhost' in the serve

Re: Running Squeeze on a 2 GB usb stick?

2011-06-27 Thread Doug
On 06/28/2011 12:27 AM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/27/11 at 09:17pm, Mark wrote: Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal hdd for pers

Re: Running Squeeze on a 2 GB usb stick?

2011-06-27 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/27/11 at 09:17pm, Mark wrote: > Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically > everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have > laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal hdd for personal > use. I plan on doing the Expert Inst

Running Squeeze on a 2 GB usb stick?

2011-06-27 Thread Mark
Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal hdd for personal use. I plan on doing the Expert Install and was wondering if there is advice on

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/06/11 05:00, lee wrote: > martin f krafft writes: > > > He could try to turn off "USB legacy support" in the BIOS. > > Thank you! Different issue - but that fixed it! :-) One machine (Intel whiteboard) would cold boot without issue - but reboots would hang before grub is loaded, unle

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Andrew Reid
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:07:28 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Of course, "squeeze-updates" is the new "volatile", nothing has changed. > > > Our expectations for squeeze-updates to release clamav ahead of stable > > merely to be current are correct

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/06/11 00:54, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Scott Ferguson: >> > > No, dist-upgrades aren't different. If you believe that then file a bug report. ref: man apt-get upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /e

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
That worked, thanks! -PT On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM, lee wrote: > martin f krafft writes: > > > also sprach Peter Tenenbaum > [2011.06.26.0227 +0200]: > >> I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal > hard > >> drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-

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Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2011-06-27 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Hello, all. Today, I upgraded my wireshark as you can see from the below excerpt from the apt log. Since doing so, I cannot run any GTK based applications. They all fail with: Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported Here is the log: Commandline: apt-get install wireshar

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

2011-06-27 Thread David Hugh McComb
Thank you, Donald, for posting your tip about upgrading in a virtual terminal. It worked. Kind regards, Hugh McComb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-27 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-27 20:57:55 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > However, after spending many hours on this (thanks phcoder from #grub) > > it turned out that necessary modules were missing from initramfs. > > Adding jfs was enough for the system to boot in qemu but no

Re: redundant debian array via mdadm

2011-06-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Joey L wrote: > > I am trying to build a system that will give me as much tolerance as > possible. > I have (4) 1 Terabyte drives. > I have created 2 mirrored raid drives md0 and md1. > md0 has the / and boot partition on it. > and md1 has the data on lvm. > On /de

Re: Tagging the music using cddb

2011-06-27 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/25/11 at 04:36pm, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:24:26 + (UTC) > T o n g wrote: > > Hello T, > > > tag the converted ogg music myself *using cddb*. Anybody has done that > > before? > > Yes, but almost invariably, I didn't like what I got from there; > Spelling mistakes,

Re: Tagging the music using cddb

2011-06-27 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:36:46 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >> tag the converted ogg music myself *using cddb*. Anybody has done that >> before? > > Yes, but almost invariably, I didn't like what I got from there . . . Guess I'm lucky that all cddb lookups from GUI tools are fine for me. Do you stil

Re: redundant debian array via mdadm

2011-06-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Joey L wrote: > thanks - i set that partition as bootable before..actually both drives are > set as bootable in the partition manager. > I also get a Raid failed error when i boot with all drives in the server. > But when i run cat /proc/mdadm - they seem to be all fine. You n

Re: redundant debian array via mdadm

2011-06-27 Thread Joey L
thanks - i set that partition as bootable before..actually both drives are set as bootable in the partition manager. I also get a Raid failed error when i boot with all drives in the server. But when i run cat /proc/mdadm - they seem to be all fine. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:20 PM, lee wrote: >

Re: Iceape's inability to render sites

2011-06-27 Thread Lotek
On 06/27/2011 10:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:40:19PM -0700, Lotek wrote: On 06/26/2011 11:48 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: I'm having trouble with Iceweasel's inability to correctly render sites that use java. This includes my bank and broker which prevents me >from m

Re: VM client can't access CUPS printer

2011-06-27 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:13:18 +, I wrote: > I have a Wheezy host with a USB printer and a virtualbox XP client. The > VM (client) is unable to access the CUPS printer. On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:51:40 +, Camaleón replied: > Also, how does you "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" look like? That was the r

Re: redundant debian array via mdadm

2011-06-27 Thread lee
Joey L writes: > I have created 2 mirrored raid drives md0 and md1. > I have tried to test what would happen if i loose my first drive in the root > partition /. > I get a blinking cursor - something is preventing the mirrored drive from > kicking in and booting. Set the other drive to boot fro

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

2011-06-27 Thread lee
martin f krafft writes: > also sprach Peter Tenenbaum [2011.06.26.0227 > +0200]: >> I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal hard >> drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-ROM player, and the >> external USB hard drive; total of 4. Is there something else

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-27 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > However, after spending many hours on this (thanks phcoder from #grub) > it turned out that necessary modules were missing from initramfs. > Adding jfs was enough for the system to boot in qemu but not for the > real hardware. I've not yet found out what's necessary f

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-27 Thread Chris Davies
lee wrote: > There's a difference between "touch -- file*" and "touch "file*"", isn't > there? Yes there is, and you can see the difference when you have one or more files, in the current directory, whose names start with "file". (Hint: precede or replace 'touch' with 'echo'.) Chris -- To UNS

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:46:32PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:07:28 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:58:43 +0200, Eric Viseur wrote: > > (...) > > >> > I have a server complaining about clam not

Re: Iceape's inability to render sites

2011-06-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:40:19PM -0700, Lotek wrote: > On 06/26/2011 11:48 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >I'm having trouble with Iceweasel's inability to correctly render > >sites that use java. This includes my bank and broker which > >prevents me > >from making Squeeze my primary distro. Runnin

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:46:32PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:07:28 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:58:43 +0200, Eric Viseur wrote: > > (...) > > >> > I have a server complaining about clam not

Re: Iceape's inability to render sites

2011-06-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 09:17:54PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-06-26, Robert Holtzman wrote: > (...) > > I'm having trouble with Iceweasel's inability to correctly render sites=20 > > that use java. This includes my bank and broker which prevents me > >=66rom making Squeeze my primary dis

Re: X on a virtual server

2011-06-27 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/27/11 at 12:47am, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:41 PM, William Hopkins > wrote: > > On 06/26/11 at 11:29pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins > >> wrote: > >> > On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > >> >> On 6

Re: X on a virtual server

2011-06-27 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/27/11 at 01:49am, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > On 6/26/11, William Hopkins wrote: > > > x11vnc is for creating a VNC instance to an existing X server. You just want > > a VNC server: look into tightvncserver. > > Yes, that is what I have running now, I think > > >From 'ps ax': > > 27765 pts/

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:07:28 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:58:43 +0200, Eric Viseur wrote: (...) >> > I have a server complaining about clam not being up to date every >> > night, so it's getting a little annoying, and I'

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

2011-06-27 Thread Siard
Rick Thomas wrote: > Every time I create a new document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to > print on A4 paper. I have Squeeze with OpenOffice ATM, and the usual way to set the paper size permanently is running /usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin as user, select your printer and click 'Properties'.

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread D G Teed
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:58:43 +0200, Eric Viseur wrote: > > > In my understanding, the stable-updates repo was esthablished in order > > to replace the volatile repo. Thus, updated clamav should be pushed in > > it, but I note it's only availabl

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:56:53 +0200, Eric Viseur wrote: > 2011/6/27 Camaleón (...) >> ... for the stable/olstable branch is my understanding that only >> security bugfixes are corrected, so if the clamav update does not >> closes any serious flaw you will keep seeing the clamav warning at the >>

apt-transport-https not sending client certificate

2011-06-27 Thread Mel Collins
Hi all, I'm having a frustrating time trying to get apt to connect to a (local) server using SSL client certificate authentication. My apt config file looks like this: Acquire { https { localhost { Verify-Peer "true"; Verify-H

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Eric Viseur
Hi, Thanks for the answers. I know the DB still gets updated, but when you're in charge of almost 20 servers, each beginning to cry like babies at every little problem, things like this can get pretty annoying. Guess I'll have to wait till the release on squeeze-updates. Eric 2011/6/27 Camaleón

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

2011-06-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Scott Ferguson: > > I've never had a desktop (KDE) session crash from an upgrade, > dist-upgrades are different. No, dist-upgrades aren't different. The only difference between aptitude's "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" is that they use different algorithms for dependency resolution. The upgra

Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:58:43 +0200, Eric Viseur wrote: > In my understanding, the stable-updates repo was esthablished in order > to replace the volatile repo. Thus, updated clamav should be pushed in > it, but I note it's only available in the testing branch. Did I > misunderstood the role of th

Re: VM client can't access CUPS printer

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:13:18 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > I have a Wheezy host with a USB printer and a virtualbox XP client. The > VM (client) is unable to access the CUPS printer. On the host, run "lpstat -t" and put here the output. Also, how does you "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" look like? (re

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice - SOLVED?

2011-06-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 27, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Rick Thomas [2011-06-27 07:16:46 CEST]: I don't know why this works, but I noticed that one of my machines had a package called "cups-pdf" installed (which hauls in "libpaper- utils" -- more on this later...) and on that machine I got a

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-27 Thread Torstein Krause Johansen
Hi there, On 25 June 2011 23:17, Dan wrote: > I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will > mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian? Now that's a good question! I got my first Mac in January because I wanted to check out what all the fuzz was about a

Re: Re: posting (was: Threading)

2011-06-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:54:51PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Test reply from link in archive at: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01787.html > > I want to see if the reply ends up in the thread properly, I think > it should as the html link from the online archive is th

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

2011-06-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
D G Teed wrote: >If you run Debian on the desktop, note that the current updates >coming down the pipe for 6.0.2 with safe-upgrades >may include an xserver package update (did for me, and >mine was up to date before). > >If you run your safe-upgrade from within an X windows >session, it will cause

Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/06/11 22:27, D G Teed wrote: > If you run Debian on the desktop, note that the current updates > coming down the pipe for 6.0.2 with safe-upgrades > may include an xserver package update (did for me, and > mine was up to date before). > > If you run your safe-upgrade from within an X windows

VM client can't access CUPS printer

2011-06-27 Thread Steve Kleene
I have a Wheezy host with a USB printer and a virtualbox XP client. The VM (client) is unable to access the CUPS printer. In XP, I have tried URLs of this form in defining a network printer: http://URL:631/printers/Phaser_6280DN where URL is any one of the following: 10.97.14.132 (host IP,

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-27 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:42:03 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan > wrote: > > > I hear what you are saying, but I had a related problem which was similar. > > well... it's funny, because this is exactly what i need. > > > Anyway

Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

2011-06-27 Thread D G Teed
If you run Debian on the desktop, note that the current updates coming down the pipe for 6.0.2 with safe-upgrades may include an xserver package update (did for me, and mine was up to date before). If you run your safe-upgrade from within an X windows session, it will cause X to restart, interrupt

Fwd: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread D G Teed
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Eric Viseur wrote: > Hi list, > > In my understanding, the stable-updates repo was esthablished in order to > replace the volatile repo. Thus, updated clamav should be pushed in it, but > I note it's only available in the testing branch. > Did I misunderstood the

clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

2011-06-27 Thread Eric Viseur
Hi list, In my understanding, the stable-updates repo was esthablished in order to replace the volatile repo. Thus, updated clamav should be pushed in it, but I note it's only available in the testing branch. Did I misunderstood the role of the stable-updates repo, or is clam 0.97.1 just coming i

redundant debian array via mdadm

2011-06-27 Thread Joey L
I am trying to build a system that will give me as much tolerance as possible. I have (4) 1 Terabyte drives. I have created 2 mirrored raid drives md0 and md1. md0 has the / and boot partition on it. and md1 has the data on lvm. On /dev/sda I also have my swap partition on it. I have tried to test

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-27 Thread lee
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 27/06/11 00:55, William Hopkins wrote: >> On 06/26/11 at 09:45pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 26/06/11 19:25, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote: >>> >>> >>> What does the "--" do??

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:53:55 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2011/6/24 Camaleón > >> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:17 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >> >> > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't >> > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when >> > co

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:31:20 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> But there are not many variables that can be set at "/etc/default/grub" >> so why not listing all of them and briefly comment them in the same >> file? > > +1 For GRUB's 2 newcomers (like m

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:30:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> The less files for a bootloader, the better. Not a scientific >> statement, of course, just a wild-guess. > > One of the grub developers' sales-pitches for grub2 is that it's modular > and y

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/06/11 17:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 24 iun 11, 15:11:13, Freeman wrote: >> >> My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select >> from. Just a way of selecting between different interfaces while booting. >> >> So the following blocks in the automagic section o

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:27:18 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> For grub2, there's also just one file to tweak, "/etc/default/grub", >>> and the CLI tools are more powerful. >> >> Are your sure? > > Yes, for the great majority of users. Ah, that's

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-27 Thread Chris Davies
>>> To give a silly example, a file named "-rf *" or "rm -rf *" lee wrote: >> I defy you to create a file with those name ;-p touch './-rf *' The ./ prefix is the key to removing it afterwards, too. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Adobe flash sound issues

2011-06-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 21:25 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:50:13 +0100 > Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > >$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/iceweasel > >$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/chromium > > Thanks for this! I noticed s

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/24 Camaleón > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:17 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't > > create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when > > copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of > > b

Fwd: SOLVED PRINTER/FLASHCARD CLOSED THREAD On upgrading to wheezy neither printer nor scanner work anymore.

2011-06-27 Thread Francesco Pietra
Solved printer by unistalling printer and all supporting packages and reinstalling hp.. packages. Solved usb_flshcard by either mounting manually or installing 'usb mount' and manually umount. Not clear what was due to fsttab. Scanner: new thread -- Forwarded message -- From: Fr

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-27 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-06-25 17:17, Dan wrote: > I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will > mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian? Of course! > I look into the documentation of rEFIT and it looks like a "hack" to > emulate the BIOS. It is a pity that there is no

Re: Ripping CD

2011-06-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 iun 11, 19:16:39, Dan wrote: > > I think that the best application to grab audio from a CD is EAC. It > is only available for windows (I know that this a Debian forum). This > program is one of the reasons I keep a windows partition in my hard > drive. I does a great job specially with C

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

2011-06-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 iun 11, 15:11:13, Freeman wrote: > > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select > from. Just a way of selecting between different interfaces while booting. > > So the following blocks in the automagic section of menu.lst resulted in a 4 > item menu for eac

Re: X on a virtual server

2011-06-27 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/06/11 04:25, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote: >> On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote: >> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all! >> >>> Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends o

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tom H [2011.06.27.0851 +0200]: > > Partitions do not have UUIDs. What you are seeing are the MD UUIDs > > stored in the superblock of the sda1 device. > > I called them "mdadm UUIDs" rather than "MD UUIDs" but they definitely > exist, are different from the "MD Array UUID", and, AFAIK

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Jun 2011, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 16:16:47 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 > > 802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01) > > According to the Debian wiki ath5k is the driver for an AR5212. It also > appears yo