Re: kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/16/2011 1:19 PM, Frank Miles wrote: > I just tried compiling the kernel for My 'wheezy' system (2.6.39) [amd64]. > As I've done many times - using > make-kpkg --revision N kernel_image > But with the recent linux-source update - shortly after starting I get: Do you get the same error usin

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/16/2011 5:22 AM, Dom wrote: > I've had to build a custom kernel for some of my old systems that *need* > IDE support. I think what you meant to say is "systems that need the old IDE drivers, because the hardware doesn't work with libata drivers". Libata provides IDE support for most legacy

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:19:17 -0400 (EDT), Frank Miles wrote: > > I just tried compiling the kernel for My 'wheezy' system (2.6.39) [amd64]. > As I've done many times - using > make-kpkg --revision N kernel_image > But with the recent linux-source update - shortly after starting I get: > >

Virtually installing a virtual package?

2011-07-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi folks, Keeping it short, i want to install zabbix-frontend-php, which depends on apache; or httpd. I installed nginx from source (and used checkinstall a while back i think so) it's listed in the installed packages but it didn't provide httpd. I can't install httpd because it's a virtual packag

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Arnt Karlsen writes: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:41:00 +0200, lee wrote in message > <87sjq6qdab@yun.yagibdah.de>: > >> Arnt Karlsen writes: >> >> > ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws Mail >> > default "MH" folders with one file for each message, from spare >> > netbo

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-07-16 20:31 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Sven Joachim writes: >> >> Ah, now I think I see what you mean. I didn't express myself very >> well. My intention was to make a general statement that input devices >> are very likely not to work correctly without an xorg.conf.

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:41:00 +0200, lee wrote in message <87sjq6qdab@yun.yagibdah.de>: > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > > ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws Mail > > default "MH" folders with one file for each message, from spare > > netbook to real laptop, howto pointers

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-16 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 01:21:53PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Our of curiosity, why choose a local app over a central service like > Reader or any of the others out there? > > I used to be a big fan of such local apps, but since I c

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Johannes Schauer wrote: > What I'm using now is liferea which is okay but could be more minimal > and mainly, is way too slow to enjoy using it (search for the fsync > issue). You might try 'eatmydata' available in Sid to avoid the fsync problem. And how much trouble can an rss feed reader cause a

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-16 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > What I'm using now is liferea which is okay but could be more minimal > and mainly, is way too slow to enjoy using it (search for the fsync > issue). Sounds like you may need to tune your filesystem. If fsync() is causing a problem, it

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-16 20:31 +0200, lee wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > > Ah, now I think I see what you mean. I didn't express myself very > well. My intention was to make a general statement that input devices > are very likely not to work correctly without an xorg.conf. This is a rather bold stateme

kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-16 Thread Frank Miles
I just tried compiling the kernel for My 'wheezy' system (2.6.39) [amd64]. As I've done many times - using make-kpkg --revision N kernel_image But with the recent linux-source update - shortly after starting I get: CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s In file included f

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Arnt Karlsen writes: > ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws Mail > default "MH" folders with one file for each message, from spare > netbook to real laptop, howto pointers? Tried the formail -ds > route and must be overlooking something. Why don't you just copy the mail

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-07-16 16:56 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Sven Joachim writes: >> >>> On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: >>> Paul E Condon writes: > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer > versions of X ar

Re: secured pdf

2011-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:21:41 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> El 2011-07-15 a las 09:50 +0800, lina escribió: >> >> (resending to the list...) >> >>> What does those imply? >> >> Mmm, I'm not sure what do you mean by that, care to expand? :-) > > Before I

Re: secured pdf

2011-07-16 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 16, 2011 12:22 PM, "lina" wrote: > > the screen gets mess, kind of two, but not real two, just one is real > but get smaller, another like mirage on the left part. > Come again? I don't understand what you're saying. I'm gathering that you've got a GUI issue after it wakes from sleep but

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 16. Juli 2011 schrieb Arnt Karlsen: > Hi, > > ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws Mail > default "MH" folders with one file for each message, from spare > netbook to real laptop, howto pointers? Tried the formail -ds > route and must be overlooking something. I

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110716_174350, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-07-16 16:56 +0200, lee wrote: > > > Sven Joachim writes: > > > >> On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: > >> > >>> Paul E Condon writes: > >>> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The ne

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-16 17:57 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote: > I think the only part of it that I actually > still need is the line: > > Option "UseBIOS" "off" > > but I never had enough hand-holding from an expert to properly get > rid of the cruft. This option appears to be specific t

Re: secured pdf

2011-07-16 Thread lina
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: > El 2011-07-15 a las 09:50 +0800, lina escribió: > > (resending to the list...) > >> What does those imply? > > Mmm, I'm not sure what do you mean by that, care to expand? :-) Before I did not know why okular showed up so many warnings like: missi

..OT: HW: where is the bios battery in Fujitsu Celsius H240 laptops?

2011-07-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..OT: HW: where is the bios battery in Fujitsu Celsius H240 laptops? ..damn thing needs a coupla hours in a freezer before it'll boot, if it's too "hot" on boot-up, it plays jet engine. ..once booted up, it works fine except for wasting 2 USB ports on X rodent 'n key plank, topic of a sep

..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws Mail default "MH" folders with one file for each message, from spare netbook to real laptop, howto pointers? Tried the formail -ds route and must be overlooking something. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Kar

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110716_155607, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: > > > Paul E Condon writes: > > > >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf > >> But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer > >> versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody. > > > >

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > > Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze. > I am on uptodate x86 kernel, > linux-image-2.6.32-5-686  2.6.32-35 > > $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or > $ mount /floppy > > Puts out in messages ... > [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 i

..simple stupid X Q: touchpad 'n kbd works in console but not in X, fix hints?

2011-07-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..simple stupid X Q: Touch pad and keyboard works in console but not in X, fix hints? ..Sid+Experimental, 'X -configure' fails to make a workable xorg.conf, and I'm overlooking something stupid simple. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of po

Re: udev rules for 2 identical webcams + 1 spare cam

2011-07-16 Thread briand
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:29:49 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: > FYI, > jonnor.com/2010/08/determining-physical-topology-of-hotplugged-usb-devices-with-udev/ > > Ie, figure out your physical setup and write a script. If programming isn't > your thing, you could probably get this done with sed / awk or m

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-16 16:56 +0200, lee wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> Paul E Condon writes: >>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer versions of X are capable of auto configuration for

Re: How do I check the package I just installed

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Jimmy Wu writes: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, 15:22+0200, lee wrote: >> lina writes: >> >> > After purge, reboot it came back to before. >> >> Perhaps it's better to use aptitude for installing and removing >> packages. The big advantage is that aptitude knows a difference between >> automatically

Re: Trinity site offline?

2011-07-16 Thread Chris Brennan
On 7/15/2011 10:11 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 ARIN Direct allocation to Level3 Communications. if they don't know, then TrinityDesktop.org's dns entries were removed from their DNS Servers for what ever reason, but it appears it's back online now. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Paul E Condon writes: >> >>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf >>> But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer >>> versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody. >> >> They are unable to get y

Re: udev rules for 2 identical webcams + 1 spare cam

2011-07-16 Thread shawn wilson
FYI, jonnor.com/2010/08/determining-physical-topology-of-hotplugged-usb-devices-with-udev/ Ie, figure out your physical setup and write a script. If programming isn't your thing, you could probably get this done with sed / awk or maybe even grep. Though this sounds harder to me than writing a simp

Re: udev rules for 2 identical webcams + 1 spare cam

2011-07-16 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 16, 2011 8:00 AM, "Camaleón" wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:59:24 +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: > > >> Von: Camaleón > >>> What do you mean ? - SYMLINK+="webcam%n" ? I tried that, didn't help. > >>Nope. > >> > >>I wanted to know why you used Name="video%n" instead Name="video1" and > >>Name="

Re: How do I check the package I just installed

2011-07-16 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, 15:22+0200, lee wrote: > lina writes: > > > After purge, reboot it came back to before. > > Perhaps it's better to use aptitude for installing and removing > packages. The big advantage is that aptitude knows a difference between > automatically installed packages and pack

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-16 15:29 +0200, lee wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: > >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf >> But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer >> versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody. > > They are unable to get your keyboard to work and will als

Re: secured pdf

2011-07-16 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-07-15 a las 09:50 +0800, lina escribió: (resending to the list...) > What does those imply? Mmm, I'm not sure what do you mean by that, care to expand? :-) > ~/Desktop$ okular NN11-Saito-Abeta43.pdf > kdeinit4: preparing to launch > /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so > C

Re: Why has kismet different GUI between amd64 and i386?

2011-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:18:52 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I am just wondering, why kismet (the famous wireless sniffer) has got a > different surface between 64-bit (Acer notebook) and 32-bit (EEEPC). I don't see any good reason to deliver two different UI for the same program regardless of t

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:22:40 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: > On 16/07/11 09:52, Tomas Kral wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze. >> I am on uptodate x86 kernel, >> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 >> >> $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or >> $ mount /f

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread lee
Paul E Condon writes: > /etc/X11/xorg.conf > But the installer generally does not create xorg.conf any more. The newer > versions of X are capable of auto configuration for almost everybody. They are unable to get your keyboard to work and will also fail with your pointing device, so that's more

Why has kismet different GUI between amd64 and i386?

2011-07-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am just wondering, why kismet (the famous wireless sniffer) has got a different surface between 64-bit (Acer notebook) and 32-bit (EEEPC). I checked, on both systems the configs are identically. There are no user- specific configurations existent. Both kismet versions are started a

Re: Multiple Network Gateways

2011-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:00:52 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: (...) > That is, the desired routing table is as follows. > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > 10.10.98.96 0.0.0.0

Re: udev rules for 2 identical webcams + 1 spare cam

2011-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:59:24 +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: >> Von: Camaleón >>> What do you mean ? - SYMLINK+="webcam%n" ? I tried that, didn't help. >>Nope. >> >>I wanted to know why you used Name="video%n" instead Name="video1" and >>Name="video2" in two separate rules/lines. > > I see your point, s

Re: Iceweasel crashes with Illegal Instruction error message

2011-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:42:08 -0700, Tech Geek wrote: >> Are you sure you don't have flash player or java or any other plugin/ >> extension installed? They can be located in many places. Run: >> >> locate libflashplayer.so > Running the above commands returns nothing. That was the Adobe Flash pl

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:53:06 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >> Yes, most of us -wrongly- believe that our NATed router is like a wall >> between our computers and the dangerous external web (because indeed it >> is hidding somehow) but this is not a security measure per s

Re: Where is the table Xorg.conf located (Squeeze)?

2011-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:03:10 -0700, William Lee Valentine wrote: > If I want to employ higher screen resolutions with a monitor that Linux > does not recognize, I understand that I must manually enter values in > the table Xorg.conf. (...) Well, nowadays you can use "xrandr" tool to get that. M

Re: Restarting network

2011-07-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-07-09 16:29:55 +0100, Brian wrote: > As a matter of observation I notice the booting process pauses when > /e/n/i uses > >auto etho >iface eth0 inet dhcp > > It may only be for 2 or 3 seconds while dhclient does what it has to do > and outputs its actions to the screen, but it can

RE: Multiple Network Gateways

2011-07-16 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hallo Volkan, >> I would like to setup a simple network detailed in the below schema. [] > You also have some dns lines in that interfaces file. As far as I know that is not alowed and those > lines should be in the /etc/resolv.conf file. Appart from some typos I also made an error in not

Re: Help with quotes in find statement in ksh script

2011-07-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe, the following little shell example can help: file_pattern='-name \*.c -o -name \*.h' eval find . $file_pattern The stars ("*") have to be protected from being evaluated by the shell in the second line, therefore, the backslashes. The eval command does the trick, its a shell built-in. By t

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Dom
On 16/07/11 09:52, Tomas Kral wrote: Hello list, Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze. I am on uptodate x86 kernel, linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or $ mount /floppy Puts out in messages ... [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommende

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/16/2011 3:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 > > $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or > $ mount /floppy > [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT > filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! > > But no floppy is really mounte

Re: broken dpkg status

2011-07-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:44 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived > to delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never > thought to back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake! > > Anyway, the most pressing prob

Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Tomas Kral
Hello list, Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze. I am on uptodate x86 kernel, linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or $ mount /floppy Puts out in messages ... [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, files