Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-18 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-04-26 16:36, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:14:52 +0200, Jasper Noe wrote: > >>> Maybe you are searching for another key: >>> >>> /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop [ ] >>> >>> If you toogle this "off" all your icons will vanish. >> >> I think it is still another key: >> >>

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy [solved!]

2011-07-18 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks to everyone who helped - yes, it was indeed something about my environment. In /etc/profile, I've long exported an environment variable of the form: export LIBRARY_PATH="/home/myname/devel/lib:." I have a dim memory that when compiling cross-compilers that the '.' directory is a

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/18/11, Johannes Obermueller wrote: > On 07/18/2011 05:27 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: >> Dear All >> I have put my windows machine behind my debian firewall server with >> just one NIC. At now, the windows machine can ping 192.9.9.3 but >> cannot resolve valid url (like www.google.com). I have se

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/18/11, Regid Ichira wrote: > hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On 7/18/11, Tom Furie furie.org.uk> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote: >> > >> >> I have set the same DNS on both my debian firewall and windows macine. >> > >> > And that would be

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/18/2011 1:39 PM, Tomas Kral wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:42 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> 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 re

Re: Experiences on using zram with ARM?

2011-07-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
zram... there actually exists something called "Z-Ram", it was bought by one of the major companies: it's actually 3D (stacked) ram and thus you get a significantly higher memory density. thus, the use of the name "zram" caused some confusion, that you had access to this quite rare type of RAM mem

Re: Why /etc/init.d/.depend.start did not caught editing to /etc/insserv.conf?

2011-07-18 Thread Regid Ichira
Bob Proulx proulx.com> writes: > > Looking at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634215 I > see that you have found a problem related to @reboot with cron > starting earlier using the dependency based booting than it did before > with the legacy based manually specified number boot

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-18 Thread Cousin Stanley
Cousin Stanley wrote : >> Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 >> debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having >> invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do >> anything X related from a terminal Liam O'Toole replied : > Are you running applications > entirel

Re: Experiences on using zram with ARM?

2011-07-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. 2011/7/14 Rogério Brito : > As many ARM systems (and other embedded architectures) happen to be > memory-starved, I thought about playing with zram (the new name of > "zramswap") on some of my systems, but I found out that not all platforms > have zram enabled in the stock kernels in Debian. >

Re: ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:20:45 -0400 "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. > First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work > without bothering with alsa-driver-linuxant, or if I didn't know

md driver - dropped disk still being used?

2011-07-18 Thread Sandra Escandor
Question: I would like to confirm if I am interpreting the kernel log correctly. The situation is that there was I/O going on to the RAID and then one of the disks drop out - then the whole system completely hangs after recovery finishes. I expected that the RAID would still be usable with 3 out of

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-18 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-17, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 > debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having > invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do > anything X related from a terminal (...) Are you running applications entirely w

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 21:27 +0200, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:39:03 +0200 > Tomas Kral wrote: > > Hello Tomas, > > > I think it is an IDE floppy, it has got a ribbon cable attaching it to > > the main board. > > Further to what Lisi says; > > How many pins has the connector/ca

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:42 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > 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 > > filesyste

Re: Dual Monitor How To?

2011-07-18 Thread Randy Kramer
On Monday 18 July 2011 02:37:40 pm Alan Chandler wrote: > Life gets stranger. A reboot this evening and this problem no longer > occurs in dmesg > > I also eventually get the format of BusID options correct in my > Xorg.conf file and now both screens are working again with the > nouveau driver alo

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:39:03 +0200 Tomas Kral wrote: Hello Tomas, > I think it is an IDE floppy, it has got a ribbon cable attaching it to > the main board. Further to what Lisi says; How many pins has the connector/cable got? If it's a 40 way cable, then yes, it's IDE. If fewer than 40, it'

Re: Dual Monitor How To?

2011-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-18 20:37 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: > Life gets stranger. A reboot this evening and this problem no longer > occurs in dmesg > > I also eventually get the format of BusID options correct in my > Xorg.conf file and now both screens are working again with the nouveau > driver alongside

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Lisi
On Monday 18 July 2011 19:39:03 Tomas Kral wrote: > I think it is an IDE floppy, it has got a ribbon cable attaching it to > the main board. "Normal" floppies have a ribbon cable. Is the ribbon cable attached to yours an *IDE* ribbon cable? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7

2011-07-18 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Simon Quantrill wrote: > Im installing debian on a 120 G7 I can get Lenny installed but when I try to > upgrade or directly install to squeeze the raid controller seems to go > missing probably a firmware issue still fault finding but I found your > question so

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:42 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > 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 > > filesyste

Re: Why /etc/init.d/.depend.start did not caught editing to /etc/insserv.conf?

2011-07-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Regid Ichira wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Regid Ichira wrote: > > > I have installed the ntp package. I edited /etc/insserv.conf, and > > > added +ntp to the $time line. > > > > > > $ grep time /etc/insserv.conf > > > # The system time has been set correctly > > > $time

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 20:58 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > May I recommend sidestepping this entirely? ... The "mtools" > > toolkit is vastly more efficient and safer, ... > > +1 on the use of mtools. It is definitely a good solution. > > However if someone is wanting

Re: Dual Monitor How To?

2011-07-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On 18/07/11 06:53, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/07/11 16:30, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-17 16:22 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: I've recently upgraded by desktop computer so it now has Intel H67 Integrated Graphics built into the motherboard and I have an additional Geforce 8400GS graphics card

Re: Debian on Acer Aspire 5745PG?

2011-07-18 Thread Lucas Lima
About the nvidia driver, you can try download it directly from the debian repositories (wich is the best option) or download it from the nvidia site. The file from nvidia's site is a ".run" so you just need to execute it and follow the steps wich will be provided by the software itself. 2011/7/18

Re: Does Debian 6.0.2.1 for amd64 work properly ?

2011-07-18 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:15:54 +1200, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, >Is Debian 6.0.2.1, or something more recent, for the amd64 > architecture OK ? It will be used to upgrade Debian 5.0.6 on an Asus > PRO50G notebook. Thanks. I'm using Squeeze x86_64 with no problems at all, if that

Debian on Acer Aspire 5745PG?

2011-07-18 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm visiting with my son-in-law and daughter and he wants to install Debian on this laptop. I was able to successfully install squeeze. However, the two remaining problems I have at this point are a) getting the nvidia drivers working and b) getting the touch screen to work. I know they are probabl

Re: Problem with libnss3-1d

2011-07-18 Thread auslands-kv
Very easy. Edit /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/nss.cfg and change nssLibraryDirectory = /usr/lib to nssLibraryDirectory = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu If you use a 64 bit system. If you use a 32 bit system, look into 'dpkg -L libnss3-1d' to find the location of libnss3.so and use that. Cheers M

gcc using Pipes Done!

2011-07-18 Thread Martin McCormick
lee writes: > And leftchannel_pipe is supposed to be an array? Without seeing more of > your program, we're left in the dark ... Now that I got it working, here it is. All this does is to give you an 8-bit 8000 sample per second audio feed from both the left and right channels of the soun

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread Johannes Obermueller
On 07/18/2011 05:27 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I have put my windows machine behind my debian firewall server with just one NIC. At now, the windows machine can ping 192.9.9.3 but cannot resolve valid url (like www.google.com). I have set DNS for it as well. Can you please let me know what

Re: Debian package building for single files or virtual packages?

2011-07-18 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 07/18/2011 03:36 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I'm facing some locally used tools that consist of only single files, such as "mkrdns". I'd love to wrap it up in a .deb, but the dh-make and related tools seem oriented around software that comes in tarballs and has Makefile or autoconf or Makefil

Re: Getting Rid of Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-07-18 Thread Regid Ichira
David Baron 012.net.il> writes: > > Get load of these on any dpkg/apt operation: > > dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 39750 > package 'libmal0': > missing architecture > dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 40988 > package 'hwda

Debian package building for single files or virtual packages?

2011-07-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I'm facing some locally used tools that consist of only single files, such as "mkrdns". I'd love to wrap it up in a .deb, but the dh-make and related tools seem oriented around software that comes in tarballs and has Makefile or autoconf or Makefile.PL already built into them. And while amazingly e

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread Regid Ichira
hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > > On 7/18/11, Tom Furie furie.org.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote: > > > >> I have set the same DNS on both my debian firewall and windows macine. > > > > And that would be what? You can ping an IP address from Wind

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: >> >> May I recommend sidestepping this entirely? Mounted floppy drives have >> *HORRIBLE* performance. > > Huh?  A mounte

Re: Re: Debian with HP ProLiant DL120 G7

2011-07-18 Thread Simon Quantrill
Im installing debian on a 120 G7 I can get Lenny installed but when I try to upgrade or directly install to squeeze the raid controller seems to go missing probably a firmware issue still fault finding but I found your question so thought I would answer Simon PGP.sig Description: This is a di

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips & experience

2011-07-18 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 07/17/11 20:33, Paul Johnson wrote: Here's my progress report on Debian and the Dell Precision M4600. [...] I have worked A LOT on the touchpad question. [...] Thanks for great update. I have M6510 and the same problems, so I'm going to give the patch a try. BTW I'm left handed and I foun

New install -> Laptop, dual boot with Win7, config with LVM+LUKS fails if the encryption layer is on top of LVM layer

2011-07-18 Thread yudi v
I am trying to install Debian Squeeze 32bit on a laptop with 750Gb Advanced Format WD drive. the partition scheme I have in my mind is like this: sda1 100GB Win7 sda2 500GB LVM (also the PV and the VG) -LV 500MB /boot -LV 15GB /root (encrypted) -LV 50GB /home (encrypted) -LV 4GB swap partitio

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/18/11, Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote: > >> I have set the same DNS on both my debian firewall and windows macine. > > And that would be what? You can ping an IP address from Windows, but > can't resolve names. What is the situation with Debia

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > > May I recommend sidestepping this entirely? Mounted floppy drives have > *HORRIBLE* performance. Huh? A mounted floppy should have vastly superior performance to mtools, p

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote: > I have set the same DNS on both my debian firewall and windows macine. And that would be what? You can ping an IP address from Windows, but can't resolve names. What is the situation with Debian? Cheers, Tom -- Let me do my TRIBU

Re: Problem with libnss3-1d

2011-07-18 Thread DebianTR.WP
Hey, I am having the same problem for several days and was googling around for an answer. I am very happy now that you did it :) Can you explain how you edited the line? Thanks On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 08:56 +0200, Michael wrote: > The site works again. And great, the fix (edit /etc/java-6- > ope

RE: Multiple Network Gateways

2011-07-18 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> In here you have some duplicate information that is not needed. In the eth0 >> section the netmask 255.255.255.240 together with the ip-address of >> 10.10.98.100 >> automaticaly defines the network and broadcast address you give in the next >> lines. You can leave them out. > They are ad

Re: NumLock in console [SOLVED].

2011-07-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You very much for Your time and answer, Stephen: >If kbd is installed, a similar setting is available >in /etc/kbd/config (LEDS=+num). This setting works for the text >consoles (by default, vt1 through vt6). It worked for me w/o even console-tools installation. The topic is closed. --

Re: Why /etc/init.d/.depend.start did not caught editing to /etc/insserv.conf?

2011-07-18 Thread Regid Ichira
Bob Proulx proulx.com> writes: > > Regid Ichira wrote: > > I have installed the ntp package. I edited /etc/insserv.conf, and > > added +ntp to the $time line. > > > > $ grep time /etc/insserv.conf > > # The system time has been set correctly > > $time +hwclock +ntp > >

[SOLVED] Re: Virtually installing a virtual package?

2011-07-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi >>There has to be a switch for that or maybe a better way to achieve it >>without needing to lie the whole apt database about apache real status :-? That was my first guess, but there was nothing (i could find) in the manpage. Besides, the whole point of a package manager is to *prevent* you f

Re: Multiple Network Gateways

2011-07-18 Thread Erwan David
On 18/07/11 10:21, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > [Before going with the rest of the reply, I'd like to thank who (lee, > William Hopkins, Johannes Obermueller, Bonno Bloksma, Andrew McGlashan, > Camaleón) sincerely answered to my question.] > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:31:05 +0200, "Bonno Bloksma" writes:

Re: Multiple Network Gateways

2011-07-18 Thread Volkan YAZICI
[Before going with the rest of the reply, I'd like to thank who (lee, William Hopkins, Johannes Obermueller, Bonno Bloksma, Andrew McGlashan, Camaleón) sincerely answered to my question.] On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:31:05 +0200, "Bonno Bloksma" writes: > In here you have some duplicate information that

Problem with gnome-panel on Sid

2011-07-18 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Hello! I'm using Debian sid on several computers without any problem, but yesterday I boot one od them, recently updated and I have a lot of problem with gnome panels. I usually had two panels (top and bottom), but when I started my gnome session, I can't see any of them. When I press Alt+

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/18/11, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/18/2011 2:12 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > >> Yes, you are right. I have set for the DNS on my windows machine but >> it cannot still browse valid ulr. > > What IP address did you plug into the Windows machine toi use for DNS > resolution? Sun's (Oracle's) 192

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/18/2011 2:12 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Yes, you are right. I have set for the DNS on my windows machine but > it cannot still browse valid ulr. What IP address did you plug into the Windows machine toi use for DNS resolution? Sun's (Oracle's) 192.9.9.3 name server is not a public resolver

Getting Rid of Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-07-18 Thread David Baron
Get load of these on any dpkg/apt operation: dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 39750 package 'libmal0': missing architecture dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 40988 package 'hwdata-knoppix': missing architecture Not all of them

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/18/11, Csanyi Pal wrote: > hadi motamedi writes: > >> On 7/18/11, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> hadi motamedi writes: >>> Dear All I have put my windows machine behind my debian firewall server with just one NIC. At now, the windows machine can ping 192.9.9.3 but cannot resolve

Re: firewall?

2011-07-18 Thread Csanyi Pal
hadi motamedi writes: > On 7/18/11, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> hadi motamedi writes: >> >>> Dear All >>> I have put my windows machine behind my debian firewall server with >>> just one NIC. At now, the windows machine can ping 192.9.9.3 but >>> cannot resolve valid url (like www.google.com). I have