Re: debian 6 usb 3 ready ???

2011-09-12 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 12/09/2011 16:10, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:25:54 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: Tried to install Debian 6 on usb drive via USB 3 port. Could not see the drive so tried on USB 2 port, went ok. Logs and bug report number? These things need to be properly reported>;-)

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
Ken Heard: > > At the beginning I was able to enter the passphrase and so the boot > continued. After a few weeks, during which time I was tweaking the > software to make the computer useable, through no conscious intervention > on my part the computer stopped accepting the passphrase. I would e

Re: Held Packages on Sid

2011-09-12 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 13 September 2011 14:05, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > Subject: Re: Held Packages on Sid > > There seem to be more and more of them. What's the score? > > I have a Sid system freshly updated and upgraded today and I see no > packages held back on my desktop system with a lot of pa

Re: Held Packages on Sid

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
David Baron wrote: > Subject: Re: Held Packages on Sid > There seem to be more and more of them. What's the score? I have a Sid system freshly updated and upgraded today and I see no packages held back on my desktop system with a lot of packages installed. At this moment I have 2693 packages inst

Re: Bind does not die

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Jari Fredriksson wrote: > jarif@spitfire:~$ sudo rndc stop > WARNING: key file (/etc/bind/rndc.key) exists, but using default > configuration file (/etc/bind/rndc.conf) That should not produce that warning. A default installation does not have the file /etc/bind/rndc.conf present. Do you have it

Re: udev warning [partially SOLVED]

2011-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
it...@nospammail.net wrote: > Now I have to resolve the same warnings coming from file > /etc/udev/rules.d/025_logitechmouse.rules > This is a symlink to > /etc/udev/logitechmouse.rules > According to 'dpkg -S' the symlink is unknown. > The target, though, is owned by package kcontrol.

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-12 Thread Dan
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: > >> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card >> AMD Radeon 6470M. > > Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum thread (post #11) where a user > talks about the status of

Re: Problems with Orca Cutting Out

2011-09-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has screensaver been shut off? On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, RiverWind wrote: > > Hey There, > > For some reason, I have had quite a problem with Orca cutting out > when ever my system is in use. I have no way of knowing why this > phenomenon occurs, so I am hard put to try and find a solution for > the

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-12 Thread trouble daemon
Oops, almost forgot to mention that it was Debian Squeeze 6.0.2! Let me know if you need any more info or tests etc. Cya \o On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:41 PM, trouble daemon wrote: > Heya folks \o > > I am sending to the mailing list since I am not exactly sure about > which package to file the bug

debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-12 Thread trouble daemon
Heya folks \o I am sending to the mailing list since I am not exactly sure about which package to file the bug against. It seems like it should be the debian-installer, but I don't know if maybe there are sub categories like partman or something that it should be filled under. Anyways, the proble

Re: User configurable backup

2011-09-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:22:50AM +0600, Gary Golden wrote: > Hello, list. > > I'm looking for a backup software which can be configured for > inclusion/exclusion inside the target directory. > > For example, would we have: > > $ ls -1 /home/user > foo > bar > baz > > > System

Re: tor and debian

2011-09-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/09/11 06:05, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hello list, > > I am a little bit confused, how to correctly configure tor in debian. > Maybe you can make something more clear. > > This is my environment: I have installed > > tor tor-geoip tor-data privoxy polipo vidalia > > 1. Vidalia is starting

Re: System powers off randomly

2011-09-12 Thread Frank Steinborn
Thomas Neumeier wrote: > Thank you for your answer. > > Well it sounds like a hardware issue, but I would like to test with > an older kernel version. > > Is there an easy way to reinstall the older version? > I tried to pin one in /etc/apt/preferences, but had no success. /var/cache/apt/archive

Sandy bridge and kernel 3.1

2011-09-12 Thread Rémi Marchal
Hello! I have bought the laptop N53SN-SZ126V from ASUS with the technology Sandy Bridge. When I install the last stable version of Debian, I get a black screen typical of the incompatibility of the kernel and Sandy bridge. I have read that the kernel 3.1 works very good with Sandybridge. Is it pos

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Hore
Hi all, It's been a few weeks now, so I'm wondering if there's been any progress on this. I think the relevant bugs are #637284 and 627705 - neither have had any activity during these few weeks. Is everybody on holidays?? -- Mike. Hi again, I was directed to the wiki: http://wiki.debian

Re: Recent Changes in CUPS and Foomatic Causing All-Black Printing from Browsers?

2011-09-12 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/12/2011 01:06 PM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Hi, I'm reluctant to even bring this up because it's so darned weird. I've got an HP OfficeJet 6310 (multi-function network device: printer, fax, scanner) that has worked flawlessly for a couple of years under Debian stable and testing. I do

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:31:07 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Tvtime uses x.org xv extension. In the past support for that extension > was not good at least for AMD64 port. So I just wonder does it work > nowadays with fgrlx driver in squeeze ? I don't use tvtime, but I do use Xv with Radeon on

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-12 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 09/10/2011 08:20 PM, � wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:28:45 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Does tvtime work with fglrx drivers on Debian Squeeze ? I don't see why not :-? Tvtime uses x.org xv extension. In the past support for that extension was not good at least for AMD64 port. So

tor and debian

2011-09-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, I am a little bit confused, how to correctly configure tor in debian. Maybe you can make something more clear. This is my environment: I have installed tor tor-geoip tor-data privoxy polipo vidalia 1. Vidalia is starting the tor daemon = ok 2. privoxy is configured as in the doc be

Re: usb failure

2011-09-12 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Sun 2011-09-11 (08:26), Simon Brandmair wrote: > Maybe related to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634023 I don't think so? Nothing happens when I plug a stick in - the subsystem is 'dead'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-12 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As part of an installation on a desktop of squeeze I set up the swap, /temp and /home partitions to be encrypted. The first two have random passphrases; the /home partition however has a passphrase I created as part of the installation. On boot in du

Re: System powers off randomly

2011-09-12 Thread Thomas Neumeier
Thank you for your answer. Well it sounds like a hardware issue, but I would like to test with an older kernel version. Is there an easy way to reinstall the older version? I tried to pin one in /etc/apt/preferences, but had no success. Thomas Am 11.09.2011 23:44, schrieb Andrew Reid: Hello

Problems with Orca Cutting Out

2011-09-12 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, For some reason, I have had quite a problem with Orca cutting out when ever my system is in use. I have no way of knowing why this phenomenon occurs, so I am hard put to try and find a solution for the problem. I thought that I might have too many extraneous files or windows open, but

Recent Changes in CUPS and Foomatic Causing All-Black Printing from Browsers?

2011-09-12 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Hi, I'm reluctant to even bring this up because it's so darned weird. I've got an HP OfficeJet 6310 (multi-function network device: printer, fax, scanner) that has worked flawlessly for a couple of years under Debian stable and testing. I don't make use of the fax function, but both printer

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: > I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card > AMD Radeon 6470M. Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum thread (post #11) where a user talks about the status of that card in his distribution: http://ubuntuforums.org/sh

Re: detecting which pts from vt

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Lettington
On Mon, Sep 12 2011 08:34:46 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > Is there a way from the CL to detect which pts is the plain > xterm window or to cause X to open the windows in a specified > order? You can't easily find out what pts the xterm has from elsewhere, but the xterm itself could find what

Re: detecting which pts from vt

2011-09-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mike McClain writes: > I'm regularly wanting to transport some text from a vt to an xterm > window Is using GNU Screen or tmux an option? They both enable one to have a single “terminal window” to be shared between any number of VT's, XTerm's, SSH terminal sessio

detecting which pts from vt

2011-09-12 Thread Mike McClain
I'm regularly wanting to transport some text from a vt to an xterm window so I wrote a little function : toX () { echo "$*" >/dev/pts/1 } only to find that when xwindows/icewm starts up it doesn't always open windows in the same order. In .xsession I open 5 windows when I launch X, one

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Have you tried to neutralized the wrong nvidia module by renaming it. On 12/09/11 16:30, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, problem is that I can't get x to start now and need some help, any ideas? On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, "Jerome BENOIT" mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net>> wrote: > Hello List: > > have yo

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-09-12 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, problem is that I can't get x to start now and need some help, any ideas? On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, "Jerome BENOIT" wrote: > Hello List: > > have your tried the Debian instead: > > http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers > http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-d

Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-12 Thread Dan
Hi, I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card AMD Radeon 6470M. I would like to know how good are the open-source drivers for the AMD Radeon Cards. I read that AMD gives a better support for the open-source drivers than Nvidia. Is that right? Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUB

Re: Moving EMail to another Evolution installation

2011-09-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:51:58 -0500, John Salmon wrote: > It appears that my reply never got posted. You mean this post? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/09/msg00637.html Yes, it reached the list and I already read it but I understood that you finally solved your problem :-? > The Evo

Re: debian 6 usb 3 ready ???

2011-09-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:25:54 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Tried to install Debian 6 on usb drive via USB 3 port. Could not see the > drive so tried on USB 2 port, went ok. Logs and bug report number? These things need to be properly reported >;-) > After installation it worked on USB 3 but wh

Re: Moving EMail to another Evolution installation

2011-09-12 Thread John Salmon
It appears that my reply never got posted. The Evolution installation I was copying from was hard connected to the network and had no info on the wireless connection. Thus, there was no wireless information transferred. John Salmon salmo...@comcast.net On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 15:07 +, Camale

Held Packages on Sid

2011-09-12 Thread David Baron
There seem to be more and more of them. What's the score? -- 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.org/201109121607.31543.d_ba...@012.net.il

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: have your tried the Debian instead: http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-dev hth, Jerome On 12/09/11 15:05, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/09/11 23:27, consul tores wrote: > Adding Slackware test information: > > bash-4.1# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/09/11 22:58, consul tores wrote: > 2011/9/11 Scott Ferguson : >> On 11/09/11 15:38, consul tores wrote: >>> >>> 2011/9/10 yudi v: >> >> -- Kind regards, Yudi >>> >>> I think that, it is a problem with Squeeze fdisk+GPT; please try >>> cfdisk, it seems updated. >>> >>> >> >>

Nvidia drivers

2011-09-12 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get CUDA to work. I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove all of the packages using apt, and them used m-a prepare m-a auto-i

Re: OT - Frequency of unsolicited emails

2011-09-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:19:54 -0400, Doug wrote: > On 09/11/2011 11:23 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:58:30 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote: >> >>> I've noticed since joining this list a number of weeks back that it is >>> the only technical/OS discussion list to which I subscribe that >>> fr

Re: Bind does not die

2011-09-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
12.9.2011 7:49, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: > Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> Whenever I shutdown or reboot my Debians, the process fails. Bind >> shutdown process waits for the process to end indefinitely, and the >> machine does not shut down. I have to manually find the process and kill >> with -9. > > Th

Re: [alsa-devel] No sound on Asus EeePC 1215b (hda-intel)

2011-09-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:15:57 +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:18:39AM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > > On 09/01/2011 12:08 AM, Touko Korpela wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:42:02PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > >>Touko Korpela wrote: > > No sound is heard

Re: How to disable USB automounts (still failing...)

2011-09-12 Thread Itay
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Itay wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Brian wrote: There are two mistakes in the advice offered. One is major: the rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/ has to be used after 80-udisks.rules in /lib/udev/rules.d, so would be better put in 85-no-automount.rules. A relatively minor mistak

debian 6 usb 3 ready ???

2011-09-12 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Tried to install Debian 6 on usb drive via USB 3 port. Could not see the drive so tried on USB 2 port, went ok. After installation it worked on USB 3 but when connected an other usb drive in the 2nd usb3 port debian froze while the drive was loading. Froze so bad that I had to disco

Re: udev warning [partially SOLVED]

2011-09-12 Thread itayf
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: it...@nospammail.net wrote: I noticed during boot a series of warnings coming from udevd. ... udevd[451]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, \ please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to \ match a parent device, in \ /etc/