Re: dates of install for pkgs

2011-10-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Also don't know about such switch for dpkg. The "list"-files of the installed packages in /var/lib/dpkg/info, I think, take the date of installation. But I was to lazy to check it against the log-files. So, something like (cd /var/lib/dpkg/info; ls -l *.list \ | while read a b c d mm dd ty nm; d

Re: Hi, how to lower the temperature of dell laptop?

2011-10-11 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/10/12 shiyao ma > Thanks for hintting me the "Kernel Governor", I am a newbier to linux, so > can you tell me some wiki or articles on cooling down the temperature? > Thus I can make it step by step. > > this might help http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/CpuFrequencyScaling -- Regards, Umarzuk

Re: Hi, how to lower the temperature of dell laptop?

2011-10-11 Thread shiyao ma
Thanks for hintting me the "Kernel Governor", I am a newbier to linux, so can you tell me some wiki or articles on cooling down the temperature? Thus I can make it step by step. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 11 Oct 2011 at 19:23:56 +0800, shiyao ma wrote: > > > Hi, every

Re: USB NICs latest compatibility?

2011-10-11 Thread Bob
On 10/11/2011 08:57 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: Bob on 10/11/2011 1:31 AM, wrote: I have a cheap $5 A1pro KY-AX88772A on which the chipset is labelled ASIX AX88772ALF so far it's worked with everything I've plugged it into & has been invaluable for installing the binary blob Ethernet or WiFi firmware

proper procedure for bug report against Debian Wheezy boot process

2011-10-11 Thread Larry Vaden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Debian Folks, We loaded Debian Wheezy on a machine a few hours ago and on two occasions out of five the boot process has ended abnormally. The first lines on the KVMoIP display are: Loading, please wait... Volume group "bigd-mach01" not foun

Re: good integration of pulseaudio and alsa in wheezy

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:06:19PM +0100, Richard wrote: > Hi, > Subject says it all. > I was surprised to find that I still had control over each sound card with > gnome mixer when pulseaudio > is running. Everywhere else it gets force to a single pulse volume control.. > > Nice one :) > Alsami

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Kent West
On 10/11/2011 05:27 PM, Chris Davies wrote: On 10/11/2011 03:20 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: johnc@infotech:~$ cat lazydog.awk /^The lazy dog/{ if ( count< 1 ){ print "The lazy dog is my favorite." count++ next } else {

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Davies
On 10/11/2011 03:20 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: > johnc@infotech:~$ cat lazydog.awk > /^The lazy dog/{ > if ( count< 1 ){ > print "The lazy dog is my favorite." > count++ > next > } else { > next > } >

Re: Hi, how to lower the temperature of dell laptop?

2011-10-11 Thread Brian
On Tue 11 Oct 2011 at 19:23:56 +0800, shiyao ma wrote: > Hi, everybody. This is really a tough question for me. > My laptop is dell studio 1458. When I use it with win7 x64. The laptop works > quite well.I mean, when I touch the bottom of the laptop, the temperature is > not high, and the fan does

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. > wrote: >> >> PCManFM Releases: >> >> 0.9.9 - August 2011 - this version works fine >> 0.9.8 (SID) - October 2010 - this is the version that's having

Wheezy - External HDD Not Mounting

2011-10-11 Thread k s
Hey List, I am using Debian Wheezy, & recently purchased a Western Digital "My Book Essential" external hard drive (2TB). It is powered by an external power adapter. When i initially plugged it in & attached it to my computer (while my computer was already booted to my desktop), Wheezy read it j

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > (shock, surprise) You are saying that filling out a web form in a > > browser can run processes on the local host machine and send data to the > > internet? No it can't or it would be a severe security vulnerability. > > Please list any browser that allows

grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-11 Thread Kurt Flex
Hi, I've done a safe-upgrade today which upgraded grub: upgrade grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 The same for grub-common. A dialog appeared which asked me to run grub-install. But that failed. So i told the dialog to skip that part. Now I've tried grub-install manually.

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:54:59 +0200 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 11/10/11 19:25, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:58:58 -0700, Al Eridani wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Camaleón > >> wrote: > >> > >>> "Pasao" is not a valid word in Spanish > >> > >> Absolutely correct.

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Kent West
On 10/11/2011 03:22 PM, Dom wrote: On 11/10/11 20:41, Kent West wrote: I tried googling my answer, but my google-foo seems to be weak. I have a text file which may or may not have several similar lines, like so: The lazy dog ate my lunch. The dog ate my lunch. The lazy dog slept all day. The l

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Kent West
On 10/11/2011 03:20 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: Hi Kent, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:41:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I tried googling my answer, but my google-foo seems to be weak. I have a text file which may or may not have several similar lines, like so: The lazy dog ate my lunch. The

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Dom
On 11/10/11 20:41, Kent West wrote: I tried googling my answer, but my google-foo seems to be weak. I have a text file which may or may not have several similar lines, like so: The lazy dog ate my lunch. The dog ate my lunch. The lazy dog slept all day. The lazy dog plopped down. I want to del

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:41:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: > I tried googling my answer, but my google-foo seems to be weak. > > I have a text file which may or may not have several similar lines, like > so: > > The lazy dog ate my lunch. > The dog ate my lunch. > The lazy dog slept all day. > The laz

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: [...] > > That's because you need to look for gl1, not gll. [...] Brad Rogers writes: [...] > Still wrong, it's gl1 (gee ell one). Oh boy, I guess there is not much doubt that I need new glasses. I'm so sorry for wasting your and the lists time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-11 Thread Kent West
I tried googling my answer, but my google-foo seems to be weak. I have a text file which may or may not have several similar lines, like so: The lazy dog ate my lunch. The dog ate my lunch. The lazy dog slept all day. The lazy dog plopped down. I want to delete all lines starting with "The lazy

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:56:40 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: Hello Harry, > But still the right search turns up nothing either. > aptitude search gll > Still wrong, it's gl1 (gee ell one). -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediatel

How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-11 Thread ML mail
Hello, I have a Sun Netra X1 with two identical 80 GB IDE hard-disks and would like to install Debian 6.0 squeeze (sparc) using RAID 1.  Now I tried various methods but all somehow failed for example by failing to install silo at the end... Also my problem is that I can't set the "physical vol

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-11 20:56 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >>> an `aptitude search g11' finds nothing. >>^ >> Hint: Use copy & paste. Or choose a font that better distinguishes the >> letter 'l' from the digit '1'. > > Gack, yup what a looser I am. > > But s

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Brian
On Tue 11 Oct 2011 at 16:37:17 +, Camaleón wrote: > And I see there is a bug report for having an http alternative: > > support for submitting bug reports via http > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590214 A quote from that link (which Stefano Zacchiroli went on to support):

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-10-11 16:56 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Sven Joachim writes: >> >>> Get xserver 1.10 from snapshot.debian.org, try a patch against 1.11.1 >>> from the nvidia forum², or use nouveau (you probably want to install the >>> libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental package in th

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: >> an `aptitude search g11' finds nothing. >^ > Hint: Use copy & paste. Or choose a font that better distinguishes the > letter 'l' from the digit '1'. Gack, yup what a looser I am. But still the right search turns up nothing either. aptitude sea

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Oct 2011 at 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > > And bugzilla does not tend to crash when writing bug reports >:-) > > > > In fact, I usually avoid using "reportbug" because of its high > > instability (it's annoying having to re-do a full report several > > times

Re: What can make the mouse cursor disappear?

2011-10-11 Thread Steven Sciame
> >From: Joe >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:21 PM >Subject: Re: What can make the mouse cursor disappear? > >On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:45:12 + (UTC) >Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:39:37 +0100, Joe wrote:

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Al Eridani
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:58:58 -0700, Al Eridani wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> "Pasao" is not a valid word in Spanish >> >> Absolutely correct. > > No, it's not. My Absolutely correct. was in response to yo

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:42:48 +0100 Lisi dijo: >On Tuesday 11 October 2011 18:32:02 Dom wrote: >> In this part of England (South East, just a little North of London), >> "dunno" is common. I would even use it myself sometimes. > >But would you write it? If so, perhaps it is an age thing. Are you

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Dom
On 11/10/11 18:42, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2011 18:32:02 Dom wrote: In this part of England (South East, just a little North of London), "dunno" is common. I would even use it myself sometimes. But would you write it? If so, perhaps it is an age thing. Are you young? Reasonably y

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/10/11 19:25, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:58:58 -0700, Al Eridani wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Camaleón wrote: "Pasao" is not a valid word in Spanish Absolutely correct. No, it's not. If you think it is, please send any authoritative reference that points to t

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-11 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:04, green wrote: > Joey L wrote at 2011-10-11 07:15 -0500: > >> I do not want to run another linux box - because that might go down as well. > > *Any* hardware you use might "go down", including the cable to the router > managing the failover.  And it would be quite pos

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 October 2011 18:32:02 Dom wrote: > In this part of England (South East, just a little North of London), > "dunno" is common. I would even use it myself sometimes. But would you write it? If so, perhaps it is an age thing. Are you young? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Evolution still crashing in stable---WHY???

2011-10-11 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 16:42 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:22:35AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > Its stable...so why is evolution crashing every time I send a message or > > add to my address book. EVERY TIME!! > > Debian uses the term 'Stable' in the 'Steady, Unchangi

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Dom
On 11/10/11 17:09, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:33:14 -0700, Al Eridani wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Camaleón wrote: I didn't know using "dunno" was incorrect, I mean, when using a casual language like the one it happens on a mailing list such this :-? Writing "dunno"

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:58:58 -0700, Al Eridani wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> "Pasao" is not a valid word in Spanish > > Absolutely correct. No, it's not. If you think it is, please send any authoritative reference that points to that direction. >> (you won't

Re: What can make the mouse cursor disappear?

2011-10-11 Thread Joe
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:45:12 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:39:37 +0100, Joe wrote: > > (...) > > > My question is: what controls the visibility of the cursor when > > crossing icons and window features, operates tooltips, etc? I've > > spent quite some time with Mr Google

Re: Evolution still crashing in stable---WHY???

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:22:35 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Its stable...so why is evolution crashing every time I send a message or > add to my address book. EVERY TIME!! If it is 100% reproducible (even from a complete clean profile), fill a bug report. > I dumped everything incl the ./evolut

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Al Eridani
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Camaleón wrote: > "Pasao" is not a valid word in Spanish Absolutely correct. > (you won't find that term > registered in the RAE dictionary which is nowadays the maximum authority > that regulates the Spanish language). And Spanish language is very strict > with

Re: More Evolution nonsense-- .db question

2011-10-11 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:21:55AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I need to import the addresses.db file from my old evolution > installation. Lo & behold..Evolution itself will not import a .db file. > Any ideas? SQLite browser says its NOT a SQLite file so any guesses as > to what ir is. Also can

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:57:50 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:15:46 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> > Camaleón wrote: >> >> Darac Marjal wrote: > > ... > >> >> And bugzilla does not tend to crash when writing bug rep

Re: debian vs. wide-dhcpv6-client

2011-10-11 Thread Erwan David
On 11/10/11 16:18, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:37:40PM BST, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in >> /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6 >> client. It seems that I can have sta

More Evolution nonsense-- .db question

2011-10-11 Thread John W. Foster
I need to import the addresses.db file from my old evolution installation. Lo & behold..Evolution itself will not import a .db file. Any ideas? SQLite browser says its NOT a SQLite file so any guesses as to what ir is. Also can not open it in a browser or text processor. frosty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:33:14 -0700, Al Eridani wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> I didn't know using "dunno" was incorrect, I mean, when using a casual >> language like the one it happens on a mailing list such this :-? > > Writing "dunno" in English is somewhat equ

Re: Evolution still crashing in stable---WHY???

2011-10-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:22:35AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Its stable...so why is evolution crashing every time I send a message or > add to my address book. EVERY TIME!! Debian uses the term 'Stable' in the 'Steady, Unchanging, Reliable' sense of the word. There is no declaration of robust

Evolution still crashing in stable---WHY???

2011-10-11 Thread John W. Foster
Its stable...so why is evolution crashing every time I send a message or add to my address book. EVERY TIME!! I dumped everything incl the ./evolution files in /home/myusername/.evolution; I imported the files that I needed back into the new install & cleaned up everything. It's still crashing. Any

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-11 16:56 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> Get xserver 1.10 from snapshot.debian.org, try a patch against 1.11.1 >> from the nvidia forum², or use nouveau (you probably want to install the >> libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental package in the latter case). ^ > > Wh

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-11 Thread green
Joey L wrote at 2011-10-11 07:15 -0500: > I use one of the boxes as a secondary - if first box fails - it should > go to standby box. > I was looking for a hardware solution or if there is a service on the > internet that can redirect requests of service to one box if the other > box is down. I ha

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:15:46 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Camaleón wrote: > >> Darac Marjal wrote: ... > >> And bugzilla does not tend to crash when writing bug reports >:-) > >> > >> In fact, I usually avoid using "reportbug" becaus

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: > Get xserver 1.10 from snapshot.debian.org, try a patch against 1.11.1 > from the nvidia forum², or use nouveau (you probably want to install the > libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental package in the latter case). Where does one get that dri pkg. With sources.list like so: deb ht

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-11 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 10/11/11 13:15, Joey L wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM, shawn wilson wrote: [...] Thanks for the reply - sorry for not specifying much. I am running standard services on 2 boxes - apache, mysql, postfix, asterisk. I use one of the boxes as a secondary - if first box fails - it should

Re: debian vs. wide-dhcpv6-client

2011-10-11 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 10/11/2011 04:37 PM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: Hello, I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6 client. It seems that I can have static and DHCP for IPv4, but only static for IPv6. Thanks, Wawrze

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi Sven, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-10-11 13:25 +0200, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > I was just wondering if anyone else has run into performance issues on > the > > nvidia driver? > > Not too many people, since the relevant bug¹ has so far "only" 13 > duplicate

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-11 Thread Al Eridani
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > I didn't know using "dunno" was incorrect, I mean, when using a casual > language like the one it happens on a mailing list such this :-? Writing "dunno" in English is somewhat equivalent to writing "pasao" instead of "pasado" in Spanish. > I

Re: debian vs. wide-dhcpv6-client

2011-10-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:37:40PM +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: >Hello, > >I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in >/etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6 client. >It seems that I can have static and DHCP for IPv4, but onl

Re: Keyboard and mouse problems in wheezy

2011-10-11 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:02:34PM BST, Victor Nitu wrote: > You have replied to the wrong thread, please re-send this message > where it belongs. > Thanks. I had indeed - all done, resent. Ta, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: debian vs. wide-dhcpv6-client

2011-10-11 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:37:40PM BST, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in > /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6 > client. It seems that I can have static and DHCP for IPv4, but only > static for

good integration of pulseaudio and alsa in wheezy

2011-10-11 Thread Richard
Hi, Subject says it all. I was surprised to find that I still had control over each sound card with gnome mixer when pulseaudio is running. Everywhere else it gets force to a single pulse volume control.. Nice one :) -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b..

Re: dates of install for pkgs

2011-10-11 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/10/2011 02:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Gilbert Sullivan writes: On 10/10/2011 10:17 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there a command similar to `dpkg --get-selections' that shows all installed/deinstalled pkgs, but where one can get the dates of install or remove. A fairly quick pass thru man

Re: Keyboard and mouse problems in wheezy

2011-10-11 Thread Victor Nitu
On 10/11/2011 05:00 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:37:40PM BST, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: Hello, I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6 client. It seems that I can have static and

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > 3. Reportbug sends the bug report bug using /usr/sbin/sendmail as the >   MTA.  If that doesn't work then reportbug (and other commands too) >   will have problems.  I have no workaround to /usr/sbin/sendmail not >   working.  That simply must

Re: Keyboard and mouse problems in wheezy

2011-10-11 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:37:40PM BST, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in > /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6 > client. It seems that I can have static and DHCP for IPv4, but only > static for

Keyboard and mouse problems in wheezy

2011-10-11 Thread Victor Nitu
I have some input method problems under wheezy. First of all, keyboard dies after login (it is alive during login), and needs to be unplugged/plugged in again. After that it works. I have a USB keyboard, but the same problem appears when plugging in into the PS/2 port, via adapter. The second p

Re: What can make the mouse cursor disappear?

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:39:37 +0100, Joe wrote: (...) > My question is: what controls the visibility of the cursor when crossing > icons and window features, operates tooltips, etc? I've spent quite some > time with Mr Google without finding a definite answer, but I'm getting > the feeling it's GT

debian vs. wide-dhcpv6-client

2011-10-11 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
Hello, I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6 client. It seems that I can have static and DHCP for IPv4, but only static for IPv6. Thanks, Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec (Wawrzek) Niewodniczan'ski - (niewod @ L

Re: Disabling wifi to save battery

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:26:32 +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 11:45:41AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > laptop I could use the rfkill package like so: rfkill block wifi >> >> Here are some tips: >> >> http://www.lesswatts.org/tips/wireless.php > > Will take a look > > >> Ano

Re: USB NICs latest compatibility?

2011-10-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Bob on 10/11/2011 1:31 AM, wrote: I have a cheap $5 A1pro KY-AX88772A on which the chipset is labelled ASIX AX88772ALF so far it's worked with everything I've plugged it into & has been invaluable for installing the binary blob Ethernet or WiFi firmware onto some computers I put my squeeze or whe

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-11 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:15, Joey L wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> On Oct 9, 2011 8:25 AM, "Joey L" wrote: >>> >>> I know this is not exactly the correct forum for this question, but: >>> 1. I do not want to setup another debian server/servers. >>> 2. I am

Re: MySQL High Availability on Debian - using Iomega StorCenter ix-2 nas device.

2011-10-11 Thread Joey L
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:17:23 -0400, Joey L wrote: > >> with replication - in case of a failure - I have to manually cut it over >> to the replicated files ??? >> is there any hot-standby feature ??? >> thanks mjh > > Hints: If you want help: >

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Darac Marjal wrote: >> > While a web-based interface may be nice, I think that where debian's >> > bug reporting excels is in the 'reportbug' program. It's not just a >> > program that sends emails to a single address, but

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-11 Thread Joey L
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2011 8:25 AM, "Joey L" wrote: >> >> I know this is not exactly the correct forum for this question, but: >> 1. I do not want to setup another debian server/servers. >> 2. I am on a serious low budget to run 2 servers. >> 3. I am l

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-11 13:25 +0200, Brad Alexander wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone else has run into performance issues on the > nvidia driver? Not too many people, since the relevant bug¹ has so far "only" 13 duplicates. ;-) > Does anyone know of a fix? I tried rolling back the nvidia version, b

Re: how to gather info for reporting problem

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:45:19 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:18:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >>> >> I hardly doubt such complains could have come from people on this >> list, or at least from people who likes following

Re: LXDE: shortcut problem holding . or / char.s

2011-10-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:26:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >>Mmmm, have you tried to use the full name of the keys, instead? >> >>You can use "xev" to find out, for instance: >> >>"." → "C-A-period" >>"/" → "C-A-slash" > > Wow! How great is Your wisdom, Camaleón! I just pay deep re

nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-11 Thread Brad Alexander
I was just wondering if anyone else has run into performance issues on the nvidia driver? I have two boxes, a desktop with a GeForce 8600 GT running sid and a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Quadro NVS 160M running wheezy. Before, I was running drivers 280.13 from the repos. Over the past couple of week

Hi, how to lower the temperature of dell laptop?

2011-10-11 Thread shiyao ma
Hi, everybody. This is really a tough question for me. My laptop is dell studio 1458. When I use it with win7 x64. The laptop works quite well.I mean, when I touch the bottom of the laptop, the temperature is not high, and the fan doesn't keep running all the time. However, when I boot it with debi

Re: installing dependencies along with deb package

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:53:57PM +0530, karunakar medamoni wrote: > Hello. > > This is karunakar. I was developed one package. i want convert that package > into deb package. i was created deb package with my source code. i got the > error when i install that package. it saying this package need

Re: Disabling wifi to save battery

2011-10-11 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:22:38AM BST, Daniel Dalton wrote: > So could I just unload the module to save power? Yes, unloading modules for devices which you don't want to use will reduce power consumption, e.g. bluetooth, wifi or even usb. Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: installing dependencies along with deb package

2011-10-11 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:23:57AM BST, karunakar medamoni wrote: > Hello. > > This is karunakar. I was developed one package. i want convert that package > into deb package. i was created deb package with my source code. i got the > error when i install that package. it saying this package needs

installing dependencies along with deb package

2011-10-11 Thread karunakar medamoni
Hello. This is karunakar. I was developed one package. i want convert that package into deb package. i was created deb package with my source code. i got the error when i install that package. it saying this package needs apache2 package . how can i install dependencies which are mentioned in cont

Re: Disabling wifi to save battery

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 11:45:41AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > laptop I could use the rfkill package like so: rfkill block wifi > > Here are some tips: > > http://www.lesswatts.org/tips/wireless.php Will take a look > > Another option could be disabling wifi and bluetooth adapter from BIOS > (

Re: Disabling wifi to save battery

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 06:14:05AM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > I was planning to disable wifi, when it wasn't required. On my old > > laptop I could use the rfkill package like so: > > rfkill block wifi > > What does "rfkill list" say? daniel@debian-laptop:/tmp$ cd daniel@debian-laptop:~$ sudo