Re: Usenet news - server required

2011-11-03 Thread Memnon Anon
"poenik...@operamail.com" writes: > Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? http://aioe.org/ Memnon -- 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/87hb2keeyz@me

webex: You do not have the necessary audio capabilities (error: -1)

2011-11-03 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
hi, on my debian 6 amd64, when loading webex, i got error as below: *You do not have* the *necessary audio capabilities* (error: -1) and the webex session will not start -but that's another thing. $ java -version java version "1.6.0_18" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8.9) (6b18-1.8.9-0

wheezy konqueror - cannot download Adobe Flashplayer

2011-11-03 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Konqueror displays the following when I try to download Ubuntu APT version --/cfusion/downloadcenter/flashplayer/otherversions/[object HTMLAnchorElement]/ java.io.FileNotFoundException: /cfusion/downloadcenter/flashplayer/otherversions/[object HTMLAnchorElement]/ at jrun.servlet.file.Fi

Re: GDM Problems

2011-11-03 Thread Victor Nitu
On 11/03/2011 11:11 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - I updated Debian and was given the choice to pick gdm or gdm3. I picked gdm3. At this point, neither gdm or gdm3 work. I have switched to xfce, which I do not like. Is there any way either to make gdm3 operable or revert to gdm.

GDM Problems

2011-11-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List - I updated Debian and was given the choice to pick gdm or gdm3. I picked gdm3. At this point, neither gdm or gdm3 work. I have switched to xfce, which I do not like. Is there any way either to make gdm3 operable or revert to gdm. Thanks. Ethan Debian 6.0.1a squeeze(sid)

Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

2011-11-03 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
rose perry, 2.11.2011: > Hello I'm trying to install debian but the debian installer from goodbye > microsoft does not work, Because > my network card requires Firmware.  Nothing seems to work for me.  So Im > going to try and dl a cd or 2 to > > get it working, And install from XP if this is

Re: Network Connection issue

2011-11-03 Thread Victor Nitu
On 11/03/2011 09:55 PM, John Foster wrote: I have Webmin installed along with the gnome tools for network mgmt. None of these seem to get the card to be seen by the kernel. Have you installed the firmware-linux-nonfree package on your system? Since Squeeze, a number of known working network card

Network Connection issue

2011-11-03 Thread John Foster
I recently installed a new D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI Adapter card to connect to the internet. It was originally not recognized as there was not a driver available in debian. A new firmware-realtek update installed the driver but I had also installed another 'recognized' 3-com

Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

2011-11-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:29:57 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > USB stick. He had a small one (yes, he said it was > small) with only 4GB (which to me is vast) for only £15 LOL. A fiver at most. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

2011-11-03 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Nov 2011 at 17:29:57 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Well, I popped downstairs and asked my local computer consultant > whether he could sell me a USB stick. He had a small one (yes, > he said it was small) with only 4GB (which to me is vast) for > only £15. I bought it, inserted it int

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Sian Mountbatten writes: >>From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect > that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? Find `update manager' in our menu system and click it to run updates. Other wise (Being in an X session is required) become root in a

Re: How to slow down the fan?

2011-11-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:01:50 +0800, shiyao ma wrote: > About a month ago, I posted a mail here, asking for help on how to > cool down the temperature on debian(when in windows, the temperature is > fine). And later, I have tried a lot of methods, but none has produced > any result.So, today,

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Nov 2011 at 17:07:28 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect > that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade Guaranteed to never fail. -- To UNSUBS

Re: wheezy update system - SOLVED

2011-11-03 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Sian Mountbatten wrote: >>From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect > that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? Found it! in synaptic, reload the packages file then click on mark all upgrades. Then click on apply and the upgrade job is done. Well don

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Andrew Wood
There should be an orange or red star shaped icon on the Gnome panel (bottom right of screen). click it then enter the root password when prompted. Sent from iPhone On 3 Nov 2011, at 17:07, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect > that I

Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

2011-11-03 Thread Sian Mountbatten
rose perry wrote: > Hello I'm trying to install debian but the debian installer from goodbye > microsoft does not work, Because my network card requires Firmware. > Nothing seems to work for me. So Im going to try and dl a cd or 2 to > > get it working, And install from XP if this is possible

Re: php 5.2 as cgi not working in debian 6.0

2011-11-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:19:02 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:02:12 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: >> > and at /etc/apache/php52.conf >> ^^ >> >> Is that path/file right? :-? > > urghh... sorry for the typo mistake. It should be > /etc/apache2/php52.c

wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-03 Thread Sian Mountbatten
>From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? -- Sian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 2. November 2011 schrieb Doug: > On 11/02/2011 01:56 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:22:14 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: [...] > >>> world's easiest program to use. > >>> > >>> Is there a KDE package manager available? > >> > >> What happe

Re: Network Manager in Debian and modem with non-standard init strings

2011-11-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:25:34 +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: >> You mean that Empathy cannot recognize there is a network connection >> in place when you use wvdial? :-? > >> That sounds to me like a very big limitation or even a bug... let me >> do a quick search. > > Yes, I think so too, ho

Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

2011-11-03 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:59:01 -0700, rose perry wrote: > Hello I'm trying to install debian but the debian installer from goodbye > microsoft does not work, Because my network card requires Firmware.  The installer allows you to put the firmware file into a floppy disk or USB flash drive and get

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-03 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:24:07 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > What happened with our beloved Synaptic? :-) >> >>> It works, but it is in /usr/sbin so it needs root permissions. >> >> But of course, as it should be. >> >>> I've found a KDE package called packagesearch whi

Re: Menu editing on Gnome 3

2011-11-03 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:58:49 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 01/11/11 10:37, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:50:21 +, Alan Chandler wrote: >> >>> Anyone any idea how to edit the applications menu in Gnome3. I have >>> KDiff3 in the "Other" menu and I can't figure out how to move it

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

2011-11-03 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote, in part: > Thank you both for these suggestions. Before doing a new installation I > shall try them and report back with the results. Just in case anyone is still interested in the problems I encountered when trying to install Squee

Partition problems.

2011-11-03 Thread Johan Verbelen
Good day people! I've been trying to fix this disk for a week now, but everythin I tried hasn't been working. I'm a linux starter however, so that doesn't help. The drive in question is a 120G Maxtor that was housed in a NAS. After a power outage the NAS reported the disk as empty. I took it out

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-03 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sian Mountbatten wrote, in part: > Is there a KDE package manager available? What happened to KDE's Kpackage? It is in Lenny, but I do not see it in the Debian repositories for Squeeze and Wheezy. Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Re: How to install broadcom BCM4312 on debian

2011-11-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:50:50PM +0200, John Caveman wrote: > Hello there, I tried to install Debian on my own a while ago and failed. I > hope I can find some help here to finally install it. > > The problem is, I don't know how to install my network driver. Output of > lscpi from UBUNTU is: >

Re: How to slow down the fan?

2011-11-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Which radeon GPU do you have? Maybe you could try to play with /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method (look for "KMS Power Management Options" and "dynpm" on http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature). Also, did you try the powertop command for power management informations and adjustments? -- Best r

Re: How to install broadcom BCM4312 on debian

2011-11-03 Thread Michel Blankleder
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 14:50:50 John Caveman wrote: > Hello there, I tried to install Debian on my own a while ago and failed. I > hope I can find some help here to finally install it. > > The problem is, I don't know how to install my network driver. Output of > lscpi from UBUNTU is: > >

Re: How to install broadcom BCM4312 on debian

2011-11-03 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:50:50PM GMT, John Caveman wrote: > Please if possible write me all the steps I need to follow in order to get > my network driver up and running. Thanks! % aptitude install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer b43-fwcutter Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

How to install broadcom BCM4312 on debian

2011-11-03 Thread John Caveman
Hello there, I tried to install Debian on my own a while ago and failed. I hope I can find some help here to finally install it. The problem is, I don't know how to install my network driver. Output of lscpi from UBUNTU is: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 03:07:16PM -0400, Doug wrote: > Of course Synaptic requires root permission. If you're not root, > you should not be allowed to install packages! Aren't you the owner > of the > Debian installation? If so, you surely have a root password. > Personally, I like aptitude's

Re: php 5.2 as cgi not working in debian 6.0

2011-11-03 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:02:12 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > So instead using "/opt" you installed over "/usr/local/bin". Yes, that's the location where I like to place php 5.2 > > > and at /etc/apache/php52.conf > ^^ > > Is that path/file right? :-? urghh... so

Re: Re: Network Manager in Debian and modem with non-standard init strings

2011-11-03 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
You mean that Empathy cannot recognize there is a network connection in place when you use wvdial? :-? That sounds to me like a very big limitation or even a bug... let me do a quick search. Yes, I think so too, however similar behaviour presents also the evolution - when started only wi

How to slow down the fan?

2011-11-03 Thread shiyao ma
Hi, everybody. About a month ago, I posted a mail here, asking for help on how to cool down the temperature on debian(when in windows, the temperature is fine). And later, I have tried a lot of methods, but none has produced any result.So, today, I went out to let a worker clear the dusts of m