Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot >> -cdrom ./debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso >> -boot d -hda ./da -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no >> >> kvm: -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no: could not configure /dev/net/tun

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Dan: >First, don't think of second or fifth (per >http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/epoch) senses of "epoch"-- >the _beginning_ of some period (the meaning used re Unix time). >Think of the first or fourth senses--a _period_ of time. > >Then, think of a pac

Re: server email

2011-11-07 Thread Victor Nitu
On 11/08/2011 08:32 AM, daniel brezai wrote: > Unde pot gasi documentatie despre cum fac un server de retea (gateway si > email) astfel incat clientii care sunt pe windows sa poate folosi > programe gen Outlook 2003. M-am mai jucat cu linuxul, dar chestii de > configurare de server si configurari "

Re: Crazy (?) idea: screen locker with simpler password

2011-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > I often have to leave my students with my laptop and e.g. go to scan > some documents or to receive printed papers from the printer room. > Then I have to lock the console when leaving, and unlock it when > coming back. > > As my login password is quite long, it is uncomfo

server email

2011-11-07 Thread daniel brezai
Unde pot gasi documentatie despre cum fac un server de retea (gateway si email) astfel incat clientii care sunt pe windows sa poate folosi programe gen Outlook 2003. M-am mai jucat cu linuxul, dar chestii de configurare de server si configurari "mai avansate' nu am facut. Timpul necesar  cautari

Re: switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian "Squeeze". Now laptop is making noises, videos lag more, etc.

2011-11-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 05:15:22PM -0800, Ashley Meek wrote: > Hello all, > > I just recently switch my eMachines e725 laptop over from Ubuntu 10.04 to > Debian "Squeeze" for stability purposes, but now I am experience slower > responses opening programs, webpages, and watching videos. It seems

LibreOffice Base and light-weighted SQL DB

2011-11-07 Thread T o n g
Hi, Ever used the OO/LibreOffice Base? Ever used it with any light-weighted SQL DB? Have any comments to share? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian "Squeeze". Now laptop is making noises, videos lag more, etc.

2011-11-07 Thread Ashley Meek
Hello all, I just recently switch my eMachines e725 laptop over from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian "Squeeze" for stability purposes, but now I am experience slower responses opening programs, webpages, and watching videos. It seems to freeze for a second or two every now and then, then pick up just fi

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:03:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I find myself in an odd situation: - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of different distributions on

samba weirdly taking wrong password

2011-11-07 Thread Dan B.
Does anyone recall whether Samba had problems with truncating passwords, or possibly with mixing up user IDs and/or passwords between the serving side and the "clienting" side (mounting other machines' shares)? I'm having a really weird problem: the Samba server accepts a _wrong_ password instea

Re: Network Connection issue

2011-11-07 Thread John Foster
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Geoff Simmons wrote: > Hi John, > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 02:55:51PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > > 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 th

Icedove stack trace after libsqlite3-0 update

2011-11-07 Thread Stefan Pietsch
Hi all, after updating sid, replacing libsqlite3-0 3.7.8-1 with 3.7.9-1, icedove shows "Stack Trace": -- Exception object -- + message (string) 'nounDef is undefined' + fileName (string) 'file:///usr/lib/icedove/modules/gloda/gloda.js' + lineNumber (number) 1829 + stack (string) 384 chars + name

Solved! : Dell Vostro 3750 - touchpad detected only as PS/2 mouse

2011-11-07 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Hi, I've found the following website: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kqewu/new_alps_touchpad_protocol_support_patch_for/ which led me to the following files: http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/alps-touchpad/psmouse-alps-0.6 I've installed the file http://people.canonical.com/~sforsh

Re: Re: Dell Vostro 3750 - touchpad detected only as PS/2 mouse

2011-11-07 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Thierry Chatelet wrote: google it and read! may help:http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad Well, I've googled this problem before sending, but this touchpad is very specific. E.g. egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps' /proc/bus/input/devices returns simply nothing. It seems, that this is one of "new

Crazy (?) idea: screen locker with simpler password

2011-11-07 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Hi, I often have to leave my students with my laptop and e.g. go to scan some documents or to receive printed papers from the printer room. Then I have to lock the console when leaving, and unlock it when coming back. As my login password is quite long, it is uncomfortable to enter it (especial

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-07 Thread Dan B.
Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering schemes, to be left behind. What does this mean? From other posts in the thread it is still no

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:03:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >>> I find myself in an odd situation: >>> >>> - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds >>> of different distributions on it

Re: openoffice.org-emailmerge

2011-11-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:19:20 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:17:10 -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > I read in the Writer 3.x user manual of merges done with email. It > > provided the following picture as seen in the attachment I've > > pr

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Dan B.
Tom H wrote: ... NM's only controversial because there are people who oppose change not matter why it might be. ... So are you lumping people who oppose having things break out from under them, such as, say, someone installing a new release and finding that standard Unix(?)/Linux networking com

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Dan B.
Bob Proulx wrote: Tom H wrote: Dan B. wrote: ... How does one take an interface down on squeeze? The expected tool on a GNOME system would be by using the NetworkManager GUI with the mouse or as Tom writes, 'nmcli' from the command line. Something like this: # nmcli conn down id 'Auto et

Re: LVM vs 3TB disk

2011-11-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
green wrote: Pavlos Parissis wrote at 2011-11-07 14:15 -0600: Does anyone know why LVM doesn't see the whole space of a 3TB disk? It only sees 2.7TB, as you can see below. Is this because the manufacturers use powers of 1000 instead of 1024? 3*1000^4 / 1024^4 = ~2.73 Pretty good... Hugo

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I find myself in an odd situation: - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of different distributions on it over the past couple of years - I recently installed OpenSuse with no problem

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I find myself in an odd situation: > > - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of > different distributions on it over the past couple of years > > - I recently installed OpenSuse with no problems, but then

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-07 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-07 02:18 +0700): > > I try to run KVM network w/o under normal user w/ the following > result: > > /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot > -cdrom ./debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso > -boot d -hda ./da -net nic -net tap,ifn

install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
I find myself in an odd situation: - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of different distributions on it over the past couple of years - I recently installed OpenSuse with no problems, but then I tried to reinstall Debian (Squeeze) off a CD-Rom, and the instal

Re: LVM vs 3TB disk

2011-11-07 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Monday 07 November 2011 21:24:08 green wrote: > Pavlos Parissis wrote at 2011-11-07 14:15 -0600: > > Does anyone know why LVM doesn't see the whole space of a 3TB disk? It > > only sees 2.7TB, as you can see below. > > Is this because the manufacturers use powers of 1000 instead of 1024? > > 3

Re: LVM vs 3TB disk

2011-11-07 Thread green
Pavlos Parissis wrote at 2011-11-07 14:15 -0600: > Does anyone know why LVM doesn't see the whole space of a 3TB disk? It only > sees > 2.7TB, as you can see below. Is this because the manufacturers use powers of 1000 instead of 1024? 3*1000^4 / 1024^4 = ~2.73 signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: sound not working on console only Wheezy laptop

2011-11-07 Thread keitho
Hi Julien- Thanks! Now it is working. I went to the alsa-project.org and found a page that describes how to setup alsa for this driver. Even though some of the information there is old, this is what worked: "In order to unmute the default speaker jacks do: amixer set PCM 100 unmute" Hmm... ma

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom H writes: >> [main] >> plugins=ifupdown,keyfile >> >> [ifupdown] >> managed=false >> >> That does mean that ifupdown is not in charge .. right? > > No. It means that ifupdown is in charge rather than NM - as long as you > have the interfaces listed in "/etc/network/interfaces". See my pre

LVM vs 3TB disk

2011-11-07 Thread Pavlos Parissis
Hello all, Does anyone know why LVM doesn't see the whole space of a 3TB disk? It only sees 2.7TB, as you can see below. This is on Debian 6. root@axilleas:/# parted /dev/sdc print Model: ATA WDC WD30EZRX-00M (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 3001GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Tab

Re: sound not working on console only Wheezy laptop

2011-11-07 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello Keitho! The Intel soundcards are known, to sometmes generate problems, because they're not all supported yet. This architecture - if I remember correctly - wraps up an assortment of chips. Were you able to get sound on your laptop under Linux before? Are you able to get sound from a GUI

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:28:37 -0500, Tom H wrote: (...) > NM's only controversial because there are people who oppose change not > matter why it might be. The NM developers haven't done themselves any > favors by not providing server-type features like bonding... (...) Just a quick "okay, but...

Re (2): Using a Fire-i camera

2011-11-07 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:32:22 + (UTC) > Shouldn't this firewire camera be detected under "/dev/raw1394" or > something like that? :-? Perhaps, although Coriander insists on /dev/video{0,1, ...}. It should know. Any ideas to find more information? The last message i

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> NM's only controversial because there are people who oppose change not >> matter why it might be. The NM developers haven't done themselves any >> favors by not providing server-type features like bonding... No, it's also controversial for other reasons. In my case, I have issues with it becau

sound not working on console only Wheezy laptop

2011-11-07 Thread keitho
I am trying to get the sound working on a console only Wheezy laptop (all current software updates). I know the hardware works from (dual) booting to Windows XP. I get no sound, not even system beeps. Initially I was getting an error on bootup that said "Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, abor

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Tom H wrote: > >> Dan B. wrote: > >> > On a new installation of squeeze, ifdown no longer works as it used > >> > to (on my old Debian system). > > > > This is because by default with a GNOME desktop installed Debian has > > switched away from ifupdown and over

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Tom H writes: >> >> You can also use "nmcli" to take down and bring up your NIC. > > Can you show a usage of bringing up/down the network? > > With this in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf > > [main] > plugins=ifupdown,keyfile > > [

Re: Using a Fire-i camera

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:39:54 -0800, peasthope wrote: > Install a Unibrain Fire-i BCL 1.2 camera. Add my id to > /etc/group/...video . > Do "modprobe vloopback". > > peter@joule:~$ lsmod | grep v4l > v4l1_compat10250 1 videodev peter@joule:~$ lsmod | grep > vloop > vloopback

Re: ksnapshot

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:34:04 -0400, Mario . wrote: (please, keep html off) > Hello, I'm using stable and when I use the cursor down key it opens > ksnapshot. I can't find any conf file or GUI option to change. Any > ideas? I use SSH, rarely the GUI. Thank you. What a weird behaviour. Is it happe

Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:21:11 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 07/11/2011 15:43, Camaleón wrote: >> Mmmm... then here we have the difference between these two packages: >> non- free's from Debian contains no plugin file but a script to fetch >> the library from Adobe site while D-M's does

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Dan B. wrote: >> > On a new installation of squeeze, ifdown no longer works as it used >> > to (on my old Debian system). > > This is because by default with a GNOME desktop installed Debian has > switched away from ifupdown and o

Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

2011-11-07 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
07/11/2011 15:43, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:10:13 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 10:56 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: >>> I could be wrong :-), seems lkike the DM site upgrades versions >>> quicker. >> >> I know nothing about Marillat's packages, but you have

Re: Problem with signature verification in Sid

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:25:48 +0100, Aniruddha wrote: > I get the following error message when running apt-get update on Sid. I > have the latest keyring installed. Anyone else encountered this problem? > Is there known solution? (...) > W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The

Re: openoffice.org-emailmerge

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:17:10 -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I read in the Writer 3.x user manual of merges done with email. It > provided the following picture as seen in the attachment I've provided > (ooo3x.png). However, when I run the mail-merge wizard, step two as > displayed in the attachmen

Re: xboing has no sound on squeeze

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:32:00 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Friday 04 November 2011 2:23:38 pm Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:57:31 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> > Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:30:27 -0700, poenik...@operamail.com wrote: >> > >> > >> >>> What's ha

ksnapshot

2011-11-07 Thread Mario .
Hello, I'm using stable and when I use the cursor down key it opens ksnapshot. I can't find any conf file or GUI option to change. Any ideas? I use SSH, rarely the GUI. Thank you.

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:37:58 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older >>versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering >>schemes, to be left behind. > > What does this mean

Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:10:13 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 10:56 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: >> I could be wrong :-), seems lkike the DM site upgrades versions >> quicker. > > I know nothing about Marillat's packages, but you have to update > flashplugin-nonfree manually

Re: System randomly booted up in 640x480

2011-11-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 16:23:39 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:01:51 +, Russell Schoen wrote: > > > So I'm running Debian Squeeze 64-bit, and this morning my computer > > randomly booted up into 640x480. I have no idea why, my computer was > > fine last night,

Re: How to "ifdown ..." on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom H writes: > You can also use "nmcli" to take down and bring up your NIC. Can you show a usage of bringing up/down the network? With this in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=false That does mean that ifupdown is not in cha

Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

2011-11-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 10:56 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > I could be wrong :-), seems lkike the DM site upgrades versions quicker. I know nothing about Marillat's packages, but you have to update flashplugin-nonfree manually by running: update-flashplugin-nonfree --install The package itself

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Christofer: >"I try to run KVM network without under normal user with the following >result:" and "So, what's wrong with my setup?" > >This, admittedly, doesn't make much sense, either, but "without" and >"with" are the accepted expansions of "w/o" and "w/". It is not a >directory name. Oh, I ma

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older >versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering >schemes, to be left behind. What does this mean? From other posts in the thread it is still not clear to me. If

Re: Dell Vostro 3750 - touchpad detected only as PS/2 mouse

2011-11-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 07 November 2011 08:55:47 wzabo...@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl wrote: > Hi, > > I use a Dell Vostro 3750 laptop with touchpad reported by Windows as > "Dell Touchpad", manufactured by "Alps Electric" connected to PS/2 mouse > port. > In Windows all functions like tap scrolling, two finger zo

Dell Vostro 3750 - touchpad detected only as PS/2 mouse

2011-11-07 Thread wzabo...@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl
Hi, I use a Dell Vostro 3750 laptop with touchpad reported by Windows as "Dell Touchpad", manufactured by "Alps Electric" connected to PS/2 mouse port. In Windows all functions like tap scrolling, two finger zoom in/out and others work perfectly. Unfortunately in Linux this device is recognized on