Generating Innovative Ideas

2011-12-30 Thread Layna
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Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 12/30/11, Steve Kleene wrote: > I just let my Wheezy system upgrade mplayer, and now I can't get a skin for > the player. ... > > upgrade mplayer 3:1.0~rc4+svn20111024-0.0 3:1.0~rc4+svn20111213-0.0 > > ... > > Does anyone know why the skin option vanished? Is it likely to return to > the > di

Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/12/11 12:34, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:39:42 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Where did gmplayer go? >> No where - it never existed (which would make finding it difficult). > > Until recently, there was a file /usr/bin/gmplayer Yes - it's part of the mplayer-gui package

Re: How to do this, fold + split

2011-12-30 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza > wrote: >> On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible not to split on >>> the word but word boundarie

Re: How to do this, fold + split

2011-12-30 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Kleber Fortaleza wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible not to split on >> the word but word boundaries? >> >> Thanks > this shoud be what you want > > split -b I can't

Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot

2011-12-30 Thread goossens
Hi All I have tried a differnt keyboard (an USB and a different ps2) and makes no difference to the problem, so I guess it is a graphics driver issue. I have followed advice from all the very helpful people who have responded. I tried apci=off and reboot=bios and they make no difference. If

Re: Fwd: Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/12/11 16:12, Richard Hector wrote: > Oops. This was supposed to go to the list, sorry. And that should have been a reply. I'll learn to drive my MUA one day ... Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Fwd: Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-30 Thread Richard Hector
Oops. This was supposed to go to the list, sorry. On 30/12/11 15:33, Bob Proulx wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: >> Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't >> searched further), mail changed its arguments. >> > Apparently -e was a Debian specific addition. Ah, that ex

Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:39:42 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Where did gmplayer go? > No where - it never existed (which would make finding it difficult). Until recently, there was a file /usr/bin/gmplayer that was just a link to /usr/bin/mplayer. That's what I was referring to. If the calling c

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-30 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 07:36:13PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 23 December 2011 15:12, Curt wrote: > > On 2011-12-23, Curt wrote: > >> On 2011-12-22, Walter Hurry wrote: > > > Very succinctly put, except the hard drive is automatically mounted by > Gnome, thats the only mistak

Re: where did gmplayer go? [SOLVED]

2011-12-30 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 03:58:40PM +, Steve Kleene wrote: > > I just installed smplayer, and it seems to work as well as if not better than > gmplayer. > It sure has to :-) Smplayer is a Qt frontend for mplayer. The real work is done by mplayer. I just love that program, as it re

Re: [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server

2011-12-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > So after dozens of small edits and restarts and makemaps ... cutting > to the chase: > > /etc/mail/authinfo > > (password obfuscated) > , > | Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" "M: LOGIN > PLAIN" > | Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:root" "I

Re: can't load nvidia kernel module

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/12/11 10:58, David Roguin wrote: > Hi, > > I have this problem, nouveau it's getting loaded at the beginning of > the boot sequence, and then when X tries to load the nvidia module it > crashes saying the graphic card is already being used. If I manually > remove the nouveau module and modpr

Re: can't load nvidia kernel module

2011-12-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 30 dec 11, 20:58:57, David Roguin wrote: > Hi, > > I have this problem, nouveau it's getting loaded at the beginning of > the boot sequence, and then when X tries to load the nvidia module it > crashes saying the graphic card is already being used. If I manually > remove the nouveau module

Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/12/11 22:05, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID and my X Window uses Window Maker as a > window manager. > > I'm using OpenOffice.org Calc very often and I want to setup mouse > scroll in X so when I scroll with mice then in OOo Calc raws goes > up/down only one ra

can't load nvidia kernel module

2011-12-30 Thread David Roguin
Hi, I have this problem, nouveau it's getting loaded at the beginning of the boot sequence, and then when X tries to load the nvidia module it crashes saying the graphic card is already being used. If I manually remove the nouveau module and modprobe nvidia, everything works fine. I've tried remo

Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-30 Thread Richard
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:43:15 + Joe wrote: > > I upgraded from sid all of gnome to 3.2.1 , gnome-shell 3.2.1-8 > > Now it runs in fall back mode only, has anyone else found this ? > > I've tried looking in /var/log/gdm3, but its like looking in a > > haystack for a needle. ideas please > > Y

Wheezy update wrecks MC graphics?

2011-12-30 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Folks -- A recent wheezy update has caused Midnight Commander screens to have those garbled characters instead of drawn lines. I'm aware I can use "mc -a" and "mcedit -a" as a workaround, but it would be nice to have the proper lines restored. Anybody know what recent update would have produ

Re: display: unable to load font -microsoft-verdana...

2011-12-30 Thread Curt
On 2011-12-30, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Unfortunately someone probably created the pdf on a Windoof system using > those fonts (print to pdf, Adobe InDesign) without embedding them. It is > possible to modify/fix - sometimes... Okay, understood. However, this fails to explain the behavior of dis

Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw

2011-12-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:34:25 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > I would ask this question directly at Xorg's users mailing list: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg I did so, but get the following mail. Feladó: Paul Vojta Címzett:

Re: display: unable to load font -microsoft-verdana...

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/12/11 04:17, Curt wrote: > On 2011-12-29, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> >> I'm guessing the pdf was built using that font. > > "display" (with no argument whatsoever) was giving me the font warning > and the app would not open at all. This after trying to open a jpeg file > and getting that s

Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/12/11 01:24, Steve Kleene wrote: > I just let my Wheezy system upgrade mplayer, and now I can't get a skin for > the player. (The skin is a separate window that has, among other things, a > slider that lets you jump to a time of your choice while playing.) In the > past, mplayer came with a

Re: Strange Mouse and Desktop Behaviour with X

2011-12-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Steve Kreyer wrote: >Hi all, > >some time ago I've encountered a strange thing: After login into X >(doesn't matter if e.g. Gnome or Fluxbox is used) and start of some >applications (e.g. Thunderbird, Firefox and Rhythmbox) the system can't >handle the focus of the windows correctly anymore. Fo

Re: bad kfreebsd-amd64 mirror for http://mirror.mycre.ws/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports

2011-12-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-12-30 20:25 +0100, Scott Edwards wrote: > I'm not sure where this email is best directed to, but I had to > comment out this mirror as it's not functioning for backports I'm > interested in. aptitude is throwing 404 messages, and elinks was > showing http type 500 status messages from the

Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-30 Thread Joe
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:04:27 + Richard wrote: > Hi > just got blasted by the list politzi for posting on deb-boot. > I re-enabled sid after a complete reload of wheezy to make sure my > ex-friend could load without problems all the Ham apps he uses. > After doing all the work for him , he sa

bad kfreebsd-amd64 mirror for http://mirror.mycre.ws/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Edwards
Hello, I'm not sure where this email is best directed to, but I had to comment out this mirror as it's not functioning for backports I'm interested in. aptitude is throwing 404 messages, and elinks was showing http type 500 status messages from the virtual directory it's present in. root@dev02:~

Re: Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> Mohamed Daif wrote: > >>> What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny 32bit . > >> > >> It should be 64 GiB with a PAE enabled kernel (bigmem). > > > > 64GB max for the kernel, but userspace processes are still limited to a >

Re: How to do this, fold + split

2011-12-30 Thread Kleber Fortaleza
On Friday 30 December 2011 13:09:13 T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I want to split a file every ### of chars. Is it possible not to split on > the word but word boundaries? > > Thanks this shoud be what you want split -b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: where did gmplayer go? [SOLVED]

2011-12-30 Thread Curt
On 2011-12-30, Steve Kleene wrote: > > I just installed smplayer, and it seems to work as well as if not better than > gmplayer. > Well, as long as you're consenting adults, I guess it's okay. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: display: unable to load font -microsoft-verdana...

2011-12-30 Thread Curt
On 2011-12-29, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > I'm guessing the pdf was built using that font. "display" (with no argument whatsoever) was giving me the font warning and the app would not open at all. This after trying to open a jpeg file and getting that same warning. Apparently, the jpeg file had

Re: SATA disk errors

2011-12-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:37:53 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I'm getting irrregular reports on a Squeeze software raid1 array with > two 500GB disks like this: > > Dec 30 09:53:39 tony-lx kernel: [143496.872684] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 > SAct 0x3 SErr 0x40 action 0x6 frozen > Dec 30

Re: Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:37:41 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:50:02 +0100 > Mohamed Daif wrote: > >> Hello >> >> What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny 32bit . >> >> >> >> >> > Doesn't the motherboard have something to do with that? Well, sort of. Techn

Re: Confused about bug 640823

2011-12-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:00:52 +, David Goodenough wrote: > In this bug it says:- > > Found in versions pygobject/2.90.3-1, pygobject/2.90.3-2 > Fixed in version 1.30.0-1 The mentioned bug was merged with 640467. *** Tags: experimental, fixed-upstream *** > This is very confusing. Does thi

Re: gnome-screensaver and PAM

2011-12-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:48:42 +, Bruno Martins wrote: > I am having this problem, and it gets logged every second: > > Dec 25 07:49:51 sputnik gnome-screensaver-dialog: > pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 > euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=joe >

Re: where did gmplayer go? [SOLVED]

2011-12-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:24:01 + (UTC), I wrote: >> I just let my Wheezy system upgrade mplayer, and now I can't get a skin for >> the player. ... Does anyone know why the skin option vanished? On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:53:34 -0500, George S replied: > On the dmo-discussion mailing list the new

Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:36:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > Mmm, there is "mplayer-gui" ^ no I ate a word :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:24:01 +, Steve Kleene wrote: (...) > Does anyone know why the skin option vanished? Is it likely to return > to the distribution? I know there are other players, but I'd prefer to > stick with the mplayer/mencoder system. Mmm, there is "mplayer-gui" package for wheez

Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:24:01 + (UTC), I wrote: >> I just let my Wheezy system upgrade mplayer, and now I can't get a skin for >> the player. ... Does anyone know why the skin option vanished? On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:53:34 -0500, George S replied: > On the dmo-discussion mailing list the new

Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-30 Thread hvw59601
Richard wrote: Hi just got blasted by the list politzi for posting on deb-boot. You posted to linux.debian.devel.boot on a subject that has nothing to do with Debian boot development and were told so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:03:33 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't > searched further), mail changed its arguments. > > lenny: -e Don't send empty mails. If the body is empty skip the > mail. > squeeze/lucid: -E Don't sen

getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-30 Thread Richard
Hi just got blasted by the list politzi for posting on deb-boot. I re-enabled sid after a complete reload of wheezy to make sure my ex-friend could load without problems all the Ham apps he uses. After doing all the work for him , he says he's read the debian is no good as it needs lots of patche

Re: Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:32:06 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/29/2011 10:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:26:28 +0200, Mohamed Daif wrote: >> >>> What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny 32bit . >> >> It should be 64 GiB with a PAE enabled kernel (bigmem). > > 64GB

Re: where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread George S
It appears you are using the debian-multimedia version (assuming from the svn in package name). On the dmo-discussion mailing list the new policy towards NOT guilding the GUI was discussed recently. > On 11/28/11, Christian Marillat wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As Debian, I intent to not build the mpla

where did gmplayer go?

2011-12-30 Thread Steve Kleene
I just let my Wheezy system upgrade mplayer, and now I can't get a skin for the player. (The skin is a separate window that has, among other things, a slider that lets you jump to a time of your choice while playing.) In the past, mplayer came with a link called gmplayer. Calling gmplayer brough

Re: ip-tables resource temporarily unavailable

2011-12-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/30/2011 2:37 AM, David Baron wrote: > Get a slew of these immediately at bootup. > Afterwards, it works fine. > > What may be causing this? Why didn't you ask Google before asking here? It's not really fair to ask others to do your homework, given the information you seek is readily availa

Confused about bug 640823

2011-12-30 Thread David Goodenough
In this bug it says:- Found in versions pygobject/2.90.3-1, pygobject/2.90.3-2 Fixed in version 1.30.0-1 This is very confusing. Does this mean that it is already fixed. I think not, and that the problem is that the fixed in version refers to a package other than pyobject, but it does not say wh

Re: Wake on lan, etc

2011-12-30 Thread Dom
On 30/12/11 05:41, T o n g wrote: Hi, Does Linux support wake on lan? My friend told me, in windows, you can send some magic packages over internet to wake up box that is even in sleep mode. The same tool can tell the box to reboot as well. Is such beast exist in Linux world as well? As other

Re: Problems with sudo PATH

2011-12-30 Thread Steve Kreyer
Tom, thanks very much for your answer. Ok, Roger already gave me the hint with the secure_path option. However thanks for the advice with displaying sudo's PATH environment. Steve. On 29.12.2011 20:41, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Steve Kreyer wrote: after an update of m

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-30 Thread Mauro Sánchez
2011/12/29 Stan Hoeppner : > On 12/29/2011 10:39 AM, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > >> I have installed debian testing and then installed xen-linux-system >> and boot from its kernel. Till now everything just works fine. What >> kind of tests would you suggest me for high load activity with the >> controll

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-30 Thread Mauro Sánchez
2011/12/29 Stan Hoeppner : > On 12/29/2011 9:41 AM, Mauro Sánchez wrote: >> 2011/12/29 Camaleón : >>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:31:28 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: >>> Camaleon, the configuration with one disk uses JBOD. I have tried Debian Stable with only one disk, RAID 1, RAID 5 and LVM. No

Strange Mouse and Desktop Behaviour with X

2011-12-30 Thread Steve Kreyer
Hi all, some time ago I've encountered a strange thing: After login into X (doesn't matter if e.g. Gnome or Fluxbox is used) and start of some applications (e.g. Thunderbird, Firefox and Rhythmbox) the system can't handle the focus of the windows correctly anymore. For example the current use

SATA disk errors

2011-12-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I'm getting irrregular reports on a Squeeze software raid1 array with two 500GB disks like this: Dec 30 09:53:39 tony-lx kernel: [143496.872684] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x40 action 0x6 frozen Dec 30 09:53:39 tony-lx kernel: [143496.872694] ata3.00: irq_stat 0x0800,

gnome-screensaver and PAM

2011-12-30 Thread Bruno Martins
Hello list, I am having this problem, and it gets logged every second: Dec 25 07:49:51 sputnik gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=joe Dec 25 07:49:51 sputnik gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_win

Re: URW Bookman Font

2011-12-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:55:23 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: > I have just installed Debian Squeeze. I have replaced the open office > package with Libre Office 3.4.3. I am trying to use the URW Bookman L > font. I have the bold, italic, and the bold italic. The non-bold & > non-italic are both missin

Re: Visoneer Scanners

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/12/11 20:34, David Baron wrote: > Anyone succesfully used VIsoneer USB scanners, i.e. 9250? > > I don't think you'll find anyone who has got that specific model to work. It's not supported by SANE[*1] or Vuescan[*2]. So if the manufacturer doesn't support it, you're probably out of luck.

Re: ammt: command not found

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/12/11 19:57, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > hi, > > i'm trying to learn configuring amanda backup by referring to > http://www.howtoforge.com/disk-backup-with-amanda-on-debian-lenny > but stuck at "Test the virtual tapes:" because program ammt is not > available. > > searching with apt-file also

Visoneer Scanners

2011-12-30 Thread David Baron
Anyone succesfully used VIsoneer USB scanners, i.e. 9250? -- 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/201112301134.41968.d_ba...@012.net.il

Re: Iceweasel really slow

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/12/11 18:55, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 28/12/11 10:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 28/12/11 19:48, Alan Chandler wrote: >>> I am finding that Iceweasel seems to be really slow at times loading a >>> web site. Whilst it is being slow the user interface is locked solid. I >>> am not talking th

ammt: command not found

2011-12-30 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
hi, i'm trying to learn configuring amanda backup by referring to http://www.howtoforge.com/disk-backup-with-amanda-on-debian-lenny but stuck at "Test the virtual tapes:" because program ammt is not available. searching with apt-file also returns no output any idea? or this program had been rena

Python, gobject, glade problems

2011-12-30 Thread David Baron
Get segfaults and errors running apt-listchanges and rkhunter. Synaptic also aborts due to something here. Running Sid. How to fix? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

ip-tables resource temporarily unavailable

2011-12-30 Thread David Baron
Get a slew of these immediately at bootup. Afterwards, it works fine. What may be causing this? -- 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/201112301037.20044.d_b

Re: something regards "find"

2011-12-30 Thread weimen
于 2011-12-30 12:04, lina 写道: Hi, I don't know how to find one file out, one file contains some numbers, like 7.9 2.4 4.2 12.2 and etc I can't remember the file name. I tried: $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */* $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */*/* not work, Thanks