Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andreas Gläser
Leaving aside usability-questions for now and trying to continue making friends with Gmane: > Kind of redundant now that you've used aptitude to upgrade - if you > hadn't I'd have then asked for the output of "apt-get -s upgrade". > In this case it looks I'd ask for the output of:- > # apt-get -s

Re: Wheezy. Weekly build 23-Jan-2012. "No kernel modules were found" during install.

2012-01-31 Thread Leonid Korostyshevski
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Christofer C. Bell < christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Leonid Korostyshevski < > korostyshevski@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> If somebody knows, is that bug fixed in upcoming DVD 30-01-2012 weekly >> build? ~3.7Gb is a way big

Wheezy. Xorg failure at AMD Brazos netbook

2012-01-31 Thread Leonid Korostyshevski
Hello, list! Have installed Wheezy weekly build 30-01-2012 but cannot log into a fresh system: there is just a noise on a screen instead of a logon screen. Cannot escape to text console, Ctrl+Alt+F1...Fn does not works. Ctrl+Alt+PrtScr+B works, though. Also, IMHO it is a good idea to enable Ctrl+A

Re: Re (5): /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

2012-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 ian 12, 15:00:05, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Brian > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:30:55 + > > For your project you might want to know the mutt in testing and unstable > > handles mailto: differently from the one in stable. Bug #576313 is a > > relevant read. > > Thanks Brian. I

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Hiestand wrote: > I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes > other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot > images). Suddenly partman has stopped working in my preseed: > ... > > !! ERROR: Logical Volume Manager not available > > > > The current

PXE netinst: No disk drive was detected. (Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available")

2012-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Hiestand wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Since I am using a Stable netboot I am not updating it until Wheezy. > > So I can't confirm or deny the problem here. > > Would you mind running a test install and seeing if things are still > working for you? If you have a chance anyway. > > I've now

Re: Python

2012-01-31 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:24:17PM +0200, cletusjenkins wrote: > Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian packages > would I need to start coding some basic cgi in apache? Thanks. In addition to what others have said, if you want to do web development using Python, do

Re: Truecrypt

2012-01-31 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 1 February 2012 04:33, Stayvoid wrote: > Thanks! What could you recommend as a replacement? Look at LUKS or dmcrypt. You can encrypt your entire machine if you want to, or just create a separate volume to store your sensitive stuff in. From that you can also glean that you can encrypt /home.

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Stayvoid
Hello! > What version of Debian do you have installed? I'm using gNewSense (AFAIK it's based on Squeeze). > What Nvidia graphics? NVIDIA GeForce 330M + Intel HD > What computer? MacBookPro6,2 > Do you need perfect, very fast 3D acceleration? Yep, but the drivers should be free. > What screen r

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 05:45, lee wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Keyboard is from `Unicomp' and weighs about 10 lbs. > > I wish I could get some of those ... > > > I've recently started having a problem where the capslock comes on > > (seemingly randomly) but not the led that indicates its

Re: /dev/disk/by-uuid/2a687c3c-ffb4-4577-9781-beb6b88eb71b normal

2012-01-31 Thread lina
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 00:16 +0800, lina wrote: >> :/dev$ df -h >> Filesystem                                              Size  Used >> Avail Use% Mounted on >> rootfs                                                  666M  520M  113M   >> 83% /

Re: console_codes question (was Accented Characters - How to type)

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Jan 30, 11:40 am, "Thomas H. George" wrote: > The man page for console_codes explains that there are two fonts > available (G0 and G1) with commands ^O and ^N to switch between them. > Furthermore, it is possible replace the standard font for G1 (VT100 > graphics) with a user-defined character

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/12 10:54, lee wrote: > Harshad Joshi writes: > >> I am not getting replies to mails i am sending on this list. i have to >> manually check or refer google to get answers.. >> >> can someone look in this matter? > > Do you see the mail you sent to the list? (If gmail supresses mail you

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-01-31 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Jan 31, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes >> other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot >> images). Suddenly partman has stopped working in my preseed: > > If you swap back in the previous netboot i

Re: Converting to btrfs

2012-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/01/12 13:02, Christian Dysthe wrote: On 01/30/12 at 06:52am, Alan Chandler wrote: On 29/01/12 18:21, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I have an older laptop running Sid I like to play around with. I would like to check out the new btrfs file system and know you can easily convert >from ext4

Re: Python

2012-01-31 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/31/2012 07:14 PM, cletusjenkins wrote: Excellent, I'll check them out. Not to start a flame-war between python 2 and 3 supporters, or even get too much into python-specifics on a debian list but should I go with version 2 or just jump into 3? Does it matter? On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:5

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread lee
Harry Putnam writes: > Keyboard is from `Unicomp' and weighs about 10 lbs. I wish I could get some of those ... > I've recently started having a problem where the capslock comes on > (seemingly randomly) but not the led that indicates its on. Did you check /etc/default/keyboard? -- To UNSUB

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread doug
On 01/31/2012 06:54 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Bob Proulx writes: By the way... The IBM Model M keyboard is an example of one of the finest keyboards ever made. Unicomp bought the rights to continue making that same keyboard. By all reports they are excellent. I agree. I got this one on the

Re: second display

2012-01-31 Thread Florian Pougheon
Hi, to customise dual screen & resolution issue, you can try this utility : arandr It's the easiest way for me to customize a dual screen. Le 31/01/2012 12:24, Jude DaShiell a écrit : Study boot parameters then you get to control that feature once you put the correct boot parameters into you

Re: VNC into a Debian Machine

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Neyhart
James Allsopp wrote: > I really want to be able to use VNC to be able to view the full Gnome > desktop on my laptop. I've been able to view a grey screen and a > terminal, using vnc4server and tigervnc or vinagre, but what I'd like to > be able to do is just view a whole screen as if I was actually

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Harry Putnam writes: > There can be a small problem when doing defensive running and using > [an IBM Model M keyboard] like a shield. Bad things can happen when > you hit the end of the usb cable. And you wouldn't want to use it as an offensive weapon: too lethal. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Python

2012-01-31 Thread cletusjenkins
Excellent, I'll check them out. Not to start a flame-war between python 2 and 3 supporters, or even get too much into python-specifics on a debian list but should I go with version 2 or just jump into 3? Does it matter? On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:56:27 -0800 Wayne Topa wrote >On 01/31/2

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-31 Thread lee
lina writes: > I have a script like > > #!/bin/bash > > for i in {0..108} > do > > some job will run for mins & > > done > > Here I used & for some kinda of parallel. > but there is a problem, > > I wished at most it only run 8 jobs simultantly, no more than 8, once > finished, a new job can cont

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-01-31 Thread lee
Harshad Joshi writes: > I am not getting replies to mails i am sending on this list. i have to > manually check or refer google to get answers.. > > can someone look in this matter? Do you see the mail you sent to the list? (If gmail supresses mail you are supposed to get, like someone mentione

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > Plus in a pinch during pitched battles with spouse, it makes an > excellent self defense implement... it easily deflects various > plastic and glassware missiles... it even proved effective against > the proverbial skillet, but I'll admit it was only a glancing blow, > and it

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-31 Thread lee
godo writes: > On 01/30/2012 12:25 AM, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating >> (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? > > try cutycapt. Thanks, I found it and tried it, works fine :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-31 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:25:54 +, lee wrote: > >> is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating >> (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead >> of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser does creates an >> image file th

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx writes: > By the way... The IBM Model M keyboard is an example of one of the > finest keyboards ever made. Unicomp bought the rights to continue > making that same keyboard. By all reports they are excellent. I agree. I got this one on the strength of reviews and friends advice wh

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-31 Thread lee
Claudius Hubig writes: > Hello lee, > > lee wrote: >>Hi, >> >>is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating >>(thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? > > However, googling (you did google, didn’t you?) brought me there: Yes, I did --- and I had found the page you´re point

Re: [Fwd: Re: enable i915 rc6 save 7 watt on kernel 3.2]

2012-01-31 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: > options i915 modeset=1 i915_enable_rc6=1 i915_enable_fbc=1 semaphores=1 Isn´t using frame buffer compression likely to lower the graphics performance because of the compression overhead? I´ve got a Pavilion DV7 with some integrated Intel card that uses the i915 driv

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Tony Baldwin writes: >> Even that doesn't really work, since numbers stay upper case to what >> ever symbols are the upper case for each (sometimes). > > Upper case numbers? Read it again... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Gustavo J Mata
On 1/31/12, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > On 31/01/2012 22:36, Gustavo J Mata wrote: >> On 1/31/12, cletusjenkins wrote: >>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:11:23 -0800 Gustavo J Mata wrote >>> This is the info for the card: Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Cal

Re (5): /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

2012-01-31 Thread peasthope
From: Brian Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:30:55 + > For your project you might want to know the mutt in testing and unstable > handles mailto: differently from the one in stable. Bug #576313 is a > relevant read. Thanks Brian. I should have found this bug report before wasting time otherwis

Re: Python

2012-01-31 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/31/2012 04:24 PM, cletusjenkins wrote: Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian packages would I need to start coding some basic cgi in apache? Thanks. There are 2 python book packages: diveintopython which covers Python 2 and diveintopython3 which covers Py

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On 31/01/2012 22:36, Gustavo J Mata wrote: On 1/31/12, cletusjenkins wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:11:23 -0800 Gustavo J Mata wrote This is the info for the card: Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05) I installed the ipw

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Gustavo J Mata
On 1/31/12, cletusjenkins wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:11:23 -0800 Gustavo J Mata wrote > >>This is the info for the card: >> >>Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] >>Network Connection (rev 05) >> >>I installed the ipw2200 driver. >> > > Have you i

Re: Python

2012-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
Please only post using plain text. Use the button marked plain text on the right hand side of the zohomail compose window (just above the message body area). On 01/02/12 08:24, cletusjenkins wrote: > Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian > packages would I need to s

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Sven, > >> maintainer of the "borked" package > > > > Seeing as you mention it - it is time to say 'thank you'. > > + 1 to this. +1 from me as well. I am happily using the nouveau package and driver on several machines. I

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 01/31/2012 03:07 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 31 Jan 2012 at 20:51:21 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Sven, >> maintainer of the "borked" package > > Seeing as you mention it - it is time to say 'thank you'. > > + 1 to this. Many thanks to Sven, not only for his work as a package maintai

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 feb 12, 06:55:44, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 01/02/12 04:58, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 30 January 2012 11:44:04 Andreas Gläser wrote: > >> News reached me already, that all user 'must' upgrade from 3.1. to 3.2., as > >> this is going the new Ubuntu-longterm-supported kernel. > >> So I sup

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread cletusjenkins
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:11:23 -0800 Gustavo J Mata wrote >This is the info for the card: > >Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] >Network Connection (rev 05) > >I installed the ipw2200 driver. > Have you installed firmware-linux-nonfree package?

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Gustavo J Mata
On 1/31/12, Shaun Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:47:30 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: >> >> > Hi, I have installed Debian 6.03 in a Dell Inspiron 700m. My wireless >> > connection is not working. >> > >> > I'm using the WCID network mana

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Gustavo J Mata
This is the info for the card: Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05) I installed the ipw2200 driver. On 1/31/12, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:47:30 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: > >> Hi, I have installed Debian 6.03 in a De

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 19:45 +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 31 Jan 2012 at 21:30:59 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: > > > Should I install Nouveau drivers after the installation of the server > > itself? > > If you know you have an Nvidia card install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > first. Camaleón asked for

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Gustavo J Mata
WCID reports a 'bad password', but I've double checked to make sure that I'm using the right one. Below I've copied a few lines from the log: 2012/01/31 17:27:04 :: Connecting to wireless network \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x 00\x00\x00\x00 2012/01/31 17:27:04 :: iwconfig eth1 2012/01/31 17:27:04 ::

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing PARTLY SOLVED

2012-01-31 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/31/2012 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:30:15 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 01/30/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Print/Options Print Selections is still missing You can download Firefox from upstream and check from there. If the missing option ("print selected")

Python

2012-01-31 Thread cletusjenkins
Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian packages would I need to start coding some basic cgi in apache? Thanks.

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Shaun Jones
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:47:30 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: > > > Hi, I have installed Debian 6.03 in a Dell Inspiron 700m. My wireless > > connection is not working. > > > > I'm using the WCID network manager under the LXDE desktop manager. (I >

Re: VNC into a Debian Machine

2012-01-31 Thread cletusjenkins
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:16:46 -0800 James Allsopp wrote > Hello, > I really want to be able to use VNC to be able to view the full Gnome > desktop on my laptop. I've been able to view a grey screen and a > terminal, using vnc4server and tigervnc or vinagre, but what I'd like

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:47:30 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: > Hi, I have installed Debian 6.03 in a Dell Inspiron 700m. My wireless > connection is not working. > > I'm using the WCID network manager under the LXDE desktop manager. (I > have 500 Mb of memory and 5.5 GB o disk space). > > My Links

Re: VNC into a Debian Machine

2012-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/12 06:16, James Allsopp wrote: > Hello, > I really want to be able to use VNC to be able to view the full Gnome > desktop on my laptop. I've been able to view a grey screen and a > terminal, using vnc4server and tigervnc or vinagre, but what I'd like to > be able to do is just view a whole

Re: Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Steve Mayer
On Jan 31, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Gustavo J Mata wrote: > Hi, I have installed Debian 6.03 in a Dell Inspiron 700m. My wireless > connection is not working. > > I'm using the WCID network manager under the LXDE desktop manager. (I > have 500 Mb of memory and 5.5 GB o disk space). > > My Linksys route

Wireless connection not working

2012-01-31 Thread Gustavo J Mata
Hi, I have installed Debian 6.03 in a Dell Inspiron 700m. My wireless connection is not working. I'm using the WCID network manager under the LXDE desktop manager. (I have 500 Mb of memory and 5.5 GB o disk space). My Linksys router is configured to use WAP 2 Personal security. Any hints? Gust

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Seb
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:36:09 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Seb > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Seb wrote: >> I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and >> restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not >> the usual KDM login windo

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 20:36, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >> Is anyone else experiencing this? How about checking X's log? Or kdm's? -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Seb On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Seb wrote: > I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and > restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not the > usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel image > package (3.2.0) and

only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Seb
Hi, I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and restarted only to find out I get straight into a console login, not the usual KDM login window. The upgraded included the latest kernel image package (3.2.0) and thought that might be the culprit so installed the previous vers

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Brian
On Tue 31 Jan 2012 at 20:51:21 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Sven, > maintainer of the "borked" package Seeing as you mention it - it is time to say 'thank you'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

VNC into a Debian Machine

2012-01-31 Thread James Allsopp
Hello, I really want to be able to use VNC to be able to view the full Gnome desktop on my laptop. I've been able to view a grey screen and a terminal, using vnc4server and tigervnc or vinagre, but what I'd like to be able to do is just view a whole screen as if I was actually there. I'd like

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Brian
On Tue 31 Jan 2012 at 21:30:59 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: > Should I install Nouveau drivers after the installation of the server itself? If you know you have an Nvidia card install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/12 04:58, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2012 11:44:04 Andreas Gläser wrote: >> News reached me already, that all user 'must' upgrade from 3.1. to 3.2., as >> this is going the new Ubuntu-longterm-supported kernel. >> So I suppose, Squeeze is oing to come with a 3.2.x kernel, too. > >

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-31 20:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > xserver-xorg includes X and xserver-xorg-video-nouveau includes a borked > Nvidia driver for X. This "borked" driver works fine for me. YMMV, of course. Sven, maintainer of the "borked" package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 19:47 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: > Hello there! > > What's the difference between these packages? > > > Cheers. xserver-xorg includes X and xserver-xorg-video-nouveau includes a borked Nvidia driver for X. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: /dev/disk/by-uuid/2a687c3c-ffb4-4577-9781-beb6b88eb71b normal

2012-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 00:16 +0800, lina wrote: > :/dev$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used > Avail Use% Mounted on > rootfs 666M 520M 113M 83% > / > udev3

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/02/12 01:30, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 31 ian 12, 20:54:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> root@osrdii:/home/andreas# cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: >>> release a=squeeze-backports Pin-Priority: 200 >>> >>> Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Debian >>> Pin-Pri

Re: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver

2012-01-31 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Stefan. You worte: >Do you have any idea where else should I ask my question for higher >chances of obtaining an answer? No. May to try to contact manufacturer? >Simply put, the problem is that my Dell Inspiron N5010 (15R) is >overheating on Linux with very low CPU usage,

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing PARTLY SOLVED

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:48:08 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 01/31/2012 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> The Print Selection is also missing in the nightly build of FireFox >>> and Aurora. >>> >>> So it seems to NOT be an iceweasel problem but something else. Now to >>> find out what that some

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:30:59 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: >> In brief, the former will install (by dependencies) the full Xorg >> server with all of the VGA drivers... > Will it install Nouveau this way? Which one, "xserver-xorg"? Yes, it will. And lot of additional stuff you may or may not want. >

Re: how to get gdm3 greeter to display menu of hosts for remote login via xdmcp

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:01:02 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > How do I get the gnome3 greeter to give me a menu of hosts on the local > network who are willing to accept an xdmcp login? (...) I don't know if that's still an option because gdm3 is an ongoing work and there have been design changes as

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing PARTLY SOLVED

2012-01-31 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/31/2012 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:30:15 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 01/30/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Print/Options Print Selections is still missing You can download Firefox from upstream and check from there. If the missing option ("print selected")

Re: Truecrypt

2012-01-31 Thread Stayvoid
> TrueCrypt is non-free software, and as a gNewSense user you should know it. Thanks! What could you recommend as a replacement? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Stayvoid
> In brief, the former will install (by dependencies) the full Xorg server > with all of the VGA drivers... Will it install Nouveau this way? Should I install Nouveau drivers after the installation of the server itself? Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: second display

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:26:22 +1100, Pastor ALexander wrote: (please, no html... thanks) > I am lost on the site, > installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 > instead of 1360 pclinuxos and mint dont have this problem. I like debian > much better but this is irritating ev

Re: Dead keys doesn't work in gnome 3 apps since update

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-01-31 a las 08:24 +0100, Oscar Vidakovic escribió: (sending back to the list) > > Hi. Please, no html... thanks :-) > > Oh! Sorry. Hope now there's no HTML :-) Perfect, thanks. > > > Since I updated my Wheeze and it installed gnome 3, spanish accents dead > > > keys ("´", "`", etc) st

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-31 Thread lina
On 1 Feb, 2012, at 1:19, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > On 31/01/2012 17:22, lina wrote: >> I need time to understand the suggestions have been given. > > Yes, of course. But this may interest other pepole on the list since your > topic since to be of great interest for others, including me! http:/

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Lisi
On Monday 30 January 2012 11:44:04 Andreas Gläser wrote: > News reached me already, that all user 'must' upgrade from 3.1. to 3.2., as > this is going the new Ubuntu-longterm-supported kernel. > So I suppose, Squeeze is oing to come with a 3.2.x kernel, too. ??? Sorry, I can't follow this at all.

Re: Truecrypt

2012-01-31 Thread Alexey Eromenko
TrueCrypt is non-free software, and as a gNewSense user you should know it. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

Re: how to examine the network issue

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:14:25 +0800, lina wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:18:50 +0800, lina wrote: >> >>> I found I can ssh to server, >> >> To what server? Local server, remote server...? > > local. it happened in the past. now it's gone. Good

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:47:29 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: > What's the difference between these packages? You can go here, search and read: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages *** Package: xserver-xorg (1:7.5+8+squeeze1) the X.Org X server This package depends on the full suite of the server and

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-31 17:47 +0100, Stayvoid wrote: > What's the difference between these packages? See the package descriptions. The xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package contains a video driver for NVidia cards, while xserver-xorg is a metapackage that depends on all necessary parts of the X window system

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing PARTLY SOLVED

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:30:15 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 01/30/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Print/Options Print Selections is still missing >> >> You can download Firefox from upstream and check from there. If the >> missing option ("print selected") is present here, then try using

Re: /dev/disk/by-uuid/2a687c3c-ffb4-4577-9781-beb6b88eb71b normal

2012-01-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-31 17:11 +0100, lina wrote: > ~$ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks > Used Available Use% Mounted on > rootfs681584 > 531940115468 83% / > udev

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing PARTLY SOLVED

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:09:40 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 01/30/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) > But I'm using GNOME and this can be make a difference. What DE/WM > are you using? Fluxbox >> >> (...) >> >> Mmm, than may explain some things :-) >> >> > Yes but what? I ha

Re: how to examine the network issue

2012-01-31 Thread lina
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:18:50 +0800, lina wrote: > >> I found I can ssh to server, > > To what server? Local server, remote server...? local. it happened in the past. now it's gone. > >> but could not open some webpage. > > What page? > >> but ca

Re: No locks available.

2012-01-31 Thread lina
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > An idea: > > Can you see if this command returns any PIDs? Sorry I did not notice this email. > > $ fuser -m a.log $ fuser -bash: fuser: command not found uname -a Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELlargesmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 09:59:08 EST 2007

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:18:44 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 1/30/2012 10:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:38:45 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> On 1/22/2012 11:45 AM, hvw59601 wrote: >>> So I check NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168

Truecrypt

2012-01-31 Thread Stayvoid
Hi there! I want to encrypt my files automatically when I close my laptop. Is it possible? Which directories should be encrypted? Where is stored my personal information (GPG keys, personal data etc.)? I'm using gNewSense (it's a Debian-based distro). Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: kernel failure message 1: nel pagin request at.....

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:19:25 +, daniel sosa lena wrote: (please, no html...) > Hi ppl, new debian user here with squeeze stable release. I would like > to understand what does this mean: > > Kernel failure message 1: nel paging request at 00010153 IP: > [<00010153>] 0x1015000

xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-01-31 Thread Stayvoid
Hello there! What's the difference between these packages? Cheers. -- 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/cak5fs_gafic92v17y9d_homwukr7dz8yguwura9c6f1jpry

Re: Re (6): POP3 in Debian

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:21:58 -0700, peasthope wrote: > From: =?utf-8?B?Q2FtYWxlw7Nu?= Date: Mon, 30 Jan > 2012 19:48:09 +0100 >> Sorry if I bothered you. > > Slightly irked. No scars. > >> ... don't know who ... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth > http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-31 Thread lina
I need time to understand the suggestions have been given. A quick thanks. Best regards, On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > What about the use of ulimit or any other tool that your sysadmin could > control? > > On the other hand, these solutions seem ok: > >  http://stack

Re: /dev/disk/by-uuid/2a687c3c-ffb4-4577-9781-beb6b88eb71b normal

2012-01-31 Thread lina
:/dev/disk/by-uuid$ ls -lrt total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 31 23:49 0dc0ac69-7e3a-43d5-8582-aac085053f83 -> ../../sda6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 31 23:49 d38248c3-eb61-3bdc-9ba8-79f04ad34c8a -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 31 23:49 70D6-1701 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root ro

Re: /dev/disk/by-uuid/2a687c3c-ffb4-4577-9781-beb6b88eb71b normal

2012-01-31 Thread lina
:/dev$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 666M 520M 113M 83% / udev3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev tmpfs

Re: /dev/disk/by-uuid/2a687c3c-ffb4-4577-9781-beb6b88eb71b normal

2012-01-31 Thread lina
:/dev/disk/by-uuid$ ls 0dc0ac69-7e3a-43d5-8582-aac085053f83 49ce4cbd-7ac8-4b2d-84da-85143d214ee3 ba00a966-7352-4749-b478-788fea4f1a83 f38f09c1-8cc3-485f-8235-1b23fc26fcc9 114ea034-62b3-4266-b80f-e8bd43c90bfe 4c106bc2-cb98-4795-9cff-6da66d0da771 c826cf6e-a284-4741-a8e4-89b75991d801 25ad7887-39b1-437

/dev/disk/by-uuid/2a687c3c-ffb4-4577-9781-beb6b88eb71b normal

2012-01-31 Thread lina
~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs681584 531940115468 83% / udev 4038260 0 4038260 0% /dev tmpfs

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-31 Thread Nicolas Bercher
What about the use of ulimit or any other tool that your sysadmin could control? On the other hand, these solutions seem ok: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1537956/bash-limit-the-number-of-concurrent-jobs Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-31 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 31/01/2012 03:19, Cam Hutchison wrote: seq 0 108 | xargs -I@ -P8 cat A_@.txt B_@.txt C_@.txt -o ABC_@.txt Of course, this is (since cat -o doesn't exist): seq 0 108 | xargs -I@ -P8 cat A_@.txt B_@.txt C_@.txt > ABC_@.txt but "> ABC_@.txt" is out of the scope of xargs. Nicolas -- To UN

Re: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver

2012-01-31 Thread M Stefan
I did not understand exactly for the things You are fighting w/ but if You are concerned on CPU too hot - I suggest to check if the modules are loaded (not only installed on Your system) - so it was w/ mine inspiron until I set it manually to be loaded. Thank you for your reply, The drivers are

Re: second display

2012-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 ian 12, 21:26:22, Pastor ALexander wrote: > > I am lost on the site, > installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 > instead of 1360 > pclinuxos and mint dont have this problem. > I like debian much better but this is irritating > everything else on debian i foun

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 ian 12, 20:54:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > root@osrdii:/home/andreas# cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: > > release a=squeeze-backports Pin-Priority: 200 > > > > Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Debian > > Pin-Priority: 700 > > > > Package: * Pin: releas

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