Re: Conflict resolution?

2012-02-12 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: > > There are several frontends to APT (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.), > > which one do you use? > > aptitude. AFAIR, it was the recommended one for Debian. (A while back, > I

Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-12 Thread Gerald
On Monday, February 13, 2012 10:39:29 AM ACro wrote: > Quoting Gerald : > > Andrew, > > I tried to do as you said, I also have windows in a 1TB drive. > > How ever after shrinking win7-64 and installing Linux on the now > > extended partition, > > windows would not boot > > On re-installing win

Re: Stupid shell question

2012-02-12 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 01:44:21AM +, ACro wrote: > > > for dir in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do chdir $dir/bak; mv *.yml .. ; > > chdir > > ../..; done > > > Joel, > > try this, HTH: > > for dir in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do chdir $dir/bak; mv *.yml ../..; > done Thanks, I got s

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I've made a thorough going mess of this thread by changing the game a couple of times during the course of it. Very foolish of me, and a number of people have put time and effort into trying to help. Thank you. I really am sorry for causing the confusion. My poorly thought out posts and bad des

Re: Aptana and Iceweasel

2012-02-12 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 02:30 PM 2/12/2012, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:54:12 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Scott and Camaleon - > > I have copied both of your replies above. > > I AGREE WITH BOTH OF YOU 100%. > > I am taking a course [on the internet] in Dreamweaver. Supposedly > Aptana is equivalent.

Resolved: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-12 Thread keitho
Thanks to all who responded. To Claudius- you are correct ... and that is why I was having the difficulty. I'm not really sure why I was using the wrong form of the name (NetworkManager rather than network-manager). Documentation is funny sometimes in that names are not always consistent and I got

Re: Stupid shell question

2012-02-12 Thread ACro
> for dir in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do chdir $dir/bak; mv *.yml .. ; chdir > ../..; done Joel, try this, HTH: for dir in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do chdir $dir/bak; mv *.yml ../..; done Kind regards, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [OT] Re: (Fairly) new very long URLs on news.yahoo?

2012-02-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Camaleón, Thanks! I've written to yahoo--if I get a response I'll summarize it here. Randy Kramer On Sunday 12 February 2012 05:02:07 am Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:52:47 -0500, Randy Kramer wrote: > > This is OT. I tried posting it on > > d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.

"hostname" question during Debian installation

2012-02-12 Thread Martin T
During Debian installation there is a question about "hostname" using expert installation mode. Am I correct, that "hostname" inserted during Debian installation is associated with a local(address from 127.0.0.0/8 range) IP address: < martin@martin-ThinkPad-T60:~$ hostname martin-ThinkPad-T60

Re: Conflict resolution?

2012-02-12 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > There are several frontends to APT (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.), > which one do you use? aptitude. AFAIR, it was the recommended one for Debian. (A while back, I remember that Debian recommended aptitude and Ubuntu wanted apt. > Ple

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-12 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 02/12/2012 07:29 AM, green wrote: > kei...@strucktower.com wrote at 2012-02-12 08:28 -0600: >> But I'm curious about the original query- what's the need for such an >> ultra-quiet machine? > Reason 1: no cleaning. A system with a fan requires cleaning. Frequency > of cleaning depends on the e

Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-12 Thread ACro
Quoting Gerald : > Andrew, > I tried to do as you said, I also have windows in a 1TB drive. > How ever after shrinking win7-64 and installing Linux on the now > extended partition, > windows would not boot > On re-installing windows, everythig was set back to "normal" ie no > Linux partition >

Re: Using libpdf.so from chrome with chromium [SOLVED]

2012-02-12 Thread David Purton
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 06:12:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: > Okay, I just have tested and it works fine with a minor difference with > your setup. > > First, the ".so" plugin file is located at "/usr/lib/chromium" instead > your plugins folder. And there's no need to enable anything, it should

Stupid shell question

2012-02-12 Thread Joel Roth
Hi Shellsters, I've got a directory structure like this: ./project1/bak/a.yml ./project1/bak/b.yml ./project2/bak/c.yml ./project2/bak/d.yml I want to move the *.yml files into the corresponding parent directory. I tried this: for dir in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do chdir $dir/bak; mv *.yml

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/02/12 Claudius Hubig said: > Could you try without these options? That fixed the issue. I got those options from the Debian Wiki, specifically the Compiz page. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Fwd: esmtp-run delivers mail from shell, but not from nagios

2012-02-12 Thread Jesse Thompson
> Not entirely sure how esmtp-run works in conjunction with > executing sendmail Well it's a drop-in sendmail replacement, so we're actually invoking esmtp-run directly which is masquerading as sendmail. > I know, for a fact, that NRPE does not set $HOME, and that causes > problems for mysql when

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 11 feb 12, 20:09:00, green wrote: > - Trim-Slice H (custom kernel) I was almost going to order one of those, but eventually gave up because "SATA is implemented with USB to SATA Genesys Logic GL830". I admit the custom kernel was also not an incentive. Maybe CompuLab will release a devic

Re: can't mount samsung phone, lsusb hangs

2012-02-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 04:32:46PM -0500, Marc D Ronell wrote: > > "Tony" == Tony Baldwin writes: > > Tony> I just "upgraded" from a motorola droid 2 to a samsung > Tony> stratosphere. It doesn't automount, as the droid did. When > Tony> I try to lsusb to find it, I get no outpu

Re: Squeeze on HP Proliant D580

2012-02-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/12 15:05, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/12/2012 6:41 AM, Frank wrote: >> I'm using this kind of hw. I have had similiar problems. >> Destroying and recreating the array solved it for me. > > I'm assuming it's a single 146GB drive, until notifie

how are html pages printed?

2012-02-12 Thread Mark Copper
I have a box where attempting to print an html page containing an image results in an error. It could be a configuration mistake or a bug, I think. If the former, I would like to fix it; it the latter, I would like to know what to file against. Some details: box is a default Wheezy installation

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 20:31:25 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:52:57 +, Brian wrote: > > > "the other ethernet port" is ambiguous but the second statement and the > > ifconfig output make it clearer. > > Well, all this issue is around an ethernet card that received its > con

Re: can't mount samsung phone, lsusb hangs

2012-02-12 Thread Marc D Ronell
> "Tony" == Tony Baldwin writes: Tony> I just "upgraded" from a motorola droid 2 to a samsung Tony> stratosphere. It doesn't automount, as the droid did. When Tony> I try to lsusb to find it, I get no output, but lsusb hangs, Tony> even with -v option. Tony> I'm using s

can't mount samsung phone, lsusb hangs

2012-02-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
I just "upgraded" from a motorola droid 2 to a samsung stratosphere. It doesn't automount, as the droid did. When I try to lsusb to find it, I get no output, but lsusb hangs, even with -v option. I'm using squeeze, with openbox (no gnome or kde bloat). With my former phone, a dialog box would pop

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
green wrote: kei...@strucktower.com wrote at 2012-02-12 08:28 -0600: But I'm curious about the original query- what's the need for such an ultra-quiet machine? Reason 1: no cleaning. A system with a fan requires cleaning. Frequency of cleaning depends on the environment. The desktop that th

Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-12 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/12/2012 02:44 PM, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3 at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can replace the Gnome-rel

Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 11:44:33 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > Is there a tutorial someone can point me to that would help educate me on > how best to approach this task? Or do I need to go cold-turkey and > uninstall NetworkManager before configuring wicd? Normally I try to address the ac

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:52:57 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 19:32:31 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:08:11 +, Brian wrote: >> >> > In the post you responded to there is: >> > >> >I have connected something to the other ethernet port now ... and >> >so

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:53:19 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> The last notice I had for the new feature was that someone started to >> make some packages for it as mentioned in debian-boot: >> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/01/msg01044

Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-12 Thread Claudius Hubig
kei...@strucktower.com wrote: >Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3 >at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that >the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can >replace the Gnome-related-software to softw

Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-12 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 12 February 2012 19:44:33 kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > Or do I need to go cold-turkey and > uninstall NetworkManager before configuring wicd? I did. And have never looked back. I deinstall network manager at the first opportunity. You could always install it again. But telling it

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 13:34:45 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> What explains this apparent anomaly? >> >> I can't explain why eth0 has an Ip address but it isn't "UP". > > It's also bothered me as as

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 19:32:31 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:08:11 +, Brian wrote: > > > In the post you responded to there is: > > > >I have connected something to the other ethernet port now ... and so > >ifconfig -a reports (with me doing nothing special but havi

How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-12 Thread keitho
Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3 at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can replace the Gnome-related-software to software which is desktop independent.

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> I have found the following two d-i-related pages the second of which >> mentions WPA: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/WheezyGoals > > Yes, the "goal" is there but how ab

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 13:34:45 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > What explains this apparent anomaly? > > I can't explain why eth0 has an Ip address but it isn't "UP". It's also bothered me as assigning an IP address automatically makes eth0 'UP'

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:15:03 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:25:10 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> > >> (...) >> >> I do have it. >> >> My "xorg.conf" settings for nvidia are as simply as telling xorg what >> driver to load, no more no less: >> >> Section "D

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:08:11 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 18:53:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +, Brian wrote: >> >> > It means ifupdown was able to configure eth0 because there is now an >> > ethernet cable attached to it. >> >> But Harry said th

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/net

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I have now wired both up. The one that gets the hosts 192.168.1.42 > address is eth1 and is hardcoded at the lan router/dns server by MAC > to get that address. > > eth0 is getting a dns served address too now. > > In fact I've now created

Re: Aptana and Iceweasel

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:54:12 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Scott and Camaleon - > > I have copied both of your replies above. > > I AGREE WITH BOTH OF YOU 100%. > > I am taking a course [on the internet] in Dreamweaver. Supposedly > Aptana is equivalent. Sadly, there's no equivalent in lin

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 18:53:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +, Brian wrote: > > > It means ifupdown was able to configure eth0 because there is now an > > ethernet cable attached to it. > > But Harry said there was no cable connected to that card :-? In the post you

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I post a few things following todays reboot > > I have connected something to the other ethernet port now ... and so > ifconfig -a reports (with me doing nothing special but having > rebooted): > > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:4

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Jesse Thompson writes: >> the interfaces file is really only going to come into pay during >> bootup, or when using eg ifup/ifdown scripts. >> >> You indicated that you may have configured the interfaces by hand via >> ifconfig; if so those

Re: Aptana and Iceweasel

2012-02-12 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 04:24 AM 2/12/2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 12/02/12 17:51, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear list - > > I am using Aptana Studio 2 and I cannot get my pagers to display in > Iceweasel. Or Firefox, Opera, or any other browser... so you can rule out Debian as a contributor to the problem. :-) PE

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 11:39:45 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I have connected something to the other ethernet port now ... and so > ifconfig -a reports (with me doing nothing special but having > rebooted): > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:f4:b5:29:41 > inet addr:192.168.2

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 17:25:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:39:45 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> > In the output below, and you can see the full dmesg from today along >> > with the boot log from /var/log/boot at: >> >

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Brian writes: > and hostname -i shows: > >   127.0.1.1 192.168.1.42 AFAIK, these days this only works if "192.168.1.42" is in "/etc/hosts" or in the nis/nisplus/ldap equivalent. > I vaguely remember bringing up the second address with if

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:13:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> >>> So it appears at a superficial reckoning that dhcp has assigned an >>> address to eth0, but that address appears to be attached to eth1 in >>> ifconfig and ne

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 17:25:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:39:45 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > In the output below, and you can see the full dmesg from today along > > with the boot log from /var/log/boot at: > >www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi > > [ 14.496990] r8169

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'm getting confused by what I see in /etc/network/interfaces, > compared to what I see with ifconfig -a. > > What I see in /etc/network/interfaces: > >  auto lo >  iface lo inet loopback >  allow-hotplug eth0 >  iface eth0 inet dhcp > > Doe

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Feb 2012 at 17:29:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > A little more to the story is that the address shown in ifconfig -a > for eth0 (192.168.1.54) is ping-able from around the network. That's ok. > There is only 1 ethernet wire connected to the machine and no > wireless, so both addresses

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:57:16 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:43 -0500, Tom H wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > >> I read about the GRUB2 transition from Debian Planet and I'm sure >> sure

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:25:10 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: (...) I do have it. My "xorg.conf" settings for nvidia are as simply as telling xorg what driver to load, no more no less: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-12 Thread green
On 2/11/2012 8:09 PM, green wrote: > I need a fanless mini PC; it will run Debian. It will be used in a > production environment. > Doesnt thin clients & LTSP qualify for this ? For my situation, this would result in maintaining 2 devices rather than 1; not really a reasonable option. > WYSE S

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:43 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Camaleón wrote: > I read about the GRUB2 transition from Debian Planet and I'm sure > sure it was aired in many other places, too. Yes, but i

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:25:10 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: >>(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation" >>compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0 ABI class: X.Org >>Server Extension, version 2.0 >>(II) Loading extension DRI2 (...) >>(II) LoadModule

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:39:45 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) > I've made the updates now but my kernel has not changed. Should it > have? I have rebooted. You need to install the kernel metapackage ("linux-image-686-pae") so it can be automatically updated on every new v

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/net

2012-02-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesse Thompson writes: > There's a lot of things which aren't clear to me. Let's recap the > following for clarity: Sorry for the lack of clarity... I just posted new information that fills in most of what you requested > You mention there are two, wired nics in your box, only one is wired > up

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: [...] Harry wrote: Running wheezy - 3.0.0-1-686-pae >>> Camaleón replied: >>> Wheezy has now 3.1.0 :-? >> Harry: >> I've missed a couple of updates... the last notice I received on my kde >> desktop showed 200+... yikes. Camaleón: > He... yes, that hurts :-) I've made

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: >(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation" >compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0 >ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 >(II) Loading extension DRI2 >(II) LoadModule: "nvidia" >(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so >(I

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/02/12 Claudius Hubig said: > Most of them will silently fall back to software rendering, what > appears to be still happening to the OP. That's what always happens to me. > Michael: What does your Xorg.log say and, if you have one, what is > the content of the xorg.conf? I'm not sure what

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Claudius Hubig
Camaleón wrote: >On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:13:01 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> I don't think that's true. I've run these many times in the past and >> they've run purely on my cpu, before direct rendering was enabled. > >Then the applications you run didn't require 3D hardware acceleration or

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-12 Thread green
kei...@strucktower.com wrote at 2012-02-12 08:28 -0600: > But I'm curious about the original query- what's the need for such an > ultra-quiet machine? Reason 1: no cleaning. A system with a fan requires cleaning. Frequency of cleaning depends on the environment. The desktop that this will repl

Re: Squeeze on HP Proliant D580

2012-02-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/12/2012 6:41 AM, Frank wrote: > I'm using this kind of hw. I have had similiar problems. Destroying and > recreating the array solved it for me. I'm assuming it's a single 146GB drive, until notified otherwise. The fact that it doesn't boot, but shows a Windows splash screen of some kind, l

Re: how to get out of recursive " Error pkgProblemResolver::Resolve " problems

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:35:27 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I recently upgraded a laptop using sid and then did upgrade and dist > upgrade and i got into a terrible pickle > where it could not upgrade and kept telling me certain packages were not > able to be installed ... secondary to messages su

Re: Any working bluetooth application available ?

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:00:45 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > I had bluman-applet in debian sarge and it was working fine. But it is > almost a year I have upgraded to wheezy and the blueman stopped working > any more. I wounder if there is any alternative blutooth application > available. I use icewm, h

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-12 Thread keitho
I'm glad to see this thread, because I hadn't heard of the Raspberry Pi before- way cool! But I'm curious about the original query- what's the need for such an ultra-quiet machine? I too hate fan noise, but even when run hard I have to _try_ to hear my laptop fan. Is there a special reason you ne

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-12 Thread The_Ace
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:27 PM, green wrote: > On 2/11/2012 8:09 PM, green wrote: > > I need a fanless mini PC; it will run Debian. It will be used in a > > production environment. > > Alex Hutton wrote at 2012-02-11 22:56 -0600: > > I share your sympathies. I really hate fan noise! There are A

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Feb 2012 at 20:22:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: [Snip] > And the actual network shows up on eth1 in ifconfig -a output: > > ifconfig -a >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:f4:b5:29:41 > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > [...] This is

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:13:01 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 12/02/12 Camaleón said: > >> Your 3D has to be enabled, otherwise you couldn't run opengl games at >> all. > > I don't think that's true. I've run these many times in the past and > they've run purely on my cpu, before direct ren

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-12 Thread green
On 2/11/2012 8:09 PM, green wrote: > I need a fanless mini PC; it will run Debian.  It will be used in a > production environment. Alex Hutton wrote at 2012-02-11 22:56 -0600: > I share your sympathies. I really hate fan noise! There are ARM > computers that run at 5 watts, and can be passively co

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/02/12 Camaleón said: > Your 3D has to be enabled, otherwise you couldn't run opengl games at all. I don't think that's true. I've run these many times in the past and they've run purely on my cpu, before direct rendering was enabled. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Squeeze on HP Proliant D580

2012-02-12 Thread Frank
I'm using this kind of hw. I have had similiar problems. Destroying and recreating the array solved it for me. Frank Am 12.02.2012 um 00:09 schrieb Phil Dobbin : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, all. > > I've just taken shipment of a HP Proliant D580 G2 (Quad Core 2.7

Re: Squeeze on HP Proliant D580

2012-02-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/11/2012 5:09 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I've just taken shipment of a HP Proliant D580 G2 (Quad Core 2.7GHz, 8 > GB RAM, 146GB RAID). You should have been more specific, and stated you purchased a _used_ and very old Proliant DL580 G2. This box has been out of production for 5-6 years. The s

Any working bluetooth application available ?

2012-02-12 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I had bluman-applet in debian sarge and it was working fine. But it is almost a year I have upgraded to wheezy and the blueman stopped working any more. I wounder if there is any alternative blutooth application available. I use icewm, hence don't use any kde related package. Though

Re: Squeeze on HP Proliant D580

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:26:48 +, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 12/02/12 10:17, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> What's the exact message you get and in what stage of the install >> booting process it appears? You can go to a debug tty to get more >> information¹. >> >> OTOH, I would use a 64-bits OS for t

Re: Squeeze on HP Proliant D580

2012-02-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/12 10:17, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:09:32 +, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> I've just taken shipment of a HP Proliant D580 G2 (Quad Core >> 2.7GHz, 8 GB RAM, 146GB RAID). >> >> I intend to use Squeeze as the main OS & have downlo

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:26:05 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > I set up direct rendering with my Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 using the > nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package. glxinfo is happy, compiz works, etc. > > But, any gl screensavers, or opengl games, are horribly slow and chewing > all my CPU, sug

[OT] Re: Aptana and Iceweasel

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:51:19 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > I am using Aptana Studio 2 and I cannot get my pagers to display in > Iceweasel. It does not integrate the style sheet. the files are both > in the same directory. > > Here is my code: (...) I've just tested and it works here, with

Re: Squeeze on HP Proliant D580

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:09:32 +, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I've just taken shipment of a HP Proliant D580 G2 (Quad Core 2.7GHz, 8 > GB RAM, 146GB RAID). > > I intend to use Squeeze as the main OS & have downloaded the specific > distro for this model with the firmware patch rolled in. > > Does any

[OT] Re: (Fairly) new very long URLs on news.yahoo?

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:52:47 -0500, Randy Kramer wrote: > This is OT. I tried posting it on > d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org but didn't get much > response, so I thought I'd try here (especially because I did get some > good help on the other question I asked recently, about invisib

Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces

2012-02-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:16:36 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:13:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> Running wheezy - 3.0.0-1-686-pae >> >> Wheezy has now 3.1.0 :-? > > I've missed a couple of updates... the last notice I received on my kde > desktop sh