Re: wheezy updates status question

Jude DaShiell wrote: > Has that part of the repository been discontinued or renamed? Do you mean this: deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main It's fine. Or are you asking for the new squeeze-updates that replaced volatile? As far as I know that is only for Stable and not for Tes

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

Carl Fink wrote: > Chris wrote: > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place > > for the mp3 to the ogg format. > > I'm lazy so I'd use the command line. Me too. I have the opposite problem. Everything

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:44:52PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk I have a script for that (although, likely someone with better fu could make a

Re: window does not fit on screen

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:41:03PM +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > On Du, 19 feb 12, 14:02:43, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> I am facing a very strange problem. On my netbook, when I open up > >> Eclipse's install new software wizard, the window does not fit on > >> scr

Removing hardware identifiers from an existing installation (esp. Grub2)

A while ago I installed Emdebian (Squeeze) to a compact flash card on a single board computer. I had not anticipated this, but now I'd like to take that installation and replicate it on other identical flash cards on other identical SBCs. (If I *had* anticipated this, I might have put a live syste

wheezy updates status question

Has that part of the repository been discontinued or renamed? Jude -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: notify osd stop working

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:14:34 +0530 "J. Bakshi" wrote: > Hello, > > I did a upgrade yesterday and among the other the osd was been upgraded too. > Since then the osd stops working. I have also tested by > > notify-send "hello" > > But not notification at all. > > Presently the notification pac

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:44:52PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3

Convert mp3 enbulk

Hey there all. I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. Is there something out there that will 1. Convert to ogg enbulk 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3 to the ogg format. Currently, the structure is thus Artist (directory)

sample rate of ogg and flac files

I've got some flac files that are at high sample rates (96000 Hz and 192000 Hz). My Sansa Clip+ won't play them. When I encode them to ogg vorbis, the Clip+ still won't play them unless I resample them. I resampled to 44100 Hz and that worked, but I don't know if the actual limit is higher than

Re: Re: backtrack iso booting from grub2

I got backtrack 5 iso to boot on multiboot grub2 usb drive. I got the info from a backtrack help forum. This trick is to extract the "casper" directory, placing it in the root of the usb drive (not in any other directory). My menuentry is as follows: menuentry "BackTrack 5 32 bit" { linux /caspe

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

Charles Kroeger wrote: > Why is it exactly some are using the ''Toy Story' character names when > it would be less confusing to just stick with UNSTABLE and TESTING, > notwithstanding STABLE users of course. You said notwithstanding Stable so I won't menthion that Stable should always be named Wo

Re: Question about APT's config on Debian (not an actual issue)

"Christofer C. Bell" wrote: >I'm wondering how the following Ubuntu-isms made it into Debian's APT >configuration: > >cbell@circe:~$ apt-config dump | egrep 'verse|ubuntu' >APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*"; >APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; >APT::Never-MarkA

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

On Sunday 19 February 2012 19:43:56 Charles Kroeger wrote: >       500 http://mirror.anl.gov/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages >         500 http://mirror.anl.gov/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages > > Why is it exactly some are using the ''Toy Story' character names when > it would be less con

Question about APT's config on Debian (not an actual issue)

I'm wondering how the following Ubuntu-isms made it into Debian's APT configuration: cbell@circe:~$ apt-config dump | egrep 'verse|ubuntu' APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapacka

Re: "hostname" question during Debian installation

Tom H wrote: > >> Bob Proulx wrote: > >>> Yes. And also to /etc/postfix/main.cf if postfix is installed. Or to > >>> other places if other MTAs are installed. > >> > >> When you use "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" or "dpkg-reconfigure > >> postfix", "/etc/mailname" is updated; in postfix's case be

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 18 feb 12, 19:54:50, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU >> > >> > aptitude purge ~c >> >> Thanks. I didn't know that we could use search terms without >> specifying a search (pretty unusual! > > Maybe, alt

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > > What would happen if I would commented wheezy lines by using a # and >> > > after that I run 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'? >> > >> > Nothing different would happen from what you

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 19:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 12:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Connection name: Wireless connection 1 > > [x] Connect automatically > > [x] Available to all users > > Tab "Wireless" > > SSID: oz > > Mode: A

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

Andrei POPESCU states: > > Something like "unstable users should have testing in their > > sources.list, period." has been posted a few years ago by a member of > > the Release Team (Adeodato Simò, if memory serves me) and my reading of > > -devel and -devel-announce didn't suggest any (major)

OT: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 16:58 +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-02-18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > OT: > > I didn't buy, but won an iPad 2. Beside all that flashy crap it can do > > amazing things, of cause not usable with Linux, but for Mac and Windows > > there are e.g. amazing apps that can be used wi

Re: How to keep track of files installed from sources?

Csanyi Pal wrote: > How can I know where come installed files after I did run: > ./configure && make && sudo -E make install > commands? In addition to the fine comments made by others let me add that Debian has a very nice default for local installations. The default for configure is to install

Re (3): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:54:11 -0200 > You're more likely to find specific thinkpad A22m help at > http://forum.thinkpads.com/ and the linux-thinkpad ML. I'd expect you'd be > able to actually find out how to fix the EDID data if that's the problem in > the

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > What would happen if I would commented wheezy lines by using a # and > > > after that I run 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'? > > > > Nothing different would happen from what you have today. You already > > have Sid listed in your sourc

Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm not sure which programs read it, but compose key set with that way works in XFCE4. It doesn't seem to work in GNOME (3) for me, I don't know why. Left logo is my compose too and it and ^ and c gives me Ĉ. This might be because of my keyboard

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 12:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Connection name: Wireless connection 1 > [x] Connect automatically > [x] Available to all users > Tab "Wireless" > SSID: oz > Mode: Ad-hoc > Band: Automatic > (Channel: default) >

Re: Looking for advice from the linux gods...

On 2012-02-19 12:16:06, timothy grey wrote: > My father is the owner of a small business. He has 2 registers with pos > software and a machine in the back for photoshop/pagemaker. I set up file > sharing and backups in windows to hold the pos database and his other > documents (ads, clip art, etc).

Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

Mika Suomalainen wrote: Hi, Try running dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration as root. It will ask you what key you want to use as compose-key/multi-key. Indeed it does, and I asked for the Left-Logo key. In the file /etc/default/keyboard I notice that the environment string XKBOPTIONS is

Re: window does not fit on screen

The command that works for me is: xrandr --fb 1024x768 --output LVDS1 --panning 1024x768 && gnome-shell --replace However there is a known bug [1] in xserver so I had to apply a patch and recompile. I would like to run this automatically at login, I tried .xinitrc and .bashrc but neither w

Manual's Tutorial #2 fails to boot from menu

I built "Tutorial 2: A web browser utility" from Section 16.3 the Debian Live Manual dated Mon 21 Nov 2011 01:14:20 PM EST. I build the image on 2/17/12. It fails to initialize from the boot sceen prompt of "Live". It generates a beep, but nothing else. Both of the "Other options" work fine. The

Looking for advice from the linux gods...

My father is the owner of a small business. He has 2 registers with pos software and a machine in the back for photoshop/pagemaker. I set up file sharing and backups in windows to hold the pos database and his other documents (ads, clip art, etc). He also has a laptop with access to those resources

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

On 2012-02-18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > OT: > I didn't buy, but won an iPad 2. Beside all that flashy crap it can do > amazing things, of cause not usable with Linux, but for Mac and Windows > there are e.g. amazing apps that can be used with Mac and Windows DAWs. Careful you don't slip down into

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

On 2012-02-19, brian wrote: >> >> A usb-connected webcam? >> > Nope, don't have a webcam. > It's your cassette tape to mp3 converter. Check out dmesg or 'tail -f /var/log/messages' when you plug the thing in to confirm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Try running > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration as root. It will ask you what key you want to use as compose-key/multi-key. On 19.02.2012 16:28, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Dear All > > I have expunged KDE from my computer and am using xdm a

Re: Flash plugin not producing sound

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 14:07:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:01:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >>Hello All > >> > >>I have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed on my system > >>(version 1:2.8.3) [...] > >Please post the output of

Re: debian squeeze / lynx / m.facebook.com

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:43:38AM +, Frederic Robert wrote: > I can't use lynx to go to http://m.facebook.com. Is it a compatibility > problem? Probably more about Lynx knowing FB is *evil* and thus refusing to connect ;) In other words, it fails on me too. A cookie issue? I don't know. --

Setting the compose key without KDE

Dear All I have expunged KDE from my computer and am using xdm and fvwm as display manager and window manager respectively. Under KDE, I had a Compose key (Multi-key?) which enabled me to produce characters with accents used in Esperanto. I no longer have KDE, so I tried using the xkeycaps p

Re: Flash plugin not producing sound

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:01:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Hello All I have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed on my system (version 1:2.8.3) That suggests that you are on Wheezy (testing) or Sid (unstable); which one is it exactly? Is it fully up-to-date?

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

On 02/19/2012 08:41 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-02-19, brian wrote: So there is an USB audio device connected as well? Unless it's my cassette tape to MP3 converter, I'm at a loss to know A usb-connected webcam? Nope, don't have a webcam. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

On 2012-02-19, brian wrote: >> >> So there is an USB audio device connected as well? > > Unless it's my cassette tape to MP3 converter, I'm at a loss to know A usb-connected webcam? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: window does not fit on screen

Thanks. I can not increase the physical resolution but do you know how to increase the virtual resolution? I would like to do so on a per-user basis. Setting the line Virtual in Xorg.conf has the desired effect but it also increases the size for the login manager, which is undesired. Also the vi

Re: Flash plugin not producing sound

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:01:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hello All > > I have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed on my system > (version 1:2.8.3) That suggests that you are on Wheezy (testing) or Sid (unstable); which one is it exactly? Is it fully up-to-date? > so I can get the

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

On 02/19/2012 04:58 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 17:59:16 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...]

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

PS: After a while I'm asked again and again for authentication by Linux and the USB adapters LED shows that it's sending again, but some time later it gets lost again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Flash plugin not producing sound

Hello All I have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed on my system (version 1:2.8.3) so I can get the video clips working in my browser. Unfortunately, I am not getting any sound. The video clips without sound are not much use. So what do I do to get sound working? I have two sound card

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 02:54 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 feb 12, 01:18:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Tab "IPv4 Settings" > > Method: Manual > > This is the setting you need to change, but I don't know how it's called > in English. The Romanian translation would suggest something like >

Re: window does not fit on screen

On Du, 19 feb 12, 14:02:43, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hello! > > I am facing a very strange problem. On my netbook, when I open up > Eclipse's install new software wizard, the window does not fit on > screen and I cannot select the software to install. I am using Gnome > 3 from Wheezy. > > I

window does not fit on screen

Hello! I am facing a very strange problem. On my netbook, when I open up Eclipse's install new software wizard, the window does not fit on screen and I cannot select the software to install. I am using Gnome 3 from Wheezy. Is there any workaround for this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

I've had situations where the daily builds have thrown a media change message and asked for the disk that was already being used to install the system to be put into the machine. Unfortunately, the drive door is locked and the media change dialog only respects alt-fx alt-f2 ... and ejecting th

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

On Du, 19 feb 12, 12:00:19, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2012 10:54:17 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I think the only image that works when booted from the target media is > > the mini.iso (GTK or not), but you need a reasonably good internet > > connection because even parts of

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

On Sunday 19 February 2012 10:54:17 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 feb 12, 17:39:22, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just want to reinstall a debian box, so download the daily built iso > > > > from cdimage.debian.org. > > > > Since I am out of CDR, I simply `cat the_iso.iso >

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 17:59:16 -0500, brian wrote: > On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: > >>On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: > >>>On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cg

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

On Du, 19 feb 12, 17:39:22, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, > Just want to reinstall a debian box, so download the daily built iso > from cdimage.debian.org. > Since I am out of CDR, I simply `cat the_iso.iso > /dev/udisk`. I think the only image that works when booted from the target media

Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

Hi, Just want to reinstall a debian box, so download the daily built iso from cdimage.debian.org. Since I am out of CDR, I simply `cat the_iso.iso > /dev/udisk`. It booted, things seemed fine until the step of finding the install cd (sorry I cannot remember the exact menu item name now). It fai

Supported touchscreen monitors

I would need to know if I can use a touchscreen monitor type LG T1710B-BN. This use is thought for an old people who has difficulty to use a mouse.Could this be possible? If not which supported monitor can I use?Actually I am using Squeeze stable distribution.Thanks in advance for any helpFranc