Adjusting sound file volume

2012-02-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I know that sox can adjust the volume of a sound file and I have used it before, but... sox will not read this file. It is an .m4a file that someone else recorded and sent to us. Sox and play will not read it, the error when try to adjust the volume is: :~$ sox -v 0.1 Kedushah.m4a Kedushah.

Re: New laptop won't boot off of boot disc

2012-02-24 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/24/2012 10:55 PM, Eric Galaxy wrote: It tries to boot off of the disc, then boots up off the hard drive (windows). It is a Acer Aspire 4750. It has 3 MB L3 cache, 2.10 GHz, DDR3 1333 MHz, 35 W processor, 2 gigs ram, 2 hard drives totalling 650 gig space. I'll figure out how to do a checksu

Re: New laptop won't boot off of boot disc

2012-02-24 Thread Eric Galaxy
It tries to boot off of the disc, then boots up off the hard drive (windows). It is a Acer Aspire 4750. It has 3 MB L3 cache, 2.10 GHz, DDR3 1333 MHz, 35 W processor, 2 gigs ram, 2 hard drives totalling 650 gig space. I'll figure out how to do a checksum and boot with nomodeset and get back to you

Re: unresponsive keyboard

2012-02-24 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 04:14:45PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/22/2012 11:20 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:28:53PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 2/21/2012 8:51 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >>> Running squeeze 6.04 with Gnome and all updates as of a week ago.

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread David Christensen
On 02/24/2012 06:34 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I recommend Wheezy for Sandybridge. For Squeeze you´d need recent backports of kernel, X.org and mesa. That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation. :-) David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: MDNS?

2012-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying to install WINE on my squeeze amd64 system. The configurator > throws up a message box: > >  It appears that libnss-mdns is installed on your system, >  but lib32nss-mdns is not. Please note that Wine will not be >  able

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED

2012-02-24 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 02/15/2012 02:29 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Sorry to follow up to myself but I found a solution. The missing > dependency was libltdl3, which is no longer available. But after more > googling I found libltdl3_1.5.26-4+lenny1_i386.deb. This allows m

when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

2012-02-24 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents rather than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set? And can it be set to the HOME directory? -- Sian Mountbatten Algol 68 specialist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: How to avoid screen blanking?

2012-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Felix Koop wrote: > > I have a problem with my sid installation. The screen is turning blank > after about 30s of inactivity on mouse/keyboard. I have already set dpms > mode off (xset -dpms) and deactivated the screensavers (xset s 0), but > no luck. Has anybody a

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bernard
Bob Proulx wrote: Bernard wrote: was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in such config for more than 2 years or so ; I had a mysql server on it, with mysql databases. Here you say Lenny.

kernel bug and reportbug bug

2012-02-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
I had a successful install of slackware 13.0 on my nVidia CK804 Serial ATA drive. Before doing so, I had a failed install of debian on that drive with debian causing much banging of the drive before throwing drive detection failed message and dropping me into media change dialog. Of course, t

Re: How to avoid screen blanking?

2012-02-24 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/24/2012 12:09 PM, Felix Koop wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my sid installation. The screen is turning blank after about 30s of inactivity on mouse/keyboard. I have already set dpms mode off (xset -dpms) and deactivated the screensavers (xset s 0), but no luck. Has anybody any idea wh

Re: New laptop won't boot off of boot disc

2012-02-24 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/24/2012 02:15 PM, Eric Galaxy wrote: I created two different boot discs to install Debian on my new laptop. The laptop will not boot up off of either of them. I tried booting off another boot disc, and it booted without problems. Anyone have ideas what the problem and solution are? -- Eri

New laptop won't boot off of boot disc

2012-02-24 Thread Eric Galaxy
I created two different boot discs to install Debian on my new laptop. The laptop will not boot up off of either of them. I tried booting off another boot disc, and it booted without problems. Anyone have ideas what the problem and solution are? -- Eric

Chromium, the sync server is busy, please try again later (6.0.472.63 (59945) Built on Debian 6.0, running on Debian 6.0.4)

2012-02-24 Thread Bernard van de Koppel
Hi, I ran into an issue, where chromium in my Debian laptop won't sync with my my profile. I already removed the date from the google dashboard ( https://www.google.com/dashboard/?hl=nl), but this does not seem to help. Signing in to the account works fine (before and after the "stop synchronisat

Re: How to avoid screen blanking?

2012-02-24 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/24/2012 12:32 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Felix Koop wrote: I have a problem with my sid installation. The screen is turning blank after about 30s of inactivity on mouse/keyboard. I have already set dpms mode off (xset -dpms) and deactivated the screensavers (xset s 0), but no luck. Has anybody

Re: How to avoid screen blanking?

2012-02-24 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/24/2012 12:32 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Felix Koop wrote: I have a problem with my sid installation. The screen is turning blank after about 30s of inactivity on mouse/keyboard. I have already set dpms mode off (xset -dpms) and deactivated the screensavers (xset s 0), but no luck. Has anybody

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-24 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Tony, > aptitude isntall newbeuter > http://www.newsbeuter.org/ In my original email (that I was replying to with my last mail) I wrote: > - There are readers for the terminal but I have several feeds with > images and I dont want to open another window of my browser each time. I'm in grea

Re: Nepomuk

2012-02-24 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 24/02/12 20:00, baldyeti wrote: Not in my version of System Settings. No such thing as Advanced. On this here mepis system (kde 4.5.3), "desktop search" is under "workspace appearance & behaviour" K->Settings->System Settings->Desktop Search Switched Nepomuk off. At last. Many thanks fo

Re: How to avoid screen blanking?

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Felix Koop wrote: > I have a problem with my sid installation. The screen is turning blank > after about 30s of inactivity on mouse/keyboard. I have already set dpms > mode off (xset -dpms) and deactivated the screensavers (xset s 0), but > no luck. Has anybody any idea what might be the reason or

How to avoid screen blanking?

2012-02-24 Thread Felix Koop
Hello, I have a problem with my sid installation. The screen is turning blank after about 30s of inactivity on mouse/keyboard. I have already set dpms mode off (xset -dpms) and deactivated the screensavers (xset s 0), but no luck. Has anybody any idea what might be the reason or how I could debug

Re: pulseaudio /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf

2012-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:42:34 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Seb wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Is anyone else also seeing this problem? > > > > I do, also in a sid system with latest pulseaudio. > > I filed this bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661095 I found an U

Re: Nepomuk

2012-02-24 Thread baldyeti
Not in my version of System Settings. No such thing as Advanced. On this here mepis system (kde 4.5.3), "desktop search" is under "workspace appearance & behaviour" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Doug
On 02/24/2012 09:22 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: Curt Howland wrote: ... It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay purely open-source. That's what everyo

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
John L. Cunningham wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > And /dev/sda would be right for Lenny. In Lenny's 2.6.26 kernel all > > device names work under the scsi naming. > > > > But then you say /dev/hda and the hda names are the old kernel names. > > This leads me to believe that you are booting an old

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:02:14PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bernard wrote: > > Here you say Lenny. But then... > > > just waited indefinitely without doing nothing. Error messages appeared > > after 4 or 5 long minutes of idling, they mostly said that /dev/sda3 did > > not (no longer) exist, a

Re: Nepomuk

2012-02-24 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 23/02/12 02:40, Andrew Reid wrote: I didn't ask for it and I don't want it. So why do we have to have it? It hogs the CPU and has an enormous database. I certainly do not have enough file to justify a 60Mb database. Is it possible to stop it from working in KDE? And what about nepomuk? I'd li

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread richard
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:35:54 +0100 Bernard wrote: > It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical > Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time > of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to > have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny

Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bernard
It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in such config

Re: xtables-addons ipp2p problem in debian

2012-02-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
J. Bakshi a écrit : >>> >> The kernel module for the 'ipp2p' match (xt_ipp2p.ko) is missing. >> xtables-addons-common provides only the userland shared libraries for >> iptables (libxt_ipp2p.so). You need to install xtables-addons-source and >> build the kernel modules. > > Thanks for the clue.

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernard wrote: > was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot > (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in > such config for more than 2 years or so ; I had a mysql server on it, > with mysql databases. Here you say Lenny. But then... > just wa

Re: Early Bootup Udev Warnings

2012-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:37 AM, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2012 16:00:46 debian-user-digest- > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: >>> On Ma, 21 feb 12, 10:07:36, David Baron wrote: > > fgrep -ril sysf /etc/udev/* > /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak > /etc/udev/rul

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 24/02/12 17:35, Bernard wrote: It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-24 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:12:26PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi again, > > about half a year ago, I complained about the lack of a good, minimal > RSS reader: > aptitude isntall newbeuter http://www.newsbeuter.org/ ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! -- To UNS

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 24/02/12 16:44, Lisi wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 16:16:47 Keith McKenzie wrote: I shall see if I can get Gmail via Icedove. You can - it is what I do normally for both myself (KMail) and Peter (Icedove). As I said, when I had to use Gmail as my email client for several w

Re: pulseaudio /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf

2012-02-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Seb wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Is anyone else also seeing this problem? > > I do, also in a sid system with latest pulseaudio. I filed this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661095 Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-24 Thread Bernard
It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it worked very well in such config fo

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread lina
> On 24 Feb, 2012, at 23:06, Keith McKenzie wrote: > >> But the OP had already requested a place/book to learn about basic >> linux commands earlier, so the post is OK in my opinion. :) > > Yes. I have spent 3 hours on the book. > (lots of things in my life comes so late, also for the book,

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread lina
On 24 Feb, 2012, at 23:06, Keith McKenzie wrote: > But the OP had already requested a place/book to learn about basic > linux commands earlier, so the post is OK in my opinion. :) Yes. I have spent 3 hours on the book. (lots of things in my life comes so late, also for the book, I'm happy rea

Re: Nepomuk

2012-02-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:43:33 -0800 (PST), T wrote in message <1329957813.30735.yahoomailclas...@web121901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>: > --- On Wed, 2/22/12, Shaun Jones wrote: > > >  In the control panel you can turn it off I believe it was > > in the advanced tab. > > Yes, one could try to do that b

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Lisi
On Friday 24 February 2012 16:44:42 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2012 16:16:47 Keith McKenzie wrote: > > I shall see if I can get Gmail via Icedove. > > You can - it is what I do normally for both myself (KMail) and Peter > (Icedove). > > As I said, when I had to use Gmail as my email clie

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Lisi
On Friday 24 February 2012 16:16:47 Keith McKenzie wrote: > I shall see if I can get Gmail via Icedove. You can - it is what I do normally for both myself (KMail) and Peter (Icedove). As I said, when I had to use Gmail as my email client for several weeks, it drove me up the wall. Gmail is o

Re: CUPS

2012-02-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 20:10:11 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: >> You could completely purge CUPS and all its related packages. Then >> reinstall (with the Recommends:) and install your printer. > > I need instructions how to do it. Backup /etc/cups first. apt-get purge cups followed by ap

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
I stand corrected. This is Gmail & it is including the message with the reply! (It also must top post when it adds it, another problem) Sorry about that, I shall see if I can get Gmail via Icedove. It is also sending to the private address; my apologies. Damn these top posting web maillers! --

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
I stand corrected. This is Gmail & it is including the message with the reply! (It also must top post when it adds it, another problem) Sorry about that, I shall see if I can get Gmail via Icedove. -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2012-02-24 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi again, about half a year ago, I complained about the lack of a good, minimal RSS reader: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:20:47AM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > I've been looking for a good RSS feed reader for years now but I still > seem not to be able to find a sane, minimal graphical RSS reader

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Please no top-posting. Thanks. Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012 schrieb Keith McKenzie: > On 24/02/2012, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > /lib/modules/3.2.5mj-lina/modules.alias > > /lib/modules/3.1.13.1-mj-lina/modules.alias > > > > I don't know what the .alias stands for, […] > An alias is one word th

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
But the OP had already requested a place/book to learn about basic linux commands earlier, so the post is OK in my opinion. :) On 24/02/2012, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:24:23 +0800, lina wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> /lib/modules/3.2.5mj-lina/modules.alias >> /lib/modules/3.1.13.1-mj-

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Still 0,4% annual failure rate for X25-M is 4 drives out of 1000 in > one year and it is always good to keep a backup! I have not yet seen > numbers for Intel SSD 320 tough and they have had and probably even > still have a 8 MB bug. Searc

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:24:23 +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > /lib/modules/3.2.5mj-lina/modules.alias > /lib/modules/3.1.13.1-mj-lina/modules.alias > > I don't know what the .alias stands for, > > Thanks for any explainations, Would it not have been quicker and easier to try "file" and then "less"

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: > > You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have > > a limited read/write cycle. > > Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are > unlikely to affect norm

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
An alias is one word that is another word for the same thing. An alias associates one word with another. >From man bash :- ALIASES Aliases allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used as the first word of a simple command. The shell maintains a list of al

Re: how to deal with spam (was: Re: Petites annonces gratuites)

2012-02-24 Thread Brad Alexander
And for those of you who respond to those who respond to people who respond to spammers: Please edit the original spam out of your messages. It confuses the spam blocking software. :) --b On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Hans, > Please never ever again respond t

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:17 -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > > Memory is cheap. More is better as Linux uses it for disk cache > > if nothing else. > > For heavy audio production I never noticed that even the swap gets > touched with 4GB RAM. That d

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb David Christensen: > On 02/20/2012 06:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also > > consider Intel cards (or even built-in), > > I prefer full FOSS HW support OOTB and have had the best experiences > wi

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 17:09:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can > >

MDNS?

2012-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I'm trying to install WINE on my squeeze amd64 system. The configurator throws up a message box: It appears that libnss-mdns is installed on your system, but lib32nss-mdns is not. Please note that Wine will not be able to access the Internet unless you either install lib32nss-mdns (or ia

a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread lina
Hi, /lib/modules/3.2.5mj-lina/modules.alias /lib/modules/3.1.13.1-mj-lina/modules.alias I don't know what the .alias stands for, Thanks for any explainations, Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > Curt Howland wrote: > > ... > > > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay > > purely open-source. > > That's what everyone says, but it's not as true

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 14:19:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > > thing. > > > > > > > > So I'm going to ask

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-24 Thread lina
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 24/02/12 13:52, lina wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Florian Kulzer >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:36:02 +0800, lina wrote: Supplementary Information: > > > >> How can I know enough commands to use. > > A

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-24 Thread lina
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: > A good book for learning base linux commands is Linux in a Nutshell / > O'Reilly. Thanks, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596154493.do is this book? > A good 'book' for Linux in general is 'RUTE', & can be found here :- > http://freec

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/02/12 13:52, lina wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Florian Kulzer > wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:36:02 +0800, lina wrote: >>> Supplementary Information: >>> > How can I know enough commands to use. A good introduction to basic management commands is "info" - it breaks th

Re: xtables-addons ipp2p problem in debian

2012-02-24 Thread J. Bakshi
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:34:17 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > J. Bakshi a écrit : > > > > I have installed xtables-addons-common in debian squeeze box. > > Then tried ti execute > > > > #iptables -A FORWARD -m ipp2p --bit -j DROP > > > > and it throws error > > > > ``

Re: Relavant mailing list - Debian Live CD????

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
http://live.debian.net/ is the home page, which has a link to http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/, which is what you seem to be looking for. On 24/02/2012, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:17:44 -0600 > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> In the past month I'm certain that I saw a refe

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-24 Thread Keith McKenzie
A good book for learning base linux commands is Linux in a Nutshell / O'Reilly. A good 'book' for Linux in general is 'RUTE', & can be found here :- http://freecode.com/projects/rute On 24/02/2012, lina wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Florian Kulzer > wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at

Re: max bandwidth measurement tool

2012-02-24 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15392ième jour après Epoch, hvw écrivait: > Hi, > [...] > Is there a tool that will tell me what my max bandwith is at any one > moment? You can try bing from its eponym package. I use it to check the bandwidth between my computer and other points on my network. It normally works better on SD

Re: Relavant mailing list - Debian Live CD????

2012-02-24 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:17:44 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > In the past month I'm certain that I saw a reference to a > "Live CD" mailing list. > IIRC it was in a sig. > I don't see it at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ > Its evidently not an "official" list ;) > Guidance please. > This is

Re: debian-multimedia bugs reporting.

2012-02-24 Thread lina
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > What's the practice of sending bug reports against packages from > debian-multimedia? - From its web page I get it as to: > > . developers list > > . developers of the software. > > It is the first time I try to help w

Re: xtables-addons ipp2p problem in debian

2012-02-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, J. Bakshi a écrit : > > I have installed xtables-addons-common in debian squeeze box. > Then tried ti execute > > #iptables -A FORWARD -m ipp2p --bit -j DROP > > and it throws error > > `` > iptables: No chain/target/match by that name. > ``` > > Could an

Re: Wireless networking in Debian

2012-02-24 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:29 PM, George wrote: > > I know that I'm not providing all the information, but I don't really > know where to start. Please provide outputs from: a) lspci b) lsmod c) /sbin/ifconfig -a -- Arun Khan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

OT: Which tools can extract metadata from .ape, .m4a, .wv formats?

2012-02-24 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. Can You recommend a command line tool(s) that can extract metadata from .ape, .m4a, .wv - musical file formats? Before times I did use mplayer2 until I met 24bit files - in this case it failed w/ codec error. Searching through the web I did find answer to my question - peo

Re: Wireless networking in Debian

2012-02-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 24/02/12 08:44, George wrote: I have a Compaq CQ60 laptop running squeeze, and I have never gotten wireless networking to work. My chipset appears to be supported, however wicd never detects any networks in the area (even though there are several) and nm-tool reports "State: unavailable" for t

Re: bug report request for advice

2012-02-24 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, I'm no expert about this, but some suggestions to hopefully point you in the right direction at reporting this... On 24/02/12 06:28, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting states: "If you are unable to determine which package your bug report shou

Re: debian-multimedia bugs reporting.

2012-02-24 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Rob. You worte: >I've emailed bugs to the debian-multimedia email list, but they were >for stuff that didn't affect upstream. > >If you want to send me the bug report, I'll send it to the d-m email >list. Thank You very much for Your help! Though it seems me weird that the