Re: PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 apr 12, 18:34:03, German Eduardo Jaber De Lima wrote: > What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support (bigmem > kernel option)? Is it enabled by default in Debian6? Squeeze (6.0) has a -bigmem kernel flavour, so it is available, but not default. I don't know which w

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 apr 12, 22:31:16, Andre Majorel wrote: > > Sneaky. I'll look if I can hack debmirror to avoid the copy. > Thanks. hardlinks? (assuming it's the same filesystem) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listi

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 apr 12, 10:35:33, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > > 'base' in the Debian context has a very specific meaning. Somebody > > correct me if I'm wrong but it specifically includes packages with: > > > > Essential: yes (of course) > > Priority: re

Mozilla Firefox installed without package-management

2012-04-13 Thread Andreas Glaeser
Everyone who wants or needs improved HTML5-support can download Mozilla Firefox webbrowser here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html You get improved rendering-speed, the optional 'do not track' feature and more for free. Installation instructions are here: http://support.mozilla.org/en-

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, green wrote: > wzab wrote at 2012-04-13 18:42 -0500: > > A few weeks ago I've noticed, that my half year old laptop started > > to behave strange. > > When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks > > starts to click every few minutes, and after each cl

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread green
wzab wrote at 2012-04-13 18:42 -0500: > A few weeks ago I've noticed, that my half year old laptop started > to behave strange. > When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks > starts to click every few minutes, and after each click the > Load_Cycle_Count (as reported by s

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> to find how often the head get unloaded, I have completely prevented >> this effect to occur. Notice that you have 2 problems: 1- Unloading. 2- Reloading. >From where I stand, the unloading is normal, harmless, and even desirable so the real problem is: why is it re-loaded every 3 minutes? I'd

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, wzab wrote: > When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks > starts to click every few minutes, and after each click the > Load_Cycle_Count (as reported by smartctl -a /dev/sda ) increases by > 1. ... > I have found the website: > http://www.thinkwik

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/04/12 00:20, Joey L wrote: > None of these revealed anything of use to me. > Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ? > With the RSA board ?? I really feel that the console is being sent to > that board and not to the regular vga port. > Just have no way of confirming this. Can

Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread wzab
Hi, A few weeks ago I've noticed, that my half year old laptop started to behave strange. When left unused, after the screen gets black to save power, the disks starts to click every few minutes, and after each click the Load_Cycle_Count (as reported by smartctl -a /dev/sda ) increases by 1.

PAE support in Debian6

2012-04-13 Thread German Eduardo Jaber De Lima
What was the first stable Debian release that enabled PAE support (bigmem kernel option)? Is it enabled by default in Debian6?

Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver

2012-04-13 Thread daniel jimenez
I recently had a similar problem with a 9300 gs (which I understand to be pretty much the same + dx9 support or smth). Gdm3 would never start after installing a modded kernel. As a workaround, try changing 'nvidia' for 'vesa' in the grub config file and see where that leads. Maybe you can boot lik

Re: Trouble with Nvidia driver

2012-04-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Eduardo Bearzoti wrote: > Video card (lspci output): > nvidia Corporation G86[GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1) I have a system with the same graphics chip and it is working fine for me at 1600x1200 with the default driver. I am a little embarrassed to say that after looking at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log f

pidawg

2012-04-13 Thread Indulekha
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Trouble with Nvidia driver

2012-04-13 Thread Eduardo Bearzoti
Hello everybody. I'm having troubles to make X server work with Debian Squeeze, installed from scratch on my PC. Some information on my hardware: Motherboard: ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2900 MHz Video card (lspci output): nvidia Corporation G86[GeForce 8400 GS] (rev

Re: Sid upgrade: slow tabs in Chrome.

2012-04-13 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:57:33 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Running Sid and just did a dist-upgrade. Use google-chrome-beta as browser and after the upgrade the tabs are "slow": when you click one with mouse or kbd, there is a slight hesitation before the page is selected that wasn't t

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Apr 2012 at 10:35:33 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > > 'base' in the Debian context has a very specific meaning. Somebody > > correct me if I'm wrong but it specifically includes packages with: > > > > Essential: yes (of course) > > P

Re: remote mysql is too slow

2012-04-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:23:09PM +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > But at some point the daemon is going to need to write a file to disk. > > > That data will get cached at that time. Or are you saying that mysql > > > is using or should using O_DIRE

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-13 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > 'base' in the Debian context has a very specific meaning. Somebody > correct me if I'm wrong but it specifically includes packages with: > > Essential: yes (of course) > Priority: required > Priority: important > > (and all their dependenc

Re: User defaul profile

2012-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:13:26 +0200, stefano malini wrote: > i installed an ldap server on debian squeeze. i'll add the users and i > want that everyone will login on the server will have iceweasel, ooffice > and some shared folders. do i have to modify /etc/skel/ on te server? > and how? Better i

[OT] Re: the nature of code and other images

2012-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:27:29 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/code-not-physical-property/ > > Does not the ruling that computer code is not physical property apply to > recordings in the audio and video realms? All these are images, and not > the origina

Re: libvlccore5 not installing.

2012-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:25:11 -0700, Weaver wrote: > Running a SID i386 box that is choking on the installation of the latest > libvlccore5 package. > Anybody else seeing this problem? > > Message in aptitude reads: > > Preparing to replace libvlccore5:i386 1:2.0.1-0.2 (using > .../libvlccore5_1%

Re: [OT]: yet another linux antivirus fairytale

2012-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:41:21 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi, Hi.. please, turn html off, thanks. > an italian newspaper has published an article about security risks and > virus related issues on mac osx and obviously linux is cited. > http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012/04/12/sicuri-frott

Re: samba VFS Quota or Quota tool

2012-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:13:13 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> To setup quotas in samba you basically need setup two things: >> >> - Enabling quotas for the mount point that holds the stored data (which >> usually means installing "q

Re: Live Squeeze system: ConsoleKit does not see serial console as active, cannot mount with udisk

2012-04-13 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 5 April 2012 21:08, Tom H wrote: >> >> Re "/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy": (It's >> better to create a pkla file in >> "/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d" than edit a >> "/usr/share/polkit-1/" file) Does pk

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-13 Thread Joey L
None of these revealed anything of use to me. Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ? With the RSA board ?? I really feel that the console is being sent to that board and not to the regular vga port. Just have no way of confirming this. Can anyone else offer some advice ? thanks mjh

Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB

2012-04-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 12 April 2012 12:18:31 pm Dom wrote: > On 12/04/12 16:21, Indulekha wrote: > > In linux.debian.user, I wrote: > >> Check man cdrecord. > > > > Ooops, it appears I've been living in the past (or confusing > > another distro w/ debian) this morning. > > Apparently burn is the CLI tool no

Re: Specify "mail from:" in postfix + relayhost

2012-04-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Daniel Landau wrote: > On Apr 12, 2012 12:53 PM, "Mathieu Malaterre" > wrote: >>  This works great. However using the `mail` command line interface I >> can only send email from my main gmail adress. I did a small test >> using `telnet localhost 25`, I can then sp

Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-13 Thread songbird
Alberto Luaces wrote: ... > Now that I think about it, you will get faster and better answers in the > automake mailing list. thanks again, i posted there and got a prompt reply that said i didn't understand distcheck, so basically i leave the extra stuff in so that others don't have to have the

Re: How to restrict normal ssh user to become root ?

2012-04-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Apr 2012 at 10:45:18 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Many many thanks. Based on your clue I get this link > > http://mindref.blogspot.in/2010/04/protect-su-with-pamwheel.html > > This is exactly what I have been looking for long. Your users A and B are given the root password. Users X and Y

Re: Laser Printer printing intermittantly, CUPS bug?

2012-04-13 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 01:19:00AM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > I got the dbus & avahi daemons to run by first doing as root: > > # mkdir /var/run/dbus If you're running a current up-to-date unstable or testing system, try rebooting your system. Immediately after you login after it starts u

Re: Laser Printer printing intermittantly, CUPS bug?

2012-04-13 Thread Brian
On Thu 12 Apr 2012 at 22:01:33 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > I have tried several PPD files including the one from Brother. Haven't > tried the Gutenprint driver, may try that next. But I'm thinking > getting the avahi-daemon running may be the issue. Perhaps I need to > get dbus running first? An

Re: Checking for kernel freshness

2012-04-13 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 06:24:15PM +, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > [...] > Fortunately there is /proc/version ... > > Thanks for everyone involved, I'm off writing checkscripts. FWIW, please check the attached script. HTH, Flo #!/usr/bin/perl -w # fe: ripped out from # # apt-dater

Re: [OT]: yet another linux antivirus fairytale

2012-04-13 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 13/04/12 08:41, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, an italian newspaper where the average tech-saviness is near to zero (see the many articles about "Facebook") or the level of fud-iness is near to 100 for tech-related articles has published an article about security risks and virus related issues

Re: fglrx and specific catalyst driver versions

2012-04-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:08:02 -0400, Allington wrote in message : > Hello, > > I am looking for specific catalyst driver versions for my ATI graphics > card. Each driver has it's varying performance affect on linux with > some newer versions actually degrading performance for my 5970. I > would l

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:20:53 +0300, Andrei wrote in message <20120412102053.GF4455@sid.nuvreauspam>: > On Jo, 12 apr 12, 10:29:33, Paul Lewis wrote: > > On 12/04/12 10:22:41, Lisi wrote: > > > > > Why broadcast? > > > > > > > Which leads me to ask the question. Is putting stuff on an internet

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:49:12 +0100, Lisi wrote in message <201204111549.12321.lisi.re...@gmail.com>: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 17:07:16 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:28:59 +0100, Lisi wrote in message > > > > <201204041128.59935.lisi.re...@gmail.com>: > > > On Wednesday 04 Apri

Re: Laser Printer printing intermittantly, CUPS bug?

2012-04-13 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske [120412 22:03]: > Reading the following leads me to believe avahi-daemon needs to be > running for cups to work: > > ...didn't realize that I had to start dbus and avahi-daemon manually. > I added both to my /etc/rc.d and ran them manually with: > rc.d start dbus >