Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-10-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/28/2012 1:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > >> Try: > >> > >> $clive -f best "http://vimeo.com/24972836"; > > > > Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-10-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 13:32 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 28. September 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 02:52 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: > > > On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > The only permanent solution to this confusion is

problems with remote install using ipmi serial-over-ip

2012-10-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, Well, I've been trying to do a remote install onto a server (Supermicro X8SIE-LN4F motherboard) - booting via PXE, and using a serial-over-IP terminal provided by the IPMI board. Took a bit to get it mostly working - DHCP, TFTP, PXE, net boot all work. The serial-over-ip terminal,

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread CaT
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:48:53AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> > >> How big's your post-MBR gap? > > > > I gather that's the so-called embedding region. I don't know. How do I > > go about fi

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 O

Re: nVidia Chip Set

2012-10-01 Thread Slavko
Hi, please, don't write directly to me... Dňa Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:06:42 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" napísal: > root@debian:/home/computation# lspci | grep VGA > 06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce > 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1) use latest (testing) nvidia-glx pac

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Turns out that the remote serial-over-ip terminal redirects COM3, and shows up as ttys2, which makes this debian-installer/i386/boot-screens/txt.cfg: append vga=788 inited=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz -- console=ttyS0,19200 earlyprint=serial,ttyS0,19200 turn into this: append vga=788

Re: openmotif 3

2012-10-01 Thread berenger . morel
I have just made some researches, and... well... I have no clue why debian named it "libmotif4" as version number is 2.3.3... Now I am thinking about this, finding an old package might give some problems too, because it will be linked with older versions of other libs, notably libc6, which is an

Re: can multiarch break my system?

2012-10-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/10/12 03:43 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: If you upgrade to Wheezy, which is quite stable at this point, you can directly install 64-bit Wine packages. Hi Gary, I am running wheezy at the moment, but the installed wine-package is just a dummy package, beeing correctly, wine64-bin is just an

Re: openmotif 3

2012-10-01 Thread Dan
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:32 PM, wrote: > You will have 3 solutions I guess: > _ find an old package with the libmotif3 > _ find a more recent version of your software > _ try to compile your software against the more recent version of motif, > with the underlying probable work (but it can also be

Re: Virtualbox 4.1

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/1/2012 2:37 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/30/2012 8:13 PM, m...@mylug.org wrote: I am using Virtualbox 4.1 (non-free edition). Everything works, but for a minor issue. To access usb drives, I am supposed to add the user to vboxusers group. But, that group is non-existent. I can create that

Re: Virtualbox 4.1

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 8:13 PM, m...@mylug.org wrote: I am using Virtualbox 4.1 (non-free edition). Everything works, but for a minor issue. To access usb drives, I am supposed to add the user to vboxusers group. But, that group is non-existent. I can create that group. But, to access the usb drives, shou

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 7:32 PM, Joel Rees wrote: (Mark, did you set the screen grab to give you raw images or compressed?) 'Twasn't me. I had a minor disagreement with another user over the topic of refresh while trying to make a suggestion, but it wasn't my problem. I wasn't the OP. Mark -- To

Re: openmotif 3

2012-10-01 Thread berenger . morel
You will have 3 solutions I guess: _ find an old package with the libmotif3 _ find a more recent version of your software _ try to compile your software against the more recent version of motif, with the underlying probable work (but it can also be very straightforward, depending of if libmotif4

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 5:14 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:00:01 +0200 Mark Allums wrote: did you run $nvidia-xconfig I tried your suggestion and got this: ~$ nvidia-xconfig bash: nvidia-xconfig: command not found and this one: $ $nvidia-xconfig bash: -xconfig: command not found

openmotif 3

2012-10-01 Thread Dan
Hi, I would like to run a program that requires libXm.so.3 but libmotif3 has been replaced by libmotif4 and I can not find anywhere libXm.so.3. Any idea? Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: can multiarch break my system?

2012-10-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/10/12 03:06 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi folks, I would like to install wine on my pure 64-bit system. Wine is telling me, that I need to add i386 architecture on it (dpkg --add-architecture). Of course I need 32-bit libs. But before I do this, I want to make sure, that under no circumst

can multiarch break my system?

2012-10-01 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I would like to install wine on my pure 64-bit system. Wine is telling me, that I need to add i386 architecture on it (dpkg --add-architecture). Of course I need 32-bit libs. But before I do this, I want to make sure, that under no circumstances, other libs, that I need for wine (or

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-10-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:47:55 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Hello Stan, > >>name I suggest above allows even the most challenged users to >>understand. > > I disagree. the use of the letters INTL are already established, > admittedly in oth

Re: nVidia Chip Set

2012-10-01 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:28:54 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" napísal: > How can I determine the chip set? The KDE Info Center doesn't list > video cards and the nVidia Grpahic Finder doesn't run in Linux. try this: lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [

Re: nVidia Chip Set

2012-10-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/10/12 02:28 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have just installed Devian 6.0.6 (64bit) on my Linux platform and want to upgrade the nVidia drivers. I buildt the system five or six years ago and don't know which drivers to use. How can I determine the chip set? The KDE Info Center doesn't

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Shane Johnson
When I use fdisk to create partitions, I turn off DOS compatibility (c command) and uses sectors(u command) and start my partitions at the default (2048 I beleive) and I don't have any problems. Shane On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom >>> wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > How big's y

nVidia Chip Set

2012-10-01 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have just installed Devian 6.0.6 (64bit) on my Linux platform and want to upgrade the nVidia drivers. I buildt the system five or six years ago and don't know which drivers to use. How can I determine the chip set? The KDE Info Center doesn't list video cards and the nVidia Grpahic Finder

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot

2012-10-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Lars, Lars Noodén wrote: On 10/1/12 8:23 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, I'm trying to build a headless, remote server - using an IPMI serial terminal and PXEboot. The thing is, that I've got everything set up to the point that the install system is booting (I can see the splash screen

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot

2012-10-01 Thread Lars Noodén
On 10/1/12 8:23 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm trying to build a headless, remote server - using an IPMI serial > terminal and PXEboot. The thing is, that I've got everything set up to > the point that the install system is booting (I can see the splash > screen via a remote KVM),

Re: internet speed

2012-10-01 Thread lee
lina writes: > Hi, > > Recently I notice my laptop's internet connection speed is really slow. > and sometimes seems no connection. > > I don't know how to start to examine, any suggestions? > > Thanks with best regards, Restart the router? see http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#

help using serial console w/ netboot

2012-10-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I'm trying to build a headless, remote server - using an IPMI serial terminal and PXEboot. The thing is, that I've got everything set up to the point that the install system is booting (I can see the splash screen via a remote KVM), but can't access it via a remote serial console.

Re: internet speed

2012-10-01 Thread lina
On Monday 01,October,2012 11:02 PM, ARAVIND CHAK wrote: > Hi, > If you are downloading, your browser's download manager may show speed > in KBps(KiloBytes per sec). Properly speaking these are now called > KiBytes to emphasize that 1 KiByte is 1024 Bytes of 8 bits each. A 1 > Mbps speed quoted by I

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: How big's your post-MBR gap? >>> >>> I gather that's the so-called embe

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> How big's your post-MBR gap? >> >> I gather that's the so-called embedding region. I don't know. How do >> I go about finding out

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> How big's your post-MBR gap? > > I gather that's the so-called embedding region. I don't know. How do I > go about finding out? Can I change it? fdisk -l /dev/sdX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: mutt - can't copy message, other weirdness

2012-10-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Tony Baldwin wrote: >This is weird. >I have mutt on my main box, running squeeze (amd64, blah blah), >and on several accounts (one at gmx.com, one at gmail, and one on one of my >own servers, >this one, t...@tonybaldwin.org). >I can't open any new messages, and they show without a subject. >When I

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:44:16 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >>> >>> Put /boot on the RAID. >>> >>> MBR loads GRUB, and GRUB does the rest of the heavy lifting. >>> >>> Upgrading to Wheezy will g

internet speed

2012-10-01 Thread lina
Hi, Recently I notice my laptop's internet connection speed is really slow. and sometimes seems no connection. I don't know how to start to examine, any suggestions? Thanks with best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Server upgrade to wheezy failed

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:12:35 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:52:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:53:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:05:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > Not nec

Re: Server upgrade to wheezy failed

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:52:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:53:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:05:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: Not necessarily helpful to the OP and more for the record for othe

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:44:16 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> Put /boot on the RAID. >> >> MBR loads GRUB, and GRUB does the rest of the heavy lifting. >> >> Upgrading to Wheezy will go a long way toward making this easier. It's >> in feature fr

dl380g8 p420i fatal combo

2012-10-01 Thread phi gcc
Hi All, Does anyone knows ho to install debian x64 latest on a HP dl380g8. Sounds like hpsa is not ok with the debian installer, I tried the debian-6.0.6-amd64-netinst.iso and hpsa is in the ist of possible driver to use but it doesn't work. Any idea? Thanx in advance, Phi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: mutt - can't copy message, other weirdness

2012-10-01 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 09:56:47AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 09:53:45AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > This is weird. > > I have mutt on my main box, running squeeze (amd64, blah blah), > > and on several accounts (one at gmx.com, one at gmail, and one on one of my > > o

Re: mutt - can't copy message, other weirdness

2012-10-01 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 09:53:45AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > This is weird. > I have mutt on my main box, running squeeze (amd64, blah blah), > and on several accounts (one at gmx.com, one at gmail, and one on one of my > own servers, > this one, t...@tonybaldwin.org). > I can't open any new me

mutt - can't copy message, other weirdness

2012-10-01 Thread Tony Baldwin
This is weird. I have mutt on my main box, running squeeze (amd64, blah blah), and on several accounts (one at gmx.com, one at gmail, and one on one of my own servers, this one, t...@tonybaldwin.org). I can't open any new messages, and they show without a subject. When I try to open messages, I ju

Re: Installation

2012-10-01 Thread Gabor Urban
Hi guys, it seems to be a long dispute, and I have read arguments like these in the last 10 years... I do not take up the topic normally, but I have read new things. So I feel I have to write my points. 1. An average user should not install any OS. Therefore it is not relevant how complex is to i

Re: What is the procedure for patching the Debian kernel ?

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Xelsior wrote: > > I been following http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org and > http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage > > I did successfully build an real time kernel on Wheezy using > "test-patches" but a package update resulted in t

Re: Server upgrade to wheezy failed

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:52:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:53:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:05:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> >> >>> Not necessarily helpful to the OP and more for the record for other >>> upgraders: >>> >>> The wheezy release not

Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:44:16 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > Put /boot on the RAID. > > MBR loads GRUB, and GRUB does the rest of the heavy lifting. > > Upgrading to Wheezy will go a long way toward making this easier. It's > in feature freeze, and what's holding up release is finishing the > inst

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-10-01 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 29 Sep 2012 at 18:56:43 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: >> > >> > At the GRUB prompt press the 'e' key. Please post what you see. There >> > will probably be a long UUID. To save some typing p

Re: Virtualbox 4.1

2012-10-01 Thread mas
> > Have you installed the VirtualBox Extension Pack? > > I have installed virtualbox 4.1 recently, the vboxusers group was > already there after installation. > That did the trick. I had forgotten to install that after having downloaded it :-( Thanks for the help. Regards, Sridhar -- To UNSU

Re: Virtualbox 4.1

2012-10-01 Thread Chen Wei
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 06:13:57PM -0700, m...@mylug.org wrote: > I am using Virtualbox 4.1 (non-free edition). Everything works, but for a > minor issue. To access usb drives, I am supposed to add the user to > vboxusers group. But, that group is non-existent. > Have you installed the VirtualBox