Re: --

2008-08-01 Thread Arthur A
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Frank, what an insight! Hugo I actually found it a bit pedantic at times. Arthur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for assistance with a bug

2008-08-01 Thread Arthur A
myblog1980 wrote: Apologies for this long message in advance :) Accepted. Thanks in advance for any assistance or advice! Advice Use less history, and use more details. In your first paragraph you wrote that you can't seem to get any dev's interested in your issue. I would leave that o

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread Arthur A
I give up. Oh to hell with Debian. > N. Problem solved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AC Power on HP NC6000 becomes Noisy

2008-07-22 Thread Arthur A
cruz wrote: Hi, I just installed Debian 4.0 on my HP NC6000 laptop. Everything works except noisy when the AC power is on. Even when the system is on idle mode. What can I do about this? Thanks, cruz PS Please include my email as well if you reply because I have not subscribed to this user lis

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-20 Thread Arthur A
Brian Marshall wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:55:13 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, let me know when Debian finally gets MB 4/5 to work out of the box as forward/back. Only been a decade since those became standard on most consumer grade mice. :P I recently did a lenny

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-20 Thread Arthur A
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:57:52 +0300 Arthur A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Briefly, what happens is the 'X' randomly crashes without warning, and it is irrecoverable. Any open work is lost. A reboot is required. There is an error in the xorg.log about rng expe

Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Even after reading: http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2008/06/21/a-much-simpler-fix-for-the-r8169-link-down-problem and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=538448 and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_RTL8168 I still cannot get passed the network configuration. I cou

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,17.Jul.08, 10:58:19, Ron Johnson wrote: More than likely I'm doing something wrong, but rather than spend time figuring it out I figure it would be easier to just gather the info myself. That's... well, that's the Windows Way. No, that would be rebooting the com

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 07:57, Arthur A wrote: [snip] Why can't you use reportbug? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -BEGI

Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
Specifically, I'm wondering if I'm filing it against the correct package and what priority I ought to assign it. Briefly, what happens is the 'X' randomly crashes without warning, and it is irrecoverable. Any open work is lost. A reboot is required. There is an error in the xorg.log about rng

Re: Don't edit posts and claim OP posted it!!

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur A
> Was that a deliberate joke? I didn't comment on anything. Scrolling through the archives online what appears to have happened is that Damon wrote something, then the OP replied and replaced and long paragraph with BLAH BLAH BLAH. Since the OP was rude to almost everyone who replied I think

Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-15 Thread Arthur A
Mark Neidorff wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 10:20 pm, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat reader performs a lot faster. Are your machines comparable processor- and RAM-wise? (sorry for not answering your actual

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 02:11:38 pm Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: What you are proposing is that packages move from Unstable, to a Testing alpha package, then to Testing which would be the basis of the RC's, and then onward to Stable. To be blunt... -Fail- That is not .

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 17:28:38 +0100, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: [...] Please respond back to the debian-user list. You have a reply-to set you realise so replies go to yourself and not the list. You are confusing reply-to with mail

Re: Applying correct hdparm values after resuming from suspend

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:56:35 +0300, Arthur A wrote: Hi list, I'm using Debian Lenny with Laptop-mode tools that I've configured to manage my laptop's hd, which is controlled by firmware that gives insane load cycle values. Thus, I've enabled lapt

Re: Flash in Etch?

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Jeff Soules wrote: Hi all, Open to any advice. My ultimate goal is to get a fully functional Flash player in a browser in my Debian Etch installation (amd64 base). I use Gnome and don't care much for KDE & Konqueror. Here's what I've tried so far: *Iceweasel + swfdec -- without success. I'm

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-14 Thread Arthur A
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,13.Jul.08, 18:29:25, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8 and have been using OSS. Should we assume alsa doesn't work on your machine? I may b

Re: Applying correct hdparm values after resuming from suspend

2008-07-13 Thread Arthur A
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:56:35 +0300, Arthur A wrote: Hi list, I'm using Debian Lenny with Laptop-mode tools that I've configured to manage my laptop's hd, which is controlled by firmware that gives insane load cycle values. Thus, I've enabled lapt

Re: ntfs-3g mounting from the dekstop in lenny

2008-07-12 Thread Arthur A
Shachar Or wrote: snip> This has nothing to do with /etc/fstab becuase i'm talking about removable devices. Talking about being able to purchase a USB MSC HDD and plugging it in. -- Nyizsa. http://nyizsa.uni.cc Correct. The answer is yes it's possible. Have a look at hal and fdi policy. A

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-12 Thread Arthur A
Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 22:53:45 -0400, Nick Lidakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Hummn.Tried both sites and they work well on my machine - the shame site does tend to drive up the cpu needle. Would you (or anyone else, especially if you're using and Inte

Applying correct hdparm values after resuming from suspend

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Hi list, I'm using Debian Lenny with Laptop-mode tools that I've configured to manage my laptop's hd, which is controlled by firmware that gives insane load cycle values. Thus, I've enabled laptop-mode-tools and it currently applies a setting of 254 (disabled) when running on AC and 128 (enabl

Re: How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Ron Johnson escreveu: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension v0.3.0 definitely crashes with courier-imap, but v0.2.1 seems to work. (The last version I had was v0.2.0.) Here v.0.2.1 does not crash, but I do not get a "Reply to list" butto

Re: How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/08 10:23, Arthur A wrote: [snip] Indeed. I found the extension and it's perfect. Debian was nice enough to patch icedove as opposed to making us wait until version 3. Thanks for the tip. Where did you find it?

Re: How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Arthur A wrote: Hi, I want to use icedove v.2...14, to subscribe to and reply to this mailing list and others. But at the moment if I just hit reply it goes to the person who is listed as "from", not the "sender". There is another button that s

Re: P2P clients for debian etch

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Jonathan Kaye wrote: joseph lockhart wrote: just wondering which P2P clients are best, seems to be slim pickings in the base debian repository so I figure that I am missing a repository or will have to go the long way to find a good client (however, I do not want to have to find and install a l

How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Arthur A
Hi, I want to use icedove v.2...14, to subscribe to and reply to this mailing list and others. But at the moment if I just hit reply it goes to the person who is listed as "from", not the "sender". There is another button that says "reply to sender and all", but nothing about just "reply to se