On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Samuel Bächler composed on 2016-10-29 21:56 (UTC+0200):
>
> I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the
>> motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When
>> installing GNOME I get
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Samuel Bächler composed on 2016-10-29 21:56 (UTC+0200):
>
> I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the
>> motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When
>> installing GNOME I get
Dear All
I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the
motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When
installing GNOME I get the error message 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a
system admini
Dear All
I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the
motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When
installing GNOME I get the error message 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a
system admini
I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I
am using a Firefox extension to do this:
http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2
However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the
dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions that I have looked
int
I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps?
And then ps2pdf...
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Dear All
Does anyone know if there exists a kind of imap-server for sms' (the one
you can send and
receive on your mobile phone)?
If this kind of server exists one can receive, write and delete sms'
from your mobile phone
but also using a computer.
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Dear All
I have 2 Computers behind a Firewall (currently D-Link DFL-200). Consider
one of them having IP-address 192.168.1.10 and the other having
192.168.1.11.
On both computers there is a ftp-server running. I want connect to the first
by `foous...@192.168.1.10:21', to the second by
`foous..
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]
There are a limited number of place where a piece of software can leak
info:
1. to /tmp:Its encrypted
2. to /var/tmp:Its encrypted
3. to somewhere on ~/ I have /home encrypted
4. left in swapits encr
Hi Frank
Frank McCormick wrote:
Running Squeeze - tried to add a user today using the graphical front
end under Gksudo ...everything except properties was grayed out.
I have implemented root on this machine - so I modified GDM to allow
root logons...same result.
What am I missing here?
Wh
Thanks a lot to everyone!
Just as a short description:
I installed easypg. In the console environment I type `emacs keys.pgp'.
This starts emacs and prompts for passphrase of `keys.pgp'. After entering
the passphrase you can edit your file with the passwords. When you are
finished with altering t
Thanks for the inputs so far.
On Axels input I modified the script:
#!/bin/sh
gpg keys.gpg > /dev/null
emacs keys
rm keys.gpg
gpg -r "user-ID" -e keys
srm keys # *secure*rm keys
srm keys~# *secure*rm keys~
Drawback: During the time one works on the list `keys' it is readable
at `/path/to/keys'.
Dear Everyone
I store logins and passwords of some dozen of Web-Services in
an encrypted file. I used to use kgpg to read and update this file.
Some weeks ago I found on debian-security [1] the following script:
#!/bin/sh
gpg keys.gpg > /dev/null
emacs keys
rm keys.gpg
gpg -r "user-ID" -e keys
Hi Allan
Allan Xavier Aguilar Castillo wrote:
Hello, there! My question is this: how can I install my tv tuner
card. Is the ATV-TUNER-FV model of Advantek Networks [1]. Thank you!
It looks like that people of this list think you should start at "How To
Ask Questions The Smart Way" [1].
C
Zaki Akhmad wrote:
I am installing Debian AMD64 testing on my HP Proliant ML110. I try to
run x-window on this machine. I've installed kde. But then the GUI
won't show up.
Samuel Bächler wrote:
What do you mean by "GUI (General User Interface) won't show
up"?
On
Zaki Akhmad wrote:
I am installing Debian AMD64 testing on my HP Proliant ML110. I try to
run x-window on this machine. I've installed kde. But then the GUI
won't show up.
What do you mean by "GUI (General User Interface) won't show
up"?
I've done this
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
But it
S D wrote:
Am trying to mount an old BusLink USB drive but can't determine what device the USB drive
is connected to, that is, the device that I'd pass to the mount command. I tried
"fdisk -l" but it only appears to show my other internal HDs.
Here is one (though unsexy) way to do it:
(1)
Hi Jesus
Jesus arteche wrote:
I'd like to test how good thunderbird is with a huge amount of
mails...Someone knows how can i test this...my idea is send a small
files (10-mb) frequently to test this...but i dont know how to do
this...someone has anyidea?
Here is one way to do it:
1. Setup a m
Peter Robinson wrote:
kpathsea: Running mktextfm hv
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation v
for hv.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:
Hi Simon
I just saw that there is a debtorrent-specific mailing-list. I never
used debtorrent before
Simon Pepping @ Home wrote:
How can I clean the cache of debtorrent? I did this by find, also cleaning
empty directories, but that was too aggressive, and brought debtorrent in a
non-startable s
Hi Masatran
Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote:
I recently installed Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922 alongside Debian
Etch. I use Sawfish with XFCE panel, Thunar, etc. I have these problems:
Do not put all your questions in one email. Moreover your mail looks
like you did not try hard enoug
[snip at lot], :-)]
Moving on to option 2, simply upgrade the alsa driver. Many patches
have been added to the alsa driver since 1.0.12rc1, particularly with
reference to the snd-hda-intel module, so go to the link below, and
download alsa driver 1.0.17, which is the current stable version.
Dear All
*This email just sums up what I did to compile the alsa-driver-1.0.17
with the hope that it might
be useful to someone else.* (1) to (6) is information provided by Nigel
Henry (see 'Alsa not
working properly' on debian-user@lists.debian.org). I am using etch
(see system information
Nigel,
Thanks.
Hi Sam. If the above doesn't change anything on your T60 for the
sounds, there are a couple of options I can suggest, both of which
I've tried, and work. Not on a T60 admittadly, but on an Asus M2N-X
Plus mobo, with hda intel Azalia soundcard.
Especially the second approach
Nigel, Florian, thank you so far for the hints.
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Wednesday 15 October 2008
16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply
> clicking on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that
> spe
Dear All
I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply clicking
on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that specific file.
But, sometimes
it does not.
There are three sound-bottoms on my keyboard: mute, volume-up and
volume-down.
In my opinion the sound problem
> # startx ...works $ startx ...does not In
> /home/sam/.xsession-errors I can see Xsession: X session started
> for sam at Fre Jul 25 09:07:21 CEST 2008 open: Permission denied
Now, I saw somewhere on the web[1] that chmod 1777 /tmp might solve
the problem. I remember that I was not able to wr
You mean guru.com?
Thanks for the input Steve. Guru.com is interesting to see if it
works and how it works. But of course I would like to see it
implemented in a FOSS way.
s.
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The idea which came to my mind some time ago was to establish a marketplace
where "geeks" meet "normal" users.
You invented the mailing list?
That' s not what I meant. By the term "normal" user I am thinking of
someone who sees some advantages of using a computer but does not
want to m
Here it is, no error messages:
Now, what lead to the solution?
s.
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>> Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done
>> The following packages are BROKEN: libhsqldb-java
>> openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core
>> openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-impress
>> openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math
>> openoffice.org
Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The
following packages are BROKEN: libhsqldb-java openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math
openoffice.org-writer pytho
Hi everyone
I am using debian etch for everyday task since 2005. As more
as I learn about computer I realize that one can do all the things
on e can do with the other proprietary systems. The only drawback
of FOSS is that it is sometimes harder to configure. The idea which
came to my mind some ti
Dear All
I did
# aptitude update
# aptitude upgrade
[...snip...]
The following packages have been kept back:
ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6-686
[...snip...]
Shall I do a
# aptitude dist-upgrade
to install the packages mentioned above?
Regards
Sam
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debian:~# iwconfig sit0 essid Corporation Error for wireless request
"Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device sit0 ; Invalid argument.
...
debian:~# iwconfig sit0 key Corporation Error for wireless request
"Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "chave"
Make sure that sit0 really is the na
Number one : I'm using Debian lenny repository. My desktop is gnome &
my desktop manager is gdm. When i don't X server, it means i work
with just console, i can switch to other consoles(with
CTRL+ALT+F1...F7) But when i start gdm it means my X is up, i can't
switch to other consoles.
By def
and you can check the file /etc/resolv.conf and try to add more DNS
servers. For example, the ones from OpenDNS [1]:
208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
Thanks, Sergio that helped!
S.
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Hoi Everyone
Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser
and type www.foo.bar.
Now, my problem begins:
Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..."
In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite
a lot of time (more than 15 seconds).
Now, I suppose that something is going wro
Is there such a utility that can convert a scaned image (saved in
jpeg) to a pdf format?
As far as I know sam2p [1] is one of the best for that kind of jobs.
s.
[1] http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/sam2p
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Is the vfat module loaded? You might want to check the filesystem
type with "file -s /dev/sdb1". Also are you able to access the files
on any other system? If the data on the usb drive is not important,
then try formatting it. "mkdosfs /dev/sdb1" will create a fat16
filesystem while mke2fs wi
Thanks for your many inputs so far!
Are you sure /dev/sda1 is your usb stick and not your primary hard
disk? Do a tail -f /var/log/syslog and then plugin your memory
stick. That will give you some info as to what the actual device is.
Your are right, Raj, sda* is my harddisk. Shame on me..
Hi Everyone
Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or
what I am doing wrong or else?
To mount a memory stick I do:
# mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
...
# ls /mnt/usb
boot
bootmgr
MFGSTAT
preboot
recovery
SCRREC.VER
swwork
System Volume Information
tvtos
windows
So, I can't see wha
Ctan.org recommends
http://ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/
as a document to start with.
Cheers
Sam
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1) When I start the system, my IP address is 192.168.0.72. If I make
a renew of ip address with dhclient, my IP address change
192.168.0.20. If I change again, my IP address stay at 192.168.0.20.
Is that possible that at the startup of the computer, the network
component just assign a choosen IP
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/resolv.conf
search
nameserver 158.152.1.58
nameserver 158.152.1.42
In Switzerland I would say "the dog is buried here" (how to
say in English?):
I entered your nameserver in my resolv.conf and it did not work.
For now try to use my configuration:
search foo.ch
nam
I installed Windows XP, it setted it's own code in MBR. I wasn't
confused, I just inserted first DVD of Debian GNU/Linux Sarge in
DVD-ROM, but then I understood... The kernels on DVD doesn't support
my reiserfs filesystem!
In my opinion this point is confusing. Did you install XP when debian
wa
I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I try
to open a tiff file using feh, it just shows a blank black screen.
Any ideas? I read up on the documentation but could not find anything
saying that tiff is not supported.
I do not know feh. I am using gwenview which works fin
Well - it isn't that old. It is a Compaq Desktop EN, Pentium III with about
> > 500MB RAM. But there is only one Ethernet-Connection which - I guess - can
> > be solved by using a Hub or Switch, isn't it?
>
> no. to use a desktop machine as a router, you need two network
> connections: one for
> I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old
> desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such
> as web- and mail-sever.
> I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem.
>
> Question A:
> Can someone recommend a router with the following propertie
Hi Everyone
I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old
desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such
as web- and mail-sever.
I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem.
Question A:
Can someone recommend a router with the following properties
The drive is a ATAPI CDROM
LiteOn DVD LH-20A1p
Search the Net to see if anybody else had the same problem using the
divices above.
In my opinion a nice way to search is:
(1) google.com
(2) KEYWORD site:lists.debian.org
Happy hacking
Cheers
Sam
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In testing, kile has been removed. It appears that texlive is
undergoing a reorganization. As a result, kile's dependencies are at
odds with the new organization. When will kile be returned to the
distribution?
I started using eclipse with a LaTeX-plugin (or whatever you call it).
It works
The first printer is a windows printer, HP Deskjet 6540, IP
connected, and all of my windows computers can send to it just fine.
Just not my Debian Etch.
I have never done such a thing before. Assuming that you are using
CUPS go to localhost:631/help/ get yourself a cup of coffee and start
re
How do I get started making my own debian package files from source.
I need to use non-debian source, ie. a spanking new ffmpeg source
from svn.
Go to "http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-creatingdebs";
and press the link at "6.15 How do I create Debian packages myself?".
Th
Hi Rocky
I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get
started on how to programming Perl in Debian?
In my opinion you should go through *Leaning Perl* by O'Reilly. I quite
liked it. I am sure you will find it somewhere in the web.
To install perl do *apt-get install
Hi Keath
Unfortunatly I can not help on every topic you mentioned.
1st question is, how do I start the GUI (KDE, Gnome, whatever) that I
assume is bundled with the distro?
Well, as far as I know you have to install these things first.
Type *dpkg -l kde-core* or generally *dpkg -l package* t
A quick google of 'Sony DSC-W30 linux' showed that mounting might
only work since kernel 2.6.16, ie. from debian etch or a sarge kernel
from backports.org
Trrhaa, I installed a etch version of debian which uses 2.6.17. Now I
can do a 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera' and everything works fine.
A quick google of 'Sony DSC-W30 linux' showed that mounting might
only work since kernel 2.6.16, ie. from debian etch or a sarge kernel
from backports.org
That is what I am going to do next.
Cheers
Sam
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Thanks for your inputs, :). One can copy all the pictures on a camera
using 'gphoto2' with 'gphoto2 -P' over PTP.
But as far as I know gphoto can not copy any movies.
I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel.
I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010.
Here some infor
A.
First of all you should not call yourself anonymous, tell us your real name.
I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are
these also include CDs with
sources and documentation. If so, which ones of them?
As far as I know they include documentation and source code -
Hi everyone
I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel.
I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010.
Here some information that may be useful:
When I connect my camera to the computer using USB the
system says:
Nov 13 12:30:39 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed
U
How do I build a deb package,
check out "6.15 How do I create Debian packages myself?"[1] as a
starting point.
cheers
sam
[1]http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-creatingdebs
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I could not get any help googling around.
Please a suggestion?
hi rodolfo,
install the following packages and try again:
foomatic-gui, foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-filters and
cupsys (as others said).
i guess it will work then.
bb sämi
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hi ritesh,
In Debian, we have freemind, vym and kdissert.
Can somebody share their experiences about what is good in which software
and which they have found to be the best and most convenient to use ?
I guess that freemind is the most famous mind-mapping software.
Personally I never heard of
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