[FIXED] Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-29 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, Marty wrote: Greg Vickers wrote: Hi Marty, Sorry. I'm not familiar with udev or lirc, nor how they interact in deciding device names. It's surprising to me because I'm using the upstream lirc, 0.8.2, and I get /dev/lirc0, as Debian's udev expects. I'll try my mitigation stra

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Lale
Anthony Campbell wrote: [...] >> >> Have you tried running udevtrigger as user root? This is from bug no 430624 >> [1]: >> >> # udevtrigger --verbose >> >> "This should reload the modules you need. On next reboot, your system will >> find >> your soundcard. The module management is done by udev.

accessibility install question

2007-09-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
On debian when a system gets a text environment installed on it first then gets gnome-orca installed on it, gnome and gnome-orca get installed but X does not get installed. If X is required to run gnome; gtk, and kde and isn't found already installed on a system when a gnome-orca install gets

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread André Berger
* Jesus Arocho (2007-09-28): > Try an entry in /etc/udev/10-local.rules; great howtos on the net. > > On Thursday 27 September 2007 07:50, Dan H wrote: [...] There's also great information on quoting, e.g. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html -André -- May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb!

Re: accessibility install question

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:14:02AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On debian when a system gets a text environment installed on it first then > gets gnome-orca installed on it, gnome and gnome-orca get installed but X > does not get installed. If X is required to run gnome; gtk, and kde and > isn

iceweasel "freezing X"

2007-09-29 Thread Attilio Cucchieri
Hi, I have installed Debian etch, basically using the packages from "Standard" and "Desktop", on two different computers. In both cases, if one starts sevaral Iceweasel windows, the X session gets frozen when the windows are closed (only when they are closed!). The two PC's have PIV 2.4, 512

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:25:24PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > "Testing" is not a released version of Debian; "testing" exists to get > > bugs fixed. You only use testing if you want to test software. > > > Speak for yourself. No one is "testing" Evolution 2.10, or GNOME 2.18, > or much of the

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > One has to change the tool so if one is advocating LaTeX because of the > merits of LaTeX over WYSIWYG one cannot offer up WYSIWYG as a front end for > LaTeX without invalidating the argument that it is superior. Humbug! It allows p

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:11:32AM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > > And I'm much too lazy to bother using a newsreader for anything other > news. What is it with you guys and newsreaders? Ick. You are going to have to try harder than that to get the Gnus users to bite. :-) -- Chris. == --

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:12:02PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > more likely to give better reports if asked by a nice dd. But since its > not 'policy', its not something that is required. There is the obvious > situation where DD have real lives and can not respond to every user, Apparently policy d

Re: Nspluginwrapper on AMD64

2007-09-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 13:06:20 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: [...] > Since, I am tracking sid, I have the latest version of > flashplugin-nonfree on the system (9.0.48.0.2). OK, I just wanted to make sure. As I said before, this version works "out of the box" for me on my Sid/amd64 system. Unfort

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:12:02PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > more likely to give better reports if asked by a nice dd. But since its > > not 'policy', its not something that is required. There is the obvious > > situation where D

Re: bittorent thru a proxy

2007-09-29 Thread abdelkader belahcene
thanks for reply, I did it, it works with jidgo but not with bittorent, so it is an application problem and not a system problem. thanks bela On 9/26/07, Wei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try > export http_proxy=address > or > Click desktop/pereferences/network proxy > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 a

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
> See the manpage of apt_preferences. (search for "local > site") Hi, and thanks for helping out. It's not working :( I tried: Package: * Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: 1001 Also tried: Pin: origin apt-cache policy xchat; prints a priority of 500 for both file and http. I took a look at the apt-ho

unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 package: mysql-server version: 5.0.45-1 Hello,... debian lenny lest update (29.9.2007 12:00 GMT). when working on this howto : http://linux.justinhartman.com/Setting_up_a_LAMP_Server i did : apt-get update apt-get install apache2 php5 libapac

Mobo+CPU suggestions request

2007-09-29 Thread Jesus Arocho
I want to build a box to use with Musix and debian. Reccomendations for an inexpensive 64 bit (100 to 200US) combos? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to use man in packages ?

2007-09-29 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello ,... im working on smser package (on http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/smser) i started to use the normal rules file (auto genrated). after that i started to get errors with man file: lintian told me that there is no man file (b

Debian with Wireless

2007-09-29 Thread Dennis
When will there be a distro available that will include the setting up of wireless networks, for those that want the setup in their laptops? I have a laptop, and so far the only one that allows me to setup wireless as I install, is Ubuntu. I begin to tell you how much I dislike Ubuntu. Thank you

Re: Num Lock nor Caps Lock LEDs working in Sid

2007-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
Here is the Free desktop.org thread decrying these issues we've noticed. Seems the LED issue has been "known for months". :-( http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2007-September/028659.html - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur

Re: iceweasel "freezing X"

2007-09-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:32:12AM -0300, Attilio Cucchieri wrote: > Note: it is only the X session that gets frozen. When this happens, > I can still connect to the machines from another PC and work > on it. Maybe you can find some clues in top. HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply,

Re: Num Lock nor Caps Lock LEDs working in Sid

2007-09-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 09:05:42AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Here is the Free desktop.org thread decrying these issues we've > noticed. Seems the LED issue has been "known for months". :-( > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2007-September/028659.html > the upside to debian's p

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:47:23PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > package: mysql-server > > version: 5.0.45-1 > ...copious apt output... > Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.45-1) ... > Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. > Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!

Re: hp psc driver question

2007-09-29 Thread steef
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:01:37AM +0200, steef wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:53:44AM +0200, steef wrote: hi, cups gives a driver for the hp-printer psc (all in one) 2500. does anybody know if this driver works a

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about stumpwm? > > http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ > > Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch? You could (aptitude search): p stumpwm - a Common Lisp window manager and no I never have. -- Any technology distinguishable fro

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread cothrige
"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about stumpwm? > > http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ > > Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch? Yes, I have it installed using etch, and like it very much. Though it was kind of hard to get going. You may have already set it up, but just in

Re: syslog recommendations?

2007-09-29 Thread Michael Shuler
On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of > like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let > me, say, aggregate logs from lots of different boxes and maybe even do > other sorts of cool things (fi

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:30:29 -0400, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:12:02PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: >> more likely to give better reports if asked by a nice dd. But since >> its not 'policy', its not something that is required. There is the >> obvious situa

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread Max Hyre
Andrei Popescu wrote: The package usbmount might be what you need. The description of usbmount says: This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are removed. Does t

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:47:23PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: >> package: mysql-server >> >> version: 5.0.45-1 >> > > ...copious apt output... > >> Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.45-1) ... Stopping MySQL >> database serve

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:44:58 -0400, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:12:02PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: >> > more likely to give better reports if asked by a nice dd. But since >> > its not 'policy'

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
Update: This works: Package: * Pin: origin http.us.debian.org Pin-Priority: 100 But, this does not work: Package: * Pin: origin Pin-Priority: 100 I did not run dpkg-scanpackages. Instead i mounted my iso images via loop, and put this in source.list. deb file:/usr/share/debian/pkg/disc1/ etch cont

Env var on the fly

2007-09-29 Thread Francesco Pietra
Having defined (in my .bashrc) the environmental variables for computing suites X and Y (PATH to them) it happens - because of some bug in X - that on running certain programs of Y, executables of X are called (and of course not found). If I undefine the env var X, all programs of Y run perfectly.

Re: soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel, > > and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing lists) will > > openssl/gnutls use it'

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> The package usbmount might be what you need. > >The description of usbmount says: > > This package automatically mounts USB mass > storage devices (typically USB pens) when they > are plugged

Re: Env var on the fly

2007-09-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 08:23:59AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Having defined (in my .bashrc) the environmental variables for computing > suites > X and Y (PATH to them) it happens - because of some bug in X - that on running > certain programs of Y, executables of X are called (and of course

how to get keyboard layout with symbols

2007-09-29 Thread H.S.
Hello, How do I export the current keyboard layout to a file (eps preferably) with symbols? I am trying with Indic layouts (IN) with the following command: $> xkbprint -eps -label symbols :0 -o ~/tmp/kb.eps But the labels of the keys in the eps file I get are the Unicode codes for the keys, I

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 05:28:54PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:47:23PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > >> package: mysql-server > >> > >> version: 5.0.45-1 > >> > > > > ...copious apt output... > > > >> Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.45-1) ..

Re: Nspluginwrapper on AMD64

2007-09-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:01:41PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Also, just to be sure, check if your running kernel supports 32-bit ELF > executables: > > $ egrep 'ELF|IA32' /boot/config-$(uname -r) > CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y > CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y > CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y

entropy gathering module

2007-09-29 Thread John K Masters
Just configured a new VPS and when I try to get mail for the user (as opposed to root) I get 'no entropy gathering module detected' as a fatal error. If I run 'mail' as root there are no errors (and no mail) I've googled for this but the few results yeild no solutions except to point to a permissi

Re: syslog recommendations?

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of > > like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let > > me, say, aggregate logs from lots of different boxes and m

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread Pál Csányi
Hello Patrick! 2007/9/29, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What about stumpwm? > > > > http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ > > > > Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch? > > Yes, I have it installed using etch, and like it very much. Though it >

RE: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 acerium:/var/log# less syslog acerium:/var/log# cat syslog|grep 18:3 Sep 29 18:34:27 acerium mysqld_safe[16477]: PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER ! Sep 29 18:34:27 acerium mysqld_safe[16477]: To do so, start the server, then is

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I forgot to say that it was on clean install . also found some usfull(?) info in syslog posted to bug (444107) couse it is related . anyone ? Jabka Atu wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:47:23PM +0200, Jabka Atu wro

should a package compile on installation ?

2007-09-29 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello ,.. im thinkg about giving a package the abuilty to download and compile the last source is it wise ? since i don't know how to create sevral arch binary package (amd64,i386,etc .. ). and the auther is releasing relvtly fast (on svn) updates

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 29 September 2007 01:54, C. G. Montgomery wrote: > In linux.debian.user Nigel Henry wrote: > > I read a while back that earlier versions of lilo could only have 6 > > entries on the menu. My lilo version is 1:22.6.1-9.3. > > I think it may not be a limit on the number of lilo entries.

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Yes I think you are right. python-imaging is the package mac os x uses to resize images and pdf. Thanks! -- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > Where can I pass the -fn argument to xterm to set up font size, using dwm? Edit your config.h file. There are mod keys defined for specific programs. Edit the arguments there. -- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread andy
Hi all Even though it is now approaching fall/autumn (in the northern hemisphere anyway), I am wanting to do some spring cleaning of my hard drive. In my enthusiasm for Debian's apt-get I have gorged myself on a load of packages that I probably don't need. One example is multiple language ver

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 29 September 2007 05:04, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/28/2007 03:18 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, originally started off as > > Woody 3.0r2, and LiLo was, and still is the bootloader. I installed on > > Etch yesterday the 2.6.18-5 kernel, which s

Re: syslog recommendations?

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/29, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > > I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of > > > like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let > > > me, s

Re: Debian with Wireless

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Lale
Dennis wrote: > When will there be a distro available that will include the setting up > of wireless networks, for those that want the setup in their laptops? I > have a laptop, and so far the only one that allows me to setup wireless > as I install, is Ubuntu. I begin to tell you how much I disl

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread cothrige
"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Patrick! Howdy, > No, I have not set it up. :( > Thank you for help! :) Glad to be able to do so. > The debian stumpwm package dependency are: sbcl cl-clx-sbcl. Yeah, and I actually met those, and it may have "worked" except I could never get

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning > house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can > clear out the dust bunnies, etc..? If you use aptitude, or synaptic then you must to manually select there pack

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:52:41PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: > 2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning > > house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can > > clear out the dust bunnies, etc..? > > If y

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/9/29, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The debian stumpwm package dependency are: sbcl cl-clx-sbcl. > > Yeah, and I actually met those, and it may have "worked" except I could > never get it started as I just didn't know how. It may be because I am

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread cothrige
"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you read /usr/share/doc/stumpwm/README.Debian [3]? It contains > information about how to start StumpWM. I tried this too, and I think it takes a great deal for granted. There is just too much assumed about what you know for this stuff to work, IM

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:52:41PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: 2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can clear out the dus

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Sid Arth
> I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I > will have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you > referring to? I enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick > scroll it looks like I'm going to have to work my way through aptitude > to figure out

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2007 12:23 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: I usually keep all kernels. Alright the ones that don't boot properly can go, but sometimes older, non udev ones, are usefull to keep if you are appearing to have problems with the udev ones. I constantly get problems with udev kernels and my TVcard

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > >What GUI are you referring to? > > I think they may have been referring to synaptic package manager or > adept package manager. > Actually the GUI he was referring to is the native aptitude ui, which is an ncurses based user interface. Very very powerful in my opinion. Simply launch apti

Re: Debian with Wireless

2007-09-29 Thread steef
Chris Lale wrote: Dennis wrote: When will there be a distro available that will include the setting up of wireless networks, for those that want the setup in their laptops? I have a laptop, and so far the only one that allows me to setup wireless as I install, is Ubuntu. I begin to tell you

Re: xterm .Xdefaults & font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edit the .Xdefaults : > xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp:

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2007 01:39 PM, andy wrote: I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I will have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you referring to? I enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick scroll it looks like I'm going to have to work my way t

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Sid Arth
Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/29/2007 01:39 PM, andy wrote: >> I have used apt-get since installation and am comfortable with that. I >> will have to familiarise myself with aptitude. What GUI are you >> referring to? I enter sudo aptitude at a term. So far, after a quick >> scroll it looks like I'm goi

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-29 Thread David Fox
On 9/21/07, Tim Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth, I just got nvidia drivers working on my testing box > (+Nvidia 7600) by picking up linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7 from sid, and I have an Nvidia FX5200 that I'd certainly like to get the nvidia drivers running on, and I had it working

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
andy wrote: > Hi all > > Even though it is now approaching fall/autumn (in the northern > hemisphere anyway), I am wanting to do some spring cleaning of my hard > drive. In my enthusiasm for Debian's apt-get I have gorged myself on a > load of packages that I probably don't need. One example is m

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 29 September 2007 19:43, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/29/2007 12:23 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I usually keep all kernels. Alright the ones that don't boot properly can > > go, but sometimes older, non udev ones, are usefull to keep if you are > > appearing to have problems with the udev on

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:02:47PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > I guess the next best thing to do now is to set up my machine to pin > on testing because if I do a dist-upgrade with sid lines in there I'll > probably end up running sid, which I'm not really prepared to do yet > :). I don't know muc

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 08:55:23AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> The package usbmount might be what you need. > > > >The description of usbmount says: > > > > This package automatically mounts U

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-29 Thread David Fox
On 9/29/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know much about the state of nvidia drivers in lenny, but to pin > your install you just need: > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > I went ahead and did that, fixed another problem (dynamic mmap running out of room), and installed

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:18:41PM +0100, andy wrote: > Hi all > > Even though it is now approaching fall/autumn (in the northern hemisphere > anyway), I am wanting to do some spring cleaning of my hard drive. In my > enthusiasm for Debian's apt-get I have gorged myself on a load of packages > t

portable Iomega HD

2007-09-29 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, I have a portable Iomega 120 GB HD. I am running etch. When I connect the HD to the USB port, etch doesn't show any device attached to the port... I wonder why? the portable hd doesn't acts like another usb device? Thanks in advance for the help Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:33:59PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 9/29/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't know much about the state of nvidia drivers in lenny, but to pin > > your install you just need: > > > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > > > I went ahead and did t

Re: Problems capturing audio with Intel ICH5...

2007-09-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:59:04 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 22:51:30 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: >> Maybe gnome-mixer does not give you access to the relevant capture >> controls. > > I guess I tried every single control, they're even too many

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 05:11:56 -0700, Vivek.M wrote: [...] > > See "blacklist" in the manpage of modprobe.conf. Sometimes > > it can be necessary to use "install MODULENAME /bin/true" > > in addition to the blacklisting. > > This didn't work either :( > > darkstar> cat /etc/modprobe.d/block

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-29 Thread Francisco M Neto
On 9/29/07, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leave the following dependencies unresolved: > nvidia-kernel-source recommends nvidia-glx (>= 100.14.19) > Score is -362 > > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] > > Needless to say, I think I will say 'q' at this point. Well, I do not really use ap

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-29 Thread Mike Polyakov
Whenever I need to install nVidia drivers, I just go to their web page and download the appropriate installer for Linux. It usually compiles the drivers and installs them without any hassles. I had problems with getting the drivers from standard Debian repositories to work in the past, but the nVid

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > >keeling: > >> Plenty of stuff, lots of replies and multipost threads. Can't see any > >> bug reports. Guess it's off to the BTS to search there. Drat. > >> > >> How 'bout that? Search of the BTS for submitter reports no reports > >> f

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 26 04:27 -0500]: > > > > Btw, THIS IS ALL VOLUNTEER WORK HERE. fyi. > > Yup. And I for one appreciate our Debian Volunteer Overlords. ;-) Ah geez. You made me laugh. I even considered typing "LOL" ... Crap!

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc > > contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked for many > > months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > > > > a lot of time working on non-goals; the question at hand is > > whether adoption by the level of user in question is or is not a > > goal. I'm satisfied to leave that up to the individual. It's none of my business. Caveat em

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
s/Jones/West/g You gotta change your name to Steve. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You need a more compliant girlfriend. Lucy Liu-bot comes to mind. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot wtf did I just waste fifteen minutes reading? You do not point at wikipedia articles citing toons. Geez. It may have been an enjoyable episod

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 27 Sep 2007, s. keeling wrote: > > Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc > > > > contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which ha

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)ht

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and > what do you mean by trimming? > Ill try to fix it myself if I can. > > On 9/26/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > > >

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. > > Your right. My apologies to Oleg and the list. Quite right, and thanks. Done it before myself and hope to minimize its ocurrence in the future. [EMAIL PROT

DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I just upgraded our server to Etch but now I see there are line starting with "Ign" when I update my repositories: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.or

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about stumpwm? > > http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ > > Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch? You could (aptitude search): p stumpwm - a Common Lisp window manager and no I never have. -- Any technology distinguishable fro

Re: syslog recommendations?

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of > > like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let > > me, say, aggregate logs from lots of different boxes and m

Re: [Fwd: Re: canon printer driver question]

2007-09-29 Thread steef
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Re: Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

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Re: Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

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Re: Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

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Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-29 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried > chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps > without much luck. > > Cchris > On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -07

Re: Re: Network settings don't stick after reboot

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Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-29 Thread J
Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian that I got for free. I got it to print from windows because it had some Java aplet that downloaded DLL and did a windows install and it will print from Windows now. The software it installed was called "HP internet Printer

Re: Nomachine on Debian unstable?

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Bellon
On Wed, 26 Sep, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:51:12 Stefan Bellon, vous avez écrit : > > After that I tracked down what happens if I do > > > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I only got that working when I disabled PAM in my sshd_config and > > enabled password authenti

Re: cronjob problem

2007-09-29 Thread André Berger
* Angela Gavazzi (2007-09-27): > Hallo, > > could someone please explain me why the following cronjob generates an empy > file when copy-pasting the command to console generates a "full" file? > It's in roots crontab created with crontab -e > > 00 21 * * * /usr/local/ldap/sbin/slapcat > >

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