Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:02:31 -0500 Allan Wind wrote: > On 2011-02-08T15:23:29, Celejar wrote: > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just

Re: Help with my Squeeze upgrade! (missing fonts)

2011-02-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:34:36 -0800, Erin Brinkley wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> This is a shoot in the dark, but maybe you are experiencing some of the >> side effects this FAQ is pointing out :-? > > Seems like a good idea. I checked it. Now in /etc/fonts/local.conf there > is no mention of bit

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:09:23 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > > understand w

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:24:28 -0800 "Dr. Ed Morbius" wrote: > on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've n

Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?

2011-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 02/09/2011 11:39 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: when you find a FIX for something, I think "THEY" like to see the subject line change to -- > Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?-SOLVED It is my understanding that changing the subject line causes problems for the mail server, for some reci

Re: bleeding edge kernels misidentify my Broadcom BCM4401-B0

2011-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:35:14 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-08 21:19 +0100, Celejar wrote: > > > Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of > > vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet > > card, normally driven by the b44 driver, has st

Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.

2011-02-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 11:24 Wed 09 Feb, Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com) wrote: > peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Appears that I need to make a .Xresources file before > > TightVNC will work. > > Shouldn't need one. > > > Can anyone recommend instructions or examples for the task? > > To workaround the noise create an e

Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/09/2011 04:15 PM, David Christensen wrote: It is my understanding that changing the subject line causes problems for the mail server, for some recipients, and/or for the various other systems that handle list traffic. Therefore, I don't change the subject line. I don't remember hear

Re: bleeding edge kernels misidentify my Broadcom BCM4401-B0

2011-02-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-09 22:18 +0100, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:35:14 +0100 > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2011-02-08 21:19 +0100, Celejar wrote: >> >> > Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of >> > vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet

Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.

2011-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > That is a default because most people have a .Xresources file. > > They do? Sorry I was definitely over generalized there. :-) > An empty .Xresources should work just fine, but if that's required by > the tightvnc (or other) package, I'd file a bug.

Re: bleeding edge kernels misidentify my Broadcom BCM4401-B0

2011-02-09 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:39:22 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-09 22:18 +0100, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:35:14 +0100 > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >> On 2011-02-08 21:19 +0100, Celejar wrote: > >> > >> > Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls o

Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.

2011-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Jones wrote: > Ah, yes.. I'm unclear as to how I got to have vnc4server and > tightvncserver both installed on my machine. :-) Good for testing them out! > Now the problem is that I use the old, possibly deprecated, ~/.Xdefaults > and I have a lot of stuff in there. Since I was in a rush an

Re: Possible bug in nfs-common (Lenny != Squeeze)?

2011-02-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Mario Kleinsasser wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mario Kleinsasser >> wrote: >> > >> > Currently I am facing the following problem. At work site we have an IBM >> > mainframe (i6OS). We are using this mainf

Re: Usable Squeeze: Can switch off from X to consoles, even between

2011-02-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:57:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Note: you need either the Debian or Ubuntu patched kernels, or you need > the latest longterm 2.6.35 patch level, or the latest stable patchlevel > for 2.6.36. Anything else is likely to simply not work (e.g. latest > lon

Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:32:05PM EST, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: [..] > They do? > > It's not configured by default or populated in /etc/skel. I doubt > "most" users would go about adding one themselves. Trust the little beggars.. > Yes, _if_ you're going to specify custom xrdb resources, that

Help! Cannot mount XFS filesystem createt with Ubuntu on Debian

2011-02-09 Thread Federico Cislaghi
Hello everyone, I hope you will be able to help me here because it is the first time in in five years of Debian use that I encounter a problem that I haven't been able to solve simply by googling it. So here is the situation: I am upgrading my home server from an old Pentium II to a more recent a

Wheezy Codename with lsb_release

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Beck
Hi guys, I am running testing on my laptop (sources.list has testing everywhere). Since Squeeze is stable, shouldn't be the codename shown with lsb_release labelled with Wheezy ? On my system it still shows Squeeze. I'm just wondering if this is normal or just on my system ? Cheers Peter -- T

Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Jason Hsu
I'm trying to turn an old computer (10-year-old IBM NetVista desktop with a 1.0 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM) into a server. Thus, I've made sure to only use the i386 versions of Debian. I'm having difficulty installing Debian Squeeze on it. I did once successfully install Debian Lenny on

Re: Wheezy Codename with lsb_release

2011-02-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-10 00:00 +0100, Peter Beck wrote: > I am running testing on my laptop (sources.list has testing everywhere). > Since Squeeze is stable, shouldn't be the codename shown with > lsb_release labelled with Wheezy ? Yes. > On my system it still shows Squeeze. I'm just wondering if this is >

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:15 Wed 09 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:24:28 -0800 > "Dr. Ed Morbius" wrote: > > > on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > > never understood what exactly m

Re: Wheezy Codename with lsb_release

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Beck
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 00:15 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > As soon as base-files 6.1 migrates to testing, > /etc/debian_version will say "wheezy/sid" Hi Sven, thanks for clarification... Cheers Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?

2011-02-09 Thread John Hasler
David Christensen writes: > It is my understanding that changing the subject line causes problems > for the mail server, for some recipients, and/or for the various other > systems that handle list traffic. Therefore, I don't change the > subject line. That's what the "References:" header is for.

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 16:40:41 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > I'm trying to turn an old computer (10-year-old IBM NetVista desktop with a > 1.0 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM) into a server. Thus, I've made sure to > only use the i386 versions of Debian. > > I'm having difficulty installing Debian S

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Jason Hsu
Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I still have trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny until I buy a somewhat newer computer that doesn't have problems with the Debian Squeeze CD. On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:36:17 + Brian wrote: > > Not being able

Re: Squeeze stable upgrade: "RANDR" missing on display

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 12:19:07 -0800, Erin Brinkley wrote: > What in the world is going on??? I've done some research and it is a problem > that has occured when people use Xinerama with dual head setups ... however, > I am NOT using Xinerama and do NOT have a dual head system. I'm running a > sin

sysvinit: Regarding ipAddr printed by utmpdump

2011-02-09 Thread Navdeep Bhatia
Hi, The addr field of the output from utmpdump contains the ip address of the connection. This is obtained by calling inet_ntoa on the ut.ut_addr field (as depicted in the code below, utmpdump.c, Release 2.88). But in case the ip address is an IPV6 address, the output contains the wrong ip address

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 18:13:54 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I still have > trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny until I buy a > somewhat newer computer that doesn't have problems with the Debian Squeeze > CD. As it

Re: Squeeze stable upgrade: "RANDR" missing on display

2011-02-09 Thread george.stand...@gmail.com
Erin, If you are getting the RANDR missing error verify you have the line: Option "RandRRotation" "on" Under the nvidia device heading in your Xorg.conf. I'm running into a different issue which appears related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611619 Best of luck, G

Re: xemacs21-nomule under squeeze

2011-02-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Andreas Goesele [110210 00:27]: > The correction: Of course, I want to get back a working > *xemacs21-nomule*. (Without the need of having installed xemacs21-mule.) > > Any idea how I could pin down the problem? Or, what would be the right > place to ask this question, if not here? I am runnin

Re: Multimedia Lenny is History!

2011-02-09 Thread Jasper Noë
Mirrors: http://debian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php Seems to be up most of the time. -- Jasper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d5337fb.4070...@xs4

Re: stable-updates versus volatile

2011-02-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:02:02AM +, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:50:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > I think the implication was that the release notes doesn't tell you how to > > edit the lines that refer to volatile. > > Well, there's an example squeeze-u

Re: Migration from Lenny to Squeeze: any feedback about configuration upgrade issues ?

2011-02-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:54:46AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Hello > > I'm working on a project that aim to ease configuration upgrades during > package upgrade. [1] > > Since a lot of people will upgrade them system from Lenny to Squeeze, I'd be > interested in feedback on the upgrade o

Re: Multimedia Lenny is History!

2011-02-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:39:20AM -0500, Slicky Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:19:22 -0800 > freeman wrote: > > > As of Monday: > > > > http://debian-multimedia.org/ > > > > Why leave etch but remove lenny? > I believe he had some sort of hardware/configuration problem which wrecked

route table behind router

2011-02-09 Thread Mike McClain
After a decade of dialup So Cal. Cox finally made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I've switched but can't connect on my Debian box. I've spent the last two weeks reading man pages, HOWTOs, searching the web and Deb user list archives but still don't get it. The setup is like so: cox cable-

Re: stable-updates versus volatile

2011-02-09 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20110209093337.ga13...@furie.org.uk>, Tom Furie wrote: >>On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:20:04PM -0800, Mark wrote: >>> Thank you, Rob.  This is very very helpful.  In step 2, you not only >>> changed "lenny" to "squeeze" but also "deb

Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?

2011-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 02/09/2011 01:32 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: when I hit CTRL-R ( reply) I forgot to notice that it replied to YOU, not THE LIST.. Seems like sometimes it does that.. I believe some list servers modify the headers (Reply-To?) so that when users hit Reply in their mail client, the reply goes t

Netbook unbable to boot from USB Drive

2011-02-09 Thread Michael Dykes
Hullo all. I recently wanted to install and try out Debian, so I installed what I thought was the latest version of Debian- lenny. I tried to re-download my favourite programs, and then found out I needed Debian Squeeze to do so. I have yet to get that version of debian on my netbook. To cut a lon

Re: Help with my Squeeze upgrade! (missing fonts)

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:11:41PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > That's odd.. I would've thought the ‘-fn’ flag would not support .ttf > > fonts. I don't use emacs, but other X programs such as XTerm, xfd, etc. > > use the ‘-fa’ flag when using the ‘typeface’ syntax. Maybe

Re: Netbook unbable to boot from USB Drive

2011-02-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Michael Dykes wrote: > To cut a long story short, I want to return to Ubuntu 10.10 - yet upon > downloading the 10.10. iso & using UNetBootin to wrtie this to a USB drive, > and trying to boot from that drive found that for some reason, my machine > will not boot fr

How to enable trim (discard) with ssd harddisk in linux

2011-02-09 Thread gulfstream
Hello, My kernel is 2.6.32, which was customized and complied myself. I want to enable trim with ssd harddisk in my debian. Besides set "discard" in fstab file, which option should be set in kernel config file? Thank you! gulfstream

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-09 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 18:36:26 + (UTC) From: Camaleón To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit Resent-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 18:37:01 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:

Re: Squeeze and Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 4000

2011-02-09 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 09:25:23PM +0100, Slobodan Aleksić wrote: > Hello List, > > I own a Logitech QuickCamPro and it doesn't work with Squeeze, any > other people who have the same problem or no problem with it ?! > > Only thing I found relevant was a closed bug : > http://lists.debian.org/deb

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > My avoiding use of GNOME/KDE (and hence network-manager and its GUI > interfaces) doesn't help matters much. I suspect that if I were to run > one or the other, I'd have fewer problems in that department. Have you tried wicd? It has a curses interface and so no need for a

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > The web page at http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ states > The port consists of a kernel for all AMD 64bit CPUs with AMD64 > extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension, and a common > 64bit userspace. > > Thus, from the Debian official documentation, it is made clear th

Installing Java jdk - do I need to purge Java gcj first?

2011-02-09 Thread Lisi
The release notes for LibreOffice recommend Java jdk instead of Java gcj. I have Java gcj installed. Can I just aptitude install jdk? Or must/should I aptitude purge Java gcj first, and then aptitude install jdk? Thanks, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?

2011-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
David Christensen wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > >when you find a FIX for something, I think "THEY" like to see the > >subject line change to -- > > Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?-SOLVED Some like it and some do not. If you want to then add it. If not then don't. I personally don'

Debian way of compiling a kernel.

2011-02-09 Thread Dan Serban
Ages ago, when amd64 wasn't part of the debian collection, I used to compile kernels myself using make-kpkg. This worked wonderfully, when I had to debug driver patches etc. (all is now of course stable). Since then I've forgotten this process, but this is not my problem. I wanted to test a fix

Re: Installing Java jdk - do I need to purge Java gcj first?

2011-02-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 09:29:17 pm Lisi wrote: > The release notes for LibreOffice recommend Java jdk instead of Java gcj. > I have Java gcj installed. Can I just aptitude install jdk? Or > must/should I aptitude purge Java gcj first, and then aptitude install jdk? > > Thanks, > Lisi N

Re: Installing Java jdk - do I need to purge Java gcj first?

2011-02-09 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 10 February 2011 07:00:36 Greg Madden wrote: > I can select whichever one I want, from the multiple entries: > 1. /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre > 2. /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.4/jre > > Or run without java, for my use. Thanks, Greg. :-) That is very helpful. I shall install with

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