Re: How to get Stumble Upon to work with Iceweasel, Any tips?
I've never tried. but just a guess. in IceWeasel address-bar, type "about:config" and press ENTER. now in search box type "general.useragent.extra.iceweasel"... change the value of this key to "Firefox/2.0.0.x" (x= your iceweasel version) now try to re-install the extension again. On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 11:50 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I like the Mozilla extension Stumble Upon. How is it possible to get it > working with Iceweasel. According to what I have read, Iceweasel is basically > Firefox (for Debian), & Stumble Upon should install as an extension. When I > recently upgraded my stable boxes from sarge to etch Stumble no longet was > installed into iceweasel, though it is installed on the system. It just does > not show up. Any tips?? > Thanks! > -- > John W. Foster > > -- --- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India ---
Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:10 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > Seems to be working for me. I have tried it just now. Thanks for your > > email. I have been desperately waiting for their linux version. I > > wonder how much space it takes for indexing > > Sorry if I'm ignorant but, > > How is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other > open-source data indexing projects out there? > personally I feel beagle is as "fast and efficient" as google-desktop. i used google-desktop(when i was windows user) before. after switching to Linux, i use beagle. and to me both are same. i don't want to use google-desktop because, when there are open-source/free alternatives present I always go for it. in this case beagle. :) -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:07 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > cut - > > My rule of thumb for this kind of questions is that "if the package's name > does not ring a bell, you dont need it". The beauty of Debian is that, > installing it at a later time (if you find that necessary) is a breeze. It > might not be the case if you are running sid though! But if you are running > sid, I assume you know what you are doing... My rule of thumb: 1. install 'deborphan' package. 2. run it. 3. you can safely remove the packages listed by deborphan. It never let me down. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing a JRE plug-in
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 21:56 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 07:43:26PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > By (my) definition there no good sites that use Java. :-/ > > > What about all those pages that run on JSP and servelets? > > Regards, > > -Roberto > JSP and servlets run in server side. And they in turn produces pure HTML for client-side. So, JRE is not reqd. for those sites. JRE plug-in will be required, if any site uses Applets, Java Web-start in their website/web-based applications. Those sites are very less in respect to flash based sites. So, you must have latest flash installed, but you can install JRE 6.0 instead of v6.1 or even you can use JRE 5. It won't create any problem. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UUID naming for devices
Hi all, I use ubuntu (and recently dual-boot with debian) since April this year. I don't use windows anymore, in fact i don't need to. I've learned a lot in Linux in these days. Recently I found in ubuntu "/etc/fstab", some UUID for my mounted partition rather than "/dev/sda1" etc. I found in internet that it has some advantages. My question: I have a common partition for data (xfs formatted) which I want to access from both ubuntu and debian. And that partition should also automatically mount at boot with user can read/write without going sudo. How can I achieve this using UUID naming at "/etc/fstab"? my current disk structure: /dev/sda1: reiserfs (ubuntu) /dev/sda2: swap (common) /dev/sda3: reiserfs (debian) /dev/sda4: xfs (common accessible partition) right now my fstab has the following line for xfs partition, what should I change ? /dev/sda4 /media/xfs xfs defaults0 1 -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching for graphical torrent client
Mark Grieveson wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 13:07:17 +0300, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried qtorrent, but it is so minimal that I don't like it... Or to put it in another way: Which client resembles most the windows utorrent? (I also tried ktorrent for KDE and it crashes often...) I used to use qtorrent, and I really liked it. I prefer minimal though (and now I use aria2, which is fantastic --it's as minimal as it gets.) Perhaps bittornado-gui, or maybe bittorrent-gui, would be good for you. Mark Ktorrent is working for me fine. No crashing. You can use transmission. It's simple. It doesn't have many options like other clients have. But it works. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?
Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: Greetings, I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to the product description section, you do not get the essential style and format menu that shows in Firefox. Does anyone know why this would happen, or whether they have had the same problem and managed to overcome this?? Many thanks. It's a bit hard to explain to the misses that firefox and iceweasel are the same, when they clearly are not !! 8-) As far as I know, Iceweasel is Firefox without the "Talkback" component, which is not open and matches debian-philosophy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?
Paul Johnson wrote: On Jul 30, 8:30 pm, arijit sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as I know, Iceweasel is Firefox without the "Talkback" component, which is not open and matches debian-philosophy. The name and logo are also nonfree in Firefox. thanks for the correction. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vote for Debian on Lenovo
On Sunday 09 Sep 2007 3:55:21 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:20:29AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 > > thanks for the head up. vote cast, interesting to note that Untunbu is > leading the pack by a lot with deb a distant second (something like > 900+ for U with 200+ for deb) and then the rest are way down the > line. If the poll is any indicator of what they choose (and we all > know its not), then we can be assured of some flavor of > debian/deriv... > > :) > > too bad I just bought a linuxcertified.com lappy. oh well. > > A voted for debian. thanks for the information. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus motherboard and Sound
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 09:50 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:26:15AM -0400, Alon Kantor wrote: > > I'm having many difficulties to produce sound with my ASUS M2NPV-VM > > motherboard, neither with the on board sound nor with an independent > > card. Can anyone help. Thanks. Alon > > I am using the same motherboard. A. Install 'alsa-oss, alsa-utils' package. Run 'alsaconf' as root to reconfigure the soundcard. use 'alsactl store' to save the settings. B. IF still sound is not working properly, then edit (as root) '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base' file, add the following at the end of the file. "options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack" save and reboot. try now. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which browser is better, firefox?
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 06:53 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is the firefox the best browser? > > > > Definitive answer (Google please note!): Firefox == Iceweasel is better > qua extensions, but Opera "seems" faster. "Seems" in quotes because it > has to be proven to be so in order to actually be faster... > > Hugo > I use both. And personally I feel Opera bit faster. After opening multiple tabs (around 10-12 tabs), opera's responsiveness is still better than firefox. -- Arijit Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 12, 11:20 am, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just updated Xorg packages though synaptic. > > But after system restart, i am unable to start X-server. > > Error shown : unable to load module: nvidia > > right now I've switched to 'vesa' but I want to use 'nvidia'. > > > > Also when i use "nvidia-settings", i get this error: > > - > > $ nvidia-settings > > ERROR: NV-CONTROL extension not found on this Display. > > ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA GPUs on ':0.0'. > > ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA Frame Lock Devices on > > ':0.0'. > > - > > > > Here's the some output from Xorg.log:- > > - > > II) LoadModule: "nvidia" > > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia > > (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" > > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) > > ----- > > > > How can i solve this? > > I was using "nvidia-glx", NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver version: > > 1.0.8766-4 > > > > -- > > > > Arijit Sarkar > > Kolkata, India > > > > Evolution on Debian testing > > same thing happened to me on the upgrade to xorg 7.2. the nvidia > driver needs to be recompiled and packaged for the new xorg.thats > what we get for using non-free stuff... > > you should file a bug on nvidia-kernel about this so they know that > they need to fix it. in the meantime, u can download the driver > directly from nvidia. > > mike > Thanks for the information. However I've changed my driver to 'nv' for the time being. it seems this bug already been reported. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428697 thanks, -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an > abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but > debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not > experiencing any stability issues. Anyone know the cause of this > oddity. > > Thanks, > > Gary > > It's obvious, your motherboard has 128mb shared memory. So debian sess only 885.5 mb. I also have 1gig RAM and 128 mb as shared graphics memory. My 'system monitor' shows ~885mb. check out your BIOS settings. :-) -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Debian GNU/Linux <>
problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg [SOLVED]: CONFIRMATION
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:57 +0200, Eeltje wrote: > Did you get the nvidia module working again? It would be nice if you told > whether you were successful or not... > -- > Eeltje de Vries > > I am sorry not to reply early. I was busy for some personal business. Yes, this problem is solved now. thanks to, Eeltje, execute the following command as root, # cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers # gcc -shared -o nvidia_drv.so nvidia_drv.o Then restart X. thats all. everything will be fine again. no need to reinstall nvidia-driver again. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Mixer use kills ALSA
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:26 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS > M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware: > > 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81cb > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 > Memory at fe024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ > Queue=0/0Enable- > Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping > > > Sound works OK from a variety of applications, including alsaplayer, > realplayer, and mplayer. However, when any application changes a mixer > setting, sound goes silent until alsa is force-reloaded. Any thoughts? > > joehill:/var/log# lsmod | grep snd > snd_hda_intel 19284 2 > snd_hda_codec 156032 1 snd_hda_intel > snd_pcm_oss45344 0 > snd_mixer_oss 17984 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm81092 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss > snd_seq_oss34816 0 > snd_seq_midi_event 8064 1 snd_seq_oss > snd_seq55184 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_timer 24388 3 snd_pcm,snd_seq > snd_seq_device 8844 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > snd53284 11 > snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device > snd_page_alloc 10952 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > > > > I have the same motherboard and i was facing same problem. after searching through google and various linux-related site, I found two steps to solve this problem. NOTE: install alsa-oss, alsa-utils packages 1. edit: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base Add the following line at the end of the file, "options snd-hda-intel position-fix=1 model=3stack" (withour quotes) After step 1, force-restart alsa module and see if it works or not. 2. edit: /boot/grub/menu.lst add "noapic" option at the end of the kernel options. reboot the machine. everything should work fine. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -
Can I resize my partition after installation ?
I have debian installed on my 160gb hdd. [NOTE: this is the exact disk structure] / -> 7gb swap -> 2.5gb /home -> rest 144gb now I feel, I could have used that space to install another linux OS for testing/exploring. so i want to know, is it possible to resize "/home" now? i want to make my hdd structure like this, / -> 7gb (root for current debian OS) swap -> 2.5 gb (swap for both the OS) /home -> 135gb (common for both OS) second /-> 9gb (or whatever the size, for second OS's root) I have an article, which describes how to install two linux OS with common swap and home partition. but in that article, partitioning has done while installing first OS, which I didn't. So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. --------- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -
Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Yes. However, please look into swithing to LVM. This will help greatly > with situations such as you are encountering now. > > Regards, > > -Roberto > thanks for all the suggestions. Since I'm switched to linux just recently (it's been six months), I never had any idea about LVM. I'll do that soon. I'm learning new things everyday. --------- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -
my DVD is'nt recognized or automounted but k3b detects it perfectly
Hi, I am facing a peculiar problem. one of my DVD is not recognized when inserted into DVD drive. I've LG GSA-H10N DVD-RW. When double-clicking on drive icon from nautilus, i get this error message: mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or other error in some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so this is the output of "dmesg | tail" cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! Unable to identify CD-ROM format. Unable to identify CD-ROM format. UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'Movies', timestamp 2007/02/25 22:31 (114a) Unable to identify CD-ROM format. Unable to identify CD-ROM format. UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'Movies', timestamp 2007/02/25 22:31 (114a) Unable to identify CD-ROM format. -- Now, if I start k3b and try to read the disk-info from software interface, the DVD got mounted and I can now browse the contents, copy from it, play mp3/movies etc. But if i eject it/restarts the system, same problem persists, until i mount it again through k3b. can anybody solve this problem? I can provide more information if required. Note: That DVD is burnt using Nero7 from Windows XP long ago before I switched to linux. It worked in windows perfectly. ----- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -
Re: RTF - proprietary or open?
The perfect reply! On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 19:25 +0300, David Baron wrote: > OK, OK. > > RTF is Microsoft's > SQL is IBM's > JavaScript is Netscape's (Jscript is Microsoft's knockoff, beware) > HTML, CSS and their children are from W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium) > XML? > PostScript is Apple's (really a FORTH derivative, huh?) > PDF is Adobe's. > > Word, XSL, etc. are from Microsoft. > and ... Open Document Formats are from Sun > > Do not, I mean DO NOT ever use such formats because larger corporations are > involved in them, created them, sometimes violate their own standards. Make > everything completely original and thus maintain complete personal control. > No one else will want to read the thing anyway :-) > > -- --- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India ---
Re: docx files
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I received a file.docx made with office 2007 > Is there any easy way to read it? > Thanks > Thierry > > Why don't you tell the sender to send it again in different format? Since, "docx" is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft wares to offer read/write support. If possible, tell him to send the document in some ISO standard document format like, Open Document Format. If not possible, then at least in Office2003 format. -- Arijit Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:09 -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > > add missing categories: > > > audio player: Amarok > > > cd-ripper: Sound-Juicer > > > desktop OR window manager: Gnome > > > disc burner: K3B > > > e-mail client: Evolution > > > file manager: Nautilus > > > ftp client: gFtp > > image viewer: gThumb > > > misc utilities: > > news: > > > p2p: ktorrent, Deluge > > > package manager: Aptitude (also, emerge) > > > pdf-reader: KPDF > > > spreadsheet: OO.org Calc > > > tag editor: > > terminal emulator: Terminal > > > text editor: nano (gedit, if graphical needed) > > > video player: mplayer > web browser: firefox, elinks > > > word-processor: OO.org Writer > Favorite gui app not mentioned above: Tomboy -- arijit sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
