Re: firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-14 Thread Edward Shornock
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:54:23AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On Monday 15 May 2006 00:21, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > I just saved my bookmarks and blew away my .mozilla directory > > and now mozilla prints fine again. > > I don't know how it got its complicated commands options before, > >

Re: Mozilla-thunderbird auto spelling check

2006-05-14 Thread Mihira Fernando
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rocky Ou wrote: > Hey, > > Does anyone know how to configure mozilla thunderbird with feature of auto > spelling check. Under windows, It is very easy to do this for out look. > > Thanks, > Rocky > Tools --> options --> Composition-> Enable 'Check

Mozilla-thunderbird auto spelling check

2006-05-14 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey, Does anyone know how to configure mozilla thunderbird with feature of auto spelling check. Under windows, It is very easy to do this for out look. Thanks, Rocky

Buffer Image

2006-05-14 Thread Indraveni
Hi,  I am using debian and I am findng a bug in this. Whenever I am rebooting my system an image is being displayed on my screen, which is the last logout screen of the system.  At which ever state I am logging out that same image is being displayed before i login my OS.  ahy this image is displ

Xen+nVidia non-free module problem

2006-05-14 Thread Felipe Sateler
Hi there. I am having an issue with the non-free nVidia driver when running under xen (linux-image-2.6.16-1-xen-k7). When I issue module-assistant a-i nvidia the build completes successfully, and installs the driver happily. However, the built module can't be loaded, because of an undefined symbol

Re: firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 15 May 2006 00:21, Mitchell Laks wrote: I just saved my bookmarks and blew away my .mozilla directory and now mozilla prints fine again. I don't know how it got its complicated commands options before, however now they are gone and printing is wonderfully simple again. and it wor

Validating AVI files

2006-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Does anyone know of a CLI tool for validating that AVI files are "correct", i.e., no skipped frames, no garbage, no audio drift, etc? I've Googled, but haven't found anything exactly like I want. I've tried the tools in avifile-utils but they don't seem to do exactly what I want. Thanks, Ro

Re: etch network install iso images with latest kernel version 2.6.x

2006-05-14 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:18 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that anymore although I did find the multiple iso images. I was interested in the etch network CDRO

Re: firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Sunday 14 May 2006 16:10, Florian Kulzer wrote: > There have been some problems reported recently related to xprint and > the upgrade to Xorg 7.0. If you use xprint you can try > > /etc/init.d/xprint restart Thanks Florian, I should have mentioned that I am using cups and I prefer to be using

Dog's breakfast redux: What I did wrong!

2006-05-14 Thread Art Edwards
I now understand at least part of what happened. I spent more of this weekend than I wanted downgrading to stable. At the end the mouse was still smoking crack. I am running an nvidia graphics card so I tried to re-install the controller from nvidia. That was when it became clear that I was run

Re: HOWTO: setup full Debian on USB and boot from there, problems solved

2006-05-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
George Hein wrote: > BOOT DEBIAN on and from a USB-harddisk. How I did it. > Would you consider posting this helpful information to wiki.debian.org or submitting it to debian-administration.org as a new article? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc

Re: did you win?

2006-05-14 Thread Rosieo105
NO BUT HOW CAN I

Re: script with date operation??

2006-05-14 Thread Bruno Buys
Michael Marsh wrote: On 5/13/06, Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That sort of work is precisely why I do it in Perl. Because then you start getting into messiness with leap years, timezones, etc., etc., etc. There's a reason that time libraries are hard to write. :-) Perl's done al

Re: Obtaining my IP, strange results

2006-05-14 Thread John Stumbles
T wrote: ... there is no reliable way to get my IP now. I know it's not the answer to your specific question, but in terms of getting your IP address There's More Than One Way To Do It (tm) :-) On my LinkSys DSL router I use a Perl script which uses LWP and HTML::TreeBuilder to get the stat

Getting KMail to let me encrypt to an unsigned key?

2006-05-14 Thread Adam Funk
I'm running the Debian kmail 3.3.2-3 package. As far as I can tell, it flatly refuses to let me encrypt a message to any key that doesn't have a signature chain back to a trusted key. I can see the usefulness of a warning about doing this, but I've accidentally sent a message unencrypted while tr

Re: routing problem

2006-05-14 Thread Chris
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 20:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all I have dth fallowing problem.. I have a router with public ip > (for example 194.10.8.1/30) and my Debian whit eth1 public ip > 194.10.8.2/30. Everything works fine I can ping outside no problem.. > but my Debian also fas eth0

Obtaining my IP, strange results

2006-05-14 Thread T
Hi, I know that whatismyip.org is supposed to return my IP address. But this is what I got: $ lynx -dump http://whatismyip.org/ 127.0.0.1 This is strange enough but my question is even more strange than this: I can get my correct IP via checkip.dyndns.org, but after I visit the whatismyip.org,

what are the new non-free document package names?

2006-05-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ man tar The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. Unfortunately, the info document describing tar is licensed under the GFDL with invariant cover texts, which violates the Debian Free Software Guidelines. As a result, the i

HOWTO: setup full Debian on USB and boot from there, problems solved

2006-05-14 Thread George Hein
BOOT DEBIAN on and from a USB-harddisk. How I did it. Only newer computers allow this. I used a ThinkPad-T42, sometimes with original harddisk in DVD/CD bay. This will not work with 600e, T20, 240 or 240x thinkpads, too old. Several months ago, DSL(DamnSmallLinux) and RIP(RecoveryIsPossible) mi

Re: alsaconf locks up my system

2006-05-14 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 13:32:31 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: I'm running a A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with dual core amd64. My kernel is 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp. I also run kernel 2.6.14.4. With either kernel, I have no audio. I used to have audio until about a week ago, after runn

Konqueror full screen mode problem

2006-05-14 Thread roach
Hi, I'd like to run Konqueror in full screen mode, but haven't been able to find out how to switch off the status bar & border surrounding the displayed page. Any suggestions? Thanks. All the best. -- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg South Africa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, > the following error message appears: > > $ rm -vr to-be-removed > rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. > This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. > NOTIFY YOUR

Re: My visit to google has been censored

2006-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 17:59:41 -0700, formless void wrote: > Hi My Dear Debianist, > > Where I can find a debian package which prevents > firefox browser to reload the pages that I visited? Do you mean that firefox reloads the last page which you visited in your previous session? You don't need

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-14 Thread gustavo halperin
Marc Shapiro wrote: Dale Hair wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:39 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: But, How ??? In my case when I run xine ( > xine http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx) I also hear just the first song, how do you run Xine. Did do pass some especial option ?? Thank you,

Re: firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 13:39:56 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: [...] > On one of my sid machines I am trying to print from firefox and I see that it > has trouble with printing. > > When I push print the error dialog that pops up says > > There was a problem in printing because the paper size

Re: alsaconf locks up my system

2006-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 13:32:31 -0500, Russ Cook wrote: > I'm running a A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with dual core amd64. My kernel > is 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp. I also run kernel 2.6.14.4. With either > kernel, I have no audio. I used to have audio until about a week > ago, after running apt-get upgrade.

Re: Re: Having cron-apt choose the default action (rather than yes)during upgrades?

2006-05-14 Thread Rich Stanton
> That would be "Trivial Only" > > Look that up in the man page for apt-get ( should be > "--trivial-only") > > You will probably want to add "--allow-unauthenticated" No go on this sorry - I tried an apt-get dist-upgrade --trivial-only and got this: Reading package lists... Done Building depend

Re: snmp software

2006-05-14 Thread Robson
Brad Brock wrote: I want to use a software that can manage several PC Routers (with debian running on them). What software should I use to manage them? Especially to manage bandwith, a kind of traffic control among interfaces on each router. Thank you. __

interfaces for sending FAX ?

2006-05-14 Thread marelin
(i'm not onlist, please cc to me) I would like to send FAX from Germany and Switzerland. I am used to work on Debian unstable. I don't have a real fax modem, only a standard 56k one for serial dialup. Can i use this too ? This is an analog phone connector, but this ends in a ISDN converter way

alsaconf locks up my system

2006-05-14 Thread Russ Cook
I'm running a A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with dual core amd64. My kernel is 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp. I also run kernel 2.6.14.4. With either kernel, I have no audio. I used to have audio until about a week ago, after running apt-get upgrade. I'm running the 64 bit dist, unstable. When trying to run XMM

gnome terminal with tabs confuses emacs

2006-05-14 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I'm using debian testing on my laptop, and recently after upgrading the system I have found that the gnome terminal(v.2.14.1) window confuses emacs(text variant) when I use tabs in gnome terminal. It works well if not using tabs, but if used it borks emacs. The strange thing is that it aff

firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear Gurus, I have got one of my Debian boxes into a funny state. :) I have many different machines, usually running sid or sarge. On one of my sid machines I am trying to print from firefox and I see that it has trouble with printing. When I push print the error dialog that pops up says T

Re: setup ODBC data source

2006-05-14 Thread H S Rai
Friday at 10:07am -0400 Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I have file /etc/odbc.ini which has at its end: > > > > Name: MSSQLServer > > Description: TDS MSSQL (description isn't important) > > Servername: 192.168.8.88 > > UID: sa > > PWD: > > Port: 1433 > > That's strange, it's a d

Re: Totem misbehaving?

2006-05-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:26:17AM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > Totem 2.12 is a mess. Don't use it. Totem 2.14 is about to go in to > unstable so you'll be able to use it then. It is MUCH improved. But I'm using 1.2.1-3. When 2.14 moves into Testing I'll of course use it. -- Carl Fink

Re: Totem misbehaving?

2006-05-14 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 10:00 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I use the totem package from the Marillat archive for all my video and sound > needs. Lately, though, it's freezing after a few seconds on certain files. > Sometimes it stays frozen, sometimes it starts up again after a short pause. > > The s

Re: How to use Debian Kernel + md + lvm2

2006-05-14 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Mardi 9 Mai 2006 00:46, Ewing Jeff a écrit : > What do I need to configure to use a stock debian kernel with md > and lvm? I have been searching the Net for several days for > answers to this problem. > > I have been compiling my own (Debian source based) kernel with md > (autostart) and lvm com

Re: Apply a patch?

2006-05-14 Thread Danny
On May 14 06, Roberto C. Sanchez thought of the following : > To: Debian-Users > Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 08:29:43 -0400 > From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Apply a patch? > User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20060423) > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Da

Re: [Unstable] NFS problems

2006-05-14 Thread El Virolo
Hi!I'm using kernel 2.6.16-1-k7. By the way, I realised the splash screen actually stops at "Initialising system services" rather than at "Initialising peripherals"...Thanks for you help, Alex.

Totem misbehaving?

2006-05-14 Thread Carl Fink
I use the totem package from the Marillat archive for all my video and sound needs. Lately, though, it's freezing after a few seconds on certain files. Sometimes it stays frozen, sometimes it starts up again after a short pause. The same files play OK in gxine or Realplayer, so it presumably isn

Re: gimp and printing

2006-05-14 Thread LeVA
2006. május 14. 14:57, Paul Stolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > * LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-14 01:56]: > > Paul Stolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > I think if you have it working under cups, you > > > should already have a ppd under /etc/cups/ppd/ . > > > You can >

Re: help: Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting

2006-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 14:28:38 +0100, brown recluse wrote: > Debian Etch > KDE 3.5.2-2 > alsa-base 1.0.11-1 > 000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > V

Re: gimp and printing

2006-05-14 Thread Paul Stolp
* LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-14 01:56]: > Paul Stolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I think if you have it working under cups, you > > should already have a ppd under /etc/cups/ppd/ . > > You can > Yes I have. I've selected the 710c's ppd in Gimp. > > follow the instructions under "The Gimp" on

Re: CDROM drives stopped working after move to unstable

2006-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 20:38:08 -0700, Joshua McGee wrote: > Hi, > > Both my CDROM drives stopped working up after moving to unstable. The > second one (/dev/cdrom1) stopped showing up entirely. Did you go to unstable from stable (Sarge) or testing (Etch)? The reason I am asking this is that I

help: Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting

2006-05-14 Thread brown recluse
Debian Etch KDE 3.5.2-2 alsa-base 1.0.11-1 000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) No problem in gnome or de

Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 & Sarge compatibility

2006-05-14 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi All, I'm checking component compatibility of a second hand server I'd like to buy. I've found some issues though on several forums concerning the Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 RAID card. In some older posts I found issues with kernel 2.4 and 2.6. where the kernel's driver only sees the R

Re: Apply a patch?

2006-05-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Danny wrote: > Hi List, > > How would I apply a patch to a .deb file?. I want to patch mutt before I > install > it. > http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatu

Apply a patch?

2006-05-14 Thread Danny
Hi List, How would I apply a patch to a .deb file?. I want to patch mutt before I install it. Thank You Danny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ieee that doesn't suck

2006-05-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 22:31 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I think I just wasted a bunch of money on a IEEE1394 firewire card. > > I can load modules and see a device on the PCI bus using lspci. > But there isn't anything in the /proc/bus/ that matches 'ieee1394' > > I can't get any more informatio

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-14 Thread Stephen
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:50:26PM -0700 or thereabouts, formless void wrote: > > --- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > There are browser standards. And there are browsers > > that comply and > > others who don't. Guess which ones! > > > > Andrei > > > > > > -- > > Wou

Re: fstab re-writing

2006-05-14 Thread steve downes
On Sat, 13 May 2006 22:41:29 +0300 Linas __virblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The standard answer is "udev and a custom rule". But I also wonder > > what is rewriting /etc/fstab. > > Earlier versions of HAL could be configured to do that, but this feature > was disabl

موقع جديد

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Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-14 Thread Arafangion
Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > My installation is such a mess that I've decided to start from > scratch. Problem is I don't know where I went wrong. Did I download > the right CD's? > > Thank you all again. > > Benjamin The CD's you have will install Debian. I recommend you use Stable's

Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-14 Thread Arafangion
Benjamin Sher wrote: > Arafangion wrote: > >>Benjamin Sher wrote: >> >> >> >>>Dear friends: >>> >>>Decided to give the latest stable version of Debian 3.1Rc2 a chance so >>>I downloaded the first two CD's and burned them in Nero. Everything >>>went flawlessly. Literally. I was delighted. That is

Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My installation is such a mess that I've decided to start from scratch. Problem is I don't know where I went wrong. Did I download the right CD's? Thank you all again. Benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-14 Thread Richard
Steve Lamb wrote: You were given many answers that work quite well. If you do not understand those answers might I suggest researching them instead of discarding them out of hand and stating the same question to the same set of individuals mere days later. There's the door. Your choice. *wave

Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Arafangion wrote: Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Decided to give the latest stable version of Debian 3.1Rc2 a chance so I downloaded the first two CD's and burned them in Nero. Everything went flawlessly. Literally. I was delighted. That is, until I booted up to the new Debia

Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Arafangion wrote: Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Decided to give the latest stable version of Debian 3.1Rc2 a chance so I downloaded the first two CD's and burned them in Nero. Everything went flawlessly. Literally. I was delighted. That is, until I booted up to the new Debia

Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-14 Thread Arafangion
Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > Decided to give the latest stable version of Debian 3.1Rc2 a chance so > I downloaded the first two CD's and burned them in Nero. Everything > went flawlessly. Literally. I was delighted. That is, until I booted > up to the new Debian and was I in for a sho

Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-14 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Decided to give the latest stable version of Debian 3.1Rc2 a chance so I downloaded the first two CD's and burned them in Nero. Everything went flawlessly. Literally. I was delighted. That is, until I booted up to the new Debian and was I in for a shock. The install urged me not