Re: problem when installing debian. pcnet32 ethernet floppy install

2006-05-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 16:45:32 +0200, Joni Lahtinen wrote: > I inserted networkdrivers floppy, selected pcnet32 card and then > 'modprobe -v pcnet32' command gives error. > > Computer is 133 Pentium I MikroMikko and ethernet is coaxial and rj45 > adm pcnet 10 Mbps. > > What I can do to get et

I think I'm supposed to say something about this package bug...

2006-05-28 Thread Xeno Campanoli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install jamvm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been

Re: Testing/Wacom/Mouse Problem

2006-05-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 09:47:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > The Wacom Graphire4 mouse worked perfectly with Sarge - best mouse I've > ever had. > > Has anyone had success with the Wacom mouse in testing? If so, do you > have any clues as to how to get my mouse working again? > Hi Tom G

Re: how to update from r1 to r2 using cds

2006-05-28 Thread roach
On Sat, 27 May 2006 07:58:38 +0800 "Jed R. Mallen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > I've got a box with no internet connection. It has sarge r1. I've > downloaded disc 1-4 of r2. Can I update the box via synaptic or do I > have to edit sources.list directly? thanks. In synaptic, go to Edit > A

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #1233

2006-05-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun May 28 2006 04:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > godammit unsubscibe me to this bombardement of emails or send me CORRECT > info on how to do it, last time I tried i got 50 email back saying failed > and you already passed my threshold of annoyance > >[EMA

Re: Regular reboots on two different boxes

2006-05-28 Thread Scott Lair
--- LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006. május 27. 11:18, > tyko brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > I have two different boxes, in two different places > that are rebooting for > > seemingly no reason, and regularly too. > > > > Last night the DNS server reboote

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine >>> with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID >>> 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michal Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> 5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID >>> >>> $ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot >>> $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot >>> $ cd / >>> $ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt

USB not accepting new address

2006-05-28 Thread Edson Marco Ferrari Junior
Hi all! Im try connect a webcam Genius in Debian Sarge. I install the module spca52xxx and quickcam, but when connect the webcam in USB (2.0) in dmesg returns this message: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-2: device not accepting address 6, error -71 lsusb

Re: logging out of ion window manager

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > ion has a menu which f12 will bring up, you can exit it from there. Or > > just brin up the lua code prompt (meta+f3) and run ioncore.shutdown() :-) > > > > (This assumes you're running ion 2 or 3, 1 uses f11 or 12 or something > > to exit.) > > I am using ion3. > >

Re: logging out of ion window manager

2006-05-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 28 May 2006 20:20, Joey Hess wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > I recently started using ion window manager. It is cool. But I could not > > find out how to log out of the window manager. There is no logout option > > in any of the menus. It is not discussed in 'man ion'. Google did

Re: HPT366 controller problem

2006-05-28 Thread Antonio Rafael C. Paiva
Tomy Alarie wrote: > Hi, i'm trying to install Debian 3.1r2 on my computer for days. After > couple of days, i wondered that the problem was the HPT366 Controller on > my ASUS BE6 motherboard. I don't know which kernel am I better use > during the install ? linux26 or linux ? I don't know too if th

Re: logging out of ion window manager

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I recently started using ion window manager. It is cool. But I could not find > out how to log out of the window manager. There is no logout option in any of > the menus. It is not discussed in 'man ion'. Google did not help. > > Is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace the only way to

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #1233

2006-05-28 Thread Toddgrohall
godammit unsubscibe me to this bombardement of emails or send me CORRECT info on how to do it, last time I tried i got 50 email back saying failed and you already passed my threshold of annoyance     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

logging out of ion window manager

2006-05-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I recently started using ion window manager. It is cool. But I could not find out how to log out of the window manager. There is no logout option in any of the menus. It is not discussed in 'man ion'. Google did not help. Is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace the only way to log out of this (otherwise nice) win

modules in 2.6.xx

2006-05-28 Thread Renato Serodio
I'm fighting to get Irda working on my machine, and I came to a point where I would really like to understand so files in /etc . I searched around in the web, looked at the kernel docs, but nothing really enlightning came up. So here's my question: In a 2.6 series, kernel (for the curious, 2.6.16.

Re: How to find right video card driver

2006-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:58:02 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: >> I am trying to figure out how to configure my xorg.conf file. Is there >> anywhere that shows the whole list of drivers that xorg recognises? Also >> how do you us

Re: How to find right video card driver

2006-05-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:58:02 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to configure my xorg.conf file. Is there > anywhere that shows the whole list of drivers that xorg recognises? Also > how do you use lspci info to decide which driver is best? Thanks. This is a very usef

Re: sid + translucent Xorg windows

2006-05-28 Thread Petteri
Hugo Vanwoerkom kirjoitti su 28. toukokuuta 2006 12:38:07: > Hi, > > Anybody had any luck with these? Yes :) > How? With KDE. Added couple of lines to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to device section: Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "On" Option "RenderAccel" "True" an

Re: sudo password vs. login

2006-05-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Joseph Smidt wrote: > Is there any way to make the sudo password different from the login > password? Wouldn't that make it more secure? That would make two > passwords you have to get through to have root access vs. one. > I like the approach which SuSE takes. It requires the *root* passwor

Re: [OT] Python programmer resource center

2006-05-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > Eheh, good idea Roberto :) maybe it is fault of my 0$ provider ... > > The link is the one Rob said, i just defined an alias to make it > faster to access the page. > I see it now :-) I would add a link to "A Byte of Python", which is a free book written by a Yahoo! d

Re: hda: lost interrupt

2006-05-28 Thread Pol Hallen
> Also my system suspends even for a several minutes. > Does it mean my hdd is going to crash? try with: smartmontools [...] Description: control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storag

Re: hda: lost interrupt

2006-05-28 Thread Michał Chruściel
Michał Chruściel wrote: on Debian I get really a lot of these messages: hda: lost interrupt Also my system suspends even for a several minutes. Does it mean my hdd is going to crash? If yes, is it hardware problem, or because of misuse of fsck or mkfs? Did you Google for this already? On a

Samba Testparm error

2006-05-28 Thread anthony
I have a recurring but slightly nonesensical error with Samba on Debian Etch I have set up a very basic Samba configuration and have now uncommented all the references to passwords and encryption, nonetheless I still get this error message when I testparm : 'WARNING: passdb expand explicit = yes

Re: REPOST: DSL/Networking Help

2006-05-28 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
You don't specify how you will be using the wireless adapter -- PCI in a desktop, pcmcia, (?). At any rate, this first link is pcmcia-only, and was updated last just after linux-2.6.8 was released (the kernel used in Sarge): http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS This page has a

Re: REPOST: DSL/Networking Help

2006-05-28 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Good morning. Just got my SBC DSL package with a 2Wire 1701 HG Gateway, wireless router/DSL modem. I need 2 wireless adaptors to complete the network hookup. Googled til I about to shoot myself as I don't know/understand all the rhetoric. I just need to know the brand, model, chipset of a linux

Re: hda: lost interrupt

2006-05-28 Thread Kilian
Michał Chruściel wrote: on Debian I get really a lot of these messages: hda: lost interrupt Also my system suspends even for a several minutes. Does it mean my hdd is going to crash? If yes, is it hardware problem, or because of misuse of fsck or mkfs? Did you Google for this already? On a fi

Re: How to find right video card driver

2006-05-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 28 May 2006 14:58, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I am trying to figure out how to configure my xorg.conf file. Is there > anywhere that shows the whole list of drivers that xorg recognises? Also > how do you use lspci info to decide which driver is best? Thanks. What is your video card? If yo

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Kilian
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to the machine. The whole procedure

Re: How to find right video card driver

2006-05-28 Thread s. keeling
Joseph Smidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am trying to figure out how to configure my xorg.conf file. Is there > anywhere that shows the whole list of drivers that xorg recognises? Also > how do you use lspci info to decide which driver is best? Thanks. "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" will of

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Kilian
Michal Schmidt wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID $ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot $ cd / $ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot Fun, fun. A copy of /proc. That's a

hda: lost interrupt

2006-05-28 Thread Michał Chruściel
Hello, on Debian I get really a lot of these messages: hda: lost interrupt Also my system suspends even for a several minutes. Does it mean my hdd is going to crash? If yes, is it hardware problem, or because of misuse of fsck or mkfs? Regards, Michal Ch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Michal Schmidt
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID $ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot $ cd / $ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot Fun, fun. A copy of /proc. That's a few Gig wasted dependi

Re: Comparison of aptitude hold and pinning?

2006-05-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:17:46AM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > dpkg stores the 'hold' information, see: > dpkg --get-selections|grep -i PACKAGENAME No. A hold placed with dpkg and one placed with aptitude are not the same thing and are not stored in the same place. Under certain circumstances

How to find right video card driver

2006-05-28 Thread Joseph Smidt
I am trying to figure out how to configure my xorg.conf file.  Is there anywhere that shows the whole list of drivers that xorg recognises?  Also how do you use lspci info to decide which driver is best?  Thanks.     -- ---

Re: fsck Fails On Reboot After Partially Completed Testing Upgrade

2006-05-28 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >If you cannot, well, we are fixing the bug but it will take some time. The >workaround that MAY work for you is to add TZ=ABC+XX:00 at the top of >/etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh, wher

T-bird outgoing filters?

2006-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Evolution has outgoing filters, so that, for example, emails that I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get sent to the subfolder john_doe instead of Sent. Does T-bird have anything like that? I only see incoming filters. Thanks, Ron -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: [OT] Python programmer resource center

2006-05-28 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/5/28, Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 2006-28-05 at 08:24 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > I am writting down a pege with useful links for a Python programmer. > > That is reference, tutorials and anything that can be useful. I use it > > regulary when

fetch+run extra rcS.d init script via livecd+dhcpcd

2006-05-28 Thread Scott Edwards
I'd like to roll my own livecd (anything debian proper, or debian like will do). The one piece of my puzzle I'm still puzzled about is allowing the cd to make a dhcp request I can distinguish as coming from the livecd. Based on that, I'd also like to offer an init script (gpg signature thereof m

FlightGear, Terrasync, Atlas/Map

2006-05-28 Thread David Baron
Flightgear is a great, though resource hawging, flight simulator. Terraync will enable it to download scenery as you fly. Map will convert this scenery to maps and Atlas will show you where your are (note that their site is quite specifitic--these maps are for entertainment purposes only and it i

proftpd startup error ipv6 getaddressinfo

2006-05-28 Thread David Baron
I finally changed that /var/lib line to /usr/lib so that error message is a thing of the past. Now I get an error ipv6 getaddressinfo. It is testing my "machine name" and finds no such address or service. I was not able to find and config file requesting such with my machine name. This is occur

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-28 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Dimanche 28 Mai 2006 19:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Le Dimanche 28 Mai 2006 11:54, Paul Scott a écrit : > >> Bart Schelstraete wrote: > -- > > More information is in /etc/X11/xkb/README.config. Another possible > approach is to temporarily remov

sid + translucent Xorg windows

2006-05-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Anybody had any luck with these? How? What graphic cards? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB joystick?

2006-05-28 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Samstag, 27. Mai 2006 18:50 schrieb Curt Howland: > I was so glad to see the Privateer port to Linux that I'd like to get > a joystick to play it. http://priv.solsector.net/ Unfortunately, my > machine doesn't have a joystick port. There are USB joysticks, but I > didn't see "joystick" listed in

Re: question

2006-05-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Matus C wrote: Hi, I have a problem with installation linux, I am installing it from cd, it asked me for language and for kyeboard i use, then it works for a while, but when I have 91% it hangs,there is written that it is looking for sd_mod to install / but nothing is happening / I ha

Re: sid no longer supports HP DeskJet Plus

2006-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Sid no longer shows my HP Deskjet Plus that I bought in 1990 for $500 in > localhost:631/admin. > > This is what I did: Sarge still supports it, so I copied the > HP-DeskJet_Plus-deskjet.ppd.gz file from /usr/share/p

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Dimanche 28 Mai 2006 11:54, Paul Scott a écrit : Bart Schelstraete wrote: -- More information is in /etc/X11/xkb/README.config. Another possible approach is to temporarily remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (by renaming it) Even removing xorg.conf doesn't remove the "customiz

sid no longer supports HP DeskJet Plus

2006-05-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Sid no longer shows my HP Deskjet Plus that I bought in 1990 for $500 in localhost:631/admin. This is what I did: Sarge still supports it, so I copied the HP-DeskJet_Plus-deskjet.ppd.gz file from /usr/share/ppd/HP/ in Sarge to /usr/share/ppd/hpijs/HP in Sid. Restart cupsys. Modify or

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-28 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-28, 11:15:51 (+0200) skrifaði Bart Schelstraete: > > -- > > > > More information is in /etc/X11/xkb/README.config. Another possible > > approach is to temporarily remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (by renaming it) > > and trying if "dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg" comes up with a > > Thi

Re: DNS problem?

2006-05-28 Thread Nikolay Kichukov
Hello, try entering your IPS's dns servers in the file: /etc/resolv.conf i.e. echo "nameserver xx.yy.zz.ww" > /etc/resolv.conf where xx.yy.zz.www is the nameserver your ISP provides for you. It is strange however, that irc and pings work ... Maybe that is a temporary error, or someone within y

update debian and the openoffice can not start.

2006-05-28 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I update my debian system. It seem that my font on desktop is better. but openoffice can not start. When I start from console I receive this message.         Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x18f)! How to correct it? Thank you in advance.

Re: sudo password vs. login

2006-05-28 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:22:06AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: > Is there any way to make the sudo password different from the login > password? Wouldn't that make it more secure? That would make two passwords > you have to get through to have root access vs. one. Yes, but it doesn't really make

Re: sudo password vs. login

2006-05-28 Thread John Hasler
Joseph Smidt writes: > Is there any way to make the sudo password different from the login > password? Wouldn't that make it more secure? That would make it less secure. Requiring your password confirms that you are you, allowing sudo to log the fact that you used sudo and to restrict you to tho

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine > with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID > 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to > the machine. The whole procedure was done remotely via S

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-28 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Dimanche 28 Mai 2006 11:54, Paul Scott a écrit : > Bart Schelstraete wrote: > >> -- > >> > >> More information is in /etc/X11/xkb/README.config. Another possible > >> approach is to temporarily remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (by renaming it) > > Even removing xorg.conf doesn't remove the "customizati

Re: sudo password vs. login

2006-05-28 Thread Joris Huizer
Joseph Smidt wrote: Is there any way to make the sudo password different from the login password? Wouldn't that make it more secure? That would make two passwords you have to get through to have root access vs. one. -- - Jo

Samba testparm errror 'WARNING: passdb expand explicit = yes is deprecated'

2006-05-28 Thread anthony
I have a recurring but slightly nonesensical error with Samba on Debian Etch I have set up a very basic Samba configuration and now uncommented all the references to passwords and encryption, nonetheless I still get this error message when I testparm : 'WARNING: passdb expand explicit = yes is d

problem when installing debian. pcnet32 ethernet floppy install

2006-05-28 Thread Joni Lahtinen
I inserted networkdrivers floppy, selected pcnet32 card and then 'modprobe -v pcnet32' command gives error. Computer is 133 Pentium I MikroMikko and ethernet is coaxial and rj45 adm pcnet 10 Mbps. What I can do to get ethernet work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

sudo password vs. login

2006-05-28 Thread Joseph Smidt
Is there any way to make the sudo password different from the login password?  Wouldn't that make it more secure?  That would make two passwords you have to get through to have root access vs. one.  -- -   Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROT

DNS problem?

2006-05-28 Thread Zach
Hi everyone, Nslookup/ping work, irc works, & i can connect to most websites but having trouble with certain websites such as google/gmail, says can't find host, then after refresh same error, after many refreshes it works, for each refresh it generates an error in /var/log/syslog saying "ICMP me

Ifplugd doesn't detect...

2006-05-28 Thread Marco
Hi everybody, I have a laptop with two network interfaces. eth0 --> wired network. eth1 --> wireless network. I have installed "ifplugd". This is my /etc/default/ifplugd configuration file: INTERFACES="eth0 eth1" HOTPLUG_INTERFACES="" ARGS="-q -f -u0 -d10 -w -I" SUSPEND_ACTION="stop" At boot ifp

Testing/Wacom/Mouse Problem

2006-05-28 Thread Thomas H. George
The Wacom Graphire4 mouse worked perfectly with Sarge - best mouse I've ever had. After upgrading to Testing I have this strange set of affairs: The stylus will move the cursor, the mouse will not but the mouse buttons and scroll wheel work. I found and installed xserver-xorg-input-wacom.

about wireless card installation

2006-05-28 Thread jw
I have a problem to setup my wireless card(Zyxel Zyair G-220). Below are the steps I have done following the driver manual and research from Internet: 1. download kernel source code(I used 2.6.16) 2. download driver and firmware, zd1211 3. compile and install driver and firmware. 4. switch on the

Re: X-Windows Problems - Solved

2006-05-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:20:17AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:20:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > [...] > > > That all sounds like there are some configuration problems in your > system. May

question

2006-05-28 Thread Matus C
Hi, I have a problem with installation linux, I am installing it from cd, it asked me for language and for kyeboard i use, then it works for a while, but when I have 91% it hangs,there is written that it is looking for sd_mod to install / but nothing is happening / I have no idea what t

Re: [OT] Python programmer resource center

2006-05-28 Thread Hodgins Family
On Sun, 2006-28-05 at 08:24 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > I am writting down a pege with useful links for a Python programmer. > > That is reference, tutorials and anything that can be useful. I use it > > regulary when programming in Python and I can't do without it.

RE: Environment and Sudo

2006-05-28 Thread David Baron
>Commands invoked using sudo do not receive/honor environment items or >aliases. >Example would be the alias vi="vim". Invoking normally will run vim, invoking >using sudo vi will get the "other" vi. >Is there something else I need in /etc/profile or some .bashrc? So for security reasons, the

Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade

2006-05-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 23:47:54 -0700, Adam Collins wrote: > On Saturday 27 May 2006 21:24, David R. Litwin wrote: > > Logical: You (most probably) have only one repository for Sid (don't > > see why you'd need more) and this one has but one version of each > > package. Therefore, you may wish to

Re: [OT] Python programmer resource center

2006-05-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I am writting down a pege with useful links for a Python programmer. > That is reference, tutorials and anything that can be useful. I use it > regulary when programming in Python and I can't do without it. > > I would be happy if you go and see that page, and tell me what

Re: Redirecting X from a remote host

2006-05-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-05-24 15:30:42 -0400, John covici wrote: > I am trying to do the ssh thing -- first of all I thought the option > was -Y -- as I read in the ssh manual, or should I not do that? Yes, -X is not sufficient with some applications (e.g. Emacs) under some conditions, in which case one should

[OT] Python programmer resource center

2006-05-28 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
I am writting down a pege with useful links for a Python programmer. That is reference, tutorials and anything that can be useful. I use it regulary when programming in Python and I can't do without it. I would be happy if you go and see that page, and tell me what you think about and suggest lin

SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64) (was: Re: install-mbr on amd64?)

2006-05-28 Thread Kilian
In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to the machine. The whole procedure was done remotely via SSH. I use the md tools (mdadm) and lilo

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-28 Thread Paul Scott
Bart Schelstraete wrote: -- More information is in /etc/X11/xkb/README.config. Another possible approach is to temporarily remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (by renaming it) Even removing xorg.conf doesn't remove the "customization" here. I have to purge and reinstall xserver-xorg. Paul Scott -- T

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 28 May 2006 02:53, Glenn Meehan wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 20:55 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > The version of libgphoto2-2 that appeared in unstable today is supposed > > to have a fix to support the A530, I have just submitted a bug to add in > > the USB ID of the A540. The A54

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-28 Thread Bart Schelstraete
-- More information is in /etc/X11/xkb/README.config. Another possible approach is to temporarily remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf (by renaming it) and trying if "dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg" comes up with a This person had the same problem: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2006/04/msg02180.h

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-28 Thread Bart Schelstraete
What is /etc/X11/X? ... on my system it is a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg and I cant see how that has been customized. Same over here... B -- Schelstraete Bart http://www.schelstraete.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade

2006-05-28 Thread Adam Collins
On Saturday 27 May 2006 21:24, David R. Litwin wrote: > Logical: You (most probably) have only one repository for Sid (don't > see why you'd need more) and this one has but one version of each > package. Therefore, you may wish to use the manual solution: I found > it very easy. Don't be alarmed by