Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:27:32PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > >>> A non-programmer. I read that IP-over-FireWire can only be done > >>> in Linux by recompiling t

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:03:53PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > >> On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What work has to be done depends on whether your

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

2006-07-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
John O'Hagan wrote: On Friday 14 July 2006 00:32, Arthur Marsh wrote: John O'Hagan wrote: ... [...] #m-a a-i realtime-lsm (auto-install) which ensures you have the kernel headers and other necessary packages installed, downloads the module source if needed, then builds and installs it. Simp

Adaptec Raid

2006-07-13 Thread Brandino Andreas
Hi list, i am trying to install debian on a server having 2 SAS hard disks on an Adaptect 94xx raid controller. Debian sarge / testing isnt detecting the raid controller. IBM provides precompiled drivers only for the various versions of suse/redhat: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/docume

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-13 Thread Welly Hartanto
Indraveni wrote: Hi, I have done apt cache seach and found something called magicdev paackges which satisfies what you explained but I am not able to get my requirement. There is no proper help given in its usage. AFAIK, magicdev is doing the same thing as gnome-volume-manager. mslinuz

http://www.debian.org/contact

2006-07-13 Thread jeffkatz
Trying to install x-window-system on Sarge 31r1. Will not install due to broken dependency -- missing xprt-xprintorg. I am using deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free in my sources.list file. All my other dependencies look fine. Help would be most appreciated. Jef

Corrupt ISO downloads

2006-07-13 Thread Austin English
I've been trying to download debian to setup a samba server. I've downloaded the base install and the business card net install cd's several times, from several different mirrors, on 3 different computers, in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and wget, with ftp and http, but every time, the md5 checksum

iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-07-13 Thread Scarletdown
I just bought a 2GB iRiver Clix media player as an upgrade from my old CD-based mp3 player. It works fine on my XP hardware testing box. However, I need to get it working with Debian (both my Athlon 2500 desktop runing Kernel 2.6.15-1-k7, and my Turion 64 laptop running kernel 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8).

Re: YOU WON THE COCA-COLA ONLINE PROMO

2006-07-13 Thread Mihira Fernando
David E. Fox wrote: On 13 Jul 2006 10:17:10 - Coca Cola Manager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: THE COCA'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT COCA'COLA AVENUE STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON. SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM yawn. big deal, i have the sekrit formula Cool. Then maybe we can sell Debian Col

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 13 July 2006 19:52, nick wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > Sounds unilateral to me. Besides, like I said, what good does it do? > > None. What harm does it do? 3000 traffic fatalities in the first 7 days > > following every time change caused by jet-lag-like fatigue. If you li

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chuckk Hubbard wrote: >>> A non-programmer. I read that IP-over-FireWire can only be done >>> in Linux by recompiling the kernel. Maybe this was wrong. > > Compiling a kerne

Re: SIOCGMIIPHY failed... HELP ME!!!

2006-07-13 Thread John O'Hagan
On Friday 14 July 2006 05:32, Marco wrote: > Hi all, > I have a laptop with Debian Etch and every second I have this messages > in my syslog: > > Jul 13 21:24:07 localhost ifplugd(eth1)[3712]: SIOCGMIIPHY failed: > Operation not supported > Jul 13 21:24:07 localhost ifplugd(irda0)[3719]: SIOCGMIIPH

Re: YOU WON THE COCA-COLA ONLINE PROMO

2006-07-13 Thread David E. Fox
On 13 Jul 2006 10:17:10 - Coca Cola Manager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > THE COCA'COLA COMPANY > PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD > DEPT COCA'COLA AVENUE > STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON. > SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM yawn. big deal, i have the sekrit formula -- --

Re: Synaptic wants to remove gimp during gimp-data update

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:58:45PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:46:50PM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > >> I use up-to-date Debian unstable, i386 port, on a PC with an AMD > >> Athlon64 +3500 chip. > >> > >> Yesterday and today, when I tried to upda

Re: Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:50:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I would just do a purge, remove any vestigial files in /etc and then > install it again fresh. Ah, but I don't want to do that. I want to be prompted, with all the same options that aptitude usually provides when upgrading a packa

Re: Synaptic wants to remove gimp during gimp-data update

2006-07-13 Thread [KS]
Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:46:50PM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: >> I use up-to-date Debian unstable, i386 port, on a PC with an AMD >> Athlon64 +3500 chip. >> >> Yesterday and today, when I tried to update my system using Synaptic, it >> wanted to remove gimp and upda

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Jay C Vollmer
On Thursday 13 July 2006 21:24, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm not an electrochemist, but modern Li-ion batteries don't develop > memory, they just lose capacity each time they're charged. Isn't what you're describing 'memory?' -- JAY VOLLMER[EMAIL PROTECTED] TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHI

Re: Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:50:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > >Doing "aptitide reinstall foo" doesn't seem to reinstall the > >maintainer's configuration files. What do I need to do to have the > >system ask me if I want to use the modified version or the package > >mai

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread nick
Paul Johnson wrote: Sounds unilateral to me. Besides, like I said, what good does it do? None. What harm does it do? 3000 traffic fatalities in the first 7 days following every time change caused by jet-lag-like fatigue. If you liked 9/11, you'll love DST. DST ranks in the top ten

Re: marillat

2006-07-13 Thread Ben Lau
On 6/25/06, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Francesco Pietra wrote: > Is > > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main > > broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed > > thanks > francesco pietra > > The URL has changed. Change your sources.list line to the following:

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Colin
Paul Johnson wrote: > Not that this surprises me given the current administration, but the US > extended a bad policy without informing the public when it happened? WTF? > Should be getting rid of DST, not extending it... I 100% agree with you. > the half the justification > for DST shot hi

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-13 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 07:22:10PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 07:27 -0700, michael bailey wrote: > > > Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit > > software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a > > Sempron which has AMD64 suppo

Re: Video conversion

2006-07-13 Thread Bruno Buys
J Merritt wrote: I am looking for a good, feature full video conversion package that will allow for conversion between various video formats, containers, audio formats, etc., in the associated video file. Is there a package that can be installed under Debian with all the associated dependenci

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Nate Duehr
Chris Mattern wrote: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:07:48PM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. Really? Most batteries lose life if repeated

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:32:28AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > My current Acer laptop, 2 years old. Has the company suggest that a 500 > charge > life cycle is usual, but could vary. It doesn't suggest that the battery will > continue to deliver the same amount of battery time throughout that cycle

Re: Synaptic wants to remove gimp during gimp-data update

2006-07-13 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:46:50PM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I use up-to-date Debian unstable, i386 port, on a PC with an AMD > Athlon64 +3500 chip. > > Yesterday and today, when I tried to update my system using Synaptic, it > wanted to remove gimp and update gimp-data. What is the proble

Re: Video conversion

2006-07-13 Thread Derek
ffmpeg is goodOn 7/13/06, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: J Merritt wrote:> I am looking for a good, feature full video conversion package that will> allow for conversion between various video formats, containers, audio> formats, etc., in the associated video file. Is there a package tha

Freetype Hinting

2006-07-13 Thread Jeremy
Does anyone know if it's possible to enable the bytecode hinting in freetype2 on a debian system? As I understand, this was disabled by default because of patent issues. I could remove the library package (libfreetype6) and manually compile to get the hinting enabled, but that is going to mes

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/13/06, Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What work has to be done depends on whether your dist. has it compiled in for the stock kernels. Apparently Debian's have i

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-13 Thread Miles Bader
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And for the record, I believe NEC and NCR are now the same company, > rather than two separate entities of a holding company. Er, no. * NEC is a giant Japanese electronics manufacturer (Nippon Electric Corp).[1] In the 80s/early-90s, they made their o

Synaptic wants to remove gimp during gimp-data update

2006-07-13 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use up-to-date Debian unstable, i386 port, on a PC with an AMD Athlon64 +3500 chip. Yesterday and today, when I tried to update my system using Synaptic, it wanted to remove gimp and update gimp-data. What is the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Kernel level for Testing

2006-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Carl Fink wrote: > Did a message about the compromised Debian server (gluck) just advise me to > upgrade my Testing system to a kernel that doesn't in fact exist as a Debian > (testing) package? Yes, although it didn't say you have to get the fixed kernel from testing. It's fixed in unstable (in 2

Re: Video conversion

2006-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
J Merritt wrote: I am looking for a good, feature full video conversion package that will allow for conversion between various video formats, containers, audio formats, etc., in the associated video file. Is there a package that can be installed under Debian with all the associated dependencies

Re: Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Doing "aptitide reinstall foo" doesn't seem to reinstall the maintainer's configuration files. What do I need to do to have the system ask me if I want to use the modified version or the package maintainer's version? I would just do a purge, remove any vestigial files in

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: >> A non-programmer. I read that IP-over-FireWire can only be done >> in Linux by recompiling the kernel. Maybe this was wrong. Compiling a kernel is *not* "programming". It d

Re: x freeze with ATI driver and openoffice.

2006-07-13 Thread wehn
wehn wrote: Changing to VESA driver makes it all usable again. I have a Compaq N160 laptop, with a "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M6 LY" Discovered that changing UseFBDev to false seems to fix things with the ati driver. Hmm. strange. Section "Device" Identifier "AT

Video conversion

2006-07-13 Thread J Merritt
I am looking for a good, feature full video conversion package that will allow for conversion between various video formats, containers, audio formats, etc., in the associated video file. Is there a package that can be installed under Debian with all the associated dependencies? Any ideas? Yahoo

Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Doing "aptitide reinstall foo" doesn't seem to reinstall the maintainer's configuration files. What do I need to do to have the system ask me if I want to use the modified version or the package maintainer's version? -- Unabashedly littering the information superhighway with detritus like this fo

Re: source code editor

2006-07-13 Thread Alejandro Bárcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Spiro wrote: > Le 01-06-2006, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : >> I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code >> editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to >> edit fast some C

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Charlie
On Friday 14 July 2006 07:08, Chris Mattern wrote this for perusal by us all: >--> Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >--> >--> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:07:48PM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: >--> > >--> > >--> >>> That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly > if --> >>> left plugge

OT: Port to minix3?

2006-07-13 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Just out of curiosity, is there any project trying to port debian to minix3? Under: http://www.debian.org/ports/#nonlinux I don't see anything, but the might be a separate project around there... Thanks, -- Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

2006-07-13 Thread michf
Quoting Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:45:15PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I am looking for a lightweight calendar program that can handle > appointments in > > vcalendar format for import export (to sync against my nokia phone). > Preferably > > gtk2 so that it wi

Kernel level for Testing

2006-07-13 Thread Carl Fink
Did a message about the compromised Debian server (gluck) just advise me to upgrade my Testing system to a kernel that doesn't in fact exist as a Debian (testing) package? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.

Re: ckermit debian package is not .deb! How will I install it?

2006-07-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
wieseltux23 wrote: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=pages&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%3A80%2F On Mon, 16 May 2005 16:40:51 +0530 Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/13/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Siju George: If I download the ckermit

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread M-L
On Friday 14 July 2006 03:47, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote this for perusal by us all: >--> Sean Perry on Thursday 13 Jul 2006 01:37 wrote: >--> >--> > That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if >--> > left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. >--> >--> T

Re: source code editor

2006-07-13 Thread Jason Spiro
Le 01-06-2006, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code > editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to > edit fast some C/C++ file I am opening it with pico. I looked around, > but it seems l

Font errors with eboard and xboard

2006-07-13 Thread Jay Zach
About a week ago, eboard and xboard both stopped running for me with font errors. I'm running Unstable with Xorg 7.0. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 13 ~ :) eboard can't load font. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 13 ~ :( xboard xboard: no fonts match pattern -*

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:45:15PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am looking for a lightweight calendar program that can handle appointments > in > vcalendar format for import export (to sync against my nokia phone). > Preferably > gtk2 so that it will be able to handle hebrew but I would settle

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Mattern wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:11, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> >> On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: [snip] >> >> Not that this surp

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:48:01PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: > > >> I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been > > >> updated already for next

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Chris Mattern
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:11, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: >> I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been >> updated already for next years extension of daylight s

Re: How many serious backport problems have there been?

2006-07-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Joseph Smidt wrote: > I know things on backports.org can't be guaranteed, but what is their > track record. Do they just warn you but in reality most people > experience few problems, or has it been people's experience that > backports are a headache. Also, I know they don't have an official > se

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-13 Thread Margiolas Christos
mayby kde now is better than gnome better technology more usability..XristosOn 7/13/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Magnus Therning wrote:> I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. >> I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the> desktop and choose "Unmount V

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Chris Mattern
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:07:48PM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. Really? Most batteries lose life if repeatedly discharged and rech

Re: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script and Etch

2006-07-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, it appears that (now ?) dhclient-script is in /sbin Jerome Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I have recently installed Etch from scratch: I have just noticed there is no /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script script inside /etc/dhcp3 Is it expected ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENO

Re: How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

2006-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> > >> The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, w

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

2006-07-13 Thread Redefined Horizons
On 7/13/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Thanks Andrew. you're welcome. please don't top-post, it makes conversations hard to follow... > > Where do I find the supported screen resolutions for my monitor?

Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format

2006-07-13 Thread Margiolas Christos
I use a tool with the name DEVEDE and there is as .deb in etch. It uses mencoder(mplayer encoder) and it makes great work If want only a simple convert from avi(or any other format supported by mplayer) to dvd... On 7/13/06, John Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I have a whole bunch of home movi

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:11, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been updated already for next ye

Re: How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, which was released on >> 2006-07-06. linux-source-2.6.16 v2.6.16-16 is tim

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

2006-07-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Thanks Andrew. you're welcome. please don't top-post, it makes conversations hard to follow... > > Where do I find the supported screen resolutions for my monitor? Is > that something Linux can detect, or do I need to try and

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: > >> I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been > >> updated already for next years extension of daylight savings > >> time in the United States. > >

/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script and Etch

2006-07-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have recently installed Etch from scratch: I have just noticed there is no /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script script inside /etc/dhcp3 Is it expected ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:52:29 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not that this surprises me given the current administration, but > the US extended a bad policy without informing the public when it > happened? WTF? Should be getting rid of DST, not extending > it... the half the

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

2006-07-13 Thread Redefined Horizons
Thanks Andrew. Where do I find the supported screen resolutions for my monitor? Is that something Linux can detect, or do I need to try and dig up the monitor manual? Landon On 7/13/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:26:21PM -0700, Redefined Horizon

Re: How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

2006-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, which was released on > 2006-07-06. linux-source-2.6.16 v2.6.16-16 is timestamped 2006-07-08. > > $ apt-cache policy linux-source-2.6.16 > linux-

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

2006-07-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:26:21PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I'll give that a shot cga. > > Any suggestions on how I fix the resolution problem? Do I need to > reconfigure X-Windows? probably. > > What command would I use to do that on Debian Etch? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg you

SIOCGMIIPHY failed... HELP ME!!!

2006-07-13 Thread Marco
Hi all, I have a laptop with Debian Etch and every second I have this messages in my syslog: Jul 13 21:24:07 localhost ifplugd(eth1)[3712]: SIOCGMIIPHY failed: Operation not supported Jul 13 21:24:07 localhost ifplugd(irda0)[3719]: SIOCGMIIPHY failed: Operation not supported Jul 13 21:24:08 l

Re: dell poweredge 830 RESULTS

2006-07-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:25:12AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >okay gang, help me out here. I've got a buddy coming over tomorrow > >with a dell poweredge 830. So, he calls and asks if i have any windows > >server software for his sweet new server for hishouse. I l

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Derek Broughton
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Sean Perry on Thursday 13 Jul 2006 01:37 wrote: > >> That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if >> left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. > > That's scary. > > I've been using my laptop 24/7 plugged into the mains. >

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

2006-07-13 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'll give that a shot cga. Any suggestions on how I fix the resolution problem? Do I need to reconfigure X-Windows? What command would I use to do that on Debian Etch? Thanks, Scott Huey On 7/13/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:53:44AM EDT, Redefined Horizons

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

2006-07-13 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:50:28 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 11:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrot

Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format

2006-07-13 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:09:50 +0200 John Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a whole bunch of home movies which I'd like to encode into DVD > format. I would like to do this with a selection screen as well. The > command that I want to run in my mind is: > > encode --use-an-index

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: >> I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been >> updated already for next years extension of daylight savings >> time in the United States. > > Not that this

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 11:05, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Micha Feigin wrote: I tried evolution, but beside being a ridiculous bloatware it doesn't seem to handle the e

How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, which was released on 2006-07-06. linux-source-2.6.16 v2.6.16-16 is timestamped 2006-07-08. $ apt-cache policy linux-source-2.6.16 linux-source-2.6.16: Installed: 2.6.16-16 Candidate: 2.6.16-16 Version t

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: > I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been updated > already for next years extension of daylight savings time in the United > States. Not that this surprises me given the current administration, but the US extended a bad p

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 13 July 2006 11:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> I tried evolution, but beside being a ridiculous bloatware it > >> doesn't seem to handle the export part. I also tried emacs, but > >> it doesn't handle hebrew, and

How many serious backport problems have there been?

2006-07-13 Thread Joseph Smidt
I know things on backports.org can't be guaranteed, but what is their track record. Do they just warn you but in reality most people experience few problems, or has it been people's experience that backports are a headache. Also, I know they don't have an official security team, but historically

Re: Why?

2006-07-13 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > The default could be to have the display manager, on initial startup, get > a random number from /dev/random, and use it instead of a human coin > toss. And then we could have lots of fun trying to get new users who are having problems to tell us which desktop they were ran

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 07:27 -0700, michael bailey wrote: > Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit > software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a > Sempron which has AMD64 support built in, but I would not use the 64 > bit capability ? It's alway

RE: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Tony Heal
Stable branch. The data is in libc6 Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:03 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended -

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> I tried evolution, but beside being a ridiculous bloatware it >> doesn't seem to handle the export part. I also tried emacs, but >> it doesn't handle hebrew, and the icalen

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry DuVal wrote: > I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been > updated already for next years extension of daylight savings time > in the United States. I can find updates, but nothing stating > that libc6 has been updated fo

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuckk > Hubbard wrote: >> So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux >> comes only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? >> Can someone with no des

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried evolution, but beside being a ridiculous bloatware it doesn't seem > to handle the export part. I also tried emacs, but it doesn't handle > hebrew, and the icalendar.el file doesn't seem to be able to handle the job How about KOrganize

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 13 July 2006 07:26, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? That's one way. The other is to use a Debian kernel which already has this done for you. > Can someone with no desir

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Sean Perry on Thursday 13 Jul 2006 01:37 wrote: > That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if > left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. That's scary. I've been using my laptop 24/7 plugged into the mains. Can you refer me to some documentation wh

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

2006-07-13 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:53:44AM EDT, Redefined Horizons wrote: [..] > > [2] What key combination can I use to bring up the command line? > try Alt+Ctrl+F1.. F2.. etc. Thanks cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Using tar to extract files from tape

2006-07-13 Thread Rob Hensley
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: eof > Haines Brown wrote: > > I asked this question before, but received no answer. Sorry to > > post it again. > > > > The question is a simple one: can I use tar to extract a file > > from a tape backup made

Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-13 Thread Jerry DuVal
I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been updated already for next years extension of daylight savings time in the United States. I can find updates, but nothing stating that libc6 has been updated for this change in Daylight Savings time specifically. I need to report

Re: [SATA]Which controller?

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 13-jul-2006, at 18:05, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, JB MORLA wrote: Hi, My Debian box is on an Hitachi hard disk ATAPI/IDE/SATA. "normal" Linux distributions don't see this motherboard/controller/ hard disk configuration. The processor is an AMD 64 I would like to add 2 h

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > >> So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > >> only with compiling the

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? Can someone > with no desire to program use FireWir

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-13 Thread H.S.
Magnus Therning wrote: I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the desktop and choose "Unmount Volume" the icon disappears immediately. However the device may be busy in the background, and if I remove the stick too early

Re: dselect stopped after trying to update menu.lst

2006-07-13 Thread [KS]
[KS] wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to > see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything, > so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any. > > I was upgrading my system using dselect and after

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? Can someone > with no desire to program use FireWire? So you think/say that *everyone* who wants to use

Re: Using tar to extract files from tape

2006-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haines Brown wrote: > I asked this question before, but received no answer. Sorry to > post it again. > > The question is a simple one: can I use tar to extract a file > from a tape backup made with a backup application? Depends on the format. "Tape

Re: Using tar to extract files from tape

2006-07-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Alec Berryman wrote: Haines Brown on 2006-07-13 09:48:02 -0400: I tried: # tar xvf /dev/st0 *.xyz tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now When I tried the tvf optio

Re: [SATA]Which controller?

2006-07-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, JB MORLA wrote: Hi, My Debian box is on an Hitachi hard disk ATAPI/IDE/SATA. "normal" Linux distributions don't see this motherboard/controller/hard disk configuration. The processor is an AMD 64 I would like to add 2 hard disks to do some Oracle labs, but I think I need

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