Re: Xorg mouse cursor

2006-08-10 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 07:36:42AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: I haven't found any details on how to change the mouse pointers in a pure Xorg system. :( I think you can use xsetroot to do it, though I haven't tried. -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

(solved)Re: how to compile sarge's stock kernel

2006-08-10 Thread Serena Cantor
You are right. I needn't recompile kernel. I follow your instructions, and it works! Thanks! --- Ronny Aasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:58 -0700, Serena Cantor > wrote: > > I am not satisfied with sarge's stock kernel > > 2.4.27-2-386 because : > > > > CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1

Re: Xorg mouse cursor

2006-08-10 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 22:48:42 +0200, T wrote: >Hi, > >I noticed that having upgraded to Xorg, my mouse cursor suddenly has a >modem look -- half transparent, with shade, those kind of thing. > >I'd rather call it more M$ look. Is it possible to get back my plain >simple mouse cursor under Xorg

Re: how to compile sarge's stock kernel

2006-08-10 Thread Ronny Aasen
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:58 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I am not satisfied with sarge's stock kernel > 2.4.27-2-386 because : > > CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m > > I want to change it to Y, so I need recompile it and > wish to use all its existing modules. > > What's the easist way to do it? Thanks!

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Aug 1 well, my experience with a power-up not "catching" ended up being a failing mobo. I think it can come from failing memory too. I think it can also come from a failing power supply that doesn't give enough juice over all the lines resulting in some parts

how to compile sarge's stock kernel

2006-08-10 Thread Serena Cantor
I am not satisfied with sarge's stock kernel 2.4.27-2-386 because : CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m I want to change it to Y, so I need recompile it and wish to use all its existing modules. What's the easist way to do it? Thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: apache2 - authentication in digest mode

2006-08-10 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hello! Hi, > apache2 - Server version: Apache/2.0.54 > > I setup everything from the apache2 doc for the usage of the Digest > authentication methode, and I add some locations in the apache2.conf > that should to be open only from s

Re: command-line utility to write/edit iptc info?

2006-08-10 Thread Bruno Buys
Bruno, I've been running sid for nearly two years with no REAL problems as my main work machine. I do mostly business type stuff -- word proc., email, browsing, accounting and little multi-media stuff now and then. It works really well. The main thing is to use apt-listbugs and watch debian-us

Re: Odd backup-manager messages.

2006-08-10 Thread DJ Hackenbruch
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:45:54PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > --SEFvVLxbW/dEDtN8 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:08:08AM +, djhack wrote: > > Hello, > >=3D20 > >

[Solved] Re: [OT] Using a wireless router...

2006-08-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:26:57PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > can ping, telnet, etc., other machines on the LAN, > > but it does not make it outside. I cannot ping a numeric IP address > > ("destination port unre

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:26:40PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Unfortunately, Linux has completely frozen up on me four times in a row while running #make-kpkg. Different patches each time, and different spots each time. I'll have to figure this out when I don't have

Xorg mouse cursor

2006-08-10 Thread T
Hi, I noticed that having upgraded to Xorg, my mouse cursor suddenly has a modem look -- half transparent, with shade, those kind of thing. I'd rather call it more M$ look. Is it possible to get back my plain simple mouse cursor under Xorg? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:26:40PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Unfortunately, Linux has completely frozen up on me four times in a > row while running #make-kpkg. Different patches each time, and > different spots each time. I'll have to figure this out when I don't > have deadlines. Sadly, I

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Unfortunately, Linux has completely frozen up on me four times in a row while running #make-kpkg. Different patches each time, and different spots each time. I'll have to figure this out when I don't have deadlines. Sadly, I think it's WinXP for now. Thanks for your help. -Chuckk On 8/10/06, R

RE: (SOLVED) "Communicating" with modems...

2006-08-10 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hello Ron, Thank you for the reply, and I appreciate the pointer. Sorry if I was a little vague in my post. Today I was able to locate a handy-dandy little document containing specific procedures for modem testing of the RocketModem multiiport  (this one happens to be PCI) modem card courtesy of

Re: apt-get/aptitude update failing

2006-08-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Michael Voggenreiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler schrieb: >> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main >> Packages >> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) >> - stat (2 No such file or directory) > t

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:18:44AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>Well, half done. The reboot hangs after the keyboard lights flash and > >>before the BIOS screen shows... I have to power off by the button and > >>power on again. And that doesn't always work. > >> >

Re: Logrotate problems

2006-08-10 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:40:47AM +0200, Martin wrote.. > I'm seeing some odd behaviors when rotating maillogs. > > I have the following settings for the maillog: > > # vi /etc/logrotate.d/postfix > > /var/log/mail.log { > rotate 4 > missingok > create 640 root ad

Re: bittorrent application

2006-08-10 Thread [KS]
Wei Hu wrote: > Why ubittorrent and BitComet do not have a Linux/Unix version, even > binary version?Azureus taks too much RAM, Py-bittorrent is a bit slow. slow? What do you really mean by "a bit slow"? If it is the download/upload speed you are talking about, it probably has more to do with the p

Re: apt-get/aptitude update failing

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Voggenreiter
Bill Wohler schrieb: > I take it back. I simplified my sources.list to: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free > > removed all the cached package files in /var/lib/apt/lists, and ran > apt-get update. This worked: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:808]$ sudo apt-get update

Re: Burning a video DVD

2006-08-10 Thread [KS]
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi, all. > > I created `image.iso' from a video DVD with: > > $ readcd dev=0,1,0 f=image.iso > > . Now I want to copy it onto an empty DVD with: > > $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd1=image.iso > > , but I get the following: > > Executing 'builtin_dd if=image.iso

Re: cups newbie

2006-08-10 Thread M-L
On Friday 11 August 2006 04:53, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica shared this with us all: >--> Hi all, >--> >--> Someone knows few thinks about cups? I am trying to set up a printer >--> and http://localhost:631 give a page from where if I choose anything >--> the browser just hangs with the message "Waiting

Re: [OT] Using a wireless router as a point of access to LAN

2006-08-10 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenward Vaughan wrote: > can ping, telnet, etc., other machines on the LAN, > but it does not make it outside. I cannot ping a numeric IP address > ("destination port unreachable" from the 486 gateway) or anything like > ftp.debian.org (times out).

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Well, half done. The reboot hangs after the keyboard lights flash and before the BIOS screen shows... I have to power off by the button and power on again. And that doesn't always work. I've been watching this thread, and I think you might be facing a hardwa

Re: apt-get/aptitude update failing

2006-08-10 Thread Bill Wohler
I take it back. I simplified my sources.list to: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free removed all the cached package files in /var/lib/apt/lists, and ran apt-get update. This worked: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:808]$ sudo apt-get update Get: 1 http://http.us.debian.org et

apt-get/aptitude update failing

2006-08-10 Thread Bill Wohler
I went to update my etch system and got lines like this from "aptitude update": W: Couldn't stat source package list http://mirrors.kernel.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) B

[OT] Using a wireless router as a point of access to LAN

2006-08-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hi, I've been using a wireless router (Netgear wgr614, a present from my sister) to connect a now-mobile computer to my home LAN. This replaced an old 486 I was using. Well, the darned thing stopped working (Internet port seems to be non-functional), so I slapped my Debian-based 486 back into pl

Re:%20Re: Debian packages dependencies problems

2006-08-10 Thread Hentai Pantsu
From: "Edward J. Shornock" Try the line in sources.list as deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main That didn't worked. From: "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" Newer versions of apt don't seem to care about this, but if you're running an older version of apt, the trailing slash after "debi

Re: cups newbie

2006-08-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Someone knows few thinks about cups? I am trying to set up a printer > > [...] > > I try to follow some tutorials, howto's and faq's from cups but I > can't figure it out... Hi, maybe the procedure I followed to make my Epson Sty

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
> Well, half done. The reboot hangs after the keyboard lights flash and > before the BIOS screen shows... I have to power off by the button and > power on again. And that doesn't always work. I've been watching this thread, and I think you might be facing a hardware problem there. If the mach

Re: command-line utility to write/edit iptc info?

2006-08-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
> > > >2. Upgrade to Etch or Sid. If you have a desktop, that's not too > > scary. > > > > > 1. When the debian page says 'depends on such and such other packages', > aren't they going to mess my sarge install? I mean, if this is a sid > page referring to sid packages, I am not supposed to try

Re: command-line utility to write/edit iptc info?

2006-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Buys wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Bruno Buys wrote: >> >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Bruno Buys wrote: [snip] >> You could also: >> 1. Download the source packages and build them on Sarge. This link >> points to all the

RE: "Communicating" with modems...

2006-08-10 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hello Arthur, I had read something about C-Kermit (at die.com???) and thought it may work for me but wanted to consult with the list community before doing anything. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Cheers! > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "Commun

Re: command-line utility to write/edit iptc info?

2006-08-10 Thread Bruno Buys
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Buys wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: [snip] ron, My sources.list won't list exiv2. What repo does your come from? apt-get.org also doesn't

Broken dpkg.cfg?

2006-08-10 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hi all, From the Debian FAQ 8.5: If you'd like to log all your dpkg invokations (even those done using frontends like aptitude), you could add log /var/log/dpkg.log to your /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg. But, like, this doesn't work and stuff: # cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg log /var/log/dpkg.log #

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: I see. I only hopped into this thread after the post in which you asked about the KDE power control settings and the error messages about the incomplete ACPI installation. From that I got the impression that you wanted to activate these laptop-specific ACPI features in KDE.

Re: HOWTO use system_aliases exim4

2006-08-10 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, it seems to be working fine now. I think the problem was the FQDN included my smarthost name i.e. fred.grandadventuresranch.com instead of just fred But, who knows. Cheers, jec -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/10/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:47:42PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > > Cool, thank you. > BTW, I know it must seem like the most obvious thing in the world, but > the more I google and search Debian help, the less answers I find... > what do

Re: cups newbie

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Voggenreiter
Ionel Mugurel Ciobica schrieb: > Hi all, > > Someone knows few thinks about cups? I am trying to set up a printer > and http://localhost:631 give a page from where if I choose anything > the browser just hangs with the message "Waiting for localhost...". > > I have try the hard way, without the

Re: cups newbie

2006-08-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P.S. I run sarge and all install is standard (via apt-get), no custom > packages. To use the CUPS webadmin page, the username is 'root' and the password is the password of 'root'. I do not remember any difficulties with CUPS under Sarge. When I

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 19:34:27 +0100, Wulfy wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >ACPI seems to be broken for you. Are there any "helpful" error messages > >during boot? Try to run > > > >dmesg | grep -i acpi > > > >ACPI can be a real pain in the neck on some hardware. Your best bet is > >probably to

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:47:42PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > > Cool, thank you. > BTW, I know it must seem like the most obvious thing in the world, but > the more I google and search Debian help, the less answers I find... > what do you do when applying two patches tells you: > Reversed (or

Phantoms when I move the cursor in Gtk apps

2006-08-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
In text areas with a cursor (e.g. editing boxes in Firefox), as I move the cursor, the old location of the cursor is apparently not properly undrawn, leaving me with phantom cursors. See attached image. Has anyone seen something like that? This is on one of my Debian "testing" systems. I have

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/10/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:02:51PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > I have linux-2.6.17, trying to patch it with 2.6.17-mm6, > patch-2.6.17-rt8 from Molnar, and bootsplash-3.1.6-2.6.15.diff. > I'm a little confused why, when I enter: > Hamme

HOWTO use system_aliases exim4

2006-08-10 Thread Jeffrey Chimene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I'm trying to get exim4 to use the /etc/aliases file. I want to send email addressed to root and postmaster to my smarthost. For example, logcheck and cron-apt are failing when sending mail. This used to work just fine under exim3 Address rewri

cups newbie

2006-08-10 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
Hi all, Someone knows few thinks about cups? I am trying to set up a printer and http://localhost:631 give a page from where if I choose anything the browser just hangs with the message "Waiting for localhost...". I have try the hard way, without the webadmin interface, but without any luck. Any

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:02:51PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > I have linux-2.6.17, trying to patch it with 2.6.17-mm6, > patch-2.6.17-rt8 from Molnar, and bootsplash-3.1.6-2.6.15.diff. > I'm a little confused why, when I enter: > Hammertime:/home/chuckk/Desktop/kernel/new/linux-2.6.17-mm6# patc

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
P.S.- #ps -aux in another terminal shows 0.0 for CPU and memory of the patch operation, if that matters. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Burning a video DVD

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Voggenreiter
Rodolfo Medina schrieb: > Hi, all. > > I created `image.iso' from a video DVD with: > > $ readcd dev=0,1,0 f=image.iso > > . Now I want to copy it onto an empty DVD with: > > $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd1=image.iso > > , but I get the following: > > Executing 'builtin_dd if=image.is

Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
I have linux-2.6.17, trying to patch it with 2.6.17-mm6, patch-2.6.17-rt8 from Molnar, and bootsplash-3.1.6-2.6.15.diff. I'm a little confused why, when I enter: Hammertime:/home/chuckk/Desktop/kernel/new/linux-2.6.17-mm6# patch --verbose -p1 ../2.6.17-mm6 the terminal sits idle, apparently indef

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: ACPI seems to be broken for you. Are there any "helpful" error messages during boot? Try to run dmesg | grep -i acpi ACPI can be a real pain in the neck on some hardware. Your best bet is probably to go to tuxmobil.org and see how far other people have gotten with your lap

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: ACPI seems to be broken for you. Are there any "helpful" error messages during boot? Try to run dmesg | grep -i acpi ACPI can be a real pain in the neck on some hardware. Your best bet is probably to go to tuxmobil.org and see how far other people have gotten with your lap

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:46:32 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:35:33 -0400 > > "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMA

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 23:58:48 +0100, Wulfy wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >I think that KDE should recognize that the AC adapter and the battery > >ACPI modules are loaded. Let's check some ACPI functions: Do you have > >the /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ and /proc/acpi/battery/ directories? Test if >

Re: "Communicating" with modems...

2006-08-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hello all, In the Linux world, what tool do I use to communicate with an installed modem? I am trying to troubleshoot a problem sending faxes and want to eliminate the possibility it is the modem hardware. There is an eight port Rocket modem or something like that installed

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread John Hasler
Mathias Brodala writes: > Don’t you think that it supports only some kind of globbing like ls and > others do? Ls doesn't do globbing. The shell does. But you're right: looks like dpkg just does some sort of globbing. The authors evidently believe that 'filename-search-pattern' tells you everyt

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/10/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:35:33 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > To have modules loaded in a cer

Burning a video DVD (was: dvd burning)

2006-08-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, all. I created `image.iso' from a video DVD with: $ readcd dev=0,1,0 f=image.iso . Now I want to copy it onto an empty DVD with: $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/scd1=image.iso , but I get the following: Executing 'builtin_dd if=image.iso of=/dev/scd1 obs=32k seek=0' :-( /dev/scd1: 229

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:35:33 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > To have modules loaded in a certain order, I would add them > > to /etc/modules

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/10/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To have modules loaded in a certain order, I would add them to /etc/modules in the order you want them loaded. One module per line, no other instructions needed. This works when I need network cards loaded in a cert

kpdf find backwards is not clickable

2006-08-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
While reading a pdf file with kpdf, I am not able to search backwards. When I do Edit -> Find, then only the "Case sensitive" option is clickable. Rest of the options are greyed out. Is this a bug or is there any work around? $ kpdf --version Qt: 3.3.6 KDE: 3.5.4 KPDF: 0.5.3 packages are mixed

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:41:00 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If no one knows, does anyone know where I can find documentation of > how to control this for Debian? > I'd like my ALSA to be in order so I can recompile my kernel, and

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/10/06, CJ van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:41:00AM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > If no one knows, does anyone know where I can find documentation of > how to control this for Debian? > I'd like my ALSA to be in order so I can recompile my kernel, and I > ca

Re: Is anybody can recommend good laptop computer, there can install Debian without mager problems?

2006-08-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Don't cross post. This has been asked on debian-laptop. Many people read both lists and consider your second one spam. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: canon pixma ip1000

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! > great, can you please send the driver or link and procedure ?? The driver is in the gutenprint / gimpprint database. CU Michael -- ,''`. Michael Ott, e-mail: michael at king-coder dot de : :' : Debian SID on Thinkpad T43: `. `'http://w

Re: canon pixma ip1000

2006-08-10 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
great, can you please send the driver or link and procedure ??On 8/10/06, Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hello!> any body using this prineter in debian sucessfully. I got the driver for linux > but it only work on suse or opensuse :(I have the pixma ip300 and it works with the Canon S800 dr

Is anybody can recommend good laptop computer, there can install Debian without mager problems?

2006-08-10 Thread Alex Yakushev
Hello every body. Is anybody can recommend good laptop computer, there can install Debian without mager problems? I am not so experienced with Linux, but… Dell Inspiron 6400 seems for me is sucks. I spend lot time to make working all hardware. Unfortunately, I just wasted my time. Steel not workin

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello John. > It's perfectly sane behavior, though not properly documented. 'dpkg -S' > accepts regular expressions. Try > > dpkg -S '/bin/[a-z]s' Are you sure that it supports regular expressions? $ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/X.*' dpkg: /usr/bin/X.* not found. But: $ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/X*'

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread John Hasler
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > dpkg -S /usr/bin/\\[ (two backslashes) will do it. Jon Dowland writes: > Urgh nasty... I wonder if there's a bug to be filed there. Roger Leigh writes: > I think so. It doesn't look like sane behaviour, even if you quote > it: > $ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/[' > dpkg: /usr/bi

Re: thinkpad value for money?

2006-08-10 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1155122946 past the epoch, Robert D. Crawford wrote: > The only complaint that I have is the placement of the > speaker. I have to use a spoken interface, and if I am > outside it is sometimes hard to understand what the > computer is speaking to me, as the speaker is on the > bottom of the mac

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-08-10 Thread Mertens Bram
Serban Top-posting is considered bad netiquette so please see my response below. On 2006-08-10, Serban Udrea wrote: [...] > Johannes, thank you for your help! Nevertheless, I do not understand why > apt-get does not do the job, why am I supposed to use aptitude, which is > (if I do interpret co

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 1155211042 past the epoch, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> dpkg -S /usr/bin/\\[ (two backslashes) will do it. > > Urgh nasty... I wonder if there's a bug to be filed there. I think so. It doesn't look like sane behaviour, even if you quote it: $ dpkg -S

Re: thinkpad value for money?

2006-08-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert D. Crawford wrote: Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: My budget is a little on the light side, but I could manage a 'low-end' thinkpad like an R51 or maybe a T42. I paid about $600USD for a used T-40 with 512M RAM and a 1.5 Pentium-M processor, built in IPW2100, CD-RW/DVD drive..

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1155211042 past the epoch, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > dpkg -S /usr/bin/\\[ (two backslashes) will do it. Urgh nasty... I wonder if there's a bug to be filed there. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Naming multiple alsa sound cards (was Re: synthetic sound generator with api)

2006-08-10 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:41:00AM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > If no one knows, does anyone know where I can find documentation of > how to control this for Debian? > I'd like my ALSA to be in order so I can recompile my kernel, and I > can't find any clear explanation of it. Everyone says the

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[ > dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/\[ > dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. > dpkg -S /usr/bin/\\[ (two backslashes) will do it. Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

projet mariam

2006-08-10 Thread mariam boku
A VOTRE HONNEUR,   Je vous prie de bien vouloir m'excuser pour cette intrusion qui peut paraître surprenante à première vue d'autant qu'il n'existe aucune relation entre nous. Je voudrais avec votre accord vous présenter ma situation et vous proposer une affaire qui pourrait vous intéresser. Je

Re: Debian packages dependencies problems

2006-08-10 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:08:14AM -0400, Edward J. Shornock wrote: What i would like to know is how do i solve the apt-setup problem What's wrong with my source.list config for the "testing" distro? Try the line in sources.list as deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main Newer ver

Re: canon pixma ip1000

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! > any body using this prineter in debian sucessfully. I got the driver for linux > but it only work on suse or opensuse :( I have the pixma ip300 and it works with the Canon S800 driver. Maybe it works also for you. CU Michael -- ,''`. Michael Ott, e

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[ dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/\[ dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. $ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\[' coreutils: /usr/bin/[ man dpkg(1) says: dpkg -S |

canon pixma ip1000

2006-08-10 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
any body using this prineter in debian sucessfully. I got the driver for linux but it only work on suse or opensuse :(-- S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)Home page: http://lavluda.tripod.com Blog: http://lavluda.awardspace.comYahoo!! ID: lavluda MSN ID: lavluda Skype : lavluda

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-08-10 Thread Serban Udrea
Hello! And please excuse the very late answer, some urgent matters hold me off this issue. Johannes, thank you for your help! Nevertheless, I do not understand why apt-get does not do the job, why am I supposed to use aptitude, which is (if I do interpret correctly the apt-get manpage) a fron

Re: Debian packages dependencies problems

2006-08-10 Thread Edward J. Shornock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > What i would like to know is how do i solve the apt-setup problem > What's wrong with my source.list config for the "testing" distro? Try the line in sources.list as deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> johannes2:~# ll /usr/bin/[ >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24816 2006-08-04 03:08 /usr/bin/[ > > "dpkg -S" is a smart idea, but too clever this time. Plain old man > will tell you what you need to know. Or even /usr/bin/[ --help /usr/bin/[ --version --

Re: clamav upgrade issues

2006-08-10 Thread Mertens Bram
On 2006-08-10, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 09.08.06 16:21, Mertens Bram wrote: > > apt-get dist-upgrade removed clamav and holds back libclamav1. The > > latter is held back because libgmp3 is not installable. libgmp3 is > > not installable because it is being replaced by libgmpxx3 libgmp3

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Johannes. > I just stumbled over this: > > johannes2:~# ll /usr/bin/[ > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24816 2006-08-04 03:08 /usr/bin/[ > > No idea, what this means or how it got on my system. It exists to provide the alternative syntax for the „test“ command. Just look at the manpage: man \[

Re: /usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I just stumbled over this: > > johannes2:~# ll /usr/bin/[ > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24816 2006-08-04 03:08 /usr/bin/[ > > No idea, what this means or how it got on my system. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[ >

/usr/bin/[ what is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I just stumbled over this: johannes2:~# ll /usr/bin/[ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24816 2006-08-04 03:08 /usr/bin/[ No idea, what this means or how it got on my system. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[ dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/\[ dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not f

Re: MP3 resampling

2006-08-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.08.06 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have some .mp3 files that I would like to resample to a lower bitrate > to take up less space. That's true, I did it already and got the expected result. > from what I have read, I should be able to do > this with lame with a cmdline of: > >lame -

Logrotate problems

2006-08-10 Thread Martin
Hi, I'm seeing some odd behaviors when rotating maillogs. I have the following settings for the maillog: # vi /etc/logrotate.d/postfix /var/log/mail.log { rotate 4 missingok create 640 root adm postrotate #reload syslog /etc/init.d/sysklogd reloa