Re: system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs

2006-09-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 03.09.06 11:36, tom arnall wrote: > As of ~1 month ago I started getting a slew of new messages at boot up > (listed > below). and I think I replied at least to the second issue. > The appearance of the messages coincided with the appearance of another > phenomenon: my system momentarily ha

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Sunday 03 September 2006 06:36, Stephen Cormier wrote: > Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since others > have told where to get it use "glxgears -printfps" without the quotes. If you feel like being verbose, you can also run: glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnota

Re: job scheduler for multi-core computers

2006-09-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, does anyone know a simple (easy to inst

Re: Replacing boot drive: how to make a copy of it?

2006-09-03 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 03 September 2006 23:23, Marty wrote: > Marty wrote: > > Kaspar Fischer wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> I need to replace my boot disk as it starts failing (with bad blocks). > >> What is the easiest way to obtain, on a new harddrive (at least as > >> large as the old one), an exact copy o

can ".zsync" files be added to weekly DVD image directories?

2006-09-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Recently, ".zsync" files started showing up in the daily cdimage directory. This is very nice. The zsync program is loads easier to use(*) than jigdo, and provides almost as much savings in download time/bandwidth. Would it be possible to add ".zsync" files to the weekly DVD image and CD i

Re: Trouble on the Debian Front?

2006-09-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Hex Star wrote: > Yikes...is Debian gonna survive? There is surprisingly non-idiotical debate about this on slashdot http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/03/0329217 and Martin Krafft (madduck) has some comments on his blog http://blog.madduck.net/debian/2006.09.03_never-give-up.xhtml Be

Re: Trouble on the Debian Front?

2006-09-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 03 September 2006 20:17, Hex Star wrote: > Yikes...is Debian gonna survive? Just because one relatively minor (in the sense that he had no formal position) Debian developer with a big mouth has a blood pressure problem doesn't mean Debian is doomed. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMP

Re: Trouble on the Debian Front?

2006-09-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 08:17:45PM -0700, Hex Star wrote: > ... Then, in reference to Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and funder of > Ubuntu, Garrett says, 'At the end of the day, having one person who can > make arbitrary decisions and whose word is effectively law probably helps > in many cases.'

Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian

2006-09-03 Thread Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera
Thanks a lot Alexander this is the information what I was searching. Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060901 20:28]: Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but

Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian

2006-09-03 Thread Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On 9/2/06, Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I love Debian and I don`t wanna switch to another distribution. I hav

Re: mv files by date

2006-09-03 Thread Jean-Rene David
* Curtis Vaughan [2006.08.31 16:00]: > Can someone tell me the correct command line for moving a bunch of > files between directories that are, say, older than yesterday while > preserving their time stamps? With Z shell: mv *(.m+2) /dest/dir -- JR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: rebuilding a system remotely?

2006-09-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: Well... messed up as in the mail system is completely gronked. Tried removing and purging every vestige of exim, postfix, sendmail, then reinstalled postfix. Can't get postfix to start. Tried purging postfix and getting exim to run - no dice. I think, somewhere along the wa

Trouble on the Debian Front?

2006-09-03 Thread Hex Star
Linux.com is reporting that Matthew Garrett, one of the more activeDebian developers, has called some ongoing problems with the Debian project into focus with his resignation. While he didn't hold anyactual office, many prominent Debian developers described Garrett as"high profile". From the articl

Printer (Brother DCP110C) no longer works

2006-09-03 Thread Mumia W.
I have a Brother DCP110C. Right after I got it, I was able to get it printing by installing Brother's dcp110clpr-1.0.2-1.i386.deb driver. That was a couple of months ago. Now, whenever I turn on the printer, I get this message displayed on the screen and in dmesg: hub.c: new USB device 00:10

update /dev/disk/by-label/

2006-09-03 Thread T
Hi if I've updated some of my disk labels, how can I let udev update the /dev/disk/by-label/ directory? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rebuilding a system remotely?

2006-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >>> Hi Folks, >>> >>> I have two machines sitting in a data center. One of them, I've just >>> finished, very carefully, co

Re: rebuilding a system remotely?

2006-09-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, I have two machines sitting in a data center. One of them, I've just finished, very carefully, configuring for production use. The other machine I've used a bit as a sandbox for trying things

Re: rebuilding a system remotely?

2006-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have two machines sitting in a data center. One of them, I've just > finished, very carefully, configuring for production use. > > The other machine I've used a bit as a sandbox for trying things before > doin

Re: rebuilding a system remotely? - idea

2006-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roberto > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I did this with a couple of Red Hat servers a few years ago. They were > located in a server room at the university and I did not have a key, but > wanted to do the rebuild over the weekend to minimize disruption. > Anyhow, what I did was to transfe

Re: rebuilding a system remotely?

2006-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 08:56:29PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have two machines sitting in a data center. One of them, I've just > finished, very carefully, configuring for production use. > > The other machine I've used a bit as a sandbox for trying things before > doing t

Re: Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:15:53PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: > > I don't know if this is relevant, but I just noticed this when running > pbuilder create: > > root:/usr/src/perl-5.8.4# pbuilder create > W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist > Distribution is sid. > Building the build environment >

Re: firefox segmentation-fault

2006-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:22:50PM -0400, Luis R Finotti wrote: > Dear all, > > I have just started recently having problems with Firefox (and Mozilla) > in Sarge. I suspect that it started to happen after a recent update, > since a week ago (or so) I did not have any problems. > > If I go to

rebuilding a system remotely?

2006-09-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I have two machines sitting in a data center. One of them, I've just finished, very carefully, configuring for production use. The other machine I've used a bit as a sandbox for trying things before doing them on the production machine - and at this point the sandbox is pretty wel

Re: firefox segmentation-fault

2006-09-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:22:50 -0400 Luis R Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have just started recently having problems with Firefox (and > Mozilla) in Sarge. I suspect that it started to happen after a > recent update, since a week ago (or so) I did not have any problems. > >

Re: Replacing boot drive: how to make a copy of it?

2006-09-03 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: Kaspar Fischer wrote: Hi list, I need to replace my boot disk as it starts failing (with bad blocks). What is the easiest way to obtain, on a new harddrive (at least as large as the old one), an exact copy of the root file system and swap partition? Never touch a running system --

Re: Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Gunton
Neil Gunton wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Obviously there are issues with building your own perl, but I'm sure it must be possible to do it using the "official Debian way". Can anyone give me a step-by-step instructions on how you're supposed to build your own Perl on a Debian system, whil

Re: Replacing boot drive: how to make a copy of it?

2006-09-03 Thread Marty
Kaspar Fischer wrote: Hi list, I need to replace my boot disk as it starts failing (with bad blocks). What is the easiest way to obtain, on a new harddrive (at least as large as the old one), an exact copy of the root file system and swap partition? Never touch a running system -- so my intenti

Re: Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Gunton
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Obviously there are issues with building your own perl, but I'm sure it must be possible to do it using the "official Debian way". Can anyone give me a step-by-step instructions on how you're supposed to build your own Perl on a Debian system, while still keeping every

firefox segmentation-fault

2006-09-03 Thread Luis R Finotti
Dear all, I have just started recently having problems with Firefox (and Mozilla) in Sarge. I suspect that it started to happen after a recent update, since a week ago (or so) I did not have any problems. If I go to maps.google.com, for instance, either browser crashes with a "Segmentation

Re: Which 32 bit kernel runs better under AMD64 architure, 686 or k7?

2006-09-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mercredi 30 août 2006 13:32, Ron Johnson a écrit : > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:27:34AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:33:14PM -0300, Marcello Di Marino > >>> Azevedo wrote: > > [snip] > > > Correct on all c

Re: cron problems in Etch/Sid

2006-09-03 Thread Aleksej
Wayne Topa wrote: > Has anyone, running etch or sid, noticed a problem with cron > _not_ running jobs in /etc/crontab? Just over an hour ago. > I had Upgraded on Aug 28 to icron_3.0pl1-95 and cron has not run since. Etch, -95; don't know when I upgraded it. Nothing in the logs about that, it

Re: Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 02:41:32PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using Sarge on AMD64 (dual Opteron). I noticed recently that there > were some issues with the stock version of Perl - "v5.8.4 built for > x86_64-linux-thread-multi". Messages were appearing in my apache error > log

www.frwd.fi sports computer and linux

2006-09-03 Thread Eric Persson
Have anyone attempted to use the frwd sportscomputer(any model) with linux? Have looked around but without luck so far. Will contact their support as well, but I assume they just play well with windows. :( Anyone tried or have any thoughts? Best, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

pppd hangs silently

2006-09-03 Thread damian
Hi all I am running Debian Sarge (Linux 2.4) on an Intel Pentium III. It acts as a gateway for our LAN and connects to the WAN through PPPoE. pppd and rp-pppoe do the work. Everything works fine but every other day pppd would hang. This occurs for seemingly no reason at intervals of about a day.

Building my own Perl on Sarge AMD64

2006-09-03 Thread Neil Gunton
Hi all, I am using Sarge on AMD64 (dual Opteron). I noticed recently that there were some issues with the stock version of Perl - "v5.8.4 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi". Messages were appearing in my apache error log every time a child process terminated, to the effect that "2 or more t

cron problems in Etch/Sid

2006-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Has anyone, running etch or sid, noticed a problem with cron _not_ running jobs in /etc/crontab? My mail was not being picked up and when I checked I found that cron had stopped running jobs in /etc/crontab. I had Upgraded on Aug 28 to icron_3.0pl1-95 and cron has not run since. cron_3.0pl1-94_i

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > That only works if you've already installed mesa-utils. > > That's not true -- it works whenever you run apt-get/aptitude update. Of > course, it's just sheer luck that glxgears are mentioned in mesa-utils > description, for this (sea

system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs

2006-09-03 Thread tom arnall
As of ~1 month ago I started getting a slew of new messages at boot up (listed below). The appearance of the messages coincided with the appearance of another phenomenon: my system momentarily hangs every 4 mins 2 secs exactly. By 'momentarily hangs' I mean the CPU usage jumps to 50-99% usage (b

Replacing boot drive: how to make a copy of it?

2006-09-03 Thread Kaspar Fischer
Hi list, I need to replace my boot disk as it starts failing (with bad blocks). What is the easiest way to obtain, on a new harddrive (at least as large as the old one), an exact copy of the root file system and swap partition? Never touch a running system -- so my intention is to *copy* the dri

Re: Ext2/3 and too many badblocks?

2006-09-03 Thread Kaspar Fischer
On Sep 3, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Independently of whatever any tool is telling you, consider this sound as the clock ticking the doom of your drive. Backup now. T. On Sep 3, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote: 402 bad blocks are 402 too many any way. It me

Re: difference between octave2.1 and octave2.9?

2006-09-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 03 September 2006 09:38, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > I'm interested in knowing the differences between these two. If > octave2.9, which is supposedly superior to 2.1, is stable, why do we > still have both in the archive? There are still some things that work with octave 2.1 but

email account closed

2006-09-03 Thread brad
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Re: how does ITP work?

2006-09-03 Thread James Westby
On (03/09/06 18:59), Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le dimanche 03 septembre 2006 à 13:25 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a > écrit : > > Hi, > > I saw an old ITP for audacious and wondered who actually approves it > > if not the interested DD? > > If you thing the ITP is old and you are interested in packa

Re: Solved! (Was: can't apt-get install)

2006-09-03 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le dimanche 03 septembre 2006 à 12:45 +0200, Michael Noisternig a écrit : > Now how should I have found out that earlier... > Turns out apt-get was going to "download" some packages from the install > CD. I figured that when I found the parameter --print-uris. However, for > some reason Linux doe

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > I was told that this was used to get around problems in older versions > of shells. Wov! How old shell you have to have, which doesn't understand normal shebang line? Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blo

cron problems in Etch/Sid

2006-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Has anyone, running etch or sid, noticed a problem with cron _not_ running jobs in /etc/crontab? My mail was not being picked up and when I checked I found that cron had stopped running jobs in /etc/crontab. I had Upgraded on Aug 28 to icron_3.0pl1-95 and cron has not run since. cron_3.0pl1-94_i

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Ron Johnson wrote: > That only works if you've already installed mesa-utils. That's not true -- it works whenever you run apt-get/aptitude update. Of course, it's just sheer luck that glxgears are mentioned in mesa-utils description, for this (searching where particular program is coming from) htt

cups configuration

2006-09-03 Thread mlaks
Dear Friends, I am a long time user of sid. I frequently have trouble setting up cups properly again after an upgrade, particularly lately :). I have a network of computers which all print to a single machine which has the printer installed on it. I am currently able to get the computer with

Re: how does ITP work?

2006-09-03 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le dimanche 03 septembre 2006 à 13:25 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit : > Hi, > I saw an old ITP for audacious and wondered who actually approves it > if not the interested DD? Nobody approves an ITP. DDs can react and point some difficulties out (for instance), but there's no authority saying

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-03 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Maxim Vexler wrote: (I'm thinking out loud here) go ahead :-) How about identifying patterns specific to each shell, and then implementing an algorithm that would produce score for each shell match. The one with the highest score will be the one used by src-highlite. This perhaps should be a

Re: Ext2/3 and too many badblocks?

2006-09-03 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le dimanche 03 septembre 2006 à 16:30 +0200, Kaspar Fischer a écrit : > Hi everybody, > > I have recently heard strange noises from one of my IDE harddrives > and have then run > >fsck.ext2 -c -c /dev/hdb1 > > so that badblocks is executed. From the output in syslog I see that > it has found

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-03 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Miles Bader wrote: Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The mode name should appear in this line both preceded and followed by `-*-'. Other text may appear on the line as well. For example, ;-*-Lisp-*- Except that this is totally Emacs-specific and to the best of my knowledge nobody o

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-03 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Matej Cepl wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: OK, so the line "exec ..." can be used as an heuristic for detecting the actual scripting language, right? I have no idea why they use this construct (something similar is used in some perl scripts when they try to be cross-platform between Unix and Win

Re: HP dc7600 Sound installation issues.

2006-09-03 Thread Damian Finol
I'm sorry, I sent this as HTML, this is the plain text version. I usually send all my mail as plain text, but this was the first time I used google mail on a list (so HTML was default). Thank you again. On 9/3/06, Damian Finol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, Recently we've acquired so

HP dc7600 Sound installation issues.

2006-09-03 Thread Damian Finol
Greetings,Recently we've acquired some HP dc7600 workstations where I go to school and one of them was assigned as a small Linux server/station at the office.I installed Debian Etch (from the latest snapshot) and everything is great, network, HD, DVD, video. But the sound has been a pain to install

Re: esound locking sound

2006-09-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/03/2006 05:20 AM, garrone wrote: > Hi, > I am having some difficulty getting sound perfectly right. > > The esd or esound daemon is hogging /dev/dsp etc, causing > game sound and ogg123 to fail. I have to kill esd manually and > start the alsamixergui application and enable channels > b

Re: Fwd: Debian unstable: xorg mouse configuration under vmware

2006-09-03 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:13:03AM EDT, Kent West wrote: > Erich Steiger wrote: > > Does anybody know how to configure xorg from debian unstable under vmware. > > I'am not able to start X11 after upgrading from debian stable to unstable > > under vmware. > > > > > I vaguely recall having to inst

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Westby wrote: > On (03/09/06 09:45), Ron Johnson wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> $ apt-cache search glxgears >>> mesa-utils - Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities >> That only works if you've already installed mesa-utils. >> > > I think you are t

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread James Westby
On (03/09/06 09:45), Ron Johnson wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > $ apt-cache search glxgears > > mesa-utils - Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities > > That only works if you've already installed mesa-utils. > I think you are thinking of dpkg -S. apt-cache works from the list of all available packa

Re: Ext2/3 and too many badblocks?

2006-09-03 Thread Christopher Pharo Glæserud
Kaspar Fischer, > it has found 402 bad blocks, but only some 27 are listed in the > > Is this normal? Are 402 bad blocks too many for ext2/3? 402 bad blocks are 402 too many any way. It means that your drive has started failing and you should replace it. -- regards, Christopher Pharo Glæseru

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find >> glxgears. >> where is glxgears now ? >> Thanks to Ccing me a reply. I am not subscriber to the list. >> >

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 03 September 2006 11:55, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find > glxgears. > where is glxgears now ? > Thanks to Ccing me a reply. I am not subscriber to the list. Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since

Ext2/3 and too many badblocks?

2006-09-03 Thread Kaspar Fischer
Hi everybody, I have recently heard strange noises from one of my IDE harddrives and have then run fsck.ext2 -c -c /dev/hdb1 so that badblocks is executed. From the output in syslog I see that it has found 402 bad blocks, but only some 27 are listed in the filesystem: dumpe2fs -b /dev/hdb1

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find > glxgears. > where is glxgears now ? > Thanks to Ccing me a reply. I am not subscriber to the list. http://www.debian.org/ http://www.debian.org/distrib/pa

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find > glxgears. > where is glxgears now ? > Thanks to Ccing me a reply. I am not subscriber to the list. > > -- > Gérard $ apt-cache search glxgears mesa-utils - Miscellaneous Mesa GL

Re: where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Wang Xu
2006/9/3, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find glxgears. where is glxgears now ? It's in mesa-utils now. :) -- Wang Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

where is glxgears now ?

2006-09-03 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find glxgears. where is glxgears now ? Thanks to Ccing me a reply. I am not subscriber to the list. -- Gérard

difference between octave2.1 and octave2.9?

2006-09-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I'm interested in knowing the differences between these two. If octave2.9, which is supposedly superior to 2.1, is stable, why do we still have both in the archive? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian

2006-09-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060901 20:28]: > Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, > xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I love > Debian and I don`t wanna switch to another distribution. See http://bugs.debian.org/3

problem adding printer with cups

2006-09-03 Thread Basanta Shrestha
Dear List, I am facing a serious difficulty adding printer using cups. I upgraded my system (debian etch) and now I can't add printer. Other computers in the network can add and use printer. Steps follows: http://localhost:631 - OK Add printer - OK Add New Printer - OK Device - I select "Intern

Re: What is this!!!!!

2006-09-03 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:47, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm filling up my hard drive with this record... > So if I read this right, my CDROM drive is hyperactive. > There's nothing in it. > > Before I start bellyaching about some bug can someone shed any light as to > how/why or what can be done ab

Re: What is this!!!!!

2006-09-03 Thread James Westby
On (03/09/06 08:47), Tom Allison wrote: > I'm filling up my hard drive with this record... > So if I read this right, my CDROM drive is hyperactive. > There's nothing in it. > > Before I start bellyaching about some bug can someone shed any light as to > how/why or what can be done about this? >

test

2006-09-03 Thread Basanta Shrestha
sorry list, just wanted to check if I am still on the mailing list. -basanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Debian unstable: xorg mouse configuration under vmware

2006-09-03 Thread Kent West
Erich Steiger wrote: > Does anybody know how to configure xorg from debian unstable under vmware. > I'am not able to start X11 after upgrading from debian stable to unstable > under vmware. > > I vaguely recall having to install "mouse drivers" or "mouse support" or something from _inside_ of VM

What is this!!!!!

2006-09-03 Thread Tom Allison
I'm filling up my hard drive with this record... So if I read this right, my CDROM drive is hyperactive. There's nothing in it. Before I start bellyaching about some bug can someone shed any light as to how/why or what can be done about this? Linux isengard 2.6.16-2-k7 #1 Sat Jul 15 23:05:41 U

Re: bttv tuner card and tuner problems

2006-09-03 Thread Colin
glenn mehesy wrote: > I have now been working on this for quite some time and cannot figure > this out. I am trying to get my leadtek tuner with a bttv chip working. > It is an NTSC tuner but debian etch insists on setting the tuner to type > 5 which is a PAL type. Needless to say it does not work.

Re: What is the status of XGL on Debian

2006-09-03 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 9/2/06, Luis Rogelio Roman Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to everybody, could someone tell me what is the status of XGL, xcompmgr on Debian, I really want this eyecandy on my laptop but I love Debian and I don`t wanna switch to another distribution. I have Debian SID for ppc. You'd

how does ITP work?

2006-09-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I saw an old ITP for audacious and wondered who actually approves it if not the interested DD? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Solved! (Was: can't apt-get install)

2006-09-03 Thread Michael Noisternig
Now how should I have found out that earlier... Turns out apt-get was going to "download" some packages from the install CD. I figured that when I found the parameter --print-uris. However, for some reason Linux doesn't like my CD drive, and on mounting the drive the process stalled. I couldn't

RAID across kernel upgrade ?

2006-09-03 Thread Vladimir Zolotykh
I had a RAID1 on the root fs on the machine with kernel 2.4.27-1-386. Decided at last to upgrade to 2.4.27-3-686. There were no problems with the new kernel installation, only with the RAID1, I lost it :( What is the _right_ procedure of actions might be (well, at least I know one wrong procedure

sata drive or controller failing

2006-09-03 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, today morning i realized that one of the software raid mirrors on my computer report U_ in /proc/mdstat, i.e. one member of the array failed. indeed, i can see the following in the dmesg output: ata6: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata6: status=0x51 {

Re: debian meets HP Proliant DL320

2006-09-03 Thread René Seindal
Micha wrote (31-08-2006 22:26): Hello there! If anyone is running Debian on an HP Proliant machine I would appreciate information about how to solve the problem that the "virtual keyboard / mouse" is registering as usb device in a neverending loop. My solution will look like: blacklisting th

Re: Quanta Plus have become unwieldy.....

2006-09-03 Thread M-L
On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:16, Thierry Chatelet shared this with us all: >--> M-L wrote: >--> > I use Quanta Plus with Debian Etch and of late it has become very > slow. --> > >--> > It uses 96% of the CPU with every keystroke, and each keystroke uses > this much --> > CPU for several seconds.

esound locking sound

2006-09-03 Thread garrone
Hi, I am having some difficulty getting sound perfectly right. The esd or esound daemon is hogging /dev/dsp etc, causing game sound and ogg123 to fail. I have to kill esd manually and start the alsamixergui application and enable channels before games/music will play any sound. I'm trying t

Re: Quanta Plus have become unwieldy.....

2006-09-03 Thread Thierry Chatelet
M-L wrote: I use Quanta Plus with Debian Etch and of late it has become very slow. It uses 96% of the CPU with every keystroke, and each keystroke uses this much CPU for several seconds. Making the program impossible to use. I was wondering if anyone else finds this problem and if so, may hav

Quanta Plus have become unwieldy.....

2006-09-03 Thread M-L
I use Quanta Plus with Debian Etch and of late it has become very slow. It uses 96% of the CPU with every keystroke, and each keystroke uses this much CPU for several seconds. Making the program impossible to use. I was wondering if anyone else finds this problem and if so, may have discovered