Re: Bug #352758

2007-02-09 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:50:00PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:05:56PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any > > feedback. > > > > I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system > You can track your bug

Re: Xorg restrictions

2007-02-09 Thread ccostin
On 2/10/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:13:59AM +0200, ccostin wrote: > On 2/9/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Allocating too much memory to the X server will not crash the entire OS. > > > > A weird bug appear when copy&paste

Re: IBM NetVista / CoStar Labelwriter: giving up!

2007-02-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:28 -0800, Walter Lindell wrote: > Hello- > > I have acquired a CoStar Label Writer Plus with power supply but no > connecting cable. > > Can anyone suggest where I might find the pin-out of the serial port > cable so I can > make one up? > > Thanks- http://global.dym

Re: Apt source file for etch.

2007-02-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:07 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Could someone direct me to an /etc/apt/sources.list file that works for > "etch" or explain how I should go about creating one. This is normally > taken care of by the installer but since I did not have a working > connection when I was supposed

Apt source file for etch.

2007-02-09 Thread cga2000
Could someone direct me to an /etc/apt/sources.list file that works for "etch" or explain how I should go about creating one. This is normally taken care of by the installer but since I did not have a working connection when I was supposed to execute that step .. I skipped it. And as a result I do

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Nick Boyce
Grok Mogger wrote: > Nick Boyce wrote: > >> The latest Debian Weekly News [1] mentions there are already tentative >> plans to add updated kernels to Etch during its lifecycle, specifically >> to add support for new hardware ... yay :-) > > Very cool! Thanks for letting me know. Of course, 9 mon

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:31 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 02/08/07 17:51, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> > > [snip] > >> I'm just a furry fan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom > >> You might check out news://alt.fan.furry sometime if you're >

Re: [ltp] News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:46 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I can never remember which way its supposed to go. I just stick to > double ROT-13. much easier that way as the direction doesn't matter > then. ;-P Only Double? Sheesh. I use *AT LEAST* an even set on order of magnitude ROT-13. T

Re: random quirkyness

2007-02-09 Thread Mike Myers
On 2/9/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:14:55 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > I still can't seem to get this all worked out. I've uninstalled any traces > of the nvidia driver, like nvidia-kernel, nvidia-common, and nvidia-glx and > then reinstalled all of the

Re: how to upgrade your kernel without a reboot

2007-02-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:03:35PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:52:50PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > this uses the first stanza in the /boot/grub/menu.lst as the default > > parameters. I installed a new kernel, then uses this shell script. Then > > the xserver res

Re: how to upgrade your kernel without a reboot

2007-02-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:52:50PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > this uses the first stanza in the /boot/grub/menu.lst as the default > parameters. I installed a new kernel, then uses this shell script. Then > the xserver restarted and I was back in my display manager and after I > did a 'uname -a', I

how to upgrade your kernel without a reboot

2007-02-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi *, just tried the new coolness (at least for me) by using kexec. Its something in recent 2.6 kernels need to load a new kernel into memory and then 'reboot' it. This is what I used: kernel=$(grep "^kernel" /boot/grub/menu.lst|h

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Nick Boyce wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Also, I have to say this whole problem I've stumbled on to seems kind of silly to me in a way. I love Debian's approach to stability and security, but why not at least keep adding hardware support to the kernel as it becomes available? Seems like it would

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Nick Boyce
Grok Mogger wrote: > Also, I have to say this whole problem I've stumbled on to seems kind of > silly to me in a way. I love Debian's approach to stability and > security, but why not at least keep adding hardware support to the > kernel as it becomes available? Seems like it would make a lot of

Re: OT: Linux Tux Flags

2007-02-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:40:50PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Good afternoon Debianistas. > > I was noticing that the flag out front of my house was looking pretty > sad and normal, seasonal tripe. > > I've googled and cafepressed, but have

Re: IBM NetVista / CoStar Labelwriter: giving up!

2007-02-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 05:28:33PM -0800, Walter Lindell wrote: > Hello- > > I have acquired a CoStar Label Writer Plus with power supply but no > connecting cable. > > Can anyone suggest where I might find the pin-out of the serial port > cable so I can > make one up? > If its a standard ser

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: Thanks for the advice. I have to admit, sounds a little scary for someone who has never compiled a kernel before. =\ But I may actually try it. There's a first time for everything! And you'll have a better understanding of the kernel that way too.

Re: IBM NetVista / CoStar Labelwriter: giving up!

2007-02-09 Thread Walter Lindell
Hello- I have acquired a CoStar Label Writer Plus with power supply but no connecting cable. Can anyone suggest where I might find the pin-out of the serial port cable so I can make one up? Thanks- Walt -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7

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2007-02-09 Thread 0wu3265g05p123v
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solution to prevent modules from loading

2007-02-09 Thread Esekla
So here's what I did on my Etch system running kernel 2.6.18: used modconf to make sure the modules I didn't want weren't in the associated manual module load config files. installed the discover package (which uses discover2 as opposed to discover1) edited /etc/discover-modprobe.conf and add

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Buys
Grok Mogger wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT823

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:35:23AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board'

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Bruno Buys wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'. I went to ker

Re: Xorg restrictions

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:13:59AM +0200, ccostin wrote: > On 2/9/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Allocating too much memory to the X server will not crash the entire OS. > > > > A weird bug appear when copy&paste from SciTE text editor (syntax > highlighted code) to OpenO

Re: hardware problem? continual errors with drive and kernel

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:50:40PM -0800, Ric Otte wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone else had had problems like this and had any > suggestions. I don't know much about hardware and don't begin to know what > to do. > Get a Knoppix CD or DVD and run memtest on your system for a couple of day

Re: Xorg restrictions

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:13:59AM +0200, ccostin wrote: > On 2/9/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:26:33PM +0200, ccostin wrote: > >> Is there a way to limit Xorg resources allocated to an application, > >> ex.: not to open too many windows or to lim

Re: News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:44:04PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Article I, Section 8. > > The actual language in the constitution states that "The Congress shall > have the power to ... promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, > by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventor

Re: News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:31:18AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Well, how would you describe someone who is so eager to dispose of your > country's founding rights just to make a buck? > Paul, You seem confused. He was simply acting to *secure* the rights of corporations. Don't forget that b

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread John Hasler
Dave Sherohman writes: > While copyright violation may arguably prevent you from receiving profit > that would have come from a sale, it does not take anything from you that > you already possessed. In the US it is not even copyright infringement to purchase a used computer with Microsoft Windows

Re: WindowMaker upgrade

2007-02-09 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:33:33PM EST, Tom Allison wrote: > Well, I did it again. I upgraded windowmaker on testing and a bunch of > stuff is all screwed up. > > Somewhere I had a setting to rotate windows on ALT+TAB but not only does > this not work, I can't even find the settings to fix it a

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:39:57AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If you buy a computer and you have any doubt at all in your mind as to the > legality of the copy of windows that is already on the machine's hard > drive, erase entire hard drive and install Debian on machine. Sorry, but that is t

Re: help with debian start-up freezing

2007-02-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:57:20PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:22:53PM -0800, James Smith wrote: > > Startup stuck on "starting openbsd secure shell server... > > i removed ssh, but now it freezes after starting up samba daemons > > this is likely some networ

Re: From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:58:29 +0100 Niels Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now when I'm happily back in Gnome I checked Desktop > Administration > Services Here I can see kdm is running in the background (I cant turn it off, the servicemanager dies) ? This ap

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-09 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:47:42AM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:14:40PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > [...] > > > you mention lots of locales you have no use for. localepurge will > > > remove these locales for you. :) > > > > Sorry I missed your reply. > > > > I tried

Re: Xorg restrictions

2007-02-09 Thread ccostin
On 2/9/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:26:33PM +0200, ccostin wrote: > Is there a way to limit Xorg resources allocated to an application, > ex.: not to open too many windows or to limit the use of (Xorg), eg. > memory allocated by X server (for that

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:54:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >There is no theft involved here. > > Are you aware of the details of the case? How do you know that no > theft was involved? I believe his point was that copyright violation is not theft. (While copyright viola

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Bruno Buys
Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'. I went to kernel.org and started

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-09 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 09 February 2007 14:16, Franck Joncourt wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > On Friday 09 February 2007 13:46, Alberto Isaac wrote: > >> 2007/2/9, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> recently did upgrade of etch system and now mysql server won't start, > >>> system > >>> giving instead the ms

Re: News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread ChadDavis
The actual language in the constitution states that "The Congress shall have the power to ... promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" Interestingly, I've read that

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/07 12:31, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/08/07 17:51, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> >> [snip] >>> I'm just a furry fan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom >>> You might check out news://alt.fan.fu

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-09 Thread Franck Joncourt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tom arnall wrote: > On Friday 09 February 2007 13:46, Alberto Isaac wrote: >> 2007/2/9, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> recently did upgrade of etch system and now mysql server won't start, >>> system >>> giving instead the msg: >>> >>> /va

Re: apt-listbugs behavior (was libpangocairo and gimp...)

2007-02-09 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:46:55AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > On Monday 22 January 2007 12:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:29:00AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > > is the solution simply to wait u

Re: From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:58:29 +0100 Niels Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list > > I'm running Debian testing (etch) on a AMD64x2 box. > > I've tried to get used to the K Desktop Environment but didn't > succeeded :-) > > Now I have switched back to Gnome again. > > I don't know if th

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-09 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 09 February 2007 13:46, Alberto Isaac wrote: > 2007/2/9, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > recently did upgrade of etch system and now mysql server won't start, > > system > > giving instead the msg: > > > > /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index' not found > > > > any ideas welcomed. >

kerntypes files

2007-02-09 Thread Eric Yin
I need to use LKCD, so I need the kerntypes file. The Debain I used is 2.6.8-2-686-smp which i installed 1 years ago(with the 2 DVDs). when i installed the LKCD from the DVD, it tell me to install kernel-package to get the kerntypes file. I installed the kernel-package, but do not know how to co

hardware problem? continual errors with drive and kernel

2007-02-09 Thread Ric Otte
I have a AMD XP 1700+ with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard and 512M of ram. Recently I noticed many errors in the log files, everything from kernel oops to errors on the hard drive. I replaced the drive with a new one and did a fresh install of etch. I still got lots of errors, especially hard drive

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-09 Thread Alberto Isaac
try to use apt-get --reinstall install mysql 2007/2/9, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: recently did upgrade of etch system and now mysql server won't start, system giving instead the msg: /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index' not found any ideas welcomed. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mike McCarty wrote: BTW, where in the Constitution of these USA does it state that Copyright must be limited? Well, this is getting WAY off topic, but... Article I, Section 8. The actual language in the constitution states that "The Congress shall have the power to ... promote the Progress o

Re: s-video out, Dell nvidia laptop?

2007-02-09 Thread Don Hayward
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 February 2007 12:02, you wrote: # TV Out Setup � � � � �Option � � �"TVStandard" "NTSC" � � � � �Option � � �"TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO" � � � � �Option � � �"TVOverScan" "0.6" � � � � �Option � � �"C

Re: News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Johnson wrote: Well, how would you describe someone who is so eager to dispose of your country's founding rights just to make a buck? I don't wish a painful death on anyone. BTW, where in the Constitution of these USA does it state that Copyright must be limited? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;mai

Re: Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:04:52PM -0600, Tarek Soliman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:38:58PM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: > > > "Tarek" == Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Tarek> I have done this and even dist-upgraded to etch. Every time I > > Tarek> put the PCI card bac

Re: help with debian start-up freezing

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:22:53PM -0800, James Smith wrote: > Debian sarge k2.6 > > Startup stuck on "starting openbsd secure shell server... > > I had done a 'apt-get upgrade' and on reboot, debian gets stuck on "Starting > openbsd secure shell server: sshd" > > And In recovery mode, re

How can I know whether my Etch system isn't broken?

2007-02-09 Thread csanyipal
Hello! I have dist upgraded from Sarge to Etch since a 1-2 month. I use Synaptic for this and to installing packages. Now I think that that maybe my system is broken, because of some bugs that I find in emacs21. When I find bug in emacs21 and jde that I try to use with emacs21, I report bug wi

help with debian start-up freezing

2007-02-09 Thread James Smith
Debian sarge k2.6 Startup stuck on "starting openbsd secure shell server... I had done a 'apt-get upgrade' and on reboot, debian gets stuck on "Starting openbsd secure shell server: sshd" And In recovery mode, restarting the computer, it gets stuck on "stopping openbsd secure shell serve

discover

2007-02-09 Thread Esekla
I'm currently trying to solve the same problem. It looks like maybe the discover1 package is the culprit? I'm about to fiddle with /etc/discover.conf & /etc/discover.conf-2.6 and reboot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

2007-02-09 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:38:58PM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: > > "Tarek" == Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tarek> I have done this and even dist-upgraded to etch. Every time I > Tarek> put the PCI card back, it becomes the source of monitor output > Tarek> during boot but then

Re: News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Stephen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:38:14PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson > wrote: > > [ ...] > >> Sonny Bono was a terrorist for arguing against limited copyright, >> and for that, I'm glad his death was painful. > > Geezus that's pretty harsh Paul. Well, how would you describe

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/08/07 17:51, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >> > [snip] >> I'm just a furry fan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom >> You might check out news://alt.fan.furry sometime if you're >> interested. > > Do you yiff & scritch? > > Scratch that; I don't wa

Re: mirror-server

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Tuani Panggabean wrote: > > > On Thursday 08 February 2007, you wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you looked on the mirror howto to see the >> correct method? >> >> > > http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror > > already read the method > http://www.debian.org/mirror/ft

See if this helps

2007-02-09 Thread tweetyhack
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Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:51:18AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Friday 09 February 2007 11:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:36:46AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 11:43, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:32:

OT: Linux Tux Flags

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon Debianistas. I was noticing that the flag out front of my house was looking pretty sad and normal, seasonal tripe. I've googled and cafepressed, but have been unable to find a flag with Tux on it, or the Debian swirl, or some such li

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: Mike McCarty writes: I dunno about the law in Russia, but in Texas what is illegal is *knowingly* receiving stolen goods. There is no theft involved here. Are you aware of the details of the case? How do you know that no theft was involved? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){pr

Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

2007-02-09 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 09 February 2007 11:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:36:46AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 11:43, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:32:43AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > > last night my system ground to

Re: [ltp] News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:07:32PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 06:27:23AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >> > >>That's called ROT 8-) > > > > > >^ > > > >could have swaron you meant ROT-8 as in: > > > >Lzsl'k uaddwv J

Re: Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST))

2007-02-09 Thread William Chipman
Thanks for the information. And yes, I am forced to use Outlook and have noticed it's extra baggage before. sigh William Chipman, Infrastructure Manager JSA Technologies 877-572-8324x2204 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jsatech.com <>

Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:36:46AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 11:43, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:32:43AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > last night my system ground to a halt with a full disk. looking at the > > > logs, i discovered that

Re: s-video out, Dell nvidia laptop?

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 February 2007 12:02, you wrote: > # TV Out Setup >          Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC" >          Option      "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO" >          Option      "TVOverScan" "0.6" >          Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "TV" Hi, I'm ver

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread John Hasler
Mike McCarty writes: > I dunno about the law in Russia, but in Texas what is illegal is > *knowingly* receiving stolen goods. There is no theft involved here. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

2007-02-09 Thread John Stoffel
> "Tarek" == Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tarek> I have done this and even dist-upgraded to etch. Every time I Tarek> put the PCI card back, it becomes the source of monitor output Tarek> during boot but then the booting fails. I am looking for a way Tarek> to figure out at which

Re: bash_hystory behavior

2007-02-09 Thread Dragan Noveski
Dragan Noveski wrote: hi to the list! i am just upgrading lot of packages from testing and i experienced following problem: since yesterday, if i use the "arrow-up" key, the commands on the prompt will change corresponding to my .bash_history file. but after i press the arrow-up key about 20

mysql server won't start,

2007-02-09 Thread tom arnall
recently did upgrade of etch system and now mysql server won't start, system giving instead the msg: /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index' not found any ideas welcomed. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Jude DaShiell wrote: an off-topic message If you buy a computer and you have any doubt at all in your mind as to the legality of the copy of windows that is already on the machine's hard drive, erase entire hard drive and install Debian on machine. Had IANAL I dunno about the law in Russi

Re: Xorg restrictions

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:26:33PM +0200, ccostin wrote: > Is there a way to limit Xorg resources allocated to an application, > ex.: not to open too many windows or to limit the use of (Xorg), eg. > memory allocated by X server (for that application), which could > crash entier OS ? > Allocatin

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:09:53AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > dpkg -l hplip* . If you know the exact name of the package, dpkg -s hplip . > dpkg -l "hplip*" is better. If you happen to have any filenames starting with hplip, the shell will insert them as it resolves the glob. Regards, -Roberto

Re: [ltp] News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 06:27:23AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: That's called ROT 8-) ^ could have swaron you meant ROT-8 as in: Lzsl'k uaddwv JGL 8-) gosh I hope I got that right, cause I know I'll hear if I didn't... I think you ROTe

Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

2007-02-09 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 09 February 2007 04:37, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > last night my system ground to a halt with a full disk. looking at the > > logs, i discovered that they were the main if not the only resource hogs. > > (haven't looked for other sources of spurious disk usage). below

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Bernard wrote: > > Thanks in advance for any useful input I think your question has been answered in more than one way, demonstrating the flexibility of debian. One more suggestion/advice: I like to use aptitude just as it is. Just run 'aptitude' without arguments. You will get a nice visual int

Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

2007-02-09 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 09 February 2007 04:37, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > last night my system ground to a halt with a full disk. looking at the > > logs, i discovered that they were the main if not the only resource hogs. > > (haven't looked for other sources of spurious disk usage). below

Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

2007-02-09 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 11:43, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:32:43AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > last night my system ground to a halt with a full disk. looking at the > > logs, i discovered that they were the main if not the only resource hogs. > > (haven't looke

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:30:59AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to > > > make the whole thing a bit smaller? >

Xorg restrictions

2007-02-09 Thread ccostin
Is there a way to limit Xorg resources allocated to an application, ex.: not to open too many windows or to limit the use of (Xorg), eg. memory allocated by X server (for that application), which could crash entier OS ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: random quirkyness

2007-02-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:14:55 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > I still can't seem to get this all worked out. I've uninstalled any traces > of the nvidia driver, like nvidia-kernel, nvidia-common, and nvidia-glx and > then reinstalled all of them but I'm still having the same problem. I'm > still ha

Re: SATA Raid Difficulty

2007-02-09 Thread Albert Dengg
Rob Wright wrote: ... Specifics: 3 74.5GB SATA drives Serial ATA AHCI BIOS version iSirc 1.08.sm0 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Rom v5.6.2.1002 ESB2 Is there support for this in Debian, and if so what do I need to do to get it installed? Should I be using Sarge instead of Etch? If I need to prov

Re: [ltp] News Flash

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 06:27:23AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > David Jardine wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:19:10PM -0600, Gnu_Raiz wrote: > >>>From: Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>One day in gym class Baz wrote: > >>>How is it off-topic? To you perhaps - get down off your high-horse. >

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:35:23AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the > motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. > Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about > problems with the board's southbridge. It's

Elo Touch Screen Monitors

2007-02-09 Thread Alemao
Hi all, Im using an Elo Touch monitor and the touch event is recieved by the usb port. When the PC starts up everything is ok, the problem is that when a turn off the monitor, the device /dev/elotouch is removed and when i turn on /dev/elotouch is created again but the touch is not working. It s

Re: random quirkyness

2007-02-09 Thread Mike Myers
I still can't seem to get this all worked out. I've uninstalled any traces of the nvidia driver, like nvidia-kernel, nvidia-common, and nvidia-glx and then reinstalled all of them but I'm still having the same problem. I'm still having issues with the wrong sound card being detected every time i

SATA Raid Difficulty

2007-02-09 Thread Rob Wright
Greetings, I've got a Supermicro SuperServer 7045B-T. I'm trying to install Etch and I want to use RAID 5. My problem is that Debian in particular and Linux in general doesn't seem to recognize the RAID controller on this box. When going through the install the partitioner sees the 3 physical

Re: From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi list > > I'm running Debian testing (etch) on a AMD64x2 box. > > I've tried to get used to the K Desktop Environment but didn't succeeded :-) > > Now I have switched back to Gnome again. > > I don't know if this is the proper

Re: AMD64 Kernel Image in Etch

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Don Hayward wrote: On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: Wackojacko wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package (planning on using etch). I do an "aptitude search

Re: AMD64 Kernel Image in Etch

2007-02-09 Thread Don Hayward
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote: Wackojacko wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package (planning on using etch). I do an "aptitude search linux-image" and lo

Re: AMD64 Kernel Image in Etch

2007-02-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:27:46AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: >> > >>I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little > >>concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package > >>(planning on using etch). > 1) The reason I don't find the amd64 linux-images when I sea

VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Hey everyone, I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'. I went to kernel.org and started looking through the

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to > > make the whole thing a bit smaller? > > >From my personal archive: > > A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-

Re: AMD64 Kernel Image in Etch

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Wackojacko wrote: Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package (planning on using etch). I do an "aptitude search linux-image" and look through what comes up, but none of th

Re: From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Wackojacko
Niels Rasmussen wrote: Hi list I'm running Debian testing (etch) on a AMD64x2 box. I've tried to get used to the K Desktop Environment but didn't succeeded :-) Now I have switched back to Gnome again. I don't know if this is the proper way to do it, but since I couldn't find a way to switc

Re: AMD64 Kernel Image in Etch

2007-02-09 Thread Wackojacko
Grok Mogger wrote: Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package (planning on using etch). I do an "aptitude search linux-image" and look through what comes up, but none of them look like the ri

From KDE back to Gnome (a subject to future newbie-doc site ?)

2007-02-09 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I'm running Debian testing (etch) on a AMD64x2 box. I've tried to get used to the K Desktop Environment but didn't succeeded :-) Now I have switched back to Gnome again. I don't know if this is the proper way to do it, but since I couldn't find a way to switch from kdm to gdm I altere

AMD64 Kernel Image in Etch

2007-02-09 Thread Grok Mogger
Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package (planning on using etch). I do an "aptitude search linux-image" and look through what comes up, but none of them look like the right one. I did a s

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