Really annoying.

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. Program too smart for its own good. The Dilbert cartoon was not funny, it was accurate. Joe Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Remember to always change the subject!! > > A -- To

Re: access to DVD movies

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 20:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Debian users, > > http://xinehq.de/ suggests xine_dvd_plugin for > access to DVD movies. xine_dvd_plugin is not > visible in Debian. What in Debian has a similar > function? please goto http://www.debian-multimedia.org and look to

Re: faceless google (was: Re: How do I setup printer?")

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 23:59 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > You would be well served to learn > > to google-fu to help you with this stuff. > > I prefer mailing lists myself. It's more human, rather than the > faceless, conglomerate google. The thing is, many times it is those same people's res

Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2007-05-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
pizzapie_linuxanchovies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was following a tutorial > (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html) for > compiling a custom kernel, and got to the stage where it said to run > this: "fakeroot make-kpkg clean" > > However, this command generated a bunch of

Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2007-05-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 8 May 2007 05:37:58 +0200 (CEST), pizzapie linuxanchovies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I was following a tutorial > (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html) for > compiling a custom kernel, and got to the stage where it said to run > this: "fakeroot make-kpkg clean" Howe

Re: actual dimensions of X display.

2007-05-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:33:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Debian users, > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf provides a selection of > depths and dimensions for the display. > For example, > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > How can I know the depth and dimensions > actually present on

Re: actual dimensions of X display.

2007-05-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. [EMAIL PROTECTED], 08.05.2007 06:33: > /etc/X11/xorg.conf provides a selection of > depths and dimensions for the display. > For example, > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > How can I know the depth and dimensions > actually present on an X display? Try "xdypinfo". Regards, Ma

actual dimensions of X display.

2007-05-07 Thread peasthope
Debian users, /etc/X11/xorg.conf provides a selection of depths and dimensions for the display. For example, Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" How can I know the depth and dimensions actually present on an X display? Thanks, ... Peter E. Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.p

Re: francine: unable to login

2007-05-07 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:19:15AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > There comes a neat little proggie since I think Sarge called francine > which is a console login program or wrapper displaying a nice debian > logo and prompt for login and passw

access to DVD movies

2007-05-07 Thread peasthope
Debian users, http://xinehq.de/ suggests xine_dvd_plugin for access to DVD movies. xine_dvd_plugin is not visible in Debian. What in Debian has a similar function? Thanks, ... Peter E. Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

faceless google (was: Re: How do I setup printer?")

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
> You would be well served to learn > to google-fu to help you with this stuff. I prefer mailing lists myself. It's more human, rather than the faceless, conglomerate google. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: (solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-07 Thread Michael M.
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 08:09 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Figuring out how to do things is one of the best ways to learn. Not > reading a dry book. > > Although, books and other documentation are quite valuable nothing beats > "getting your hands dirty". > > > > > --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:05:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 > avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a > non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play > and capture each file to rec

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:57:59AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped us trying not to get on each other's nerves ;) ] > > >> dhcp is installed and I installed pump too since the dhcp client I saw > >> at times unable to get any ip at boo

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:03:32PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 00:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I am the lorax, i speak for the trees... oh. sorry. ;) > >Linus Torvalds is really Dr. Seuss - ala "The Boys from Brazil" >- read on ... > > > > I just downl

Problem with compiling kernel

2007-05-07 Thread pizzapie_linuxanchovies
I was following a tutorial (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html) for compiling a custom kernel, and got to the stage where it said to run this: "fakeroot make-kpkg clean" However, this command generated a bunch of errors saying this: dpkg-architecture: failure: dpkg --print

Re: francine: unable to login

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:19:15AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > There comes a neat little proggie since I think Sarge called francine > which is a console login program or wrapper displaying a nice debian > logo and prompt for login and password like. cool! > > I was overwhelmed when I discovered it

Re: TeTex to TeXLive [DONE]

2007-05-07 Thread Amy Templeton
Micha Feigin wrote: > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-05-07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TeX installation. Is there some safe way of moving over? > > > > I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files > > (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib,

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:05:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 > avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a > non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play > and capture each file to rec

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Deboo ^ wrote: I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. Chec

francine: unable to login

2007-05-07 Thread Deboo ^
There comes a neat little proggie since I think Sarge called francine which is a console login program or wrapper displaying a nice debian logo and prompt for login and password like. I was overwhelmed when I discovered it thinking it will be so nice to show it to my friends, then. Running normal

[OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Deboo ^
I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. Regards, Deboo -- P

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-07 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep I meant that above line. Ip address means an "ip address" after > all not hostname. And yes may be n00bs don't make a difference > between the two. I'm no expert at all but not a n00b atleast. not implying that you're a noob, ju

Etch and beyond: How to keep initrds able to mount encrypted drives?

2007-05-07 Thread Bradley Alexander
I just built a fresh etch box, workstation build. I encrypted everything but /boot using lvm. My goal is a sid box, but I've had to go through several iterations of the etch install. First, I found that the installer/initrd did not like having multiple physical volumes on the root volume group.

Re: eth1_rename: transmit timed out

2007-05-07 Thread jason . public
On 5/7/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 14:01:45 -0700, jason.public wrote: > Every once in a while, my eth1 interface dies with the following messages. > > # dmesg > [...] > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:01:10PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > > what does hostname -f show? uname -n will always show the just the > > hostname. > > titan. > > If I do need a domain name, then it would be > > 192.168.1.1 titan.h

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-05-07 Thread jason . public
On 4/9/07, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: >When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after > some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). [...] >fglrx-driver 8.31.5-1 (proprietary driver) Th

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Looking at man 1 hostname, it looks like /etc/hostname is just the short > hostname. The FQDN comes from /etc/hosts. > man dnsdomainname Wayne -- There

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Johnson
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 00:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I am the lorax, i speak for the trees... oh. sorry. ;) Linus Torvalds is really Dr. Seuss - ala "The Boys from Brazil" - read on ... > > I just downloaded netinst.iso. Later, I will burn it > > and try booting with it. Do I

Re: Closed Ports problem

2007-05-07 Thread Lucas Prado Melo
Take a look at the output of my ifconfig output eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:A0:0B:00 inet addr:192.168.1.126 Bcast:192.168.1.127 Mask:255.255.255.252 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:87ff:fea0:b00/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Wood
On 07 May 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 May 2007, Tim Wood wrote: > My thanks for all the comments. > > I tried the latest ATI driver 8.36.5 but the included check.sh shows the > Xserver as 1.3.0 and there is no target for that. > > In regard to the HP Nx 8420 itself, it is 3 months

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:27:45PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2007 16:10:24 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:04:02PM +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > > Manon Metten wrote: > > > > BTW: what's the first line "#!/bin/bash" in the s

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:23:57PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 23:54, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:46:24PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > On Monday 07 May 2007 23:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > not promising. so repost your question wi

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:23:57PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > I just downloaded netinst.iso. Later, I will burn it > and try booting with it. Do I understand that this CD will have > the ability to probe eth0 and eth1 (if necessary) and give me > feedback before proceeding with the inst

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 7 May 2007 16:10:24 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:04:02PM +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Manon Metten wrote: > > > BTW: what's the first line "#!/bin/bash" in the script for? > > > > It is not really necessary, but it has some advan

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:14:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:58:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > >

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 07 May 2007 23:54, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:46:24PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 07 May 2007 23:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > not promising. so repost your question with specific information on > > > that NIC, like model # etc and see w

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:01:10PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > >>On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 > >>Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>I have a few computers connected by ethernet s

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 07 May 2007 09:22:28 -0500 "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I guess I will give up and do what I have been thinking about for > a couple of weeks. Set up a windows machine and stick it down in > my server room. Then I can VNC to it to do those "Windows only" > things

Re: Problems with Xorg video

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:52:08PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 14:14, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Why not run Etch? > > > > What do I do besides: > > 1. update sources.list to point to etch > 2. apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade > > Does it work...what are the pitfa

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Jeff D
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial

Re: alsactl restore failed ...

2007-05-07 Thread Gerard Robin
On Monday 07 May 2007 08:30, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I just did apt-get update and upgrade (unstable) and now I get this message at boot: Setting up ALSA ... warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'alsactl: load_state: 1327: no souncards found ...' ... done What can I do to solv

Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:48:50PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > So, today I have made a neat little discovery. > [...] > > I have rambled on a fair bit now, but I just wanted to share my renewed > admiration for mutt and its extensibility. Hopefully someone will find > this helpful. ruf

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files >> (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls files) into the right directories > > If you have non-standard files you should put them

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:46:24PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 23:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > not promising. so repost your question with specific information on > > that NIC, like model # etc and see what happens. > I've got other NICs here. I'll try another. My

mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
So, today I have made a neat little discovery. A while back I finally got tired of using mutt on two different machines and thunderbird/icedove on three different machines and trying to keep all the addressbooks synchronized. I took the plunge and setup an LDAP addressbook. This was fairly easy

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 07 May 2007 23:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > not promising. so repost your question with specific information on > that NIC, like model # etc and see what happens. I've got other NICs here. I'll try another. My previous experience installing the ubuntu suggest that there seems to

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:09:27PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 21:58, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hi Andrew: > > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/index.cgi > See > http://www.johnsons-web.com/demo/DebianDeviceDriverCheckPage.html > for results > The nic card is the last item

Re: alsactl restore failed ...

2007-05-07 Thread Gerard Robin
Hi! On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:30:01AM +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: I just did apt-get update and upgrade (unstable) Well. Unstable is sometimes unstable :-) and now I get this message at boot: Setting up ALSA ... warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'alsactl: load_state: 1

Re: Problems with Xorg video

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:52:08PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 14:14, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Why not run Etch? > > > > What do I do besides: > > 1. update sources.list to point to etch > 2. apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade read this: http://www.debian.org/rele

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:58:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > > On M

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:04:02PM +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Manon Metten wrote: > > BTW: what's the first line "#!/bin/bash" in the script for? > > It is not really necessary, but it has some advantages. > The 'file' command will recognize the file as a script, there are > certain other pro

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 07 May 2007 21:58, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi Andrew: > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/index.cgi See http://www.johnsons-web.com/demo/DebianDeviceDriverCheckPage.html for results The nic card is the last item, I believe. thanks tim -- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palmer, Alask

Re: Problems with Xorg video

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Phillips
On Monday 07 May 2007 14:14, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Why not run Etch? > What do I do besides: 1. update sources.list to point to etch 2. apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade Does it work...what are the pitfalls? -- Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] 602 524-0376 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 > > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: exim4 error?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:56:21PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I got no reponse at all previously -- perhaps too general a question. > > Does anyone recognise this set of messages on /var/log/exim4/mainlog: > > 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address > 200

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one c

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070507 13:49]: > ... its time to get with the program and upgrade to TeXLive, since > it actually updates, but I've also heard tell that people experience > big problems when moving over from TeTeX instead of just installing > TeXLive onto a system without any f

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:48:34AM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > I have a background with rh and slack. welcome. > Am a programmer and prefer the command line. cool. > A long-term debian user persuaded me to try ubuntu when I showed an > interest in debian. :-P use real debian, you'll prefer it

ooh, I know one too!

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
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Re: exim4 error?

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:56:21PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I got no reponse at all previously -- perhaps too general a question. > > Does anyone recognise this set of messages on /var/log/exim4/mainlog: > > 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address > 200

Re: exim4 error?

2007-05-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070507 17:01]: > Does anyone recognise this set of messages on /var/log/exim4/mainlog: ... > I don't see what is happening but this is what I get when I try to > mail out. No error is indicated,but the message sinks without > trace. I can't work out whether I

Re: etch dual boot on amd-64 system preparations

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:33:37PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: > > currently I have installed FreeBSD 6 and Ubuntu Breezy on my AMD 64 > system. Everything worked fine, but I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu > partition. Due to EOL of Breezy, the difficult upgrade method of > Ubuntu amd-64, the fact that

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer > > (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and > >

Re: Problems with Xorg video

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:29:41PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I seem to have lost my video after moving from xfree86 to xorg. > > The error reported in my xorg log (after many pages of no errors) - > > (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100, >         i810e

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2007-05-07, 13:06:01 (+) skrifaði Tim Johnson: > On Monday 07 May 2007 20:27, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > As for will your devices work, your best bet is to get the netinst.iso > > and boot it. Go to the second console and check the dmesg to compare > > with your list. > Is wh

exim4 error?

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Lyons
I got no reponse at all previously -- perhaps too general a question. Does anyone recognise this set of messages on /var/log/exim4/mainlog: 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:55:19PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html > > You could have made this even funnier if you had posted it using a >

Re: etch dual boot on amd-64 system preparations

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:33:37PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > currently I have installed FreeBSD 6 and Ubuntu Breezy on my AMD 64 system. > Everything worked fine, but I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu partition. Due to > EOL of Breezy, the difficult upgrade method of Ubuntu

Re: Mounts in Etch

2007-05-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 5/5/07, Mirko Scurk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I googled a bit but don't know exactly what term to use. I have two issues bout disk mounting in Etch. 1. Windows partitions mounted from fstab have meaningful names on Etch desktop. Other mounted linux partitions have GB values in place of

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 14:55, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: >> http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html > > You could have made this even funnier if you had po

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 07 May 2007 20:27, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > As for will your devices work, your best bet is to get the netinst.iso > and boot it. Go to the second console and check the dmesg to compare > with your list. Is what I want: debian-40r0-amd64-netinst.iso ? Thanks Doug -- Tim Joh

Re: Rebuilding debian packages

2007-05-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
gustavo halperin wrote: > So I believe that I need to build my own Debian package, so please can > you give me some tips in order to "how modify" the wxwidgets2.6 source > packages from > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wxwidgets2.6/wxwidgets2.6_2.6.3.2.1.5.tar.gz > for my requirements

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Manon Metten wrote: > BTW: what's the first line "#!/bin/bash" in the script for? It is not really necessary, but it has some advantages. The 'file' command will recognize the file as a script, there are certain other programs (emacs?) that will treat it as such and here is where my limited kn

Re: Problems with Xorg video

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Phillips
Florian, I made some progress, but I am beginnning to believe that I have put myself in a world of hurt. I got past not finding the i810 card by inserting the correct bus address (see below). But now it complains that I am missing module i915. So, I think I made a big mistake installing xorg!

Re: eth1_rename: transmit timed out

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 14:01:45 -0700, jason.public wrote: > Every once in a while, my eth1 interface dies with the following messages. > > # dmesg > [...] > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) > APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) > APIC error on CPU0: 02(0

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07 May 2007 19:22:40 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TeX installation. Is there some safe way of moving over? > > I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files > (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07 May 2007 19:22:40 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TeX installation. Is there some safe way of moving over? > > I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files > (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 7, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this even funnier if you had posted it using a debianhelp.org account ;) What makes you

Re: Problems with Xorg video

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:29:41 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I seem to have lost my video after moving from xfree86 to xorg. > > The error reported in my xorg log (after many pages of no errors) - > > (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100, >         i810e,

Re: Install Debian Etch on VMWare server 1.0.3

2007-05-07 Thread Hans Ivers
On May 5, 9:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install etch on vmware > server, which runs on iwndows 2003. During the install it hangs during > the "select and install software" phase. After I've selected the FTP > mirror > and it has scanned it, and I've selected the software I want

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Sjoerd, On 5/7/07, you wrote: > The following works fine for KDE: > > 11:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more .kde/Autostart/unclutter > > #!/bin/bash > > /usr/bin/unclutter It works fine, but how do I supply some args like: -idle 1 -keystroke? '-idle 1' lets the cursor disappear after 1 se

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:48:34AM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > I have a background with rh and slack. > Am a programmer and prefer the command line. > A long-term debian user persuaded me to try ubuntu when I showed an > interest in debian. > To make a long story short, I've ended up with the kubun

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this even funnier if you had posted it using a debianhelp.org account ;) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:09:51PM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: > Am Montag, den 07.05.2007, 02:53 -0700 schrieb Francesco Pietra: > > Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for > > swap file) to a raid1 system? > > I guess an non-mirrored drive will have a better performance than a > r

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap [SOLVED]

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 00:26:29 -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:09:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 00:41:32 +0100, David Claughton wrote: > > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > I am afraid it is time to sta

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:46:48AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > >What happens if you try Konqueror? Just Konq, not necessarily the whole > >KDE. > > > Oh yes. Another failed experiment. > If I

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:07:23PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:15 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Cluster? HA! Bigger Single computer? HA! > > They have 8 processor machines with 64GB of memory alread

Re: alsactl restore failed ...

2007-05-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 07 May 2007 08:30, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I just did apt-get update and upgrade (unstable) and now I get this > message at boot: > Setting up ALSA ... warning: > 'alsactl restore' failed with error message > 'alsactl: load_state: 1327: no souncards found ...' ... done > > What can

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TeX installation. Is there some safe way of moving over? I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls files) into the right directories (another thread on this list in the last mo

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > On 5/4/07, about unclutter you wrote: > > The following works fine for KDE: > > > > 11:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more .kde/Autostart/unclutter > > #!/bin/bash > > /usr/bin/unclutter > > > > $ chmod u+x .kde/Autostart/unclutter > > It works fine, but how do I

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Rick Thomas wrote: > > http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html What you do to those people is add an X-Message header to your reply telling them they have a virus called Microsoft Outlook. Or do the two-spaces-then-START thing or whatever it is that makes O

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:06:50 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 >> Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've >> > had to remove some TeX component

etch dual boot on amd-64 system preparations

2007-05-07 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear Debian folks, currently I have installed FreeBSD 6 and Ubuntu Breezy on my AMD 64 system. Everything worked fine, but I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu partition. Due to EOL of Breezy, the difficult upgrade method of Ubuntu amd-64, the fact that I am curious about Debian and I can't loose any

PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

2007-05-07 Thread Tim Johnson
I have a background with rh and slack. Am a programmer and prefer the command line. A long-term debian user persuaded me to try ubuntu when I showed an interest in debian. To make a long story short, I've ended up with the kubuntu 7.04, because earlier (and presumably more stable) ubuntu distros di

OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
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Problems with Xorg video

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Phillips
I seem to have lost my video after moving from xfree86 to xorg. The error reported in my xorg log (after many pages of no errors) - (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100,         i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),         915GM,

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 7 May 2007 15:06:50 -0400 "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 > > Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've > > > had to remov

Re: Etch install

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and > am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was > helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appears to be a

Re: alsactl restore failed ...

2007-05-07 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:30:01AM +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: > I just did apt-get update and upgrade (unstable) Well. Unstable is sometimes unstable :-) > and now I get this > message at boot: > Setting up ALSA ... warning: > 'alsactl restore' failed with error message > 'alsactl: load_st

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