Re: [OT] Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-21 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 18:48:02 +, David Dawson wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 17:08:03 +, David Dawson wrote: >> >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > That looks normal to me. You probably already tried running kcontrol >> > from a termin

[Solved] Re: Upgraded to Lenny from etch, can't install packages

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
I'm putting this back on list as people are still responding to your initial inquiry. On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:04:46PM +0200, Jon Jahren wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >Can you please post your sources.list and the output of > >'apt-cache policy slapd'. > > > >Regards, > >Andrei > > > sourc

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:14PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > Anyway, I tried some other video= lines and nothing makes any > difference. I tried vesafb, rivafb, and nvidiafb for the driver and > both 1024x768 (vga=791 works fine) and 1280x960 for the resolution (all > combinations for rivafb

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:58:19AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 10:46:09 AM -0400, Celejar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I'll point out that the OT thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a > > response to a sig that I felt attacked religion unfairly. Many > > people use qu

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:34:25AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:31:12PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > > > > No. Think about what you're saying. Sigs are a time honoured > > > practice, and if you don't like one, hit delete an

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, May 21, 2007 10:46:09 AM -0400, Celejar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'll point out that the OT thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a > response to a sig that I felt attacked religion unfairly. Many > people use quite provocative sigs, ridiculing (often wittily) > political or religious

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Gnu_Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >"M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Please avoid this kind of technical suggestions in this thread: > > >* it is still the same unacceptable "since you can buy ear plugs, I > > can yell whenever I want" attitude. See my previous messages > > I think it

Re: xkb options

2007-05-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070521 23:14]: >>> I've been using gtypist to learn dvorak, and I'm making progress. I've >>> got the home and upper rows pretty much under control, and I'm working >>> on the lower row. gtypist doesn't always give complete instructions, so >>> I'm benefiting (I hope)

Bluetooth mouse scroll wheel on Etch: mh2 and lvm crypt

2007-05-21 Thread Martin Manns
Hi, I just switched to Debian (Etch) with the 2.6.20 binary kernel from sid and root lvm encryption via the installer. Now, I have the problem that the scroll wheel of my bluetooth mouse does not work (/dev/input/mice does not produce any output on a wheel move, everything else works fine). I foun

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/07 18:13, Pete wrote: [snip] > > Thanks Andrew > I have a Xubuntu partition that works very well without Gnome but I would > like > to get to the bottom of why Debian/Gnome will not access the network on the > other partition. Everything e

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/07 15:47, Bob Cox wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > George Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> George Barnett: As the box has no KVM (well, there is a serial port, but it's inside and I'm unlik

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:50:38AM -0700, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > >On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >was heard to say: > >>On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>To me, idea

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:31:12PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, >

Sound problems... had OSS working... now neither ALSA or OSS works (complicated)

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Bonert
I tried switching to ALSA earlier today... seeing how it is the newer thing. Also, I'd hoped of getting sound working in IceWeasel --specifically in Flash animations. - I know the Flash animation problem can be solved with 'Full duplex' i.e. Full duplex (off) is supposed to fix this problem:

Re: The previous nonsense

2007-05-21 Thread David Parker
> The computer, a Toshiba Satellite A30 with 1.2 gig ram and a 40 > gig hard > > drive was originally dual boot MS-Debian 3.1.  Windows > quit.  Who knows > > why. > > Printer: HP officejet 4110 all-in-one  -  cupsys > installed and set up > > according to the information I found but still non-

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread li sh
Most people here are warm-hearted. Just More proper questions worth their efforts. -- lish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The previous nonsense (formerly why linux?)

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Okay. Simple. Just run apt-get install k3b. > # apt-get install K3B > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependancy Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package K3B > That was fun. Should be pointing to...? > Contents of /etc/apt/sourses.list > # comments > deb http://mirror.peer1.net/debi

Re: opening and ejecting a DVD

2007-05-21 Thread steve reilly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 May 2007 20:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > Etch is working here with kernel 2.6.18-4. > > Within a few seconds after a movie DVD is inserted > into the drive, an icon appears on the XFCE4 desktop. > Using the menu invoked with th

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 02:19 PM, Gerard Robin wrote: thanks, it's better, but always ./configure failed: ... checking boost/regex.h usability... yes checking boost/regex.h presence... yes checking for boost/regex.h... yes checking for main in -lboost_regex... no checking for main in -lboo

opening and ejecting a DVD

2007-05-21 Thread peasthope
Folk, Etch is working here with kernel 2.6.18-4. Within a few seconds after a movie DVD is inserted into the drive, an icon appears on the XFCE4 desktop. Using the menu invoked with the right mouse button, the DVD can mounted and unmounted. If xine is started and the DVD control button is clic

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-21 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:27 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > _Owen_, > > What do you get .. a kernel oops .. a black screen of death .. a vga > console with oversized fonts ..? With any video= parameter, I get the default resolution (640x480/80x25, I suppose), just like there was no vga= or video= para

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:31:12 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > attacked religion unfairly. Many p

Re: [Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:31:01 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:36 +, steef wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > <.> > > > As a side note I must say that I have been a member

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:47:38 +0200 David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > a

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-21 Thread Pete
On Monday 21 May 2007 11:37:13 yag wrote: > Pete wrote: > > On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > > > [...] > > I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian > > and the working Xubuntu a

Re: xkb options

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 May 2007 22:24:56 -0400 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:46:16PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:44:12 -0400 > > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:49:15PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 21 May 2007 09:36:39 +0200 "Raffaele Morelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/5/21, S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. > > However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back > > up files, get

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 21 May 2007 02:57:09 -0400 (EDT) S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. > However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back > up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my d

Re: The previous nonsense

2007-05-21 Thread Kent West
On 5/21/07, S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's better, I'm awake now. We've all had our bad days. It happens. Okay. Simple. Just run apt-get install k3b. # apt-get install K3B Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependancy Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package K3B Case matters in

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-21 Thread cga2000
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:35:57PM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:37AM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > > > > I tried: > > > > > video=rivafb

The previous nonsense

2007-05-21 Thread S C
It's better, I'm awake now. Responses: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." What if you don't explain it at all? I don't hate Microsoft, I simply think their product, especially the last one, is more like a pointless video game than a serious OS. Okay. Simple

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-21 Thread Pete
On Monday 21 May 2007 19:54:15 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:25:38AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > > > Just had another thought on this, following another

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > [...] > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, > ridiculing (often

Re: actual dimensions of X display.

2007-05-21 Thread Robert Kopp
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:23:45PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:07:38PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >> You can run xrandr from the commandline or, if you're using Kde, go into

Re: boot error messages with custom kernel

2007-05-21 Thread David Fuchs
thanks for the help. as I mentioned, the modules.dep file is there - but not in the initrd image that's created. however, I've solved it by recompiling the kernel with the parallel port driver as a module rather than into the kernel. it seems it was this driver that tried to load some additional

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-21 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Mon, 21 May 2007, nick lidakis wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting > dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: > > Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using > .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement sed ... > dpkg: error proc

Re: clvm + GFS troubles

2007-05-21 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 21 May 2007 15:42:50 andremachado, vous avez écrit : > Hello, > Using Debian 4.0 Etch, I am trying to configure an initial ha FS cluster > with GFS and CLVM. Read the docs, but still struggling with clvm and GFS. > Able to even format a volume with GFS and gfs_fsck it. > But when tried to

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

2007-05-21 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 21 May 2007 11:58:20 George Barnett, vous avez écrit : > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > George Barnett: > >> As the box has no KVM (well, there is a serial port, but it's inside and > >> I'm unlikely to open it) I'd like to remove kpsmoused and kseriod which > >> I understart are the serial key

Re: usbmount: works partially

2007-05-21 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/21/07, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm on a near-vanilla 2.6.21.1 (usb-storage compiled-in), etch, udev/usbmount. When the system is up and running, hotplugging of my external USB disk and USB thumb drive works as expected. But the device are not mounted automatically when the sy

Re: boot error messages with custom kernel

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:33 +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > hi all, > > I want to have a grsecurity enabled kernel and thus compiled my own. > while doing so, I also removed tons of modules from the kernel config > (drivers I know I'll never need), and chose to compile some into the > kernel instead o

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
nick lidakis wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting > dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: > > Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using > .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement sed ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/

Re: actual dimensions of X display.

2007-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:23:45PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:07:38PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >> You can run xrandr from the commandline or, if you're using Kde, go into ^^^

Re: [OT] Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:10:00PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > To be honest, I don't really think that Chris Bannister would make a > good ethicist. Not because of his ethics, but because he seems to be > reviving old threads that the last message is a week old when he replies > to them. True. Can't

Re: Upgraded to Lenny from etch, can't install packages

2007-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:34:25PM +0200, Jon Jahren wrote: [..] > debian:~# apt-get install slapd > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Package slapd is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsole

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:57:09AM -0400, S C wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. > However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back > up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital > camera.

sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-21 Thread nick lidakis
I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sed ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb (

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

2007-05-21 Thread Bob Cox
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> George Barnett: >>> As the box has no KVM (well, there is a serial port, but it's inside and >>> I'm unlikely to open it) I'd like to remove kpsmoused and kseriod which >>> I understart are the se

Re: how to use dependencies (control file)?

2007-05-21 Thread Jabka Atu
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:22:35PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: >> Howdy,.. > > God aften! ***though to my self : it is  time to learn Norwegian or other Nordic language . > >> i've started reading >> [URL="" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.debian.org/doc

Strange dhcp difficulty with 2.6.20+ kernels

2007-05-21 Thread cothrige
Not too long ago I was going to upgrade my kernel, I am currently running 2.6.18.1, and downloaded the latest 2.6.20 tarball. I went through the usual steps. I configured it carefully and then compiled it via make-kpkg. Lastly I installed it with dpkg. When I rebooted everything seemed okay, bu

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Grieveson
> For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real > OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use > one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read > images from my digital camera. With Windows all this was simple. I > downloaded the

Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2

2007-05-21 Thread csanyipal
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:37:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:03:49PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > > > This abowe is in Hungarian. > > > > I can't remember how can I set the LANG environment variable for a > > command to show up messages in English? > > > I hav

Re: how to use dependencies (control file)?

2007-05-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:22:35PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > Howdy,.. God aften! > i've started reading > [URL="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html"]this > manual[/URL] to understand how to create better packages for debian so > i have created a small package that i

boot error messages with custom kernel

2007-05-21 Thread David Fuchs
hi all, I want to have a grsecurity enabled kernel and thus compiled my own. while doing so, I also removed tons of modules from the kernel config (drivers I know I'll never need), and chose to compile some into the kernel instead of modules (e.g., drivers for my sata disks). I followed the dire

how to use dependencies (control file)?

2007-05-21 Thread Jabka Atu
Howdy,.. i've started reading [URL="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html"]this manual[/URL] to understand how to create better packages for debian so i have created a small package that i call [URL="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/scex/klthemes_1.0_all.deb?use_mirror=

Re: bonding mode 0

2007-05-21 Thread Bruno Delalleau
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:53:37PM +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote : > Bonjour > > Meme si ce n est pas vraiment l endroit j en appelle a > votre grande comprehension > Ayant mis une interface bonding en place sous debian > recemment en mode 0 (round robin) tout semble bien > marcher > Mais je vou

Re: Help setting up network printer

2007-05-21 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:47:40 -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:20 -0400, Eric A. Bonney, CPA wrote: I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared from an XP Pro desktop. The pri

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-21 Thread Gerard Robin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:48:51AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: From: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) On 05/21/2007 06:48 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:47:06AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: From: Jonathan Kaye <[EMAI

Re: network interfaces fail to start on boot

2007-05-21 Thread David Fuchs
haha... I found out why I need to manually start my interfaces :) the init script /etc/init.d/networking is missing ! still, udev tries bringing up the two physical interfaces if they're set as allow=hotplug - but there's a line wait_for_lo in /lib/udev/net.agent which means that no physical i

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread David A. Parker
Eric A. Bonney wrote: You know...I have been giving this thread alot of thought. I think the issue is that we the end user expect to much from Linux in general and I don't think that the average person thinks of certain things. Like, how long have you been using Windows? I know I have been u

Re: Help setting up network printer

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:15:45PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > To add your user to the lpadmin group, become root and run > > adduser eric lpadmin > > (Replace "eric" as is appropriate, of course.) > > After that you should be able to complete the setup without having to > provide local cr

Re: [OT] Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-21 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu AHA! Thanks to you, Florian (and Joe and Roberto) -- If you wrestle in the mud with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. -- Dave Dawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:08:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the > books that doesn't let you leave it. > man bash :) Invaluable (at various times): Running Linux - Matt Welsh et. al. Esential System Administration - Aileen Frisch DNS

Re: Help setting up network printer

2007-05-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:47:40 -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:20 -0400, Eric A. Bonney, CPA wrote: >> >>> I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared >>> from an XP Pro desktop. The printer does work fine local

Re: Clamav-deamon Bug

2007-05-21 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 20 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007 05:17, David Baron wrote: > > I usually cannot find any dmesg entry for this problem. ONE time I did > > see one and the complaint was about permissions for opening the log file > > in append mode. The logfile's owner and the e

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:53:44AM -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >So, let me see if I understand this. The things for which Michelle, > >Ron, Michael, Johannes, Judd, Florian and I were criticized, because > >they were supposedly offensive, would be OK as long as t

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:25:38AM +0100, Pete wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > > Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried 'ifup > > > -a' to see what would happen. Came back '

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: So, let me see if I understand this. The things for which Michelle, Ron, Michael, Johannes, Judd, Florian and I were criticized, because they were supposedly offensive, would be OK as long as they were in a sig? If they also honored the four-line sig netiquette, y

[OT] PSU ramblings (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:36:47AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:31:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:35:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Is the PSU really more failure prone than any other component? > > > > it is m

[OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:31:12PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quit

Re: Help setting up network printer

2007-05-21 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Quoting "Eric A. Bonney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:20 -0400, Eric A. Bonney, CPA wrote: I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared from an XP Pro desktop. The printer does work fine locally on the desktop and wir

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Eric A. Bonney
S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera. With Windows all this was simple. I downloade

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Rob Heilman
Smart ass answer: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ama_XmSA8wflqkjrwiMowZAjzKIX?qid=1006031517403 Seriously, many people have already responded to this thread. Many have made suggestions despite a lack of information from you: "apt-get install k3b", "apt-get install supsys", "try

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:51:30AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:50:27PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:44:10PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be > >

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:30:40AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Good reason to have a big case. With the CM-Stacker, the PSU can be > removed from either the inside, or more conveniently, from the rear > (once you unplug all the cables))); no need to remove anything else. > Yeah. It

Re: [OT] Re: Changing screens

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:55:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 13:56:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:38:25PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > > > Dear all > > > > > > I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home a

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Klein Moebius
* S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-21 02:57:09 -0400]: > With Windows all this was simple. Yup. For you. > It does, however, have one saving grace; it works. Not for me. > When I go to someplace like freenode/#debian I am ignored. Why? > Maybe I should say to Hell with Linux and sell my sto

Re: Gaim with corrector of orthography in pt-BR in system en-US

2007-05-21 Thread João Schmutz
Hello galera, now gave certain with the option "LANG=pt_BR LANGUAGE=english gaim" --> Andrei Popescu Thanks a lot to all -- Att Debian User João Schmutz Geek by nature, linux by choice

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread David A. Parker
George N. White III wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007, S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera.

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 21 May 2007, S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera. With Windows all this was

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Alyx Vance
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 02:57 -0400, S C wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real > OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use > one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read > images from my digital camera. With Wi

Re: Moving Software RAID5 from Gentoo

2007-05-21 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 20 May 2007, at 10:04, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.20.0038 +0200]: I am not sure if the installer will automatically recognize an existing RAID and set it up for you while preserving the data. If it does not, you can jump over to a

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, > ridiculing (often wittily) political or religio

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:37AM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > > I tried: > > > > video=rivafb:1280x960 > > > > video=vesafb:1280x960 > > > > > > > > but neither worke

[OT]rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 02:22 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/21/2007 01:55 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Just in case you missed my initial proposal, I was suggesting a separate > > list for OT, but still within the Debian project. This way when OT gets > > out of hand posters could move the thre

[Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:36 +, steef wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > <.> > > As a side note I must say that I have been a member of a volunteer > > organization for 11 years and I have seen a bit of the dynamic inv

Re: APE sound compression

2007-05-21 Thread Marko Randjelovic
> deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable ./ > > Maybe this also has a deb-src that you can build on amd64? Success with http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/stable/monkeys-audio_3.96.b8-1_i386.deb Just install it with dpkg --force-architecture,depends monkeys-audio_3.96.b8-1_

usbmount: works partially

2007-05-21 Thread Andre Berger
I'm on a near-vanilla 2.6.21.1 (usb-storage compiled-in), etch, udev/usbmount. When the system is up and running, hotplugging of my external USB disk and USB thumb drive works as expected. But the device are not mounted automatically when the systems is started and they are plugged in/powered on. C

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

2007-05-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Deboo ^ wrote: Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the books that doesn't let you leave it. My choices are: 1. Unix Power Tools (I think there's no second to this one and this is the King of all Unix/Linux books) 2. The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Eve

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 02:57 -0400, S C wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real > OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use > one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read > images from my digital camera. With Win

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:51:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > > > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum > > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers > > and for some contributors (yes, answering que

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade my system from glibc-2.3 to 2.5 and gcc-4.1.1 to > 4.1.2. I did "wajig build glibc" but this results in a request for > gcc-4.1.2. However, doing "wajig build gcc-4.1" complains about absence of > glibc-2.5. How should I proceed? > Not

Re: pdflatex from TeXLive produces much bigger pdf-file than in teTeX?

2007-05-21 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/21/07, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have noticed that, by default, pdflatex is no more pdflatex: does your pdflatex links tp pdftex ? That has been usual for some time now. The pdfetex binary changes behaviour depending on what name it is called with. See the TeX F

Re: reconfiguring grub to see windows partition etc....

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:11 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I am using a machine at work that has an AMD Duron 1200 MHz i386 chip in it > and two hard disks. The master is a 40GB drive and the secondary one is a > 20GB drive. > > Debian Etch r0 i386 lives on the 40GB dr

Re: Help setting up network printer

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Conway
Did you set up a samba user? I ran into this issue myself. Once samba is set up, you need to run smbpasswd -a Use a user already setup on the system. Then try the authentication again. I'm sorry if youve already done this. Quoting "Eric A. Bonney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Florian Kulzer wrot

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 06:48 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:47:06AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: From: Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, in /usr/local/src/twinkle-1.0.1/ I did ./c

Re: APE sound compression

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/07 10:32, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > I see more and more people are using Monkey's audio > http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ lossless compression to compress music. Is > there some way to use this compression on Linux? I have found some > posts, bu

bonding mode 0

2007-05-21 Thread Stephane Durieux
Bonjour Meme si ce n est pas vraiment l endroit j en appelle a votre grande comprehension Ayant mis une interface bonding en place sous debian recemment en mode 0 (round robin) tout semble bien marcher Mais je voudrais avoir un avis sur l affirmation suivante : le mode 0 si les interfaces sont s

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until either sync or umount. Yes, I wait. Yes, I also

Re: Help setting up network printer

2007-05-21 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:20 -0400, Eric A. Bonney, CPA wrote: I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared from an XP Pro desktop. The printer does work fine locally on the desktop and wirelessly from another WinXP Pro laptop. I am tryin

question about bonding mode 0

2007-05-21 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello Don t know if it is really the place but I have read recently that bounding mode 0 (round robin) was not a good solution if the interfaces of the group are on the same switch due to packets duplication. But I don t understand why ? Is it because all interfaces concerned share the same ma

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