Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Ted Hilts
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 17 November 2007, Ted Hilts wrote: ... What I was trying to say is that I am not sure where the "AiiNET" prompt is coming from. Is it coming from the ISP or is it being manufactured by Minicom as some respone. I think the "AiiNET" prompt is coming from the ISP

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Ted Hilts
John Hasler wrote: Thunderbird Acct. wrote: When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". Some ISPs respond with a username/password prompt when you use an interactive program but expect PAP autheni

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Ted Hilts
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: This question is informational and there is no urgency. I'm not going to cover what has the first response has said, but I have a bit I can add: When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode prov

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 17 November 2007, Ted Hilts wrote: ... > What I was trying to say is that I am not sure where the "AiiNET" > prompt is coming from. Is it coming from the ISP or is it being > manufactured by Minicom as some respone. I think the "AiiNET" prompt > is coming from the ISP just as the "use

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Ted Hilts
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:08:11PM -0700, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". So now I get 3 prompts: "user name", "password", and "

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:01:04AM -0800, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jeff D wrote: >> What testing suite are you using for this? Have you tried to use dd to >> create a file larger than this? I'm going to guess what you are seeing >> h

I've Done Something Wrong Setting up matchit.vim.

2007-11-16 Thread Martin McCormick
After appearing to successfully install a local .vim, .vim/doc and .vim/plugin directory, I have the documentation for the matchit.vim script and the matchit.txt help file. All seems well until I load a shell script and move the cursor to an if statement. If I hit the % key, the cursor is s

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-16 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote: > On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man > > page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or something like that. > > Actually, all that does is to r

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071116 14:21]: > firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with no > let up. I've noticed the same on my system within the past month or so. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:02:12PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man > > page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or something like that. > > Actually, all that

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-16 Thread David Fox
On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man > page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or something like that. Actually, all that does is to remove either all (clean) or selected (auto-clean) - selecte

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:41:58PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It will involve using LDAP to verify the recipients, since you're > using Exchange 5.5. This is actually a big improvement over how > Exchange itself deals with mail -- i

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your description of a mail hub does sound like what I want... I'll see if I can download the source dist of the exim pkg... & chk into that that would be REALLY nice... OK. I'll dig a little to see if I have copies of the config files

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Owen Townend
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 19:24 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:18:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Nov 16, 5:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:42:02PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:18:10PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Nov 16, 5:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:42:02PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and > password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". Some ISPs respond with a username/password prompt when you use an interactive program but expect PAP authenication when they see a PPP

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:12:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Nov 16, 4:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > ... > > > I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only > > > email w

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 06:14:13PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 16 November 2007, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > > ...Has anyone > > else run into this situation where the "AiiNET" prompt occurs during > > manual dial up? In the following paragraph I provide more detail. > > If

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread bobg . hahc
On Nov 16, 5:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:42:02PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > > >>running etch in console (no X); >

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread bobg . hahc
On Nov 16, 4:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: ... > > I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only > > email w/ valid recipients. ... > I suspect this won't be much help Bob, but its worth

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread bobg . hahc
On Nov 16, 4:50 pm, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > >> running etch in console (no X); > > >> I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server onl

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 16 November 2007, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > This question is informational and there is no urgency. I'm not going to cover what has the first response has said, but I have a bit I can add: > When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and > password I

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Jeff D
André Wendt wrote: Hi, I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. $ ulimit -f unlimited $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux This doesn't se

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-16 Thread Haines Brown
I've had a similar locales problem, and it seems to have resulted from incompatibility of package versions. I resolved it by doing # aptitude upgrade, which upgraded my perl. The suggetion to set C_TIME = "en_DK.UTF-8" in order to get the European date format interested me. However, despite puttin

Re: problems with eps from grace

2007-11-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:52:10 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 04:08 +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:48:23 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am using etch and grace for plotting. With the version of grace in >

Re: No sound with video

2007-11-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 16:32:46 -0500, Tom Ashley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:02 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: [...] > > If you are using xine as your engine, and trying to play mp3s, If you > > are > > using other engines, this fix shouldn't resolve your problem. > > > > John > > >

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
André Wendt: > > I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and > repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. > > $ ulimit -f > unlimited > > $ uname -a > Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > This

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:42:02PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > >>running etch in console (no X); > >> > >>I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server o

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: running etch in console (no X); I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only email w/ valid recipients. isn't there a document that says how to do this in

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:08:11PM -0700, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and > password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". So now > I get 3 prompts: "user name", "password", and "AiiNET" where before I

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > running etch in console (no X); > > I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only > email w/ valid recipients. > > isn't there a document that says how to do this in less than 400 > pages??? I suspect this won'

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > running etch in console (no X); > > I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only > email w/ valid recipients. > > isn't there a document that says how to do this in less than 400 > pages??? > No. :) It sound

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes the sound system. It was posted before that this coul

Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Bob Goldberg
running etch in console (no X); I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only email w/ valid recipients. isn't there a document that says how to do this in less than 400 pages??? TIA

Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-16 Thread Bob Goldberg
running etch in console (no X); I just want to take inbound Email & forward to exchange server only email w/ valid recipients. isn't there a document that says how to do this in less than 400 pages??? TIA

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:33:22PM +0100, Andr?? Wendt wrote: > >> This doesn't seem to be a problem for other programs. I have a > >> VirtualBox snapshot as large as 2,587,808 bytes. > Oh, and thanks to Ron Johnson, I just realized all the sizes I mentioned > above are in *kilobytes*. DUH! ;-)

[debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct.
This question is informational and there is no urgency. When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". So now I get 3 prompts: "user name", "password", and "AiiNET" where before I just got the 2 prompts "us

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:32:14PM +, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:27:59PM -0500, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > > > Is there a way to find out the 'not used' .deb packages after > > dis-upgrade and remove them to free up some disk space? > > I don't know what you mean by "'not

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: >> >>> After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes >>> the sound system. It was posted before that this could be overcome >>> by remov

Re: printing a scanned document

2007-11-16 Thread H.S.
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I was sent a scanned document, it was a .jpeg file. > So I downloaded the .jpeg and used display to view it. > Then I printed it, but it was about 1/2 the size of a sheet of paper and > hard to read. > > So I used display to resize it 150% and sharpen the image. >

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:57:31AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:18:49PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: > > I get the following error messages whenever I update or install a program > > with aptitude: > > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please chec

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:27:59PM -0500, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > Is there a way to find out the 'not used' .deb packages after > dis-upgrade and remove them to free up some disk space? I don't know what you mean by "'not used' after dist-upgrade", but if you have popularity-contest installed yo

Re: 64 bits or 32 bits? How to define?

2007-11-16 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Thursday 15 November 2007 19:45:50 cs, vous avez écrit : > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:05 +, michael wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 00:56 +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > > Le Wednesday 14 November 2007 21:57:20 Pantor, vous avez écrit : > > > > Exactly yes, CPU is AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ and

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes the sound system. It was posted before that this could be overcome by removing the alsa modules manually, then running udevtrigger. Currently, whenev

Re: No sound with video

2007-11-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:53:03AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [detailed explanation about arts, esd and alsa] Interesting. My unstable installation works without problems set to 'auto' and no esd or arts. I guess the dmix plugin is doing it's magic. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it

Re: Re: Re: Dovecot duplicating emails

2007-11-16 Thread Alexander
Hi guys, after a lot of grief and a bit of experimenting around, I think I have now found a (the?) solution. I was missing the package inotify-tools on my system. I came across it reading about dovecot using inotify on Linux systems. After installation of this package, my email duplication i

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/07 09:04, André Wendt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and > repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. > > $ ulimit -f > unlimited > > $ uname -a > Linux th

Re: No sound with video

2007-11-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:03:54AM -0500, Tom Ashley wrote: > > Check /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc On my etch install it's set to 'none' > > Try 'auto' or 'alsa' instead. > > I tried each of the options. Neither made worked. Just to be sure, did you restart iceweasel before trying the sound? Re

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-16 Thread Kent West
tom arnall wrote: firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with no let up. and when i do a 'ps' for it, i get: firefox|-firefox-bin(3647)-+-{firefox-bin}(3649) | |-{firefox-bin}(3651) | |-{firefox-bin}(3666)

unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-16 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
Is there a way to find out the 'not used' .deb packages after dis-upgrade and remove them to free up some disk space? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What path is iceweasel using to find Java plugin?

2007-11-16 Thread Kent West
I've got an app (Banner) that needs a specific version of the Java plugin (a 1.4 variant). I've got it installed on my Sid box, but can't get Iceweasel to recognize it instead of the 1.5 version. No matter what I do to disable 1.5, "about:plugins" reports: Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_04-b05 Fil

firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-16 Thread tom arnall
firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with no let up. and when i do a 'ps' for it, i get: firefox|-firefox-bin(3647)-+-{firefox-bin}(3649) | |-{firefox-bin}(3651) | |-{firefox-bin}(3666) |

Re: problems with eps from grace

2007-11-16 Thread Jon Leonard
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:52:10AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 04:08 +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:48:23 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am using etch and grace for plotting. With the version of grace in

[SOLVED] samba server on debian unusable by Mac client

2007-11-16 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 14/11/07 10:17, wrote: I'm trying to copy files from a Mac running OS X to a Samba share that I have set up on an Etch machine, using samba 3.0.24. The Mac complains that the file name is invalid (for any file even test.txt) and then refuses to copy, and the operation leaves a

Re: No sound with flash videos & iceweasel [was: Re: No sound with video]

2007-11-16 Thread Tom Ashley
Sorry--I failed to respond to list. Tom Forwarded Message > From: Tom Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: No sound with flash videos & iceweasel [was: Re: No sound > with video] > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:05:07 -0500 > > On Thu, 2007-

Getting svgalib working for mplayer in 64-bit Debian

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been trying to get the svgalib driver working for the -vo option on mplayer for some time now, but I haven't had any luck. It worked out of the box for me when I ran 32-bit Debian, but I haven't had any such luck lately. My video card is Intel, b

Re: Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-16 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
Vidar Langseid wrote: Hi In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. You could have a debate about whether this is an installer bug, a kern

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes > the sound system. It was posted before that this could be overcome > by removing the alsa modules manually, then running udevtrigger. > Currently, whenever I reboot, I run a

Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread André Wendt
Hi, I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. $ ulimit -f unlimited $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux This doesn't seem to be a problem fo

Re: unable to start xcdroast as root

2007-11-16 Thread Robert Van Horn
Using KDE - the xhost +local:root command worked. Didn't work if I tried to use a root console but when I did it in a user console and then su'd root I was given some error information which allowed me to get things going. Thank you all. bob On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:47:40PM -0800, David Witbr

Re: Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me There were problems with this post. Warning: Unknown group "sci.physics.research" It seems to be group-specific. Some groups I read are unknown, others exits. I find it puzzling -- it has n

Re: How to make a movie to play on Full Screen (on Wide-screen)

2007-11-16 Thread Sven Joachim
Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wish to play some movies on dear lenny (Testing). > > lenny lives with a wide screen (Acer 5102 wlmi 15.4") and i have some > issues with the full screen : > > when i play a movie that was designed for 4:3 screen xine will add black > lines around the vide

Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Russ Cook
After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes the sound system. It was posted before that this could be overcome by removing the alsa modules manually, then running udevtrigger. Currently, whenever I reboot, I run alsaconf until it removes the modules, then escape and run udevtr

Re: printing a scanned document

2007-11-16 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:57:58 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > imagemagick is one of those secret programs that people outside (and > many inside) the linux world just don't know about, yet its so > powerful, easy to use (scriptable!!) that I don't know how people > can live

Re: Broadcom 43xx Wireless Network Adapter

2007-11-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 16 November 2007 07:32, Scarletdown wrote: > I've been futiley attempting to get the onboard wireless working on my > laptop, and recently went through some instructions in a post over at > linuxquestions.org. Despite going through the instructions step by > step, wireless still does not

Re: Learning Debian - run level question?

2007-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:16:35AM -0600, Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: > I've been using Debian/Linux for just less than year and have been > irreversibly hooked. I've been studying up on the boot and initialization of > the system and have a question about run levels. I know Debian defaults t

Re: No sound with video

2007-11-16 Thread Tom Ashley
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 05:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:28:07PM -0500, Tom Ashley wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Tom Ashley wrote: > > > > I'm stumped and need help with configuring m

mocp :FATAL_ERROR: The terminal is too small after resizeing

2007-11-16 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I get thi message when my terminal is too small: mocp: FATAL_ERROR: The terminal is too small after resizeing is it normal or is it a bug ? -- Gérard

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 16, 2007 7:12 AM, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:20:49 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > 2. Flash image obscuring text. > --- > I've recently started see

How to make a movie to play on Full Screen (on Wide-screen)

2007-11-16 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello,... I wish to play some movies on dear lenny (Testing). lenny lives with a wide screen (Acer 5102 wlmi 15.4") and i have some issues with the full screen : when i play a movie that was designed for 4:3 screen xine will add black lines around the video. so i get "a smaller view inside a b

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/07 10:36, André Wendt wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 11/16/07 09:04, André Wendt wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and >>> repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is

Re: printing a scanned document

2007-11-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Dan H wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:57:58 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > imagemagick is one of those secret programs that people outside (and > > many inside) the linux world just don't know about, yet its so > > powerful,

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/07 10:33, André Wendt wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> André Wendt: >>> I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and >>> repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. >>> >>> $ ulimit -f >

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jeff D wrote: André Wendt wrote: Hi, I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. $ ulimit -f unlimited $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:

Re: printing a scanned document

2007-11-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wayne Topa wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, <> Thanks guys. I did not want to install Gimp: too many notes... convert did not do the job, who knows why. But using oo writer and inserting the jpeg image somehow expanded it to

Re: Broadcom 43xx Wireless Network Adapter

2007-11-16 Thread Emmanuel Revah
# On Friday 16 November 2007 07:32, Scarletdown wrote: #> I've been futiley attempting to get the onboard wireless working on my #> laptop, and recently went through some instructions in a post over at #> linuxquestions.org. Despite going through the instructions step by #> step, wireless still do

Re: problems with eps from grace

2007-11-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 04:08 +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:48:23 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am using etch and grace for plotting. With the version of grace in > > etch, I am having problems when I save my graphs in eps format. Other > > ap

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread André Wendt
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/16/07 09:04, André Wendt wrote: >> Hi, > >> I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and >> repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. > >> $ ulimit -f >> unlimited > >> $ uname -a >> Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1

Re: No sound with video

2007-11-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:28:07PM -0500, Tom Ashley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Tom Ashley wrote: > > > I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with > > > video. I can play CD's and liste

Re: unable to start xcdroast as root

2007-11-16 Thread Robert Van Horn
No luck - I get the same results. Thanks, bob On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:39:56PM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On November 15, 2007 06:01:33 pm Robert Van Horn wrote: > > Hi, From the root console: > > # /usr/bin/xcdroast > > > > The reply: > > > > (xcdroast:18770): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot op

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread André Wendt
Jochen Schulz wrote: > André Wendt: >> I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and >> repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. >> >> $ ulimit -f >> unlimited >> >> $ uname -a >> Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007

Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me There were problems with this post. Warning: Unknown group "sci.physics.research" It seems to be group-specific. Some groups I read are unknown, others exits. I find it puzzling -- it has no trouble reading from that usenet group. -- T

Re: Learning Debian - run level question?

2007-11-16 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On a default Debian system are all run levels 2-5 setup exactly the > same making no difference to the run level you chose to run in? Yes, pretty much, if not _exactly_ the same. Simply compare the contents of: /etc/rc2.d/ . . /etc/rc5.

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:20:49 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: 2. Flash image obscuring text. --- I've recently started seeing web pages using flash, in which some flash image obscures text. In once case, there wa

Re: printing a scanned document

2007-11-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I was sent a scanned document, it was a .jpeg file. So I downloaded the .jpeg and used display to view it. Then I printed it, but it was about 1/2 the size of a sheet of paper and hard to read. So I used display to resize it 150% and sharpen the image. That worked

Learning Debian - run level question?

2007-11-16 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I've been using Debian/Linux for just less than year and have been irreversibly hooked. I've been studying up on the boot and initialization of the system and have a question about run levels. I know Debian defaults to using run level 2. There is a comment in /etc/inittab that states; # R

Re: No sound with video--Solved

2007-11-16 Thread Tom Ashley
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 10:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 16:32:46 -0500, Tom Ashley wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > Thanks for the response. I can play the mp3s withouth any problem. My > > problem appears to be limited to flash audio. > > The default configuration for ic

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:20:55 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: [...] > The suggetion to set C_TIME = "en_DK.UTF-8" in order to get the > European date format interested me. However, despite putting an export > statement into ~/.bashrc or setting varible/value in /etc/drfault/locale, > I still get >

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:20:49 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: 2. Flash image obscuring text. --- I've recently started seeing web pages using flash, in which some flash image obscures text. In once case, there was a navigation bar overlappi

Re: Broadcom 43xx Wireless Network Adapter

2007-11-16 Thread Bogart Salzberg
Though I much prefer Debian for the server platform, I have found Ubuntu "just works" in a very nice way on my laptop. I recently installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop (with Broadcom 43xx) and had wi-fi working with minimal fuss. The "restricted drivers manager" handled down

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-16 Thread Vidar Langseid
Hi > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [snip upgrade instructions] > > > > Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to > > others. > > > >> You could have

Re: printing a scanned document

2007-11-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Hugo Vanwoerkom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hi, <> > > Thanks guys. > I did not want to install Gimp: too many notes... > > convert did not do the job, who knows why. > > But using oo writer and inserting the jpeg image somehow expanded it to > pa

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:20:49 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> 2. Flash image obscuring text. >> --- >> I've recently started seeing web pages using flash, in which some flash >> image obscures text. In once case, there was a navigation bar >> overlapping the pages

Re: Kerja sama membangun jaringan franchise

2007-11-16 Thread Aryani
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Re: unable to start xcdroast as root

2007-11-16 Thread David Witbrodt
> Hi, From the root console: > # /usr/bin/xcdroast > > The reply: > > (xcdroast:18770): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open > display: > > If I start from a user console I get the window that > says you must first start as root to set up. > > If I set the suid bit on xcdroast it tries to start > from