Re: xfce4-battery-plugin and kernel 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:56:30PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > The ACPI code has changed in 2.6.24. Check your config. > > Thanks; config of what? I'm guessing the config of your custom kernel. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einst

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

2007-12-15 Thread Miles Bader
js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pros: > - It's Debian! > - It's Free! > - Great environment for Programming (better than ssh to linux development > style) > - More open source softwares support - Pisses off all the mac users on slashdot -Miles -- (\(\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute bunny virus

Re: startx gdm

2007-12-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Automatic startx should be as easy as adding it to .bash_profile > (not .bashrc to not have it run for every xterm), but I didn't test > it. Yes. Not only automatic startx, but the solution to all of life's problems should be as easy as adding it to .bash_profile. At any rate, I did solve gett

Re: how to get debian.org to accept my yahoo.com email

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Shuler
On 12/15/2007 10:01 PM, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:35:53PM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: >> On 12/08/2007 02:05 PM, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> Ask your Mail/DNS-Administrator to correct HELO and DNS MX settings >> Would this be yourself? The relevant bits: >> >>> Received: from unkno

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

2007-12-15 Thread js
Thank you all! Conclusion: Pros: - It's Debian! - It's Free! - Great environment for Programming (better than ssh to linux development style) - More open source softwares support Cons: - might harder to get your devices working. wifi, printer, dual display, iPod etc. - lost lots of OSX goodies (

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 03:46:09PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Wed, 2007.12.05 10:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:51:30PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > I don't know whether the hardware errors are related, but I'm beginning > > > to not > > > trust the PCDoctor s

Re: closest to eagle

2007-12-15 Thread David
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I am looking for the closest free software to eagle ( electonic Printed circuit board design tool). thanks a lot Go here:- http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages ...and do a search with the 'package description' option selected. Regards, -- Dav

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-15 Thread hce
On 12/16/07, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/15/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 07:49:20PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > > > Aha, the old "no worthy mechs" error. What libsasl packages do you have > > > > installed? Please post the output of > > > > > >

Re: xfce4-battery-plugin and kernel 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-15 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:34:20 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 the mental interface of > Celejar told: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using the plugin mentioned in the subject. It works correctly with > > all Debian packaged kernels that I've tried, but when I use

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-15 Thread hce
On 12/15/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 07:49:20PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > Aha, the old "no worthy mechs" error. What libsasl packages do you have > > > installed? Please post the output of > > > > > > dpkg -l libsasl* > > > > > > $ dpkg -l libsasl* > > De

CGI Scripts, Apache 2.2.3, and Debian 4.0 R1

2007-12-15 Thread Jon D. Irish
I have a clean install of Debian 4.0 R1 with Apache 2.2.3-4 installed. I can not get cgi scripts to execute from the website. I have researched the Apache site and tried both of the following: 1) Under apache2.conf, I added Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Re: How to stop a pkg being updated to the latest with Apt

2007-12-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 15 December 2007 22:28, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:46:58PM +0100, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:23, Peter Werner wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > How do I p

Re: startx gdm

2007-12-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:20:55PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:36:29 + (UTC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Test it, and let us know if it works. > > I had some problems with this -- getty, it seems, felt rushed, and would > not let me log in; so, I changed things

Re: startx gdm

2007-12-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:36:29 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Test it, and let us know if it works. I had some problems with this -- getty, it seems, felt rushed, and would not let me log in; so, I changed things back. I'm still manually logging into fluxbox with "startx /usr/bin/startflux

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:42:58AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:49:07PM -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > bts tag 233129 d-i > > Hm, that's an interesting one. It looks like the apt fetcher claims > that the update succeeded even when som

Re: closest to eagle

2007-12-15 Thread Carl Johnson
"abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I am looking for the closest free software to eagle ( electonic > Printed circuit board design tool). > thanks a lot > best regards > bela `apt-cache search pcb` shows: pcb - printed circuit board (pcb) design program gerbv - Gerber file

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:30:29 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Dotan, > We have that at home, too. Well, at least the wife thinks so. That's > how she programs me. I'll try the ear-plugs tip, thanks! YW. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-15 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007.12.05 10:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:51:30PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I don't know whether the hardware errors are related, but I'm beginning to > > not > > trust the PCDoctor software included on the ThinkPad Rescue & Recovery > > media. > > It

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14/12/2007, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The weirdest thing I've seen is a programmable remote controller (for > TVs, VCRs, etc.) which can be updated from the suppliers web site. > Just put the volume right up on your PCs speakers, and hold the > controller very close to the cone of

Re: How to stop a pkg being updated to the latest with Apt

2007-12-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:46:58PM +0100, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:23, Peter Werner wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > How do I prevent the fltk package being upgraded using Apt? > > > > put the

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:18:22 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is still very much a work in progress, so anybody with comments > or suggestions (keep it clean!) please feel free to chime in. Thanks Dave. I tried this and it seems to work well (using thunar). So, I've tossed most of gno

HPLIP problem communicating with HP OfficeJet 5510

2007-12-15 Thread Fred Yeadon
I am running Debian Sid with a 2.6.10 kernel and an HP OfficeJet 5510 All-In-One printer attached through a USB port, using CUPS for all printing. Since updating my entire installation recently, I have not been able to communicate with the printer, although it was working previously. The problem e

Re: How to stop a pkg being updated to the latest with Apt

2007-12-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:23, Peter Werner wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > How do I prevent the fltk package being upgraded using Apt? > > put the package on hold. see 6.12 in > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html > on how to do this.

alpine question

2007-12-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a couple different email accounts one has pop address as incoming.verizon.net and another has incoming email address of mail.shellworld.net and the same for outgoing address. Having had a look at the alpine configuration file, it doesn't appear to have a place to document the incoming e

Re: Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client

2007-12-15 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:49:09 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:24:14 + (UTC) > Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Are there any problems with having more than one entry in my >> "etc/exim4/passwd.client" file? > > see this thread for an account of some trouble I

Re: lsof |grep /dev/dsp # gives 0 output but still "busy"?

2007-12-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Saturday 15 December 2007 10:42:09 am Thomas Anderson wrote: > How can lsof give no output when /dev/dsp is "locked"? How can > I find what process uses my soundcard if not with lsof? > > computer:/home/tommy# esd > /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy > computer:/home/tommy# lsof|grep /dev/dsp > c

lsof |grep /dev/dsp # gives 0 output but still "busy"?

2007-12-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can lsof give no output when /dev/dsp is "locked"? How can I find what process uses my soundcard if not with lsof? computer:/home/tommy# esd /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy computer:/home/tommy# lsof|grep /dev/dsp computer:/home/tommy# - -- Reg

Re: xfce4-battery-plugin and kernel 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-15 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 the mental interface of Celejar told: > Hi, > > I'm using the plugin mentioned in the subject. It works correctly with > all Debian packaged kernels that I've tried, but when I use > 2.6.24-rc4 (vanilla from kernel.org), it erroneously reports "AC > off-line" and "28%" (alway

Re: apt-cache show and aptitude show report different dependencies - Why?

2007-12-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:14:12PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Why this difference? Why two blocks of output for the same package in > apt-cache show. I have included the full outputs of both the tools > below. aptitude only shows the current/latest version of

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

2007-12-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:49:07PM -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > bts tag 233129 d-i Hm, that's an interesting one. It looks like the apt fetcher claims that the update succeeded even when some sources failed, so I have to iterate the list of download items after the

RE: Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen?

2007-12-15 Thread Tony Heal
Works great. Thanks Tony -Original Message- From: Raj Kiran Grandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 6:27 AM To: Tony Heal Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen? Tony Heal wrote: > I have an error hand

Re: how to redo networking on bootup

2007-12-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 15 2007, Bo Simonsen wrote: > localhost is present in your /etc/hosts file? hm.. I have 2 lines, and the second one is now wrong... I just switched DSL providers, and I no longer have bellsouth.. here's what it USED to be: cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 p

Re: DVD support question

2007-12-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thursday 13 December 2007 12:28:33 am Jude DaShiell wrote: > Does debian have support for the external mad dog dvd burners > available? If this one won't work I should have a phillips as a > replacement next week. This one can't be mounted yet because > of a missing helper application according

Re: DVD support question

2007-12-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hi, it's a usb connect. Interestingly it works with the mac mini I have. On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:28:33AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: Does debian have support for the external mad dog dvd burners available? If this one won't work I should have a phil

Re: DVD support question

2007-12-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:28:33AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Does debian have support for the external mad dog dvd burners available? If > this one won't work I should have a phillips as a replacement next week. > This one can't be mounted yet because of a missing helper application > accor

Re: apt-cache show and aptitude show report different dependencies - Why?

2007-12-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:14:12PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > Why this difference? Why two blocks of output for the same package in > apt-cache show. I have included the full outputs of both the tools > below. Because you have 2 apt line for binary package (testing and unstable or so). aptitu

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 error in name resolution for AAAA type queries

2007-12-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Saturday 15 December 2007 05:10:01 Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > I observed it with wireshark and the DNS queries and responses are like > this:- > > DNS Standard query ftp.us.debian.org > DNS Standard query response [Malformed packet] > DNS Standrd query A ftp.us.debian.org > DNS Standard query

apt-cache show and aptitude show report different dependencies - Why?

2007-12-15 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
I always use the aptitude package manager. I never use the apt-get package manager. Today, I noticed that apt-cache show and aptitude show are reporting different dependencies for the package:- linux-image-2.6-486. If you see the aptitude output, it clearly shows:- Depends: linux-image-2.6.22-3-4

Re: how to redo networking on bootup

2007-12-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:43:48AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I think something is wrong with my system. It started a few weeks ago, when, > on a reboot, my NVIDIA driver didn't work, so X didn't start(or is it X > wouldn't start because I had no network..). I think somehow these are > rela

Re: how to redo networking on bootup

2007-12-15 Thread Bo Simonsen
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:43:48AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I think something is wrong with my system. It started a few weeks ago, when, > on a reboot, my NVIDIA driver didn't work, so X didn't start(or is it X > wouldn't start because I had no network..). I think somehow these are > rel

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 error in name resolution for AAAA type queries

2007-12-15 Thread Thilo Six
Amogh Hooshdar wrote the following on 15.12.2007 14:10 > Thank you for response. But it did not help. I commented out all the > ip6 lines in /etc/hosts and then even rebooted the box. > > Now see a sample output for aptitude update:- > > # aptitude update > 0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (1.

Re: Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen?

2007-12-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:56:36PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I have an error handling function that traps, reports and exits on an > error. My problem is that I want to do all of that and I want to > still see stdout. > > Can anyone help with this? Here is the function. If I change > sources.list

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:00:08PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >No. There's a fundamental difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD. > >FreeBSD seems to have an attitude to Linux as Linux has to Windows. > >Try to be like them and convert use

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 error in name resolution for AAAA type queries

2007-12-15 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
Thank you for response. But it did not help. I commented out all the ip6 lines in /etc/hosts and then even rebooted the box. Now see a sample output for aptitude update:- # aptitude update 0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (1.0.0.0)] [Connecting to security.debian.or I observed it with wiresha

Re: closest to eagle

2007-12-15 Thread Paul Csanyi
2007/12/15, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:30:10 +0100 > "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am looking for the closest free software to eagle ( electonic > > Printed circuit board design tool). > > Check out the gEDA package. It includes an P

Re: Recording PCM output to file

2007-12-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:38:45PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Hmm, that looks indeed like it should record. I assume you also tried it > with less amplification on the capture channels? (The settings above > could maybe trigger some sort of overload protection.) > > Do you have a microphone t

how to redo networking on bootup

2007-12-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
I think something is wrong with my system. It started a few weeks ago, when, on a reboot, my NVIDIA driver didn't work, so X didn't start(or is it X wouldn't start because I had no network..). I think somehow these are related, but I don't know how. anyway, I just changed DSL providers, and in

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 error in name resolution for AAAA type queries

2007-12-15 Thread Thilo Six
Amogh Hooshdar wrote the following on 15.12.2007 07:58 > I changed the "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" line to the following two lines. > > alias net-pf-10 off > alias ipv6 off > > After rebooting, I checked: lsmod | grep ipv6. Sure enough it is gone > and the command gives nil output. But when I use b

Re: Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen?

2007-12-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Tony Heal wrote: I have an error handling function that traps, reports and exits on an error. My problem is that I want to do all of that and I want to still see stdout. Try this: $ errors=$(command 2>&1 1> $(tty)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: closest to eagle

2007-12-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:30:10 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for the closest free software to eagle ( electonic > Printed circuit board design tool). > thanks a lot > best regards > bela > > Check out the gEDA package. It includes an PCB board design

closest to eagle

2007-12-15 Thread abdelkader belahcene
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Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-15 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sat December 15 2007 8:49 am, hce wrote: > $ dpkg -l libsasl* > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > | uppercase=bad) > | > ||/ Name V

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 07:49:20PM +1100, hce wrote: > > Aha, the old "no worthy mechs" error. What libsasl packages do you have > > installed? Please post the output of > > > > dpkg -l libsasl* > > > $ dpkg -l libsasl* > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-15 Thread hce
On 12/15/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:08:19AM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > You're the client here not the server. For gmail as relayhost I have > > > this setup: > > > > Does that mean I don't need to worry about ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem and > > ssl-cert-snak

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:08:19AM +1100, hce wrote: > > You're the client here not the server. For gmail as relayhost I have > > this setup: > > Does that mean I don't need to worry about ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem and > ssl-cert-snakeoil.key, were they created by server? I never cared about those a

Re: How to start KDE from a console prompt?

2007-12-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
I think this belongs on the list (sorry for the top post). Regards, Andrei On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:12:47PM -0800, Robert Key wrote: > Hi do this > echo "startkde" > .xinitrc > ctrld d ( to quit and save) > type startx at prompt > should work. > > > Rob Key > > - Original Message ---