Re: Debian htmlview package

Could you be looking for "x-www-browser" alternative ? I think it is the debian way of htmlview On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:40 AM, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I find the Debian htmlview package? I've tried every package > search apt, aptitude even searching in http://packages

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

> * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? Linkname: Considerations when creating ext3 filesystems - Ext4 URL: http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Considerations_when_creating_ext3_filesystems#Memory_n

Re: [mythtv-users] AM2+ motherboard with support for ECC RAM for media player / server

Bob wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: Bob wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: Bob wrote: Bill Williamson wrote: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob wrote: > Unbuffered / Registered obviously. > Bad form Bla Bla Bla but just to update the list, the abit A-S78H also

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

Sorry this's so late. Discovered a new mailbox. Incoming from Osamu Aoki: > Hi, > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:57:19PM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > > Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > Why are you against switching to UTF-8? Disk space? There really is > > > no other disadvantage, and

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file [OT] [OOT] (off-off-topic)

Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mark Allums wrote: > > Rich Healey wrote: > > > Mark Allums wrote: > > >> 1. You might want to learn PERL or Python or Ruby, and do it there. > > > FWIW, this is very easy to do in Python. > > > PSFWIW: Satan uses Ruby. > > > > I thought that Beelzebub

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

> * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? some (rather old) information is contained in Linkname: E2fsprogs Release Notes URL: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html for example, it s

deprecated smbmount --> mount.cifs

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AM2+ motherboard with support for ECC RAM for media player / server

Roger Heflin wrote: Bob wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: Bob wrote: Bill Williamson wrote: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob wrote: > Unbuffered / Registered obviously. > Bad form Bla Bla Bla but just to update the list, the abit A-S78H also supports Un

Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Error: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any > corresponding BIOS drive. is /etc/mtab correct ? is /boot/grub/device.map (which might be created by grub-install by reading /etc/mtab) correct ? have you searched goo

Re: Newbie Basic Networking. Using Hostnames

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:04:45AM +, Oscar Corte wrote: >I'm able to ping each machine from each other but by its IP address. > However, I don't get any results if I ping by the use of host names. > What am I missing? a definition of the two "ip fqdn name" lines in /etc/hosts on both machi

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sorry. It just seems (to an old C programmer) that this is pretty simple problem, unless there's some tricky detail that you aren't telling us. That's exactly what I was thinking looking at the problem. No offence None taken. meant to

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:02:05PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > OK, I started a third instance by logging on a third > linux user on a console (tty3) and running startx -- :2 > and there was no difference in the new session. > > I have two other instances(?) of x-session-manager > running. Do

Re: Newbie Basic Networking. Using Hostnames

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:04:45AM +, Oscar Corte wrote: > > I recently installed Debian at two home PC?s. Both are connected to an > ADSL modem through which Internet is accessed. > > All network configurations were made by Debian at installation time. > I?m able to ping each machine from e

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition. very slow. how to tell what is happening?

You say its very slow. Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? Does it take more memory for a larger fs in a linear fashion? E.g. OpenBSD needs 1 MB per 1 GB fs size to fsck. If the box has less memory than this, fsck hits swap and really slows down. Is this 1 T

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/08/2008 10:48 AM: > >> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:11:26AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> >>> NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM: >>> less /u

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

On 08/05/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On 05/06/08 13:25, H.S. wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> > > >> Is this a binary file or a text file? > > > > > > hmm. Text. I made it clear in the original post. > > > > Sorry. It jus

Re: framebuffer + nvidia

On Thu May 8 2008 03:11:40 pm Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > recently got a new laptop, with a nvidia gpu. I have installed the > nvidia driver for X. But I also like using the vt's as well. > > How do I drive them in a high mode the 80x40 and can I use frame buffers > at the same time as using the nv

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Re: prevent dpkg from (re-)starting services

Olaf Leidinger wrote: Hello List! On a file server I installed several debian (-based) distributions into an exported directory using debootstrap. These are used as root filesystems for diskless clients. To install new packages/updates I chroot into the directories of the corresponding distribut

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 05/06/08 13:25, H.S. wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> Is this a binary file or a text file? > > > > hmm. Text. I made it clear in the original post. > > Sorry. It just seems (to an old C programmer) that this is pretty > simple problem, unless t

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

On 08/05/2008, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:02:48PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > On 08/05/2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "We do not support Iceweasel/Firefox/Linux etc., We only support M$ IE." > > > > I think you

Newbie Basic Networking. Using Hostnames

I recently installed Debian at two home PC’s. Both are connected to an ADSL modem through which Internet is accessed. All network configurations were made by Debian at installation time. I’m able to ping each machine from each other but by its IP address. However, I don't get any results if I

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/08/2008 10:48 AM: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:11:26AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM: less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian (this is a useful general rule) that is nowhere near int

Re: prevent dpkg from (re-)starting services

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Debian htmlview package

Hi, Where can I find the Debian htmlview package? I've tried every package search apt, aptitude even searching in http://packages.debian.org. Nothing found. Thank you. Kind Regards. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: Clearing SWAP

On Thu May 8 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > What programs does she use in Windows? Have you not found Linux > equivalents? Have you written to the vendors and asked about a Linux > port? Tell me which programs they are and maybe I can suggest > something. Adobe, photoshop Elements... She really doesn'

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

On Thu, 8 May 2008 06:49:52 +0200 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:41:40PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > (http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID): > > it says: > > GRUB has support for LVM and RAID since version 1.95. > > but this might apply to the debian packa

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

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Re: Clearing SWAP

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Re: Clearing SWAP

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:27:05AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:06:22PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Sat May 3 2008, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > >     alias startx='startx -- :0 vt07' > > >     alias startx='startx -- :1 vt08' > > >     alias startx='startx --

Re: Clearing SWAP

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Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

Kevin Mark writes: > Mozilla made the use of the Firefox brand contingent upon certain > conditions like using the lastest versions of Firefox to address security > issues instead of allowing Debian to address them for the stable > versions. Debian did not agree to all the conditions and thus Icewe

Re: How to set QTDIR environment variable

Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 08 May 2008 22:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: I'm trying to build pdfedit, which isn't available for Etch. I've already dealt with some deps (libboost-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev, libboost-iostreams1.33.1, and libt1-dev), but ./configure is complain

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

Kevin Mark wrote: > Mozilla made the use of the Firefox brand contingent upon certain > conditions like using the lastest versions of Firefox to address > security issues instead of allowing Debian to address them for the > stable versions. Debian did not agree to all the conditions and thus > Icew

Re: framebuffer + nvidia

Hi! AFAIK the nvidia fb and X driver don't work well together. You'd better use the vesa fb driver. Ciao, Olaf On Fri, 9 May 2008 08:11:40 +1000 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > recently got a new laptop, with a nvidia gpu. I have installed the > nvidia driver for X. But I also

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Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Hello! > > cd / > mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc1/part1 /mnt > # this is the / partition of the sdb > mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc1/part2 /mnt/usr > # this is the /usr partition of the sdb > mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc > mount -t sys

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:09:12AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > KS wrote: > > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > >> This is interesting. I've changed the UserAgent to say Firefox instead > >> of Iceweasel and that triangle is present (which I had never noticed, to > >> say the truth, but

migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive

Hello! I tried to migrating from the first to second SATA drive My Debian Etch OS with Gparted. I copied the /, /usr, /var, swap, /tmp, /home partitions of the system to the second SATA: sdb with Gparted. Then I tried to set up grub to boot this Debian system from the first SATA drive sda, and d

Re: How to set QTDIR environment variable

On Thursday 08 May 2008 22:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > I'm trying to build pdfedit, which isn't available for Etch. I've already > > dealt with some deps (libboost-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev, > > libboost-iostreams1.33.1, and libt1-dev), but ./configure is complaining > > a

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:02:48PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 08/05/2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "We do not support Iceweasel/Firefox/Linux etc., We only support M$ IE." > > I think you should consider not supporting that bank, then. > > - Jordi G. H.

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition. very slow. how to tell what is happening?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/08 14:12, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I would like some feedback on what fsck is doing. How can I tell if it is > making progress or just > restore from backup? > > i just see > checking stage 1 or something > then nothing > > what to

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:13:53AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Mumia W.. wrote: > > On 05/07/2008 05:23 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> [...] > >> Which leads to the question: Shouldn't Iceweasel at least advertise > >> itself as Firefox? > > > > No it should not. > > > >> Because af

Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

Todd A. Jacobs, 05/08/2008 07:36 PM: > I have the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf: > > Dpkg::Pre-Invoke {"/bin/mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; > Dpkg::Post-Invoke {"/bin/mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; Why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: [OT] Recovering a deleted file that is still open

Joey Hess wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: If I have accidentally deleted a file that is still being used by some application (read or write mode), is it possible to recover such a file? Especially since the file is not really deleted until the descriptor is closed by the application? Just

prevent dpkg from (re-)starting services

Hello List! On a file server I installed several debian(-based) distributions into an exported directory using debootstrap. These are used as root filesystems for diskless clients. To install new packages/updates I chroot into the directories of the corresponding distributions and run aptitude. Th

Re: How to set QTDIR environment variable

Nigel Henry wrote: I'm trying to build pdfedit, which isn't available for Etch. I've already dealt with some deps (libboost-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev, libboost-iostreams1.33.1, and libt1-dev), but ./configure is complaining about the gui about the QT gui as below. checking whether we want t

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

James Allsopp wrote: hi, Try something like this, just add some pointers; scan is just a simple object and l is a class vector. HTH jim int nearest::readdata(std::string s, std::vector & l) { //read in scuba core list std::ifstream input(s.c_str()); std::string temp, pos, x ,y;

fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition. very slow. how to tell what is happening?

Hi, I would like some feedback on what fsck is doing. How can I tell if it is making progress or just restore from backup? i just see checking stage 1 or something then nothing what to do to get some kind of (ascii :)) graphic or other feedback as to how it is doing? It just sits there. fsc

Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

On 2008-05-08 20:45 +0200, n0bert0 wrote: > Hi Todd, > > /usr holds almost all active binaries (/usr/bin) and libraries > (/usr/kib), you will not be able to umount it. > First step of "remount" is a umount. No, where did you get that idea? Please read mount(2). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Then aptitude install big-cursor Nothing changed so I went searching through Gnome menus for anything to do with mouse or cursor and found nothing that would give me any choices to change cursors or mouse pointers. Then per per other response from Manu: update-alter

Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

Hi Todd, /usr holds almost all active binaries (/usr/bin) and libraries (/usr/kib), you will not be able to umount it. First step of "remount" is a umount. cheers Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I have the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf: > > Dpkg::Pre-Invoke {"/bin/mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; >

Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

On 2008-05-08 19:36 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I have the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf: > > Dpkg::Pre-Invoke {"/bin/mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; > Dpkg::Post-Invoke {"/bin/mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; > > However, in many cases, running aptitude results in the following error: > >

/usr busy after aptitude operations?

I have the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf: Dpkg::Pre-Invoke {"/bin/mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; Dpkg::Post-Invoke {"/bin/mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; However, in many cases, running aptitude results in the following error: mount: /usr is busy E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::P

Re: [mythtv-users] AM2+ motherboard with support for ECC RAM for media player / server

Bob wrote: Roger Heflin wrote: Bob wrote: Bill Williamson wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Bob wrote: > Unbuffered / Registered obviously. > Bad form Bla Bla Bla but just to update the list, the abit A-S

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I installed Debian on top of LVM and software RAID1 following this: > http://dev.jerryweb.org/raid/ Glad to know that document is still being used :) > Everything is fine except that I cannot boot the Debian afterwards > ("Insert boot disk" message

How to set QTDIR environment variable

I'm trying to build pdfedit, which isn't available for Etch. I've already dealt with some deps (libboost-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev, libboost-iostreams1.33.1, and libt1-dev), but ./configure is complaining about the gui about the QT gui as below. checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui..

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

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Re: Intel 965 xorg driver has done something funny

On Thursday 08 May 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 08/05/2008, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, when I start up my computer, the screen looks really strange. > > All the text is either a black or white rectangle for each letter, > > and icons, seem to have a black or wh

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

On 08/05/2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "We do not support Iceweasel/Firefox/Linux etc., We only support M$ IE." I think you should consider not supporting that bank, then. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

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On Thu, 08 May 2008 12:34:06 -0300 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, 08 May 2008 07:52:33 +0200 > > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>> * From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Does the reportbug package i

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:11:26AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM: > >less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian > >(this is a useful general rule) > > that is nowhere near intuitive! many debian packages have documentation in /usr

Re: Xorg & Samsung SyncMaster 245B

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Jon Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just upgraded to lenny on my Dell Latitude D430, after a bit of > tinkering most things are working fine. However I've still got a small > problem with X. I'm using an external monitor, a Samsung SyncMaster 245B, > 24"

Re: FPC package update

Frank McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 08 May 2008 07:52:33 +0200 > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> * From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Does the reportbug package in Debian really work? >>> >> yes. Check you exim configuration an your exim logs in /var/lo

Re: FPC package update

On Thu, 08 May 2008 07:52:33 +0200 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does the reportbug package in Debian really work? > > yes. Check you exim configuration an your exim logs in /var/log/ > (if needed, replace "exim" with your

Spamassassin don' t find perl

Hello. I have installed spamassassin from www.backports.org and runs well, but when I want stop this gives me a message error that perl is not found. I have all ok in my system, and perl is in the right place, what can I do here? Here is all details debianet:/etc/postfix/system/backup# /etc/ini

Re: [OT] Recovering a deleted file that is still open

Joey Hess wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: If I have accidentally deleted a file that is still being used by some application (read or write mode), is it possible to recover such a file? Especially since the file is not really deleted until the descriptor is closed by the application? Just

Re: How do I install gdbm?

John Salmon wrote: > Which Debian Etch package do I use to install gdbm? Specifically, gdbm- > 1.8.3. > The package is called libgdbm3 and Etch has version 1.8.3-3. So just install it the normal way (aptitude/wajig/apt-get...) Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.l

Re: make-kpkg failure - UTS release version problem

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:55:22AM -0700, Bill wrote: > Should there be a include/linux/version.h file in the > 2.6.25 directory? if you follow the documentation of kernel-package then make-kpkg will create it. If no commands were executed in the 2.6.25 directory tree after creating it by u

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

Greetings; Well, thank you for that pointer because that is nowhere near intuitive! Is there something wrong with using man, I wonder? Because that is the first thing I tried, then man -k cursor, then info big-cursor. No man and no info. Anyway, the referenced file was not particularly enl

Re: upgrading hardware

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/08 00:55, Jon L Miller wrote: > I’m currently using Debian 4.0 and I would like to know if I’m going to > run into any gotchas if I change the main board from a MSI w/ a single > P4 CPU to a Core2 Duo CPU on a gigabyte main board? I think tha

prevent dpkg from (re-)starting services

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Re: Duplicity does not run from cron-script

Sjoerd Hardeman, 05/08/2008 01:15 PM: > Hi all, > > I have a cron script that first calls automysqlbackup for dumping the > database and dumps the package list. After that, it should copy this > plus other stuff to a remote location using duplicity. This script runs > fine when executed manually,

Re: Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

Le decadi 20 floréal, an CCXVI, Jose L. Ayala a écrit : > Thanks a lot for your help. This is the result of your suggestions: > > xfd -fn fixed WORKS > > xfd -fa serif DOESN'T WORK: no font to display This is therefore a problem with Xft. Xft act as glue between fontconfig, Freetype and REND

Duplicity does not run from cron-script

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Re: Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

Hi again! Thanks a lot for your help. This is the result of your suggestions: xfd -fn fixed WORKS xfd -fa serif DOESN'T WORK: no font to display If I try to launch firefox, I get the unusable fonts displayed and I cannot see the characters again. I've checked the installed fonts:

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

On Thu May 8 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > With latest xorg you should not need to write too much in xorg.conf. See > mine (BTW, I also use intel): > > ,[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ] >r > | > | Section "Device" > |   Identifier  "Configured Video Device" > | EndSection would that work for an

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/07/2008 05:23 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> [...] >> Which leads to the question: Shouldn't Iceweasel at least advertise >> itself as Firefox? > > No it should not. > >> Because after all it _is_ Firefox, only with a different name. >> >> > > That depends upon timing

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

KS wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> This is interesting. I've changed the UserAgent to say Firefox instead >> of Iceweasel and that triangle is present (which I had never noticed, to >> say the truth, but is very nice), and other sites which did not >> recognize Iceweasel now work. >> >

Re: make-kpkg failure - UTS release version problem

On Thu, 2008-08-05 at 06:44 +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 03:05:37PM -0700, Bill wrote: > > The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h > > "" > > does not match current version: > > "2.6.25" > > Please correct this. > > > Any pointers here would

Re: GRUB Error 17

Cassiel: > > I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else > could do something wrong. I was trasferring data from my usb HD when the > process stopped (input/output error) and the system went completely frozen. >> From that moment on I can not boot from HD. > > Using

Re: gfortran Permission denied

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael wrote: > Hello list, > > as you guess I am having serious boot problems, grub loading fails at stage > 1.5 with "Error 17". > > I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else > could do something wrong. I was trasfe

GRUB Error 17

Hello list, as you guess I am having serious boot problems, grub loading fails at stage 1.5 with "Error 17". I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else could do something wrong. I was trasferring data from my usb HD when the process stopped (input/output error) and

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

Le decadi 20 floréal, an CCXVI, Alan Chandler a écrit : > some else comments that it appears to be a font problem, but I don't think > so. Icons appear wrong too - in particular what it looks like is that > transparency doesn't work and the result is either black or white. Using > kdm, the centra

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

Damon L. Chesser wrote: > SNIP >> >> I have this line in /boot/grub/menu.lst >> >> I tried in the following sequence to: >> >> 0. boot resque >> 1. mount /boot from raid1 and the other directories from the lvm volumes >> >> 1. enter lvm into /etc/modules, >> 2. rebuild initrd with: >> >> mkinitram

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

José L. Ayala wrote: > Hi all! > > Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine > and > I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm > because characters are displayed as "little squares"; the same happens in > gnome. I tried to generate a new

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me? [bug 479702]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:09:44PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > I'm cc-ing the bug report you have opened. Anybody who answers this bug > should also read the thread that has followed the original message, as > it contains many other useful details. I hope I included the essential in the bugrepo

Re: gfortran Permission denied

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 07:51 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-05-08 00:42 +0200, michael wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work/Fortran$ ./simple.out > > -bash: ./simple.out: Permission denied > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work/Fortran$ ls -lt ./simple.out > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 mkb mkb 10039 May 7 23:41 .

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:46:12AM +0200, José L. Ayala wrote: > Hi all! > > Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and > I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm > because characters are displayed as "little squares"; the same happe

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

Yes it is possible, theres various devices on the market todo it. There is one big catch, you only usually get 10 meg links. Also the devices are hard to find, I know the one I got (which I am not using because it didn't work in the UK!), is 10 meg, but links to the computer via USB. Jamie On We

Re: wpasupplicant in roaming mode

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:02:43AM +0300, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> I'm trying to configure the roaming mode for wpasupplicant but I don't >> seem to get it right. >> >> > my 2 cents: > If you are using KDE you may want to try using Knetworkmana

Re: USB-pendrive boot?

ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: One guy pointed out that it is debian list! So, one may want to boot debian also from pen-drive. http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en HTH. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Issue with VMware (2)

Damon L. Chesser wrote: What is this any-any patch I keep hearing about? I just run alien -c vmware.*.rpm and dpkg -i vmware*.deb. Not finding alot of info on this any-any patch. This any-any patch is needed if you are installing from the tar.gz, in order for vmware to compile the kernel m

Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

Hi all! Yesterday, after an upgrade of my testing system, I rebooted the machine and I wasn't able to log in the X environment. I cannot see my login in gdm because characters are displayed as "little squares"; the same happens in gnome. I tried to generate a new xorg.conf from an old version, and

Re: wpasupplicant in roaming mode

Andrei Popescu wrote: Hello everybody, I'm trying to configure the roaming mode for wpasupplicant but I don't seem to get it right. my 2 cents: If you are using KDE you may want to try using Knetworkmanager. I am the typing-on-black-screen type of guy, but on this I have to admit that