Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #1217

2008-06-29 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:38:43AM +0200, Gregg Jansen van Vuren wrote: >i have asked this before a couple of months ago but procastinated a bit, >and now can't seem to find the email with reply, so want to ask again, There are probably archives, but I tend to use a mail filter (procmail)

LDAP addressbook/contacts

2008-06-29 Thread kj
Hi guys, At work I have to connect to an Exchange server for mail. I use Kmail mostly, but'I've tried this in Thunderbird too, just to check. In both these, I have LDAP addressbooks configured, and this works well enough, except for one thing. Consider the following: Joe Soap <[EMAIL PROT

[SOLVED] Re: Default file manager

2008-06-29 Thread Artur G. Sibagatullin
> aptitude purge thunar && aptitude reinstall nautilus > If that doesn't do the trick, try finding a line like this: > x-directory/.*=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop; > in the file /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and replace it with > something like this: > x-di

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:41:58PM +0100, j t wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Gregory Seidman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Having said that, I run openwrt on a couple of asus routers: one > wl-hdd and one asus wl-500g and they have the same issue with regards there has been so

Re: how to install flash plugin for

2008-06-29 Thread Jonathan Jacobs
> > > > Forwarded Message > > From: Star Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Debian Linux , Debian邮件列表(简 > > 体中文) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: how to install flash plugin for iceweasel on leny amd64? > > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:49:11 +0800 > > > > On lenny amd64, I often get

Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily "cannot find name for group ID 0"?

2008-06-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:42:53AM +0800, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > can you give the output of cat > /etc/group Actually, you don't want to do that since it will erase your group file! I think that the contents of /etc/group and /etc/nsswitch.conf, both when the system

where are __amd64 and __i386 defined?

2008-06-29 Thread Star Liu
I read this line in a c source file: #if defined (__sun) && (defined(__i386) || defined(__amd64)) I'm wondering where are __sun __amd and 64 __i386 defined? thanks! -- ---

Re: CUPS and Device Permissions

2008-06-29 Thread Nathaniel Homier
Jamie Thompson wrote: Nathaniel Homier wrote: Is the printer known to work in Debian? Not directly, but it's a Canon IP4200, which has Linux drivers (abet RPMs which I've found repackaged (old) by a kind Japanese fellow, though I'm just using the Canon RPMs and alien for the time being). Few

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #1217

2008-06-29 Thread Gregg Jansen van Vuren
Hi, i have asked this before a couple of months ago but procastinated a bit, and now can't seem to find the email with reply, so want to ask again, basically what version of debian will suit my setup, foxconn motherboard, and intel pentium 4 processor, i think, i was suggeseted i686, but not sur

Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily "cannot find name for group ID 0"?

2008-06-29 Thread paragasu
can you give the output of cat > /etc/group On 6/30/08, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you suggest why I'm seeing the following error when entering a > debootstrap chroot on a Fedora host, and why it spontaneously disappears > a few minutes later? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] svn]# chroot

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/08 17:41, j t wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Gregory Seidman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've heard of this. I was kind of hoping to do all this with Debian, but it >> sounds like the WRT54GL is a better bet, but only if it can

Re: Update Modified BIOS???

2008-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/08 16:18, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:32:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:03 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >>> This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor >>> instead

Re: application to maintain donors' account

2008-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/08 17:41, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Somebody I know in a small non-profit organization has asked me if can > help them setup an small system which will do basic accounting. All they > require is that: > 1. it maintain a database of donors > 2.

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

2008-06-29 Thread Sam Kuper
Simon, I have several points. * For a (very) in-depth discussion of the merits of various codecs for distributing video via the web, look for the "Theora" thread (the really long one) in the WHATWG HTML5 mailing list archive. * Since you're "not a fanboy of Adobe's proprietary products, pricing

Non rinunciare alle tue vacanze - Scegli l'Italia!

2008-06-29 Thread ItaliaDream
ItaliaDream La tua guida al turismo in Italia Prenota subito le tue vacanze! ItaliaDream è la guida che ti permette di contattare e prenotare direttamente le tue vacanze nelle migliori strutture d'Italia Alcune Strutture Consigliate Hotel Le Rotonde - Toscana Hotel Pineta - Tentino Alto Adige Vill

Re: wireless with atheros

2008-06-29 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:15:17 +1000 Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to buy an atheros wireless card for my laptop. It has a > pcmcia card slot on it... > (I use debian and a 2.6.25 kernel as well) > > So could someone please see if they could show me an online add o

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:26:28AM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > I can confirm that the Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 is very stable under OpenWRT > White Russian, which gives you (yet) another option if you go down the > path of buying a new router/AP device. > > Alternatively, if you're set on using your exist

Re: Update Modified BIOS???

2008-06-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:34:14PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:03:59 -0400, Thomas H. George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor > > instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a

Re: udev problems after 6/28 upgrade - my fault

2008-06-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 08:15:55PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 13:48:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing. Everything worked after > > yesterday's apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. This morning a > > startup problem (

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-29 Thread rusi_pathan
> >Debian is rock solid and very usable thanks to you all. Just wanted to say > >that. +1 Cant imagine myself using anything but Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Any idea why chroot temporarily "cannot find name for group ID 0"?

2008-06-29 Thread David Barrett
Can you suggest why I'm seeing the following error when entering a debootstrap chroot on a Fedora host, and why it spontaneously disappears a few minutes later? [EMAIL PROTECTED] svn]# chroot staging/www id: cannot find name for group ID 0 id: cannot find name for group ID 1 id: cannot find nam

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 01:01 +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > Wholehearted agreement here. Hmm, maybe we should copy in an Ubuntu > mailing list (ditto all other Debian-derived distros) so more > folks can join in the love-in? :) I think that would only be appropriate if Ubuntu were congruent to the debia

Re: how to install flash plugin for iceweasel on leny amd64?

2008-06-29 Thread Star Liu
I installed ia32-libs, then nspluginwrapper, but it seems nothing changes, iceweasel still says no suitable plugin found for flash. thank you! On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:38 PM, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28 Jun 2008, at 13:00, Star Liu wrote: > > I'm afraid ia32 libs won't support

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-29 Thread Sam Kuper
Wholehearted agreement here. Hmm, maybe we should copy in an Ubuntu mailing list (ditto all other Debian-derived distros) so more folks can join in the love-in? :) Sincere thanks for all that you (the developers and maintainers) have done, and to Damon Chesser for starting such a feel-good thread.

Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert

2008-06-29 Thread Jeff Soules
Emailed too soon -- I was actually able to run the nvidia installer script without a problem this time around (mysteriously!) so I am now all set up and can resume setting up the new Debian box. Thanks again to everyone for your advice and patience! On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Jeff Soules <[

Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert

2008-06-29 Thread Jeff Soules
> > > You can also see that I've disabled glx output and restricted screen > > resolution to 1024x768 or lower (non-widescreen resolutions) in the > > hope that this might help, but no luck so far. I should've been clearer -- I made those changes through dpkg-reconfigure. (I've grown quite comfor

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Ezra Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Much respect for you cats. Keep up the great work. And another huge thank you from me too. I've no idea what I'd do without my fave distro. Jaime :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread Sam Kuper
Greg, I can confirm that the Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 is very stable under OpenWRT White Russian, which gives you (yet) another option if you go down the path of buying a new router/AP device. Alternatively, if you're set on using your existing box as your router/AP, why not use a USB Wi-Fi device if y

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard of this. I was kind of hoping to do all this with Debian, but it > sounds like the WRT54GL is a better bet, but only if it can actually > firewall the wired subnet from the wireless subnet. A little bit of > go

application to maintain donors' account

2008-06-29 Thread H.S.
Hello, Somebody I know in a small non-profit organization has asked me if can help them setup an small system which will do basic accounting. All they require is that: 1. it maintain a database of donors 2. it maintain what those donors donated 3. and be able to produce yearly concise report w

Re: CUPS and Device Permissions

2008-06-29 Thread Jamie Thompson
Nathaniel Homier wrote: Is the printer known to work in Debian? Not directly, but it's a Canon IP4200, which has Linux drivers (abet RPMs which I've found repackaged (old) by a kind Japanese fellow, though I'm just using the Canon RPMs and alien for the time being). Few niggles aside, seems to

Re: Linksys USB200M in Lenny with kernel 2.6.24.

2008-06-29 Thread peasthope
Hello Joe Hickey, At Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:46:49 +0100 you wrote, "Will 'ifconfig' do the trick?" "ifconfig" will list all configured interfaces. An interface is a software entity depending upon a device; a description of an interface can tell me about the device it uses. Conversely ifconfig c

Re: Update Modified BIOS???

2008-06-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:32:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:03 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor > > instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a > > hard drive had died bu

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:06:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/29/08 10:31, j t wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Adding all this extra equipment is going to cost you *much* more > >> th

Re: killall firefox-bin

2008-06-29 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I wrote: > Just writing this down gives me an idea: maybe it is a memory > leak thing. Next time it happens I'll check "free". Hadn't > thought of doing that so far.. OK. It happened again. Iceweasel totally frozen. free says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total usedfree shared

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 29 June 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 08:19 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On 06/28/08 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > >> Besides, do you really trust the phon

Re: GNOME and auto-"using" DVDs and CDs

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 21:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > How can I tell GNOME (up-to-date Sid) not to manage optical drives, > while still auto-mounting USB & Firewire drives? (I can't think of > what search terms to Google for...) There's no facility to do this from within GNOME. Florian's on t

Re: wireless with atheros

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:15 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > So could someone please see if they could show me an online add of an > atheros pcmcia card supported by linux? AFAICT, Atheros is Atheros. For what it's worth, I'm using a Netgear WG511T and it works great for me. It replaced some barel

Re: Update Modified BIOS???

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:03 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor > instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a > hard drive had died but after booting up from a Grml cd I found both ide > hard drives acce

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 08:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/28/08 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > > > Besides, do you really trust the phone company to provide proper voltage > > and polarity? Any idea what a line surge directly to yo

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 08:19 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 06/28/08 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > > [snip] > >> Besides, do you really trust the phone company to provide proper voltage > >> and polarity? Any idea

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 19:31 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By searching for a laptop with a real modem, before even taking Linux > > into account, you have eliminated 100% of all available options: It > > doesn't exist

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-29 Thread Ezra Taylor
Much respect for you cats. Keep up the great work. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joey Hess and all the rest, > > Just wanted to say thanks. You all have been very helpfull and I for one > appreciate your work. Sadly, the only one I know for sure

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/08 10:31, j t wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Adding all this extra equipment is going to cost you *much* more >> than buying a Linksys WRT56GL and reflashing it with the Tomato or >> DD-WRT

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/08 13:31, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> By searching for a laptop with a real modem, before even taking Linux >> into account, you have eliminated 100% of all available o

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/08 08:19, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 06/28/08 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: >> [snip] >>> Besides, do you really trust the phone company to provide proper voltage >>> and polarity? Any idea what a line surge directly to

Fwd: Diarna real estate

2008-06-29 Thread Diarna Real estate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Custmer We are Diarna real Estate company home of the real estate marketing company specializing in the area real estate , We are agents of Demac Egypt, which has several projects in Cairo, the draft new cairo f

Re: udev problems after 6/28 upgrade

2008-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 13:48:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing. Everything worked after > yesterday's apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. This morning a > startup problem (see posting _Update Modified BIOS ???)_ and when it was > solved no us

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By searching for a laptop with a real modem, before even taking Linux > into account, you have eliminated 100% of all available options: It > doesn't exist. Surely you jest. -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Owen Townend wrote: > I had this same issue when they started phasing out RS232 ports from > laptops, the solution for me was to use a usb adapter. I believe the I am in the same boat. Lenovo is asking (through a pool) what ports are nice in a laptop, you could vote on the RS

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > What are the most recent laptops that run Linux *and* have a working > analog (RJ-11) modem installed? Most thinkpads do have a built-in HSF (controller-less) V92 modem as an optional item you can ask while customizing it. I am not sure of the X300

Re: Update Modified BIOS???

2008-06-29 Thread John Hasler
Bob Cox writes: > A bit of a long shot admittedly, but it could be a dying BIOS battery and > it just being coincidence that you had done the upgrade the day before. That was my first thought as well. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: ath5k anyone?

2008-06-29 Thread Bill Wohler
David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As he is running 2.6.25 there is no need to run module-assistant, as > ath5k is build into the kernel. So the problem is not building it, > but rather using it. Hi David, Correct on all counts. Yes, ath5k is built into 2.6.25 so it should "just work

udev problems after 6/28 upgrade

2008-06-29 Thread Thomas H. George
no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing. Everything worked after yesterday's apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. This morning a startup problem (see posting _Update Modified BIOS ???)_ and when it was solved no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Nvidia TwinView different resolution no Panning

2008-06-29 Thread Julian Knauer
Hi, is there a way to setup TwinView with two different resolutions? Using TwinView my second Screen has a dead area at the bottom and I don't want to setup panning. Currently I am using Xinerama and to have a huge desktop, but I noticed problems with the composite module, which is loaded but Xfce

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-29 Thread al davis
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-06-23 22:31:12, schrieb David Goodenough: > > Have you looked a gEDA? Its available on Debian. > > Yes, but it is NOT intuitive as programs I have used in > Enterprises. It is nearly imposible to make bigger projects > with SIMPEL

Has the memory hole in Xfce been fixed yet?

2008-06-29 Thread andy
Hi all Several months ago, it became apparent from a discussion here (and info elsewhere) that there was a significant memory leak in Xfce4. I think that it had something to do with Gtk but couldn't swear to it. Has anyone heard whether that hole has yet been plugged? Cheers Andy -- "If t

Re: wireless with atheros

2008-06-29 Thread Richard Möhn
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:59:37AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > >I'm looking to buy an atheros wireless card for my laptop. It has a > >pcmcia card slot on it... > >(I use debian and a 2.6.25 kernel as well) > > > >So could someone please see if they could show me an online ad

Re: Update Modified BIOS???

2008-06-29 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:03:59 -0400, Thomas H. George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor > instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a > hard drive had died but after booting up from a Grml cd I foun

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adding all this extra equipment is going to cost you *much* more > than buying a Linksys WRT56GL and reflashing it with the Tomato or > DD-WRT firmware. OK, I've just spent 10 minutes searching for Linksys WRT56GL (a pair of

Update Modified BIOS???

2008-06-29 Thread Thomas H. George
This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a hard drive had died but after booting up from a Grml cd I found both ide hard drives accessible and ok. I re-ran lilo but this did not correct the problem

Re: still no framebuffers in 2.6.25 (i386 sid)

2008-06-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I posted the fact that vga=791 did not work with Debian's 2.6.25 kernel on May 12th: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg01095.html Yesterday I tried installing linux-image-2.6.25-2

Re: GNOME and auto-"using" DVDs and CDs

2008-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 21:31:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > How can I tell GNOME (up-to-date Sid) not to manage optical drives, > while still auto-mounting USB & Firewire drives? (I can't think of > what search terms to Google for...) If it is not possible to configure this in Gnome (I

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/08 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] Besides, do you really trust the phone company to provide proper voltage and polarity? Any idea what a line surge directly to your motherboard does? :o) YAIBF - Yet Another Idiotic

Re: still no framebuffers in 2.6.25 (i386 sid)

2008-06-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I posted the fact that vga=791 did not work with Debian's 2.6.25 kernel on May 12th: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg01095.html Yesterday I tried installing linux-image-2.6.25-2

Re: still no framebuffers in 2.6.25 (i386 sid)

2008-06-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I posted the fact that vga=791 did not work with Debian's 2.6.25 kernel > on May 12th: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg01095.html > > Yesterday I tried installing linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 (2.6.25-6

still no framebuffers in 2.6.25 (i386 sid)

2008-06-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I posted the fact that vga=791 did not work with Debian's 2.6.25 kernel on May 12th: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg01095.html Yesterday I tried installing linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 (2.6.25-6) and the problem persists. There is a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/08 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Besides, do you really trust the phone company to provide proper voltage > and polarity? Any idea what a line surge directly to your motherboard > does? :o) YAIBF - Yet Another Idiotic Baloo Flame

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 08:59 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What are the most recent laptops that run Linux *and* have a working analog (RJ-11) modem installed? By searching for a laptop with a real modem, before even taking Linux into account, you have eliminated 100% of al

Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert

2008-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 16:57:04 -0400, Jeff Soules wrote: > Thanks for the help so far, everyone. > > > I have retried using both of the generic drivers. Now I'm getting a > > > fatal server error -- no screens found. > > > Still not working, but at least it's enough to start me on further > > >

Re: how to install flash plugin for iceweasel on leny amd64?

2008-06-29 Thread michael
On 28 Jun 2008, at 13:00, Star Liu wrote: I'm afraid ia32 libs won't support amd64, i heard that no solution provided for x86_64 cpus, but not sure. From the Debian packages web page, ia32-libs This package contains runtime libraries for the ia32/i386 architecture, configured for use on a

Re: which netinst to use?

2008-06-29 Thread michael
On 29 Jun 2008, at 01:41, David Fox wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:29 AM, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've acquired an old computer with Intel Pentium D chip which I believe is a 64 bit, i686 architecture? So which netinst should I be using? I accoding to wikipedia, pentium D chi

CPU Frequencies Don't scale independently

2008-06-29 Thread Hakan BAYINDIR
Hi, I'm running debian testing on a Intel Core2Quad Q6600 CPU with 4 gigabytes of RAM for 7 months. Until 2.6.22, the kernel was scaling each of my cores independently of each other but starting with 2.6.22, every core is running in the same frequency. While this doesn't pose any stability or perf

Re: wireless with atheros

2008-06-29 Thread Mark Allums
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I'm looking to buy an atheros wireless card for my laptop. It has a pcmcia card slot on it... (I use debian and a 2.6.25 kernel as well) So could someone please see if they could show me an online add of an atheros pcmcia card supported by linux? (and postage to Austral

Re: wireless with atheros

2008-06-29 Thread Richard Möhn
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 05:15:17PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I'm looking to buy an atheros wireless card for my laptop. It has a > pcmcia card slot on it... > (I use debian and a 2.6.25 kernel as well) > > So could someone please see if they could show me an online add of an > atheros pcmcia c

wireless with atheros

2008-06-29 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm looking to buy an atheros wireless card for my laptop. It has a pcmcia card slot on it... (I use debian and a 2.6.25 kernel as well) So could someone please see if they could show me an online add of an atheros pcmcia card supported by linux? (and postage to Australia) Perhaps on ebay. I

Re: cannot log on to msn using pidgin on lenny amd64

2008-06-29 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:57:25PM +0800, Star Liu wrote: >but another strange thing is my gaim on etch works fine with msn everyday, >while the pidgin in lenny doesn't work with msn. I'd like to report this You could always try down grading pidgin on lenny, but mine seems to work fine, bu