[OT] Turion 64X2 desktop?

2008-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is anyone running such a beast? I've seen reviews of mobo/CPU combos, but they are old Socket 754 systems. TIA - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,27.Jul.08, 01:28:44, Arvind Marathe wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:19:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,27.Jul.08, 01:03:01, Arvind Marathe wrote: > > > > > ps: When i sent mail to d-u using gmail web interface, there used to > > > be a copy in sent-mail, but i never got th

Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,27.Jul.08, 01:28:44, Arvind Marathe wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:19:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,27.Jul.08, 01:03:01, Arvind Marathe wrote: > > > > > ps: When i sent mail to d-u using gmail web interface, there used to > > > be a copy in sent-mail, but i never got th

Wi-Fi in Inspiron 1720 - Help!

2008-07-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have lenny running very good except for one big hangup. I can't get the wireless card to work. It shows in lspci as a Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller. I have read many many how-to's and forum threads on how to get it to work, but after several days of attempts and retries, no j

Re: What is ~~ into inittab?

2008-07-26 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:33:48 + Oscar Corte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all: > > I've been reading about the boot process and the inittab file. So far I > understand about the fields separated by “:”, etc. > > At some point my inittab file contains : > > # What to do in single-user m

Re: [OT perhaps] Any way to restore Iceweasel 2 behavior in the Navigation bar?

2008-07-26 Thread Oleksiy Khilkevich
Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: Hi, Patrick. I mostly like Firefox/Iceweasel 3 but I hate what they've done to the navigation bar. Clicking on the down-arrow at the right now brings up unclassified bookmarks or something instead of recently visited sites. (Is it an attempt to replicate some s

[OT perhaps] Any way to restore Iceweasel 2 behavior in the Navigation bar?

2008-07-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I mostly like Firefox/Iceweasel 3 but I hate what they've done to the navigation bar. Clicking on the down-arrow at the right now brings up unclassified bookmarks or something instead of recently visited sites. (Is it an attempt to replicate some sort of IE behavior? I wouldn't know, but

What is ~~ into inittab?

2008-07-26 Thread Oscar Corte
Hi all: I've been reading about the boot process and the inittab file. So far I understand about the fields separated by “:”, etc. At some point my inittab file contains : # What to do in single-user mode. ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin Could somebody give me a hint about what does the “~~” means at

Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:34:28 +0530 "Arvind Marathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to configure getmail to retrieve mails to my local machine > from my gmail account. I have enabled imap in gmail. Also i have been Have you tried POP? > Arvind Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remot

Using Java Console with FireFox 3 and Java 1.5

2008-07-26 Thread Joe Riel
Is there a way to enable the Java Console in FireFox (iceweasel) 3.0 with Java 1.5? Previously I was able to use the Open Java Console add-on (the "regular" Java Console did not work with versions of Firefox greater than 2.0. I know almost nothing about java, but occasionally need to look at

Re: Making Kmail attachments available to OOo

2008-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/08 19:15, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:20:53AM +0100, andy wrote: >> Hello >> >> On my wife's Etch machine, running KDE, she is experiencing a problem >> opening attachments with OOo (any component - writer, impress, c

Re: Greetings and question

2008-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:57:19PM -0300, Juan Ignacio wrote: > The fact is that I'm using Firefox 3.0 and Thunderbird with the binaries > I downloaded at Mozilla webpage. I installed them in /opt Why? Maybe thats part of your problem. Firefox is packaged as iceweasel Thunderbird is packaged as

Re: Making Kmail attachments available to OOo

2008-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:20:53AM +0100, andy wrote: > Hello > > On my wife's Etch machine, running KDE, she is experiencing a problem > opening attachments with OOo (any component - writer, impress, calc, > etc.) once they have been in her inbox for a while. I *think* that what > is happeni

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:59:09PM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Anton Liaukevich wrote: >> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >> sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. >> >> My hardware: >> motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForc

Re: test

2008-07-26 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:55:13 +0200 "giglio robbo' d'acciaio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CDO Oh no! I hate pop quizes! -- Raquel Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have

test

2008-07-26 Thread giglio robbo' d'acciaio
CDO -- Daniele Giglio Dona i tuoi cicli di clock alla ricerca! email in ROT13 http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sono appena tornato da un congresso medico su bulimia ed anoressia. Un disastro! I bulimici si

Re: udev z25_persistent-net.rules problem

2008-07-26 Thread David Parker
> Thanks. The post that said this was fixed in the forcedeth > driver in > testing, any idea what this file is called so I can download it > and get it > installed? >   The driver is part of the linux-image-2.6.25.2 kernel package.     - Dave

dbus - configure error - i386

2008-07-26 Thread Marko Randjelovic
I setup i386 etch chroot on amd64 etch using debootstrap and installed build-essential with no problem. I need dbus to satisfy buld-dep for pidgin. But threre is problem in configure step. main:/# apt-get install dbus Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following ex

Monitoring Intel RAID mdadm/dmraid?

2008-07-26 Thread wardenik
Hi, I have a server which is running the below controller: lspci -vvv | grep RAID 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SATA Storage Controller RAID (rev 09) dmesg | grep RAID ahci :00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps 0x3f impl RAID mode Anybody monitored

Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Arvind Marathe
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:19:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,27.Jul.08, 01:03:01, Arvind Marathe wrote: > > > ps: When i sent mail to d-u using gmail web interface, there used to > > be a copy in sent-mail, but i never got the copy i was supposed to get > > as a d-u subscriber. Now i

Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,27.Jul.08, 01:03:01, Arvind Marathe wrote: > ps: When i sent mail to d-u using gmail web interface, there used to > be a copy in sent-mail, but i never got the copy i was supposed to get > as a d-u subscriber. Now i am using mutt to send this mail, i wonder > if i will get the copy of my o

Re: pine help

2008-07-26 Thread Arvind Marathe
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:33:24PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Arvind Marathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AM> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:56 AM, i'll teach you to turn away. > >>for curiousity's sake, i renamed sensible-browser & then copied > >> lynx as /usr/bin/sensible-br

Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Arvind Marathe
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:03:41AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Arvind Marathe wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Andrei Popescu > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:44:32, Celejar wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Note that Gmail can be used via POP or IMAP, w

paraport DMA timeout...

2008-07-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings: I was fiddling with skype and when i tried to grep my sound card (i can listen, but i can't speak with skype) instead of the usual dmesg i just got a whole bunch of these: parport0: FIFO is stuck parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio DMA write timed out over and over...

Re: pine help

2008-07-26 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Arvind Marathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AM> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:56 AM, i'll teach you to turn away. >>for curiousity's sake, i renamed sensible-browser & then copied >> lynx as /usr/bin/sensible-browser, but doing so made no difference to >> pine. AM> The script /usr/bin/sensible-br

Re: pine help

2008-07-26 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RJ> On 07/25/08 20:27, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >> i haven't, but i sorely fear change. :D RJ> A Linux user who fears change? Are you sure that's not a 3B1 on RJ> your desk? i'm pretty sure, but i'm too busy playing my green-screen g

Re: 2.6.26 Kernel

2008-07-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/26/2008 11:48 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Does anyone know if UDF 2.50 will be supported by .26? I've read that it is, but http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_26 doesn't seem to have anything about it. It would seem so. I have 2.6.26 installed, and this is at the top of ./linux-2.6.26/fs/ud

Re: 2.6.26 Kernel

2008-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/08 11:48, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/25/08 15:01, Thilo Six wrote: >> Celejar wrote the following on 25.07.2008 21:02 > >> > >>> I don't understand; .26 is not yet in Sid. >> yes the whole thing is bit more complex. That's why i posted the

Re: Broke /etc/apt/preferences when trying to use just one package from unstable.

2008-07-26 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 14:41:38 +0200, Florian Kulzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:51:42 +0100, James Youngman wrote: > > I modified /etc/apt/{preferences,sources.list} to get just > > flashplugin-nonfree from unstable. That seemed to work. > > However, now I fin

Re: 2.6.26 Kernel

2008-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/08 15:01, Thilo Six wrote: > Celejar wrote the following on 25.07.2008 21:02 > > > >> I don't understand; .26 is not yet in Sid. > > yes the whole thing is bit more complex. That's why i posted the direction to > gain a bit more authoritat

Re: udev z25_persistent-net.rules problem

2008-07-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,25.Jul.08, 22:50:07, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Dave, > > Thanks. The post that said this was fixed in the forcedeth driver in > testing, any idea what this file is called so I can download it and get it > installed? > > Thanks again, Do you have etch-proposed-updates in your

Re: Poor rendering of pages using IceWeasel 3.0

2008-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/08 09:00, andy wrote: > Hi > > I have been finding that graphics and text are being rendered very > poorly using IceWeasel 3.0. Is there a way I can fix this? I have > checked through the options, etc., in IW but find nothing relevant. > > I

Poor rendering of pages using IceWeasel 3.0

2008-07-26 Thread andy
Hi I have been finding that graphics and text are being rendered very poorly using IceWeasel 3.0. Is there a way I can fix this? I have checked through the options, etc., in IW but find nothing relevant. I am using an up-to-date Lenny machine. Thanks Andy -- "If they can get you asking th

Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user

2008-07-26 Thread Samuel Bächler
> # startx ...works $ startx ...does not In > /home/sam/.xsession-errors I can see Xsession: X session started > for sam at Fre Jul 25 09:07:21 CEST 2008 open: Permission denied Now, I saw somewhere on the web[1] that chmod 1777 /tmp might solve the problem. I remember that I was not able to wr

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-26 Thread Martin McCormick
"elijah r." writes: > Say your flash disk is /dev/sdc and has 1 FAT partition where the > music is stored: > > cd ~ > dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=zenstone2g.img bs=64M > mkdir /mnt/zenstoneimg >mount -o loop -t msdos zenstone2g.img /mnt/zenstoneimg > ---delete anything in /mnt/zenstoneimg/music you don't w

Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Arvind Marathe wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Andrei Popescu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:44:32, Celejar wrote: >> >> >>> Note that Gmail can be used via POP or IMAP, without the web interface, >>> >> I'm wondering, did any of you have problems la

Re: Broke /etc/apt/preferences when trying to use just one package from unstable.

2008-07-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:51:42 +0100, James Youngman wrote: > I modified /etc/apt/{preferences,sources.list} to get just > flashplugin-nonfree from unstable. That seemed to work. > However, now I find that "apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev" results in > this error: > > # apt-get install libsd

Re: [OT] iw page scroll speed

2008-07-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thilo Six wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote the following on 25.07.2008 17:17 Hi Hugo mousewheel.withnokey.action = 2 mousewheel.withnokey.numlines = -1 mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines = false And if I change them then the second top wheel does not work to go back/fore a page. just found this

Re: 2.6.25 kernel and NVIDIA driver

2008-07-26 Thread andy
Paul Cartwright wrote: pardon me if this was already beat to death, but I was away last week.. Today I booted into my new 2.6.25-2 kernel and I tried to run my normal NVIDIA...-pkg1.run script. It complained about the XEN kernel and failed. So I found this wonderful web page that helped me get

Re: Broke /etc/apt/preferences when trying to use just one package from unstable.

2008-07-26 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:51:42 +0100, James Youngman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I modified /etc/apt/{preferences,sources.list} to get just > flashplugin-nonfree from unstable. That seemed to work. > However, now I find that "apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev" results in > this error: > >

Re: udev z25_persistent-net.rules problem

2008-07-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please don't top-post. ] On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 22:50:07 -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Dave, > > Thanks. The post that said this was fixed in the forcedeth driver in > testing, any idea what this file is called so I can download it and get it > installed? There may be a much s

Re: Galeon/Firefox and userContent.css

2008-07-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tristan McLeay wrote: I use Galeon on lenny and I've been using ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/chrome/ userContent.css to override some webpage preferences, like hiding ads or fiddling with the way underlining works. I recently dist-upgraded and now the userContent.css file is being completely ignore

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Anton Liaukevich wrote: >> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >> sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. >> >> My hardware: >> motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce

Broke /etc/apt/preferences when trying to use just one package from unstable.

2008-07-26 Thread James Youngman
I modified /etc/apt/{preferences,sources.list} to get just flashplugin-nonfree from unstable. That seemed to work. However, now I find that "apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev" results in this error: # apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading st

Re: Dual Core processor ?

2008-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/08 20:21, Andrew Reid wrote: [snip] > > - For certain nVidia chipsets in combination with large XFS > file systems, you need to boot with "iommu=soft" in order > to avoid (infrequent) random filesystem errors. See the > D

Re: pine help

2008-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/08 20:27, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RJ> On 07/25/08 15:32, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >>> yes, i know pine is a million years old. i still love it. so >>> shh. > RJ> Since yo

[solved] Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> [...] I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns >> servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled >> with values different from the ones I want. "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Arvind Marathe
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Arvind Marathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Andrei Popescu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:44:32, Celejar wrote: >> >>> Note that Gmail can be used via POP or IMAP, without the web interface, >> >> I'm wondering,

Re: network not starting at boot

2008-07-26 Thread michael
On 18 Jul 2008, at 08:40, Jochen Schulz wrote: michael: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:32 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Are you using Gnome? If yes, do you have Network Manager installed (package network-manager). This has messed up a lot of users' networking setups. I'm trying xcfe Network M

Re: to cluster or not? what's best solution for 2-node HA?

2008-07-26 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > however - you can run drbd in a primary/primary config - this > sounds like what I want. But it sounds like I need a clustering files > system to do this like GFS. After countless hours researching this, > I'm still not sure how

[OT] Setting up getmail to retrieve mails from gmail [Was: Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]]

2008-07-26 Thread Arvind Marathe
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:44:32, Celejar wrote: > >> Note that Gmail can be used via POP or IMAP, without the web interface, > > I'm wondering, did any of you have problems lately with that? Quite > often in the last weeks I ge