Re: editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: Gnome is correct, but there is no Main Menu under "Desktop -> Preferences". There is a "Menus and Toolbars" selection, however it has nothing to do with editing menu items. BTW it looks like "Desktop" has replaced "System".

Re: editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Robert Holtzman wrote: Gnome is correct, but there is no Main Menu under "Desktop -> Preferences". There is a "Menus and Toolbars" selection, however it has nothing to do with editing menu items. BTW it looks like "Desktop" has replaced "System". "Help" talks about creating a "XDG_CONFIG_DI

Re: Consultation on Linux for CD

2008-09-28 Thread consultores1
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 22:53 -0600, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Felipe Gallois wrote: > > the signature =] > > ... which I think is actually an ad appended by hotmail. But, yes, that's > what I > based it on. I hope it wasn't too presumptive :) > > - Chris B Yes, it was; he speaks Brazilian! i thi

primeiro contato

2008-09-28 Thread Thais - Vintage
Bom dia! Meu nome é Thais, tenho uma agência de marketing e comunicação. Desenvolvemos todo o tipo de material publicitário (folders, anúncios, catálogos, embalagens, logotipos, campanhas promocionais, website, materiais de papelaria, eventos, etc.). Além da criação, temos também parceria com unid

Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418

2008-09-28 Thread FlashFreak
Hello All, red this article it might be helpful: http://ronymattar.com/blog/?p=10 http://ronymattar.com/blog/?p=10 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard-2 wrote: > > Hi all, > > My new laptop (asus F80L-4P007C) comes with an Atheros AR5418 wifi > chipset, > which apparently doesn't work well with madwifi f

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 18:25 +, Michael Perry wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: > > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> @dam-main:~$ uname -r > >> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 > >> > >> @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware > >> ii vmware-workstation

Re: editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Robert Holtzman: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Aniruddha wrote: > >> Which WM do you use? I assume Gnome. Gnome's default menu editor is >> alacarte, you can find it in the Gnome menu at 'System" -> "Preference" >> -> "Main Menu". > > Thanks for the reply. > > Gnome is correct, but there is no Main Men

Re: editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Aniruddha wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 11:52 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: In Ubuntu the GUI applet for editing menus has buttons for adding an item and adding a new menu. Very handy and faster than editing files by hand. I see no such buttons in Debian. What am I missing?

Re: editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 11:52 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > In Ubuntu the GUI applet for editing menus has buttons for adding an item > and adding a new menu. Very handy and faster than editing files by hand. I > see no such buttons in Debian. What am I missing? > Which WM do you use? I assume

Re: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:23 AM, debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote From: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 28, 2008 12:28:43 AM PDT To: Debian User List Subject: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I have used Debian for many y

editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
In Ubuntu the GUI applet for editing menus has buttons for adding an item and adding a new menu. Very handy and faster than editing files by hand. I see no such buttons in Debian. What am I missing? -- Bob Holtzman "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer" -- To U

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 06:25:36PM -, Michael Perry wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: > > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> @dam-main:~$ uname -r > >> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 > >> > >> @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware > >> ii vmware-work

Synaptic errors

2008-09-28 Thread jmdennis @dslextreme.com
This shows up when I use Synaptic but also when I do the apt-get update. I also get this error when I use the main server instead of the one for my area. If I add the non-free repositories I get about 4 more lines of errors for those. http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/updates/main/bina

Re: How do I install older software versions?

2008-09-28 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 01:53 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Is it possible to have a local copy of an apt mirror? I have 5 machines > > > that can sync with a local apt-mirror and that way I can have better > > > version control. > > > > > > > I use debmirror to maintain a local mirror of lenny bin

Re: USB Mouse

2008-09-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: David Baron wrote: I have a logitec USB/PS2 optical mouse, the el cheapo. I had been using it with the ps2 adapter until I booted up and BIOS kicked about the keyboard. Taking out that connector enabled me to boot. So I plugged the mouse into the USB and it simply worked. H

Re: How do I install older software versions?

2008-09-28 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 01:50 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > This is newer version 2 series. > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReference > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/apa.en.html#copyrighthistory > > No pdf yet. That is why you have single page html. The new version looks great

Re: How do I install older software versions?

2008-09-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:47:41AM +0100, James Kerr wrote: > On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, Aniruddha wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 21:03 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > > If you have the .deb files in the cache (/var/cache/apt/archives) then > > > you can try to install the .deb files directly

Re: How do I install older software versions?

2008-09-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:49:49AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 12:58 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > I choose testing because I want a "rolling update" system (just like > > > Gentoo and Arch). I want to keep all my packages up to date ;) > > > > Then update your system with the

anybody running a multiseat?

2008-09-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I used to run a 2seater before the PCI MX440 blew up. Now I just got a PCI GeForce 6200 and I get errors from gdm: Bus types other than PCI not yet isolable Now that used to work, but no more! If you run a multiseat, how do you do it? Specifically with what xorg.conf + gdm.conf options?

exim4 upgrade warning "DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration" fix

2008-09-28 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I stumbled across this while upgrading to testing an thought it might be useful for others. If you see this when upgrading exim4-config: > DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably > caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the > sugges

Re: LVM2, Debian, and changing the hostname

2008-09-28 Thread Chris Davies
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] The installation used LVM2 (I'm very happy about that), but I > have a niggling worry. > The device-names in /dev-mapper/ by convention include the system's > hostname as one of their sub-parts: > /dev/mapper/temporaryhostname-root / > As far

Re: Consultation on Linux for CD

2008-09-28 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:02:48 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat,27.Sep.08, 22:53:51, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > > Felipe Gallois wrote: > > > the signature =] > > > > ... which I think is actually an ad appended by hotmail. But, yes, > > that's what I based it on. I hope it wa

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-28 Thread Michael Perry
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> @dam-main:~$ uname -r >> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 >> >> @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware >> ii vmware-workstation6.5.0-110069 >> VMware Workstation >> ii xserver-

Re: Sound just broken in Sid

2008-09-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Sep 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> Following a recent upgrade in Sid my sound is no longer working -- on 2 >> different machines. >> >> Saytime says: >> >> sox formats: can't open output file `/dev/audio': Invalid argument >> child process returned a

Re: USB Mouse

2008-09-28 Thread Kent West
David Baron wrote: > > I have a logitec USB/PS2 optical mouse, the el cheapo. > > > > I had been using it with the ps2 adapter until I booted up and BIOS > kicked about the keyboard. Taking out that connector enabled me to > boot. So I plugged the mouse into the USB and it simply worked. Hats off

Re: Sound just broken in Sid

2008-09-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Anthony Campbell wrote: Following a recent upgrade in Sid my sound is no longer working -- on 2 different machines. Saytime says: sox formats: can't open output file `/dev/audio': Invalid argument child process returned a non-zero status 2 I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ say

got gnus 5.11 started

2008-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Like calc gnus got added to the current version of emacs so there's no need for the older package to be on current systems. In reading up on gnus with info the last message on info's status line is Tags out of D. Does that mean tags are out of date and if so how can those be updated? -- To

Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:28:43AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the kernel-package program that is included with Debian to compile new kernels. I have an older Athlon PC that h

Sound just broken in Sid

2008-09-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
Following a recent upgrade in Sid my sound is no longer working -- on 2 different machines. Saytime says: sox formats: can't open output file `/dev/audio': Invalid argument child process returned a non-zero status 2 I tried lsmod |grep snd: arcadia:~:$ lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_

Re: How do I install older software versions?

2008-09-28 Thread James Kerr
On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, Aniruddha wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 21:03 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > If you have the .deb files in the cache (/var/cache/apt/archives) then > > you can try to install the .deb files directly using the "dpkg -i" > > command. You can also do something like > >

Re: RAMDISK:Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 ... (etch)

2008-09-28 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:18:07PM +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: From: Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian Subject: Re: RAMDISK:Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 ... (etch) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on liszt.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Sp

FW: Problems with xserver-xorg

2008-09-28 Thread Carlos Morales Diego
I fixed the problem, so thanks so much Florian for your advice, it worked perfectly. Thanks so much. Regards from Salamanca, Spain> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:22:30 +0200> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Problems with xserver-xorg> > On Sat, Sep 27, 20

Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:28:43AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: >> I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the >> kernel-package program that is included with Debian to compile new >> kernels. I have an older Athlon PC that has the Rei

Re: How do I install older software versions?

2008-09-28 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 12:58 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I choose testing because I want a "rolling update" system (just like > > Gentoo and Arch). I want to keep all my packages up to date ;) > > Then update your system with the latest packages. > If you still want to keep old packages, look into

Re: How do I install older software versions?

2008-09-28 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 21:03 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > If you have the .deb files in the cache (/var/cache/apt/archives) then you > can try to install the .deb files directly using the "dpkg -i" command. You > can also do something like > > sudo apt-get install package=version > > if t

Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the kernel-package program that is included with Debian to compile new kernels. I have an older Athlon PC that has the Reiserfs 3.6 on it. After I do the "make-kpkg --revision= ## kernel-ima

Re: Consultation on Linux for CD

2008-09-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,27.Sep.08, 22:53:51, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Felipe Gallois wrote: > > the signature =] > > ... which I think is actually an ad appended by hotmail. But, yes, that's > what I > based it on. I hope it wasn't too presumptive :) I think it was. The language in .br is Portuguese. Regards,