Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Asus M3A board > http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1934&l1=3&l2=149&l3=592&l4=0 > (we need both IDE and SATA, as my current 500GB hard drives are IDE) I haven't heard anything about AMD chipset compatibi

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-10-01 Thread Miles Bader
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight > with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the > firmware of their harddrives. I will document this on my personal site > sometime soon. What's your website URL? [

Re: Dealing with obsolete packages

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:36:29PM +, T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:44:26 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > or just push "-" on the header of the group if you're using the curses > > interface. > > That's what I thought. I press "-" on the spot marked a

Re: Looking for a lazy gui

2008-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/01/08 02:19, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/30/2008 10:20 PM, John O'Hagan wrote: Hi Debianistas, I recall stumbling upon a program in the Debian archive which was a simple GUI - a customisable row of buttons and text-boxes - and which could be hooked up to any script, as a shortcut to actually

Re: iptables LOG

2008-10-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/01/2008 03:05 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Out of interest, will dmesg -n X survive a reboot? Or is there another config option for this? No, it wouldn't survive a reboot. You can place the command in /etc/init.d/rc.local. You can also modify /etc/sysctl.conf. "Kernel.printk" is the value

Re: Importing bookmark file

2008-10-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/01/2008 04:29 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: I'm trying to install my ubuntu firefox bookmark file into 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-486 iceweasel. I copied it into /etc/iceweasel/profile after renaming the original file. the problem is iceweasel is ignoring the new file and still showing the bookmarks

Re: Looking for a lazy gui

2008-10-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2008 10:20 PM, John O'Hagan wrote: Hi Debianistas, I recall stumbling upon a program in the Debian archive which was a simple GUI - a customisable row of buttons and text-boxes - and which could be hooked up to any script, as a shortcut to actually writing a gui (which i can't do).

Re: Dealing with obsolete packages

2008-10-01 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:44:26 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > or just push "-" on the header of the group if you're using the curses > interface. That's what I thought. I press "-" on the spot marked as "*" in the following: Actions Undo Package Resolver Search Options Views Help C-T: Menu

Importing bookmark file

2008-10-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
I'm trying to install my ubuntu firefox bookmark file into 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-486 iceweasel. I copied it into /etc/iceweasel/profile after renaming the original file. the problem is iceweasel is ignoring the new file and still showing the bookmarks from the original, even though it is renamed. T

Re: automounting removable drives on multi-user systems

2008-10-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 22:50:33 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:37:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 09/30/08 10:08, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > >Hi fellow debian-user(s) > > > > > >My problem concerns auto-mounting of removable media on multi-user systems. > > > > > >What

Re: GTK+ development package

2008-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/01/08 14:30, J.H.Kim wrote: Hi, everyone I received following message when I "make gconfig" in linux kernel source directory. * Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that * the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed... * You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libg

s2disk weird error

2008-10-01 Thread Jeff Chimene
Hi, I'm tracking Lenny on 2.6.26-1-amd64. The command powersave -U is now failing, and the following error is in /var/log/messages: ioctl32(s2disk:4094): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(4004330a){t:'3';sz:4} arg(1605) on /dev/snapshot Should I file a bug or is this a known issue? tia, jec -- To UNS

GTK+ development package

2008-10-01 Thread J . H . Kim
Hi, everyone I received following message when I "make gconfig" in linux kernel source directory. * Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that * the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed... * You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libglade-2.0. * libglade-2.0 was installe

Re: Trouble with USB printer

2008-10-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:54:51 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, > > I have a USB printer, HP laserjet 1600. I'm using lenny, with cups > and the hpijs driver installed. The printer used to work, although it > would sometimes stop due to an error. Restarting the printer usually > got

Re: Installing Etchy on fakeraid/BIOS raid

2008-10-01 Thread oneman
On 1-okt-2008, at 10:03, John Merchant wrote: Peter Teunissen wrote: On Wed, October 1, 2008 03:39, John Merchant wrote: Dear Debian user, I'm having trouble installing Etchy on a fakeraid/BIOS raid array, the installer doesn't seem to detect the array but instead it detects the separa

Re: soundcard recognized but not accessible

2008-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-01 20:10 +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> If it's been built with CONFIG_SND=y, then yes. But it would be very >> strange if that is really the case. > hm, where can i get this? i recall using /proc/config.gz or something > like that, but that is not available here.

Re: soundcard recognized but not accessible

2008-10-01 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Sven Joachim wrote: I have to confess that I don't understand that. That message only appears if CONFIG_SND=y, but Debian Kernels use CONFIG_SND=m. What is your kernel version (according to /proc/version)? Linux version 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 (Debian 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.5) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (g

Re: soundcard recognized but not accessible

2008-10-01 Thread Kejia
Hi Lubos, You may try: $ alsaconf Maybe, alsa will recognize your sound card and say enjoying it, but the sound card still can not work. Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, recently i installed lenny on a relatively dated machine. it seems to work fine, but i have problems with getting the sound w

[FIXED] Re: xorg: -isolatedevice always fails: multiseat impossible

2008-10-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, It's official:no more Debian multiseat: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500800 Only with a backleveled Sid like I have now (xorg 1:7.2-5) or with Etch can you have a multiseater. With recent xorg's you always get: Fatal server error: Bus types ot

Gnome Nautilus: How to Open Same Folder in Same Window

2008-10-01 Thread Kejia
Hi all, I am not meaning the Nautilus spatial window. Now, when I click the same folder twice, there are two windows for the same folder. Is it possible to configure nautilus so as to only show the open existed window of one folder rather than to open the second one? Thanks a lot for any sug

Re: How do I install older software versions?

2008-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 07:21:41PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > 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. > >

[Fwd: Re: xpdf blocks sounds]

2008-10-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Please direct replies to the mailing list. That way others will also be able to help you out. Original Message Subject:Re: xpdf blocks sounds Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:58:49 +0530 From: Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kamar

Re: Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-10-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:48:46PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Right now, I have a shell script that does the following: > > hostname=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'` > domain=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $2}'` > top0=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $3}'`

Video Capture card for mythtv

2008-10-01 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello everybody, I'm mouting a TV/Cable station, and would like some advice. I have three choices for capture cards: PINNACLE PC/TV PRO 110I TV/FM - R$ 200,00 PL PCI TV/FM PROLINK PLAYTV XTREME C/CONTROL - R$ 120,00 PL PCI TV/FM ENCORE TUNER PRO C/CONTROLE - R$ 85,00 (the prices

Re: Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-10-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/30/2008 01:48 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: <--deleted problem description and awk solution--> The bash shell can do this internally since it supports arrays: NEWDEV=${NEWDEV//./ } NEWDEV=($NEWDEV) echo "hostname: ${NEWDEV[0]}" echo "domain: ${NEWDEV[1]}" echo "top0:

Re: soundcard recognized but not accessible

2008-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-01 15:14 +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> There are several possibilities: >> - Build the driver from the ALSA project. You need the alsa-driver >> package: >> ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2. >> Do *not* use Debian's alsa-source

xorg: -isolatedevice always fails: multiseat impossible

2008-10-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, It's official:no more Debian multiseat: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500800 Only with a backleveled Sid like I have now (xorg 1:7.2-5) or with Etch can you have a multiseater. With recent xorg's you always get: Fatal server error: Bus types other than PCI not yet iso

Re: samba sharing hang up

2008-10-01 Thread Jerry
Szilárd Szabó wrote: > The problem is: > 1 computer works with samba correct. > 2 computers drop the sharings, and one of there make big > communications for the server. ( maby 3-4 GB eith 400-500Kb/s, when > the Boston program are runing, and everywhre work with is) > > [global] > os level = 20 >

Speed problems with Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card

2008-10-01 Thread Cultural Sublimation
Hi, I have a Xircom PCMCIA 100/10 ethernet card on my laptop. This is what "dmesg | grep eth0" tells me: Code: [24.588107] eth0: Xircom cardbus revision 3 at irq 11 [30.956255] xircom cardbus adaptor found, registering as eth0, using irq 11 Now, at first glance the card seems to work fine. Ho

Re: xpdf blocks sounds

2008-10-01 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Nishita Desai wrote: > Hello, > > I have been having this problem lately: I cannot get any sound to play > whenever I have some pdfs open. > Here's the output of 'lsof |grep snd' > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsof |grep snd > lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /dev/.static/dev Output > info

Re: KDE subpixel hinting

2008-10-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 21:02:25 +0200, Alex Maurer wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:27:09 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 19:35:35 +0200, Alex Maurer wrote: > > > I have both, etch and lenny installed. Both with KDE 3. At etch I can > > > activate font-aliasing with subpixel

Re: Maintainer change?

2008-10-01 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
David Clymer wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 10:04 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 00:51:26 -0400, David Clymer wrote: >> > network-manager-openvpn seems to be maintained by ubuntu, and the >> > contact for the debian pacckage is soren AT ubuntu DOT com. However, >> > I've g

Re: Dealing with obsolete packages

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:29:41AM +0100, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > I know that aptitude gui interface can show all those obsolete packages > > by sections. my questions are: > > > > - how can I tag all obsolete packages in a section, then remove them? > > - how can I get

Re: updatedb for very large filesystems

2008-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:53:05AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Thanks Sven. Is it possible to get file user owner and file size with > the mlocate/updatedb ? > > I would like to get granular reports like that... What about something like "ls -la `locate .bashrc`" where you replace .bashrc with whatev

Re: soundcard recognized but not accessible

2008-10-01 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Sven Joachim wrote: sven, sorry for replying off-list. posting (UPDATED) mail here as well. The driver for this card has been removed from the Debian kernel, as it needs binary-only firmware. ah, interesting. it seems that it is not that frequently used and doesn't therefore have a firmware pac

Re: USB Mouse

2008-10-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2008 20:03:08 debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a logitec USB/PS2 optical mouse, the el cheapo. ... or the cable and the USB plug. A little jiggle and everyone is happy (as long as hands are off after that.) That reminds me

Re: Maintainer change?

2008-10-01 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 10:04 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 00:51:26 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > network-manager-openvpn seems to be maintained by ubuntu, and the > > contact for the debian pacckage is soren AT ubuntu DOT com. However, I've > > gotten no response to my bug

Re: updatedb for very large filesystems

2008-10-01 Thread Mag Gam
Thanks Sven. Is it possible to get file user owner and file size with the mlocate/updatedb ? I would like to get granular reports like that... On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-10-01 13:15 +0200, Mag Gam wrote: > >> I was wondering if its possible

Re: updatedb for very large filesystems

2008-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-01 13:15 +0200, Mag Gam wrote: > I was wondering if its possible to run updatedb on a very large > filesystem (6 TB). Has anyone done this before? I don't have such luxurious filesystems, but it should certainly be possible. It's just a matter of time (the number of files is what real

Re: Suggested a new package: textext

2008-10-01 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Eugene V. Lyubimkin pisze: Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, I'd like to suggest a new package "textext" which allows to put LaTeX formulas or text in the Inkscape figures. It may be found at: http://www.elisanet.fi/ptvirtan/software/textext/ Textext may also be integrated into the Inkscape

updatedb for very large filesystems

2008-10-01 Thread Mag Gam
I was wondering if its possible to run updatedb on a very large filesystem (6 TB). Has anyone done this before? I plan on running this on a weekly basis, but I was wondering if updatedb was faster than a simple 'find'. Are there any optimizations in 'updatedb' ? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

sony vaio pcg-c1 and debian

2008-10-01 Thread Sanapo Pietro
Good morning, I tried to found information about which version of Debian could be istalled on my sony vaio pcg-c1, cpu 266 Mz, ram 64Mb and 64 Mb video without any results. Could be so kind to let me known if there is a version of the Debian O.S. that works with the above mentioned computer? Man

Re: iptables LOG

2008-10-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:05:57AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Out of interest, will dmesg -n X survive a reboot? Or is there another > config option for this? dmesg without parameters shows the currecnt content of the kernel messages buffer. This buffer has limited size and does not survive rebo

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Aniruddha a écrit : On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:22 -0400, David Clymer wrote: Clonezilla uses partimage which I haven't found too reliable. I still prefer to tar /. It works perfectly every time. Clonezilla allows you to pick the method you want it to use. One of those methods is partimage. Other

Re: soundcard recognized but not accessible

2008-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-01 11:07 +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > recently i installed lenny on a relatively dated machine. it seems to > work fine, but i have problems with getting the sound working. > > the card is recognized by the kernel (part of the lspci -v follows) > 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirr

Re: Suggested a new package: textext

2008-10-01 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to suggest a new package "textext" which allows to put LaTeX > formulas or text in the Inkscape figures. > It may be found at: http://www.elisanet.fi/ptvirtan/software/textext/ > > Textext may also be integrated into the Inkscape package (I have fil

Suggested a new package: textext

2008-10-01 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Hi All, I'd like to suggest a new package "textext" which allows to put LaTeX formulas or text in the Inkscape figures. It may be found at: http://www.elisanet.fi/ptvirtan/software/textext/ Textext may also be integrated into the Inkscape package (I have filled a wishlist for that with bugre

Re: Setting up ad-hoc network?

2008-10-01 Thread Semih Gokalp
or you can use wifi-radar or Wicd on gnome desktop for create or connect wireless. 2008/10/1 Semih Gokalp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi,you can configure your /etc/network/interface file like below: > > > iface ethX inet static > address > netmask > wireless-mod Ad-Hoc >

soundcard recognized but not accessible

2008-10-01 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, recently i installed lenny on a relatively dated machine. it seems to work fine, but i have problems with getting the sound working. the card is recognized by the kernel (part of the lspci -v follows) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear Sound

Re: Setting up ad-hoc network?

2008-10-01 Thread Semih Gokalp
Hi,you can configure your /etc/network/interface file like below: iface ethX inet static address netmask wireless-mod Ad-Hoc wireless-essid wireless-keymode restricted wireless-key auto ethX or iface ethX inet dhcp wireless-mod Ad-Hoc

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:22 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > Clonezilla uses partimage which I haven't found too reliable. I still > > prefer to tar /. It works perfectly every time. > > Clonezilla allows you to pick the method you want it to use. One of > those methods is partimage. Others are dd

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread Neil
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Dear All, >> > > I w

Re: Maintainer change?

2008-10-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 00:51:26 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > network-manager-openvpn seems to be maintained by ubuntu, and the > contact for the debian pacckage is soren AT ubuntu DOT com. However, I've > gotten no response to my bug-report + patch that I filed against it back > in may. > > When

Re: iptables LOG

2008-10-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Mumia W.. on 30/09/08 07:54, wrote: On 09/29/2008 02:03 PM, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: I set iptables rule for logging. # iptables -I INPUT -m limit --limit 15/minute -j LOG --log-level 4 --log-prefix "firewall: " It's logging in warning level. And my logs goes to kern.log file. It's for now, bu

Re: Installing Etchy on fakeraid/BIOS raid

2008-10-01 Thread John Merchant
Peter Teunissen wrote: On Wed, October 1, 2008 03:39, John Merchant wrote: Dear Debian user, I'm having trouble installing Etchy on a fakeraid/BIOS raid array, the installer doesn't seem to detect the array but instead it detects the separate SATA drives. At the moment your best bet

xpdf blocks sounds

2008-10-01 Thread Nishita Desai
Hello, I have been having this problem lately: I cannot get any sound to play whenever I have some pdfs open. Here's the output of 'lsof |grep snd' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsof |grep snd lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /dev/.static/dev Output information may be incomplete. mixer_app 296

Re: Dealing with obsolete packages

2008-10-01 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:11:47 +, T o n g ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I know that aptitude gui interface can show all those obsolete packages > by sections. my questions are: > > - how can I tag all obsolete packages in a section, then remove them? > - how can I get such obsolet

Re: Looking for a lazy gui

2008-10-01 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:22:22 +, T o n g wrote: > If python is not a must-have, and you want something even simpler, give > gtkdialog a try. If that is still not simple enough, install tk and try the following script: --- #! /bin/sh # -*- tcl