Re: Running Debian Stable

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I proceed to add OOo 3.0 to a Debian stable installation? By adding the u

Running Debian Stable

2008-12-30 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Dear all Noting the stable version has software that are behind the current version, how should I proceed if I wanted only one program which is up to date, eg. how should I proceed to add OOo 3.0 to a Debian stable installation? By adding the unstable Debian repository? Pulling .deb from OOo site

Re: Flash, konqueror

2008-12-30 Thread chris
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:09:12 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> On Debian Lenny KDE 3.5.10, how can I enable flash with konqueror? > > Uh, good question. A more general one would be: How do you enable > Flash? It's been broken in Sid for me for a good while now, and nothing

Re: debian standard tool for config services?

2008-12-30 Thread chris
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:00:54 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm too new to know what is the standard or default tool to configure > what services are started at boot. > > I've installed chkconfig from ancient expierence on various linux > distros but suspect their is something more popular or maybe

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue December 30 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > Wodim is a fork of cdrecord, which isn't in Debian anymore (which > itself is a long, fruitless discussion).  You could install it from > source and hopefully tell k3b to use it. I did aptitude install cdrecord, then I got this: ii cdrecord 9:1.

Re: Flash, konqueror

2008-12-30 Thread Mark Allums
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: On Debian Lenny KDE 3.5.10, how can I enable flash with konqueror? Uh, good question. A more general one would be: How do you enable Flash? It's been broken in Sid for me for a good while now, and nothing I try (which is everything I read here about it, and everythi

Re: Flash, konqueror

2008-12-30 Thread chris
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:49:21 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > On Debian Lenny KDE 3.5.10, how can I enable flash with konqueror? Assuming you already have konqueror-nsplugins, you can try to install http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=flashplugin-nonfree for etch- backport or sid. Downloa

Printer setup not working

2008-12-30 Thread Zach Uram
I hope it is ok to post this in here, the packages are the same in Debian. Here is what I've done to get my HP Deskjet 960c color inkjet printer working in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake): Booted up, hooked my printer up to the parallel port and powered it on, added paper, printer's green light is on.

Re: Old Seamonkey emails into new exim4 maildirs

2008-12-30 Thread mouss
David Witbrodt a écrit : > Hi, > > I was wondering if any email gurus are reading debian-user, and are > willing to share some advice? > > In the past, I used email client apps like Seamonkey to retrieve > email from my ISP's POP3 server. I tend to save a lot of emails, sorted > into directo

Re: unwanted DNS requests to localhost:53

2008-12-30 Thread chris
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:17:57 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Hey list, > > I am working offline and couldn't help notice that my applications still > try to resolve DNS hostnames. > > There are no routes, no addresses of any kind, and all interfaces -- > except lo -- are down. avahi-daemon is no

Re: How often do the repositories get updated?

2008-12-30 Thread Mark Allums
I am just wondering how frequently do the repositories get updated for kernels as ive not been able to update to the new kernel 2.6.28. My custom built kernel doesn't work:(. I am running debian sid and i also noticed that the kernel 2.6.27 wasn't put in to the repositories. In spite of the gene

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Mark Allums
Frank Lanitz wrote: So the only way I can use an ext4 filesystem right now is to format the hard disk as ext4dev and mount it as ext4dev. Will a subsequent kernel upgrade with support for plain ext4 allow me to mount the ext4dev-formatted disk as ext4? I think the answer can be very short: Eve

Old Seamonkey emails into new exim4 maildirs

2008-12-30 Thread David Witbrodt
Hi, I was wondering if any email gurus are reading debian-user, and are willing to share some advice? In the past, I used email client apps like Seamonkey to retrieve email from my ISP's POP3 server. I tend to save a lot of emails, sorted into directories based on who-was-the-sender or what-

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
Slim Joe wrote: > Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? > > I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It > appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (with and > without -"dev"). The problem is the latest Debian Linux image > (2.6.26.

Re: debian standard tool for config services?

2008-12-30 Thread lostson
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 06:08:02PM -0700, Robert Hodgins wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 19:00 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'm too new to know what is the standard or default tool to configure > > what services are started at boot. > > > > I've installed chkconfig from ancient expierence on vari

Re: How often do the repositories get updated?

2008-12-30 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi Dean, On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:57:54 + "Dean Chester" wrote: > I am just wondering how frequently do the repositories get updated for > kernels as ive not been able to update to the new kernel 2.6.28. My > custom built kernel doesn't work:(. I am running debian sid and i also > noticed tha

Re: Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi, On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:49:56 +0900 "Slim Joe" wrote: > Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? The status of development I'd guess. > I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It > appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (

Re: debian standard tool for config services?

2008-12-30 Thread mouss
Harry Putnam a écrit : > I'm too new to know what is the standard or default tool to configure > what services are started at boot. > > I've installed chkconfig from ancient expierence on various linux > distros but suspect their is something more popular or maybe something > installed with defaul

RE: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Javier del Río
Hello, John. I used sometimes the Acronis Disk Director software. You can download a trial version from www.acronis.com. Then, you can resize your disk. Or, may be, you prepare a boot CD, and start with him. Be careful with the version of Acronis, because an old version could damage your parti

How often do the repositories get updated?

2008-12-30 Thread Dean Chester
Hi I am just wondering how frequently do the repositories get updated for kernels as ive not been able to update to the new kernel 2.6.28. My custom built kernel doesn't work:(. I am running debian sid and i also noticed that the kernel 2.6.27 wasn't put in to the repositories. Thanks in advance De

Re: debian standard tool for config services?

2008-12-30 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 19:00 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm too new to know what is the standard or default tool to configure > what services are started at boot. > > I've installed chkconfig from ancient expierence on various linux > distros but suspect their is something more popular or maybe s

debian standard tool for config services?

2008-12-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm too new to know what is the standard or default tool to configure what services are started at boot. I've installed chkconfig from ancient expierence on various linux distros but suspect their is something more popular or maybe something installed with default install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Ext4dev vs. Ext4

2008-12-30 Thread Slim Joe
Besides the name, what's the difference between ext4dev and ext4? I'm curious because I'm planning to format a 1TB disk as ext4. It appears that the e2fs tools already have support for ext4 (with and without -"dev"). The problem is the latest Debian Linux image (2.6.26.x) has support only for ext4

Re: Release Cycle

2008-12-30 Thread Raquel
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:38:41 -0800 Ken Teague wrote: > > Is Debian's stable release cycle relative long because Debian > > releases typically involve big changes that set the minimum time > > between releases, or is it because Debian not really attempt to > > design and make smaller, more frequen

Flash, konqueror

2008-12-30 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
On Debian Lenny KDE 3.5.10, how can I enable flash with konqueror? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Release Cycle

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Why do so many defenses of Debian's release cycle length seem to ignore or > skirt the issue of _how_ _much_ is planned to be in each release? (Saying > "when it's right" still depends on what "it" is--which set of features/ > changes are involved.) How much of what? If

Re: Limiting a processe's cpu%, not cputime.

2008-12-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> I think you either need to replace the '=' with a ' ' or use the long form > i.e. '--limit=95'. Indeed... the long form worked, thanks! :) Nuno Magalhães

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> I had to re-install Vista in order to do the update, the update required > runing in Vista for the GUI. I read somewhere that some laptops now come with "software BIOS", so removing the Vista rescue partition would actually remove the BIOS. What's fact and what's fiction here? Being so, how co

Re: What is this "update" ISO image?

2008-12-30 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 22:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-30 21:27 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 12:02 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: > >> What is this "update" ISO image I see in the cd-image archives? For > >> example, on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6

Re: HELP - Problem with Debian (password of root)

2008-12-30 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:11:36 +0100 "Manuel Gómez" wrote: > Hi, i would like to install Debian (19 December) but i have a > problem: The root password doesn't works, i have tried to install > Debian two times but it happens the same. > > My installation is this: > 35 gb for "/", > 15 gb for "/usr

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread thveillon.debian
Csanyi Pal a écrit : > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > >> On Tuesday 2008 December 30 12:57:13 Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: >>> Must I upgrade from Etch to Lenny because of using a webcam? >> You could just upgrade the kernel package and what it requires from Lenny OR >

Re: About Release-critial bugs page

2008-12-30 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:57:15 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > > Yes, in the majority of cases. But there are probably a good number > of false positives. One common pattern is the following: RC bug > #nn is reported against package foo in version x.y.z (which may > or may not be in stable). Th

Re: What is this "update" ISO image?

2008-12-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-30 21:27 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 12:02 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: >> What is this "update" ISO image I see in the cd-image archives? For >> example, on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso-dvd/ I >> see debian-update-4.0r6-i386-DVD-1.iso. What

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > Csanyi Pal wrote: >> So on Debian Etch with linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 #1 SMP one >> can't to use a webcam that just works? >> >> Or there are some deb packages to must to install on Etch to can to >> use some webcam? > > Depends on the cam. Some might work

Re: emacs-cvs (23) thru aptitude

2008-12-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-30 20:58 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote: > Chris Burkhardt writes: > >> Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I just started working with debian recently, I'm a long time gentoo >>> user. >>> >>> I want to install the latest cvs emacs but do not see it in an >>> aptitude search. >> >> See Romain Franco

Re: What is this "update" ISO image?

2008-12-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ken Teague wrote: >What is this "update" ISO image I see in the cd-image archives? For >example, on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso-dvd/ I >see debian-update-4.0r6-i386-DVD-1.iso. What are these update ISO >images used for? Thanks in advance. http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#up

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
John Culleton wrote: > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and > one for backup of Vista. I need suggestions for partitioning software > that will allow me to reduce the size of the Vista partition to

Re: What is this "update" ISO image?

2008-12-30 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 12:02 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: > What is this "update" ISO image I see in the cd-image archives? For > example, on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso-dvd/ I > see debian-update-4.0r6-i386-DVD-1.iso. What are these update ISO > images used for? Thanks in adv

Re: Limiting a processe's cpu%, not cputime.

2008-12-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2008 December 30 14:07:06 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > #cpulimit -e oggenc -l=95 I think you either need to replace the '=' with a ' ' or use the long form i.e. '--limit=95'. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_))

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Csanyi Pal wrote: > So on Debian Etch with linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 #1 SMP one > can't to use a webcam that just works? > > Or there are some deb packages to must to install on Etch to can to > use some webcam? Depends on the cam. Some might work, some might need you to compile a new ke

Limiting a processe's cpu%, not cputime.

2008-12-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I've seen this question over and over in forums and the answers seem to be the same. My cpu doesn't get too much action other than gkrellmd and X, seldom above 50% usage. The issue is, if i want to encode from wav to ogg, the cpu hits 100% easy while it's encoding. What i want is to tell oggen

What is this "update" ISO image?

2008-12-30 Thread Ken Teague
What is this "update" ISO image I see in the cd-image archives? For example, on http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso-dvd/ I see debian-update-4.0r6-i386-DVD-1.iso. What are these update ISO images used for? Thanks in advance. - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: emacs-cvs (23) thru aptitude

2008-12-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris Burkhardt writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I just started working with debian recently, I'm a long time gentoo >> user. >> >> I want to install the latest cvs emacs but do not see it in an >> aptitude search. > > See Romain Francoise's emacs-snapshot repository: http://emacs.orebokech.com

Re: updating Lenny

2008-12-30 Thread consultores1
El mar, 30-12-2008 a las 13:18 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. escribió: > On Tuesday 2008 December 30 10:44:37 consultores1 wrote: > > Does someone knows why my laptop connects to rookery.canonical.com when > > i use "updater" in Lenny-Gnome? I'm expecting connecting something > > Debian! > > What

Re: udev causing data loss?

2008-12-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2008 December 30 11:40:55 Barclay, Daniel wrote: > ghe wrote: > Isn't the UUID always of part of the file system? Not on LVM logical volumes, for example. The 'lvcreate' command generates a UUID and writes it to the volume group metadata extent (along with other information about th

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > On Tuesday 2008 December 30 12:57:13 Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: >> Must I upgrade from Etch to Lenny because of using a webcam? > > You could just upgrade the kernel package and what it requires from Lenny OR > compile the module yoursel

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2008 December 30 12:57:13 Csanyi Pal wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > Well, how stable is Lenny now? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/12/msg6.html http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ > Must I upgrade from Etch to Lenny because of using a webcam? You

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2008-12-30 Thread consultores1
El mar, 30-12-2008 a las 09:58 -0800, Bob McGowan escribió: > On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 09:46 -0800, consultores1 wrote: > > Hello > > > > I have tried to connect my Debian laptop to a TV, using different > > methods, but it became almost impossible. > > > > Can somebody please, write the diferent st

Re: updating Lenny

2008-12-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2008 December 30 10:44:37 consultores1 wrote: > Does someone knows why my laptop connects to rookery.canonical.com when > i use "updater" in Lenny-Gnome? I'm expecting connecting something > Debian! What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like? In addition, the output of "/bin/bash

Re: udev causing data loss?

2008-12-30 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barclay, Daniel wrote: > That's not right, is it? Isn't the UUID always of part of the file system? > (Partitioning can't write the UUID; it's only when you format the partition > that the UUID can be written.) Hmmm. That's an excellent point, and I

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > Csanyi Pal escreveu: >> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: >> >>> I'd say no. There are some that work, and some that don't. However, in >>> Etch things will be slightly more difficult than in Lenny. >>> >> >> How do you mean that > > Newer kernel = more hardware

Re: logrotate and apache virtual domains

2008-12-30 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Dec 30, 2008 at 12:18:35 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I have several domains with their log files in separate directories > under /var/log/apache2. Logrotate is rotating only files in > /var/log/apache2 and not in the subdirectories. > > Where/how do I get logrotate to rotate the virtual hos

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Csanyi Pal escreveu: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > >> I'd say no. There are some that work, and some that don't. However, in >> Etch things will be slightly more difficult than in Lenny. >> > > How do you mean that Newer kernel = more hardware supported. (With some very small exception

Re: Release Cycle

2008-12-30 Thread Barclay, Daniel
s. keeling wrote: > Koh Choon Lin : >> Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I >> understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu. > > Why? What's wrong with Etch and Lenny? They're both well usable now, > yes? Are you looking for Lenny features in a "stable" release? > De

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Dominique Dumont
Thierry Chatelet writes: > On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: >> I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix >> runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet >> for Knoppix. >> >> I want to install Linux permanently on this b

phonon-gstreamer backend

2008-12-30 Thread lostson
I am trying to use the phonon-gstreamer backend while following a tutorial. I have installed all the proper pakacges but the qt-settings manager says there are no backends installed ? I have googled and seen lots of reports but the debian bug report says this issue has been fixed I am using qt 4.4.

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-30 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Cliff wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm a new Debian user. I recently installed Debian on my laptop > computer, and almost everything worked out of the box. > However, there are a few things that don't work now, but did in my old > system. So I would like to as

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > Csanyi Pal escreveu: >> Hi, >> >> I search here for answer: >> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ >> >> but find nothing about webcams. >> > > The uvcvideo supports a bunch of them, see the list at > http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ . It's integrated in the lenny

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Carl Fink escreveu: > I recommend leaving the recovery partition if you plan to keep using Vista > at all, shrinking the main Vista partition, and creating at least three new > ones: an ext3 partition for Linux, a swap partition, and a VFAT partition > for data that can be shared between Vista and

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 12:51 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:18:41PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: > > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > I recommend leaving the recovery partition if you plan to keep using Vista Let me strongly encourage

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2008-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 09:46 -0800, consultores1 wrote: > Hello > > I have tried to connect my Debian laptop to a TV, using different > methods, but it became almost impossible. > > Can somebody please, write the diferent steps to do it succesfully. > > My partners at work, using Windows, connect

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Joel Roth
> On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: > > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > > runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet > > for Knoppix. > > > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > >

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 16:18 -0500, John Culleton wrote: > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet > for Knoppix. > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartition

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:18:41PM -0500, John Culleton wrote: > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet > for Knoppix. > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repa

logrotate and apache virtual domains

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have several domains with their log files in separate directories under /var/log/apache2. Logrotate is rotating only files in /var/log/apache2 and not in the subdirectories. Where/how do I get logrotate to rotate the virtual host logs? -- "Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and al

laptop lenny + TV

2008-12-30 Thread consultores1
Hello I have tried to connect my Debian laptop to a TV, using different methods, but it became almost impossible. Can somebody please, write the diferent steps to do it succesfully. My partners at work, using Windows, connect laptop+TV, mark 2 screens and it is ready! How can i do something simi

Re: udev causing data loss?

2008-12-30 Thread Barclay, Daniel
ghe wrote: ... > lee wrote: > >> Well, that means there is no way of telling which disk is which other >> than uuid maybe. But who says which uuid is to be which partition? > > The UUID is written on the disk when the partition is created. That's not right, is it? Isn't the UUID always of part

Re: Online video won't be downloaded

2008-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/30/08 11:59, Rodolfo Medina wrote: "Michael Marsh" writes: [snip] I also tried with clive, but it said: clive 0.4.18 20080715 [Linux] error: unsupported host (http://www.raiclicktv.it[snip] => 0 (0.0B), failed: 1, skipped: 0. error: nothing to extract. . Any suggestion? At that w

Re: Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Csanyi Pal escreveu: > Hi, > > I search here for answer: > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ > > but find nothing about webcams. > The uvcvideo supports a bunch of them, see the list at http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ . It's integrated in the lenny kernel (probably not the etch one, but you co

Online video won't be downloaded (was: How to download online videos?)

2008-12-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
"Michael Marsh" writes: > What has generally worked for me is to watch (or at least buffer) the > streaming video in Firefox/Iceweasel, and find the appropriate cache > entry (~/.mozilla/firefox//Cache). "ls -ltr" typically makes > it easy to pick out, since it will be recent and large. Then I

Which webcam works on Debian Etch?

2008-12-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I search here for answer: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ but find nothing about webcams. Does it mean that that every webcam works on Debian GNU/Linux Etch system? -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 22:18:41 John Culleton wrote: > I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix > runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet > for Knoppix. > > I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres > repartitioning

updating Lenny

2008-12-30 Thread consultores1
Does someone knows why my laptop connects to rookery.canonical.com when i use "updater" in Lenny-Gnome? I'm expecting connecting something Debian! thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread John Culleton
I just bought an HP Pavilion dv9925nr wiht Vista for my wife. Knoppix runs on it but I haven't sorted out the wireless LAN connection yet for Knoppix. I want to install Linux permanently on this box, which requres repartitioning. Currently there are two partitions, one for Vista and one for

DRM module building issues (i915 driver)

2008-12-30 Thread Alexxoid
Hi All, I have Intel GM965 video card on x86_64 platform under Debian Lenny. The native Debian video drivers can't produce me a hardware acceleration. Using the http://intellinuxgraphics.org instructions, I was download and build the DRM (both libdrm & the DRM modules) source package guided by htt

trouble with an upgrade

2008-12-30 Thread charlie derr
Hi, I was fiddling with bzr last night for the first time and on one of my debian sid workstations pulled in the bzr-svn from experimental (because the one in sid was segfaulting when i tried to pull from a svn repo that wanted http auth). After noticing that there were some 500 or so packages

Re: picasa webalbums to digikam

2008-12-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/27 Tzafrir Cohen : >> Does he want to make an album of his Digikam photos available via >> Picasa web service, > > No. There's already a plugin to do that. Though I haven't tested it. > >> or does he want to import a Picasa album to Digikam? > > Yes > Can you link to such an album? I will

unwanted DNS requests to localhost:53

2008-12-30 Thread martin f krafft
Hey list, I am working offline and couldn't help notice that my applications still try to resolve DNS hostnames. There are no routes, no addresses of any kind, and all interfaces -- except lo -- are down. avahi-daemon is not running, and /etc/resolv.conf is empty. I noticed that /etc/nsswitch.co

Re: live-helper upgrade question

2008-12-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:09:09AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,29.Dec.08, 16:33:49, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > Could you please post the exact error message? > > > > > I don't know how to recover the information. I tried apt-get > > --reinstall install live-helper and got an almos

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
>Configuring Cdrkit, version 1.1.9 >CMake Error at wodim/CMakeLists.txt:18 (MESSAGE): > Error: found a Linux system but no libcap header. Install libcap-dev. Thanks! this is another hint that wodim is in conflict with the GPL. Some notes: k3b works best with cdrecord as cdrecord is well main

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-30 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 06:54:01 -0500, Paul Cartwright (a...@pcartwright.com) wrote: > On Mon December 29 2008, A. F. Cano wrote: > > k3b uses wodim as a backend, so I think the problem is with wodim. > > I tried it on a Philips CD/DVD writer SDVD6004.  That gave the fewest > > errors, but the

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/30/08 05:35, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon December 29 2008, A. F. Cano wrote: Well, you're not alone. I spent days and wasted an untold amount of blanks until I finally gave up. so, what do you use in its place?? k3b uses wodim as a backend, so I think the problem is with wodim. I tr

Re: how to find trace of attacks

2008-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/30/08 01:24, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I fear that an attack or an entry in my PC has occured, how to find the trace of the attacks. Why do you think your PC has been successfully attacked? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased a

Re: memory problem

2008-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-12-29 20:28:45 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I use Konqueror instead of Iceweasel whenever I can because of the memory I wouldn't use konqueror or anything using KDE libs. To a less extent, ditto for some GNOME-related packages (e.g. I don't want to install the huge package gnome-icon-t

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 29 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote: > What kind of burner/media? ok, so I wanted to install cdrkit. I see cdrkit-doc installed, but it can't find cdrkit. So I download the source to cdrkit-1.1.9 and try a make: # make make: [build/Makefile] Error 1 (ignored) cd build && cmake .. CMake

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 29 2008, A. F. Cano wrote: > k3b uses wodim as a backend, so I think the problem is with wodim. > I tried it on a Philips CD/DVD writer SDVD6004.  That gave the fewest > errors, but the disks were useless afterward.  They caused errors when > read in the same drive.  They could be r

Re: Problems with soundconverter

2008-12-30 Thread David Schmidt
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/faq.php#q1 Q. Why apt-get doesn't find this public key : NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 ? A. Install the debian-multimedia-keyring package with with "dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring" (click on the link above to download the package). david On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 29 2008, A. F. Cano wrote: > Well, you're not alone.  I spent days and wasted an untold amount > of blanks until I finally gave up. so, what do you use in its place?? > > k3b uses wodim as a backend, so I think the problem is with wodim. > I tried it on a Philips CD/DVD writer SDV

Re: HELP - Problem with Debian (password of root)

2008-12-30 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Hello Manuel At the first start of a fresh debian installation you are asked to enter the root password (if I remember correctly). It would be very strange if you were never prompted for that. Why don't you just install with so called "Debian of October". In this world it's not necessary to

Problems with soundconverter

2008-12-30 Thread Wilfred Zegwaard
Hello, I'm a novice debian linux user and I can't get soundconverter to work. I want it to convert a number of flac files into mp3 files. What I need is gstreamer0.10-lame. It is to be found on the debian multimedia site, but when I add the debian multimedia repository to sources.list, it returns

Yo! PR: Bigg Jigg Releases New Smash Single "Streetz On Lock", Preps New Album

2008-12-30 Thread Yo! Raps
Please contact me if you place any of the following information on your site, or to request an interview. Thank you for your time! Yo! PR: Bigg Jigg Releases New Smash Single "Streetz On Lock", Preps New Album The combination of Chi-Town winds and Miami sun mixed with a lethal stay fly swagg, th

Re: RSVP, Attending: work and live in canada

2008-12-30 Thread Brenda Berreth
Brenda We are sending invitation about work through yahoo.com and other e-mail company,if you get the i.v and intend to work with us then contact ominicityhotelss_c...@yahoo.ca for more details on how to apply for the job ok Thanks --- On Mon, 12/29/08, franck dufau wrote: From: franck dufau

Re: how to find trace of attacks

2008-12-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:24 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I fear that an attack or an entry in my PC has occured, how to find the > trace of the attacks. It depends entirely on what the attacker did on your system. If you haven't already you should shut down the system (either power