How to loop spdif through to speakers

2009-01-14 Thread Andreas Theofilu
Hello, I have the problem, that my sound card doesn't offer the ability to pass the input from the spdif directly to the speakers. This is what I have: Soundcard: ALC888 (on-board with ICH8 chipset) Operating system: Debian Lenny (testing) Linux Kernel: Debian 2.6.26-1-amd64 (native) Platform: 6

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi I am using Debian Lenny beta 2 and I have just en staled synaddsubefx and things went t swimmingly but there is no "Audio" the sound blaster platinum card woks fine except when I try to play "zynAddsubefx" aney body have an idea why I have no Audio ??.thanks in advance. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at

Re: single Dhcp server on multiple networks

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu January 15 2009 13:28:19 Rod James Bio wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had tried to configure a single linux dhcp > server to give IP to different network. We have multiple networks here > in our area and I am thinking of using a single dhcp server to serve all > other networks. It works

Re: Nspluginwrapper small problem

2009-01-14 Thread mathengejr
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer [/lib/tls/i386/cmov/libc.so.6: version 'GLIB_2.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/icewease;/plugins/libflasplayer.so)] is the message I can see when I run iceweasel from the terminal. I searched for GLIBC

single Dhcp server on multiple networks

2009-01-14 Thread Rod James Bio
Dear All, I was wondering if anyone had tried to configure a single linux dhcp server to give IP to different network. We have multiple networks here in our area and I am thinking of using a single dhcp server to serve all other networks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 22:54, Stephen Dewey wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Stephen Dewey
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to >> upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. >> The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has >> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:33:16PM EST, Richard Hector wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > I burn my nightly backups to DVD's and mail them to a fictitious address > > in Guam--not first class of course.. and they are diligently returned to > > me 2-3 weeks later.

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 22:39, Stephen Dewey wrote: I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distributio

essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Stephen Dewey
I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem. The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distribution to my sources list. However, after runn

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-14 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:07:37 +1100, "Alex Samad" said: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:46:08PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:45:56 +, "John Robinson" > > said: > > > On 09/01/2009 02:41, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > But, t

blkid gets it info from where?

2009-01-14 Thread whollygoat
I've a file server that is dropping to a maintenance prompt at boot because fsck.ext3 is unable to check a device. But, it shouldn't be looking at that device anyway. --- begin log excerpt --- Checking file systems fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) fsck.ext3: Device or resource

gnome terminal launcher launches root terminal and visa versa

2009-01-14 Thread Djingo Cacadril
Since last week, using the launchers in the menu Applications/Accessories or on the panel, launching a second terminal using either Terminal or Root Terminal, there is no difference between the two. If I already have a RootTerminal, I get only root terminals. If I have a non-root terminal, I ge

Re: Some question about Ethernet install

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
(Please do not top-post.) On 01/14/09 21:24, Leniy Tsan wrote: I searched with 'debian install Atheros L1',only find the way after installation. Can I add the driver into iso?what's the path. I was thinking more of: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+atheros+l1 It appears that newer kerne

Re: Some question about Ethernet install

2009-01-14 Thread Leniy Tsan
I searched with 'debian install Atheros L1',only find the way after installation. Can I add the driver into iso?what's the path. thanks. 2009/1/15 Ron Johnson : > On 01/14/09 21:09, Leniy Tsan wrote: >> >> Etch >> debian-40r4-i386,DVD > > Maybe it's kernel doesn't recognize that chip? What does

Re: Some question about Ethernet install

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 21:09, Leniy Tsan wrote: Etch debian-40r4-i386,DVD Maybe it's kernel doesn't recognize that chip? What does Google say? 2009/1/15 Ron Johnson : On 01/14/09 20:51, Leniy Tsan wrote: Hi,lists, 'Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Controller' When I

Re: Some question about Ethernet install

2009-01-14 Thread Leniy Tsan
Etch debian-40r4-i386,DVD 2009/1/15 Ron Johnson : > On 01/14/09 20:51, Leniy Tsan wrote: >> >> Hi,lists, >> 'Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T >> Controller' >> When I install debian on new pc,it cannot recognize my ethernet card. >> I wonder the way installing th

Re: Some question about Ethernet install

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 20:51, Leniy Tsan wrote: Hi,lists, 'Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Controller' When I install debian on new pc,it cannot recognize my ethernet card. I wonder the way installing the ethernet driver before debian installation finished (I want to upg

Some question about Ethernet install

2009-01-14 Thread Leniy Tsan
Hi,lists, 'Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Controller' When I install debian on new pc,it cannot recognize my ethernet card. I wonder the way installing the ethernet driver before debian installation finished (I want to upgrade the system before the End). Thank

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:47:57 -0500 Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:22:47PM EST, Mike McCarty wrote: ... > > Which reminds me, it's time for my monthly :-) > > Aaah .. now, _that's_ not good .. your backups should be automated and > so you don't have to have to have something _r

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 21:01 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > I burn my nightly backups to DVD's and mail them to a fictitious address > in Guam--not first class of course.. and they are diligently returned to > me 2-3 weeks later. Encrypted DVDs, I hope? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:32:43 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-01-14 21:31 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > Sven Joachim writes: ... > >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. > > > > # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules > > # program, probably run by the per

RE: Unibrain Fire-i with kernel 2.6.26-1-686

2009-01-14 Thread Peter Crawford
> From: creature...@hotmail.com > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:26:28 -0800 "This afternoon I connected a Unibrain Fire-i, part number 2036, IEEE 1394 camera to an Adaptec 1394-PCI card in Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-1-686. The adaptec card is detected; the camera is not." Appears that the chipset on th

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-14 Thread Boxuan Gu
Thank you.:) Boxuan Gu On 1/14/09, Celejar wrote: > [I have asked you not to cc. me, and it is against the list code of > conduct.] > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:40:45 -0500 > "Boxuan Gu" wrote: > > [no tg3 / Tigon3 in his kernel] > > I finally found it; it has apparently been removed from Debian

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-14 Thread Boxuan Gu
Hello, Ben, Thank you for your email very much! However, when I used apt-get source linux-2.6, it seemed that the patch 12 has been applied automatically. Do I need to apply patch 12 again? What I am confused is that, the kernel image gotten from "updating" can support tg3 but the kernel image bu

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-14 Thread Celejar
[I have asked you not to cc. me, and it is against the list code of conduct.] On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:40:45 -0500 "Boxuan Gu" wrote: [no tg3 / Tigon3 in his kernel] I finally found it; it has apparently been removed from Debian because of the non-DFSG firmware issue: http://wiki.debian.org/Debi

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 20:01, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:52:19PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/14/09 15:04, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] This is also much more expensive, if one is doing real backups. A real backup (as opposed to simply a second copy nearby) is stored off site. So, one wo

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:52:19PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/14/09 15:04, Mike McCarty wrote: > [snip] > > > >This is also much more expensive, if one is doing real backups. > >A real backup (as opposed to simply a second copy nearby) is > >stored off site. So, one would need to rotate extern

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:22:47PM EST, Mike McCarty wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: [...] > >That's obviously true in an ideal sense. But even the local external > >disk (or even internal disk) is vastly superior to having none at all > >... > > It's just true in all senses. > > I don't disagre

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:56 -0500, Boxuan Gu wrote: > Hello, > > When I opened "/usr/src/linux_2_6_26/drivers/net/Kconfig", I found the > following: > > config TIGON3 >tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" >depends on BROKEN >depends on PCI > > I don't know what does "BROKEN

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's >Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:07:18 -0600 > >>H.S. wrote: >>> Currently, I backup my /home to a partition on a second hard disk >in my >>> desktop. The photos ar

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Ron Johnson wrote about 'Re: kernel naming conventions?': >And actual 80386 chips haven't been supported in a few years. >Something about libc6 needing i486 instructions to support C++, I think. I thought it was something pthreads or futex related, but ISTR somethin

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread mathengejr
Thanks. Things keep getting clearer by day and its only my 3rd day. -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:07 pm Subject: Re: kernel naming conventions? On 01/14/09 18:40, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 18:40, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009, matheng...@aim.com wrote about 'Re: kernel naming conventions?': Just one more querry I installed the i386 netinstall etch same kernel as below but uname -all shows i686. Care to elaborate? I would assume d-i uses /

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 18:10, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:32:38 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/14/09 16:16, Micha Feigin wrote: Lately, on two different machines and also after a clean install and removal of the firefox directory, firefox doesn't render pages correctly. What version?

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, matheng...@aim.com wrote about 'Re: kernel naming conventions?': >Just one more querry I installed the i386 netinstall etch same kernel >as below but uname -all shows i686. Care to elaborate? I would assume d-i uses /proc/cpuinfo to determine the "best" kernel for y

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread mathengejr
Just one more querry I installed the i386 netinstall etch same kernel as below but uname -all shows i686. Care to elaborate? -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 4:41 am Subject: Re: kernel naming conventions? On Wednes

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM, JoeHill wrote: > The funny thing is, I already have this in my .bash_profile: > > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then >PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}" > fi I don't think .bash_profile gets sourced when you log in via an XDM

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:32:38 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/14/09 16:16, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Lately, on two different machines and also after a clean install and > > removal of the firefox directory, firefox doesn't render pages correctly. > > What version? > Sorry, a bit late to write i

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:18:57 + "Nuno Magalhães" wrote: > What insets? The right-side menu goes a little off-screen, other than > that seems fine (buti've only skimemd through it). > > Nuno Magalhães Just near the bottom of the page, above "For More Information" There should be Listing one

Re: Nspluginwrapper small problem

2009-01-14 Thread mathengejr
Still wunt come round it. I tried replacing firefox with iceweasel for the second option but it wunt work still. Uname -all gives Linux debian 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP i686 if it makes a difference. -Original Message- From: Kumar Appaiah To: Debian-Users List Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 3:40 am

Re: Surprising boot problem with modprobe and a stray named pipe

2009-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2009 January 14 16:07:37 Scott Gifford wrote: >But my other Etch machines didn't have it, and eventually >it dawned on me: that directory is supposed to be somewhere else. It >looks like something (possibly minor filesystem corruption) It's just like I say everytime a box I administe

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Joe
Sven Joachim writes: >> Sven Joachim writes: >> # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8139 (8139too) >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:c0:9f:45:a6:0f", >> NAME="eth0" >> >> # PCI device 0x1814:0x0201 (rt2500) >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:11:50:65:9d:75", >> NA

Re: English grammar checker

2009-01-14 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Marcelo Laia wrote: >>> I am looking a English grammar software checker for linux. I am using >>> Debian testing. I try google and didn't found a software for this. Do >>> you known one? >> aspell > > _Spell

Surprising boot problem with modprobe and a stray named pipe

2009-01-14 Thread Scott Gifford
I had an interesting problem today. A friend called me up to say that after an update, his Etch box wouldn't boot amymore, and could I come by and take a look at it. It was hanging waiting for udev to settle, and udev was starting tons of modprobe processes that were just hanging. Indeed, bootin

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-14 Thread M. Lewis
Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009 04:49, M. Lewis wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: I wonder if you have some sort of codec conflict going on here. Try adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, and rebooting. options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 That will just select the

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-14 Thread Boxuan Gu
Hello, When I opened "/usr/src/linux_2_6_26/drivers/net/Kconfig", I found the following: config TIGON3 tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" depends on BROKEN depends on PCI I don't know what does "BROKEN" mean. I couldn't find where to set BROKEN. I removed "depends on BROKEN

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-14 Thread Boxuan Gu
Hello, When I opened "/usr/src/linux_2_6_26/drivers/net/Kconfig", I found the following: config TIGON3 tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" depends on BROKEN depends on PCI I don't know what does "BROKEN" mean. I couldn't find where to set BROKEN. I removed "depends on BRO

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 15:04, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] This is also much more expensive, if one is doing real backups. A real backup (as opposed to simply a second copy nearby) is stored off site. So, one would need to rotate external discs for this to be a viable backup means. Usually one uses at least

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] (1) Off site storage; if my house burns down, then my data are still safe (my backup is 13 miles from my house, so an atom bomb will probably destroy all copies) "Big" countries haven't had any A-bombs in many, many decades, and "little" countries

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 16:16, Micha Feigin wrote: Lately, on two different machines and also after a clean install and removal of the firefox directory, firefox doesn't render pages correctly. What version? Even linux oriented pages so I gue

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Richard Hector wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:05 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: I would agree.. I use a $100 500Gb Mybook external as 1-part of my backup scheme. I use rsync and back up my desktop AND my laptop to the external HD. easy to specify folders and use a file for

Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2009-01-14 Thread Patrick Schueller
Mitchell Laks schrieb: On 11:28 Sun 11 Jan , Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/1/11 Mitchell Laks : I would try to explore the idea that the CPU or motherboard is defective. Perhaps the second core is bad. I had a problem with memory sticks that was similar. One stick worked and not two. I first fou

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:16:46 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > Lately, on two different machines and also after a clean install and > removal of the firefox directory, firefox doesn't render pages > correctly. Even linux oriented pages so I guess that this is not > microsoft's fault > > For example >

iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Micha Feigin
Lately, on two different machines and also after a clean install and removal of the firefox directory, firefox doesn't render pages correctly. Even linux oriented pages so I guess that this is not microsoft's fault For example http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/207200659, the insets

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:05 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > I would agree.. I use a $100 500Gb Mybook external as 1-part of my backup > > scheme. I use rsync and back up my desktop AND my laptop to the external > > HD. > > easy to specify folders and use a file for except

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-14 21:31 +0100, Joe wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> Why is wmaster0 renamed to eth1? And what about wlan0? > > Eth0 is the onboard Realtek ethernet. Don't Know why wmaster0 is > renamed. The configuration is the Debian default setup, except for > one modification to /etc/network/

kernel panic after Lenny update

2009-01-14 Thread Vladimir Komendantsky
Hi, I'm sorry to tell you that today's package update cost me a system crash. The problem was with the package netatalk which was starting services at boot time. This resulted in a kernel panic. To repair this I booted the system in a single-user mode and removed netatalk and its few dependants.

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones wrote: Is there an altogether better/smarter/reliabl-er solution? IMHO, the smartest, fastest, most reliable and cheapest solution is to use external hard disks like usb-disks. You could reuse the same disk f

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Mike McCarty
H.S. wrote: Currently, I backup my /home to a partition on a second hard disk in my desktop. The photos are mounted on a different desktop in a partition on a hard disk which is shared via samba so that anyone on my home lan can view them. That partition is backed up on to an external USB hard di

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Cartwright wrote: I would agree.. I use a $100 500Gb Mybook external as 1-part of my backup scheme. I use rsync and back up my desktop AND my laptop to the external HD. easy to specify folders and use a file for exceptions. IMO, this is an inadequate strategy. Backup media need to be stor

Re: DCHP Server Monitoring

2009-01-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:09:28PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > Hi, > >I am wondering how can I monitor the leases that my dhcp server is > giving to its clients. Thanks! > Maybe there is an existing software that I can use. Try Google. There are several CGI scripts around that generate html page

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Joe
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-01-14 19:41 +0100, Joe Dennigan wrote: > >> I installed Etch on a HP Pavilion ZE4900 in June 2008, and have since >> 'upgraded' to unstable. However, from the beginning there has been a >> glitch configuring my wireless card. It's a Belkin F5D7010 (RaLink >> RT25

Re: Master/slave ??

2009-01-14 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:16:56PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:42:27AM -0500, Fran

Re: DCHP Server Monitoring

2009-01-14 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:09:28PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > Hi, > >I am wondering how can I monitor the leases that my dhcp server is > giving to its clients. Thanks! > Maybe there is an existing software that I can use. If your DHCP server is running Debian, then your DHCP server might write

Re: gscanbus in Lenny

2009-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2009 January 14 13:18:50 Peter Crawford wrote: >According to dselect IMHO, don't use deselect. Officially, aptitude is preferred to both deselect and apt-get, now. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) IC

Re: gscanbus in Lenny

2009-01-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-14 20:18 +0100, Peter Crawford wrote: > According to dselect in Lenny, gscanbus depends upon libglib1.2 > and libglib1.2ldbl, which conflict. This is a known transient? The package is from Etch, it had been removed from Lenny and sid long ago. The package itself depends on libglib1.

gscanbus in Lenny

2009-01-14 Thread Peter Crawford
According to dselect in Lenny, gscanbus depends upon libglib1.2 and libglib1.2ldbl, which conflict. This is a known transient? Regards,... p. crawford _ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-14 19:41 +0100, Joe Dennigan wrote: > I installed Etch on a HP Pavilion ZE4900 in June 2008, and have since > 'upgraded' to unstable. However, from the beginning there has been a > glitch configuring my wireless card. It's a Belkin F5D7010 (RaLink > RT2500). > > If I boot, wait for th

Etch to Lenny

2009-01-14 Thread Raquel
I did it! I did the upgrade last night and it all worked well ... except that I had trouble with my nvidia card, but once I installed the nvidia kernel bits everything worked well. I have to say that I'm quite proud of myself! -- Raquel http://www.byraquel.com ==

Re: Nspluginwrapper small problem

2009-01-14 Thread André Neves
I also think that the Original Poster won't need nspluginwrapper, but for the record I'll just tell my tale here. > I think nspluginwrapper is useful is you need to get the x86 Flash > plugin working on an amd64 machine. i386 installations should not need > nspluginwrapper. I run amd64, and the v

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:57, Kent West wrote: >> >>> 3. How can I tell my aptitude-search command to list wider columns to >>> see the entire name. >>> >> >> IIRC, pipe it to cat; when stdout isn't a terminal it ignores the COLUMNS >> environment variable. >> > > Just leaving the grep portion ou

Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Joe Dennigan
Hi. I installed Etch on a HP Pavilion ZE4900 in June 2008, and have since 'upgraded' to unstable. However, from the beginning there has been a glitch configuring my wireless card. It's a Belkin F5D7010 (RaLink RT2500). If I boot, wait for the login prompt and then insert the card all works as e

Re: VLC not displaying video output

2009-01-14 Thread thveillon.debian
Robert Walter wrote : > thveillon.debian schrieb: >> Hi, if you're using debian-multimedia, go to the website and read the >> news dated 18/06/2008, it explains the origin of the problem with vlc. > >> I'm running Lenny AMD64 and I "solved" it by installing vlc from debian >> experimental: works l

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Kent West
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2009 January 14 11:18:31 Kent West wrote: It used to be that the kernels were named something like "kernel-image-2.6.24...". In Sarge and before, IIRC. Four questions: 1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."?

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:18:31 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote: > wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude search linux-image | grep > 2.6 No need for sudo or su for aptitude search. > Four questions: > > 1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."? This happened a

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 04:49, M. Lewis wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > I wonder if you have some sort of codec conflict going on here. Try > > adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, and rebooting. > > > > options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 > > > > That will just select t

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 2009 January 14 11:18:31 Kent West wrote: >It used to be that the kernels were named something like >"kernel-image-2.6.24...". In Sarge and before, IIRC. >Four questions: > >1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."? While Linux is a kernel, not all kernels are Li

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: > > 1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."? Because it is more specific and Debian can run on more kernels than just linux. Not that many people actually /use/ other kernels, but it's possible. > 2. What is "-xen" and "-vserver" Hm, Kernels for Xen and Vserver?

Re: VLC not displaying video output

2009-01-14 Thread Robert Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thveillon.debian schrieb: > > Hi, if you're using debian-multimedia, go to the website and read the > news dated 18/06/2008, it explains the origin of the problem with vlc. > > I'm running Lenny AMD64 and I "solved" it by installing vlc from debian >

kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Kent West
I've been googling for the past half hour and my google-foo is failing me. When searching for installable 2.6 kernels, I get a list like this: wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude search linux-image | grep 2.6 Password: v linux-image-2.6 - p linux-image-2.6-486

Re: VLC not displaying video output

2009-01-14 Thread thveillon.debian
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote : > Just installed vlc 0.8.6h on lenny amd64 but there's no video output > when playing .avi video that works fine with totem-gstreamer. Already > tried alternating between different output modules in preferences > > video. Suggestion? > Hi, if you're using debian-multimedi

Re: Nspluginwrapper small problem

2009-01-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM, wrote: > I have yesterday just installed Etch(read not confident enough to go into > Lenny) i386 netinstall on my laptop and the first thing I thought I would do > is make flashplayer 10 work but it is actually my only remaining problem > second to wireless. What

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop SOLVED

2009-01-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:24:15AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I do this because I want to > > store large files on a HD whose hardware interface > > limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger > > files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500

Re: VLC not displaying video output

2009-01-14 Thread Fernando Poza saura
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Just installed vlc 0.8.6h on lenny amd64 but there's no video output when playing .avi video that works fine with totem-gstreamer. Already tried alternating between different output modules in preferences > video. Suggestion? I've installed vlc 0.8.6a and almost everyt

Nspluginwrapper small problem

2009-01-14 Thread mathengejr
I have yesterday just installed Etch(read not confident enough to go into Lenny) i386 netinstall on my laptop and the first thing I thought I would do is make flashplayer 10 work but it is actually my only remaining problem second to wireless. What is the exact target file to place the .so plugi

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-14 Thread JoeHill
Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/1/13 JoeHill : > > > > I'm used to ~/bin being automatically picked up in my path, so therefore I > > am absolutely clueless as to how to add it. Also, considering the potential > > consequences to my system, I would rather not do it the wrong way ;) > > > > This was wha

VLC not displaying video output

2009-01-14 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Just installed vlc 0.8.6h on lenny amd64 but there's no video output when playing .avi video that works fine with totem-gstreamer. Already tried alternating between different output modules in preferences > video. Suggestion? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Dell Wireless 1397 (802.11 b/g) miniCard & Intel Media Accelerator X4500HD

2009-01-14 Thread tanushyam bhattacharjee
Kindly let me know if the latest Debian 4.0r6 supports the following:- 1). Dell Wireless 1397 (802.11 b/g) miniCard 2). Intel Media Accelerator X4500HD If these are not supported directly, is there any other way to work around them? Share files, take polls, and make new friends - all unde

Re: Question about LVM and volume images on loop

2009-01-14 Thread Brian McKee
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I do this because I want to > store large files on a HD whose hardware interface > limits file sizes to 4Gb, and I want to store larger > files than 4Gb. ( The HD has 500Gb total capacity.) As the others have pointed out - that doesn't seem

Re: Question about my Ethernet Cards

2009-01-14 Thread Boxuan Gu
Sure. --- Ethernet (1000 Mbit) │ │ │ │ DL2000/TC902x-based Gigabit Ethernet support │ │ │ │ Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support │ │ │ │

Re: destroying one's account, the easy way?

2009-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/14/09 04:15, Florian Mickler wrote: [snip] Well, the point is, my mom didn't _want_ to move her homefolder away. But she somehow got confused in the konqueror-window or dropped the mouse-click at the wrong position. or didn't hit the right pixel at the beginning, or whatnot... My boss,

Re: English grammar checker

2009-01-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Marcelo Laia wrote: >> I am looking a English grammar software checker for linux. I am using >> Debian testing. I try google and didn't found a software for this. Do >> you known one? > aspell _Spell_ checker: aspell _Gram

Re: English grammar checker

2009-01-14 Thread Leniy Tsan
(⊙o⊙)…...sorry.I just press the REPLY button.Didn't notice the reply address. I'll be more careful next time. 2009/1/14 Eugene V. Lyubimkin > Leniy Tsan wrote: > > checker in google toolbar? > Hello Leniy, you might wanted to reply on-list, not to me. > > -- > Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID

Re: destroying one's account, the easy way?

2009-01-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/12 Florian Mickler : > Hi! > > Last week my mother (supplied by me with a debian-testing system, > running kde) did call me with fear in hear voice: "the computer isn't > working anymore! and all my files are lost! and my emails! and the > internet has vanished!" > > soon i found out, that s

Re: English grammar checker

2009-01-14 Thread Pedro Insua
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:52:33AM -0200, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hi, Hi! > I am looking a English grammar software checker for linux. I am using > Debian testing. I try google and didn't found a software for this. Do > you known one? apt-cache show link-grammar Homepage: http://www.link.cs.c

Re: English grammar checker

2009-01-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking a English grammar software checker for linux. I am using > Debian testing. I try google and didn't found a software for this. Do > you known one? aspell -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debi

Re: lvm2 boot failure

2009-01-14 Thread Martin Kraus
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Király László wrote: > >> >> instead of that root=/dev/vg/root you may try root=/dev/mapper/vg-root if >> your >> volume group is called vg. otherwise i'm not suer what the problem could be. >> you may try to use apped="root=/dev/mapper/vg-root" in the ima

English grammar checker

2009-01-14 Thread Marcelo Laia
Hi, I am looking a English grammar software checker for linux. I am using Debian testing. I try google and didn't found a software for this. Do you known one? Thank you very much -- Marcelo Luiz de Laia Jaboticabal - SP - Brazil Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See: http

Re: AMD64 No sound

2009-01-14 Thread Dean Chester
Hi André I also have a vostro. Do you have to run alsaconf everytime you want sound. As i have this problem do you. Dean On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:45 AM, André Neves wrote: > Hi Lewis. > > In my Dell Vostro, using amd64, I had to put this in > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base to get the sound working: >

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