Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-18 Thread S D
--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Bret Busby wrote: > Does this now mean that we cannot instal and run Debian 5 > without Java, No, it doesn't mean that. You can install and run Debian without Java. > or that Debian cannot fully run without Java, > in the same way that some versions of MS Windows cannot >

Re: Seriously, no way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-02-18 Thread S D
--- On Thu, 2/19/09, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> It appears that video card configuration was > removed from > >> dpkg-recofigure in lenny. Has anything replaced > it? How can one > >> reconfigure video card in lenny? > > > > It's supposed to be automagic now, built into xorg > itself. > > If that

Java in Debian 5

2009-02-18 Thread Bret Busby
On the web page at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#id2794519 is stated: "2.7. Java now in Debian The OpenJDK Java Runtime Environment openjdk-6-jre and Development Kit openjdk-6-jdk, needed for executing Java GUI and Webstart programs or buildi

Re: Brightness Control

2009-02-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:24:04PM +, Lalit Dhiri wrote: > To test further I created a Lenny gnome live usb stick and tested. When > using the usb stick everything appears to work as expected suggesting > something might be missing from my install. > > Can anyone advise what I might have miss

Re: Seriously, no way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-19 05:21 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/18/2009 10:13 PM, S D wrote: >> >> It appears that video card configuration was removed from >> dpkg-recofigure in lenny. Has anything replaced it? How can one >> reconfigure video card in lenny? > > It's supposed to be automagic now, built int

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-19 04:00 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: > > 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition Good idea to be cautious. > 2. apt-get update > 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list These steps need to be reversed, obviously. > 3

Re: Seriously, no way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-02-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> dpkg-recofigure in lenny. Has anything replaced it? How can one >> reconfigure video card in lenny? > > It's supposed to be automagic now, built into xorg itself. > Bulletproof X? And when it _doesn't_ work what does one do? My laptop has a problematic 1680x1050 monitor, and I always have to pl

Re: Packardell with usb problems

2009-02-18 Thread consultores1
On February 18, 2009 11:58:04 am Rodrigo Valenzuela wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 14:51:31 Javier wrote: > > irqfixup > > thanks for the tip but it it won't work for me :( > > sadly but it seems i've got no choice but to choose between wireless or > usb > > Rodrigo Have you tried suspendi

Re: Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread Oliver Schneider
Additional note: I checked the files in /etc/xen/scripts and they are identical to the one inside the .deb file mentioned in my previous mail. The only file that was different at all was /etc/default/xendomains 56c56 < XENDOMAINS_SAVE=/var/lib/xen/save --- > XENDOMAINS_SAVE=/vm/save My /etc/xen

Re: Unidentified subject!

2009-02-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 17:36, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: > HI all!, > > I just installed Debian Lenny, and after reboot, I update my apt database > (aptitude update), then i wanted to install vim (aptitude install vim), but > the message that appeared was > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly ins

Re: Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread Oliver Schneider
> No, vif interfaces are created automagically on demand. Please, show > us the output of "dpkg -l | grep iproute" and ifconfig (just which > interfaces do you have, addresses are not necessary to view). Verify > that vif-route belongs to the package recently installed too. Here the output you ask

Re: [OT]: Label printer Dont worry

2009-02-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 18 February 2009 06:32:11 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I need a label printer. I was looking at this one: > BROTHER Label Printer N&B P-Touch QL-500A > Has anyone used it ? > Or can you give me information on a label printer that you use under > debian? Thank you. > Thierry Looking at the p

Repeated Raid1 Failures after upgrade to Lenny

2009-02-18 Thread Ryan Wetterich
So I upgraded to Lenny over the weekend, and now I'm having issues with my RAID1 were there weren't any before. Every few hours one of the devices making up any /dev/md will fail. It's usually on /dev/sdb but it's happening on /dev/sda as well. I can set the device faulty in mdadm and then readd an

Re: emacs and terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-02-18 02:25 +0100, H.S. wrote: > >> This is on Testing. In Emacs if I left-click the mouse button with the >> Shift key pressed, I get the Font Menu from which I can select some of >> the preset fonts (fixed, courier, etc.). >> >> I want to try terminus, proggy and tt

Re: Seriously, no way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2009 10:13 PM, S D wrote: --- On Wed, 2/18/09, S D wrote: I tried "dpkg-recofigure xserver-xorg" but the reconfig process asked some questions about the keyboard it didn't ask anything at all about the videocard and/or monitor. It appears that video card configuration was removed f

Seriously, no way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-02-18 Thread S D
--- On Wed, 2/18/09, S D wrote: > I tried "dpkg-recofigure xserver-xorg" but the > reconfig process asked some questions about the keyboard it > didn't ask anything at all about the videocard and/or monitor. It appears that video card configuration was removed from dpkg-recofigure in lenny. Ha

Re: strange behavior aptitude

2009-02-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:49:00PM -0800, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna was heard to say: > The following packages will be REMOVED: It looks like you removed the "gnome" metapackage, so aptitude figures you don't want anything in gnome. I would suggest running "aptitude install gnome"; you could a

open source GMA 500 graphics -- Is there a glimmer of hope?

2009-02-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Has there been any progress with getting open-source drivers for the GMA 500? Last I heard it was lost in a tangle of confusion, with no one actually blocking such drivers, but no one able to find proper source code or specificatins either. Is there at least some clarity about the situation?

Re: aptitude's removal of packages when upgrading

2009-02-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:19:02PM -0500, Celejar was heard to say: > Before hitting 'g', I ran down the list of aptitude's > planned actions and lo and behold, aptitude was planning to remove > apt-listbugs, since libgettext-ruby1.8 was to be upgraded to a version > which conflicts with apt-list

Re: Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread edu gargiulo
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Oliver Schneider wrote: > Hi again, > >> hope that helps > before I did that, I noticed there were numerous xen 3.2 packages available. > > Removing the xen 3.0 stuff was easy (and would have to be done anyway), but > then came the issues. > > Now, almost everyth

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-18 Thread Deng Xiyue
Ron Johnson writes: > On 02/18/2009 09:00 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >> I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: >> >> 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition >> 2. apt-get update >> 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list >> 3. apt-get dist-upgrade >> >> Am I missing anythi

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2009 09:00 PM, Chris Jones wrote: I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition 2. apt-get update 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list 3. apt-get dist-upgrade Am I missing anything? I'd first upgrade apt, dpkg & perl. M

Re: Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi again, > hope that helps before I did that, I noticed there were numerous xen 3.2 packages available. Removing the xen 3.0 stuff was easy (and would have to be done anyway), but then came the issues. Now, almost everything is fine as long as you remove xen 3.0, because the kernel that comes

Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Jones
I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition 2. apt-get update 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list 3. apt-get dist-upgrade Am I missing anything? Note: I do not want apt to mess with my linux kernel. Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSC

Re: lenny netinst on laptop help

2009-02-18 Thread Celejar
[Please respond only to the list and don't cc. me, as per the code of conduct.] On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:32:19 -0500 Chris Lew wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:44:18 -0500 > > Chris Lew wrote: > > > > > hello everyone, i am trying to install

Re: Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread edu gargiulo
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote: > Thanks. > >> I had the same problem. Looking in /usr/bin/xm I saw a reference to >> /usr/bin/python2.4 and unfortunately lenny stable comes with >> python2.5. The only workaround to solve this was compile xen with >> python2.5. > > One mo

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the > official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then Etch. > > Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable Debian > version > for many applications that wer

Re: Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread Oliver Schneider
Thanks. > I had the same problem. Looking in /usr/bin/xm I saw a reference to > /usr/bin/python2.4 and unfortunately lenny stable comes with > python2.5. The only workaround to solve this was compile xen with > python2.5. One more question then. Did you compile from the source package Debian prov

Re: Why do xorg developers hate gamers and use that stupid mouse acceleration to anger them?

2009-02-18 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Dirk wrote: I have to run "xset m 0 0" everytime i start a game that uses mouse and in between... Why does that useless/stupid mouse acceleration enable itself again and interfere? It renders having a expensive mouse pretty much worthless. How can i disable it permanently? Right now I have

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> laptop IDE). However, the amount of pain to take these things apart > isn't funny. It is layered such that you remove the keyboard, then the > motherboard, then the daughterboard, and the drive is at the very > bottom. I have been unable to find an easier way to get to them and I Duh! Like my P

Re: Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread edu gargiulo
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote: > I'm sorry, I should have added. > > Linux test 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 12 07:02:03 UTC 2008 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > (Note: I *had* to boot into this kernel, because the new kernel would not > boot.) > > Also, removing python2.4

Re: strange behavior aptitude

2009-02-18 Thread Alejandro Rodriguez Luna
machine: # aptitude install vim Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree   Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information   Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done  The following NEW packages will be installed:   vim vim-r

Re: Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread Oliver Schneider
I'm sorry, I should have added. Linux test 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 12 07:02:03 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Note: I *had* to boot into this kernel, because the new kernel would not boot.) Also, removing python2.4 and python2.4-minimal and then reinstalling the packages in question do n

Unidentified subject!

2009-02-18 Thread Alejandro Rodriguez Luna
HI all!, I just installed Debian Lenny, and after reboot, I update my apt database (aptitude update), then i wanted to install vim (aptitude install vim), but the message that appeared was 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 177 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. Aft

Re: strange behavior aptitude

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2009 07:39 PM, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: HI all!, I just installed Debian Lenny, and after reboot, I update my apt database (aptitude update), then i wanted to install vim (aptitude install vim), but the message that appeared was 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 177 to

strange behavior aptitude

2009-02-18 Thread Alejandro Rodriguez Luna
HI all!, I just installed Debian Lenny, and after reboot, I update my apt database (aptitude update), then i wanted to install vim (aptitude install vim), but the message that appeared was 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 177 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. Afte

Xen on lenny fails after upgrade from etch?

2009-02-18 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, when I upgraded a test system (from etch) to lenny, one of the upgrade steps related to Xen fails. Any ideas? I tried reinstalling the packages, but get the same error all the time: -- Starting XEN control daemon: xendTraceback (most recent call last): File "/us

madwifi - wpa

2009-02-18 Thread Ink Bottle
This note might be for my own use: to make madwifi - wpa work I've used this very two pages: http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/802.11i - Ink Bottle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. Just for > snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations or > knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. > Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and tha

RE: Brightness Control

2009-02-18 Thread Lalit Dhiri
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Re: lenny netinst on laptop help

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2009 05:44 PM, Chris Lew wrote: [snip] networking on the gateway site. i do not need a driver that supports wireless, but it would be nice to have one driver that would support the wireless networking capability of the card as well as regular cat5 lan (which is what i primarily use). i

Re: lenny netinst on laptop help

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Lew
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:44:18 -0500 > Chris Lew wrote: > > > hello everyone, i am trying to install debian 5.0 lenny i386 via netinst > on > > to a gateway p7811fx laptop using the graphical installer, but cannot > figure > > out where to find the

Re: Live-Helper. How to become root?

2009-02-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:55:09 -0500 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > I have forgotten how to become root on a customised usb-hdd which I > built with the aid of lh_clean, lh_config and lh_build. The system > boots nicely from the usb stick and opens a gnome desktop. I can open > console displays (F1,

Re: lenny netinst on laptop help

2009-02-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:44:18 -0500 Chris Lew wrote: > hello everyone, i am trying to install debian 5.0 lenny i386 via netinst on > to a gateway p7811fx laptop using the graphical installer, but cannot figure > out where to find the proper driver for the network card (i have tried all > of the on

Re: Live-Helper. How to become root?

2009-02-18 Thread Kent West
Thomas H. George wrote: I have forgotten how to become root on a customised usb-hdd which I built with the aid of lh_clean, lh_config and lh_build. The system boots nicely from the usb stick and opens a gnome desktop. I can open console displays (F1, etc) as a regular user but I wish to switch

Live-Helper. How to become root?

2009-02-18 Thread Thomas H. George
I have forgotten how to become root on a customised usb-hdd which I built with the aid of lh_clean, lh_config and lh_build. The system boots nicely from the usb stick and opens a gnome desktop. I can open console displays (F1, etc) as a regular user but I wish to switch to root to make some modif

lenny netinst on laptop help

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Lew
hello everyone, i am trying to install debian 5.0 lenny i386 via netinst on to a gateway p7811fx laptop using the graphical installer, but cannot figure out where to find the proper driver for the network card (i have tried all of the ones listed in the graphical installer, they don't work). This i

Lenny upgrade -- kcheckpass behavior change

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid
I've just completed the "lenny" upgrade on my main box at home, and ran into an interesting glitch. The initial symptom was, I couldn't unlock the screen from the screensaver. The logs complained about "user not found", but id showed it, PAM config looked OK, /etc/nsswitch.conf was fine, an

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-18 Thread Marc Auslander
Adrian Levi writes: > 2009/2/18 : > > Adrian Levi writes: > > > >> 2009/2/18 : > >> > I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to > >> > labels in fstab. > >> > > >> > I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by > >> > doing > >> > mkswa

Lenny upgrade: Is there a way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-02-18 Thread S D
I'm trying to resolve "Desktop is not using full screen" problem that appeared after upgrade from etch to lenny. More info about the issue can be found at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515840 http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/b651d56d24d02d

Re: apache error

2009-02-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 17:20:43 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: [...] > this still doesn't answer my original question of how to actually remove all > the config files for apache, and basically start over. dpkg -S /etc/apache2 will list all packages that have files in /etc/apache2. Purge all th

Re: How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work

2009-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 22:37:56 you wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 11:48:38 am David Jarvie wrote: > > No - PowerDevil is the replacement in KDE4 for KPowerSave. It looks as if > > global shortcuts to control it is something which still needs to be > > implemented. > > Did you try ad

Re: apache error-SOLVED

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed February 18 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Try these commands to see which process is bound to port 80: > > lsof -i :80 > netstat -plant | grep ':80 ' I got it. apache2-common was what i had to remove & purge.. apache is working now. I was using nginx as a quick fix, because I couldn't get a

Re: Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:22:39AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Monnier > > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:28 AM > > Subject: Re: lenny on x86 > > > > > Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines > > > using flopp

Smartlink modem driver and vgetty: modem doesn't answer.

2009-02-18 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, This is new behavior in the new Lenny installation. Under Etch it worked fine. I have restored the same configuration files that worked before, but now the modem never answers. The following init-chat line used to work before: init-chat "" AT+FCLASS=8 OK ATN1S0=0S13=1 OK The S0 regist

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:22:39 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" wrote: ... > Someone just recommended to me installing to a USB thumbdrive and using > a floppy to load grub to boot off the USB thumbdrive. That would > certainly make installing easier but I have not had a chance to really > research that y

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:28:40PM +0100, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > 2009/2/18 Douglas A. Tutty : > > It seems very strange if the ssh package you are trying to install is in > > Sarge, for it to want to pull in something that is not in Sarge. You > > should probably send us your entire sources.lis

Re: apache error

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed February 18 2009, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 > > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address > > 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down > > Unable to open logs > >  failed! > > Try

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:28:05AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines > > using floppy is (or will be) available? > > Why would you need that? Probably because he has an i386 that can't boot CD, USB, or netboot? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

aptitude's removal of packages when upgrading

2009-02-18 Thread Celejar
Hi, I thought that I understood aptitude pretty well, although I'm no search pattern guru, but I just noticed something that I hadn't quite realized. I'm running Sid, and I decided to bravely / foolhardily upgrade my system, so I updated, and then hit 'U'. The resolver showed conflicts, so I did

Re: Etch -> Lenny upgrade error (util-linux)

2009-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-18 20:44 +0100, yasbean wrote: > I was trying to upgrade from a pure Etch system (i386) to Lenny, and > have come to an impasse. apt-get install apt (or aptitude install > aptitude) fails when trying to replace util-linux, saying: > > install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for

Re: apache error

2009-02-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 16:29:14 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed February 18 2009, ss11223 wrote: > > When I see socket already in use it usually means that apache is > > already running. > > > > check with "ps -A | grep apache" > > > > and then > > > > "killal apache2" and try again [...]

Re: Etch -> Lenny upgrade error (util-linux)

2009-02-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:44:30 -0800, yasbean wrote: > I was trying to upgrade from a pure Etch system (i386) to Lenny, and > have come to an impasse. apt-get install apt (or aptitude install > aptitude) fails when trying to replace util-linux, saying: > > install-info: No dir file specified; t

Re: apache error

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed February 18 2009, ss11223 wrote: > When I see socket already in use it usually means that apache is > already running. > > check with "ps -A | grep apache" > > and then > > "killal apache2" and try again # ps -A | grep apache # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Restarting web server: apache2(98)A

Re: apache error

2009-02-18 Thread ss11223
On Feb 18, 4:10 pm, Paul Cartwright wrote: > # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > Restarting web server: apache2(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not > bind to address [::]:80 > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 > (98)Address already in use: make_sock:

Sa. 21.2.: Sonix Saturday Night Showcase mit Akanni LIVE & MUSA (Dibo & Band) + Jamsession

2009-02-18 Thread Berlin Events
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apache error

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
I was trying to follow the HOW-TO: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-lenny-ispconfig2 when I got to page 5 and the apache2 setup. I had previously installed apache , and had changed some settings, and apache doesn't work. When i try to remove it, and purge it, it still leaves those

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 : > Adrian Levi writes: > >> 2009/2/18 : >> > I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to >> > labels in fstab. >> > >> > I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by >> > doing >> > mkswap -L rootswap /dev/hda1 (the current dev

Re: Using Stable Dist modify repos to install/update xen from testing

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Roberto Mason : > Ooops, wanted to post to the community instead of directly to Mr. Cohen, > sorry Mr. Cohen, I'll be careful next time :). Here's the repost > > Original Message > Subject: Re: Using Stable Dist modify repos to ins

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2009 11:34 AM, Mike McClain wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote: Mike McClain wrote: I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. Out of curiosity, why AA? Losing the AA will give you a much more compact camera. Very few cameras accept AA batteries t

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

2009-02-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I've used two Edimax adapters without issue: they just work. > Really? The last time I tried, the fact that the Edimax adaptors did not work was the second most duped bug in Launchpad. I've got a neighbor that is getting Ubuntu next week, if the issue truly is resolved. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

2009-02-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:27:11 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/2/18 Thomas H. George > > > Are there usb wireless adapters known to work well with Linux? > > Ralink, but don't remember which. I test it on Ubuntu 8.10, works OK. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/12/msg00544.html I'v

Etch -> Lenny upgrade error (util-linux)

2009-02-18 Thread yasbean
I was trying to upgrade from a pure Etch system (i386) to Lenny, and have come to an impasse. apt-get install apt (or aptitude install aptitude) fails when trying to replace util-linux, saying: install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal s

Re: Packardell with usb problems

2009-02-18 Thread Rodrigo Valenzuela
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 14:51:31 Javier wrote: > irqfixup thanks for the tip but it it won't work for me :( sadly but it seems i've got no choice but to choose between wireless or usb Rodrigo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: urxvt on Lenny?

2009-02-18 Thread mihkel
It is named rxvt-unicode Csanyi Pal kirjutas: > Hi, > > I have just installed Lenny and can't find urxvt. Where it is? :) > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

/var/lock/subsys/shorewall and /var/state/shorewall

2009-02-18 Thread Peter Crawford
At Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:18:38 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote, "Also, do you get the error: touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/shorewall': No such file or directory " Ref. man shorewall.conf. Appears that a recent update intended to replace the lock /var/lock/subsys/shorewall with the

avahi-discover doesn't discover (in one way)

2009-02-18 Thread Ink Bottle
Hi, On a laptop that was working, but that have remained unused for a long time, avahi doesn't want to work any more. I've reinstalled it on the laptop with apt-get install avahi-daemon avahi-discover libnss-mdns There is three computers, the network is not "configured" (= avahi is no conf) The

Re: emacs and terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts

2009-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-18 18:45 +0100, H.S. wrote: > I did a bit of google search and it appears that these cvs packages have > a bit of baggage with Debian legal ... interesting history. The maintainer disagrees with the majority of Debian developers about the GFDL and consequently preferred to put the pack

Re: How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work

2009-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 18:26:09 you wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 10:27:32 am David Jarvie wrote: > > Unfortunately I can't find any power management functions in the global > > shortcuts in System Settings. Are there any alternative ways of setting > > up hotkeys? > > Are you using

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Khristian wrote: Since I managed to solve the issue, I figured I'd tell you guys too :P This is a copy of the message I sent there: Well, I found out the cause of the problem: it seems that my previous install of Ubuntu somehow managed to create a swap partition that overlapped a bit of the begi

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Attilio Cucchieri wrote: Hi! Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines using floppy is (or will be) available? Thanks. Best Attilio Start here http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ then go to question #10 and then click another link and then another link...you will get to

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote: >> Mike McClain wrote: >>> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. >>> Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations >>> or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debi

Re: Packardell with usb problems

2009-02-18 Thread Javier
Rodrigo Valenzuela escribió: When booting any of the above mentioned kernels with no parameters everything works just fine but the USB devices, which simply I can't get to work, for example. usb mouse hardly hardly moving and pendrives don't get recognized. At this point no messages appear on d

RE: Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Monnier > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:06 PM > Subject: Re: lenny on x86 > [snip] > > They are Pentium 90mhz, 64MB ram, 4-6GB hard > > drives. They have no onboard lan, one usb 1.1 port (can't boot off of > > it), 2 PCMICA slots

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: >> I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. >> Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations >> or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. >> Just something simple with U

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I was given a bunch of Ricoh NP-50 laptops a few weeks ago. Nothing > special, but I have been having fun tinkering with them while I watch > Mythbusters / Dirty Jobs. They are Pentium 90mhz, 64MB ram, 4-6GB hard > drives. They have no onboard lan, one usb 1.1 port (can't boot off of > it), 2 PCM

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-18 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > >I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. > > Out of curiosity, why AA? Losing the AA will give you a much more > compact camera. Very few cameras accept AA batteries these days > anyway.Either ways,

urxvt on Lenny?

2009-02-18 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I have just installed Lenny and can't find urxvt. Where it is? :) -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > >>> Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.org/) you >>> can suggest for a debian newbie? >> Maybe http://www.debian-administration.org/ > > Very fuzzy. You can read the former and be crystal clear into fedora in > 10 minutes. Im sure Debian

Re: emacs and terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-02-18 02:25 +0100, H.S. wrote: >> I want to try terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts. I can set >> terminus font by setting the Basic faces option in Emacs by specifying >> the family as Terminus. However, how I try ttf-inconsolata? It is not >> shown in xfontsel

gnome-terminal gnome-desktop management question

2009-02-18 Thread Paul E Condon
I use the gnome desktop, mainly to keep open multiple window-screens of gnome-terminal. I use switcher to keep these gnome-terminal screens on five to seven whole-screens. Lately there has developed a problem somewhere in gnome that causes the sudden disappearance of all my gnome-terminal screens w

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-18 Thread Khristian
Since I managed to solve the issue, I figured I'd tell you guys too :P This is a copy of the message I sent there: Well, I found out the cause of the problem: it seems that my previous install of Ubuntu somehow managed to create a swap partition that overlapped a bit of the beginning of the next p

Re: Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:22:43 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hendrik Boom [2009.02.17.1747 > +0100]: >> But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to identify >> them as RAID members, and that these marks are used at boot time to >> asssemble the RAID. >> >> What do I h

Re: How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work

2009-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 13:44:31 Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM, David Jarvie wrote: > > On my Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop, the suspend and hibernate functions work > > when I invoke them from the KDE4 logout dialog. However, the Sleep and > > Hibernate keys (Fn-F4 and

RE: Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Monnier > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:28 AM > Subject: Re: lenny on x86 > > > Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines > > using floppy is (or will be) available? > > Why would you need that? Short Answer: Bec

Re: Serious Error in Lenny Stable: X Server doesn't works when i reboot eight or nine times

2009-02-18 Thread carlos carrego gutierrez
No, i reboot the computer, so i have a problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why do xorg developers hate gamers and use that stupid mouse acceleration to anger them?

2009-02-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I've used 'xset m 0 0' and definitely found it to be different to 'xset 1 1', > though its meaning doesn't appear to be well defined. IIUC a 0 threshold means to select a progressive speedup where the screen movement is O(dx^N) where `dx' is the physical mouse movement and N is related to the fi

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-18 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:13:12PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-02-17_13:02:38, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the > > official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then > > Etch. > > > > Recently, man

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-18 Thread kj
Mike McClain wrote: I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and that uses a generic mem card. Thanks, Mike

Re: Serious Error in Lenny Stable: X Server doesn't works when i reboot eight or nine times

2009-02-18 Thread s. keeling
Carlos Carrero Gutierrez : > > Hi, i have installed the DVD-1 Lenny stable (15 feb), and it works well. But > when i try to reboot the computer eight times (more or less), the OS doesn't > start anymore. I'm guessing you didn't really reboot the computer. You really only logged out of X Windo

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