Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Daryl Styrk
Star Liu wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Kousik Maiti wrote: Are you login in your system as root user? Because from root user you can't lock screen. Login as other user and see wheather it work? yes, i'm root, thank you. Logging in as root is not a real good idea. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Star Liu
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Are you login in your system as root user? Because from root user you can't > lock screen. Login as other user and see wheather it work? yes, i'm root, thank you. > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Star Liu wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at

Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Daryl Styrk
Star Liu wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: Star Liu wrote: Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button to lock my desktop. thanks ++ but it does not really lock the desktop, I mean it doesn't require me to input password to recover, how t

Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Star Liu
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > Star Liu wrote: >> >> Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button >> to lock my desktop. thanks >> >> > > > ++ > but it does not really lock the desktop, I mean it doesn't require me to input password to recover, how to

Re: PEDIDO DE AJUDA

2009-03-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 00:42:44 Carlos h. Souza wrote: > Boa noite!! > > Primeiramente sou estudante d informatica mas sempre tive curiosidade de > aprender linux e em um site de curso a distancia me informaram q o DEBIAN > seria um otimo passo para inicializar. Por isso gostaria

is there any drawback to using old anonftpsync script to update local mirror?

2009-03-02 Thread Mitchell Laks
i see that there is a new suite of mirror scripts. is there any drawback to continuing to use the old one anonftpsync for a while? i see new feature to handle pushes in the middle of sync, but do i really need that? thanks, mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Daryl Styrk
Star Liu wrote: Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button to lock my desktop. thanks ++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:57:41AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard to say: > Just a quick additional note; in the Properties information for the > package, in both installations, with the label of Section, in the Common > tab, both packages have the same value; "Games and Amusement". The Secti

how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Star Liu
Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button to lock my desktop. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: PEDIDO DE AJUDA

2009-03-02 Thread PEdroArthur_JEdi
Você poderia começar por evitar enviar e-mail com um assunto tão genérico e também evitar escreve-lo somente com maiusculas. Quanto a onde conseguir uma cópia do Debian, veja debian.org... No link a seguir tem uma explicação detalhada de onde conseguir o Debian: http://tinyurl.com/auxljz Bem vind

Re: how to ask for aptitude "improvement" wrt unsigned package

2009-03-02 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:40:54 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Monday 02 March 2009 12:05:20 marca...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am using a repository that doesn't sign its package. I know and > > trust it. > > That's not exactly what the signatures are about. They are mainly about > prev

PEDIDO DE AJUDA

2009-03-02 Thread Carlos h. Souza
Boa noite!! Primeiramente sou estudante d informatica mas sempre tive curiosidade de aprender linux e em um site de curso a distancia me informaram q o DEBIAN seria um otimo passo para inicializar. Por isso gostaria de saber como ou aonde obtenho a nova versão do DEBIAN 5.0, PO

Re: Debian 5.0 On Dell Latitude CP 233MT

2009-03-02 Thread Greg
> I installed Debian 5.0 on a Dell Latitude CP 233MT. I've had this machine > for a long time, its run fine with 3.0 and 4.0 over the years. I'm having > one problem with it under 5.0. When it boots up, it loads modules then > when it's populating /dev there is a huge pause, I haven't timed it, bu

Re: Segmentation fault when stating aptitude

2009-03-02 Thread Jacques Dery
Thank you for the suggestion but the problem still exists. Here is the output de...@gontran:/var/cache/apt$ sudo rm pkgcache.bin de...@gontran:/var/cache/apt$ ls -ails total 12 160066 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-03-02 18:13 . 160006 4 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:38:35AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/27/2009 07:23 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:56:39PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 02/27/2009 05:35 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >>>On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:42:51PM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>> > My C exper

Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:40:40 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > So I switched to > > > "super grub disk" that allows me to state in menu.lst: > > title 2.6.26-1-686 di install > findf /wd80_0jd-60.03 > root$(out_device) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686

Debian needs ENTER to continue boot process

2009-03-02 Thread Rodrigo Hashimoto
Hey there, Something very weird is happening in my OS. I just compiled the kernel 2.6.28.7 and to boot my machine I need to press ENTER many times during the boot process. I've never seen anything similar to this issue. It's like to run the command: # cat /var/log/messages|less Then you can pr

Re: ssh connection takes long time

2009-03-02 Thread Sam Leon
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, When I connect to ssh server ( server running Redhat ) from debian it takes a long time to give me the prompt, while I receive the prompt rapidly when I connect from slackware or solaris? thanks for help See option "usedns" http://www.manpagez.com/man/5/s

Re: How to adjust margins in xpdf reader?

2009-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:59:23PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:57:46PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> How can I adjust the top and side margin at my pleasure in xpdf reader? I > >> couldn't find this issue in the xpdf man page. > "Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > >

Re: ssh connection takes long time

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 02 March 2009, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > When I connect to ssh server ( server running Redhat ) from debian it > takes a long time to give me the prompt, while I receive the prompt > rapidly when I connect from slackware or solaris? > thanks for help Running s

Re: How to adjust margins in xpdf reader?

2009-03-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:57:46PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> How can I adjust the top and side margin at my pleasure in xpdf reader? I >> couldn't find this issue in the xpdf man page. "Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > I've never found a direct way. I do it two ways: > > 1.Since I run

Lenny python - ImportError: No module named _gobject

2009-03-02 Thread T o n g
Hi, I get ImportError: No module named _gobject error when running python applications under Lenny. I'm wondering why and how I can fix it: $ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more infor

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 16:40:39 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] > Would be *great* if the maintainer(s) of the php5-sybase package could > give me all arguments passed into the configure script ... You can run apt-get source php5-sybase and look at the commands in php5-5.2.6.dfsg.1/debian

RE: downloading hotmail emails

2009-03-02 Thread Christopher Cole
I've been banging my head trying to get hotmail through thunderbird. I found out however that MS will not that be posible if you have a free account. I guess money is so tight that MS is going to nickle and dime long time account holders. That is why I'm moving on to gmail. It's configured in my D

Re: On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian

2009-03-02 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogério Brito wrote: > Therefore, I would like to know the experiences of people from the > Debian community regarding both software and hardware for this very > task. I would like to record what I have in analog form with the highest > quality possib

Disappearing Devices

2009-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 March 2009 12:26:54 Robert Latest wrote: > Another curious thing: I tried to make some framebuffer devices in > /dev (as described in the HOWTO), but they get deleted on reboot! > Since when gets stuff deleted from /dev? On modern Linux systems (using udev), /dev is generally mounted

Re: fetch root email with Icedove?

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:09:29PM +, David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:47:38PM +0100, josep wrote: > > How can I set Icedove to fetch the mails to root on a local computer > > [/var/mail/user]? > > > > It's a normal Debian install, no "email server" > > > > I didn't find any

Re: how to ask for aptitude "improvement" wrt unsigned package

2009-03-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 March 2009 12:05:20 marca...@gmail.com wrote: > I am using a repository that doesn't sign its package. I know and > trust it. That's not exactly what the signatures are about. They are mainly about preventing MitM attacks, whether from mirror administrators or someone attacking yo

Re: How to selectively automount USB disks under GNOME?

2009-03-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 15:23:01 +0100, Robert Latest wrote: > Hello, > > me and USB again. I normally use usbmount to automount USB disks. To > download pictures from my digital camera's card, I've written a hook > script which checks for certain things (the existence of a "DCIM" > folder, specif

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:14, Robert Latest wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm completely stumped. I'm using the out-of-the-box lenny kernel > vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686. According to the config file, ehere seem to be > many framebuffer options hard-compiled into the kernel (seel below). > > When I set the "

Re: how to ask for aptitude "improvement" wrt unsigned package

2009-03-02 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:05:20PM -0500, marca...@gmail.com wrote: > I am using a repository that doesn't sign its package. I know and > trust it. Each time I install, I get the aptitude warning, which is > fine with me. But I wish aptitude would tell me which repository the > package was comin

Re: fetch root email with Icedove?

2009-03-02 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:47:38PM +0100, josep wrote: > How can I set Icedove to fetch the mails to root on a local computer > [/var/mail/user]? > > It's a normal Debian install, no "email server" > > I didn't find any docs about it :S > > Thank you! Do you really want to do that? It's normal

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Latest
Another curious thing: I tried to make some framebuffer devices in /dev (as described in the HOWTO), but they get deleted on reboot! Since when gets stuff deleted from /dev? Did my system go haywire somehow, or could this have to do with its being the "testing" branch? Thanks, robert -- To UNS

how to ask for aptitude "improvement" wrt unsigned package

2009-03-02 Thread marcausl
I am using a repository that doesn't sign its package. I know and trust it. Each time I install, I get the aptitude warning, which is fine with me. But I wish aptitude would tell me which repository the package was coming from, so I could be absolutely sure it was what I expect. Is there a plac

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Latest
Hello there, I'm completely stumped. I'm using the out-of-the-box lenny kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686. According to the config file, ehere seem to be many framebuffer options hard-compiled into the kernel (seel below). When I set the "vga=ask" kernel option, all I get is a handful of chunky 80-by-s

Re: mythtv on debian 5.0 (etch)

2009-03-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Angelin Lalev wrote: > > 1. Which one of the "unofficial" mythtv packages should I choose (and > how to insure that it won't compromise my system)? I have not tried mythtv myself, but I've never had a bad experience with that site: $ apt-cache policy mythtv mythtv: Installed: (none) Candidat

fetch root email with Icedove?

2009-03-02 Thread josep
How can I set Icedove to fetch the mails to root on a local computer [/var/mail/user]? It's a normal Debian install, no "email server" I didn't find any docs about it :S Thank you!

mythtv on debian 5.0 (etch)

2009-03-02 Thread Angelin Lalev
Greetings, It seems that there is no "default" package for mythtv in Debian 5.0, so I have some questions to ask. 1. Which one of the "unofficial" mythtv packages should I choose (and how to insure that it won't compromise my system)? 2. Is there any up-to-date manual about setting up mythtv and

Re: ssh connection takes long time

2009-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:25:08PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > When I connect to ssh server ( server running Redhat ) from debian it > takes a long time to give me the prompt, while I receive the prompt rapidly > when I connect from slackware or solaris? Is your debian box doing a DNS s

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:15:52AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard to say: But the issue with that, is that, if the package maintainer made a deliberate determination to not have the package management automatical

Re: finding similar files

2009-03-02 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM, wrote: > What kind of an upgrade are you looking for? Upgrade on the Debian side. It looks like the Debian package might be a version of two behind. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:15:52AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard to say: But the issue with that, is that, if the package maintainer made a deliberate determination to not have the package management automatically add the package to the menu, why then

Re: iceweasel resume download fails after reboot

2009-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:24:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Anybody able to use download resume across reboots? I manually copy the URL to ~/uldl/wget.list Then I run wget -c -i wget.list I have wget aliased as alias wget='/usr/bin/wget -t 0 --read-timeout=60

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:15:52AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard to say: > But the issue with that, is that, if the package maintainer made a > deliberate determination to not have the package management > automatically add the package to the menu, why then would the Ubuntu > package manageme

ssh connection takes long time

2009-03-02 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, When I connect to ssh server ( server running Redhat ) from debian it takes a long time to give me the prompt, while I receive the prompt rapidly when I connect from slackware or solaris? thanks for help

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Bret Busby wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a package and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the package and its dependancies t

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, I see 2.6.28 made it to Sid. Anybody use it with the nvidia closed source driver? Hugo Hi, I use a 2.6.28 and Nvidia non free driver from their website. It works OK here. (version is now 180.35). Happy to report that 2.6.28 from Sid

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a package and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the package and its dependancies to be installed, but it does not add the p

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-02 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On 3/2/09, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Mark Goldshtein wrote: Would you please help me to install that little one? KPackage also gave me nothing. >>> You would first need to convert the RPM package to a deb package using >>> alien >>> (see the package named 'alien'). >>> >>> Then you would

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote: Hello. I am using Debian 4.0. How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Try typing update-menus at the command line prompt and see if that helps. --

Re: Linux and Assistive Technology

2009-03-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Dancing Fingers wrote : > Hi guys, > I kind of volunteered myself to help do a presentation on Assistive > Technology, for people with disabilities, and Linux. Does any body > know of good linux-specific resources that would help with my > research? > > Thanks. > Chris > > Hi, I'm no expert, b

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mark Goldshtein wrote: >>> Would you please help me to install that little one? KPackage also >>> gave me nothing. >> You would first need to convert the RPM package to a deb package using alien >> (see the package named 'alien'). >> >> Then you would install the resulting .deb using 'dpkg -i packa

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread Sjors Gielen
josep schreef: :D ok, now I can format the hdd, but I had to use a "non-msdos MBR", - bsd, amiga :O I started again, in gparted, with an ms-dos mbr...it worked :D... but fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of

Re: Need help understanding this message

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:37:50AM -0700, Paul E Condon was heard to say: > /usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate: `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db' is locked (probably > by > +an earlier updatedb) (snip) > LOCKFILE="/var/lib/mlocate/daily.lock" > > trap "rm -f $LOCKFILE" EXIT (snip) I don't know mloc

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread josep
:D ok, now I can format the hdd, but I had to use a "non-msdos MBR", - bsd, amiga :O I started again, in gparted, with an ms-dos mbr...it worked :D... but fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 822

Linux and Assistive Technology

2009-03-02 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi guys, I kind of volunteered myself to help do a presentation on Assistive Technology, for people with disabilities, and Linux. Does any body know of good linux-specific resources that would help with my research? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: iceweasel resume download fails after reboot

2009-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:24:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Anybody able to use download resume across reboots? I manually copy the URL to ~/uldl/wget.list Then I run wget -c -i wget.list I have wget aliased as alias wget='/usr/bin/wget -t 0 --read-timeout=60' since I'm on dialup. D

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Bonnet
Frank Bonnet wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 13:53:12 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: [snip] So, package php5-sybase is available f

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:09:15PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all > the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters > so the display is wierd. I use mc -sd in mrxvt with my non-locales box (LANG=C).

Need help understanding this message

2009-03-02 Thread Paul E Condon
The help I need is what I might call 'deep' help. I know 'who' is sending the message, and why, but how do I fix the problem? Included is an email that I get from the daily cron job on a host that I have named 'gq'. I have two other machines that never send this message. All are similarly configur

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread josep
I wanted to "check" the hdd in gparted, it gaves this error: > e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdb1 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread josep
I putted the HDD to a pc, boot it up with systemrescuecd - startx - gparted - and Format it. Without error. I even could write to the disk, no error, but: when I put it back to the USB, it does it again... gparted: libparted - unrecognized disk label I don't want to restore it, I just want to f

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Bonnet
Frank Bonnet wrote: Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 13:53:12 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: [snip] So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing an

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Arthur Marsh wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote, on 2009-03-02 01:25: >> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: >>> Hello people, >>> >>> the subject says it all. > It didn't work for me in KDE 3.5.10 (running Debian unstable here). I > might have the wrong packages installed. Or t

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Jeff Soules
> might be useful to you sometime. All of this can also be done from the > command line but you probably want to use the GUI that you are > already using. I don't use the menus much -- I usually run things through the command line as Thorny was saying -- but it looks like there's some menu managem

Re: Comprehensive list of d-i (debian-installer) key/value pairs and description

2009-03-02 Thread Joe McDonagh
Hey Chris just FYI another user posted: debconf-get-selections from debconf-utils Add '--installer' to get the settings for the installer, omit to get the settings for all other (installed?) packages. Which on quick glance, is what I was looking for. Eternally grateful, thanks guys! Chris

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Osamu Aoki wrote, on 03/03/09 00:46: Do you use modern desktop? Gnome, KDE, ... then it automounts. If non X system, just add it to /etc/fstab Osamu It didn't work for me in KDE 3.5.10 (running Debian unstable here). I might have the wrong packages installed. I see. Did you label drive whe

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a package > and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the package and its > dependancies to be installed, but it does not add the packages to the > menu, and, in th

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:17:33AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote, on 2009-03-02 01:25: >> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: >>> Hello people, >>> >>> the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB >>> disk connected to the compute

How to selectively automount USB disks under GNOME?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Latest
Hello, me and USB again. I normally use usbmount to automount USB disks. To download pictures from my digital camera's card, I've written a hook script which checks for certain things (the existence of a "DCIM" folder, specifically), and if these are found, automatically downoads all images from t

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Bonnet
Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 13:53:12 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: [snip] So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable. Is th

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:12:09PM +0100, josep wrote: > How can I bring a hdd back to life, if I did: > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb > > to it? > > When I try to format it to ext3, it tells: gparted: libparted - unrecognized > disk label > > Please help, the /dev/sdb is an USB HDD I'm not

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/02/2009 07:12 AM, josep wrote: How can I bring a hdd back to life, if I did: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb to it? When I try to format it to ext3, it tells: gparted: libparted - unrecognized disk label You wiped out the partition table. fdisk or cfdisk should do the trick. -- Ron J

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread jim barnes
On Sunday 01 March 2009 06:09:15 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all > the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters > so the display is wierd. Try starting with the -a option. From man mc: OPTIONS -a,

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 13:53:12 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: > Bob Cox wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet >> (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: >> >>> Bob Cox wrote: >> >> [snip] >> So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Frank
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 08:15 +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 20:09:15 -0500, Frank McCormick > (fmccorm...@videotron.ca) wrote: > > > What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all > > the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters

bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread josep
How can I bring a hdd back to life, if I did: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb to it? When I try to format it to ext3, it tells: gparted: libparted - unrecognized disk label Please help, the /dev/sdb is an USB HDD

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Bonnet
Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: [snip] So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable. Is that what you are looking for? Well this module is not available for me Sorry. Yes, it seems th

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:08:59AM EST, Robert Latest wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > This should get you up to speed re: the fb console: > > > >  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html > > I had already looked at that document up to the point where it says:

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
Frank McCormick wrote: What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters so the display is wierd. Midnight Commander works great with URxvt, the unicode version of rxvt. The Debian package I have inst

pppd hung up

2009-03-02 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Sometimes, pppd hung up after awhile though on Ubuntu it retries endlessly. It seems that /dev/ttyUSB0 (the modem) suddenly disappeared. I wonder what could've caused it. Can somebody guide me on tackling this problem? --> Connect time 61.2 minutes. --> Disconnecting at Mon Mar 2 19:11:12 2009 --

Re: motorola a1200 couldn't be mounted on Debian

2009-03-02 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:24:57 -0300, Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: > > It was recognized as "sdd1" but it looks like there was an error "Medium > Error [current]". > > Any suggestion please ? > Check http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501935 and the udev configuration change in http

iceweasel resume download fails after reboot

2009-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Trying to download VMware-server-2.0.0-122956. I prefer to use wget but there is no link for it to use on the download page of VMware. Anybody had better luck? So I use Iceweasel's download. That works. And resume works as long as you don't reboot the machine. When you do reboot and use

Re: Vim tip (was Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts notrunning? Mouse frozen?)

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Chris Bannister wrote: If you use vim for your editing, put this in your .vimrc file: " automatically give executable permissions if file begins with #! and " contains '/bin/' in the path function ModeChange() if getline(1) =~ "^#!" if getline(1) =~ "/bin/" silent !chmod a+x endif

Re: running gedit as su brings error

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Patterson
Also, running Gedit with sudo works fine. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: running gedit as su brings error

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Patterson
* Michael Pobega [2009-03-02 04:02:38 -0500]: > > Try running it with sux or gksu rather than just plain su; that should > pass X privileges to any account you switch to > Hmm, it seems gksu is being used with Synaptic, but why the error when calling Gnome's system log monitor? I get a root

Re: On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian

2009-03-02 Thread Rainer Kluge
Rogério Brito schrieb: > > I have a friend of mine that has an old ATI Rage 128 card (if I am not > mistaken) with line in. Would it be possible to make it work under > Linux? > Should work without problems, I had this card working in the past. > If I happen to have to purchase something, what w

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Latest
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > This should get you up to speed re: the fb console: > >  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html I had already looked at that document up to the point where it says: "Reboot the kernel, and as a simple test, try entering 0301 at the VGA p

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote: > Hello. > > I am using Debian 4.0. > > How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Try typing update-menus at the command line prompt and see if that helps. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bris

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: > Bob Cox wrote: [snip] >> So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable. >> Is that what you are looking for? >> > > Well this module is not available for me Sorry. Yes, it seems that the

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 02 March 2009 10:16:58 Bret Busby wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> I am using Debian 4.0. > >> > >> How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? > > > > Which version of which

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am using Debian 4.0. How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Which version of which desktop environment? (Or window maker.) Lisi GDM 2.16.4-1 is the GNOME Dis

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Jones
Just saw this: http://lwn.net/Articles/318582/ CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 02 March 2009 06:26:33 Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am using Debian 4.0. > > How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Which version of which desktop environment? (Or window maker.) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Bonnet
Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:42:49 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Hello We intensively use the sybase_ct package witn inhouse PHP 5 applications this one do not exist anymore in Lenny distro ... Anyone has some links/tricks/workaround to make it work with the Lenn

On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian

2009-03-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. I have a good sized amount of VHS tapes that contain some material of high personal value and, unfortunately, those tapes keep deterirating their quality. I am, thus, in a hurry to transfer them to a digital format where I can, say, freely copy them, give my relatives a copy of some videos of

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:42:49 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: > Hello > > We intensively use the sybase_ct package witn inhouse PHP 5 applications > this one do not exist anymore in Lenny distro ... > > Anyone has some links/tricks/workaround to make it work with > the Lenny rel

Re: running gedit as su brings error

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:23:15PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > Hello * > > Recently I've been getting an error I've not seen before in Gnome: when > I run Gedit from a terminal as su, I get the following: > > Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that > you need to e

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-02 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Mark Goldshtein wrote: >>> You may try and install the RPM, it has few depends. >>> http://rpmseek.com/rpm-dl/wmsm-0.2.0-alt1.i586.html?hl=com&cbd=0:W:120:1859264:48:0:0 >> >> Thanks, for the tip! I have got one here: >> http://search.linux.

Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello We intensively use the sybase_ct package witn inhouse PHP 5 applications this one do not exist anymore in Lenny distro ... Anyone has some links/tricks/workaround to make it work with the Lenny release ? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

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