SOLVED, sortof... Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-03-14 Thread Justin The Cynical
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Justin I would call SuperMicro, I see their phone number in the manual. Well, I didn't call, I emailed. This is what I got in response: "The ECC function is automatically enabled when you plug in an ECC memory. Attached is a testing BIOS that will show "ECC mode" on the

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Thorny wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:47:13 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new "Lenny install" and I'm having to type control+d to continue boot, I looked at "dmesg" and I can't make what the problem is, so I post and maybe someone can figure th

Re: bluetooth headset

2009-03-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-03-14 21:57:31, schrieb Celejar: > My understanding is that any headset that uses the standard protocols > should work with Debian. I've successfully used a Plantronics Voyager > 510 (a terrific model) and a cheap Soyo Freestyler (BTWLHS02). I have gotten last year from "National Semicond

Re: bluetooth headset

2009-03-14 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:09:17 +1100 Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considdering buying a bluetooth headset... Does anyone know of any > reasonably cheap ones that are supported by debian? Is there a good My understanding is that any headset that uses the standard protocols should work with D

Re: OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-14 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 16:24:27 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > [...] > >> Now, >> I would like to replace all the occurrences of >> >> a(ijk)1b with a(ijk)23b >> a(jik)1b with a(jik)23b >> a(ikj)1b with a(ikj)23b >> and so on for all the strings such as a(???) >>

Re: blueproximity

2009-03-14 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:48:35AM +, Chris Davies wrote: > On mine, I have the following: > > LOCK distance=27, duration=6 (seconds) > UNLOCK distance=19, duration=0 > I'll play with this, thanks... Are bigger numbers greater distance? > > - I've told it to start at start up, but if I don'

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-14 Thread mouss
Comments inline ;-p Daniel Burrows a écrit : > My experience has also been that attempting to bottom-post in a > corporate environment confuses people because they can't find your > reply. When people know the conventions, bottom-posting is a lot > clearer, but if it just confuses them, there's

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-14 Thread mouss
Sander Marechal a écrit : > [snip] > > Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There > is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose > you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top > posting every reply carries the entire t

xhost: cannot connect to X server

2009-03-14 Thread Dieder Vervoort
Hi all, I can' t make xhost to work. I searched around but couldn' t find a solution. Any idea ? Many thanks, Dieder === die...@koala:~$ xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host die...@koala:~$ cat /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc #!/bin/sh # $Id: xserve

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

2009-03-14 Thread Dieder Vervoort
what if you run lsusb iwconfig On Saturday 14 March 2009 22:18:45 Martin Sewell wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Thursday, 19.02.2009 at 10:38 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 18.02.2009 at 22:36 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I've used two Edimax adapters without issue: they ju

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-14 Thread Robert Hodgins
> I don't think so. I was simply wrong about it being bad hardware (most > likely). However another poster pointed out that ACPI on a P1 is > probably wrong and since the message say it's not giving results the > kernel likes, it could certainly apply. Try booting with > acpi=off > or > noacp

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

2009-03-14 Thread Martin Sewell
Dave Ewart wrote: On Thursday, 19.02.2009 at 10:38 +, Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 18.02.2009 at 22:36 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 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 mo

difficulties with otpw and sshd

2009-03-14 Thread Angelin Lalev
Greetings, I need help with otpw pam module and sshd. In a previous post I asked for one-time password PAM module for debian, and I was directed to optw package and a howto: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/otpw.html I found optw-bin package in Lenny (via aptitude) and installed it. Next I change

Re: man pages

2009-03-14 Thread David Fox
> anybody knows a good search engine without any adds you can install locally > your site that indexes the content of your html pages ? Have you looked at swish (swish++ or swish-e, swish-e-dev) in the repositories? I know people who use that to index stuff, and it's pretty fast. > how long does

Re: Missing initrd now can't boot

2009-03-14 Thread Daryl Styrk
Dean Chester wrote: Hi I was playing with the update-initrd tool to try and fix the booting of my system and i deleted the current initrd files. Then my battery died and i can't boot in to debian at all now what should i do? The error that comes up is that it is asking for the initrd file yet tha

Re: Re: Differences in gnome speed

2009-03-14 Thread Tomas Kral
I can confirm, it realy is the default Debian Lenny backround picture, that takes a while to show after login, when I change it e.g. to Open Flower or Clouds Pattern it comes up much quicker, couple of seconds. -- Tomas Kral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Missing initrd now can't boot

2009-03-14 Thread Dean Chester
Hi I was playing with the update-initrd tool to try and fix the booting of my system and i deleted the current initrd files. Then my battery died and i can't boot in to debian at all now what should i do? The error that comes up is that it is asking for the initrd file yet that doesn't exist becaus

Re: Plaxo

2009-03-14 Thread Ken Teague
David Baron wrote: I just got a notification that "debian-user" just joined plaxo. (Since debian- user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc .:-) ) Why would we want to do such a thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Why is Firefox calling gimp instead of xpdf? -SOLVED

2009-03-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Mar 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 11 Mar 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:35:54 +, Anthony Campbell > > (a...@acampbell.org.uk) wrote: > > > > > On my laptop I have set Preferences to use xpdf to read pdf files, but > > > for some reason it keeps calling gimp in

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:16:07AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty : > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:00:58AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Friday 13 March 2009 08:43:07 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > As for rolling upgrades, great but what about when e.g. a hard > > >

Re: ifplugd versus laptop-net

2009-03-14 Thread Bill Wohler
Bob Alexander wrote: > Dear friends, > after having used ifplugd for quite a while with total satisfaction, > as some of you might recall since a couple of weeks my laptop finished > booting without the interface being IP configured. > > I tried uninstalling ifplugd and installing laptop-net and

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-14 Thread Thorny
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:47:13 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new "Lenny install" and I'm having to >> type control+d to continue boot, I looked at "dmesg" and I can't make >> what the problem is, so I post and maybe someone can figure the probl

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-14 Thread Kilian
randall wrote: > Kilian wrote: >> >> I have a firewall with a public IP and a PTR record for that IP. There >> are several hosts behind the firewall with private IP addresses. > > i have the same, but i have setup one of them to relay the mails for all > of them, not sure about your setup but thi

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-14 Thread Kilian
Joe wrote: [...] > As it happens, the PTR-A pair for my IP address correspond to my > subdomain at my ISP, and neither bear any relationship to any of the > domains I actually use for email. I'm not aware of any email domain > which refuses my email, though the only 'difficult' one I send to > regu

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-14 Thread randall
Kilian wrote: another option would be to ask your isp to change the PTR record on that IP to the HELO exim uses. I have a firewall with a public IP and a PTR record for that IP. There are several hosts behind the firewall with private IP addresses. i have the same, but i have setup o

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-14 Thread Kilian
Kilian wrote: [...] > RFC 822 states: Of course that's RFC 821, sorry for the typo. -- K. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-14 Thread Kilian
randall wrote: >> Kilian wrote: >> >>> >>> Under etch, I just changed helo_data in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template >>> manually - not very nice, but it did what I needed. Now my mailconfig is >>> broken because some hosts won't accept my mails as the HELO does not >>> match the IP of the firewall, o

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-14 Thread Kilian
James Richardson wrote: > The settings you want to look at are smtp_banner and helo_data. If I > remember correctly, helo_data defaults to $primary_hostname and smtp_banner > defaults to something with $primary_host_name and exim's version number. I've gotten that far as to understand helo_data i

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-14 Thread randall
Joe wrote: Kilian wrote: Under etch, I just changed helo_data in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template manually - not very nice, but it did what I needed. Now my mailconfig is broken because some hosts won't accept my mails as the HELO does not match the IP of the firewall, of course. Is there really

Re: blueproximity

2009-03-14 Thread Chris Davies
Daniel Dalton wrote: > I installed the blueproximity package from debian lenny and got the > following results: > - It locks my screen when I turn bluetooth off on the phone. Fair enough - you've gone out of range > - When I turn bluetooth back on screen unlocks again Likewise, you've come bac

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-14 Thread Joe
Kilian wrote: Under etch, I just changed helo_data in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template manually - not very nice, but it did what I needed. Now my mailconfig is broken because some hosts won't accept my mails as the HELO does not match the IP of the firewall, of course. Is there really no way to c

Re: man pages

2009-03-14 Thread randall
randall wrote: hi all, lately i've been practicing my skills a little on building basic websites and yesterday i had little to day so decided to re-build the ubuntu manpages web site and adjust it a little so it a can be used with debian. we all know manpages.debian.net but that site, althoug

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2009/3/14 linux china > >> Hi, >> >> The debian 5.0 has a tiny CD installation method, I downloaded these files >> >> cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz -- isolinux config files for CD >> cdrom/initrd.gz -- initrd for us

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 14 March 2009 06:16:43 Sudev Barar wrote: > > 2009/3/14 Santhosh R : > > > Hello sir, > > > I am Santhosh, I having sony vaio model laptop, is able to > > > install Debian 5 (DVD format iso files) in my laptop? > > > Why I

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-14 Thread Angelin Lalev
More details ? Which model Sony Vaio? Which model desktop processor? On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 14 March 2009 06:16:43 Sudev Barar wrote: >> 2009/3/14 Santhosh R : >> > Hello sir, >> >   I am Santhosh, I having sony vaio model laptop, is able to >> >

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 14 March 2009 06:16:43 Sudev Barar wrote: > 2009/3/14 Santhosh R : > > Hello sir, > >   I am Santhosh, I having sony vaio model laptop, is able to > > install Debian 5 (DVD format iso files) in my laptop? > > Why I am asking meant, already I have tried Redhat 5 Enterprice (DVD)

Re: opensync

2009-03-14 Thread Daniel Dalton
Just a follow up when I scanned the output of sdptool to find the right channel, I found lots of obex stuff, but nothing about obex sync I think. Does this mean my phone won't support syncing under linux? It's a nokia 3650 as I probably already said... Thanks, Daniel. On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 0

opensync

2009-03-14 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm trying to sync my mobile with opensync. Here is what I did. I followed this page to set everything up, replacing the Sony Ericsson K750i specifics with nokia3650 and the right plugin name, i used gnokii. The page is: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-646889.html After the ini