Re: Recommendations for Mini PCIe 802.11b/g card?

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,21.May.09, 23:55:56, Mark Shroyer wrote: > My laptop's Intel 3945BG card won't connect to half of the APs that I > want it to--and even when it does work, I can only squeeze about 9 Mbps > out of it in 802.11g mode. So I'd like to replace it with something > that works better with Debian Le

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,21.May.09, 13:46:19, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:19:24PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > > Sthu Deus wrote: > >> Good day. > >> > >> I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell environment > >> is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the followi

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,21.May.09, 14:43:03, Paul Scott wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Wed,20.May.09, 21:09:02, Muzer wrote: >> >>> Damn, I did it again, sending it to one person rather than everyone! I >>> really need to get used to this mailing list lark. >>> >> >> There's a reply-to-list extensi

Dependency based boot with insserv [was: Re: Running Console-setup Earlier]

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,21.May.09, 18:31:03, David Baron wrote: > I got the insserv. I am really afraid to use this thing. Works for me fine on two sid machines and on my brother's lenny machine. And it speeds up the boot by a few seconds too (especially with CONCURRENCY=shell). Regards, Andrei -- If you ca

Re: Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,23.May.09, 13:37:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > Restart hal, at least in theory. > > Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by > means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got some weird results. Yes, that's why I said "in theory". You did restart X after restartin

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,23.May.09, 19:59:31, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Has that been fixed yet? > > > > Short answer: No. Long answer: see #97564, #254716, #423234 and #509471. > > > > > If not, how can one avoid having aptitude try to upgrade you to a newly > > > release version (before you more directly choose

Re: squeeze pkg on lenny: bug?

2009-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1243121901.5236.1316927...@webmail.messagingengine.com>, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: >So why did I have a +squeeze1 pkg on a lenny box? >After the reboot that finishes the install I went >to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and was surprise to >find that it was wonky. No standard repository wa

Re: Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

2009-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Matteo Riva wrote: >I have set up exim4 using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config with a >relayhost. When I try a simple "echo text | mail s...@address" I get a >"completed" message in /var/log/exim4/mainlog, the mail queue is empty >but no message is received on the destination address. Sounds l

Re: CPU's processing division

2009-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1243108942.3476.2.ca...@debian-lap>, Hashimoto wrote: >Just a doubt regarding my system processing division. While monitoring >the CPU processing I realized the CPU1 is always more busy then CPU0. > >Is it any issue to worry about ? Not normally. >If not, why this difference ? Processor auto

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090523145721.gh7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:34:39AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >> However, I do know that the KDE/Qt Debian Maintainers do not have the >> >> time to fix it, so you might mention it to upstream. >But is this a Debian pr

Telinit question

2009-05-23 Thread Alan Greenberger
I have a question about telinit use. For a long time, I occasionally have done "telinit 1" before doing a backup. However, I noticed in the man page that it says: On a Debian system, entering runlevel 1 causes all processes to be killed except for kernel threads and the script that does

Re: Auto-mount by normal users

2009-05-23 Thread ronggui wong
It works. Thanks very much. Regards On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:01:38PM +0800, ronggui wong wrote: > >> I have installed thunar-volman. I can see the devices when I plugin my >> USB disk, but I can not mount it by double clicking the icon.

squeeze pkg on lenny: bug?

2009-05-23 Thread whollygoat
Just installed lenny (5.0.0) from CD. For some reason, aptitude did not get installed. Tried to install it, but it had unmet dependencies. -- # apt-get install aptitude [snip] The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 De

Re: CPU's processing division

2009-05-23 Thread Brent Kolasinski
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Hashimoto wrote: > Hello, > > Just a doubt regarding my system processing division. While monitoring the > CPU processing I realized the CPU1 is always more busy then CPU0. Right now > I'm using the VirtualBox, and the CPU1 is 99% busy, and the CPU0 just 34%. This

Re: Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

2009-05-23 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Please reply to the list (and only the list). Yes, sorry for the mistake, I figured that too late. > That means the message was delivered and accepted by your relay host. > Exim's work is done. As to why it was not received, you'd

GTK apps over XDMCP - Anyone else find lists slow?

2009-05-23 Thread Seb James
Hi List, I'm having trouble with GTK lists (for example a list of emails in evolution) being very slow to scroll in Debian Lenny when using a remote login via XDMCP. Scrolling is fine when using a local session. Has anyone else noticed this issue? I've tried a couple of different client computers

Re: Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

2009-05-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Please reply to the list (and only the list). Matteo Riva wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > wrote: > > >> You should start by looking at the log, generally at >> /var/log/exim4/main.log . >> > > Yes, that's the first thing I did, and there is nothing releva

Re: Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

2009-05-23 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > You should start by looking at the log, generally at > /var/log/exim4/main.log . Yes, that's the first thing I did, and there is nothing relevant there, just the local message entering the queue, the message leaving it for the relay

Re: Removable media not found on KDE

2009-05-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 17:24:55 +0100, AG wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 23:07:16 +0100, AG wrote: >> >>> In KDE3.5.5, running on Etch whenever I load a USB data >>> stick, it triggers OpenOffice.org's splash

Re: Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

2009-05-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Matteo Riva wrote: > I have set up exim4 using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config with a > relayhost. When I try a simple "echo text | mail s...@address" I get a > "completed" message in /var/log/exim4/mainlog, the mail queue is empty > but no message is received on the destination address. > > I don't

CPU's processing division

2009-05-23 Thread Hashimoto
Hello, Just a doubt regarding my system processing division. While monitoring the CPU processing I realized the CPU1 is always more busy then CPU0. Right now I'm using the VirtualBox, and the CPU1 is 99% busy, and the CPU0 just 34%. Is it any issue to worry about ? If not, why this difference ? A

Exim4 - mail not delivered and no apparent error

2009-05-23 Thread Matteo Riva
I have set up exim4 using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config with a relayhost. When I try a simple "echo text | mail s...@address" I get a "completed" message in /var/log/exim4/mainlog, the mail queue is empty but no message is received on the destination address. I don't really know how to troublesho

Re: Auto-mount by normal users

2009-05-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:01:38PM +0800, ronggui wong wrote: > I have installed thunar-volman. I can see the devices when I plugin my > USB disk, but I can not mount it by double clicking the icon. It seems This type of auto-mounting is handled by pmount. Users expected to use pmount need to be

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 13:46:08 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This may be a FAQ; if so, apologies. > > On my Sid, I can go to the console from X by means of, e.g., > Control-Alt-F2. This has been the behaviour of X for ages. > > Also for ages, you could go back to X by pressing Alt-F7. Howe

Re: X11 issue

2009-05-23 Thread Duque Gorlois
I've never had such sort of isse as well. I've just made the download of the driver from the nVidia website and installed it. I've just followed the installing process and everything got right. 2009/5/23 Brent Kolasinski > > On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 01:27 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > Hi: >

Re: OT Looking for certain Geode LX Board

2009-05-23 Thread Brent Kolasinski
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently playing around with a pcengines board with a geode > processor. Now it does have an IDE connector but I'd rather like SATA. > > Some googling pointed me to: http://www.amd.com/geodelxnasrdk - > unfortunately I can't find any

Re: X11 issue

2009-05-23 Thread Brent Kolasinski
> On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 01:27 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Hi: > > Following the lines of successful setup of 3D nvidia driver with lenny > > amd64, i met failure with lenny i386 on a old K7S5A Elite mainboard > > with NV11DDR (GeForce2 MX200 rev b2). I also lost OpenGL, which I used > > for

Re: getting broadcom wireless to be recognized and working

2009-05-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
This is not the problem you reported, but it's a similar one. I recently had to install an Ubuntu on an old laptop that had a broadcom wireless card. Everything was up, except the broadcom. Turns out i had to tell Ubuntu to install proprietary software in order for it to install the driver for tha

Re: Choosing my own GTK theme

2009-05-23 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 23 May 2009 17:19:18 +, T o n g wrote: > Removing ~/.gtkrc-2.0 did the trick. All the themes in gtk2-engines look > as expected afterward. However, if I use gtk-theme-switch2 to pick own > GTK theme (ie. save a new ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file) then redo startx, all > themes in gtk2-engines looks

Re: Choosing my own GTK theme

2009-05-23 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/09 18:19, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:28:51 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > >>> I just found out that the GTK themes look different in my account than >>> it should. E.g., the bg_color for the Crux theme in gtk2-engines is >>> #d3d

Choosing my own GTK theme

2009-05-23 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:28:51 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: >> I just found out that the GTK themes look different in my account than >> it should. E.g., the bg_color for the Crux theme in gtk2-engines is >> #d3d7cf, however, it shows as #f6f6f6 in my account. If I create >> another account, all the

Re: X11 issue

2009-05-23 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 01:27 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hi: > Following the lines of successful setup of 3D nvidia driver with lenny > amd64, i met failure with lenny i386 on a old K7S5A Elite mainboard > with NV11DDR (GeForce2 MX200 rev b2). I also lost OpenGL, which I used > for several appl

testing - sorry

2009-05-23 Thread Jerry
testing -- Jerry Wong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Removable media not found on KDE

2009-05-23 Thread AG
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 16:54:31 +0100, AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:14:08 +0100, AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 23:07:16 +0100, AG wrote: In KDE3.5.5, running on Etch whenev

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 05:05:25AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:31:30PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Actually, it seems that copy-paste is in fact what I am looking for. > > As has been mentioned already! "apt-get install gpm" works a treat, in > fact, would classify

Re: getting broadcom wireless to be recognized and working

2009-05-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:14 PM, dwain wrote: > > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> Hello again . . . >> >> I'm curious what your particular card you have. I've recently got my >> broadcom card working and it was rather painless. I'll get the details >> in the meantime a

intro

2009-05-23 Thread Tony Baldwin
Hi guys, I installed Debian Lenny yesterday, first on my old experimental box, then took the plunge and installed over Ubuntu on my main production box. So, I'm new to Debian, but not gnu/linux, having given up lesser OSes some 9+ years ago. I am digging Debian! I feel like I finally got off

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-23 Thread lee
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:04:09AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > lee writes: > > In any case, it would be nice to have a working KDE without having to run > > a mysql server. Is there a way to do that? > > That depends on how you define "working KDE". The KDE metapackage depends > on packages that

Re: Proper ncurses package

2009-05-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:21, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:39:13PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > was heard to say: >> In <886fa7aa0905221547k21469037la882c5044a641...@mail.gmail.com>, Jason >> Filippou wrote: >> >The command 'man ncurses' brings up nothing (or, to be >

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-23 Thread lee
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:34:39AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > As I said before, it is possible to use much of KDE without Akonadi, for > now. Well, I tried to keep it installed as much as was possible, but without the mysql-server. Now it doesn't work anymore. > >> However, I do know

Re: Kmail - keeps losing settings for folder pane

2009-05-23 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 23 May 2009 16:25:13 AG wrote: > Hello list > > Has anyone else experienced this problem, and if so, any ideas about a fix? > > Thanks for suggestions. > > Cheers > > AG Yes, same here Thierry

Kmail - keeps losing settings for folder pane

2009-05-23 Thread AG
Hello list I've noticed that with the new version of Kmail (1.11.2) running on KDE4.2.2 that the folder tree view seems to keep losing the "total" column from the display, even though I keep setting that as my default. This is on a testing/squeeze machine. Has anyone else experienced this

Re: Auto-mount by normal users

2009-05-23 Thread ronggui wong
The error msg is: Rejected send message, 3 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.34" (uid=1000 pid=6402 comm="exo-mount -n -h /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volum") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop

Re: Proper ncurses package

2009-05-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:39:13PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > In <886fa7aa0905221547k21469037la882c5044a641...@mail.gmail.com>, Jason > Filippou wrote: > >The command 'man ncurses' brings up nothing (or, to be > >more precise, an error message). When I connect to my depa

Re: Meaning of "score" when looking for package solutions

2009-05-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:14:24AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > In <886fa7aa0905220106n791648e1v6b79acecc06b3...@mail.gmail.com>, Jason > Filippou wrote: > >Being new to Debian and running Squeeze I'm curious as to what the "Score > > is x" line's supposed to mean when exa

Re: Scanning LAN

2009-05-23 Thread pch0317
gn643202 wrote: pch0317 wrote: Hi I want to know a name of program which scan a LAN and return a list of used IP and it's MAC address. nmap $ sudo nmap -sS 192.168.1.1-254 thanks :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Auto-mount by normal users

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Samstag, 23. Mai 2009 schrieb ronggui wong: > I have installed thunar-volman. I can see the devices when I plugin my > USB disk, but I can not mount it by double clicking the icon. It seems > that I don't have the permission to do is, as I can mount it if I use > _sudo thunar_ to open thunar. >

Auto-mount by normal users

2009-05-23 Thread ronggui wong
I have installed thunar-volman. I can see the devices when I plugin my USB disk, but I can not mount it by double clicking the icon. It seems that I don't have the permission to do is, as I can mount it if I use _sudo thunar_ to open thunar. How should I solve the problem? I use xfce4 and Linux de

OT Looking for certain Geode LX Board

2009-05-23 Thread Martin
Hi, I'm currently playing around with a pcengines board with a geode processor. Now it does have an IDE connector but I'd rather like SATA. Some googling pointed me to: http://www.amd.com/geodelxnasrdk - unfortunately I can't find any vendor for this board. Anyone knows where to get it (I'm in Eu

Re: Scanning LAN

2009-05-23 Thread gn643202
pch0317 wrote: Hi I want to know a name of program which scan a LAN and return a list of used IP and it's MAC address. nmap $ sudo nmap -sS 192.168.1.1-254 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-23 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 23 May 2009 13:46:08 Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This may be a FAQ; if so, apologies. > > A bug, obviously. But in which package? Has it been reported to > the Debian BTS? I couldn't find it. > > Regards, Jan well, maybe not a bug as it is working fine on my up to date sid machine. The problem

Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-23 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
This may be a FAQ; if so, apologies. On my Sid, I can go to the console from X by means of, e.g., Control-Alt-F2. This has been the behaviour of X for ages. Also for ages, you could go back to X by pressing Alt-F7. However, in Sid nowadays, this does not work. Pressing Alt-F7 simply kills X, and

Re: Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-23 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrei Popescu wrote: > changing /etc/default/console-setup should be enough, xorg.conf > is ignored. Aah.. That explains it. > Restart hal, at least in theory. Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got some weird results. It is

Scanning LAN

2009-05-23 Thread pch0317
Hi I want to know a name of program which scan a LAN and return a list of used IP and it's MAC address. Thanks pch0317 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Kelly Clowers on 22/05/09 20:56, wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 07:24, Victor Padro wrote: You can get a Pentium 4 for less than $200 on ebay. I use a Pentium 4 HT, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD with Pfsense(FreeBSD) as my home firewall/router, and it's very reliable. I would much rather use an Athlon

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:05:25PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:31:30PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Actually, it seems that copy-paste is in fact what I am looking for. I > > As has been mentioned already! "apt-get install gpm" > works a treat, in fact, would classi

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 09:50:27AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,18.May.09, 16:28:55, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Michael M. Moore wrote: > > ... > > > mcu...@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > > > APT::Default-Release "stable"; > > > APT::Cache-Limit 33554432; > > > > At some time in the p

Re: openoffice.org going through broken phase again

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:05:38AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Upgrades are breaking parts of openoffice.org on this machine under > squeeze. There are some transitions going on. If you want to run testing you have to be constantly on your toes. Have you got apt-listbugs installed, Jude? --

Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Hi you all, > > I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) which are not connected to > the network so I usually do upgrades by downloading weekly generated dvd iso > images, burning images to a dvd-rw and running apt-cdrom ad

Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:19:41PM +0100, Giancarlo Pegoraro wrote: > Sometime I haven't a dvd drive, I copy the dvd.iso in the external Hard > disk and write the /etc/apt/source.list same this: > > deb file://media/YOUR_USBDISK/DIRECTORY_iso lenny main contrib > deb file://media/YOUR_USBDISK/DIRE

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:31:30PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Actually, it seems that copy-paste is in fact what I am looking for. I As has been mentioned already! "apt-get install gpm" works a treat, in fact, would classify it as an essential cli tool. apt-cache show gpm Description: General Pu

Re: digitalizing audio records from vinyl supports

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:34:25PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone ! > > What software would you advise for a realistic job, I mean : a fair > quality without too much trouble. My systems : Debian Sarge on my > desktop, Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) on my laptop. $ apt-cache show gramofile

Re: LVM how to

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:17:48AM +1000, gianni wrote: > HI lists > how can I resize the LVM default partition layout of debian? > the root is to small around 400mb... I looked around the web but it look > like I need to do that from a rescue cd, which one should I use? > any good link for a easy

Re: 2.6.29 custom kernel

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:12:19PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot > mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /root failed: Device or resource busy ^ > mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or > directory > mount

Re: No console from X

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 07:57:45PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:45:16 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > I haven't rolled my own since my gentoo days. I run 2.6.26-2-686. It > > looks > > like yours but for CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT, which is not an option at > > all.

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:32:00PM -0400, Dennis Creedan wrote: > Recompiling a vanilla kernel did the trick.  Thank you SO MUCH, Elimar > and Florian!! Weird!! It should work with the stock Debian kernel. Then again ... r...@box:~# apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 linux-image-2.6.26-2-

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 17:59:22 -0400, Dennis Creedan wrote: > > I've configured Gmail to use UTF-8 for outgoing messages .. hope this > > helps. > > You are still sending both a plain text and an HTML version. > > > Here is

Re: Where are the GTK local conf files

2009-05-23 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/09 09:01, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I just found out that the GTK themes look different in my account > than it should. E.g., the bg_color for the Crux theme in > gtk2-engines is #d3d7cf, however, it shows as #f6f6f6 in my > account. If I crea

Re: Meaning of "score" when looking for package solutions

2009-05-23 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/09 23:07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <200905222352.34972.tchate...@free.fr>, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> On 22 May 2009 17:14:24 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> When presenting the user with a solution, aptitude will show the one >>>

Where are the GTK local conf files

2009-05-23 Thread T o n g
Hi, I just found out that the GTK themes look different in my account than it should. E.g., the bg_color for the Crux theme in gtk2-engines is #d3d7cf, however, it shows as #f6f6f6 in my account. If I create another account, all themes show up correctly, whereas in my account every single themes i

Re: sudo vs. su (was Re: new to list, new to debian, new to linux)

2009-05-23 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:45:05PM +, Glyn Astill wrote: > > 'ALL=(ALL) ALL' is no more dangerous than having the 'su' binary > > available. > > > > The NOPASSWD option is not the default. > > No. For su they'd have to enter the root password, for sudo su they'd > just have to enter the passw

Re: new to list, new to debian, new to linux

2009-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 03:03:23AM -0500, dwain wrote: > hello all. i just installed debian tonight next to win xp. they seem to > play well together. i was trying to setup the bug report and found that i > can't sudo into root. i can get into the synaptic package manager with the > root p