Re: Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem

2010-02-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 2/26/2010 1:06 AM: > On 2/25/2010 11:09 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: >> -- partially as an emergency backup for the network, >> but mainly so that I can run a fax and answering machine app on the >> computer and get rid of my extremely low-quality answering machine. > I wo

Re: debian squeeze tmp directory no space left

2010-02-26 Thread Johan Grönqvist
nico skrev: i constantly get the error no space left on device when the user try to write on tmp directory, and there is space on the directory also root can still write on it. Maybe there is some configuration issue that don't know about squeeze Any help will be apreciate. I believe the insta

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Hadi Motamedi wrote: >I upgraded my > Debian box from Sarge to Lenny . Did you read the Release Notes? If not, you should. Also note that going directly from Sarge to Lenny isn't really supported -- it may or may not have worked completely. You should have done an intermediate upgrade to

Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-26 Thread Hadi Motamedi
Dear All According to your previous replies on my 'tcpdump' inquiry , I upgraded my Debian box from Sarge to Lenny . It is now running version 5.0.4 . But surprisingly I cannot connect it to Internet , as I did previously . I am trying as the followings : #ifconfig eth0 ip-address netmask ne

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-26 Thread Cecil Knutson
Stephen, I get silence when trying to play a .wav file with aplay. No error messages, just says "Playing WAVE 'Track1.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo" The sound card is, without doubt, older than 2008. I've had the system for at least two years myself and Dell

new mumble/apache bug

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Cannon
I hope that this hasn't already been discussed, if so I apologize for my newbie-ism. I'm seeing a new bug, it appears to me it's coming from the mumble-server package, but I'm not the type of expert who can tell what's happening for certain. As of very recently (yesterday?) the apache2 server w

Issues while using dkms

2010-02-26 Thread surreal
I am using dkms to create a binary package for vboxdrv.ko and all related virtualbox-ose files I used dkms to create a binary module for kernel 2.6.31 and I got these errors r...@indiaforce:/lib/modules/2.6.31indiaforce1.1/build# dkms mkdeb -m vboxdrv -v 3.1.4_OSE Using /etc/dkms/template-dkms-mk

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Sam Leon
Matthew Moore wrote: On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote: Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: Hi! I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made it recently

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread green
green wrote at 2010-02-26 22:06 -0700: > I have wicd version 1.7.0-3; it includes wicd-cli which might work well for > you. Actually, wicd-cli is packaged separately. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread green
Daniel Dalton wrote at 2010-02-26 18:43 -0700: > I did try wicd-curses, but as I'm blind it didn't seem to work great with > speakup. I have wicd version 1.7.0-3; it includes wicd-cli which might work well for you. For example, the following command will list wireless networks: wicd-cli -ly s

Need a howto on virtualbox module compilation

2010-02-26 Thread surreal
I have compiled a virtualbox ose 3.1.4 binary deb and I want to make a binary deb having vboxdrv and related drivers. Any places where I can find the links? I have placed the binaries at this place - http://code.google.com/p/virtualboxoseforifl/ -- Harshad Joshi

Re: debian/testing systems stopped to boot after upgrade between 20.02 and 22.02

2010-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-02-23, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig8A6162A10A29BD9D157868EB > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Charlie schreef: >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:48:3

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Burkhardt
On 02/26/2010 10:27 AM, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote: >> Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: >> Well... when I do that I can scroll up, but just within he >> xfce4-terminal, rxvt... buffer. >> That means I leave screen's screen, where the current scr

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:01:18PM -0300, Xavier Petit de Meurville wrote: >Hi, what is your filesystem on this partition ? >I don't very well, but maybe you can see the tune2fs command, Ah great, thank you. I think it was still set to check after 27 mounts or something. I had a read of th

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Kelly Harding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to find it annoying, though it was a problem that went away when I switched to using XFS as my default filesystem, it doesn't need to do the fsck on boot, so it is much quicker booting in that regard. I do use ext2/3 for /boot and /var mind, bu

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Xavier Petit de Meurville
Hi, what is your filesystem on this partition ? I don't very well, but maybe you can see the tune2fs command, for example (for ext2/3/4) list the current values of your filesystem : ~]# tune2fs -l /dev/sda6 Last checked: Fri Feb 5 11:48:41 2010 Check interval: 15552000 (6 m

stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
Every 20 odd boots my system does a checkdisk scan of sda5 (root file system) and sda7 /home. As it's a laptop and I need fast booting, how can I stop these checks all together? I tried setting the 6th field of fstab to 0 for both partitions. I thought it was working, but it seemed to do one check

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:43:52AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > there are examples in /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/examples/ Ah yes, and the readme proved very useful. I've got it all working with wpa_supplicant now. It works well on my home net, so lets hope it connects to open wifi:) I'm very conf

htaccess basic passwords

2010-02-26 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm having trouble getting apache to set a password on a directory. I know I can do this in the apache config file but wanted to do this as a proof of concept, The directory is /var/www/basic and the .htaccess is as follows Hawaiian:/var/www/basic# ls -l .htaccess -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 201

Re: debian squeeze tmp directory no space left

2010-02-26 Thread Xavier Petit de Meurville
Hello, try with command "df -i" -i, --inodes list inode information instead of block usage On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:04 PM, nico wrote: > i constantly get the error no space left on device when the user try to > write on tmp directory, and there is space on the directory also roo

debian squeeze tmp directory no space left

2010-02-26 Thread nico
i constantly get the error no space left on device when the user try to write on tmp directory, and there is space on the directory also root can still write on it. Maybe there is some configuration issue that don't know about squeeze Any help will be apreciate. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:17:09 -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote: > Florian, > Sorry it took so long for me to realize I did not respond to your > last email. No problem, I was pretty busy with work anyway. You have covered a lot of ground with Stephen Powell in the meantime, and I do not have to

Re: Icewm menu not working properly

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Neyhart
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have used icewm for a long time and have not had any trouble with the > menu. Recently all the entries for browsers have stopped working on my > HP laptop (not on my desktop). > > The entries are of this form: > > prog Iceweasel - iceweasel > prog Iceape - iceape >

Re (2): convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread peasthope
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:19:11 -0600 Kumar Appaiah wrote, > I use ImageMagick's convert tool Also Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:16:49 + (UTC) Camaleon wrote, > bmp into jpeg|png -> The GIMP? Thanks to both. My question failed to specify the formats clearly. The original is pdf---a bitm

Re: Large font on display

2010-02-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-26 09:36:25, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:20:29 -0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Where can I download respective drivers. Linux drivers coming with > > the mobo can't work. There is no driver for Linux on the CD coming > > with the display. Fonts becomes very large even sel

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:42:12AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > > using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start > > X I would prefer

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,26.Feb.10, 08:47:46, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:24:39AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > > using wicd, so all my ha

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:32:35 -0500 (EST), Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I would suggest installing the backports kernel before upgrading to > squeeze. See http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions Good idea. That's less radical. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Peter Easthope: > What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? If you mean: extracting a picture which is in the pdf, the best way would be to use 'pdfimages', providing the image in its original resolution. It is part of 'poppler-utils' as well as 'xpdf-utils'. -- To UN

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,26.Feb.10, 06:16:35, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:55:27 -0500 (EST), Cecil Knutson wrote: > > aptitude was updated; the alsa-firmware-loaders installed; dpkg > > reconfigured alsa base and alsa utils; no PCM in alsamixer. > > ... > > What would you suggest doing now?

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:09:48PM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:04:42AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:07:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > >> What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png?

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:04:42AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:07:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > >> What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? > >> > >> xpdf.man remarks, > >> "Save as... > >> Sav

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread Bob McGowan
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:07:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? >> >> xpdf.man remarks, >> "Save as... >> Save the current file via a file requester." >> >> Does this me

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Matthew Moore
On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote: > Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. > >> However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made > >> it recen

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:07:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? > > xpdf.man remarks, > "Save as... > Save the current file via a file requester." > > Does this mean that xpdf can do the conve

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:07:25 -0800, peasthope wrote: > What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? If X environment is available: bmp into jpeg|png -> The GIMP? bmp into pdf... just print to a file and save it as pdf. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread peasthope
What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? xpdf.man remarks, "Save as... Save the current file via a file requester." Does this mean that xpdf can do the conversion? What is a file requester? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Google

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread wishi
Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. >> However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made >> it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term: >> >> defs

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Sebastian
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:24AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > Hi Dan > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start > X

Re: Large font on display

2010-02-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:05:57 -0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Camaleón, > > I thinks the problem is on the onboard video card. > > M4A78T-E > Brand New Design Optimized for AM3 CPU > http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=cf8IZzbU4m6GHKnW > > It runs ATI Radeon HD 3300 GPU chipset. Why you think

Re: Large font on display

2010-02-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Camaleón, I thinks the problem is on the onboard video card. M4A78T-E Brand New Design Optimized for AM3 CPU http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=cf8IZzbU4m6GHKnW It runs ATI Radeon HD 3300 GPU chipset. DVI connection works normal. HDMI connection is terrible. It is impossible for me t

Re: Large font on display

2010-02-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:20:29 -0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Where can I download respective drivers. Linux drivers coming with the > mobo can't work. There is no driver for Linux on the CD coming with the > display. Fonts becomes very large even selecting "8". The screen can't > expand to the ful

Re: Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem

2010-02-26 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:09:19 -0800 Peter Tenenbaum wrote: ... > >From what I've seen out there, the US Robotics USR5637 looks like a > promising option: it's a small (almost tiny) external modem which connects > via USB, and purports to have Linux support. My question: has anyone had > any ex

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Omar Campagne
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:24:39AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start > X I would

Re: Checking which patches was used to compile the kernel.

2010-02-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:55:59AM +, Jeffrey Cao wrote: > Check if the file /proc/config.gz exists, which is the > kernel configuration file. Failing that, /boot/config-$(uname -r) might exist, which would give you the same information. (It does for Debian kernel images for example) That sam

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:24:39AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start > X I wou

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Tom H
> I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start > X I would prefer to manage wifi connections through the cli. > I believe I have

Re: Checking which patches was used to compile the kernel.

2010-02-26 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Jeffrey Cao wrote: > On 2010-02-22, Miguel Da Silva - URI wrote: >> Is it possible to do that? Right now I have to work with a server I did >> not installed and I don't have much information about the kernel >> configuration. >> > Check if the file /proc/config.gz

wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start X I would prefer to manage wifi connections through the cli. I believe I have to

Re: Checking which patches was used to compile the kernel.

2010-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-02-22, Miguel Da Silva - URI wrote: > Is it possible to do that? Right now I have to work with a server I did > not installed and I don't have much information about the kernel > configuration. > Check if the file /proc/config.gz exists, which is the kernel configuration file. -- To U

Apache with virtual hosts and mod-python / trac stopped working

2010-02-26 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I have a Squeeze server that, until 2 days ago, functioned good with multiple virtual hosts, mod_python and Trac. For unknown reasons it suddenly stopped working. It appears that all directives in all virtual hosts except the default virtual host are ignored. Accessing them result in a messa

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. > However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made > it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term: > > defscrollback 5000 > termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|r

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:55:27 -0500 (EST), Cecil Knutson wrote: > aptitude was updated; the alsa-firmware-loaders installed; dpkg > reconfigured alsa base and alsa utils; no PCM in alsamixer. > ... > What would you suggest doing now? I'm afraid I'm stumped, Cecil. I've never seen this before

GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Marius
Hi! I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term: defscrollback 5000 termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te xfce4's terminal settings reflect an xterm. rxvt and other t

Large font on display

2010-02-26 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Mobo - Asus M4A78T-E CPU - Phenom II X4 955 RAM - DDR3 1333 dualchannel 8G Display - Samsung 2494 Debian 504 64bit Hi folks, Where can I download respective drivers. Linux drivers coming with the mobo can't work. There is no driver for Linux on the CD coming with the display. Fon

Re: XDMCP in GDM Not Working

2010-02-26 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:12:48AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > > I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to > login > > to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then > returns > > a claim of No S

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-26 Thread Cecil Knutson
Florian, Sorry it took so long for me to realize I did not respond to your last email. Here are the outputs of amixer and aplay. dimension8400:/home/cecil# amixer Simple mixer control 'Line in',0 Capabilities: cvolume Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 255

Re: Debian compatibility with US Robotics USR5637 external USB modem

2010-02-26 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:09:19 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I'm getting ready to assemble a computer, and intend to use Debian Linux > as the OS. In addition to everything else I want to have a 56k modem > for the computer -- partially as an emergency backup for the network, > but mainly so that