Re: rendering languages?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Is your problem viewing, pasting, or typing text? What is "whatever"? > > All three. It shows weird high ASCII characters instead of the > appropriate glyphs. > Please post detailed reproduction instructions. Which browser to open, which page to go to and which text to copy, and where to paste

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> As you can see from the pictures, the pinout variations¹ allow different > subsets of the pins to be used.  Typically the female end on your > graphics card will be DVI-I and support all options, while the cable from > the display will have just the subset of the pins it needs. > > > For example,

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 22:24, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: Well, ask the developers of whatever is touching it. If noboby knows, that will require some code digging. But I don't know what is touching it. That's what this thread is about. It's about m

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: > Well, ask the > developers of whatever is touching it. If noboby knows, that will > require some code digging. But I don't know what is touching it. That's what this thread is about. It's about me asking what is touching it. All I know

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Sam Leon
lrhorer wrote: I loaded up an embedded system with Debian recently. I was having problems relating to the older kernel in Lenny, so I want ahead and installed Squeeze. I got things working, but I was mortified with KDE4, which installed with Squeeze. It's horrible. I mean really, real

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/8/2010 8:37 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Are you saying that one package is simply a meta- or virtual package pointing to the other, and that installing one installs the other? Because I just tried that (in Squeeze), and the two are mutually exclusive. You can install one or the other, but no

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Mark Allums wrote: However, I myself am now failng to understand the difference between the two. Are you saying that one package is simply a meta- or virtual package pointing to the other, and that installing one installs the other? Exactly. In squeeze, kvm is still a virtual package provide

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/8/2010 5:33 PM, thib wrote: More info relative to my last post: if you want to use KVM, you do *need* the modified qemu software provided by the kvm package (which really points to qemu-kvm). These changes are currently pushed upstream [1]. I hope it clears any ambiguity. [1] http://www.

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Mark Allums wrote: Sorry, there is some (more) confusion. I was referring to the original post, which seemed to me to be about a completely different topic. Are we reading the same original post? "Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm packages for kvm vir

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: thib wrote: maybe it would be acceptable to ask for a new little switch. Or hack ext3. Ask who? The maintainers of tune2fs? The maintainers of ext3? Both will say what I already know, that manually mounting and unmounting an ext3 partition read-only does not modify it in

Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: thib wrote: Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, but would it really hurt? We are already discussing this in your thread "Single root filesystem evilness decreasing i

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: > maybe it would be acceptable to ask for a new little switch. > Or hack ext3. Ask who? The maintainers of tune2fs? The maintainers of ext3? Both will say what I already know, that manually mounting and unmounting an ext3 partition read-on

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/8/2010 3:08 PM, Martin Kraus wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:31:54AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: This is a better question, and will get better replies. My replies were general, and you had something specific in mind. It pays to be specific. I can tell you about virt tech, though in my s

Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: > Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. > Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, > but would it really hurt? We are already discussing this in your thread "Single root files

Re: what is this thing?

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-08 19:25, tom arnall wrote: I did a download via a torrent file, with results I don't understand. Rtorrent created a directory and put some files in it, all in a seemingly normal manner. But the stuff turned out to be a fake, so I tried to remove it. The result wa

Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: grub (and maybe lilo) never used to be able to boot from an xfs partition. Grub is doing fine, although it's true it had some issues in the past (just read about them, actually). Can't talk about lilo. As for the shiver, I also am confused. A 64MB partition, though, real

Burning cue/mp3 files on Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Kamichoff
Hi - Does anyone have any bright ideas on how one's supposed to burn cue/mp3 files on Debian? The normal ways (cdrdao, wodim, etc.) don't seem to work because the Debian packages for these applications have been built without MP3 support. I tried the GUI route with gnomebaker, but it appears th

KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread lrhorer
I loaded up an embedded system with Debian recently. I was having problems relating to the older kernel in Lenny, so I want ahead and installed Squeeze. I got things working, but I was mortified with KDE4, which installed with Squeeze. It's horrible. I mean really, really bad. KDE3 wa

Re: what is this thing?

2010-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 19:25, tom arnall wrote: I did a download via a torrent file, with results I don't understand. Rtorrent created a directory and put some files in it, all in a seemingly normal manner. But the stuff turned out to be a fake, so I tried to remove it. The result was that the non-hidde

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: OK, I studied the tune2fs manpage. I found that it controls what happens when a certain mount count or mount interval is reached. Which requires mount count and time to be already stored in the filesystem. What I need is not to prevent the reaction to this data (count and ti

what is this thing?

2010-03-08 Thread tom arnall
I did a download via a torrent file, with results I don't understand. Rtorrent created a directory and put some files in it, all in a seemingly normal manner. But the stuff turned out to be a fake, so I tried to remove it. The result was that the non-hidden files went away, but two hidden files

/boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 18:35, thib wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: xfs as a /boot partition? Why not? [This is so going off topic.] grub (and maybe lilo) never used to be able to boot from an xfs partition. As for the shiver, I also am confused. A 64MB partition, though, really doesn't need a hig

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: > I would suggest going through the tune2fs(8) manpage and find > out what could be.. tuned. You know what? I think your first > suggestion is a good one - look at the mount count configuration for a > starter. OK, I studied the tune2fs

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: > It is almost certainly the mount count. I just manually unmounted and mounted the device a few times. With the arguments I have in fstab ("ro","noatime"). In other words, I did umount /boot; mount /boot; dd_rescue /dev/sda1 /tmp/

Re: Bash "read" command: want to preload some data

2010-03-08 Thread A. Costa
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:27:22 +, Bob Cox wrote: > > (Debian's minimal 'dash' also has a 'read -i', so for > > current Debian, the '-i' is universal. Earlier versions, > > or other *nixs might not though.) > > Not so sure that is correct about dash... Whoops, you're right, it seems I did a 'man

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-03-08 15:32, ahpurdy wrote: > I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian. I > wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian into > it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian. This would be a

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Bob McGowan
thib wrote: Clive McBarton wrote: Good point, that is probably important. ext3. Well then I would suggest going through the tune2fs(8) manpage and find out what could be.. tuned. You know what? I think your first suggestion is a good one - look at the mount count configuration for a star

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:49:25PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Check this pic: > > http://www.playtool.com/pages/dvicompat/sldldvi.jpg > > > > I had no idea it was such a mess! Three different types of DVI?!? One > for D, one for V, one for I?!? As you can see from the pictures, the pinout vari

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 02:35 AM, thib wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: xfs as a /boot partition? Why not? [This is so going off topic.] -thib Ok, so let's prevent this and end the thread. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon March 8 2010 16:28:40 Clive McBarton wrote: > I do NO write operation whatsoever on it. It is not allowed to change in > ANY way. It's probably not that large. Save a few copies with dd and see where they differ. Might turn up a clue. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Aioanei Rares wrote: xfs as a /boot partition? Why not? [This is so going off topic.] -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b9597be.80...@stamm

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: Good point, that is probably important. ext3. Well then I would suggest going through the tune2fs(8) manpage and find out what could be.. tuned. You know what? I think your first suggestion is a good one - look at the mount count configuration for a starter. If noth

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 02:30 AM, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Moore wrote: Is this checksum failing for every file, or just some? It's the checksum for the partition that changes. I don't have checksums of the individual files but since the metad

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Moore wrote: > Is this checksum failing for every file, or just some? It's the checksum for the partition that changes. I don't have checksums of the individual files but since the metadata of every single file stays the same, presumably so do

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: > I'm guessing OP literally checksums the volume from the block device. Yes, of course. I mean "md5sum /dev/sda1". > If I'm right, it could be anything, really, lots of filesystem metadata > moving around without actually touching any fi

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Aioanei Rares wrote: 2. external HDD's wear out faster [...] Really? No misunderstanding with SSD drives here? (Just wondering.) Anyway, I agree, USB might make it look painful to use, but if you don't have a spare internal drive around, it's still better than a LiveCD. As Aioanei Rares

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 02:09 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-08 17:50, thib wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: How do you check this "checksum of the partition" ? I'm guessing OP literally checksums the volume from the block device. If I'm right, it could be anything, really, lots of filesystem metadata

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 02:01 AM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:45:55 +0200 Aioanei Rares wrote: ... 2. external HDD's wear out faster, so if you wanna get a drive for They do? I thought that they were the same disks internally, except for the addition of the USB bridge silicon? Ce

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 17:50, thib wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: How do you check this "checksum of the partition" ? I'm guessing OP literally checksums the volume from the block device. If I'm right, it could be anything, really, lots of filesystem metadata moving around without actually touching any

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 18:01, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:45:55 +0200 Aioanei Rares wrote: ... 2. external HDD's wear out faster, so if you wanna get a drive for They do? I thought that they were the same disks internally, except for the addition of the USB bridge silicon? Maybe he's c

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 17:45, Aioanei Rares wrote: On 03/08/2010 11:32 PM, ahpurdy wrote: I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian. I wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian into it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian. This would be a good

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:45:55 +0200 Aioanei Rares wrote: ... > 2. external HDD's wear out faster, so if you wanna get a drive for They do? I thought that they were the same disks internally, except for the addition of the USB bridge silicon? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine,

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:32:33 -0800 ahpurdy wrote: > I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian. I > wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian into > it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian. This would be a good > way to learn Debian I t

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/08/2010 11:32 PM, ahpurdy wrote: I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian. I wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian into it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian. This would be a good way to learn Debian I think. Is this possib

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 15:32, ahpurdy wrote: I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian. I wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian into it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian. This would be a good way to learn Debian I think. Is this possible

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Aioanei Rares wrote: How do you check this "checksum of the partition" ? I'm guessing OP literally checksums the volume from the block device. If I'm right, it could be anything, really, lots of filesystem metadata moving around without actually touching any file contents (access times, for

Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread ahpurdy
I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian. I wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian into it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian. This would be a good way to learn Debian I think. Is this possible or would XP reject it? Alan --

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Martin Kraus wrote: This seems pretty specific to me. I have asked what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm for kvm virtualization. Both support kvm and both are based on qemu 0.11.1 so I wanted to know what is the difference. I'm not really sure that virtualbox is the right thing for a

Iceweasel 3.5.6 global spellcheck

2010-03-08 Thread Dean Montgomery
I can't seem to get global spellcheck working for Iceweasel. I don't want to have all users download dictionaries to their HOME folder but rather a centraly installed dictionary for all users. In the past Iceweasel would detect and use myspell dictionaries. * Base System: Lenny * iceweasel: 3.

Re: rendering languages?

2010-03-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 14:20, Zachary Uram wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> Is your problem viewing, pasting, or typing text? What is "whatever"? > > All three. It shows weird high ASCII characters instead of the > appropriate glyphs. > >> Are you using a UTF-8 lo

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Stan Hoeppner wrote: I'm constantly Googling trying to find new ones. Apparently (and unfortunately), thoughtful, thorough, and fair comparative Linux filesytem benchmarking is a very rare hobby. :( Best thing to do would be to lurk on Phoronix until they release a new one. You can already s

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Matthew Moore
On Monday March 8 2010 3:11:05 pm Clive McBarton wrote: > When I reboot, the partition /boot (it is a separate partition, not a > directory) changes. It is not supposed to. None of the files on it have > changed or can change, since it is mounted with option "ro". But the > checksum of the partitio

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 12:11 AM, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I reboot, the partition /boot (it is a separate partition, not a directory) changes. It is not supposed to. None of the files on it have changed or can change, since it is mounted with option "ro". B

Re: rendering languages?

2010-03-08 Thread Zachary Uram
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Is your problem viewing, pasting, or typing text? What is "whatever"? All three. It shows weird high ASCII characters instead of the appropriate glyphs. > Are you using a UTF-8 locale? I don't know. How would I check and set that? Zach -

Re: Problem using totem

2010-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-08, John Salmon wrote: > I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg > file I get the fpllowing; > > epc_publisher_create_server: listening on http://peace:58293/ > ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Init of Python module > ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Registering Python plug

/boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I reboot, the partition /boot (it is a separate partition, not a directory) changes. It is not supposed to. None of the files on it have changed or can change, since it is mounted with option "ro". But the checksum of the partition changes. Is th

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for DFP-0 or VGA-0 output(s). > Genius! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: rendering languages?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> When I ran Ubuntu it seemed to automatically setup fonts or whatever > so that if I used the web or gedit I could view and copy/paste Arabic, > Chinese, Hebrew etc. I didn't have to set anything up.  Yet in Debian > these languages appear as a bunch of gibberish. I am running Debian > squeeze, ho

rendering languages?

2010-03-08 Thread Zachary Uram
When I ran Ubuntu it seemed to automatically setup fonts or whatever so that if I used the web or gedit I could view and copy/paste Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew etc. I didn't have to set anything up. Yet in Debian these languages appear as a bunch of gibberish. I am running Debian squeeze, how do I get

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,08.Mar.10, 12:59:13, Dotan Cohen wrote: > DVI supports both digital and analgue connections (that's how VGA > adaptors work). I have a user who fought with his Windows drivers to > force digital connection, even though he was connecting with the DVI > ports over a DVI cable it was sending an

Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian?

2010-03-08 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Mon, 3/8/10, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > From: tv.deb...@googlemail.com > Subject: Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 1:26 PM > Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I use iTunes on a Mac to host my very lar

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Clive McBarton put forth on 3/8/2010 3:29 PM: > That benchmark/article is from 2006 though, and the references are from > 2003 and 2006. The hard disks are PATA and slow (100 and 133). Are there > any newer benchmarks? I'm constantly Googling trying to find new ones. Apparently (and unfortunatel

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 > > "Based on all testing done for this benchmark essay, XFS appears to be the > most appropriate filesystem to install on a file server for home or > small-business needs : > >

Re: DAAP server for OS X or Debian?

2010-03-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I use iTunes on a Mac to host my very large music library. I want to share >this music over DAAP to my Debian box (dont really care what client i use, >Rhythmbox or Banshee or Songbird is all fine), but the iTunes version encrypts >it so you cant use it with

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Kraus
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:31:54AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > This is a better question, and will get better replies. My replies > were general, and you had something specific in mind. It pays to be > specific. I can tell you about virt tech, though in my > scatterbrained way, I will misuse the

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Check this pic: > http://www.playtool.com/pages/dvicompat/sldldvi.jpg > I had no idea it was such a mess! Three different types of DVI?!? One for D, one for V, one for I?!? -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 8 March 2010 16:16, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:47:07 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>> Tell the user to use a DVI-D to DVI-D (only digital) cable :-) >>> >>> >> He is using the cable that came with the monitor. > > Can't he get a new one? Or at least, can't he determine what type of

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I might be saying complete bullshit, but do DVI cables carry tha analog > signal? It's true the connectors in VGA boards have both signals, but > shouldn't a standard DVI cable only transmit the digital signal and ignore > the analog part, which is used only when a DVI->VGA adaptor is used? > > M

DAAP server for OS X or Debian?

2010-03-08 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, I use iTunes on a Mac to host my very large music library. I want to share this music over DAAP to my Debian box (dont really care what client i use, Rhythmbox or Banshee or Songbird is all fine), but the iTunes version encrypts it so you cant use it with non-iTunes clients. Is there a cur

Re: Problem using totem

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/08/2010 10:05 PM, John Salmon wrote: I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg file I get the fpllowing; epc_publisher_create_server: listening on http://peace:58293/ ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Init of Python module ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Registering Python plugi

Problem using totem

2010-03-08 Thread John Salmon
I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg file I get the fpllowing; epc_publisher_create_server: listening on http://peace:58293/ ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Init of Python module ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: YouTube +TotemPythonPlugin ** (to

Re: gnome-ppp error is now a kernel failure?

2010-03-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:39:33 -0500, twixt wrote: > Follow up: When the wvdial error occurs, a popup window tells me the > kernel failed. No need to open a new thread. You can add more information on the original one, unless you change the whole topic :-) (...) > Mar 7 06:38:24 localhost pppd[

Re: SOLVED emacs transient-mark-mode

2010-03-08 Thread Martin
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:19:40PM +0100, MList wrote: > When I set mark with C-SAPCE and then move cursor with > C-f C-b M-f M-b C-n C-p there is blue backgroun and > transient-mark-mode work as I am used to. But if I move > cursors with arrow keys or when I use C-x C-x to exchange > cursor and m

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 04:55:38 -0500 (EST), Cecil Knutson wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you saying that the >> installer does not recognize existing partitions already on the hard >> disk? Or are >> you saying that it won't let you create more tha

Re: OT: wireless b/g/n usb adaptor

2010-03-08 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
For a/b/g the Alfa AWUS036H has good support and the (last I checked) the top performing usb card out there. It uses the rtl8187 driver and should work out-of-the-box with the stock Debian kernel. If you want the N version of the same card, it will require the rtl8187se. This will take a bit more w

Re: [OT] Users posting to the wrong list (was: DNS (BIND)primario y secundario)

2010-03-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:55:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:21:48 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Camaleón put forth on 3/3/2010 8:50 AM: > >>> Stan, please, let's calm down. >>> >>> I'll try again to contact Cosme and explain him the situation. I don't >>> think he is fully a

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-07 03:55, Cecil Knutson wrote: [snip] Is it right to see LVM as software to combine several HD's? Does it have any use with respect to a single 1.5TB HD? Yes. At some point, if you run out of space on that device, simple add another disk to your existing single

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/8/2010 6:41 AM, Martin Kraus wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:58:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Earlier, I wrote what I think was a confusing reply to this. ... o QEMU is emulation. o Virtualbox is Full virtualization. o QEMU+KVM is a funny beast, it is paravirtualization with kernel

OT: wireless b/g/n usb adaptor

2010-03-08 Thread I Rattan
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Re: Bash "read" command: want to preload some data

2010-03-08 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 21:11:29 -0500, A. Costa (agco...@gis.net) wrote: > Bash isn't strictly needed, plain Bourne shell works, using parameter > substitution [...] Thank you for you time and trouble. As it happens, I did in fact upgrade this lenny box to use bash version 4.1-1 and all is n

Re: Bash email attachment

2010-03-08 Thread Michael Elkins
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:53:38PM +0100, Raven wrote: > To encode the image I use: > > /usr/bin/uuencode img.jpg img.jpg > attachment.txt > cat hdr.txt body.txt attachment.txt > message.txt > $SENDMAIL "-f" $4 "--" $2 > Anyone knows how to solve this? As the others have mentioned, you should b

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-08 Thread Russell Gadd
Thanks for all the responses. I'd like to leave Windows alone, therefore using NTFS has attractions over trying to use ext2. I think I'll try using it in place of FAT32 / VFAT in Linux using ntfs-3g and see how it goes. I'm using Debian Lenny 64 bit on a quad core processor so I'm hoping that perfo

Re: Bash email attachment

2010-03-08 Thread Nick Douma
On 8-3-2010 14:53, Raven wrote: > Anyone knows how to solve this? > Thanks > Why don't you just BASE64 the attachment and set the proper mime-type? You might still be able to use uuencode, but setting a mime-type seems mandatory to me, because else the mail client has to guess what the attachment

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Kraus
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:27:42PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:41:54PM +0100, Martin Kraus wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:58:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > > > Earlier, I wrote what I think was a confusing reply to this. > > In Debian > > Squeeze, there are two pa

NFS mount from a particuliar interface ?

2010-03-08 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I have a Lenny server with two ethernet interfaces which is NFS CLIENT to a NETAPP filer I wonder if it would be possible to force NFS traffic to/from the filer on one ethernet interface and use the other interface for all other traffics ? like the following eth0 <--OTHER TRAFFI

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Odd
Dotan Cohen wrote: Tell the user to use a DVI-D to DVI-D (only digital) cable :-) He is using the cable that came with the monitor. Is there no way to tell which type of connection is being used? For whatever reason, it is important to him to know that the connection is digital. Check this

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing and some other strange things

2010-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:17:19 +0100 godo wrote: > Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: > > > No pics are allowed on this list. > Sorry I didn't know that. So, for the future if I need to display an > image what is the solution? Not sure about this. The CoC merely states: # Avoid sending large att

Re: Bash email attachment

2010-03-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 8.3.2010 15:53, Raven wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently wrote a small content filter script (in bash) to use on my > local Postfix installation. The script receives via "pipe:" the > recipient and the sender's addresses then responds by sending back a > message containing some body text and an im

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:47:07 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Tell the user to use a DVI-D to DVI-D (only digital) cable :-) >> >> > He is using the cable that came with the monitor. Can't he get a new one? Or at least, can't he determine what type of cable is it? DVI-I, DVI-D... I find that a hardw

Bash email attachment

2010-03-08 Thread Raven
Hi all, I recently wrote a small content filter script (in bash) to use on my local Postfix installation. The script receives via "pipe:" the recipient and the sender's addresses then responds by sending back a message containing some body text and an image attachment. It works as it is supposed t

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Seg, 08 Mar 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> Is there no way to tell which type of connection is being used? For >> whatever reason, it is important to him to know that the connection is >> digital. > > I might be saying complete bulls

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 08 Mar 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there no way to tell which type of connection is being used? For whatever reason, it is important to him to know that the connection is digital. I might be saying complete bullshit, but do DVI cables carry tha analog signal? It's true the connectors

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Tell the user to use a DVI-D to DVI-D (only digital) cable :-) > He is using the cable that came with the monitor. Is there no way to tell which type of connection is being used? For whatever reason, it is important to him to know that the connection is digital. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.co

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:41:54PM +0100, Martin Kraus wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:58:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > > Earlier, I wrote what I think was a confusing reply to this. > In Debian > Squeeze, there are two packages for qemu, one named qemu, the other qemu-kvm. > Both are based

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Martin Kraus wrote: My question is, why there are two apparently identical qemu packages. Which one should I use with kvm. ** I didn't take the time to check that out, so I may be wrong ** The kvm userspace utility is in fact a modified qemu which takes advantage of hardware tech via the kvm

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing and some other strange things

2010-03-08 Thread godo
Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: No pics are allowed on this list. Sorry I didn't know that. So, for the future if I need to display an image what is the solution? Maybe misconfigured swap. I can't go to terminal or X. Ok, on GRUB boot menu, type "e" add option noswap, then boot with CTRL+

no write access in /home reiserfs (encrypted) 2.6.32-2-686

2010-03-08 Thread robi
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-2-686 hello, I have upgraded kernel to 2.6.32-2-686 from 2.6.26-2-686. After that, when I boot my laptop (debian lenny) I get the error about no write access to /home. It's mounted with rw options, reiserfs and it's encrypted from /dev/mapper/dat-home. After rebooting

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:59:13 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > DVI supports both digital and analgue connections (that's how VGA > adaptors work). That's DVI-I, I guess. > I have a user who fought with his Windows drivers to > force digital connection, even though he was connecting with the DVI > por

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Kraus
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:58:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Earlier, I wrote what I think was a confusing reply to this. ... > > o QEMU is emulation. > o Virtualbox is Full virtualization. > o QEMU+KVM is a funny beast, it is paravirtualization with kernel > virtualization, you need hardware C

Re: how are debconf and dpkg-deb related?

2010-03-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, debconf is an infrastructure where a package ask configuration question to the sys admin. There are few different front end for sys admin to interact with debconf. On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:58:18PM -0800, vikram wrote: > hi, > > I am studying the Debian package management system. I am hav

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