Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:34:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > If I open many (i.e. > 10, which is not that much) tabs in, say, > Iceweasel, my internet connection seems to freeze, i.e. nothing loads > anymore. My network outgoing traffic keeps staying at ~10 KiB/s, and I > need to wait some minutes

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-15 00:48, Stefan Monnier wrote: If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance here and there (depends on application). I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not human error.

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 4/15/2010 12:08 AM: > And .32-trunk is the running kernel, has been for some time, and I've > rebooted several times. Did up aptitude upgrade to the .32-trunk kernel or is your .32-trunk kernel what resulted from a fresh install? Also, what architecture is your ke

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use > mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance > here and there (depends on application). I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not human error. >>> And I disagre

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/14/2010 11:10 PM: > On 2010-04-14 22:35, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > [snip] >> >> r8169 requesting rtl8169-1.fw >> > > What package is that in? At this point in time it supposedly should be found in firmware-linux-nonfree. However, I can't find it there. In fact, I

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-14 23:29, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] You mentioned you had problems building 2.6.32 and .33 kernel source. Do you use the Debian kernel source or kernel.org source? I've been using the kernel.org source for quite some time and have never had any real problems with it (knocks on woo

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread briand
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:10:32 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-14 22:35, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > [snip] > > > > r8169 requesting rtl8169-1.fw > > > > What package is that in? > I don't know. Did I mention that it fails to load, i.e. probably isn't there ? I do have non-free in so

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 4/14/2010 10:35 PM: > running 2.6.32-trunk on an Atom/Intel board and I'm not seeing any > problems. Which 2.6.32? Apparently this bug was fixed in 2.6.32-3. I'm not sure if this firmware bug affected all RTL chips or even all RTL 8168/9 chips. Count yourself luc

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/14/2010 10:14 PM: > Nothing I've seen in dmesg has ever led me to think that the r8169 > driver in my Sid linux-source-2.6.31 kernel (yes, it's old; .32 and 33 > fail to build) loads a blob. Almost all NICs load firmware blobs. It's in dmesg somewhere. When the firmwa

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-14 22:35, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: [snip] r8169 requesting rtl8169-1.fw What package is that in? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Where to find setup for env variable? [a question]

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Chany
Hi, Paul E Condon writes: > On 20100414_113944, Paul Chany wrote: >> >> I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but >> don't know where? > > When I am reading this thread there are already two search > suggestions that are better than what I might have come up with. My > post

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread briand
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:14:17 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-14 21:58, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Ron Johnson put forth on 4/14/2010 8:28 AM: > >> On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: > >> [snip] > >>> Either way, avoid onboard RealTe

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-14 21:58, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 4/14/2010 8:28 AM: On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: [snip] Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently supported well by Debian. One might be able

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:16:03 Stephen Powell wrote: > What I need to do is to have two structures overlay each other; so that > they occupy the same storage. To be specific, here is a structure which > describes the volume label for an OS-formatted disk: > > struct __attribute__ ((packed))

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/14/2010 8:28 AM: > On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: > [snip] >> >> Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently >> supported >> well by Debian. One might be able to make it work, but the proc

Re: non-ASCII environment

2010-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 09 April 2010 11:14:14 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Nevertheless, something bothers me: where non-ASCII environment can be > found ? IIRC, there are some Asian locales that are not fully (seven-bit) ASCII- compatible. Many locales make use of eight-bit characters or use bytes with decimal va

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Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread francis southern
On 14 April 2010 16:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up >> my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to >> udev was required (

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-14 Thread thib
If it happens even after the pages have all finished loading, then you have a problem (probably with your browser). If not, well.. you either have to give your connection a rest (streaming video is heavy stuff) or ask network gurus to narrow down the problem. Is it happening only with your b

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Apr 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote: Well, I tried to connect but got: EAP: unknown authentication type 13; Naking Anyone know what this indicates? Googling doesn't produce much illumination - nothing that applies to my situation. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Micros

Re: php and sqlite

2010-04-14 Thread Alan Chandler
Alan Chandler wrote: I seem to be stuck (slightly) with converting an some postgres and mysql based php web applications to sqlite. There seems to be two possible interfaces to the database SQLite3 and PDO I have discovered that SQLite3 seems to set the busy timeout to 0 - meaning that if the

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-14 Thread Mark
>On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Mark wrote: >Hi, > >I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php> Interesting, I've done a lot of comparing today and building a machine on HP's website actually seems to get the most Debian-friendly h

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 22:06:41 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi list, > > After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up > my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to > udev was required (see also the list history for several threads on that > t

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up > my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to > udev was required (see also the list history for several threads on that > topic). Now, u

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi list, > > After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up > my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to > udev was required (see also the list history for several threads on that

Re: New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-14 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:48:59PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 14 April 2010 00:59:14 debian-user-digest- > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start > > > Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number > > > of arguments > >

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-14 13:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance here and there (depends on application). I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not human error.

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:09:03 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > Another thing to try is to activate the desktop icons for removable > > devices and test if users can mount the devices by clicking on the > > icons. > > Sorry to sound stupid, but how do I activate t

Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, If I open many (i.e. > 10, which is not that much) tabs in, say, Iceweasel, my internet connection seems to freeze, i.e. nothing loads anymore. My network outgoing traffic keeps staying at ~10 KiB/s, and I need to wait some minutes (generally, less than 5 mins). Everything then loads. This ha

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-14 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:17:48 -0400 Ed Jabbour wrote: > I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited > /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf > to do the same and added the dns to wicd. However, I keep getting the same > old dns from the router, i.e., resolv.conf keeps changing to the router's 192

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-14 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 04/14/2010 06:17 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote: >> >> I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited >> /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf >> to do the same and added the dns to wicd.  However, I keep getting the >> same >> old dns from the rou

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 04/14/2010 06:17 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote: I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to do the same and added the dns to wicd. However, I keep getting the same old dns from the router, i.e., resolv.conf keeps changing to the router's 192 ip. The router does n

Does Linux respect gratuitous arp replies?

2010-04-14 Thread Celejar
Hi, Does Linux respect gratuitous arp replies? This page claims that it does: Linux kernels will respect gratuitous ARP frames. http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-arp.html But in a footnote the author seems to backtrack a bit: I have repeatedly tested using arping (iputils-arping) in gratuitous A

Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-14 Thread Ed Jabbour
I edited /etc/resolv.conf to add a nameserver, edited /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to do the same and added the dns to wicd. However, I keep getting the same old dns from the router, i.e., resolv.conf keeps changing to the router's 192 ip. The router does not allow editing dns. I think this is du

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100414_123342, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-14 09:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > > >non-obvious --- to the point that there was an open contest with > >prizes awarded for the most obfuscated example of C code. The prizes > >went to the code for which the judges were most surprised on

Re: C programming question [OT]

2010-04-14 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] http://www1.us.ioccc.org/main.html I guess they got bored looking at normal production C code... Sometimes, I find the code there even more impressive: http://underhanded.xcott.com/ It's even more restricted, and not so pointless. Hiding in plain sight, beaut

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-14 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-04-14 16:51, Lennart Sorensen wrote: It is based on the fact that the 'official installer' overwrites files belonging to debian packages. When those packages someday get upgraded, they overwrite what the nvidia driver installed, and then things break. I have helped enough people fix that

xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi list, After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to udev was required (see also the list history for several threads on that topic). Now, udev stopped working? Did I miss any change to xorg behavio

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Apr 2010, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > If you want a gui, try kvpnc. Contrary to what its name suggests, it > handles much more than just Cisco's vpn. > > Sjoerd > > PS. It can be a bit fiddly to get the settings of the pptp server right. > You'd better try to get the accepted compression, encr

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Ken Heard schreef: > Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2010-04-14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> ---SNIP--- >>> Liam O'Toole schreef: >> ---SNIP--- I don't see a lenny-backports version: =20 http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=3Dsun-java6-plugin =20 Is it available but under

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Anthony Campbell schreef: > On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> On 04/14/2010 01:39 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 04/14/2010 12:59 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about >

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 04/14/2010 01:39 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >>On 04/14/2010 12:59 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >>>I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about > >>>this and have little time to fin

IEGD under Debian testing

2010-04-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
Has someone managed to get the IEGD driver working under Debian testing? If so, which kernel version and Xorg server? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use >>> mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance >>> here and there (depends on application). >> I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not >> human error. > And I disagree with that.

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Unions have been in C for at least 20 years; probably since the Early > Days. Unions are in the first edition of K&R. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2010-04-14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > ---SNIP--- >> Liam O'Toole schreef: > ---SNIP--- >>> I don't see a lenny-backports version: >>> =20 >>> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=3Dsun-java6-plugin >>> =20 >>> Is it a

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-04-14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: ---SNIP--- > Liam O'Toole schreef: ---SNIP--- >> I don't see a lenny-backports version: >>=20 >> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=3Dsun-java6-plugin >>=20 >> Is it available but under a different name? >>=20 > It's there (in non-free): > http://

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 04/14/2010 01:39 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 04/14/2010 12:59 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about this and have little time to find out, because I need to get it working by Sa

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-14 11:12, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-13 15:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with? I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices. Come on, man... You should know the drill. Specify: o budg

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Apr 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 04/14/2010 12:59 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about > >this and have little time to find out, because I need to get it working > >by Saturday! > > > >Can anyone kindly tell me what packa

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-14 09:31, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] non-obvious --- to the point that there was an open contest with prizes awarded for the most obfuscated example of C code. The prizes went to the code for which the judges were most surprised on seeing it run after they read the code and tried to

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:12:29 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Come on, man... You should know the drill. >> >> Specify: >> >> o budget >> o needed features >> o preferred features >> >> > budget - any Nice! > needed features - desktop configuration, at least 2 PCI expr

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 14/04/2010 15:28, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: [snip] Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently supported well by Debian. One might be able to make it work, but the process requires some

Re: Where to find setup for env variable?

2010-04-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Paul Chany wrote: Liam O'Toole writes: On 2010-04-14, Paul Chany wrote: I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but don't know where? ---SNIP--- Maybe /etc/environment? Here on my GNU/Linux Lenny system this file is empty. -- Regards, Paul Cha

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:05:45 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 4/14/10, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and what is >> your final purpose, I mean, what do you want to achieve with that file? > ~/.xsession is recognized by the Xsession usually

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:40:04 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> "update-alternatives" output shows that the wrong java plugin version >> is being picked (openJDK instead Sun's Java one). > > update-alternatives --config firefox-javaplugin.so now returns: > > There is only 1 program

Re: Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 04/14/2010 12:59 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about this and have little time to find out, because I need to get it working by Saturday! Can anyone kindly tell me what package(s) to install and point me to a (preferably simple)

Re: Omit 32-bit Packages From Install

2010-04-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Carlos Mennens schreef: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Everything in the 64 bit section is 64 bit, except the ia32 compability libraries. If you make sure you haven't installed those (which should be the case on a base system that doesn't need those), then you have a f

Connecting to vpn server

2010-04-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have to find out how to connect to a vpn server. I know nothing about this and have little time to find out, because I need to get it working by Saturday! Can anyone kindly tell me what package(s) to install and point me to a (preferably simple) how-to? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acam

Re: Omit 32-bit Packages From Install

2010-04-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Everything in the 64 bit section is 64 bit, except the ia32 compability > libraries. If you make sure you haven't installed those (which should be the > case on a base system that doesn't need those), then you have a fully 64 bit > system.

Re: Omit 32-bit Packages From Install

2010-04-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Carlos Mennens schreef: I was wondering if by default when I installed Debian Squeeze using the "debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso" from Debian's site, does it default to installing both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries / packages? The reason I ask is because we're doing testing here in the Army w

Omit 32-bit Packages From Install

2010-04-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
I was wondering if by default when I installed Debian Squeeze using the "debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso" from Debian's site, does it default to installing both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries / packages? The reason I ask is because we're doing testing here in the Army where I work and I need to

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > "update-alternatives" output shows that the wrong java plugin version is > being picked (openJDK instead Sun's Java one). update-alternatives --config firefox-javaplugin.so now returns: There is only 1 program which provides firef

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for CMS-formatted disks on the s390 architecture. The source code is written in C, of course. But I am not a C programmer. I can spell

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 4/14/10, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:55:18 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > >> So, how do I prevent it from crashing and successfully log in? > > Curious is that I don't have such file in my home (running Lenny and > GNOME here) :-? > > Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsess

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-14 Thread Mark
>On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: >Some Broadcom cards not supported by b43 driver have support with >"ndiswrapper", you could check if your model is listed there :-? > >Mmmm, for this I dunno. It seems to be using Intel G45 chipset. Google a >bit to check what people is saying.

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-13 15:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with? I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices. Come on, man... You should know the drill. Specify: o budget o needed features o preferred features

Re: not all beeps getting through

2010-04-14 Thread jidanni
> "DI" == Damyan Ivanov writes: DI> -=| jida...@jidanni.org, Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:14:23AM +0800 |=- >> Gentlemen, it's driving me bananas. Why am I not getting all the beeps I >> am entitled to here on my EEEPC 702 8G? >> $ n=1; while sleep 2; do echo $((n++)); beep -r 4; done >> $ n=1; wh

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:48:56 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > In directory /usr/lib/firefox/plugins there was already a symbolic link > from libjavaplugin.so to /etc/alternatives/firefox-libjavaplugin.so. > > I renamed that one and made libjavaplugin.so link to > /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_19/plugin/i386/ns7

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In directory /usr/lib/firefox/plugins there was already a symbolic link from libjavaplugin.so to /etc/alternatives/firefox-libjavaplugin.so. I renamed that one and made libjavaplugin.so link to /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_19/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oj

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:26:45 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> What is the output of "update-alternatives --display firefox- >> javaplugin.so" command? > > At the moment it returns: "No alternatives for firefox-." Sorry, I posted a "broken line" command with no further advice.

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:55:18 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > So, how do I prevent it from crashing and successfully log in? Curious is that I don't have such file in my home (running Lenny and GNOME here) :-? Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and what is your final purpos

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Disc Magnet wrote: > So, how do I prevent it from crashing and successfully log in? Delete the .xsession file. I'm running GNOME, and don't have one. Patrick > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:00 +0530, Disc Magne

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > Just a side note about java/java plugin download from Oracle/Sun site. > > Last time I had to install it in that way on a linux system I needed to > make a symlink for the plugin to work in Firefox, as described in the > Installat

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Disc Magnet
So, how do I prevent it from crashing and successfully log in? On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:00 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > >> If I create an empty (0 length) .xsession or an .xsession file >> containing one line, say, echo hello, world, I get this e

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: > On 2010-04-13 23:53, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > anyone having problems with their Nvidia card and drivers should first > > consult Lennart Sorensen's HOWTO: > > > > http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html >

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:04:00 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: (...) > After reloading Iceweasel, about:plugins still showed the previous JRE I > was using, /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java. > > Assuming that I can use a later version of JRE downloaded from Sun on > Iceweasel 3.5, am I on the rig

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Liam O'Toole schreef: On 2010-04-14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enigFA5FB73CBD21A1915422D995 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Liam O'Toole schreef: ---SNIP---

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:00 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > If I create an empty (0 length) .xsession or an .xsession file > containing one line, say, echo hello, world, I get this error when I try > to log into GNOME. > > Your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out > yourse

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-04-14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enigFA5FB73CBD21A1915422D995 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Liam O'Toole schreef: ---SNIP--- >> While the u

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100413_193540, Robert Baron wrote: > What a great little learning project. > > My suggestion is to work out a simpler version of what you are trying to do: > > typedef struct { > unsigned short rec_type; > long data; > } type1; > > typedef struct { > unsigned short rec_type; >

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:02:42 -0400, Ryan Manikowski wrote: > On 4/14/2010 9:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Really? RealTek chips are as common as flies on horse poop, and works >> perfectly for me. >> (...) > Same here. Realtek 100mbit and GigE chips have always worked great > regardless of ker

Re: Where to find setup for env variable? [a question]

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100414_113944, Paul Chany wrote: > Hi, > > I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but don't > know where? ...snip When I am reading this thread there are already two search suggestions that are better than what I might have come up with. My post is to find out where the

Re: Reportbug-ng Cannot Retrieve Info

2010-04-14 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:37:55 +0300 David Baron wrote: > On my Debian Sid box, get: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/reportbug-ng/rnggui.py", line 205, in > lineedit_return_pressed > buglist = bts.get_bugs(query) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/debianbts.py", l

Re: Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Ryan Manikowski
On 4/14/2010 9:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: > [snip] >> >> Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently >> supported >> well by Debian. One might be able to make it work, but the process

Reportbug-ng Cannot Retrieve Info

2010-04-14 Thread David Baron
On my Debian Sid box, get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/reportbug-ng/rnggui.py", line 205, in lineedit_return_pressed buglist = bts.get_bugs(query) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/debianbts.py", line 184, in get_bugs reply = server.get_bugs(*key_value) File

Re: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-13 23:24, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have oowriter from testing repo installed w/ all the necessary What version is that? v3.2 from Sid opens much faster than any other version I've seen. dependencies. Now at opening of the first document it hangs for "Hang" has a specific

Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:42:33 -0700 Mark wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one > http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell > Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great > results on older dell bcm43xx cards in

Realtek ethernet (was Re: recent mobo recommendation)

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: [snip] Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently supported well by Debian. One might be able to make it work, but the process requires some serious hoop jumping. Really? RealT

GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

2010-04-14 Thread Disc Magnet
If I create an empty (0 length) .xsession or an .xsession file containing one line, say, echo hello, world, I get this error when I try to log into GNOME. Your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself this could mean there is some installation problem or that you ma

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Liam O'Toole schreef: On 2010-04-14, Clive Standbridge wrote: After reloading Iceweasel, about:plugins still showed the previous JRE I was using, /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java. Assuming that I can use a later version of JRE downloaded from Sun on Iceweasel 3.5, am I on the right tra

Re: New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-14 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 00:59:14 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start > > Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number > > of arguments > > > > failed! > > > > > > After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fi

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #630

2010-04-14 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 00:59:14 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start > > Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number > > of arguments > > > > failed! > > > > > > After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fi

Re: New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-14 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 00:59:14 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start > > Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of > > arguments > > > > failed! > > > > After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? >

Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-04-14, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> > >> > After reloading Iceweasel, about:plugins still showed the previous JRE I >> > was using, /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java. >> > >> > Assuming that I can use a later version of JRE downloaded from Sun on >> > Iceweasel 3.5, am I on the right

Re: Re: Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-14 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > > > After reloading Iceweasel, about:plugins still showed the previous JRE I > > was using, /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java. > > > > Assuming that I can use a later version of JRE downloaded from Sun on > > Iceweasel 3.5, am I on the right track but did not get the newer version > > se

Re: Where to find setup for env variable?

2010-04-14 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 14.04.2010 12:24, Paul Chany wrote: > Maybe must I use grep to find the file containing 'JAVA_HOME'? > If yes, I dont' know the exact expression of that grep command. grep -sIr 'JAVA_HOME' /etc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Where to find setup for env variable?

2010-04-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:24:17 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > Jochen Schulz writes: > >> Paul Chany: >>> >>> I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but don't >>> know where? >> >> ~/.xsession? > > No. :( > > Maybe must I use grep to find the file containing 'JAVA_HOME'? If yes, I

Re: Where to find setup for env variable?

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Chany
Jochen Schulz writes: > Paul Chany: >> >> I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but don't >> know where? > > ~/.xsession? No. :( Maybe must I use grep to find the file containing 'JAVA_HOME'? If yes, I dont' know the exact expression of that grep command. -- Regards, Paul

Re: Where to find setup for env variable?

2010-04-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Chany: > > I have setup somewhere the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but don't > know where? ~/.xsession? J. -- When driving at night I find the headlights of oncoming vehicles very attractive. [Agree] [Disagree]

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