Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 iun 10, 11:42:54, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > I've bee all over uncle G to crack this one, but to no avail. In > short: how would you go about launching a program when the computer > is idle, and launching another program when the computer stops being > idle? Specifi

Re: Missing .Jigdo and .Template File

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 03 iun 10, 11:24:15, Hand Gun wrote: > Namaste Suvatthi hotu, Salam Sejahtera. > > In http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/4.0_r9/i386/jigdo-cd/ > > there are missing .jigdo and .template file in list bellow : > > debian-40r9-i386-businesscard.jigdo > debian-40r9-i386-businesscard.te

Re: [OT] Bandwidth usage daemon recommendation

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 iun 10, 17:34:44, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight daemon (I don't > need anything fancy like cacti) to monitor total bandwidth usage? > > Searches turn up quite a few, but many are unmaintained in recent > years. Maybe they do everything they need to

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ralph Katz: > > Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to > syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Another option: it might be a kernel problem. I don't remember the specifics anymore, but on one of my systems I had similar errors. After rep

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 03 iun 10, 11:33:38, David Purton wrote: > > I wanted to do this too, but wanted to dim my screen on idle, and have > it come back on input under X11. I don't run gnome or kde, so didn't > want to use one of their power managers for this. I couldn't find > anything, so I wrote my own. Unde

Missing .Jigdo and .Template File

2010-06-02 Thread Hand Gun
Namaste Suvatthi hotu, Salam Sejahtera. In http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/4.0_r9/i386/jigdo-cd/ there are missing .jigdo and .template file in list bellow : debian-40r9-i386-businesscard.jigdo debian-40r9-i386-businesscard.template debian-40r9-etchnhalf-i386-netinst.jigdo debian-40r9

Vino alături de mine pe Trust-communitY &casti guri & mari oportunitati.

2010-06-02 Thread Dragos Adriana
Trust-communitY &castiguri & mari oportunitati: Hai cu mine pe Trust-communitY &castiguri & mari oportunitati ! Dragos Adriana Fă clic pe linkul de mai jos pentru a te alătura: http://trust-community-dana92.ning.com/?xgi=35KuTv16uOwfYZ&xg_source=msg_invite_net If your emai

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jonas Stein wrote: There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But wich one is the debian way? I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and graphicerrors. I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 befeore i create bugreports. Where can i fin

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-02 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: > Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to > syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? > Short of buying a new disk, how would I know? What would you recommend? > Or do I have a simple BIOS

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:42:54AM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > I've bee all over uncle G to crack this one, but to no avail. In short: > how would you go about launching a program when the computer is idle, > and launching another program when the computer stops bein

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:14:42 -0400 (EDT), John Hasler wrote: > Stephen Powell writes: >> Actually, I've been tempted to volunteer to become the upstream >> maintainer for lilo myself. > > Please do so. >> >> However, although the SAPL is written in assembly language, it is >> written in s390 assem

Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-02 Thread Ralph Katz
Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Short of buying a new disk, how would I know? What would you recommend? Or do I have a simple BIOS setting problem? (My last post to debian-user was in 2008.

Re: [OT] Bandwidth usage daemon recommendation

2010-06-02 Thread Marcos Toro Oyarzo
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight daemon (I don't > need anything fancy like cacti) to monitor total bandwidth usage? > > Searches turn up quite a few, but many are unmaintained in recent > years. Maybe they do everything they nee

[OT] Bandwidth usage daemon recommendation

2010-06-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
Anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight daemon (I don't need anything fancy like cacti) to monitor total bandwidth usage? Searches turn up quite a few, but many are unmaintained in recent years. Maybe they do everything they need to do, but I'd think there would be at least some small bug f

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 06. 2010 00:13:06 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): My old Athlon 64 was similar to that, so I had a script setup to quickly switch to high speed, and a timout option. I would use that at times when I wanted to run several small programs so they would avoid the delay, but then if I forgot it

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread Tixy
Correction... On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 23:25 +0100, Tixy wrote: > snapshot.debian.org might be useful, it archives all debian packages > that have been produced. You have a choice of the five different > releases of the package you mention at: > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux-2.6/2.6.32-5/

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:46 -0400, H.S. wrote: > If somebody has the package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 on their system > someplace (may be even in /var/cache/apt/archives/) or installed, I > would like to know its contents. snapshot.debian.org might be useful, it archives all debian package

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
Klistvud writes: > Dne, 02. 06. 2010 18:33:21 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): >> >> I suspect any manual selection you figure out will be slower than >> that. On my Athlon II computer the default latency is 8 (80msec) >> which is faster than I really need, so I actually slow it down a >> little

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 06. 2010 18:56:48 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): used. You also might want to look at the 'conservative' governor. It will decrease speed slower, but it also increases speed slower. I tried it out and on my system it actually performs even worse than the ondemand governor: the CPU vi

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 06. 2010 18:33:21 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): Do you know what your actual latency is? When you have the ondemand governor selected, you can check by 'cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate' to get the latency in microseconds. You can write to that any value b

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I surmise that the instructions will download the new packages from the backports.org website and then install the updated kernel and everything that the updated kernel needs (ie, all its dependencies). Unfortunately, since th

[OT] Re: Page remove please

2010-06-02 Thread groups, freeman
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: A very wise barrister once advised - "Don't put anything into writing that you wouldn't be prepared to see used directly agianst you in a court of law" Possibly a little excessively dramatic but still excellent advice :) Eliot Spitzer said it better, 2006, pre getting b

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 03:50 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 02 iun 10, 15:24:23, H.S. wrote: > >> or, if you want to list the contents of a deb file (instead of an >> installed package), the following will give the same info (might need to >> be root or use sudo for apt's cache files): > > No, root is

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 iun 10, 15:24:23, H.S. wrote: > or, if you want to list the contents of a deb file (instead of an > installed package), the following will give the same info (might need to > be root or use sudo for apt's cache files): No, root is not needed, since the debs in apt's cacher are world re

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 iun 10, 15:34:53, Jonas Stein wrote: > There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. > But wich one is the debian way? > I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and graphicerrors. > I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 befeore i cre

Re: apt-pinning... and force "old" version.

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 iun 10, 12:29:14, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > I expect the "2.5.5-0.blueline.0" postfix to be candidate, but > $ apt-cache policy postfix > Installé : (aucun) > Candidat : 2.5.5-1.1 >Table de version : > 2.5.5-1.1 0 >100 http://mirror.malagasy.com lenny/

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 03:07 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 02/06/10 03:02 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Mi, 02 iun 10, 13:46:47, H.S. wrote: >>> >>> If somebody has the package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 on their system >>> someplace (may be even in /var/cache/apt/archives/) or installed, I >>> would like to know

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 iun 10, 10:04:12, John Culleton wrote: > I have posted the items you requested on my website: > http://wexfordpress.com/xorg.conf > and > http://wexfordpress.com/Xorg.0.log > and > http://wexfordpress.com/Xorg.0.log.old I can spot nothing wrong there, but I'm not sure I can see the whol

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 03:02 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 02 iun 10, 13:46:47, H.S. wrote: >> >> If somebody has the package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 on their system >> someplace (may be even in /var/cache/apt/archives/) or installed, I >> would like to know its contents. If the package is installed

Re: can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 02 iun 10, 13:46:47, H.S. wrote: > > If somebody has the package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 on their system > someplace (may be even in /var/cache/apt/archives/) or installed, I > would like to know its contents. If the package is installed, the > following output will be great: > $> dpkg

converting home network to IPv6; ppp, IPv6, dsnmasq and iptables

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
I have an ADSL connection for my home network. The ADSL modem is connected to an old box running Debian Testing which acts as a router and firewall. My ISP has given me an IPv6 address to try out. I have the username and password. Basically, I now need to convert my ppp connection to deal with IP

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 01:46 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 11:55:55 H.S. wrote: >> I understand the files with 'trunk' in them, but the rest I am not why >> they are there since I have the following kernels installed: >> $> dpkg -l linux-image* | grep ^i | awk '{print $2}' >> l

can somebody list contents of linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686? [was: Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686]

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 01:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:09:48PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> On 02/06/10 12:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: >>> As far as I can tell, generally linux-image* puts files in /lib/modules, >>> /boot, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/bug. Now given that -trunk should >> >> I h

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 11:55:55 H.S. wrote: > I tried cruft on my /boot partition and got more than I bargained for. > It listed the files related to the package in question and some others > too. They are: > /boot/System.map-2.6.32-trunk-686 > /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686 >

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:09:48PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 02/06/10 12:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > > As far as I can tell, generally linux-image* puts files in /lib/modules, > > /boot, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/bug. Now given that -trunk should > > I have tried "dpkg -L" with installed kernels

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 12:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:47:26AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > >>> Since they are stale files, not associated with any installed package, >>> why not simply delete the files? >> >> Yes, that is one option. But how do I mak

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2010 10:47:26 H.S. wrote: On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot: $> ls -1 /boot/*trunk* /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686

Re: dependency based boot + update-rc.d

2010-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-02 18:28 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Before dependency based boot I added my own boot scripts with update-rc.d, like: update-rc.d faketty start 29 2 3 4 5 . and the update-rc.d man page still refers to sequence numbers (NN=29): "NN is the two-digit sequence n

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
I forgot to mention in my previous response that the kernel documentation has some information about the frequency governors. The 'linux-doc-*' debian packages have the kernel documentation, and the directory 'Documentation/cpu-freq/' contains the information that I used. You also might want to l

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 11:50 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 10:47:26 H.S. wrote: >> On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot: >> $> ls -1

Re: dependency based boot + update-rc.d

2010-06-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-02 18:28 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Before dependency based boot I added my own boot scripts with > update-rc.d, like: > > update-rc.d faketty start 29 2 3 4 5 . > > and the update-rc.d man page still refers to sequence numbers (NN=29): > > "NN is the two-digit sequence number that

Re: dependency based boot + update-rc.d

2010-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 06/02/2010 12:28 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Before dependency based boot I added my own boot scripts with update-rc.d, like: update-rc.d faketty start 29 2 3 4 5 . and the update-rc.d man page still refers to sequence numbers (NN=29): "NN is the two-digit seq

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:47:26AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > > Since they are stale files, not associated with any installed package, > > why not simply delete the files? > > Yes, that is one option. But how do I make sure I got all the stale > files? If a pack

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:55:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:06:56 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: Don't you think that lilo will be left in the repos but not

Re: dependency based boot + update-rc.d

2010-06-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 06/02/2010 12:28 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Before dependency based boot I added my own boot scripts with update-rc.d, like: update-rc.d faketty start 29 2 3 4 5 . and the update-rc.d man page still refers to sequence numbers (NN=29): "NN is the two-digit sequence number that determi

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Culleton wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 you wrote: On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet appeared. I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing you now. [1] http://lists.deb

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
Klistvud writes: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > I've bee all over uncle G to crack this one, but to no avail. In short: > how would you go about launching a program when the computer is idle, > and launching another program when the computer stops being idle? > Specifically, I'd like my c

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install. Progress report.

2010-06-02 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:57:01AM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: > > > I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not > yet > > > appeared. > > > > I assume you missed my reply

dependency based boot + update-rc.d

2010-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Before dependency based boot I added my own boot scripts with update-rc.d, like: update-rc.d faketty start 29 2 3 4 5 . and the update-rc.d man page still refers to sequence numbers (NN=29): "NN is the two-digit sequence number that determines where in the sequence init will run the scr

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On 28/05/2010 17:39, Roger Leigh wrote: > One obvious solution not already mentioned is to back up the bootloader > *in Linux* as a normal file, so the backup software can then just back > it up like any other file. It's a simple enough workaround to the > deficiencies in your backup software. > >

Re: DVD/CD Read Issues

2010-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On 27/04/10 13:47, James Stuckey wrote: > Sorry about that. I'm using Gmail and I just typed my response in the > box. I suppose I should use "reply to all" which puts debian-user in > the CC: field? "reply" then manually delete the personal address and insert the list address, or "reply to all" a

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On 24/05/2010 23:44, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > So it would appear boot loaders in general have a lack of interested/committed > developers? Both LILO and GRUB. > > So instead of just LILO, why didn't the Debian team just throw both > bootloaders out the window and start over with committed devs? >

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On 01/06/2010 10:32, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The reason grub2 is being forced upon us all is the need of the "desktop" > users who want a 20MB kitchen sink kernel and initrd that will support any > piece of hardware on any machine they throw at it. Many sysadmins don't want > or need that, and we'r

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On 30/05/2010 14:04, thib wrote: > Like any dist upgrade, squeeze will have release notes with upgrade > instructions and I'm quite confident everything concerning lilo will > be covered. There are probably many upgrade test patterns they'll > have to try, that's true, but I would hope the transit

rsync: mkstemp "some files" failed: Cannot allocate memory (12)

2010-06-02 Thread Mauri
Hi to all debian expert. I'm running an rsync session over smb client between an debian and win 7. at one moment the rsync goes down with this error: rsync: mkstemp "some files" failed: Cannot allocate memory (12) If I can list in my mount point I have this error: bemprt:~# uname -a Linux bemprt

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 10:47:26 H.S. wrote: > On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >>> H.S. wrote: > Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot: > $> ls -1 /boot/*trunk* > /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686 > >

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >>> H.S. wrote: Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot: $> ls -1 /boot/*trunk* /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 /boot/initrd.

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > H.S. wrote: > >> > >> Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot: > >> $> ls -1 /boot/*trunk* > >> /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686 > >> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 > >> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686.bak > >> /boot/Syste

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install. Progress report.

2010-06-02 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: > > I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet > > appeared. > > I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing > you now. > > [1] http://lists.d

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/06/10 09:47 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> >> Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot: >> $> ls -1 /boot/*trunk* >> /boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686 >> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 >> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686.bak >> /boot/System.map-2.6.32-trunk-686 >>

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread John Hasler
Tom H writes: > I meant to say the Lenny repos (although I am curious to see whether > [Lilo] will really disappear from the Squeeze repos once Squeeze is > released). If it has an RC bug at the time of the release it will be removed. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 06/02/2010 10:04 AM, John Culleton wrote: Thanks for your reply. I used Knoppix because it was very easy to install and came with a lot of useful software already, such as Open Office. The install program is called 0wn which stands for zero work needed. My earlier experiences with e.g. Kubun

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:14 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Wolodja -- the output from the lspci command is > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:10f0] (rev > 06) Yes, [1] confirms that you need at least 2.6.31 for your NIC - I already outlined the easiest way to

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Wolodja -- the output from the lspci command is 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:10f0] (rev 06) Papul -- the kernel is 2.6.26-2-amd64. Sounds like I should just go ahead and update my kernel, and that should solve some other, unrelated and less critical issues.

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 02:49:18 you wrote: > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: > > I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet > > appeared. > > I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing > you now. > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/d

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:55:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:06:56 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: >>> >>> Don't you think that lilo will be left in the repos but not available >>> at install time? You could then install lilo po

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:06:56 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: >> >> Don't you think that lilo will be left in the repos but not available >> at install time? You could then install lilo post-OS-install or >> through pre-seeding. > > Not without an a

Re: nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:53 +0200, Jonas Stein wrote: > There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But > wich one is the debian way? > I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and > graphicerrors. I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 > bef

Re: SuperGrubDisk

2010-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:44:59 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: But SGB has support for Grub2, isn't it? :-? I see this: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/forum/index.php?topic=494.0 that says 'Super GRUB2 disk 1.98s1 released' But I run SGD

Re: Update GRUB to GRUB2 / Lenny to Squeeze

2010-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:56 PM, lrhorer wrote: > > I upgraded a box from "Lenny" to "Squeeze", but the update of GRUB to > GRUB2 failed.  The box is running a pair of IDE hard drives with three > partitions each.  Each partition on each drive is a RAID1 mirror of the > same partition on the other

Re: trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-06-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H.S. wrote: There was a slight screw-up with my mount points of /boot earlier today, when I was doing a bit of house cleaning. I purged some old kernels and installed a new one while /boot was mounted on a different partition (another story, sigh!). I noticed the problems and fixed that and reboo

nvidia again looking for howto

2010-06-02 Thread Jonas Stein
There are many ways to get a nvidia vga device running in debian. But wich one is the debian way? I tried different ways, bu i get different errormessages and graphicerrors. I want to try an "official" way to install a NV FX 5200 befeore i create bugreports. Where can i find the latest howto abo

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:06:56 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > Don't you think that lilo will be left in the repos but not available > at install time? You could then install lilo post-OS-install or > through pre-seeding. Not without an active upstream maintainer. That's the critical need now. --

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:29:15AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> Having /boot on a separate partition for robustness, security or >> advanced features (encrypted LVM and stuff) is one thing, but having it >> because the default bootloader

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Tom H put forth on 5/31/2010 1:04 AM: > >> I have gone through various big changes in OSs, WinNT to Win2k, OS9 to >> OSX (although I was a Sol-Lin admin too so it wasn't as great a shock >> as for Mac-only admins [1. see OT anecdote below]), S

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:42 PM, wrote: > Thanks for the comments and help. > > I have edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg to match my devices by UUID as > proposed, getting UUIDs from blkid /dev/md{0,1} (previously I run > blkid -g): > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-3-686-bigmem" --clas

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread thib
Stephen Powell wrote: Actually, that is largely a myth. Lilo's only release-critical bug turned out not to be a bug at all. It was this "bug" that gave rise to the belief that stock kernels were getting too big for lilo to load. But the problem was that a new kernel was installed without lilo

Re: Backports kernel

2010-06-02 Thread thib
Proskurin Kirill wrote: One question: It is safe to use backported kernel in production? Officially, it is not, but the backporters community is supportive enough. You should probably check this[1] out first, however. 1: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/driver-backport

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-06-02 Thread James Brown
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,28.May.10, 15:19:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >> sed or awk. But I've been reading sed and awk tutorials for two hours >> and I cannot figure out how to remove line N from the file without >> creating a second file. If I'm already going through the hassle of >> creat

Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! I've bee all over uncle G to crack this one, but to no avail. In short: how would you go about launching a program when the computer is idle, and launching another program when the computer stops being idle? Specifically, I'd like my computer to switch CPU governo

apt-pinning... and force "old" version.

2010-06-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I have a personnal repository where I have - postfix-*-2.5.5-0.blueline.0 packages The personnal repository hostname is "ppa.blueline.mg" That postfix is a patched and (re-)packaged postfix. I have also a mirror (for the rest of the packages), where there are - post

Best home media center in Lenny repos?

2010-06-02 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! I'm looking for a readily apt-gettable home media center software, to stream media from our main box via our home WLAN to some Nokia phones and a laptop. Any first-hand advice? Elisa and freevo seem to be the only available solutions for the time being. How do the

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 22:11 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I suspect that the problem is that the motherboard is so new that it's not > supported in the 2.6.26 version of the kernel:  when I looked at the Intel > webpage relevant to the board, http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/ > desktop

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

2010-06-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark writes: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Erwan David wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 June 2010 08:56:52 Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> And is there some HTC Sync program? > > > > HTC Sync is their pr

Re: [Info] Learn the secret of the world memory expert in improving memory power

2010-06-02 Thread papul
On 6/1/2010 9:19 AM, AIM Resource wrote: > Greetings, > > Have you been in one of these situation : > - Have a bad memory? > - Shake someone hand and 2 seconds after that forget their name? > - Can't remember a shopping list? > - Forget your client/customer's name? > - Can't remember the technical

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread papul
On 6/2/2010 10:41 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC > motherboard. I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its > built-in ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured > on installation. There is no eth0 ent

Re: apt-get

2010-06-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 May 2010, Freeman wrote: > > Aptitude-gtk is looking beautiful. Maybe still not fully functional, but > some interesting features and a fantastic GUI. When in stable, it will > equal a new level of package management. > > Tried it in the early version and went back to CLI/curses. > > Just