Re: Synaptic / Could not download all repository indexes

2010-07-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 16 iul 10, 16:34:59, scar wrote: > Hello, > > when i try to check for updates with synaptic or the update manager, i > get that error above. further information in the error message: > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/updates/main/source/Sources: > 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 17 iul 10, 09:06:02, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > It is necessary to use initrd image while using UUID. So UUID method may > not work with custom kernels where drivers are compiled in. Could you please elaborate on that? How can UUID fail if you have modules compiled in the kernel, since U

Please help me test aufs

2010-07-16 Thread T o n g
Hi, The aufs is supposed to be able to unify several directories and provide a merged single directory. but I found it doesn't work for me any more. If you have aufs enabled in your system, please help me test the following command and post back your result: mkdir /tmp/rw /tmp/aufs mount -t

Synaptic / Could not download all repository indexes

2010-07-16 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, when i try to check for updates with synaptic or the update manager, i get that error above. further information in the error message: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/updates/main/source/Sources: 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 8

New packages isc-dhcp-client and common break network

2010-07-16 Thread Charles Kroeger
I don't know where to look or what to do about this newly arrived problem. I have it on good authority that isc-dhcp-client and isc-dhcp-common have not created problems for others and indeed I've not seen any post related to these packages. It would appear they are part of the dhcp4 upgrade but tw

Re: Loop device is read only

2010-07-16 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 02:06, Erwan David wrote: > On 16/07/10 22:26, vr wrote: > > I can't seem to write to an image I downloaded and mounted as a loop > > device? > > > > # ls -l /opt | grep floppy > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 10:08 floppy > > > > # mount -o loop fdbasecd.iso /opt/fl

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 20:54, H.S. wrote: > On 10-07-16 10:56 AM, H.S. wrote: > >> On 16/07/10 05:59 AM, Sunita Barve wrote: >> >>> I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on >>> two >>> different machines. Now I am getting the following error >>> >> >> I am in a sim

replacement for webcalendar

2010-07-16 Thread john
Webcalendar has been removed from squeeze and above. Can anyone suggest a similar replacement? I used it on a small local network for family type appointments, at home. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: udev not assigning group correctly for scanner

2010-07-16 Thread briand
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:20:01 + (UTC) Bill Dennen wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:10:02 +0200, briand scribbled: > > > device `epson2:/dev/sg1' is a Epson GT-9700 flatbed scanner > > > > crw-rw+ 1 root root 21, 1 Jul 14 18:57 /dev/sg1 > > > > here's the rule it looks like it should be m

Re: Recovering deleted items once Kmail trash is emptied

2010-07-16 Thread Lisi
On Friday 16 July 2010 22:25:44 Ron Johnson wrote: > If you're a typical home desktop user and KMail acts like > Tbird/Nutscrape/Evo then all of a folder's emails are stored in 1 > mbox file. By default, KMail doesn't. It uses maildir, and stores each email individually. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Recovering deleted items once Kmail trash is emptied

2010-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/12/2010 08:27 AM, AG wrote: Hi Is there anyway of recovering items that have been deleted by "emptying" KMail's trash folder? I suspect not, and certainly the KMail manual suggests that once it's gone, it's gone. However, ever hopeful, I thought that someone here may have a trick or two u

Re: apt, find circular dependencies

2010-07-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 16 iul 10, 14:53:08, Martin Kraus wrote: > Hi. > Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of > packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a > depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a? There was recently a thread on debian-devel abou

Re: apt, find circular dependencies

2010-07-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 16 iul 10, 19:35:13, Tom Furie wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: > > > Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of > > packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a > > depends on

Re: udev not assigning group correctly for scanner

2010-07-16 Thread Bill Dennen
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:10:02 +0200, briand scribbled: > device `epson2:/dev/sg1' is a Epson GT-9700 flatbed scanner > > crw-rw+ 1 root root 21, 1 Jul 14 18:57 /dev/sg1 > > here's the rule it looks like it should be matching : > > > # Epson Perfection 2450 | Epson GT-9700F | Epson Perfectio

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 16 iul 10, 21:03:42, Andre Majorel wrote: > > If you're feeling paranoid, you could fill with junk instead of > NULs to protect against any optimisation at filesystem level. yep, that sure looks like junk > perl -e '$bytes = int (1e4 + 1e6 * rand); > for $n (1..$bytes) { $noise .= c

Re: Loop device is read only

2010-07-16 Thread Erwan David
On 16/07/10 22:26, vr wrote: > I can't seem to write to an image I downloaded and mounted as a loop > device? > > # ls -l /opt | grep floppy > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 10:08 floppy > > # mount -o loop fdbasecd.iso /opt/floppy/ > # > > # grep loop /etc/mtab > /dev/loop0 /opt/floppy iso9

Loop device is read only

2010-07-16 Thread vr
I can't seem to write to an image I downloaded and mounted as a loop device? # ls -l /opt | grep floppy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 10:08 floppy # mount -o loop fdbasecd.iso /opt/floppy/ # # grep loop /etc/mtab /dev/loop0 /opt/floppy iso9660 rw 0 0 # mount | grep loop /dev/loop0 on /opt/

Re: slapd stopped working...

2010-07-16 Thread Troy Telford
On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Troy Telford wrote: > I'm running sid; there was a couple of recent updates to slapd, from 2.4.21-1 > to 2.4.23-1 (and then 2.4.23-2) > > The config itself wasn't changed; the backup file made is the same as the > current one. > > However, slapd doesn't start any

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-07-15 13:55 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 15/07/10 01:38 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scd bs=1M > > Yes, but that would wipe out everything, the OS as well. > > I was looking for just making the already deleted files > unrecoverable by a casual user. In other words,

Re: holding back buggy packages

2010-07-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:14:16 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:27:57 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A common use case with aptitude (interactive mode ) / apt-listbugs is: > > > > a) order an upgrade > > b) aptitude downloads packages > > c) apt-listbugs reports som

Re: How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?

2010-07-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 16 July 2010 08:15:23 H.S. wrote: > On 10-07-16 11:48 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > On Sex, 16 Jul 2010, "H.S." wrote: > >> given eth2 while I wanted eth0). After tweaking udev rules, can I have > >> them reapplied, or the rules reread, without having to reboot? If yes, > >> how? I

Re: Akonadi startup problems

2010-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:18:07 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > I am running squeeze amd-64 with KDE. Everytime I boot the system > (daily, due to department policy), there is a window titled "Akonadi > Server Self-Test which contains some errors". The relevant parts are: (...) Mmm, your l

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 02:25 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Yeah, I guess you could write a bash script to: 1. determine the amount of free space. 2. Divide that by some efficient block size. 3. dd if=/dev/urandom of=${VFAT}/foo.bar \ obs=${BLKSIZ} count=${BLKCNT} Coincidentally, that is exactly what I did (but

slapd stopped working...

2010-07-16 Thread Troy Telford
I'm running sid; there was a couple of recent updates to slapd, from 2.4.21-1 to 2.4.23-1 (and then 2.4.23-2) The config itself wasn't changed; the backup file made is the same as the current one. However, slapd doesn't start anymore. All I have to go on is the following: (/var/log/auth.log):

Re: apt, find circular dependencies

2010-07-16 Thread Tom Furie
Hi Martin, On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: > Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of > packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a > depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a? I don't know about other ap

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 02:03 PM, Mark wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, H.S. wrote: On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows inst

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/16/2010 12:38 PM, H.S. wrote: On 16/07/10 01:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I don't think you can of= just the "empty" parts of your partition. Attached is a Python script I use to "zero" out the free space of a mounted partition. Thanks for the script. You are basically writing 0xFF to th

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, H.S. wrote: > On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> Aren't you askig the wrong list? >> >> > The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using > Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows installation* but > could b

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/16/2010 01:42 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > This is rather a philosophical question than a technical one: it is part of > UNIX mentality to have simple tools that can be put together to complete > complicated tasks. Practically seen, if the

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 01:42 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: This is rather a philosophical question than a technical one: it is part of UNIX mentality to have simple tools that can be put together to complete complicated tasks. Practically seen, if the original poster was educated with the principles of UNIX de

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 16 of July 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 07/15/2010 08:46 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > I am skeptical whether there is any good reason for tools like wipe2fs, > > zerofree and friends (if there are any...), when a dd && sync && rm > > have the same result. > > You c

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 01:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I don't think you can of= just the "empty" parts of your partition. Attached is a Python script I use to "zero" out the free space of a mounted partition. Thanks for the script. You are basically writing 0xFF to the available disk space. I used to ha

Re: A "magical" HDD formatting question.

2010-07-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Tom: > For example for / (assuming that it is sda1) > > init 1 > mount -o remount,ro / > fsck.ext2 -pf /dev/sda1 > tune2fs -O > [has_journal,]large_file,huge_file,extents,dir_index,uninit_bg /dev/sda1 > fsck.ext2 -fD /dev/sda1 > init 6 I have tried that and as

[SOLVED] Re: iceowl (lightning) extension and calendar data migration problem on amd64

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 14/07/10 10:50 PM, H.S. wrote: On 14/07/10 06:24 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:56:28 -0400, H.S. wrote: (...) However, the calendar extension in my icedove (on amd64 installation) does not entertain those files, as if it is not reading it. Have I done this correctly? How do I

Re: Converting *.mp4 to *.mp3 or *.ogg

2010-07-16 Thread AG
On 15/07/10 23:28, Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 08:17:28PM +0100, AG wrote: Hey all What recommendations would you have for an app to convert *.mp4 to either *.mp3 or *.ogg? soundconverter -Rob Thanks to all who replied. I went with Rob's suggestion & used Sound

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/16/2010 11:10 AM, H.S. wrote: On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows installation* but could be any generic storage devi

Re: wicd with WPA2 fails

2010-07-16 Thread Bob McGowan
On 07/15/2010 03:28 AM, Paul Scott wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:25:26PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-07-15 12:15 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:40:27AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: It might be better to put away wicd for a moment and invoke w

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/15/2010 06:45 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > Anything, and I repeat anything, is recoverable, even if you remove the > filesystem you can recover pieces of the file. [citation needed] When you do a low-level write to the disk, you're wiping out anything and everything. One single pass of zeroe

Re: reboot problems

2010-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Bonno Bloksma put forth on 7/16/2010 3:05 AM: > Hi, > > So far no response to the problem below. Is there not enough information > to make an educated guess to the cause or is realy to complex to make > any guess? > Show I report it as a debian bug? > What else can I do to solve this problem. I am

Re: How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 10-07-16 11:48 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Sex, 16 Jul 2010, "H.S." wrote: given eth2 while I wanted eth0). After tweaking udev rules, can I have them reapplied, or the rules reread, without having to reboot? If yes, how? I have tried restarting udev and hal, but that didn't work out f

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows installation* but could be any generic storage device. So, no. I presume you are imp

Re: Nvidia card and Xen in lenny

2010-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-16 14:33 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Yes I am using Squeeze. Sorry. How did you figure it out? :-) Your Xorg.0.log showed xserver and kernel versions from Squeeze. > On 07/16/2010 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Which version of x11-xkb-utils is installed, and what are the

Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/15/2010 11:05 AM, H.S. wrote: I have a couple of hard disks in a computer which is to be recycled. I want the windows OS in it to remain functional, but I want to be sure that I have deleted all my personal files securely (never used the OS that much anyway and there is hardly any importan

Re: How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?

2010-07-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 16 Jul 2010, "H.S." wrote: I just now had to change my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file so that a new network card be give the same number (it was being given eth2 while I wanted eth0). After tweaking udev rules, can I have them reapplied, or the rules reread, without

Re: OT:Video Capture From Camcorder

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:46:14AM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: > > >Camcorder output is composite (two RCA jacks) > > > >I bought one device which I can't get to work. Any products known to > >work with Debian Squeeze? I don't want to repeat my mis

clamscan vs. clamscan with mb2md

2010-07-16 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, Running clamscan over a PDC/BDC with roaming profiles will (obviously) generate sporadic alerts on mbox files assoicated with assorted mail clients, icedove/tbird in this case. In order to track down the specific message, I've used mbox2maildir (in the past) and mb2md presently to convert

How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
I just now had to change my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file so that a new network card be give the same number (it was being given eth2 while I wanted eth0). After tweaking udev rules, can I have them reapplied, or the rules reread, without having to reboot? If yes, how? I have

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 10-07-16 10:56 AM, H.S. wrote: On 16/07/10 05:59 AM, Sunita Barve wrote: I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on two different machines. Now I am getting the following error I am in a similar situation. kinit: trying to resume from /dev/sda5 kinit:No resume

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread green
Mark wrote at 2010-07-15 15:55 -0500: > Do you have an example of what your wipe and wipe2fs commands are that > you've used? Didn't see much info on the websites here > [2]http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ or here $ man wipe There are even examples. > [3]http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~cklin/wipe2fs/. Would

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 05:59 AM, Sunita Barve wrote: > I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on two > different machines. Now I am getting the following error I am in a similar situation. > kinit: trying to resume from /dev/sda5 > kinit:No resume image, doing normal boot... >

Akonadi startup problems

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Judd
Hi, I am running squeeze amd-64 with KDE. Everytime I boot the system (daily, due to department policy), there is a window titled "Akonadi Server Self-Test which contains some errors". The relevant parts are: MYSQL server log contains errors No resource agents found.

Re: configure debian to print to a RPCS printer

2010-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:01:05 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > At my office there's a Ricoh M2030 that only works with RPCS driver. I > had tried Ricoh M2000 driver that comes with cups driver and also the > generic drivers, but nothing works. > Is there any workaround? If your printer has not Pos

apt, find circular dependencies

2010-07-16 Thread Martin Kraus
Hi. Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a? thank you for help mk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/15/2010 08:46 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > I am skeptical whether there is any good reason for tools like wipe2fs, > zerofree and friends (if there are any...), when a dd && sync && rm have the > same result. > You could say this about many

Re: Nvidia card and Xen in lenny

2010-07-16 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Yes I am using Squeeze. Sorry. How did you figure it out? :-) On 07/16/2010 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Which version of x11-xkb-utils is installed, and what are the contents of /etc/default/keyboard? Sven Version 7.5+2 /etc/default/keyboard # If you change any of the following variables a

Re: debian repo for squeeze got problem?

2010-07-16 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-07-16 a las 19:55 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis escribió: (resending to the list) > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:43:20 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > > > Just a few minutes ago, when I ran "aptitude update": > > > > > > /usr/bin/lzma: Deco

configure debian to print to a RPCS printer

2010-07-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
At my office there's a Ricoh M2030 that only works with RPCS driver. I had tried Ricoh M2000 driver that comes with cups driver and also the generic drivers, but nothing works. Is there any workaround? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread Sunita Barve
I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on two different machines. Now I am getting the following error kinit: trying to resume from /dev/sda5 kinit:No resume image, doing normal boot... Target filesystem doesnt have /sbin/init. run-init: /bin/sh: No such file or dire

Re: debian repo for squeeze got problem?

2010-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:43:20 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Just a few minutes ago, when I ran "aptitude update": > > /usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error > Err http://debian.nctu.edu.tw squeeze/non-free Packages > Sub-process /usr/bin/lzma returned an error code (1) > Fetched 202kB in 2min 48s > (1,

Re: new notifications in squeeze

2010-07-16 Thread Tom
Hey, new, fancy notifications <...> is it possible to change their look somehow? i just want to adjust font color and size. In Lenny, I've got it set to "standard", which uses the default theme. Open GConf Editor and browse (or search) for "/apps/notification-daemon": You could also use /u

Re: reboot problems

2010-07-16 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, So far no response to the problem below. Is there not enough information to make an educated guess to the cause or is realy to complex to make any guess? Show I report it as a debian bug? What else can I do to solve this problem. I am limited in my testing time as this machine is responsib

Re: Nvidia card and Xen in lenny

2010-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-16 07:48 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > I am trying to setup Lenny as dom0. Your Xorg.0.log suggest that you're using Squeeze rather than Lenny. > However I cannot get the X server > to start. I have tried drivers vesa, nv and nvidia. The latter causes > the system to hang. Her

Re: Nvidia card and Xen in lenny

2010-07-16 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 07/16/2010 10:54 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: You need to make sure you are not using GLX with Xen because Zen has no support for 3D on anything but Windows, and on Windows it's very experimental at best and it's very expensive because it requires dedicated GPU's for domu and then dom/n/. You n

Re: Nvidia card and Xen in lenny

2010-07-16 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 7/16/2010 2:49 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > On 07/16/2010 09:31 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: >> Run: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg >> > From terminal. >> Install Nvidia drivers: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers >> > I tried dpkg-reconfigure but to no effect. I have already tri

Re: Converting *.mp4 to *.mp3 or *.ogg

2010-07-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On 15/07/10 20:17, AG wrote: Hey all What recommendations would you have for an app to convert *.mp4 to either *.mp3 or *.ogg? Thanks for any suggestions. AG ffmpeg ? pretty much the swiss army knife of audio visual conversion. The version in debian.multimedia.org has more codecs than the

Re: Nvidia card and Xen in lenny

2010-07-16 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 07/16/2010 09:32 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 7/16/2010 12:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi! I am trying to setup Lenny as dom0. However I cannot get the X server to start. I have tried drivers vesa, nv and nvidia. The latter causes the system to hang. Here is my output from driver nv. Th

Re: Nvidia card and Xen in lenny

2010-07-16 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 07/16/2010 09:31 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: Run: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > From terminal. Install Nvidia drivers: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I tried dpkg-reconfigure but to no effect. I have already tried the nvidia drivers using module assistant. The computer hangs

Re: Converting *.mp4 to *.mp3 or *.ogg

2010-07-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 15 iul 10, 20:17:28, AG wrote: > Hey all > > What recommendations would you have for an app to convert *.mp4 to > either *.mp3 or *.ogg? pacpl (Perl Audio Converter) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: new notifications in squeeze

2010-07-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:24:34 +0200, tadziu wrote: > latest update introduced to my debian dekstop new, fancy notifications > in linux mint style. > > is it possible to change their look somehow? i just want to adjust font > color and size. In Lenny, I've got it set to "standard", which uses the