Re: Nook Reader on Debian PC?

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/08/11 06:06, Thomas H. George wrote: I have a pdf text which is hard to read. It occurred to me to try installing the Nook reader to see if it would improve visibility. The Barnes& Noble web site has downloads for Windows, Mac, iPads and Android tablets and phones. I downloaded the Wind

Re: [OT] SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/08/11 05:54, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/29/2011 11:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 13:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/29/2011 2:50 PM, Lisi wrote: On Monday 29 August 2011 19:32:05 Stan Hoeppner wrote: There is no compatibility or other reason I know of that would force one to sta

Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

2011-08-30 Thread David Christensen
On 08/30/2011 06:54 PM, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: I use the Graphical Expert Install option. I use the manual partition option when I get to it. I delete all the existing partition then recreate it. I have a 120GB SSD drive- I only partition one 40Gb primary partition for the entire ext4 file

Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

2011-08-30 Thread rlharris
> For the last several days I have been attempting to install Wheezy from > one of the daily builds. If you are not already doing it, you can save much time and download bandwidth by running "approx" on another machine in the LAN. You might try specifying a minimal install, instead of specifying

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:37 -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > After doing a rather lengthy sid upgrade (it's been a few months, at > least), my Sun java plugin is no longer working in Iceweasel. Aha... not so tricky after all. The problem is that the alternatives system still points to the old plugin loc

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:21 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Please notice these combinations require experimental besides >> unstable, :-)  And to make the dependency handling easier, I just use >> aptitude in ncurses mode, since safe or full up

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:21 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Please notice these combinations require experimental besides > unstable, :-) And to make the dependency handling easier, I just use > aptitude in ncurses mode, since safe or full upgrades will mislead... I always use aptitude anyway, but

Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

2011-08-30 Thread keitho
For the last several days I have been attempting to install Wheezy from one of the daily builds. I have tried four different builds (different days)- and they all fail in the same two spots- they won't recognize my removable medium (usb thumbdrive) so that I can install firmware, and, more importan

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:48:47PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-08-30, David Purton wrote: > > [SNIP] > > The simplest solution I have found is to override the default consolekit > permissions. In the case of suspend and hibernate, these are specified > in the file /usr/share/polkit-1/a

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:59:03AM +0200, pdorm...@free.fr wrote: > > I've googled a plenty and tried different things without success. Any > > suggestions? Surely I'm not the only person running debian who doesn't > > use a desktop manager? > > I do not pretend to know the correct way to do this,

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:07:18AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 11:22:07 +1000, David Purton wrote: > > > I have not been able to get consolekit working properly since version > > 0.4.1-4. > > > > I believe it is something to do with bug #597937. > > I have xfce4 (unstable) starte

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:07 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Well, for me the next combination of packages just works well (at some >> point in the past I needed to add experimental to have the latest >> combination of packages).  This is openjdk

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 19:07 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Well, for me the next combination of packages just works well (at some > point in the past I needed to add experimental to have the latest > combination of packages). This is openjdk + icedtea: How are you running two different versions o

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Todd Pytel wrote: > ... is there another Java plugin that's functional? I > tried the icedtea one, but it seemed to have a dependency issue with > xulrunner that prevented installation. > > ... > > --Todd Well, for me the next combination of packages just works we

Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread David Christensen
On 08/30/2011 06:08 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: In the standard set of tools that are free and found on most Unix systems, which language such as perl, python, etc can handle rS-232 gracefully and do strings without having to reen vent the wheel? I've used Perl and Win32::SerialPort to

Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-30 Thread Todd Pytel
After doing a rather lengthy sid upgrade (it's been a few months, at least), my Sun java plugin is no longer working in Iceweasel. Alternatives is set correctly and Iceweasel sees the plugin, but it's marked INVALID in pluginreg.dat and never loads. I Googled around a bit and it seems like Firefox

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-08-30, David Purton wrote: > > --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi everyone, > > I have not been able to get consolekit working properly since version > 0.4.1-4. > > I believe it

Re: USB-Printer prints RAW PCL6-Code

2011-08-30 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.08.2011 19:18, schrieb Matt Richardson: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:45:43 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: >> >>> Again a rather strange behavior ... >>> >>> My Samsung ML-2150, which is said to work

Audio problem on G62-B70SP

2011-08-30 Thread Bruno Martins
Hello everyone, I am running Debian Squeeze on the following notebook: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02511383&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=4315442 I can hear no sound from the speakers, but it plays well if I plug in any headphones on it. Still, no

Nook Reader on Debian PC?

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas H. George
I have a pdf text which is hard to read. It occurred to me to try installing the Nook reader to see if it would improve visibility. The Barnes & Noble web site has downloads for Windows, Mac, iPads and Android tablets and phones. I downloaded the Windows version and installed it with Wine but ha

Re: OT - SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

2011-08-30 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/08/11 20:54, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I would make an educated guess that entities exercising system level > change control policies probably aren't using Debian, but using a > commercial distro such as Red Hat or SuSE. well guess again Stan :-)

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-30 Thread Dion Kant
On 08/20/2011 12:53 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/19/2011 4:38 PM, Dion Kant wrote: > >> I now think I understand the "strange" behaviour for block sizes not an >> integral multiple of 4096 bytes. (Of course you guys already knew the >> answer but just didn't want to make it easy for me to find t

Re: Pixel garbage when opening context menus

2011-08-30 Thread Steve B
On Tuesday 30 August 2011 19:13:40 Camaleón wrote: > > Have you both considered in opening a bug report at Debian BTS for > this? :-? > I checked if a bug report had already been filed in the Debian or KDE BTS. I found nothing therefore opened this one : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul Scott wrote: > > I get: > > sudo printenv PATH > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games > > That is definitely bad and needs to be fixed. This is probably going > to bite a lot of people. List, listen up, I predict this to be a > recurring theme for a while. :-) As

Re: SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

2011-08-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/29/2011 11:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 13:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/29/2011 2:50 PM, Lisi wrote: On Monday 29 August 2011 19:32:05 Stan Hoeppner wrote: There is no compatibility or other reason I know of that would force one to stay on Lenny KDE 3.5.10. The OP stated

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:32:16 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Thanks! I have now purged and reinstalled sudo and everything seems to > be working as I was used to. You didn't need to do that. All you needed to do was to edit /etc/sudoers as Bob suggested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/30/2011 11:56 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: What is your path after the sudo? This is easy to tell with: sudo printenv PATH I see this on my Sid machine: $ sudo printenv PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin I get: sudo p

mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

2011-08-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: Although I have mailto set to use Gmail in the Preferences, nothing happens when I click on a mailto link. Any ideas? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/30/2011 11:02 AM, David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 30 Aug 2011, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. I have found several partial answers with Google but nothing conclusive. About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is t

Re: Where to get a _working_ Wheezy netinstall?

2011-08-30 Thread Per Carlson
> Anyone > know where I can get a recent working Wheezy (or even Sid) install image > for amd64? I've had great success with the weekly-builds at cdimage (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/). I used the image from last week (Aug 22). At least CD-1 is a hybrid ISO, i.e.

Re: Where to get a _working_ Wheezy netinstall?

2011-08-30 Thread keitho
I apologize for the previous post. It would be better to assume that if three different daily builds don't work it is probably due to something I am doing wrong. I should not have suggested otherwise. Keith Ostertag -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Scott wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >What is your path after the sudo? This is easy to tell with: > > sudo printenv PATH > >I see this on my Sid machine: > > $ sudo printenv PATH > > /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin > > I get: > > sudo printenv PATH > /usr/lo

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 30 Aug 2011, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running sid. > > I have found several partial answers with Google but nothing conclusive. > > About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and > /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security > im

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/30/2011 11:16 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Paul Scott wrote: About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security improvement? Aptitude works fine if I use "su -" instead of sudo. But surely

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 08/30/2011 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:02:58 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security improvement? Aptitude works fine if I use "su -" instead of

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > Paul Scott wrote: > > About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and > > /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security > > improvement? Aptitude works fine if I use "su -" instead of sudo. But surely aptitude is in /usr/bin/aptitude

Where to get a _working_ Wheezy netinstall?

2011-08-30 Thread keitho
I have been trying for three days to download Wheezy from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ (daily builds) and each one I have tried fails to install Grub. I have tried: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily.old/20110829-1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso h

Re: sudoers tty defaults (Re: Changing Users in a script)

2011-08-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > I've just re-read the sudoers man page (after a VERY long time), > thinking that it would help me "refudiate" the fact that the > "Defaults" line had some in-built, unlisted defaults, when in fact, > I've been misusing "sudo -L" for more years than I care to remember... And I see th

Re: Rsync fails on copying large file

2011-08-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/08/11 11:43, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo Alan, On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:56:02AM +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: I use Rsync between two of my machines to facilitate regular backups. In the case I have a problem with I am attempting to copy a file using the double colon (::) method to talk to

Re: black screen after install menu.

2011-08-30 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: > (resending to the list) > Well, glad to know you finally could reach the installer despite gremlins > seem to have fun with your machine ;-D > Greetings, > Camaleón reply to all fail... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:02:58 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and > /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security > improvement? Aptitude works fine if I use "su -" instead of sudo. Hummm... the change seems to b

Re: weird "sleepmode" with via vt6102 and wheezy

2011-08-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday 30 August 2011 12:10:06 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:38:07 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > I got an older motherboard with embedded VIA VT6102 network controller > > which I'm using as a print server with cups. It worked well with squeeze > > and also OK when I first moved to

Re: USB-Printer prints RAW PCL6-Code

2011-08-30 Thread Matt Richardson
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:45:43 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: > >> Again a rather strange behavior ... >> >> My Samsung ML-2150, which is said to work perfectly with >> cups/openprinting, did work well with my old computer. >> >> Now with a new machine

Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Martin McCormick writes: […] > I also got that working such that it could read the response and > break out all the CSV variables in to separate strings. In other > words, it does work and with gdb, one can trouble-shoot it fairly > easily. […] > In the standard set of tools that ar

Re: weird "sleepmode" with via vt6102 and wheezy

2011-08-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday 30 August 2011 11:56:58 Dom wrote: > On 30/08/11 16:38, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I got an older motherboard with embedded VIA VT6102 network controller > > which I'm using as a print server with cups. [snip] > > > > Well, the network controller of the box goes to sleep duri

Re: Pixel garbage when opening context menus

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:48:26 +0200, Steve B wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2011 12:49:49 Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:02:57 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > Now I wonder, which package do I have to report the bug against? It >> > can hardly be the driver, but it could be e

Re: weird "sleepmode" with via vt6102 and wheezy

2011-08-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday 30 August 2011 12:10:06 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:38:07 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > I got an older motherboard with embedded VIA VT6102 network controller > > which I'm using as a print server with cups. It worked well with squeeze > > and also OK when I first moved to

root path change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, I'm running sid. I have found several partial answers with Google but nothing conclusive. About a week ago 'sudo aptitude' stopped working because /sbin and /usr/sbin are no longer on the path. Is this possible a recent security improvement? Aptitude works fine if I use "su -" instead o

Re: Pixel garbage when opening context menus

2011-08-30 Thread Steve B
On Tuesday 30 August 2011 12:49:49 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:02:57 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > > (...) > > > Now I wonder, which package do I have to report the bug against? It can > > hardly be the driver, but it could be everything else in the graphics > > stack, as far as I can te

Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. > I have this nagging feeling, though, that there may be a > better way to write this program since C is not as good at > string manipulation as some other languages. In my program, you > have to do a lot of grunt work just to be sure that the 15TH > field really is the 15TH field in the

Re: USB-Printer prints RAW PCL6-Code

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:45:43 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: > Again a rather strange behavior ... > > My Samsung ML-2150, which is said to work perfectly with > cups/openprinting, did work well with my old computer. > > Now with a new machine and a new system it only prints page after page > of RAW

Re: weird "sleepmode" with via vt6102 and wheezy

2011-08-30 Thread Dom
On 30/08/11 16:38, Eike Lantzsch wrote: Hi: I got an older motherboard with embedded VIA VT6102 network controller which I'm using as a print server with cups. It worked well with squeeze and also OK when I first moved to wheezy. Something however happened with later updates. Unfortunately I did

Re: weird "sleepmode" with via vt6102 and wheezy

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:38:07 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I got an older motherboard with embedded VIA VT6102 network controller > which I'm using as a print server with cups. It worked well with squeeze > and also OK when I first moved to wheezy. Something however happened > with later updates.

USB-Printer prints RAW PCL6-Code

2011-08-30 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Again a rather strange behavior ... My Samsung ML-2150, which is said to work perfectly with cups/openprinting, did work well with my old computer. Now with a new machine and a new system it only prints page after page of RAW PLC6-Code whenever I try

Re: black screen after install menu.

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-08-30 a las 07:36 -0700, jeremy jozwik escribió: (resending to the list) > thanks for the response! i was stating to think i was on my own with this one. > > > Good decision... Once you know how well it works, you'll make the switch > > with the rest of your machines :-P > ive already am

weird "sleepmode" with via vt6102 and wheezy

2011-08-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Hi: I got an older motherboard with embedded VIA VT6102 network controller which I'm using as a print server with cups. It worked well with squeeze and also OK when I first moved to wheezy. Something however happened with later updates. Unfortunately I didn't realize actually with which upgrade

Re: Why does CUPS recommend Samba?

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:30:35 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > lisi@Tux:~/Python$ aptitude why samba-common > i cups Recommends smbclient (>= 3.0.9) > i A smbclient Dependssamba-common (=> 2:3.2.5-4lenny15) > lisi@Tux:~/Python$ > > > I was intending to purge Samba from my system, but ran a f

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-30 Thread D G Teed
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Andrew McGlashan > > > I cannot believe this thread is still going -- it is way beyond funny now > it's ludicrous to say the least > > Your Ethernet device is broken and if it is not broken, then get someone > else to fix this problem for you as you are only go

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-30 Thread D G Teed
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > > I cannot believe this thread is still going -- it is way beyond funny now > it's ludicrous to say the least > > Your Ethernet device is broken and if it is not broken, then get someone > els

Re: Exim4 configuration with rewriting for smarthost

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:41:48 -0500, rlharris wrote: > For a week I have been searching without success for a guide to > configuration of Exim4 for a personal system which utilizes the > smarthost of an isp to handle outgoing mail and a web hosting service to > host a web site. (...) For that kin

Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > If I were in your situation, I would convert your C programs to C++ > (changing .c to .cpp) and use Qt. I use it many places just > for > its string manipulation and Qt has great documentation. > > > Just install libqt4-dev, qt4-dev-tools, qt4-qmake and qt4-doc. > > >

Re: no more system bell after squeeze upgrade

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:42:05 +, Curt wrote: > I don't have the system/terminal beep (bell) in Gnome anymore after > upgrading to squeeze. (...) > Alsamixer has a 'Beep' channel I've unmuted, but it seems to turn on a > sound card beep (though only in the console), but I want the internal > m

Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Martin McCormick wrote: I have used GCC C for years to write a number of programs for work and play and it is great but I think I am needing to branch out a bit as my latest project is causing me fits. I have a scanner radio receiver that uses RS-232 to communicate with the compu

Re: black screen after install menu.

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:59:16 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > hello list. i have decided to make the plunge from installing linux on > my secondary computers, machines that dont matter if they are down for > weeks at a time, to installing on my main workstation. Good decision... Once you know how we

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Heddle Weaver wrote: Failing that, I'll do a new install on the laptop, but I think it'll be alright. Regards and thanks, Weaver. I cannot believe this thread is still going -- it is way beyond funny now it's ludicrous to say the least Your Ethernet device is broken and if it is not b

Re: Java Error or so...

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:04:59 +0300, Kostas Psilopoulos wrote: > in debian squeeze 2.6.32-5 with xen i try to set up a working eucalyptus > cloud I get a problem like this. > Is anyone aware of that kind of problem? how do i solve it, or anything > usefull at all? I'm kind of stuck in this... (...

Re: problem with [SiS] AC'97

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:35:25 +0200, SZERVÁC Attila wrote: > I've selected LXDE in a Hungarian Squeeze install. All relevant controls > are up in alsamixer, but there is no sound. Pls, hlp, thx! Idea? (...) > Card config: > SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18 Have you tried by adding at the bottom

Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
Axel Freyn writes: > I would give python a try, maybe together with the pySerial-module from > http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ > While pyserial simplifies the access to rs232 and cares about all platform > dependence, it's not really standard I think. > > If your program shall work on all Unix sy

Re: String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Martin, On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:08:51AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > [...] > In the standard set of tools that are free and found on > most Unix systems, which language such as perl, python, etc can > handle rS-232 gracefully and do strings without having to > reen vent the wheel?

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-30 Thread Christoph Groth
"Lars Maes" writes: > Why not use an UDF filesystem, that is used on DVD discs? Indeed, this seems to work well. It is a better option than VFAT and NTFS. I didn't know that the filesystem of DVDs is also usable for rewriteable media, but I have learned that UDF has been designed with that in

String Manipulation and a Need for RS-232

2011-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
I have used GCC C for years to write a number of programs for work and play and it is great but I think I am needing to branch out a bit as my latest project is causing me fits. I have a scanner radio receiver that uses RS-232 to communicate with the computer and I got that part of

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-30 Thread D G Teed
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 29 August 2011 13:05, D G Teed wrote: >> This would be the entry in /etc/network/interfaces I mentioned before: >> allow-hotplug eth0 >> iface eth0 inet dhcp >> Then reboot. You are really not that far off from getting this up. > > >

Why nfs fstab entries need if-up? -> kernel level autoconfiguration / initramfs

2011-08-30 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, from my point of view, it is a bug: I build a new diskless rootfs based on Squeeze and most works, but NFS mounts from /etc/fstab. I search a very long time, whats the reason and found it. This enries are only mounted, if the if-up.d/mountnfs is executed. But in my case, it doesn't work, becau

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/08/11 21:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by K

Re: Color Webpage Printout on Black and White Printer Too Bright

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:43:45 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have a black and white HP Laserjet 6P and when I print colored > webpages they are "translated" (dithered?) into black and white > printouts, which is perfectly ok and expected. What is unexpected though > is that for me most pages print

Re: unfriendly function from aptitude(hold and upgrade)

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:46:58 +0800, sppmg wrote: > I found a unfriendly function from aptitude(0.6.3-4). > > state: > I hold a package,and this package in the upgradable too. > > now I upgrade by command ,I don't upgrade this package. But,If I upgrade > by ncurses (move point to upgradable and p

Re: wheezy installation

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:39:06 +0200, Borys Takunov wrote: (...) > So I tried install from netinstaller and mini cd image. I chose testing > or sid and tried gnome and kde. Both with same result: The installation > works fine, but after rebooting the system cant access DE. All I see is > "snow" ins

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows: From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cr

Re: Billion 7800N

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:52:43 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > On 29 August 2011 22:56, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > wrote: > >> On Dom, 28 Ago 2011, Heddle Weaver wrote: >> >>> O.K.I removed ppp, as it wasn't required, Not at all because the router should have a ppp client embedded and already setup.

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:54:48 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > On 22 August 2011 22:02, Camaleón wrote: >> > I need pppd of course, but not ppp. >> >> Can you explain why you need pppd? :-? >> >> > Well, I was under the impression that with ppp over ethernet, the daemon > would be required. > I'm pr

Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/08/11 01:24, Isaac Freeman wrote: I have been beating my head against the wall on this for a day and a half. I just installed atftpd (0.7.dfsg-9.1) on Squeeze. When I first installed it, it wouldn't take connections through the default inetd stuff. So I tried editing /etc/default/atftpd and

Re: libnet-snmp-devel package ?

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:09:03 +, hvn wrote: > I'm trying to install HPLIP on Debian 6, but install fails for network > (which I need) because of libnetsnmp-devel. I can find libnet-snmp, but > no devel. Can someone help me out where I can find that? Hum... there is "libsnmp-dev", maybe is this

Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:24:22 -0400, Isaac Freeman wrote: > I have been beating my head against the wall on this for a day and a > half. I just installed atftpd (0.7.dfsg-9.1) on Squeeze. When I first > installed it, it wouldn't take connections through the default inetd > stuff. So I tried editing

Re: Pixel garbage when opening context menus

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:02:57 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: (...) > Now I wonder, which package do I have to report the bug against? It can > hardly be the driver, but it could be everything else in the graphics > stack, as far as I can tell. I also wonder whether anyone else is having > the same proble

Installation on a new laptop.

2011-08-30 Thread Ian Martin
Hi, I've just had a whole bunch of fun installing on a Dell XPS.  The problems sound similiar, but my impression on the Dell was that it was the Optimus graphics that caused the problem-  neither Intel, NVIDIA or Radeon apparently have any responsibility (except to users of a decrepit OS), so

Re: no ethernet card detected

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:42:10 -0600, Geoffrey Smith wrote: > Hello, I am trying to do a new installation of Debian 6.0 on a Dell > Optiplex 790 computer. The graphical installer does not detect the > ethernet card and hangs. The actual ethernet card on the machine is an > Intel 82579LM. Does any

Re: Rsync fails on copying large file

2011-08-30 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo Alan, On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:56:02AM +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: > I use Rsync between two of my machines to facilitate regular backups. > In the case I have a problem with I am attempting to copy a file using > the double colon (::) method to talk to the rsync daemon on the > receivi

Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

2011-08-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:57:06 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: >> And who needs xrandr if you can have the layout you want in a >> straightforward way by directly editing the xorg.conf file or by using >> nvidia-settings tool? (we are now in a loop ;-P) > Editing xorg.conf requires an X-server restart afte

Re: no ethernet card detected

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Davies
Geoffrey Smith wrote: > Hello, I am trying to do a new installation of Debian 6.0 on a Dell Optiplex > 790 computer. The graphical installer does not detect the ethernet card and > hangs. The actual ethernet card on the machine is an Intel 82579LM. Does > anybody know a solution to this problem

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows: From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon) To: t...@tony-lx.xxx Subject: Cron /home/tony/.klamav/ScanWi

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread pdormeau
> I've googled a plenty and tried different things without success. Any > suggestions? Surely I'm not the only person running debian who doesn't > use a desktop manager? I do not pretend to know the correct way to do this, at least I can share my experience. This works here for starting an X sessi

Rsync fails on copying large file

2011-08-30 Thread Alan Chandler
I use Rsync between two of my machines to facilitate regular backups. In the case I have a problem with I am attempting to copy a file using the double colon (::) method to talk to the rsync daemon on the receiving end. I have been having regular failures of this backup and have traced it dow

Re: no ethernet card detected

2011-08-30 Thread Brian
On Mon 29 Aug 2011 at 15:42:10 -0600, Geoffrey Smith wrote: > Hello, I am trying to do a new installation of Debian 6.0 on a Dell Optiplex > 790 computer. The graphical installer does not detect the ethernet card and > hangs. The actual ethernet card on the machine is an Intel 82579LM. Does > a

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows: From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon) To: t...@tony-lx.xxx Subject: Cron /home/tony/.klamav/ScanWi

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows: From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon) To: t...@tony-lx.xxx Subject: Cron /home/tony/.klamav/ScanWithKlamav_170811104108.sh '/home/tony/' [...]

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

2011-08-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 11:22:07 +1000, David Purton wrote: > I have not been able to get consolekit working properly since version > 0.4.1-4. > > I believe it is something to do with bug #597937. I have xfce4 (unstable) started with startx. Replacing consolekit with Squeeze's version (and putting

Re: error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows: From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon) To: t...@tony-lx.xxx Subject: Cron /home/tony/.klamav/ScanWithKlamav_170811104108.sh '/home/tony/' [...] Which Debian release are you running??

error from Klamav

2011-08-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I am getting an error after the nightly scan by KlamAV as follows: From: r...@tony-lx.xxx (Cron Daemon) To: t...@tony-lx.xxx Subject: Cron /home/tony/.klamav/ScanWithKlamav_170811104108.sh '/home/tony/' [...] cat: /home//.DCOPserver_tony-lx_:0: No such file or directory call failed QLayout "un

Re: Can't set Chrome as default web browser in KDE 4

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas Yao
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Try:- > # update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/chromium-browser > > Ref:- > man update-alternatives > > Cheers Thx 4 help :) -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su