Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-09-23 07:15 +0200, Weaver wrote: > That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't > work off a standard BIOS. You need the UEFI base to handle such things > as the new 4 TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi now. No, you don't. You need GPT, which works fine with a trad

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread Weaver
These are the drives I was talking about. Hitachi have put out two the same size. Careful which one of those you buy. One has a far slower spindle speed than the other. Seagate has already advertised a 4 TB internal drive on its way. That's where the UEFI will come into it's own. But with external

Re: Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thank you! So how do I specify multiple cameras in the same conf file? Never mind, with what you told me I can look it up in the docs. On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:41:14 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 23/09/11 01:14, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have an external IP camera which s

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: >..maybe I should have said: >try: "fgfs --disable-sound \ >--disable-ai-models \ >--disable-mp ", the idea is disable the USS Nimitz too. >Note to Homeland Securityate: The FlightGear AI demo. ;o) That's what I did except --disable-mp option as the game

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread Weaver
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:51 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply, John. > > > > It is a long time ago that I hacked any BIOS, and then it was only > > with tools made available by the manufacturer to boot the machine > > in the first place,

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Wolodja: >Is glxgears your only benchmark for establishing that 3D rendering is >slow? If so, it is most likely that it is a faulty benchmark as I am >sure that 60FPS is due to the FPS being synchronised to the VSYNC >(refresh rate) of your TFT (i.e. 60Hz). My

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/09/11 12:05, chris wrote: > but does coreboot support uefi? A. Coreboot is not a commitment (you'd don't have to give up your BIOS/UEFI. B. Maybe. I haven't had time to read the articles but this might be imformative:- http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/category/uefi/ > Cheers Ref:- http:/

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread lina
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:55 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2011 1:35 PM, "Camaleón" wrote: > > > > > du -h /lib | grep "[0-9]M" | sort -n -r | less > > > du is cool. I use it all the time in a pinch but here, I think > find /lib -size +1M -maxdepth 1 > would be better/quicker (Might be

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread chris
but does coreboot support uefi? On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Scott Ferguson < prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply, John. > > > > It is a long time ago that I hacked any BIOS, and then it was only with > > tools made available

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 22, 2011 10:06 AM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: > > On 9/21/2011 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> ...in my case, was >> >> flooding the "/var/log/syslog" file. Then it's too late and your system >> may become unstable and slow meaning that you are royaly hosed :-) > > > Which is why every old schoo

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply, John. > > It is a long time ago that I hacked any BIOS, and then it was only with > tools made available by the manufacturer to boot the machine in the > first place, that I have forgotten / no knowledge of how this may be > achieved. >

Re: kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'.

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/09/11 07:46, Illy wrote: > Hi, Scott... > > Yes, my modem use '/dev/ttyUSB2'. > I've tried switching-off my wlan and unplug my wireline ethernet. But > bring no change. My kppp hang up on 'starting pppd' without ending. > > Sep 23 04:32:24 mefi pppd[13458]: pppd 2.4.5 started by ceo, uid 10

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 21, 2011 1:35 PM, "Camaleón" wrote: > > du -h /lib | grep "[0-9]M" | sort -n -r | less > du is cool. I use it all the time in a pinch but here, I think find /lib -size +1M -maxdepth 1 would be better/quicker (Might be a different switch to add the size of directories, on my phone :) )

Re: Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/09/11 01:14, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hi! > > I have an external IP camera which serves video at > http://192.168.1.20/mjpeg.cgi. Actually I have 5 of them with different > IPs, but that's beside the point... :-) > > I want to use the program "motion" for motion detection. However it

Re: cursor theme "Adwaita" and "DMZ" on KDE

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/09/11 23:38, H Xu wrote: > On 09/22/2011 07:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:03:47 +0800, H Xu wrote: >> >>> On GNOME, Adwaita and DMZ cursor theme have their own waiting cursor, >>> but on my KDE, their waiting cursor, resize cursor are the same as >>> oxygen. I am wondering

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/09/11 00:24, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:35:24 +0200 > randall wrote: > >> On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> The xfce4 doc states to simple put "exec startxfce4" in ~/.xsession so that consolekit and policykit will be called upon, however they

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/09/11 00:33, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:28:34PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:16:56 +0100 >> Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> Hello Darac, >> >>> 3. Accept that google don't "support" the browser, accept that any >>> breakages are your own responsibi

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/09/11 22:36, francis picabia wrote: > I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it > does not support iceweasel. How so? > Is this something expected to change? > Perhaps I simply have a problem searching for articles about > google+ in google search, as I see on rants.org

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/09/11 22:35, randall wrote: > On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> >>> The xfce4 doc states to simple put "exec startxfce4" in ~/.xsession so >>> that consolekit and policykit will be called upon, however they do not >>> seem to be. > > i thought that for 4.8 it was changed to

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time

2011-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Joao Roscoe wrote: > I have a bunch of squeeze boxes running with nis and autofs. All are working > well, no performance issues. However, at boot time, sporadically, bind times > out, and the machine goes up without nis. Your words say "bind times out" and "nis" fails but what does bind have to do

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Brad Rogers wrote: > francis picabia wrote: > > Eventually I'll see it maybe in squeeze. I can live with running > > Will Iceweasel 5 make it into squeeze? I didn't think it would get > anything more than security updates. Squeeze is already released as Stable 6.0. Newer Iceweasel versions cou

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Lisi wrote: > >Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/log > >320M/var/log > > This needs to be addressed. I'd say something's wrong if you have > 320MB of log files on a workstation. What? My desktop has 388M of files in /var/log from just random noise from using it as a deskt

Re: 100% used / file system. Doh!

2011-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > After you clean up your disk space I would install xdu as a package. > > Then clean up your ~/bin/xdu version as a final step since you won't > > need it anymore. > > Thank you, Bob, for going to so much trouble to help me. As I keep saying - > possibly to the

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread Alex
Thanks for the quick reply, John. It is a long time ago that I hacked any BIOS, and then it was only with tools made available by the manufacturer to boot the machine in the first place, that I have forgotten / no knowledge of how this may be achieved. In any case, I was always under the imp

Re: Still trying to reduce the size of /, now that I have the bit between my teeth....

2011-09-22 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi! You can usually start on games, if you don't use them. I didn't follow your earlier thread, so I hope I don't suggest anything, which already has been said. You can use: dpkg -l | less To see all installed packages. If you uninstall packages using either aptitude remove or synaptic,

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread John Foster
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Alex wrote: > Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware" > and its ability to preclude booting from alternative operating systems such > as Linux, BSD etc., would be greatly appreciated, as per article entitled > "Windows 8 secure

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-22 Thread Alex
Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware" and its ability to preclude booting from alternative operating systems such as Linux, BSD etc., would be greatly appreciated, as per article entitled "Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux" at http://www.theregist

Re: CUPS & network printing

2011-09-22 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 09/22/2011 04:37 PM, Joe wrote: No, the printer only has an IP address if it's a standalone network printer. Such things do exist, but yours isn't one, or at least is not connected as one. Cups will be listening (by default) on port 631, on the computer's IP address. I can't remember if it l

Still trying to reduce the size of /, now that I have the bit between my teeth....

2011-09-22 Thread Lisi
I still have two of the already suggested things to try, but meanwhile my /usr is 3.7G, and my /, of which it forms part, is 4.7G. This seems slightly disproportionate. How can I find out what is actually needed - or even, used - in /usr? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: 100% used / file system. Doh!

2011-09-22 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 20 September 2011 22:00:24 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > Have just realised that I can't do this yet because I haven't yet solved > > the problem of installing it!! > > I am not sure how important this particular program is but I think it > will help. > > Since it is really just a

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Sep 2011 at 06:30:19 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > No, I do not have xdm installed. I want to run my system without a DM. > The xfce4 doc states to simple put "exec startxfce4" in ~/.xsession so > that consolekit and policykit will be called upon, however they do not > seem to be. The

Re: kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'.

2011-09-22 Thread Illy
Hi, Scott... Yes, my modem use '/dev/ttyUSB2'. I've tried switching-off my wlan and unplug my wireline ethernet. But bring no change. My kppp hang up on 'starting pppd' without ending. Sep 23 04:32:24 mefi pppd[13458]: pppd 2.4.5 started by ceo, uid 1000 Sep 23 04:32:24 mefi pppd[13458]: Using

Re: CUPS & network printing

2011-09-22 Thread Joe
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:25:39 -0700 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > A printer is connected to a Squeeze system here with a parallel > cable. CUPS is installed and there is no problem printing directly > from the host. You are explicitly stating here that it is not a networked printer, it is a

Re: CUPS & network printing

2011-09-22 Thread Steven
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:25 -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > A printer is connected to a Squeeze system here with a parallel cable. > CUPS is installed and there is no problem printing directly from the > host. > > I'm interested to have this printer work for other machines on the LAN

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Weaver
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:54:51 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > > > I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does > > not support iceweasel. Is this something expected to change? > > Perhaps I simply have a problem sea

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 22 September 2011 12:15:42 Tom H wrote: > To Lisi: have you found the large files/directories that bumped you up > to 30G? (Do you still care? :) ) Yes, earlier today, but after you sent this email. ;-) And yes, I still cared. I might have made the same mistake again if I hadn't fou

Iceweasel and the gpu acceleration

2011-09-22 Thread AlbMilla
Hi! I am using Iceweasel 6 in Debian Testing, and I think I have a problem with the gpu acceleration due to Iceweasel has not activate me that option. If I check about:support, Iceweasel detects my card NVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce 9300M GS/PCI/SSE2 but Iceweasel does not enable the gpu. My gra

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 22 September 2011 14:13:29 Camaleón wrote: > if you got them installed is because "you" > installed by yourself for "something" Camaleón, I am sure that there is a gremlin inhabiting my computer. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

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CUPS & network printing

2011-09-22 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, A printer is connected to a Squeeze system here with a parallel cable. CUPS is installed and there is no problem printing directly from the host. I'm interested to have this printer work for other machines on the LAN. http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.5/network.html contains,

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread green
Tom H wrote at 2011-09-22 09:28 -0500: > and we regularly have "/" on these boxes filling up because of some > runaway logging to "/var/log"... Sounds like the logger (rsyslog?) needs an intelligence upgrade. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Efficient remotely backed, locally encrypted block devices?

2011-09-22 Thread green
Christian Jaeger wrote at 2011-09-21 22:34 -0500: > Before I'm seriously starting to think about starting to code > anywhere, I'd like to know what best to do. Is there another good > solution? You might want to look at bup and obnam, though they probably both prioritize bandwidth efficiency more

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 September 2011 14:06, francis picabia wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote: >> >>> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not >>> support iceweasel.  Is this something expected to c

Re: Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thank you. I think this is exactly what I was looking for. On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:44:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:14:18 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > > I have an external IP camera which serves video at > > http://192.168.1.20/mjpeg.cgi. Actually I have 5 of

Getting a large file onto DVD

2011-09-22 Thread Frank McCormick
I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. Brasero warns me that such a large file is only supported by the 3rd standard for iso9660...but then won't burn it even after I say OK. It ejects the DVD saying an error has occurred. Does anybody have a solution or suggestions

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:02:56PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > Tux:/var/log# du -h | sort -n > 1.4M./apache2 > 4.0K./news > 4.0K./ntpstats > 8.0K./exim4 > 12K ./fsck > 48K ./apt > 88K ./cups > 144K./clamav > 312K./installer/cdebconf > 330M. > 852K./installer >

Re: Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:14:18 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > I have an external IP camera which serves video at > http://192.168.1.20/mjpeg.cgi. Actually I have 5 of them with different > IPs, but that's beside the point... :-) > > I want to use the program "motion" for motion detection. Ho

Re: bcm5974 on kernel 3.0

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:24:33 -0300, David Roguin wrote: > On Sep 22, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:47:45 -0300, David Roguin wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Was anyone successfully installed this module on linux image 3.0? I >>> tried to build it last night but he

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:30:05PM +0800, lina wrote: > > > What's the recommended reserved size for the /var/log partition. I can > > jotted down and take reference in future. > > As with most partitioning schemes, this very much depends on yo

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 22 September 2011 14:14:13 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/21/2011 10:39 AM, Lisi wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var > > 2.9G/var > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/log > > 320M

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:35:44 +0800, lina wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> >> Good, but you should now what were those folders and what files were >> >> storing, most surely kernel symbols but again, they're needed for >> >> specific purposes and if you got them

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:30:05PM +0800, lina wrote: > What's the recommended reserved size for the /var/log partition. I can > jotted down and take reference in future. As with most partitioning schemes, this very much depends on your requirements. For a desktop/workstation type situation proba

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:20:45 +0700, Sthu wrote in message <4e7b0c0b.418bcc0a.6c20.b...@mx.google.com>: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: > > >> Oh. After several tries w/ the game and You not answering me (I > >> thought You did quit from the thread) > > > >..you need patience, I'm

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:22:12 +0800, lina wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> >> > after purging, only took > >> >> > > >> >> > # du -sh /lib > >> >> > 128M/lib > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks for your he

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/21/2011 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > ...in my case, was >> >> flooding the "/var/log/syslog" file. Then it's too late and your system >> may become unstable and slow meaning that you are royaly hosed :-) >> > > Which is why every old

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:33:25 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: Hello Darac, > down or whatever. Unsupported should not equal banned (I'm not saying a > browser shouldn't be banned, just that one is not the other). It's okay, IKWYM. "On you own head be it", rather than "Hie thee hence, Satan". -- Re

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:45:45 -0300 francis picabia wrote: Hello francis, > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Brad Rogers > > I tried that, but it didn't work. > OK, too bad, but thanks for looking into it. I had read google docs NP. > app could be fooled by this, but there must be other test

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:24:44 -0300 francis picabia wrote: Hello francis, > Eventually I'll see it maybe in squeeze. I can live with running Will Iceweasel 5 make it into squeeze? I didn't think it would get anything more than security updates. -- Regards _ / ) "The blin

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 22 September 2011 06:04:29 R. Clayton wrote: > When I have this problem, it's usually because I have too many kernel > versions. Look in /boot or do > > $ dpkg --purge linux-image > > I keep the latest and the previous versions around, although I wait until > the partition's full bef

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 22 September 2011 14:14:13 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'd trust the list members here more than Google hits, except maybe hits > on Debian Administration.  Even in that case many of the Google hits are > very old articles that may no longer apply. So would I. Considerably more. I just fe

Device node for external camera

2011-09-22 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi! I have an external IP camera which serves video at http://192.168.1.20/mjpeg.cgi. Actually I have 5 of them with different IPs, but that's beside the point... :-) I want to use the program "motion" for motion detection. However it requires input from a device node such as /dev/video0. How ca

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 22:54:54 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [snip] > But the cleaning of the package cache only removed ~ 2.3 GB. And summing up > the above listed disk usage makes only appr. 10 GB. > So were do the other 20 GB come from? > I would like to see the output of > > du -hx --max

Re: Convert a pdf to text

2011-09-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
For reference in difficult cases: xpdf allows the user (using the rodent) to define a region of text, which then can be pasted into an editor such as XEmacs. Left-click (and hold) on the upper left-hand corner of the text block, drag to the lower right-hand corner of the block, release the button

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:06:07 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/21/2011 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> ...in my case, was >> flooding the "/var/log/syslog" file. Then it's too late and your system >> may become unstable and slow meaning that you are royaly hosed :-) > > Which is why every old sc

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:28:34PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:16:56 +0100 > Darac Marjal wrote: > > Hello Darac, > > > 3. Accept that google don't "support" the browser, accept that any > > breakages are your own responsibility and continue to use the site > > (T

Re: Qt-Creator Version

2011-09-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Luis Felipe Domínguez Vega wrote: Why qtcreator has version 1.3 in repo, when it has v2.x It's 2.2.1 in Sid. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Which is why every old school Unix guru (and younger smart ones as well) > will tell you to put /var on a separate filesystem (partition), and better > yet on a separate physical device. To illustrate this point: we have a few boxes (AFAI

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:35:24 +0200 randall wrote: > On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > >> The xfce4 doc states to simple put "exec startxfce4" in ~/.xsession so > >> that consolekit and policykit will be called upon, however they do not > >> seem to be. > > i thought that for

Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time

2011-09-22 Thread Joao Roscoe
Dear Srs, I have a bunch of squeeze boxes running with nis and autofs. All are working well, no performance issues. However, at boot time, sporadically, bind times out, and the machine goes up without nis. Since home folders are NFS via autofs, the machine becames useless, and a reboot is required

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/21/2011 10:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: ...in my case, was flooding the "/var/log/syslog" file. Then it's too late and your system may become unstable and slow meaning that you are royaly hosed :-) Which is why every old school Unix guru (and younger smart ones as well) will tell you to put /v

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:06:57 -0300 > francis picabia wrote: > > Hello francis, > >> I could trick it into identifying as another browser, but I wondered >> if it will be supported anyway without hacking the identifier. > > I tried that, but i

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:18:46 -0400 "John L. Cunningham" wrote: Hello John, > That's the problem. G+ wants to do fancy HTML 5 stuff that IW <4 can't > handle. I always wondered what the issue was. Now I know. Thx. A pity google didn't explain *why* they "do not support your browser" --

Re: cursor theme "Adwaita" and "DMZ" on KDE

2011-09-22 Thread H Xu
On 09/22/2011 07:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:03:47 +0800, H Xu wrote: > >> On GNOME, Adwaita and DMZ cursor theme have their own waiting cursor, >> but on my KDE, their waiting cursor, resize cursor are the same as >> oxygen. I am wondering whether this is caused by the packagi

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:22:12 +0800, lina wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> >> > after purging, only took >> >> > >> >> > # du -sh /lib >> >> > 128M/lib >> >> > >> >> > Thanks for your help. It's done. >> >> >> >> Hum... I hope those files are not going to be

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:06:57 -0300 francis picabia wrote: Hello francis, > I could trick it into identifying as another browser, but I wondered > if it will be supported anyway without hacking the identifier. I tried that, but it didn't work. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindin

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:16:56 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: Hello Darac, > 3. Accept that google don't "support" the browser, accept that any > breakages are your own responsibility and continue to use the site > (This may also involve contacting google to let you past the Not an option;

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:06:57 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote: >> >>> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not >>> support iceweasel.  Is this something expec

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300 > francis picabia wrote: > > Hello francis, > >> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it >> does not support iceweasel.  Is this something expected to change? > > Which version of Icewe

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:42:09 +0800, lina wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> > got several kernels here. > >> > > >> > linux-headers-2.6-amd64install > >> > linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300 francis picabia wrote: Hello francis, > I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it > does not support iceweasel. Is this something expected to change? Which version of Iceweasel? I got the same error with v3.6.*, but when testing got updat

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:31:30 +0800, lina wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> > Tell you one secret, I didn't know LANG means language environment. > >> > When I test each directory. > >> > I avoid using

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:06:57AM -0300, francis picabia wrote: > I'm using iceweasel 3.5.16 - I think the current release for > Debian squeeze. That's the problem. G+ wants to do fancy HTML 5 stuff that IW <4 can't handle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:06:57AM -0300, francis picabia wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > > > >> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not > >> support iceweasel.  Is this someth

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/21/2011 10:39 AM, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI workstation I'd think /var/cache or

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:42:09 +0800, lina wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > got several kernels here. >> > >> > linux-headers-2.6-amd64install >> > linux-headers-2.6.32-5-commoninstall >> > linux-headers-2.6.38-2-amd64ins

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > >> I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not >> support iceweasel.  Is this something expected to change? Perhaps I >> simply have a problem searching for ar

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:31:30 +0800, lina wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > Tell you one secret, I didn't know LANG means language environment. >> > When I test each directory. >> > I avoid using the up arrow to get history. I tried to type each time >> > to en

Re: No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:36:19 -0300, francis picabia wrote: > I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not > support iceweasel. Is this something expected to change? Perhaps I > simply have a problem searching for articles about google+ in google > search, as I see on ran

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread randall
On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: The xfce4 doc states to simple put "exec startxfce4" in ~/.xsession so that consolekit and policykit will be called upon, however they do not seem to be. i thought that for 4.8 it was changed to startxfce instead of startxfce4 but i could be mis

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:50:54 +0800, lina wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Hmm... you "/lib" seems a bit bloated (mine is 94 MiB), I would look > >> inside it: > >> > >> du -h /lib | grep "[0-9]M" | sort -n -r

No iceweasel support for google+

2011-09-22 Thread francis picabia
I must remember to launch google chrome to use google+, as it does not support iceweasel. Is this something expected to change? Perhaps I simply have a problem searching for articles about google+ in google search, as I see on rants.org article. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:04:09 +0800, lina wrote: > > > On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:34, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >>> The command #LANG=POSIX; df -h * is cool. Thanks, > >> > >> Note: I set the LANG environment to posix because... > >> > >> 1/ My sy

Re: bcm5974 on kernel 3.0

2011-09-22 Thread David Roguin
On Sep 22, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:47:45 -0300, David Roguin wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Was anyone successfully installed this module on linux image 3.0? I >> tried to build it last night but he module needs an 'linux/smp_lock.h' >> which is not present on 3.0 >

Re: multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Tom H [110921 02:09]: >> Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling >> boot. > > Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze) > controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But

Re: bcm5974 on kernel 3.0

2011-09-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:47:45 -0300, David Roguin wrote: > Hi! > > Was anyone successfully installed this module on linux image 3.0? I > tried to build it last night but he module needs an 'linux/smp_lock.h' > which is not present on 3.0 > > Any ideas? Which module? Anyway, you need kernel heade

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/09/11 20:30, Perry Thompson wrote: > On 09/22/2011 04:03 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 21/09/11 22:58, rypervenche wrote: >>> I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. I have followed >>> the instructions in the doc files for xfce4 and xfce4-session, but I am >>> still unable to

Re: regards the /

2011-09-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:50:54 +0800, lina wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Hmm... you "/lib" seems a bit bloated (mine is 94 MiB), I would look >> inside it: >> >> du -h /lib | grep "[0-9]M" | sort -n -r | less >> >> 330M/lib > 311M/lib/modules > > got several

bcm5974 on kernel 3.0

2011-09-22 Thread David Roguin
Hi! Was anyone successfully installed this module on linux image 3.0? I tried to build it last night but he module needs an 'linux/smp_lock.h' which is not present on 3.0 Any ideas? Thanks! -- David

Re: How the kernel knows?

2011-09-22 Thread David Roguin
On Sep 22, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:29:06 -0400 (EDT), David Roguin wrote: >> >> I was wondering, how does the kernel knows what module (or driver) >> to load given any hardware? And, can i see that in any log file? > > The kernel knows what module to loa

Re: How the kernel knows?

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:29:06 -0400 (EDT), David Roguin wrote: > > I was wondering, how does the kernel knows what module (or driver) > to load given any hardware? And, can i see that in any log file? The kernel knows what module to load because the module contains alias names based on the hardwar

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