Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Long Wind
it seems that experts are few I find vesa driver can work anyway it's linux sometime i put up with this and that sometime i have to solve this or that problem on my own expert help isn't always freely available. I'll leave the list Please reply to longwind2...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred Solved

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:17:43PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I tried a Control-C which had no effect at all but > hitting Escape suddenly brought things back from the dead and I > was able to complete the safe-upgrade. The system has been > rebooted once and came right up so it is work

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred Solved

2012-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I tried a Control-C which had no effect at all but hitting Escape suddenly brought things back from the dead and I was able to complete the safe-upgrade. The system has been rebooted once and came right up so it is working once again. Again thanks for the help. Martin McCormick -- To U

Re: Screen relics

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/05/12 02:13, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> >> On 04/05/12 17:07, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> >> > > And, Iceweasel (and it may have happened with the iceape browser; I am > not sure - have not use

Re: PlayOnLinux + wine + amd64

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/05/12 00:11, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > > I also just upgraded from wine-unstable 1.1.34 to 1.5.0, and the > message has changed. Now I get > > [POL_Wine] Error: Wine seems to have crashed > > If your program is running, ju

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused SOLVED)

2012-05-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
After the dist-upgrade on sid during the 'transitions' I noticed there was 'no' /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all so I created one I also added the meta package: xorg also there was no xserver-xorg package after the dist-upgrade this was the reason I was seeing in my error message after startx: /u

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Steven Post wrote: > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into > a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I > understand that it is now possible to also have /boot on btrfs > (previously impossible because

Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-04 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I understand that it is now possible to also have /boot on btrfs (previously impossible because of GRUB). Unfortunately the Debian installer (da

Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 17:29:02 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > On 5/4/12, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:19:42 -0400, Long Wind wrote: >> >> >> Xorg seems to be happier in Lenny so maybe something have changed in >> between that makes it now to fail. >> >> Okay, so you can start with the simpl

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up: XFS info

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:08:57 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Monday, April 30, 2012 10:53:46, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:16:58 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> > Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > ... >> > XFS might also have long file check times. >> >> I still hav

Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 4 May 2012 12:54:45 -0400, Long wrote in message : > i have just installed Debian 6 > it has problem with my video card > i have to set to 15 bit with /etc/X11/xorg.conf > if i use 16 bit or 32 bit, ..chk'ed your logs, your ATI Rage 128 Pro should work best with 24bit colors, these _are

Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Long Wind
On 5/4/12, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:19:42 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > > > Xorg seems to be happier in Lenny so maybe something have changed in > between that makes it now to fail. > > Okay, so you can start with the simplest of the steps and proceed with > the first option I suggeste

Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Long Wind
I have some important finding I attach the X log when it doesn't work the last 4 lines in the log seem to repeat forever: (EE) R128(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine... (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9 (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE start -9 (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle:

Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:19:42 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > Thank Camaleón! > > I add xorg.conf to /etc/X11/ > when I find X doesn't work. You added "what" to "where?" Sorry, I can't understand that phrase :-? > Anyway I attach it. Xorg seems to be happier in Lenny so maybe something have change

Re: Windows domain user in Linux

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 21:06:58 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 04 May 2012 12:32:31 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> i am using winbind for samba to fetch users from windows domain. now i >>> want to add a windows domain user

Re: Unidentified subject!

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 19:41:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 19:34 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: >> As I already said some time ago, a "digest" format is not good for >> replying but reading messages unless you have a capable MUA or add by >> yourself the required header fiel

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up: XFS info

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, April 30, 2012 10:53:46, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:16:58 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: ... > > XFS might also have long file check times. > > I still have not tried this so I can't really tell but what I've heard on > X

Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Long Wind
Thank Camaleón! I install debian 6 and find X doesn't work, so I add xorg.conf to /etc/X11/ Anyway I attach it. -- 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/CAB-gx

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Claudius Hubig writes: Much appreciated information not quoted, here, > This may well be due to the pending upgrade. > > The problem indeed appears to be whiptail waiting for input. As > whiptail is called with the "nocancel" option, it is unlikely that > its return value is checked, which then

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-04 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/5/4 Martin Steigerwald : > > What kernel is this? Debian Wheezy 3.2.0-1-686-pae > > This only works with util-linux fdisk not gnu-fdisk. I have util-linux installed but I can't find the fdisk you said support -c switch. > Ah. I would try a newer kernel. ;) I've tried the newest on live

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Jochen Spieker writes: > I would just Ctrl-c and apt-get -f install, followed by another > safe-upgrade. You don't know how close I have come to doing that. If it can safely figure out where to resume, it is sure worth a try. I have been using Linux for about ten years and this is

Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Long Wind
Thank Camaleón! I add xorg.conf to /etc/X11/ when I find X doesn't work. Anyway I attach it. xorg.conf Description: Binary data

Re: Unidentified subject!

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 19:34 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2012 18:31:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > No, the Subject issue is still not solved and what's worst, you e-mails > come with bad References/In-Reply-To so they are kept unthreaded: > > *** > References: <1336148525.

Re: No Subject for digest

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:05:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > I don't use "digest" but that sounds like something is messed up. > > You can contact the mailing list admins/manintainers as stated here: > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html#maintenance > Several times I got caught

Re: Unidentified subject!

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 19:34 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2012 10:21:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I don't have the time to read all mails at the moment. Is this issue > > already known: > > > > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 08:24 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > >> debian-user-

Re: problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 12:54:45 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > i have just installed Debian 6 > it has problem with my video card > i have to set to 15 bit with /etc/X11/xorg.conf if i use 16 bit or 32 > bit, the monitor shows incorrectly and i have to press power button to > shutdown Please, attach/uplo

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #727

2012-05-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 May 2012 at 18:36:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [This post should really be part of the 'Windows domain user in Linux' thread. The poor thing has lost its way and acquired an incorrect attribution. Everyone - please look after it and give it some TLC.] > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 16:28 +00

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Martin, It is usually appreciated not to format copied content at all (i. e. the output of dpkg etc.), since most people can do that themselves when necessary and forcibly formatting it might lead to even uglier things than lines longer than 80 characters :) Martin McCormick wrote: > PID

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:05:43PM +0200, Riccardo Romoli wrote: >Hi, >I found the easiest way to solve the problem: >[1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/2615 >73 >Regards >Riccardo > If that's the punchline, I must have missed something. Oh

Re: Unidentified subject! <-- hope this will be fixed soo

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 18:31:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: No, the Subject issue is still not solved and what's worst, you e-mails come with bad References/In-Reply-To so they are kept unthreaded: *** References: <1336148525.3899.10.camel@precise> In-Reply-To: <1336148525.3899.10.camel@precise> ***

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Riccardo Romoli
Hi, I found the easiest way to solve the problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/261573 Regards Riccardo On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Indulekha wrote: > As a matter of fact, I'm on an incredibly slow, painfully > unresposive dialup connection -- so I apologi

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Claudius Hubig writes: > Your error description is a bit obscure, so I?ll have to ask for more > information: I am sorry about that. Right now, it looks very much like it is just waiting for input. > Currently running jobs: > - What is the output of ps auxw? There are the usual low-number

Re: No Subject for digest

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 10:21:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't have the time to read all mails at the moment. Is this issue > already known: > > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 08:24 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: >> debian-user-digest DigestVolume 2012 : Issue 718 >> >> To

problem with video display in X

2012-05-04 Thread Long Wind
i have just installed Debian 6 it has problem with my video card i have to set to 15 bit with /etc/X11/xorg.conf if i use 16 bit or 32 bit, the monitor shows incorrectly and i have to press power button to shutdown I attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log (now I go to sleep. (I will replay later, Thanks!))

Re: Unidentified subject! <-- hope this will be fixed soo

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
*chuckle* Camaleón you're right, I switched from Thunderbird and other Mozilla mailers to Evolution, because it's easier to share mails between several installs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #727

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 16:28 +, > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Thanks for the informative email, however administrator is me > > so thats > > the reason i added that. > > > >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #727

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 16:28 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Thanks for the informative email, however administrator is me > so thats > the reason i added that. > > Thanks any ways, That's not the point, attacks from outside are

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
As a matter of fact, I'm on an incredibly slow, painfully unresposive dialup connection -- so I apologise, but it may be I can't get to this in anything like a timely fashion. Your favorite search engine is your friend, however. I use and recommend duckduckgo.com, which showed me these links be

Re: Screen relics

2012-05-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 04/05/12 17:07, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:48:42 From: Scott Ferguson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Swap space not used (now screen relics). Resent-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 0

Re: Windows domain user in Linux

2012-05-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2012 12:32:31 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> i am using winbind for samba to fetch users from windows domain. now i >> want to add a windows domain user "administrator" a member of group >> "root". however when i run the com

Re: Windows domain user in Linux

2012-05-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Daniel Koch wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am 04.05.2012 09:32, schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: >> i am using winbind for samba to fetch users from windows domain. >> now i want to add a windows domain user "administrator" a member of >>

Re: i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 08:57:16 -0400, Joey L wrote: (please, reply at the bottom) > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:33:41 -0400, Joey L wrote: >> >>> I thoiught it would be easy to google - how i can upgrade to the >>> latest kernel on debian squeeze. >>>

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 10:48:36 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Thu, 03 May 2012 20:27:02 +, Camaleón wrote: >> There's some useful information in one of the links I sent before: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins > > Maybe I miss something but the page doesn't say anything about c

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:29:58PM +0200, Riccardo Romoli wrote: >Hi, >but my problem is that I haven't the key I need on my keyboard! So how >can I find the code with xev if I haven't the key to generate the code >itself? >R > You sure are making me edit a lot by posdting you

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:20:11PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Martin McCormick: > > > > So far, I do not see any error yet. I will do the tests you > > suggested and report back. It does act just like it is waiting > > for more input. I have type y, yes and ok and do see the echo > > back. I w

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Riccardo Romoli
Hi, but my problem is that I haven't the key I need on my keyboard! So how can I find the code with xev if I haven't the key to generate the code itself? R On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Indulekha wrote: > (NOTE: please reply inline, so as to preserve the discussion > for the archive. Thanks!)

Re: Where to store Icon for "xv"

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 02:51:43PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 03 May 2012 17:43:47 -0400, Edward wrote in message > <4fa2fc13.3090...@comcast.net>: > > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > ..really??? _The_ xv icon? 8o) Please post the output > > > of "dpkg -S /usr/share/icons/mono/

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
Martin McCormick: > > So far, I do not see any error yet. I will do the tests you > suggested and report back. It does act just like it is waiting > for more input. I have type y, yes and ok and do see the echo > back. I will post a message later describing the tests. I would just Ctrl-c and apt-

Re: Evolution spell checking

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 08:31:58 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2012 11:15:13 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Does anybody know a way to get spell checking for Evolutions subject >> line? I'm serious. (...) Nah, it's "just" a 12 years-bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
(NOTE: please reply inline, so as to preserve the discussion for the archive. Thanks!) On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 11:56:07AM +0200, Riccardo Romoli wrote: >Hi, thanks for reply. >Using xev this is what I obtained from the key I would like to re-map: >KeyRelease event, serial 33, syntheti

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Claudius Hubig writes: > Your error description is a bit obscure, so I?ll have to ask for more So far, I do not see any error yet. I will do the tests you suggested and report back. It does act just like it is waiting for more input. I have type y, yes and ok and do see the echo back. I will post

Re: Windows domain user in Linux

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 May 2012 12:32:31 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am using winbind for samba to fetch users from windows domain. now i > want to add a windows domain user "administrator" a member of group > "root". however when i run the command it gives me an error. > > #useradd -G root admini

Re: Where have the mailing lists gone?

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 May 2012 21:50:43 +, Dirk wrote: > some marketing-asshole has gone bananas on your websites again... > probably thinking a high page count makes users happier... > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ > > No Index with mailing lists but a desert of text that NOBODY will read. Yo

Re: Windows domain user in Linux

2012-05-04 Thread Daniel Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 04.05.2012 09:32, schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > i am using winbind for samba to fetch users from windows domain. > now i want to add a windows domain user "administrator" a member of > group "root". however when i run the command it gives me an er

Re: Evolution spell checking

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 16:10 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: ^still the issue that digest is borked. > On Fri, 04 May 2012 11:15:13 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Does anybody know a way to get spell checking for Evolutions subject > > l

Re: Exim panics

2012-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 May 2012 21:53:26 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 03/05/12 20:55, Camaleón wrote: >> Does bind9 have any problem with ipv6? I didn't notice, at least in my >> Lenny servers :-? >> > Yes, I think it was discussed on this list. Maybe not bind9, but my > router can't handle ipv6: No

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert wrote: > > Any real alternatives (in terms of performance, support, opensource > drivers) to nvidia? I don't know. ATI's worse, IMHO. There's the new 'nouveau' nvidia driver (bilingual redundancy, anyone?), but I think it needs work. Are you ccing (? how do you

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-04 Thread Dan B.
Jochen Spieker wrote: Dan B.: No. Losing the display order setting is probably the _worst-case_ scenario The OP showed us an obvious case of file system corruption. He is lucky if he only lost this index file and no other files. He is *very* lucky if an fsck can repair the damage and nothing

Re: i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.

2012-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Joey L wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:33:41 -0400, Joey L wrote: >>> >>> I thoiught it would be easy to google - how i can upgrade to the latest >>> kernel on debian squeeze. >>> >>> but apparently it is not as ea

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:09:57 +0200, Matthias wrote in message : > 2012/5/4 Curt : > > Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the > > nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest > > stable kernel, try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any > > ap

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Martin, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any way to make safe-upgrade at least attempt > to go to the next task or at least report why it is stuck? Your error description is a bit obscure, so I’ll have to ask for more information: Currently running jobs: - What is the output of ps

Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Several weeks ago, I upgraded from lenny to squeeze and was unaware of the removal of volatile so, after removing that line from /etc/apt/sources.list, I did aptitude update and then aptitude safe-upgrade. It pulled in a huge number of packages and appeared to be doing fine until

Re: PlayOnLinux + wine + amd64

2012-05-04 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Please don't top-post Sorry. Saw (but didn't read) the whole thread on when to and not to top post. > On 04/05/12 13:12, Brad Alexander wrote: >> It is. I mounted the iso image there. > > OK. I had to ask. No problem. $ ls -l /mnt/Instal

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/4 Curt : > Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia > installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, > try the remedies/workarounds suggested here, if any apply: Okay, I'll give the latest version a try. Let's see how stable that one

Re: i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.

2012-05-04 Thread Lisi
On Friday 04 May 2012 13:57:16 Joey L wrote: > Can they both live on the same box ??? I can juist different grub menu > options - is this possible? Yes, and you can chose from the GRUB menu. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-04 Thread Lisi
On Friday 04 May 2012 06:16:52 Bret Busby wrote: > It could simply be malicious web sites. > > I have just tried (repeatedly) to access whitepages.com.au, using > konqueror (one of the web browsers that I have kept allowing > Javascript), and, each time that I try to use the web site, it just > fre

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert wrote: > Okay what's next? How can I provide more information / enable > debugging for this module? > Upgrade to the newest stable driver (I guess you'll have to use the nvidia installer, after purging the debian package) and newest stable kernel, try the remedie

Re: i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.

2012-05-04 Thread Joey L
Okay - guys - thanks - i think you convinced me to go with backports :) I have added it to my /etc/apt/source-list and ran apt-get update What do i do next - i have been googling it ...no luck on how to install the latest 2.6.X kernel or the latest 3..3.X one. Can they both live on the same box ??

Re: Where to store Icon for "xv"

2012-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 03 May 2012 17:43:47 -0400, Edward wrote in message <4fa2fc13.3090...@comcast.net>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..really??? _The_ xv icon? 8o) Please post the output > > of "dpkg -S /usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/xv.svgz". > > dpkg -S /usr/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/xv.

Re: Evolution spell checking

2012-05-04 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 04 May 2012 11:15:13 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Does anybody know a way to get spell checking for Evolutions subject > line? I'm serious. > > I don't like it, if I write subjects similar to this one: > "RAM from the stonagae" > > Regarding to Google it might be a bug for Ubuntu known y

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 4 May 2012 12:56:01 +0200, Matthias wrote in message : > 2012/5/1 Matthias Guentert : > > Thanks for your reply - very appreciated. Currently I am running > > Windows Vista on a third harddisk to see if a hardware fault can be > > excluded being the culprit. So far I did not had one freez

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 03 May 2012 03:48:59 -0400 (EDT), Claudius Hubig wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: >> It is my understanding that, >> assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition >> should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the amount of RAM. >> Suspend/resume will consume a RAM's worth right out

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: > 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: > >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > >> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: > >> >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-04 Thread Matthias Guentert
2012/5/1 Matthias Guentert : > Thanks for your reply - very appreciated. Currently I am running > Windows Vista on a third harddisk to see if a hardware fault can be > excluded being the culprit. So far I did not had one freeze since > weeks running Vista. This points back to your suspicion. I will

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-04 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 20:27:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:27:55 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:30:00 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >> >>> 2/ The card's manufacturer provides a set of CLI tools (also GUI/web >>> based) to control all of the aspects of the

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-04 Thread Riccardo Romoli
Hi, thanks for reply. Using xev this is what I obtained from the key I would like to re-map: KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x401, root 0x12d, subw 0x0, time 778257, (752,-224), root:(833,354), state 0x0, keycode 104 (keysym 0xff8d, KP_Enter), same_screen YES, " XLoo

Evolution spell checking

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Does anybody know a way to get spell checking for Evolutions subject line? I'm serious. I don't like it, if I write subjects similar to this one: "RAM from the stonagae" Regarding to Google it might be a bug for Ubuntu known years ago. I'll reboot to Debian later and test Evolution there. I'm us

Re: Where have the mailing lists gone?

2012-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
Feedback on Debian websites should be directed to debian-...@lists.debian.org (or by filing bugs against a suitable pseudo package: a list of all pseudo is at ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

RAM from the stonagae - Was: Re: Unidentified subject! ;)

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 08:24 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > Heh! Coincidentally, I was looking through my old chip box last night to > see if I had a 6502 (I did), and found a HM6116LP-2 and a couple of > HY62256LP-10 chips :-) You know this old reverb? It's full of old RAM, we call it "Weltra

No Subject for digest

2012-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I don't have the time to read all mails at the moment. Is this issue already known: On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 08:24 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2012 : Issue 718 > > Today's Topics: > Unidentified subject! [ ] > Un

Re: Screen relics

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 17:07, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:48:42 >> From: Scott Ferguson >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Swap space not used (now screen relics). >> Resent-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 05:48:42 + (UTC) >> Resent

Re: Swap space not used (problem website)

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 16:34, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> >> On 04/05/12 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> Works just as well in iceweasel 12.0.1 with NoScript fully enabled. >> Ditto Konqueror 4.4.5 >> > > Hmm. > > It does work in iceweasel 3.5.16, with Javascript di

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-04 Thread Indulekha
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:36:10AM +, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > On 2012-04-30, Indulekha wrote: > > > Can you actually post via usenet, and if so, how? > > I tried that a few times, but my posts never showed up, > > so I got the impression the mail2news thingie was strictly > > one way. >

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-04 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-04-30, Indulekha wrote: > Can you actually post via usenet, and if so, how? > I tried that a few times, but my posts never showed up, > so I got the impression the mail2news thingie was strictly > one way. I rarely post, but am posting via Usenet now. See http://lists.bofh.it/listinf

Windows domain user in Linux

2012-05-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am using winbind for samba to fetch users from windows domain. now i want to add a windows domain user "administrator" a member of group "root". however when i run the command it gives me an error. #useradd -G root administrator useradd: user 'administrator' already exists Please Help. Thank

Screen relics

2012-05-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:48:42 From: Scott Ferguson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Swap space not used (now screen relics). Resent-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 05:48:42 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 04/05/12 15:30, B