Re: Display settings issue

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > [Please don't top post. Reformatted] > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:25:27PM +0530, Bilal mk wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU < > andreimpope...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Please also attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf a

Re: software breaks software (Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base)

On Mi, 05 sep 12, 01:49:05, lee wrote: > > > For example if you watch DVD's on your computer you will need > > libdvdcss2 which isn't available in Debian. > > Yeah what's the replacement for that? There is none that I know of. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users an

Re: mysql-server 64 bit on a 32 bit lenny

Roland RoLaNd wrote: > i have 32 bit lenny running. ( i cannot upgrade) > i need to install mysql-server-5.1 amd64 on it. > This system is already running l 64 bit kernel. > > i can't seem to find that package in any current repo so i'm > thinking of force installing it using dpkg but i don't kno

Re: signature files

james gray wrote: > how does a person find the signature files using #md5sumsums They are in the directory next to the iso images: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/amd64/iso-cd/ MD5SUMS 13-May-2012 13:32 4.4K MD5SUMS.sign 13-M

Re: aide error

Why did you tag your message as spam? I removed the tag. lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Oh wow. It is a data dependent problem! The problem is that they > > dynamically create aide configuration based upon the contents of /dev > > which is variable dependent upon the devices a

mysql-server 64 bit on a 32 bit lenny

i have 32 bit lenny running. ( i cannot upgrade) i need to install mysql-server-5.1 amd64 on it. This system is already running l 64 bit kernel. i can't seem to find that package in any current repo so i'm thinking of force installing it using dpkg but i don't know how to solve dependencies (e

Re: [SPAM] Re: aide error

> lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: >> > It seems to be a known/reported issue: >> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661758 >> >> Thanks to Bob and Camaleon; patching aide works correctly. The patch is >> at >> the link that Camaleon gave before. > > Oh wow. It is a data

signature files

Question: how does a person find the signature files using #md5sumsums at the debian page: http://www.debian.org/CD/verify Quote: To ensure that the checksums files themselves are correct, use GnuPG to verify them against the accompanying signature files #(e.g. MD5SSUMS.sign). i have looke

Re: aide error

lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > It seems to be a known/reported issue: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661758 > > Thanks to Bob and Camaleon; patching aide works correctly. The patch is at > the link that Camaleon gave before. Oh wow. It is a data dependent pr

Re: Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

Stan Hoeppner writes: > On 9/4/2012 10:58 AM, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > >> The weirdest thing is that it was working before the upgrade. Anyway, just >> changing the format solves the problem, but finding where the problem was >> gave me some headache and some email lost. :-} > > http://www.p

software breaks software (Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base)

Chris Bannister writes: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:39:59PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Chris Bannister writes: >> > Read this: >> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ >> > >> > Also, just found this: >> > http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2012/06/debian-project-leader-stefano.html >> >> That

Re: no input from microphone (Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio)

Kelly Clowers writes: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, lee wrote: > >> This on-board card shows up in lspci as >> "Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF100 High Definition Audio >> Controller" and is recognised fine by alsa. Sound output of that card >> works, and I can turn up the mixer setting

Re: no input from microphone (Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio)

Brad Rogers writes: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:43:21 +0200 > lee wrote: > > Hello lee, > >>problem is not the mic. It used to work before I did something with >>audacious which gave me a warning that it might not be a good idea --- I >>don't remember what that was. Since then, the mic input of the

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

On 04/09/12 06:30 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:29:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:24:52 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: (...) Please keep debian-user in CC. Why?! Because I opened it on behalf of debian-user. The people whom are affected by this b

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 04:11:04PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:34:43 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 02:49:00PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> >> ¹http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg01890.html > >> > > >> > No mention about security support

Re: aide error

> On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:25:18 -0700, latinfo wrote: > >> Helo list >> >> Does somebody know how to deal with this? > > (...) > > It seems to be a known/reported issue: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661758 > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón Thanks to Bob and Camaleon; patchin

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

Le lundi 03 septembre 2012 à 17:46 -0500, Mark Allums a écrit : > Not yet. I created another user and Nautilus behaved much better when > logged in as him. I think there is a synergy between some other > process/task/thread and Nautilus that is making things worse. Enabling > desktop icons s

Re: mdadm -homehost problem [SOLVED]

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 11:45 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Summary: mdadm on squeeze rewrites the UUID I give it with the > localhost, even if I do not specify localhost. I am trying to repair a > RAID for use on lenny with an existing UUID. Is there a way to avoid > the rewrite? Other solutions? >

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:29:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:24:52 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > (...) > > > Please keep debian-user in CC. > > Why?! Because I opened it on behalf of debian-user. The people whom are affected by this bug are in a better position to see

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

Okay, that modprobe command woke up the mixer and rexima found it with: rexima -d /dev/mixer and took control as it had done on other computers I had. I play frotz games and those have oss type sound effects in them I've not heard since the first days I played infocom games on dos on a pc all t

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:29:20PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 05 sep 12, 00:04:24, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote: > > > > > And how about the ones that aren't available in Debian? > > > > You can build them yourself using the build depen

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:39:59PM +0200, lee wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > Read this: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ > > > > Also, just found this: > > http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2012/06/debian-project-leader-stefano.html > > That's interesting --- the question is w

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > Jude Da

Re: no input from microphone (Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio)

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:54:47 -0700 Kelly Clowers wrote: Hello Kelly, >Sounds like it is the Nvidia onboard HDA chip, not a card... Probably; I've not been following the thread too closely. >I have my doubts that it is that easy to actually fry the mic input... So do I but, if it was flaky to

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:50:49 + (UTC) "Camaleón noela...@gmail.com" suggested this: >On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:47:53 +, T o n g wrote: > >> Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio? > >As others have already said, yes, you need ALSA (or another kernel >API as replacement like OSS) in order t

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

On 9/4/2012 2:48 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 03:23:21PM -0700, Weaver wrote: I find the packages 'cruft' and 'deborphan' work fairly well together. I find Bleachbit to be a little too militant. All of the above will find packages that are not being used. But, packages that a

Re: no input from microphone (Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio)

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:43:21 +0200 > lee wrote: > > Hello lee, > >>problem is not the mic. It used to work before I did something with >>audacious which gave me a warning that it might not be a good idea --- I >>don't remember what that was. S

Re: what is the difference between "/usr/bin/X" and "/usr/bin/Xorg"?

On Friday, August 31, 2012 7:30:02 PM UTC-5, Bob Proulx wrote: > > wow - i'm disappointed no one's ever answered this... i too would like to > > know: > > root:~/# ls -o /usr/bin/X* > > -rwsr-sr-x 1 root9232 Dec 16 2011 /usr/bin/X > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1889472 Oct 29 2011 /usr/bin/Xorg > >

Re: dev pts mystery

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: > >> somehow (i can't say what happened or i'd > >> have the answer), now it looks like: > >> crw--w 1 me tty 136, 0 Sep 3 20:05 0 > >> crw--w 1 me tty 136, 1 Sep 3 2

Re: dev pts mystery

Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:30:48 -0400, songbird wrote: > > (...) > >> so are there any ideas on how to remove /dev/pts/2 >> or reset the whole udev tty virtual device setup? > > (...) > > Maybe this helps (or gives you some hints): > > http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/f

Re: dev pts mystery

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: >> somehow (i can't say what happened or i'd >> have the answer), now it looks like: >> >> crw--w 1 me tty 136, 0 Sep 3 20:05 0 >> crw--w 1 me tty 136, 1 Sep 3 20:10 1 >> crw--w 1 root tty 136, 2 Sep

Re: mdadm -homehost problem (not localhost)

A small correction: the mdadm option about the host is --homehost, not localhost. And a small piece of information: On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 11:45 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Summary: mdadm on squeeze rewrites the UUID I give it with the > localhost, even if I do not specify localhost. I am trying t

Re: tracker-miner, tracker-store, etc., was Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:06:51PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > I noticed that tracker is doing a lot . How important is it? Is > it inadvisable to disable it? It creates and manages search indexes. If you don't use desktop search, disable or remove it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 03:23:21PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > I find the packages 'cruft' and 'deborphan' work fairly well together. > I find Bleachbit to be a little too militant. All of the above will find packages that are not being used. But, packages that are not being used are not loaded and thu

Re: libsdl1.2-dev – Nolonger supports Color Ascii Ourput (libcaca) - WHY?!

Please note that you tried to submit a bug but didn't get the syntax right, so it won't have worked. On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:17:06AM -0700, Nzvr Salamon wrote: > What the fuck? Why did you drop support for libcaca output. Check the changelog. It reads: libsdl1.2 (1.2.14-6.3) unstable; urgency

Re: Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

Hi Stan, I guess that explains the odd behavior. Probably the former version did not enforce that restriction. Thanks for the explanation Best, On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/4/2012 10:58 AM, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > >> The weirdest thing is that it was workin

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Yes, pulseaudio needs ALSA. Note that pulseaudio is bad programmed That's certainly an opinion, and perhaps a commonly-repeated one, but an opinion non-the-less. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: no input from microphone (Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio)

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:43:21 +0200 lee wrote: Hello lee, >problem is not the mic. It used to work before I did something with >audacious which gave me a warning that it might not be a good idea --- I >don't remember what that was. Since then, the mic input of the card is >dead and I don't use au

Re: no input from microphone (Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio)

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, lee wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > >> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:06:30PM +0200, lee wrote: >>> Having that said, alsa doesn't fully work in that the microphone input >>> of the on-board sound card is dead ever since audacious did something to >>> it. Pulseaudi

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

On Tue 04 Sep 2012 at 14:47:41 +0700, Morning Star wrote: > you're right about sdcv, but still i can't translate a paragraph. only > a word. :( > do you know what the dictionaries that suit with that? StarDict is dictionary software, It translates words only. Full-text translation (what you refer

mdadm -localhost problem

Summary: mdadm on squeeze rewrites the UUID I give it with the localhost, even if I do not specify localhost. I am trying to repair a RAID for use on lenny with an existing UUID. Is there a way to avoid the rewrite? Other solutions? Details A lenny host has two virtual machines, VM1 (lenny) an

Re: dev pts mystery

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: > somehow (i can't say what happened or i'd > have the answer), now it looks like: > > crw--w 1 me tty 136, 0 Sep 3 20:05 0 > crw--w 1 me tty 136, 1 Sep 3 20:10 1 > crw--w 1 root tty 136, 2 Sep 4 2012 2 > crw--w 1 me tty 136, 3 S

Re: dev pts mystery

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:30:48 -0400, songbird wrote: (...) > so are there any ideas on how to remove /dev/pts/2 > or reset the whole udev tty virtual device setup? (...) Maybe this helps (or gives you some hints): http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt Greetings,

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

Chris Bannister writes: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote: >> When they are only different in version, then what is bad about having >> packages from Debian-multimedia, and why should I remove them? > > Read this: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ > > Also, just fo

no input from microphone (Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio)

Chris Bannister writes: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:06:30PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Having that said, alsa doesn't fully work in that the microphone input >> of the on-board sound card is dead ever since audacious did something to >> it. Pulseaudio won't fix that, and better don't ever run audaciou

Re: Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

On 9/4/2012 10:58 AM, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > The weirdest thing is that it was working before the upgrade. Anyway, just > changing the format solves the problem, but finding where the problem was > gave me some headache and some email lost. :-} http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html Each

Re: libsdl1.2-dev – Nolonger supports Color Ascii Ourput (libcaca) - WHY?!

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:17:06 -0700, Nzvr Salamon wrote: > What the fuck? Please refrain from bad wording and also from sending html posts... :-/ > Why did you drop support for libcaca output. You mean "us"? This list is for users not devels, we did "nothing". So better that you start first by

Re: e2fsck errror: Error reading block (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read)

Good time of the day, Andrei. You wrote: > To quote an uncle of mine, one only needs a "persuader" (read: > hammer) :D You have very wise uncle! :o) Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

On 9/3/2012 3:20 PM, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > Hi guys, > > The weirdest thing happened today with postfix when upgrading our mail > relay from Lenny to Squeeze. My main.cf has a mynetworks directive > specifying which servers can relay without authenticating. It looked like > this: > > mynet

Re: Re: debug apache-php dump

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:18 PM, David Sastre wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:36:59AM -0300, Roberto Scattini wrote: ... it is a standard package installation, apache2, php5 and libapache2-mod-php5. i also installed apache2-dbg, libapr1-dbg, libaprutil1-dbg and php5-dbg. You need apache2-d

Re: e2fsck errror: Error reading block (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read)

On Ma, 04 sep 12, 23:39:37, Sthu Deus wrote: > > Personally, I do not believe that the HDD is not extractable - > speaking in general. To quote an uncle of mine, one only needs a "persuader" (read: hammer) :D Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http:

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Ma, 04 sep 12, 16:36:27, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:22:50 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 04 sep 12, 16:11:04, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> 1/ Debian stable branches don't receive new kernel releases from the > >> usual repositories but they can be obtained from backports.

Re: e2fsck errror: Error reading block (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read)

Good time of the day, Kamaraju. You wrote: > May be I am missing something here. The USB hard drive I am talking > is very similar to http://www.amazon.com/Iomega-Prestige-Portable- > SuperSpeed-35192/dp/B004NIAG5E/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top . The case > can't be removed. You have to understand:

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:22:50 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 sep 12, 16:11:04, Camaleón wrote: >> >> 1/ Debian stable branches don't receive new kernel releases from the >> usual repositories but they can be obtained from backports. >> >> 2/ Debian stable branches do receive kernel upgr

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Mi, 05 sep 12, 00:04:24, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote: > > > And how about the ones that aren't available in Debian? > > You can build them yourself using the build dependencies from Debian. > If you go that route then that is when you'll need th

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Ma, 04 sep 12, 16:11:04, Camaleón wrote: > > 1/ Debian stable branches don't receive new kernel releases from the > usual repositories but they can be obtained from backports. > > 2/ Debian stable branches do receive kernel upgrades in form of security > fixes and patches. > > 3/ That said,

Re: ifupdown's changelog: Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:09:59PM +0300, Regid Ichira wrote: > Can I remove /etc/network/run manually? Just /etc/network/run. Not > /run/network. > > I don't have /etc/network/run.dpkg-old. I understand that the writer > of that code fragment was cautious about various linkage methods.

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:34:43 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 02:49:00PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> ¹http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg01890.html >> > >> > No mention about security support in that post either ..., or was it >> > in another thread? >> >> Are

Re: Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:20:34 -0300, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > >> The weirdest thing happened today with postfix when upgrading our mail >> relay from Lenny to Squeeze. My main.cf has a mynetworks directive >> specifying which servers can relay

Re: how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:21:59AM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > Hi list, > > I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : > a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the > contrast buttons work : I can press "Fn" + "Up"/"Down" > to set the screen contrast level. > > On the

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:06:30PM +0200, lee wrote: > Having that said, alsa doesn't fully work in that the microphone input > of the on-board sound card is dead ever since audacious did something to > it. Pulseaudio won't fix that, and better don't ever run audacious ... Start a new thread, and

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:24:52 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: (...) > Please keep debian-user in CC. Why?! People interested in the bug development will manually subscribe to get in touch. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

ifupdown's changelog: Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink

$ zgrep 'Try to remove' /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/changelog.gz - Try to remove old /etc/network/run even if it's a symlink. $ ls -l /etc/network/run lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 20 20:59 /etc/network/run -> /run/network Can I remove /etc/network/run manually? Just /etc/networ

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:47:41 +0700, Morning Star wrote: > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:11:14 +0700, Morning Star wrote: >> >> Hi, but please, no html posts, thanks :-) >>> sorry, i didn't know that. :) >> >> You are doing it again and even w

Re: broken pacakages in Synaptic

On 09/04/2012 09:41 AM, Johan Vermeire wrote: Hi, How can I select in Synaptic only the broken pacakages or is there another way to do it ? On the bottom left you will see CUSTOM FILTERS. Then above that, still on the lefy, you will see BROKEN. EP

Re: some problems in mounting usb

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:50:17 +0800, lina wrote: > there is a usb stick, (...) > My question is that, was the way I used to mount via command wrong? If the USB is formatted with FAT32 you have to set the perms when mounting ("mount -t vfat -o uid=lina,gid=lina,utf8,umask=xxx...") which is done

Re: broken pacakages in Synaptic

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:41:16 +0200 Johan Vermeire wrote: Hello Johan, >How can I select in Synaptic only the broken pacakages or >is there another way to do it ? In the "Status" view, there should be options for the sections; Installed Installed (local or obsolete) Installed (Manually) Not Inst

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:47:53 +, T o n g wrote: > Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio? As others have already said, yes, you need ALSA (or another kernel API as replacement like OSS) in order to have sound working in your system while the opposite is not true (ALSA does not need from

Re: broken pacakages in Synaptic

Johan Vermeire wrote: > Hi, > > How can I select in Synaptic only the broken pacakages or > is there another way to do it ? mine show up using the Status button (right under Sections in the lower left) when they happen. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

broken pacakages in Synaptic

Hi, How can I select in Synaptic only the broken pacakages or is there another way to do it ? -- Met Vriendelijke Groet, Bien à vous, Best Regards, Mit freundlichen Grüßen Johan Vermeire Software engineer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:04:26 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > In an effort to improve system stability without completely > reinstalling, how would someone pick and choose things to trim or remove > from a Desktop/Workstation? My favorite and main Linux/Debian machine > is flaky right now, and I don't

Re: Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:20:34 -0300, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > The weirdest thing happened today with postfix when upgrading our mail > relay from Lenny to Squeeze. My main.cf has a mynetworks directive > specifying which servers can relay without authenticating. It looked > like this: > > myne

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Lisi wrote: > Sorry - I think that my mail client may be misreporting. :-( (Or I may be > misunderstanding it.) > > Lisi > > it's ok now. :) Lisi, have you tried using stardict? any luck with paragraph translation? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

Jude, If "ls -al /dev/mixer" is not there, check that the package "oss-compat" is installed? If not sure post output of "apt-cache policy oss-compat" Hopefully this will fix it. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the p

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

On Tuesday 04 September 2012 14:57:22 Morning Star wrote: > doing what? i already switch to plain text. :( > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 September 2012 08:47:41 Morning Star wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> > On Sun, 02 Sep 2012

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

doing what? i already switch to plain text. :( On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2012 08:47:41 Morning Star wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> > On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:11:14 +0700, Morning Star wrote: >> >>> Hi, but please, no html

Re: Display settings issue

[Please don't top post. Reformatted] On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:25:27PM +0530, Bilal mk wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > Please also attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and any file under > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (if any of exists). > > > > > > > See my xrandr

Poor veth performance

Hi! I faced poor veth performance on Debian squeeze. What I did 1) #ip link add type veth 2) #cat /etc/vservers/vserver01/interfaces/0/dev veth0 3) #cat /etc/vservers/vserver01/interfaces/0/ip 192.168.145.119 Whole 192.168.145.0/24 is routed to that host server. >From the linux-vserver contai

libsdl1.2-dev – Nolonger supports Color Ascii Ourput (libcaca) - WHY?!

What the fuck? Why did you drop support for libcaca output. Secondly, what are the commands to download the source, then change one setting (add the libcaca support to sdl), and then recompile a new sdl package? SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca ./dgen SONIC1.BIN sdl: Couldn't init SDL: No available video d

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:37:28PM +0200, lee wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:29:32PM +0200, lee wrote: > >> Fvwm-crystal is awesome. > > > > Huh? Compare "apt-cache show fvwm-crystal" with "apt-cache show awesome" > > > > They are completely different. :) > > No,

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote: > When they are only different in version, then what is bad about having > packages from Debian-multimedia, and why should I remove them? Read this: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ Also, just found this: http://blogs.dailynews.com/c

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 02:49:00PM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> ¹http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg01890.html > > > > No mention about security support in that post either ..., or was it in > > another thread? > > Are you wearing your glasses now? Don't need them! You don't spell "S

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

Jude DaShiell writes: > Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards > even with several different combinations of items parsed from the > relevant lspci line. According to [1] (which probably applies), you might want to try something like "rexima -d /dev/mixer". Parsi

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

Jude DaShiell writes: > a howto got put up on the orca-list email list describing how to install > a graphical user environment and have it come up talking and pulse in > any of its forms is not part of how to do it, so the claim that pulse > adds extra layers of complexity I have had direct e

reopening 617940 and archive software (was Re: xsesssion-errors)

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 04:25:54PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:59:04AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > So what now? > > If the bug needs re-opening, unarchive it and reopen it: > > > Probably something like this to cont...@b

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file:

unarchive 617940 reopen 617940 thanks This bug still exists. See message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/09/msg9.html and despite that it says there are no followups there are!, starting at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/09/msg9.html The reason(s) for this bug being

Re: boot image

On Tuesday 04,September,2012 05:16 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:38:56PM +0800, lina wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> Today I tried to install unetbootin >> >> The following packages were installed. >> >> extlinux: >> libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl: >> memtest86+: >> os-prober: >> sys

Re: how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

Le 04/09/2012 11:34, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 11:21 +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Hi list, I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the contrast buttons work : I can press "Fn" + "Up"/"Down" to set the

Re: how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 11:21 +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > Hi list, > > I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : > a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the > contrast buttons work : I can press "Fn" + "Up"/"Down" > to set the screen contrast level. > > On the other

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:23:20PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only > sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: If you're using ALSA, then you should probably be aware that /dev/mixer is not an ALSA device name. ALSA

how to configure contrast buttons on Squeeze laptops ?

Hi list, I've installed Squeeze on 3 different laptops recently : a Dell, a Packard Bell and a Toshiba. On the Dell, the contrast buttons work : I can press "Fn" + "Up"/"Down" to set the screen contrast level. On the others, though, they don't (in addition, on the Toshiba the "mute" key doesn't

Re: boot image

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:38:56PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > Today I tried to install unetbootin > > The following packages were installed. > > extlinux: > libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl: > memtest86+: > os-prober: > syslinux: > syslinux-common: > syslinux-themes-debian: > syslinux-the

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

a howto got put up on the orca-list email list describing how to install a graphical user environment and have it come up talking and pulse in any of its forms is not part of how to do it, so the claim that pulse adds extra layers of complexity I have had direct experience on over here! On Tue

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards even with several different combinations of items parsed from the relevant lspci line. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only >

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

Jude DaShiell writes: > Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only > sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Ok then the card is recognised and probably working. Do you have sound? In that case, I would think it's an issue with the programs you are try

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

T o n g writes: > Hi, > > Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio? It seems that pulseaudio adds another layer of complexity on top of alsa. If you don't need things that pulseaudio does, you don't need pulseaudio and can just use alsa, which you need in any case. -- Debian testing amd64

Re: [ask] google translate client or similar method

On Tuesday 04 September 2012 08:47:41 Morning Star wrote: > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:11:14 +0700, Morning Star wrote: > >>> Hi, but please, no html posts, thanks :-) > >> > >> sorry, i didn't know that.  :) > > > > You are doing it again and even w

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 01:47 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio? Yes, pulseaudio needs ALSA. Note that pulseaudio is bad programmed and unable to work with some ALSA drivers. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:20:35 +0200, lee wrote: >> In the meantime, I have a working system without having to worry about >> keeping track of self-installed software and dependency problems that >> might arise from it. Just don't circumvent the package management --- I >> tried

Re: Display settings issue

I could not see any xorg.conf file under /etc/X11/ $ ls app-defaults rgb.txt Xreset Xsession.d default-display-manager X Xreset.d Xsession.options fluxbox xinit Xresources XvMCConfig fonts xkb Xsession Xwrapper.config $ find . -type f -name xorg.conf On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Andrei POP

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