Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote: > I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 > processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with > a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From > reading, I think I need to change the kernel to t

apt-get sources.list from debgen problems

2013-07-09 Thread John Tate
I used debgen to get a testing sources.list to do a dist-upgrade to testing. I'm getting 404's, what should my sources list really look like? It currently looks like this... deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contr

Aprenda a Investir em Imóveis - Cursos para o Mercado Imobiliário

2013-07-09 Thread Investeducar
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Steam game TF2 needs newer libc

2013-07-09 Thread John Tate
An update for steam has come out and now I can't run my favourite game TF2. /bin/sh: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/john/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so) It's because it is written for Ubuntu basically, I figure testing wou

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-09 Thread Peter Stoddard
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 08:24 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:08:47 -0700 > Gary Roach wrote: > > > On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > >> Hi all. > > >> > > >> How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support > Framework); Then why isn't it dkmsf? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who a

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread davidson
hi ralf. On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 04:44 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: You could probably do: su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app Hi Shawn, that's great, thank you very much! I can add this to my next audio session scripts, so no searching for hidden configs an

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-09 Thread David Christensen
On 07/09/13 07:34, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Also, keep clear of anything that has straps (jumper blocks) to select internal/external ports (*even if said jumper blocks are not installed in the printed circuit board*). They cause violations of SATA3 phy (electrical signaling) parameters

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-09 Thread David Christensen
On 07/09/13 07:21, Stan Hoeppner wrote: x1, x4, or x8 slot width? x1 or x4. Price range? Under $50 per SATA3 port, including cables, whatever. Expected performance level? Comparable to current/ recent Intel desktop chipsets/ motherboards. Workstation or dedicated server? Workstat

Re: audio packages not authenticated?

2013-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
FWIW, after installing several different mixer/controller widgets, I finally found one that allowed me to un-mute the output. (Top-post seems most appropriate to me here, since my "solution" doesn't seem to fit naturally into the flow of the thread. My apologies if I step on toes about top posting

Re: Dot files, I did get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 04:55:55PM +0200, ha wrote: > Thanks Ralph, I guess it would do it. > But I didn't plan to separate the conf files completely, I was hoping > for a solution more alike Wilko's (if it works). Moin mitnanner, my solutions via shellscripts work pretty well since about ten

Stock kernel not working with raid / lvm setup

2013-07-09 Thread MRH
For years I've been using self-build kernels (from kernel.org) for this or that reason. Recently I decided to use debian stock kernel instead. Should be so much easier and faster. Well, it did not work. I have installed linux-headers-3.9-1-amd64 linux-image-3.9-1-amd64 (I run amd64, debian whee

Re: grub2 floppy seek - how to switch off?

2013-07-09 Thread MRH
On 09/07/13 08:12, dulev wrote: On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:12:16 +0100, MRH wrote: Just to bump the question (below) - anyone, any ideas, please? On 23/06/13 16:56, MRH wrote: Hi, I have a problem with grub2. Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to grub2. All fine and well,

Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-09 Thread Gary Roach
I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From reading, I think I need to change the kernel to the bigmem version but all of the packages shown

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-09 Thread Klaus
On 09/07/13 22:33, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to i

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-09 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/09/2013 11:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian Whe

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > >>Hi all. > >> > >>How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian > >>Wheezy version. > >Does wheezy inc

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:03:40 +0200, Brad Rogers wrote: From the package description of dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework); DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be upgraded without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to rebuild modules as you

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:49:04 +0300 andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: Hello andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr, >> Really? I've always needed an xorg.conf file to allow the use of the >> nVidia driver. >Yes man! its true. For example, if i reload system to my old kernel - >everything is ok. And i have n

Re: apt-cache show packages long description missing.

2013-07-09 Thread Franco Martelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I notice that if I copy Translation-en file from dvd iso image to /var/lib/apt/lists directory translations are shown: # cd /var/lib/apt/lists /var/lib/apt/lists# cp /media/sdb1/wheezy/dvd-1/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en.gz _media_sdb1_wheezy_

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-09 Thread Kailash Kalyani
Yuwen Dai wrote: On 7/9/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 22:12 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Yuwen Dai writes: Dear all, My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC time, so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not correct. I do these

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-09 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Yuwen Dai writes: >> I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get >> it... but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock? > > I did. As I mentioned in the previous email, I set the BIOS clock as > UTC time and set my time zone as UTC+8, this works. My machine also > ha

Re: [SOLVED] initramfs-tools and intel-microcode with kernel 3.9.1 (sid)

2013-07-09 Thread Klaus
On 09/07/13 14:26, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 09 Jul 2013, Klaus wrote: On my laptop I'm running sid amd64. I've noticed that during the early stages of booting, the Intel microcode fails to get loaded. Switching back On 3.9.x, it should load as the very first thing the kernel

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/7/2013 12:55 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter with good > > FOSS licensing/ documentation/ support? I'm looking for at least two > > SATA 3 ports; four ports would be ideal. I don't nee

Re: unable to mount a vfat filesystem.

2013-07-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, atar a écrit : > > When I tried to mount a vfat filesystem into the filesystem tree I get an > error message saying that the vfat filesystem is an unknown filesystem. > > I've tried to insert the vfat filesystem module into the kernel using both > the modprobe and insmod commands but

Re: Update

2013-07-09 Thread André Nunes Batista
Also, I would suggest you comment out the CDROM Squeeze binaries. They won't be used anymore. Uncomment then squeeze-updates and be sure to change that to wheezy-updates. If you do not work with sources, it's safe to comment out the src entries. Be sure to read release info and to backup files b

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/7/2013 12:55 PM, David Christensen wrote: > Can anyone recommend a PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter with good > FOSS licensing/ documentation/ support? I'm looking for at least two > SATA 3 ports; four ports would be ideal. I don't need RAID. x1, x4, or x8 slot width? Price range?

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread ha
On 07/09/2013 03:53 PM, ha wrote: On 07/09/2013 12:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app ... [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/ gedit Am I reading this correctly? Shouldn't it be: su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/gedit gedit No. This doesn't make sense

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread ha
On 07/09/2013 12:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app ... [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/ gedit Am I reading this correctly? Shouldn't it be: su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/gedit gedit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: nvidia module

2013-07-09 Thread andrey . rybak
> Really? I've always needed an xorg.conf file to allow the use of the > nVidia driver. Yes man! its true. For example, if i reload system to my old kernel - everything is ok. And i have not any xorg.conf. i should do rectification. I am talking about system on notebook with intel and nvidia vid

Re: Skype in sid?

2013-07-09 Thread André Nunes Batista
You could try to create a file on /etc/apt/preferences.d/ with appropriate package version pinning to skype lib dependencies. -- Luther Blisset GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 I challenge you to play the game in which there is no loser but everything is fun and worthwhile! --- Begin Message --- I kn

Re: Update

2013-07-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:31:39AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > I am a newbie am running version 6 [squeeze]. My update fails with > the following message. I am totally confused. This probably ISN'T a failure. It looks to my like the output of "apt-listchanges". You're bei

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend --SOLVED

2013-07-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 2013-07-07, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: google-chrome-stable : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installable Depends: libgconf-2-4 (>= 2.31.1) but it is not installable Depends: libgdk-pixb

Update

2013-07-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am a newbie am running version 6 [squeeze]. My update fails with the following message. I am totally confused. Starting with the eglibc package version 2.13-5, the libraries are shipped in the multiarch directory /lib/ instead of the more traditional /lib, where is

Re: initramfs-tools and intel-microcode with kernel 3.9.1 (sid)

2013-07-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013, Klaus wrote: > On my laptop I'm running sid amd64. > I've noticed that during the early stages of booting, the Intel > microcode fails to get loaded. Switching back On 3.9.x, it should load as the very first thing the kernel actually logs (it will be the very first line in /va

Query egarding your site.

2013-07-09 Thread Richard Boothroyd
Hello, My name is Richard Boothroyd and I work within the UK representing a company that is has a website that is dedicated to the German market. We came across your site http://debian.org within one of our recent searches. I'm emailing to find out what your linking policy is and also to polite

Re: Debian 6.06 Installation Problem

2013-07-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:28:43AM +0530, Indrajit Gohain wrote: >Hi, > >I have a IBM System X 3650 M4 model server. I try to install Operating >System Debian 6.06 . Problem arises when installation complete cd eject >and reboot the system. >After rebooting the system the os no

initramfs-tools and intel-microcode with kernel 3.9.1 (sid)

2013-07-09 Thread Klaus
On my laptop I'm running sid amd64. I've noticed that during the early stages of booting, the Intel microcode fails to get loaded. Switching back to kernel version 3.8.2 solves this issue. So far I can't tell whether this is an actual problem, since I haven't even understood what the microcode

Re: No sound on Wheezy with "HDA Intel PCH", ALC887-VD, MB Gygabyte Z77-DS3H

2013-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 08:36 +, Borislav Sabev wrote: > Next step would be compiling upstream alsa or? I would do this for testing purpose, or build a current kernel with current version of alsa included. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 04:44 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > You could probably do: > su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app Hi Shawn, that's great, thank you very much! I can add this to my next audio session scripts, so no searching for hidden configs anymore, for apps that don't allow to set a path by t

folders.txt appeares when downloading with Iceweasel

2013-07-09 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, on my Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) when I download something with Iceweasel ( firefox ) browser, I always get an ampty file called: folder.txt. Why this happen, and can be avoided? -- Regards from Pal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-09 Thread Yuwen Dai
On 7/9/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 22:12 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Yuwen Dai writes: >> >> > Dear all, >> > >> > My BIOS clock is set the time as my local time, debian thinks it's UTC >> > time, >> > so it adds 8 hours because I'm in timezone UTC+8, this is not correct. >>

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread shawn wilson
You could probably do: su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app (untested) Also maybe see about wrapping what you need (probably tons of app specific mojo) around fakeroot or even use fakeroot and schroot to bring in only what you need (love the idea for services and browsers but not for this problem). Al

Re: No sound on new Wheezy system

2013-07-09 Thread Borislav Sabev
Borislav Sabev gmail.com> writes: Posted a new meesage to debian.user: No sound on Wheezy with "HDA Intel PCH", ALC887-VD, MB Gygabyte Z77-DS3H 9 Jun 2013 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

No sound on Wheezy with "HDA Intel PCH", ALC887-VD, MB Gygabyte Z77-DS3H

2013-07-09 Thread Borislav Sabev
Hello to all. I am posting this to alsa-user and debian-user simultaneously, hope it is not a violation of the rules. It now seems that my original email to this newsgroup was not posted. I am now sending it through gmane. I have no sound of my freshly installed workstation. I did a trageted insta

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 14:35 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > I realize this is the sort of answer that annoys me to death when I get > > it... but why not fix the time on your BIOS clock? > > I did. As I mentioned in the previous email, I set the BIOS clock as > UTC time and set my time zone as UTC+8

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-09 Thread Joe
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:08:47 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > >> Hi all. > >> > >> How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian > >> Wheezy version. > > Does wheezy inc

Re: grub2 floppy seek - how to switch off?

2013-07-09 Thread dulev
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:12:16 +0100, MRH wrote: > Just to bump the question (below) - anyone, any ideas, please? > > On 23/06/13 16:56, MRH wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem with grub2. > > Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to grub2. All > > fine and well, but it sta

Re: How to disable UTC time?

2013-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 08:54 +0200, basti wrote: > Or set Windows to use UTC, don't know if it still works. And what should people do that don't use Windows, but need a correct local time for software that does run without an OS or who want the local time for saved BIOS settings? The OP asked how