Re: Untrusted packages

2009-05-10 Thread M. Lewis
Jochen Schulz wrote: M. Lewis: WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed! This can always happen if your (aptitude|apt-get) update happens in the middle of your mirror being updated from the main repository. Maybe you just need to update again. J. Good to know

Re: Untrusted packages

2009-05-10 Thread M. Lewis
Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/09 07:24, M. Lewis wrote: I'm running Sid. I'm trying to install sun-java6-plugin, but aptitude is giving me 'untrusted package' warnings: [..snip..] Thanks, Mike What repository are

Untrusted packages

2009-05-09 Thread M. Lewis
I'm running Sid. I'm trying to install sun-java6-plugin, but aptitude is giving me 'untrusted package' warnings: moe:~# aptitude install sun-java6-plugin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing packa

Re: Aptitude issue

2009-04-14 Thread M. Lewis
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 23:43:02 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:50:48 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm no

Re: Aptitude issue

2009-04-13 Thread M. Lewis
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:50:48 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the e

Re: Aptitude issue

2009-04-12 Thread M. Lewis
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-in

Aptitude issue

2009-04-12 Thread M. Lewis
I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove openoffice.org-write

Re: OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread M. Lewis
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 05:11, M. Lewis wrote: I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia

Re: OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread M. Lewis
Dotan Cohen wrote: I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going for a GeForce 9800GT. My understanding is the combination of

OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread M. Lewis
I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going for a GeForce 9800GT. My understanding is the combination of the two Radeon's

Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive

2009-03-22 Thread M. Lewis
Stefan Monnier wrote: I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on eac

Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive

2009-03-21 Thread M. Lewis
Stefan Monnier wrote: I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on ea

Copy data from a failed LVM drive

2009-03-21 Thread M. Lewis
I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Thanks, Mike -- A bad random number generator: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4.33e+67, 1, 1, 1 15:40:

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970 [solved]

2009-03-21 Thread M. Lewis
M. Lewis wrote: Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:40 PM, M. Lewis wrote: Thorny wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:32 -0500, M. Lewis posted: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing gru

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:40 PM, M. Lewis wrote: Thorny wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:32 -0500, M. Lewis posted: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
Thorny wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:32 -0500, M. Lewis posted: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check with md5sum correctly. With three different DVDs, I get the error:

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
Ansgar Esztermann wrote: On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:04 , M. Lewis wrote: New box, off the 'shelf'. No partitions there unless Dell put them on to begin with. It was purchased without an O/S. Dell servers usually have a "utility" partition pre-installed. For what it'

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
randall wrote: M. Lewis wrote: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check with md5sum correctly. With three different DVDs, I get the error: Unable to install grub in (hd0)

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
Mark Goldshtein wrote: 2009/3/20 M. Lewis : New box, off the 'shelf'. No partitions there unless Dell put them on to begin with. It was purchased without an O/S. Hard drive was repartitioned during the (manual) graphic install. LVM, separate /home /boot, etc. It's not a

Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-20 Thread M. Lewis
Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:58 AM, M. Lewis wrote: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check with md5sum correctly. With three different DVDs, I get the erro

Lenny + Dell PE 2970

2009-03-19 Thread M. Lewis
I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check with md5sum correctly. With three different DVDs, I get the error: Unable to install grub in (hd0) Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed This is a f

Re: Checking the md5sum of a burned CD

2009-03-19 Thread M. Lewis
thveillon.debian wrote: M. Lewis a écrit : I've burned a CD from a .iso image. Now I want to verify the burning process worked correctly (there were no errors reported). Note, I verified the md5sums of the .iso's before I burned them. So now I'd like to check the burned CD agai

Checking the md5sum of a burned CD

2009-03-19 Thread M. Lewis
I've burned a CD from a .iso image. Now I want to verify the burning process worked correctly (there were no errors reported). Note, I verified the md5sums of the .iso's before I burned them. So now I'd like to check the burned CD against that md5sum. Thanks, Mike -- Old programmers never

Re: Yahoo Messenger replacement?

2009-03-09 Thread M. Lewis
steve wrote: M. Lewis wrote: steve wrote: M. Lewis wrote: I'd love to get my wife's machine off of M$ software. The only problem has been Yahoo Messenger. My wife is dependent on YM to talk with her family. My wife's family goes to the internet cafe to chat with her, so they

Re: Yahoo Messenger replacement?

2009-03-09 Thread M. Lewis
steve wrote: M. Lewis wrote: I'd love to get my wife's machine off of M$ software. The only problem has been Yahoo Messenger. My wife is dependent on YM to talk with her family. My wife's family goes to the internet cafe to chat with her, so they don't have any control ove

Yahoo Messenger replacement?

2009-03-09 Thread M. Lewis
I'd love to get my wife's machine off of M$ software. The only problem has been Yahoo Messenger. My wife is dependent on YM to talk with her family. My wife's family goes to the internet cafe to chat with her, so they don't have any control over what version of YM is being used. Not only do t

Re: KDE 4

2009-02-22 Thread M. Lewis
thveillon.debian wrote: M. Lewis a écrit : Following the instructions at http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of other s/w)? TIA, Mike [snip] Hi, I installed kde4 from experimental on a testing

Re: KDE 4

2009-02-21 Thread M. Lewis
thveillon.debian wrote: M. Lewis a écrit : Following the instructions at http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of other s/w)? TIA, Mike moe:~# aptitude -t experimental install kde4-minimal Reading package

KDE 4

2009-02-20 Thread M. Lewis
Following the instructions at http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of other s/w)? TIA, Mike moe:~# aptitude -t experimental install kde4-minimal Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Readi

DVD install question

2009-02-16 Thread M. Lewis
Prior to the release of Lenny, I downloaded one of the Lenny release candidate DVD's and installed via a network install from DVD #1. Is this still possible with the released version of Lenny? Or do I need all 5 of the DVD's? Thanks, Mike -- IBM: Irresponsibility Behaved Multinational 2

Re: Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread M. Lewis
Daniel Burrows wrote: I don't know what the timeline is on that; AFAIK there aren't any 2.6.28 packages anywhere in the archive. In fact, moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64 doesn't seem to exist at all in Debian. Maybe y

Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread M. Lewis
How can I resolve this dependency? Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet: moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild linux-kbuild-2.6.26 - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.26 So how am I to resolve the dependencie

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-14 Thread M. Lewis
Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009 04:49, M. Lewis wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: I wonder if you have some sort of codec conflict going on here. Try adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, and rebooting. options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1 That will just select the

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-13 Thread M. Lewis
Nigel Henry wrote: On Monday 12 January 2009 16:22, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/09 03:44, M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 23:33, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On

Re: AMD64 No sound - [followup]

2009-01-13 Thread M. Lewis
M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: Lenny KDE I decided to change from 686 to AMD64 architecture after all the buzz the past few days about the virtues of using the AMD64 architecture. After installing Lenny, I have no sound at all. (with 686, I had sound from the install, no

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/09 18:08, M. Lewis wrote: [snip] Ron, what is your version of Alsa please? I'm thinking of *upgrading* from testing to Sid to see if that might resolve the issue. We already know you have a later kernel. Maybe just that would resolve the problem? alsa

Re: AMD64 No sound

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
Javier Barroso wrote: Hello, On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Bob wrote: M. Lewis wrote: I decided to change from 686 to AMD64 architecture after all the buzz the past few days about the virtues of using the AMD64 architecture. After installing Lenny, I have no sound at all. (with 686, I

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
Nigel Henry wrote: On Monday 12 January 2009 16:22, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] moe:~# lspci -v -s14.2 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002 Flags: slow devsel, IRQ 16 Memory at

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/09 03:44, M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 23:33, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: [snip] moe:~# lspci -v -s14.2 00

Re: AMD64 No sound

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
Bob wrote: M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: Lenny KDE I decided to change from 686 to AMD64 architecture after all the buzz the past few days about the virtues of using the AMD64 architecture. After installing Lenny, I have no sound at all. (with 686, I had sound from the

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/09 03:44, M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 23:33, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: [snip] moe:~# lspci -v -s14.2 00

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 23:33, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: [snip] moe:~# lspci -v -s14.2 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 23:33, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: [snip] moe:~# lspci -v -s14.2 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread M. Lewis
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 23:33, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: [snip] moe:~# lspci -v -s14.2 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Giga-byte

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-11 Thread M. Lewis
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: [snip] No, but I can show you what mine look like. It's a Sid box running a hand-rolled kernel based on linux-source-2.6.28. (The machine is about 3 months old, so

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-11 Thread M. Lewis
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: [snip] No, but I can show you what mine look like. It's a Sid box running a hand-rolled kernel based on linux-source-2.6.28. (The machine is about 3 months old, so also worked with 2.6.24.) $ lspci | grep Audio 00:06.1

/dev/sndstat

2009-01-11 Thread M. Lewis
I'm still working on troubleshooting my sound issues. Can someone tell me *what* config this is referring to? moe:~# cat /dev/sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.16 emulation code) Kernel: Linux moe 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 15 17:25:36 UTC 2008 x86_64 Config options: 0 Installe

Re: AMD64 No sound

2009-01-11 Thread M. Lewis
M. Lewis wrote: M. Lewis wrote: Lenny KDE I decided to change from 686 to AMD64 architecture after all the buzz the past few days about the virtues of using the AMD64 architecture. After installing Lenny, I have no sound at all. (with 686, I had sound from the install, no problem). moe

Re: AMD64 No sound

2009-01-10 Thread M. Lewis
M. Lewis wrote: Lenny KDE I decided to change from 686 to AMD64 architecture after all the buzz the past few days about the virtues of using the AMD64 architecture. After installing Lenny, I have no sound at all. (with 686, I had sound from the install, no problem). moe:~# lspci | grep -i

AMD64 No sound

2009-01-10 Thread M. Lewis
Lenny KDE I decided to change from 686 to AMD64 architecture after all the buzz the past few days about the virtues of using the AMD64 architecture. After installing Lenny, I have no sound at all. (with 686, I had sound from the install, no problem). moe:~# lspci | grep -i audio 00:14.2 Audi