Re: Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]

2006-01-08 Thread Kent West
Andrei Popescu wrote: It has been suggested by several people in this thread to have a 'debian-newcomer' list. Question: Is there real interest in having this and how many users will subscribe in order to help the newcomers (from "doze" or Mac or other distros)? A name or nick as an answer i

Re: openoffice 2.0 for testing hangs

2006-01-08 Thread Wulfy
Elaine Tsiang YueLien wrote: It hangs on file opening and closing. oo 1.x no longer available for downpinning. There is a bug report at openoffice.org: issue 60064. Anyone else having this? Any suggestion on how to work around this in the mean time? Elaine I have a Sarge system with OOo2 f

Re: Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]

2006-01-08 Thread Katipo
Andrei Popescu wrote: It has been suggested by several people in this thread to have a 'debian-newcomer' list. Question: Is there real interest in having this and how many users will subscribe in order to help the newcomers (from "doze" or Mac or other distros)? A name or nick as an answer i

Re: APT options and dpkg

2006-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.08.0434 +0100]: > Can you be more specific than, "this does not work"? Have you tried purging > and reinstalling the package? I guess you could also get the file out of > the package and replace it manually. Sure, both these work. My question

Re: GPG error on apt-get update

2006-01-08 Thread Chinook
Adam Porter wrote: Chinook wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I'm getting a GPG error when I execute an apt-get update: ... But root has the required keys in the pubring: I've been following this issue and also did: debian1:/home/leec# wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_ke

k3b.

2006-01-08 Thread Mauro Sanna
Why there aren't k3b and konq-plugins in debian testing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]

2006-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:30:04 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >It has been suggested by several people in this thread to have a > >'debian-newcomer' list. > > > >Question: Is there real interest in having this and how many users will > >subscribe in order t

Midnight Commander/nroff hangs when trying to display certain files

2006-01-08 Thread Jim Holland
Hi all I am running mc-4.6.1 compiled from the unstable Debian source package under Debian Sarge. I have occasionally come across problems with displaying files using F3. Either I get repeated error messages such as: warning [p 1, 9.8i]: cannot adjust line displayed on the screen bef

RE: How do I automate this?

2006-01-08 Thread Tyson Varosyan
Could someone post a bit more of a step-by step for this? I am still very new to Linux... Thanks, Tyson Varosyan Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.up-times.com 206-715-TECH (8324) UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime -Original Message- From: kamaraju kusumanchi

mc not loading and not dying (sid)

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Lyons
Anyone else had funny behaviour from mc lately? I have a recent sid install with mc 1:1.6.1-1. It was working yesterday (or maybe the day before). Today, when I call it, the terminal (xterm, mrxvt, or in console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cursor appears at the end o

[SOLVED]Re: apt ignores apt.conf settings

2006-01-08 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 1/8/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where did you find those settings for "APT::Periodic"? I've never heard of > them, and my searches turned up dry. Are you expecting that setting those > will cause apt-get or aptitude to automatically download new packages? I > don't think that

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 5 January 2006 at 16:32:17 -0400, Greg wrote: > > > > > My experience, FWIW, Simply put: > > In kernel 2.4, ide-scsi module, we got used to the scsi-emulation concept. > > Whereas, > > In kernel 2.6, we were (somewhat confusingly, IMO) told the above, i.e.: > "SCSI emulation is

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

2006-01-08 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Richard Lyons wrote: Anyone else had funny behaviour from mc lately? I have a recent sid install with mc 1:1.6.1-1. It was working yesterday (or maybe the day before). Today, when I call it, the terminal (xterm, mrxvt, or in console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cur

Re: Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]

2006-01-08 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:33:11PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: } On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:30:04 -0600 } Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: } > Andrei Popescu wrote: } > >It has been suggested by several people in this thread to have a } > >'debian-newcomer' list. [...] } > This gets asked on this

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 15:32:11 +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > >console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cursor > >appears at the end of the first line -- then it freezes and is > >unkillable. I now have six mc processes showing in ps,

getting PHP and MySQL to work together

2006-01-08 Thread Jon Miller
I would like to have Apache2, PHP4 and MySQL to work together. I did a apt-get mysql-server, php and several other modules and it all went in. I can access mysql from the local server and from using phpmyadmin from a WinXPP PC. However, when I run the phpinfo() from a php file, it does not me

Re: How do I automate this?

2006-01-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Tyson Varosyan wrote: Could someone post a bit more of a step-by step for this? I am still very new to Linux... Thanks, Tyson Varosyan Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.up-times.com 206-715-TECH (8324) UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime -Original Message- F

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

2006-01-08 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Richard Lyons wrote: I had not even installed debsums! Getting it now. Some packages do not provide checksums (boo to them!), so on your first run debsums can report A LOT of broken packages. It might take very long, but I do suggest you reinstall all of them. The checksums will be generate

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-08 Thread Z F
The only problem with using camera in linux is often there is no way to access raw images from the camera, only jpeg or tiff. --- mvephoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Generally speaking, pretty good. However, I tend to move away > from the > issue of having a digital camera "work" with my

Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

2006-01-08 Thread Z F
The problem is that the newest version of e2fsprogs fixed some problems which revealed new ones. It has to do with the fact that the local time is set after the disk is mounted. So if you clock is not on UT, you are in trouble. Thre possibilities to fix: 1. downgrade e2fsprogs (and e2fslibs) 2.

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

2006-01-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/01/06 16:13), Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > >I had not even installed debsums! > >Getting it now. > > Some packages do not provide checksums (boo to them!), so on your first > run debsums can report A LOT of broken packages. It might take very > long, but I do suggest

Re: How do I automate this?

2006-01-08 Thread Z F
> > modprobe usbserial vendor=0xc88 product=0x17da maxSize=2048 put usbserial vendor=0xc88 product=0x17da maxSize=2048 in /etc/modules > pause for about 3 seconds and then run > > wvdial verizon write a script and put it in /etc/init.d/ directory and then link it

computer do not go power off automaticly

2006-01-08 Thread Juraj Fedel
Hello, I have installed debian Sarge recently from cd set and found out that now when I halt computer it go down and print 'Power off' on terminal and stop there. I want it to swich power off too as it used to do before I reinstalled. While I was installing I choose to manually select packages to b

k3b removed after unstable update

2006-01-08 Thread Gregory Soyez
Hi all! I just run apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian unstable box and this removed k3b. If I want to reinstall it I need dbus-qt-1c2, the installation of which wants to remove kde, kde-amusements, kde-core, kdeaddons, kdebase kdebase-kio-plugins, konq-plugins, konqueror and libdbus-qt-1-1c2 !!

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

2006-01-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 14:45:25 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (08/01/06 16:13), Linas Zvirblis wrote: > > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > > >They are still there... > > > > > >bordello:/home/richard# killall -9 mc > > >bordello:/home/richard# ps ax | grep mc > > >32642 ?S 0

/home not mounting during bootup (stable, ppc)

2006-01-08 Thread Rich Stanton
I'm running debian stable (PPC) on an old mac G3. My /home partition is on an external SCSI drive, and is listed as follows in fstab: # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /d

move debian to another machine

2006-01-08 Thread Rodney Richison
Am about to move a mail server to another machine. The new machine has scsi raid. The default kernel supports the raid. Yeah! :) I also would like to keep the compaq diagnostic partition on the new server. I know ghost would wipe this out. I'm also aware, grub will be a problem as everything wi

Re: Digital Camera - "RAW"

2006-01-08 Thread Marcel
Uuhh.. not quite. http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ and read all about how without the fantastic effort of open source even PhotoShop would still be far behind in the RAW sector. I have used the RAW plug-in in GIMP, as well as from command line, and it works. There are samples online

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-08 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:29:23AM -0800, Z F wrote: > > The only problem with using camera in linux is often there is no way > to access raw images from the camera, only jpeg or tiff. Try typing apt-cache show dcraw ufraw for answers to this. Kenward > --- mvephoto <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: computer do not go power off automaticly

2006-01-08 Thread CoolFox
Juraj Fedel a magnifiquement tapoté sur son clavier avec ses gros doigts boudinés: Hello, I have installed debian Sarge recently from cd set and found out that now when I halt computer it go down and print 'Power off' on terminal and stop there. I want it to swich power off too as it used to do b

apt-get status error

2006-01-08 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have the debian.scribus.net repository in my sources.list and just upgraded to the latest release. Somehow the status file got corrupted and now 'apt-get -s upgrade' always wants to upgrade scribus even though it is uptodate. Here is the output: Inst scribus [1.2.4.1.dfsg-1] (1.2.4.1.dfsg-1 Upst

Re: hyperthreading not working (?)... /proc/cpuinfo shows 2 cpus

2006-01-08 Thread Michael Przysucha
HT enables the CPU to behave like two processors, that's what Intel wanted to do. No two rela seperated cores but the can be loaded differently. Regards, Michael Przysucha (NDS, Germany) 07.01.2006 07:43:50, Brandon Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >HI >I have just spent hours trying to fig

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:29, Z F wrote: >The only problem with using camera in linux is often there is no way >to access raw images from the camera, only jpeg or tiff. > Well, in the case of my now ageing (like me :) Olympus C3020, that is not an available choice unless you go into the camera'

Re: hyperthreading not working (?)... /proc/cpuinfo shows 2 cpus

2006-01-08 Thread Michael Przysucha
HT enables the CPU to behave like two processors, that's what Intel wanted to do. No two rela seperated cores but the can be loaded differently. Regards, Michael Przysucha (NDS, Germany) 07.01.2006 07:43:50, Brandon Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >HI >I have just spent hours trying to fig

pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi All; I'm being banged on by them for every post to the debian-user list again this morning. And I've written 2 filters for kmails filtering, neither of which seem to work. Anybody in .br country wanna make some money delivering some of Alred Nobel's finest? -- Cheers, Gene People having

Re: Thinkpad middle mouse button scroll and paste

2006-01-08 Thread Chris Dos
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: I use the tools on thinkwiki[1] to get the middle button to work correctly. 1. http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tools - Ryan I use everything except tp scroll and would prefer not to use it if Xorg supports it natively. Scrolling works fine in X right now. I just can't use

Re: /home not mounting during bootup (stable, ppc)

2006-01-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Rich Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running debian stable (PPC) on an old mac G3. My /home partition is > on an external SCSI drive, and is listed as follows in fstab: > > # > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > /dev/hda3 /

Which modules?

2006-01-08 Thread David Baron
Now that I can roll my own kernel, got rid of the initrd and all that, question is how to pare down the number of modules--most of the time spent compiling the thing is spent on hundreds of modules to support the known universe. All I need is to support my own computer. Some things may be simpl

syntax error in /etc/init.d/boot_xconf

2006-01-08 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Maybe I'm too daft to see it Sun Jan 8 11:44:38 2006: /etc/rc2.d/S20boot_xconf: line 43: syntax error near unexpected token `(' Sun Jan 8 11:44:38 2006: /etc/rc2.d/S20boot_xconf: line 43: ` let LENGTH=($LENGTH - 1)' iptohex () { IP=$1 HEXIP=$(for ALL in $(echo "$IP" | tr "." " "

Re: Which modules?

2006-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 08 January 2006 12:50, David Baron wrote: >Now that I can roll my own kernel, got rid of the initrd and all that, >question is how to pare down the number of modules--most of the time > spent compiling the thing is spent on hundreds of modules to support > the known universe. All I need i

Apache+mod_chroot+logrotate problem?

2006-01-08 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Apache failed to restart this morning when logrotate kicked in. I got the following error: [Sun Jan 8 06:25:39 2006] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart fopen: No such file or directory I'm assuming this is because whatever file it wanted didn't exist inside the chroot jai

Re: k3b.

2006-01-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Mauro Sanna wrote: > Why there aren't k3b and konq-plugins in debian testing? Because of the c2a transition. You can use the version from unstable, currently. HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User hel

Re: hotplug problem

2006-01-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
John and Holly Klug wrote: > Package: hotplug > Version: 0.0.20040329-22 > Kernel: 2.6.8-2-386 > Every time I connect my SanDisk 12 in 1 USB flash reader or disconnect > it, I get many stuck hotplug processes that I must kill. > > About 30 processes get stuck on each connect and disconnect. > >

Backports instruction does not work, why

2006-01-08 Thread T
Hi, I've been following the "Debian Backports - Instructions" at http://www.backports.org/instructions.html to use backports. However, it doesn't work for me: I've done all the settings required in the instruction: $ grep backports /etc/apt/sources.list # backports deb h

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Howie wrote: > And if that's the case then you select both of them during the install. On an advanced install that's exactly what you do. > Except that Debian put Gnome there when all I selected was "Desktop > environment." Come on, you know that Linux users tend to value specificity.

Re: getting PHP and MySQL to work together

2006-01-08 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:13:51PM +0800, Jon Miller wrote: > I would like to have Apache2, PHP4 and MySQL to work together. I did a > apt-get mysql-server, php and several other modules and it all went in. I > can access mysql from the local server and from using phpmyadmin from a > WinXPP P

Re: where does ifconfig get ppp0 inet addr?

2006-01-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Aaron Hall wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: Hi Hugo, On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:44:34PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Debian's search tool is down. Anybody know where ifconfig gets the inet addr? ... ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Prot

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert Thompson wrote: Hello All, I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB to connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with Debian? I got a Cannon A410. I gambled on its support, but gphoto2 supports the A400 model. Won the bet: pl

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread Matthew Dawson
On January 5, 2006 05:02 am, JEMF wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a 512 MB Kingston flash disk. When I try to create a partition > with 460 MB (471.040 KB), the partition is created with 460.6 MB > (471.665 KB). > > >Device Boot Start

Tabbrowser Extensions

2006-01-08 Thread Mark Grieveson
Please help me uninstall Tabbrowser Extensions. I feel like Mozilla has caught a disease, and I can't get rid of it. Please see http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en to know what I'm speaking of. I tried pressing the "uninstall" button that comes included with the so-called T

Re: Tabbrowser Extensions

2006-01-08 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Mark Grieveson wrote on Jan, 8: > Please help me uninstall Tabbrowser Extensions. I feel like Mozilla has > caught a disease, and I can't get rid of it. [...] I uninstalled another Mozilla extension manually by following these instructions: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_Uninstall

Re: computer do not go power off automaticly

2006-01-08 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Dimanche 08 Janvier 2006 18:01, CoolFox a écrit : > Juraj Fedel a magnifiquement tapoté sur son clavier avec ses gros doigts > > boudinés: > > Hello, > > I have installed debian Sarge recently from cd set and found out > > that now when I halt computer it go down and print 'Power off' > > on ter

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-08 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:36:43 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:19 -0800, Jimmy Liang wrote: >> What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xeon. >> Can you suggest the best way to do this? I'd like to move it to a larger >> driv

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Matthew Dawson wrote: On January 5, 2006 05:02 am, JEMF wrote: 2nd Question: When I format the partition with ext3, the df -k command returns: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 456730

Re: Tabbrowser Extensions

2006-01-08 Thread Kent West
Mark Grieveson wrote: Please help me uninstall Tabbrowser Extensions. I feel like Mozilla has caught a disease, and I can't get rid of it. Please see http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en to know what I'm speaking of. I tried pressing the "uninstall" button that comes inclu

TV-tuner

2006-01-08 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
Hi. Can you help me to adjust tv-tuner from AverMedia. Should I download something else, or kernel drivers can works correctly? My card is labeled "AVerTV GO series", and based on bt878 chipset I maked 2.6.10 kernel, and included tv-card support as modules -- ,''`. : :' : `. `' `- -- To

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread JEMF
Matthew Dawson escreveu: Well, the number of blocks was probably taken by ext3 stuff, but I am not sure. As well, by default ext3 sets aside 5% (i think) to the root user, but the can be changed with tune2fs. Thanks fo your reply. However the 5% is inside the partition (456.730 - (424.908 +

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread JEMF
Marc Shapiro escreveu: Could the missing blocks (471655 - 456730) be the journal file, since that is completely invisible and not accessable through the filesystem? If so, what is using the 8239 blocks shown by df? The 8239 is the jornal. The ext2 isn't journalled. However it uses the 14 MB

Re: TV-tuner

2006-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 23:00:28 +0200 "Sergey A. Ovchar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > Can you help me to adjust tv-tuner from AverMedia. Should I download > something else, or kernel drivers can works correctly? > My card is labeled "AVerTV GO series", and based on bt878 chipset > I maked 2.6.1

realtime kernel module

2006-01-08 Thread jpdrawneek
Hi i wish to use the realtime kernel module for jack, and i notices that it was in the unstable debian branch. Any idea how I get my sarge 3.1 install to use these packages? Also I reckon i would also need to take the kernel to something a bit newer than 2.6.8, so what needs to be done other

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

2006-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:18:27 +1100 Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:36:43 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > > > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:19 -0800, Jimmy Liang wrote: > >> What I want to do is to move all that to a new box I have, with dual Xe

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-08 Thread Angus Mackenzie
I was that newbie 18 months ago! Debian was my first experience of Linux and I found ending up at a console after my first installation surprising and difficult. I got through it with lots of reading of documentation and googling, followed by a blundering and error prone crash course in apt-get

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:35:32 -0800 Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 06 January 2006 02:41 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:46:18 + > > > > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote: > > > > I really apprec

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:40:08 + Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> > > Now, considering that success is not really unlikely with the new > installer, but that it is oddly easy for a newbie (or even an > experienced user) to fail to select the 'desktop' option and to install > a perfec

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Steve Lamb wrote: How hard can it be to give the user a choice during the install, and why is that such a stupid idea according to you? You are given a choice. You just refuse to see that. the way to choose is fine by me, but, for example, manually going through aptitude and finding

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Joris Huizer wrote: > I think, if the newbie just wants kde because of some fancy screenshots, > it's too hard for him/her; remember the newbie doesn't know the > character '/' upons up a search in so many linux/unix tools, so he/she > is completely lost in an unknown interface > Why would it compl

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

2006-01-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: see my other note on this: why isn't (and I know NOTHING about the installer so bear with me) knoppix type detection done by the installer? There should be NOTHING that knoppix does that Debian can't do at install time, excepting kernel modules that are to far up

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Steve Lamb wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: I think, if the newbie just wants kde because of some fancy screenshots, it's too hard for him/her; remember the newbie doesn't know the character '/' upons up a search in so many linux/unix tools, so he/she is completely lost in an unknown interface Why wo

Re: No comments (responding to questions on the list)

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:16:23 -0500 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rafi Gabzu wrote: > > > Hi , > > In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I > > post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. > > What happened ? something that I did ...? > > Thanks,

Re: Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-08 Thread sebastien marbrier
Le Dimanche 8 Janvier 2006 03:52, Adam Porter a écrit : > Where did you get the glx module? You didn't mention installing the > nvidia-glx package. > > If nothing else works, you might try switching to Xorg (I know it's not in > Sarge, but neither is 2.6.14 or the new nVidia drivers. :) I got the

Immortal processes [was: mc not loading and not dying (sid)]

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:32:11 +0200 Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, there is no such thing as unkillable, "killall -9 > mc" and "killall -9 acroread" should get rid of them. > I have lately encountered processes that don't respond to -9. I think it was an automount proc

Re: realtime kernel module

2006-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:57:01 + jpdrawneek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi i wish to use the realtime kernel module for jack, and i notices that > it was in the unstable debian branch. > > Any idea how I get my sarge 3.1 install to use these packages? Also I > reckon i would also need to ta

Re: k3b removed after unstable update

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:06:36 +0100 Gregory Soyez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I just run apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian unstable box where were you before? testing? and this removed > k3b. If I want to reinstall it I need dbus-qt-1c2, the installation of which > wants to remove

Re: pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:26:27 -0500 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm being banged on by them for every post to the debian-user list again > this morning. And I've written 2 filters for kmails filtering, neither > of which seem to work. huh. not a one here. I know that

Re: Backports instruction does not work, why

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:14:44 -0500 T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been following the "Debian Backports - Instructions" > at http://www.backports.org/instructions.html > to use backports. However, it doesn't work for me: > > I've done all the settings required in the instruction: >

Re: Immortal processes [was: mc not loading and not dying (sid)]

2006-01-08 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:06:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:32:11 +0200 > Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By the way, there is no such thing as unkillable, "killall -9 > > mc" and "killall -9 acroread" should get rid of them. > > I have lately

realplayer firewall problem

2006-01-08 Thread Marty
I am using Sarge realplayer 10.0.6-0.1 with guarddog 2.4.0-1 firewall. I get no sound from any of the audio links on the following page, with either the mozilla realplayer plugin or with /usr/bin/realplay run from the command line: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200601/# Apparently

Re: Immortal processes [was: mc not loading and not dying (sid)]

2006-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 08 January 2006 07:19 pm, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:06:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:32:11 +0200 > > > > Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By the way, there is no such thing as unkillable, "killall -9 > > > mc"

Can't Get Exim4 Setup Right

2006-01-08 Thread Thomas H. George
It seems simple but it doesn't work. I have two mailboxes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a Verizion DSL connection. With Mozilla I can set the outgoing smtp connection as outgoing .verizon.net and send messages back and forth between the two mailboxes. Normally I download the d

Re: Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:50:28PM +0100, sebastien marbrier wrote: > Le Dimanche 8 Janvier 2006 03:52, Adam Porter a écrit : > > Where did you get the glx module? You didn't mention installing the > > nvidia-glx package. > > > > If nothing else works, you might try switching to Xor

Xorg eats my CPU

2006-01-08 Thread Kevin Glynn
Hi, I am running (up to date) Debian unstable on my laptop, it has a Radeon IGP 340M graphics chip. For the last month or so I am seeing the Xorg process gradually gobble up more and more CPU, up to 30/40% and in some cases 99%. Even X on its own seems a little sluggish, e.g. when I change window

Re: Can't Get Exim4 Setup Right

2006-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:47:44 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems simple but it doesn't work. I have two mailboxes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a Verizion DSL > connection. With Mozilla I can set the outgoing smtp connection as > outgoing .verizon.n

Re: Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]

2006-01-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Gregory Seidman wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:33:11PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: } On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:30:04 -0600 } Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: } > Andrei Popescu wrote: } > >It has been suggested by several people in this thread to have a } > >'debian-newcomer' list. [...] }

Re: k3b removed after unstable update

2006-01-08 Thread loos
Em Dom, 2006-01-08 às 16:08 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escreveu: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:06:36 +0100 > Gregory Soyez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > I just run apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian unstable box > > where were you before? testing? > > and this removed > > k3b. I

Re: Xorg eats my CPU

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:21:08 +0100 Kevin Glynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am running (up to date) Debian unstable on my laptop, it has a > Radeon IGP 340M graphics chip. For the last month or so I am seeing > the Xorg process gradually gobble up more and more CPU, up to 30/40% > and in

Re: k3b removed after unstable update

2006-01-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Gregory Soyez wrote: Hi all! I just run apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian unstable box and this removed k3b. If I want to reinstall it I need dbus-qt-1c2, the installation of which wants to remove kde, kde-amusements, kde-core, kdeaddons, kdebase kdebase-kio-plugins, konq-plugins, konqueror

Recommendation for newsreader

2006-01-08 Thread Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel
Title: Recommendation for newsreader So far, I have been using pan. However, it tends to become painfully slow when the groups contain more than 30.000 messages; exponentially slow. On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer the archive of gmane.org, which as of now

can`t start eclipse

2006-01-08 Thread Roman Makurin
Hi All! I can`t start eclipse. It gives me error everytime I trying to launch it: "A suitable Java Virtual Machine for running the Eclipse Platform could not be located." here is console output: $ eclipse searching for compatible vm... testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...found $ sudo update-alter

Re: Re: fsck Fails On Reboot After Partially Completed Testing Upgrade

2006-01-08 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: That may not fix it. Try setting your clock to UTC (and set UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS). If you can live with that, your Debian system will be that much happier and stable, hardware clocks were meant to be always in UTC, it's just old DO

Re: pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Gene Heskett wrote: Hi All; I'm being banged on by them for every post to the debian-user list again this morning. And I've written 2 filters for kmails filtering, neither of which seem to work. Anybody in .br country wanna make some money delivering some of Alred Nobel's finest? I als

Re: Xorg eats my CPU

2006-01-08 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:21:08PM +0100, Kevin Glynn wrote: > I am running (up to date) Debian unstable on my laptop, it has a > Radeon IGP 340M graphics chip. For the last month or so I am seeing > the Xorg process gradually gobble up more and more CPU, up to 30/40% > and in some cases 99%. Yes,

Re: pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 16:11 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:26:27 -0500 > Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All; > > > > I'm being banged on by them for every post to the debian-user list again > > this morning. And I've written 2 filters for kmails f

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

2006-01-08 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
> > Now I'd really appreciate your recommendation for a method or apparatus to > handle groups with large numbers of messages in a suitable and reasonably > fast manner. > slrn? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --D

Re: realplayer firewall problem

2006-01-08 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: My firewall script was generated by guarddog, with realplayer enabled. In the past I have had to add manual guarddog entries to handle realplayer sites with odd DST addresses, ^ Correction, that should be "odd destination ports". but they used a singl

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

2006-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 09:04 +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > So far, I have been using pan. > > However, it tends to become painfully slow when the groups contain > more > than 30.000 messages; exponentially slow. > On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer > the > a

current package similar to bookmarker (web based bookmark management)?

2006-01-08 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi everyone, I've been using bookmarker with woody for years now and I like it. It provides web access to a database of bookmarks (stored in posgresql in my case). The web page is here http://www.renaghan.com/pcr/bookmarker.html but it hasn't been updated since 1998. Getting it to run was not

Re: [SOLVED]Re: apt ignores apt.conf settings

2006-01-08 Thread Adam Porter
> Could you please attach here your pinning options ? > Default-Release does work but causes me other problems that I believe > would be solved by using pinning. Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=exp

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

2006-01-08 Thread Adam Porter
Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > Now I'd really appreciate your recommendation for a method or apparatus to > handle groups with large numbers of messages in a suitable and reasonably > fast manner. groups.google.com :) Seriously though, I use KNode, but I haven't begun to approach that many mess

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Angus Mackenzie wrote: > The Tasksel stage of the installer could indeed make life easier for the > neophyte. It could strongly advise them to install a desktop environment by > default and make the choice of a console an option for those who Know What > They Are Doing, as I do 7 or 8 machines l

Re: Sound Device Not Shared -- Working Now

2006-01-08 Thread ankur . kumar
my sound card is being shared now with other applications. But still some applications which are not configured to use ALSA like RealPlayer have some issues. I did following things: 1. installed gstream ALSA plugin         apt-get install gstreamer0.8-alsa 2. Run- /usr/bin/gstreamer-properties

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