Re: Compaq Presario 2100 laptop, xorg no output on external VGA (projector), running Etch.

2006-05-01 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:16:52AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:27:55PM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Søren Christensen wrote: > > > > I've upgraded to Etch and Xorg on my laptop. > > > > > >

Re: DPI setting

2006-05-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:30:53AM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > * Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-30 23:50]: > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:22:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > > I have a debian installation and I use a relatively high resolution > > > monitor (1600x120

kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 fails to boot

2006-05-01 Thread Aurelio Turco
Dear debian-user, I am trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.4 to 2.6. I installed the kernel-image-2.6-686 package (which depends on kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686), but it failed to boot, with messages as follows: ... kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3

sarge net install on USB disk

2006-05-01 Thread Johan Daine
Hi, Last week , I managed to install a Sarge with the ne install 3.1Ra i386 CD-ROM. It worked like a charm. I modified the grub menu.list on my first IDE disk in order to boot on the usb disk. I coulsd change my sources.list and upgraded to sid toexperiment (usin g apt-proxy on on of my bikes) Yes

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Apr 2006, Tyler Smith wrote: > Ok, I've fixed the resolution problem. Somewhere in my > upgrading/configuring I lost the 1280x1024 setting from my xorg.conf > file, which was easily fixed. Now I just need to know how to get my > graphical login back. > > Cheers, > > Tyler > I've always

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 18:34:20 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: > Ok, I've fixed the resolution problem. Somewhere in my > upgrading/configuring I lost the 1280x1024 setting from my xorg.conf > file, which was easily fixed. Now I just need to know how to get my > graphical login back. There was obvi

Question about apt and pinning

2006-05-01 Thread Joona Kiiski
Hi, I've a little question about apt-pinning. I'm running debian testing and when running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' apt tells me that it wants to remove packet 'xmaxima'. This is quite logical, since currently xmaxima is out of the testing. To prevent this I wrote in /etc/apt/preferences file: Pac

Re: Can DVD-R do multi-session

2006-05-01 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Ivan Glushkov wrote: T wrote: Hi Can any confirm me whether DVD-R can do multi-session or not? It can are you sure? I've always read in webpages (sorry I don't have links with me right now) that it cannot. Indeed k3b does not do that... Nero can but then you can't read further session

Re: DPI setting

2006-05-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 1 May 2006 08:33:50 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > > Depending on how you start X, you may be starting it with the -dpi > > option. (my gdm.conf uses: `X -dpi 96') > > AFAIK, this will override any DisplaySize settings in xorg.conf. > > That was it! - except

OT: Preposition at end [Was: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]]

2006-05-01 Thread hendrik
> I copied this passage from the second link: > > "While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists are content > to allow the misconception to fall into the vernacular, it cannot be > denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual > label should the meaning of B

Re: Compaq Presario 2100 laptop, xorg no output on external VGA (projector), running Etch.

2006-05-01 Thread Søren Christensen
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:47:06AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:16:52AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:27:55PM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > Søren Christens

Re: Shared memory - using ps(1)

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:07:17PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/06/120210&from=rss > > > What happens with statically linked binaries? > > I've got about 25 Mysql processes that look like this in pmap -d: > > mapped: 1

Etch on USB-HD wont boot - race condition?

2006-05-01 Thread Kai Olsen
Hi list. I'm trying to get etch to boot from an USB-attached harddisk on my notebook but the kernel cannot find the root filesystem. It seems to me, that udev hasn't finished its job by the time the kernel wants to read from the disk so /dev/sda isn't defined yet. Any ideas as to how I can con

Re: printable area setup with CUPS - HPIJS

2006-05-01 Thread Csanyi Pal
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:23:09AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I'm not sure what you are asking. Are you printing on Letter or A4 in > > the firstplace? > I'm printing on A4 in the first place. The properties of the Imageable Area of my printer are: Page Size: 8.0 x 11.06 in or 203.2

Re: Social Contract

2006-05-01 Thread Erik Persson
Steve Lamb wrote: Erik Persson wrote: As stated earlier, the BSD-licence requires, among other things, that: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the a

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:11:02PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:13:54 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:10:30PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > > > - -- > > > September 11th, 2001 > > > The proudest day for gun control and central > >

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 1, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Cybe R. Wizard wrote: The backlash of 9-11 was like Christmas to the conservative military-industrial complex and their puppet congress-critters. All the things they have wanted over the years like more defense spending, less rights

problems in gnome/gdm after weekend etch upgrade

2006-05-01 Thread Rick Reynolds
I run etch on my laptop system, and I usually do a dist-upgrade each weekend to keep up to date. This past weekend's update seems to have broken some things in either gnome or gdm that are decently difficult to work around. Wondered if anyone else has seen this and/or can point me to a soluti

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Willie Wonka
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > > > The backlash of 9-11 was like Christmas to the conservative > > military-industrial complex and their puppet congress-critters. All the > > things they have wanted over the years like more defense spending, less > > rights for citizens an

Re: problems in gnome/gdm after weekend etch upgrade

2006-05-01 Thread Kai Olsen
> >I run etch on my laptop system, and I usually do a dist-upgrade each >weekend to keep up to date. > Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't a dist-upgrade some kind of overkill if you've already got etch installed? A normal update/upgrade seems to be adequate... Cheers, Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Rich Johnson
On Apr 30, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: Rich Johnson wrote: ROFLMAO! You're calling for the elimination of History, Citizenship, Government, and even the ''Pledge of Allegiance''. No, there's a difference between teaching those subjects and going off on a political tirade dur

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 01 May 2006 12:11, Curt Howland wrote: [...] > > About John O'Hagan's list of things as seen from outside the US: It is > interesting to note that without government intervention those items > would be of no importance. [...] I don't agree: a democratic government can legitimately - an

Re: rerunning autodetect

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Tilford
On 4/30/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On (30/04/06 18:35), Mark Tilford wrote: > On 4/29/06, Mark Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For various reasons, I had to run the installation on one computer, > >then transfer the hard drive to a different computer. How do I rerun > >the

Re: 'out of memory' errors

2006-05-01 Thread Linas Žvirblis
tom arnall wrote: >> What about streams then? > > please tell me how that would work? i'm not familiar with the mechanism. You could open a file as a stream (or a buffer, it is the same thing), read it in chunks of reasonable length (maximum length you expect the longest regex match would span),

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Rich Johnson
On Apr 30, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 April 2006 15:26, Rich Johnson was heard to say: On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Curt Howland wrote: [...snip...] Your premise is false. The "middle class" and "poor" were doing very well

Re: problems in gnome/gdm after weekend etch upgrade

2006-05-01 Thread Andrius A__trauskas
On Mon, 01 May 2006 07:53:18 -0400 Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run etch on my laptop system, and I usually do a dist-upgrade each > weekend to keep up to date. > > This past weekend's update seems to have broken some things in either > gnome or gdm that are decently difficult t

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 1 May 2006 07:28:53 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I still don't see the connection with gun control or with sentral > planning ... unless perhaps you see the kind of intrusive disregard > of civil rights to be central planning? BINGO! Really, now, /ALL/ their dreams came true on one

Errors using shfs

2006-05-01 Thread Bruno Buys
Hi Anybody having problems with shfs? I'm trying to write to a shared dir with shfs, between two debian sarge machines. I do dd if=/dev/hdd of=/home/bruno/shared-shfs-dir but dd can't get to the end. It writes some 44mb from 660mb then it ceases (hdd is my dvd-writer, i'm copying a c

Re: Shared memory - using ps(1)

2006-05-01 Thread Danijel Tasov
Bill Moseley wrote: > Also, ps is always showing the UID # instead of the name. Shouldn't > that come from /etc/passwd? > > $ fgrep 112 /etc/passwd > subversion:x:112:112:subversion:/var/lib/projects:/bin/sh $ printf subversion | wc -c 10 ps displays the uid because the user name is longer than

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Tyler Smith
No, that's what I did the first time. I tried /etc/init.d/xdm restart both from within X, and when that failed to produce any messages, after closing X. It didn't produce any error messages or anything else. .xsession-errors is 14000+ lines long. The entries from today and yesterday are pasted

df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread charlie derr
On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df output that I don't understand. here's a part of the output from df -h /dev/sda1 440G 420G 0 100% /backup if i don't use the -h it looks like this: /dev/sda1461293804 440335112 0 100% /bac

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Kent West
Tyler Smith wrote: > No, that's what I did the first time. I tried /etc/init.d/xdm restart > both from within X, and when that failed to produce any messages, > after closing X. It didn't produce any error messages or anything else. > ** (rox:5499): WARNING **: mkdir(/home/tyler.choice): Permission

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-05-01 Thread Tyler Smith
Well, it is not really that big a problem. However, I *would* like to know why it doesn't work. The only feature I'm missing without xdm is a convenient button to click to shutdown my computer, as an alternative to "shutdown -h now". I know xdm doesn't have one built-in, but it wasn't too hard

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Kent West
charlie derr wrote: > On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df > output that I don't understand. > > here's a part of the output from df -h > > /dev/sda1 440G 420G 0 100% /backup > > if i don't use the -h it looks like this: > > /dev/sda146129

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On May 1, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Cybe R. Wizard wrote: The backlash of 9-11 was like Christmas to the conservative military-industrial complex and their puppet congress-critters. All the things they have wanted over the years

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm no fan of any politician (in general) - but Bush-winkle and his republicrat cronies just "allowed", through duplicity, for the events that occurred on 9-11, by not paying any heed at all to any of the warnings - specifically and intentionally *turni

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread hendrik
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:40:00AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2006 07:28:53 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I still don't see the connection with gun control or with sentral > > planning ... unless perhaps you see the kind of intrusive disregard > > of civil rights to be

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Mon, 1 May 2006 07:28:53 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still don't see the connection with gun control or with sentral planning ... unless perhaps you see the kind of intrusive disregard of civil rights to be central planning? BINGO! Really, now, /ALL/ their dr

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:14:03 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > charlie derr wrote: > > On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df > > output that I don't understand. > > > > here's a part of the output from df -h > > > > /dev/sda1 440G 420G 0 10

Some Problems with (X)Emacs

2006-05-01 Thread Norbert Grün
Dear Madam or Sir! This is Debian 3.1r0a "Sarge" from LOB.de Machine is an old AMD K6II/500 with 448 MB. X11 is done remote via CygWin X11 6.8.1.0-11 because the graphics card of the K6 has a thermic problem locking up the machine after half an hour and also because the remote machine has a bigg

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Martin A. Brooks
charlie derr wrote: On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df output that I don't understand. here's a part of the output from df -h /dev/sda1 440G 420G 0 100% /backup if i don't use the -h it looks like this: /dev/sda1461293804 44033511

Re: freemind

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. A while back I installed Freemind 0.8.0, and it works fine. I run Sarge. . . Synaptic, and apt, however, a month later, have suddenly decided they don't like Freemind 0.8.0. I now get this very strange message when I attempt to do a dist-upgrade: freemind will

xorg upgrade error

2006-05-01 Thread Tim
I'm getting the following error after a recent apt-get upgrade: xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 (Reading database ... 103577 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 1:7.0.1 (using .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb) ... dpkg: error pr

Re: Question about apt and pinning

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 100 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 1 > > Package: xmaxima > Pin: version * > Pin-Priority: 1200 > > Still when running 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgra

Re: xorg upgrade error

2006-05-01 Thread steef
On Monday 01 May 2006 16:36, Tim wrote: > I'm getting the following error after a recent apt-get upgrade: > > xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 > (Reading database ... 103577 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 1:7.0.1 > (using .../

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread charlie derr
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:14:03 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm going on very hazy memory here, but it might give you enough info for googling. If I recall correctly, the system wants at least 10% free for "system overhead"; as 20Gig is only about 5% of your 4

Re: xorg upgrade error

2006-05-01 Thread David Baron
On Monday 01 May 2006 17:36, Tim wrote: > I'm getting the following error after a recent apt-get upgrade: > > xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 > (Reading database ... 103577 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 1:7.0.1 > (using .../

Re: freemind

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:42:55AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > >>Hello. A while back I installed Freemind 0.8.0, and it works fine. > >>I run Sarge. . . > >>Synaptic, and apt, however, a month later, have suddenly decided they > >>don't like Freemind 0.8.0. I no

Re: xorg upgrade error

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:36:56PM +, Tim wrote: > I'm getting the following error after a recent apt-get upgrade: > > xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 > (Reading database ... 103577 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 1:7.0.1

Re: OT: Preposition at end [Was: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]]

2006-05-01 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preposition at end is not forbidden by English grammar. I quote Fowler, "Modern English Usage", from the article "Preposition at End": "The fact is that the remarkable freedom enjoyed by English in putting its prepositions late & omitting its relatives is an importan

Re: Etch on USB-HD wont boot - race condition?

2006-05-01 Thread Kai Olsen
>Oprindelig meddelelse >Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Dato: 01/05/2006 15:10 >Til: "Kai Olsen"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Emne: Re: Etch on USB-HD wont boot - race condition? > >Kai Olsen wrote: >> Hi list. >> >> I'm trying to get etch to boot from an USB-attached harddisk on my >> notebook but the ke

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 01 May 2006 10:25:09 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Now, I know everyone likes their conspiracy theories, but here are a > few thoughts: > > - airport security on places is not as tight very early in the morning > - westbound AM transcontinental flights o

Re: OT: Preposition at end [Was: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]]

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Kent West wrote: (And speaking of Freedom, anyone ever heard of that newfangled OS, Debian? I hear it's the Hots, baby. ;-) ) Vaporware. It's just a ploy to delay people from adopting Vista. :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:30:16PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:14:03 -0500 > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > charlie derr wrote: > > > On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df > > > output that I don't understand. > > > > > > here's a p

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 1 May 2006 10:01:53 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK. It seems that the problem in my understanding might be with the > word "central planning". Just what do you mean by that phrase? > > Or are you suggesting that the Bush junta centrally planned that > attack? It's just Hollywood

Re: OT: Preposition at end [Was: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]]

2006-05-01 Thread Hodgins Family
On Mon, 2006-01-05 at 11:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > (And speaking of Freedom, anyone ever heard of that newfangled OS, > > Debian? I hear it's the Hots, baby. ;-) ) > > > > Vaporware. It's just a ploy to delay people from adopting Vista. :-) > > -Roberto

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 01 May 2006 10:16:42 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Please explain in simple, economically sound terms (using math), > *how* the oil companies are profiting hand over fist, at our expense > - I am not a bozo, I am knowledgable and well educated (about to > finish

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Mon, 01 May 2006 10:25:09 -0400 Didn't Ol' Sammy bin Laden train under Bush, the Elder's CIA? Yeah. It was during this little thing called the Cold War. Ever heard of it? At the time, the threat of nuclear annihilation by the USSR was a more real danger than terro

Re: xorg upgrade error

2006-05-01 Thread Tim
steef wrote: > see the archvies for fixing this, i *believe* > I haven't been able to locate anything similar in the archives, I have seen other problems with xorg, but not this particular one. Perhaps I'm missing something, do you have a link to an article where this problem is mentioned? > se

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Mon, 01 May 2006 10:16:42 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Please explain in simple, economically sound terms (using math), *how* the oil companies are profiting hand over fist, at our expense - I am not a bozo, I am knowledgable and well educate

manually purge .deb file

2006-05-01 Thread erchamion . beren
hello, i compiled firefox from source and made a .deb file via alien. while installing the deb file i hit cancel, somehow i cannot remove this file, dpkg , aptitute or apt-get says that my firefox packet should be removed but no file related to my firefox packet, how can i completely purge it ?

Re: No fonts in Flash Player (was: SOLVED)

2006-05-01 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
On 4/19/06, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: A Dimecres 19 Abril 2006 03:46, Benjamí Villoslada va escriure: > A Dimarts 18 Abril 2006 20:45, Christopher Nelson va escriure: > > I'm not sure if it'll work, because I don't have flashplayer-mozilla > > installed so can't test flash since the xorg update,

Issues loading Sarge on Compaq ML530

2006-05-01 Thread Roger Haxton
I have a Compaq ML530 with 2 73GB drives (RAID1) on a Compaq SmartArray controller. These are my boot drives. I have 1 36GB drive on internal SCSI. I then have 4 36GB drives (RAID5) on an Adaptec RAID controller. I load Sarge doing a netinstall. My first hurdle is getting grub to load on

Re: manually purge .deb file

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i compiled firefox from source and made a .deb file via alien. while installing the deb file i hit cancel, somehow i cannot remove this file, dpkg , aptitute or apt-get says that my firefox packet should be removed but no file related to my firefox packet, how c

Re: Cant install Sarge on my new laptop

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 07:52:02PM +0200, Zouari Fourat wrote: > I'll provide all the informations i can catch : > > Here's what i got with lspci using ubuntu 5.10 livecd : > :00:00.0 Host Bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a31 (rev01) > :00:01.0 PCI Bridge: ATI Technologies Inc

Re: xorg upgrade error

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Nelson
Tim wrote: > I'm getting the following error after a recent apt-get upgrade: > > xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 > (Reading database ... 103577 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 1:7.0.1 > (using .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.

Re: boot disk for grub; network config; printer pb

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:42:34AM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > > Hi, > > i am using sarge, I want to create a boot disk from > my distro, I tried mkboot, but it seems running with > lilo and not grub > > network: there is no network configuring program, like > netcardconfig, So I have

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks Kent, Liam and Martin for the quick responses. I wasn't > entirely clear on the situation -- the machine didn't always show this > discrepency, so I don't think it's due to the "system overhead" sort > of thing. Charlie, Martin's got it right.

Re: No fonts in Flash Player (was: SOLVED)

2006-05-01 Thread Lance Simmons
* Benjam? Villoslada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060501 11:33]: > > Fonts dosen't works again in Flash :( Maybe due the last x-org updates. > > Anyone have solved this issue? I'm having the same problem. -- Lance Simmons signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 May 2006 08:39, Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do these numbers come from? If you would look back in the thread, you will find a flurry of links to the articles, with names, organizations and citations. > AFAICT, the 5

Re: freemind [solved]

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
Look into "apt-pinning". you can "pin" a particular package to a specific version and control what apt does with it. something like: Package: freemind Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 1001 in your /etc/apt/preferences file should do it. man apt_preferences. you could also specify a

Re: OT: Preposition at end [Was: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]]

2006-05-01 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:40:51 -0600 Hodgins Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-05 at 11:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > > (And speaking of Freedom, anyone ever heard of that newfangled > > > OS, Debian? I hear it's the Hots, baby. ;-) ) > > >

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 May 2006 10:30, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I don't agree: Keep that statement in mind... > a democratic government can legitimately - and must That is your OPINION. Think of something sacred to you. Somethin

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 May 2006 11:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > OK.  It seems that the problem in my understanding might be with > the word "central planning".  Just what do you mean by that phrase? All airports in the US are government owned. All

Re: Cant install Sarge on my new laptop

2006-05-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:59:01PM +0300, Zouari Fourat wrote: > :( > ubuntu didnt start X, didnt detect anything in my laptop > really i dont know what should i do please don't top-post. Well, I have nothing else to offer. try the debian-laptop list and google for linux on laptops. sorry A >

Re: sata sucks

2006-05-01 Thread Wackojacko
lee wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:20:41AM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Any bios updates available on the ASUS website. I have the same mobo but only one SATA drive so haven't experienced this myself, but there are loads of bios updates available so one might help. Yeah, I thought of it, but

Re: Some Problems with (X)Emacs

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Wohler
"Norbert Grün" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GNU Emacs 21.4 has some problems when customising a large number of > options, probably there is a hidden limit to the size of the .emacs file. Not in Emacs. > Also there is no migration tool for importing GNU Emacs 20.7 .emacs files, > Emacs 21.4 com

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:08 -0400, charlie derr wrote: > On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df > output that I don't understand. > > here's a part of the output from df -h > > /dev/sda1 440G 420G 0 100% /backup > > if i don't use the -h it looks lik

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:30 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:14:03 -0500 > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > charlie derr wrote: > > > On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df > > > output that I don't understand. > > > > > > here's a part of

packages cannot be authenticated

2006-05-01 Thread John Biederstedt
Hi When installing packages with apt-get, I get the message "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!". I installed the key from http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc into root's (and my own) keyring with # cat ziyi_key_2006.asc | gpg --import I then put the key into ap

Keyboard Preferences - Layout

2006-05-01 Thread Robert Tucker
I have upgraded from stable to testing (with maybe a couple of packages from unstable) mainly resulting from a wish to install KSlovar. However, now when I try to add or remove keymaps in "Keyboard Preferences - Layout" I get error messages saying "Failed to load image file-manager", "Details:

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2006-05-01 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 12:35 -0700, Brian Minton wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:55:23 -0500 Ian Melnick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Hi all, > > > > I recently upgraded to sarge, and now my samba passwords expire every > > couple of weeks (i think). I also think it's using this new password >

Re: xorg upgrade error

2006-05-01 Thread steef
On Monday 01 May 2006 17:40, Tim wrote: > steef wrote: > > see the archvies for fixing this, i *believe* > > I haven't been able to locate anything similar in the archives, I have seen > other problems with xorg, but not this particular one. Perhaps I'm missing > something, do you have a link to an

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Thompson
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:32:13 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This medium makes it practical. > > Which tools are best and simplest for this? > I use DAR and a script called DARomizer which is designed to backup a hard drive to multi DVD-RW disks. DAR: http://dar.linux.free.fr/

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:46, Curt Howland wrote: > gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: eof > > On Monday 01 May 2006 11:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > > OK.  It seems that the problem in my understanding might be with > > the word "central planning".  Just what do you mean by

Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

2006-05-01 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> In my Sarge stable, when I do: >> >> >> >> # apt-get build-dep emacs21 >> >> >> >> I get the following output: >> >> >> >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> >> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list >> >> >> >> . The debian-emacsen listers sugg

Re: 'out of memory' errors

2006-05-01 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 01 May 2006 06:13 am, Linas ?virblis wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > >> What about streams then? > > > > please tell me how that would work? i'm not familiar with the mechanism. > > You could open a file as a stream (or a buffer, it is the same thing), > read it in chunks of reasonable lengt

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 1, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On May 1, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Cybe R. Wizard wrote: The backlash of 9-11 was like Christmas to the conservative military-industrial complex and their puppet congress-

Re: Problem with boost

2006-05-01 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Sonntag, 30. April 2006 18:42 schrieb Lorenzo Bettini: > Christoph Nenning wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > we are using qt-4, opencv and boost in our project. > > > > On my etch box dpkg -l libboost\* says: > > un libboost-date- (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) > > ii libboost-dev 1.33.1

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 1, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Curt Howland wrote: The CIA reports US literacy rate is 99% (//www.cia.gov/cia/ publications/factbook/geos/us.html), and if thats what my government says, it must be so, right? Your government has said a lot of things that have been demonstrated false. I suggest

Re: DPI setting

2006-05-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:16:49AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2006 08:33:50 +0100 > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > Depending on how you start X, you may be starting it with the -dpi > > > option. (my gdm.conf uses: `X -dpi 96') > > > AFAIK, this

Re: howto start something 5 mins after boot

2006-05-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mumia W wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, With crontab you can start things any time or day, but not in a relative way, e.g. 5 minutes after boot run a script. How would you do that? Thanks! H You could create a bootscript that uses the "at" command, like so; /etc/init.d/mybootinit: e

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Rich Johnson wrote: > Oh, so the objection is to _dissident_ poltical teaching. Heaven forbid > that high school students should be challenged to think and decide for > themselves. Uh, no, try again. The problem in this case there was political speech at all during a GEOGRAPHY lesson. > FWI

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > US $9,900,000,000 (billion) profits /by one oil company/ in one > quarter when retail prices were skyrocketing. Does that seem like the > oil cartel has the American interests at heart? Didn't I address just this in a message 2 days ago? I make a widget for $1, sell i

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > I suppose that's true if you're willing to say that the vast majority of US > airports don't exist. Many television stations, hospitals, police > departments, etc. have airports that aren't government owned. So do many > ranchers and aviation clubs. Well, how many of

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > Rich Johnson wrote: > on when I was in high school 10 years ago. Difference here was that a student > had the cajones to record him and expose him. Man, wish it were 10 years ago. More like 16. *gasp* -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: Well, how many of those have aircraft flying out of them that have the capacity to do damage to a building on the scale of 9/11. Want to know what we should be worried about? The unregulated and lax security around rental trucks. I've always thought trains are wha

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Steve Lamb wrote: > > Slap on the wrist, he's still teaching. And it is prevalent. It was oing > on when I was in high school 10 years ago. Difference here was that a student > had the cajones to record him and expose him. > Nitpick: The word "cajones" means drawers. I believe the word

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Kent West wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Well, how many of those have aircraft flying out of them that have >> the >> capacity to do damage to a building on the scale of 9/11. >> >> >> Want to know what we should be worried about? The unregulated and >> lax >> security around rental truc

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-01 Thread Matthias Julius
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. (This assumes you own a home). Figure out how much you paid in > property taxes last year. Multiply that by 50. Now, do you think you > could fund your child(ren)'s education for 12 years on that? I could > probably afford to educate abou

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