faubackup filling disc

2006-06-15 Thread Dexter
Hi, i use faubackup to make backup of server to backup server. I keep 7 days hystory: # cat /etc/faubackup.conf package FAUBACKUP; $backup = "/var/backups/server"; $autocreate = 0; $keepyears = -1; $keepmonths = -1; $keepweeks = -1; $keepdays = 7; $rsh= "

Open Office 2: where can I find italian hypenation pakage?

2006-06-15 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Hi all, sorry for cross-posting, but I don't know which is the right list. I need to use the italian localized version of oo2 on a Debian Etch distribution In the Debian testing (also in unstable) I have: openoffice.org.I10n.it (2.0.1-5) wich gives me the italian user interface openo

tty pb

2006-06-15 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello I am encoutering a problem with ttys.I have installed a custom kernel but at boot time, the system doesn t achieve to create /dev/tty node.It doesn t work with a generic 2.6.8-2-386 kernel anymore.I have also tried to install udev,  without  much successSo, inittab file seems to be correct.Th

RE : tty pb

2006-06-15 Thread Stephane Durieux
well don t pay attention to my silly last question !The real question is why tty can t be created at boot time ?Stephane Durieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Hello I am encoutering a problem with ttys.I have installed a custom kernel but at boot time, the system doesn t achieve to create /dev/tty

Re: nvidiia kernel patch with the 2.6.15-486 kernel

2006-06-15 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 11:29 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Hi all, > > I think the kernel number in the subject line is the correct one. > Anyway, it's the kernel for an AMD 64 cpu with the 32 bit version of > Etch installed. What I'm looking to do is install the kernel patch with > module

intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Hi all I installed debian etch on a centrino duo laptop with still some open issue: 1. although the i810 driver states that it cover the the video card intel 945GM i'm not able to use the laptop lcd at its maximum resolution 1280x800. Intel site (http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel94

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Roberto Bernetti wrote: Hi all I installed debian etch on a centrino duo laptop with still some open issue: 1. although the i810 driver states that it cover the the video card intel 945GM i'm not able to use the laptop lcd at its maximum resolution 1280x800. Intel site (http://support.intel.co

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:44:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> If you want to fork the library, and convince app writers to >> use it. > > Gnome and company realized that they couldn't fork GTK... no one > would pay attention. I

Re: Directory for bash profile snippets?

2006-06-15 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-15, 07:59:18 (+0200) skrifaði Waldemar la Tendresse: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Why not put the alias in /etc/profile ? > > > > Greetings > > Michelle Konzack > > > > > I want have aliases set depending on the package presence/absence

Re: Public build servers for Debian/Ubuntu packages?

2006-06-15 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:44:39 -0400, Bradley Alexander wrote: >On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:39 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> Does anyone know if there's a service where I can upload my Debian >> source packages that will attempt to compile them for other .deb >> distros and let me download the re

Re: Public build servers for Debian/Ubuntu packages?

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:39:13PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > Does anyone know if there's a service where I can upload my Debian > source packages that will attempt to compile them for other .deb > distros and let me download the results? > > Specifically I want to take a few source packages

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' Thanks for introducing me to the xargs command - never heard of it before, but I am sure it will come in handy some day. :-) The '-i' option is deprecated in xargs from unstable, though. Alternative seems

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Johannes Zellner wrote: > > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? You can use a simple bash script. Try (as root:) for f in `find / -uid OLDUID`; do chown NEWUID $f; done Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions

Re: Sharing /usr

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:04:11PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:04:48PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Dear Debian users, > > > > According to the [1]FHS, /usr is supposed to be sharable between > > computers, mounted using e.g. NFS. Likewise, /usr/share is suppo

Re: Ruby Docs

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:28:09AM +1000, Arafangion wrote: > On Thursday 15 June 2006 09:41, Tom Allison wrote: > > After running with Perl for some 7+ years I decided I would see what else > > is out there and my pick was to go from Perl directly to Ruby, passing > > Python entirely. > > > > And

Re: Open Office 2: where can I find italian hypenation pakage?

2006-06-15 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-15, 09:53:40 (+0200) skrifaði Mirto Silvio Busico: > Hi all, > sorry for cross-posting, but I don't know which is the right list. > > I need to use the italian localized version of oo2 on a Debian Etch > distribution > > In the Debian testing (also in unstable) I have: > > openo

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * George Borisov [Thu, Jun 15 2006, 11:21:24AM]: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > > sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' > > Thanks for introducing me to the xargs command - never heard of it > before, but I am sure it will come in handy some day. :-) > > The '

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-15 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default > setup.) I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels

SQL Ledger and PostgreSQL: ID fault on create database

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Forsey
System setup and versions.   New install of Debian Stable with the following installed. All are the latest releases compiled from source with dependency requirements fulfilled and all make errors fixed.   Apache Server 2.2.2 Postgresql 8.1.4 Readline 5.1 Zlib 1.2.3 Openssl 0.9.8b S

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: >> (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default >> setup.) > > I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? --- $ find / -uid OLDUID | xargs -I [] chown NEWUID [] Password: Sorry, u

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
I hate not being able to copy/paste between my two machines :-( Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: >> >> (I've removed the 'sudo' bits, as it would not work with the default >> setup.) > > I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate? ---

Re: Public build servers for Debian/Ubuntu packages?

2006-06-15 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 06:35:40 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: >On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:39:13PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> Does anyone know if there's a service where I can upload my Debian >> source packages that will attempt to compile them for other .deb >> distros and let me download the re

Re: DRI Broken On Recent Sid

2006-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 15 June 2006 06:07, David E. Fox wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:30:29 +0300 > > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Other programs, ppracer, work in software mode and are unusable. Ysflight > > actually seems to be using DRI though this program works nicely in > > software mode

Re: Sharing /usr

2006-06-15 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le jeudi 15 juin 2006 à 06:48 -0400, Kevin Mark a écrit : > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:04:11PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:04:48PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: [...] > > > Assume I have several i386 boxes and a few sparcs, how would I install > > > Debian on thes

VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread anthony
For some time I've been trying to use pptp-linux to connect as a client to my office VPN  (don't ask me what flavour VPN server this is running the Network admin won't tell me)According to this howto until kernel 2.6.15 you needed a patch to run it correctly http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread Rick Reynolds
anthony wrote: For some time I've been trying to use pptp-linux to connect as a client to my office VPN (don't ask me what flavour VPN server this is running the Network admin won't tell me) According to this howto until kernel 2.6.15 you needed a patch to run it correctly http://pptpclien

How to share the apt cache

2006-06-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hi. We use Debian on a number of machines, and, to avoid downloading the same packages multiple times, we download debian cd images (which are kept updated with jigdo) to a server and set sources.list to point (only) to this images. But this has obvious problems. What is the "correct" way to share

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

2006-06-15 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:50:52PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Sorry, user george is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/find / -uid 1000' > as root on dxs-wksd-195. That has to do with what's in /etc/sudoers, I imagine. When I've gotten that error, it's meant that sudoers is configured to only le

Re: How to share the apt cache

2006-06-15 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:02:57AM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >What is the "correct" way to share the apt cache? I think we should keep >/var/cache/apt/archives in the server and mount it with nfs in the other >computers. But I'm not shure this is the "correct" way; I d

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-15 Thread debian-user
Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:44:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: If you want to fork the library, and convince app writers to use it. Gnome and company realized that they couldn't fork GTK... no one would pay attention. Instead they co-opted it. Does this help? http://www.ge

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Alle 11:28, giovedì 15 giugno 2006, Lubos Vrbka ha scritto: > try adding > VideoRam16384 > to the device section corresponding to the graphics card in your > xorg.conf. that did the trick on my laptop. > I tryed, but in the Xorg.0.log file the section about video mode reported: maximum spac

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread anthony
Ok, that makes sense from what I've been reading. I've not re-compiled my kernel before , and so far failing at the first stage. when  I try to get thinking:/# apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.16Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... DoneW: Couldn't stat source package list http

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/15/06, anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, that makes sense from what I've been reading. I've not re-compiled my kernel before , and so far failing at the first stage. when I try to get [...] Does your kernel not come with some sort of mppe module that you can modprobe? -- Michael A.

totem & mms://

2006-06-15 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
hi i'm using sid on a celeron until today, i used totem to play microsoft's mms://wmv streams to do that, i had totem-xine installed and mplayer codec pack unzipped in ~/.gnome2/totem-addons but today : (...) There is no input plugin to handle the location of this movie so i tried insta

Re: How to share the apt cache

2006-06-15 Thread Joris
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:02 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Hi. We use Debian on a number of machines, and, to avoid downloading > the same packages multiple times, we download debian cd images (which > are kept updated with jigdo) to a server and set sources.list to point > (only) to

Re: dvdrip: transcode failiure

2006-06-15 Thread Vegard L. Rekaa
xvid seemed to do the trick. thanks for the help, cheers, VegardOn 14/06/06, Keith Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 6/14/06, Vegard L. Rekaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to rip my first dvd, with the debian-etch package "dvdrip". Dvdrip uses transcode, wich halts and gives t

Re: totem & mms://

2006-06-15 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 15:38:01 +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: >hi > >i'm using sid on a celeron > >until today, i used totem to play microsoft's mms://wmv streams > >to do that, i had totem-xine installed and mplayer codec pack unzipped in >~/.gnome2/totem-addons > >but today : >(...) >There

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
VideoRam16384 to the device section corresponding to the graphics card in your xorg.conf. that did the trick on my laptop. I tryed, but in the Xorg.0.log file the section about video mode reported: maximum space for video modes is 12288 kB. ooops, it seems that i made one big mistake - i

Wacom Mouse Saga Continued

2006-06-15 Thread Thomas H. George
I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I get the following output from xidump -l: Configured Mouse disabled Generic Keyboard keyboard stylus extension eraser

Re: totem & mms://

2006-06-15 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 15:38:01 +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: hi i'm using sid on a celeron until today, i used totem to play microsoft's mms://wmv streams to do that, i had totem-xine installed and mplayer codec pack unzipped in ~/.gnome2/totem-addons but today

occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-15 Thread hendrik
I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic. It works fine with vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-amd64-generic. Both kernels are stock Debian kernels, installed from Debian etch mirrors, or from Len Sorenson's installation CD. 2.6.15-1 was definitely from the De

Re: emacspeak : stty problem

2006-06-15 Thread Robert D. Crawford
gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed the emacspeak, but all the servers have the same error. What server do you need to run? Do you have a hardware synth? If not, which software synth do you want to use? If you are looking to use a free synth, did you install flite and a

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > That has to do with what's in /etc/sudoers, I imagine. When > I've gotten that error, it's meant that sudoers is > configured to only let me run one or two commands. By default it's not configured to allow you to run any at all, which is what I originally meant. --

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

2006-06-15 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:00:49PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > By default it's not configured to allow you to run any at all, which is > what I originally meant. Do you mean that by default, people aren't sudoers? That's certainly correct. But if you're not a sudoer, then you probably don't hav

FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread H.S.
Hello, Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Only IE played the clips in XP. This really sucks. regards, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Alle 16:30, giovedì 15 giugno 2006, Lubos Vrbka ha scritto: > > another thing is coming to my mind - did you try the 915resolution > package? it should serve for exactly such cases... > Right it works thank you very mach for the hint. Now I try to make the dual monitor working on the intel site th

Re: totem & mms://

2006-06-15 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 15:38:01 +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: hi i'm using sid on a celeron until today, i used totem to play microsoft's mms://wmv streams to do that, i had totem-xine installed and mplayer codec pack unzipped in ~/.gnome2/totem-addons but today

Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Hill
I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have Gnome Desktop running.I have a few questions. 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I think it is permissions, but wh

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Only IE played the clips in XP. This really sucks. regards, ->HS Forgot to mention, it didn't work in the following

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > Do you mean that by default, people aren't sudoers? That's > certainly correct. But if you're not a sudoer, then you > probably don't have the root password either -- in which > case it will be impossible for you to run any command > featuring 'find /'. What I mean is

Re: Getting PostgreSQL to work with PHP

2006-06-15 Thread Xavier Elizalde
Thanks for the assist. The PostgreSQL commands seem to work now. Curious thing, though- the phpinfo() command still says '--without- pqsql' in the Configure Command section. What does that mean? I thought it would say '--with-pgsql' now. On 15/06/2006, at 10:29 AM, John Miller wrote: apt-g

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi Mike, On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:59, Mike Hill wrote: > I have a few questions. > 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I > think it is permissions, but where do I start? Add this user to the group audio. > 2. I created a user, but SUDO seems to only work

Re: Wacom Mouse Saga Continued

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, it seems that my wacom graphire4 works fine with both mouse and stylus on etch/xorg7/i386. I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I get the following output from xidump -l: Configured Mouse di

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Kent West
H.S. wrote: Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Nope, not me. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Kent West
Mike Hill wrote: 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they cannot access the sound card. I think it is permissions, but where do I start? As root, "adduser audio". Log that user out/in. 2. I created a user, but SUDO seems to only work from ROOT and not from my user. As root, "visudo"; add t

difference between .xinitrc and .xsession files

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Is there any document/wiki which explains the file name conventions of the various .[xX]* files in Debian system? In particular I am looking for the differences between .xinitrc, .xsession files. thanks raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/corne

dpms keeps turning off

2006-06-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
I just installed etch on a new destop. "xset -q" shows dpms is off. If I enable it with xset +dpms dpms 300 600 900 it somehow gets turned off some while later. How do I get the setting to stick? Running "xset dpms off" will put the monitor into the off state. I have DPMS in my xorg.conf fil

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel > Where do I start to look for the 8756 stuff that it finds but I can't? Look for older versions of /usr/lib/lib{GL,GLcore,nvidia-tls}.so*, and anything in /usr/lib/tls, /usr/lib/nvidia, /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers, and /usr/lib/xorg/

How to use sudo not root

2006-06-15 Thread Joseph Smidt
When I installed Debian I selected to not allow root login thinking that would enable sudo and disable root. But when I logged into gnome it kept asking for the root password to do admin things, so I set a root password and it works. However, I would like to disable root and have it so my sudo

Re: intel 945GM video card

2006-06-15 Thread Roberto Bernetti
Alle 16:12, giovedì 15 giugno 2006, Roberto Bernetti ha scritto: > Alle 16:30, giovedì 15 giugno 2006, Lubos Vrbka ha scritto: > > another thing is coming to my mind - did you try the 915resolution > > package? it should serve for exactly such cases... Using 915resolution I'm able to know the mode

Re: difference between .xinitrc and .xsession files

2006-06-15 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-15, 11:54:02 (-0400) skrifaði Kamaraju Kusumanchi: > Is there any document/wiki which explains the file name conventions of the > various .[xX]* files in Debian system? In particular I am looking for the > differences between .xinitrc, .xsession files. My understanding is the .xinit

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread Bob McGowan
This may mean you need to run: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade I have seen similar errors when my local copies of Package files get out of date with respect to the repository. Bob anthony wrote: Ok, that makes sense from what I've been reading. I've not re-compiled my kernel before ,

Re: Directory for bash profile snippets?

2006-06-15 Thread Waldemar la Tendresse
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:55:38AM +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-06-15, 07:59:18 (+0200) skrifaði Waldemar la Tendresse: [...snip...] > > Do you want to do something like check if a package is installed and > if it is then set some alias, then this should work: > > if(dpkg -s p

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:59, Mike Hill wrote: > I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, > then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have > Gnome Desktop running. > > > I have a few questions. > 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they

Re: Beginner Help

2006-06-15 Thread Joseph Smidt
1.) I think it is a permissions problem. Go into the administration section in the gnome menu and find user/groups. Click on it, type in the root password, then when it opens click on the user you like to edit. Edit that user and go to permissions, enable the permissions you want. 2.)I just po

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 15 June 2006 03:57, Daniel Johnson wrote: > On 5/1/06, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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/ > > > > > >DARomizer: > > >ht

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
anthony wrote: > > I am running Debian Etch Kernel 2.6.15-1-486 on an x22 thinkpad > > 'MPPE (Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption) support requires an additionnal > kernel module, provided by package kernel-patch-mppe or in linux kernel > version 2.6.15 and above.' > > The support should be buil

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Patrick Rittich
Kent West wrote: H.S. wrote: Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Nope, not me. Not firefox, but it works in mozilla with the m-player plug-in. -- Patrick Rittich -- To UNSU

Re: Hardware 3D Support

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
Max Velasques wrote: > > (II) I810(0): direct rendering: Enabled > > But the output of "$ glxinfo | grep rendering" is: > > direct rendering: No It seems that DRI for i810 is currently broken (something to do with the 2.6.16 kernel.) :-( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359328

Re: Strange cdrw behavior

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Patterson
Erm, The drive was toast. Apt-get install new drive fixed the problem. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Digby Tarvin wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed python

Re: occult nvidia kernel version skew

2006-06-15 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:25:58AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting my nvidia card working on kernel > > Where do I start to look for the 8756 stuff that it finds but I can't? > > Look for older versions of /usr/lib/lib{GL,GLcore,nvidia-tls}.so*, and > anything in /usr/

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/15/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: >I would take a look at the source for the 'ogginfo' command, or if >performance is not important, just parse its output: I am hoping for a pure python method of doing this, so parsing the output of ogginfo is not my prefered

native 32 bit binaries on amd64

2006-06-15 Thread edwardsa
While I understand that to keep a purely 64-bit environment some recommend that AMD64 users set up a chrooted environment, I would like to know: 1. The practical disadvantages of installing the ia-32 libraries to run, for example, open office 2. After I have installed the ia-32 libraries, h

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Michael Marsh wrote: On 6/15/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: >I would take a look at the source for the 'ogginfo' command, or if >performance is not important, just parse its output: I am hoping for a pure python method of doing this, so parsing the output of og

get no sound with xmms/xine

2006-06-15 Thread tom arnall
i'm trying to play a cd with xmms but get no sound. nor can i get sound with xine. as far as i can remember, the only change to the sys' which might be related is that i recently recompiled my kernel. also, when i run alsamixer i get: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such de

Re: native 32 bit binaries on amd64

2006-06-15 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Thursday 15 June 2006 19:18, edwardsa wrote: > While I understand that to keep a purely 64-bit environment to this concern, what about the lib32 installed on base-system amd64 etch installation? And what is their purpose? (X-system?) francesco pietra > some > recommend that AMD64 users set

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 07:59 -0700, Mike Hill wrote: > I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to > ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to > have Gnome Desktop running. [...] 3. How can I close down Gnome and start up KDE? > > Thanks for he

xserver-xorg detects graphics card?

2006-06-15 Thread tom arnall
i just installed xserver-xorg. the installer never asked if i wanted it to try to detect the graphics card. is this normal? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

don't like the fonts from xorg-xserver

2006-06-15 Thread tom arnall
i recently installed xorg-xserver on my debian box (kernel 2.6.16.4). I don't like the fonts. Is there anything I can do about this? Tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system (corrected)

2006-06-15 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:00 +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > > That has to do with what's in /etc/sudoers, I imagine. When > > I've gotten that error, it's meant that sudoers is > > configured to only let me run one or two commands. > > By default it's not configured t

Sound with ATI IXP150 AC'97

2006-06-15 Thread Nicolas Sabouret
Derek wrote : > You need to install alsa-oss Please let me be more precise : I installed alsa packages, including alsa-oss. The sound card works with some applications (like gcompris) but others (e.g. esd) don't. It appears that the system has no /dev/dsp or /dev/audio device (even after a MAKEDEV

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/15/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/Python$ ogg123.py --device=oss cues/MayTheWords.ogg Module choice: ao Playing cues/MayTheWords.ogg Traceback (most recent call last): File "./ogg123.py", line 221, in ? main() File "./ogg123.py", line 218, i

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John -
On (15/06/06 10:02), Patrick Rittich wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Patrick Rittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:02:27 -0700 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no >

Re: difference between .xinitrc and .xsession files

2006-06-15 Thread Derek
.xsession gets used by startx too.On 6/15/06, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Þann 2006-06-15, 11:54:02 (-0400) skrifaði Kamaraju Kusumanchi:> Is there any document/wiki which explains the file name conventions of the> various .[xX]* files in Debian system? In particular I am look

screen blank time setting

2006-06-15 Thread Ishwar Rattan
How can I set/change the scenn blan time under KDE-3.x? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
"H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips > (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on > Windows XP nor on Linux. > > Only IE played the clips in XP. This really sucks. Works here. Firefox and Mozilla (plugi

Re: Beginner Help

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 15 June 2006 11:58, Joseph Smidt wrote: > Note: press enter after each command.(I know this is obvious, but just > in case you are *really* a beginner) Also, you may have to reboot after > installing kde and kdm, I can't remember. I hope this works for you. Please dont post incorrec

Re: Wacom Mouse Saga - Yahoo! & Thanks

2006-06-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi, > > it seems that my wacom graphire4 works fine with both mouse and stylus > on etch/xorg7/i386. > > >I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 > >tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I

Re: selinux: audit2allow missing module

2006-06-15 Thread Bruno Costacurta
>> Hello, >> audit2allow (from package policycoreutils) returns the following error: >> >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/audit2allow", line 27, in ? >> import commands, sys, os, pwd, string, getopt, re, selinux >> ImportError: No module named selinux >> >> >> Where can I g

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:29:00 -0400 John - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (15/06/06 10:02), Patrick Rittich wrote: > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > From: Patrick Rittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox > > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:02:27 -0700 > > X

Re: Wacom Mouse Saga - Yahoo! & Thanks

2006-06-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I added wacom in the module section but this did nothing (lsmod always showed the module loaded). I changed from /dev/input/event0 to /dev/input/wacom and the mouse worked! I knew there was an entry wacom in /dev/input but it is a soft link to event2 so I never thought to try it. fine to know t

Re: emacspeak : stty problem

2006-06-15 Thread gustavo halperin
Thank you, I try the server "eflite". This server looks like the only one that work, but is OK. I have just another question, Do you know how to work with emacspeak together with "esd" ? I tried "esddps emacspeak" but this doesn't work, the only way to make the emacspeak work is first kill the e

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Katipo
Kent West wrote: H.S. wrote: Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Nope, not me. Noticed this in passing, which is probably the next best thing... http://blog.wired.com/monkey

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread H.S.
John - wrote: On (15/06/06 10:02), Patrick Rittich wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Patrick Rittich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:02:27 -0700 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps they require w32codecs from the Marillat repository. Could > Patrick and John (Fjellstad) confirm? Well, looking at the URL, it looks like a WMV file, so probably -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread Patrick Rittich
Liam O'Toole wrote: Has anybody been successful in playing FIFA video clips (http://fifa.yahoo.com) in Firefox? I couldn't, neither in Firefox on Windows XP nor on Linux. Nope, not me. Not firefox, but it works in mozilla with the m-player plug-in. Just works for me in Firefox: 2.6.16,

The right location for userdefined global config files?

2006-06-15 Thread Waldemar la Tendresse
Hi, following problem: Assume more than 1 user needs to have the same config for program . My idea was to create the "global" config file and symlink from the user's homedir to the "global" file. Is there something wrong about that and where would be the best place to put those "global" config fi

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John -
On (15/06/06 17:07), H.S. wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:07:53 -0400 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no > version=3.1.3 > >

Re: The right location for userdefined global config files?

2006-06-15 Thread Frank Blendinger
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Waldemar la Tendresse wrote: > Assume more than 1 user needs to have the same config for program > . My idea was to create the "global" config file and symlink from > the user's homedir to the "global" file. Is there something wrong about > that and where w

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