Re: KWorld TV878 TV Tuner problem

2006-06-28 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Thanks Daniel and Bruno for replying. I was beginning to think that no one was going to reply. On 6/28/06, Daniel wrote: > Now the problem is that tvtime only shows me the last channel I viewed > under WindowsXP. Other than that no other frequency is detected. If you can see the picture, the

fujitsu siemens amilo pro v3205

2006-06-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, does anyone have this notebook with debian installed? i am planning to buy a new notebook that is as small as possible, however i am rather limited with price. this one seems reasonable. would you recommend buying it for use with linux? it is built on intel/centrino so i presume the

Re: Debian server support

2006-06-28 Thread ZeroUno
Kevin Mark ha scritto: more modern CPU (maybe a dual cpu) and such. If you are not monitoring your useage, it would be a good way to determine if you need a new machine. The current server actually satisfies our current needs, it's not overloaded. But we are in one of those times when the com

Why date command don't use my time zone ?

2006-06-28 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
Hello, I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris. I've logout/login and call date command : date Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006 date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris. How can I fix that ? Thanks for your help --Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Debian package of the day

2006-06-28 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 04:17 pm, Lance Simmons wrote: > * Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060623 16:49]: > > Looks cool...how about an RSS feed? :) I could stand to learn > I second the request for an RSS feed. That's pretty much the only > way I ever read websites any more. A feed is def

Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

2006-06-28 Thread John Miller
KLEIN Stéphane wrote: > Hello, > > I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris. > > I've logout/login and call date command : > > date > Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006 > > date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris. > > How can I fix that ? > > Thanks for your help > --Stéphane > > H

Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

2006-06-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:27:25 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: >Hello, > >I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris. > >I've logout/login and call date command : > >date >Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006 > >date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris. > >How can I fix that ? What's yo

Re: Debian server support

2006-06-28 Thread Anthony Walters
Thanks, this brings some relief. The problem is that, when searching for info about a server machine offered by the reseller, I'm a bit scared to find out that only binary downloads for a restricted range of operating systems are available... this happened with an IBM machine, and now I'm look

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-06-28 Thread Willie Wonka
Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:22:08PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > Stop! You need to read documentation on apt-get and aptitude before you go > any further in changing your system. There are situations in which following > piecemeal advice, as you are getting in prior post, w

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-06-28 Thread Willie Wonka
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-06-27, 02:38:46 (-0700) skrifaði Willie Wonka: > > So obviously I'm still at v6.1, rather than 6.6 (the one I want) > Yes, I misunderstood you in your original posting, I thought you were > using the testing distribution in your sources.list file but you

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

2006-06-28 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El mar, 27-06-2006 a las 18:01 +0300, David Baron escribió: > > 1. Is Xen mainly for sharing multiple operating systems running together, > > or are there some other really interesting uses? > > Xen is an advanced virtual machine. You can run one version of linux or such > inside your installed

Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

2006-06-28 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
Magnus Therning a écrit : On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:27:25 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: Hello, I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris. I've logout/login and call date command : date Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006 date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris. How can I f

Re: Partitioning an FTP server

2006-06-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.06.06 13:03, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > I tend to do this... this is assuming that users will have their home > folders in /home ;) > > / --> 512 MB > /boot --> 256 MB > /usr --> 2 GB > /var --> 2 GB > /var/log --> 2 GB > /tmp --> 1 GB >

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

2006-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:31:21PM -0400, Bill Jones wrote: > On 6/25/06, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:39:13AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote: > >> > >> HTH > >> -- > >> WC (Bill) Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/ > > >Hmmm gmail does do p

Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

2006-06-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:21:51 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: >Magnus Therning a écrit : >>On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:27:25 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris. >>> >>>I've logout/login and call date command : >>> >>>date >>>Wed Jun

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

2006-06-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
How about aptitude search ~iapt showing all installed packages with substring "apt" in their name? Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

2006-06-28 Thread S Scharf
I had always installed the NVIDIA driver by downloading from NVIDIA.Thinking it would be easier to maintain to use the .deb package I found the Testing package requires the 2.6.16 kernel, but the currenttesting kernel is 2.6.15?Am I missing something?

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

2006-06-28 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:23:30PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > How about > aptitude search ~iapt > showing all installed packages with substring "apt" in their name? Now that is way cool. Thanks ! -- Regards Stephen

Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
S Scharf wrote: > I had always installed the NVIDIA driver by downloading from NVIDIA. > > Thinking it would be easier to maintain to use the .deb package I > found the Testing package requires the 2.6.16 kernel, but the current > testing kernel is 2.6.15? > > Am I missing something? There does

Re: strange kde behaviour... bad use of backports?

2006-06-28 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi Bruno; Do you want make a downgrade in your control center??? Deinstall this package, remove backports in your sources and reinstall control center. Gilberto On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:17:17 -0300 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > This is debian sarge. > I added backports to my sou

Re: Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
>> Are they "better" or equivalent? Probably updated with Xorg changes, etc. >> which is better. However, the manufacturer must also know what they are >> doing? >Files inside are exactly the same, except maybe cases where certain >modifications are needed to make them work in Debian. OK. Folk

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 09:48, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > El mar, 27-06-2006 a las 18:01 +0300, David Baron escribió: > > > 1. Is Xen mainly for sharing multiple operating systems running > > > together, or are there some other really interesting uses? > > > > Xen is an advanced virtual machine. Yo

Re: creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-28 Thread Kit Peters
Checkinstall doesn't really seem to be what I'm looking for.  However, I did have good luck with this article that Monsieur Pilon linked: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336 On 6/27/06, Roberto Sanchez < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Kit Peters wrote:> I have a need to create my own .debs

Re: Gimp: No Printer in File Menu - Thanks

2006-06-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:22:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2006. június 27. 20:30, > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > Gimp 2.2 has forgotten that I have a printer. Actually I have two both > > defined in Cups and working from a console, from Xsane and fro

Re: creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-28 Thread Kit Peters
A brief note about what I'm doing - I'm installing Debian on a couple of boxes and putting them into "kiosk mode" via Jim Massey's twm-kiosk package (http://kiosk.mozdev.org/twm-kiosk.html ).  Originally, I had wanted to wrap up my "kiosk mode" Firefox in a deb, and probably do the same for twm-kio

Re: HP Printer and Pre-Rendering

2006-06-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mike McCarty wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> >>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:23:13AM -0500, Mike McCarty >>> wrote: >>> >>> My girlfriend uses Debian (on my recommendation, though I use Fedora Core), and we've hit a li

Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

2006-06-28 Thread S Scharf
On 6/28/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: S Scharf wrote:> I had always installed the NVIDIA driver by downloading from NVIDIA.>> Thinking it would be easier to maintain to use the .deb package I> found the Testing package requires the 2.6.16 kernel, but the current> testing kernel is

force stable package if avail

2006-06-28 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Hello all, Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... Example: I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if possible Is there a way I can tell apt t

Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

2006-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 05:01, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le mardi 27 juin 2006 à 10:42 +0200, Arnau a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > >I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to > > install a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although > > it's usable, now I'd

Re: HP Printer and Pre-Rendering

2006-06-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: My girlfriend uses Debian (on my recommendation, though I use Fedora Core), and we've hit a little snag. It turns out that for some of the applications, her HP printer prints raw PostScript. Which applications / which files? I posted about a simil

Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed using the Beta 1 net install. They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then. On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off of the 'Appli

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
David Baron wrote: > OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card? Probably the normal (the non-legacy) driver packages. > ( compile my own kernels so the 2.6 kernel meta-stuff is probably not > appropriate since I always have full source. Still leaves a lot of differe

Re: force stable package if avail

2006-06-28 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:23:47AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > Hello all, > > Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing > is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... > > Example: > > I need sun

Re: marillat

2006-06-28 Thread W Paul Mills
Marty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Pietra wrote: Is deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed It's changed to deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main Has anyone gotte

Re: force stable package if avail

2006-06-28 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:23:47 -0400 "Jean-Sebastien Pilon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way I can tell apt to use stable and only testing and > unstable when package not in stable ??? Just an add-on to previous post, some info on apt pinning: http://wiki.serios.net/wiki/Apt-Pinning_on_

RE: force stable package if avail

2006-06-28 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Sorry did not see previous post about this. That means a good bet would be: !? Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 500 > -Original Message- > From: Dimitar Vukman [mail

Re: Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:34:30PM +0100, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. > > One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed > using the Beta 1 net install. > > They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then. Are y

Grub question?

2006-06-28 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I am thinking of installing debian on partition /dev/sda6 (on a SATA hard disk). Grub menu entry for root partition: will/should it be (hd0,5) or (sd0,5)? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: force stable package if avail

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/28/06, Jean-Sebastien Pilon <> wrote: Hello all, Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... Example: I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if

Re: Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:34:30PM +0100, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. > > One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed > using the Beta 1 net install. > > They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then. > > O

Re: Grub question?

2006-06-28 Thread Lothar Braun
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:11 -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I am thinking of installing debian on partition /dev/sda6 > (on a SATA hard disk). Grub menu entry for root partition: > > will/should it be (hd0,5) or (sd0,5)? It is (hd0,5). Grub uses hd for all hard drives. -- Lothar -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Debian package of the day

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:52:51AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 04:17 pm, Lance Simmons wrote: > > * Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060623 16:49]: > > > Looks cool...how about an RSS feed? :) I could stand to learn > > I second the request for an RSS feed. That's p

Re: Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/28/06, Andrew Sackville-West <> wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:34:30PM +0100, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. > > One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed > using the Beta 1 net install. > > They have both been dist-u

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:59:29PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:11:51AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote: > > On 6/27/06, Chase James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the > > >release notes. When attempting

Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed using the Beta 1 net install. They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then. On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off of the 'Appli

Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
I see. The legacy drivers actually are in Testing. These are meant for older (legacy) cards, and may not work with new ones. This is a sort of transitional driver, as a new version (already released, but not yet in Debian) does not work with anything but legacy cards by design. The pre-built modu

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:04:22AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > the admins can catch it before it gets out of hand and kill the > offending process(es). Please allow me to illustrate: > thanks for a great little explanation of swapping and what it means. A signature.asc Description: Digital s

Re: Slow Konsole GUI

2006-06-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 20:06:43 +0100, David wrote: > Hi > > I'm running Etch AMD64 with KDE. > > Recently my Konsole has started to run very slowly when anything to do > with the GUI is concerned eg. when openning a new konsole (about 15 > seconds), openning a new shell within konsole (about te

Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

2006-06-28 Thread S Scharf
On 6/28/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...The pre-built modules of normal driver are also in Testing, as they arebuilt from different source. They are, however, useless without user space components, such as "nvidia-glx".Which gets me back to my origional question. The NVIDIA driver

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
David Baron wrote: > Qemu is a fairly simple virtualizer. Since a virtual machine sport differing > "hardware" (emulated) than the real one, running off a real filesystem is > kind of dangerous. Feeding qemu the real thing is rejected. It will play off > diskettes and live CDs. QEMU can run of

Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
S Scharf wrote: > The pre-built modules of normal driver are also in Testing, as they are >> built from different source. They are, however, useless without user >> space components, such as "nvidia-glx". > > Which gets me back to my origional question. The NVIDIA driver in Testing > requires a di

Is apt-file working in Testing ?

2006-06-28 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Hello, Today I tried to use apt-file, I made a apt-file update, I got no output of the command. And when I try to make a search I get no answer. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search stdio.h [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Best regards, Sergio -- "Meine Hoffnung soll mich leiten Durch die Tage ohne Dich U

Re: KWorld TV878 TV Tuner problem

2006-06-28 Thread Bruno Buys
It might sound strange, but bttv is a little stupid when guessing what card/chip is installed. If 5 is definately good, maybe card=78 isn´t. My card is =37, and even so, when I tweak it to other values, some functionality still works. There are values that don´t change much, actually. Try to test o

X default fonts

2006-06-28 Thread Derek Martin
Hi Folks, What I did: I'm using the debian installer to do an automated install of a bunch of workstations. We have various users who speak non-English languages, so I installed every font package I could. Problem: I myself speak Korean (albeit badly). After installing all the fonts, two unde

Re: X default fonts

2006-06-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:46:45PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > I'm using the debian installer to do an automated install of a bunch > of workstations. We have various users who speak non-English > languages, so I installed every font package I could. > > Problem: > > I myself speak Korean

gnome difficulties

2006-06-28 Thread edwardsa
A few days ago the gnome panel and nautilus lost significant functionality. I'm running AMD64 debian. When I log in, the gnome pane appears, but does not become populated with icons. It blinks several times and then I get a variety of similar behaviors. Either: 1. I get a message the nautilus

xmgrace partly broken under debian

2006-06-28 Thread edwardsa
I'm running amd64 debian. Xmgrace does not allow me to enter text in the Filter area of the Read sets window. This is true under both KDE and gnome. Because I have not updated xmgrace in a very long time, and because it has been working well for as long as I have had it (many years), this seems

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:05:33PM +0300, Linas ??virblis wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > > Qemu is a fairly simple virtualizer. Since a virtual machine sport > > differing > > "hardware" (emulated) than the real one, running off a real filesystem is > > kind of dangerous. Feeding qemu the real

OT : need advice on bluebottle

2006-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
The online bluebottle forum ( http://forums.bluebottle.com/ ) requires me to register for a bluebottle address before posting anything. However, I do not want to register with their service without knowing answers to some questions. Can we subscribe to mailing lists like debian-user using blueb

Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

2006-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 13:24, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > Hello, > > Today I tried to use apt-file, I made a apt-file update, I got no > output of the command. And when I try to make a search I get no > answer. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search stdio.h > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Have you

Re: xmgrace partly broken under debian

2006-06-28 Thread edwardsa
Thanks for the response. Here is the output of the command >ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xmgrace libXmHTML.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXmHTML.so.1 (0x2ada3731d000) libXm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXm.so.2 (0x2ada374b2000) libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x2ada3773b000)

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread Wulfy
Linas Žvirblis wrote: David Baron wrote: OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card? Probably the normal (the non-legacy) driver packages. Are there debs for the *legacy* driver? I couldn't find one when I was looking. I need the 7167 driver for my TNT2

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
> David Baron wrote: > > OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card? > > Probably the normal (the non-legacy) driver packages. > > > ( compile my own kernels so the 2.6 kernel meta-stuff is probably not > > appropriate since I always have full source. Still leaves a lot

Problem reconginzing package...

2006-06-28 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I'm having some trouble installing a package. I think I might be totally missing something here, but I can't figure it out. I thought I'd ask for some help. I'm trying to get Subclipse to work in Eclipse with a local repository. To do this I need to have the latest version of the libsvn-javahl De

Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

2006-06-28 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
On 6/28/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you tried running sudo apt-file update before doing the search? Yes -- "Meine Hoffnung soll mich leiten Durch die Tage ohne Dich Und die Liebe soll mich tragen Wenn der Schmerz die Hoffnung bricht" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian server support

2006-06-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:00:27AM +, ZeroUno wrote: > Kevin Mark ha scritto: > That's why I'm here. > Being sure about this, based only on vendor and official web site > informations, is not possible. They simply tell you that they are sure > their stuff works fine with RH etc., and that t

Customizing Key-strokes for Flightgear

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
Ones defaulted are not convenient. All for controlling the flight and the view should be single keystrokes on one hand, leaving the other free for the mouse (stick). Shifted, alted, etc., should only be for switch things. Is there a way I can set up my own? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread James Westby
On (28/06/06 21:48), David Baron wrote: > Then installed the nvidia-glx. > > Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the > xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is updated. > Reinstalled the nvidia run meanwhile. dpkg -L nvidia-glx should

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
James Westby wrote: >> Then installed the nvidia-glx. Did the package install cleanly or were there any errors? >> Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the >> xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is >> updated. >> Reinstalled the nvid

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I've followed this thread a bit and maybe you all can help me. I've > got a winxp partition that I have to boot into only occaisionally to > get some archived data from an old quickbooks file. Can I > use one of these solutions to do that? QEMU can run WinXP, althou

Re: trouble installing tomcat - javac cannot compile [SOLVED]

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Jones
On 6/28/06, Jean-Sebastien Pilon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The following packages solved my problem. I am happy for you =) One day I hope list management software would do what posters should do -- trim the posting to something with relevancy... -- WC (Bill) Jones -- http://youve-reached-t

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Wulfy wrote: > Are there debs for the *legacy* driver? Only for 7174. > I need the 7167 driver for my TNT2 card. I've been using the > .run file from nVidia and am having problems with the latest updated > 2.6.8(-3-686) (sarge) kernel. It won't seem to compile for it and wants > to remove the

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread Katipo
Linas Žvirblis wrote: Wulfy wrote: Are there debs for the *legacy* driver? Only for 7174. I need the 7167 driver for my TNT2 card. I've been using the .run file from nVidia and am having problems with the latest updated 2.6.8(-3-686) (sarge) kernel. It won't seem to compile fo

How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

2006-06-28 Thread Søren Christensen
Hi, On my new computer I'm trying to set up my Audigy LS SoundBlaster soundcard. I have run alsaconf several times, chosing the snd-ca0106 drivermodule. Alsaconf has found these cards: hda-intel Intel Corporation 8210G ca0106 Creative Labs SB Audigy LS legacy Probe legacy ISA (non-Pn

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 22:34, James Westby wrote: > On (28/06/06 21:48), David Baron wrote: > > Then installed the nvidia-glx. > > > > Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the > > xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is > > updated. Rein

coreldraw for linux

2006-06-28 Thread Han
Hi Is a coreldraw package for debian or is there anything close enough to it in Linux, please dont say Gimp because the two are very different. Please help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

2006-06-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:24:39 -0500 "Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Today I tried to use apt-file, I made a apt-file update, I got no > output of the command. And when I try to make a search I get no > answer. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search stdio.h > [EMA

[Fwd: WAN+LAN+WLAN configuration?]

2006-06-28 Thread Svante Signell
Forwarded Message > From: Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: WAN+LAN+WLAN configuration? > Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:39:46 +0200 > > Dear Debian-users > > I'm hoping for some pointers or help on how to set up a combined

Re: coreldraw for linux

2006-06-28 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Han wrote: > Is a coreldraw package for debian or is there anything close enough to > it in Linux, please dont say Gimp because the two are very different. Try inkscape, skencil, sodipodi, synfig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: OT : need advice on bluebottle

2006-06-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:25:01PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > The online bluebottle forum ( http://forums.bluebottle.com/ ) requires me to > register for a bluebottle address before posting anything. However, I do not > want to register with their service without knowing answers to some

Re: Problem reconginzing package...

2006-06-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:28:18AM -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I'm having some trouble installing a package. I think I might be > totally missing something here, but I can't figure it out. I thought > I'd ask for some help. > > I'm trying to get Subclipse to work in Eclipse with a local > r

Re: OT : need advice on bluebottle

2006-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 16:58, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi raju, > I think since you are getting lots of spam with the google BETA gmail > service, you should give them 'a few words' of what is lacking in their > service as a beta tester. We have the BTS, and our users. Google should > know what its

Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

2006-06-28 Thread Simon
Kernel 2.6.8-12-em64t-p4-smp On 6/28/06, Hemlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:07:02 +1200, Simon wrote > Hi There, > > Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of > what is going on here? > > This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'st

hw_random module cannot be loaded

2006-06-28 Thread Malcolm E. Jordan
I cannot load the hw-random module. Can anyone give me advice on what to do. Thanks I am running a standalone desktop Debian system ,version 2.4.27-2-386, stable 3.1 release (Sarge) on the following machine: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1500Hz stepping 07 Intell corp 82850 850 (Tehama) chipset 500 MB ram

Re: marillat

2006-06-28 Thread W Paul Mills
W Paul Mills wrote: Marty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Pietra wrote: Is deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed It's changed to deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch ma

Re: marillat

2006-06-28 Thread Marty
W Paul Mills wrote: Similar problems with aptitude. Email to Marillat got back answer of "Not my problem." Not very helpfull. Paul I eventually solved the problem and posted the resolution in another thread:: From - Sat Jun 24 23:48:26 2006 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 0080

keyboard preference freezing gnome

2006-06-28 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, Since an upgrade a little while ago, everytime I try to make a modification in the keyboard preferences, gnome freezes. So far, I have no clue why and I have to constantly change my keyboard layout to switch between English and French for my work. There is only one thing I have found and

Why Debian3.1 is slower so much than FreeBSD6.1 in our test?

2006-06-28 Thread Leo Huang
Hi, I benchmarked MySQL 4.1.18 on FreeBSD 6.1 and Debian 3.1 using Super Smack 1.3 some days ago. The benchmark table is CREATE TABLE `Account` ( `aid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `name` char(20) NOT NULL default '', `flag` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', `uidcount` int(11) NOT NULL default

Re: Partitioning an FTP server

2006-06-28 Thread charles norwood
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:28 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 26.06.06 13:03, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > > I tend to do this... this is assuming that users will have their home > > folders in /home ;) > > > > / --> 512 MB > > /boot --> 256 MB > > /usr

Re: Installation: Use SPACEBAR to select "Desktop Environment", not just the enter key.

2006-06-28 Thread charles norwood
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 21:23 +0100, James Westby wrote: > On (26/06/06 10:52), Chuck Pergiel wrote: > > June 26, 2006 > > When you get to the package selection screen, it appears that once again > > there is a "select one item from a list", and the default selection is > > highlighted. Nowhere does

setting camera parameters from Linux

2006-06-28 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have been digikam recently to grab photos from Canon A520 and it has been working wonderfully. This is on Debian Etch. I was wondering, is there any application in Linux that will allow me to set parameters in a digital camera? e.g. owner name, date and time, etc. Thanks, ->HS --

Enable smtp mail server

2006-06-28 Thread T
Hi, Why my postfix smtp server is not receiving connections? $ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. How can I enable it? Details: I installed my postfix using the option "Internet site using smarthost". th

Re: Enable smtp mail server

2006-06-28 Thread Mihira Fernando
T wrote: Hi, Why my postfix smtp server is not receiving connections? $ telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. How can I enable it? Check your Syslog and mail.log. They'll tell you why postfix isnt up and r

Re: How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

2006-06-28 Thread steef
Søren Christensen wrote: Hi, On my new computer I'm trying to set up my Audigy LS SoundBlaster soundcard. I have run alsaconf several times, chosing the snd-ca0106 drivermodule. Alsaconf has found these cards: hda-intel Intel Corporation 8210G ca0106 Creative Labs SB Audigy LS legacy

TV application

2006-06-28 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey List, Can any of you recommend some good TV applications for my Debian Sid Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop please? I have a broad band internet access with the averager rate of 250 KB/s . I can get a long list by doing apt-cache search TV but before I trying any of them I would like to hear what yo

Re: Debian package of the day

2006-06-28 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 09:30 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > you could probably, IMHO, ignore just about any i18n package. > Likewise you could probably ignore any lib* package as well. Or even Yeah, I'm going to set it to ignore all i18n packages, as well as all -dbg, -dev, -doc, etc. I'm

Re: TV application

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:31:46PM +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: > Can any of you recommend some good TV applications for my Debian Sid > Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop please? tvtime is probably the best of the TV applications that I've tested. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse