Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface (revisited)

Hello, maybe you remember this thread as of a few weeks ago. My problem is that the user interface font in OpenOffice is gargantuan when run under fvwm. However, during my recent experiments with gnome-desktop-environment (which also messed up my cursor theme, thanks for the update-alternatives t

Re: Internet Dial-up Connection Setting

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 23:20 -0800, Khurram Pirzada wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have somewhat different problem. I use Lucent Dual Chipset modem which is > on PCI > slot 1 (under XP) at COM3. Additionally I have Realtek RTL8139 family PCI Fast > Ethernet at NIC #1 & 2. > > Last night I installed

Re: Attracting newbies

Daniel B. said... > marc wrote: > > Daniel B. said... > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:27:40AM -, marc wrote: > ... > And the user can also provide their own CSS too, should they wish. > >> Right. But the reader shouldn't have to re-write a page's style sheet

Re: Internet Dial-up Connection Setting

Khurram Pirzada wrote: Hi everyone, I have somewhat different problem. I use Lucent Dual Chipset modem which is on PCI slot 1 (under XP) at COM3. Additionally I have Realtek RTL8139 family PCI Fast Ethernet at NIC #1 & 2. Last night I installed Debian and skipped to configure internet setting

(SOLVED) Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

Dan H. wrote: > So, again: Where does OO get its UI font ideas? Still gnawing my teeth on this problem I googled again, and found this snippet by Liam O'Toole. Ironically this had come up in the very thread I created, but must have got buried in the many other posts on this list (does anybody kno

Re: Woody on 486 problem

On 20.02.07 23:40, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:52:24 -0600 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > > ..write new bios code for old 386 irons to use todays new big ass > > > disks is trivial to you? > > > > Linux doesn't use the BIOS. You just ne

nvidia driver problem

hi folks, need some help on the strange behaviour on installing of one of the newest nvidia-drivers from their website for specific needs. 1. i installed etch from a daily build, 15/2/2007. 2. got the graphics working with the debian_vesa driver 3. downloaded the nvidia-instller from their we

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

Ron Johnson wrote: [...] I recently discovered the debian-goodies package, which has the *incredibly* useful app "checkrestart". Run it after you upgrade (and restart X) to see what is still using old file versions. Using kill or a slightly off-named script in /etc/init.d, you should be able ma

Re: Dosemu

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 13:26, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I hope this message reaches you; your own email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is bogus, and I myself do not subscribe to the list. Ken Heard wrote: [snip] Now we are gettin

Re: (SOLVED) Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:18:40 +0100 "Dan H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Still gnawing my teeth on this problem I googled again, and found this > snippet by Liam O'Toole. Ironically this had come up in the very > thread I created, but must have got buried in the many other posts on > this l

Re: (SOLVED) Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

Dan H. wrote: > Since I like to start my X sessions through $HOME/.xsession, I could put > a line or two in there that evaluates xdpyinfo and puts an appropriate > value into xrdb. Done: xdpyinfo | sed -rn \ 's/^[[:space:]]+resolution:[[:space:]]+([0-9]+).*/Xft.dpi: \1/p' \ | xrdb -merge

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.0515 +0100]: > ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] >devices=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] >devices=/dev/sda1 > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] >

Re: (SOLVED) Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

Dan H. wrote: >> What is the output of the following commands? >> >>xrdb -q | grep dpi >>xdpyinfo | grep resolution >> >> Do the two results differ? > > I tried it. Under fvwm, the first command gives no result at all, and > the second gives "85x86 dots per inch". In the gnome environment

Re: (SOLVED) Huge fonts in openoffice.org user interface

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 11:16 +0100, Dan H. wrote: > the gnome-session which is called right after this line > overrides the 85dpi value with its erroneous 96dpi. Well, fuck that. The DPI value can be adjusted in the preference menu for fonts in GNOME. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se

Re: nvidia driver problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: > > > hi folks, > > need some help on the strange behaviour on installing of one of the > newest nvidia-drivers from their website for specific needs. > 1. i installed etch from a daily build, 15/2/2007. > 2. got the graphics working wi

Re: Kontakt na inzerciu.

On 20.02.07 22:01, peter ing. wrote: > From: "peter ing." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:01:12 +0100 > Subject: Kontakt na inzerciu. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Inzercia zoznamenie č. 67198 > Môj počitač mi neotvorí kontakt "obalku", zrejme Linux, ako mi môžete

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:15:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > I found the answer to my own problem. I only had gcc installed; whereas > it seems that g++ was also needed for the configuration. It seems that > g++ and gcc are dependent on each other. man g++ man gcc -- Chris. == Don't forg

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:38:29PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: > >On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:55 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Ask me about the machine and the ping pong balls some time. Or the 12 billiard balls where one is lighter/heavier and all you have is a set of bala

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:09:32AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > hi all > i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its > backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. > > I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping people could > recommend spe

Re: Debian "Etch" OpenGL libraries

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/07 09:21, Srikanth Venigandla wrote: Hi, I am trying to install a software called Geant4 on my debian "Etch" installation of x86_64 architecture (intel EMT64). I figured out that OpenGL libraries installation is incomplet

Re: nvidia driver problem

Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: hi folks, need some help on the strange behaviour on installing of one of the newest nvidia-drivers from their website for specific needs. 1. i installed etch from a daily build, 15/2/2007. 2. got the graphics workin

look at log

The log suggests a number of things: 1. Is your compiler the same used to build the kernel? (If not, it's easier to build a kernel than to set up an older compiler.) 2. Do you have other modules currently loaded such as the nvidiafb or riva drivers? And then of course as already posted, you

Re: look at log

pinniped wrote: The log suggests a number of things: 1. Is your compiler the same used to build the kernel? (If not, it's easier to build a kernel than to set up an older compiler.) yes. the first time with a untainted 2.6.x debian kernel the nvidia-driver installs without a problem. the pr

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

Chris Bannister wrote: Or the 12 billiard balls where one is lighter/heavier and all you have is a set of balance scales. You have to find which one it is plus whether its lighter or heavier in 3 weighings. I think/hope its 3 :-) I see how to do it in 4. In fact, I found two ways. I haven't f

Re: nvidia driver problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: > > i did that several times. when i still had the > alien driver 'formally' *installed* in the kernel. i too replaced in > that configuration manually the native nv-driver "nv" with "nvidia" > without results. > after having *uninstall

Inconsistent sync rates on same Etch

Gnome logon screen does not sync with the Gnome's vertical refresh rate configured through Gnome Desktop preference(and is made default for my computer). As an alternative I also edited xorg.conf and used the refresh rate as mentioned by monitor's manual. Still GDM Logon screen uses something lowe

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

Clive Menzies wrote: > On (20/02/07 01:09), Karl Goetz wrote: >> hi all >> i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its >> backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. > > I put up some notes with references for some of this stuff: > http://clivemen

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:09:32AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: >> hi all >> i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its >> backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. >> >> >> cifs/smb > > The Samba documentation is adequat

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:09:32AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: >> hi all >> i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its >> backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. >> >> I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian

Kevin Mark writes: > You certainly are correct in that the wide paper left sufficient room to > make notes, etc. I'd use the side for comments and corrections and the > back for flow charts and such. Print in landscape mode on 11X17. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > The Samba documentation is adequate. There is also a Samba HOWTO at > > TLDP.org. > > > > Do you mean the documentation in teh samba packages? > I think it is split out to a seperate package, but ye

Re: Internet Dial-up Connection Setting

Nyizsnyik Ferenc writes: > It is to be created in /etc. Yes. > If you don't have any, create one in /etc/ppp, and a symlink in /etc > pointing to it. No. Don't do that. Just do 'touch /etc/resolv.conf' as root. > Basically it consists of two lines - the two nameservers you will use and > your

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

On (21/02/07 23:39), Karl Goetz wrote: > > http://clivemenzies.co.uk/help/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=8&id=33&Itemid=58 > > This url seems to be timing out for me. Working here OK. Try http://clivemenzies.co.uk go to Self Help > File server Regards Clive -- www.clivemen

Re: check superblock

pinniped wrote: > Make sure the RAID device is set to be 'persistent'. Also check > backwards through scripts to see where md2 might fail. pinniped: I've noticed the last week or two that you've done a tremendous job at providing answers to a lot of questions. Great work! However, might I sugge

HP a1540n

Good Morning, I am just wondering if anyone has had trouble installing Debian (sarge) onto a HP a1540n machine. I am looking for other users that have this system or similiar to it and have Debian ( or any distro of linux ) installed and fully operational. The main and first problem I ran into wa

Re: HP a1540n

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nu-Genoa wrote: > Good Morning, > > I am just wondering if anyone has had trouble installing Debian > (sarge) onto a HP a1540n machine. I am looking for other users that > have this system or similiar to it and have Debian ( or any distro of > linux )

Re: Second NIC won't play

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:18:41 + Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:23 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > I have to identical Intel 100mbit network cards in my workstation. Just > > one was plugged in and picked up DHCP when I installed, and configured > > itself a

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:47:06 -0800 "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > FreeBSD uses UFS (or UFS+ or UFS2, something like that) by default and > unfortunately there is no support for reading from or writing to that > file-system from Windows or Debian. You will be able to access your

Re: Woody on 486 problem

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:36:42 +0100 (CET) "Mirko Scurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Some people are still making money utilizing old pc-s. Some car testing > appliances are equipped with only serial connector which many current > notebooks are missing. They make serial to USB converter ca

Re: laptop network routing

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:04:34 +0100 Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for an application/script, which will do internal routing > for my laptop, and will dynamically choose the better network interface > to use. I.e., when I disconnect my NIC, it will continue my ongoing ssh >

Re: The success of an Etch

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:31:25 -0800 "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 18:56 +0100, Mikael Backman wrote: > > > Is there any way to get this CD-netinstaller onto a DVD? My computer > > boots DVDs only... > > > > It's possible to boot from the .iso on your hard disk.

Re: mixmaster mails sent, but not received by recipient

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:54:17 +0100 Niels Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using debian etch (testing) and mixmaster 3.0b2-3 > > When sending mails with mixmaster, the mails never reach their destination > mail address. > > I first run mixmaster-update --verbose, and then mixmaster. > >

Re: OT processes and cpu use

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:47:21 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Thanks for the suggestion. As I'm working with one machine I do > eliminate all processes I don't need, but I keep X, fluxbox, and a > terminal or two open so I can work on my thesis in emacs while I'm > waiting for

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:19:56 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:55:26 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/19/07 13:48, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:44:10 -

The Planet / Debian Install

I just ordered some new servers at The Planet (formally EV1) ... and asked about having Debian installed on my servers. They are saying that Debian is unsupported due to the following reason: "The latest release of Debian is out of date and doesn't work well with newer servers." Being new to Deb

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:34:36PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: The only reason you need to reboot is when the kernel is updated. Rebooting after a general upgrade will make no difference. Nonsense. It will kill your uptime---the true measure of one's geekiness :-)

Re: nvidia driver problem

Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: i did that several times. when i still had the alien driver 'formally' *installed* in the kernel. i too replaced in that configuration manually the native nv-driver "nv" with "nvidia" without results. afte

Re: Woody on 486 problem

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:38:24AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 20.02.07 23:40, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Yes. But in some cases (of motherboards) you'll have to turn off that disk > in the BIOS setup. I once had a BIOS that insisted on autodetecting each of my IDE drives before it

measuring CPU usage (was Re: nvidia driver problem)

steef wrote: LAST QUESTION: what package do i need to measure cpu-usage? (valgrind maybe??) I don't think valgrind is what you're after. "top" is a console program that does what you want (and is a required package in Debian), or there's gnome-system-manager (in package of the same name), an X

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

On 21 Feb 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >Or the 12 billiard balls where one is lighter/heavier and all you have > >is a set of balance scales. > > > >You have to find which one it is plus whether its lighter or heavier in > >3 weighings. > > > >I think/hope its 3 :-) > > I s

Re: measuring CPU usage (was Re: nvidia driver problem)

Jon Dowland wrote: steef wrote: LAST QUESTION: what package do i need to measure cpu-usage? (valgrind maybe??) I don't think valgrind is what you're after. "top" is a console program that does what you want (and is a required package in Debian), or there's gnome-system-manager (in package of

Re: measuring CPU usage (was Re: nvidia driver problem)

Jon Dowland wrote: steef wrote: LAST QUESTION: what package do i need to measure cpu-usage? (valgrind maybe??) I don't think valgrind is what you're after. "top" is a console program that does what you want (and is a required package in Debian), or there's gnome-system-manager (in package of

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete". Are you confusing the logical level (what the user al

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove - monolithic files not always bad

Steve Lamb wrote: ... And before we get into this again I only have to ask one question. If a single file is such a bad thing why is it MySQL (and other) databases don't store records per file but, instead, per table? You'd think the corruption problem would be just as bad for them. And y

Re: Does Tracker packages run in Sarge or Etch?

On 2/18/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Has anyone ever tried installing Tracker on Sarge? If so, is it a smooth install or does one has to backport some stuff, or does one need to install loads of stuff from Etch or Sid. Tracker is an desktop indexer (like Beagle), amon

Re: Tab-completion for file URLs in Firefox?

Eric Cooper wrote: > I recently switched from Galeon to Firefox^W Iceweasel. > > One thing I miss is the ability to navigate to a local file using > tab-completion, the same way you do in bash. For example, if I type > "file:///u" in the URL bar and then hit tab, Galeon expands this to > "file

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

Steve Lamb wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion and that delete- on-folder-change or delete-on-exit are prob

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

Freddy Freeloader wrote: ... ... Any message that has been deleted in Icedove/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey is recoverable, at least up until the time the folder is compacted or the Trash folder is emptied, from the Trash folder. After that happens then, no, the message is not recoverable. What is

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:24:45AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > How about, you have N bags of coins. Each bag has some number > of coins in it, each one has at least N coins. You know that > one of the bags has counterfeit coins in it, and you know that > the counterfeit coins each weigh one gram l

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

Am 2007-02-16 00:21:38, schrieb Siju George: > Hi, > > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above > 600GB? > I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64. > Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me know if i > should be careful in any area

Re: to get the kerntypes file

Am 2007-02-12 09:30:52, schrieb Eric Yin: > I need to use LKCD, so I need the kerntypes file. The Debain I used is > 2.6.8-2-686-smp which i installed 1 years ago(with the 2 DVDs). > when i installed the LKCD from the DVD, it tell me to install > kernel-package to get the kerntypes file. I instal

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

Am 2007-02-14 16:45:42, schrieb Chris Bannister: > That would be great! Would this be ok: > # Mailboxes which get new mail. > mailboxes `echo $HOME/.Maildir/*` No it would not since you have to setup: set folder=imaps://localhost mailboxes =INBOX \ =INBOX.IN-debian-user \ ... You need to creatr

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

Am 2007-02-17 03:29:31, schrieb Chris Bannister: > > Mutt can directly read Maildir folders? (I don't see why it > > shouldn't, but it just never occurred to me.) > > set mbox_type=Maildir This is only for writing! Mutt can read mbox, Maildir and MH without changes by default. > > Procmail? Y

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

Am 2007-02-16 12:35:44, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > That is more of a policy issue than a technical limitation. I think it > has more to do with Debian trying to adhere closely to the traditional > Unix philosophy. This is WHY I love Debian! ...and Debian should never go away from the philosop

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

Am 2007-02-14 22:32:43, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder > or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. Where is the problem? My INBOX.ML_debian.user/ has arround 18 Messages and my [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ environement 37. OH, cur

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

Am 2007-02-14 10:44:48, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > That depends on how you define usable. Word might handle a 25 page > document. The experience of many of my friends has been that big > documents (25 pages is not big) are a real pain Word. One friend of > mine did his thesis (350-400 pages)

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

Am 2007-02-16 09:30:36, schrieb Greg Folkert: > Not permanently and not in your normal.dot. At least *I* could never Hmmm, in the german and french versions it CAN be switched off. Maybe you have a special version of the DHS which correct US- American if they do not follow the party line. :-)) >

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

Am 2007-02-14 11:33:04, schrieb Greg Folkert: > Install Cygwin, its the only way to semi-fix it. ??? "bash.exe", "perl.exe" and "python.exe" can run definitivly in a DOS-Box since I use it for DJGPP . Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systema

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-15 20:14:07, schrieb John Hasler: > Ron Johnson writes: > > Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? > > Never ran Win95, but I remember when System III ran great in 1MB (and ran > ok in 256KB). Hmmm I remember in Solaris 2 running with 16 MByte I think Do not know anymore but was

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-15 21:19:26, schrieb Mike McCarty: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >So, what GUI do you use? > > Eh? With MSDOS? No gooey stuff in there! Maybe SEAL? But there are several other DOS-Desktops including my own one which has/had a scientific background and was coded using DJGPP. > >>If you want t

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-16 09:57:22, schrieb Ron Johnson: > > I have 16MB of RAM because that's the minimum configuration > > for that machine when I bought it. And, actually, I have > > used some of the extended RAM on occasion, with a disassembler > > (Sourcer) I used to run. I haven't run that in a long time

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-16 16:22:18, schrieb Mike McCarty: > Adding a few hundred megabytes of disc is not appealing to me, > especially since it can't be done. The smallest disc these > days is around 100 Gig. I wonder why it won't run on a 386? Even if Linux support ist, the HDD-Controlers on 386 can handel

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-16 21:47:05, schrieb Ron Johnson: > > ..you wanna google "2GB limit" "8.4GB limit", "137GB limit", those > > old 386 bioses covered those wee old disks waaay back then. > > I remember the 8.4GB & 137GB limits but not the 2GB limit. Must > have been too poor... Maybe 540 MByte Limit

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-17 22:23:25, schrieb Chris Bannister: > And I suppose when Vista has been out for a while (people wont have any > choice when they buy a new machine, unless they buy one without an OS) > 256M or even 512M will be considered old and we'll see questions like > "Will KDE run in 512M?" ROTF

Re: Debian on ancient machines

Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: > Two popular ones I know of are: > DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fact the > entire *.iso image is But he can run also to stay with Debian. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-17 11:51:56, schrieb Ron Johnson: > > Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running > > C600 with only 16MB??? I have an Athlon XP2400+ running with a PC2700/333 32 MByte Module All it must do is to track Radar-Signals and this from TDDOS32 running from a 16

Re: What happened to xen images for k7?

Am 2007-02-16 21:07:26, schrieb Paul Dwerryhouse: > > In Debian unstable, there previously was a Xen image package for AMD K7: > > linux-image-2.6.18-3-xen-k7 > > Now that 2.6.18-4 has come out, it has disappeared, and all that is left > is linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686, which crashes on my AMD m

Re: multicore gizmos

Am 2007-02-16 18:51:25, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > Granted, the cooling issues would be interesting. There are special CPU's with 64bit running with 300 MHz and have not more then 35°C... Space-Technologie! Maybe running a 256Bit 256-Core with 256-Threads/Core CPU on 100 MHz. :-) Greetings

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

Hello Russel, Am 2007-02-17 10:57:36, schrieb Russell L. Harris: > If you install the Debian TeXLive package, you should find that LaTeX > works as it formerly did in TeTeX. I am running TeTeX under Etch on > one i386 machine, and TeXLive under Etch on another i386 machine, and > I have not seen

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

Hello Unknown Admin, Am 2007-02-17 00:07:47, schrieb Admin: > BTW if anyone (I've seen a few Xen emails like the one where the AMD > package disappeared only to be replaced by a 686 based Xen package that > crashed) would like to set up a Debian Xen thread maybe we could help > one another as

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Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Actually, I'm serious about the utility of big line printers. The > > large print and *wide*, lined paper made it easy to step thru your > > program, making notes, side c

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Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:55:54 +0100, Joe wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:45:57 +0100, Joe wrote in message > > > >> Koqueror, the all-in-one file manager and browser, on the the other > >>

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 07:32, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.0515 +0100]: > > ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] > >devices=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 > > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] > >devi

Re: make-kpgp && git-bisect

Hi, On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:22:03 +0100, Frank Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I was able to build this package: > linux-image-2.6.18ebdea46fecae40c4d7effcd33f40918a37a1df4b_2.6-1.gitbisect_i386.deb > MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-3.4 HOSTCC=gcc-3.4" make-kpkg --append-to-version > ebdea46fecae40c4d7e

cannot find PDF file printed by cups

Hello, On Debian Testing, I have installed a cups-pdf virtual printer. Last time I check, last week, it was working okay. Today when I tried to print a web page, it seemed like the virtual printer worked, but the printed file was nowhere to be found (by default, it goes in ~/PDF directory).

Re: check superblock

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 04:35, pinniped wrote: > Make sure the RAID device is set to be 'persistent'. It seems they are: # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: [...] Persistence : Superblock is persistent [...] # mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: [...] Persistence : Superblock is persi

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:47:06PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Russel, > > Am 2007-02-17 10:57:36, schrieb Russell L. Harris: > > If you install the Debian TeXLive package, you should find that LaTeX > > works as it formerly did in TeTeX. I am running TeTeX under Etch on > > one i386 m

Re: Debian on ancient machines

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-16 03:55:36, schrieb pinniped: >> Two popular ones I know of are: >> DSL (damn small linux) which can be installed from a CD - in fact the >> entire *.iso image is > > But he can run also

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.1812 +0100]: > Those lines are the output of a command, mdadm --detail --scan So? :) Have a look at what /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf outputs. > The other set of similar lines which are the config in > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf are the only

hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

Earlier today I noticed these messages in /var/log/syslog: Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x00 { } Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete Dat

Re: nvidia driver problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > steef wrote: > i did that several times. when i still had the alien driver 'formally' *installed* in the kernel. i too replaced in that configuration manually the native nv-driver "nv" with "nvidia" >>

driver for graphiccard don't work correctly

Hello, i have new hardware in my pc. Therefore exists new problems. The graphiccard will not work correctly. HW: CPU:AMD Athlon64 4000+ Mainboard:Asus A8R-MVP HDD: 160GB SATA graficcard: Sapphire Radeon X1900GT (ATI) PCIe OS: Debian/Sarge actually using kernel 2.6.18.2-amd64 want to use kernel

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:26, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.1812 +0100]: > > Those lines are the output of a command, mdadm --detail --scan > > So? :) I can't modify the output of a command (unless I modify the sources of the com

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007 17:46 schrieb Michelle Konzack: > Am 2007-02-17 11:51:56, schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > Still, I have a old Celeron 600mhz with 16MB acting as a server running > > I have a P I (100mhz) with 64MB ram acting as a backupserver (tape), a P II (333mhz) with 256MB as a proxy,

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.1836 +0100]: > > > Those lines are the output of a command, mdadm --detail --scan > > > > So? :) > > I can't modify the output of a command (unless I modify the sources of the > command, of course). mdadm --detail is not what you u

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnt Karlsen wrote: >>> ..huh??? Both c-w and C-q works for me, both in kde and fluxbox, on >>> both Iceweasel and Konqueror. >> Perhaps you're running Sarge. If you've you're running Etch or newer, >> you're in for a surprise. Konqueror 3.5.5 does

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:43, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.1836 +0100]: > > > Have a look at what /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf outputs. > > > > There's no such file. I used apt-file to search for it and I've only got: > > Ah, you are s

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:48 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:47:06 -0800 > "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > FreeBSD uses UFS (or UFS+ or UFS2, something like that) by default and > > unfortunately there is no support for reading from or writing to that > > fi

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