Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
> > LAP:/# kill artsd > > -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs > > > Ken, you need further manual reading about processes "management". > man ps > man kill > man killall Which makes me wonder: what's the difference between killall and pkill? pkill is a better killall? it rem

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
If you are getting sound from that card using the cat, then I'm not sure you need the isa stuff as the card is working and the kernel is sending sound to it. Ken pointed to alsa site, where it is said that without an isa-pnp module the cards won't get properly configured. http://www.alsa-proj

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:46:10PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> I agree with you, but I can tell you why that is so. Most companies >> don't trust things that come for volunteer organizations. The attitude >> of many people i

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob wrote: > Hi, > How can I do this, the way I'd like it to work is > cat /var/log/dpkg.log > ./list > but filtering by date so it only includes packages installed after a > certain time (grep sed?) > > vi ./list > to delete lines for packages you wa

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
In view the fact that the first thing everybody advised me to do was to disable artsd. On examination I found out that artsd is a KDE creation which wants to monopolize all sound operations to the exclusion of all others, even others part of the KDE empire, such as KsCD and Kaffeine. noatun an

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-18 Thread Bob
Joe Hart wrote: Hash: SHA1 Bob wrote: Hi, How can I do this, the way I'd like it to work is cat /var/log/dpkg.log > ./list but filtering by date so it only includes packages installed after a certain time (grep sed?) vi ./list to delete lines for packages you want to keep (running kernel, le

Etch: KDM craches when krita starts. Which package to blame?

2007-03-18 Thread Vsevolod Krishchenko
I'm new here, so I'm sorry if anything wrong. I got problems with current Etch. Every time I'm trying to open/create any document in krita, kdm just crashes and then restarts! Krita is KOffice graphics editor. It happens with krita from Debian repositories and with krita from koffice's SVN too.

Re: Wine

2007-03-18 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Or if you run Sarge or Testing, grab the unstable deb-src and compile away... I friend of mine wants to run Dreamweaver, and I suggested wine. However he had some problems (which I don't remember, and my friend is not here right now). He runs Debian Unstable. So you guys are saying that the .

Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

2007-03-18 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
How can I change the locale of one/all running application(s) without restarting it/them? -- Masatran, R. Deepak pgpnttRU7zEXt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Vanilla kernel and third party driver difficulties

2007-03-18 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 10:09:50PM +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm running etch, and for the sake of my notebook's ACPI, I'm running > the the latest 2.6.21-rc4 kernel. There are some third party drivers > that I need, and since 2.6.21-rc3 module-assistant fails to compile any > of

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Hash: SHA1 >> Bob wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> How can I do this, the way I'd like it to work is >>> cat /var/log/dpkg.log > ./list >>> but filtering by date so it only includes packages installed after a >>> certain time (gr

Re: Wine

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> >> Or if you run Sarge or Testing, grab the unstable deb-src and >> compile away... > > I friend of mine wants to run Dreamweaver, and I suggested wine. However he > had some problems (which I don't remember,

Re: Debian's progress inspite of events (was Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike)

2007-03-18 Thread D G Teed
On 3/17/07, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A lot of hardware resellers are currently saying "Debian doesn't work on this hardware" but when you investigate it turns out that they heard that the default Sarge install does not support the SATA controller, and they don't care to find out mo

Re: A silly question about tar

2007-03-18 Thread Chanan Berler
i think it's best to use the find command - something like that find . -type f -name "*.tar.bz2" -exec tar xjf {} \; ps: try this first to check u get the filelist u wanted: find . -type f -name "*.tar.bz2" Adam Porter wrote: > > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the

foomatic-rip failed

2007-03-18 Thread Francesco Pietra
That is a recurrent story, though a problem when dropping in. With i386 etch/gnome $ lpstat - shows everything OK except printer idle and /usr/libs/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed and two jobs in queue (root) related to two unsuccessful test page print requests. Unable to delete these jobs. As u

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Ben Hmeda wrote: Marty wrote: A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I have disabled ipv6 in

Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, I'd like to prevent the motd from appearing when someone logs in via ssh on an Etch machine. I already have "PrintMotd no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but the motd still appears. Any clues? -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-18 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 10:27 +0100, Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: > Michael M. schrieb: > > So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the > > default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does > > update-alternatives report? > > Okay, I'm using Gnome and in the p

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

2007-03-18 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 10:40:12PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 16.03.07 09:13, Easthope wrote: > > I am trying to understand how SMTP uses ports. > > Ultimately I want it to work through a SSH tunnel. > > > > Normally SMTP uses port 25 but in some cases it uses 1025. > > in what cas

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Tobias Nissen
Marco De Vitis wrote: > I'd like to prevent the motd from appearing when someone logs in via > ssh on an Etch machine. > I already have "PrintMotd no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but the motd > still appears. Place the file .hushlogin into the homedir of the remote user. See the section FILES in "m

nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Tomasz Kaźmierczak
Hi. I'm willing to install the nvidia-glx package. I would like to install the package that is in experimental section but the package there depends on non-existent virtual package (nvidia-kernel-1.0.9746). Is it possible to install this package at all?? I know that the nvidia driver in version

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 05:30 -0700, Michael M. wrote: > If you make sure your alternatives settings are correct for > "x-www-browser" and "gnome-www-browser," and you still get the "I'm not > the default browser" message from Iceweasel, then I would guess that's a > bug. But as Joe said, you can ju

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-18, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ls -lt /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | awk -F"/" '{print $6}' | awk -F"." > '{print $1}' > list.txt > > will give you a list of packages in cronological order. That you can > then edit and feed to apt-get. Like I said, I don't know why you want

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 14:38:12 +0100, Tomek wrote: > Hi. > > I'm willing to install the nvidia-glx package. I would like to install the > package > that is in experimental section but the package there depends on non-existent > virtual package (nvidia-kernel-1.0.9746). > > Is it possible to in

search for vhdl graphical simulator

2007-03-18 Thread Jabka atu
Good evening; Im searching for a vhdlgraphical simultor (something like ktechlab). im using ghdl for now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dvd + xine = 100% CPU?

2007-03-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I play .avi files with xine and get about 17% CPU usage with them. I play a DVD with xine and the CPU shoots up to 97% and xine complains about missing frames. Is that normal? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

2007-03-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On 16.03.07 09:13, Easthope wrote: > > > I am trying to understand how SMTP uses ports. > > > Ultimately I want it to work through a SSH tunnel. > > > > > > Normally SMTP uses port 25 but in some cases it uses 1025. > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 10:40:12PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

2007-03-18 Thread s. keeling
Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > How can I change the locale of one/all running application(s) without > restarting it/them? Why would you think that possible? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling

Fwd: foomatic-rip failed

2007-03-18 Thread Francesco Pietra
In addition to below tests, I started gnome-cups-manager, getting # gnome-cups-manager (gnome-printer-view:12071): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 14:38:12 +0100, Tomek wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I'm willing to install the nvidia-glx package. I would like to install the >> package >> that is in experimental section but the package there depends on non-exi

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-03-18, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ls -lt /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | awk -F"/" '{print $6}' | awk -F"." >> '{print $1}' > list.txt >> >> will give you a list of packages in cronological order. That you can >>

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:01:39AM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:39:51AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:21AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > By the way, the command you gave me to reconfigure my X resolutions > > > didn't > > > w

Re: Shred Iterations

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 00:13, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no >> point in overwriting more than once. Is not >> >> sudo shred --iterations=

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:01:39AM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:39:51AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:21AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: >>> By the way, the command y

Re: Shred Iterations

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 00:08, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no > point in overwriting more than once. Is not > > sudo shred --iterations=1 --verbose /dev/sda > > sufficient? No. If i

ANSI art with X terminal emulator

2007-03-18 Thread Jeremy Cyrus
i am trying to run scrollz irc client in an xterm, with a colorful ansi art script loading that produces very eye catching graphics. (the reason i have always used scrollz for irc client). this is something that has always worked before, all i ever had to do was install the xfonts-dosemu package,

Re: Wine

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 04:45, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> >> Or if you run Sarge or Testing, grab the unstable deb-src and >> compile away... > > I friend of mine wants to run Dreamweaver, and I suggested wine. However he > had some problems (which

Re: Wine

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 02:47, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > > You would become a maintainer, and would have to interact with > the Wine developers. > > I do not volunteer for the job. I don't know who would. Ove Kaaven would. $ wajig show wine Package: wine Prio

Re: Wine

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/18/07 04:45, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >>> >>> Or if you run Sarge or Testing, grab the unstable deb-src and >>> compile away... >> I friend of mine wants to run Dreamweaver, and I suggested wine. However he >> had

user based package manager?

2007-03-18 Thread Jeff Zhang
Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with --prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an removing method if wanted latter. Is there some package manager that can be used for normal user under their home location? By which the software can be

Re: How to write such sudoers?

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Lale
Jeff Zhang wrote: On 3/18/07, *Andy Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:36:50PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote: >I want the user can execute commands through sudo with PASSWD and >NOPASSWD for some exceptional commands, like nmap.

Re: Installing Debian from a memory stick

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Lale
Bob wrote: andy wrote: Hi all A few weeks' back I asked for some ideas re: installing Debian on a laptop with a dodgy CD-R/W. I was wondering if I could do so using a USB memory stick and if anyone has tried this. My primary concern is in whether or not the BIOS will recognise the USB stick

Check for USB connections

2007-03-18 Thread Alejandro
Dear all, I have Debian Etch connected to a HP printer through an USB port but it is not recognized. A pair of months ago the printer worked perfectly, and I could see it using "lsusb" command. After that I disconnect the printer and now I connect it again to my Debian, but "lsusb" command doe

Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 10:48, Jeff Zhang wrote: > Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with > --prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an > removing method if wanted latter. > Is there some package manage

Re: Configuring Debian

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Lale
Keith Thompson wrote: Hello; I just downloaded and try the OS today. I got it installed correctly. I used the netinst.iso file. I get to the configuration screens until I get an apt source and CD-ROM, HTTP, FTP, and File System and manual. When I choose HTTP or FTP, I get no connection.

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Tomasz Kaźmierczak
Użytkownik Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 14:38:12 +0100, Tomek wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> I'm willing to install the nvidia-glx package. I would like to install the >>> package >>> that is in ex

Re: Wine

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/18/07 02:47, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> You would become a maintainer, and would have to interact with >> the Wine developers. > >> I do not volunteer for the job. I don't know who would. > > Ove Kaaven would. > > > $ w

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread A. Ben Hmeda
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Ben Hmeda wrote: Marty wrote: A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I have disabled ipv6 in /etc/aliases an

input/output error, looks bad!

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I have a very strange and ominous problem. After trying to exit from slrn, slrn spent a very long time writing the updates .jnewsrc file, eventually exiting with a disk full error. (I have multiple gigs of free space in / and /home). Following this I could not do anything - most commands were

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

2007-03-18 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
* Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-18 > How can I change the locale of one/all running application(s) without > restarting it/them? This is an important requirement for many users, especially non-English speakers. Perhaps some other OS already has this feature. Cannot this be implem

kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 won't boot

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
I upgraded my system today (etch) and when I rebooted this new kernel complained about running out of compressed data and that I needed to specify a correct root= parameter. Booting with kernel 2.6.17-4-k7 still works fine and it uses the same root= parameter. My hard drive is SATA. Is this a know

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread A. Ben Hmeda
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Ben Hmeda wrote: Marty wrote: A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS)

tar syntax and backing up

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my backup plan is doing what I think it's doing. I've got a full backup of all my important data in tar.gz files on my harddrive and burned onto cds. I want to backup ev

How to chmod files in my web server

2007-03-18 Thread Jordi
Hello I have a web server in my PC. I need to chmod the files correctly so I don't have a security risk. I am using a CMS for the website. I have full access to my pc, as it is in my house, and I can manipulate it through keyboard, so I have no problem to change the chmod to the most restrictive

Re: Check for USB connections

2007-03-18 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 12:55 -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Dear all, I have Debian Etch connected to a HP printer through an USB > port but it is not recognized. A pair of months ago the printer worked > perfectly, and I could see it using "lsusb" command. After that I > disconnect the printer and n

Re: kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 won't boot

2007-03-18 Thread Vasil Benov
Hi, I have experienced the same problem. If you have a SATA harddrive you should specify root=/dev/sda1(or whatever device number and partition you boot from) On kenrel update the installer overwrites the values for (root=) nad puts there /dev/hd... Hope this helps Regards, Vasil On 3/18/

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 10:53, Tomasz Kaźmierczak wrote: [snip] > > Joe. > I'm aware of the new version and I think the 9476 will be ok for me. > Besides I'm tired of reinstallng the drivers using the nvidia-installer every > time > I update my kernel or mesa li

Multipath / Multirouting

2007-03-18 Thread alanrr
I am little confunsing now... In /boot/config-(lastest debian kernel, 2.6.18-7) I have this following configs: CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RR=m CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RANDOM=m CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_W

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread Marty
A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have an Internet router for sharing cable Internet connection. 3 PCs plugged into this router, class C network, I think. All with static IPs 192.168.1.2,3 and 4. Gateway (router) is 192.168.1.1 DNS is my ISP's 64.71.255.198 I am using 100Mb Ethernet and 10/100Mb router. M

Re: My sound card!!!

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Lale
Joe Hart wrote: [...] Unfortunately, you didn't tell us which version of Debian you were using, so I am guessing that you chose the current stable version, Sarge. Debian 4.0 (etch) can easily recognize that soundcard during boot, and automatically set it up. It is also possible that you have mo

Re: Check for USB connections

2007-03-18 Thread Alejandro
Matthew K Poer wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 12:55 -0300, Alejandro wrote: Dear all, I have Debian Etch connected to a HP printer through an USB port but it is not recognized. A pair of months ago the printer worked perfectly, and I could see it using "lsusb" command. After that I disconnec

Re: Sound stopped working after upgrade.

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Dams wrote: Dear Ye Fei and others, I just ran 'alsaconf' but this does not help. Still no sound. :-( Just a thought: perhaps your motherboard has integrated sound and you want to use a PCI sound card? Make sure that the device you configure in Alsaconf is the one you have your spe

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By way of "serious debugging", I am using the newsgroup gate way for this > message with a Tyler-style sig. > > -- > Regards, > > Thomas Jollans Thanks all for your help with this. Just for the sake of completeness I will try adding an

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

2007-03-18 Thread John Hasler
Masatran, R. Deepak writes: > This is an important requirement for many users, especially non-English > speakers. When would a user need to change the locale of a running program? > Cannot this be implemented, by the desktop environment sending some > message to the application? Only if the appl

Re: kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 won't boot [SOLVED]

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:38:13PM +0200, Vasil Benov wrote: > Hi, > > I have experienced the same problem. If you have a SATA harddrive > you should specify root=/dev/sda1(or whatever device number and partition > you boot from) > > On kenrel update the installer overwrites the values for (root=

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 18/03/2007 14:20, Tobias Nissen wrote: Place the file .hushlogin into the homedir of the remote user. Uhm, thanks, it works, but I'd prefer doing it "the right way"... Infact, this file is used to suppress motd (and last login) output when motd is enabled in sshd_config, but in my case it

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:39:48 + (GMT) > Thanks all for your help with this. Just for the sake of completeness > I will try adding an extra '.' after my name. If that doesn't work my > only option may be to legally change my name to Tyle Smit. Sorry

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Lale
Ken Heard wrote: [...] "I consequently installed four packages which had sdl in the name: libsdl1.2debian, libsdl1.2debian-alsa, libsdl-net1.2 and libsdl-sound1.2. I tried to purge these packages, but aptitude wanted to remove a whole series of other packages including grub and icedove. [...

Re: Installing Debian from a memory stick

2007-03-18 Thread jeff
On 3/17/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all A few weeks' back I asked for some ideas re: installing Debian on a laptop with a dodgy CD-R/W. I was wondering if I could do so using a USB memory stick and if anyone has tried this. My primary concern is in whether or not the BIOS will recogn

wine or VM

2007-03-18 Thread Bernd.Kloss
Etch 2.6.18-3-k7 KDE 3.5 Hello, we used to run programs on WIN98SE, Win2000 and XP using for instance QUICKTIME or being programmed in Pascal using graphics. Some people are using powerpoint-presentations and WINWORD-Textfiles. Both with problems since StarOffice 8 PP5 is not transferring every

Re: input/output error, looks bad!

2007-03-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I have a very strange and ominous problem. After trying to exit from slrn, slrn spent a very long time writing the updates .jnewsrc file, eventually exiting with a disk full error. (I have multiple gigs of free space in / and /home). Following this I could not do anything

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 18 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm aware of the new version and I think the 9476 will be ok for me. > Besides I'm tired of reinstallng the drivers using the nvidia-installer > every time I update my kernel or mesa libs (eg. when I update mesa > development packages, which are r

Re: Strange problem with iceweasel, google, and nytimes

2007-03-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul E Condon wrote: I use iceweasel for web browsing. A few weeks ago I noticed that I could no longer scroll up and down in nytimes web pages using the up and down arrow keys. I tried lots of things, and finally found a correlation: The problem starts after I visit www.google.com . (For a lon

Re: wine or VM

2007-03-18 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
we used to run programs on WIN98SE, Win2000 and XP using for instance QUICKTIME or being programmed in Pascal using graphics. Some people are using powerpoint-presentations and WINWORD-Textfiles. Both with problems since StarOffice 8 PP5 is not transferring everything exactly. So some of those pe

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Ben Hmeda wrote: [snip] > I have been using Linux as my main os since Caldera, then > RedHat 5.2 in 1999, I used Mandrake (3 versions) and FC1, FC2, Potato, > Sarge, FC 4/5. I found that this Debian variant (Ubuntu) is the only > version under which

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:06:15 -0500, Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:08:02AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:27:28 -0500 > > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Except that the security measures (for baggage) a

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Tobias Nissen
Marco De Vitis wrote: >> Place the file .hushlogin into the homedir of the remote user. > > Uhm, thanks, it works, but I'd prefer doing it "the right way"... If you use pam (grep UsePAM /etc/ssh/sshd_config) then you might want to disable printing of the motd in /etc/pam.d/ssh. Look for a line li

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
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Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/18/07 10:53, Tomasz Kaýmierczak wrote: > [snip] >> Joe. >> I'm aware of the new version and I think the 9476 will be ok for me. >> Besides I'm tired of reinstallng the drivers using the nvidia-installer >> every time >> I up

Re: How to chmod files in my web server

2007-03-18 Thread Wei Chen
On 18 Mar 2007 09:16:35 -0700, Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I have a web server in my PC. I need to chmod the files correctly so I don't have a security risk. I am using a CMS for the website. I have full access to my pc, as it is in my house, and I can manipulate it through keyboard

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:15, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:39:48 + (GMT) > > > Thanks all for your help with this. Just for the sake of completeness > > I will try adding an extra '.' after my name. If that doesn't work my

Re: input/output error, looks bad!

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-18, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and what this show? > > /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/ > I didn't have smartctl installed. I just installed it now, and the output of smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda is pasted below. I'm not sure how to use this tool yet, but from what

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/19/07, Marco De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 18/03/2007 14:20, Tobias Nissen wrote: > Place the file .hushlogin into the homedir of the remote user. Uhm, thanks, it works, but I'd prefer doing it "the right way"... Infact, this file is used to suppress motd (and last login) output

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 12:57, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/18/07 10:53, Tomasz Kaýmierczak wrote: [snip] >>> Joe. I'm aware of the new version and I think the 9476 will >>> be ok for me. Besides I'm tired of reinstallng the drivers >>> using the

Reply to list (was: Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails))

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Scott
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Michael. You don’t need another client since Thunderbird/Icedove has an extension[0] which enables you to reply to list only. I’m using it for a long time now. Don’t worry about the patch mentioned on the site, it’s already in Debian’s Thunderbird/Icedove package[1].

how to get gaim-sound working within KDE?

2007-03-18 Thread Ralph Plawetzki
Dear list, I would like to ask for some information on how to get gaim-sound working within KDE. ALSA ist configured correctly (alsaconf) and sound works in KDE but not for gaim. When I hit the "test sound" button in the settings sceen of gaim, nothing happens. Volume is turned up. "How do I

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-18, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's really weird though Frank, is that Tyler has put a "." at the end of > his name, and his name now shows as Tyler Smith, but the dot isn't there. The > last character he types isn't being recognised. > > Tyler. can you send something

Re: Strange problem with iceweasel, google, and nytimes [solved???]

2007-03-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:42:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >I use iceweasel for web browsing. A few weeks ago I noticed that I > >could no longer scroll up and down in nytimes web pages using the up > >and down arrow keys. I tried lots of things, and finally found a

Strange problem with iceweasel, google, and nytimes

2007-03-18 Thread gromit
I use kde and in kcontrol, in the window for gtk style and fonts I have the possibility to install a firefox scrollbar fix. I don't know if this would help you as I have never had a problem (possibly because I installed that fix). Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Reply to list

2007-03-18 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Paul. Paul Scott, 18.03.2007 19:35: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >> You don’t need another client since Thunderbird/Icedove has an >> extension[0] >> which enables you to reply to list only. I’m using it for a long time >> now. Don’t >> worry about the patch mentioned on the site, it’s already i

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Marco De Vitis wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to prevent the motd from appearing when someone logs in via ssh > on an Etch machine. > I already have "PrintMotd no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but the motd > still appears. > > Any clues? > My guess is that the motd is getting printed from some other thing

Re: Reply to list

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 13:35, Paul Scott wrote: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Hello Michael. >> You don’t need another client since Thunderbird/Icedove has an >> extension[0] >> which enables you to reply to list only. I’m using it for a long time >> now. Don’t >>

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/18/07 12:57, Joe Hart wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/18/07 10:53, Tomasz Kaýmierczak wrote: [snip] Joe. I'm aware of the new version and I think the 9476 will be ok for me. Besides I'm tired of reinstallng t

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 13:36, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-03-18, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What's really weird though Frank, is that Tyler has put a "." at the end of >> his name, and his name now shows as Tyler Smith, but the dot isn't there.

Re: Reply to list

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Paul. > > Paul Scott, 18.03.2007 19:35: >> Mathias Brodala wrote: >>> You don’t need another client since Thunderbird/Icedove has an >>> extension[0] >>> which enables you to reply to list only. I’m using it for a long t

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 18 March 2007 19:36, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-03-18, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's really weird though Frank, is that Tyler has put a "." at the end > > of his name, and his name now shows as Tyler Smith, but the dot isn't > > there. The last character he types isn

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:20:01PM -0400, A. Ben Hmeda wrote: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > >Joe Hart wrote: Ben, I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do gnome. Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome, start a download and get poor network components bu

Re: Gnome Power Manager + Debian Sid: does not recognize battery state and notification symbol not shown

2007-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:52:26 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But battery state is not recognized. It says always "running on AC > > > Power" and no battery symbol is displayed. > > > > > > Can someone please help or verify this behavio

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread Thilo Six
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:24: > Ben, > I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do > gnome. > > Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome, start a > download and get poor network components but if you do a gnome network > setup

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:52:11 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei writes: > > The tools are useful for common stuff that should be preserved across > > upgrades. It would be a PITA to do them again (by hand) every time. > > Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. Yes, but if

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