Re: sid: nVidia fails with x.org

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/07 10:21, Paul Johnson wrote: > Since the latest sid upgrade, I haven't been able to make use of the nvidia > drivers. Here's the x.org output: > > xauth: creating new authority file /home/baloo/.serverauth.30719 > > X Window System Versio

Re: Re: Irresponsible user stories!

"Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: > Did you end up figuring out who this person is, or not? I never did other than the fact that he probably goes by the name of Jon. I would really need to have access to the logs to determine who logged in at that lab by that name. Otherwise it woul

[OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2007, 02:46 -0500 schrieb Gnu_Raiz: [Snipped Horrorstory] > Oh if > your curious about what University I attend it's the University of > Memphis, not that it makes any difference. Is this typical for US-universities? 3 out of the 3 (german) universities I have attended w

Re: Debian User List

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:38:34 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Paul, > > Nah, the kids these days think MLs are old hat and frumpy compared > > to web forums. > No, kids are lazy and don't want to learn how to research, or do the Maybe, but why then, do they faff around logging

Re: Unix-ify File Names

Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck wrote: >> Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Frank Terbeck wrote: Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] >>> For example, Emacs' tags files use commas as delimiters, and (last I >>> knew) don't have an escape/encoding mechansim for represe

Re: sid: nVidia fails with x.org

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/07 10:21, Paul Johnson wrote: Since the latest sid upgrade, I haven't been able to make use of the nvidia drivers. Here's the x.org output: xauth: creating new authority file /home/baloo/.serverauth.30719 X Window Sys

plextor px-230a Err in debian installation

Hi I have a plextor CD Writer on my PC , after booting from CD writer and running setup checks , debian throws an error that says can not find the CD ROM device while it`s booting from this device ! what` s the problem? thanks - Ahhh...imagining that irres

Re: sid: nVidia fails with x.org

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/07 10:21, Paul Johnson wrote: Since the latest sid upgrade, I haven't been able to make use of the nvidia drivers. Here's the x.org output: xauth: creating new authority file /home/baloo/.serve

hosed etch upgrade

Hi, I had a system which had been running updates from test (ie. etch) for a while and when etch was formally released like an idiot decided I could do the final upgrade without reading the upgrade documents... Result: I rebooted before having upgraded the kernel (I'm on 2.6.8-2-686) and so

Default soundcard with alsa

Hi, I have two soundcards, but after each reboot the built-in gets default, so after every reboot i have to run alsaconf, and select correct soundcard. How i can have my second card to be primary after every reboot? I suspect alsaconf doesn't write something correctly, but i don't get any error

problem with debmirror on etch: Release signature does not verify.

Hi there, I am having a problem with debmirror on etch: It used to work, but now it fails to download files properly Package: debmirror Version: 20060907.1 Debian Release: 4.0 Here is /etc/debmirror.conf: # /etc/debmirror.conf # Output options $verbose=1; $progres

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:28:56AM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2007, 02:46 -0500 schrieb Gnu_Raiz: > > [Snipped Horrorstory] > > > Oh if > > your curious about what University I attend it's the University of > > Memphis, not that it makes any difference. > > Is this

Re: hosed etch upgrade

Given the mess I've now reached, decided the easiest thing is to do a full install of etch from scratch and restore data from backup... please ignore previous message... Graham Graham Seaman wrote: Hi, I had a system which had been running updates from test (ie. etch) for a while and when e

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

On 2007-04-24, Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this typical for US-universities? > 3 out of the 3 (german) universities I have attended were running > *nix-system for their students/stuff. > > Looks like "old Europe" is leading here? > 3 out of 3 Canadian Universities I have att

Re: hosed etch upgrade

Hi Graham, sorry for your troubles. Graham Seaman wrote: > Given the mess I've now reached, decided the easiest thing is to do a > full install of etch from scratch and restore data from backup... please > ignore previous message... > > Graham > > Graham Seaman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had a syste

dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

Hi all, I'm trying to get my head around package building with Debian, coming from my earlier experiences with RPMs. One technique which I found quite good with RPMs was the ability to create a tarball that *included* the necessary .spec file, and then just typing "rpmbuild -ta mytarball.tar.bz2"

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

"Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > But then again, each generation has it's faults. Just look at the 60s! Hey, watch it, bub; the '60s were the ideal time what with all the head-banging the police were doing. No, really, at least back then we were socially conscious. Cybe R. Wizard --

Re: Irresponsible user stories!

Gnu_Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Oh if > your curious about what University I attend it's the University of > Memphis, not that it makes any difference. Ah, the old Memphis State University. As I recall their only good department was the drama Dept. Hey, they did, "HAIR!," back in the lat

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

* Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Apr 24 03:33 -0500]: > Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2007, 02:46 -0500 schrieb Gnu_Raiz: > > [Snipped Horrorstory] > > > Oh if > > your curious about what University I attend it's the University of > > Memphis, not that it makes any difference. > > Is this

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:45:48AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > This isn't typical at all; I went to SUNYIT two weeks ago to check it > out (I submitted an application, haven't heard yet though) and most of > their PCs run either FreeBSD or Gentoo Linux. The non-computer science > PCs run Window

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:26:46AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > But then again, each generation has it's faults. Just look at the 60s! > > Hey, watch it, bub; the '60s were the ideal time what with all the > head-banging the police were doing. No,

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:43:41AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:45:48AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > This isn't typical at all; I went to SUNYIT two weeks ago to check it > > out (I submitted an application, haven't heard yet though) and most of > > their PCs run eith

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:24:35AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > At work we have a bunch of NFS servers. The servers provide the home > directories for all the employees client machines. > > Most of the employees mount their home dirs manually, but some are > mounted using scripts. Employe

RE: Newbie Aptitude Question about Security Updates

Now that's what I needed to hear. You are the first to mention an "orange asterisk" !! ... I suppose Groucho could also have said "Well if you don't like our first answer ... we have others" :O) So is there some place on the Gnome desktop that I can click on to get positive feedback that all the cu

Re: sid: nVidia fails with x.org

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/07 10:21, Paul Johnson wrote: Since the latest sid upgrade, I haven't been able to make use of the nvidia drivers. Here's the x.org output: xauth: creating new authority file /home/baloo/.serverauth.30719 X Window Sys

Re: Default soundcard with alsa

Hi, I have two soundcards, but after each reboot the built-in gets default, so after every reboot i have to run alsaconf, and select correct soundcard. How i can have my second card to be primary after every reboot? I suspect alsaconf doesn't write something correctly, but i don't get any error

Etch / ThinkPad 600E / D-Link DFE-690TXD

Sarge worked beautifully with my "mobile server" ala ThinkPad 600E and a PCCard D-Link DFE-690TXD. Unfortunately Etch (clean install) fails to detect the card... it warns of no NIC being detected. So is the trusty old TP 600E's card slots deemed too old to support, or is the D-Link card the pr

Re: Default soundcard with alsa

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:21:01PM +0300, Atis wrote: > Hi, > > I have two soundcards, but after each reboot the built-in gets > default, so after every reboot i have to run alsaconf, and select > correct soundcard. > > How i can have my second card to be primary after every reboot? I > suspect a

Re: Help with NTFS & FAT32

Please don't send confirmation requests to thousands of users of mailing lists! This will put you in suspicion of being a spammer fishing for valid e-mail addresses. Thanks, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Apr 24 03:33 -0500]: >> Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2007, 02:46 -0500 schrieb Gnu_Raiz: >> >> [Snipped Horrorstory] >> >>> Oh if >>> your curious about what University I attend it's the Uni

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:26:46AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: >> "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> But then again, each generation has it's faults. Just look at the 60s! >> Hey, watch it, bub; the '60s were the i

RE: Newbie Aptitude Question about Security Updates

Found it !!! Desktop -> Administation -> Update Manager and yes the check shows that all is good ... :O) -Original Message- From: Jan Sneep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 24, 2007 8:15 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Newbie Aptitude Question about Security Updates

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / D-Link DFE-690TXD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Lueck wrote: > Sarge worked beautifully with my "mobile server" ala ThinkPad 600E and a > PCCard D-Link DFE-690TXD. Unfortunately Etch (clean install) fails to > detect the card... it warns of no NIC being detected. > > So is the trusty old TP

Re: iceweasel and javascripts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi Bartleby. > > BartlebyScrivener, 24.04.2007 03:34: >> Using Debian Etch and iceweasel, I have a problem with my banking >> site. Some of the search options do not appear. When I hover over >> buttons, the status line says:

Re: reiserfs to ext3

Kushal Kumaran wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 4/4/07, Johannes Wiedersich >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If you have enough disk space to accomodate your data *without* >> > compression

Re: reiserfs to ext3

S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > My system now runing on reiserfs partation, i want to make it ext3 without > reinstalling debian. any idea ? The Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO probably provides the best method. You will need someplace to p

Re: GPL v3?

Curt Howland wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:24, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> Joe writes: >> > Agreed, but how else can one do it if congress is unwilling to >> > make a new law or repeal an existing o

Re: security for a home system

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:23:00AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: >> >> > If I have two boxes, with two users

Re: reiserfs to ext3

S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On 4/4/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> If you have enough disk space to accomodate your data *without* >> compression you could do the following: >> >> - boot a 'rescue system'

Re: xkb options

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:44:26 -0400 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Say, you are like myself fluent in English, Spanish, and French. > > Occasionally, you will need to enter text in any one of these three > languages. > > You have a US keyboard that doesn't have the relevant mappin

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:59:56AM -0700, John Pye wrote: > Hi all, > > So: assuming I have complete control over what is in my tarball, what > is the neatest, tidiest and safest way to set up and run an > actual .deb build? > Since you mention subversion in the subject line, you want svn-buildpa

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / D-Link DFE-690TXD

Matthew K Poer wrote: I was having this problem on my 600. Try booting with acpi=off kernel flag. ACPI for some reason conflicts with the pcmcia/cardbus module/s, at least in the 2.6.x kernel on etch. Where should I set that kernel flag? I maintained Lilo as the loader as that is what my produc

More Nvidia Problems

After accidently losing the (proprietory) kernel module, I rebuild it with their .run program (after having downgraded a lot of stuff to the lib6c from stable/testing since the Sid one produced unrunnable results). 1. Kicks about its own libnvidiatls files. It puts them there. 2. I can no longe

UUID vs /dev

I noticed that ubuntu 7.04 switched to the UUID method for drives/partitions identification in fstab. I heard rumors that debian will soon do the same (or already does). Even with google I couldn't find any *impartial* comparison of the two methods for identifying hardware. Since it seems to be wh

Re: Debian User List

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:37:41 -0400 "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I completely agree with this; If I wasn't bound to always have to > monitor my battery life and wireless signal graphically (Because I'm on > a laptop) I'd probably be using Ion3 or wmii instead of Window Make

laptop harddrive noise

I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy consumption mobo and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives. The low energy consumption was my priority because I want to leave the machine on 24x7. However these are the first 2.5 inch harddrives I've ever had and they (or at lea

Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

I'm the guy that recently dd'd hda (40GB) to hdb (160GB) and then put the larger drive in the first position, making it now the new hda. I knew I would then be using only 40GB of the 160GB HDD. I thought it would be easy to enlarge the 40GB root partition, but this newbie is having trouble wit

Re: Debian User List

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:11:41AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:37:41 -0400 > "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > I completely agree with this; If I wasn't bound to always have to > > monitor my battery life and wireless signal graphically (Because I'm o

Re: UUID vs /dev

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:03:13PM +0200, Andrea S. Gozzi wrote: > I noticed that ubuntu 7.04 switched to the UUID method for > drives/partitions identification in fstab. > I heard rumors that debian will soon do the same (or already does). > > Even with google I couldn't find any *impartial* comp

Re: iceweasel and javascripts

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:05:15 -0400 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mathias Brodala wrote: > > Hi Bartleby. > > > > BartlebyScrivener, 24.04.2007 03:34: > >> Using Debian Etch and iceweasel, I have a problem with my banking > >> site

Re: Linux/Debian documentation suggestion

Am 2007-04-17 20:25:34, schrieb Glenn Moeller-Holst: > Hi NG Mailinglist! > Purposes: > *When "I" is in the catalog "/var/log" - what commands can I use here? 1) What is "I"? 2) /vat/log is what it is. A log directory. > *Which commands is occluded by others at "/var/log"? ??? > *If I deinsta

Re: Debian User List

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:27:07 -0400 "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:11:41AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:37:41 -0400 > > "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > I completely agree with this; If I wasn't boun

Re: More Nvidia Problems

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:14:26 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ideas or must we wait until Sid finally gets straightened out? We'll be waiting a long time ;-) -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Irresponsible user stories!

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:39:40 -0400 "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:26:02PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On 4/23/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:25:20PM -0500, Gnu_Raiz wrote: > > >> > > >> [ Snip Story ] > > >>

Re: oddity in apt-cache

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:45:12 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I think many people would not like it if apt-cache no longer found the > > local packages, custom kernels, etc. If a package is still installed > > then its information is included in apt's package

Re: files in /var/tmp

Am 2007-04-16 10:45:24, schrieb Daniel B.: > Why would you need to erase the disk like that? Because the D-I create only new blocks and some special designed viruses may find there Data via a block count? And yes, we have tried soch things and it works! Under Linux as under Windows So you need a

Re: AVM B1 not recognized with 2.6.18-4-k7 (etch)

Hallo Klaus, weil keiner antwortete: Vieleicht hilfts. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/

Re: iceweasel and javascripts

On Apr 24, 12:00 am, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so if something does not work > you either misconfigured your browser or the specific site just sucks. > Well, so I would have thought. But then why does Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP have no problems rendering the site, but icewe

Re: laptop harddrive noise

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: > I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy > consumption mobo and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives. > > The low energy consumption was my priority because I want to leave the > machine on 24x7. However th

Re: Unable to make a bootable CD from the image files.

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:50:05 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stray1984 wrote: > > I am having a big problem. I am trying to start with Linux for the first > > time. I know nothing about the system, but this is not yet the pro

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:34:17 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > Michael Pobega wrote: > >> Oh, and the point of this mail is that I too fall into the "Young" > >> group, seeing as I'm seventeen. While most of m

Re: More Nvidia Problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:14:26 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Any ideas or must we wait until Sid finally gets straightened out? > > We'll be waiting a long time ;-) > Just because you gave me this opportuni

Re: iceweasel and javascripts

BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Apr 24, 12:00 am, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so if something does not work you either misconfigured your browser or the specific site just sucks. Well, so I would have thought. But then why does Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP have no problems rende

Re: iceweasel and javascripts

I've had similar problems with the gentoo version ('bon echo') on dumb sites which recognise browsers by name, instead of testing for javascript capabilities. The fix was to install the User Agent Switcher plugin and tell the site you're anything but what you really are (IE7 seems to be a re

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > I can't access the site, since I don't have a flash extension > installed. See what not enabling flash can gain! I'm on a PowerPC laptop. Flash isn't an option for me. :P - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove

Re: iceweasel and javascripts

BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Apr 24, 12:00 am, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so if something does not work you either misconfigured your browser or the specific site just sucks. Well, so I would have thought. But then why does Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP have no problems rende

Re: no USB mouse in Etch

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:20:12 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> Any ideas what might be wrong? > > What is the output of > > ls -l /dev/input/by-id/ There is no such a device. > > Do you see output (codes) scrolling by if you run (as root) > > cat /dev/input/mice | hd > > and you move the

Re: AVM B1 not recognized with 2.6.18-4-k7 (etch)

Michelle Konzack wrote: Hallo Klaus, weil keiner antwortete: Vieleicht hilfts. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant Hallo Michelle, vielen Dank, aber die "Basic" U

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

John Pye wrote: > So: assuming I have complete control over what is in my tarball, what > is the neatest, tidiest and safest way to set up and run an > actual .deb build? > First you need to debianize the tar ball using dh_make. If it is already debianized, you can build the packages using dpk

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:59:56AM -0700, John Pye wrote: > I'm trying to get my head around package building with Debian, coming > from my earlier experiences with RPMs. Welcome to Debian! > One technique which I found quite good with RPMs was the ability to > create a tarball that *included* th

Re: xkb options

* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070424 08:42]: > I understand that. I'm actually currently using dvorak7m to teach > myself touch typing using the dvorak keymapping, and I'm using an > ordinary qwerty keyboard. I switch back and forth with 'setxkbmap > dvorak' / 'setxkbmap us. ... > I really need t

When USB Harddisk connected, nothing happens

Hi, When i connect my Maxtor OneTouch 500GB III EXT3 , dmesg says there is a new device connected: Apr 21 21:31:12 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using address 2 What happens then is a mistry for me: 1. When i run top: id = 100% load 2. System load goes up exactly to 2.0

Re: Default soundcard with alsa

On April 24, 2007 07:21:01 am Atis wrote: > Hi, > > I have two soundcards, but after each reboot the built-in gets > default, so after every reboot i have to run alsaconf, and select > correct soundcard. > > How i can have my second card to be primary after every reboot? I > suspect alsaconf doesn'

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Celejar wrote: >> I can't access the site, since I don't have a flash extension >> installed. See what not enabling flash can gain! > > I'm on a PowerPC laptop. Flash isn't an option for me. :P > Yes, that's why people should

Re: iceweasel and javascripts

bs writes: > But then why does Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP have no problems > rendering the site, but iceweasel 2.0.0.3 on Etch cannot seem to render > it? Same settings as near as I can tell. Doesn't Firefox on XP have access to Microsoft DLLs? As someone else mentioned, there may also be a us

Configuration of a Powerbook G4

Hi everybody, I am a new user so please forgive me if I ask you silly questions in poor english. I have a problem after installing Debian 4.0 on my Powerbook G4 (you can find in this link all the specs http://support.apple.com/specs/powerbook/PowerBook_G4_12-inch_DVI.html), as Xserver does not

Re: When USB Harddisk connected, nothing happens

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars de Bruin wrote: > Hi, > > When i connect my Maxtor OneTouch 500GB III EXT3 , dmesg says there is a > new device connected: > Apr 21 21:31:12 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device > using address 2 > What happens then is a mistry fo

Re: UUID vs /dev

Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:03:13PM +0200, Andrea S. Gozzi wrote: I noticed that ubuntu 7.04 switched to the UUID method for drives/partitions identification in fstab. I heard rumors that debian will soon do the same (or already does). Even with google I couldn't find any *

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / D-Link DFE-690TXD

Michael Lueck wrote: Where should I set that kernel flag? Never mind, I found the spot. First, to test it out, I edited /etc/lilo.conf adding an append="acpi=off" line. That indeed worked. So I reinstalled booting the Etch CD with options: expert acpi=off Installation went smoothly, and /e

Re: UUID vs /dev

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: [snip] >> >> I think UUID is used because it is better to use UUID to recognize the >> drives than /dev. For example, if you're trying to have your USB drive >> automount to /mnt/usb, you'd use something like

Re: laptop harddrive noise

Joe Hart on 24/04/07 15:51, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy consumption mobo and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives. The low energy consumption was my priority because I want to leave the machine on 24x7. However these are the first 2

Re: cups and samba stop working after upgrade to etch

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 19:48:49 -0400, Bill Shofner wrote: > On 04/23/2007 05:58:06 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> One more thing to try is to get rid of samba completely: >> >> aptitude --purge-unused purge samba samba-common smbclient >> webmin-samba smbldap-tools > > L550r:/home/bill# apt

Re: UUID vs /dev

Joe Hart wrote the following on 24.04.2007 18:28: > I can understand the usage of UUID on removable drives, but it seems the > new way of dealing with *all* disks is UUID. Why this needs to be so > for normal hard drives remains a mystery to me. First I had used the LABEL in fstab even before

Re: When USB Harddisk connected, nothing happens

Hello Lars, Lars de Bruin wrote: > When i connect my Maxtor OneTouch 500GB III EXT3 , dmesg says there is a > new device connected: > Apr 21 21:31:12 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device > using address 2 > What happens then is a mistry for me: > 1. When i run top: id = 100% load >

Re: Irresponsible user stories!

Celejar wrote: > I don't think that protecting Windows machines with firewalls and > shutting down services is particularly difficult. But maybe more difficult than aptitude install ;-) The point in this particular case is, that this computer lab apparently does not apply security patches regula

Network Bandwidth Sniffer

Is there a program that I can install on Debian that will identify every other node on the network and report in real time (or even in summary) how much bandwidth each node is using? Thanks, Mark L. Mark Bruffey Director Library Services Central Baptist Theological Seminary 900 Forestview Lane N

Re: laptop harddrive noise

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Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

Michael Dominok wrote: > [Snipped Horrorstory (by Gnu Raiz)] > Gnu Raiz wrote: > > Oh if your curious about what University I attend it's > > the University of Memphis, not that it makes any > > difference. > > Is this typical for US-universities? *Sigh*...it certainly is at mine. Almost all the l

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:59:56AM -0700, John Pye wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get my head around package building with Debian, coming > from my earlier experiences with RPMs. two bits: the debian-mentors mailing list and website (google will f

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this typical for US-universities? > 3 out of the 3 (german) universities I have attended were running > *nix-system for their students/stuff. > > Looks like "old Europe" is leading here? Well, I only attended on US college, but Santa Clara U always

Re: UUID vs /dev

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:28:24PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > I can understand the usage of UUID on removable drives, but it seems the > new way of dealing with *all* disks is UUID. Why this needs to be so > for norm

Re: Irresponsible user stories!

"Cybe R. Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: >Ah, the old Memphis State University. As I recall their only good >department was the drama Dept. Hey, they did, "HAIR!," back in the >late '60s. It comes as no surprise that they are Windows-only and >probably don't even know Windows very well. >G

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, John L Fjellstad wrote: Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is this typical for US-universities? 3 out of the 3 (german) universities I have attended were running *nix-system for their students/stuff. Looks like "old Europe" is leading here? Well, I only attende

Re: texlive document source files

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:19:13 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm confused as to how to install source files for use with > texlive. I'm editing a multifile document, and I want to use a .bst > file to format the bibliography. It works if I put this file in the > same directory as the docum

Re: Debian User List

"Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I completely agree with this; If I wasn't bound to always > have to monitor my battery life and wireless signal > graphically (Because I'm on a laptop) I'd probably be > using Ion3 or wmii instead of Window Maker. Hmm, you know, I think that both of th

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:10:48 -0400 Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S.: They start the MS training early. When I was in high >school, they offered classes on how to become >"Microsoft Office Certified" or some such nonsense. This is because Microsoft donates millions

Re: no USB mouse in Etch

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 14:48:42 +, Tim Frink wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:20:12 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >> > >> Any ideas what might be wrong? > > > > What is the output of > > > > ls -l /dev/input/by-id/ > > There is no such a device. /dev/input/by-id/ should be a directory o

Re: Disable ipv4 fragmentation

None of the lists you've sent this to are appropriate forums for this question; redirecting to debian-user. On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:39:53PM +, J HU wrote: > Dear experts, > I'm working with sockets in a debian with a version of kernel 2.6.x, and > I'd like to disable the fragmentation of

Re: libXfont.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Init_FreeType

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:48:36 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello, > > After upgrade to Debian release 4.0 I suffer some problems, the big one is > that the connection to X server be come lost if I call to: Eterm or to xpdf > or to ida. > The are no message in no place, the only message I g

Re: Since chvt works, the problem must be the keymap

Since chvt works, is there any way to make chvt a command that is accessible by a normal user such as myself so that I could bind it to a key with xbindkeys (for those of you just tuning in, I can't seem to switch to a VT from X with the standard Control-Alt- keybindings), but can using chvt as roo

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