Install Vmware player on debian unstable.

2007-05-22 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I use debian unstable (linux kernel 2.6.20). I want to install vmware player 2.0 but I can't compile vmware module. It is a segmentation fault. There are warning message about version incompatible of gcc. However I still compile it. I am not sure it is a problem. Anybody know?, how to debug it or

Re: The previous nonsense

2007-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:02:17PM -0400, S C wrote: > It's better, I'm awake now. Responses: > > "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." > What if you don't explain it at all? I don't want to appear condescending, but first you have to ask the right questions. >

Re: opening and ejecting a DVD

2007-05-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:52:48 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], > --xine engine error-- > There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/'. > Mayboe MRL syntax is wrong or the file/stream source > doesn't exist. > What might fix this? Sounds as though libdvdcss2 is not a

Re: why linux?

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Lale
S C wrote: > I still cannot print, http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Setting_up_a_parallel_printer_using_CUPS > format/initialize a new cd or use one to back > up files, install k3b > get the sound working, http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux > watch a movie Try pa

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Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:33:53 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I fail to understand is what difference does it make if text is > above or below a sig delimiter? It doesn't. > Either it is offensive or it is not. What is offensive or isn't is entirely up to the reader.

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-22 Thread pedxing
On May 18, 12:30 pm, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 17, 11:00 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:55:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > On 05/15/07 20:37, H.S. wrote: > > > > > pedxing wrote: > > > > > >> When I write to a USB d

Re: The previous nonsense

2007-05-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:02:17PM -0400, S C wrote: > It's better, I'm awake now. Responses: > > #aptitude install k3b > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... done > E: Un

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-22 Thread Gerard Robin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:01:18PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: From: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-26) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.1 required=4.0

Blacklisting genrtc

2007-05-22 Thread David Baron
I want rtc to load rather than genrtc. I had this blacklisted somewhere but that has vanished. Putting this in /etc/hotplug/blacklist did not help. Where must it go? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-22 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:57:52 -0400 nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting > dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: > > Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using > /archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking rep

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread pedxing
On May 22, 7:40 am, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I fail to understand is what difference does it make if text is > above or below a sig delimiter? Either it is offensive or it is not. I > and others have been blasted for supposedly offensive remarks. However, > if you re

I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Dan H
Hello, I can't get my head around the (as of etch) newfangled aptitude dependency handling procedure. As an example, I'm trying to install texlive. As soon as I hit '+', I see this cryptic message in the bottom line: [1(1)/...] Suggest 2 installs, 4 keeps w: examine !: apply ... (...and I just n

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

2007-05-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bob Cox: > George Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think my biggest win is going to be ditching openssh :) > > How would you talk to the NSLU2 then ? ;-) There are alternative implementations of the SSH protocol. Dropbear is quite popular on small devices, for example. J. -- I wish I

Re: pdflatex from TeXLive produces much bigger pdf-file than in teTeX?

2007-05-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed that, by default, pdflatex is no more pdflatex: > does your pdflatex links tp pdftex ? > > my two cents, > Jerome On Debian testing with texlive, pdflatex is a symbolic link to pdfetex. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After some security updates on etch, checkrestart complains about processes that should be restarted. However, these particular packages haven't been upgraded at all. Even a reboot doesn't make those go away. Something wrong? Johannes llserv:~# upti

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:34:53 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > After some security updates on etch, checkrestart complains about > processes that should be restarted. However, these particular packages > haven't been upgrade

Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread David Baron
/etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, upgraded, removed. How does one clean up this mess conveniently? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
M. Fioretti wrote: (*) yes, the moderators, that is listmasters or whatever you want to call them. I have read your objection that this is a not moderated list, but it is irrelevant. My proposal was to ban outright your email or IP addresses, not to hold and check each single email sent to the li

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-22 Thread Pete
On Monday 21 May 2007 11:37:13 yag wrote: > Pete wrote: > > On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > > > [...] > > I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian > > and the working Xubuntu a

pdftohtml dependance

2007-05-22 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I am using Sid, with some pieces of experimental. I try to install a package: mihadev:~# apt-get install pdftohtml [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: pdftohtml: Depends: poppler-utils (>= 0.4.5-1) E: Broken packages mihadev:~# dpkg -l poppler-utils [...] ii

mailclient behind proxy

2007-05-22 Thread thanigai rajan
Hi all, In my SQUID on ETCH configuration, My LAN has 192.168.0.0/24, and isp router has 192.168.1.254 there is no problem with browsing. while i configuring the mail client(Thunder bird, evolution etc) it says the error as "213.34.24.45 network not reachable " where 213.34.24.45 is the ip of t

Ubuntu and Ham Radio Echolink?

2007-05-22 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I would like to monitor echolink connections from my PC and work and at home. I may opt to also add a mic, at least at home, for VOIP. I do have a firewall at work. What software compiles and or just simply works well under Debian/Ubuntu? I tried to compile EchoLinux but has many compile fai

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

2007-05-22 Thread George Barnett
Jochen Schulz wrote: Bob Cox: George Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think my biggest win is going to be ditching openssh :) How would you talk to the NSLU2 then ? ;-) There are alternative implementations of the SSH protocol. Dropbear is quite popular on small devices, for example.

Re: pdftohtml dependance

2007-05-22 Thread heba
2007/5/22, Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I am using Sid, with some pieces of experimental. I try to install a package: mihadev:~# apt-get install pdftohtml [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: pdftohtml: Depends: poppler-utils (>= 0.4.5-1) E: Broke

Re: pdftohtml dependance

2007-05-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:43:16 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I am using Sid, with some pieces of experimental. > I try to install a package: > > mihadev:~# apt-get install pdftohtml > [...] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > pdftohtml: Depends: poppler-

Re: Install Vmware player on debian unstable.

2007-05-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian unstable (linux kernel 2.6.20). I want to install vmware player 2.0 but I can't compile vmware module. It is a segmentation fault. There are warning message about version incompatible of gcc. However I still compile it. I am not sure it is a problem. Anyb

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:15:56PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:47:38 +0200 > David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > [...] > > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > > threa

Re: [OT] Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-22 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. Nyizsnyik Ferenc, 22.05.2007 10:47: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:57:52 -0400 > nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, the file sed.mo has a date of 1969. ls -alt sed.mo reveals: >> >> thinkpad:/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES# ls -alt sed.mo >> c---rwxrwx 5389 2484475149 353247318 247, 6

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-22 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:14PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Anyway, I tried some other video= lines and nothing makes any > > difference. I tried vesafb, rivafb, and nvidiafb for the driver and > > both 1024x768 (vga=791 works fine)

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/22/07, Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't get my head around the (as of etch) newfangled aptitude dependency handling procedure. As an example, I'm trying to install texlive. As soon as I hit '+', I see this cryptic message in the bottom line: [1(1)/...] Suggest 2 installs, 4 keeps w:

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] > Maybe. I use the command "lsof | grep 'path inode'" to identify > such processes. For example, after this morning's update in etch, it > yields: > > ~# lsof | grep 'path inode' > gnome-cup 4794 otoolel mem

Pam_mount Howto

2007-05-22 Thread Eric A. Bonney
I found a pam_mount howto last night and I was wondering if anyone could check it out and let me know if this is a good howto for me to be able to mount my samba shares automatically at login. I am using KDM and KDE which the howto says does not always play nice, but I was hoping someone might

Re: boot error messages with custom kernel

2007-05-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Fuchs wrote: thanks for the help. as I mentioned, the modules.dep file is there - but not in the initrd image that's created. I've addressed that same issue: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/03/msg00772.html and never got an answer. modules.dep is not in the initrd of kernels t

Sipie and iptables

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Currently I cannot play Sirius streams in Sipie unless I run "iptables - -P INPUT ACCEPT", but that is (hopefully) only a temporary solution. I'd like to allow all traffic to flow between my computer and Sirius.com, passing right through iptables, so

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dan H: > > (...and I just noticed I had to copy that by hand because aptitude > --and only aptitude!-- seems to disallow copying text from the xterm > it's running in! What kind of sadism is that?) :) This isn't sadism, it's a feature of your terminal and aptitude. You probably can use the mouse

Re: usbmount: works partially

2007-05-22 Thread Andre Berger
* Kushal Kumaran (2007-05-22): > On 5/21/07, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm on a near-vanilla 2.6.21.1 (usb-storage compiled-in), etch, > > udev/usbmount. When the system is up and running, hotplugging of my > > external USB disk and USB thumb drive works as expected. But the > >

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:59:01 -0400 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2007, Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 > > "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really > > > h

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 06:58:19 +0200 "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 10:46:09 AM -0400, Celejar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I'll point out that the OT thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a > > response to a sig that I felt attacked religion unfairly. Many >

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Mike Bird
On Monday 21 May 2007 22:48, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote to Marco: > Seriously, searching the list archives for your email reveals > that aside from pointing out to someone who posted to this > list in Italian that this is an English-only list, pretty > much every single message you have posted has be

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:44:38 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Liam O'Toole wrote: > [...] > > > Maybe. I use the command "lsof | grep 'path inode'" to identify > > such processes. For example, after this morning's update i

Re: usbmount: works partially

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:45:56 +0200 Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kushal Kumaran (2007-05-22): > > On 5/21/07, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm on a near-vanilla 2.6.21.1 (usb-storage compiled-in), etch, > > > udev/usbmount. When the system is up and running, hotplug

Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mount this partition? I tried the following so far: - sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs - sudo mkdir /mnt/windows - sudo ntfsmount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o fmask=011

XFS Filesystem problem

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Grabner
Hi, can anybody explain the following to me? It happens in full production use. Should i change back to ext3 ? --- kernel BUG at fs/xfs/support/debug.c:57! invalid opcode: [#1] SMP Modules linked in: nfs ipv6 nfsd exportfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc appletalk but

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently?

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:26:02 +0200 (CEST) "Matthias Brennwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all > > I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition > with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mount this partition? Depends what you need to do with the parti

Re: xkb options

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 May 2007 23:38:07 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070521 23:14]: > >>> I've been using gtypist to learn dvorak, and I'm making progress. I've > >>> got the home and upper rows pretty much under control, and I'm working > >>> on the l

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:16:44 +0200 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :) This isn't sadism, it's a feature of your terminal and aptitude. > You probably can use the mouse to open menus etc, just like in a > regular GUI application. Vim and mc can behave that way, too, and > there are proba

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread steef
Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mount this partition? I tried the following so far: - sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs - sudo mkdir /mnt/windows - sudo ntfsmount /dev/hd

Re: usbmount: works partially

2007-05-22 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:45:56 +0200 Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kushal Kumaran (2007-05-22): > > On 5/21/07, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm on a near-vanilla 2.6.21.1 (usb-storage compiled-in), etch, > > > udev/usbmount. When the system is up and running, hotplug

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mike Bird wrote: I apologize for Marco. I admit none of his posts have been about religion or politics. However, I confess to being supportive of his OT suggestion that debian-user return to the kinds of subject matter that once made it useful. I'd sort of be happy to get back to off topic

printer setuo

2007-05-22 Thread bobsetch
I'm new to linux and have etch installed with gnome and things seem to be ok but I can't get my printer installed. I've gone to desktop, admin., printing, new printer and etch recognized the hp printer and I selected finish. I then right clicked on the printer, selected pref. and made it my defa

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:47:49 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got > > set somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs > > w

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Matthias Brennwald
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:26:02 +0200 (CEST) > "Matthias Brennwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear all >> >> I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition >> with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mount this >> partition? > > Depends what you need to do

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Clay Kimber
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:01 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > I'd like to read and write to/from the (NTFS) partition. I tried the following > I'm not familiar with ntfsprogs, but I have had success with ntfs-3g... Description: read-write NTFS driver for FUSE The ntfs-3g driver is an open sour

Re: printer setuo

2007-05-22 Thread David A. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to linux and have etch installed with gnome and things seem to be ok but I can't get my printer installed. I've gone to desktop, admin., printing, new printer and etch recognized the hp printer and I selected finish. I then right clicked on the printer, selected

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:47:49 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:16:26 +0100 Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > The 'symlinks' package can do a search-and-destroy of dangling symlinks > for you. The 'cruft' package can identify missing alternatives. Thanks. > Liam Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via se

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 16:01:57 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:26:02 +0200 (CEST) "Matthias Brennwald" wrote: > > > >> Dear all > >> > >> I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition > >> with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I m

Re: matlab r2007a installation problems

2007-05-22 Thread Ted Hilts
Hardestadt wrote: Hi! I have a problem when i try to install matlab r2007a on my debian etch. When i execute the installation scipt, i get the following error: [b]An error status was returned by the program 'xsetup', the X Window System version of 'install'. The following messages were

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 08:38, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:44:38 +0200 > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Liam O'Toole wrote: >> [...] >> >>> Maybe. I use the command "lsof | grep 'path inode'" to identify >>> such processes

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 15:59:21 +0200, Dan H wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:16:44 +0200 Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > :) This isn't sadism, it's a feature of your terminal and aptitude. > > You probably can use the mouse to open menus etc, just like in a > > regular GUI application. Vim and mc can

Re: Install Vmware player on debian unstable.

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 06:35 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Surachai Locharoen wrote: > > I use debian unstable (linux kernel 2.6.20). I want to install vmware > > player 2.0 but I can't compile vmware module. > > It is a segmentation fault. There are warning message about version > > incompatibl

Re: usbmount: works partially

2007-05-22 Thread Andre Berger
* Nyizsnyik Ferenc (2007-05-22): > On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:45:56 +0200 > Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Kushal Kumaran (2007-05-22): > > > On 5/21/07, Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm on a near-vanilla 2.6.21.1 (usb-storage compiled-in), etch, > > > > udev/usbmount

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:03:47AM +0200, Dan H wrote: > Hello, > > I can't get my head around the (as of etch) newfangled aptitude > dependency handling procedure. As an example, I'm trying to install > texlive. As soon as I hit '+', I see this cryptic message in the bottom > line: > > [1(1)/...

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:49:18PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently? > I don't kn

Re: opening and ejecting a DVD

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:25:08AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > --xine engine error-- > > There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/'. > > Mayboe MRL syntax is wrong or the file/stream source > > doesn't exist. > > What might fix this? > > Sounds as though libdvdcss2 is not available. I

Re: why linux?

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, 21 May 2007, S C wrote: >For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. If you continue to do things the way you've been doing things, you'll continue to get the results you've been getting. It could take months to push an horse up a tree; it could take months

Re: [OT] PSU ramblings (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:50:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:36:47AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:31:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > ON a side note, have you noticed that its hard to actually find useful > repla

Re: [Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:31:01PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > So, then, lets say that a member of Islam has a very "provocative, but > very accepted in their culture, quote." I assume that you mean as a signature. In the body of a message it would only be appropriate if the recipient of the m

Re: CM-Stacker plus... (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/20/07 15:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > According to a previous post, you only have one HDD? After discussions with Lenart Sorrensen on amd64, I decided to get a second drive and raid1 the system. I filled up the front with

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, > ridiculing (often wittil

Re: moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:08:41AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > There's a legal issue here that nobody's mentioned. > > At least in the US, there is a growing body of law and precedent that > says, essentially: > > - if you provide a list, but don't moderate traffic, you're not legally > l

Re: printer setuo

2007-05-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:14:38PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm new to linux and have etch installed with gnome and things seem to be ok > but I can't get my printer installed. I've gone to desktop, admin., printing, > new printer and etch recognized the hp printer and I selected finish.

Re: Blacklisting genrtc

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 11:20 +0300, David Baron wrote: > I want rtc to load rather than genrtc. I had this blacklisted somewhere but > that has vanished. Putting this in /etc/hotplug/blacklist did not help. Where > must it go? /etc/modprobe.d/ In there I create a file called: blacklist- Such as

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-22 Thread Pete
Thanks guys for all your help on this one. It looks as though it won't be solved simply. I'll stick with Xubuntu which I know works and which I've grown to like and just leave Debian sat on the other partition till I either need the space or find a way of solving it. > Regards > Pete Redwood >

Re: [OT] PSU ramblings (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:02:37AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:50:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:36:47AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:31:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >

Re: moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/22/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's why I suggest a writen code of conduct / policy that covers OT and other issues, that is then self-regulated by the users of the list. You mean like http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct ? Granted, it doesn't cover O

Re: [OT] PSU ramblings (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 09:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:50:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:36:47AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >>> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:31:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackvill

Icedove 2.0.0.0-3 badly broken

2007-05-22 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip. I have up-to-date Debian unstable, i386 port, on the system. Yesterday synaptic installed a new version of icedove: 2.0.0.0-3. This version was badly broken: I couldn't even press the buttons on the GUI. I replaced the broken version with 1.5.0.10.df

Re: CM-Stacker plus... (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 08:11, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/20/07 15:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >> According to a previous post, you only have one HDD? > > After discussions with Lenart

Re: The previous nonsense

2007-05-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 06:02 PM, S C wrote: It's better, I'm awake now. Responses: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." What if you don't explain it at all? I don't hate Microsoft, I simply think their product, especially the last one, is more like a pointless video g

Re: CM-Stacker plus... (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:41:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Interesting. Did you get PATA or SATA DVD drive? If SATA, what model? I already had an LG read/burn anything. Its IDE. I have that plus a ZIP drive on the one IDE port. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: printer setuo

2007-05-22 Thread David A. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The response I got from your quiry was bash: /var/cupe...: permission denied You probably need to be root to read those files. Try: su -c "more /var/log/cups/error_log" And enter your root password when it asks for one. -- Dave Parker Utica College Department of

Re: [OT] PSU ramblings (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:38:30AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I know that 12V means 12 volts, but what does the "3" in "12V 3" mean? > The PSU has three separate 12 Volt rails, each with a current limit. 12V 3 means the third rail. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/22/2007 03:28 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:01:18PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: From: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-26) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:24:40AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > There doesn't seem to be a correct vga= parameter for 1280x960. I was suggesting 791 as it is still better then the default and you can see something happening (I just hate it when I mess with options and I see no change :)) > I'

Re: opening and ejecting a DVD

2007-05-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:00:36 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Douglas, > > Sounds as though libdvdcss2 is not available. It's used to decrpyt > See debian-multimedia.org and add its repository (and apt-key). I If only I'd known about that repo when I installed Debian

Re: XFS Filesystem problem

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Andreas Grabner wrote: > can anybody explain the following to me? It happens in full production > use. Should i change back to ext3 ? > I can't explain it since I've never had a kernel error and never used XFS. Not that I'm suggesting that they go toget

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2007-05-22 Thread Fred Ortiz
GPSI Closes Deal To Increase Revenue By $2.9 Million Annually! Global Pay Solutions Inc. Sym: GPSI Monday Close: $0.031 The news is out and the deal is done. GPSI will provide 70,000 payroll cards in the Dominican Republic. Initial revenues of $400,000 will be followed by services fees over the

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan H escreveu: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:16:44 +0200 > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> :) This isn't sadism, it's a feature of your terminal and aptitude. >> You probably can use the mouse to open menus etc, just like in a >> regular GUI

Installation/network card problem

2007-05-22 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, A few weeks ago, I got an Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 PCMCIA card off eBay. I had an old Etch unstable netinst CD lying about, so I installed Etch on my old laptop using the CD, installing over the network without any problems. Now work has given me an old Dell Inspiron 25

Re: Canon PowerShot A570IS

2007-05-22 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 17 May 2007 18:08:40 -0700 Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007 17:24:36 -0700 > Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the next couple of days I'm getting the A570IS and will be > > wanting to upload images to my desktop and from there editing, > > etc. What is th

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Matthias Brennwald([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Dear all > > I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition > with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mount this partition? > > I tried the following so far: > - sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

Re: XFS Filesystem problem

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:03 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Andreas Grabner wrote: > > > can anybody explain the following to me? It happens in full production > > use. Should i change back to ext3 ? > > > > I can't explain it since I've never had a

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/22/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 16:01:57 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:26:02 +0200 (CEST) "Matthias Brennwald" wrote: > > > >> Dear all > >> > >> I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition >

Re: Mount a Windows partition

2007-05-22 Thread Bob McGowan
Wayne Topa wrote: Matthias Brennwald([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Dear all I installed Debian Etch on a Dell D800 laptop. There's another partition with Windows (an some of my files) on it. How can I mount this partition? I tried the following so far: - sudo apt-get install ntf

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-18 22:06:13, schrieb Deboo ^: > Well I still do not understand. I was wonderign if he meant fribidi or > some such package ... to install fluxbox desktop icons easily ... apt-cache show dfm Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-16 12:09:56, schrieb Jay Wilton: > file /bin/bzip2 > /bin/bzip2: empty Working as root eh? man 1 bash and read thinks about redirecting of outputs... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultan

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-16 15:59:10, schrieb cothrige: > I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it > scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in > /usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.633s. Earlier > it was even worse taking over 10 seco

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