Re: Postscript conversion

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 16:38:25 +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: > Just wondering if anybody knows how to convert a color postscript document > to a black and white one? I need to send it though a hylafax and the > quality is better if everything is black and white. You can use ghostscript with the

Re: ALSA problem - TV tuner no sound

2007-07-05 Thread Chris Lale
Michael Bonert wrote: > I recently upgraded kernels (2.6.18-4-k7 -> 2.6.11-1-k7) and sound systems > (OSS -> ALSA). > > Sound, aside from the TV tuner, works fine. > > My TV tuner worked like a snap under OSS and made use of the following > drivers: > bttv > bt878 > > I've discovered that 'b

Re: backports

2007-07-05 Thread Chris Lale
Hello Steffen and Florian. Steffen Joeris wrote: > HI mate > [...] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-key 4B2B2B9E > gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server keyring.debian.org > gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: "Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" not > changed > gpg: Tot

Strange symbols in konqueror blank page and metabar

2007-07-05 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
When I open a new tab with no content (about:blank) in konqueror, I get a bunch of Chinese looking symbols. I've pasted the contents below: 㱨瑭氾㱨敡搾㱴楴汥㹡扯畴㩢污湫㰯瑩瑬放㰯桥慤㸼扯摹㸼⽢潤社㰯桴浬 Also, when I open the metabar, such signs show instead of a normal metabar. Does anybody else have this problem? Thanks for a

Problem bootstrapping a sarge installation

2007-07-05 Thread Ph. Marek
Hello everybody, I'd like to use some newer packages on an old installation (Suse 7.3, with 2.4.25 running). As there are no new packages available, I'd have to compile them myself; but that would mean upgrading a lot of system libraries, too (like libxml and others), which could make problems

disable saving persistent net rules

2007-07-05 Thread Kent Tong
Hi, How can I prevent udev from saving the MAC address of eth0 into the persistent net rules file? I am using Debian Etch. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Danguardian Problem?

2007-07-05 Thread David Baron
Takes a long long time to start. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: samba and files rename

2007-07-05 Thread Pol Hallen
So when you remane the X file to "x", really windows doesn't care about it. I have a samba installed at work and I tested it, and when I rename the file in my Debian its OK, but when I rename the file in Windows is just an ilution (it never remanes if I just change the case). But it changes the na

Re: trouble detecting my network card

2007-07-05 Thread Philipp Kalder
Sorry, allright the issue is closed or rather solved. I instellaed it via the cd standard installation. Like I said, that worked. Allthough I do get a error message in the upper Panle that there is no network connection. ??? Whatsoever that means. I guess its the cable! I don't know where I go

Text focus

2007-07-05 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, I have a problem with text/cursor focus. I use GNOME from unstable. Sometimes I will start my webbrowser, epiphany, and type in a url I am interested in. Once the page loads I click in a text box on the webpage and type but nothing happens. I have to go back and click on the url text box, t

Howto for ADempiere ERP under Debian Etch released

2007-07-05 Thread Christoph Pilka
Dear community, looking for an ERP system for our purposes we decided to use ADempiere which fulfills all the features we need. We know from experience that to setup ADempiere is not a trivial procedure. So we documented all steps in-depth attaching our ADempiere instance. For all of you intereste

Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)

2007-07-05 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I tried to install it with debootstrap but I can only make it boot on kernel 2.6.8. When I try to boot on kernel 2.4 it shows the message /sbin/init 432: cannot open dev/console I did not find any helpful recommendations on t

Re: Floppy disk filesystem

2007-07-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:47:09AM -, rocky wrote: > > I'm following Pocket Linux Guide from www.tldp.org. The 2nd chapter > 2.3.1 talks about prepare the book disk media. > > I got a blank floppy disk, inserted it in and did the following > $-code1 begin-$ > ronie:~# dd if=/dev/z

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

2007-07-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:01:16PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to > do > may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could burn > my > data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its con

System freeze when copying files

2007-07-05 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, There was a thread back in Feb: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg00129.html regrading a total system freeze while copying files. I have the same problem. Cannot ssh in, no response at all from the keyboard and I must reboot via the power button. The two computers in question a

Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 07/03/07 13:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > >Dom0: local file server (video, music, local backups) > > > > > > DomU1: firewall > > > > I understa

Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:09:02PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/03/07 20:53, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 07/03/07 13:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>>Dom0: local file server (video, music, local backups) > >>> >

Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:01:40PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:35:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > So I maintain that its good to keep our local fire server isolated by > > operating the DMZ in a xen vm. But I will agree that its not necessary > >

Re: installer w/ RAID1, crypto

2007-07-05 Thread Sneaky56
Sorry, but my is not very clear, so: I tried to setup a new install (using the Lenny install CD (1)), with RAID1, crypto and LVM. Everything went fine during install and I even did execute the steps required as of (2). The only problem I got, was after the install/reboot, when the there seems to b

digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

2007-07-05 Thread H.S.
Hello, On Debian Testing, if I try to upgrade digikam, aptitude wants to remove digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins (the actual output is further below). Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? And how do I find out if I should go ahead with the upgrade since, maybe the new pack

install: client-error-not-possible

2007-07-05 Thread Николай Трубников
Subject: install: client-error-not-possible Package: install Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** A print error occurred. Error message received from system: cupsdoprint -P 'HPLaserJet1022' -J 'KDE Print Test' -H '/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631' -U 'root' -o ' multip

Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?

2007-07-05 Thread H.S.
Daniel Burrows wrote: When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer versions of packages): dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1] libssp0

Re: Playing SMIL File

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 22:11:16 -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the > audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia format > I think. Helix-player, available as a Debian package for i386 and powerpc, is capable o

Ktechlab circutes (Examples )

2007-07-05 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey list members,... few month ago i said that i post some circutes here but becouse of some bad luck and really hard semester i didn't post them. i uploaded it onto my project on sf (SCEX) btw sorry that i didn't upload the files to the wiki (i c

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the BIOS pow

Re: backports

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:44:55 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > Strange. I can ping the Debian keyserver: > > $ ping keyring.debian.org > PING keyring.debian.org (192.25.206.59) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from raff.debian.org (192.25.206.59): icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=158 ms > > but I cann

Upgrade on box not on Net

2007-07-05 Thread John K Masters
Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet? I run etch on my home desktop and sid on my laptop but I have a machine at work that is not, and never likely to be, connected to the internet. It currently has etch installed off the 3 DVD set which I downloaded via jigdo. I know I ca

Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file

2007-07-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Celejar. > > Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18: > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:57 +0200 > > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Celejar, 25.06.2007 16:40: > >>> 'file' reports just 'data' when queried about an A

Re: Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 4 2007 01:28, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hi >Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I only had a quick look but I couldn't find any sarge install images. They must exist somewhere but I'm not sure where. >I > tried to install it with debootstrap

Re: Upgrade on box not on Net

2007-07-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:25:09 +0100 John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet? > > I run etch on my home desktop and sid on my laptop but I have a machine > at work that is not, and never likely to be, connected to the internet. > It c

Re: Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)

2007-07-05 Thread steef
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I tried to install it with debootstrap but I can only make it boot on kernel 2.6.8. When I try to boot on kernel 2.4 it shows the message /sbin/init 432: cannot open dev/console I did not find a

Re: Upgrade on box not on Net

2007-07-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
John K Masters wrote: > The main reason for wanting to upgrade is > the huge difference in Open Office 2.0 to 2.2. Or could I just install > OO2.2 over the stable package? > One option as you stated is to upgrade to unstable and get open office 2.2 from there. Another choice is to install it fro

Re: How to connect to debian server from Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dmitri Pissarenko
Hello! I tried now to connect to the Debian machine via FTP but this doesn't work. In FileZilla (on Windows machine), I'm getting following error: Status: Connecting to 169.254.216.106 ... Status: Connected with 169.254.216.106. Waiting for welcome message... Error: Disconnected from server Er

Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:44:00 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > On Debian Testing, if I try to upgrade digikam, aptitude wants to remove > digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins (the actual output is further below). > Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? Add the "-D" option to get

Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file

2007-07-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Celejar. Celejar, 05.07.2007 21:35: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200 > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18: >>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:57 +0200 >>> Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Celejar, 25.06.2007 16:40: > 'file' reports just 'da

Can not change Screen Resolution

2007-07-05 Thread yong lee
Hi, I was using 1280x768. But after a reboot, my scrren changed to 640x480. Then, I went to Desktop | preference | Screen Resolution and tried to change the resolution back. But the drop down box did not work. The entry just stayed blue and did not show the rest of selections for the screen resolut

Re: How to connect to debian server from Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:11:39PM +0200, Dmitri Pissarenko wrote: > Hello! > > I tried now to connect to the Debian machine via FTP but this doesn't work. > > In FileZilla (on Windows machine), I'm getting following error: > > Status: Connecting to 169.254.216.106 ... > Status: Conn

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Kent West wrote: > Nope; the BIOS is not shutting down the laptop. > I paused the memtest for five minutes, and then let it continue; the > shutdown occurred five minutes later than it had been shutting down. How unfortunate because that would have been easier to handle. > So I restarted the mem

Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)

2007-07-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:43:34AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 07/03/07 13:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > >Dom0: local file server

Re: Virtual System time 'way off

2007-07-05 Thread Berthold Cogel
Ernest wrote: Environment: Windows XP with virtual PC 2007, hosting a virtual Fedora FC6 guest. Problem: Virtual system time is ‘way off, by tens of seconds. The same problem appears sometimes with VMware. The obvious solution: 1. Install and configure ntp in your guest. This should fix the

Re: ndiswrapper problem (solved)

2007-07-05 Thread Stefano Crema
I noticed there was an upgrade to the ndiswrapper source code and tools so installed them and m-a'ed a new ndiswrapper module into the kernel. Voila, problem solved. So, to whoever the developer is that is responsible for maintaining ndiswrapper, Thank you. You have solved but you didn't explai

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:42:04PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > My system has been quite stable for the past year and half. I've > recently upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18-4-k7. I'm running an > AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (yes with a 32-bit kernel). I attempted to install > the modules fo

Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

2007-07-05 Thread H.S.
Florian Kulzer wrote: BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new trick, the "why/why-not" command: $ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins i kde-extras Recommends digikam p digikamConflicts digikamimageplugins This is really useful to figure out what is goin

Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Robinson
My system has been quite stable for the past year and half. I've recently upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18-4-k7. I'm running an AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (yes with a 32-bit kernel). I attempted to install the modules for nVidia, IVTV, and LIRC. LIRC didn't go so well, so I tried to back

Re: How to connect to debian server from Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:11:39PM +0200, Dmitri Pissarenko wrote: > > I tried now to connect to the Debian machine via FTP but this doesn't work. > Can both boxes connect to other boxes on the net? Are the cables good and do you get connection lights on the NICs? Can you connect or get a resp

Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:25:15PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:43:34AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On 07/03/

Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file

2007-07-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:20:19 +0200 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Celejar. > > Celejar, 05.07.2007 21:35: > > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200 > > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18: > >>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:57 +0200 > >>> Mathias B

Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file

2007-07-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Celejar. Celejar, 06.07.2007 02:25: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:20:19 +0200 > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Celejar, 05.07.2007 21:35: >>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:35:25 +0200 >>> Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Celejar, 04.07.2007 02:18: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-05 Thread Mike Robinson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Since Etch hasn't been stable for a year and a half, we need some basics: contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list contents of /etc/debian_version When last you did a successful update/upgrade cycle and what package manager you use. I use "apt-get" from the command li

Re: installing a font for VT

2007-07-05 Thread 2g
thanx to those who replyed! don't know why but missed your mail but found out that i got some reply when searching the www did a: consolechars -f grfixed,psf.gz and now my VT looks a bit cool tested a lot of those in /usr/share/consolefonts but mmm... couldn't even find a single silly looking one

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

2007-07-05 Thread Thomas Hoppeer
To verify data on your dvd you can also use star and readcd: http://www.linuxconfig.org/Create_and_burn_ISO_images_with_mkisofs_%26_cdrecord#Verify_data hope this helps On 7/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:01:16PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > A

after a reboot it's gone! was Re: installing a font for VT

2007-07-05 Thread 2g
i thought i got it but when i go back with re-boot it's gone... --- 2g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanx to those who replyed! > don't know why but missed your mail but found out that i got some > reply > when searching the www > > did a: > consolechars -f grfixed,psf.gz > and now my VT looks a

Re: after a reboot it's gone! was Re: installing a font for VT

2007-07-05 Thread 2g
excuse me for posting too much as someone said it was simply /etc/console-tool/config that i should have edited thanx --- 2g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i thought i got it but > when i go back with re-boot > it's gone... > > --- 2g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thanx to those who replyed!

Re: Playing SMIL File

2007-07-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:11:16PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the > audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia > format I think. > Have you tried xine? Do you have the win32 codecs installed? Also, pleas

Re: Playing SMIL File

2007-07-05 Thread Sam Leon
On Thursday 05 July 2007 20:38, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:11:16PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > > Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the > > audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia > > format I think. > > Have you

Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:34:16PM -0400, "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > >>When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove > >>these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off > >>upgrading in the hope tha

tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

2007-07-05 Thread Matt Price
hi, gearing up for a very long car trip this summer and ripping all of our harry potter books-on-cd to mp3 for use on our ipod, whose collection i currently manage from amarok (1.4.6). everything is fine except that, with ca. 20 cd's per book, 20 tracks per cd, harry potter now makes up about 20

Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:55:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new > trick, the "why/why-not" command: > > $ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins > i kde-extras Recommends digikam > p digikam

Re: Can not change Screen Resolution

2007-07-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:05:19PM -0700, yong lee wrote: > Hi, > I was using 1280x768. But after a reboot, my scrren > changed to 640x480. Then, I went to Desktop | > preference | Screen Resolution and tried to change the > resolution back. But the drop down box did not work. > The entry just stay

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-05 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Mike Robinson wrote: > My system has been quite stable for the past year and half. I've > recently upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18-4-k7. I'm running an > AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (yes with a 32-bit kernel). I attempted to install > the modules for nVidia, IVTV, and LIRC. LIRC didn't go so

problem: SATA performance drop down

2007-07-05 Thread GUO Zhijun
Hi all, It's a Tyan S2925 with single AMDx2 4800+, 4xWD2500YS, 4x1G DDR2 box. Running etch 2.6.18-4-amd64, soft raid5 and soft raid 1. It's serving web request for static files and nfs export its storage to other boxes. One day its performance dropped down suddenly and loadavg was going up to 2