Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions -- solved

2007-07-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
* ArcticFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070722 00:35]: > >> My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of >> length, the documents are set in a 10-point font, with footnotes in an >> 8- or 9-point. >> >> I am attempting to accommodate visitors with impaired vision, by >> generating a

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:37:45PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> It has already been said, you might want to try the K7 kernel. > I first went that route: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00386.html > > Plus, it's well established that the AMD processors are

Package monit CHECK_INTERVALS in /etc/default/monit and /etc/init.d/monit

2007-07-22 Thread pttp919
Hi. I recently started using monit on Debian and discovered that the CHECK_INTERVALS variable in both the /etc/default/monit and /etc/init.d/monit scripts overrides the poll interval (if specified) in /etc/monit/monitrc. As monit already allows for this functionality in its configuration file (/

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Windows > and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software > under > Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for > that: unfortunately my test see

Gardul viu - minune!!!

2007-07-22 Thread Gard viu
GARDUL VIU-MINUNE!!! Creste rapid (1.20-1.80 m/an)!!! E incredibil de nepretentios!!! (atât în privinta solului cât si a îngrijirii) E incredibil de ieftin!!! Capacitate de umbrire excelenta! Capacitate antipraf de un grad înalt! Este o planta foioasa, de culoare verde viu, cu frunze mici lucioase,

Read messages and contacts from mobile phone (was: Mobile phone management utility)

2007-07-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Last year I posted that. All I found was that maybe opensync was the best tool (all others failed in my experience) but I found it tremendously difficult to install and configure it with Sarge, without knowing if it would then really work or not. A year after: can anybody say a definite word upon

Re: Changing mouse port

2007-07-22 Thread Dmitri Pissarenko
Hello! > 2) How can I change the mouse port setting of an already configured > GNOME system? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg I tried to do that, but got message Package 'xserver-xorg' is not installed and no info is available. I tried to find this package via synaptic package manager on my De

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread koffiejunkie
Telly Williams wrote: On 07/21/07 20:08, Telly Williams wrote: The HP, under cpuinfo, has: model name: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor cpu MHz: 367.497 stepping: 0 cache size: 64 KB ram: 256 MB Am I seeing thing

Re: ppm type 6 to ppm type 3: debian logo's

2007-07-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 15:59:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, When you install the debian logo package you get added boot logo's You can edit these with ImageMagick. But when you edit one of these with ImageMagick it generates a type 6 file (first line: P6) which t

Re: [Fwd: dh_gencontrol error]--Solved

2007-07-22 Thread Tom Ashley
Bob Proulx wrote: > > To get the ipw2200 module working the easiest thing to do is to use > > the Debian supplied kernel driver with the non-free firmware blobs. > > > > Visit this page: > > > > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php > > > > Read the license agreement and understand why

OpenGL programming for GNU/Linux

2007-07-22 Thread Lic. Orestes leal
Hi, my respects to all members. I'm searching for a book about OpenGL programming that i'ts focused only in linux, can anyone comment me or get me any address to find out this info on the net? Thanks, Cheers, Orestes -- Orestes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-07-22 Thread Manu Hack
Hi all, I'm running lenny. recently after upgrade to 2.6.21, I found that I couldn't logoff/shutdown properly from KDE/GNOME/windowmaker. By properly I mean whenever I choose logoff, usually KDM/GDM can take over and give me a login prompt but now it just goes blank and nothing can be done (inc

Re: ppm type 6 to ppm type 3: debian logo's

2007-07-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 15:59:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, When you install the debian logo package you get added boot logo's You can edit these with ImageMagick. But when you edit one of these with ImageMagick it generates a type 6 file (first line: P6) which t

Re: Read messages and contacts from mobile phone (was: Mobile phone management utility)

2007-07-22 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:00:22 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last year I posted that. All I found was that maybe opensync was the > best tool (all others failed in my experience) but I found it > tremendously difficult to install and configure it with Sarge, > without knowing if

Re: replacing intel-agp.o

2007-07-22 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:03:08 -0400, I wrote: > The i810 video driver supplied with Etch isn't working too well with my > onboard Intel 946GZ video chipset. ... > > I read here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/01/msg00798.html > how to patch intel-agp.c for the 946GZ chipset ... At

Re(n): ATI 3D Rage and /dev/video0

2007-07-22 Thread Helen Easthope
Nigel, and others, [I tried "Reply to:". It fails to invoke icedove.] At Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:56:18 +0200 Nigel Henry wrote, nh> "What do you get though from,as user, running, xawtv -hwscan ?" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xawtv -hwscan This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-4-686) lo

Re: Debian not auto mount my CDs / DVDs

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Nguyen, Your message is a little bit weird... Am 2007-07-15 23:36:44, schrieb Nguyen, Cuong K.: > Hi all, > > I just switched from Fedora to Debian, so I am totally a newbie to > Debian. Now I have one problem: my Debian (Gnome) does not automatically > mount any of my inserted CDs/DVDs,

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-15 20:15:47, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 04:09:41PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > I have to say that, as a driver, it's the unpredictability of cyclists I > > find distressing. They swerve suddenly into traffic, ride indiscriminately > > on either side

Re: Subject Confusion

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
## ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION I am currently NOT in Strasbourg because I have the last 11 days of my military service and can not reply in short delays. ###

Re: URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

2007-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
## ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION I am currently NOT in Strasbourg because I have the last 11 days of my military service and can not reply in short delays. ###

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-07-22 Thread Yuriy Padlyak
Hi again! Have found some time to do it all. Didn't want to reinstall everything, done everything as you suggested except /boot is still on "160GB drive" without raid :-(, now I'm trying to find out how to put it on RAID :). Does anyone have any idea how to make it safely? Also all file syste

Re: OpenGL programming for GNU/Linux

2007-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 09:39:20AM -0400, Lic. Orestes leal wrote: > > Hi, my respects to all members. > > I'm searching for a book about OpenGL programming > that i'ts focused only in linux, can anyone comment me > or get me any address to find out this info on the net? OpenGL is intended to be

Re: OpenGL programming for GNU/Linux

2007-07-22 Thread Lic. Orestes leal
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 09:39:20AM -0400, Lic. Orestes leal wrote: > > > > Hi, my respects to all members. > > > > I'm searching for a book about OpenGL programming > > that i'ts focused only in linux, can anyone comment me > > or get me any address to find out this info on the net? > > OpenGL

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions -- solved

2007-07-22 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:54:57AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * ArcticFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070722 00:35]: > > > >> My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of > >> length, the documents are set in a 10-point font, with footnotes in an > >> 8- or 9-point. > >> > >>

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Jul 22, 1:30 am, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you get when you: > > > sudo dmidecode | grep Cache > > I get: > > # dmidecode 2.8 > # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry > Dunno. Have to wait for a wizard to come along. Are you starting a compute

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread Telly Williams
> > I get: > > > > # dmidecode 2.8 > > # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry > > > > Dunno. Have to wait for a wizard to come along. Are you starting a > computer museum? What model is that ThinkPad? > > It's ten years old, isn't it? (Laughs) No, It's not the

DSL-hosted LAMP server with minimal electricty consumption

2007-07-22 Thread guix_d-gnumailing
Hello, I'm interested in buying a computer to build a LAMP server on, for just a few personnal websites (family, friends). I expect a few dozens visits per site each day, maybe one or two sites could grew above 100 visits per day at maximum. On my DSL line I have at about 700 Kbps in upload, so

archive debs missing on US mirror

2007-07-22 Thread Marty
For years I have used rsync to maintain my debian archive mirror. Lately a number of unstable .debs, always the latest versions, seem to be missing from from debian/pool/main on ftp.debian.org, in spite of their md5sums appearing in the list at debian/indices/md5sums.gz. An example is ash_0.5.4

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Jul 22, 12:40 pm, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not the TP. The TP is OK and, in fact, runs great. I'll > probably use it as a firewall. Well, I still want to know the Model number. Is it a 760ED? Did you look into Damn Small Linux? If not, how did you trim dow

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread David Fox
On 7/22/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get: > > > > # dmidecode 2.8 > > # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry > > > > Dunno. Have to wait for a wizard to come along. Are you starting a > computer museum? What model is that ThinkPad? > > It's ten yea

Re: DSL-hosted LAMP server with minimal electricty consumption

2007-07-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 05:44:34PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, ... > However I'm looking for a server with a really small electricity consumption. ... Also, http://www.nslu2-linux.org -Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Univers

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread David Fox
On 7/22/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I saw this computer sitting in my friend's mom's house and asked to fix it for her (it didn't run at all). I didn't anticipate the problems that I would face, mostly because I didn't know then what I now k Apologies about that la

Re: archive debs missing on US mirror

2007-07-22 Thread Joey Hess
Marty wrote: > For years I have used rsync to maintain my debian archive mirror. Lately a > number of unstable .debs, always the latest versions, seem to be missing > from > from debian/pool/main on ftp.debian.org, in spite of their md5sums > appearing in the list at debian/indices/md5sums.gz.

Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

2007-07-22 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
I just installed Debian 4.0, on an AMD64 computer that has a SATA hard drive, from the multi-architecture DVD. I used "expert" at the first prompt, since "amd64-expert" was giving errors. I chose the 2.6-amd64 kernel during installation. Installation completed successfully, but when it is booted,

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread Telly Williams
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 05:44:35PM +, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > Well, I still want to know the Model number. Is it a 760ED? > > Did you look into Damn Small Linux? > > If not, how did you trim down Debian? > > I have a 760ED I'm thinking of resurrecting just for fun. > > rd Hi,

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
You might try to look at a better CPU like K6-II/450, K6-III or somesuch. Second-hand dump stores might have the processors in stock, if not solo, then probably even with a motherboard. Socket 7 motherboards used to have L2 cache on themselves (unlike P-IIs which had everything - L1 cache, L2 cach

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread Telly Williams
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:20:31AM -0700, David Fox wrote: > > > Actually, a good thing to do on machines like that is upgrade the RAM - > because > many distros these days won't even install on a machine with less than maybe > 256 megs of RAM. A lot want >64 megs of RAM. > > Of course, there's

Re: Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

2007-07-22 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I just installed Debian 4.0, on an AMD64 computer that has a SATA hard > drive, from the multi-architecture DVD. I used "expert" at the first prompt, > since "amd64-expert" was giving errors. I chose the 2.6-amd64 kernel during > installation. > > Installation complete

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread Telly Williams
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:43:59PM -0600, Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote: > You might try to look at a better CPU like K6-II/450, K6-III or somesuch. > Second-hand dump stores might have the processors in stock, if not solo, > then probably even with a motherboard. > Thanks, It uses a SPAX mot

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-22 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Telly Williams wrote: > Thing is, > > I did upgrade the ram to 256 MB, and, to be honest, it runs just as > fast as it did before the upgrade (it seemed). > > I think I'll do a reinstall with Puppy and see what's up. But will run more apps than before... The RAM just make your

Re: Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

2007-07-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 22 2007 11:37, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I just installed Debian 4.0, on an AMD64 computer that has a SATA hard > drive, from the multi-architecture DVD. I used "expert" at the first > prompt, since "amd64-expert" was giving errors. I chose the 2.6-amd64 > kernel during installation.

Re: OpenGL programming for GNU/Linux

2007-07-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:55:18PM -0400, Lic. Orestes leal wrote: [...] > QUESTION: How I become a very good OpenGL programmer let's say in 3 years? ANSWER: Program lots of OpenGL over the next 3 years. Also, read everything John Carmack (of Id Software) has ever written. > Orestes <[EMAIL PROTE

enter single passphrase for multiple encrypted partitions

2007-07-22 Thread Owen Heisler
I have three partitions encrypted (by d-i), each listed in /etc/crypttab: /var, /home, and one for backups At startup, I am prompted to enter three passphrases. Is there a way to enter only one? Using luks, I have included a keyfile in another key slot, and put that keyfile on /var. This doesn'

Network Interfaces

2007-07-22 Thread Telly Williams
Hi, What concept am I missing? If I have my laptop connected to the computer through an ethernet, if I switch it to a USB port, how do I have the OS pick it up? It seems that I have to have the computer installed with whatever interface that I plan to use. Am I making any sen

Re: Network Interfaces

2007-07-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 22 2007 14:10, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > What concept am I missing? > > If I have my laptop connected to the computer through an ethernet, if I > switch it to a USB port, how do I have the OS pick it up? It seems that I > have to have the computer installed with whate

Re: Changing mouse port

2007-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Dmitri Pissarenko wrote: > >> 2) How can I change the mouse port setting of an already configured > >> GNOME system? > > > >dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > I tried to do that, but got message > > Package 'xserver-xorg' is not installed and no info is available. > ... > I'm using Debian 3.1 "Sar

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:22:47AM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been > quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been > unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) > an

Re: [Fwd: dh_gencontrol error]--Solved

2007-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom Ashley wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > To get the ipw2200 module working the easiest thing to do is to use > > the Debian supplied kernel driver with the non-free firmware blobs. > > > > Visit this page: > > > > http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php > > > > Read the license agreement

Re: Network Interfaces

2007-07-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:10:30PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > What concept am I missing? > > If I have my laptop connected to the computer through an >ethernet, if I switch it to a USB port, how do I have the OS pick it >up? look in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog f

Re: XSane protection (?) problem

2007-07-22 Thread Roby
Roby wrote: > Under 2.6.21.5 kernel, xsane works fine. Under 2.6.22, it cannot find my > scanner ... but if I try it as root, xsane works again (with a dire > warning about running as root). > > Thought it was a protection problem. Thought I could fix it. Hah! > > /etc/udev/libsane.rules incl

Re: Losing lines with HPOJ 7410

2007-07-22 Thread Rob Sims
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:35:07AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I have an HP OfficeJet 7410, and am using the hplip drivers with the > following lpoptions: > > Default hpoj/draft PageSize=Letter PrintoutMode=Draft.Gray > Duplex=DuplexNoTumble > > I'm losing lines off the top and bottom. If

SID warning

2007-07-22 Thread Frank McCormick
Just a note that the latest updates including a new ImLib will break IceWm. You'll have to create a new symbolic link called libimlib.so.11 in /usr/lib pointing to libimlib.so.9.15 then IceWm will run again. - Cheers - Change the world one loan at a time - visit Kiva.org to find out how

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Mike Robinson
Karl, First off, thank you very much for looking so closely at my logs! I truly appreciate your time. I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been unstable since. By unstable I mean that

network problem with router

2007-07-22 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm having some odd networking problems with my router, The D-Link DGL-4300 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006TIA02/002-4711104-7484852). Incoming ssh connections through the router using port forwarding to two different machines with different network cards and different

Re: replacing intel-agp.o

2007-07-22 Thread Kieu Minh Thang
I think there is an easy way is install package xserver-xorg-video-intel from repository (testing) This support new model VGA cards of intel Let me know if this can help ;) Thang Kieu Steve Kleene wrote: > The i810 video driver supplied with Etch isn't working too well with my > onboard Intel 946

Testing anti spam software

2007-07-22 Thread Mar Matthias Darin
Hello, Please forgive me if this is an inappropriate area for this request. I have written an anti-spam tool for linux called DynaStop. It works with Exim and procmail on the limited number of versions I have tested, but I am having trouble verifyng its operations on Debian. I've have multipl

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Robinson wrote: > >According to this you're running out of memory!? At least the oom-killer > >is (disturbingly) active before the reboot, but the messages are pretty > >definite: your 2G swap is maxed out. That's bad and will cause all sorts > >of problems... > >This *could* be an unhandle

Re: network problem with router

2007-07-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Faheem Mitha wrote: > I'm having some odd networking problems with my router, The D-Link > DGL-4300 > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006TIA02/002-4711104-7484852). Problems with your router? Or problems with your kernel? > Incoming ssh connections through the router using port forwarding

problem fixing eth0 IP

2007-07-22 Thread Robert Cates
Hi, I've just got my new machine running Etch. This machine is a server, so no GUI or XWindows. I have the DHCP3-Client and DHCP3-common installed (by default) which gets an IP just fine. But now I want to assign a fixed non-DHCP IP to the NIC. I can use ifconfig to change the IP, but whe

Re: problem fixing eth0 IP

2007-07-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:29:04AM +, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi, > > I've just got my new machine running Etch. This machine is a server, so no > GUI or XWindows. I have the DHCP3-Client and DHCP3-common installed (by > default) which gets an IP just fine. But now I want to assign a fixed