Re: xrandr laptop monitor flickering

Ivan, On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:34 +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > I use my laptop monitor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and an external Samsung > SyncMaster 740T ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) connected via VGA to the laptop. The > configuration is: > Issuing: > ~ % xrandr --output VGA-0 --above LVDS --mode 1280x1024

Re: finally got lenny installed

Robin wrote: On 27/02/2008, *Daniel Burrows* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > was heard to say: > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

>I never tried, but I suppose there should be no difficulty in grabbing the Debian source >packages and compiling them in Ubuntu. Actually there already exist a package for Ubuntu, just click and install. Yes I am aware that it is just a rebrand of the Mozilla Firefox, I got my reasons for it...

Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

Hi all, I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. Writing extended state information... Error! E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package libdb4.5. As Ken Caldweel suggested, I checked the file /var/lib/dpkg/available , but haven't found a

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

Sunnz wrote: I never tried, but I suppose there should be no difficulty in grabbing the Debian source >packages and compiling them in Ubuntu. Actually there already exist a package for Ubuntu, just click and install. Yes I am aware that it is just a rebrand of the Mozilla Firefox, I got my rea

Re: mounting error USB stick

Florian Kulzer on 27/02/08 22:01, wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:01:54 +, Adam Hardy wrote: [...] On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on t

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

>have you tried apt-get source iceweasel ? That should get the sources for you. Oh, thanks, I will try it on my Ubuntu box. However I was looking for something like a web svn/cvs respository or something, like something that one can just wget it from a any generic OS I suppose. -- Please avoid s

SSH (what's this!!!)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today in the morning when I give a verified in the processes of a given server noticed the following procedures for ssh, I found a little strange as: root 21274 1.0 0.0 9856 3384 ?Ss 09:14 0:00 sshd: unknown [priv] root 21275

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:19:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 12:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: Hello, I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop

Re: SSH (what's this!!!)

Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today in the morning when I give a verified in the processes of a given server noticed the following procedures for ssh, I found a little strange as: root 21274 1.0 0.0 9856 3384 ?Ss 09:14 0:00 sshd:

Re: SSH (what's this!!!)

What do u got in logs ? Any helpful message ? On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Today in the morning when I give a verified in the processes of a given > > server noticed

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

Well, I guess I kind of found it: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/iceweasel Looks like that's where it can be started. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:14:15PM -0600, cothrige wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that > > statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's > > projects. Just that if we're gonna have

Re: curious entries in apache2 log

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:43:45PM -0800, Jeff D wrote: > Vikki Roemer wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > >>Can anyone enlighten me what is going on here? > >> > >> ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:21 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" > >> ::1 - - [27

Problem with KVM switch and Screen Res...

Greetings, I am running Debian GNU/Linux ("etch" kernel 2.6.18-6-686) on a PC with an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT connected to a COMPAQ S710 Monitor. I have just upgraded to the latest NVIDIA driver, using "nvidia-installer". It works fine, the only problem I having is when I introduce my trusty KVM (Ke

Re: Sending a bug report with reportbug fails

Here is more info. ".reportbugrc" is standard generated stuff without any modifications. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .reportbugrc # reportbug preferences file # character encoding: UTF-8 # Version of reportbug this preferences file was written by reportbug_version "3.39" # default operating mode: one

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

Hello Henrique, Am 2008-02-23 18:00:39, schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > Well, I recommend you go to extreme levels of output harmonics filtering, > that alone will increase system stability a damn great deal. Some tests > using memory bit-rot testing a few years go (either by Ars Technica,

Re: firewall or securety software

Am 2008-02-24 14:24:12, schrieb steef: > got a working firewall in my router plus shorewall installed and > working. on my machine together no problem at all. why? the more > security the better i guess. hope this guess is right. BTW i was under > attack about a year ago. this attack was counte

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

Hi Richard, Am 2008-02-26 19:26:36, schrieb Richard Lyons: > Oh Michelle, it's _you_ that sends me all those "Dear {EMAIL}, Try > {PRODUCT} today FREE!!!..." emails. And I thought it was spammers who > were too dim to operate the mailmerge correctly. Do you have tried it out? If you have a bunc

Re: libpcre3 security update on lenny not installed

Hallo Jörg-Volker, Am 2008-02-24 13:08:30, schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: > As far as I know there is a security update available for the package libpcre3 > currently installed in lenny. But on my system the security update is not > installed commanding > aptitude full-upgrade > Checking with > ap

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

Am 2008-02-24 18:49:09, schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: > Find indeed needs some help. It can only produce a list, and not very good > at sorting it out-of-order. > > find . -name \*.txt -printf '%f\n' | sort Better: find . -name "*.txt" |sort which works nicely Thanks, Greetings and nice Day

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

Am 2008-02-25 08:52:22, schrieb Ron Johnson: > The escaped quotes are what really get me. I think he typed this in > using mailx and echo... I think, he has used "sendmail" directly to write this messages... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Do

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

Am 2008-02-24 17:51:48, schrieb Rodolfo Medina: > Hi. > > I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory > `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search > starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? > > I didn't manage with `

Re: Help with man page display in Etch

Am 2008-02-25 18:53:25, schrieb Paul E Condon: > I'm trying to set up samba on etch in the USA. When I type > man smb.conf I get a page which has strange multibyte sequences > in it, e.g. “ and ” Woops! This manpage seems to be written in UTF8 Do you have tried to us man under an UTF8 locale li

Best Distro for the consumers market ??

Hi, I have been reading couple of posts talking about different kind of distros, but what would you guys suggest as the best distro for the consumers market? There would be a need of stability and reliability. Of course, it would have to be easy to use for the end users. As a complete newbie t

Re: Help with man page display in Etch

On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:47, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-02-25 18:53:25, schrieb Paul E Condon: > > I'm trying to set up samba on etch in the USA. When I type > > man smb.conf I get a page which has strange multibyte sequences > > in it, e.g. “ and ” > > Woops! This manpage seems to

Re: Flash removed from etch - process explained?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Feb-08, at 5:54 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:16:16 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html Going t

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

What version of ubuntu did you test ? because now, ( 7.10 ) Ubuntu simply rocks. But it's naturally, if you use that in a VERY productivity environment, Suse PRO Works better. The cost is stupid, in Italy the price is about 80 euro... anyway not arrive to 100 euro... IMHO, for you, is a very good

Re: Usermount

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:51:46 +0100 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-02-27 05:13 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. > > Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

On Thursday 28 February 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian > > its uniqueness in the first place. Maybe I'm a snob on the > > sysadmin/programmer end of things, but if som

Re: Problem with KVM switch and Screen Res...

Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: Greetings, I am running Debian GNU/Linux ("etch" kernel 2.6.18-6-686) on a PC with an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT connected to a COMPAQ S710 Monitor. I have just upgraded to the latest NVIDIA driver, using "nvidia-installer". It works fine, the only problem I having is w

Re: mounting error USB stick

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:40:34 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Florian Kulzer on 27/02/08 22:01, wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:01:54 +, Adam Hardy wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: >>> Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storag

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

stephane lepain wrote: > Hi, > > I have been reading couple of posts talking about different kind of > distros, but what would you guys suggest as the best distro for the > consumers market? There would be a need of stability and reliability. Of > course, it would have to be easy to use for the e

Re: Help with man page display in Etch

Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:47, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Woops! This manpage seems to be written in UTF8 >> >> Do you have tried to us man under an UTF8 locale like en_US.UTF8? >> >> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day >> Michelle Konzack > > >

Re: Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:17:14PM +0800, Fan Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi all, > > I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. > > Writing extended state information... Error! > E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package >

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:35:47PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-02-24 18:49:09, schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: > > Find indeed needs some help. It can only produce a list, and not very good > > at sorting it out-of-order. > > > > find . -name \*.txt -printf '%f\n' | sort > > Better: > >

Uzeneted erkezett!

Udv!:) Tudom, hogy nem szeretsz ilyen leveleket kapni, de hidd el most az egyszer megeri elolvasnod, mert sok levelet kapunk vissza hogy majdnem kitorolte de azert csak megerte elolvasni, mert fantasztikus az oldal amit ajanlunk, es tenyleg az! Nalunk tiszta tartamat kapsz, semmi reklam semmi

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:52:49 +0100 stephane lepain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been reading couple of posts talking about different kind of > distros, but what would you guys suggest as the best distro for the > consumers market? There would be a need of stability and reliabilit

Error en la instalacion de Lenny

La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " Saludos Jose Manuel Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: windings and acroread

> I don't believe you.  (Well, maybe it was 3 years ago, but not > today.  Do you havehttp://www.debian-multimedia.orgin your > sources.list?) I do: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace a écrit : On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:52:49 +0100 stephane lepain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have been reading couple of posts talking about different kind of distros, but what would you guys suggest as the best distro for the consumers market? There would be a

Re: Problem with KVM switch and Screen Res...

Thnx 1.0E6 Raj, it worked a treat!!! (I am amazed at the response and accuracy of debian lists; I must be learning how to suck eggs...) TA, fcG. On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:07 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am running Debian GNU/Linux ("etch" k

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

Jose Manuel wrote: La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " Saludos Jose Manuel Aguilar [EMAIL PROTECTED] exactly the same error here, 65%, and I made two different CDs hope it will be fixed I want Lenny! -e -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[snip] > In your case, I would go with either Debian Stable or Ubuntu. Why Debian > Stable? Because Debian stable is very reliable, stable and never crashes. Oh, yes it does :( As a recent convert

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

> La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. > Instalando " ssl-cert " try to kill the process that run ssl-cert Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:04:53PM +, michael wrote: > I just noticed a "amanda" dir in > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head > total 1831672 > drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ > {} > drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ > > which I

Re: windings and acroread

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:56:54AM -0800, Ulrich Scholz wrote: > > I don't believe you.  (Well, maybe it was 3 years ago, but not > > today.  Do you havehttp://www.debian-multimedia.orgin your > > sources.list?) > > I do: > > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main On my machine I get

gnome-volume-manager

Is anyone else having problems with gnome-volume-manager? I'm running Sid with apt-get upgrade last run yesterday. gvm is not running as a daemon and when I run "gnome-volume-manager" at a bash prompt either as a regular user or as root I get the error that the command is not found. It is in

Re: Help with man page display in Etch

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:54:13AM -0600, cothrige wrote: > Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:47, Michelle Konzack wrote: > >> Woops! This manpage seems to be written in UTF8 > >> > >> Do you have tried to us man under an UTF8 locale like en_US.UT

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

Pol Hallen wrote: La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " try to kill the process that run ssl-cert Pol and how do you do that from the install CD? -e -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Printer driver

I am trying to setup a Dell 1710n printer on Lenny, but I do not know which model/driver it is compatible with. All I know it is made by Lexmark. I have tried a range of HP and Lexmark models, at no avail. Has anyone used a Dell printer like this with Debian? Thank you all. -- Regards,

Re: Printer driver

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haven't used that Dell model, but it looks roughly like a Lexmark e230. If you don't have a specific driver for it, (and dell doesn't provide them?) try a generic postscript which should work. Point your browser at it and it'll probably have link

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

e s wrote: Pol Hallen wrote: La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " try to kill the process that run ssl-cert Pol and how do you do that from the install CD? -e just you have to go to tty2 or tty3 (with ctrl+alt+f2 or ctrl+alt+f3), a

Re: Printer driver

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:28:08 -0500, Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: > I am trying to setup a Dell 1710n printer on Lenny, but I do not know which > model/driver it is compatible with. All I know it is made by Lexmark. I have > tried a range of HP and Lexmark models, at no avail. Has anyone used a Dell

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 09:54, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: [snip] > > Ubuntu. > > Why? Because it works. > > Consumers don't care about freedom. If they did, they're all be using > FOSS on the desktop right now and MS would go bust within days. > Consum

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:20:07AM +, Kjo wrote: > I booted on an install CD ins rescue mode and tried this tuto : > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Rescue/Crypto > > # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hda2 sda2_crypt > works > > # vgchange -a y [vg] > works > > # mount /dev/[vg]/root /targe

Re: Usermount

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. > Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount anything. Starting usermount, I get this message: "There are no filesystems which you are allowed to mount or unmou

Re: Error en la instalacion de Lenny

Alfredo Finol wrote: e s wrote: Pol Hallen wrote: La imagen de instalacion de lenny se cuelga al 65% en el punto de.. Instalando " ssl-cert " try to kill the process that run ssl-cert Pol and how do you do that from the install CD? -e just you have to go to tty2 or tty3 (with ctrl+alt+

Intel Graphics Drivers

Hello, I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some problems. I downloaded the necessary source trees from their git repository using the links provided in the downloads section of that page. I have been trying to compil

Re: Digikam - Camera not recognized correctly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/23/08 13:41, Chris wrote: > after a recent upgrade in testing, digikam does not recognize my Olympus > fe-190 camera correctly anymore. Instead, it reports the camera as a Olympus > C-310Z and fails to connect. > > Using PTP USB mode it is po

No more AMD-K7 kernels?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I don't find a discussion of this. Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my machines are Athalons. Curt- - -- November 5th: $4.3Million Dollars In O

Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

Hi all My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? I have a Lenny machine with an FSB800 board using an Intel P4 chip and has 2 x DDR2-533 RAM slots. I know that the board is supported in Linux http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=03/08/1

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I don't find a discussion of this. Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my machines are Athalons. Curt- - -- November 5th:

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

On Thu February 28 2008 10:29:54 am Curt Howland wrote: > I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I > don't find a discussion of this. > > Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my > machines are Athalons. I've been wondering about this to.

Re: usbcore and ndiswrapper for toshiba laptop

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 18:56:21 -0500, diane mittnik wrote: > Toshiba laptop A215-S7422, debian etch installed > # uname -a: 2.6.22-4-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 10:29:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > I'm following the instructions here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

andy: > > My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny > can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore but it involves telling the kernel how

finding network printers

Excuse me for the noobishness of the question, but I have been googling around and haven't had any luck. It seems all the howtos and guides out there about adding network printers assume prior knowledge of all the information and IP of the printer one would like to add. I was wondering if there w

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 14:47, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu February 28 2008 10:29:54 am Curt Howland wrote: >> I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I >> don't find a discussion of this. >> >> Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

Jochen Schulz wrote: andy: My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore but it involv

Re: libpcre3 security update on lenny not installed

Thanks for your support. Meanwhile the security team has released the correct update for testing/lenny with version number 7.4-1+lenny1. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

replace cpu on debian etch

I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. If I replace with any socket A Athlon, say, a 2600, instead, same FSB and such, will I have to reinstall Debian, or will the same Kernel and install work okay with my cu

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>[snip] >> In your case, I would go with either Debian Stable or Ubuntu. Why Debian >> Stable? Because Debian stable is very reliable, stable and never crashes. > > O

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 13:51, Rick Dooling wrote: > I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that > just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. > > If I replace with any socket A Athlon, say, a 2600, instead, same FSB > and

I'm BACK!!!

Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. After suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable package management, I'm BACK!!! Boy did I miss you guys . . . So I ran the 4.0 r3 netinst, and just for giggles ran an apt-get update and apt

Re: I'm BACK!!!

On 2/29/08, Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. > After > suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable > package > management, I'm BACK!!! > > Boy did I miss you guys . . . > > So I

KDEgraphics-kfile-plugins_3.5.6-Oubuntu4_i386.deb

Dear Sirs, I want to install the kdegraphics-kfile-plugins_3.5.6-Oubuntu4_i386.deb in my Ubuntu 7,10 operating system but I get a window with a problem reported. Look the attachment. What can I do to solve this problem? Thanxs in advance! Henry Hendriks NL <>

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

andy: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >>> My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny >>> can operate with? >> >> No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards >> that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact >> solution anym

Re: KDEgraphics-kfile-plugins_3.5.6-Oubuntu4_i386.deb

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 16:28, henry wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > I want to install the kdegraphics-kfile-plugins_3.5.6-Oubuntu4_i386.deb > in my Ubuntu 7,10 operating system but I get a window with a problem > reported. Look the attachment. > What can I do to solv

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:03:37PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying mandrake (driva) is better, just that the > installer is prettier, and lets face it, since you only run it once, why > not make installing an eyecandy experience. Because then it doesn't run well on non-ey

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:30:23PM -0800, debian azul wrote: > Debian does not need a friendly mascot. That is ridiculous. Debian is well > known because it is great work not because its appearance is nice or cool. > There are many projects that have been working in beautiful distributions > from D

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:21:32PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Whilst I like Debian, I'm surprised that the maintainers can let this > > situation prevail. But I guess it's

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 00:03, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] > > DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying mandrake (driva) is better, just that the > installer is prettier, and lets face it, since you only run it once, why > not make installing an eyecandy experience. Doug calls

Xorg.0.log on accessible gnome install attempt

After having done a clean install of debian and gotten it up to unstable and having done a clean install of gnome and gnome-orca then having removed execute persissions from /etc/init.d/gdm script I rebooted computer and logged in. I ran startx and got some interesting error messages. One of

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:15:14PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > I am on "my own" machine and I am able to write to local drives. I've > successfully installed Opera, but I can't install Openoffice (because > that requires root -- oops, "administrator" privileges) nor cygqin > (because its can't go throu

Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to it, connected via Ethernet. The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three connection methods: Windows Fileshare (Samba/smb/cifs), Apple Files

wireless card fried?

Hi Since yesterday I can't use my wireless card anymore, an Intel 2200bg. iwconfig and dmesg report that the kill switch is on, which is confirmed by >cat /sys/bus/.../ipw2200/rf_kill >2 Any attempt to change that value is fruitless. Switching on and off the wireless switch does nothing. Only so

Re: I'm BACK!!!

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. I'm going to run VMware Workstation or Server - I use Dragon Naturally > Speaking to do speech to text conversion of meetings that I record on my > Olympus > pocket recorder. Unless you have a better idea . . .

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello If a document containing some Indic fonts is printed, those fonts come out to be different on paper. English fonts are okay though. However, if the document is saved first as a PDF file and then that PDF printed, all fonts come out okay on the print

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:53:40PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Am 2008-02-26 19:26:36, schrieb Richard Lyons: > > Oh Michelle, it's _you_ that sends me all those "Dear {EMAIL}, Try > > {PRODUCT} today FREE!!!..." emails. And I thought it was spammers who > > were too dim to

Re: consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages

On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:53 AM, Johann Spies wrote: Over the years, every time I have reinstalled Debian, I have saved the mail files. Now I have a dozen or more files, with many duplicate messages. Is there an archiving utility or other reasonably simple approach whereby I can process these m

Re: Sending a bug report with reportbug fails

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:20:22PM +0200, Joona Kiiski wrote: > Here is more info. ".reportbugrc" is standard generated stuff without > any modifications. [...] This all looks ok. "No route to host" means AFAIK network problems, but your network seems to be ok. Maybe just try again? > By the wa

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:44:37PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I >> don't find a discussion of this. >> >> Does anyone know why the -k7 precompil

Re: I'm BACK!!!

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:25:18PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Well, about 4 years ago I had to give up Debian for professional reasons. > After > suffering through Red Hat, CentOS and Suse/SLED/SLES and the abominable > package > management, I'm BACK!!! > > Boy did I miss you guys . . .

Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:49:47PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition. > > I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to > it, connected via Ethernet. > > The problem is that the Terastation Pro only offers three

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/08 13:51, Rick Dooling wrote: >> I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that >> just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. > >> If I replace with any socket A Athlon, say, a 2600,

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing > "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so > never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which > one is it? > > Also,

My own emails

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i can't find anythign to make iit do this, but i';m guessing it's possible. Cheers Rich -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: I'm BACK!!!

Doug MacFarlane wrote: > 1. Who would like to help me with the Sound Card issue? We can do it via > email > offline from this list. I've never been really good with loading modules > and drivers . . . > Run alsaconf to set up the driver, add yourself to the audio group, run alsamixer to unmut

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:15:40PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/28/08 13:51, Rick Dooling wrote: > >> I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that > >> just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. > > > >> If I replace with any soc

Re: I'm BACK!!!

On Thu February 28 2008 02:25:18 pm Doug MacFarlane wrote: > 3. Windows emulation. My parents will visit in 2.5 weeks and will want > Pretty Good Solitaire because it has a game called Thirteen Packs in it > that is an old family favorite. Pysol might do the trick. There are quite a few solitai

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