Re: [sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

2008-04-23 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Apr 22 22:18 Rainer Dorsch wrote (shortened): > I want to call a script after I plugged my USB scanner. I use udev for this > by > adding a rule ... > SYSFS{idVendor}=="1606", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0010", MODE="0664", > GROUP="scanner", NAME="umax%n", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/umax1220u star

Re: Laptop Power Management and 2.6.24+

2008-04-23 Thread Leo L. Schwab
> Are there any "generic" daemons out there using the new event facilities > that serve as a reasonable replacement for 'laptop-mode-tools' and/or > 'acpi-support', and which work without X running? After grovelling around in a bunch of config files, I've partially answered my question.

Re: emacspeak with erc on debian

2008-04-23 Thread lenny
Hi Jude, or is it Hey Jude ;) thanks for answering. Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm surprised anyone is able to use emacs let alone emacspeak on > anything later than the sarge distribution of debian given my own > experiences. Mine weren't that bad, but I *did* have some proble

Exim4 Incompatable Command Line Arguments

2008-04-23 Thread David Baron
After yesterday's upgrades (NOT including exim4 packages), I get a failure to start exim4 running the /etc/init.d/exim4 script. If I manually run with presumably the same arguments, i.e. exim4 -bd -q30m, all is well. Anyone had this problem, fixed it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

emacs research

2008-04-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm about to do a bit of emacs research here. First I'm going to downgrade the system to sarge stable and see if I can install emacs and bsdgames and emacs add-ons and do it successfully. If that fails, one of two possibilities exist a) the hardware is failing it's close to 9 years old now, o

Re: removed root directory files

2008-04-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:02:45PM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > I didn't do "rm -r" just "rm /*" I was root when I executed this command. > Ended up reinstalling the os, luckily there wasn't much on the machine and > was really just a backup so nothing was lost. > Not sure what it deleted but i

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-23 Thread David Baron
> Hi all. > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is > not working. > > The command I run and its output are: > > # hdparm -qc3 -qm16 -qd1 -qX66 -qS120 /dev/hda >  HDIO_SET_DMA failed:

Re: [Solved!]Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/08 01:06, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:07:35PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >>> sudo update-initramfs -u >> I cannot directly confirm that step since I do not use initramfs-tools >> (I build

emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where bsdgames and emacs21 get installed together. Emacs21 has aptitude as a dependency

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Adrian Levi
On 23/04/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge > before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude > package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where bsdgames > and emacs21 ge

Re: Gnome workspaces?

2008-04-23 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 18:47 -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: > Also, how do you make it 'reload' your windows and placement on login? > > In KDE, if you logout and then log back in; it automatically brings up > your windows and in the order and placements in which you had them. isn't that saving chang

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-04-23 11:53 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of > sarge before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The > aptitude package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation > where bsdgames and emacs21 get insta

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Emacs21 has aptitude as a dependency and cannot install without > aptitude being preinstalled and happy. Unless it's a pre-dependency, you could install both at the same time, not one before the other. Run apt-cache emacs21 and show us the results. This will point the versi

Re: NC problem

2008-04-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Martin S wrote: Damon L. Chesser skrev: Martin S wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have another disk I swap with on

banshee transition - or worse?

2008-04-23 Thread Enno Weichert
Hi, on my Lenny desktop box I have a problem installing banshee since Apr 16th. Here is the saga: I used to install all my stuff with apt-get, I rarely use aptitude and I am not used to it. I almost never used Synaptic just because I did not see any sense. Well I should have heard to my inner voic

Re: banshee transition - or worse?

2008-04-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Enno Weichert: > > First I supposed this is a transition problem with banshee and stayed > calm but now I am not so sure anymore. > And if it's not I'm not sure where the error may be found. > Since this is lasting for a week now I just thought I might ask the > public. What exactly is your quest

Re: Installing Madwifi (atheros drivers) into Debian Etch.

2008-04-23 Thread tyler
James Allsopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install the atheros drivers onto a desktop machine, > and I've been told the version in stable has a bug in it. Do you have gcc-4.0? apt-get install gcc-4.0 madwifi-source madwifi-tools madwifi-doc m-a prepare m-a a-i madwifi modprobe a

apt-get from hard disk

2008-04-23 Thread ktt
Hi, I copied ETCH install cd content to a directory, but the line in etc/apt/sources.list deb file:///ETCH/1 binary/ doesn't work: apt-get update Failed to fetch file:///ETCH/1/binary/Packages File not found W: Couldn't stat source package list 'file: binary/ Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists

Re: apt-get from hard disk

2008-04-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 07:28:15AM -0700, ktt wrote: > I copied ETCH install cd content to a directory, > but the line in etc/apt/sources.list > > deb file:///ETCH/1 binary/ > > doesn't work: > > apt-get update > > Failed to fetch file:///ETCH/1/binary/Packages > File not found > W: Couldn't

Re: banshee transition - or worse?

2008-04-23 Thread Enno Weichert
 What exactly is your question, then? I don't really see a problem in the > output you posted. If you don't agree with apt-get about which packages > should be removed, just install them at the same time you install the > package you want (and don't already have). > D'oh! After I edited my post

switch from LILO to grub failed

2008-04-23 Thread Fabrizio Lippolis
I have switched the boot manager from LILO to grub, I have purged the lilo package and installed the grub package. Moreover I have run the command grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 I know I was wrong, and actually the machine no longer boots. When I try to boot from the disk I see an error like t

Re: banshee transition - or worse?

2008-04-23 Thread Enno Weichert
> Question is: Is this due to Testing-transition problems with banshee or is it > worse? > > I got used to those problems and generally I stay calm but because of the > specific situation (remember: used synaptic the first time) I became more > nervous. > So I am asking this just to make sure n

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:53:15AM -0500, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge > before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude > package was uninstalled and so I try repeating tha

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:10:25 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > That hasn't worked here for at least a year. And now I can't even close > X with ctrl-alt-del. Isn't it ctrl-alt-backspace that's supposed to close X? -- hendrik > Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:05:49 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:10:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 04 Apr 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > wrote: >> > > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:11:28 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080402 10:42]: >> On Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text >> > console a month or two ago. Now I have

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:49:52 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text >> console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to >> it excpet for regular u

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:47 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > > I can't understand why Emacs would depend on one package manager over > another. Unless I'm missing the bleeding obvious. Well, it *is* emacs. Maybe it has an operating mode where it acts as a front-end to aptitude? :-0 -- hendrik -

Re: [Solved!]Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-23 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:02:36AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I wonder what to do in custom kernels when ide-core is compiled in. one passes the option to the kernel using the boot loader. However, from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt it might be that one needs something like ide-core.hdb=no

Kernel sources for Debian kernel 2.6.18-6-686

2008-04-23 Thread Oliver
I just installed Debian with a netinstall CD. uname -r tells me that I am using the kernel 2.6.18-6-686. Now I am installing a driver (Diva for Linux) and this driver needs the kernel sources to compile a .deb package. (Instructions on page 17 of this document: http://www.dialogic.com/download/p/

Re: Kernel sources for Debian kernel 2.6.18-6-686

2008-04-23 Thread Owen Townend
On 24/04/2008, Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just installed Debian with a netinstall CD. > > uname -r tells me that I am using the kernel 2.6.18-6-686. > Now I am installing a driver (Diva for Linux) and this driver needs > the kernel sources to compile a .deb package. > > (Instructions o

Re: [sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

2008-04-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
Johannes Meixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, >> umax1220u scripts are started in a sequence (i.e. not in parallel, when one >> is completed the next one starts). When troubleshooting udev rules, use udevmonitor to actually see what's happening in terms of udev events and their properties. >

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-23 Thread paragasu
> You're going to have to provide some specifics. What drive on what > controller? What are the drive's capacity specs (C/H/S)? What command > did you use to start fdisk? What commands did you issue within fdisk? > In particular, did you create a new partition table? > > --Mike Bird > this is

Re: 1024 cylinder limit.

2008-04-23 Thread paragasu
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have an old motherboard. Pentium R acer motherboard. > > during my days working with windows. the bios can only detect 2GB of > > diskspac

Apache2 .net and php

2008-04-23 Thread Robert Jerrard
I am running a Debian system and am trying to and the necessary bits to an apache2 server so as to be able to develop .net and php sites. I believe I needed to install libapache2-mod-mono mono-apache-server2 and when trying to do so got: penrose:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-mono mono-apache-s

Re: Kernel sources for Debian kernel 2.6.18-6-686

2008-04-23 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:30:27AM -0700, Oliver wrote: > I just installed Debian with a netinstall CD. > > uname -r tells me that I am using the kernel 2.6.18-6-686. > Now I am installing a driver (Diva for Linux) and this driver needs > the kernel sources to compile a .deb package. > > (Instructi

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-23 Thread paragasu
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:38:58AM +0800, paragasu wrote: > > > > this is what printed on the old hard disk > > > > Seagate ST32122A > > 4092 CTL 2111MB > > 16 HEADS 63 SECTORS > > > > #fdisk /dev/sdb > > inside the fd

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-23 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:38:58AM +0800, paragasu wrote: > > this is what printed on the old hard disk > > Seagate ST32122A > 4092 CTL 2111MB > 16 HEADS 63 SECTORS > > #fdisk /dev/sdb > inside the fdisk, i did use the command p, n, t, d,a > i did delete the whole partition, create new partition

dwww problem

2008-04-23 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Hi! Is there a way to make dwww open the man page for my requested indata? As it is now, "dwww ls" for example opens a page with the title "Documentation related to ls" , which surely contains a link to the ls stuff, but isn't exactly what I want. It requires me to click the link to get to the act

PATA (sic) support in sata_promise module

2008-04-23 Thread michael
Folks, I've submitted the below request for PATA support to be put in sata_promise module for shipping with future Debian (etch) kernels. I note there's a version with the latest gparted that has this support. Details: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473411 I've two (naive - sorr

Re: [sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

2008-04-23 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Julien BLACHE: > Johannes Meixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > >> umax1220u scripts are started in a sequence (i.e. not in parallel, when > >> one is completed the next one starts). > > When troubleshooting udev rules, use udevmonitor to actually see >

Re: Exim4 Incompatable Command Line Arguments

2008-04-23 Thread Ken Wahl
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:35:59AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > After yesterday's upgrades (NOT including exim4 packages), I get a failure to > start exim4 running the /etc/init.d/exim4 script. > > If I manually run with presumably the same arguments, i.e. exim4 -bd -q30m, > all is well. > > Any

Re: debian utility question

2008-04-23 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:03:00 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk >> permissions? > > Hi Jude, > > What is the output of the following command: lsof /usr/bin/dpkg > Querie

help required

2008-04-23 Thread sadia jameel
hello dear My name is sadia and i am student of MS(computer science). i want some information relating to bug #436681 that has been fixed now. i am interesting in it and want to know these following questionsabout it: 1- in which subpackage of "backuppc" this bug was present? 2- what was

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I have been upgrading. Could it be that three revisions of kernels have > passed me by unnoticed without a reboot? (I check /boot). Nope. Better > investigate why I'm not getting the upgrades. If you have both linux-image-2.6- and l

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-23 Thread Mike Bird
> inside the fdisk, i did use the command p, n, t, d,a > i did delete the whole partition, create new partition and reboot the > computer. > the same thing happen. same error message appear. What was the output of the "p" command? Is the problem with the disk or with the partition? The "o" comma

Re: X server restarts unexpectedly

2008-04-23 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jimmy Wu wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am running Debian Sid on a Thinkpad T61, and everything seems to > > > > work fine except for more and more strange things that cause my X > > > > server t

Re: emacs research

2008-04-23 Thread s. keeling
Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm about to do a bit of emacs research here. First I'm going to > downgrade the system to sarge stable and see if I can install emacs and > bsdgames and emacs add-ons and do it successfully. If that fails, one of > [snip] > problem for long. After tha

Re: help required

2008-04-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/23/2008 05:20 PM, sadia jameel wrote: hello dear My name is sadia and i am student of MS(computer science). i want some information relating to bug #436681 that has been fixed now. i am interesting in it and want to know these following questionsabout it: 1- in which subpackage

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:32:30PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:47 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > > > > I can't understand why Emacs would depend on one package manager over > > another. Unless I'm missing the bleeding obvious. > > Well, it *is* emacs. Maybe it has an oper

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-23 Thread paragasu
> What was the output of the "p" command? > > Is the problem with the disk or with the partition? The "o" command > creates a new partition table. p will print nothing because i delete all the partition using d command. i never aware of o command because i use n to create new partitions.

Help using my new scanner

2008-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Actually I have a new Epson Stylus CX7400 All-In-One. I've got it working as a printer just fine through CUPS and Gutenprint. It prints photos great on plain paper. I can't wait to see what it does on photo paper. It copies fine at the touch of a button. Scanning does not yet work at all.

Re: Help using my new scanner

2008-04-23 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 24 April 2008 07:12:51 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Actually I have a new Epson Stylus CX7400 All-In-One. > Scanning does not yet work at all. > > # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the > # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your >

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-23 Thread Mark Allums
paragasu wrote: What was the output of the "p" command? Is the problem with the disk or with the partition? The "o" command creates a new partition table. p will print nothing because i delete all the partition using d command. i never aware of o command because i use n to create

[OT] openWRT (was: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box)

2008-04-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 biaAlex Samad wrote: [snip] > I would also suggest make the adsl modem (routers?) in bridged mode and > firewall up the debian box and do it all there. Similiar to what I have done. > The only > difference right now is i use openwrt (linux distro for

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-23 Thread paragasu
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > paragasu wrote: > > > > >What was the output of the "p" command? > > > >Is the problem with the disk or with the partition? The "o" command > >creates a new partition table. > > > > p will print nothing because

Unmet dependencies Xfce4

2008-04-23 Thread andy
Hello Can someone please advise on the best way to handle the following situation of unmet dependencies: $ sudo apt-get install xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-goodies Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. T

Re: [OT] openWRT (was: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box)

2008-04-23 Thread Alex Samad
it should have a look here for a list http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:37:53PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > biaAlex Samad wrote: > [snip] > > I would also suggest make the adsl modem (routers?) in bridged mode

Re: Help using my new scanner

2008-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 07:36:01 you wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: Are you in scanner group? Yes, my original post says that I changed the device node's group to scanner and added myself to the group, then logged out and back in. Why did you ch

Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

2008-04-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-04-24 08:06 +0200, andy wrote: > Can someone please advise on the best way to handle the following > situation of unmet dependencies: > > $ sudo apt-get install xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-goodies > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... D

Force process to swap?

2008-04-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way to tell kswapd that i wan't a particular process to get shoved into swap? I run a torrent client 24/7 (in many ways it would just be easier to mirror a whole bunch of distro iso's, but oh well).. Anyway, it tends to consume between 30

INQUIRY for DEBIAN LINUX

2008-04-23 Thread 서청원
Dear supporters I’m CheongWon from RedGate which is the company developed own solution, SecureOS named RedCastle. I am very happy to be Debian Linux user. :D To compile our solution, we need these packages, kernel-development, kernel-source and pam-delvelopment and so on. I installed De