Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Shachar Or
> For Free Software purists, note that while there's a GPL version of > VirtualBox itself, the Guest Additions for Windows are *not* Free Software. Ahm... I think that Windows itself is a problem for Free Software Purists :). Hehe. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUB

Re: unable to load ipw2200 module

2008-07-18 Thread oneman
On 18-jul-2008, at 6:22, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:59:45AM +0200, oneman wrote: I've got a Dell Latitude D810 and I tried to get the wireless to work. I installed the ipw2200 driver, but get an error in dsmesg: dull:/home/oneman# dmesg | grep ipw ipw2200: Inte

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread David Baron
On Friday 18 July 2008 00:21:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm rather content with virtualbox-ose, but you have to be careful to > > run a kernel with all the pieces needed (linux-image + > > virtualbox-ose-modules to match). I'm currently running a -486 kernel > > Can't the modules be built wit

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Carsten Aulbert
David Baron wrote: > Xen will run linux--no windows. I believe Xen runs Windows easily if your CPU supports the virtualization scheme. Only then can something unchanged run within Xen. HTH Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: network not starting at boot

2008-07-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:32 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Are you using Gnome? If yes, do you have Network Manager installed >> (package network-manager). This has messed up a lot of users' networking >> setups. > > I'm trying xcfe Network Manager may be running anyway because IIRC

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
David Baron wrote: Qemu will run most anything and without the need of guest-modules which may or may not be available for the target guest or may or may not install their successfully. Qemu presents standard "hardware". Qemu is also dog slow since it is virtualizing everything instead o

Re: Cannot find /dev/parport0

2008-07-18 Thread David Fox
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the /etc/printcap file I have: > > lp|Our Printer:\ >:lp=/dev/parport0:\ >:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ I don't think the printer was ever actually called parport0 in dev. Was it that way in S

Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Wackojacko wrote: The command is the same except the device section is as follows (from user manual section 9.9) *On a Windows host, instead of the above device specification, use e.g. \\.\PhysicalDrive0.* Cripes, good catch. I can see how I missed it being one line and not in the same

Re: Aptitude/apt search question

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 15:35:28 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > I may be missing the blindingly obvious, so apologies if so. > > I wanted to run the 'ip' command and found it wasn't installed on the > particular box I was using. As it was installed on another machine I > was able to: > >[EMAIL PROT

Re: unable to load ipw2200 module

2008-07-18 Thread didier gaumet
Le Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:22:13 +0200, oneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : [...] > Is there a way to check wich modules are actually loaded? I looked at > modprobe but that only seems tot list available drivers on disk with > 'modprobe -l'. [...] lsmod The intel ipw2200 driver is free (kernel mod

Re: unable to load ipw2200 module

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:22:13 +0200, oneman wrote: > On 18-jul-2008, at 6:22, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:59:45AM +0200, oneman wrote: >>> I've got a Dell Latitude D810 and I tried to get the wireless to >>> work. I >>> installed the ipw2200 driver, but get an e

Re: Cannot find /dev/parport0 - Solution

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 00:45:29 +0200, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:50:06PM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > > Anyway I figured it is a udev problem that is causing the /dev/lp0 file > > (that I used to have the printcap pointing too) to go away. > >

mount sd card during debian installation (was Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434)

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Alright, so I downloaded the latest driver from: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2 But now how do I copy it to my linux box without network ? I tried with a sd card, but I do not know how to mount it ? I tri

Re: mount sd card during debian installation (was Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434)

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
vfat ... not msdos On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright, so I downloaded the latest driver from: > > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2 > > But now how do I

Re: mount sd card during debian installation (was Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434)

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Come on ! There is no bunzip2 during the debian installation ! On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > vfat ... not msdos > > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Mathieu Malaterre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alright, so I downloaded the latest driver

Re: unable to load ipw2200 module [solved]

2008-07-18 Thread oneman
On 18-jul-2008, at 10:13, didier gaumet wrote: Le Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:22:13 +0200, oneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : [...] Is there a way to check wich modules are actually loaded? I looked at modprobe but that only seems tot list available drivers on disk with 'modprobe -l'. [...] lsmo

Re: mount sd card during debian installation (was Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434)

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Alright giving up... there is no make comment either On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Come on ! There is no bunzip2 during the debian installation ! > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Mathieu Malaterre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> vfat ... not

Re: mount sd card during debian installation (was Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434)

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
make command, sorry On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright giving up... there is no make comment either > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Mathieu Malaterre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Come on ! There is no bunzip2 during the debian installa

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/18 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For merging .pdf files, I use pdftk (as already mentioned). For > merging .eps, .ps files, I use psmerge. A sample command would look like > > psmerge -ocombined.eps file1.eps file2.eps file3.eps file4.eps > Thanks Kamaraju. I have yet to get

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-07-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/2 John Devereux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wine seems to be getting pretty good now, so perhaps you can find > something meant for windows. > And when you do, whether or not it works in wine, make sure that you write to the developer and let them know that you want to use their program in Linux

Re: mount sd card during debian installation (was Re: Installing debian on HP pavilion a6434)

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
When all else fail: open the beast ! Insert a very old ethernet card: Realtek RTL-8029(AS)...reboot...restart installation :) -Mathieu On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > make command, sorry > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mathieu Malaterre > <[

Re: Using apt to install only one package

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:10:54PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 07/15/2008 02:55 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> The new Dr. Who is just all *wrong*. > > How so? > >> If Tom Baker were dead, he'd be spinning in his grave. >> > > LOL > > (Followups should go to debian-curiosa[at]lists.debian.org) Th

Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:22:20PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > You seem to have the same font in another file, maybe user-installed or > a leftover from earlier days. What do you get with > > fc-match -v "Nimbus Sans L" | grep file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fc-match -v "Nimbus Sans L" | grep file:

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:14:42AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,14.Jul.08, 23:16:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Most people must configure their MUA to send email to > > smtp.bigisp.net, and receive mail from pop.bigisp.net. But with > > Unix (and Debian makes this very easy) you can conf

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:46:36AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I once purchased a pack of cookies and found the date of packing to be a > couple of weeks in the future! Did you check the year? They might have been a 50 weeks old. LOL -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority,

Re: SCIM problem

2008-07-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:03:38PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:15:32AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> >> Usually, my advice for such case are one of the following >> 1. wait 1 or 2 days and upgrade again >> 2. downgrade to testing as emmergency cure >

[OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Hi Everybody, This might be a bit off-topic. Anyway, I am looking for a Debian based Linux distribution (liveCD or something that can be installed on a pendrive) that is mostly command line oriented (just a fluxbox like WM maybe, but most of the things done via command prompt, also with C/C++/Pyth

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Cassiel
have a look at http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/ 2008/7/18 Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Everybody, > > This might be a bit off-topic. Anyway, I am looking for a Debian based > Linux distribution (liveCD or something that can be instal

RE: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Cassiel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 8:03 AM To: Santanu Chatterjee Cc: Debian Users Subject: Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro have a look at http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Damn Small Linux is based on Knoppix is based on Debian. Ubuntu has a live CD although i wouldn't consider it light... Linux From Scratch is not debian based but does have a liveCD and you can do whatever you want. But hey, look, a search engine gave me this: http://www.debian.org/misc/children-dis

Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
I have 3.0~rc2-2 on my Testing system. This page: http://savethecracker.blogspot.com/ among others comes out as repetitive 1-inch graphical segments of various parts of the page jumbled together. It's apparently a Gecko problem, because Epiphany does the same thing now that I've got Iceweasel 3

RE: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
>From: Cassiel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 8:03 AM >To: Santanu Chatterjee >Cc: Debian Users >Subject: Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro > >have a look at http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/i mages/ > > >>2008/7/18 S

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 3.0~rc2-2 on my Testing system. This page: > > http://savethecracker.blogspot.com/ > > among others comes out as repetitive 1-inch graphical segments of various > parts of the page jumbled together. It's apparently a G

Re: Xorg vesa driver stopped working after kernel upgrade

2008-07-18 Thread Salvo Isaja
Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ha scritto: Have you tried the radeonhd driver? I'll try it this evening, thanks for the hint. But, in any case, isn't it strange that just running a kernel newer than 2.6.18 makes vesa (that I used to believe the safest) stop working? Bye, Salvo -- -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Carl Fink wrote: I have 3.0~rc2-2 on my Testing system. This page: http://savethecracker.blogspot.com/ among others comes out as repetitive 1-inch graphical segments of various parts of the page jumbled together. It's apparently a Gecko problem, because Epiphany does the same thing now that I

RE: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> -Original Message- > From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 8:05 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly? > > I have 3.0~rc2-2 on my Testing system. This page: > > http://savethecracker.blogsp

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-18 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Anton Liaukevich wrote: Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor music123, nor vlc utter sound. My hardware: Sound is integrated (AC'97) motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 northbridge: nForce 2 Ultra southbridge: MCP AC'97 codec: from Real

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Santanu Chatterjee: > > This might be a bit off-topic. Anyway, I am looking for a Debian based > Linux distribution (liveCD or something that can be installed on a > pendrive) that is mostly command line oriented (just a fluxbox like > WM maybe, but most of the things done via command prompt, also

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-18 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Bob Cox wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 20:03:00 +0300, Anton Liaukevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 14:48:22 +0300, Anton Liaukevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] I had scanned my hdd with native WD scanner and hadn't detected any error. Memory

RE: running an old windows 98 progam under debain linux

2008-07-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> -Original Message- > From: gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:21 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: running an old windows 98 progam under debain linux > > cant seem to get my hands on an old machine that will boot with win 98 > or win me. s

Re: Sound doesn't work on my system (lenny)

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 08:47, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Anton Liaukevich wrote: >> Sound doesn't work on my system. Neither system sounds in KDE, nor >> music123, nor vlc utter sound. >> >> My hardware: >> Sound is integrated (AC'97) >> motherboard: Epox

DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253989 I had one question. X.org 7.3 http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.3 Xserver autoconfiguration (most of xorg.conf becomes useless) RandR 1.2 support on Intel, ATI, and some G80 boards (autodetection of available modes, dynamic resizin

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Carl Fink wrote: I have 3.0~rc2-2 on my Testing system. This page: http://savethecracker.blogspot.com/ among others comes out as repetitive 1-inch graphical segments of various parts of the page jumbled together. It's apparently a Gecko problem, because Epiphany does the same thing now that I

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:02:30AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > > For Free Software purists, note that while there's a GPL version of > > VirtualBox itself, the Guest Additions for Windows are *not* Free Software. > > Ahm... I think that Windows itself is a problem for Free Software Purists :). > H

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 10:24:18 am Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253989 > > > I had one question. > > X.org 7.3 http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.3 > Xserver autoconfiguration (most of xorg.conf becomes useless) > RandR 1.2 support on Intel, AT

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? Could it be that I've been reluctant to restart X (up for 74 days) despite installing several upgrades? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitp

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 08:56:11 am Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > This might be a bit off-topic. Anyway, I am looking for a Debian based > Linux distribution (liveCD or something that can be installed on a > pendrive) that is mostly command line oriented (just a fluxbox like > WM may

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-14 16:51:37, schrieb Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp): > I hope you didn't type up all that, at least on the topics I raised... > it was a waste... > > My topics were.. > 1) Lets try a version of Debian Etch without the binary firmware Then some parts of Debian GNU/Linux would not more work o

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-13 14:06:51, schrieb Steve Lamb: > My apologies to Ron, I slapped reply and not reply-to-all and trim. :( > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > That's qmail's fault, not that of Maildir. > > No, that is a design problem in Maildir. Granted I wouldn't want my MTAs I do not believe it, s

Re: Maildir vs mbox again (was: IMAP is teh r0x0rz!)

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Jochen, Am 2008-07-14 00:31:03, schrieb Jochen Schulz: > I don't see a problem with several thousand files in one directory: Me too > # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > $ time ls -1 ~/Maildir/.debian.user/cur | wc -l > 10997 > > real0m2.529s > user0m0.284s > sys 0m0.332s

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-14 17:15:41, schrieb Sam Leon: Please can you trim you rpostings next time please? > Welcome to the club. I used to feel the same way when I first found > debian (ubuntu showed it to me). I don't worry about it too much any > more. I like how it will keep all the newbies away from

Re: Query about OCR package(s)

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-15 00:08:45, schrieb Osamu Aoki: > Yes ... From PDF? I do not know but implimenting it is simple with some > filtering. The OP can use "netpbm" to pipe the PDF through the module and then into the ORC software... Have a nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 wi

Re: manipulate initrd from Debian installer

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-14 17:51:38, schrieb Mark Allums: > $ cp /boot/config > $ make gconfig < if using gnome, otherwise some variant > $ make-kpkhg clean > $ make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image modules_image looks a litle bit weird... make-kpkg --append-to-version=my_kernel --config gconfig conf

Re: manipulate initrd from Debian installer

2008-07-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-15 00:14:44, schrieb Denny Schierz: > hi, > > i have to recompile a kernel (2.6.25.9) to get some hardware working, > for example network cards and 3ware SCSI SATA controller from the > installer (debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso). But I'm unable to create a > valid kernel and/or initrd

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 09:25, Carl Fink wrote: > OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both > Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? > > Could it be that I've been reluctant to restart X (up for 74 days) despite > installing several up

window title

2008-07-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
Is it possible to set a gnome window title from the command line, for example, in a bash script? -- "When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and van

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Thanks, Daniel, for this helpful information. I just discovered another similar paradox. I tried to get source package for pidgin from backports.org. That repository was explicitly pinned at 500 and testing at 290. But, look main:~# apt-get source pidgin Reading package lists... Done Building de

Re: window title

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 09:55, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Is it possible to set a gnome window title from the command line, for > example, in a bash script? Is this what you are looking for? http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/Bash-Prompt/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-5.html -

Build non-pae kernel from debian kernel source

2008-07-18 Thread Wilfried HUMBERT
Hi all, I'm facing a problem to build a non-pae kernel from debian kernel source. Here's what i have done: #apt-get source linux-2.6 #cd linux-2.6-2.6.18.dfsg.1 #./debian/rules debian/build debian/stamps #make -f debian/rules.gen setup-i386-xen-686 #cd build/build-i386-xen-686 #make menuconfig

Re: SCIM problem

2008-07-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 09:33:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:03:38PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:15:32AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> > >> Usually, my advice for such case are one of the following > >> 1. wait 1 or 2 days and

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-07-18 Thread John Devereux
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008/7/2 John Devereux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Wine seems to be getting pretty good now, so perhaps you can find >> something meant for windows. >> > > And when you do, whether or not it works in wine, make sure that you > write to the developer and let

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Thanks, Daniel, for this helpful information. > > I just discovered another similar paradox. I tried to get source package for > pidgin from backports.org. That repository > was explicitly pinned

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:01:31PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I do not believe it, since I am admin a Courier-Imap Server with 73.000 > users ith 2.8 million legitim messages and 8 million spams per day. And a d-u troll. > I would never use mbox for such stuff... and of course, a ma

Xorg: missing fixed fonts

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I have finally a -somewhat- working debian box, but after much struggling with the nvidia driver I cannot see any of the fixed fonts. How can I report something more usefull ? Or if anyone with a cristal ball understand what is going on my side, please suggest a solution. Thanks ! --

Re: Switching keyboard language with Ctrl+Shift in the KDE

2008-07-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
--On torsdag, juli 17, 2008 19.52.32 +0300 Anton Liaukevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to use "Russia" & "USA" keyboard layouts and switch them with Ctrl+Shift. I had added "Russia" & "USA" to active layouts so that I can switch them with left-mouse-click in the tray. But I hadn't b

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Emil Pedersen
--On torsdag, juli 17, 2008 16.08.49 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: H.S. wrote: > So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for > virtual machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your > experiences will be appreciated. I was succ

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:25:35 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both > Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? Epiphany is also based on the Gecko rendering engine, isn't it? If you use an Intel integrated graphics card with XAA accelera

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:07:51 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Truly I don't know.  My desktop has two monitors (Nvidia driver).  I have > yet to try to connect a monitor to my laptop, but I bet it will work.  I > have wondered about this as well.  I know people on this list have used an > external monit

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:09:50 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 19:54:18 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253989 > > err. "iSCSI Hangs on reboot"? > You probably meant something else. > Oops!! Here's the correct link

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Friday 18 July 2008 18:07:41 Florian Kulzer, you wrote : > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:25:35 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in > > both Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? > > Epiphany is also based on the Gecko rendering engine, isn'

Re: Xorg vesa driver stopped working after kernel upgrade

2008-07-18 Thread Salvo Isaja
Il Friday 18 July 2008 15:30:04 Salvo Isaja ha scritto: > Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ha scritto: > > Have you tried the radeonhd driver? > > I'll try it this evening, thanks for the hint. I've just tried the radeonhd driver, and I experience a problem similar to the vesa driver: if I boot linux 2.6.1

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 12:32:29 pm Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:07:51 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Truly I don't know.  My desktop has two monitors (Nvidia driver).  I have > > yet to try to connect a monitor to my laptop, but I bet it will work.  I > > have wondered about thi

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 18 Jul 2008 22:30:31 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > This is what I did: > > followed this guide:  http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to > install nvidia the debian way.  I have also installed nvidia with the > nvidia installer.  Both ways will work, at least for Sid. > > then I insta

checkrestart (was Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?)

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 11:50, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > The Friday 18 July 2008 18:07:41 Florian Kulzer, you wrote : [snip] >> >> as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files. The >> checkrestart command from "debian-goodies" is supposed

Re: Squirrelmail:115 Can't Open SMTP Stream.

2008-07-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Thursday 17 July 2008 23:21:03 Semih Gokalp, you wrote : > Thanks for reply. > > I don't know how (and if) SquirrelMail can be configured to use STARTTLS. > It > > > is possible, however, to configure exim to listen on another port using > > the TLS-on-connect convention. > > Secure SMTP server

Re: Xorg vesa driver stopped working after kernel upgrade

2008-07-18 Thread Salvo Isaja
Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ha scritto: Have you tried the radeonhd driver? I'll try it this evening, thanks for the hint. But, in any case, isn't it strange that just running a kernel newer than 2.6.18 makes *vesa* stop working? Bye, Salvo -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

APT Mirror Priority

2008-07-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, AFAIK, there's no way to set priority on the mirrors that are defined in the sources.list file. Let us assume that we have two mirrors listed in the sources.list file. Eg: a local apt-proxy and ftp.us.debian.org It is obvious that apt-proxy is faster than f.u.d.o. What I'd want is that apt

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Thanks, Daniel, for this helpful information. >> >> I just discovered another similar paradox. I tried to get source package for >> pidgin from backports.org. That reposi

Alt-F7 query

2008-07-18 Thread Barrie Stott
I've been struggling with a problem for some days now and not getting any nearer a solution. I'm running Debian unstable with a 2.6.25-2-686 kernel. (I'm also running kbd rather than console-tools.) Suppose I have gvim open (in insert mode so that characters typed appear in the on-screen buffer) i

[rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Sebastian Günther
Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users, please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated. I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here? So go to to your enigmail preferences and turn this annoying traditiona

Re: Xorg: missing fixed fonts

2008-07-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
It's been a long time debian installation didn't went so wrong...(dell & ibm in the past were a lot more smoother). so I was missing "xfonts-base" package...don't ask I do not know why in the world it was not installed/or got removed somehow. Because my ethernet would go off without warning, I ha

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-18 19:18 +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > main:~# apt-get source pidgin/etch-backports > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin/etch-backports > main:~# apt-get source pidgin=2.3.1 > Reading package lists... Done

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:34:18PM +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: > I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients > from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here? Uhm, actually, every enigmail setup I've used in the past 2 years has defaulted t

Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?

2008-07-18 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hi there, A few minutes ago I was reading this list and discovered ctags. I wanted to install it and I try a apt-file ctags | grep bin which didn't show anything. Then I told myself maybe I already had it and tried a tab completion. As I did have this tools I wanted to know which package instal

abcde cddb lookup has stopped working?

2008-07-18 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, i use abcde to rip cd's to ogg and flac. in the past it's worked great but i have a bunch of new cd's to burn and for some reason, abcde has stopped contacting the cddb servers. I get this error: Executing customizable pre-read function... done. Getting CD track info... Querying the C

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 01:34:18 pm Sebastian Günther wrote: > Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users, > > please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated. > > I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients > from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here? > >

Re: Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?

2008-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-18 19:59 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > A few minutes ago I was reading this list and discovered ctags. I wanted to > install it and I try a apt-file ctags | grep bin which didn't show anything. > > Then I told myself maybe I already had it and tried a tab completion. > > As I did

Re: Switching keyboard language with Ctrl+Shift in the KDE

2008-07-18 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,17.Jul.08, 19:52:32, Anton Liaukevich wrote: I want to use "Russia" & "USA" keyboard layouts and switch them with Ctrl+Shift. I had added "Russia" & "USA" to active layouts so that I can switch them with left-mouse-click in the tray. But I hadn't be able to find opt

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Günther wrote: > Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users, > > please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated. > > I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients > from Redmond refuse to be stadard compliant. But who *cares* in here? > > So go to to your enigmail pref

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:29:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > There are many procmail recipes floating around that convert inline pgp > into mime. I see that you're a mutt user, so the closest example to hand is > presumably /usr/share/doc/mutt/PGP-Notes.txt.gz. Or google will find > numerous others

slight OT: backups

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
In the last couple of weeks, I have seen this come up a few times, including from myself. Thought I would just post this here for reference in the hope that it will help. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-backup/index.html -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linked

Re: Webcam setup

2008-07-18 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 18/07/08 01:35, Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:56:40 +0100 "Michal R. Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16/07/08 22:38, Frank McCormick wrote: [] > > video quality is kind of crappy ( it is a Microsoft camera after all) >

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-07-18 19:18 +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > >> main:~# apt-get source pidgin/etch-backports >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree... Done >> E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin/etch-backports >> main:~# apt-get source pidgin=2.3.1 >>

Re: Switching keyboard language with Ctrl+Shift in the KDE

2008-07-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,18.Jul.08, 21:14:54, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option

Re: APT Mirror Priority

2008-07-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,18.Jul.08, 22:25:40, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK, there's no way to set priority on the mirrors that are defined in the > sources.list file. > > Let us assume that we have two mirrors listed in the sources.list file. > Eg: a local apt-proxy and ftp.us.debian.org > > It is obv

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 00:43:13, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I receive most of my emails through my ISPs POP server (ex. all list > > traffic), but I can't use their SMTP server to relay as they don't allow > > a different From, not even after authentication. > > I think you may be confusing "relay

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-18 12:57, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Does anyone know a solution for .doc files? I know that she works with > .doc files as well. from man ooffice: openoffice(1) Name openoffice - OpenOffice.org office suite [...] -p filename...

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-18 19:34, Sebastian Günther wrote: > Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users, > > please stop using inline pgp: this is deprecated. > > I know this is the default, because some ancient braindead mailclients > from Redmond refuse to be stadard com

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-18 21:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Since I am not really sure if this will work now, I'd appreciate a short > feed back. I guess, I should have restarted thunderbird in order for this to take effect... gbbblll Johannes -BE

Besoin d'aide

2008-07-18 Thread Abou B
 Slt chèr ami.   Vous recevez aujourd'huit mon message car j'ai été guidé sur vous grace à mon instinct.Pour cela et avec le respect que je dois avoir pour vous,je vous en suplit de bien vouloir lire mon message jusqu'au dernier mot et d'essayer de me faire garder espoir.    Je m

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