Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/09/08 01:19, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-08-09 07:09 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: But emacs I've used for writing code. Not a lot of code, but enough to get the basic stuff wired in. I also use it as a general purpose editor (it's my default editor in mutt, for example, with it's o

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/09/08 00:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] there are several ways to go about this. What you need to do first, I think, is find out which video driver is trying to run that card. Realise that the 8xxx series cards are having lots of trouble with the nvidia drivers. I've given up on g

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
On Saturday 09 August 2008 08:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:37:47AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Shachar Or wrote: > >>> there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the > >>> spca5xx is being replaced upstream... > >> > >> A

Re: [OT] Debian stickers in India

2008-08-09 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Hello Thomas and Jos, Thanks for your replies. I started with the URLs suggested by you http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise (Thomas Preud'homme) and http://www.debianshop.com (Jos Collin) but they seem to require credit card for any purchase. But I don't use any credit card or online money tra

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:46:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/08 00:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] >> >> there are several ways to go about this. What you need to do first, >> I think, is find out which video driver is trying to run that >> card. Realise that the 8xxx series ca

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 08:19:14AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-08-09 07:09 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > But emacs I've used for writing code. Not a lot of code, but enough to > > get the basic stuff wired in. I also use it as a general purpose > > editor (it's my default edit

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-09 Thread Richard Möhn
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 01:08:37AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/08/2008 09:57 PM, Taahir wrote: > >I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its > >own hard > >disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive > >is > >currently not connected,

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

2008-08-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:12:33AM +0900, buyoppy wrote: > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian which judges > whether some data is encrypted or not? Unless the ciphertext contains some sort of standard header (e.g. *.gpg files), then no. The file utility will report file typ

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-09 Thread Antonio Diaz
Hi, I have been using Vim and Emacs for years but I've to admit that Netbeans and Eclipse are really great, specialized IDEs for these kind of tasks. I'd try some of them. For example, last two years I've been developing in C++ for my company and Netbeans has all you need and more: intel

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-09 10:23 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > but will those instance of emacsclient start up with their own version > of .emacs tailored to that specific use? If so, then I'm all for > it. (I know, the proof is in the execution) No, but why is there a need for it? Probably you want

USB to IDE Interfaces

2008-08-09 Thread Martin McCormick
I want to be able to connect various IDE drives to a Linux system via USB port for backups, restores, and diagnostics such as: Is this drive good for anything other than a paper weight? I'd hate to buy an interface and find out I need some special driver that only exists under Windows.

Problems with an "old" nvidia 6100 GO

2008-08-09 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Hi. I have a laptop with the above mentioned GC, and have two big problems with it : 1) if I use the proprietary driver (the "nvidia" one), when I boot, I see a black screen. X (and gdm) starts OK, no mention of any error in the Xorg.0.log file, but the screen is black. I can switch to a console

Re: Problems with an "old" nvidia 6100 GO

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat August 9 2008, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > 2) if I use the free driver (the "nv" one), everything is fine... except > I don't have ANY access to OpenGL ! All applications requiring OpenGL > fail : games, blender... Kpovmodeler starts, but the graphic widgets show > an error message. > > Can yo

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 20:01:46 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: [ snip: a bit of goofing off ] > I actually am curious to hear what people like about the program, > because I'm (slowly) working out ideas for redesigning the interface > and I don't want to accidentally break useful features. Any

Re: CIFS mount errors

2008-08-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 12:01:31 +1000, Robert S wrote: > I have several mounted CIFS shares to a Win XP Pro server. This > usually functions well for a few days/hours then I get input/output > errors. When I unmount them and try to reconnect I get: > > # mount -a -t cifs > mount error 5 = Input

Re: Router IPv6

2008-08-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:16:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:08:56AM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > modprobe ipv6 > > > > I can't see anything happens here > > # modprobe ipv6 >

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 09 07:29 -0500]: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 20:01:46 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > [ snip: a bit of goofing off ] > > > I actually am curious to hear what people like about the program, > > because I'm (slowly) working out ideas for redesigning t

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 22:31 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > One of my active anti-goals is making aptitude the best package > > >

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/07/08 23:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote: > >>> Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, R

Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Cox
I have some packages on hold for a while and they have remained on hold during several safe-upgrades. Now, all of a sudden, aptitude wants to upgrade two of them. trantor:/home/bob# aptitude search ~ahold ih iceweasel- lightweight web browser based on Mozilla ih iceweasel-l10n-e

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-09 17:11 +0200, Bob Cox wrote: > I have some packages on hold for a while and they have remained on hold > during several safe-upgrades. Now, all of a sudden, aptitude wants to > upgrade two of them. > > trantor:/home/bob# aptitude search ~ahold > ih iceweasel- lightwe

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 17:21:32 +0200, Sven Joachim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2008-08-09 17:11 +0200, Bob Cox wrote: > > > I have some packages on hold for a while and they have remained on hold > > during several safe-upgrades. Now, all of a sudden, aptitude wants to > > upgrade two of

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:11:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > - I would like to be able to declare "favorites" among packages, to > guide conflict resolution. I was actually working on this a few weeks ago but I got sidetracked by the fact that the GTK+ inte

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > It's a bug. If "aptitude safe-upgrade" can't find any packages that are > _not_ on hold (or forbidden), it will try to upgrade packages that you > don't want to. See http://bugs.debian.org/466228. T

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:13:33 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > It's a bug. If "aptitude safe-upgrade" can't find any packages that are > > _not_ on hold (or forbidden), it wi

our bittorrent tracker's gone senile?

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
rtorrent shows me this: debian-40r4a-amd64-DVD-1.iso 1.0 / 4473.5 MB Rate: 0.0 / 0.0 KB Uploaded: 0.0 MB [ 0%] --d --:-- [ R: 0.00] Tracker: [Failure reason "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker."] debian-40r4a-amd64-netinst.iso

Problems with CUPS Error 401

2008-08-09 Thread Hartmut
Hi, I have the following config file and got the followed error. Has anyone a clue what the problem could be? The .15 IP is a Windows XP Client. Why is the client not authorized (cupsdSendError: 8 code=401 (Unauthorized))? Printing works perfect. Thanks a lot, Hartmut --[cupsd.conf]

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +0100, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:13:33 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > > > It's a bug.

instabillity with eclipse on lenny

2008-08-09 Thread martin
Hi, I'm running eclipse (3.3 and 3.4) under debian lenny. Last week the program runned fine without any problems. This week however, the program is very instable and crash on regular basis (can be after 5 minutes sometimes). The only differers is that I have been updating my lenny distribution

can't get to printer admin page using Iceweasel.

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Cartwright
I am having difficulty doing any printer admin using Iceweasel. I have: Debian Lenny 2.6.25-2 IW 3.0.1 Opera 9.51 Opera works fine, Iceweasel just sets and spins... trying to open: https://192.168.10.2:631/printers/start printer I can get to the main admin page, but clicking on start printer...

Re: Does apt keep old packages?

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:32 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:26 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Aniruddha escreveu: > > > Unfortunately I have a fresh install, does > > > this mean I can't install an older package? > > > > > > > You should be able to find them at http:/

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 21:07 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > aptitude makes it easy to "plan the updates" > > How so? You can easily mark packages for installation, upgrade, reinstallation or removal

Re: TTY 1 to 6 are garbled

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:57 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > I hope someone can help me with this. TTY 1 to 6 have a garbled display. > To clarify what I mean I've uploaded a screenshot, you can find it here: > http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tty1xh3.jpg I run Debian testing. > I have never seen

APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
Hi. why doesn't aptitude show me for what purpose a package reccomends or suggests another? I'd very much like that because sometimes, perhaps many times, I can't guess it and even if I can guess it, how do I know? I find that many times README.Debian doesn't mention those things. Any thought

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I'm going to be upgrading my primary hard drive (80GB) with a new 500GB > drive today. The old drive has 7 assorted partitions on it: [...]  > So, what would be the easiest way to transfer everything from the old > drive to the new one? Ch

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:09 +0100, andy wrote: > Hi all > > This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a > desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software > (and related patches), are there any other benefits to using Sid? I am > aware of the risk

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
Quoting Nate Bargmann : * Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 09 07:29 -0500]: [...] - It would be nice to have "apt-cache policy"-equivalent information in the versions display of packages. Right now I find it difficult to figure out in which archive a given version can be found

Re: chkrootkit infected ports 2881

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 14:52 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Yes, you are right, and I have been too slack to get around to changing it. I > am > looking at installing tripwire (after a fresh install) to be able to check up > what is going on after the fact. If you have more than one machine, you mi

Re: chkrootkit infected ports 2881

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 13:19 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > filtered != open > >Filtered means that a firewall, filter, >or other network obstacle is blocking the port so that Nmap cannot > tell whether >it is open or closed. -- man nmap I wish nmap would call "filtered" by a

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
Quoting Daniel Burrows : On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:11:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer was heard to say: - I would like to be able to declare "favorites" among packages, to guide conflict resolution. I was actually working on this a few weeks ago but I got sidetracked by the fact that the GTK+

Re: nVidia G70 with 32 bit Etch Problem

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 10:36 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Where can I find and download a binary nvidia driver? m-a a-i nvidia-kernel -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: nVidia G70 with 32 bit Etch Problem

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:40 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > Objective: 32 bit chroot Etch on a system with an AMD 64 bit processor. > > Problem: Incorrect video driver for nVidia G70 card. > > > > To start I copied xorg.conf from the primary system - Lenny with an

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:28 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > On a Desktop workstation (multimedia edit, 4Gb ram, timer freq being set > @ 1000HZ) I've been using 20 for a long time, no problem whatsoever and > no swapping at all. How sure are you on that? I've 2GB of RAM¹ and eventually someth

Re: Nvidia GeForce FX5200 problems

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:08 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:18:47 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Is this: > > >> Disable"dri" > > >> or this: > > >> Load "dri" > > >> in your xorg.conf? > > >> > > >No. > > > > > >> Is

gramps fails to start on sid

2008-08-09 Thread Kent West
I'm remoted into a sid box, from a sid box, and when I run gramps, it pops up the following and then just hangs; I eventually have to KILL it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gramps Upgrading INI file Hspell: can't open /usr/share/hspell/hebrew.wgz.sizes. Hspell: can't open /usr/share/hspell/hebrew.wgz.siz

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/09/08 15:40, Shachar Or wrote: Hi. why doesn't aptitude show me for what purpose a package reccomends or suggests another? I'd very much like that because sometimes, perhaps many times, I can't guess it and even if I can guess it, how do I know? I find that many times README.Debian d

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like a charm. if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then startx exit fi -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Ron, I

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 10 August 2008 00:58, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/08 15:40, Shachar Or wrote: > > Hi. > > > > why doesn't aptitude show me for what purpose a package reccomends or > > suggests another? > > > > I'd very much like that because sometimes, perhaps many times, I can't > > guess it and even

Re: Making an image of my HDD

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:55 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hello gurus, > > I'm considering doing some dangerous tinkering with my laptop. I have > regular backups of /root /boot /etc and /home, but would like to make a > complete image of the drive as well. Ideally, what I want to do is boot

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-09 Thread Scarletdown
So far so good. Finally got around to actually installing the new drive this morning, since the system was down anyway due to a power flicker on account of the weather. I used gparted to make 3 partitions on the new drive (which came up as /dev/sdf due to sda through sdd being used by the card re

Re: Question on flash player

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:01 -0400, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > I still consider myself a newbe. I have looked in Synaptic package > manager and I have orange liborange0 when I do a search for flash > player. I see swf-player, but that says that is a plugin for mozilla > and I am using Epiphany as my

Re: Nvidia GeForce FX5200 problems

2008-08-09 Thread Frank
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:15:45 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:08 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:18:47 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Is this: > > > >> Disable"dri" > > > >> or this: > > >

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > No, it'll spew large amounts of debugging information to your > terminal which you can then paste into a mail to me. :-) Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but think

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:44:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > That seems redundant, since Emacs is the OS, and thus is running > soon after POST. > > Does that age me? Emacs-as-OS comments just don't have the same > impact when using a 2GB AMD 64X2 machine as they on a 8MB Sun3... Nah, I'd sa

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 09 15:49 -0500]: > Right now I use the "limit view" function with appropriate search terms to > get this kind of information; it would be nice if aptitude displayed the > archive(s) next to the version number automatically. Ahh, since I just have uns

don't really need cpp-3.4, do I?

2008-08-09 Thread H.S.
For the last many weeks, when I want to upgrade my Debian Testing computer, aptitude keeps telling me that: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libg2c0-dev: Depends: gcc-3.4-base (= 3.4.6-6) but 3.4.6-8 is to be installed. libg2c0: Depends: gcc-3.4-base (= 3.4.6-6) but 3.4.6-8

why can't I update libg2c0 [was: Re: don't really need cpp-3.4, do I?]

2008-08-09 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: For the last many weeks, when I want to upgrade my Debian Testing computer, aptitude keeps telling me that: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libg2c0-dev: Depends: gcc-3.4-base (= 3.4.6-6) but 3.4.6-8 is to be installed. libg2c0: Depends: gcc-3.4-base (= 3.4.6-6

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/09/08 17:05, Shachar Or wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2008 00:58, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/09/08 15:40, Shachar Or wrote: Hi. why doesn't aptitude show me for what purpose a package reccomends or suggests another? I'd very much like that because sometimes, perhaps many times, I can't guess

Re: don't really need cpp-3.4, do I?

2008-08-09 Thread David Witbrodt
> However, I would like to keep this version of gcc. cpp-3.4 appears to be > just the pre-processor. I supposed I can remove this and still be able > to use the 3.4 gcc compiler (I want to retain libg2c0 as well). Do I > understand this right? Sure, if you want to program in C without ever us

Re: why can't I update libg2c0 [was: Re: don't really need cpp-3.4, do I?]

2008-08-09 Thread David Witbrodt
> hmm ... just took another look at the package descriptions. It seems > that the problem is libg2c0. How come this still depends on an older > version of gcc-3.4.6? I link some of my programs with some FORTRAN > libraries and need libg2c0. So for now I have been keeping gcc-3.4 at > its olde

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 10 August 2008 03:35, Ron Johnson wrote: > TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit "this is why > package A is recommended" data. If it did, I'd immediately convert > to that app. It would be great to have this as part of packaging policy and the packaging tools to be ab

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/09/08 20:19, Shachar Or wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2008 03:35, Ron Johnson wrote: TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit "this is why package A is recommended" data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to that app. It would be great to have this as part of packaging polic

[Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox

2008-08-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi all, I installed the non ose virtualBox, and I got a XP image running under it with bridged ethernet. However I haven't been able to get USB working on the guest, neither shared folders... I've searched with google, and found several suggestions (often about the permissions of the usbfs devic

Re: Problems with an "old" nvidia 6100 GO

2008-08-09 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Le Sat, 9 Aug 2008 07:57:48 -0400 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Sat August 9 2008, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > > 2) if I use the free driver (the "nv" one), everything is fine... except > > I don't have ANY access to OpenGL ! All applications requiring OpenGL > > fail : games, b

Re: why can't I update libg2c0 [was: Re: don't really need cpp-3.4, do I?]

2008-08-09 Thread H.S.
David Witbrodt wrote: hmm ... just took another look at the package descriptions. It seems that the problem is libg2c0. How come this still depends on an older version of gcc-3.4.6? I link some of my programs with some FORTRAN libraries and need libg2c0. So for now I have been keeping gcc-3.4

Re: Router IPv6

2008-08-09 Thread Zaki Akhmad
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have a look at ip6tables and ip especially ip -6 a and ip -6 r, packages to > look at > radvd. Also sysctl -a | grep ipv6 Dear Alex and Andrew, thank you for your hints. Here's the result of sysctl -a | grep ipv6 command[1]

Re: don't really need cpp-3.4, do I?

2008-08-09 Thread H.S.
David Witbrodt wrote: However, I would like to keep this version of gcc. cpp-3.4 appears to be just the pre-processor. I supposed I can remove this and still be able to use the 3.4 gcc compiler (I want to retain libg2c0 as well). Do I understand this right? Sure, if you want to program in C

Iso que foi festa..

2008-08-09 Thread Roberta Cristina.
Álbum 'Festa na casa do pedro' Cris. 19 Esta convidando você a vizualizar seu álbum de fotos, você poderá vizualizar as '17' fotos no link abaixo. Álbum Completo ID da mensagem BR7628HOT7628

DebConf8 video streams

2008-08-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, in seven hours DebConf8 will officially begin, you can participate by watching the live video streams as described on http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams - have fun! The schedule for tomorrow/today is available at https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/day_2008-08-10.en.html - fo

rsync backup to ext3-formatted usb flash drive?

2008-08-09 Thread Brian Wells
Hi. I'm using svn-fast-backup (in the subversion-tools package) to make rsync backups of my subversion repository. The place I'm backing up to is on an ext3-formatted usb flash drive, and I'm wondering if this is a wise thing to do. I know that flash drive blocks wear out after a certain number o

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 16:41:40 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > No, it'll spew large amounts of debugging information to your > > terminal which you can then paste into a m