font change upon switching from DVI to VGA

2008-09-29 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i had some problems with the DVI connector on my computer (notebook) recently and therefore switched to VGA (i have both). interestingly, the font size in some applications changed in size (e.g., conky, thunderbird/icedove). on my previous computer, i forced the dpi to 100 in kdmrc

Re: Wireless issues -- Lenovo R61 ThinkPad -- cannot enable connection on boot-up ...

2008-09-29 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:35:55 +0200, Ken Heard wrote: > > [...] > >> I would like however to be able to have the wireless connection enabled >> on boot-up. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how to do so. > >

Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/28/2008 02:49 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I did check the settings in .config. Both BLK_DEV_IDE and BLK_DEV_IDEDISK are set to "y." As for the ATA/SATA settings, they were not set, but my disk is an older one and should not care, but I tried setting them and trying again, and I got the

Re: "Could not stat resume device file"

2008-09-29 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Djingo Cacadril wrote: > Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Saturday, September 20, 2008 4:14:59 PM >>> Ken Heard skrev: When I boot up any box with encryption activated for a partition in it, the following message is received at the begi

Re: USB Mouse

2008-09-29 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 28 September 2008 20:03:08 debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a logitec USB/PS2 optical mouse, the el cheapo. > > > >   > > > > I had been using it with the ps2 adapter until I booted up and BIOS > > kicked about the keyboard. Taking out that connector enabled me to >

No such file or directory

2008-09-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
I'm trying to bring the bookmark file from ubuntu firefox into iceweasel. I copied it to a usb drive and then into /etc/iceweasel/profile after renaming the existing file. The permissions came out different from the old file: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7139 2008-09-29 00:57 _bookmarks.html -rwx---

HOWTO convert a pdf to a docbook(XML) format or to a po format

2008-09-29 Thread Ji ZhengYu
HI, I'm not in list, so please CC to me. As subject, I want to convert a pdf file to another format, which is easy to modify and translate. I'd prefer to use vi with po plugin to translate some file, so it's best to convert pdf to po file. Target file is like this: ---

Re: Fwd: fglrx driver locks machine

2008-09-29 Thread Nicholas Syrotiuk
Matteo, The best source of information for your problem is the Phoronix forum: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/ I had your problem at first even though I use lenny and a different graphics card, ATI Radeon HD 2400. You and I have what are called R6xx cards, and the current drivers (both open s

Re: HOWTO convert a pdf to a docbook(XML) format or to a po format

2008-09-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:12:43PM +0800, Ji ZhengYu wrote: > As subject, I want to convert a pdf file to another format, which is > easy to modify and translate. > I'd prefer to use vi with po plugin to translate some file, so it's > best to convert pdf to po file. Easier said than done. You can

How do you add a preseed file to the initrd?

2008-09-29 Thread Tim Edwards
I'm trying to add my preseed.cfg file into the root of the initrd, as mentioned is possible in the debian preseed documentation: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs02.html#preseed-loading So once I've mounted the boot cd, copied the initrd.gz to a temp location I try to add it to

Re: No such file or directory

2008-09-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-29 10:23 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote: > so I ran chmod as root and got this: > > debian:/etc/iceweasel/profile# /etc/iceweasel/profile$ chmod 644 > bookmarks.html > bash: /etc/iceweasel/profile$: No such file or directory > > Damned strange considering I was in /etc/iceweasel/profile a

preseeding localisation settings driving me insane!

2008-09-29 Thread Tim Edwards
I have the following in my preseed file to try to localise the installation to German, in Germany with a German keyboard: d-i console-tools/archs string skip-config d-i debian-installer/locale string de_DE.UTF-8 #d-iconsole-keymaps-at/keymap select German #d-idebian-installer/keym

Re: anybody running a multiseat?

2008-09-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I used to run a 2seater before the PCI MX440 blew up. Now I just got a PCI GeForce 6200 and I get errors from gdm: Bus types other than PCI not yet isolable Just to prove to myself that I am not crazy (yet) I am now running a 2 seater that I had used before on a d

Re: how to sniff marked packets by iptables

2008-09-29 Thread Djingo Cacadril
Lucas Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:57:16 PM > I marked some packets with iptables (-j MARK), and I want to "see" this set. > > I tried to search google, but nothing related. tcpdump doesn't seems help > with that. The MARK target _associates_ a mark wit

Re: how to sniff marked packets by iptables

2008-09-29 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On pon, 2008-09-29 at 05:34 -0700, Djingo Cacadril wrote: > Lucas Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, September > 25, 2008 7:57:16 PM > > > I marked some packets with iptables (-j MARK), and I want to "see" > this set. > > > > I tried to search google, but nothing related. tcpdump doe

Music/Audio CDROMs, DVDs, & Etch kernel Security Update.

2008-09-29 Thread D Bray
The following is a record of a problem we had here with a debian Etch Security Update that we performed on 26 Aug. 2008. It has now been resolved. The culprit seems to have been the linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6_i386.deb kernel package. However, there seems to be no maintainer for

Re: how to sniff marked packets by iptables

2008-09-29 Thread Lucas Mocellin
Ok, I understood, but create a dummy device to sniff it in a operation server I think it is not the best solution. But, I have never thought about -j LOG, kkk if I do a filter by the mark, and -j LOG, I think it's sufficient. thanks!! Lucas. 2008/9/29 Mariusz Kruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

equivalent of xfontsel for fontconfig names

2008-09-29 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, is there any application that can be used for going through a list of fonts, displaying the glyphs and providing also the fontconfig names in a way similar to xfontsel? i.e., i'd love to browse the fonts on my harddrive and after selecting one of them, getting for example VeraBd.

how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-29 Thread Kruti
Hi.. Can someone help me regarding how to install a package in any user defined folder other than /usr using apt-get? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-install-package-using-apt-get-in-folder-other-than--usr-tp19725727p19725727.html Sent from the Debian User mailing

Re: Consultation on Linux for CD

2008-09-29 Thread Chris Burkhardt
consultores1 wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 22:53 -0600, Chris Burkhardt wrote: >> Felipe Gallois wrote: >>> the signature =] >> ... which I think is actually an ad appended by hotmail. But, yes, that's >> what I >> based it on. I hope it wasn't too presumptive :) >> >> - Chris B > > Yes, it was

Re: Consultation on Linux for CD

2008-09-29 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 13:01, Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > consultores1 wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 22:53 -0600, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > >> Felipe Gallois wrote: > >>> the signature =] > >> ... which I think is actually an ad appended by hotmail. But, yes, > that's what I >

Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I am trying to find out how signing email works using Evolution on Debian Lenny. I created a PGP key, exported it to the key servers, where it arrived (at least that is what I suspect): e.g. gpg --recv-keys 673C3196 gpg: requesting key 673C3196 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net gpg: key 673C

Re: Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:09:24 +0200 "Joost Kraaijeveld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > But whenever I send an email to *myself* (through a MS Exchange 2000 > server) using "PGP sign" Evolution says "Invalid signature". Mail from > other people seem to work correctly: in the end (after some click

Wireless card not showing up

2008-09-29 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start. I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up in my networking tools, even though the machine does support WiFi. I rebooted i

Re: Wireless card not showing up

2008-09-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escreveu: > Hi. > > This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know where to start. > > I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally plugged into an Ethernet > port. I realized recently that only the wired network is showing up > in my networking tools, even though

Re: Wireless card not showing up

2008-09-29 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escreveu: > > Hi. > > > > This may not even be a Debian issue but i dont know > where to start. > > > > I have a ThinkPad T60 running Lenny. Its normally > plugged into an Ethernet port. I realized recently that only > the wired network is showing up

Nautilus 2.22 in debian?? (gvfs)

2008-09-29 Thread Juan Ponce R
A way to use nautilus 2.22 (actually in experimental (!)) with lenny or sid?? y tried to install in lenny and nautilus 2.2 works but all the menus "extract to" "open as administrator" ..etc (when right click to file) disappear. A way to easy pass to nautilus 2.22 for use the new gvfs , gnome-vfs

Ajuda

2008-09-29 Thread Bruno Braga Gonçalves
Boa Tarde, gostaria de pedir ajuda para instalar o "g24 edge usb modem (Motorola e a operadora é a Claro)" no meu computador. Depois de muitas tentativas não consegui. A única coisa que preciso pra largar o Windows de vez é a conexão com a internet. Se puder ajudar, abraço. Novos endere

Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2008 10:07 AM, Kruti wrote: Hi.. Can someone help me regarding how to install a package in any user defined folder other than /usr using apt-get? I don't think this is possible. You can however download the file using wget and install the .deb using dpkg-deb. Why do you want to do th

Re: Music/Audio CDROMs, DVDs, & Etch kernel Security Update.

2008-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2008 07:44 AM, D Bray wrote: The following is a record of a problem we had here with a debian Etch Security Update that we performed on 26 Aug. 2008. It has now been resolved. The culprit seems to have been the linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6_i386.deb kernel package. Howe

Re: Ajuda

2008-09-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Bruno Braga Gonçalves escreveu: > Boa Tarde, gostaria de pedir ajuda para instalar o "g24 edge usb modem > (Motorola e a operadora é a Claro)" no meu computador. Depois de > muitas tentativas não consegui.. A única coisa que preciso pra largar > o Windows de vez é a conexão com a internet. Se puder

Re: Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:24 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:09:24 +0200 > "Joost Kraaijeveld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does signing work properly when the mail isn't passing through MS > Exchange? E.g., if you have a local MTA installed on the system, try > sending mail to yours

Re: Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Winfried Tilanus
On 09/29/2008 Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, > But whenever I send an email to *myself* (through a MS Exchange 2000 > server) using "PGP sign" Evolution says "Invalid signature". Mail from > other people seem to work correctly: in the end (after some clicking) I > get "valid signature". I can con

Re: Wireless card not showing up

2008-09-29 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29.09.08 18:28]: [WiFi Problem] Please submit the results of the following commands: # uname -a # lspci # ifconfig # iwconfig Then we know a little more about your hardware. HTH Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Mar

Re: Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:57 +0200, Winfried Tilanus wrote: > I can confirm that your key is uploaded correctly and that the signature > verification fails. Thanks for the confirmation. > > > Can anyone give me a clue how to get this working ? > > Well, if the sig fails, there can be two cases: >

Re: No such file or directory

2008-09-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-09-29 10:23 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote: so I ran chmod as root and got this: debian:/etc/iceweasel/profile# /etc/iceweasel/profile$ chmod 644 bookmarks.html bash: /etc/iceweasel/profile$: No such file or directory Damned strange considering

gv (gs) not producing full plots on AMD64 with nVidia

2008-09-29 Thread michael
I'm running Debian etch on my AMD64 box. It has an nVidia GeForce 6600 card and I'm using nVidia's module driver (v169.12). When I try and use 'gv' to display an IDL-produced plot it gives a partial plot, the cursor shows that interpretting is progressing but it never completes the plot. (If I take

KDE subpixel hinting

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Maurer
I have both, etch and lenny installed. Both with KDE 3. At etch I can activate font-aliasing with subpixel hinting but I can't activate it at lenny. The checkbox for subpixel hinting are gray and not useable. Any hints, why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

thunderbird times out with attachments

2008-09-29 Thread Paul Cartwright
lately, when I receive an email that has an attachment, like a large JPG or movie, or powerpoint... when I click on the message, thunderbird just locks up. Sometimes I get a message about a script, wait or force quit.. the latest was a 5Mb attachment that was a large JPG. I could SAVE-AS *.eml, the

samba sharing hang up

2008-09-29 Thread Szilárd Szabó
Hi! I have set up a SAMBA file sharing (and Apache + MYSQL+ WEBMIN+ exim+ fetchmail) This sahrings conatins 2 shares Public and a Boston for this connect 3 PC, and work together with samba. (one of this is a Program, witch runs on every PCs) The problem is: 1 computer works with samba correct.

Re: Wireless card not showing up

2008-09-29 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Sebastian Gunther wrote: > * Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29.09.08 18:28]: > > [WiFi Problem] > > Please submit the results of the following commands: > > # uname -a > > # lspci > > # ifconfig > > # iwconfig > > Then we know a little more about your hardware. I seem to hvae fixed i

iptables LOG

2008-09-29 Thread Marcin Kłapkowski
I set iptables rule for logging. # iptables -I INPUT -m limit --limit 15/minute -j LOG --log-level 4 --log-prefix "firewall: " It's logging in warning level. And my logs goes to kern.log file. It's for now, but more over, this logs are flooded into console tty if i'm without X. How can i set it t

Re: thunderbird times out with attachments

2008-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/29/08 12:45, Paul Cartwright wrote: lately, when I receive an email that has an attachment, like a large JPG or movie, or powerpoint... when I click on the message, thunderbird just locks up. Sometimes I get a message about a script, wait or force quit.. the latest was a 5Mb attachment that

General Protection Fault in openafs, 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 kernels

2008-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Using debian testing (lenny) and self-compiled 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 kernels, I get the following GPF: Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: general protection fault: [#1] SMP Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: Modules linked in: piix ide_cd_mod ide_core pata_mpiix radeon drm openafs(P) rfcomm l2cap bluetooth v

Re: General Protection Fault in openafs, 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 kernels

2008-09-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Andrew Perrin wrote: > Using debian testing (lenny) and self-compiled 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 kernels, > I get the following GPF: [GPF trace snip] > This does *not* happen using 2.6.24 compiled with essentially the same > .config file. Using the latest openafs-modules-source: 1.4.7.dfsg1-5. > > Any adiv

Re: how to sniff marked packets by iptables

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:33:38AM -0300, Lucas Mocellin wrote: > Ok, I understood, but create a dummy device to sniff it in a operation > server I think it is not the best solution. > > But, I have never thought about -j LOG, kkk if I do a filter by the > mark, and -j LOG, I think it's su

Re: Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 07:08:12PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:57 +0200, Winfried Tilanus wrote: > > I can confirm that your key is uploaded correctly and that the signature > > verification fails. > Thanks for the confirmation. > > > > > > Can anyone give me a clue

Re: General Protection Fault in openafs, 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 kernels

2008-09-29 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Andrew Perrin wrote: Using debian testing (lenny) and self-compiled 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 kernels, I get the following GPF: Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: general protection fault: [#1] SMP ... Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: Call Trace: Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: [] afs_osi_

Re: HOWTO convert a pdf to a docbook(XML) format or to a po format

2008-09-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:12:43 +0800 "Ji ZhengYu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > I'm not in list, so please CC to me. > > As subject, I want to convert a pdf file to another format, which is > easy to modify and translate. > I'd prefer to use vi with po plugin to translate some file, so it's >

can I restore a mysql databse with just a backup of /var/lib/mysql?

2008-09-29 Thread Joseph Neal
Hi All My host managed to kill my virtual server while migrating it from one machine to another. They were able to give me the up to date contents of /var /etc and /home and a new server with a fresh etch install on it.Will it work if I just copy over the contents of /var/lib/mySQL? I've

kernel panic - not syncing ???

2008-09-29 Thread Mike Schleif
amd64 server will not complete boot, regardless which kernel from grub menu google hit on memory; but, that does not appear to be the case, after swapping memory last 20+ lines of boot messages: ... device-mapper:ioctl:4.7.0-ioctl(2006-06-24) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 logical volume

how to save flash

2008-09-29 Thread Serena Cantor
The flash is really good, I want to save it. It's like youtube, it's at http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDE4NDk2Mjg=.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to save flash

2008-09-29 Thread Neil
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The flash is really good, I want to save it. > It's like youtube, it's at http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDE4NDk2Mjg=.html > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Winfried Tilanus
On 09/29/2008 Alex Samad wrote: Hi, > doesn't exchange use smime I suppose exchange (a mta) doesn't use s/mime, and if it does, it should still not mangle a gpg signed message. Outlook (a mua) uses s/mime. (But there is a GPG plugin available for it.) The OP is using Evolution as mua and excha