Re: Grub dilemma

2008-10-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:15:49AM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18.10.2008 > > > This is for grub package /boot/grub/menu.lst. If you are installing > > grub-pc, you have /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux" { > > set root=(hd0,1) >

Re: dpkg-diversion confusion

2008-10-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-19 04:28 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I have a custom VNC jar file in /usr/share/java/vncviewer-4.1-local.jar, > and I want it to be used instead of the jar file installed by vnc-java > in /usr/share/java/vncviewer-3.3.3r2.jar, but I can't seem to get the > syntax right: > > $ sud

Debian on MacBook

2008-10-19 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi! Anyone has any luck with gNS on MacBook, single boot? Some time ago, there exists a problem with this configuration -- waiting a minute during booting while it searches for the boot record, and I wonder if this was solved now so I can procure one during Christmas. -- In Liberty Koh Choon Li

Fluxbox Very Slow Window Movement and Lag

2008-10-19 Thread j
I posted this on the Fluxbox mailing lists and have had no response unfortunately. I am hoping that Debian Users may be able to provide some insight or resolution to this problem. With Opaque Window moving enabled when I move a Window around the screen it lags behind the mouse pointer considerab

Why the BLEEP was my sound removed?

2008-10-19 Thread Rico Secada
Hi, I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop. Normally I get sound working using the snd-maestro3 module, but I can see that support has been removed. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464191 This is something that is affecting a lot of users. Yes, I can use 2.6.18 inste

Re: Why the BLEEP was my sound removed?

2008-10-19 Thread CaT
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:12:08PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Can someone please explain why the BLEEP support was removed? It was probably removed because the BLEEP is mostlikely non-BLEEP and as such would violate the BLEEP. But that's just a BLEEP. -- "Police noticed some rustling sounds f

no servlet class on sun-java6 ?

2008-10-19 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I took a program ( using servlet ) from a book, so I suppose it runs correctly, I tried it on my PC using sun-java6. Does it have another name? Other programs, with (swing, applet ...), run correcly. I searched servlet class in javax, I didn't find it the error is at the import javax.servlet.*

Re: security question

2008-10-19 Thread Bogdan
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Bogdan wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:51:38PM +0300, Bogdan wrote: Although I don't like it, the bank i work with only offers Internet Banking that works only under Internet Explorer. So,

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-19 Thread michael
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 19:45 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > > this doesn't seem to be true the job runs and produces output and > > > root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I > > > don't get any o/p from /etc

Re: Why the BLEEP was my sound removed?

2008-10-19 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:18:31 +1100 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:12:08PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > > Can someone please explain why the BLEEP support was removed? > > It was probably removed because the BLEEP is mostlikely non-BLEEP and > as such would violate the

Re: libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 17:50:36 -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> That does not tell you which library is used in the end. I would run >> >> ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/epiphany-browser | grep libz >> > host:~# ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/epiphany-browser |grep libz > libz.so.1 => /usr/loca

Re: Grub dilemma

2008-10-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:21:52PM +0200, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 2008/10/18 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am not installing Ubuntu - it's already installed on hda3. I say > > again I want to install another Linux on hda3 which uses Lilo...not > > Grub. I'

ACPI power management broken since 2.6.23-1

2008-10-19 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, Kernel 2.6.23-1 is the last kernel I seem to be able to run and have my laptop go to sleep. I am trying to figure out what i need to do to make the newer kernels sleep, but am a bit stuck. Can anyone give me some pointers to try and figure out what I might be missing to make it work? I admit

Re: ACPI power management broken since 2.6.23-1

2008-10-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Anton Piatek wrote: > Kernel 2.6.23-1 is the last kernel I seem to be able to run and have > my laptop go to sleep. > > I am trying to figure out what i need to do to make the newer kernels > sleep, but am a bit stuck. > > Can anyone give me some pointers to try and figure ou

Re: ACPI power management broken since 2.6.23-1

2008-10-19 Thread Anton Piatek
2008/10/19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Anton Piatek wrote: >> Kernel 2.6.23-1 is the last kernel I seem to be able to run and have >> my laptop go to sleep. >> >> I am trying to figure out what i need to do to make the newer kernels >> sleep, but am a bit

Samba domain not found

2008-10-19 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
I am trying to setup a Samba domain inside an Active Directory network. This is a separate domain and will be replacing the AD, the problem is that one of the machines connected to the AD cannot find the domain when told to use it. We can see this domain when we goto Network Places (Windows XP)

Re: Grub dilemma

2008-10-19 Thread Frank
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:21:52PM +0200, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> 2008/10/18 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I am not installing Ubuntu - it's already installed on hda3. I say >>> again I want to install another Linux on hda3 which u

Compiling alsa-driver-1.0.17 for Debian etch

2008-10-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All *This email just sums up what I did to compile the alsa-driver-1.0.17 with the hope that it might be useful to someone else.* (1) to (6) is information provided by Nigel Henry (see 'Alsa not working properly' on debian-user@lists.debian.org). I am using etch (see system information

Re: ALSA not working properly

2008-10-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
[snip at lot], :-)] Moving on to option 2, simply upgrade the alsa driver. Many patches have been added to the alsa driver since 1.0.12rc1, particularly with reference to the snd-hda-intel module, so go to the link below, and download alsa driver 1.0.17, which is the current stable version.

Re: no servlet class on sun-java6 ?

2008-10-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:13:39AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I took a program ( using servlet ) from a book, so I suppose it runs > correctly, I tried it on my PC using sun-java6. Does it have another name? > Other programs, with (swing, applet ...), run correcly. > I searched ser

Re: Grub dilemma

2008-10-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 01:28:11PM -0400, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Also, it sounds like grub looks for its menu.lst on hda3. If that's > > the case, you'll want to change it before you wipe hda3 to install a > > new distribution. > > > > Daniel

Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages

2008-10-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
Miles Fidelman wrote: >> > While I love apt for most things, I've installed lots of non-debian > packages, using the basic configure; make; make install approach. For > many packages, that's the only way to get the latest version. I've yet > to get Sympa to work from its .deb, for example. >

Re: ACPI power management broken since 2.6.23-1

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Allums
Anton Piatek wrote: 2008/10/19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Anton Piatek wrote: Kernel 2.6.23-1 is the last kernel I seem to be able to run and have my laptop go to sleep. I am trying to figure out what i need to do to make the newer kernels sleep, but

Re: Problems in Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922

2008-10-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Masatran Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: I recently installed Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922 alongside Debian Etch. I use Sawfish with XFCE panel, Thunar, etc. I have these problems: Do not put all your questions in one email. Moreover your mail looks like you did not try hard enoug

Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages

2008-10-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Jason C. Wells wrote: >> >>> Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages? >>> For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made >>> their way to lenny yet. It seems like the Sun provided .deb files >>> aren't quite so

Re: security question

2008-10-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:51:38PM +0300, Bogdan wrote: > >> Although I don't like it, the bank i work with only offers Internet >> Banking that works only under Internet Explorer. So, unfortunately, if I >> want to check out my account I see myself obliged to boot Windows

file mailing utility?

2008-10-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I'm not really sure where to ask this question, but I expect that someone on this list will have ideas. I find myself, more and more, having to send large files to people by email - which, of course runs into lots of problems both on the outgoing and receiving ends. I've started

Re: How can I clean the cache of debtorrent?

2008-10-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Simon I just saw that there is a debtorrent-specific mailing-list. I never used debtorrent before Simon Pepping @ Home wrote: How can I clean the cache of debtorrent? I did this by find, also cleaning empty directories, but that was too aggressive, and brought debtorrent in a non-startable s

iptables problems

2008-10-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Hi, all, I'm trying to get iptables to work on a new debian vps. This worked before my hosting company changed to virtuozzo for their vm. On the new system I'm getting the following error: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name This is a response to any iptables statement using the i

Re: Grub dilemma

2008-10-19 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:28:11 -0400 Frank wrote: > I've been using Debian for years but this Grub stuff is above me ! There's an article about Grub at newbie level that might interest you. www.tuxmagazine.com , click 'Download' at the right side, download issue #8 and read pages 31 through 38: 'Giv

Re: iptables problems

2008-10-19 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Hi, all, > > I'm trying to get iptables to work on a new debian vps. This worked before my > hosting company changed to virtuozzo for their vm. > > On the new system I'm getting the following error: > > iptables: No chain/target/match by that name > > >

Re: security question

2008-10-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,19.Oct.08, 14:02:11, Bogdan wrote: > Andrei, I didn't know that Unicredit Tiriac works with Firefox, I was > meaning ING :D. There might be others as well. You could search the archives of rlug (offtopic), as this subject comes up regularly. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it s

Re: Debian on MacBook

2008-10-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,19.Oct.08, 16:41:10, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > Hi! > > Anyone has any luck with gNS on MacBook, single boot? Some time ago, > there exists a problem with this configuration -- waiting a minute > during booting while it searches for the boot record, and I wonder if > this was solved now so I ca

Re: file mailing utility?

2008-10-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,19.Oct.08, 15:10:31, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I've started to use some of the on-line services that will upload a file to > temporary storage, then forward a link, by email, to recipients - who can > then click the link and download the files (e.g., filemail.com, pando.com). > > But, since

Re: file mailing utility?

2008-10-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,19.Oct.08, 15:10:31, Miles Fidelman wrote: I've started to use some of the on-line services that will upload a file to temporary storage, then forward a link, by email, to recipients - who can then click the link and download the files (e.g., filemail.com, pando.

Re: file mailing utility?

2008-10-19 Thread Test
you might try ftpmail as some solution ... You can request files by email which on the server are handled through ftp... and sent by email... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPmail http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~cchung/cpsc689/ftpmail/ftpmtoc.html -- Test <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:57:00PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Paul Cartwright: > > > > My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let > > her save a file, permission denied. > ... > > I am logged in first, vt7, she is logged in 2nd, vt8, and when I > > switched to my log

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know what Debian's current default solution for auto-mounting > > is, but the problem is that this program simply cannot tell who of you > > is

Re: Why the BLEEP was my sound removed?

2008-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/19/08 05:12, Rico Secada wrote: Hi, I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop. Normally I get sound working using the snd-maestro3 module, but I can see that support has been removed. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464191 This is something that is affecting a lo

Re: security question

2008-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/19/08 06:02, Bogdan wrote: [snip] This is stupid! Any decent web developer would make his app work at least with IE, Firefox and Safari ( my opinion )! I really don't understand why these, let's face it, hugely funded internet banking applications restrict you to the weakest browser in

Re: Changelog broken on Lenny?

2008-10-19 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Stackpole, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that I had some updates on my Lenny box so double clicked the > package manager icon in the gnome task bar. As I browsed through the > packages I noticed that there were no change logs showing up. So I > visited the site: http://packages.debian.org/ch

whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-19 Thread Hatta
A short while ago I set up a system with whole disk encryption. I used the guided LUKS partitioning sytem to make 3 encrypted lvm volumes, root, home, and swap_1. Anyway, I broke that installation, so I needed to reinstall. I used a netboot image in expert mode, manually opened the encrypted

Re: Fluxbox Very Slow Window Movement and Lag

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > I am running a minimal Debian Lenny AMD64 netinst. > Graphics card is an ATI Radeon 4850 with the latest Drivers from ATI 8.10 Give the open source xf86-viedo-ati driver a try. It supports your chip. It actually is easier to set up and debug. I had problems with the proprietary ATI driver per

[OT] Learning MIPS ISA using GCC and Debian

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I am learning the MIPS ISA in class and I guess the best way to learn this is using real world examples. Thus, I was hoping I could write a program in C and compile it into MIPS assembly and learn the MIPS ISA that way. I am not too familiar with gcc but I have used it and I also know that objdum

Re: [OT] Learning MIPS ISA using GCC and Debian

2008-10-19 Thread Jerry Stuckle
I would say that is one of the worst ways to learn MIPS. A good compiler will have numerous optimizations, and the resultant code may bear little resemblance to the original C. Even if you disable all optimizations, programming style will differ between that generated by the C compiler and wh

Re: [OT] Learning MIPS ISA using GCC and Debian

2008-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/19/08 19:39, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I am learning the MIPS ISA in class and I guess the best way to learn this is using real world examples. Thus, I was hoping I could write a program in C and compile it into MIPS assembly and learn the MIPS ISA that way. I am not too familiar with gcc

Re: [OT] Learning MIPS ISA using GCC and Debian

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:55:03 -0400 Jerry Stuckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would say that is one of the worst ways to learn MIPS. A good > compiler will have numerous optimizations, and the resultant code may > bear little resemblance to the original C. Even if you disable all > optimiza

Re: [OT] Learning MIPS ISA using GCC and Debian

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:08:09 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/08 19:39, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I am learning the MIPS ISA in class and I guess the best way to learn > > this is using real world examples. Thus, I was hoping I could write a > > program in C and compile

Re: Why the BLEEP was my sound removed?

2008-10-19 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:56:33 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/08 05:12, Rico Secada wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop. > > > > Normally I get sound working using the snd-maestro3 module, but I > > can see that support has been removed.

friend cannot see me on msn

2008-10-19 Thread Andreas Berglund
Hi! I just added a friend of mine on msn. I can see her and I can send messages to her but when I'm online it looks to her like I'm offline and none of her messages reach me. She tried to send an invitation to me several times but none of them reached me. I have no idea where to even begin loo

Re: friend cannot see me on msn

2008-10-19 Thread Lachlan
2008/10/20 Andreas Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > I just added a friend of mine on msn. I can see her and I can send messages > to her but when I'm online it looks to her like I'm offline and none of her > messages reach me. She tried to send an invitation to me several times but > none of t

Re: Why the BLEEP was my sound removed?

2008-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/19/08 20:33, Rico Secada wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:56:33 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/19/08 05:12, Rico Secada wrote: Hi, I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop. Normally I get sound working using the snd-maestro3 module, but I can see that support h