Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

2008-12-26 Thread Kyle Barbour
PROBLEM FIXED! Here's what fixed it - I read a post somewhere about a hardware mute for Thinkpads, which can be disabled by pressing on the volume up button (not the software volume up, the physical volume up button located next to the blue ThinkVantage button on the top of the keyboard). I did it

About Release-critial bugs page

2008-12-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Every now and then I take a look at the Release-critical bugs status page and I have a question. Since the release of Etch, in addition to showing bug counts for the 'next stable release' and total counts they have also displayed a line for the current release. This has, for the past year, sh

active directory replicating over openldap

2008-12-26 Thread Jesus arteche
hi, someone knows if active directory can replicate its database over an openldap server in debian...and if its possible how...or where can i find a hoeto... thanks

Re: iPod

2008-12-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
You are correct about the 3 perl related packages. If I do an 'aptitude upgrade' they get done and so are not amarok specific. Having done that, the other 35 packages (42.9 MB), KDE specific or not, still need to be installed, just to get amarok. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday

debugging distribute software

2008-12-26 Thread reed wind
hello everyone: my research topic is debugging distributed software,just begin. I know most popular disributed software architecture is base on middleware,like CORBA/COM/EJB.There is another paralle programming evrionment--PVM.I want to know is there any popular method for debuggi

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu : > I don't know about Macs, but NTFS might also be an option with ntfs-3g. Macs (OS X) can read NTFS w/out modification, and can be made able to write to NTFS too. I seem to recall that the software I used to do this last time I needed to was freeware, though it may not

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu : > Unfortunately some computers (at least the older ones) won't boot at all > without a graphics card and with one card I have you even have to have a > monitor plugged in. > Have you looked for a BIOS update? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co

Re: How to stop squirrelmail temporarily

2008-12-26 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 19:20 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > --- Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > > Try to run the following on on your box and see what processes are > > listen to > > those ports: > > > > # netstat -lnp > > > > Normally these ports are used by imapd - normal and secure > > connections.

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu : > Fat32 has other limitations which can create problems: > > - max file size of 2GB I think that should be 4 GB. > If you use ext2 ... then make sure that you have access to the ext driver either online or on a small FAT partition. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what

Re: Release Cycle

2008-12-26 Thread s. keeling
Koh Choon Lin : > > Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I > understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu. Why? What's wrong with Etch and Lenny? They're both well usable now, yes? Are you looking for Lenny features in a "stable" release? Debian *takes its time and do

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-26 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/25 Amit Uttamchandani : > I have lenny and in this case what is the difference between IcedTea > and OpenJDK? Roughly, same code, different trademarked names. > I tried installing all of those packages but still can't > get iceweasel to run java programs. Installed icetea-gcjwebplugin? I

Re: post doesn't show up

2008-12-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Dec 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] >> The OCR is tesseract-ocr. These steps: >> >> 1. apt-get install tesseract-ocr >> 2. apt-get install tesseract-eng >> 3. use xsane to scan a page at 300 dpi and save as .tif >> 4. but that will be depth 16 which tesseract can't handle so reduce the

bootcd - is this deprecated?

2008-12-26 Thread Chris Jones
Wondering if anyone has used this package to create live images. Or is debian-live the way to go? I googled a bit and could not find a manual wiki or FAQ. Not much in the way of reasonably recent forum or mailing list threads discussing it either. Thanks! CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Release Cycle

2008-12-26 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Mark Allums engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} Andrei Popescu wrote: >--} > On Tue,23.Dec.08, 07:37:18, Mark Allums wrote: >--} > >--} >> Release schedule for Debian seems to be, whenever they feel like it. >--} > >--} > Maybe it's because I'm not a native speak

No suspend from Gnome with mixed sid/experimental

2008-12-26 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Dear all, first thing happy holidays! I was playing around with the new 2.6.28 kernel and I noticed that my system (Asus Z37E, completely Intel based) wouldn't suspend from Gnome. If I drop in a tty and issue # echo mem > /sys/power/state the system suspends without problems. It also works if I

"CTRL + T" not working

2008-12-26 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, Recently my CTRL + T is not working any more, so I cannot use this shortcut to open new tabs in apps like Firefox and gnome-terminal, does anyone having the same problem or any suggestions? Thanks a lot! Cheers, Deephay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: "CTRL + T" not working

2008-12-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/12/26 Deephay : > Greetings all, > > Recently my CTRL + T is not working any more, so I cannot use this > shortcut to open new tabs in apps like Firefox and gnome-terminal, > does anyone having the same problem or any suggestions? Thanks a lot! > > Cheers, > Deephay > Does Ctrl work with oth

Re: "CTRL + T" not working

2008-12-26 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:50:08 +0100, Deephay wrote: > Recently my CTRL + T is not working any more, so I cannot use this > shortcut to open new tabs in apps like Firefox and gnome-terminal, does > anyone having the same problem or any suggestions? Are you using sid? If you press Ctrl+C the X serve

how to convert latex to html

2008-12-26 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, Until now, I used latex2html to create html from latex/lyx, but recently, with the last release ot texlive I tried it but image are not generated and we know that developpement latex2html is stopped since 2002, so I need another more recent converter thanks for help best regards bela

USBHID-PDU programming hell...

2008-12-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello and Merry Christmas to *, For some time I had announced that I am developing an "24V DC modular ATX PSU" which works with solar energie and now the development is nearly done... The last thing I need is the Microcontroller and the coding of the USBHID-PDU part which is the he

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:17:34 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as > > FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32. > > I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:59:46 + kj wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > So I decided to do a compromise. I formatted 100GB as Fat32 in case I > > need to plug it in to a windows machine. But the rest is in ext3 > > format. > > > Different strokes for different folks - I'd format the whole

Spamassassin

2008-12-26 Thread Daniel D Jones
After an apt-get upgrade, Spamassassin failed to configure: r...@etch:~# dpkg --configure spamassassin Setting up spamassassin (3.1.7-2etch1) ... Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: [6777] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [6777] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [6777] dbg: logger: tryin

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:24:17 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,24.Dec.08, 23:47:41, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > > I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as > > FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32. > > I have a Debian Testing

Re: Spamassassin

2008-12-26 Thread Michael Mohn
Am 25.12.2008 um 16:07 schrieb Daniel D Jones: After an apt-get upgrade, Spamassassin failed to configure: r...@etch:~# dpkg --configure spamassassin Setting up spamassassin (3.1.7-2etch1) ... Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: [6777] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [6777] dbg: logg

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Amit Uttamchandani wrote, on 25/12/08 17:55: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:03:15 -0600 "Jordi Guti__rrez Hermoso" wrote: 2008/12/17 Girish Kulkarni : 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment? And the Java Development Kit? The JRE includes a virtual machine for running Java programs, the JDK is stuf

howto read an audio CD?

2008-12-26 Thread Bruno Böttcher
Hello ran into an annoying problem: i don't seem to be able to play an audio-cd anymore so i still can rip it and play it afetrwards as an ogg file, but this isn't very practical. in fact this is state of order since the gnome-desktop starts this pulse-audio system instead (or above) of

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-26 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/12/26 Arthur Marsh : > There is java-gcj-compat-plugin icedtea has essentially superseded this. > sun-java6-plugin I wonder if Sun is gonna keep a free version and a non-free version of Java like they do with OO.o and StarOffice. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-26 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:45:08 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/22/08 14:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:14:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently > >> Google, so I thought I'd ask first. > >> > >> My system is

kded not running

2008-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
I could not print from my wife's account today, it said kdeprintd not started. I tried to go to the print manager web interface, 192.168.2.1:631 and it said it was not running ( the interface). Then i tried to go to the control center-services, and it said KDED was not running, so it wouldn't le

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,25.Dec.08, 19:46:05, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu : > > Unfortunately some computers (at least the older ones) won't boot at all > > without a graphics card and with one card I have you even have to have a > > monitor plugged in. > > Have you looked for a BIOS update? Yes

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,25.Dec.08, 19:51:52, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu : > > Fat32 has other limitations which can create problems: > > > > - max file size of 2GB > > I think that should be 4 GB. Somehow I had the impression it was 2GB, must have been because of the partition limitation of F

Re: About Release-critial bugs page

2008-12-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,25.Dec.08, 11:07:39, Marc Shapiro wrote: > What does this really mean? Obviously, Etch *has* been released. > Apparently it has many release critical bugs. Are these bugs that > have been found since Etch's release that would have been considered > release critical if they had been fo

Re: bootcd - is this deprecated?

2008-12-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,26.Dec.08, 07:59:36, Chris Jones wrote: > Wondering if anyone has used this package to create live images. > > Or is debian-live the way to go? If you're thinking about live images of Debian then yes, debian-live (package live-helper) is the way to go. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't ex

Re: About Release-critial bugs page

2008-12-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-25 20:07 +0100, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Every now and then I take a look at the Release-critical bugs status > page and I have a question. Since the release of Etch, in addition to > showing bug counts for the 'next stable release' and total counts they > have also displayed a line for t

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:47:02PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 22:11 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:03:10 -0500 > > "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:10:27AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > I have an old machine without a work

Re: bootcd - is this deprecated?

2008-12-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 02:51:03PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,26.Dec.08, 07:59:36, Chris Jones wrote: > > Wondering if anyone has used this package to create live images. > > > > Or is debian-live the way to go? > > If you're thinking about live images of Debian then yes, debian-live >

ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread H.S.
Hello, If I try to ssh to a remote server which is down, SSH takes some minutes to determine if it really up or not. Does SSH have an option to fix this time interval during which ssh client is trying to make a connection to the remote server? Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read

Re: ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > If I try to ssh to a remote server which is down, SSH takes some minutes > to determine if it really up or not. Does SSH have an option to fix > this time interval during which ssh client is trying to make a > connection to the remote server? > > Tha

Re: ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread Thomas Karpiniec
> If I try to ssh to a remote server which is down, SSH takes some minutes > to determine if it really up or not. Does SSH have an option to fix > this time interval during which ssh client is trying to make a > connection to the remote server? Take a look at the ssh_config(5) manpage, specifica

Re: ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread H.S.
Jeff D wrote: > > In ~/.ssh/config you can set: > ConnectTimeout 30 > to set a 30 second timeout for example. > For more info man ssh_config > I tied: $> ssh -o ConnectTimeout=15 remote-host and it worked perfectly. Thanks a ton. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on it

Re: ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread H.S.
Thomas Karpiniec wrote: >> If I try to ssh to a remote server which is down, SSH takes some minutes >> to determine if it really up or not. Does SSH have an option to fix >> this time interval during which ssh client is trying to make a >> connection to the remote server? > > Take a look at the

Re: "CTRL + T" not working

2008-12-26 Thread Deephay
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/26 Deephay : >> Greetings all, >> >> Recently my CTRL + T is not working any more, so I cannot use this >> shortcut to open new tabs in apps like Firefox and gnome-terminal, >> does anyone having the same problem or any suggestions? T

Re: "CTRL + T" not working

2008-12-26 Thread Deephay
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:50:08 +0100, Deephay wrote: > >> Recently my CTRL + T is not working any more, so I cannot use this >> shortcut to open new tabs in apps like Firefox and gnome-terminal, does >> anyone having the same problem or any s

Re: ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:35:46PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Thomas Karpiniec wrote: ... > > Take a look at the ssh_config(5) manpage, specifically the ... > But I only checked 'man ssh' and that does not explain the meaning of > the variables. Did not occur to me to check manpage for ssh_config. I > th

Re: ssh time to see if remote server is up

2008-12-26 Thread H.S.
Osamu Aoki wrote: > At least under lenny/sid, 'man ssh' has > > | -o option > | Can be used to give options in the format used in the > configura‐ > | tion file. This is useful for specifying options for which > there > | is no separate command-line