Re: lvm on an external enclosure?

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 16:25:03 Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2009-03-20 16:04, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Friday 20 March 2009 09:02:24 Ron Johnson wrote: >>> 1. What kind of problems or issues might I have when trying to boot >>> and lvm doesn't see a vg? I'm guessing Linux will squawk and >>

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

2009-03-20 Thread Antonio Diaz
The option "window maximize support" is enabled but it fails. When I realized that I worked under the root user, I looked at his options in order to check if there were something different, but his configuration is exactly the same as my standard user. I have also found out that it also fail

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 March 2009 22:06:24 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 11:57:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > >> It does not demands the root password. It just request you to give root > >> a new password, which is the chance you could

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-20 Thread prad
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:40:05 +0100 Robert Hodgins wrote: > Turns out the problem was likely hardware related. > ok this is good to know since we have several older machines we want to install debian on. does it ever make sense to install older versions on older machines? or is it better to just

Re: lvm on an external enclosure?

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > You *may* have to run 'vgscan && vgchange -ay', but that should be enough. I would imagine that one could probably somewhat automated with udev. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

2009-03-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 March 2009 17:16:40 Antonio Diaz wrote: >Please, anyone can help me? First, read the Code of Conduct for the list. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct is the URL. I can't read your mails very well because they are in HTML, so I'm ignoring them. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread prad
i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram in it. i am running the 32bit version of lenny. would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is no benefit unless you are using 64-bit apps that require extra processing p

Re: xhost: cannot connect to X server [SOLVED]

2009-03-20 Thread Dieder Vervoort
Florian Kulzer wrote: Hmm, on my system that is enough to make Xorg listen to port 6000 (after I restart kdm). However, looking at /etc/init.d/kdm I get the impression that in some cases you also have to edit /var/run/kdm/kdmrc to remove ServerArgsLocal. If that does not help then I would like t

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:50:50PM -0700, prad wrote: > i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram > in it. > > i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > > would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? Yes. > in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is n

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
prad wrote: i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram in it. i am running the 32bit version of lenny. would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is no benefit unless you are using 64-bit apps that require extr

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums wrote: prad wrote: i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram in it. i am running the 32bit version of lenny. would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? in the archives, i found posts suggesting there is no benefit unless you are using 64-bit ap

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Chris
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:35:41 + Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:50:50PM -0700, prad wrote: > > i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G > > ram in it. > > > > i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > > > > would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny

Re: how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:08:06 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16187 >>> >>> i followed the instruction, but it doesn't work for me: >> >> Yep, that last message from the above url concurs this, i.e., the >> method ceased to be working after 1.5 years later,

Kbarcode - dead? unusable in Lenny for business cards.

2009-03-20 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, I went looking for some software to create business cards. Since I'm running kde, I thought kbarcode would do. In addition to a lot more, it claims it can do simple business cards, and from the user interface it seems pretty powerful. The problem is that it is almost unusable under Lenn

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-03-20 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 17/03/09 22:46, Alex Samad wrote: Hi Sorry to revive an old thread, but I was wondering if any one has used Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF looking for a pan tilt webcam I can use under linux ? Alex I had the webcam for one day (one of my friends bought it) - it worked nicely, however witho

Re: -- SPAM -- rc.local is not executed

2009-03-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,13.Feb.09, 12:13:00, Ron Johnson wrote: > Because I don't have any GUI app activations in my rc.local. Only > daemons and other CLI apps. Here's what mine looks like: > > * BEGINNING OF rc.local > #!/bin/sh -e > > echo 210 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread prad
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > I recommend 64-bits for new installs, but for existing setups, there > is no need to update, unless you have specific needs. > this is good advice. however, since i have just installed lenny with the intent of experimenting with it (came fro

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
prad wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: I recommend 64-bits for new installs, but for existing setups, there is no need to update, unless you have specific needs. this is good advice. however, since i have just installed lenny with the intent of experimenting with i

Re: Gateway P-7805u Any success - install & using debian on this laptop? Bios upgrade procedure?

2009-03-20 Thread Daryl Styrk
Mark Goldshtein wrote: a) AFAIR, Debian has a special mailing list fully deducated to laptops. That may be more useful. b) Try one of the Debian stable LiveCD, for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0-live/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-500-i386-gnome-desktop.iso and that will give you

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:47:56PM -0500, Chris wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:50:50PM -0700, prad wrote: > > > > > > i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > > Interesting... If one has 32-bit installed, is there some sort of > upgrade / overwrite to the 64-bit version? At present,

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In theory, with PAE segments you can address that memory with a 32-bit > OS, but in practice, 64-bit is required. Actually, practice suggests otherwise: % uname -a Linux pastel 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 04:05:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux % free total us

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: > > prad wrote: > >> i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram > >> in it. > >> > >> i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > >> > >> would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? > >> >

Re: specific network traffic

2009-03-20 Thread green
Lorenzo Bettini wrote at 2009-03-20 11:53 -0600: > randall wrote: >> sorry, i ment iftop > > Thanks > > this looks nice and also dns lookups the addresses; it does not show > process information though... but surely looks pretty useful :-) You might want to check out nethogs. signature.asc De

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:08:03 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In theory, with PAE segments you can address that memory with a 32-bit > > OS, but in practice, 64-bit is required. > > Actually, practice suggests otherwise: > >% uname -a >Linux pastel 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 0

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
Stefan Monnier wrote: In theory, with PAE segments you can address that memory with a 32-bit OS, but in practice, 64-bit is required. Actually, practice suggests otherwise: % uname -a Linux pastel 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 04:05:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux % free

wireless

2009-03-20 Thread Leo
Gostaria que meu debian 5.0 ficasse com o icone de conexão do meu 3g da vivo no tray, como proceder para isso begin:vcard fn:Leo n:Caetano;Leonardo Menezes org:DoctorNet Redes & Conectividades.;Servidores Linux. adr;quoted-printable:;;Rua - General Os=C3=B3rio - N=C2=BA 1092;Pelotas.;Rio G

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
> > I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build > > for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any > > more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't > > remember, though, how I found the hint to use the Ubuntu build. Google? > >

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Allums
Micha Feigin wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: Oops, make that *3* GB or less. The PC architecture allows more, but while 4 GB fits into 32-bits, the video card and other hardware is memory-mapped into the upper GB, so the 4th GB of physical memory must be rema

Re: Laptop

2009-03-20 Thread Victor Padro
2009/3/20 Andrei Popescu > On Tue,10.Feb.09, 02:57:04, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > > you seem to be right leo & Co does not know > > > > it means something like a "free time hacker spirit" in this case :-D > > bastel - to tinker > > kunst - art > > > > Finjan, > > Laptophe

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