Re: .mov skipping?

2009-08-22 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Ron Johnson wrote: RJ> On 2009-08-20 02:02, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >> beautifully for nearly everything. every so often, though, i have a .mov >> file that doesn't play video smoothly - the audio sounds fine, but the >> video skips so badly that it appears to be more like a series o

Re: acpi video driver and 2.6.30

2009-08-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
I reply myself It is a known probem: http://groups.google.co.kr/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/000eb65f2fbe06a8 So I guess I must wait for it to be fixed. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-22 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Will try installing libdvdcss later today and see if that helps me play region 5 DVDs. But another question: libdvdcss is GPL'ed; why is it not in any of the Debian repositories then? I'm also hoping to find its legal status here in India. Just for

safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for example (and from memory), there are at least three versions of gcc installed. am i safe to remove/purge the older ones? perhaps a better question is, what

inode question

2009-08-22 Thread Eugene Apolinary
Could that be possible to find the same inode, just because of there are two filesystems?e.g.: HDD is partitionedthank you

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'. it does, but how does that solve my problem? should i try to purge a package, then see what the result would be before saying yes/no? Yes. apt-get will ask you if you'd like

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > > > > > See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'. > > > > > > > it does, but how does that solve my problem? should i try to > > purge a package, then see what the result would be before

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > > > > > > > See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'. > > > > > > it does, but how does that solve my problem? should i try to > > > purg

should debian FAQ suggest "alpine" as an alternative to "pine"?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
currently perusing the FAQ, section 5.10 asks, "where is pine?" since alpine is apparently available for debian, shouldn't that section at least mention that alternative? i've used alpine as a drop-in replacement for pine on fedora for quite some time. is there a better place to make that sugg

Inquiry:Incorrectly built binary

2009-08-22 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know what is the cause of the following error message that I got when trying to run my application on the Linux server : "Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly. Needs to be fixed." Thank you in advance Regards H.Motame

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Dean Sutherland
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:45:00 -0400 (EDT), rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: [snip] > > > > no, i want to go the *other* way -- to ask what > > currently-installed packages depend *on* a given, > > currently-installed package. > > actually, even though i was asking in the context of a system in the

Re: Inquiry:Incorrectly built binary

2009-08-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* hadi motamedi: > Can you please do me favor and let me know what is the cause of the > following error message that I got when trying to run my application on the > Linux server : > "Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly. > Needs to be fixed." You need to incl

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Dean Sutherland wrote: > Hi, > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the command you're > after is apt-cache rdepends packagename > > d...@subspace:~$ apt-cache rdepends gcc-4.1 > gcc-4.1 > Reverse Depends: > linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 > gcc-doc-base > gcc-doc

Re: Strange log-rotate problem

2009-08-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 22 August 2009 02:09:09 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-22 01:08 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: > > My problem is that I can't figure out who is rotating > > /var/log/auth.log. > > > > It's currently being rotated every day, and retained for a week. > > > If you are using sysklogd (the

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 22 August 2009 12:52:54 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so the question now becomes, if i run that command on both > gcc-4.2-base and gcc-4.3-base, it looks like (not surprisingly) the > 4.2 package has lots of 4.2-related reverse dependencies, and likewise > for gcc-4.3-base. so do i rea

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Dean Sutherland wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the command you're >> after is apt-cache rdepends packagename >> >> d...@subspace:~$ apt-cache rdepends gcc-4.1 >> gcc-4.1 >> Reverse Depends: >> linux-headers-2.6

Re: .mov skipping?

2009-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-22 01:58, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: RJ> On 2009-08-20 02:02, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: beautifully for nearly everything. every so often, though, i have a .mov file that doesn't play video smoothly - the audio sounds fine, but the video skips s

Re: inode question

2009-08-22 Thread Eugene Apolinary
--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Eugene Apolinary wrote: From: Eugene Apolinary Subject: inode question To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 9:09 AM Could that be possible to find the same inode, just because of there are two filesystems?e.g.: HDD is partitionedthank you

Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell me how to fix the problem. My system is Lenny 5.02, but the same problem exists on an old Fedora Core 3 system, so it is not a Debian problem, per se.

debports

2009-08-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I want to install this: Package: kcontrol (4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6) [debports] So I changed my sources.list to: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib debports and did 'aot-get update' but got: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Releas

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell me how to fix the problem. My system is Lenny 5.02, but the same problem exists on an old Fedora Core 3 sys

Re: gpgv

2009-08-22 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:12:09 -0700 Raquel wrote: > > I've just reinstalled a very basic system onto that machine, Debian > Lenny, and will begin adding firewall, server software, etc. > However, I'm getting an error from aptitude. This happens when I run aptitude udpate > GPG error: http://sec

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:48 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I > > still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell > > me how to fix the problem. > > > > My syste

Re: gpgv

2009-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-22 00:46, Osamu Aoki wrote: [snip] Wait? I can not run apt-file either. Securit archive seems to lack Contents-i386.gz, Contents-ia64.gz, ... Funny. But not the "ha ha" funny. How does one file a bug about this? -- Featuring GRATUITOUS ALIEN NUDITY -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-22 09:58, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:48 am, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell me how to f

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 22 August 2009 16:58:57 Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:48 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I > > > still would like to know why it is happening. That know

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Peter Beck
> On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: > This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I still > would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell me how > to > fix the problem. > > My system is Lenny 5.02, but the same problem exists on an old

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 22 August 2009 16:58:57 Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:48 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I > > > still would like to know why it is happening. That know

Re: debports

2009-08-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I want to install this: Package: kcontrol (4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6) [debports] So I changed my sources.list to: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib debports and did 'aot-get update' but got: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/de

[OT] Online downloadable books

2009-08-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
From: http://www.4shared.com I downloaded a book I was looking for: Takeuti-Zaring's Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory. It comes in .djvu format. I'd be curious to know how it was formatted that way: certainly not by scanning it page to page. I think in future more and more books will be a

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 17:16:43 +0200, Peter Beck wrote: > > On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: [...] > > I just bought a 3 pack of Sandisk Cruzers (4Gb). When I insert any of > > them > > into a USB port, the system recognizes it as a CD drive. > > AFAIK the Sandisk Cruzers are U3

KDE status in Squeeze/testing?

2009-08-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Where are we at the moment with KDE installability in Squeeze? All best, AndyC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-22 Thread Bernard
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Sorry forgot to write Yes there is problem compiling the 2.6.20 with recent gcc The problem is the compiler. If you are compiling just grab the last version from kernel.org. 2.6.30.4 seems to be working fine Just to be objective the gnu

modifier keys stop working

2009-08-22 Thread Steve Kleene
I am repeatedly losing modifier-key function. I run an up-to-date Lenny system and use the window manager fvwm (2.5.26-1) so that I can mostly work from the command line. I also have a virtual XP machine (VM, VMware 1.06). If I use the VM for a few minutes (usually Photoshop, sometimes Acrobat),

Re: KDE status in Squeeze/testing?

2009-08-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew M.A. Cater schreef: > Where are we at the moment with KDE installability in Squeeze? I'm running KDE in Squeeze, and its mostly functional. I haven't noticed any serious issues. There are some general problems KDE still has, like not being able to change 'supersuer'-only settings in via the

Re: should debian FAQ suggest "alpine" as an alternative to "pine"?

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > currently perusing the FAQ, section 5.10 asks, "where is pine?" > since alpine is apparently available for debian, shouldn't that > section at least mention that alternative? i've used alpine as a > drop-in replacement for pine on fedora for quite some time. Yes, I thi

Re: Playing 8-bit raw Audio with mplayer

2009-08-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Tzafrir Cohen writes: > In the worst case, convert it to a wav file: > > sox -r8000 -u -c1 -8 streamfile file.wav That definitely does work. Thanks. It turned out I was reading the wrong part of the man page so searches for what one might think works turned up nothing. It turns

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Strong and Humble writes: > What I want(ed) is that my system show always the same time regardless of > the winter time and I yet could synchronize my system w/ NTP-servers. I > know that the servers are in UTC. But the problem w/ me was that once the > 'winter time' comes and I synchronize my syst

Re: dialing phone numbers

2009-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Pol wrote: > Any hints about dialing numbers by your laptop keyboard to a phone connected > through modem? chat (in the ppp package). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal

2009-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Dirk wrote: > some true asshole decreased linux' value as an alternative to windows by > making hal a dependency(!) of xorg now... I agree that this is objectionable. In any case, "dpkg --force-help" should tell you what you need to know in order to get rid of hal. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBS

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.

2009-08-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:09, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 17:16:43 +0200, Peter Beck wrote: > > > On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > [...] > > > >  I just bought a 3 pack of Sandisk Cruzers (4Gb).  When I insert any of > > > them > > >  into a USB port, the syste

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bernard wrote: > > 2.6.30.4 does compile all right, so does 2.6.26, but 2.6.20 does not. you find out why in the archives > Problem is that I still can't boot those I compiled, i.e. 2.6.26. because > the initrd.img is buggy. I did find something, still it is not enough to > get the process to w

Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive. [SOLVED]

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Saturday 22 August 2009 08:47 pm, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:09, Florian Kulzer [[[snip]]] Thank everyone for the advice. I now know what to do to solve the problem. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Playing 8-bit raw Audio with mplayer

2009-08-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Martin McCormick wrote: > mplayer -quiet -rawaudio samplesize=1:channels=1:rate=8000 -demuxer > rawaudio \ /tmp/ This was interesting experiment, but I don't hear such a thing. what do you see in ratio (see below) from mplayer for me it's ratio: 8000->8000 uname -a Linux maistor 2.6.30.4eko2 #

Re: inode question

2009-08-22 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Eugene Apolinary wrote: > Could that be possible to find the same inode, just because of there are two > filesystems? Yes, of course. Each fs is independent of the other, hence it is possible to have two inode entries with the same number. Of course they'd not poin

Problems booting installation CDs

2009-08-22 Thread Isaac Freeman
[x-posted to debian-am...@lists.debian.org, debian-b...@lists.debian.org, debian-u...@lists.debian.org] All, sorry for the wide distribution, but I wasn't sure which list this belonged on; feel free to reply only to me, or to me and just one list. Also, I'm not subscribed, so please keep me in to

Re: should debian FAQ suggest "alpine" as an alternative to "pine"?

2009-08-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > currently perusing the FAQ, section 5.10 asks, "where is pine?" > > since alpine is apparently available for debian, shouldn't that > > section at least mention that alternative? i've used alpine as a > > drop-in replacem