a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
into the final stages of my debian upgrade adventure, and here's the final phase. at the moment, i have a couple more upgrade steps to get the existing server (old dell P4 system) up to a fully-upgraded lenny system, and make sure all the software still works properly (web server, mail server,

Re: top, www-data and other using LDAP?

2009-08-24 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
¿Anyone? -- Thanks, Jordi Espasa Clofent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

gnuserv

2009-08-24 Thread Johann Spies
I use this script to implement gnuserv: === #!/bin/sh if [ -z "$1" ] then LEER="/tmp/gnuserv.`date +'%H%M%S'`" else LEER=$1 fi pidof emacs && gnuclient -q $LEER || emacs -r -f gnuserv-start $LEER === Resulting int he following

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread Joe
Robert P. J. Day wrote: into the final stages of my debian upgrade adventure, and here's the final phase. at the moment, i have a couple more upgrade steps to get the existing server (old dell P4 system) up to a fully-upgraded lenny system, and make sure all the software still works properly (

Re: How could I change the limit of defined keyboard variants ?

2009-08-24 Thread Sever P A
Thanks, Mr. Celejar ! Obviously, switching among 300 keyboard variants by a keystroke is not an operative method, but I thought that this limit, as some in linux, could to be changed. S. 2009/8/24 Celejar : > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:40:44 +0200 > Sever P A wrote: > >> Hello guys, >> >> gnome-key

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Rob Gom
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-23 14:09, Rob Gom wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place? > > Now *this* is an excellent flame! Why do you consider my opinion as flamewar, whereas I only expect some simple answ

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Joe wrote: [regarding moving debian install from old HW to new HW ...] > My advice would be to grit your teeth and install a completely new > system, based on your existing packages. Then copy the data and as > much configuration information as possible. Sorry. that was on

Re: How to play iso dvd without kde?

2009-08-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/24/09, Juan Lavieri wrote: > Please, do you have any idea of what to do? > gnome-mplayer (which is not necessarily gnome-dependent) Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote: > > Maybe I haven't been understood well. My mail provider gives me a > password. In mail program I add it to some wallet or let mail program > to encrypt it after setting up. If I want to use fetchmail, I have to > write it there in plain text (correct m

Re: Re: -- SPAM -- webcam is not always detected

2009-08-24 Thread belahcene
Thanks, The outputs I sent, while it is running. The power of webcam is direcly from usb cable. Here is the part of dmesg : [7.389760] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5 [7.476164] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [7.509144] uv

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote: > > So? Where's the advantage? My mail program fetches mail *for me* from > my ISP's POP server, passes it thru any filter (let it be > spamassassin), then writes it to separate folders depending on > basically anything. Fetchmail, MTA, MDA avoided, where

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Joe wrote: > My advice would be to grit your teeth and install a completely new > system, based on your existing packages. Then copy the data and as > much configuration information as possible. Sorry. it only just occurred to me that, yes, that's what i have to do since it

kde4 and show desktop button

2009-08-24 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello all! Is there any progress with that? I miss so much this simple feature, and as I see googling, I am not the only one... For the time being I use the desktop shortcut + D, as in windows, but the whole point is to just use the mouse pressing a button on the panel... G. smime.p7s D

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Micha
... From user's point of view it is something "additional". Instead of configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to set it up both in MUA (retrieve mail from local mail box) and fetchmail configuration file. It's not that difficult. Really. In my (ordinary use

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Rob Gom
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote: >> [cut] Ok, so now I see the reasons to move: 1. Power & flexibility: (if one needs something more than what mail application can offer) > > Yes, in many cases it is, but the "separate tools" approa

Re: kde4 and show desktop button

2009-08-24 Thread Florian Kriener
On Monday 24 August 2009 13:13:53 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Is there any progress with that? I miss so much this simple feature, > and as I see googling, I am not the only one... There is a Plasmoid for that purpose that you can put in your panel. Furthermore, if you only want to see your widgets,

Re: [OT] Online downloadable books

2009-08-24 Thread Micha
On 8/24/2009 2:17 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: mi...@post.tau.ac.il To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] Online downloadable books Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:26:42 +0300 On 8/22/2009 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: http://www.4shared.com

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:48:28AM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:37:30 +1200, Chris Bannister in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:44:47PM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: > > [snip] > > >> So how does one use the latest version of this web browser o

Re: Blender GUI not working anymore on Debian sid.

2009-08-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:26:09AM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, when trying to work with /usr/bin/blender-bin, the blender > menus are not displayed anymore. Any idea how this could be caused? Its a wonder it works as well as it does: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-de

Re: How could I change the limit of defined keyboard variants ?

2009-08-24 Thread Celejar
[please don't cc. me, as per the list's Coc, and please don't top post] On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:02:37 +0200 Sever P A wrote: > Thanks, Mr. Celejar ! > > Obviously, switching among 300 keyboard variants by a keystroke is not > an operative method, but I thought that this limit, as some in linux,

Re: How to play iso dvd without kde?

2009-08-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 09:24:19PM -0430, Juan Lavieri wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I'm trying to play an iso dvd in my box. > > If I do with kaffeine or Dragon player it works fine but If I try to do > with totem it fails. The fact is that I want to do it on my laptop and I > don't want any kde

Re: [OT] Online downloadable books

2009-08-24 Thread Micha
On 8/24/2009 6:48 AM, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:26:42 +0300 Micha wrote: ... You are talking about illegal copies of the books, I don't think that this is the right list for that. Some books are also available as ebooks, you can check amazon if they sell the books you want as ebo

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Micha
On 8/24/2009 3:05 PM, Rob Gom wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote: [cut] Ok, so now I see the reasons to move: 1. Power& flexibility: (if one needs something more than what mail application can offer) Yes, in many cases

Re: kde4 and show desktop button

2009-08-24 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Florian Kriener wrote: On Monday 24 August 2009 13:13:53 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Is there any progress with that? I miss so much this simple feature, and as I see googling, I am not the only one... There is a Plasmoid for that purpose that you can put in your panel. Furthermore, if you

Re: kde4 and show desktop button

2009-08-24 Thread Florian Kriener
On Monday 24 August 2009 15:37:05 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Florian Kriener wrote: > > On Monday 24 August 2009 13:13:53 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> Is there any progress with that? I miss so much this simple > >> feature, and as I see googling, I am not the only one... > > > > There is a Plasmoid for

Re: kde4 and show desktop button

2009-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 15:47:04 +0200, Florian Kriener wrote: > On Monday 24 August 2009 15:37:05 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > > Florian Kriener wrote: > > > On Monday 24 August 2009 13:13:53 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > > >> Is there any progress with that? I miss so much this simple > > >> feature, and as

Repeating Debian icon on gnome panel

2009-08-24 Thread Francesco Pietra
My old K7S5A/SIS735/Athlon/i386 debian lenny, now upgraded to squeeze (no 3D graphics), has developed a tendency to repeat unasked commands when in gnome, or console in gnome. No problems using the Debian console without starting gnome. This has installed a number of unmovable Debian icons in the

Re: gpgv

2009-08-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:00:02 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-22 00:46, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Securit archive seems to lack Contents-i386.gz, Contents-ia64.gz, ... > How does one file a bug about this? Use reportbug. I think the pseudo-package you want is "project"; I'd double- check before

Re: gpgv

2009-08-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 22 August 2009 09:46:26 Raquel wrote: > This happens when I run aptitude udpate > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:12:09 -0700 > Raquel wrote: > > GPG error: http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release: > > Unknown error executing gpgv This is not a missing key error, this is a problem

Re: emacs23 in lenny-backports

2009-08-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 21 August 2009 23:20:09 Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Does anyone know if emacs23 will be backported to lenny? It would be > nice if emacs23 will be available for those using stable... Backports, like (most of) Debian are prepared on a (generally) volunteer basis. If you'd like to see a

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 24 August 2009 07:05:18 Rob Gom wrote: > I believe that storing passwords encrypted is always > safer than storing them unencrypted. Well, then you would be wrong. I an unattended program can take the bytes stored in the inode(s) and send your password to your ISP then a program writte

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: >> I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was >> working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two >> weeks, it starts to load Lenny then dies with: >> Fa

Re: kde4 and show desktop button (SOLVED)

2009-08-24 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 15:47:04 +0200, Florian Kriener wrote: > >> On Monday 24 August 2009 15:37:05 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> >>> Florian Kriener wrote: >>> On Monday 24 August 2009 13:13:53 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Is there any progress

RE: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
David Christensen wrote: > I'm currently considering the Intel DG45ID motherboard.  It has everything > I need, including Intel's best video chip (X4500ID): if you need this for a server - yes. I think I bought earlier this year this same mainboard I'm not very happy with intel graphic chipsets

Re: top, www-data and other using LDAP?

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > ¿Anyone? > I'm not using ldap right now, but I think you are missing the system users in your ldap. there was/is a setting to tell ldap from which user id it should count, or better you say pam/nss to use ldap only with ids above a give one. It's always a matter o

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: >> On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: >>> I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was >>> working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two >>> weeks, it starts to lo

Re: -- SPAM -- webcam is not always detected

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 05:42, belahcene wrote: Thanks, The outputs I sent, while it is running. The power of webcam is direcly from usb cable. Here is the part of dmesg : [7.389760] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5 [7.476164] Linux video cap

Request for testing alevt 1.9.2-1 (added DVB support patch)

2009-08-24 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Hi! This is a call for testing of alevt 1.9.2-1, a Teletext/Video text browser. If you are already an alevt user, or if you have TV hardware capable of videotext (DVB or V4L), test reports using this version are highly appreciated. Please also report successes, and include information on the TV h

x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I am running sid on a laptop. X was working fine. I lent my laptop to my sister for a few weeks and her kids played with it, and she returned it saying "it doesn't work". The problem is that X won't start as a single particular user. For all other users, X starts fine. Additionally if I ed

Book reader

2009-08-24 Thread Viatcheslav Trotsak
What is the special software use in Debian for books reading (analog ICEReader)?

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I am running sid on a laptop. X was working fine. I lent my laptop to my sister for a few weeks and her kids played with it, and she returned it saying "it doesn't work". The problem is that X won't start as a single particular user. For all other users, X starts fine

Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Lenny stable, here is the respective part of my menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 root(hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 I'm getting an error on boot that's related to

Re: Book reader

2009-08-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:52:11 +0600 Viatcheslav Trotsak wrote: > What is the special software use in Debian for books reading (analog > ICEReader)? Depends what format the books are in. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Sim

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-08-24, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the suggestion. It also fails boot >> to level 1. I used rescue to turn on /etc/default/bootlogd but nothing >> gets logged to /var/log so I guess it doesn't get that far. I would >> have liked to know where it fai

manuai for gimp 2.76

2009-08-24 Thread gilbert goldstein
Please be aware that i can not use tlis editing program . which seems to be a goo d and comprehensive program without it s online instruction manual. PLEASE provide same. Thank you

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: > On the other hand I forgot my password several times (way too many password > protected accounts each with it's own password restrictions) and it saved > me that I could just open the file and see the password. try keepassX, a great little app ( linux & window

ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: > Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to put mail in separate folders. what benefit would

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 10:58 Mon 24 Aug , Jimmy Johnson wrote: > her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I > logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed. > -- thanks Jimmy, but that couldn't explain my problem, 1. No partitions are full. 2. Why would the other users be ab

RE: manuai for gimp 2.76

2009-08-24 Thread Kevin Ross
> Please be aware that i can not use tlis editing  program . > which seems to be a goo d and comprehensive  program > without it s  online instruction manual. PLEASE  provide > same. Thank you http://www.gimp.org/docs/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

RE: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM > > On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: > > Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail > > I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail > pulls it > all in

Re: gpgv

2009-08-24 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:48:43 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Saturday 22 August 2009 09:46:26 Raquel wrote: > > This happens when I run aptitude udpate > > > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:12:09 -0700 > > Raquel wrote: > > > GPG error: http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release: > >

Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet you have the root already root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alan Greenberger wrote: > > Thank you for your suggestion. I just tried booting with init=/bin/sh > and unfortunately it got Kernel panic in the same way. > > The box was not upgraded from the Lenny install of half a year ago. It > was just shut down for two weeks. > > How would I skip initrd

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-24 Thread Bernard
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Bernard wrote: Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Bernard wrote: Compiling md in the kernel is the right approach to boot from raided root without initrd. You can try this just skipping (deleteing the line in grub temporary) I just tried that. Raid compiled int

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 10:58 Mon 24 Aug , Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I >> logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed. >> -- > > thanks Jimmy, > but that couldn't explain my problem, > > 1. No partitions are full.

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 03:25:22AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > into the final stages of my debian upgrade adventure, and here's the > final phase. at the moment, i have a couple more upgrade steps to get > the existing server (old dell P4 system) up to a fully-upgraded lenny > system, an

Re: gpgv

2009-08-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:13:46 -0700 Raquel wrote: ... > Yes. I have gpgv installed. I'm not sure how to generate a detached > signature and then verify it. >From 'man gpg': --sign -s Make a signature. This command may be combined with --encrypt (for a signed and encrypted

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 17:00, Mitchell Laks wrote: [snip] So can any one tell me how to make the X startup verbose so that I can figure what file in /home/bill is causing the problem? startx or gdm? -- Obsesion with "preserving cultural heritage" is a racist impediment to moral, physical and intel

RE: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-24 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: fred basset [mailto:fredbasset1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 6:35 PM > > Hi All, > > I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job. Can anyone > recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian > and support all the hardware out of the box? I prefer IBM and

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 17:11, Kevin Ross wrote: From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts.

RE: Failure of X in squeeze.

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Crawford
> From: creature...@hotmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Failure of X in squeeze. > Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:15:00 -0700 > These are the last two lines in Xorg.0.log. > (WW) intel(0): xf86UnMapVidMem: cannot find region for [0xb36fd000,0x300] > FreeFontPath: FPE "/us

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs > like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add another program into the mix. right now I d

Re: Choosing Laptops/Notebooks

2009-08-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:39:20 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: ... > Any other Laptop specific issues you've bumped into? Have low-end > Notebooks like Acer given you trouble? Never got s2ram to work on my Acer 3690 (s2disk works fine). Keyboard starting to fall apart after about two and a half years

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 August 2009 11:12:49 Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: > > That would seem to narrow it down to a corrupt initramfs, > > or, as you already suggested, motherboard hardware issues. > > Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the suggestion. It also fails boo

RE: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 5:56 PM > > On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs > > like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. > > what I'm aski

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Glen Lee Edwards wrote: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet you have the root already root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. The only reason I posed the question is because all my Dell PCs have this problem, and every time Debian upg

Re[2]: Book reader

2009-08-24 Thread Viatcheslav Trotsak
>> What is the special software use in Debian for books reading (analog >> ICEReader)? > Depends what format the books are in. html, zip, doc With this program you would read (with Clear Type Font), system books. -- С уважением, Viatcheslav mailto:trots...@ma

Confused about lenny, KDE4 and debian-multimedia.org

2009-08-24 Thread Steve
Hello, I'm running lenny (kde3) using several of Christian Marillat's multimedia packages. Installing k9copy fails due to unmet lib dependencies. They appear to be kde4 libs yet are clearly in the stable branch. I'm use to waiting on sid repos to stabilize but this is a new one on me. I al

Inquiry:Linux installation problem

2009-08-24 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know what is the problem with my Linux installation as it does not progress on my pc and just stops on the following lines ? "boot: text Loading initrd.img Loading vmlinuz ... ready. Uncompressing Linux .. Ok, booting the kernel. " Thank you in

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 19:56, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl. what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add

Re: Confused about lenny, KDE4 and debian-multimedia.org

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 22:34, Steve wrote: Hello, I'm running lenny (kde3) using several of Christian Marillat's multimedia packages. Installing k9copy fails due to unmet lib dependencies. They appear to be kde4 libs yet are clearly in the stable branch. I'm use to waiting on sid repos to stabiliz

Re: Inquiry:Linux installation problem

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 23:33, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know what is the problem with my Linux installation as it does not progress on my pc and just stops on the following lines ? "boot: text Loading initrd.img Loading vmlinuz ... ready. Uncompressing

"deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
much thanks to whoever suggested "deborphan" recently to help me clean out unused libraries. i've been fairly conservative with it, getting rid of libs a bit at a time and making sure things still run. someone else locally suggested to just throw caution to the winds and run: # aptitude p

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bernard wrote: >> >>You really could use the recent 2.6.30.4. There were different problems >>with 2.6.20 to 2.6.30. I find 2.6.30.4 the best I've had since 2.6.20. >> >> > I tried 2.6.30.4. Same result as with 2.6.26.2 : compiles without > errors, but crashes on boot. > so you are missing som

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Glen Lee Edwards wrote: >> >>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet >> >> you have the root already >> >> root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. >> >> > > The only reason I posed the question is because all my

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Allums
Robert P. J. Day wrote: theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage. but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch system is listed as an orphan. coming from a fedora universe, i always thought of the HAL layer as fairly fundamental, but i guess i've stripp