install package from source

2009-10-16 Thread Sokvantha YOUK
Dear All, I would like to know what are packages requires to be able compile and install package from source in Debian5 (Lenny) ? If in CentOS5 I would only need to install these tools #yum groupinstall "Development Tolls" " "Development Libraries". Thank you for your kindly help and advices.

Re: install package from source

2009-10-16 Thread randall
Sokvantha YOUK wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to know what are packages requires to be able compile and > install package from source in Debian5 (Lenny) ? If in CentOS5 I would only > need to install these tools #yum groupinstall "Development Tolls" " > "Development Libraries". > > Thank yo

What does the auto parameter ?

2009-10-16 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello What is exactly the purpose of the "auto" statement in /etc/network/interfaces file ? Eg : auto lo eth0 thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Israel Garcia wrote: > Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY > commands from Debian OS? The best and easiest way is to use your backup tool to recover the data from the last backup. There are various backup methods avail

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Lisi
On Friday 16 October 2009 01:33:17 Tim Clewlow wrote: > It sounds like your system is not using the xsession method of > managing an X session, which means it is using the native xinit > method. That's ok, and just as easy to work with. First check if you > have a file called .xinitrc in your home

Re: What does the auto parameter ?

2009-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-10-16 09:32 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > What is exactly the purpose of the "auto" statement in > /etc/network/interfaces file ? Read interfaces(5) to find out. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-xen-686: No such file or directory

2009-10-16 Thread Siju George
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:33 PM, vitaminx wrote: > > Hi, > > > could you please give the output of these commands: > > ls -l /lib/modules > ls -l /boot > > Thanks for the response vitaminix :-) ls -l /lib/modules total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-15 14:46 2.6.26-1-xen-686 drwxr-xr-x 3

Re: sid dist-upgrade: lvm2 conflicts with devicekit-disks so systems with / on lvm2 killed

2009-10-16 Thread Joe
Michael Biebl wrote: Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I recently did a sid dist-upgrade, and could no longer boot using linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem kernel and had to boot off an old 2.6.26 kernel. .. This is a problem. I guess the real problem is, that you should be more careful when doing

Re: What does the auto parameter ?

2009-10-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:32:17AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > What is exactly the purpose of the "auto" statement in > /etc/network/interfaces file ? Interfaces in auto stanzas are automatically brought up at boot time. See "man interfaces" for more info. -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doct

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread shampavman
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Israel Garcia wrote: > > Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY > > commands from Debian OS? > > The best and easiest way is to use your backup tool to recover the data > from the last backup. There are various backup methods available in >

Re: Computer overheating

2009-10-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:47:56AM +, marc wrote: > Probably the Nvida; at least, its driver. I have a similar problem on > my laptop. I have to be careful with flash and playing some videos You might try the latest nvidia driver, and see if that helps. For example: sudo m-a update; sudo

Re: php cgi

2009-10-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:42:41AM +0530, Didar Hossain wrote: > *There is something called `webmin' though I would not recommend it to > most people. It is a Perl application. I don't really like webmin, and a lot of the modules (especially the ssh module) seem out of date, but it seems like the

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
shampavman skrev: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Israel Garcia wrote: Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY commands from Debian OS? The best and easiest way is to use your backup tool to recover the data from the last backup. There are various backup

Re: php cgi

2009-10-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/10/11 Tzafrir Cohen > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 01:36:43PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > I want to know how to set up a debian server capable of running php cgi > > script and how to create and run cgi script. Where can I find articles on > > that? > > I had search for a few hours but sti

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Friday 16 October 2009 01:33:17 Tim Clewlow wrote: >> It sounds like your system is not using the xsession method of >> managing an X session, which means it is using the native xinit method. That's ok, and just as easy to work with. First check if you >> have a file called .xinitrc in your ho

Re: Setting Default Group Permissions In Folders

2009-10-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 05:47:40PM -0500, Austin Brkich wrote: > group www-user however I am unable to automatically set the > permissions to 664 and there defaulting to 644. I know this is do to If you don't want to adjust the default umask or change the file modes directly, you'll have to set

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > shampavman skrev: >> If I were you , I would write a simple wrapper for rm. >> Here is what I would do. >> if rm or rm -r is encountered, create a local dir somewhere call it >> 'Mytrash' then mv the files over there.. instead

32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?

2009-10-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB) Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit with bigmem kernel. The questions are: Does running 64-bit debian will boost the performance compared to 32-bit on my machine? Wil

Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?

2009-10-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>From what i've heard you'll only notice a significant difference if you're performing lots of calculations (i'll leave the definition of that to you). I've been using amd64 without any major issues (sid) for quite a while now, if you have an x64 processor, go for it. Btw there's an amd64 list too

Re: OpenSSHD Server

2009-10-16 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:29:29PM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote: > Everytime I am connecting to my server via ssh, memory utilizaiton > appears to be increasing. Is there memory leak issues with sshd or, > perhaps, there is a maintenance that needs to be performed? or just Concurrent connections w

How to replicate the behaviour of /usr/local

2009-10-16 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! I have a shared directory on my system; what I'd like to achieve is making every newly created (or copied from elsewhere) file belong to the group owner "users". In short, I have been trying to replicate the behaviour of the /usr/local directory. Let me explain: if I

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Lisi
On Friday 16 October 2009 11:10:04 Tim Clewlow wrote: > lol - that error makes quite a difference. It means pretty much what > it says, ie X is already running, or, the combination of config > files means the system ends up trying to start X twice. Yes, I am very sorry. I know that it is essentia

Re: How to replicate the behaviour of /usr/local

2009-10-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Klistvud writes: >I have a shared directory on my system; what I'd like to achieve is >making every newly created (or copied from elsewhere) file belong to >the group owner "users". # chgrp users /path/to/shared/directory # chmod g+s /path/to/shared/directory The set-group-id bit on a direct

Re: How to replicate the behaviour of /usr/local

2009-10-16 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 16. 10. 2009 12:19:03 je Cameron Hutchison napisal(a): > Klistvud writes: > > >I have a shared directory on my system; what I'd like to achieve is > >making every newly created (or copied from elsewhere) file belong to > >the group owner "users". > > # chgrp users /path/to/shared/directo

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Friday 16 October 2009 11:10:04 Tim Clewlow wrote: >> lol - that error makes quite a difference. It means pretty much what >> it says, ie X is already running, or, the combination of config files means the system ends up trying to start X twice. > Yes, I am very sorry. I know that it is essen

Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?

2009-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU > It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB) > > Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit > with bigmem kernel. The questions are: > > Does ru

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
Ok, I found out that there is an error in the .xsession file, the correct version is below, note the line 'icewm &' has now become 'icewm-session &' - this should bring back the correct background and hopefully the mouse will behave noremally again :-) #!/bin/sh xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults & icewm-se

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Lisi
On Friday 16 October 2009 13:06:42 Tim Clewlow wrote: > > But there is still this grey greying out grid over everything > > instead of a > > desktop with icons that are not covered by a grid of any kind! > And > > if I > > use .bash_profile to start X and then start idesk from a terminal > I > > ge

Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?

2009-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-10-16 13:41 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU >> It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB) >> >> Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit >> with bigmem kernel. The questions ar

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Lisi
On Friday 16 October 2009 13:42:25 Tim Clewlow wrote: > Ok, I found out that there is an error in the .xsession file, the > correct version is below, note the line 'icewm &' has now become > 'icewm-session &' - this should bring back the correct background > and hopefully the mouse will behave nore

Re: What does the auto parameter ?

2009-10-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Todd A. Jacobs [2009 Oct 16 03:25 -0500]: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:32:17AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > What is exactly the purpose of the "auto" statement in > > /etc/network/interfaces file ? > > Interfaces in auto stanzas are automatically brought up at boot time. OTOH, if using Wi

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that > what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the > whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution than just buying an > adapter cable. Mention

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Leandro Quibem Magnabosco
This thread *has* to stop! =( Every time someone replys to this thread, God kills a kitty. It's true. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: syslog entries

2009-10-16 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:23:01 +0200 Tom H wrote: > > I noticed this today - my syslog is filling up with repeated > > calls to my internet provider...even though I am obviously connected. > > Is this caused by some mis-configuration ? > > > > This is

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:33:17AM +1100, Tim Clewlow wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 00:34:57 Tim Clewlow wrote: > >> > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:43:21 Tim Clewlow wrote: > >> >> You can rearrange the order in which things are started in > your > >> >> .xsession file, ie you dont have

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Friday 16 October 2009 13:42:25 Tim Clewlow wrote: >> Ok, I found out that there is an error in the .xsession file, the >> correct version is below, note the line 'icewm &' has now become >> 'icewm-session &' - this should bring back the correct background >> and hopefully the mouse will beha

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
> Is it? > Let's look at /etc/X11/Xsession > $ grep HOME /etc/X11/Xsession > USRRESOURCES=$HOME/.Xresources > USERXSESSION=$HOME/.xsession > USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc > ALTUSERXSESSION=$HOME/.Xsession > ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors > $ grep USERXSESSION /etc/X11/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession.

Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Barry Samuels
I have an IBM Thinkpad R61 running Debian Testing with kernel 2.6.30. After a recent system update the touchpad no longer works. The red button thing, whatever they call it, embedded in the keyboard and its associated buttons all work but the touchpad and its associated buttons don't. I have tr

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY > commands from Debian OS? I'll just agree with Johannes here: if you value your data enough to try and recover deleted files, then you *should* *really* be doing regular backups. Hardware failures do happen. Stefan

Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?

2009-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-10-16 13:41 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> This way you are running a 64-bit system with a 32-bit userland. > > Note that this combination will not work with virtualbox (#456391¹), so > that it becomes necessary to

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:08:45PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > I have an IBM Thinkpad R61 running Debian Testing with kernel 2.6.30. > After a recent system update the touchpad no longer works. The red button > thing, whatever they call it, embedded in the keyboard and its associated > bu

Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?

2009-10-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU >> It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB) I have 2 similar boxes, one running 686-bigmem and one running amd64. >> Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit >> with bigmem kernel. The questions are: I don't u

Re: how to tell webalizer where webalizer.conf is?

2009-10-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
if i might summarize what i was droning on about below: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > if i might impose on the list one more time, this has to do with > still tweaking the migration i did once upon a time, and is > webalizer-specific, but i'm betting someone here is going to

Re: sid dist-upgrade: lvm2 conflicts with devicekit-disks so systems with / on lvm2 killed

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Joe wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Mitchell Laks wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I recently did a sid dist-upgrade, and could no longer boot using >>> linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem kernel >>> and had to boot off an old 2.6.26 kernel. >> .. >> >>> This is a problem. >>> >> I guess the real problem is,

custom Installer

2009-10-16 Thread Tanco .
Hello guys, I am working on developing a system that will be a custom distro that I will need to compile as a Installable DVD / Iso Image.. I was thinking of installing on a system and using mondo system backup to make the iso images, but I don't like it since it will remember my partitions back

Re: custom Installer

2009-10-16 Thread randall
Tanco . wrote: > Hello guys, > I am working on developing a system that will be a custom distro that I > will need to > compile as a Installable DVD / Iso Image.. > I was thinking of installing on a system and using mondo system backup > to make the iso images, but I don't like it since it will rem

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Lee Winter
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Leandro Quibem Magnabosco wrote: > This thread *has* to stop! And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? > > =( > > Every time someone replys to this thread, God kills a kitty. Who told you that? > It's true. How would you know? -- Lee -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: sid dist-upgrade: lvm2 conflicts with devicekit-disks so systems with / on lvm2 killed

2009-10-16 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I recently  did a sid dist-upgrade, and could no longer boot using > linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem kernel > and had to boot off an old 2.6.26 kernel. > > The reason is that gnome-control-center and other gnome stuff bring in > dev

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Barry Samuels
On 16/10/09 14:31:33, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:08:45PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > > > I have an IBM Thinkpad R61 running Debian Testing with kernel > > > 2.6.30. After a recent system update the touchpad no longer works. > > > The red button thing, whatever they

Re: sid dist-upgrade: lvm2 conflicts with devicekit-disks so systems with / on lvm2 killed

2009-10-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 16 October 2009 03:08:36 Joe wrote: > So could I ask what the correct answer actually is? What combination of > packages do we need to maintain an unbroken operating system which > depends on both lvm2 and gnome? AFAIK, there isn't one in sid alone. You may be able to pull some packages

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091016_083137, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > So far the responses that I have gotten comfirm without a doubt that > > what I was told by the sales person in Best Buy is not at all the > > whole story. There is *a lot* more to the solution

Re: custom Installer

2009-10-16 Thread Tanco
This is actually a good Idea, but I need to add custom software inside, and configurations, I don't need package selectors, and such, just partition selector/editor, timezone, language, and boot selector.. can I do this with the ubuntu installer? can i add custom software and configs? randall

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:25:52PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > On 16/10/09 14:31:33, Osamu Aoki wrote: [...] > > > > Did you install xfree86-driver-synaptics ? > > No but I do have xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. > > Let me stress that it was working perfectly before the update. I haven't > cha

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Matthew Moore
On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: > wrote: > > This thread *has* to stop! > > And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a finite number of elements to it does not change it's size. > > Every time someone replys to t

Re: custom Installer

2009-10-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 16 October 2009 16:32:21 Tanco . wrote: > Hello guys, > I am working on developing a system that will be a custom distro that I > will need to > compile as a Installable DVD / Iso Image.. > I was thinking of installing on a system and using mondo system backup > to make the iso images, bu

Re: custom Installer

2009-10-16 Thread randall
Tanco wrote: > This is actually a good Idea, but I need to add custom software inside, > and configurations, > I don't need package selectors, and such, just partition > selector/editor, timezone, language, > and boot selector.. > can I do this with the ubuntu installer? > can i add custom softwar

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread randall
Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: >> wrote: >>> This thread *has* to stop! >> And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? > > This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a finite number of elements > to > it does not change it's size. > >>

Re: custom Installer

2009-10-16 Thread Tanco
Also a great idea, but the problem is that the base system is a slackware (i am not allowed to change the base distro) also I need to make a installer of a already running system , so the idea basically is I need to somehow make an installer of the system in questions.. because i.e. it needs

site to which iceweasel cannot connect

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Kleene
>From iceweasel, I can never connect to this site: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/ When I try, I get a screen that says, "Iceweasel can't establish a connection to the server at cincinnati.com." Then it says to check my network connection, firewalls, etc. When I try sensible-browser (i.

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread John Hasler
MM writes: > (1) I kill a kitty every time this thread is posted to. There are too damn many cats anyway. > (2) you cannot prove that I am not god. Yes I can. I am god. I can prove anything. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: site to which iceweasel cannot connect

2009-10-16 Thread Kent West
Steve Kleene wrote: > >From iceweasel, I can never connect to this site: > > http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/ > > When I try, I get a screen that says, "Iceweasel can't establish a connection > to the server at cincinnati.com." Then it says to check my network > connection, firewalls, etc.

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Lee Winter
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: >> wrote: >> > This thread *has* to stop! >> >> And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? > > This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a finite number of elements > to

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 16 October 2009 11:03:13 Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: > > And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? > > This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a finite number of > elements to it does not change it's size. By size do you

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Matthew Moore
On Friday October 16 2009 10:39:23 am you wrote: > > This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a finite number of > > elements to it does not change it's size. > > Good point. But I think there's a reasonable quibble about the > difference between unbounded and infinite (in the cantorian

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Matthew Moore
On Friday October 16 2009 10:56:29 am Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 16 October 2009 11:03:13 Matthew Moore wrote: > > On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: > > > And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? > > > > This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a

Re: site to which iceweasel cannot connect

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Kleene
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:32:43 -0400, I wrote: > From iceweasel, I can never connect to this site: > > http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/ On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:36:58 -0500, Kent West replied: > Works for me; try starting Iceweasel in safe mode. I killed the existing browser and then called

Re: custom Installer

2009-10-16 Thread randall
Tanco wrote: > Also a great idea, > but the problem is that the base system is a slackware (i am not allowed > to change the base distro) > also I need to make a installer of a already running system , > > so the idea basically is I need to somehow make an installer of the > system in questions..

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Barry Samuels
On 16/10/09 16:59:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:25:52PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > > On 16/10/09 14:31:33, Osamu Aoki wrote: > [...] > > > > > > Did you install xfree86-driver-synaptics ? > > > > No but I do have xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. > > > > Let me str

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread ghe
On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone, etc. use -- your recordings aren't going t

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 Barry Samuels wrote: ... > SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to > be missing > > What would that mean? Not sure, but in the kernel config, there's something called CONFIG_INPUT_DEV (Device Drivers / Input device support / Even

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread John Hasler
Glenn writes: > Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly > the high freq. part of the signal. > Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not any impedance if it is terminated. > Not at 100' anyway. Right. You can't hear 1Mhz. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday October 16 2009 10:56:29 am Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> On Friday 16 October 2009 11:03:13 Matthew Moore wrote: >> >>> On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: >>> And you are adding to it in order to shorten it?

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 > Barry Samuels wrote: > > ... > > > SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to > > be missing > > > > What would that mean? > > Not sure, but in the kernel config, there's

RE: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end musicsystems

2009-10-16 Thread David Christensen
Paul E Condon wrote: > long adapter cable (>~100ft). The cable would be carrying analog signal. Unbalanced signals, such as might be found on computer sound card 1/8" TRS jacks and audio equipment RCA jacks, are susceptible to common-mode noise and ground loops. If your computer sound card line

Re: 32-bit with bigmem or 64-bit debian, which is better?

2009-10-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:41, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU >> It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB) >> >> Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going

Re: site to which iceweasel cannot connect

2009-10-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 13:06:37 -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:32:43 -0400, I wrote: > > > From iceweasel, I can never connect to this site: > > > > http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/ > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:36:58 -0500, Kent West replied: > > > Works for me; try st

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091016_115141, ghe wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly >> the high freq. part of the signal. > > Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. > > Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone,

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:13:45 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 > > Barry Samuels wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to > > > be miss

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Barry Samuels
On 16/10/09 20:13:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 > > Barry Samuels wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem > > > to be missing > > > > > >

Re: site to which iceweasel cannot connect - SOLVED

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Kleene
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:32:43 -0400, I wrote: > From iceweasel, I can never connect to this site: > > http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/ On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:15:45 +0200, Florian Kulzer replied: > Try if you can connect to the server using telnet on port 80: > > telnet cincinnati.com 80

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Barry Samuels
On 16/10/09 21:22:22, Barry Samuels wrote: > On 16/10/09 20:13:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 > > > Barry Samuels wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad The /dev/input

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread ghe
On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. Impedance and balance are two different things. Impedance only becomes an issue wh

Re: site to which iceweasel cannot connect - SOLVED

2009-10-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Steve Kleene at 2009-10-17 06:57... > I do this when a site is responsible for annoying browser ads that I want to > avoid. Now I actually want some content from that site. I deleted the line > from /etc/hosts, and it's fixed. I find that a combination of the AdBlock Plus and NoScript plug

Re: Intel C++ Compiler, Debian Sid and libstdc++5/6

2009-10-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:57:12 -0300 Ivan Marin wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just installed the Intel C++ compiler on a Debian Sid, amd64, icc > version 11.1.056. Even with the warnings (system not recognized, binutils > not found, etc), the compiler installs correctly. But when I try to use it, >

Re: Thinkpad Touchpad no longer works

2009-10-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 21:49:34 +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > On 16/10/09 21:22:22, Barry Samuels wrote: > > On 16/10/09 20:13:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 Barry Samuels wrote: [...] > >

Re: How to replicate the behaviour of /usr/local

2009-10-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Klistvud writes: >Dne, 16. 10. 2009 12:19:03 je Cameron Hutchison napisal(a): >> Klistvud writes: >> >> >I have a shared directory on my system; what I'd like to achieve is >> >making every newly created (or copied from elsewhere) file belong to >> >the group owner "users". >> >> # chgrp use

transfer an installed package

2009-10-16 Thread Hashimoto
Hello all, Is there any way to transfer an installed package from one computer (ubuntu) to another one (debian)? Thanks.

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:12:12AM -0300, Leandro Quibem Magnabosco wrote: > This thread *has* to stop! > Or it could veer lightly back on topic... Since I have been having so much fun using and learing mutt lately, and since I've been trying to wean myself off of using GUI programs (GTK and KDE

/etc/X11/xorg.conf in Squeeze

2009-10-16 Thread peasthope
As a first step in resolving a video problem with a NetVista running Squeeze, I purged xserver-xorg and reinstalled it. Then ran "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". Still there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Documentation about deprecation of xorg.conf hasn't surfaced. Any ideas? Thanks,

Grub2 not setting the vga= on one of 3 partitions

2009-10-16 Thread Wayne
I finally have grub 2 installed. Whew. It works for testing but, does not set the vga=31B on the stable entry. Generating grub.cfg ... Found Debian background: moreblue-orbit-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-amd64 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-amd64 Found linux

Re: Grub2 not setting the vga= on one of 3 partitions

2009-10-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Wayne wrote: > I finally have grub 2 installed. Whew.  It works for testing but, does not > set the vga=31B on the stable entry. > Generating grub.cfg ... > Found Debian background: moreblue-orbit-grub.png > Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-amd64 > Found

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091016_151335, ghe wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly the high freq. part of the signal. >>> >>> Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway. >> >> Impedance and balance are two

Re: Grub2 not setting the vga= on one of 3 partitions

2009-10-16 Thread Wayne
Tom H wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Wayne wrote: I finally have grub 2 installed. Whew. It works for testing but, does not set the vga=31B on the stable entry. Generating grub.cfg ... Found Debian background: moreblue-orbit-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-amd64

Re: Grub2 not setting the vga= on one of 3 partitions

2009-10-16 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:13:41AM +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Wayne wrote: > > I finally have grub 2 installed. Whew.  It works for testing but, does not > > set the vga=31B on the stable entry. > > /etc/default/grub > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=...

Re: Grub2 not setting the vga= on one of 3 partitions SOLVED

2009-10-16 Thread Wayne
Tom H wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Wayne wrote: I finally have grub 2 installed. Whew. It works for testing but, does not set the vga=31B on the stable entry. Generating grub.cfg ... Found Debian background: moreblue-orbit-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-amd64

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-16 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:42:08 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > From: green > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user > > Mark Grieveson wrote at 2009-10-15 09:32 -0500: > > Hello. Files on my usb-key (or flash drive, or

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Mark Grieveson at 2009-10-17 12:52... > Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but I still get the locking, > with the following message, > > "Document file 'yourfile.doc' is locked for editing by: > > Unknown User > > Open document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing."

Re: Removing a linux-image.

2009-10-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Peter Crawford wrote: I get it. I get it. But 2.6.30 works well. No need to keep 2.6.24. The problem is simply that aptitude in Squeeze is unaware of 2.6.24 and I want to remove it without a hidden legacy. Thanks,... p. crawford Just do a search for the kernel you want to re

K9copy error in Debian-Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread charlie
I have installed Lenny and attempted to use k9copy only to have my CPU overloaded and a crash finally. The libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:1539 last number is different just keeps going on. It seems this has been a problem on Ubuntu - but I can't get any information for Debian, and n

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/16/09, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Since I have been having so much fun using and learing mutt lately, > and since I've been trying to wean myself off of using GUI programs > (GTK and KDE(k3b))) that need a boatload of dependencies, I thought I would > give the debain package cdw a try. > You

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