Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Allums
Gnash is a noble effort. Gnash sucks. I want choice, and my choice is Adobe Flash. Installing Gnash screws up Flash. Right now, I can refuse to update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will come when that will not be a viable option. Why does GNOME require Gnash? And what can I d

Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I am struggling with my Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP ever since I have upgraded to XOrg 7.5 which is (still) not supported by the proprietary driver. The OSS Radeon driver is *really* slow. Switching between workplaces or (full screen) applications sometimes take more than 30 seconds. More appli

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,16.Mar.10, 13:56:27, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Maybe one of these days, when I feel more adventuresome, I may give > this a try myself. I have two systems at home with Nvidia video cards. > The trouble is, they're OLD Nvidia cards. The proprietary driver > may have dropped support for the

git

2010-03-17 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Hi, due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the numerous git-packages I have to install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment. Thanks. -- KDJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: git

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Taylor
Hi, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hi, > > due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the numerous > git-packages I have to > install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment. > > Thanks. You just need to install git-core. -Chris signature.asc Description: OpenPGP d

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,16.Mar.10, 22:55:47, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:09:05 -0400 > Wayne wrote: > > > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the > > past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude. > > File a wishlist bug against aptitude. Or even bette

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne (linux...@gmail.com) wrote: > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the > past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude. How about apt-listbugs? apt-listbugs -s all list openoffice.org -- Bob Cox. St

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 09:11:31, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > 1. In several postings I saw the mentioning of the need to load > firmware. I have installed all the firmware-linux packages, including > the non-free which contains the relevant Radeon firmware. I see some > firmware getting loaded (eg for m

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:36 +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne (linux...@gmail.com) wrote: > > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the > > past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude. > How about apt-listbugs?

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Andrei, Nop, not even a failure. On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog panoramix:/home/jkr# grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog Mar 17 08:18:28 panoramix kernel: [ 12.304016] 3w-9xxx: scsi4: Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.006, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.05

Re: git

2010-03-17 Thread marc
Chris Taylor wrote: >> due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the numerous >> git-packages I have to >> install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment. > > You just need to install git-core. I'd also install gitk and git-gui. You might also want to take a loo

How to install sun-java5-jdk in debian testing?

2010-03-17 Thread Jianhua Shao
I run debian testing in my box, which means, all update source in source.list are from 'testing' distribution. I want to compile Android manually, which needs sun-java5-jdk, but there is no such package in 'testing' distribution, only sun-java6-jdk is out there. Maybe, I could add a 'stable' line i

Re: git

2010-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> marc : >I'd also install gitk and git-gui. You might also want to take a look >at tig if you are comfortable with vim. and subscribe to the git mailing list and lso give a try at giggle, which I find necer than gitk. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration

Re: How to recover from corrupted memory

2010-03-17 Thread hce
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Paste the *exact* command with the *exact* output (preferably also with an > "ls -aFl" listing of the directory).  If it's too large or wide for email, > throw it onto a website and give us the link. ~/wxGTK-2.8.10/samples/config$ ls -aFl to

Re: How to install sun-java5-jdk in debian testing?

2010-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Jianhua Shao : > What is the best way to handle such problem? - get the package source from a "stable" repository - rebuild it on your target "testing" box Soem help: http://www.google.com/search?q=debian+rebuild+package -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administra

Realtek 8139 NICs would not work under the latest stable Debian.

2010-03-17 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I'm unable to make working NICs containing Realtek 8139 chips - it is true for the latest updated Debian stable packets (let's call it B) - for the older ones (let's call it A) it seems working, though linux image is used the same (and it is where the drivers for te NICs are, as I su

Re: How to recover from corrupted memory

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 20:25:27, hce wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Paste the *exact* command with the *exact* output (preferably also with an > > "ls -aFl" listing of the directory).  If it's too large or wide for email, > > throw it onto a website and give us the

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 09:53:07, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > Nop, not even a failure. > > > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog > > panoramix:/home/jkr# grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog > Mar 17 08:18:28 panoramix kernel: [ 12

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 03:05, Mark Allums wrote: Gnash is a noble effort. Gnash sucks. I want choice, and my choice is Adobe Flash. Installing Gnash screws up Flash. Right now, I can refuse to update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will come when that will not be a viable option. Why doe

Re: How to install sun-java5-jdk in debian testing?

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 03:57, Jianhua Shao wrote: I run debian testing in my box, which means, all update source in source.list are from 'testing' distribution. I want to compile Android manually, which needs sun-java5-jdk, but there is no such package in 'testing' distribution, only sun-java6-jdk is out

Re: How to install sun-java5-jdk in debian testing?

2010-03-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-17, Jianhua Shao wrote: > I run debian testing in my box, which means, all update source in > source.list are from 'testing' > distribution. I want to compile Android manually, which needs > sun-java5-jdk, but there is no such > package in 'testing' distribution, only sun-java6-jdk is o

Re: How to recover from corrupted memory

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 04:33, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,17.Mar.10, 20:25:27, hce wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Paste the *exact* command with the *exact* output (preferably also with an "ls -aFl" listing of the directory). If it's too large or wide for email, throw it

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: > Gnash is a noble effort. Gnash sucks. I want choice, and my choice is > Adobe Flash. Installing Gnash screws up Flash. Right now, I can refuse > to update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will come when that > will not be a viable option. Why d

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,17.Mar.10, 09:53:07, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > Hi Andrei, > > > > Nop, not even a failure. > > > > > > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > grep -i firmware /var/log/syslog > > > > panoramix:/home/jk

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Andrei, OK, doing modprobe -r radeon modprobe radeon modeset=1 using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually performance workplace and application switching at acceptable speed. Now I just have 1 error left in my XOrg.log: (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion fail

Re: Evince rendering the New Maintainers guide improperly

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:47:17 +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > downloading the Debian New Maintainer guide from the debian website at > > http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide > > as a PDF and viewing using evince renders some of the index wrongly (...) Not only Evince, but Acro

Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Siju George
Hi, I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks that are consuming the inodes. Is there any way to

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 4:42 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: Why does GNOME require Gnash? And what can I do to put a stop to it? Look at the following metapackages, their descriptions and dependencies: gnome gnome-desktop-environment gnome-core Choose the one

Re: How to install sun-java5-jdk in debian testing?

2010-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Ron Johnson : > Go directly to upstream? Why? dpkg (or any other packaging tool) is just no worth? -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 / +261 33 11 207 36 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Allums
Oddly, for some reason, they all require Gnash. I'm rooting for Gnash, I hope Gnash works out in the end, and with HTML5 video tag, maybe it will, What I said up there was badly put. What I mean is I hope that Flash and Gnash and Silverlight and Moonlight will become obsolete, at least as f

Re: Debian VM freezes

2010-03-17 Thread Michal
On 16/03/2010 19:29, christos.kol...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: > Hi, When I am running debian-gnome-desktop (ver. 2.22.3) VM on Sun > VirtualBox (ver. 3.1.4) it sometimes freezes (i.e., when downloading a > file) – my only option is to reset the VM which means losing any files I > have installed, a

Re: Debian VM freezes

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:29:49 -0700, christos.kolias wrote: > Hi, When I am running debian-gnome-desktop (ver. 2.22.3) VM on Sun > VirtualBox (ver. 3.1.4) it sometimes freezes (i.e., when downloading a > file) - my only option is to reset the VM which means losing any files I > have installed, and

Re: How to install sun-java5-jdk in debian testing?

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 05:41, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Ron Johnson : Go directly to upstream? Why? dpkg (or any other packaging tool) is just no worth? I don't like mixed Stable/Testing systems: too much conflict. And building a JDK from source just takes too long. -- Obsession with "preserv

Re: Realtek 8139 NICs would not work under the latest stable Debian.

2010-03-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Sthu Deus : ># ifup eth0 > it says that I have no such device and some other errors. Because ifup/ifdown are only working if you took the time to fill /etc/network/interfaces correctly. grep "dmesg" to look for your interfaces, they might be "eth4", the order/number is only predictable if you

Re: Realtek 8139 NICs would not work under the latest stable Debian.

2010-03-17 Thread steef
Sthu Deus schreef: Good day. I'm unable to make working NICs containing Realtek 8139 chips - it is true for the latest updated Debian stable packets (let's call it B) - for the older ones (let's call it A) it seems working, though linux image is used the same (and it is where the drivers for

Re: Setting up HP J4580 on Debian?

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Michael Yang wrote: >>> I used different ways to install drivers: >>> 1. downloaded hplip all-in-one tar ball  from HP's website >>> 2. install hplip from debian's repository >>> 3. install hpoj, xsane from debian's repository replacing hplip >> >> Maybe the HP hp

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:27:56 +0100, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > there is a Debian Etch with kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686, and udev > 0.105. "Etch" is not longer supported. Maybe upgrading to the latest stable should be desiderable :-? > System has two USB SATA-II disks for backup. Since a few wee

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
>>> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2?  Is there no >>> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? >> Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run >> grub-update. Changes made directly to /boot/grub/grub.cfg will get >> overwritten nex

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/17/2010 4:42 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: >>> Why does GNOME require Gnash? And what can I do to put a stop to it? >> >> Look at the following metapackages, their descriptions and dependencies: >> >> gnome >> gnom

Postfix + AWStats

2010-03-17 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
Hello everyone, I'm running Postfix 2.5.5 on a Debian system and I'm trying to get AWstats to process my postfix mail log. I've read all FAQ at awstats' and postix's homepage and none is aplicable. As I read on http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_faq.html#MAIL it is said that LogFormat has

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 06:48, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/17/2010 4:42 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: Why does GNOME require Gnash? And what can I do to put a stop to it? Look at the following metapackages, their descriptions and dependencie

Network Manager Shows No Connection

2010-03-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
I noticed two years ago when I installed Lenny (testing) that Gnome showed no network connection however I did have an IP and could surf fine. Last week I installed Squeeze and saw the same issue two years later on completely different hardware. I just don't understand why the network icon near the

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
> I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems > DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% > inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): > I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks > that are consuming the inodes. > Is there any wa

enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on the touchpad again with the modern debian? It used to be in xorg.conf then it was hal with

Re: Network Manager Shows No Connection

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
> I noticed two years ago when I installed Lenny (testing) that Gnome > showed no network connection however I did have an IP and could surf > fine. Last week I installed Squeeze and saw the same issue two years > later on completely different hardware. I just don't understand why > the network ico

Re: Postfix + AWStats

2010-03-17 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
El mié, 17-03-2010 a las 13:01 +0100, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago escribió: > Hello everyone, > > I'm running Postfix 2.5.5 on a Debian system and I'm trying to get > AWstats to process my postfix mail log. I've read all FAQ at awstats' > and postix's homepage and none is aplicable. > As I read on

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Tom H wrote: > > > I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems > > DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% > > inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): > > I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those har

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:40:43 -0400 Tom H wrote: Hello Tom, > GRUB_DEFAULT=saved That's the one. Thanks for the reminder. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Life goes quick and it goes without warning Bombsite B

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:21 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, >Chipset "GeForce 8300 GS" > in the "Device" section. I have no idea if it will work. It's a shot > in the dark. Sadly, no joy with that option, either. Once again, Stephen, thank you for all your assistance.

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:46:47 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > I'm glad to know that there is a way. Thanks. YW. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Now I found you out, I don't think you're so

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Siju George wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> > I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems >> > DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% >> > inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): >> > I a

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Johan Grönqvist
I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be that swfdec was removed. The changelog[0] for meta-gnome2 sa

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:20:26 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,16.Mar.10, 13:56:27, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Maybe one of these days, when I feel more adventuresome, I may give >> this a try myself. I have two systems at home with Nvidia video cards. >> The trouble is, they're OLD Nv

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
Hello, > "Etch" is not longer supported. Maybe upgrading to the latest stable > should be desiderable :-? I know, but this is what we have, currently it's not option. >> System has two USB SATA-II disks for backup. Since a few weeks the >> system can't make different between disks, all disks has

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:36 +, Bob Cox wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne wrote: > > > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the > > > past month. I would like to propose a n

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:36 +, Bob Cox wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne wrote: >> > > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: > > Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , > as reported by df : > > /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / > /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot > /dev/sda5 345G 23

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Cassiano Leal
Hi On 17 March 2010 07:27, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > OK, doing > > modprobe -r radeon > modprobe radeon modeset=1 > > using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually > performance workplace and application switching at acceptable speed. > > Now I just have 1 error

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:44 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. > apt-listbugs list $(aptitude -F%p search '~U') Thanks for the aptitude-fu, but I don't think

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist wrote: >> I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not >> the case on Lenny: > > > I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 > 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be > that swfd

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Tom H put forth on 3/17/2010 7:25 AM: >> I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems >> DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% >> inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): >> I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks >> that

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-17, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-17 06:48, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not >> the case on Lenny: >> >> $ apt-cache depends gnome-core >> gnome-core >> Depends: gnome-control-center >> Depends: eog >> Depends: gedi

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Thanks for the response. On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:04 -0300, Cassiano Leal wrote: > > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of a version > > mismatch. > > [dri] radeon kernel module version is 2.0.0 but version 1.17.0 or newer is > > needed. > > [dri] Disabling DRI. > >

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) > settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. > > How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on > the touchpad again with

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Thanks, Andrei. That did it. I had seen that message and should have thought of that, myself. I now have a fully updated (to Squeeze) eeePC. My only problem now is that I still have no wireless. I installed wicd, but it says that it does not detect any wireless networks. When I boot the ee

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Liam O'Toole skrev: On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist wrote: I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:10:00 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:21 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >>Chipset "GeForce 8300 GS" >> in the "Device" section. I have no idea if it will work. It's a shot >> in the dark. > > Sadly, no joy with that option, either. > >

Introduction to Yuuguu from Haridas

2010-03-17 Thread Yuuguu
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Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:58:03 +0100, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: >>> I would like to use two rules to identify disks when user attach one >>> of them, but system doesn't sense which disk has attached. >> >> Give filesystems a "label" and use that to manage them. As they are >> external disks for backup it

Fw: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops, sorry, Lisi, I didn't mean to send that directly to you and not the list. I just switched to using Yahoo! webmail instead of Thunderbird and I need to remember that it replies to sender by default. Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com - Forwarded Message From: Marc Shapiro To:

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 14:15:53 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:44 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > >> Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. > > > apt-listbugs list

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > Liam O'Toole skrev: >> On 2010-03-17, Johan Grönqvist wrote: I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: >>> >>> I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 >>> 2.28+6 tra

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.7 released

2010-03-17 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello World, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.7. Release Highlights * Major bug fixes Please see the git log for full details[1]. . What is apt-offline ? apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager . apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution withou

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 08:31, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-17, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Mark could always just remove gnome. It's just a metapackage. Yes again. But depending on how the gnome metapackage was installed, removing it can also remove its dependents. Installing one of the lesser met

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stephen Powell put forth on 3/17/2010 8:20 AM: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: >> >> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , >> as reported by df : >> >> /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / >> /dev/sda1 2.0G 1

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) > settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. > > How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on > the touchpad again with

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:20:36 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: >> >> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , >> as reported by df : >> >> /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / >> /dev/sda1

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
Hello, >> hmm... how can I "catch" which is the label of the attached disk? > > > "ls -l /dev/disk/by-label" will tell you if there is any current label on > the filesystems. Look: > > s...@stt008:~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 mar 17 07:50 ALFA -> ../../sda2 > l

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Micha Feigin schreef: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on the touch

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:55:35 +0100, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > thanks, sorry I think we don't understand each other... I know how can I > determine labels, I would like to make some elegant way for user > plug USB disk, and udev catch that event, send an email for me which > contains serial > part of

Re: use preseeding for one package

2010-03-17 Thread Chantal Rosmuller
Op dinsdag 16 maart 2010 15:39:50 schreef Tzafrir Cohen: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:06:34AM +0100, Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > > > You can force the non-interactive front-end by setting > > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND in the environment: > > > > > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wayne
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 14:15:53 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:44 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. apt-listbugs

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha
On 17/03/2010 16:57, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Micha Feigin schreef: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. How do I enable tapping and circular scrol

Re: Evince rendering the New Maintainers guide improperly

2010-03-17 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Report availible here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574353 On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:33:54 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:47:17 +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > > downloading the Debian New Maintainer guide from the debian website at > > > > http://www

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 6:48 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/17/2010 4:42 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: Why does GNOME require Gnash? And what can I do to put a stop to it? Look at the following metapackages, their descriptions and dependen

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as > reported by df : > /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / > /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot > /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home > /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tm

How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Nigel Henry
Hi Folks. I've got a whole bunch of updates for Lenny, including a load of X stuff, which I don't like installing while X is running. I save all the update output from the konsole in my history-files for future reference. Is there a way to save the output when working in runlevel 3? Thanks.

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
hello, > Yes. This can be achieved with "$env{ID_FS_LABEL}" variable used by > "udev" (I've had to search for this :-P): > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev > > That way you can forget about the serial number of the disks being > detected the same as the devices/partitions will be identif

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will >>> cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now >>> used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. >> Call me a luddite but UUID < partition numbers for the simple reason >> I can manually w

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wayne
Bob Cox wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne (linux...@gmail.com) wrote: After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude. How about apt-listbugs? apt-listbugs -s all list openoffice.org S

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 7:51 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be that swfdec was

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:40:01 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 3/17/2010 8:20 AM: >> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , >>> as reported by df : >>> >>> /dev/sd

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:39:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:15:40 +0100 > pch0317 wrote: > > > Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:03:51 +0100 > > > pch0317 wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Hi > > >> I have problem with my wireless embedded device. > > >> > > >> I use D

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so that each user on the machine can choose which flash player she wants to use. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks > that are consuming the inodes. hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory in which they appear). But every symlink and every directory does use an inode. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: > > > Current Squeeze. > > > eog > gedit > gnome-applets > gnome-control-center > gnome-icon-theme > gnome-menus > gnome-panel > gnome-power-manager > gnome-session > gnome-settings-daemon > gnome-terminal > gvfs > metacity > mutter > nautilus > yelp > > suggests

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:34:47 +0100, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: >> Yes. This can be achieved with "$env{ID_FS_LABEL}" variable used by >> "udev" (I've had to search for this :-P): >> >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev >> >> That way you can forget about the serial number of the disks being >> de

Re: How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:27:48 -0400 (EDT), Nigel Henry wrote: > I've got a whole bunch of updates for Lenny, including a load of X stuff, > which I don't like installing while X is running. > > I save all the update output from the konsole in my history-files for future > reference. > > Is there

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Matthew Moore
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 7:49:56 am Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input > > device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. > > > > How do I enable tapping and circular

Re: How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 17.03.2010 16:27, Nigel Henry wrote: > Hi Folks. > > I've got a whole bunch of updates for Lenny, including a load of X stuff, > which I don't like installing while X is running. > > I save all the update output from the konsole in my history-files for future > reference. > > Is there a way

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