Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 14:45, Jason Heeris wrote: > To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to > building a kernel exactly the same as what's in > linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? More RTFMing required on my part, sorry. In the DEBIAN.Readme for the linux-image source package: Each

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-13 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:30:38 + (UTC) "s. keeling" wrote: > No offense meant, but wrong attitude. I've been saying this since > ca. '97: try again. The more installs you try, the more you learn > about the box and the more you know of what you need to know. You > learn more about the install

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:11:29 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón wrote: >> >> use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget >> activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop.. > > Out of all the awesome things in KDE4 why would disab

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue October 12 2010 22:46:14 Kelly Clowers wrote: > Akonadi and Strigi and similar technologies are critical to taking the > desktop to the next level of efficiency and effectiveness. Admittedly, > that's still in the early stages, but it is clearly where we need to go. People are working fine

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Lisi schreef: On Tuesday 12 October 2010 18:17:15 Stanisław Findeisen wrote: The question is how to switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager. wicd? $ aptitude show wicd Package: wicd ... Description: wired and wireless network manager Wicd is a general-purpose network

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Robert Holtzman schreef: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:24:58PM -0400, Mike Viau wrote: OnTue, 12 Oct 2010 14:11:13 -0700 wrote: 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how to switch between available W

SOLVED was: Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 14:47:56 Lisi wrote: > I was starting to see arrows pointing every which way!  So I have > temporarily shelved the problem.  I'll come back to it later. I was obviously doing something wrong - it is installing as I speak. Thanks for all the help. Camaleón's link work

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Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 03:30:38 s. keeling wrote: > Lisi : > > I think I'll give it one more try using your link and any tips > > other people have given me by then, and if I still can't do it I'll > > just install normally. > > No offense meant, None taken! Thanks for the reply. > but

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201010130052.36788.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net>, Mike Bird wrote: >On Tue October 12 2010 22:46:14 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> Akonadi and Strigi and similar technologies are critical to taking the >> desktop to the next level of efficiency and effectiveness. Admittedly, >> that's still in the early st

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread godo
Another option is switching to other desktop, like GNOME. That was the path I took. Greetings, Are you satisfied with Gnome? Is he lighter (CPU, RAM) than KDE4? Asking because I think switch to something and still didn’t decide. Fluxbox is favorite for now. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski:

Re: Configure radius to run script under different user

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:00:36 +0100, Jennie Kingsland wrote: Please, don't cross-post. (...) > If I run radiusd -X from command line as user support, radius starts up > fine. > > > > However if I run the startup script as user support from /etc/init.d by > entering #./start-my-radius.sh it co

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:51:24 +0200, godo wrote: >> Another option is switching to other desktop, like GNOME. That was the >> path I took. >> >> > Are you satisfied with Gnome? Yes, I am. > Is he lighter (CPU, RAM) than KDE4? Asking > because I think switch to something and still didn’t decide.

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread godo
But if you still love KDE, just give KDE 4.5 a chance. Spend 15 minutes in setting up the way you liked (meaning: remove all the fancy effects, use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop...) and you're done. You'll ge

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 3. Reproduce the crash, log *everything* since boot. Before I go off to bugzilla, I just want to check that I've actually got debugging information here, since to me it doesn't look that different. Do I need to boot with a special ker

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:08:36 +0200, godo wrote: >> But if you still love KDE, just give KDE 4.5 a chance. Spend 15 minutes >> in setting up the way you liked (meaning: remove all the fancy effects, >> use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget >> activities, return to the st

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 10. 2010 10:51:24 je godo napisal(a): Are you satisfied with Gnome? Very much so. It does an excellent job at getting out of my way, which is what I expect from a DE 99% of the time. Is he lighter (CPU, RAM) than KDE4? Not noticeably, no. But I don't have to spend a minute of m

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 23:39:06 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:20:39 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 22:47:45 Camaleón wrote: > >> In fact, KDE 4.5 can be (almost 100%) configured to play the same KDE > >> 3.5 did. It takes some time to get the same look&feel, but yo

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 10. 2010 12:02:02 je Paul Cartwright napisal(a): have you tried xfce ?? I like it as much as gnome.. and I also switched from KDE... xfce is also powerful, but a little lighter weight. Thanx for the suggestion. I'll give it a try on a spare box, or a virtual machine when I find

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread steef
Lisi schreef: On Tuesday 12 October 2010 22:47:45 Camaleón wrote: In fact, KDE 4.5 can be (almost 100%) configured to play the same KDE 3.5 did. It takes some time to get the same look&feel, but you can leave a quite similar desktop. "quite similar", "almost 100%", "configured to _pla

Re: lazarus & fpc - absent

2010-10-13 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 10/10/2010 16:21, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2010 12:58:02 Javier Barroso wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Johan wrote: You should be able to use any of the listed mirrors by adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list like this: deb http:///ftp.de.debian.org/debian/

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-13 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Camaleón wrote: > As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver > (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹). > Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install > nvidia driver. > ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumH

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 19:11 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:39, Camaleón wrote: > > > > use plain desktop, disable akonadi, strigi and that stuff, forget > > activities, return to the standard icons on the desktop.. > > Out of all the awesome things in KDE4 why would disa

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:59:47 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 23:39:06 Camaleón wrote: (...) >> But just in case, give it a chance to KDE 4.5 (play with it in a >> virtual machine and start it from time to time) and also, test another >> desktops. Experience tells me that sticking

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 22:48 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > It works perfectly with eduroam and Let me elaborate on the eduroam configuration. For eduroam you choose "PEAP with TKIP/MSCHAPV2 Identity: u...@host.tld Password: YourPassword You should also obtain the "GTE Cybertrust Glob

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 22:48 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> It works perfectly with eduroam and > Let me elaborate on the eduroam configuration. > > For eduroam you choose "PEAP with TKIP/MSCHAPV2 > >    Identity: u...@host.tld >    Pa

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
For those wanting to "lighten up" the gnome desktop, alt+f2, gconf-editor, ctrl+f the following: low_resource (enable) workarounds (disable) animation (disable all that come up) The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 07:07 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: > Thing is, you have to > write your own profile/template, which requires an understanding of > how to do it in wpa_supplicant, and then how to modify it as a wicd > template. This might be true for schemes that are not yet supported in w

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread steef
Γιώργος Πάλλας schreef: On 13/10/2010 01:24 πμ, Ogya Chief wrote: > If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you should > back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go > about it depends on your new machine. If it came with recovery options, > yo

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed October 13 2010, Arthur Machlas wrote: > For those wanting to "lighten up" the gnome desktop, alt+f2, > gconf-editor, ctrl+f the following: > > low_resource (enable) > workarounds (disable) > animation (disable all that come up) when I found those, the value on all said . it didn't find an

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 13/10/2010 02:07 μμ, steef wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας schreef: >> On 13/10/2010 01:24 πμ, Ogya Chief wrote: >>> >>> >>> > If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you >>> should >>> > back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go >>> > about it depends on

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed October 13 2010, Arthur Machlas wrote: >> For those wanting to "lighten up" the gnome desktop, alt+f2, >> gconf-editor, ctrl+f the following: >> >> low_resource (enable) >> workarounds (disable) >> animation (disable all that come up

RoundCube not working properly under Lighttpd in Squeeze

2010-10-13 Thread Didar Hossain
Hi all, I am using Postfix + Dovecot(IMAP) + Lighttpd + RoundCube to get a webmail service working. However, when I login from the browser (Firefox 3.0.19), I briefly the initial inbox view and then within 1-2 seconds I am automatically returned to the login screen. I tried changing the rcmail_co

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Preston Boyington
Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup, please let me know. Since most newer computers don't come with a Restore disc, I would suggest burning the Restore partition and any associated "utility" partition to a DVD. Usually it fi

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed October 13 2010, Arthur Machlas wrote: > >> low_resource (enable) > >> workarounds (disable) > >> animation (disable all that come up) > > > > when I found those, the value on all said . > > it didn't find any low_resource, and it found 2 workarounds: > > /schema/apps/metacity/general/disab

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 12:39:59 Camaleón wrote: > That is because you are looking at KDE 4.5 with different eyes. It's not > KDE 4, it's you!. Just let it be the same way KDE 3.5 looked and the > magic will be done. It is the functionality that I don't like. What it looks like is a side-is

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/13/2010 05:16 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > Before I go off to bugzilla, I just want to check that I've actually > got debugging information here, since to me it doesn't look that > different. Do I need to boot with a special kernel arg? Looks like this bug was reported on the avahi upstream mai

configure problem

2010-10-13 Thread #ZHAO LINA#
Hello, During the installation of one package, after configuration, it showed me like this $ ./configure Setting compiler to /usr/bin/gfortran I installed the gfortran on Debian already, are there some parts I am missing. What's the next step I should do? Sorry for the naive question. Thanks,

arpon need eth0 with dhcp,but pppoe cann't get connection if ifup eth0 with dhcp

2010-10-13 Thread yuanwei xu
Hello, I found arp attack under windows,so i installed "arpon" in Debian Squeeze,even if there is no "ip confiction" prompt as windows. When service arpon is started,it sayed: "ERROR: arpon.c:685 @ eth0: no IPv4 address assigned.",then quit with failure. The problem is my pppoe cann't get

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 22:35, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > The person responding indicates a kernel problem, which makes sense when > you actually get a kernel panic as a result. This was also indicated on > this list. I'm trying to figure out if there's a simpler way to trigger it, but haven't really f

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 12:39:59 Camaleón wrote: > I don't think Dotan is that type of guy. I know him (well, I know his > posts) from openSUSE mailing list and thanks to him (besides other users) > and his bugzilla reports, KDE 4 is now completely usable :-) Which he was obsessive about. An

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jason Heeris writes: > To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to > building a kernel exactly the same as what's in > linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? I'm on a PC with amd64 arch, so I created a > i386 chroot: I have personally used http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebia

RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 00:24 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > SNIP > > > > > > I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for > partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of > action. Windows comes with a resizer: right click on "my computer" > manage >diskmanager. The

Re:Re: iceweasel sometimes shows "untitled" when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread yuanwei xu
Camaleón, Thanks for your reply.Today the problem became much worse: none website can be connected in iceweasel,all turn out to be "(Untitled)". So i tried to install chromium through aptitude,and it works normally.This mail is wrote on it. It seems it's a good idea to have another browser as a

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark
2010/10/12 Γιώργος Πάλλας > > For backing up the whole disk before starting with dangerous operations I > suggest Clonezilla (the open-source equivalent of Ghost). It use it > regularly and hasn't betrayed me. > As for the rest procedures, I also suggest you resize the windows partition > with g

Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

2010-10-13 Thread Tyler Smith
Camaleón writes: >>> >>> >> Sorry, I should have mentioned I also found that with Google, and tried >> restarting avahi-daemon without success. > > How did you setup the printer? > > Try by using a "socket://" or "ipp://" URI and the IP address of the > printer/machine instead using its name to

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 12 October 2010 10:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: > >> CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I > >> could be wrong > > > > Yikes.  You really need to track this one down,

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:43:19 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 13 October 2010 12:39:59 Camaleón wrote: >> I don't think Dotan is that type of guy. I know him (well, I know his >> posts) from openSUSE mailing list and thanks to him (besides other >> users) and his bugzilla reports, KDE 4 is now co

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows "untitled" when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 15:48:46 yuanwei xu wrote: > Camaleón, > Thanks for your reply.Today the problem became much worse: none website > can be connected in iceweasel,all turn out to be "(Untitled)". > So i tried to install chromium through aptitude,and it works normally.This > mail is w

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows "untitled" when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:37:28 +0100 Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 13 October 2010 15:48:46 yuanwei xu wrote: > > Camaleón, > > Thanks for your reply.Today the problem became much worse: none website > > can be connected in iceweasel,all turn out to b

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows "untitled" when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed October 13 2010, Lisi wrote: > I am running Lenny.  I have tried previously and have just tried again.   > comes up with a game not a browser?? > > What is the name of the browser in Lenny?  Or is it simply not there? paulandcilla:/etc/cron.daily# aptitude show google-chrome-stable Unable

Re: lazarus & fpc - absent

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 11:38:37 Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 10/10/2010 16:21, Lisi wrote: > > Johan seems to want a lot of more up-to-date stuff. Would he not be > > better to use Squeeze in the first place? After all, it is over two > > tears since Lenny was frozen. Then he wouldn'y have

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows "untitled" when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 13 Out 2010, Lisi wrote: What is the name of the browser in Lenny? Or is it simply not there? chromium-browser -- Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows "untitled" when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:48:46 +0800, yuanwei xu wrote: > Camaleón, > Thanks for your reply.Today the problem became much worse: none > website > can be connected in iceweasel,all turn out to be "(Untitled)". So i > tried to install chromium through aptitude,and it works normally.This > mail

Re:Nouveau

2010-10-13 Thread David Baron
> > As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver > > (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹). > > > > Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install > > nvidia driver. > > > > ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumH

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 17:34:13 Camaleón wrote: > so some users (I think Dotan was one of them) tried to > animate people to help to solve the problems they were experiencing > instead of just ranting. Yes, that is correct and is useful, provided that it is kept in moderation. And it is

icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Debian testing, Xfce - with icedove, iceweasel, and chromium-browser installed. I decided to set chromium-browser as the default Web browser. In all other applications if I click on a Web link, the page loads in chromium-browser. If I click on a Web link within icedove, iceweasel is launched

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-13 19:12 +0200, David Baron wrote: >> > As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver >> > (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹). >> > >> > Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install >> > nvidia driver. >>

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Joe
On 13/10/10 16:52, Mark wrote: As a side note, if it came with a big hard drive, from my experience I suggest a 30-40 GB Windows 7 partition (yes it needs that much these days), That might be conservative. My Win7 is seven months old, and occupies 24GB (no data in that). I didn't make a note

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
$ aptitude -F "%?p" --disable-columns search \~i\!\~W E: Can't search for "" On both Lenny and Kubuntu 10.10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201010132

Re: configure problem

2010-10-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <926556ef12693342860cc687dc13545c9a5...@sinprd0103mb044.apcprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: >During the installation of one package, after configuration, it showed me >like this > >$ ./configure >Setting compiler to /usr/bin/gfortran > >I installed the gfortran on Debian alrea

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500 Arthur Machlas wrote: ... > The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and > losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not worth it. Once Never really used Gnome or its screensaver - what does it do that Xscreensaver doesn't? And wha

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) > Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my > choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it kind > of irks me! Have you tried by setting in Icedove "about:config" the variables... -

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500 > Arthur Machlas wrote: > > ... > >> The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and >> losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not worth it. Once > > Never really used Gnome or its scr

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
Chance Platt wrote: > deborphan --all-packages Thanks that definitely answer my need, especially called this way: deborphan --all-packages | sort -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:57:43 -0500 Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500 > > Arthur Machlas wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and > >> losing a decent screensaver, gdm

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
> aptitude search '~i!~M' > aptitude search '?installed?not(?automatic)' I guess this lists the one not automatically installed, but that's something quite different > With dpkg such a list can be generated with > for x in $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1) > do >[ -z "$(grep -E "Depends.*

RE: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Viau
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:04:37 +0200 wrote: > >>> A question about Wicid. >>> * ability to connect to (and maintain profiles for) both wired and >>> wireless networks; >>> So does this mean that wicid can _not_ control/setup network bridges (e.g: >>> with brctl)? >> >> Not sure. Try the wicd for

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread green
Loris Boillet wrote at 2010-10-13 12:16 -0600: > $ aptitude -F "%?p" --disable-columns search \~i\!\~W > E: Can't search for "" Oops. Try M instead of W. This is shorthand for ?installed!?automatic as in another post. $ aptitude -F "%?p" --disable-columns search \~i\!\~M signature.asc Descrip

OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I am planning to buy a notebook, laptop or tablet for my daughter who is at university. So the main use will be internet research, and writing of her theses (in litterature, so no big.deal as far as sketches, drawings...). The contract from alwaysinnovating, respecting the gpl even on the ma

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Joe wrote: > On 13/10/10 16:52, Mark wrote: > >> >> As a side note, if it came with a big hard drive, from my experience I >> suggest a 30-40 GB Windows 7 partition (yes it needs that much these >> days), >> > > That might be conservative. My Win7 is seven months

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread B. Alexander
I don't have one, but it is one of my top choices for a netbook. I remember when they came out. There was a guy on the talk.maemo.org forums that got one, and he said it was a good machine. The earlier version had some construction issues, they kinda felt cheesy, but I assume they worked these bug

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > I am planning to buy a notebook, laptop or tablet for my daughter who is > at university. So the main use will be internet research, and writing of > her theses (in litterature, so no big.deal as far as sketches, > drawings...). (...)

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > (...) > > > Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my > > choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it kind > > of irks me! > > Hav

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread B. Alexander
...or possibly a larger monitor and keyboard if mobility is an issue. I was issued a Macbook, and tried humping that monster around for a week. Gave up and it sat at home. Traded it in for a Lenovo thinkpad. Of course, I generally use my N900 for the stuff that I would need a laptop for at work. :

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/13/2010 04:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] If mobility is not a requirement, I would go for a good and generous screen laptop (15" or 16"). For someone who needs writing a lot, it is very convenient. And remember that wide screens chop off a lot of the vertical height that writers need, s

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Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/13/2010 06:16 PM, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it ki

Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI. What's the best way to let x.org know the internal display's actual DPI? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington wrote: > Ogya Chief wrote: >> >> At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I >> can backup, please let me know. > > Since most newer computers don't come with a Restore disc, I would suggest > burning the Restore partit

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop.  For > some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's > actually 107 DPI.  What's the best way to let x.org know the internal > display's actual DPI? > Ho

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: stor...@gmail.com >To: noela...@gmail.com >Subject: Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating >Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:26:38 -0400 > >>...or possibly a larger monitor and keyboard if mobility is an >issue. >> >>I was issued a Macbook, and

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 06:35, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Disabling support for ipv6 can actually be done via a kernel parameter, > so recompiling to remove ipv6 support should not be needed. Use the > kernel parameter "ipv6.disable=1". Yep, disabling IPv6 stops the crash! So where should I report it,

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/13/2010 9:25 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 00:24 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of action. Windows comes with a resizer: right click on "my computer">

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
> I would check with her department at the University. Most (including > the one I teach at) have a recommended list of computer capabilities > and some also recommended vendors. You must be careful, > unfortunately, because some programs use specific software packages > that only run under one O

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup, please let me know. Since most newer computers don't come with a Restore disc, I would suggest

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 08:58 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > So where should I report it, debian kernel bug tracker or upstream bug > tracker? I figured the former, since it's not a bleeding edge kernel > I'm running, but maybe I'm wrong. > > Cheers, > Jason I wo

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington >> wrote: >> >>> Ogya Chief wrote: >>> At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup, please let

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Celejar wrote: > Interesting, thanks. The look I don't really care about, and switching > users isn't relevant for me, since I'm the only user of the system. > The xscreensaver author has a low opinion of gnome-screensaver: > > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-s

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington >>  wrote: >>> Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup, please let me know. >

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread consul tores
2010/10/12 Ogya Chief : > Hi All, > > I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition > and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's > partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the > Windows partition? > > Kind regards, >

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the > experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to provide a > fix when it can be backported from a newer upstream. Interesting, no crash with 2.6.36-rc6-486. I'll

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:33:09 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Celejar wrote: > > Interesting, thanks. The look I don't really care about, and switching > > users isn't relevant for me, since I'm the only user of the system. > > The xscreensaver author has a low opi

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
> There is something to be said about stuff that puts functionality over form. > XFCE is likely to be more stable and safer than anything KDE or Gnome. 1. The two are not mutually exclusive. A!!Y being a good example, which gnome wins hands down over XFCE. 2. The biggest threat to a system, IMHO,

Re: [SOLVED!] Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
Comments and some info at the bottom, so it makes sense when you read it. (Hey, there's NO way I'm going to top post on this list!) On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:21 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I know > that's as outdated as a Model T, but

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/13/2010 8:31 PM, Mark wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Mark Allums Don't all boxes ship with a utility to create restore DVDs from the restore partition?! Often, they do, yes. Typically, it allows exactly one copy to be created, so, ensure that good media

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/13/2010 8:45 PM, consul tores wrote: And, yes, it is possible to create windows 7 recovery DVDs, many times as you wanted. This isn't universally true. Maybe some manufacturers enforce it and some don't. HP does, or has, restricted it to one copy. I never understood why making multi

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/13/2010 8:45 PM, consul tores wrote: > >> And, yes, it is possible to create windows 7 recovery DVDs, many times >> as you wanted. > > This isn't universally true. Maybe some manufacturers enforce it and some > don't. HP does, or has, re

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 09:57 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the >> experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to provide a >> fix

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 11:52, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Please do as .32 is what will ship in the next stable. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600155 My real solution to all of this was to disable IPv6 altogether. Thanks everyone for the help :) (Also, I learnt about a do

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