Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-27 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Then 'htop' can help you find processes that are consuming memory. > The default is to sort the display by percent CPU usage.  But you can > change that to display sorted by resident set size.  Press F6 and then > use the cursor keys to chang

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2010-10-27 Thread steef
hi list, on a very old laptop, an evo n115, i installed a very lean squeeze daily build without any problem. i inserted a wireless network controller bcm4318, 802.11g (rev 02) (lspci) and installed wireless-tools and firmware-b43-installer. so far so good. sudo iwlist wlan0 scan (after sudo

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 26/10/10 13:20, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: I like Postfix and Dovecot :-) I think Postfix is the best open source MTA available on Linux hands down. I have used Sendmail, Qmail, and Exim and none of them have given me the flexability and security

Fwd: b43, pump, && *2*

2010-10-27 Thread steef
addendum: when i do on the evo n115: $lynx www.knmi.nl it ens up bij telling me something like: i cannot get into *file://localhost/home/steef/www.knmi.nl*: something seems to be not exactly how i should want it. reg., steef hi list, on a very old laptop, an evo n115, i installed a very

Tasksel not showing desktop enviroment

2010-10-27 Thread Raman Pandarinathan
Hi, Today I download amd64 CD-1 image. The installation is smooth. However taks sel shows only -ssh-server, mail-server and standard system. The Desktop environment or other options are not show. As as result only the base system is installed - no desktop environment is installed, I have to install

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2010-10-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:20:00 +0200, steef wrote: (...) > what to do to get the broadcom device going: so that browsing the > internet is possible? It seems you have successfully accomplished steps¹ 1 to 6, but you still lack 7 (configure your wifi card). ¹http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx Greet

Re: Tasksel not showing desktop enviroment

2010-10-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:08:32 +0530, Raman Pandarinathan wrote: > Today I download amd64 CD-1 image. The installation is smooth. However > taks sel shows only -ssh-server, mail-server and standard system. The > Desktop environment or other options are not show. As as result only the > base system i

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2010-10-27 Thread steef
thanks camaleon: this link leads exactly to the webpage i used to get the broadcom_chip go-ing. when i try to bring up the b43_card/chip it links me to myself: localhost &&: i hack my own laptop, i guess. tp rephrase my question: how can i bring the card to connect me to the outside_interne

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2010-10-27 Thread steef
thanks camaleon: this link leads exactly to the webpage i used to get the broadcom_chip go-ing. when i try to bring up the b43_card/chip it links me to myself: localhost &&: i hack my own laptop, i guess. tp rephrase my question: how can i bring the card to connect me to the outside_interne

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Rod James Bio
Postfix + Cyrus + SASL for simple users. You can add spamassassin + pyzor/rzor & config your SASL to use LDAP or other auth method. For me postfix + cyrus is just a better combi. On Wednesday, 27 October, 2010 04:13 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 26/10/10 13:20, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct

Re: su stopped working (after upgrade to squeeze)

2010-10-27 Thread Hanspeter Kunz
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 17:45 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:44:08 +0200, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > > > I have a strange problem on one of my debian squeeze boxes. when I try > > to become root (or any other local user), su fails with > > > > su: Authentication failure > > > > a

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2010-10-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:08:07 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón schreef: >> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:20:00 +0200, steef wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> >>> what to do to get the broadcom device going: so that browsing the >>> internet is possible? >>> >> It seems you have successfully accomplished steps¹

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2010-10-27 Thread steef
Camaleón schreef: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:08:07 +0200, steef wrote: Camaleón schreef: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:20:00 +0200, steef wrote: (...) what to do to get the broadcom device going: so that browsing the internet is possible? It seems you have successfully a

routing

2010-10-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Could You please help me w/ routing? I want to make working the following scheme: host1 <-> eth <-> host2 <-> ppp On host2 it seems that the route table is wrong somehow: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.10.10.10 * 255

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2010-10-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:33:23 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón schreef: >> Before start hacking yourself :-), you need first to configure your >> card to connect to your Access Point. >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse >> >> You can use NetworkManager or manually edit the network inferface a

Re: Tasksel not showing desktop enviroment

2010-10-27 Thread gun_smoke
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 02:08:32PM +0530, Raman Pandarinathan wrote: > Hi, > Today I download amd64 CD-1 image. The installation is smooth. However > taks sel shows only -ssh-server, mail-server and standard system. The > Desktop environment or other options are not show. As as result only > the ba

Re: routing

2010-10-27 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sthu: On Wednesday 27 October 2010 15:43:17 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > Could You please help me w/ routing? > > I want to make working the following scheme: > > host1 <-> eth <-> host2 <-> ppp > > On host2 it seems that the route table is wrong somehow: > > Destination Gateway

cure for error meaages: call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). check your installation.

2010-10-27 Thread Lisi
I did a new installation on a friend's computer. All went well until I tried to copy over his old data and config files from the old hard drive. Since then I cannot log in as I end up getting the message: call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). check your installation. I ca

Toner refill

2010-10-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. Does anyone have any experience with laser printers toner refilling, such as sold here: http://www.refilltoner.com ? Does it work, is it easy to do? Thanks for any response. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

[OT] Re: Toner refill

2010-10-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:42:23 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with laser printers toner refilling, > such as sold here: > > http://www.refilltoner.com > > ? Does it work, is it easy to do? Should you estimate the lifespan of your printer -and inner parts- and va

Re: X/kernel compatibiity?

2010-10-27 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 18:43 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-10-26 22:13 +0200, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > My amd64 system is basically running stable, including X, but I'm > > running linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 and associated firmware for reasons > > unrelated to X. > > > > After a recent upgra

Increasing the verbosity of "apt-get"

2010-10-27 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I wonder if it is possible to increase the verbosity of "apt-get" console output. For example, in my perpetual "testing" machine, I use this one-liner to update the system: *** apt-get update && apt-get -V dist-upgrade *** But sometimes I get new packages to be installed (mostly due to

Note about 6.0 installer, Nouveau, and Quadro NVS240

2010-10-27 Thread Joseph Lenox
The version of Nouveau (FOSS nvidia driver) that ships with 6.0 (Squeeze) on last week's (2010-10-17) testing disc does not play nice with the Quadro NVS240 graphics card. No output on screen at all even for a console (monitor goes to power saving mode). I had to get into the box with the disc

Note about 6.0 installer, Nouveau, and Quadro NVS240

2010-10-27 Thread Joseph Lenox
The version of Nouveau (FOSS nvidia driver) that ships with 6.0 (Squeeze) on last week's (2010-10-17) testing disc does not play nice with the Quadro NVS240 graphics card. No output on screen at all even for a console (monitor goes to power saving mode). I had to get into the box with the disc

Re: Fwd: b43, pump, && *2*

2010-10-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, steef wrote: > when i do on the evo n115: $lynx www.knmi.nl it ens up bij telling > me something like: > i cannot get into *file://localhost/home/steef/www.knmi.nl*: > something seems to be not exactly how i should want it. The "http://"; part of the URL is likely not option

Re: Burning CD stuck on sending CUE sheet

2010-10-27 Thread Steven
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 18:16 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:56:17 +0200, Steven wrote: > > > I'm using Debian Squeeze (currently up-to-date) and tried to burn an > > audio cd using k3b. The burning process freezes at 0% with the message > > 'Sending CUE sheet', I can tell k3b to a

Re: Fwd: b43, pump, && *2*

2010-10-27 Thread godo
On 10/27/2010 10:53 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, steef wrote: when i do on the evo n115: $lynx www.knmi.nl it ens up bij telling me something like: i cannot get into *file://localhost/home/steef/www.knmi.nl*: something seems to be not exactly how i should want it

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2010-10-27 Thread steef
lee schreef: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:20:00AM +0200, steef wrote: daily build without any problem. i inserted a wireless network controller bcm4318, 802.11g (rev 02) (lspci) and installed wireless-tools and firmware-b43-installer. so far so good. Did you install wpa-supplicant? You

Re: Fwd: b43, pump, && *2*

2010-10-27 Thread steef
godo schreef: On 10/27/2010 10:53 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, steef wrote: when i do on the evo n115: $lynx www.knmi.nl it ens up bij telling me something like: i cannot get into *file://localhost/home/steef/www.knmi.nl*: something seems to be not exactly how i

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Siju George wrote: > Thank you so much Bob :-) > You are really kind to explain such a lot :-D Happy to help! > It is the many Virtual Machines that are taking memory. > I am going to get a bigger machine that supports svm to ron them. I am glad that you have identified the issue. Virtual machi

Re: Note about 6.0 installer, Nouveau, and Quadro NVS240

2010-10-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:47:44 -0500, Joseph Lenox wrote: > The version of Nouveau (FOSS nvidia driver) that ships with 6.0 > (Squeeze) on last week's (2010-10-17) testing disc does not play nice > with the Quadro NVS240 graphics card. No output on screen at all even > for a console (monitor goes to

[Solved]Re: Burning CD stuck on sending CUE sheet

2010-10-27 Thread Steven
Answering a bit for myself.. I was able to fix it and I have already burnt 1 audio disc again. On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 23:02 +0200, Steven wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 18:16 +, Camaleón wrote: > > [...] > > I would try to use another burning software, re-sit/replace the ATA cable > > or try

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:02:04PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 10/23/2010 12:15 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >> If your firewall script references an IP address (which you don't have >> when the network is down), I think it needs the network to be up in >> order to run. >> >> If the script only r

how to use wifi, retrieve .deb files of of a flash drive

2010-10-27 Thread juan gonzalez
I have a emac and I'm using the ppc text(no gui) version. can I use wifi to download with wget? and how can I install .deb files when they are on a flash drive? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: how to use wifi, retrieve .deb files of of a flash drive

2010-10-27 Thread Wayne Topa
On 10/27/2010 07:13 PM, juan gonzalez wrote: I have a emac and I'm using the ppc text(no gui) version. can I use wifi to download with wget? and how can I install .deb files when they are on a flash drive? dpkg -i /location_of_Flash/debian_file_name.deb HTH Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: how to use wifi, retrieve .deb files of of a flash drive

2010-10-27 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:13:16PM -0800, juan gonzalez wrote: > can I use wifi to download with wget? Probably. Do you have any problems with it? Your wifi module doesn't work? You don't know which software you may use to connect from cli? Some other questions? Please provide more info so we can

Re: how to improve the quality of DVD created by qdvdauthor

2010-10-27 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 25. 10. 2010 02:47:43 je Yuwen Dai napisal(a): > > > I use mpeg2 files as source to create a DVD. The Resolution of the mpeg2 >> is >> 720x576 and clear, but the result is blurer although its resolution is >> 720x576 too. When I play the

Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player

2010-10-27 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:33:36 +0200 lee wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:41:18PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > No. I do have a bog-standard running squid instance just to save > > bandwidth and time, but I'm not really all that up on its internals. I > > see that the cache is in directories

Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player

2010-10-27 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:29:10 +0200 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 27. 10. 2010 17:33:36 je lee napisal(a): > > > > Check out /var/log/squid3/access.log to see if you get a reasonable > > amount of hits. Out of the box, squid3 doesn´t cache much. > > > > Yep. I think its cache is a whooopping 100 MB by

Re: how to use wifi, retrieve .deb files of of a flash drive

2010-10-27 Thread godo
On 10/28/2010 01:13 AM, juan gonzalez wrote: I have a emac and I'm using the ppc text(no gui) version. can I use wifi to download with wget? and how can I install .deb files when they are on a flash drive? Best way is 'apt-get install package_name' If you have some problem with network or don

Re: routing

2010-10-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Jesús: >> host1 <-> eth <-> host2 <-> ppp > Why do you think it's wrong? It seems OK to me: you reach > 192.168.0.0/24 through eth0 and both 10.10.10.10 and "everything > else" through ppp0. It sounds sensible. Because I try w/ pings, apt - it does not work

Re: Burning CD stuck on sending CUE sheet

2010-10-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:02:03 +0200, Steven wrote: >> I would try to use another burning software, re-sit/replace the ATA >> cable or try with another dvd writer to see if you get any difference. (...) > I'll see if another cable does the job, but I don't see anything wrong > with the current one

Re: routing

2010-10-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, lee: > > host1 <-> eth <-> host2 <-> ppp > > > > On host2 it seems that the route table is wrong somehow: > > > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref > > Use Iface > > 10.10.10.10 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 > > 0

Re: routing

2010-10-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, lee: >> host1 <-> eth <-> host2 <-> ppp > using eth, just as you have a default route > on host2 using ppp0. Just an addition, on host1 I have this routing table: ho...@$ /sbin/route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flag

Re: Toner refill

2010-10-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rodolfo Medina put forth on 10/27/2010 12:42 PM: > Hi all. > > Does anyone have any experience with laser printers toner refilling, such as > sold here: > > http://www.refilltoner.com I was damn close to ordering one a $15 refill kit off Ebay for my Lexmark e120n. However, I did not. The reas

Re: [OT] Re: Toner refill

2010-10-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 10/27/2010 1:05 PM: > There > are also "compatible" toner cartridges at lower prices, which I would > also avoid :-) There is no reason to avoid these Camaleón. They work just fine. The only difference is that ZERO of the profit goes to the printer manufacturer. One of t