Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook
On 2011-01-21 03:37 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: >> >>> Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about >>> X-related stuff. >> >> The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if
Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny
On 01/19/2011 09:11 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 + (UTC), I wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. ...Is there anything in new hardware that I should particularly avoid because it might not be suppprted by Lenny? Thanks for all of the re
how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?
my /tmp is too small [when i want to use "convert"]. how can i set imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space? thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:26:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: > In regards to "http cookie hijacking" the first and foremost a programmer > would ask himself is "do we really need to *constantly* generate a write/ > read operations of the cookies for *all* the tasks?". Unfortunately, if the site is t
Squeeze RC1 expert installer seems to have outdated message about Grub 2
I'm doing a fresh install of Squeeze RC1 on amd64 from a netinst CD using the text-based expert installer option. I set up my disks with software RAID1. When I came to the part of the install to put on GRUB it displayed the following message: "GRUB 2 is the next generation of GNU GRUB. It has
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Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Jo, 20 ian 11, 18:38:35, Joe Riel wrote: > Is there some trick to enabling the bell in an xterm? > > $ xset q | grep bell > bell percent: 100bell pitch: 400bell duration: 100 > > But echoing ^G, > > $ echo -v -g > > makes no beep. Does it work on the console? You could also ins
Re: Where is the boot/config-`uname -r` file?
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:46:07 -0500, RR wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> As per the empty "/boot", that's odd. Try with "locate vmlinuz" :-? (...) > I also tried the locate command a while ago and didn't come up with > anything :( Wow! > I think this is one of th
Re: Squeeze RC1 expert installer seems to have outdated message about Grub 2
On Vi, 21 ian 11, 10:59:44, Matt Hoskins wrote: > I'm doing a fresh install of Squeeze RC1 on amd64 from a netinst CD > using the text-based expert installer option. I set up my disks with > software RAID1. When I came to the part of the install to put on > GRUB it displayed the following message:
Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:57:52 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:26:31 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> In regards to "http cookie hijacking" the first and foremost a >> programmer would ask himself is "do we really need to *constantly* >> generate a write/ read operations of the cooki
Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:21:26 -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:26:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> In regards to "http cookie hijacking" the first and foremost a >> programmer would ask himself is "do we really need to *constantly* >> generate a write/ read operations of the
Re: how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:14:43AM EST, S Mathias wrote: > my /tmp is too small [when i want to use "convert"]. how can i set > imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space? > > thank you! Try (untested): MAGICK_TMPDIR=./mytmpdir convert .. If you need this on a permanent b
Re: Squeeze RC1 expert installer seems to have outdated message about Grub 2
Hi Andrei, It is RC1... I did a bit more searching and it looks like it was in grub-installer and has been fixed just after RC1 was released: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610365 My apologies for not finding that before - I didn't know enough about the installer to guess wh
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
Hello, Trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.4 (64 bits) on Debian x85_64 , to avoid some install problems is necesary to set the variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 However when I set this variable on my bash shell, any command fails with : error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open
Re: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:34:16 +0100 Arturo Gutierrez wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.4 (64 bits) on Debian x85_64 , to > avoid some install problems is necesary to set > the variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 > > However when I set this variable on my bash shell, any command fai
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:55:27 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 20 ian 11, 18:38:35, Joe Riel wrote: > > Is there some trick to enabling the bell in an xterm? > > > > $ xset q | grep bell > > bell percent: 100bell pitch: 400bell duration: 100 > > > > But echoing ^G, > > > > $ ec
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:14:25 -0800 Joe Riel wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:55:27 +0200 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Jo, 20 ian 11, 18:38:35, Joe Riel wrote: > > > Is there some trick to enabling the bell in an xterm? > > > > > > $ xset q | grep bell > > > bell percent: 100bell pitc
Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:49:06 -0500, RR wrote: (...) > Once the system gets to the login prompt and I login and run 'df -h', I > see You should check the above filesystem errors and try to fix them. I would review the mentioned file "/var/log/fsck/checkfs". > /dev/mapper/DebSparcx64--01-root 2
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:38:35 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > Is there some trick to enabling the bell in an xterm? > > $ xset q | grep bell > bell percent: 100bell pitch: 400bell duration: 100 > > But echoing ^G, > > $ echo -v -g > > makes no beep. "echo ctrl+v" neither sounds here but
Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook
Liam O'Toole writes: > I have the same graphics card (down to the revision number) as the OP, > and find that it works in squeeze both with and without KMS. The comsole > appearance and behaviour is different, of course. > >> ¹ http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting > > That page mentions some
? software, ?[OT] hardware
Help! I have a weird graphics problem on one of my boxes (the only one with a prayer of running VM, and I need to run some VMs). When I start to boot up all is well. This has been true with 2 different versions of Knoppix (5.1.1 and 6.0.1) and three of Debian. (1xSqueeze, with Trinity and 2xL
Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook
Sven Joachim writes: >>> The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)¹, if X >>> uses the Vesa driver instead that means KMS is not active, for whatever >>> reason. What are the contents of /proc/fb (if any) and the output of >>> "/sbin/lsmod | grep i915" ? >> >> /proc/fb exists
Re: ? software, ?[OT] hardware
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:57:53 +, Lisi wrote: > Help! > > I have a weird graphics problem on one of my boxes (the only one with a > prayer of running VM, and I need to run some VMs). > > When I start to boot up all is well. This has been true with 2 > different versions of Knoppix (5.1.1 and
Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook
On 2011-01-21 17:29 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: > So I tried booting with acpi=off, as I have seen a number of sources > that say this helps X-related problems on the Macbook go away. The > result was: no change in mouse; no change in the graphics resolution; > but really slow keyboard interac
Re: X: set resolution in Squeeze on a Macbook
Sven Joachim writes: > There is an error message from your other post > >> [drm:i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x0010, masking > > which I think is not fatal, but you could try a newer kernel > (e.g. 2.6.37 from experimental) and see if runs more stable than the > Squeeze kernel on you
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Vi, 21 ian 11, 07:14:25, Joe Riel wrote: > > > beep > > That works; as expected the sound comes through the internal speakers. Did you also try 'beep -e `tty`'? See beep(1) section "IOCTL WACKINESS" if it fails. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:
Re: Vente Flash : Flyers, Cartes de visite…
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:27:27 -0500 Doug wrote: Hello Doug, > seems like the keepers of the list need to do something about this > stuff! SOON! They do. Plenty. This list is one of the better ones I frequent WRT signal/noise ratio. The trouble is, spam filters are always playing catch up. Y
Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > On 1/19/11 10:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I'm somewhat inclined to go with option 'C': an HP Proliant > Microserver N36L - comes without OS (certified for RHEL5), 1GB ECC > memory + 160gb SATA drive. Move the OEM drive to the optical dri
Re: Where is the boot/config-`uname -r` file?
Thanks to all for your help :) I found the missing /boot partition with all its content. The solution was in the details that somehow I along with others missed was that after installing Debian on the 2nd Disk i.e. sdb on my machine (which already had Solaris on sda), for a few reasons I had excha
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:02:52 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 21 ian 11, 07:14:25, Joe Riel wrote: > > > > > beep > > > > That works; as expected the sound comes through the internal > > speakers. > > Did you also try 'beep -e `tty`'? See beep(1) section "IOCTL > WACKINESS" if it fails
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:22:03 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:38:35 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > Is there some trick to enabling the bell in an xterm? > > > > $ xset q | grep bell > > bell percent: 100bell pitch: 400bell duration: 100 > > > > But echoing ^G, >
Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:49:06 -0500, RR wrote: > > (...) > > > Once the system gets to the login prompt and I login and run 'df -h', I > > see > > You should check the above filesystem errors and try to fix them. I would > review the mentioned fi
media / duplex / speed on a bonded interface
Hello All, I'm back with questions about more debian idiosyncracies I'm discovering as I move along this path of adopting debian...maybe it's just the issues related to the debian port on Sparc or maybe it's just a case of PEBKAC. But here goes... So after I successfully got bonding working on th
Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere
In , Camaleón wrote: >Using cookies for tracking/ >identifying the user's session can be replaced with another methods or >can require additional security measures for verifying the authenticity >of the client. Do you have a concrete proposal that is simpler than using HTTPS? Keep in mind that IP
Re: media / duplex / speed on a bonded interface
RR put forth on 1/21/2011 3:24 PM: > # mii-tool -v bond-voipvlan > bond-voipvlan: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok > product info: vendor 00:01:00, model 0 rev 4 > basic mode: 10 Mbit, half duplex > basic status: link ok > capabilities: > advertising: > > That looks pretty dodgey. Is tha
Re: media / duplex / speed on a bonded interface
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > RR put forth on 1/21/2011 3:24 PM: > > > # mii-tool -v bond-voipvlan > > bond-voipvlan: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok > > product info: vendor 00:01:00, model 0 rev 4 > > basic mode: 10 Mbit, half duplex > > basic status: link ok > >
Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?
Monte Milanuk: > > I'm somewhat inclined to go with option 'C': an HP Proliant > Microserver N36L - comes without OS (certified for RHEL5), 1GB ECC > memory + 160gb SATA drive. Move the OEM drive to the optical drive > bay, stuff the four HDD bays with 2TB drives and call it a day. A > little m
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Vi, 21 ian 11, 11:51:07, Joe Riel wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:02:52 +0200 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Vi, 21 ian 11, 07:14:25, Joe Riel wrote: > > > > > > > beep > > > > > > That works; as expected the sound comes through the internal > > > speakers. > > > > Did you also try 'b
Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:34 PM, RR wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:49:06 -0500, RR wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > Once the system gets to the login prompt and I login and run 'df -h', I >> > see >> >> You should check the above filesystem erro
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:25:46 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 21 ian 11, 11:51:07, Joe Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:02:52 +0200 > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > On Vi, 21 ian 11, 07:14:25, Joe Riel wrote: > > > > > > > > > beep > > > > > > > > That works; as expected the
Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:31:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > It booted to the correct grub menu then to Busy Box. I am thinking > > it goes to BB because it can't find /var and or /usr on the > > md1/sda5 LVM partition. > > Very likely. > > > I checked /proc/mdstat and lo &
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Did I find a bug? If so, where to file?
Using Debian unstable and did an update last night, hit a snag. dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2483 package 'gstreamer0.10-nice': `Depends' field, reference to `libc6': version contains ` ' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Line 2483 of /var
Re: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
it was you dont have x32 lib. try this : sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 @ http://www.masokis.com/blog/ubuntu-tutorial-oracle-10g-xe-ubuntu-x64 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Arturo Gutierrez < arturo.gutierrez.go...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.4 (64 bi
Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:27:56 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: >> > beep >> >> That works; as expected the sound comes through the internal speakers. > > I meant "external" speakers. I remembered that it can be turned on (i.e., switch from internal speaker to external ones) via alsamixer, or any othe
Re: Did I find a bug? If so, where to file?
In <90abe2f846f4db5b3232b00196b268f8@192.168.0.66>, vr wrote: >Using Debian unstable and did an update last night, hit a snag. > >dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2483 >package 'gstreamer0.10-nice': >`Depends' field, reference to `libc6': version contains ` ' >E: Sub-proc
