Re: Bridge mode vs. router mode in DSL modems

2011-03-07 Thread Joe
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 00:54:19 -0600 Jason Hsu wrote: > QUESTIONS: > 1. How do I know if my DSL modem is the culprit blocking remote > access to my computer? 2. Exactly what is the difference between > bridge mode and router mode in a DSL modem? I read that if my DSL > modem is blocking remote ac

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 07 mar 11, 00:21:46, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > It never used to do this with Lenny. It's just annoying to have to > pull out all eight dvds once again each time I wish to update the > system (it's not as if the dvds will be any different at a later time, > so I'm not sure what the rational

Re: Bridge mode vs. router mode in DSL modems

2011-03-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
[text rewrapped to 72 characters] On Lu, 07 mar 11, 00:54:19, Jason Hsu wrote: [snip 1. and 2.] The other points already addressed by Joe. > 3. Why does switching my DSL modem to bridge mode cut off Internet > access, and why does switching it back to router mode restore Internet > access?

Re: Bridge mode vs. router mode in DSL modems

2011-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Jason Hsu wrote: QUESTIONS: 1. How do I know if my DSL modem is the culprit blocking remote access to my computer? Test with modem in bridge mode, get server [or just a PC / laptop] to do a PPP login, then the server will have an IP that is directly accessible from the Internet. Remotely,

Squeeze + aacraid + Adaptec 2610SA bug?

2011-03-07 Thread Glyn Astill
Hi Guys, I've recently installed squeeze amd64 on an old machine to do some tests and I'm having problems with the aacraid driver and a 2610SA controller. It seems the contorller has issues whilst I'm formatting a partition on it, then shuts down completely. I've pasted relevent dmesg and syslo

Re: Debian-6 booting on old host.

2011-03-07 Thread sthu deus
>> I can not boot Debian 6 on a very old machine - its screen simply >> distorted - just multiple lines. - I have investigated before, here, on >> the list, and it was fond at that time that the problem was in X server >> settings - too high color depth by default, so that adjusting of the >> appro

Logitech M305 mouse 4th and 5th button

2011-03-07 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
I am having trouble getting my Logitech M305 mouse's last two buttons (5- button mouse, 7 buttons counting the wheel) working (wheezy). This is my /etc/udev/rules.d/50-logitech-m305.rules: ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="xorg_local_end" KERNEL!="event*", GOTO="xorg_local_end" ENV{ID_INPUT_MOUSE}!=

Re: Revert to lenny's grub

2011-03-07 Thread George
On 3/6/11, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:41 AM, George wrote: >> >> Something unfortunate happened: I removed grub-pc and installed >> grub-legacy, but my computer still boots using grub 1.97! It seems to >> work fine now, but I don't like the fact that grub and grub-pc show up >> as "n

Re: The "CD signing key" (6294BE9B)

2011-03-07 Thread Joel Rees
I swear, I'm losing it. Blame it on my age, but I really don't want to think I'm that old, yet. On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [not snipping in case you want to put it back on the list] Yeah, I did intend to put this on the list, so I can find it again the next time I fo

iso to hdd booting.

2011-03-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I'm trying to transfer a bootable image to a HDD - to boot from it as if from the image, this way: cat ./boot.iso > /dev/sdb sync Then I try to boot from it in KVM having specified at command line: -hda /dev/sdb -boot c but it does not boot. Using fdisk shows me partition

RE: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-07 Thread mike cutie and maia
Hi all, I have to way in here as I am a blind debian user and top posting is easier for us as we can read with are screen readers a ;ott;e and go threw the message to see the context of the whole message if that makes sense -Original Message- From: der.hans [mailto:deb-u...@lufthans.com]

Re: Important to me

2011-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:52:21 +0100, beno hamid wrote: > 1 - I am bad in writing bug > 2 - And the worst in the English...[?] > > I want to clarify a point abou joystick linux There is a problem in > several gamepad on the market ...Specifically.. .th Axis, > The initial value of some Axis is Unr

Re: cannot play video/audio after/when streaming flash video on web browser

2011-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:55:02 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2011/3/7 Umarzuki Mochlis > >> not sure which one I'm using now >> >> # aptitude versions flashplugin-nonfree i 1:2.8.2 >> stable 500 You could find out from here: http://www.adobe.com/software

Re: Squeeze + aacraid + Adaptec 2610SA bug?

2011-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:23:39 +, Glyn Astill wrote: > I've recently installed squeeze amd64 on an old machine to do some tests > and I'm having problems with the aacraid driver and a 2610SA controller. > It seems the contorller has issues whilst I'm formatting a partition on > it, then shuts do

Re: Squeeze + aacraid + Adaptec 2610SA bug?

2011-03-07 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Mon, 7/3/11, Camaleón wrote: > > I've recently installed squeeze amd64 on an old > machine to do some tests > > and I'm having problems with the aacraid driver and a > 2610SA controller. > > It seems the contorller has issues whilst I'm > formatting a partition on > > it, then shuts down c

Re: iso to hdd booting.

2011-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:08:00 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I'm trying to transfer a bootable image to a HDD - to boot from it as if > from the image, this way: > > cat ./boot.iso > /dev/sdb > sync > > Then I try to boot from it in KVM having specified at command line: -hda > /dev/sdb -boot c > > bu

Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Toni S
Hi folks, I have lenny running on a headless virtual server being hosted by a small hosting provider and now I'd like to upgrade to squeeze. The box does not serve any commercial purpose, but it does handle a portion of my private email traffic. So I'd like the system not being down for more than

about auctex in Debian 6 , I can not preview math formula

2011-03-07 Thread waterloo
I use emacs 23.2.1 and auctex 11.85-1 in Debian 6 . When I preview ' $\{a_n \}$ ' , this simple formula , I get the following errors : gs -dOutputFile\=\(_region_.prv/tmp5813419/pr1-1.png\) -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE > -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -dTextAlphaBits\=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits\=4 > -sDEVICE\=png16m

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:42:27 -0800, Toni S wrote: > I have lenny running on a headless virtual server being hosted by a > small hosting provider and now I'd like to upgrade to squeeze. The box > does not serve any commercial purpose, but it does handle a portion of > my private email traffic. So I

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-07 10:42:27 Toni S wrote: >Hi folks, > >I have lenny running on a headless virtual server being hosted by a >small hosting provider and now I'd like to upgrade to squeeze. > >In case of any service failures after doing 'sudo aptitude safe- >upgrade' I'd like to know some methods to smoot

Re: Bridge mode vs. router mode in DSL modems

2011-03-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/7/2011 12:54 AM: > 1. How do I know if my DSL modem is the culprit blocking remote access to my > computer? > > The DSL modem is an Embarq EQ-660R ADSL router. My ISP is CenturyLink. Everything you need to know is here: http://embarq.centurylink.com/embarq/refDocs/use

Re: Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

2011-03-07 Thread Charlie
> "HP Pavilion" covers a VERY wide range of eras, specs, processors, > chipsets, etc, so you might get more specific. Also, more specifics > about "gave me a warning" might help. > > (At some point in the near future I'm going to attempt to clean-install > squeeze on my HP Pavilion dv2130US.)

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:23:36 + (UTC) Camaleón schreef: > > If disk space is not a concern, I'd go for a parallel installation. > In the event something goes wrong with the new install (or upgrade, > if you made a full image of the currently installed system), you only > have to boot with the

power interruption -> renamed USB disk

2011-03-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a SATA disk in an external USB docking station. The computer it is attached to is on UPS, but the external disk has only surge protection. When the power goes out for a moment, the disk, which was /dev/sdc, seems to come back as /dev/sdd. The disk has a partition that is part of an LVM vo

dell soundblaster emu10k1x not working in squeeze

2011-03-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I just reported this bug but I thought I'd check here and see if anyone else has seen it. My son's old Dell was working fine with Lenny, but since I upgraded to squeeze the sound isn't working. An alsactl init says that alsa doesn't know what an EMU10K1X is, which isn't good as it used to kno

Re: iso to hdd booting.

2011-03-07 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:08:00PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. thanks > I'm trying to transfer a bootable image to a HDD - to boot from it as > if from the image, this way: > > cat ./boot.iso > /dev/sdb > sync It may create a hidden partition , if iam correct. I mean HIDDEN

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:22:43 +0100, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: > Op Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:23:36 + (UTC) Camaleón schreef: > > >> If disk space is not a concern, I'd go for a parallel installation. In >> the event something goes wrong with the new install (or upgrade, if you >> made a full imag

A dpkg puzzle on debian testing.

2011-03-07 Thread R. Clayton
I'm running a debian testing system updated weekly. In the last update I noticed samba packages being updated. Because I have no need of samba, I wanted to get rid of them: $ sudo dpkg --purge samba-common samba-common-bin dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of samba-common: smbcli

Re: A dpkg puzzle on debian testing.

2011-03-07 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Mar 07, 2011 at 11:53:00 -0500, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running a debian testing system updated weekly. In the last update I > noticed samba packages being updated. Because I have no need of samba, I > wanted to get rid of them: > > $ sudo dpkg --purge samba-common samba-common-bin >

make crashes on Debian Squeeze on Sparc64 with "undefined reference to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4"

2011-03-07 Thread RR
Hello All, I've already posted this on Debian-SPARC list but just covering my bases and throwing this out in this list too just in case someone here sees the email first and knows what the issue is :) ok, so I'm trying to compile the latest Asterisk release 1.8.3 on a V240 Sparc running Debian Sq

Re: power interruption -> renamed USB disk

2011-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 03:08 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: I have a SATA disk in an external USB docking station. The computer it is attached to is on UPS, but the external disk has only surge protection. When the power goes out for a moment, the disk, which was /dev/sdc, seems to come back as /dev/sdd. The d

Re: A dpkg puzzle on debian testing.

2011-03-07 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:53:00 -0500, rvclay...@verizon.net (R. Clayton) wrote: > > Thus the puzzle: how is it that a package that's not installed prevents an > installed package from being purged? smbclient != sambaclient Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: A dpkg puzzle on debian testing.

2011-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 10:53 AM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running a debian testing system updated weekly. In the last update I noticed samba packages being updated. Because I have no need of samba, I wanted to get rid of them: $ sudo dpkg --purge samba-common samba-common-bin dpkg: dependency proble

Re: A dpkg puzzle on debian testing.

2011-03-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/03/11 03:53, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running a debian testing system updated weekly. In the last update I > noticed samba packages being updated. Because I have no need of samba, I > wanted to get rid of them: > > $ sudo dpkg --purge samba-common samba-common-bin > dpkg: dependency pr

unable to install nfs-kernel-server

2011-03-07 Thread Liam Cassidey
I'm running Debian unstable, and I'm interested in simply setting up an nfs export from the box. However, I'm unable to install nfs. The following happens when I attempt to install nfs-kernel-server. server:~# apt-get install nfs-kernel-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tre

kppp not working after upgrade

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
I recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze. kppp was working in Lenny, but does not work now. It connects to the modem, and dials, but it then gives an error 1 (pppd error that apparently means "An immediately fatal error of some kind occurred, such as an essential system call failing, or running out of

dist-upgrade not reading dvds properly

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I use Squeeze. I just recently upgraded from Lenny. My sources.list is a combination of Debian DVDs and some http repos (for multimedia, non-free, and security updates). I rely largely on DVDs because I use dial-up. When I tried to run apt-get dist-upgrade for the multimedia packages on

events/0 and events/1 maxing CPU to 100%, related to wireless or eth0 on a T61 Thinkpad

2011-03-07 Thread Kyle Barbour
Hello all, I upgraded to Debian Squeeze a week ago on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61. Starting earlier today, after no trigger that I could determine, my CPU (an Intel Core 2 Duo) began maxing out on one or both cores to the point where doing anything on the computer was incredibly choppy. I initially tho

Re: unable to install nfs-kernel-server

2011-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 06:52 PM, Liam Cassidey wrote: I'm running Debian unstable, and I'm interested in simply setting up an nfs export from the box. However, I'm unable to install nfs. The following happens when I attempt to install nfs-kernel-server. server:~# apt-get install nfs-kernel-server Readin

Re: events/0 and events/1 maxing CPU to 100%, related to wireless or eth0 on a T61 Thinkpad

2011-03-07 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:09:25 -0800 Kyle Barbour wrote: > Hello all, > > I upgraded to Debian Squeeze a week ago on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61. > Starting earlier today, after no trigger that I could determine, my > CPU (an Intel Core 2 Duo) began maxing out on one or both cores to the > point where d

Re: dist-upgrade not reading dvds properly

2011-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 08:10 PM, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I use Squeeze. I just recently upgraded from Lenny. My sources.list is a combination of Debian DVDs and some http repos (for multimedia, non-free, and security updates). I rely largely on DVDs because I use dial-up. When I tried to run apt-

Re: events/0 and events/1 maxing CPU to 100%, related to wireless or eth0 on a T61 Thinkpad

2011-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 09:09 PM, Kyle Barbour wrote: Hello all, I upgraded to Debian Squeeze a week ago on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61. Starting earlier today, after no trigger that I could determine, my [snip] I eventually found this post, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88781, which suggests r

Re: A dpkg puzzle on debian testing.

2011-03-07 Thread R. Clayton
smbclient != sambaclient Oh, I am an idiot. Thanks for the replies. -- 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/871v2igr7m@ulanbator.myhome.westell.com

cron daemon sends me errors re: php, mysql, apache

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I recently upgraded to Squeeze, and I'm getting various cron daemon errors mailed to me: Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:09:01 -0500 From: Cron Daemon To: root@debian Subject: Cron[ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +

Application shortcuts don't work in KDE4?

2011-03-07 Thread S D
Hi, Can't get application shortcuts to work in KDE 4. I defined Ctrl+Alt+F to launch Iceweasel as follows: Right-mouse-button click on the "Kickoff Application Launcher", select menu editor, select an application, goto Advanced panel and change the "Current shortcut key". However, pressing Ct

Re: power interruption -> renamed USB disk

2011-03-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 18:02 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/07/2011 03:08 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a SATA disk in an external USB docking station. The computer it > > is attached to is on UPS, but the external disk has only surge > > protection. > > > > When the power goes out for a mom

Re: power interruption -> renamed USB disk

2011-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 11:25 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 18:02 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/07/2011 03:08 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: I have a SATA disk in an external USB docking station. The computer it is attached to is on UPS, but the external disk has only surge protection. When th

Re: dist-upgrade not reading dvds properly

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
>> When I tried to run apt-get dist-upgrade for the multimedia packages >> on my system, it told me to insert Debian DVD disc #1, and from that >> attempted to install the following programs: librtmp0 >> libdirac-decoder0 libggiwmh0 libggiwmh0-target-x libvdpau1 twolame. >> But, it then told me:

Re: Application shortcuts don't work in KDE4?

2011-03-07 Thread godo
On 2011-03-08 06:08, S D wrote: Hi, Can't get application shortcuts to work in KDE 4. I defined Ctrl+Alt+F to launch Iceweasel as follows: Right-mouse-button click on the "Kickoff Application Launcher", select menu editor, select an application, goto Advanced panel and change the "Current sho

Re: power interruption -> renamed USB disk

2011-03-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 23:47 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/07/2011 11:25 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 18:02 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/07/2011 03:08 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > >>> I have a SATA disk in an external USB docking station. The computer it > >>> is attache

[SOLVED] events/0 and events/1 maxing CPU to 100%, related to wireless or eth0 on a T61 Thinkpad

2011-03-07 Thread Kyle Barbour
O.K., so amazingly this is solved, at least on the practical end. I have no idea why this works, and I've provided some more information below if people want to pursue this or for others trying to solve this problem, but the solution that worked for me was powering off the computer, unplugging it,

Re: [SOLVED] events/0 and events/1 maxing CPU to 100%, related to wireless or eth0 on a T61 Thinkpad

2011-03-07 Thread Kyle Barbour
> O.K., so amazingly this is solved, at least on the practical end. I > have no idea why this works, and I've provided some more information > below if people want to pursue this or for others trying to solve this > problem, but the solution that worked for me was powering off the > computer, unplu

Clarkdale VGA (HDMI) support under Lenny?

2011-03-07 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, we want to change the studies pc pool and switch to a new i3 Clarkdale CPU with integrated graphic card. We have a recently kernel (2.6.36), running, but how good is the support from Lenny itself? The display is connected via HDMI. The mainboard is a Zotac H55ITX-C-E. Any suggestions? cu den