Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

On 2011-07-04 00:58 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:54:01 +0200 > Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > >>instead of moving >>/etc/X11/xorg.conf, I again changed its driver line in section "device" >>to nouveau - and SUCCEDED: After a reboot xdm started X normally, not >>even startx

Urgent XFS Recovery

Hi, I have an XFS partition, which is 1) Mistakenly quick formatted as FAT16. 2) At first, I couldn't see in "fdisk -l" that it is set to FAT16, instead of Linux. Hence tried to fix it with xfs_recover. xfs_recover returned 0, and mount operation succeeded; but mounted fs size appeared as 20GB

Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

Hi all I'd like to start rtorrent automatically when the system boots. Does anybody have a init.d script for that? I tried to use the one from here: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/wtorrent I have uploaded it to pastebin: http://pastebin.com/qN0EnTas Unfortunately I get an error when trying to add

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/11 09:15, Ramon Hofer wrote: > script 'rtorrent' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: There is a loop Hi there, this line should give you and indications what is wrong, if you don't read following file /etc/init.d/README - -- |_|0|_|

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:43:38 +0100, kuLa wrote: > On 04/07/11 09:15, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> script 'rtorrent' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: There is a >> loop > > this line should give you and indications what is wrong, if you don't > read following file /etc/init.d/README Thanks for yo

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/11 10:04, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > > I know that an option is to write an init.d script that meets the LSB > requirements. But this seems very complicated to me and therefore I > wanted to know if somebody else uses rto

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

> > Forwarded Message > > From: Stephen Powell > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv > > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 16:39:55 -0400 (EDT) > > > > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:56:34 -0400 (EDT), Paul Scott wrote: > > > > > > or that read-ed

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

>> I will go for the hard way and create the script if there isn't anybody >> who already has the solution to that ;-) > > I would suggest using /etc/init.d/skeleton as a template for your > script, it has included all necessary functions, you'll need just to > change it slightly That's what I wa

Re: Squeeze - Virtualbox - No Installable Kernel

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 04:59, wrote: > During the install > of an Ubuntu 8.04 server virtual machine I got the following error: Why are you asking in a Debian list about an Ubuntu package? Ask in the Ubuntu forums, they'll know how it's packaged. I use Sid, i haven't had issues with Virtualbox

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

On 04/07/2011 10:15, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I'd like to start rtorrent automatically when the system boots. Does anybody have a init.d script for that? I have the perfect script for you! Here it is: http://users.klvb-larve.org/nico/bin/bash/rtorrent-user.username You must copy it in /etc

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

>> I'd like to start rtorrent automatically when the system boots. Does >> anybody have a init.d script for that? > > I have the perfect script for you! > > Here it is: > > http://users.klvb-larve.org/nico/bin/bash/rtorrent-user.username Wow, this really is perfect! I did what you told me and i

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

So, you didn't mention your backup policy. I'm guessing this means you had none? So, the question is, how much is this data worth to you? If you made a backup before you started playing with it, it might not be more than $500 for a data recovery company to get your stuff back. If you didn't make t

RE: Urgent XFS Recovery

On Mon 7/4/2011 2:41 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > So, you didn't mention your backup policy. I'm guessing this means you had > none? I had one, but it was damaged 2 days before the original fs crash. Moreover, if I would have one, I wouldn't be bugging you right now. > So, the question is, how much

Re: Problen installing Debian

El 2011-07-03 a las 12:47 -0400, Robert Mansell escribió: (resending to the list) > To Camaleón, > I'm not getting any error messages at all. Maybe the cd drive isn't reading > the cd. Okay, no messages, but then what are you getting? You insert the CD into the reader and then, what happens? T

Re: OT: Camaleón

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:44:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/03/2011 07:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> "Camaleón" is a sort of nickname I chose long time ago because of the >> openSUSE mascot (Geeko). It translates as "Chameleon" in English. > > Actually gecko and chameleon are different va

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

Hi, > > > So, the question is, how much is this data worth to you? If you made a > > backup before you started playing with it, it might not be more than $500 > > for a data recovery company to get your stuff back. If you didn't make that > > post 'oh shit' backup, your chance of recovering yourse

Re: kvm

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 08:08:50PM -0700, Khosrow Hassani wrote: > Hi, > I am running kvm 0.12.5 from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm > -hda > disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp inside > kvm, > even when I run it as root. only the first disk where wi

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:35:08 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 19:19 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: >> >> > How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up >> > several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: e

Re: OT: Camaleón

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:53:03 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/03/11 at 02:46pm, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:26:52 +, T o n g wrote: (...) >> > Is Camaleón really a girl? >> > >> > Just curious. >> >> Yes, I am. > > This explains the politeness, but not the uncanny ab

Re: Squeeze - Virtualbox - No Installable Kernel

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:44:56 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 04:59, wrote: >> During the install >> of an Ubuntu 8.04 server virtual machine I got the following error: > > Why are you asking in a Debian list about an Ubuntu package? Ask in the > Ubuntu forums, they'll know

Re: Squeeze - Virtualbox - No Installable Kernel

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:59:20 -0400, scottmaccal wrote: > I recently installed VirtualBox on Squeeze by following these > instructions: http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox. During the install of > an Ubuntu 8.04 server virtual machine I got the following error: No > installable kernel was found in th

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:24:38 +, Alex PADOLY wrote: > For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, I used LILO in > kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. Why many of LINUX > distribution choose GRUB? I don't know that I must choose. I can't tell for LILO but GRUB legacy

Re: OT: Camaleón

On 4 July 2011 21:20, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:53:03 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > >> On 07/03/11 at 02:46pm, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:26:52 +, T o n g wrote: > > (...) > >>> > Is Camaleón really a girl? >>> > >>> > Just curious. >>> >>> Yes, I am. >> >>

Re: kvm

On 04/07/2011 05:08, Khosrow Hassani wrote: Hi, I am running kvm 0.12.5 from Squeeze. the problem I am having is that kvm -hda disk1.img -hdb disk2.img doesn't give me 2 drives in my Windows xp inside kvm, even when I run it as root. only the first disk where windows is installed shows up! I crea

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On 4 July 2011 21:32, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:24:38 +, Alex PADOLY wrote: > >>  For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, I used LILO in >>  kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. Why many of LINUX >>  distribution choose GRUB? I don't know that I must c

Third kernel oops in three days

Hello, I've been having some troubles with the kernel these last three days. In that time, three oops happened... which is really unusual (running Debian for a few months with no kernel problems so far). I can't know whether it is related or not, but the first oops came after I was "playing" a ga

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On 4 July 2011 14:24, Alex PADOLY wrote: > Hi, > > For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, I used LILO in > kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. > Why many of LINUX distribution choose GRUB? It seems that only the Slackware still holds on to the LILO. I haven't use LIL

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:08:06 +0800, wolf python london wrote: > On 4 July 2011 21:32, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:24:38 +, Alex PADOLY wrote: >> >>>  For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, I used LILO >>>  in kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. Why m

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

On 04/07/2011 14:37, Axel Freyn wrote: Hi, So, the question is, how much is this data worth to you? If you made a backup before you started playing with it, it might not be more than $500 for a data recovery company to get your stuff back. If you didn't make that post 'oh shit' backup, your ch

Re: OT: Camaleón

On Monday 04 July 2011 14:59:01 wolf python london wrote: > That's ... UNBELIEVABLE!  You are a woman? I thought you were a young > MAN geek, full of energy > and helpful ! I hope that that was intended to be funny. It is in fact provocative, unpleasant and rude. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Third kernel oops in three days

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:56:50 +0200, Jonathan Hanger wrote: > I've been having some troubles with the kernel these last three days. In > that time, three oops happened... which is really unusual (running > Debian for a few months with no kernel problems so far). (...) > WARNING: at > /build/buil

Totem slow DVD playback and bad sound

Dear List, I have recently upgraded to Squeeze. I experience very slow playback of DVDs in Totem. I have a bad sound as well. It appears to be dropping some of the picture frames, and sound tracks, also it skips DVD intro and starts right at the DVD menu. Films downloaded from the Internet play w

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

On 04/07/2011 13:25, Ramon Hofer wrote: Wow, this really is perfect! I did what you told me and it works like a charm :-) Thank you! Indeed, it's a great pleasure for me to share this script! When I wrote it, I was particularly proud and then I polished it with the idea in mind to be able to

Re: OT: Camaleón

--- On Mon, 7/4/11, wolf python london wrote: > > That's ... UNBELIEVABLE!  You are a woman? I thought > you were a young > MAN geek, full of energy > and helpful !  You are so active in this > list!   Thank you your help ! > What's unbelievable is that YOU think it's unbelievable

Re: OT: Camaleón

On 04/07/2011 15:59, wolf python london wrote: I thought you were a young MAN geek, full of energy and helpful ! You are so active in this list! Actually, I thought the same! It's funny to realize what we're able to (deeply) imagine, just on the base of a few details! Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Alex PADOLY wrote: > Hi, > > For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, I used LILO in > kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. > Why many of LINUX distribution choose GRUB? > I don't know that I must choose. > > Thank you. > Alex > There are

Re: Anyone got ZTE K3565-Z working with Debian?

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:20:02PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > ...I couldn't. It's a usb stick for internet connection, sold by Vodafone. > Any help appreciated. The stuff I've found googling around didn't help in my > case. Works for me with vodafone-mobile-connect 2.10.01-1 from http://www.

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

>> Wow, this really is perfect! >> I did what you told me and it works like a charm :-) > > Thank you! > Indeed, it's a great pleasure for me to share this script! When I wrote > it, I was particularly proud and then I polished it with the idea in > mind to be able to share it quickly. Mission d

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 08:01, yazicivo wrote: > On Mon 7/4/2011 2:41 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > Price is fine with me, the problem is that there is no such company I know > of in Turkey. Any suggestions? > maybe here: http://www.werecoverdata.com/AS/Aydin-Turkey/DataRecoveryAydin-Turkey.htm NOTE:

Re: OT: Camale�n

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:59:01PM +0800, wolf python london wrote: ..snip.. > > > That's ... UNBELIEVABLE! You are a woman? I thought you were a young > MAN geek, full of energy > and helpful ! You are so active in this list! Thank you your help ! And I thought chau

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

On 04/07/2011 18:19, Ramon Hofer wrote: Why don't you put it into the debian wiki or somewhere else? I was googling for such a script for several days. Like that you can share it even easier :-) Don't know really, maybe I originally intented to give it to people I know. That's an idea... I p

Re: OT: Camaleón

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 17:33, Robert Holtzman wrote: > And I thought chauvinism was dead. Surely you jest. I'd call it statistics though, but i'm not trying to impress. -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: OT: Camaleón

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:08:17 +0200 Nicolas Bercher wrote: > On 04/07/2011 15:59, wolf python london wrote: > > I thought you were a young > > MAN geek, full of energy > > and helpful ! You are so active in this list! > Actually, I thought the same! > It's funny to realize what we're able to (dee

Wheezy, KDE & autostart

I've got a problem with my KDE 4.6 on wheezy. At beginning of session, it always starts iceodve, even if there is no .desktop file in .kde/Autostart (and thus no icedove idem in System Settings -> startup & shutdown -> autostart) I do not use session saving, so where could the invocation of icedo

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

>> Why don't you put it into the debian wiki or somewhere else? I was >> googling for such a script for several days. Like that you can share it >> even easier :-) > Don't know really, maybe I originally intented to give it to people I > know. That's an idea... Ok, didn't want to meddle in your a

Re: Totem slow DVD playback and bad sound

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:31:59 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote: > I have recently upgraded to Squeeze. > I experience very slow playback of DVDs in Totem. I have a bad sound as > well. > It appears to be dropping some of the picture frames, and sound tracks, > also > it skips DVD intro and starts right at t

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:38:01 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: >> I tried to do the same, but alas, Xorg doesn't like noveau driver: >> >> [ 1528.909] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 >> [ 1528.916] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:00.0 >> [ 1528.916] drmOpenDevice: node name

Re: Wheezy, KDE & autostart

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:53:45 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > I've got a problem with my KDE 4.6 on wheezy. > > At beginning of session, it always starts iceodve, even if there is no > .desktop file in .kde/Autostart (and thus no icedove idem in System > Settings -> startup & shutdown -> autostart) >

Re: OT: Camaleón

On Monday 04 July 2011 17:38:32 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 17:33, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > And I thought chauvinism was dead. > > Surely you jest. I hope that he does not. > I'd call it statistics though, but i'm not trying to impress. No??? So why do you need to insult

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

Nicolas Bercher wrote: > http://users.klvb-larve.org/nico/bin/bash/rtorrent-user.username > > You must copy it in /etc/init.d and more importantly name it > /etc/init.d/rtorrent-user. where is your actual > username. Hence, you can set it up for any number of users on the > same system. Then, t

too much context switching

I'm learning about various tools to monitor performance. I'm reading about vmstat right now, and it says that context switching, if very high, can be an indicator of misbehaving hardware . . . I'm not that interested in what it can mean, at this point, but I'm interested in what appears to be "hig

Re: OT: Camaleón

briand writes: > I thought Camaleon was a turing machine. Can't be. The universe is finite so she can't have an unbounded tape. > I mean really, when does she sleep ? In a time vacuole. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Wheezy, KDE & autostart

On Monday 04 July 2011 18:53:45 Erwan David wrote: > I've got a problem with my KDE 4.6 on wheezy. > > At beginning of session, it always starts iceodve, even if there is no > .desktop file in .kde/Autostart (and thus no icedove idem in System > Settings -> startup & shutdown -> autostart) > > I

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:24:38 -0400 (EDT), Alex Padoly wrote: > > For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, > I used LILO in kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. > Why many of LINUX distribution choose GRUB? > I don't know that I must choose. I believe most distributions m

Re: Wheezy, KDE & autostart

On 04/07/11 19:27, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2011 18:53:45 Erwan David wrote: >> I've got a problem with my KDE 4.6 on wheezy. >> >> At beginning of session, it always starts iceodve, even if there is no >> .desktop file in .kde/Autostart (and thus no icedove idem in System >> Set

Re: Wheezy, KDE & autostart

El 2011-07-04 a las 19:13 +0200, Erwan David escribió: (resending to the list) > On 04/07/11 19:11, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:53:45 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > >> I've got a problem with my KDE 4.6 on wheezy. > >> > >> At beginning of session, it always starts iceodve, even

Re: too much context switching

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:20:18 -0600, ChadDavis wrote: (...) > When I execute the command: > > vmstat 5 5 > > I get: > > > procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io-system-- cpu > r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo in cs us sy id wa > 2 0 0

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

> That is unnecessarily complicated. You can instead use an @reboot cron > job, which can be set up using crontab -e by any user without root. For > example: > > @reboot screen -d -m -S rtorrent rtorrent I didn't know that this works too. Nice hint! Thanks alot :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT: Camaleón

On 07/04/2011 05:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:44:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Actually gecko and chameleon are different varieties of lizards. Both words are used in English and don't translate to each other. I did not say "gecko" but "Geeko" (also note the uppercase) ;-).

Re: Enough, enough

On 07/04/2011 11:52 AM, T o n g wrote: On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:33:30 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: That's ... UNBELIEVABLE! You are a woman? I thought you were a young MAN geek, full of energy and helpful ! You are so active in this list! Thank you your help ! And I thought chauvinism was d

Re: too much context switching

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:20:18 -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > I'm learning about various tools to monitor performance. I'm reading > about vmstat right now, and it says that context switching, if very > high, can be an indicator of misbehaving hardware Hi ChadDavis, can you post more about this vmstat

Re: too much context switching

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:02 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:20:18 -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > >> I'm learning about various tools to monitor performance.  I'm reading >> about vmstat right now, and it says that context switching, if very >> high, can be an indicator of misbehaving hardwa

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:38:40 -0400 (EDT), Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Alex PADOLY wrote: >> ... >> For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, >> I used LILO in kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. >> Why many of LINUX distribution choose GRUB?

Re: Enough, enough

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:52:41 +, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:33:30 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >>> That's ... UNBELIEVABLE! You are a woman? I thought you were a young >>> MAN geek, full of energy >>> and helpful ! You are so active in this list! Thank you your help ! >> >

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011/7/4 yazicivo : > Hi, > > I have an XFS partition, which is I have never used XFS, but it could be helpfull! If you use Lilo, then look for mbr copy. If you are not using Lilo, testdisk could be the appropriated tool. If nothing help, then you might use a hex editor as shawn mentioned. I am

Re: too much context switching

On 04/07/11 19:04, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:20:18 -0600, ChadDavis wrote: (...) When I execute the command: vmstat 5 5 I get: procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io-system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo in cs us sy i

Re: Totem slow DVD playback and bad sound

Well, I have tried mplayer, gxine, .. not with much better results on Squeeze. Just discovered.. On Lenny I selected totem-xine alternative and it works nicely, there is also alternative totem-gstreamer that has problems with DVD playback. On Squeeze Totem i based on gstreamer and uses libdvdrea

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:38:40 -0400 (EDT), Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Alex PADOLY wrote: >>> ... >>> For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, >>> I used LILO in kernel compilation and with and

Re: Totem slow DVD playback and bad sound

*From*: Camaleón mailto:%3d%3fiso-8859-1%3fq%3fcamale%3df3n%3f%3d%20%3cnoela...@gmail.com%3e>> *Reply-to*: Camaleón *To*: debian-user@lists.debian.org *Subject*: Re: Totem slow DVD playback and bad sound *Date*: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:02:28 +0200 (CEST) On Mon,

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mplayer and fvwm-crystal

Hi, what might be the reason for mplayer to come up without window decorations on fvwm-crystal? I've searched through the configuration files of fvwm2 and didn't find an entry about it. Is this a default or is it something in my settings? Or is it something that mplayer does? There seems to be

Re: too much context switching

> > Does the "context switching" means CPU switches it speed? > Context switching means that the CPU has switched the process that it is executing. The "context" is the process's execution context, I believe, which contains it's execution stack, variables, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On 2011-07-04 21:18 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:38:40 -0400 (EDT), Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Alex PADOLY wrote: >>> ... >>> For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, >>> I used LILO in kernel compilation and with and scsi

Re: Enough, enough

--- On Mon, 7/4/11, Camaleón wrote: > From: Camaleón > Subject: Re: Enough, enough > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, July 4, 2011, 2:27 PM > > What still amazes me is that people is surprised to see > women > participating in these mailing lists (in particular) and in > FLOS

Re: Enough, enough

On Monday 04 July 2011 22:10:38 Go Linux wrote: > Maybe we ought to start a "Linux Chicks" site There is already a Linux Chicks mailing list, if it hasn't died from misuse. I didn't like it because I have been fighting throughout my now long life to be allowed just to be a person. What on eart

Re: Enough, enough

On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2011 22:10:38 Go Linux wrote: > > Maybe we ought to start a "Linux Chicks" site > > There is already a Linux Chicks mailing list, if it hasn't died from > misuse. I didn't like it because I have been fighting throughout my > now long life to be

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

On 04/07/2011 19:17, Joey Hess wrote: That is unnecessarily complicated. You can instead use an @reboot cron job, which can be set up using crontab -e by any user without root. For example: @reboot screen -d -m -S rtorrent rtorrent OK, this sounds really interesting. I've always been thinking o

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

On 04/07/2011 21:35, consul tores wrote: If you use Lilo, then look for mbr copy. If you backed up your MBR, maybe it's time to recover it (on a copy hard drive as well) to restore the partition table (hope your xfs partition haven't changed too much). Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:50:10 -0400 (EDT), Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> both versions of Grub use unallocated sectors to store extra >> code when they are installed in the master boot record.  This can >> lead to conflicts with other pro

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:54:31 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> If it's installed in the master boot record, yes. If Grub Version 2 >> is installed in a partition boot sector, I believe it reads a list of blocks, >> just as LILO does. > > Only for finding the bootloader i

Re: Game for toddlers

On Monday 04 July 2011 21:51:20 T o n g wrote: > Or, a bit OT, your *first hand experiences* of online games for toddlers > please? I used them with my granddaughter some years ago with great success. The BBC had educational broadcasts for schools and had matching Internet pages, including seve

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

Nicolas Bercher wrote: > I can actually see two little cons: > 1. no "easy way" to stop rtorrent, but that's not a big deal (any > kill/pkill command could do the job for example, just like my script > does it), Or screen -R and press Q or whatever it is. > 2. since I like to track my scripts &

Re: Game for toddlers

On 04/07/11 21:51, T o n g wrote: Hi, Do you have any *first hand experiences* of games available in Debian that toddlers of 2 to 4 can enjoy? Or, a bit OT, your *first hand experiences* of online games for toddlers please? I found my child extremely slow in picking up the idea of the games --

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

On 05/07/2011 00:11, Joey Hess wrote: I keep my user crontabs in ~/.cron/$user/$hostname and only change those files then feed to cron. This allows keeping them in git and eg, pushing crontab changes out to machines. This is really cool, I thought about something like that but didn't spent the ti

[wheezy] KDE hangs on logout

Hi, Am having problems with KDE in wheezy: 1. KDE hangs on logout (Kmenu->Leave->Logout). Logging out results in a blank black screen and the system just hangs there, hardware reset is needed to reboot the system. When rebooted the system restarts and KDE works fine with the exception that it

Re: fixed!? monitor detection maybe not working

On 07/03/2011 08:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:23:34 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/02/2011 02:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). Which VGA driver are you using? Whatever nvi

Re: Game for toddlers

T o n g, my two children learnt with gcompris, starting when they were two years old. Little one, 3 years old now, realy likes it on linux and windows. Pablo Sánchez Hi, Do you have any *first hand experiences* of games available in Debian that toddlers of 2 to 4 can enjoy? Or, a bit OT, yo

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

Hi there. What about a solution 4 you all? We just need to restore our last versions of: xserver-common xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri mesa-common-dev go to /var/cache/apt/archives then "sudo dpkg -i" the following files: xserver-common_2%3a1.10.2-

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:35:48PM -0700, consul tores wrote: > 2011/7/4 yazicivo : > > Hi, > > > > I have an XFS partition, which is > > I have never used XFS, but it could be helpfull! > > If you use Lilo, then look for mbr copy. > If you are not using Lilo, testdisk could be the appropriated t

Debian 6.x NIC Bonding

Is there any updates on getting this to work? We are some Debian 6.x servers we really need NIC bonding to work on - last time we attempted it, there was no success. Just wondering if I've missed any updates on this topic? ;) Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Can't smoothly type in gnome-terminal

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:38:41PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Chris writes: > > Hi, I'm a user of gnome-terminal. Currently the version is 3.0.1-1. > > > > Now if I try to type any characters, I just get part of them typed > > in. For example, if I type "ls", only "s" typed in. If I continuously

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

On Jul 4, 2011 8:34 PM, "Rob Owens" wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:35:48PM -0700, consul tores wrote: > I've had good luck with photorec, which is part of the testdisk package. > It will find files regardless of the state of your partitions. > Now that is just too cool. The wiki does have

printing image full page

Hi, I'm looking for a script-able way to print any arbitrary image onto a full printer page (letter, A4, etc). All the image viewing tools that I tried didn't give me such feature, and so far the only solution I have is, , , doing it in winword. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply

Re: Start rtorrent on bootup in Squeeze

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:36:34PM +0200, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > On 04/07/2011 19:17, Joey Hess wrote: > > That is unnecessarily complicated. You can instead use an @reboot > > cron job, which can be set up using crontab -e by any user without > > root. For example: > > > > @reboot screen -d -m

Cross-compile from Sid (32 bit) to Darwin (Mac OS/X)?

Hopefully someone has a few pointers. I am involved in a project that I would like to be able to provide a binary build of it for OS/X users. The project is a library with a few command line utilities for testing. As such, it would probably do to be able to run on Darwin. I've tried chasing dow

Re: Can't smoothly type in gnome-terminal

Chris writes: > According to a reply to bug #631116, installing ibus-gtk3 solved the > typing issue for me. But the bad style is still here. A reboot makes > no difference. [Argh, even though I'm the original bug reporter for #631116, I didn't get any of the email followups, so I didn't seem thos

Re: printing image full page

On 07/05/2011 12:03 AM, T o n g wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a script-able way to print any arbitrary image onto a full printer page (letter, A4, etc). All the image viewing tools that I tried didn't give me such feature, and so far the only solution I have is,,, doing it in winword. Thanks Wi

Re: OT: Camaleón

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 06:15:59PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > Thank you, Robert. Aw shucks, 'twarnt nuthin'. -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer. Key ID: 8D549279 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: printing image full page

Hi, You can try with the convert command (from ImageMagick package) I used this long time ago for scripting some faxes. ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, J

Re: printing image full page

a2ps ? On 05/07/11 06:03, T o n g wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a script-able way to print any arbitrary image onto a full printer page (letter, A4, etc). All the image viewing tools that I tried didn't give me such feature, and so far the only solution I have is,,, doing it in winword. Thanks

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