Re: [solved] Xfce: Toggle CPUfreq scaling by the panel - Was: Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

Hey Ralf, On 23/11/11 23:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 14:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 12:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 18 nov 11, 21:44:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It's supported by the plugin, but it doesn't work. If the plugin has the frequenc

Re: DHCP server not starting at boot, any workarounds?

2011/11/24 Victor Nitu : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > <..> > > How can I start the dhcp server *after* booting the system, to avoid > manual interaction? Tried a (re) update-rc.d , putting it in rc.local, > making a separate script, any more ideas? > > > TIA, > > Victor Tr

Re: Laptop with external display running X11.

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:11:56 -0800 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > * Does anyone have an external display working on a laptop with a > contemporary Debian? Any tips or recipe? > Not quite, but it Just Works on my netbook, Ubuntu Netbook Remix about 10-ish. Try a Knoppix live CD: if it works wi

Re: To escape saving double commands in shell command history.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 05:54:27AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. G'day. > I try to escaping saving double commands in shell command history. The subject is somewhat confusing - escaping in regards to shell usually means something else :^) > env shows among other things: > > SHE

Re: Canonscan Lide 110 - anyone used this?

On 23 Nov 2011, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > I've got a scanner that says lide 110 on the top, and it performs to > my expectations under gentoo linux with > media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.22-r2 . Support was not in stable gentoo > when I got the scanner, so I had to use a development version of the > dr

Re: Make WiFi work.

Le 23/11/2011 17:55, Richard a écrit : On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:59:29 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Joel Roth wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:06:32AM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote: Le 22/11/2011 20:52, Joel Roth a écrit : On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:29:44PM +0100, Paul Isambert wrote: Altern

Re: Make WiFi work.

What about ndiswrapper ? Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Paul Isambert To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 9:00 Subject: Re: Make WiFi work. Le 23/11/2011 17:55, Richard a écrit : > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:59:29 -0600 > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >

Gnome3 update

After a few weeks I have decided to try gnome3 again. I have added cairo-dock (which I also used with xfce4). Gnome3 is different but it is workable and where I previously had problems with Gnome3's handling of my external screen, it is working as expected now. Maybe some updates in the mean time

NCID with no rcS.d

OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's one small item, though. When I took the init scripts and ran update-rc.d, it gave me a warning saying "stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default

Re: To escape saving double commands in shell command history.

Thank You for Your time and answer, Raf: >> I try to escaping saving double commands in shell command history. > >The subject is somewhat confusing - escaping in regards to shell >usually means something else :^) Ahh. Seems alright to me. :o) >> HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth > >Have you put the second

Re: Make WiFi work.

Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : What about ndiswrapper ? A promising lead. So I've tried that; ndiswrapper works, but then modprobe doesn't recognize it (it says something about .conf files, too). Perhaps I've done something wrong earlier (I've done so many thin

Re: Laptop with external display running X11.

On Wednesday 23 November 2011 22:11:56 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > * Does anyone have an external display working on a laptop with a >   contemporary Debian?  Any tips or recipe? Does Lenny with backports count as contemporary Debian? If so, then I can run an external monitor with my netbook (an

Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up until recently clicking on the filename would automatically start Freemind. At a recent update this has changed and now gedit is the default application. If I right click on the file Freemind is shown as the only other named

OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

Good time of the day. Excuse me for off topic, please. I try to split a big flac file into separate tracks it contains according to .cue file I have w/ this command: $ shnsplit -o wav -f 1.cue 1.flac when I get: shnsplit: error: value not in bytes, m:ss, m:ss.ff, or m:ss.nnn format: then I t

Re: Laptop with external display running X11.

On Thursday 24 November 2011 10:18:13 Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 23 November 2011 22:11:56 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > * Does anyone have an external display working on a laptop with a > >   contemporary Debian?  Any tips or recipe? > > Does Lenny with backports count as contemporary Debian? If s

Re: Safety while network install.

On Nov 20, 3:20 pm, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > I'm concerned on safety of install over network (the netinst) - what > techniques are used to protect the installed system during the very > process of installation? > a single machine connected to the internet: moving to cd /usr/lo

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

> $ shnsplit -o wav -f 1.cue 1.flac > > when I get: > > shnsplit: error: value not in bytes, m:ss, m:ss.ff, or m:ss.nnn > format: > ... > The .cue file has such lines: > > ... > INDEX 01 00:00:00 > INDEX 01 04:01:30 > INDEX 01 06:54:50 Try: $ flac -d -o 1.wav 1.flac $ cuebreakpoints 1.cue | sh

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

On 24/11/11 11:19, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. Excuse me for off topic, please. I try to split a big flac file into separate tracks it contains according to .cue file I have w/ this command: $ shnsplit -o wav -f 1.cue 1.flac when I get: shnsplit: error: value not in bytes, m:ss,

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:33:00 +0100, dulev wrote: Try: $ flac -d -o 1.wav 1.flac $ cuebreakpoints 1.cue | shnsplit 1.wav cuebreakpoints is part of cuetools package. I would also use this method. Except I usually use bchunk to split the file, where you use shnsplit. So that would be: $ bch

Re: Make WiFi work.

Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: > Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : > > > >What about ndiswrapper ? > > > > A promising lead. So I've tried that; ndiswrapper works, but then > modprobe doesn't recognize it (it says something about .conf files, > too). Perhaps I've done someth

Re: [solved] Xfce: Toggle CPUfreq scaling by the panel - Was: Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

Hi Lorenzo :) - PyGTK gksu (I don't know this, since I'm not a Py coder) - PolicyKit (I never set it up myself) - set SUID bit for /usr/bin/cpufreq-set (I did this a long time a go: spinymouse-sudo@64studio:~$ sudo -i root@64studio:~# chmod u+s /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector This was before Polic

Password Management ?

Hi, I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a debian, can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a password database on a web php site for example ? How do you manage your user's passwords database ? I've tried clipperz, but the product is under development

Debian: A noob query

Hello everyone, I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' non-compatibility with the newest hardware and not having latest technology, is it a myth? Further, I hop

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011/11/24 Sam Vagni : > Hello everyone, > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? Debian has a large community and a great development, testing and packaging organization. Ubuntu is great too by the way, maybe easier

Re: Debian: A noob query

Hi Sam I would whole heartedly recommend Debian. The problem with the other distros like Ubuntu, Fedora etc that try to be on the bleeding edge is that they tend to be buggy (and often slower) and each time a new release come out upgrading tends to break everything, and becasue they work on s

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: > But to answer directly, yes debian is a good start because, in my > opinion apt make the difference, the package manager is so useful. Try > do install a vm with the squeeze net install cd > http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst and feel fr

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Andrew Wood wrote: > Hi Sam Hello. > I would whole heartedly recommend Debian. The problem with the other distros > like Ubuntu, Fedora etc that try to be on the bleeding edge is that they > tend to be buggy (and often slower) and each time a new release come ou

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

2011/11/24 lrhorer : > OK, so here's the deal.  I compiled and installed ncid on one of my > Debian servers  Everything seems to be working just fine.  There's one > small item, though.  When I took the init scripts and ran update-rc.d, > it gave me a warning saying "stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6)

Re: To escape saving double commands in shell command history.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:01:00AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Raf: > > >> I try to escaping saving double commands in shell command history. > > > >The subject is somewhat confusing - escaping in regards to shell > >usually means something else :^) > > Ahh. Seems

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011/11/24 Sam Vagni : > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: > >> But to answer directly, yes debian is a good start because, in my >> opinion apt make the difference, the package manager is so useful. Try >> do install a vm with the squeeze net install cd >> http://www.debian.o

Debian: A noob query

2011/11/24 Sam Vagni : > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Andrew Wood wrote: > >> Hi Sam > > Hello. > >> I would whole heartedly recommend Debian. The problem with the other distros >> like Ubuntu, Fedora etc that try to be on the bleeding edge is that they >> tend to be buggy (and often slower) a

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): > OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my > Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's > one small item, though. When I took the init scripts and ran > update-rc.d, it gave me a warning sa

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011/11/24 Sam Vagni : > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: > >> To be clear, installing package is very useful with aptitude and >> generally apt. Try a man apt or a google search with apt and you'll >> see that's very easy and intuitive ! But remember even if there is >> some

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

:- Original post talks abount RHEL and CentOS. http://www.bigismore.com/web-server-security/unknown-hz-value-assume-100-youve-been-hacked/ ??? On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 17:36:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Nov 20

Re: Debian: A noob query

On 24/11/11 12:30, Sam Vagni wrote: Debian - yeas I heard of its rock solid stability! But I have not heard of newbies using it, seems typical for them, so as a newbie would it not be that difficult...? I am after all not a geek user! Probably because its not as well publicised as other distro

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: > Clearly, I will suggest you Debian. Opensuse is great, really, but use > rpm (AFAIK) and package and application managing can be a nightmare. > Globally to choose a first linux distribution, don't rely on the gui > or the screenshot you'll

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:43:54 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to know > if Debian is good to go with and learn then? > > Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' > non-compatibility with the newest har

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > Debian is a fine distribution; but there are others too. By the way, of > course people here will extol the virtues of Debian - it is a Debian > mailing list after all. Ok, I see. That really I forgot to consider...! After all a fact it is!

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:26:47 -0500 Andrew Reid wrote: Hello Andrew, > You need to specify the backport repo in order to get the > dependencies to work, I think. Dunno about Rob, but I'd already done that. Trying to upgrade Iceweasel fails due to the fact xulrunner isn't going to be installe

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:39:29 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > >> Debian is a fine distribution; but there are others too. By the way, of >> course people here will extol the virtues of Debian - it is a Debian >> mailing list after all. > > Ok, I

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011/11/24 Sam Vagni : > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> Debian is a fine distribution; but there are others too. By the way, of >> course people here will extol the virtues of Debian - it is a Debian >> mailing list after all. > > Ok, I see. That really I forgot to consi

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 13:25:28 Sam Vagni wrote: > Well this is true that the real power is in cli and not in gui There is no reason why you should not use GUI for some time if you are more comfortable with it. I have been using Linux for 7 years and am at home on the CLI, but there are

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 13:51:52 Walter Hurry wrote: > As to the printer, you'll need to check the exact > model, not just the brand. Samsung's splix can manage most Samsungs, just as HP's hpijs and hplip can manage most HP printers. (But not necessarily all its all-in-ones.) Lisi -- To

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

Rob Owens writes: > You could try: > > aptitude reinstall backuppc > > and see if that gets you anywhere. Thanks, I did mention in OP that I could neither install nor remove. Surely there is someway to get rid of the pesky stuff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: DHCP server not starting at boot, any workarounds?

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:09:40 +0200, Victor Nitu wrote: > On 11/23/2011 08:53 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Not sure if this thread will give you any hint: >> >> *** >> DHCP server (version 4) with an alias IP address >> https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2010-September/012052.html >> *** >>

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > A little vague, I'm afraid. But not to worry, there are Linux > applications for most things. By the way, I'd strongly recommend (with > few exceptions) sticking to software which is in the repositories (which > are very comprehensive), rathe

Re: Error upgrading squeeze to wheezy

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:28:21 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Im encountering the same error on several machines when doing apt-get > update apt-get upgrade apt-get sist-upgrade from a clean install of > squeeze to wheezy. > > The error is > > E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgstr

Re: Laptop with external display running X11.

peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Squeeze is installed on an IBM ThinkPad A22m and X11 has worked > with no obvious problems. > > Yesterday I connected a PanaSync E70i monitor to the VGA connector > and set BIOS Display to "external". All appeared normal until Xdm > started. There display reverted to

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:03:03 +, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 13:51:52 Walter Hurry wrote: >> As to the printer, you'll need to check the exact model, not just the >> brand. > > Samsung's splix can manage most Samsungs, just as HP's hpijs and hplip > can manage most HP printers.

Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry LONG

John W. Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 09:42 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 00:21 +0100, deloptes wrote: >> > John W. Foster wrote: >> > >> > > /usr/share/perl5/LaTeXML/texmf >> > >> > you need to setup the environment correctly, so that texmf finds the >> > package

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel

On 11/24/2011 02:50 PM, debianuser.theg...@spamgourmet.com wrote: > Hello, > > we have a strange problem here at our company: > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall. When we start a > download on the "newer" machines (kernel 2.6.32-5), the download starts > fast (~3M/s), then quickly ge

Re: Bug with network printer setup in Gnome 3?

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:19:40 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Is there a bug with adding a new network printer (IPP) in Gnome 3 > because I am unable to do it in both Fedora 15 (Gnome 3.0) Fedora 16 > (Gnome 3.2) and Wheezy (Gnome 3.0). > There seems to always have been a bug that prevented you from ad

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:57:06 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > >> A little vague, I'm afraid. But not to worry, there are Linux >> applications for most things. By the way, I'd strongly recommend (with >> few exceptions) sticking to software which

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

Brian writes: > On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 05:15:40 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: >>syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file >> >> Can the `stateoverride' file mentioned be edited? If so, where is it? >> >> Searches of /etc/ and /

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:44:48 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not run two applications w/ gksu: > > chromium and > > qbittorrent > > w/ the error: > > Couldn't set environment variable... Is it only happening with just that two programs? > launching so: > > /usr/bin/gksu -u usrname /usr/bin/

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > By the sound of it, you want amd64/bt-cd/debian-6.0.3-amd64-CD-1.iso.torrent> Well thanks, I would start its download, but why these CDs are numbered from 1 to some more than 40 or 50...why so m

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

Thank You for Your time and answer: >> $ shnsplit -o wav -f 1.cue 1.flac >> >> when I get: >> >> shnsplit: error: value not in bytes, m:ss, m:ss.ff, or m:ss.nnn >> format: >> ... >> The .cue file has such lines: >> >> ... >> INDEX 01 00:00:00 >> INDEX 01 04:01:30 >> INDEX 01 06:54:50 > >Try: >

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 14:57:06 Sam Vagni wrote: > My printer is Samsung ML 1610. I'm pretty sure that that is one I have installed for someone else. I myself have the ML-1510, which is older, but similar. At one stage I had to use the "wrong" driver with a printer, I don't remember whic

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:29:30AM -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > > > By the sound of it, you want > amd64/bt-cd/debian-6.0.3-amd64-CD-1.iso.torrent> > > Well thanks, I would start its download, b

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:10:26 +, Richard wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: >> >> > In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin there used to be a gui for >> > editing groups and users. I no longer have i

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

Thank You for Your time and answer, Olav: >I would also use this method. Except I usually use bchunk to split the >file, where you use shnsplit. > >So that would be: > >$ bchunk -w 1.bin 1.cue track.wav > >Then of course I would encode the tracks, tag them, rename them. It works great except for

What to expect following major update

Running wheezy My updates were held up for a few days because of a problem involving backuppc not uninstalling properly... now solved. So now I've ran the update gui. During this update 187 pkgs were involved. One of them was gcc-4.6. So I now have 4.5 and 4.6 installed. I noticed that a new g

Re: Password Management ?

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: Hi, > > I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a > debian, can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a > password database on a web php site for example ? > > How do you manage your user's passwords dat

Re: Disabling NFSv4 on Debian Squeeze

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:28:15 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> El 2011-11-22 a las 07:50 +0200, Israel Bravo escribió: >>> On 11/21/2011 07:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> > El 2011-11-21 a las 08:51 +0200, Israel Bravo escribió: >>> > >>> >> On 11/20/2011 05:2

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thursday 24 November 2011 14:57:06 Sam Vagni wrote: > I guess I should go (of course) with 64 since my processor supports > that (this I came to know).. There is no "of course". Sorry, I did not make myself clear. With a 64 bit processor, either a 32bit or 64bit system would work without pro

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

2011/11/24 Arno Schuring : > lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >> OK, so here's the deal.  I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >> Debian servers  Everything seems to be working just fine.  There's >> one small item, though.  When I took the init scripts and ran >> upda

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up > until recently clicking on the filename would automatically start > Freemind. (...) > Anyone any idea how I can change the default application for these .mm > files b

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

> Thank You for Your time and answer: > > >> $ shnsplit -o wav -f 1.cue 1.flac > >> > >> when I get: > >> > >> shnsplit: error: value not in bytes, m:ss, m:ss.ff, or m:ss.nnn > >> format: > >> ... > >> The .cue file has such lines: > >> > >> ... > >> INDEX 01 00:00:00 > >> INDEX 01 04:01:30 > >

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:50:31 +, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 14:57:06 Sam Vagni wrote: >> I guess I should go (of course) with 64 since my processor supports >> that (this I came to know).. > > There is no "of course". Sorry, I did not make myself clear. With a 64 > bit proces

Re: What to expect following major update

On 11/24/2011 04:41 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running wheezy > > My updates were held up for a few days because of a problem involving > backuppc not uninstalling properly... now solved. > > So now I've ran the update gui. During this update 187 pkgs were > involved. One of them was gcc-4.6. So I

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:39:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:10:26 +, Richard wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón > > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: > >> > >> > In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin t

Re: missing user app gnome3

Richard wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin there used to be a gui for editing groups and users. I no longer have it, what was it called so IU can put it back, I need to

Re: Make WiFi work.

Le 24/11/2011 12:05, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : What about ndiswrapper ? A promising lead. So I've tried that; ndiswrapper works, but then modprobe doesn't recognize it (it says something about .conf files

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:20:37 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Richard wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) > > Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: > >> > >>> In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin there used to be a gui for > >>> editing

Re: What to expect following major update

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: (...) > So, three things: > 1) Do I need to do anything special about the upgrade >in compiler? No unless you need a specific gcc version to compile a package with such requirements. > 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files

Re: Debian: A noob query

On 24 Nov 2011, Lisi wrote: > > > but please tell me if KDE is the > > default of GNOME is the default desktop for debian? > > GNOME is now the Debian default desktop. > There are others, and of course you don't have to use a desktop manager at all. Quite a few people, me included, prefer to u

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 06:43 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? > > Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' > non-compatibility with the newest hard

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:23:54 +, Richard wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:39:30 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: (...) >> > until either ATI sort out the crap fglrx module that is unstable with >> > kernel 3, or I buy a nvidia graphics card, and the later is getting >> > closer. >> >> Hum... ca

Re: What to expect following major update

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 09:41:12AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > 3) About etc resolv.conf being rendered useless during update: That >two seems like it should be bug > >I pulled out an old backup with the right stuff in it and overwrote >/etc/resolv.conf. I then proceeded to make the f

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:50:45 +0100, debianuser.thegrue wrote: > we have a strange problem here at our company: > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall. What kind of firewall? Iptables rules or some kind of commercial appliance? > When we start a download on the "newer" machines (ke

Preventing gnome3 autosuspend

I would be grateful for instructions how to prevent gnome3 (i386 wheezy) autosuspending. I tried from /usr system wide by either commenting out or false/true, at no avail thanks francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

Arno Schuring wrote: > lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >> one small item, though. When I took the init scripts and ran >> update-rc

Re: missing user app gnome3

Richard wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:20:37 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Richard wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wrote: In the gnome applications>sytem tools>adin there used to be a gui for editing groups and use

Re: What to expect following major update

On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running wheezy > > My updates were held up for a few days because of a problem involving > backuppc not uninstalling properly... now solved. > > So now I've ran the update gui. During this update 187 pkgs were > involved. One of them w

Re: Password Management ?

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:34:51 +0100, Olivier BATARD wrote: > I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a debian, > can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a password > database on a web php site for example ? > > How do you manage your user's passwords databa

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

On 2011-11-24 17:51 +0100, lrhorer wrote: > Arno Schuring wrote: > >> lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >>> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >>> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >>> one small item, though.

Re: Make WiFi work.

Selon Paul Isambert : > Le 24/11/2011 12:05, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : > > Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: > >> Le 24/11/2011 10:08, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk a écrit : > >>> What about ndiswrapper ? > >>> > >> A promising lead. So I've tried that; ndiswrapper works, but then > >> modprobe doesn't

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > 2011/11/24 lrhorer : >> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >> one small item, though. When I took the init scripts and ran >> update-rc.d, it gave me a warning saying "

Re: Preventing gnome3 autosuspend

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:58:06 +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I would be grateful for instructions how to prevent gnome3 (i386 wheezy) > autosuspending. I tried from /usr system wide by either commenting out > or false/true, at no avail Hum... this should be set from "System Settings → Power" but

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > 2011/11/24 Arno Schuring : >> lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): >>> OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >>> Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's >>> one small item, though. When I took t

Re: missing user app gnome3

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:10:26 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Richard wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:20:37 -0600 > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >> Richard wrote: > >>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:45:07 + (UTC) > >>> Camaleón wrote: > >>> > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:35:22 +, Richard wro

Re: Help with CUPS- printing from Windows to Debian print server

Thanks Pablo for responding, but still no joy. After hours of trying different things, I finally went in search of log files in Samba. I found that there were different relevant log files in /var/log/samba depending, evidently, on how I had set things up at that time. For example, from yesterday

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-11-24 17:51 +0100, lrhorer wrote: > >> Arno Schuring wrote: >> >>> lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There'

Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

From: Joe Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:31:37 + > Not quite, but it Just Works on my netbook, Ubuntu Netbook Remix about > 10-ish. > > Try a Knoppix live CD: if it works with anything, that will do it, and > it's pretty likely that anything Knoppix uses is available to Debian. Will keep thos

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >> I can not run two applications w/ gksu: >> >> chromium and >> >> qbittorrent >> >> w/ the error: >> >> Couldn't set environment variable... > >Is it only happening with just that two programs? For a new user it works too, but for the old one -

Re: Debian: A noob query

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:43:54 -0500 Sam Vagni wrote: > Hello everyone, Hello Sam, > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? It's good to go with, depending on what you're looking for. If you want to learn, there's

Re: [solved] Xfce: Toggle CPUfreq scaling by the panel - Was: Re: Xfce: 2 + 1 questions

PS: Don't get me wrong, I run the script as root too, but using gksu I only need to do it for one time a session. -- 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/13221

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:06:24 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Brian wrote: >> On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 17:36:40 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:27 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: >>> >>> > I see this message when I call `top' >>> > >>> > Unknow

Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

Hi I'm starting to get more that a bit hacked off. The gnome shell requires with the onboard radeon graphics card the ATI driver to run normally, however the ATI proprietary driver is unstable on kernel 3.0 and 3.1. So I've gone the Nvidia route, there is only one slot width on the mobo between t

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> Does Lenny with backports count as contemporary Debian? > > Encouraging information. Yes, I'd say Lenny is a contemporary > Debian. In this case a difficulty appears to be that automation > introduced in X is not quite perfect; yet. Lenny is old stable with old vers

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