Re: Network slow with "new" kernel (debianuser: to exclusive)

2011-11-25 Thread debianuser . thegrue
Hello, > 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 gets slower after about 10 or 20 > seconds and soon stalls completely or proceeds at ~3 Byte/s or > something like that.

32" monitor & fonts

2011-11-25 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I have just set up a 32" monitor with a resolution of 1366x768 and the fonts are terrible in KDE except iceweasel and icedove, the page and body text bit is fine. kwrite is terrible, i can hardly read the font. Is there any way to fix the fonts? -- Cheers Mark Debian Squeeze 6.0.3 amd64,

Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-25 Thread Alan Chandler
Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I suspect it has something to

Re: SOLVED: Network slow with "new" kernel

2011-11-25 Thread debianuser . thegrue
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:59:40 +0100 +debianuser+thegrue+733a2fc4c3.debianuser.thegrue#spamgourmet@spamgourmet.com wrote: > Hello, > > > 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),

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-25 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Yes, I mentioned that in recent days, and from what i observed, it's more of a javascript, because i didn't experience freezes on flash heavy websites. Regards Roman On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate stra

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-25 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: > Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely.  The > whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page.  you can't switch > tabs.  Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. > > Am I the

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:45:25 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, > Problem seems to be your mirror (perhaps an upgrade is in progress) - mozilla.debian.net has been in this state for almost a week. > only Sid seems to have the required version available. That's stupid; Why didn't the ba

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 24/11/2011 21:52, Selim T. Erdogan a écrit : Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: You're absolutely right. So here's a detailed account of what I've done, following what was exposed (in French) here: http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/ndiswrapper (Yeah, it's for Ubuntu, but that seemed good to me anyway.) > Fro

Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry VERY LONG

2011-11-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hi, --- On Fri, 11/25/11, John W. Foster wrote: > From: John W. Foster > Subject: Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry VERY LONG > To: "Emanoil Kotsev" > Cc: "debian-user" > Date: Friday, November 25, 2011, 1:58 AM > On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:26 -0800, > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Sam Vagni
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:33 AM, John W. Foster wrote: > Hi Sam & welcome to the world of Linux. I have tried them all as well as > most versions of everything else out there that will run on my > machines..HeHe even Minuet. I just like to try out new stuff. However I > am not any kind of softwa

quick daft question Java app

2011-11-25 Thread Richard
Hi Gnome3 menu editing is a real PITA. I found this which I'd like to try Gnome3_AppMenuEditor.jar how do you run this, I've tried jar Gnome3., but jar is not recognised, JRE is loaded, but its been so long since I've played with java apps, sorry. OT I'm slowly getting somewhere with keeping

Documentation -- gcc?

2011-11-25 Thread Woodchuck
OK, so gcc documentation is "unfree". I have no dog in that fight. Save an old man a few days of reading the GFDL flame wars from seven years ago, and someone (one) just kindly say where this "non-free" documentation is. I have 16 (two architectures) DVDs. Could it be lurking somewhere in th

Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 19:01 +, Richard wrote: > [snip] It wont build from the /usr/src/nvidia direcory, as it wants > the kernel config file. [snip] Please post the output of the log file. Are the linux-headers installed? Half OT: Since Nov 5 I kick installing the driver to 3.0.7-rt20. Perhap

Re: nvidia module successfully installed

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 20:32 +, Richard wrote: > Hi > I had to purge everything I downloaded previously, blacklist nouveau, kill X > & gdm3, the run > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run, then reboot. > No more shakey display and I can watch TV again without X crashing. Good news :) - Ralf -- T

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:58:13 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze and I really think that it is about > time. > ... > Is there any reason that I should not just do > 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' and expect things to 'just work' > as they have in the pas

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
FWIW testing today, perhaps already yesterday, switched to version 8. Haven't read the thread, but IIUC there's an issue with backports regarding to version 8 for stable?! You could try to upgrade Iceweasel only from testing. OT: Won't capture this thread, so please don't reply to the following b

No more desktop.

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello there again, I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution. Then I just wanted to install Vim (gVim actually). Synaptic told me there were tons of things to do, which I did, except it broke here and there

Re: No more desktop.

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : I launched "synaptic safe-upgrade", Sorry, that was "aptitude safe-upgrade" Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'd like to spin down all my sata hdds except the system drive with hdparm. Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. When I put the discs to sleep manually with sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sdc it works. But

RE: Documentation -- gcc?

2011-11-25 Thread Arno Schuring
> OK, so gcc documentation is "unfree". I have no dog in that fight. > > Save an old man a few days of reading the GFDL flame wars from > seven years ago, and someone (one) just kindly say where this "non-free" > documentation is. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gcc-doc-base and http://package

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/11 18:56, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:45:25 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Hello Scott, > >> Problem seems to be your mirror (perhaps an upgrade is in progress) - > > mozilla.debian.net has been in this state for almost a week. Certainly was working November 10, def

Re: iceweasel plugin-container, flashplugin, and gnome3 issue

2011-11-25 Thread tadziu
hi > > Remember to turn off html format :-) sorry > > > That's the usual behaviour for flash player based sites and depending on > your computer capabilities and the site you are viewing this can indeed > lock or slowdown firefox a lot :-( > > You can review the docs to try to reduce the high CPU

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 > which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. To speed up testing I have set spindown_tim = 1 but the drives still stays active... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: 32" monitor & fonts

2011-11-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:49:57AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > I have just set up a 32" monitor with a resolution of 1366x768 and > the fonts are terrible in KDE except iceweasel and icedove, the page > and body text bit is fine. kwrite is terrible, i can hardly read the > font. You might

Re: quick daft question Java app

2011-11-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:41:16AM +, Richard wrote: > Hi > Gnome3 menu editing is a real PITA. > I found this which I'd like to try > Gnome3_AppMenuEditor.jar > how do you run this, I've tried jar Gnome3., but jar is not recognised, > JRE is loaded, but its been so long since I've played

Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

2011-11-25 Thread Richard
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:46:16 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 19:01 +, Richard wrote: > > [snip] It wont build from the /usr/src/nvidia direcory, as it wants > > the kernel config file. [snip] > > Please post the output of the log file. Are the linux-headers installed? > >

Re: Documentation -- gcc?

2011-11-25 Thread Chris Davies
Woodchuck wrote: > Save an old man a few days of reading the GFDL flame wars from > seven years ago, and someone (one) just kindly say where this "non-free" > documentation is. Package "gcc-doc"? Or is that too obvious? http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/non-free gcc-doc-base 4.4.4.nf1-1 [30.1kB

Re: quick daft question Java app

2011-11-25 Thread Richard
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:15:17 + Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:41:16AM +, Richard wrote: > > Hi > > Gnome3 menu editing is a real PITA. > > I found this which I'd like to try > > Gnome3_AppMenuEditor.jar > > how do you run this, I've tried jar Gnome3., but jar is not

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Lou
Hallo Ramon, On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to >241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. >To speed up testing I have set spindown_tim = 1 but the drives still >stays active... >Can I ch

Re: quick daft question Java app

2011-11-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:43:38PM +, Richard wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:15:17 + > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:41:16AM +, Richard wrote: > > > Hi > > > Gnome3 menu editing is a real PITA. > > > I found this which I'd like to try > > > Gnome3_AppMenuEditor

Re: openoffice.org different icons in pc and laptop

2011-11-25 Thread VieuxGeek DuSystem
Hi Both have exactly the same icons, the différence is maybe the theme or the version that you use. Stef 2011/11/25 L V Gandhi > I have different icons for openoffice.org in squeeze-kde version in my PC > and in laptop. > Any reasons for making it same as in laptop. > Icon picture files are at

Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote > > the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work > > with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it should work. > I've come to the conclusion the nouveau driver doesn't work with new nvidia > cards as well, as I had to > black list it. Perhaps we c

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:13 +0100, Lou wrote: > Hallo Ramon, Thanks for your reply Lou! > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to > >241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. > > >To

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #2139

2011-11-25 Thread Woodchuck
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Content-Type: text/plain debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2011 : Issue 2139 Today's Topics: Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze [ Step

Re: openoffice.org different icons in pc and laptop

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 18:10 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > I have different icons for openoffice.org in squeeze-kde version in my > PC and in laptop. > Any reasons for making it same as in laptop. > Icon picture files are attached. I'm not using KDE, but I'm sure there's a tool in Apllications Menu >

Nvidia cards that doesn't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote > > the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work > > with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it should work. > I've come to the conclusion the nouveau driver doesn't work with new nvidia > cards as well, as I had to > black list it. Perhaps we c

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #2139

2011-11-25 Thread Woodchuck
Perhaps there are other obvious things I need to find out about. Thanks, Dave such as not responding to the digest without trimming, regardless of what Thunderbird promises. I apologize deeply. Dave -- In each of us, there burns a soul of a woodchuck. In every generation a

Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Richard Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:01:45 + On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:58:00 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote > > > the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work > > > with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:19:28 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:13 +0100, Lou wrote: > >> Hallo Ramon, > > Thanks for your reply Lou! > > >> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> >Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to >>

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón wrote: >> > If the package is installed and the config file needs to be updated the >> > upgrade routine uses to ask what to do (keep the old file, compare both, >> > replace it with the nre one...). If the partition where the file lies is >> > not mounted then it's up to the admin use

[SOLVED] Re: gdm3

2011-11-25 Thread Sridhar M.A.
This mail is just to inform that the issue got resolved, in a way byitself. I purged gdm3 and reinstalled it. Now, it remembers the previous session as expected. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8

Re: openoffice.org different icons in pc and laptop

2011-11-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:10:07 +0530 L V Gandhi wrote: Hello L, > I have different icons for openoffice.org in squeeze-kde version in my > PC and in laptop. Tools menu, Options... Libreoffice/View. Then select the icon theme you want, or set to automatic. -- Regards _ / )

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Lou
On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Ramon Hofer wrote: Btw: As you didn't write anything else hdparm should have no problem spinning down sata drives? Do you know if I can check the hdparm setting somewhere? Like hdparm -C to show me the spindown setting? It depends on the drive - there is hdparm -I /dev

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:58:33 +0100, Lou wrote: > On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> Btw: As you didn't write anything else hdparm should have no problem >> spinning down sata drives? >> >> Do you know if I can check the hdparm setting somewhere? Like hdparm -C >> to show me the spind

Behavior of samba shares when accessed by win7

2011-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I keep two major directories available thru samba to win7 machines on my lan. A peculiar thing happens when ever I first access them after a reboot on windows. (I think a reboot of linux or even a restart of samba would cause the same thing). When, in wind7 gui, I click on the shares, I'm prompte

Re: No more desktop.

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : Hello there again, I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution. Then I just wanted to install Vim (gVim actually). Synaptic told me there were tons of things to do,

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Lou
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:14:31 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Maybe this is important: I use Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, hdparm v9.32, the drive sdc is a WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and the mainboard an ASUS P7P55D. It's very good you mention this - the WD Green series is a pain in the ass for linux users

Re: missing user app gnome3~SOLVED

2011-11-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:29:37 +, Richard wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:44:33 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: (...) >> > BTW I don't have users & groups in either fallback or normal gnome >> > shell. If I knew what that app was called maybe I could find it. >> >> It's the same that is was fo

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread T U
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Lisi wrote: > >> A simple, accepting all defaults to make life easy, installation of Debian 6 >> or higher will give you GNOME.  Anything else is more complex. > > That's right but please let me know 'Anything els

Re: missing user app gnome3

2011-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Richard wrote: 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 wrote: In the gnome ap

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

2011-11-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:18:01 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 18:52:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Ancient Greeks went to Oracle at Delphi to get answers. Now we have >> Google ;-) > > King Laius would have benefitted from a good dose of skeptism too. :) If his majesty Laius would ha

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alan Chandler wrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only person experiencing this. I suspe

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:50:18 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 24/11/11 16:09, Camaleón wrote: >> 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 star

Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

2011-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:16 +, Richard wrote the FLOSS nouveau driver doesn't work with old Nvidia cards, even if it's claimed that it should work. I've come to the conclusion the nouveau driver doesn't work with new nvidia cards as well, as I had to black list it.

Re: nvidia module successfully installed

2011-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Richard wrote: Hi I had to purge everything I downloaded previously, blacklist nouveau, kill X & gdm3, the run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run, then reboot. No more shakey display and I can watch TV again without X crashing. Good news. IMO the reboot is not necessary, just run NVIDIA-Linux-x86

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Brad Alexander
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Sam Vagni wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Weaver wrote: > > > > Hello Sam, > > Hello. > > > It's good to go with, depending on what you're looking for. > > If you want to learn, there's no Linux distro better for the purpose, > > but an easier introduc

Re: iceweasel plugin-container, flashplugin, and gnome3 issue

2011-11-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:58:41 +0100, tadziu wrote: >> That's the usual behaviour for flash player based sites and depending >> on your computer capabilities and the site you are viewing this can >> indeed lock or slowdown firefox a lot :-( >> >> You can review the docs to try to reduce the high CPU

comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4ecfd177.3000...@rezozer.net

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel (debianuser: to exclusive)

2011-11-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:57:59 +0100, debianuser.thegrue wrote: (...) >> I would try first to remove (not in the sense of "eliminating" but >> "bypass") the firewall to discard the problem is generating from there. > > Yes, this would be sane. But the company won't switch it off and I don't > thi

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/11/11 14:57, Sam Vagni wrote: Yeah sure, but it could really be silly but I don't know which graphics card/chips I am using...? Can you please tell me about it...But my speakers give sound whenever I play any song in Windows XP, however, I remember it used Real tek audio drivers when I inst

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Wood
Adobes version of Flash was (when I downloaded it a month or so ago) 32 bit which will run on a 64 bit OS BUT only with a 32 bit web browser so you need to make sure you have the 32 bit version of Firefox. I made that mistake:) There was a time when several things (like Flash!!) would not wor

Re: iceweasel plugin-container, flashplugin, and gnome3 issue

2011-11-25 Thread Marlon Nunes
i was forced to use gnome3 after updating wheezy. i can't use it. after that, i tryed kde 4.6.5, i really like it. it does everything i need without break my workflow. you should give it a try. Em 25-11-2011 14:31, Camaleón escreveu: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:58:41 +0100, tadziu wrote: That's t

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Nov 2011 at 07:40:02 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> > If the package is installed and the config file needs to be updated the > >> > upgrade routine uses to ask what to do (keep the old file, compare both, > >> > replace it with the nre one...). If the partition w

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-25 Thread Steve B
On Friday 25 November 2011 10:19:58 Javier Barroso wrote: > > I remember read about this kind of issue was going to be fixed using > ¿one thread by tab? There is a mozilla page talking about [1] > Last week Mozilla announced that their multi-processus project for Firefox (Electrolysis) is dela

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Joe
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:09:08 -0500 Sam Vagni wrote: > > What in fact is 'midnight commander', is it distro specific or > application or software...? Didn't get this pointIs it a file > manager like Nautilus or Dolpin (I heard of them...)? > It's an application for any Linux distribution. It

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/11/11 18:45, Weaver wrote: It's good to go with, depending on what you're looking for. If you want to learn, there's no Linux distro better for the purpose, but an easier introduction could be by downloading and installing LMDE here: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1818 which many are switchin

Iceweasel's "Awesom bar" history is missing icons for some websites since upgrade from v7 to v8

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Iceweasel's "Awesom bar" history is missing icons for some websites since upgrade from v7 to v8. For the explanation of this bug I use the terms of http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/central/ . For example the icon of http://www.dict.cc/ isn't shown by the "Awesom bar" history. But the "Fav"ico

Re: comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Lou
From: Jerome BENOIT rezozer.net> Is there any way to comment a diff file ? I don't think so - you apply the diff using patch, then you put comments into the modified file, then you run a diff against the original version to get the difference with comments included. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Clive Standbridge
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Interesting question. I don't know, but perhaps this paragraph from the patch(1) may help: patch tries to skip any leading garbage, apply the diff, and then skip any trailing garbage. Thus you could feed an articl

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

2011-11-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Nov 2011 at 16:59:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > If his majesty Laius would had the option of doing a Google search, he > had found his own article (and so what the future reserved for him...) > written at the "Olympuspedia" :-P Olympuspedia would never capture the imagination. It's not

Re(2): posting

2011-11-25 Thread peasthope
* From: Camaleón * Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:22:00 + (UTC) > - Keep the uppercase for the first word in all of the points. Now some of > the points start with uppercase and others with lowercase, this needs to > be normalized :-) Worked over about 3/4 of the text where that appl

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:47:08 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Adobes version of Flash was (when I downloaded it a month or so ago) 32 > bit which will run on a 64 bit OS BUT only with a 32 bit web browser so > you need to make sure you have the 32 bit version of Firefox. I made > that mistake:) Wrong

live-magic

2011-11-25 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Hola! I am on wheezy, amd-64 with Xfce4 desktop. I installed, with synaptic, the program live-magic to make live debian iso's. The program starts fine, and I walk past the menus. But the final menu, checking the button "Apply", nothing happens! Any ideas? Kjetil -- "If you want a picture of t

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Lisi
On Friday 25 November 2011 17:27:00 Brad Alexander wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Lisi wrote: > > > A simple, accepting all defaults to make life easy, installation of > > > > Debian 6 > > > > > or higher will give you GNOME.  Anything else is more complex. > > > > That's right but plea

Re: Disabling NFSv4 on Debian Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:28:15 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> I've been meaning to look into you "RPCMOUNTDOPTS=--no-nfs-version 4" >> suggestion but haven't had the time. > > It seems that this parameter has finally solved the problem for the OP, > but

[OT] On goats, rootkits and other "beasts" (was: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.)

2011-11-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:19:56 +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 25 Nov 2011 at 16:59:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> If his majesty Laius would had the option of doing a Google search, he >> had found his own article (and so what the future reserved for him...) >> written at the "Olympuspedia" :-P > >

Re: comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks ! On 25/11/11 19:14, Clive Standbridge wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Interesting question. I don't know, but perhaps this paragraph from the patch(1) may help: patch tries to skip any leading garbage, apply the diff, and then skip

Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
Hello, I have an interesting problem that should actually be seen as a compliment to Debian. My system is booting so fast that the /sbin/getty is spawning before DHCP sets the hostname. So I get a prompt like this: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (none) hvc0 (none) login: If I log in, the host

reduce crypt partition

2011-11-25 Thread scar
i need a little help reducing my crypt partition. when i first installed debian, i used a rather standard /boot on /dev/hda1 and crypt on /dev/hda2, using LVM for the rest of the partitions. i've been following this[1] resize guide and i am at step 5, having already resized my logical LVM root an

Re: Disabling NFSv4 on Debian Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:15:57 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:28:15 -0500, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> I've been meaning to look into you "RPCMOUNTDOPTS=--no-nfs-version 4" >>> suggestion but haven't had the time. >> >> It seems that this

Re: Re(2): posting

2011-11-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:43:39 -0800, peasthope wrote: > * From: Camaleón * Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 > 17:22:00 + (UTC) >> - Keep the uppercase for the first word in all of the points. Now some >> of the points start with uppercase and others with lowercase, this >> needs to be normaliz

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-25 Thread Wayne Topa
On 11/24/2011 08:12 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files are written when boot is not mounted. A file can be written to any directory, mounted or not. No bug here. Seems like if t

Re: comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 18:14 +, Clive Standbridge wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello List: > > > > Is there any way to comment a diff file ? > > Interesting question. ;D Until now I'm only using, not writing patches. What happens if we would write something at top of a diff or at the e

Re: comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 18:14 +, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Hello List: > > > > > > Is there any way to comment a diff file ? > > > > Interesting question. > > ;D > > Until now I'm only using, not writing pa

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #2139

2011-11-25 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Woodchuck, 25.11.2011: > > I added the "obvious" line: > > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib non-free > > I then ran "apt-cache gencaches" with silent results. > > Then I ran apt-get: > > root@julius:~# apt-get install gcc-doc > Reading package lists... Done > Building depe

Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread John Hasler
set DELAYLOGIN=yes in /etc/default/rcS. -- John Hasler -- 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/87obvzx1yu@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > watches videos it is the vertical pixels that count the most. I would > > hate to purchase a "new" machine with fewer vertical pixels than the > > 1050 in my "old" machine. > > The best you can do is to get a T60/p with a proper BOE-Hydis

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

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not run two applications w/ gksu: > > chromium and > qbittorrent Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do this. Neither of those applications are designed for being run as root. Those should be run as a normal non-root user. In other words,

Re: No more desktop.

2011-11-25 Thread Richard
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:34 +0100 Paul Isambert wrote: > Le 25/11/2011 12:46, Paul Isambert a écrit : > > Hello there again, > > > > I must be cursed. As explained before, I succeeded in having my wifi > > work by switching to wheezy, following Nicolas's solution. > > > > Then I just wanted to

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
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 database ? You have asked a very confusing

Re: openoffice.org different icons in pc and laptop

2011-11-25 Thread L V Gandhi
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:10:07 +0530 > L V Gandhi wrote: > > Hello L, > > > I have different icons for openoffice.org in squeeze-kde version in my > > PC and in laptop. > > Tools menu, Options... Libreoffice/View. Then select the icon theme yo

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > I haven't kept boot mounted for yrs, and I hadn't noticed that grub > was to be updated... there was 187 pgks, further its not automatically > apparent that grub.cfg resides on boot... not all of grubs files do. > I'm very new to grub2. > > But even with that, yes, it was slo

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-25 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 24/11/2011 10:00, Paul Isambert wrote: not to mention the book I could have bought instead... You mean the ethernet wire, isn't it? Bad joke. Nicolas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Alan Chandler wrote: > Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. > The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you > can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop > locks for a while. > > Am I the only person experiencing this. I

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
John, Thank you for replying back as well as the idea to set this option. I wish it had been this easy but it appears that this option does not affect how getty prints the login prompt. I believe this may only affect someone trying to log in and not how it prints. If you have any further i

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
John, Thank you for replying back as well as the idea to set this option. I wish it had been this easy but it appears that this option does not affect how getty prints the login prompt. I believe this may only affect someone trying to log in and not how it prints. If you have any further i

Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Heckman wrote: > I have an interesting problem that should actually be seen as a compliment > to Debian. My system is booting so fast that the /sbin/getty is spawning > before DHCP sets the hostname. So I get a prompt like this: > > > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (none) hvc0 > > (none) login:

Re: Nvidia graphics that don't work with nouveau - Was: Re: Nvidia driver fails to compile on kernel 3.X

2011-11-25 Thread Go Linux
--- On Fri, 11/25/11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Model: "nVidia GeForce 8400 GS" > I use 'nouveau.modeset=0' on the kernel cmdline and also > blacklist nouveau. > But note that the latest udev (175-2) removes > blacklist.conf, I put it back again. > What I find if I don't blacklist nouveau is tha

Chromium in Sid not working

2011-11-25 Thread David Bruce
Hi, I have two Sid systems (one amd64, one 32-bit intel) and Chromium is currently unusable in both - all attempted pages display "Aw, Snap", even content on same machine. There appears to be a bug on this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647992 but I get the sense that the mai

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
Bob Proulx wrote: Am I correct in assuming that you have modified /sbin/dhclient-script to set the hostname from the dhcp'd hostname? (That is what I did when I was doing this.) I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. This checks whether the hostname should be set

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