Re: Unidentified subject! [ ]

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
At least I receive digest with the emails headers in the wrong position, so the receiver, subject and Reference get lost. " Forwarded Message Subject: Unidentified subject! Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 08:30:02 +0200" is the complete information Evolution gets, so if I would reply it wou

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 08:30 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot > Windows? The menu is in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (GRUB 2) or /boot/grub/menu.lst (GRUB Legacy). You don't need to know what Windows you have installed, since it's done by chainloa

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part (-1) Gparted Live

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 08:30 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > Using Gparted, I could not find a way to create ONE > partition using all the space of the TWO now 'deleted' > partitions. For many people it's self-explaining how to do this. If it isn't self-explaining for you, I recommend to read a

Re: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 08:30 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > I used to play with the 'dots per inch' setting to make small screens > look larger. That is what I tend to do in combination with changing font sizes. Coarse: Changing the font sizes (and/or screen resolution) Fine: Changing DPI -

AMD 990X on kernels 3.x

2012-05-06 Thread dagecko
Hello, I installed a new machine for my job. The main config is: * mainboard: msi 990xa-gd55 (amd 990x chipset) * cpu: athlon fx 4170 * graphic card: nvidia geforce gtx 550 * sound-card: sb x-fi titanium (mainboard sound-card is disabled) When using a debian squeeze amd 64, on a kernel 2.6.x, t

Re: How Does One Re-run write_cd_rules

2012-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: >        This system started out as lenny in 2009 and I just upgraded > to squeeze. Most of the system is fine but I have lost both > CDROM's which used to be /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1. I > didn't help anything when I accidently left a

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/3/2012 1:27 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Btw: Wouldn't it be better to use software raid? There are many factors involved in this decision, and just as many opinions available from users who prefer one method over the other. > In case of failure of > the controller I would need to get exactly

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up: XFS info

2012-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 mai 12, 15:08:57, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Note this means running 'xfs_check' is done when the filesystem is not > mounted. _Supposedly_ it can also be run if the filesystem is mounted read- > only, but in practice I find it's best (and easier) to run the XFS commands > from a LiveCD.

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 mai 12, 14:39:34, Curt wrote: > > Are you ccing (? how do you write that ?) to my mailing address on > purpose, or is it gmail, or both? > > Must be gmail; it seems to me other people have mentioned this oddity in > the past. Gmail doesn't have reply-list so it needs additional work fr

Re: Problem with Alsa and HDMI audio output

2012-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 05 mai 12, 17:21:56, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > > The Debian I'm tuning is only for HTPC usage. I want to run a standalone > XBMC and forget about the rest... but I can't configure the audio of XBMC. I have XBMC both from stable (debian-multimedia.org) and unstable (Debian proper) wo

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused SOLVED)

2012-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 mai 12, 20:07:57, Charles Kroeger wrote: > After the dist-upgrade on sid during the 'transitions' I noticed there was > 'no' /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all so I created one If you did fine without one before it should work now as well. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions amon

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:10:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Why a "learning experience"? > 'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/ That did not sound reassuring :-( > The install went fairly smoothly until it set up Grub. You mean Squeeze or Wheezy netinstall? > I had opted fo

(Solved with bypass) Re: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 01:03:47 +0200, Jasper Noe wrote: >> Hello, >> >> In my intent to make my netbook more usable (because I can barely use >> some applications such the recently available Pan), I'm trying to get a >> virtual screen (panning) that allows me to configure some applications >> that f

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part (-1) Gparted Live

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:38:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: (...) > Using Gparted, I could not find a way to create ONE partition using all > the space of the TWO now 'deleted' partitions. What does Gparted now say? How it detects the hard disk partitions? Is there any allocatable free space? Is

Re: non-free Squeeze and sources.list

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 May 2012 22:39:24 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > After upgrading from lenny to squeeze, an edgport 8-port RS-232 to usb > adaptor died. A helpful error message said the driver for this device in > squeeze was in the non-free software. The exact message you get will help to diagnose

Re: AMD 990X on kernels 3.x

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 10:38:58 +0200, dagecko wrote: (...) > But when I move to a kernel 3.x (with using wheezy), everything goes > bad. When I could make the system boots it is with a lot of complains. > In any of the situations it could never start x (even with upgrading > every packages in wheez

Re: AMD 990X on kernels 3.x

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 12:36 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: If everything is fine with kernel 2.6 on your machine and things are that borked with kernel 3.x, so why don't you downgrade to a kernel 2.6? 2.6 kernels aren't completely different and usually can be used with current distros. If needed

Re: How Does One Re-run write_cd_rules

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 May 2012 22:00:18 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > This system started out as lenny in 2009 and I just upgraded to squeeze. > Most of the system is fine but I have lost both CDROM's which used to be > /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1. What does dmesg say? Are they still detected at sr0

Re: cron job not executing

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 May 2012 18:26:30 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I've got a little cron job, > just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's > not firing. > > I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run the script > manually, it runs. (...) Here is a good colle

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 04:00:46 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/3/2012 1:27 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > mdraid is quite tolerant with drive errors before it finally kicks them > offline. Using the firmware RAID on this LSI card, any drive showing > flaky behavior will be kicked very quickly from

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2012-05-06 00:10, Richard Owlett skrev: Why a "learning experience"? 'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/ NOW, when system boots I have 2 choices - Debian and Debian in recovery mode. b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot Windows

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:15:22 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> Just a note of caution here. >>> >>> RAID 5 with big hard disks can be a real pain and a real problem. If >>> one of the arrays go down, the rebuilding operation can take up to >>> "days" (depending on the controller's capacity) and if whi

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 08:30 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: b. Can I do anything at this point to allow choice to boot Windows? The menu is in /boot/grub/grub.cfg (GRUB 2) or /boot/grub/menu.lst (GRUB Legacy). You don't need to know what Windows you have installed, since it

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 13:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into > > a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I >

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 11:46:21 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:15:22 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> On the other hand it isn't possible to have different disk sizes in a >>> raid 6 neither. >> >> I think yes, that you can, but only the lowest of the disk capacities >> will be used (

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:10:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Why a "learning experience"? 'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/ That did not sound reassuring :-( Why? Although the trigger for moving to Linux was annoyance with Gates & Co., my methodology is *

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:18:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 11:46:21 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:15:22 +, Camaleón wrote: > On the other hand it isn't possible to have different disk sizes in a raid 6 neither. >>> >>> I think yes, that you c

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 07:26:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:10:14 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Why a "learning experience"? >>> 'Cause when I've finished recovering, I'll know more ;/ >> >> That did not sound reassuring :-( > > Why? Although the tr

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:11:58PM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 13:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives in

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:35:40 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:18:33 +, Camaleón wrote: >> If your hard disk capacity is ~1.5 TiB then you can get 3 partitions >> from there of ~500 GiB of size (e.g., sda1, sda2 and sda3). For a >> second disk, the same (e.g., sdb1, sdb2 and

Re: MySQL seems to be running too slow; LONG

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 05 May 2012 13:26:33 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I got this output from mysqltuner: > Any advice is appreciated: The main issues is that this db server > handles a Mediawiki database and when I upload files it takes way to > long to do its job likewise when serving up the data to produc

Re: Weird warning from console-kit-daemon

2012-05-06 Thread Sébastien Kalt
Hi Camaleón, Thank you for your answer, but I still think physical hard drive space is not the problem. Anyway, as you asked, I freed some space : $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs

Re: AMD 990X on kernels 3.x

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:48:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (...) (your posts still come with broken "References" and "In-Reply-To" fields. > I don't understand why everybody prefers to use the latest, newest, > flashiest, fishiest crap, when still working software is available. Because that new "c

Re: How Does One Re-run write_cd_rules Solved

2012-05-06 Thread Martin McCormick
=?iso-8859-1?q?Camale=F3n?= writes: > On Sat, 05 May 2012 22:00:18 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > This system started out as lenny in 2009 and I just upgraded to squeeze. > > Most of the system is fine but I have lost both CDROM's which used to be > > /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1. > > Wh

Re: Weird warning from console-kit-daemon

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 16:14:53 +0200, Sébastien Kalt wrote: > Hi Camaleón, Hi... I almost had forgotten this thread. > Thank you for your answer, but I still think physical hard drive space > is not the problem. > > Anyway, as you asked, I freed some space : > > $ df -h > Filesystem

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:40 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > Using Grub Legacy is attractive. >How complex would the change be? Remove GRUB 2 and install GRUB Legacy. That's it. >In the future would an "update" or "upgrade" try to move > me back to GRUB2? I don't think so. > I know th

OT: Broken digest - was another thread

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 16:32 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:48:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > (...) > > (your posts still come with broken "References" and "In-Reply-To" fields. I copy the subject and add the mailing list address. I can't edit the header and the admin

Re: OT: Broken digest - was another thread

2012-05-06 Thread Indulekha
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:41:31PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 16:32 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > > On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:48:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > (...) > > > > (your posts still come with broken "References" and "In-Reply-To" fields. > > I copy the s

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:47:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:35:40 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:18:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> If your hard disk capacity is ~1.5 TiB then you can get 3 partitions >>> from there of ~500 GiB of size (e.g., sda1, sda2 an

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 May 2012 at 07:05:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> If you use GRUB 2, more likely for a default Debian install ;), than >> perhaps running "update-grub" with root privileges might add Windows >> automatically to grub.cfg. If not, I would recommend to switch to

Mounting USB devices (was : How Does One Re-run write_cd_rules Solved)

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 09:25:39 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: (...) Nice to see you finally sorted the CD-R problem. > I still need to fix an entry in fstab to mount a FAT32 > usb stick on a mount point called /flash. Since there are several > possibilities of usb devices that will be plugge

Re: OT: Broken digest - was another thread

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 16:41:31 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 16:32 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: >> On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:48:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> (your posts still come with broken "References" and "In-Reply-To" >> fields. > > I copy the subject

Re: Mounting USB devices (was : How Does One Re-run write_cd_rules Solved)

2012-05-06 Thread Indulekha
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:54:42PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 09:25:39 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > (...) > > Nice to see you finally sorted the CD-R problem. > > > I still need to fix an entry in fstab to mount a FAT32 > > usb stick on a mount point called /flash. Si

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-05-06 14:26, Richard Owlett skrev: Version 6.0.4 Without double checking I believe that's "Squeeze". That caused me to notice that there was no intuitively obvious way to determine what version is running. I had to look at the file name of the iso file. I would look at the file /etc/debia

Re: Unidentified subject!

2012-05-06 Thread David Baron
Note that this posting has a normal subject, i.e. "Re: Unidentified subject!" If it does not appear thus, then the problem is somewhere in lists.debian.org. Almost all, but not all, messages recently have subject like Unidentified subject! [ ] in the topics list and Unidentified subect! ()

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 14:52:19 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:47:59 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> Then I put the 28 partitions (4x3 + 4x4) in a raid 6? >> >> Then you can pair/mix the partitions as you prefer (when using mdadm/ >> linux raid, I mean). The "layout" (number of disks

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:40 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > > Using Grub Legacy is attractive. > >How complex would the change be? > > Remove GRUB 2 and install GRUB Legacy. That's it. > > >In the future would an "update" o

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/05/12 12:01 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:36:05PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 15:40 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: Using Grub Legacy is attractive. How complex would the change be? Remove GRUB 2 and install GRUB Legacy. That's it.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2012-05-06 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 06.05.2012 18:26, David Baron kirjoitti: > Note that this posting has a normal subject, i.e. "Re: > Unidentified subject!" > > > > If it does not appear thus, then the problem is somewhere in > lists.debian.org. Almost all, but not all, messages re

Re: OT: Broken digest - was another thread

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 18:10 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:41:31PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 16:32 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > > > On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:48:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > (...) > > > > > > (your posts still

Re: Weird warning from console-kit-daemon

2012-05-06 Thread Sébastien Kalt
2012/5/6 Camaleón On Sun, 06 May 2012 16:14:53 +0200, Sébastien Kalt wrote: > > > Hi Camaleón, > > Hi... I almost had forgotten this thread. > Sorry, but I have a 50 Go virtual machine that I need for work, so I had to wait for some time off. > Okay, we can safely discard a space issue. > > Le

Edgeport8 usb-RS-232 Converter Firmware Squeeze

2012-05-06 Thread Martin McCormick
So far, I have yet to get the magic firmware to make this device turn from the warm brick it became after the squeeze upgrade to a functioning device that presently controlls (used to control) several radio scanners and an X10 controller. Good thing I waited until warm weather as we use this in Win

Re: Weird warning from console-kit-daemon

2012-05-06 Thread Sébastien Kalt
2012/5/6 Sébastien Kalt > > Is it possible, after boot, to see which options where given to grub ? > Hum, sorry, in the first lines of dmesg : Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-2-amd64 root=UUID=d30adeed-998c-4f8b-b25c-185113da1cda ro quiet Sebastien

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 14:52:19 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:47:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > Then I put the 28 partitions (4x3 + 4x4) in a raid 6? >>> >>> Then you can pair/mix the partitions as you prefer (when usi

Re: Weird warning from console-kit-daemon

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 19:29:45 +0200, Sébastien Kalt wrote: Sébastien, please, avoid using html formatted messages. > 2012/5/6 Camaleón >> Hi... I almost had forgotten this thread. >> > Sorry, but I have a 50 Go virtual machine that I need for work, so I had > to wait for some time off. It's oka

Re: cron job not executing

2012-05-06 Thread Martin McCormick
=?iso-8859-1?q?Camale=F3n?= writes: > Here is a good collection of the common reasons why a cron job does not > engage: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/reasons-why-crontab-does-not-work One thing you can do is to set an "at" job to run your script once. Go to the directory you wa

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #758 (Unidentified subject!s)

2012-05-06 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 06 May 2012 20:30:27 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Note that this posting has a normal subject, i.e. "Re: > > Unidentified subject!" > > > > > > > > If it does not appear thus, then the problem is somewhere in > > lists.debian.org. Almost all, but not all, mes

Re: netinst.iso - a "learning experience"- Part 1 grub

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 19:32 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > Unfortunately it doesn't always work properly on Squeeze. update-grub never worked for my needs, on all distros I use(d) but to be fair, it's easy to edit grub.cfg manually too. I used grub 2 a long time myself, some time ago I switched

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 May 2012 17:44:54 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:50 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Okay. And how much space are you planning to handle? Do you prefer a >> big pool to store data or you prefer using small chunks? And what about >> the future? Have you tought about expa

Re: Edgeport8 usb-RS-232 Converter Firmware Squeeze

2012-05-06 Thread computer.enthusiastic
Hi, It looks like the requested firmware is not available in debian squeeze [0] even if debian wiki states otherwise [1]. However, it is still distributed in the upstream kernel release [2]. Therefore, you can get the firmware files from [2]; then, you have to convert firmware files from ASCII to

KMail and sending plain text (was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #758 (Unidentified subject!s))

2012-05-06 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 06.05.2012 20:54, David Baron kirjoitti: > I do not how to prevent the html being sent but it seems different > mailers handle it differently. Sorry for any unintended > inconvenience. > I googled and found this page http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.p

Splitting digest into separate mails (was OT: Broken digest)

2012-05-06 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > The admin will not "repeair the digest", this as been going on > > for like a decade -- please subscribe the normal way if you care > > about > > not breaking threading, this problem will not be going away. > > It's broken since some days. I guess you're referring to another issue, > that ca

Re: Edgeport8 usb-RS-232 Converter Firmware Squeeze

2012-05-06 Thread Martin McCormick
"computer.enthusiastic" writes: > It looks like the requested firmware is not available in debian > squeeze [0] even if debian wiki states otherwise [1]. > > However, it is still distributed in the upstream kernel release [2]. > Therefore, you can get the firmware files from [2]; then, you have to

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 18:10:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 17:44:54 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Okay. And how much space are you planning to handle? Do you prefer a >>> big pool to store data or you prefer using small ch

Packaging Gimp 2.8

2012-05-06 Thread Riley Paxton
So will Gimp 2.8 at least be packaged for Debian GNU/Linux Sid and Testing (x86 and x86-64)? I suppose I could do these targets it if I had time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Packaging Gimp 2.8

2012-05-06 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 06.05.2012 22:39, Riley Paxton kirjoitti: > So will Gimp 2.8 at least be packaged for Debian GNU/Linux Sid and > Testing (x86 and x86-64)? > > I suppose I could do these targets it if I had time. > > There is bug report about this at Debian bug tr

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-06 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 04.05.2012 10:57, Indulekha kirjoitti: > On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:36:10AM +, Howard Eisenberger > wrote: >> On 2012-04-30, Indulekha wrote: >> >>> Can you actually post via usenet, and if so, how? I tried that >>> a few times, but my posts neve

Re: Edgeport8 usb-RS-232 Converter Firmware Squeeze

2012-05-06 Thread computer.enthusiastic
There are other possible solutions. One solution is to install the linux-firmware package from the ubuntu repository (note that thereafter you can't anymore install the firmware packages from debian repositories due to conflicts). For example, you could type the following commands as the root use

Re: cron job not executing

2012-05-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:07:08AM +0300, Adrian Fita wrote: > On 06/05/12 01:26, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > I've got a little cron job, > > just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) > > and it's not firing. > > [...] > > > Probably something really obvious I'm overlooking, bu

Re: cron job not executing

2012-05-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 11:24:44AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2012 18:26:30 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > > I've got a little cron job, > > just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's > > not firing. > > > > I have other jobs on the same crontab that do.

backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-06 Thread Sharon Kimble
Yesterday I installed the backported version of libreoffice which is working reasonably well, except for writer not having the autospellcheck enabled. Does anyone know of a workround for this that will enable spellchecking to be done as i type please? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://w

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up: XFS info

2012-05-06 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, May 06, 2012 05:19:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 04 mai 12, 15:08:57, Chris Knadle wrote: ... > > Speed is generally what XFS is good at, *except* when it comes to > > deletion of a large number of files -- that's where it's slow. > > On advise of a list subscriber I have added the

Hebrew

2012-05-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List -. How do I get Hebrew type both on the screen and on the keyboard? Thanks. Ethan -- 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/0m3m003yyhg9m...@mta5.

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote the following on 05/01/2012 06:20 PM: Greetings; I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; -? ? ? ? ? ? Inbox.msf I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I have thought of to get rid of it or write over it. Any ideas how I ca

Re: Hebrew

2012-05-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/05/12 06:36 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List -. How do I get Hebrew type both on the screen and on the keyboard? Thanks. Ethan Set both the locale and keyboard type. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Splitting digest into separate mails (was OT: Broken digest)

2012-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 01:58 +0200, an unknown sender wrote: > > > The admin will not "repeair the digest", this as been going on > > > for like a decade -- please subscribe the normal way if you care > > > about > > > not breaking threading, this problem will not be going away. > > > > It's brok

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 20:33 -0400, Tom H wrote: [...] > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538118 > > I don't think that this bug corresponds to your problem because you're > bind-mounting "/dev". > > Does grub-probe work inside the chroot? > > grub-probe --target=abstrac

Re: Packaging Gimp 2.8

2012-05-06 Thread Riley Paxton
On 5/6/12, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 06.05.2012 22:39, Riley Paxton kirjoitti: >> So will Gimp 2.8 at least be packaged for Debian GNU/Linux Sid and >> Testing (x86 and x86-64)? >> >> I suppose I could do these targets it if I had time. >> >> > >

Re: Edgeport8 usb-RS-232 Converter Firmware Squeeze

2012-05-06 Thread Martin McCormick
"computer.enthusiastic" writes: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=tree;f=firmware/edgeport;h=4f9edc29bc637fed68314a3141595c99eab26a36;hb=HEAD > Oh boy. another download tool. I use the command line on this system. Which jit do I need or is there any oth

Re: Hebrew

2012-05-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 08:15 PM 5/6/2012, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/05/12 06:36 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List -. How do I get Hebrew type both on the screen and on the keyboard? Thanks. Ethan Set both the locale and keyboard type. Gary - Thanks. How? Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 22:30 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: [...] > > > > > Unfortunately the Debian installer (daily build for wheezy) is unable to > > > > create multi-device btrfs volumes. > > > > > > Yah.. but you probably can do this via shell screen. > > > > I don't think I'm able to do that from

Re: MySQL seems to be running too slow; LONG

2012-05-06 Thread John W. Foster
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 14:09 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2012 13:26:33 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > I got this output from mysqltuner: > > Any advice is appreciated: The main issues is that this db server > > handles a Mediawiki database and when I upload files it takes way to >

How to remove a PV from an LVM VG?

2012-05-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
I think that my old disk is dying and I want to get the data off of it before that happens. I just had the system drop out of X-windows and lock up completely. The screen was blank, except for three lines at the top: [120497,729655] nouveau :01:00.0: Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (o

Re: Hebrew

2012-05-06 Thread Mat Enders
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 08:15 PM 5/6/2012, Gary Dale wrote: >> >> On 06/05/12 06:36 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: >>> >>> Dear List -. >>> >>> How do I get Hebrew type both on the screen and on the keyboard? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Ethan >>> >>> >> Set both the loc

LightDM in Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204

2012-05-06 Thread Jason Hsu
Has anyone been able to get LightDM to work properly in the latest release of Linux Mint Debian Edition (201204)? I can replace the default MDM with LightDM with just apt-get commands. The problem comes when trying to boot up with LightDM. During the process of loading up LightDM, the screen

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused SOLVED)

2012-05-06 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 06 May 2012 11:30:02 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > If you did fine without one before it should work now as well. It is curious to be sure. But when I tried to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf 'after the dist-upgrade' when startx failed to start the nvidia driver, guess what vim declared it w

Re: LightDM in Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204

2012-05-06 Thread Indulekha
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 09:57:47PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > Has anyone been able to get LightDM to work properly in the latest release of > Linux Mint Debian Edition (201204)? I can replace the default MDM with > LightDM with just apt-get commands. > First: Linux Mint Debian Edition is *not* D

Re: LightDM in Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204

2012-05-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/05/12 12:57, Jason Hsu wrote: > Has anyone been able to get LightDM to work properly in the latest > release of Linux Mint Debian Edition (201204)? This is Debian *not* Mint. Do we post Linux Mint for assistance when Debian breaks or we're too lazy to ask in the right place? Try:- h

Questions about Netatalk running on Debian server

2012-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a long and troubled relation to Netatalk. I live in a family where everyone else loves the Mac, and I have a need to communicate with them. I once had netatalk running on Debian back in 2004, I think, but lost that ability about the time my daughter bought her first MacBook in 2006. I'm rev

Find the broken link

2012-05-06 Thread lina
Hi, I don't know how to find out all the broken links in the system. I can't enter into interface, One reason is my /var has no space, I have deleted some cache to release the space. I tried purge fglrx driver. It complains: Update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of altern