Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread john gennard
On 10/06/12 18:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 10 iun 12, 17:13:10, john gennard wrote: Any suggestions, but remember I'm getting towards the gaga stage, so in simple English please. Please (in this order): - make sure you have firmware-linux-nonfree installed 'firmware-linux-no

Re: Is there a way to use a custom background in terminal mode?

2012-06-11 Thread keith
There certainly was a program to do it via the framebuffer, I think it was called 'geecko' or 'geko', or something, but I can't seem to find any reference to it now, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 7, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Or alternatively, how can I enlarge the tmpfs? I need it enlarged from anout 200M to about 2G for this week's project. Yes, that's a lot bigger than my RAM. Increase your swap to 4GB -- even if you plan never to swap. The space will be

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 iun 12, 09:17:25, john gennard wrote: > 'firmware-linux-nonfree' was not installed. I have now done so, > but it does not seem to make any difference. Forgot to mention, but did you restart your computer after doing so? > >- attach the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > > Attached - but it i

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread john gennard
On 11/06/12 12:35, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 iun 12, 09:17:25, john gennard wrote: 'firmware-linux-nonfree' was not installed. I have now done so, but it does not seem to make any difference. Forgot to mention, but did you restart your computer after doing so? Yes, I did.

Re: [OT] HTML5 (was: Playing Videos)

2012-06-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 02:17 PM 6/10/2012, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:47:09 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 12:11 PM 6/10/2012, Camaleón wrote: >>Video tag is supported in the newer versions of the usual browsers >>(Firerox, Chrome, Opera...). It works well here (Firefox 13) :-) > Icewease

Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List - I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. Will you please help. My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 In that directory I have a file b.mp4. This file also is in /home/ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1 If I access b.mp4 in /var/www/Webpages2, [src="b.mp4"] the file is found.

Re: Recommend System requirements for Linux Debian

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:29:03 +0200, Marcin Sławiński wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 20:58 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:55:51 +0200, Marcin Sławiński wrote: >> >> > What exactly Linux Debian with gnome 3 has hardware requirements to >> > works just fine without 2 minutes boot t

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. > > Will you please help. > > My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 > > In that directory I have a file b.mp4. > > This file also is in /home/ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1 > > If I

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread rjc
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 03:15:06PM BST, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > If I access b.mp4 in /var/www/Webpages2, [src="b.mp4"] the file is found. > > It is not found using the full path [src=" > /home/ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1/b.mp4"] . > > Where is my error? Assuming that you can access any file on

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:03:11 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 05:04:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> There's a very detailed summary in this recent post: >> >> Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html > > Or

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Lars Noodén
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 03:15:06PM BST, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: [snip] > Where is my error? Assuming you are running Apache2, to access files within part of your home directory one way is to enable the module mod_userdir: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_userdir.html Regards, /Lars --

Re: Recommend System requirements for Linux Debian

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:20 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:29:03 +0200, Marcin Sławiński wrote: > > [snip] I mean, most things (like > >> booting, menus, windows, effects) are very fast. > > > I got CPU 2.66Ghz (32 bit, one core, 64bit compatyble) and 752MB RAM > > (DDR333, singl

Re: Recommend System requirements for Linux Debian

2012-06-11 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-10, Marcin Sławiński wrote: > I got CPU 2.66Ghz (32 bit, one core, 64bit compatyble) and 752MB RAM > (DDR333, single channel). System boots up in two minutes. Even I don't > what I should services down to speed up. Even on duo2core with 4GB of > memory is not working too fast. 1 minute

Re: [OT] HTML5 (was: Playing Videos)

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:01:11 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 02:17 PM 6/10/2012, Camaleón wrote: >>With a MS video container file (.avi)? Use a different one and your life >>will be -by far- better. (...) > Dear Teacher - > > Problem Solved. > > Converted the files to mp4. :-[ Thank to th

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 iun 12, 14:42:24, john gennard wrote: > > root@debian:/# dmesg | grep -i '\(firmware\|radeon\|kms\)' > [5.415560] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. > [5.415665] radeon :01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) > -> IRQ 16 > [5.415669] radeon :01:00.0: setting

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #1263

2012-06-11 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 10.06.2012 18:20, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2012 17:56:58 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > wrote: >>> However, if you have any lingering scripts without any LSB headers, >>> you'll need to fix them up or remove them to allow dynamic boot >>> ordering to be enabled. Th

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-11 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 10.06.2012 19:44, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Joe Giglio, > > You are a jacka$$ to send me personal email @earthlink.net in reply to > my post on the Debian mailing list. > > Lose my eddress. Really. Don't email me again. > > Unrequested email is spam. I have not only /not/ requested to receiv

Re: Squeeze and bitmapped fonts - solved

2012-06-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
Yes, that solved it (I was missing the font cache part). Thank you very much, Joao On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:37:59 -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > > (...) > >> FATAL ERROR from X-windows: XFT available, but not working with PCF >> bitmap fonts. >> Plea

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > Dear List - > > > > I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. > > > > Will you please help. > > > > My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 > > > > In that directory I

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:15:06 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 > > In that directory I have a file b.mp4. > > This file also is in /home/ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1 > > If I access b.mp4 in /var/www/Webpages2, [src="b.mp4"] the file is > found. > > It i

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > > Dear List - > > > > > > I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. > > > > > > Will you please help. > >

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread john gennard
On 11/06/12 16:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 11 iun 12, 14:42:24, john gennard wrote: root@debian:/# dmesg | grep -i '\(firmware\|radeon\|kms\)' [5.415560] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [5.415665] radeon :01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [5.

Firewire IEEE 1394 cameras and Coriander.

2012-06-11 Thread peasthope
Does anyone use a firewire camera? Does anyone use Coriander? The Coriander manual has no mention of JuJu or udev and I wonder which of the instructions apply to my Debian Squeeze system. peter@joule:/dev$ uname -rv 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat May 5 01:33:08 UTC 2012 http://damien.douxchamps.net/i

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:36:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:44:12 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > >> On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: (...) > I wonder if the *Dingbats is the real problem here. If you had access to > the original document you can ensure the symbols that displ

webcam unusable after hibernate-ram

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Seyfert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd love to file a bugreport for the following problem, yet I have no idea for which package: After a normal boot I can use my webcam in skype/cheese/ ... if I then hibernate-ram and wake up the system again the webcam is not found anymore by eit

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Seyfert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:36:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:44:12 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: >> >>> On 10.06.2012 17:27, Camaleón wrote: (...) > > Okay, I finally figured out what was the pr

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote: 2012/6/7 Hendrik Boom: I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses the the space on the root partition, which has more than room enough. But then I discov

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 19:06:35 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: > > > > Okay, I finally figured out what was the problem: it's not the > > ZapfDingbats font but Symbol that makes a difference. > > > > When I add this chunk of text into my "~/.fonts.conf" file, t

Re: unstable web browsers

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 17:05 +0100, john gennard wrote: > On 11/06/12 16:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Hmm, I would have expected at least a mention of loading the firmware. > > Could you please upload your dmesg to paste.debian.net? > > > > > Not sure what you want me to do, I'm attaching

configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-11 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Hi! I'm running fully up-to-date Debian testing system (AMD64) with Xfce and Wicd on a system that I take from network to network during the day. I use a fixed IP address at some locations and DHCP assignment at others. Until the recent update (a couple of weeks ago) of netscript which removed if

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Jerome Flesch
2012/6/11 Roman V.Leon. : > On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote: >> >> 2012/6/7 Hendrik Boom: >>> >>> I need more space for /tmp.  I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp >>> entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses >>> the the space on the root partition, whi

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:06:35 +0200, Paul Seyfert wrote: > On 11.06.2012 18:45, Camaleón wrote: >> Okay, I finally figured out what was the problem: it's not the >> ZapfDingbats font but Symbol that makes a difference. >> >> When I add this chunk of text into my "~/.fonts.conf" file, the PDF is >

Garbled X-Forwarding Over SSH

2012-06-11 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Hi! This is an old issue I have been seeing for years. I thought I'd ask about it, since I've finally got off my duff and asked another question a few minutes ago. In Debian testing with Xfce I notice that using $ ssh -XC u...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will result in the first graphical application I lau

Re: Linux Path

2012-06-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 12:00 PM 6/11/2012, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > > Dear List - > > > > > > I have a deficiency in my knowledge of

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 17:57:32 +, Camaleón wrote: > It seems to me that the Symbol font itself has some sort of problem: when > it is referenced (linked) it's badly rendered, when embedded is named > as SymbolMT... Mmm... As I have described I have no problem seeing the pdf as its maker int

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 11.06.2012 21:54, Jerome Flesch wrote: 2012/6/11 Roman V.Leon.: On 11.06.2012 09:34, Jerome Flesch wrote: 2012/6/7 Hendrik Boom: I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses the the space on

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 18:41:35 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 10.06.2012 19:44, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > > > Cybe R. Wizard > > Congratulations, you have found our "friend" joe1assistly whom is > spamming many users on this list by replying to random emails and > suggesting to top-post an

Re: Recommend System requirements for Linux Debian

2012-06-11 Thread Marcin Sławiński
Always two minutes with fsck check take it a few seconds longer. I can send logs but which one can be helpful? -- 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/1339443

What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very minimal command line oriented install. I've some un-baked [i.e. not even half b

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/12 03:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very minimal command line oriented insta

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 iun 12, 15:58:11, Gary Dale wrote: > > If you want a lean install, just install the basic system. Don't > choose any of the bits that give extra services or even a desktop. Not even 'Standard', it will pull in a mail server (among other things). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discus

Re: Firewire IEEE 1394 cameras and Coriander.

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:40:00 -0700, peasthope wrote: > Does anyone use a firewire camera? Does anyone use Coriander? > > The Coriander manual has no mention of JuJu or udev and I wonder which > of the instructions apply to my Debian Squeeze system. (...) We already discused this time ago (yup,

Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-11 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:51:50 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 18:41:35 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > On 10.06.2012 19:44, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > > > > > Cybe R. Wizard > > > > Congratulations, you have found our "friend" joe1assistly whom is > > spamming many users on this

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:17:27PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Err yup, looks like Marty Feldman, although now deceased, could make a >> comeback otherwise. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPAVm8Gl6M Hilarious. Marty's wall eyes are such an amazing site he doesn'

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Harry Putnam
"Christofer C. Bell" writes: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> "Christofer C. Bell" writes: >> >>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly incompetent klutz might be able to bl

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Harry Putnam
"Christofer C. Bell" writes: > I would suggest uncommenting the wheezy bits, commenting out the > squeeze buts (perhaps adding contrib and non-free at your option) and > running another apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and seeing what it > wants to do. It's likely to want to install a number of p

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:14:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 17:57:32 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> It seems to me that the Symbol font itself has some sort of problem: >> when it is referenced (linked) it's badly rendered, when embedded is >> named as SymbolMT... Mmm... > > As I have

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
Gary Dale wrote: On 11/06/12 03:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very minimal command line

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:38:08 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not > enough info ;/ In addition to a detailed list of the packages that contains, what more do you expect? :-) > What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a f

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/12 05:05 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Gary Dale wrote: On 11/06/12 03:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough info ;/ What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. I gather that what's on the

Re: What's in netinst iso?

2012-06-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.list gives too much and simultaneously not enough > info ;/ > > What I'm looking for would be more along the idea of a functional inventory. > I gather that what's on the CD is effectively a very minimal command l

unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, I just joined the list last evening. I have a very unusual install issue with debian, frankly wish there was someone local to Toronto to help, but perhaps I can get enough wisdom here to solve the problem. I will be as detailed as I can, feel free to ask though if you need to know more.

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 18:11 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > [snip] > Here is the situation. > I have a complete set of squeeze images in DVD, I do mean complete. > I have no network connection in the computer I am installing debian on, so > wish to install all of these images, so as not to need to

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Nulandorn
On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 11:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > The thing is that as you are using stable, the only updates you receive > are coming from the security repo and this usually does not make any > changes in the packages that can lead to your problem. > > Test with a new user to check if the sc

Re: fonts used by evince

2012-06-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 20:59:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:14:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> As I have described I have no problem seeing the pdf as its maker >> intended. > Neither I have it in wheezy but in lenny the two sample PDF files render > with the wrong character. In

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/12 06:11 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi all, I just joined the list last evening. I have a very unusual install issue with debian, frankly wish there was someone local to Toronto to help, but perhaps I can get enough wisdom here to solve the problem. I will be as detailed as I can, feel

Clarify your needs

2012-06-11 Thread Richard Owlett
I have deleted the body of your question and restated your subject line. Do you require a Debian install procedure compatible with text to speech? OR Do you require a Debian install procedure compatible with large print? For either case, do you have high speed internet access? -- To

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, which is why I wanted it. second, it took me a year to find anyone who could create these images for me. and I cannot burn the stable squeeze cd myself, no means as my main computer only has dialup. Agreed, had I not been

Re: Is there a way to use a custom background in terminal mode?

2012-06-11 Thread Greg Donoghue
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:35:08AM +0100, keith wrote: > There certainly was a program to do it via the framebuffer, I think it > was called 'geecko' or 'geko', or something, but I can't seem to find > any reference to it now, sorry. > Is this the package you're thinking of? Package: qingy Versio

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Karen :) if possible sent to the list only, don't CC instead and please switch from top to bottom post. On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 20:24 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, which > is why I wanted it. Do you want a special spee

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, > which is why I wanted it. > second, it took me a year to find anyone who could create these > images for me. and I cannot burn the stable squeeze cd myself,

Re: Clarify your needs

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
none of the above. I require the steps to switch install sources. i will post what I was told would work if that might help. If I were going to require anything it would be a human grounded in debian to come to my house, lol. I have no high speed, as I just stated in a different post. On M

Re: unique install question? [Clarify your needs]

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > For either case, do you have high speed internet access? The OP doesn't have any Internet access for the computer where Debian should be installed. - Ralf PS: Thread was and is "unique install question?" ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Nulandorn
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 10:01 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 11:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > > The thing is that as you are using stable, the only updates you receive > > are coming from the security repo and this usually does not make any > > changes in the packages that can l

the information I got, was unique install question? [Clarify your needs]

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
As I offered, here is a quotation from the Debian accessibility wiki. I might have cut it down a bit more, but you will see the information relating to how to start with wheezy and shift to squeeze. for the record, I ended up installing hardware speech, the field for software speech can be edit

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Reconsider that changing the subject in a way, we would do it for private mails, isn't helpful on a mailing list, since the context gets lost, because not everybody does follow the whole thread. I guess you'll get more response within the day, if you avoid subjects such as "the information I got,

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-11 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > But unless squeeze is free of the horrible and fast march of updates > one experiences on wheezy it may not be a goal after all. While squeeze has updates, they are generally few and far between. This is the intent of the stable release. S

Re: Clarify your needs

2012-06-11 Thread Go Linux
--- On Mon, 6/11/12, Karen Lewellen wrote: > From: Karen Lewellen > Subject: Re: Clarify your needs > To: "Richard Owlett" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 7:59 PM > none of the above. > I require the steps to switch install  sources.  i > will post what I was

Re: Clarify your needs

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
This is why changing the subject line serves to confuse as someone else noted. You are not seeing the entire thread where I point out that I cannot boot from DVD with this machine...which is part of why I got the testing image of wheezy. Kare On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Go Linux wrote: --- On Mon,

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Karen Lewellen
I agree on changing the subject line, especially since Richard also removed the on point question. As for avoiding the post containing the information I got regarding changing the boot priorities and installing squeeze instead of wheezy from the debian accessibility wiki, I hope no one avoids it

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:33:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:03:11 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Following with your allegory -and as I already explained- I'll be glad in > cooking but the resulting meal can be just inedible as I lack for the > proper recipes... Recipes c

Re: the information I got, was unique install question? [Clarify your needs]

2012-06-11 Thread ACro
Hello Karen > Images for squeeze with software speech can be downloaded from > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/espeakup/ but they don't seem > to be working any more due to kernel update in the official archive. > As a replacement, the testing images (i.e. Wheezy) can be downloaded > from htt