Re: java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?

2012-07-15 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 06:23:58PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: Hi, > You can switch to OpenJDK, or remove your sun-java6 packages and install > the JRE from the Oracle-provided binaries. I would rephrase it a little bit to 'You _should_ switch to OpenJDK and the icedtea browser plugin'. If you c

Re: Unresponsive SDHC card

2012-07-15 Thread computer.enthusiastic
Hi, 2012/7/15 Guido Martínez : > I have a 16gb Kingston SDHC. But now with > my new installation the card is completely unresponsive, I can't use > fdisk, nor dd, nor cat on it. Also system shutdown will halt until I > remove the card from the reader. Please, specify debian version and kernel ve

Preventing APT from upgrading to wheezy/sid?

2012-07-15 Thread nyuszika7h
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm running a server with squeeze+backports, and yesterday I found out that I need Python 3.2 for an IRC bot. So I went ahead and added these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list: > deb http://http.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free >

Re: Preventing APT from upgrading to wheezy/sid?

2012-07-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello nyuszika7h, nice name, btw. nyuszika7h wrote: > This unfortunately does not work though. How could I prevent APT from > upgrading to wheezy/sid? Try something like APT::Default-Release "squeeze"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Best regards, Clau

t128_drv.so

2012-07-15 Thread ljmoore
On my B&W G4 I've had to remove the rage driver from /usr/lib/xorg/module/drivers or the machine freezes (both squeeze and wheezy,) *but* the file from wheezy works on squeeze and end-runs the freeze. Just a point of data. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:21:49 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi all, > anything that equals audio hijack pro which is a mac program, in debian? > I recall some posts about flash being outdated, but that may have nothing > to do with my question. I can't help you, but for best results, you

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-15 Thread Ivo Ugrina
On 07/12/2012 03:04 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: >> I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago >> and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. >> I can't suspend anymore. The card simply >> won't shut down. > Did you file a bug report for it? Nope :( I've solved it with d

Re: java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:54:09 +0100, dave selby wrote: > i am running Debian stable (squeeze) and have java installed > 6.26-osqueeze1 as a package. > > Firefox uses this package but when I asked it to check if plugins are up > to date it says nope, need version 7... Yes, the latest Oracle's Java

Re: t128_drv.so

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:34:17 -0400, ljmoore wrote: > On my B&W G4 I've had to remove the rage driver from > /usr/lib/xorg/module/drivers > or the machine freezes (both squeeze and wheezy,) *but* the file from > wheezy works on squeeze and end-runs the freeze. Just a point of data. > Thanks. Thank

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 09:17 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: On 07/12/2012 03:04 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. I can't suspend anymore. The card simply won't shut down. Did you file a bug report for it? N

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Reading from GRUB's legacy documentation¹, I see none listed. However, >> GRUB2 manual² does not even mention the possibility of installing GRUB2 >> into the first boot sector of a parti

How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
Hi, I bought a new Laptop a few days ago, it's an X220i, and I planned to install a amd64 system on it I dump a netinst iso(amd64) image to a flash disk by dd, boot and try to work with it, but I found it just cannot use. :( it's so easy to get crash after some trivial commands, such as 't

Re: No sound in headphone through jack - Thinkpad T510

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:09:55 -0400, Patrik Dufresne wrote: > package: alsa-base > Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-4 > > After a suspend / resume, there is not more sound coming out of the > headphone jack. (...) Have you tried to reload alsa ("alsa reload")? > > Step to reproduce: > 1. Start the laptop >

Re: What commands do I need to remove all vestiges of X + Bumblebee from my Squeeze installation?

2012-07-15 Thread aditya menon
Thanks, I'll try the Purge option. However, there is a slight difficulty because I don't know what packages X has installed... there are many xserver-xorg-* packages I can't track down - will it be okay if I do a regex remove (something like `aptitude purge xserver-*`, for example)? Also, Bumb

Re: What commands do I need to remove all vestiges of X + Bumblebee from my Squeeze installation?

2012-07-15 Thread aditya menon
Hi, Kindly disregard my previous message - I've done a reinstall of the OS, and I'm about to start a new thread for recommendations. Thanks... On Sunday, July 15, 2012 7:30:01 AM UTC+5:30, aditya menon wrote: > Hello! > > I have had to install and remove X multiple times using aptitude trying t

Re: What commands do I need to remove all vestiges of X + Bumblebee from my Squeeze installation?

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 10:00 AM, aditya menon wrote: Thanks, I'll try the Purge option. However, there is a slight difficulty because I don't know what packages X has installed... there are many xserver-xorg-* packages I can't track down - will it be okay if I do a regex remove (something like `aptitude

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:24:36 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: >I bought a new Laptop a few days ago, it's an X220i, and I planned > to install a amd64 system on it >I dump a netinst iso(amd64) image to a flash disk by dd, boot and > try to work with it, but I found it just cannot use. :( "Canno

Fwd: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
-- Forwarded message -- From: Benimaur Gao Date: Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:24 PM Subject: Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/ To: g...@dalefamily.org On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 15/07/12 10:24 AM, Benimaur Gao wrote: >> >> Hi, >>

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:24:36 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > >>I bought a new Laptop a few days ago, it's an X220i, and I planned >> to install a amd64 system on it >>I dump a netinst iso(amd64) image to a flash disk by dd, boot and >> try t

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > Thanks for the info and the links. You've misunderstood me. I didn't > say that Linux could boot without a bootloader. I said that I didn't > understand the purpose of the "Generic Boot Code" since other > distributions don't use it when i

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Slavko. You worte: > i am using the nvidia cards only. Some years. When i got to setup the > computers (notebooks) with ATI cards, i was always some (less or > bigger) problems. My actual computer has integrated ATI, but i am > using the external nvidia one. I can say abso

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:37:02 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> "Cannot use" means that you already installed a full system on your >> machine? > > No... sorry for my crappy English, I mean I can't use it to install > system. Okay, then how do you

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-15 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Reading from GRUB's legacy documentation¹, I see none listed. However, >>> GRUB2 manual² does not even mention the possibility of install

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 12:04 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Slavko. You worte: i am using the nvidia cards only. Some years. When i got to setup the computers (notebooks) with ATI cards, i was always some (less or bigger) problems. My actual computer has integrated ATI, but i am using the ex

Re: Fwd: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/07/12 11:24 AM, Benimaur Gao wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Benimaur Gao Date: Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:24 PM Subject: Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/ To: g...@dalefamily.org On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/07/12 10:2

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Benimaur, Benimaur Gao wrote: > OK. > 1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk & boot the machine with it. > 2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine > by "rsync -av /* --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,/mnt/*} If you simply want to copy your old system onto the new

Re: Unresponsive SDHC card

2012-07-15 Thread Guido Martínez
It's the most recent debian cd on the site. No previous upgrades. $ uname -a Linux mk-ii 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 (squeeze) Release:6.0.5 Coden

Re (3): xmonad and LXDE.

2012-07-15 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:57:03 -0600 > When doing things like that with the window manager I usually start a > terminal first. I like xterm. OK, xmonad ran and mod-p gave a dmenu as a list of commands in a ribbon across the top of the screen. The left and right arrow ke

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
Good evening, You wrote:... On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Celejar wrote: anything that equals audio hijack pro which is a mac program, in debian? I can't help you, but for best results, you need to explain what, exactly AHP is and does. There are probably many on the list who are familiar wit

Shutdown and suspend not working on laptop

2012-07-15 Thread DJ Amireh
I am having trouble with power management on my laptop. I cannot get suspend or shutdown to work, attempting either causes my laptop to have a black screen and not respond to any input and I am forced to manually shutdown by holding the power button. I am running Debian Squeeze with KDE. Shutting d

Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread Dan Serban
For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or minimizing/maximizing a window. Scrolling speed is horrendous as well. For the months tha

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen wrote: > Good evening, > You wrote:... > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Celejar wrote: > >> anything that equals audio hijack pro which is a mac program, in debian? > > I can't help you, but for best results, you need to explain what, > > exactly

Re(2): Backup system for use when Debian fails.

2012-07-15 Thread peasthope
* From: Camaleón * Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:52:11 + (UTC) > Well, that's what LiveCDs and USB sticks with a running system are aimed for, > ... Starting from functional cold hardware with a LiveCD or USB stick, approximately how much time is needed to put a reference document

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread hvw59601
Dan Serban wrote: For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or minimizing/maximizing a window. Scrolling speed is horrendous as well.

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-15 Thread Loic J. Duros
Thanks so much for your answer! On 07/14/2012 08:00 PM, Brian wrote: Use extlinux/syslinux by all means if you wish, but being able boot a USB stick on any computer is certainly possible. Great! I tried again! This time I specified /dev/sdb1/ to set grub, and now I can boot from the USB flashdr

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi again, You wrote: to cointheir expression, in three words, record any audio. If I have miss typed the ink let me know.> Still not sure what you're looking for; there are plenty of utilities / programs in Debian that can record audio, from arecord to audacity. What, exactly, are you trying t

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Joel Roth > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:40 PM > Subject: Re: Small xorg? > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:29:55PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited fe

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:09:34PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi again, > You wrote: > > > >>to cointheir expression, in three words, record any audio. > >>If I have miss typed the ink let me know.> > >Still not sure what you're looking for; there are plenty of utilities / > >programs in Debi

Re: Re(2): Backup system for use when Debian fails.

2012-07-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 05:38:33PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > * From: Camaleón > * Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:52:11 + (UTC) > > Well, that's what LiveCDs and USB sticks with a running system are aimed > > for, ... > > Starting from functional cold hardware with a LiveCD or

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/7/16 Karen Lewellen > Hi again, > > I am seeking to find one single program, as audio hijack pro is one single > program, that combines multiple recording functions...so I do not have to > hunt through many utilities. > I do know about audacity, nice to learn there is a copy in debian. > h

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:37:02 +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> "Cannot use" means that you already installed a full system on your >>> machine? >> >> No... sorry for my crappy English, I mean

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Gary. Thank You for Your time and answer. You worte: > I agree, although the Nouveau drivers are getting better. AMD/ATI has > the greater commitment to open source, which is another great reason > to use their cards. Wow! I did not know about the commitment - it is reall

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Benimaur Gao
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Benimaur, > > Benimaur Gao wrote: >> OK. >> 1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk & boot the machine with it. >> 2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine >> by "rsync -av /* --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

2012-07-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 iul 12, 21:55:51, Loic J. Duros wrote: > Thanks so much for your answer! > > On 07/14/2012 08:00 PM, Brian wrote: > >>Use extlinux/syslinux by all means if you wish, but being able boot a > >>USB stick on any computer is certainly possible. > Great! I tried again! This time I specified /

Re: What commands do I need to remove all vestiges of X + Bumblebee from my Squeeze installation?

2012-07-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 15 iul 12, 10:50:37, Gary Dale wrote: > You can try locating the Bumblebee files and removing them manually > (i.e. delete the files). This may require a couple of passes with > reboots in between. You may even want to boot into single-user > (rescue) mode or use a live CD to ensure that th

Re: Re (3): xmonad and LXDE.

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Landau
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:14 PM, wrote: > Incidentally, xmonad.man refers to the mod key but never mentions what > it is. + gave the dmenu. On a PC keyboard, mod appears to be Alt. > You can change the mod key. See: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Rebindin

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread Dan Serban
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:52:01 -0500 hvw59601 wrote: > Dan Serban wrote: > > The bug is reported here: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616308 > > > > Reading through that bug report, it seems that this has been an issue > > for some time, a patch is provided and I have