OT - PCI vs external sound cards for professional audio (was Re: What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?)

2012-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:25:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I use an M-Audio Delta 1010LT on Debian Squeeze. Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing! I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 which I use for some very amateur messing around. I occasionally hook an Alesis Micron up to it, both MIDI and the

Re: OT - PCI vs external sound cards for professional audio (was Re: What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?)

2012-11-13 Thread Joe
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:59:42 + Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:25:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I use an M-Audio Delta 1010LT on Debian Squeeze. > > Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing! > > I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 which I use for some very amateur > messing ar

PengPod, crowdfunded dual-booting Linux/Android tablet

2012-11-13 Thread Touko Korpela
PengPod look like interesting tablet. They seem to learned from Vivaldi and are more ready to ship actual devices. They also have PengStick mini computer. Fundraising/ordering campaign ends December 2. http://www.pengpod.com/ http://www.indiegogo.com/pengpod http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner wrote: > Thanks to both you and Neal for the replies. Interesting to see the > multiple ways of getting the same information. :-) They do different things and (for me anyway) give different results. Consider the package "cltl" that I do not have installed: $ apt-file search cl

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-13 Thread David Guntner
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/12/12 18:24, David Guntner wrote: >> Ok, try this just for grins. Edit your /etc/mtab file, and add the >> following line: >> >> /dev/ad6s1 /mnt/ad6s1 ext2fs ro 0 0 >> >> (I'm following your example from ad4s1; ordinarily with a Linux k

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:59:41AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > >> The documentation says >> >> - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a >>directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) >> >> which basically me

Knowledge based solution package?

2012-11-13 Thread Nelson Green
Good morning, Many years ago I worked as a support engineer for a large IT firm. We had a proprietary knowledge based system for maintaining a database of problems and solutions. It was a fairly simple system that allowed one to categorise the subsystem the problem applied to, a problem title, a

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

2012-11-13 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 21:57 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > Does your box have a serial port? No. USB and LAN ports. I investigated SOL, serial over LAN, and IPMI, but can't get access to it; apparently it ordinarily must be enabled on the target machine as a first step (if it's there at all, which

Re: Knowledge based solution package?

2012-11-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 13 Nov 2012, Nelson Green wrote: > Good morning, > > Many years ago I worked as a support engineer for a large IT firm. We had a > proprietary knowledge based system for maintaining a database of problems > and solutions. It was a fairly simple system that allowed one to > categorise th

openvswitch-(switch|brcompat|datapath-dkms| and bridge-utils

2012-11-13 Thread Daniele Sluijters
Hello everyone, I've been trying to solve this issue for the past day and for the life of me I can't figure out how. What I want to do is use OpenVSwitch with Debian. However, I'd still like to be able to use the traditional tools such as brctl provided by bridge-utils to manage the OpenVSwitch b

Bluetooth Connection refused...

2012-11-13 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, I was installed all packages which I need - blueman, bluemon, blueproximity, bluetooth, bluewho, bluez... almost all which I found in synaptic by bluetooth searchkey. I wish to browse my phone but always I tried it gives me the "Connection refused" error message. Some days before this error

Re: Bluetooth Connection refused...

2012-11-13 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
It solved by repairing the devices with pin codes 2012/11/13 Gábor Hársfalvi > Hi, > > I was installed all packages which I need - blueman, bluemon, > blueproximity, bluetooth, bluewho, bluez... almost all which I found in > synaptic by bluetooth searchkey. > > I wish to browse my phone but alw

The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-escript acroread-plugins ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-xulrunner lib32v4l-0 mozilla-acroread nspluginwrapper softmaker-office-2012 Now why would a 'dist-upgrade' want to do such a thing? Then there's this: 'apt-get -u upgrade' The following packages h

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-13 Thread berenger . morel
Packages installed as automatic, and removed because no-one depends on them, maybe? Le 13.11.2012 21:00, Charles Kroeger a écrit : acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-escript acroread-plugins ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-xulrunner lib32v4l-0 mozilla-acroread nspluginwrapper softmaker

Re: Is Wheezy going to be more stable than Squeeze?

2012-11-13 Thread Dr Beco
Hi Russell, I used Etch for a brief period of time, less than 2 months, and I disliked it very much. I changed to SuSE for a long time, and I did a lot of hard work on programming (kdevelop) and editoring (kile). After KDE4, that I disliked at the time, I tried UBUNTU for a brief period of time,

X can't find nvidia module

2012-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I installed the nvidia driver following: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Build_manually.2C_with_a_custom_kernel and using nvidia-kernel-source (304.48-1) with this: make-kpkg --revision 3.5.4 --append-to-version -nodeb-amd64 --added-modules nvidia-kernel \ --initrd kernel_im

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

2012-11-13 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:19:34 PM Ross Boylan wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 21:57 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > > Does your box have a serial port? > > No. USB and LAN ports. I investigated SOL, serial over LAN, and IPMI, > but can't get access to it; apparently it ordinarily must be enab

C Compiler

2012-11-13 Thread Samuel Morgan
Hi- I as sent to you to answer this question: " > Where do I get a C Compiler built for DEBIAN Squeeze so I can build other > packages? The page(s) GNU > sends me too either are no longer in service or charge fees. Can you help? Those kinds of questions are better asked on debian-user@lists.de

Re: C Compiler

2012-11-13 Thread Dr Beco
Hi Samuel, Try open a terminal window and type: #sudo apt-get install build-essential (without #). Good luck! Beco On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Samuel Morgan wrote: > Hi- > > I as sent to you to answer this question: > > " >> Where do I get a C Compiler built for DEBIAN Squeeze so I c

Re: C Compiler

2012-11-13 Thread Dr Beco
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Samuel Morgan wrote: >> Hi- [cut] >> >> Can you help? What is build-essential? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Dr Beco wrote: [cut] > #sudo apt-get install build-essential > > (without #). > > Good luck! > Beco Sorry guys, for the

Re: C Compiler

2012-11-13 Thread John Hasler
Samuel Morgan writes: > Where do I get a C Compiler built for DEBIAN Squeeze so I can build > other packages? As others have said, install the "build-essentials" package. It contains the GNU C compiler and other things you need to packages. First, though, tell us what it is that you want to build

Re: X can't find nvidia module

2012-11-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-13 15:51:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But when I startx, X can't find the nvidia module: > > ... > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) > ... > > Any suggestions as to what to do next? You probably need xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (as in addition to the N

Re: C Compiler

2012-11-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-13 18:22:17 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Samuel Morgan writes: > > Where do I get a C Compiler built for DEBIAN Squeeze so I can build > > other packages? > > As others have said, install the "build-essentials" package. It [...] build-essential (without an s). -- Vincent Lefèvre - W

Re: how do i disable auto-connect to wireless network on wheezy?

2012-11-13 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/11/12 Selim T. Erdogan : > > I'm assuming that you mean: in wheezy gnome-shell's wireless icon on the > tab doesn't give you the same setup options that squeeze's gnome 2 did. > > One possibility is to choose Gnome Classic mode when you log in to > gnome. This will give you something that loo

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:16:29 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I remember one issue that occurred very often, > in /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION the /build and /source links were > missing or bad. > ... > "build -> /usr/src/linux-3.6.5-rt14" but correct would be linked > against "linux-headers-3.

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:06:31 -0500 (EST), Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I found I misread references to 2.6.8. You raise an interesting point. Perhaps references to kernel-image vs. linux-image have outlived their usefulness by now. I will consider removing them in a future revision (and the re

Wheezy-beta3 kde install.

2012-11-13 Thread L V Gandhi
I downloaded wheezy beta3 kde cd and installed. But i got gnome desktop. How to install KDE and remove gnome safely. -- L V Gandhi

Re: Wheezy-beta3 kde install.

2012-11-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:04 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > I downloaded wheezy beta3 kde cd and installed. But i got gnome > desktop. How to install KDE and remove gnome safely. Simply install KDE with Synaptic, apt-get or what ever you like and then simply remove GNOME. "Simply" removing GNOME won't

Re: Wheezy-beta3 kde install.

2012-11-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:04 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > > I downloaded wheezy beta3 kde cd and installed. But i got gnome > > desktop. How to install KDE and remove gnome safely. > > Simply install KDE with Synaptic, apt-get or what ever you