Re: XP-Debian dual boot with grub

2005-06-25 Thread Alan Ianson
> Does exist any problem installing Grub in the MBR of the disk? or Win > XP boot loader must be there in order to antivirus programs work fine? > Thanks in advance for any help It should work fine, it does here at least. I installed sarge here an a michine with Win/XP and grub was installed by d

Re: 8139too Module

2004-01-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:24:27AM -, Timothy Paling wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:36, Timothy Paling wrote: > Producing this listing shows that 8139too is not in the list. > > modprobe simple reports that it cannot find the module. > > How do I proceed further? I've located the source fo

dosemu

2004-02-18 Thread Alan Ianson
I installed dosemu with dselect, ftp'd and installed dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz and followed the instructions in readme.debian (at least I think I did) but when I run dosemu it says operating system not found, have a nice day! and I don't get the prompt back. Anyone know how I can get dosemu to run fr

Re: Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat March 10 2007 09:12, Dave Walker wrote: > I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would > like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So > far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share > directory. What is the best way to acc

Re: Sad...

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat March 10 2007 11:30, agentace wrote: > I installed debian on a PowerEdge 850 flawlessly in October of 2005 using a > Testing NetInst CD. It's sad that the SATA support for this machine has > since been removed, as I'm now attempting to install debian on another > machine which is exactly th

Re: Sad...

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat March 10 2007 12:56, Ben Humpert wrote: > Well, then the debian guys should fix this decades old sarge installer - OR > - merge it with the etch installer; it just takes some hours to do this. > sata is already established enough to support it. its a shame to direct > users to testing only

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue March 27 2007 19:05, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only > problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with > it, and that port doesn't include those environments. I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue March 27 2007 21:50, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail.. ;) > > Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64? Yes, even sarge-amd64 has kde and gnome and a few others. > > My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with > > module-assistant.

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu March 29 2007 06:55, Paul Walsh wrote: > Passed to me by a colleague: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506027.stm > > *grin* My laptop has had linux on it for a couple of years already. If Dell can deliver a laptop/desktop with compatible hardware this will be a good thing. I've

Re: Reporting a bug (was: fglrx driver problems)

2007-03-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu March 29 2007 10:08, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > I run Etch on machine with Nvidia nForce3 250 motherboard and Radeon > 9550 graphics card. DRI is not working neither with radeon, nor fglrx > driver. I tried several versions of fglrx driver and kernel, Debian and > vanilla. > > I think it's a

Re: Kernel Header Information

2007-06-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu June 28 2007 14:39, Nirmal Govindaraju wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new Linux user and I have the Debian distribution (2.6.18-4-686) > installed via the internet using a few floppy disks to perform the initial > boot up. I am now trying to install a VPN client on my computer and during > the inst

entering data into a pdf file

2007-06-30 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List! I need to enter data into a pdf file and print it. I can view the pdf using evince but I can't seem to enter any data into the fields. How can I do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: entering data into a pdf file

2007-06-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat June 30 2007 11:06:48 am Wackojacko wrote: > Andrew Gray wrote: > > Alan Ianson wrote: > >> Hello List! > >> > >> I need to enter data into a pdf file and print it. I can view the > >> pdf using evince but I can't seem to enter any data

Re: dsc.py: Automated warnings for Debian security updates

2007-07-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 1 2007 11:22:40 pm Adam Hupp wrote: > (Sorry if you see this twice, but I never saw the first copy come > through) > > Hello, > I'm announcing a program I've written for notifying the administrator > about necessary security updates on a Debian box. It's called Debian > Security Check

Re: Packages who requires restart computer

2007-07-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 2 2007 09:25:50 am Josep wrote: > Hello. > > I use etch and would like know what packages will require a full restart > of the computer, if there is any tool for do this automatically, and if > not, I will do an script for do this myself. The kernel. When the kernel is updated you need

Re: installing a font for VT

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 3 2007 05:41:44 am 2g wrote: > have started going CUI with Debian(stable) > in Slackware it gave me a chance to choose > sc.fnt.gz as my VT's font at the insallation process > i love this font so much so would love to have it in Debian too > > does somebody know what this font is called

Re: installing a font for VT

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 3 2007 07:30:08 am Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue July 3 2007 05:41:44 am 2g wrote: > > have started going CUI with Debian(stable) > > in Slackware it gave me a chance to choose > > sc.fnt.gz as my VT's font at the insallation process > > i love this font

Re: aptitude "initialising package status" takes _really_ long

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Ianson
> at the start of aptitude and after every action you have took, aptitude has > to initialise its package status. This is the same step as "loading cache". > Yesterday I have updated aptitude to . Since > then this step takes _really_ long. Lets say 40s. I am on sid. There is no > output it any lo

Re: Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 4 2007 01:28, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hi >Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I only had a quick look but I couldn't find any sarge install images. They must exist somewhere but I'm not sure where. >I > tried to install it with debootstrap

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 6 2007 07:19:20 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I ran Etch for about 6 months before it became stable since my new box > required it. I'm runing amd64. I've always considered myself a "stable" man, but it never seems to work out that way.. ;) > One of the main reasons for buying a n

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 6 2007 11:19:55 pm Jim McCloskey wrote: > Hello. > > I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia > graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia > kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all > worked fine. > > A few days la

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 07:54:21 am Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Check your locale settings. I think that starting with Etch, the > > default locale is set to a UTF8 locale. That means that every > > application has to treat everything as unicode. AIUI, that makes things > > slower. This is espci

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 05:00:06 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia > > graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia > > kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that a

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 6 2007 07:19:20 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee > future performance, but what has the experience been like for > non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that > Lenny is ready for a desktop

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 08:02:35 pm David Fox wrote: > > In a nutshell you need to get the installer from the nvidia website and > > copy > > nvidia_drv.so into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. But I get this from the > > Xorg.0.log: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 09:18:53 pm David Fox wrote: > Subject line pretty much describes the situation. I've even purged and > reinstalled amarok, but this still > brings up an error when I try to play an mp3 file. It should just play. It could be sound is muted in your mixer settings. I always use a

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 8 2007 11:59, Zach wrote: > On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Zach, > > Krusader? Dolphin? gnome midnight commander (really mean and lean)? > > Cheers, > > Krusader sounds like KDE app, I run GNOME and eschew KDE apps since > they tend to be bloated and require

Openoffice.org spell checking

2007-07-08 Thread Alan Ianson
I can't seem to get spell checking working in Openoffice. It used to work in sarge's ooo 1.3 (I think). Looking through aptitude I only see a few foreign languages under hunspell so I don't think that will work for me. How can I get English (Canada) or (USA) working with Ooo 2+? -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Openoffice.org spell checking

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 9 2007 07:11, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > I can't seem to get spell checking working in Openoffice. It used to > > work in sarge's ooo 1.3 (I think). Looking through aptitude I only > > see a few foreign languages under hunspell so I

Re: aptitude hanging

2007-07-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 9 2007 07:54, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Several people have reported that their problems go away if they > remove libc6-i686. I don't know why this should be, but I'd be > interested to know if you see the same behavior. It worked in my case. I ran aptitude and removed libc6-i686 and

Re: Building fglrx on Lenny

2007-07-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 11 2007 04:32, koffiejunkie wrote: > I just noticed that kernel 2.6.21 is available in Lenny. Finally - my > CPU fan will work correctly! > > So I have one problem, building the fglrx module fails with this message: > > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST 1 modules > FATAL: modpo

Re: lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

2007-07-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 11 2007 20:57, David Fox wrote: > > It is worth a try; if that doesn't work then you can also try to run the > > nvidia installer script again. When I was still using the nvidia > > installer I had to run it again whenever xserver-xorg-core was upgraded. > > I finally got around to tryi

Re: What Can I Play With an Radeon X1300 All in Wonder PCIe 256Megs GDDR3

2007-07-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu July 12 2007 10:10, Orestes leal wrote: > Hi, Folks, > > Mi Question it's, With this card and the fglrx driver to the latest update, > and 512 megs of ram Can I I play Doom3, or similars in ETCH? I assume yes. My desktop has an nvidia card I can play doom and the like. I have an ati card i

Re: Pseudo terminals missing

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 14 2007 11:04, Saul Mena Avila wrote: > Hi. I've been running Debian etch for 1 month or so and I noticed yesterday > that when pressing CTRL + ALT + F1-F6, there aren't the usual > psuedoterminals. > I don't get error messages but Is this normal? No, those terminals should (I'm sure t

Re: how to shift from stable to testing

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 14 2007 12:17, Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu wrote: > hello > Now i am using Debian Etch and I am interested in going to testing. > What should I do? Does adding the testing repo in sources.list and > updating will work? Yes, change your stable/etch lines in /etc/sources.list to testing

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 14 2007 18:36, Max Hyre wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache. > > Also look at /var/archives. /var/cache/archives? > Since I moved from etch to unstable, > something's been putting (multi-hundred)-megabyte files there each da

Re: Is the Debian-user server slow or ... ?

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 02:22, andy wrote: > Hi all > > Just a little puzzled: I sent off two posts last night ~21h00 BST and so > far (~10h20) have not seen them appear on the list, although someone has > replied to one of them, so they must be getting through. > > Is the server a little slow or is it

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 04:38, koffiejunkie wrote: > Hi guys, > > I noticed that even though 2.6.21 is now in the Lenny repos, the install > CD (well, 13 July, at least) still runs 2.6.18. > > Is there any way to check, before downloading, what version of the > kernel the install CD runs? What install

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 07:53, koffiejunkie wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun July 15 2007 04:38, koffiejunkie wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I noticed that even though 2.6.21 is now in the Lenny repos, the install > >> CD (well, 13 July, at least) sti

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 07:53, koffiejunkie wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun July 15 2007 04:38, koffiejunkie wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I noticed that even though 2.6.21 is now in the Lenny repos, the install > >> CD (well, 13 July, at least) sti

Re: Is the Debian-user server slow or ... ?

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 13:31, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Email isn't always synchronous and is rarely instant; it's possible that > > replies get delivered before the original message. > > I run mailing lists myself and over the past few decade

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 14:10, koffiejunkie wrote: > I'm not really concerned with which kernel the installer installs. I > need the install CD itself to run the 2.6.21 kernel. > > I just tried today's (15 July) businesscard ISO, booted of it with the > following command: > > expertgui vga=0x342 I w

Re: wodim records at 4x with a 32x capable recorder

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 03:18, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > No matter if I run it as root or as normal user, and no matter which > speed parameter I set to wodim, when recording a CD-RW it is always > defaulting to 4x, even altough my recorder reports being able to do > CD-RW at 32x. I always get

Re: nfs client does not mount server-shares automatically on boot

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 08:38, randhir phagura wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian; using etch. > > I have installed nfs on server and clients. It is functional manually but > does not mount the shares automatically from /etc/fstab. > > I have modified /etc/init.d/mountall.sh to mount nfs by changing t

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 > > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 > > > > Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this

Re: ETCH iso-with security updates

2007-07-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 18 2007 06:54, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >From where can I get latest etch ISO image with latest security updates? I haven't seen any updates to the etch iso's yet. They are updated periodically, maybe once or twice a year. It's only been three months since etch was released so I think the

Re: Aptitude losing "focus"

2007-07-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 18 2007 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps > losing the keyboard. As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the > terminal from which it was started. One suggestion was to remove > libc6-i686.

Re: Filling /var

2007-07-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 21 2007 12:16, John K Masters wrote: > Just had a bit of a wake-up call. Am running SID on my laptop and > getting several updates per day. Today after updating the update process > did not end properly as the /var partition had filled to 100%. In fact > this totally stuffed my whole se

Re: Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

2007-07-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 22 2007 11:37, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I just installed Debian 4.0, on an AMD64 computer that has a SATA hard > drive, from the multi-architecture DVD. I used "expert" at the first > prompt, since "amd64-expert" was giving errors. I chose the 2.6-amd64 > kernel during installation.

Re: Network Interfaces

2007-07-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 22 2007 14:10, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > What concept am I missing? > > If I have my laptop connected to the computer through an ethernet, if I > switch it to a USB port, how do I have the OS pick it up? It seems that I > have to have the computer installed with whate

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 27 2007 03:07, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent > *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried > qtorrent, but it is so minimal that I don't like it... When I need a torrent app I have always

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 12:15, andy wrote: > Dear all > > Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to > use for a desktop machine. The font package I have right now seems to > really screw with the legibility of Xmms and even Iceweasel. I'd like to > make use of fonts that are

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: > > Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts > > package to use for a desktop machine. > > I have only installed one font package and have no experience > with any others. > > msttcorefonts > > I

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > >> On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: > >>> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts > >>> package to use for a desktop ma

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 14:38, David Fox wrote: > I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers > (the non-free ones) the "debian" way. > > There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my > particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I jus

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 14:38, David Fox wrote: > I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers > (the non-free ones) the "debian" way. > > There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my > particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I jus

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 16:35, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-07-28 15:10:31 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I might suggest that you install the 2.6.22 kernel from unstable. I > > had problems building the kernel module for k7 because of a GPL-only > > export that isn't an

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 15:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Difficulty with nvidia is the main reason that I'm sticking with Etch. Are you running an amd64 there? I have had no trouble on the amd64 with the nvidia drivers. There a couple issues that I know of for the i386 but amd64 has been painles

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 16:18, andy wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote: > >> Alan Ianson wrote: > >>> On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > >>>> On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: > >>>>

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 17:29, 2g wrote: > at their site > only > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main > is recommended for unstable > even though they have > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main > and > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main > maybe i should just try bu

Re: Disable gnome-power-manager?

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 29 2007 06:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Am I the only one who finds the gnome-power-manager to be > fundamentally flawed? A power daemon needs intrinsically to be > system-global and not specific to a particular login session. > This becomes obvious when there are several logins active

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2007-29-07 at 12:20 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 7/29/07, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:20:59 +0200 > > Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Florian, > > > > > pdftk can be used to fill in PDF forms. It can generate an FDF file > >

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 29 2007 13:14, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form > > > filling. > > > > That is such good news.. exactly what I have be

Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2007-29-07 at 15:12 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 07/29/2007 02:20 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. > > > > Can anyone point me to example of PDFs that have fillable forms? I just > want to play with the various f

Re: etch installation probs (CD?)

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 30 2007 07:10, michael wrote: > Folks, I've a new machine with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. When trying > to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially > recognises the CD and starts the installation but fails at the screen > where the CD drive is to be recognised (for

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 30 2007 13:40, andy wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > >> Alan Ianson wrote: > >> > >> > > > > If you type env in a term what is lang= set to? You can adjust that > > setting by running "dpkg-reconfigure locales". > > >

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 30 2007 19:27, David Fox wrote: > Alan Lanson wrote: > > module-assistant prepare or m-a prepare > module-assistant auto-install nvidia or m-a a-i nvidia > > > OK I tried that, it fails with the message that there's no > nvidia-kernel-source available. You will need to have non-free (a

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 30 2007 22:00, David Fox wrote: > On 7/30/07, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You will need to have non-free (and probably contrib) along with main in > > your > > main debian archive lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. > > I already checked that

Re: Part 2: Got both problems fixed

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 30 2007 22:06, Brad B wrote: > Here's the log file from the nVidia installer. It might be easier to > understand my problem if you see this. > > I've already installed the libc package from debian.org, and it worked > fine. So no problem there. But the installer isn't picking it up? Ha

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 31 2007 18:17, David Fox wrote: > Looking at a debian ftp site that I use (#1 listing in my sources.list) I > see: > > > debian/pool/non-free/n > ls -l nvi* > drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jul 7 08:35 nvidia-graphics-drivers > drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Dec 7 2006 nvidia-graphics-driver

Re: Blurry fonts in OpenOffice and qt4 appliations

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri August 3 2007 12:48, Vasil Benov wrote: > Hi all, > > The fonts in OpenOffice and qt4(skype 1.4 beta) applications are blurry. > Has anyone encountered the same problem? > There is a thread on the Ubuntu mailing list, but it does not offer any > solution. I noticed that too a while ago, one

Re: Blurry fonts in OpenOffice and qt4 appliations

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri August 3 2007 21:50, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:15:39PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Fri August 3 2007 12:48, Vasil Benov wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The fonts in OpenOffice and qt4(skype 1.4 beta) applications are >

Re: multimedia CD?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 09:07, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I've installed Debian Etch on an old laptop using CDs -- it does > not have high speed internet access. I then, on a separate computer, > downloaded Christian Marillat's multimedia files, maintaining the > directory structure, and the

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 06:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The other (an AMD64) crashes shortly after X starts. Often within a > minute. If I avoid mouse movement and just use text consoles within X I > can get it to survive a few minutes; once even for an hour. If I > ctl-alt-F1 immediately aft

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 12:23, anonymous wrote: > I still have not received a definitive reply to my question as yet. > Which, to repeat was: > > " I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15 regular and 3 > for the update. > I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or

Re: Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 13:54, David Moerike wrote: > What is to do when I want to run Debian 4.0 on the new Apple Macintosh > machines with Intel processors, especially the Xserve Server machine? > Does Debian for PowerPC work, or Debian for i386, or none? That's an interesting question, I bet i3

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 14:50, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > On 11/12/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I > > can log into the site but web pages don't seem to lo

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 19:16, Stephen Yorke wrote: > All I run is Etch at home right now...guess I should'a mentioned > that...sorry. from what I have read it looks like the problem only exists with 2.6 kernel's for some reason. Are you running a 2.4 kernel there by chance? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 17:05, cothrige wrote: > I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs, > and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my > accounts it always opens epiphany. Of course, the first thing I did > was try to change whatever kopete thought

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:19:12PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun November 12 2006 19:16, Stephen Yorke wrote: > > > All I run is Etch at home right now...guess I should'a mentioned > > > that...sorry.

Re: DSA 1208-1

2006-11-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 14:13 -0700, Cedar Cox wrote: > When is there going to be an updated package for bugzilla for amd64? > > http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1208 > > I'm using debian.csail.mit.edu in my sources.list, but I thought (Sarge) > amd64 has backing from the Debian Security Te

Creating a debian install cd/dvd

2006-11-16 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List, My /var/cache/apt/archives directory contains a lot of files I have gotten from various sources, mainly the debian archives, security.debian.org, debian-multimedia.org and a few others. Is there a way I can create a cd or dvd with those files so apt-get / dselect / aptitude can ins

RE: test2 please ignore

2006-11-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2006-17-11 at 09:56 +0200, Debeselis wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the problems if there were any from me:( But I have problems with > this mailing list and I wanted to find what causes them. > > Problem is that when I send my initial e-mail to this list I can see my > submission coming to

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue November 21 2006 19:07, cga2000 wrote: > > > I did notice that I'm still running the sarge 2.4.27 kernel instead of > > > the 2.6.17 that's in the etch repository.. > > > > > > Is this "normal" .. or did my dist-upgrade run into a problem and > > > decide not to upgrade to a more recent ker

Re: xsetup reconfiguration?

2006-11-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 22 2006 08:00, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I am running a debian derivative. I would like to force > a reconfiguration of the xserver, any ideas how? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg is how I would do it on my etch box, may or may not be useful to you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: fairly ignorant jigdo question....

2006-11-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2006-24-11 at 00:37 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I tried to post a question about jigdo but it didn't seem to reach the site. > Here goes again. > > I notice that Etch currently has 21 CD images in the testing release, > > But Sarge comprises 15 CDs. > >

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2006-23-11 at 22:15 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:56:50PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: > > [..] > > > > > It's upto you if you want a 2.6 or 2.4 kernel.. :) > > Well not really... > > :-( > > I installed the latest 2.6.

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 26 2006 12:44 am, you wrote: > > > you're not alone: > > > http://www.oclug.on.ca/archives/linux/2006-July/000920.html > > > http://reporter.mozilla.org/app/report/?report_id=RMO11314606252824 > > One of those pages mentions fiddling with mtu settings. I second that. > I had a probl

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 07:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, > sorry. Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my > debian pc, how can i do? I have found this http://www.bxlug.be/articles/12

Re: kweather

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:04 am, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel > applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should > do? It works for me here although with the testing/unstable version I need to edit the confi

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) > > > > > > Cheer

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > В Срд, 29

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 11:49 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed November 29 2006

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main > > > > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would E

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:57 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 01:15 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 12:57 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > > > > On 11/29/06, matthe

Re: Newbie need help on upgrading/installing "current weekly snapshot CDs"

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 08:13 pm, aquamarine wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a pure newbie on Linux/Debian coming from Windows world! > I downloaded just 3 of the 21 CDs from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ website, > booted the 1st CD and install testing Debian successfull

Re: kweather

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 09:17 pm, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 12:04 am, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >> > Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel > >> > applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I > >> > should do? > > > > It work

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 04:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This may be a faulty bit of equipment, but equally I could be missing > something obvious again. I have three boxes attached to a DLink DI524 > wireless router, two cabled and one wireless. All three get leases of > between 32 and 40 se

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 30 2006 09:16 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/30/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > >Is your sources.list entry like this?: > > > >

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