Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 30 2006 09:49 am, Alan Ianson wrote: > 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

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 30 2006 09:57 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu November 30 2006 09:16 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 30,

Re: minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Friday 01 December 2006 14:24, Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a linux stereo for xmas. Basically I'm making it out of > an old ibm thinkpad and an iPod w/ rockbox. > I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't > want the machine to feel sluggish -- it should

Re: Harddisk Errors in Etch using Kernel 2.6.17 but not Kernel 2.6.8

2006-12-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:38, Salman Al-Rahma wrote: > I've been using Sarge for a several months now with no problem , other > than drooling over new software. So, as this is my desktop computer and > not a server -my server runs a Slackware 10, and is running very fine, > although I hope to

Re: new list user

2006-12-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Saturday 02 December 2006 15:15, steve reilly wrote: > On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:53, you wrote: > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg --force > > Thank you Igor, > > > > how frustrating!! Indeed! That is a bug. > I tried the above and get the same error message > >  not updating

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:11, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:51 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Once it gets to that size would dual layered DVD iso images be considered > > to be parked in the repositories? > > Seems like there have been talk about this, but it haven't h

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 04 December 2006 10:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:11, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:51 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > >>> Once it gets to that size would dual layered DVD iso im

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 04 December 2006 10:06, Scarletdown wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > Part of this discussion concerned the cost of DL media vs single > > layer.At the time DL was about $8/disk while compared to maybe > > $1.00/disk for SL, not a good value, imho. The eco

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 03 December 2006 18:04, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:08:18 + > > Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >Dear Debian people, > > > > > >This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little mer

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 04 December 2006 11:23, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Monday 04 December 2006 10:06, Scarletdown wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > > > Part of this discussion

Re: apt-cdrom and dvd's

2006-12-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon December 4 2006 17:20, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I tried using apt-cdrom add to let me scan my Sarge 3.1 r4 DVD I just > burned. > > But the machine sniffed for a CDROM in the CD RW drive and didn't go for > the DVD in the DVD RW drive.. > > But there is no apt-d

Re: recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed December 6 2006 11:27, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)? > > On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus. The nautilus-cd-burner package is what you're looking for I think, it add cd burning to nautilu

Trouble browsing secure web site (http://www.scotiaonline.scotiabank.com)

2006-12-07 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List, I'm having problems doing online banking at my banks secure website listed in the subject. I have no problem using that website with sarge but when I'm using testing or unstable pages don't load fully. A google search for "scotiaonline linux" show that I am not the only one who's bugg

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 01:28 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks > >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:58:18 +0200 > > > >On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:4

k3b and wodim

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Ianson
In the past I have always used k3bsetup2 to configure permissions so that k3b would work properly. k3bsetup2 seems to be gone and k3b can't blank a cdrw disk. What does wodim need to be able to blank/write a cd? Should I set wodim suid root, or create a burning group or??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: k3b and wodim

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon December 11 2006 21:25, Alan Ianson wrote: > In the past I have always used k3bsetup2 to configure permissions so that > k3b would work properly. k3bsetup2 seems to be gone and k3b can't blank a > cdrw disk. What does wodim need to be able to blank/write a cd? Should I > se

Re: k3b and wodim

2006-12-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue December 12 2006 05:57, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 08:21, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Mon December 11 2006 21:25, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > In the past I have always used k3bsetup2 to configure permissions so > > > that k3b would work properly.

Re: Kernel Panic

2006-12-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed December 13 2006 08:10, Morgan Walker wrote: > Hey guys, > > > > After updating to 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp on my Sun X4100 I rebooted and > got the following error: > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device md0 or unknown-block(0,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel Panic -

Re: Kernel Panic

2006-12-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed December 13 2006 08:57, Morgan Walker wrote: > Thing is I can't get into a terminal to use APT, it freezes right after > this error:-(. Is grub your boot loader? If so I would hit "e" at the grub screen to edit your kernel and initrd lines. On my amd64 box I have symlinks in / that point

Re: jigdo and its files

2006-12-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu December 14 2006 18:29, Peter Colton wrote: > Hello all, > > I been using jigdo for the dvd images of Etch "testing" over the last > couple of mouths. From : > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/ > The jigdo files I downloaded where in the format of :

Re: jigdo and its files

2006-12-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu December 14 2006 19:06, Peter Colton wrote: > On Friday 15 December 2006 02:53, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Thu December 14 2006 18:29, Peter Colton wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I been using jigdo for the dvd images of Etch "testing&qu

Re: Debian NetInstall: Ethernet not found?

2006-12-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 10:42 -0500, Mike Pobega wrote: > Well I was trying to switch OSes from Ubuntu to Debian, and I figured > that the NetInstall would be the best way to go. So I downloaded > the .iso, burned it, and popped it into my laptop. I connected my > laptop directly into my modem throug

Re: Alsa needs reconfiguration after every reboot

2006-12-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon December 18 2006 14:21, Bill wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have alsa installed and working properly. > > I configure it with alsaconf. > > Everytime I reboot, I have to reconfigure it again with alsaconf. > > It's only a few keypresses but annoying. > > Is this a known issue? > > What can I do to

Re: ignore additional launches

2006-12-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 09:29 -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I set up a computer in a homeless shelter, with access to the > internet. It's KDE, with launchers on the desktop (I find that people > with little computer experience do not like the "start" button; so, a > set up reminiscent o

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat December 23 2006 10:33, Nigel Henry wrote: > I've presently got 2 Sarge installs on the stable repo, and Etch on the > testing repo. I've seen more than one post saying that testing was frozen, > but since then I've had more updates for Etch, and tonight another 50MB of > updates. There wil

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat December 23 2006 11:17, Baz wrote: > On 12/23/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat December 23 2006 10:33, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > I've presently got 2 Sarge installs on the stable repo, and Etch on the > > > testing repo. I've

Re: FLAC frontend

2006-12-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue December 26 2006 05:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, the previous message was sent before complete. > > The question I was asking for was: > > Is there any frontend or GUI for FLAC in Debian GNU/Linux? KDE has KAudioCreator and there is also Grip. I'm not sure if they will work with f

Re: No volume control GStreamer plugins

2006-12-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue December 26 2006 08:45, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > > Do you have sound working otherwise? Can you run alsamixer from a > > terminal and change the mixer settings? > > I can sudo alsamixer, it starts a ncurses application with some vertical > bars, but don't know what to do with it. Activate

Re: /dev/dsp missing (SOLVED)

2007-01-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 3 2007 07:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:45:25AM +0100, Benjam? Villoslada wrote: > > El Diumenge 31 Desembre 2006 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: > > > Can anyone tell me how to get audio input without disbling the rest of > > > the sound system? ?Th

Re: Switching graphics cards, how?

2007-01-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 3 2007 10:35, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:28:36 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > My old Matrox video card is dying. I have a new e-geforce > > 6200 and an Etch system. I have picked up on some issues about drivers > > for mVidia cards, but have no idea whether t

gift-gnutella

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
I have been using the gift package to connact to the gnutella and openft networks but I'm not connecting to the gnutella network on my current etch-amd64 box. Connecting to openft does work. Anyone else having success with gift have any pointers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphic Card

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 4 2007 19:34, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi all, > > I think I have selected the graphic card's vendor of my system > incorrectly during Debian installation. How can I change it? On sarge "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", and on etch and unstable "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". --

Re: Graphic Card

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
Once that is done run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (or xorg) and choose the nvidia driver. > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Thu January 4 2007 19:34, Danesh Daroui wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I think I have selected the graphic card's vendor of my system

Re: Graphic Card

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
soon. I run etch here and it is as good as stable from what I can see. Etch uses xorg. > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Thu January 4 2007 19:51, Danesh Daroui wrote: > >> Now another question. I am using NVIDIA and last time I selected "NV" it > >> didn't wor

Re: Missing jigdo file

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 7 2007 22:16, Bryce wrote: > Does anyone known anything about the file > gtkdiskfree_1.9.3-4sarge1_amd64.deb : > > Jigdo asks for this file but can't find it--out of over 7,000 files this > is the only one missing for a DVD ISO (for AMD-64). The archives at > snapshot.debian.net

Re: [OT: of interest only to new Gmail users] Re: test message

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 8 2007 08:42, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I think this gmail quirk should go to Raju's FAQ: > > > > Q: I posted from my gmail account, but I don't receive my own posts. > > But I receive other posts and even answers to my ow

Re: firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 8 2007 08:57, Paul Scott wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:33:11AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >> Is anyone else having trouble getting to www.debian.org? I can get to > >> mirrors to install packages but not to the web site. > > > > works fine in S

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 04:41, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a > problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly > from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within > th

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 05:54, Duncan McDonald wrote: > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > ... > > > Just a shot in th

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 09:37, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > okay, so I had to try this to lear

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 10:19, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > >

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 11:00, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > so you can get to the machine, i.e

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 20:45, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:28:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:13:38PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1, > > > etc. Knoppix is a huge iso a

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 11 2007 06:15, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Have you had a look at http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ ? You might > > find that interesting. > > I'll dl it and check it out. I note, however, that the most recent is > made from Etch in October. There were more at one time. I downloa

Re: This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 11 2007 18:54, M-L wrote: > Can someone enlighten me please as to why this the URL below crashes > Konqueror? > > http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_campaign_jan_2007/ It doesn't crash my konqueror on etch-amd64. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: libdvdcss installation

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri October 12 2007 10:10, Pantor wrote: > Lads, > > would you be able, please, to advice how to install libdvdcss for > VideoLAN. Linux knowledge almost zero. There is latest version > libdvdcss-1.2.9.tar.gz on the Desktop. What to do now? An easier way is to add the debian multimedia archive

Re: DISK MIGHT NOT BE SPUN DOWN PROPERLY ...

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri October 12 2007 07:46, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > when I stop my box (sid amd64) with: > sudo halt (or shutdown -h now) > I get this message: > > DISK MIGHT NOT BE SPUN DOWN PROPERLY UPDATE SHUTDOWN UTILITY > > Why do I get this message and what does it mean ? I get this message too, al

Re: How to install Adobe Acrobat Reader?

2007-10-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun October 14 2007 09:02, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I'm not sure what acroread will do that the free xpdf readers won't, > since I've never used it. So before you assume that you need acroread, > try one of the others. I need to use acroread to enter data in forms only available as pdf files

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat January 13 2007 12:49, operator wrote: > /interesting to note that mine does not work either, and I am using > sarge stable. > operator The version is stable is likely a few versions behind, it did work when sarge was released but that was about 19 months ago. I think the best solution in

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

2007-01-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue January 16 2007 07:53, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Daniel Haude wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to have my console (non-X) fonts small and neat like Knoppix's. > > I tried the various vga=xxx kernel options but all of them produced > > bigger and uglier fonts. > > > > How is it done? > > I d

Re: Debian install hanging at yenta_socket module

2007-01-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 18 2007 06:22, Mitchell Verter wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to install Sarge on a pretty old Toshiba 2500CDS > http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproducts/html/satellite/satellite_2500cds_spe >c.html > > I downloaded the netinst CD image (100 Mb) > > The computer has just begun lo

Re: Lost lots of volume suddenly - help?!

2007-01-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 18 2007 08:50, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Any suggestions on this one: I'm running ALSA (with ESD) and between > turning my computer off yesterday and switching it on today, the > output volume has been decimated. I need to change the master volume > and program output volume (in eg, xm

Re: Switching to amd64 - is it worth it?

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 22 2007 06:33, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > I don't do anything that needs vast computing power - I mostly use > that machine for web browsing, email and the occasional movie, all of > which works quite nicely with the x86 kernel and libraries. Is there > any good reason to switch to an

Re: Installing Debian by installation disk

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 25 2007 06:35, Colin Perkins wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have installed both Gnome and KDE. > > Xinit shows 6 titles starting with X ; whether a xserver is running > or not - I do not know. > > I have read the installation documents ; but I am still not sure what > I am doing, > I a

Re: can Etch AMD64 recognise a Realtek ALC563 Ethernet card?

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 25 2007 12:31, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > Here is the Ethernet card in my AMD 64 box: > > LAN Integrated Fast Ethernet (10/100/1000) Realtek ALC653 > > Does anyone know if Debian Etch will see it OK? Not sure, I have used realtek network cards without any pro

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri January 26 2007 14:20, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > I'm very irritated and disappointed with your policy! Why? I think this all boils down to the mozilla or firefox policy doesn't it? > I've used various Linux distributions for 8 years. I've been using Debian > for the last 6 months, but toda

Re: [OT] Nvidia 9746 driver

2007-01-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat January 27 2007 08:02, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > The upward pressure continues: > > Nvidia's 9746 driver released December 21, 2006 no longer supports my > MX440 + MX4000 cards > > You are being driven to get boards with PCI Express slots and buy faster > videocards. I found the FX520

Re: Etch on X86-64

2007-01-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 28 2007 15:58, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Hello there, > > my desktop computer recently bit the dust and I'm thinking of getting a > Core 2 duo system. What is the status of Debian on the X86-64 platform? > Is it usable? I'd love to hear from people using this particular port and >

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 28 2007 19:44, Oliver Twist wrote: > I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other > (particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much > want to move to Debian. > > In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am > wonde

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 29 2007 06:16, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > Use a dynamic IP hosting service like no-ip.com or dyndns.com > > By the way, hoes do these dynamic ip services handle ssl https > certificates? Would they trigger errors on users' browsers? These services just provide the dns redirection to

Re: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 29 2007 07:01, Nick Demou wrote: > In etch, what packages should I remove to get rid of X and gnome? You'll need to uninstall whatever you installed to begin with. If you used aptitude to install gnome and xorg it'll remove them with all the depends it installed with it. One of th

Re: Απ: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 29 2007 07:17, Nick Demou wrote: > 2007/1/29, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon January 29 2007 07:01, Nick Demou wrote: > > > In etch, what packages should I remove to get rid of X and gnome? > > > > You'll need to unins

Gnome sound server

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
Whenever I turn on gnome's sound server it blocks some apps like ut2004 and rhythmbox from playing sounds. Is there a better way to configure gnome's sound server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 16:07 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 10:36 +, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > On 2007-01-30, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Whenever I turn on gnome's sound server it blocks some apps like ut2004 >

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 17:39 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > How does one use dmix, or is that used when the sound server is > > disabled? > > First of all, dmix, sound servers (esd and so on) are all used if your > card can't do hardware mixing. If it can do hardware mixing, you don't > need to

Re: Bug #352758

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue January 30 2007 18:05, cga2000 wrote: > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any > feedback. > > I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning > to wonder whether I forgot something .. opened the bug report with the > wrong maintainer group ..

Re: Bug #352758

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue January 30 2007 20:55, cga2000 wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:46:27PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Tue January 30 2007 18:05, cga2000 wrote: > > > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any > > > feedback. > > > > > >

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 1 2007 08:31, Tim Wescott wrote: > I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying > for Windows. > > After looking around the web and asking locally, I've found two sources > of laptops that come new with Linux loaded. One is Linux Certified, the > other Empe

Re: amule refuses to start

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 4 2007 06:58, Michael Pobega wrote: > > This [0] is what I get in the command line. I apt-get removed, dpkg > > --purge 'd and apt-get installed amule. > > > > What else could be going on? > > > > Greetings, > > > > Juanjavier Martínez > > > > [0] http://personales.ya.com/juanjavier

Re: Unstable and Testing stability

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 4 2007 14:49, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm currently using Debian Etch (Testing) on my notebook, and it is > fairly stable in a good sense of the word (Those 100+ release critical > bugs really aren't bugs that affect me, so my system is perfectly stable > to my knowledge). Unstable

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote: > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this > looks suspicious. That sounds about right. I have a base install plus kde and my /usr/share/ is 1.8G. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 5 2007 15:29, cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:13:31PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote: > > > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this > > > looks suspicious. > > >

Re: highmem kernel question

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 5 2007 15:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:06:07 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You need linux-image-2.6.18-4-686. > > ^^^ > Are you sure? I just updated and I still only see the -3- image. Etch is still at -3. If

Re: xmcd problem?

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 6 2007 16:57, Listscribbler wrote: > I have xmcd_2.6-19_i386.deb installed on an etch laptop. I cannot figure > out how to use xmcd to rip ogg files off audio CDs. Never used or seen that one so I'm not sure. > A year ago I had xmcd (don't recall version) installed under "unstable

Re: xmcd problem?

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 6 2007 19:01, Bayrouni wrote: > Alan Ianson a écrit : > > On Tue February 6 2007 16:57, Listscribbler wrote: > >> I have xmcd_2.6-19_i386.deb installed on an etch laptop. I cannot figure > >> out how to use xmcd to rip ogg files off audio CDs. > > &

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:12, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the >Adobe Flash Player installer. There is no flash player for 64 bit anything, at least not yet. I read that the folks at macromedia/adobe were working on it but nothing ye

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:12, ciol wrote: > Hello, I'm a bit confused about debian. > I believe that its main characteristics are: quality, freefom *and* 100% > voluntary. So I wonder with Dunc Tank and the fact that Joey Schulze > wants to be paid, if debian will not loose its identity. Isn't it

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:38, andy wrote: > Good day > > I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to > install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected > to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can > exploit this arrangement to

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 18:25, rocky wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to > make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion > loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. > Can any of you help me on t

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 19:09, Alan Ianson wrote: > There are a few net install images for etch. Look here.. > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ Opps, those are full disc sets.. try here.. :) http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Clamav Warnings

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 06:28, David Baron wrote: > WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! > WARNING: Current functionality level = 12, recommended = 13 Are you running sarge? > I found no conf file specitying anything but 12 anything but maximum > threads. > > Is a new upgrade in the rep

Re: Need Scanner Recommendation

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 20:27, Thomas H. George wrote: > My Epson Perfection 2400 Photo scanner has died and must be replaced. > The Epson 4990 is too rich for my budget and the Epson 4490 is not on > the Sane list of supported scanners? Has anyone had success with the > 4490? Are there better ch

Re: Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 16 2007 09:54, Joe Vender wrote: > Are the CD images provided for Debian 3.1r4 able to do a full, clean > install of Debian on an zero-filled HDD, or are they just for an upgrade > from 3.1r3 or earlier? I'd like to try Debian on a clean system, but I'm > not sure if I can use the 3

Re: no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 17 2007 09:00, Mikael Backman wrote: > I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. > I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just > that there is no sound. Not a beep :( Have you also unmuted the channels you want to use in al

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 17 2007 13:32, Thomas H. George wrote: > I just purchased an Epson V100 Photo Scanner but apparently the sane > epson backend does not support this model. As root scanimage -L finds > the scanner but the test scanimage >image.pnm suggested in the sane man > page results in scanimag

Re: Clamav Warnings

2007-02-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 18 2007 05:39, David Baron wrote: > On Friday 16 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! > > > WARNING: Current functionality level = 12, recommended = 13 > > > > Are you running sarge? > > Sid. Opps.. :) > > > I found no conf

Re: no sound..

2007-02-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 18 2007 09:28, Mikael Backman wrote: > sön 2007-02-18 klockan 16:40 +0100 skrev Nigel Henry: > > On Saturday 17 February 2007 21:31, Mikael Backman wrote: > > > > On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:00, Mikael Backman wrote: > > > > > I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The soun

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote: > I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I > thought that MP3 was one of the "questionable" formats that goes against > the DFSG. Perhaps I am wrong. > > In any event, I was pleasantly surprised. I find that mp3 and ogg a

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 18 2007 19:43, Ken Heard wrote: > Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge > ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on > Etch. What kind of trouble are you having? I installed dosemu on one of my boxes that will need i

Re: Debian "Etch" OpenGL libraries

2007-02-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 20 2007 07:21, Srikanth Venigandla wrote: > Hi, >I am trying to install a software called Geant4 on my debian "Etch" > installation of x86_64 architecture (intel EMT64). I figured out that > OpenGL libraries installation is incomplete on my system. I tried posting > the error me

Re: Install of "etch"

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed February 21 2007 17:32, Kevin Kempter wrote: > I want to try out "Etch". I have a DVD of "Sarge" (via Linux Magazine). Is > it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off > downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? Either way will work. If I were in you situation I wo

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 07:02, Matthew K Poer wrote: > If you want to 'mkfs.vfat' try 'apt-get install dosfstools' as it > handles FAT systems. > > Odd: I was wondering earlier how to reformat my USB MSD. I guess mkfs > will do it. I probably wouldn't have remembered the command 'mkfs' if it > had

Re: Cannot boot using Grub from CD

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 08:55, Chris Lale wrote: > I am trying to make a CDROM Grub boot disc so that I can boot my system > if the MBR is overwritten or the default partition is removed. > > I made an eltorito CD with stage2_eltorito and my menu.lst file in the > CD's /boot/grub using the instruct

Re: X wont start (Etch)

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 09:10, redhat penguin wrote: > hi, > > I installed the latest release of the NetInstall for Debian ETCH just a > couple of minutes ago but when i boot debian i get an error message saying: > *Code:* Failed to start X server (your graphical interface). It is likely > that it

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 9 2008 06:12:18 pm Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I > can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /dev/sd* device > showing up, although I have ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd modules up, I also > installed usb_storage a

Re: GNOME faint printing problem.

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 08:58:15 am Matt Gracie wrote: > I'm running Debian sid on an ia32 computer, with everything up to date, > and printing via CUPS to an HP Laserjet 4m. When I print from GNOME > applications, like evince or epiphany, the output is too faint to read. > But if I print the same

Re: Can print from KPDF but not Acrobat

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 08:27:11 am Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't seem to have set up printing correctly...I am running a testing > system and can print fine from KPDF but attempting to print from Acrobat > returns the error message: > "The print process returns an error. Please check

Re: Getting USB audio to work (Lenny)

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 09:03:41 am Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I have an up to date Lenny system, and sound works > pretty much fine but i cant get USB audio to play. > > I have a pair of altec USB speakers that work on a > Mac. When i plug them in, they show up in the system: > if i go to Syst

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 03:45:31 pm KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of > the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not > onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video > card in there. But I'm

Re: Can print from KPDF but not Acrobat

2008-02-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 11 2008 01:34:09 pm Peter Robinson wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun February 10 2008 08:27:11 am Peter Robinson wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I don't seem to have set up printing correctly...I am running a testing > >> sys

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