tool to resize partitions on cylinder boundaries?

2006-12-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
I have a couple of 40 GB drives in a machine whose BIOS only supports hard disk drives up to 32 GiB. The motherboard (BIOStar M6TLC) manufacturer has confirmed that it is not possible to work around this limitation via a BIOS upgrade. Since installing Debian unstable in a dual boot arrangement

Re: tool to resize partitions on cylinder boundaries?

2006-12-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mike McCarty wrote, On 12/12/06 18:18: Arthur Marsh wrote: [snip] I believe that Debian *should* provide a tool and documentation to easily resize partitions to satisfy the cylinder boundary requirements of fdisk/cfdisk, and proprietary programs such as Partition Magic. What is there that

Re: tool to resize partitions on cylinder boundaries?

2006-12-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Olive wrote, On 12/12/06 19:09: Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a couple of 40 GB drives in a machine whose BIOS only supports hard disk drives up to 32 GiB. The motherboard (BIOStar M6TLC) manufacturer has confirmed that it is not possible to work around this limitation via a BIOS upgrade. Since

Re: tool to resize partitions on cylinder boundaries?

2006-12-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote, On 12/12/06 20:01: On 12.12.06 18:03, Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a couple of 40 GB drives in a machine whose BIOS only supports hard disk drives up to 32 GiB. The motherboard (BIOStar M6TLC) manufacturer has confirmed that it is not possible to work around this

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

2007-01-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chris Lale wrote, On 20/12/06 21:27: Felipe Sateler wrote: [...] The main problem seems to be lack of documentation. There are docs floating around, but they only cover the basic aspects, and only on the simplest of configurations. I have put some of the suggestions from this thread on t

how to isolate kernel panic problem

2007-09-14 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've been running custom kernels from: deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main deb-src http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main and over the last couple of latest snapshot releases of kernel 2.6.23-rc5 had the dreaded "capslock and numlock fl

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Amit Uttamchandani wrote, on 30/03/08 07:40: As smbfs is no longer maintained, what is the proper way to mount samba shares in linux? Most of the user guides out there rely on 'mount -t smbfs ' to mount windows shares. I heard there is a mount -t cifs? But that doesn't seem to work in etc

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hugh Lawson wrote, on 31/03/08 00:06: Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The smbfs package, which depends on samba-common includes the mount.cifs binary: [ snip ] The format of the /etc/fstab entry changed, requiring the IP address of the remote system rather than just the N

dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created

2008-03-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
I plugged in a USB mass storage device into my pc running Debian Unstable and unlike several months ago, did not get a notification from KDE that the device had been discovered. dmesg reported: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen f

SOLVED Re: dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created

2008-04-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Florian Kulzer wrote, on 2008-04-01 04:39: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 23:08:32 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: I plugged in a USB mass storage device into my pc running Debian Unstable and unlike several months ago, did not get a notification from KDE that the device had been discovered. Did you

Re: SOLVED Re: dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created

2008-04-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Florian Kulzer wrote, on 02/04/08 03:42: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:59:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/08 04:11, Arthur Marsh wrote: [snip] If one shouldn't need to restart debian for the purging of hal-device-manager to take effect, should I have run /etc/init.d/hal restart ?

module "lp" not loaded when parallel port detected

2006-06-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've reported the following as bug #374145, and wondered if anyone else has experienced it? On boot-up, the on-board parallel port is detected, but the last stage which includes loading the module "lp" doesn't happen until later. Initial detection: Jun 17 22:24:05 localhost kernel: parpo

Re: SOLVED: Re: CUPS 1.2.1 error - printer not connected

2006-06-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [ ... ] Were the modules lp, parport, and parport_pc loaded during boot? Did udev create /dev/lp0? (My Sid box currently does not create /dev/lp0 unless I modprobe lp.) Well-guessed! /dev/lp0 did not exist. I created it with # modprobe lp and res

pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

2006-07-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've been interested in running denemo and have KDE 3.5.3 but not Gnome installed on a PII-266 with 440LX chip set and SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model 0220 sound card. I have aplaymidi set-up (with some difficulty, as the Sid version of denemo has a bug that prevents command line options for t

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

2006-07-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Are there any guides on how to debug a full machine lock-up on GNU/Linux? I'm sure there are, but first, you should confirm that the machine is fully locked up. you may have a process or to that are out of control and have locked you out of the keyboard, but not nec

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

2006-07-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Well, I guess that means you really are experiencing a hard lock. Yes, you could run several sessions on your remote machine (or even the local, if the screen remains intact) with various 'tail -f ` instances running and straces redirected, maybe a top too all in the

Re: Limiting bandwidth used

2006-07-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Kjell Rune Skaaraas wrote: Hi I'm sharing an ADSL connection with my landlord, and need my Debian box (running etch) to cap the bandwidth use (just its own use, it's not acting as a router). Is there any way to do this that doesn't involve setting up a massively complex traffic shaper, tons of

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

2006-07-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Joey Hess wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: What could be logged from multiple text terminal sessions that might give a hint? Running all applications with strace output redirected to terminal sessions? Monitoring all syslog output to yet another terminal session? You could try to use the magic

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-07-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: ... I solved the problem by installing extra fonts; I cannot remember exactly which fonts I installed but from memory (and synaptic ;-)) I installed the following packages (the first being the most important one I think): ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-arabeyes ttf-junicode ttf-

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Osamu Aoki wrote: ... We have SSH as best practice. I think there is telnet over ssl too (never used). Why you want shell acces to another machne over tcp? If you are knowingly doing this, I am curious what kind of sitation justify such thing? Some kind of user-mode-linux etc? Still, you can

Re: Any way to comment on bugs?

2006-07-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ron Johnson wrote: Alec Berryman wrote: Andrew Malcolmson on 2006-07-09 13:53:41 -0400: Can anyone other than a package maintainer add comments to bug reports? Yes, send an email to @bugs.debian.org. Additional useful information is always welcome. Better, I would say, would be to use rep

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

2006-07-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
John O'Hagan wrote: ... May I suggest simply typing m-a in a terminal, which should give you a menu-based front-end for module-assistant. Using this you can easily go through the steps required for building and installing the module. Otherwise, the procedure is: #m-a update which checks whic

Re: ckermit debian package is not .deb! How will I install it?

2006-07-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
wieseltux23 wrote: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=pages&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%3A80%2F On Mon, 16 May 2005 16:40:51 +0530 Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/13/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Siju George: If I download the ckermit

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

2006-07-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
John O'Hagan wrote: On Friday 14 July 2006 00:32, Arthur Marsh wrote: John O'Hagan wrote: ... [...] #m-a a-i realtime-lsm (auto-install) which ensures you have the kernel headers and other necessary packages installed, downloads the module source if needed, then builds and i

FIXED (?) Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

2006-07-14 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote: John O'Hagan wrote: On Friday 14 July 2006 00:32, Arthur Marsh wrote: John O'Hagan wrote: ... [...] #m-a a-i realtime-lsm (auto-install) which ensures you have the kernel headers and other necessary packages installed, downloads the module source if nee

Re: Copying sound

2006-07-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote: Hello, I have two sound cards installed in my computer. I certain circumstances I want one card to reproduce the sound the other card is currently playing. I do not even know where to start to look for information (what do I ask for in google?). Is it possible

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
David Baron wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 15:17, David Baron wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 05:04, Katipo wrote: David Baron wrote: Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? What's happening? Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid Happened to me too. Reinstalling foomatic modules fixed it. Did tha

Re: APT can't find packages...

2006-07-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Redefined Horizons wrote: I'm having some trouble installing a couple of Debs. I've got them in a repository on my local hard drive. I've run dpkg-scanpackages on the repository and I can see the packages in Synaptic. When I try to install the packages Synaptic tells me how much disk space is req

kdeprint: unable to create printer (test or real printer)

2006-07-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
(Running Debian Sid) Hi, I read about the CUPS 1.2 - KDE incompatibility at http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1527+P0+S-1+C0+I0+E0+QKDE and also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129707 which lead me to believe that I could still print from KDE with CUPS 1.2.1-3 simply by creating the printer in K

WORKAROUND: Re: kdeprint: unable to create printer (test or real printer)

2006-07-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 20:29:50 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: (Running Debian Sid) Hi, I read about the CUPS 1.2 - KDE incompatibility at http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1527+P0+S-1+C0+I0+E0+QKDE That bug is for kdelibs 3.5.2; according to your reportbug info you are on 3.5.3

Re: audio tag tool and utf8

2006-07-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michael Ott wrote: Hi! Using audio tag tool to change the tags for MP3. sound juicer set the tags for one album in Russian letters, but do not set year. But audio tag tool cannot display the Russian letter and also cannot save it correct. How can i set UTF-8 for audio tag tool or is this a bu

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Carl Fink wrote: This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page printed, and it says that it can't connect to the CUPS server, which is clearly there and which other programs can print to just fine. On the other hand, gpdf can't even DISPLAY the page correctly. Apparently

SOLVED: Mitsumi CR-4802TE on 440LX motherboard

2006-07-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, after wondering for ages why I had problems with a Mitsumi CR-4802TE CD-RW drive not working reliably on a machine with a BIOSTAR M6TLC motherboard (Intel 440LX chipset, 266 MHz PII, 256 MiB RAM, running Sid with 2.6.17 kernel compiled for Pentium II at present) with the IDE interface speed

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: On 7/24/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My suggestion would be to google for some recent and more Debian-specific kernel-compile how-to's; for example, using make-kpkg makes it a lot simpler by making a .deb kernel package you can then install just like a reg

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Wackojacko wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: bzip2 -dc linux-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc alsa-driver.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc realtime-lsm.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 Minor point but this can be done in one step with tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2 or tar -xvzf

Re: SMBFS package vs kernel modules?

2006-07-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mark Fletcher wrote: DUH -- question is about smbfs package not smbclient... Hi list I have a question about the smbclient package. What does it provide that isn't provided by SMB FS support in the kernel? I currently run a 2.6.15.4 kernel and am about to build myself a 2.6.17.7 kernel from ke

Re: how to post bug via mail ?

2006-08-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jabka Atu wrote: im not runnig any mta (couse i don't know how to configure it). so i can't use the biult in bug reporting tool. where can i post via web or mail new bugs ? http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

make-kpkg UTS version problem

2006-08-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, when doing a fresh unpack of linux-source-2.6.17 then attempting to build realtime-lsm, I get the following error: /usr/src/linux# make-kpkg modules-image exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=2.6.17-10.00.Custom modules-image echo "The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h"; echo "

SOLVED (use make modules_prepare) Re: make-kpkg UTS version problem

2006-08-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, when doing a fresh unpack of linux-source-2.6.17 then attempting to build realtime-lsm, I get the following error: /usr/src/linux# make-kpkg modules-image exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=2.6.17-10.00.Custom modules-image echo "The UTS Release version in in

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Alan Chandler wrote: I am planning on building myself a new computer from scratch, probably based on the new Intel Core 2 Duo chips, and am seeking opinions on the best graphics chipset/card that I should use. Basic criteria are as follows 1) Must be open source driver (under linux) 2) Some 3

Re: "Communicating" with modems...

2006-08-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hello all, In the Linux world, what tool do I use to communicate with an installed modem? I am trying to troubleshoot a problem sending faxes and want to eliminate the possibility it is the modem hardware. There is an eight port Rocket modem or something like that installed

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:26:40PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Unfortunately, Linux has completely frozen up on me four times in a row while running #make-kpkg. Different patches each time, and different spots each time. I'll have to figure this out when I don't have

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:18:30PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: The memtest86+ package installs as a grub option, so one doesn't need a separate boot image on CD to run it. True, but from a user-friendliness stand point, it is much simpler. I know that grub a

Re: beginner questions: MIDI playback, file dragging

2006-08-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: 1. I installed Timidity, but if I start in the command line with a file as argument, it complains that there is no config file. If I click a link to a MIDI, it offers to let me open it with Timidity and disappears. I open the midi file in Rosegarden or Muse, and it says it

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-14 Thread Arthur Marsh
Seth Goodman wrote: ... Microsoft's present marketing-blurb overtures in the direction of free/open source scream that they are aware of it also. Even that will quieten down, when the effluent from the quagmire of their own creation fills their mouths, as they go under for the final time. Nothi

Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]

2006-08-16 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I am running debian-testing on linux 2.6.8 on an IBM T23 laptop. This system has been running for about 2 years. I recently upgraded XFree86 to Xorg (running 7.0.0) and now my video card direct rendering has stopped working. I extracted the following lines from my Xo

Re: Help obtaining kernel module for video driver [savage.ko]

2006-08-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brandon Kuczenski wrote: ... Thanks for your reply. I decided to upgrade my kernel since it was old anyway. I used make-kpkg on the source tree that comes with the debian package linux-source-2.6.16 (My apt-get can't find a 2.6.17 version), which seemed to work. However, my resulting kernel

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michelle Konzack wrote: ... I run Etch with the recent updates on an Acer Aspire Laptop. But since several weeks I have a font problem under X(org). The "normal" letters all look good, but instead of special letters like "öäü..." I see just white Boxes with a hexadezimal(?)-code inside. Not alw

Re: Stop detection of removed drive

2006-08-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Debian User#46kmz5j02 wrote: A non-system hard drive went bad in my dual-boot XP Pro/Debian pc. I had to unplug it because it kept making "clunking" noises, and caused XP to seize up and reboot. My machine boots into XP ok, but when I boot into Linux it spends a very long time trying to comm

gnumeric and landscape printing

2006-08-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
I added a comment to Debian bug report #374192 about the difficulty in printing in landscape mode from gnumeric to a CUPS printer, but have heard nothing further in the six weeks or so since I added my comment. Has anyone else experienced problems with landscape printing from gnumeric? (I have

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-08-18 22:31:45, schrieb Arthur Marsh: Thanks, installing xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded and running fc-cache -v You do not need this, since the packages do it automaticaly while installing. I've had a few cases where fc-cache d

Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Paul Scott wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:58:18 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And NO, Cecile is not in tose list! :-(=) I had to do this, since Cecile (my cat) had several times rebootet my computer. (I have configured my fvwm with keyboard support

Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set attribution lines in Thunderbird. I'd like to be able to have the following appear when I reply to a message: On --, wrote: Where is this set and where is this setting documented? Regards, Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hell Arthur. Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set attribution lines in Thunderbird. An info first: if you are searching for an option, you should look in about:config first. When an option doesn’t exist there, it doesn’t exist. OK, but

reply_header [was Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format]

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mathias Brodala wrote, On 10/09/06 11:29: The text above was automatically generated, but is still not completely what I want. Hell Arthur. Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set attribution lines in Thunderbird. An info first: if you are searching for an opt

Re: reply_header [was Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format]

2006-09-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrei Popescu wrote, On 2006-09-10 17:04: Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll add a request via reportbug once I figure out why I'm getting a syntax error in the reportbug script )-: Arthur. I think feature requests for T-bird should be filed upstream. reportbug

Re: Beta-3 Etch install avoiding commandline?

2006-09-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Zbigniew Wiech wrote, On 2006-09-08 22:58: ... 3. What is best solution for mail delivery for my single desktop and mail account on ISP server ? "smarthost", "local delivery" or "SMTP" ? Now I know it's kmail and I do not need exim at all. Agreed that the case of a desktop machine connecting t

Re: [SOLVED]samba panics

2006-09-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Alan Chandler wrote, On 2006-09-13 04:37: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 19:14, Alan Chandler wrote: Is anyone else experiencing problems with smbd. I keep getting mails that is has segfaulted. I just tried a re-install (of Etch) and it did the same. Seems to be a problem of a "," appearing a

Re: How upgrade kernel 2.4.31 on dell server?

2006-09-14 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arnau wrote, On 2006-09-15 07:38: I've got two powerdege 2850 with 5 disks to configure:) I've installed the iso debian-dell-2.4.31.iso downloaded from http://staff.osuosl.org/~kveton/debian/debian-dell-2.4.31.iso. The installation has been very smooth, the problems arised when I tried to upgr

Two seat pc [was Re: install nvidia for latest debian kernel]

2006-09-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote, On 17/09/06 05:33: Derek wrote: I use the nvidia installer,never had a broken system,dunno where you got those instructions from.Just download the nvidia installer,run it and you should be good to go(assuming you have all the stuff needed to compile the kernel module).

problems compiling recent kernels from kernel-archive.buildserver.net

2008-05-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi I recently reported bug #480436 against kernel-package as I've had trouble compiling recent kernels (2.6.25-2) from kernel-archive.buildserver.net on Debian unstable on a Pentium II. The last successful build I had was on 5 May from source 2.6.25-2~snapshot.11251. I tried downgrading perl

Re: problems compiling recent kernels from kernel-archive.buildserver.net

2008-05-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-05-10 10:39: Hi I recently reported bug #480436 against kernel-package as I've had trouble compiling recent kernels (2.6.25-2) from kernel-archive.buildserver.net on Debian unstable on a Pentium II. The last successful build I had was on 5 May from source 2.6

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ken Heard wrote, on 2007-04-26 00:26: All the dates of e-mails in Icedove are backwards at least in my boxes, i.e., day-month-year, instead of year-month-day. Likewise, the times are in 12 hour notation, followed by AM or PM. My locale preferences in KDE are set as year-month-day and 24 hour

Re: Icedove

2007-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michael Marsh wrote, on 04/06/07 00:29: On 6/3/07, Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: >> me too, but another problem is that it does not open the browser when >> clicking on an url :-( > > Works for me... really? Are you using gnome? I'm using KDE... Ditto for me,

reportbug emails [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no response

2007-06-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, the last bug I successfully submitted via reportbug was #429996. Since then I have attempted to submit a couple more bugs, but although I received my cc: email, there was no acknowlegement from the Debian Bug Tracking System, nor did the reports appear on bugs.debian.org. The last bug I c

Re: reportbug emails [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no response

2007-06-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrew Sackville-West wrote, on 2007-06-25 14:54: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:51:38PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, the last bug I successfully submitted via reportbug was #429996. on June 21... Since then I have attempted to submit a couple more bugs, but although I received my cc: email

Re: Compiling CPU-optimized packages

2006-09-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Adam Porter wrote, On 2006-09-18 19:12: I'm sure this has been covered before, but I've dug through Google and /usr/share/doc and I can't find a solution. Forgive me if I missed the answer. I'm trying to compile Firefox with "-march=athlon-xp". (Please spare me any lecture about whether it's w

Re: CD drive on a parallel port

2006-09-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On 2006-09-20 06:05: Hi, I have a laptop without a CD ROM, that cannot take a CD rom, and that cannot take USB either [PCMCIA I/II only, which rules out USB port cards it seems]. You could find a PCMCIA Ethernet card that is supported by the Debian boot floppies (ass

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Adrian Midgley wrote, On 2006-09-22 04:35: David Mulcahy wrote: I understand that, (but they do provide desktop software) but if you are running debian on a server you probably know a bit about what you are doing and are probably prepared for a kernel compile. That set the bar high. I don't

newsreader for Debian unstable with cross-posting/filtering controls

2006-09-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I read newsgroups from my ISP's nntp server and from news.gmane.org. Many of the spam messages coming from news.gmane.org have a cross-post to gmane.spam.detected. What newsreader packages are available in Debian unstable that have the ability to filter (even if only mark as read) message

still in search of a good news reader

2006-09-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
After finding out that Thunderbird is unlikely to support newsgroup filtering based on cross-posts (something that I did at the news-server level with INN back in 1993), I looked at what other newsreaders were available for Debian unstable. I aborted installing knews because it appeared to only sup

last attempt with pan newsreader

2006-09-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Has anyone persisted with the pan newsreader. I'm about to ditch it after a few reportbug submissions /-: for problems including lockups. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

need a newsreader with decent filtering

2006-09-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've given up on Thunderbird for newsreading (ISP's news server, news.mozilla.org and news.gmane.org for things like Debian lists) given that it won't support filtering on newsgroup cross-posts any time soon, but have had trouble finding an alternative. I'm running Debian unstable with KDE and

need a newsreader with decent filtering

2006-09-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've given up on Thunderbird for newsreading (ISP's news server, news.mozilla.org and news.gmane.org for things like Debian lists) given that it won't support filtering on newsgroup cross-posts any time soon, but have had trouble finding an alternative. I'm running Debian unstable with KDE and

3rd posting attempt: in search of a filtering newsreader

2006-09-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've given up on Thunderbird for newsreading (ISP's news server, news.mozilla.org and news.gmane.org for things like Debian lists) given that it won't support filtering on newsgroup cross-posts any time soon, but have had trouble finding an alternative. I'm running Debian unstable with KDE and

Re: still in search of a good news reader

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:18, Michael M. wrote: >> Does anyone have suggestions on a good newsreader package with support >> for multiple nntp servers and filtering? I'd prefer gui but did start out >> with tin (-:. >> >> Arthur. > > If you can't find a newsreader that does everything you want on it

Re: still in search of a good news reader

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Michael M. wrote, On 2006-09-24 17:18: If you can't find a newsreader that does everything you want on it's own, you might want to take a look at Leafnode: http://www.leafnode.org/ I've installed it (-:. It involved a bit of manual fiddling that took me back to the days of running INN under

Re: last attempt with pan newsreader

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mumia W.. wrote, On 2006-09-24 20:02: On 09/22/2006 08:44 PM, Arthur Marsh wrote: Has anyone persisted with the pan newsreader. I'm about to ditch it after a few reportbug submissions /-: for problems including lockups. Arthur. I tried reporting some bug to the upstream author last

Re: need a newsreader with decent filtering

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
s. keeling wrote, On 2006-09-25 01:02: Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I've given up on Thunderbird for newsreading (ISP's news server, news.mozilla.org and news.gmane.org for things like Debian lists) given that it won't support filtering on newsgroup cross-pos

Re: debian forum

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
E0x wrote, On 2006-09-25 01:22: "Because a forum cannot be accessed via ssh over a crappy dial up connection? Believe it or not, many people here are on poor quality, or intermittent or metered connections. They would rather read and reply to mail than downloading images and oth

Re: last attempt with pan newsreader

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
David E. Fox wrote, On 2006-09-25 14:08: On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:44:06 + (UTC) "Arthur Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone persisted with the pan newsreader. I'm about to ditch it after a few reportbug submissions /-: for problems including lockups. What

Re: debian forum

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Paul Johnson wrote, On 2006-09-25 07:09: On Sunday 24 September 2006 14:16, Steve Lamb wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: So, what are the advantages of changing to a web forum which are so compelling that not wanting to give up the advantages of mail looks like fear of change? None as far as I

Re: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote, On 2006-09-25 16:52: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 there is no package called linux-image-2.6.17-2-686-smp which on should i install ?? i need smp linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 is smp-aware and will use multiple CPU's if they are present: grep -i S

Re: still in search of a good news reader

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Carl Fink wrote, On 2006-09-25 00:38: Please don't start five threads with basically the same intent. I know you asked about GUI stuff, but slrn does everything I've ever wanted. Of course, I do 90% or more of my computing in an xterm. Hi, I did apologise about this. news.gmane.org which norm

Re: Making kernel 2.6.18

2006-09-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote, On 2006-09-26 03:49: David Baron wrote: I recall others have had a problem with this as well. Looks for the asm/socket.h file. This is very often a problem on a clean(ed) build, usually solved by running a make until c files are actually being compiled and then stoppin

Re: Making kernel 2.6.18

2006-09-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
David Baron wrote, On 2006-09-26 23:42: On Tuesday 26 September 2006 02:54, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote, On 2006-09-26 03:49: David Baron wrote: I recall others have had a problem with this as well. Looks for the asm/socket.h file. This is very often a problem on a clean(ed

Re: mozilla firefox about:config

2006-10-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jeff wrote, On 2006-10-03 11:59: Peter Easthope wrote: I've spent a good part of the day trying to arrange that thunderbird is invoked when I click on a mailto link in the firefox. I created the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/qi0tjy0b.default/user.js containing the line user_pref("network.protocol-han

Re: Downgrading OpenOffice

2006-10-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
David Baron wrote, On 2006-10-04 01:43: Since rc2-1 is broken beyond any operation, I put in rc1-1 which had worked. Results: 1. Got the spreadsheets back. 2. Can read and edit a document only if I run soffice.bin explicitely. 3. Can export and reimport RTF but cannot any other RTF from before.

Re: generate syndication feed for podcast

2006-10-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chris Bannister wrote, On 2006-10-09 12:34: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:15:49PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: After another day or two of searching, I stumbled upon a link to www.softwaregarden.com, which site belongs to Dan Bricklin. It turns out that Dan has written in Perl an RSS feed gener

Re: sid kde printing and cups setup

2006-10-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Florian Kulzer wrote, On 2006-10-10 00:12: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 16:22:58 +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: mlaks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Up to date SID! 1) kde printing system will not talk to cups. Any ideas on that? after today's update the problem seems to show up o

Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Adam C Powell IV wrote, On 2006-10-12 03:55: Greetings, I have a seven-year old dual 450 MHz PIII machine which I upgraded from sarge to etch about a month ago. Running 2.6.16, 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 stock kernels, I have had frequent lockups, on the order of two to four per day before I go back to

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
HXC wrote, On 27/10/06 19:10: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? Doing l

Re: Extract attachments from message/partial emails

2009-07-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andre Majorel wrote, on 2009-07-19 18:10: Anyone knows of a program, preferably command line, that can extract attachments from a mailbox file full of message/partial emails ? Thanks in advance. Have you tried munpack from package mpack ? Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 2009-09-26 23:21: * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] [...] Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and I guess you need an initrd im

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stan Katz wrote, on 13/02/09 14:44: Mystery solved. Samba wants to protect smbpasswd with mode 600. User must point Samba to password path. Sample smb.conf that loaded during last lenny upgrade pointed to /etc., not /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Maybe I missed a prompt during the upgrade to fully qualify

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Osamu Aoki wrote, on 2009-03-02 01:25: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB disk connected to the computer that I would like to have automounted on boot. I could just knit some init sc

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Osamu Aoki wrote, on 03/03/09 00:46: Do you use modern desktop? Gnome, KDE, ... then it automounts. If non X system, just add it to /etc/fstab Osamu It didn't work for me in KDE 3.5.10 (running Debian unstable here). I might have the wrong packages installed. I see. Did you label drive whe

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

2009-03-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mark Neidorff wrote, on 2009-02-18 01:21: Is there a solution to configuring sound? If not, where is the proper place to ask for one? There is an alsa-user mailing list http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Mailing-lists I've found part of the fun being that there isn't a clear mappin

Re: xemacs flickers

2009-03-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Peter Robinson wrote, on 2009-02-20 08:47: Hi all, I have xemacs21 installed on a the following system (PC) deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb-src http:/

Re: In sid, linux-image-686 tracks an unavailable kernel

2009-04-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
jida...@jidanni.org wrote, on 11/04/09 08:53: In sid, linux-image-686 no longer tracks the latest kernel, but instead tracks a kernel that has already been removed from sid! http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028 I keep stable and testing in my /etc/apt/sources.list even thou

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