Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ned for) where changes come slowly and are very conservative so as to widen the commercial appeal of the hardware. Most OEMS will even provide drivers for the hardware for many popular mainstream Linux distros (read SLES, RHEL, Debian and sometimes Solaris). -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
for example, there is no inittab, so don't ask US how to change default boot behavior in Ubuntu, ask Ubunutu) even though most of us will "overlook" the user who says "I am running Ubuntu and I can't config NFS" and attempt to assist him/her, we may not know how to fix

Re: 64bit virtual guest

2008-06-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
t :( downer > for me. > > > My next thought, before going back to vmware, was qemu, does it handle > 64b guests and can I start a vm headless, that was the other problem i > had with virtualbox > > Alex See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines HTH

printing from the cli and mailcap

2008-06-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
look at mailcap showed I really did not want to dive into there yet :) I am using cupsys to print to a lpd network printer. I never tried to print from the cli before, how do you do it? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: printing from the cli and mailcap

2008-06-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 11:13 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Working on another issue, I wanted to print a README. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/migrationtools$ print ./README > Warning: unknown mime-type for "./README" -- using "application/*" > Error:

Re: printing from the cli and mailcap

2008-06-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Q9upQZ/3oIw+U= > =XK7z > -----END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
might be a prejudice I have since I am very comfortable working in ext3 and not so in say, Reisers, especially in file recovery operations or resizing. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: USB for potato

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
to upgrade system > without installer with Debian. Those distro which requires recompile > such as Gentoo may require much more work... > > Let's make this list to help people. It might just be me, but Ron's advise sounds reasonable and not at all mean spirited. In fact it

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
7;t know and I am waiting on someone who does know so that I can learn with you :) HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA To back up Ron's input: http://www.linuxjunkies.org/html/LVM-HOWTO.html#s8 it is a bit dated, but the info is good. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ssage when you try to startx/gdm/kdm. Try moving xorg.conf out of the way, and then try to startX and see what you get. You can also use the xorg config scripts directly: Xorg -configure (as root)that will drop a working xorg.conf into /root/ which you can further test by xorg --config /roo

Re: Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
s, it is NOT the lack of question during a reconfigure. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
D, go figure). All you need to know at the level of the fs/LVM is you will have two hd. You can not have /boot on lvm (technically you can, but not the version used by etch, lenny or sid) so you will need at least one non-lvm partition. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.link

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
, aside from academic curiosity, you need not worry about it either. But what the heck. Try it, test it, then just go with defaults and test it again. See which is better. > > > -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Weird error while upgrading fglrx-glx.

2008-06-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
some point, you might even have to reboot to continue (due to low level packages having been replaced and the old ones running in memory no longer have any config files). HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RAID for large disks

2008-06-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
uot; Sometimes the answer is no, but that falls onto the procurement end of the deal. A DBA will spend much time telling a sys admin what strip to put onto a RAID (using a hardware controller), but that is from the application mfg having benched tested a specific model of server with very specific ha

Re: Weird error while upgrading fglrx-glx.

2008-06-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Source. Pass it along. > > > Carlos > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 15:11 +0200, Carlos Parada wrote: > > Anyone knows who happens with this ?? > > &

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:58 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > The college is offering packages starting at $1,399 (Dell Latitude D630) > and $1,499 (Lenoveo ThinkPad T61) all with 2GB memory, 10/100/1000 > Ethernet, Wireless, 1394 Port, Bluetooth, Vista 32Bit Business OS, > SmartCare/4in1 Media C

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
/X11/xorg.conf. For an explanation of what is current in xorg.conf see this page: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 A good read on what is current. The method you expect to see is the "old way", the way we learned, but is now defunct. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROT

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:32 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Snip > > You can not stop that. This is the current correct behavior. The > xorg.conf reconfiguration you expect is "old school" and now your X > would probably start with out even an xorg.conf file. You could

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIT/e9S9HxQb37XmcRAtYlAJ9i22if+grr8M1FLUqwI1QZAXNYGwCcDh/b > uz9gy80EFU1HiolXmwh4Tqc= > =A93o > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
under $700. 2 Gb RAM, dual core Intel, card > > That thing must be an oven! How often does the fan come on? Ron, I found the thread I was talking about, here you are for your edification: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg515169.html -- Damon L. Chesser

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ndred to a thousand off those prices if you're willing to settle for > two-years-ago's model. Which, as the thrust of my email, is what I suggest and I am quite sure will be more then good enough to do the work. You pay through the nose for "current" tech when last year is

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
on my other video port, ie the one that is built into the > motherboard? Are you doing startx or kdm as root? Users will not be able, out of the box to do either of these. If the answer is "yes" and startx issues command not found, you simply don't have X installed. > SNI

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
on my other video port, ie the one that is built into the > motherboard? > Another thought: You said nothing about (as root) X -configure SNIP -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: iceweasel crashing on bmw site

2008-06-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
> > =iu4Q > > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > > > > All fine on stock Lenny Iceweasel and xulrunner, on 64bit with > nspluginwrapper to get flash ("flashplayer-mozilla" from > debian-multimedia, not "flashplugin-nonfree") going. No problem playing > the videos. > > Tom Work here with flashplugin-nonfree, iceweasel also running swfdec-mozilla and swfmill -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ethernet card will work, your cable modem does not care about the OS. If the OS can work the ethernet card, your cable modem will work. I do not remember the last time I found an ethernet card that did not work. It has been years. I suppose you can still find one, but the odds are if you gra

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
nd the Latitude is of similar build, but beefer. I do not think any of these three are bad choices. I have never owned a thinkpad and would not due to the owners of the company. This is a personal choice and you are free to disagree with that stance, but it does support the use of linux.

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 21:43 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:26:26PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > IMHO, thinkpads have a long history of supporting linux (or rather that > > linux works on them) and many really like it. OTOH, the Vostro is also

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
or PRC). I just don't see any reason to support the (Communism? debatable) absolute dictatorship that is China. I also know it may even be silly. It is just where I draw my personal line. Yours may vary. I may not be able to find a pair of pants not made in China, but I can find a laptop

Re: Recommend a file manager

2006-09-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
help thanks try xfe, windows explorer clone. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firefox update

2006-09-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Evgeny M. Zubok wrote: Antono Vasiljev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ? ??? ?? ? ??? khtml + gtk+ ??? ??? ? , ?? ??? ? ??: http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/ Been using Debian for 6 years. Nothing else compares to it. -- D

Re: Recommend a file manager

2006-09-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
derek wrote: I like rox-filer On 9/22/06, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: T wrote: > Hi > > Please recommend a file manager. I need a good one to make my wife happy. > We used to settle with the the file manager that comes default with Gnome, > but now that o

Re: firefox update

2006-09-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Evgeny M. Zubok wrote: Antono Vasiljev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ? ??? ?? ? ??? khtml + gtk+ ??? ??? ? , ?? ??? ? ??: http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/ Been using Debian for 6 years. Nothing else co

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
do what I want to do, and does not try to dictate how to do things. To all of you Debian developers, thank you. I really appreciate the work you do. Keep it up! Jason Martens Debian Lover Been using Debian for 6 years. Nothing else compares to it. For me, it is just right. -- Damon L

Re: Package server

2006-09-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
very annoying. Thank you. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems installing BRUB with RAID5

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
mtek.com for a (I hope rather thorough) walk through on how to set up grub on a raid. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ot detected. -- Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] I to, have seen this issue. I did not pursue it as it was a total surprise to me to even seen it work at all! I just kept using my pcmcia Proxim Gold card. I look forward to following this thread. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: Thank you for your email.

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your email. Rick Vidallon VISIONEFX website: http://www.visionefx.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 757.619.6456 office: 757.963.1787 instant messenger: msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aol: rickvida Errr, your welcomed? -- Damon L

Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006 21:42 schrieb Damon L. Chesser: I to, have seen this issue. I did not pursue it as it was a total surprise to me to even seen it work at all! I just kept using my pcmcia Proxim Gold card. I look forward to following this thread

Re: Thank you for your email.

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your email. Rick Vidallon VISIONEFX website: http://www.visionefx.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 757.619.6456 office: 757.963.1787 instant messenger: msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aol: rickvida Errr, your

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
u want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. That is how aptitude works. Try apt-get, it does not try to be as smart as aptitude does and will just do what you ask of it. Also worth noting is the fact that you might have dependency issues preventing somethings from being updated, I did not look

Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006 21:42 schrieb Damon L. Chesser: I to, have seen this issue. I did not pursue it as it was a total surprise to me to even seen it work at all! I just kept using my pcmcia Proxim Gold card. I look forward to

Re: Problems installing BRUB with RAID5

2006-10-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Chris Willard wrote: Hi All, I have a pc with 3x40GB IDE drives. I have 2 RAID 5 devices setup- /dev/md0 = 3 x 38GB as / /dev/md1 = 3 x 2GB as SWAP Debian base installs OK but when I get to the Grub installation I get a "Fatal Error" message. I am telli

Re: Problems installing BRUB with RAID5

2006-10-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Scott Lair wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Chris Willard wrote: Hi All, I have a pc with 3x40GB IDE drives. I have 2 RAID 5 devices setup- /dev/md0 = 3 x 38GB as / /dev/md1 = 3 x 2GB as SWAP Debian base installs OK but when I get to the Grub

Re: manage multiple debian machines

2006-10-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
appreciated. CFEngine: http://www.cfengine.org/ http://www.debian-administration.org/tag/cfengine Steve Great links, thanks! I have often wondered on how to manage a debian network (not yet a concern, but it is an interest to me). -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
show up as being upgradeable? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
menu, I use the debian menu, and there is xshells>X terminal , but I agree, you should have a term top layer of the menu. But that is JUST my opinion. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ou happen to name it something that matches a apt-getable kernel. Real nice. I hope that helps. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ht, but as far as I know, it is NOT included by default in any Linux. Nos Suse, not FC, not Ubuntu, not Debian, not any I have tried. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Steve Lamb wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: No, you are right, but as far as I know, it is NOT included by default in any Linux. Nos Suse, not FC, not Ubuntu, not Debian, not any I have tried. Mepis? One of my on-again-off-again projects is to drop Windows for my gaming platform

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Bruno wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob (Dell Aspire 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600 for which I had to install different stuffs fglrx and ati as it was not able to

Re: help

2006-10-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Yura wrote: Just guessing: "help, my email program strips all text! What can I do to fix this issue" Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 10:53 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: You are right. It is not. Nor are the w32codecs you need to watch video. Nor are they included in any distro I know of due to legal reasons, by default. This is not a Debian issue, it is a Linux/DRM/Copy right

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ackage with dpkg and "--force-depends". How do you install the nvidia installer? Every time I use it, I have to re-run it at boot time to get it to work. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-31 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:12:37 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [...] How do you install the nvidia installer? Every time I use it, I have to re-run it at boot time to get it to work. My guess is that you had the Debian nvidia-* packages installed at some

pci_set_power_state reasserting

2006-11-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
:09.0: state=3, current state=5 Nov 3 10:58:38 Dam-Main last message repeated 120 times -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
roken. If the display manager is not broken then gdm/kdm should also work. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pci_set_power_state reasserting

2006-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00 Dam-Main kernel

Re: pci_set_power_state reasserting

2006-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00

Re: crazy screen

2006-11-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
etc/X11/xorg.conf then reboot. I find it doubtful that just running an external screen damaged your video card. Most likely your xorg/xserver config file changed or your fn-F8 is in the wrong position. It is possible your card is damaged though. This test will prove that, one way or another. HT

Re: crazy screen

2006-11-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:53:58AM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, I have just launch a diagnose software provided by Dell: the video memory seems corrupted (error in writting or reading). two days ago I plugged my daily updated

Re: pci_set_power_state reasserting SOLVED

2006-11-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00 Dam-Main kernel

Re: Lenny?

2009-02-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
site update and > upgrade/installation documentation come up? Can I change "etch" to > "lenny" in my sources.list to upgrade? > > Thanks, > Girish. > > -- > Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com Offically released Today, Sunday, February 15, 2009. -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser

Re: Using projector on D630 (debian lenny+xfce)?

2008-09-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
if you plugged in the monitor/projector after you powered up the lappie and entered X first. Now, I don't know the version of xrandr in Lenny, so perhaps this will not work, but I think it will. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UN

Re: Odd question about CUPS

2008-09-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
se it was a kernel bug in the tcp stack. The work around was to set in /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.tcp_frto = 0 you can test this by echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/frt0 I have no idea if this is the same issue, I am just guessing. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto post configure a debian installation

2008-09-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ow. > > Regards, > Santanu Chatterjee > > Well, for apt configuration there is apt-config For the network, there is a tool called network-config that has a cli component. Man network-config. This can allow you to, in one command, set up your ethX with DNS, IP, GW, etc etc.

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
offering alternatives that also are fine products and work. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 10:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> VMware's vmserver 2 is out. > >> > >> Anybody figure out how to use w

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ew version. Problems? Just use apt/synaptic/dpkg to uninstall it. I have never (but once during a 25 kernel IIRC) had to use the famous any-any patch using this method. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 15:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> VMware's vmserver 2 is out. > >> > >> Anybody figure out how to use wget t

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 18:28 -0400, David Sanders wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > @dam-main:~$ uname -r > > 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 > > > > @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware > > ii vmware-workstation6.5.0-110

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-26 Thread Damon L. Chesser
> > > Ah, that's the workstation. I was talking about the server. > > Hugo Yes, it is, but I have done server as well. Workstation is what I have installed now. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 18:25 +, Michael Perry wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: > > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> @dam-main:~$ uname -r > >> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 > >> > >> @dam

Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
good (there is a bug against it: kernel-packaged eaten by bit rot). I have not kept up on "current" methods, I just stuck with one that worked. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Kerberos with LDAP backend / Replace active directory

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Not sure if that answers your question, but it is a start on getting an LDAP server up and running with kerberos authentication. Then you can work on the SAMBA part and plug in LDAP. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 10:20 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 11 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:52:09 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 03:32:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > I've *never* had a DD get hostile with me. Ignored? Yes. But >

Re: Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 17:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:23:37, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > [...] > > > Is kernel-package still considered good (there is a bug against it: > > kernel-packaged eaten by bit rot). > > > > I have not

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
t for each LV_X you made, mount it as the point you named it. Finish and write changes to disk. I would NOT select any vfat or ntfs partitions here. Every time I do, the patitioner pukes (anaconda, DI, they all do). Wait until you have a system installed then edit fstab to add them. man LVM

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ize the fs smaller, then lvresize smaller. You can now add the unused extends to the small root: lvextend -l SOMEEXTENDSNUMBER /dev/VGName/LVName resize2fs /dev/VGName/LVName HTH -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:26 +0200, Johannes wrote: > On 2008-10-14 22:01, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Google lvm tldp for the howto. > > or just: > > # aptitude install doc-linux-html > > $ iceweasel /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/LVM-HOWTO/index.html & > >

stupid nautilus question

2008-10-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
work and it worked in XFCE. I stoped using XFCE due to massive memory leaking. How do you get that function working and if it does not work, what is the typing supposed to be for? It is much faster to typ /path then to use the point and click navigation. Don't make me go to KDE! -- Da

Re: stupid nautilus question

2008-10-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 22:24 +0100, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > On 18/10/08 16:15, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Here is a stupid nautilus question: > > > > you can open (in browser mode) nautilus and start typing, > > say, /usr/share/doc and a small window opens on the

how to disable unused sound chip

2008-11-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
onboard sound card. How to I use udev (and hotplug?) to disable this unused ATI sound chip and to select my onboard Nvidia sound chip? -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to disable unused sound chip

2008-11-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:07 +0200, Juha Tuuna wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > ... > > How to I use udev (and hotplug?) to disable this unused ATI sound chip > > and to select my onboard Nvidia sound chip? > > Try /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > Add the ATI module

Re: how to disable unused sound chip

2008-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:58 +1000, Bob wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:07 +0200, Juha Tuuna wrote: > > > >> Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> > >>> ... > >>> How to I use udev (and hotplug?) to disable

dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
m not running that tool. What is overwriting my resolv.conf and how do I keep the correct data while using static IP? -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: > On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Lenny, I am not running that tool. What is overwriting my > > resolv.conf and how do I keep the correct data while using static IP? > > Is the 'resolvconf'

Re: resolv.conf issues

2008-11-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
This message has been sent twice. Resending it after changing the Subject to see if spam filters are hitting me. Was Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues. On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: > On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Lenny, I am not running

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 23:23 -0700, green wrote: > On Wed, 2008.11.19, 324, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > > On Lenny, I am not running that tool. What is over

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 02:13 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > ... > > > > Both run current Lenny. A pulls it's dns from what looks like my home > > > > router. B does not. I might have put that dns

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
about 10 to 15 years, and I'm at 117GB atm. I > spent most of the day yesterday to clean it up and sort some things > out, and that reduced it from 120GB to 117. I still haven't figured > out what takes up so much space ... SNIP See package Filelight. Very useful to "see&qu

not all messages getting through to the list

2008-11-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
in email nor on the website lists.debian.org/debian-user resending to the list and the maintainer on November 28th, 12:08 EST USA -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

new email test to debian user

2008-12-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
sent 4:18 PM, EST 12/1/08 and I am subscribed to whitelist. -- Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new email test to debian user

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 16:19 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > sent 4:18 PM, EST 12/1/08 > > and I am subscribed to whitelist. > > > -- > Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Testing for my rely. Sorry for the noise, there will be no more follow ups by me

Re: new email test to debian user

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:34 +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 21:03:36 -0500, Damon L. Chesser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > Testing for my rely. Sorry for the noise, there will be no more follow > > ups by me if this goes through > > > > 1

Re: new email test to debian user

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:34 +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 21:03:36 -0500, Damon L. Chesser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > Testing for my rely. Sorry for the noise, there will be no more follow > > ups by me if this goes through > > > > 1

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