Re: configuring ppp and lan

Marty wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. (To be truthful, I still don't know if it will work at the house which also has no mobile signal, but I have a directional antenna with a

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8 year old Windows 98 apps with no problem. Sadly this does not includ

BIOS upgrade

Hi, I need to upgrade my BIOS. Generally it seems to involve getting freedos and putting it on a floppy with the updates. Googling isn't clear on recent reports. Has anyone done this lately and specifically how? Thanks! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: BIOS upgrade

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:35:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I need to upgrade my BIOS. Generally it seems to involve getting freedos and putting it on a floppy with the updates. Googling isn't clear on recent reports. Has anyone done this latel

dist-upgrades sometimes find bugs

Hi, I never thought I'd see this, but my recent Sid dist-upgrade found a bug in my code. It draws CPU temp graphs: http://www.geocities.com/hugovanwoerkom/modtempdisp.12032006.jpeg The generation of the X-axis tickmark labels is in a while loop that is never satisfied. Why did it ever run?

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

Jianwei Xie wrote: Hi. Recently, Firefox has been renamed as Iceweasel @ Debian. After that, when I open any website of google tools, such as google toolbar (http://tools.google.com/firefox/toolbar/install.html) or google notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook/download), Google doesn't recogni

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

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 images be considered to be parked in the repositories? Seems like there have been talk about this, but it

Re: some text not showing up in PS file printed from a webpage

H.S. wrote: Hello, Could somebody help me understand why I am not getting some symbols if I print this webpage: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mastascu/eLessonsHTML/Freq/Freq5.html to a PS file from Mozilla (1.7.12-1.2, on Debian Etch) using gs 8.54.dfsg.1-5? In the ps file, I am missin

Re: Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0 and Java applets

Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, Ever since I upgraded to Iceweasel (Firefox 2.0) while a Java applet is loading the entire browser freezes. Most Java applets aren't very large on the sites I frequent, but the National Weather Service radar loops and satellite loops are rather large, and/or

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hello all, since yesterday evening, firefox is crashing when I log on to the gmail account. This happens across all accounts on my box. I get the following message on the console after it crashes: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:10:43AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I know a workaround: install Firefox 2.o from: > http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ > and your problems will be over. > Beat you to that ;-) Had tried that already. B

Re: intel's lga775 motherboard

Warren Flemmer wrote: Greetings I am having trouble with 3.1r1 and the intel lga775 motherboard. An existing working installation of 3.1r1 panics when in cannot find dev/console on the new board. A new installation fails after attempting to detect the cd-rom drive 'cd-rom couldn't be mounted'.

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Hi All, I Jut bought a new PC (Aldi/Medion-8818). It runs fine with its preinstalled Windows Media Edition. I tried a couple of recent Linux live-CDs (Knoppix 5.0 & latest Ubuntu, both debian-based) and both failed to fully recognize my hardware

USB attached ATA drive: wrong size

Hi, I bought an 80GB ATA drive and an external enclosure for it. I connect it on Sid and I see: ... SCSI device sdb: 66055248 512-byte hdwr sectors (33820 MB) ... running cfdisk /dev/sdb indeed shows 33819.73 MB. But the face of the disk (Seagate) says 80GB. Can anybody shed light on this?

Re: USB attached ATA drive: wrong size

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I bought an 80GB ATA drive and an external enclosure for it. I connect it on Sid and I see: ... SCSI device sdb: 66055248 512-byte hdwr sectors (33820 MB) ... running cfdisk /dev/sdb indeed shows 33819.73 MB. But the face of the disk (Seagate) says 80GB. Can

Boot Debian from USB disk

Hi, There was a HOWTO do this by George Hein on May 12 2006, that shows up on Google but is absent from Debian mailing lists. Roberto answered the post by asking if George would add it to the Wiki. To which there was no answer. I would like to do this but am running Lilo and George ran grub

Re: Hardware: Dynex DX-M300 USB external modem works OK?

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 05:07:15PM -0500, rs wrote: --- On Fri 12/08, Greg Folkert wrote: If you want a USB POTS Modem, get a USB Serial Port dongle, then get a Fully Serial Modem. It is very tough to make an External modem with a (real) Serial port a "Winmodem" and still

smartctl on an USB disk

Hi, I can run smartctl on a SATA disk: smartctl -d ata -A -v 194,unknown /dev/sda but when I run it on a USB disk: smartctl -d ata -A -v 194,unknown /dev/sdb I get: Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) But it *is* an ATA disk. Anybody? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: smartctl on an USB disk

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I can run smartctl on a SATA disk: smartctl -d ata -A -v 194,unknown /dev/sda but when I run it on a USB disk: smartctl -d ata -A -v 194,unknown /dev/sdb I get: Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) But it *is* an

Why multi-seat Debian Sid cannot use the stock kernel.

Hi, Running a multiseat setup is easy with Sid/Etch because it only involves plugging in the hardware (more than 1 videocard/monitor/mouse/keyboard) and configuring xorg.conf + gdm.conf (both attached). It still makes economic sense because the cost of the sum of those 4 things is still less

Re: Unbootable after today dist-upgrade (Sid)

Benjamí Villoslada wrote: Hi, After today dist-upgrade, my Debian Sid doesn't boot: modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.[...]/modules.dep: No such file or directory (4 times) Failed to execute /init Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

kevin bailey wrote: Something I've never known how to do?!?! Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner. Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the various modules were se

Re: xserver-xorg-video-i810 now only displays 640x480 [SOLVED]

Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 16 December 2006 07:33, Alan Chandler wrote: I have just restarted my computer after having been away for a few days and the display has come up in 640x480 mode and that seems to be the only option. I have NOT changed xorg.conf so my guess is that it was a recen

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 12/17/06, stevendemetrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For proper support for 6GB RAM you will have to re-compile the kernel as the Debian kernel-image is compiled for 4GB RAM. When you configure the kernel you can change the settings under the "Processor type and

Re: Etch froze me out....

Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I was running jigdo downloading a DVD image and I had a few other packages and windows open. I left my machine running (Etch RC1) and the screen eventually went dark. I waggled the mouse and tapped the keyboard several times but nothing happene

Re: Edit BIOS settings remotely?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/06 17:36, Kevin Ross wrote: We have a Dell PowerEdge server at a remote location. After a recent power failure, I came to realize the BIOS was not configured to automatically turn the computer on after power is restored.

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

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:22:47PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:56:28PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: [...] Yesterday I downloaded xorg. Today I downloaded some apps (I'm on very slow dialup at 1.5-2.5 KB/s) and alsa. Tomorrow I'll get so

local partition backup with rsync

Hi, I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. It works right with a partition that contains /home: rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 But it does not work right with the partition that I boot into: rsync -av --delete --exclude /home --exclude /usr/local --exclude /hda10 / /hdb

Re: local partition backup with rsync

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:14:19AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. It works right with a partition that contains /home: rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 But it does not work right with the partition that I

Re: local partition backup with rsync

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. It works right with a partition that contains /home: rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 But it does not work right with the partition that I boot into: rsync -av --delete --exclude /home --exclude /usr/local

Re: local partition backup with rsync

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks for the answers. I guess I will try rsnapshot and rdiff-backup because although the rsync job now works OK with --exclude /hdb5, I cannot boot from it: it keeps booting the partition that it came from, although I adjusted /hdb5/etc/fstab

Re: unscientific debian users world survey

Ken Irving wrote: I've been messing around with timestamps and timezones lately, and was curious to see how posts to debian users might be distributed around the globe, as indicated in the message timestamp. My local archive of the du list is far from complete, as I tend to delete a lot of stuf

Re: local partition backup with rsync [MORE INTERESTING!]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. It works right with a partition that contains /home: rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 But it does not work right with the partition that I boot into: rsync -av --delete --exclude /home --exclude /usr/local

Re: ..OT: Watch your snow load!

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/22/06 17:02, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 06:04:45PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:49:53PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..if you anywhere near doubt your roof can take

Re: ..OT: Watch your snow load!

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:53:00AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Roberto writes: Depending on the dimensions of your property, it might be fairly easy to find another vein of ground water. Aquifers are usually quite large. I know that my well is something like four t

yaird quirk in copying partitions

Hi, A while ago I asked about using rsync to copy partitions and told about my problem booting into the copied partition: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/12/msg02273.html I thought it was a lilo problem and found this page: http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/ So I wrote to John Coffman who

[OT]Flaws Are Detected in Microsoft’s Vista

Merry Christmas Debian! I bet they wished they had Linus: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/technology/25vista.html?hp&ex=1167109200&en=ae594036702695c4&ei=5094&partner=homepage Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Boot USB disk xmas present

Hi, I am booting into my USB disk. Key is George Hein's finding on how to run yaird correctly to create an initrd image. I updated his wiki a little: http://wiki.debian.org/USB-HD_Boot_Full_Debian?highlight=%28USB%29 I am having trouble, of all things, with USB connections to the mice and the

Re: Boot USB disk xmas present

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I am booting into my USB disk. Key is George Hein's finding on how to run yaird correctly to create an initrd image. I updated his wiki a little: http://wiki.debian.org/USB-HD_Boot_Full_Debian?highlight=%28USB%29 I am having trouble, of all things, wit

Re: in which deb packet c manual is

Zheng Da wrote: Hello, In my machine, I can use man to lookup socket function, but can't lookup ioctl or strcmp. So which packages I missed? Best regards, Zheng Da manpages-dev Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

muli-user wiki

Hi, I added a multi-user entry to the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading to Etch

michael bailey wrote: I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel) on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III processor. The board appears to be failing now with frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M) and cpu (AMD Athlon 64) have been acquired. However, the new

Re: How to enable mysqlmanager under debian?

kawanokami wrote: Hi, I've searched and googled, but was not able to find information on how to enable the mysql instance manager (located in /usr/sbin/mysqlmanager with mysql 5.0). I need it to manage two instances of mysql I must install on a HP Proliant running debian sarge/etch running a 2.6.

Re: update messages

Digby Tarvin wrote: I am trying to get up the courage to update my debian etch system after a few months of neglecting to do so, but am dreading the thought of some mishap leaving the system unusable. The system was installed back in April, and is on a Fujitsu P7120, and aptitude produces quite

Re: debian wiki manual how-to

Lukasz Szybalski wrote: In case you guys don't know. I have included some how-to's on debian wiki http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto Thanks, Let me know if anything on it is incorrect 1. Manual-Howto 1. Change from dhcp to static ip 2. In

Re: How to enable mysqlmanager under debian?

kawanokami wrote: I have already read the mysqlmanager man documentation, but it really seems not to be debian specific (it rather seems to be the copy of the official mysql documentation). I mean... the /etc/init.d/mysql script doesn't resemble what is described in the man page (it seems to be m

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

ccostin wrote: Now, my personal views: Perl is the Visual Basic of the open source world. It's possible to write good Perl code, but the structure and facilities of the language encourage bad habits and unreadable code. If you want to learn an open source scripting language, learn Ruby or Pyth

Re: Looking for music player software

John Hasler wrote: Sebastian writes: I hold Debian developers in high regard - and, was a bit incredulous that he wasn't aware of Debian's own offerings... Debian has tens of thousands of packages. ...especially such a common application group as music players. Some of us are not interes

Re: missing free space

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:09:34AM +0200, ccostin wrote: For this moment I don't run any qemu instace. But is somenthing similar. When I test an example from php5-imagick package (/usr/share/doc/php5-imagick/examples/resize.php) apache2 "eat" a lot of disk space (a bug

Re: Clone root partition

Digby Tarvin wrote: I did this only yesterday - but in my case I wanted a mirror image of the entire system, not just the root partition. The simplest most bullet proof procedure I could come up with was: 1. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda 2. vi /etc/fstab in the copy and 1,$s/hda/sda/ 3. e

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

Thomas H. George wrote: Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's or DVD's. I tried reading the debian-user archives by subject but they are so extensive it is slow going. Perhaps there is

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's or DVD's. I tried r

Re: root on removable drive

draeath wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to migrate to debian for the upcoming Etch release. I'm currently using Ubuntu. The only thing holding me back is the kernel will panic as / is absent. My partition layout: /dev/hda ( internal HD ) /dev/hda1 NTFS ( windows

Re: root on removable drive

draeath wrote: Thanks guys! Albert took care of me! So what did you end up doing? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samsung SH-S183A DVD-burner support?

Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Hi! I am considering getting an (internal) DVD-burner, Samsung SH-S183A, Internal SATA connected. Does anyone have any experience of it? Will it work on Etch with default kernel? I will use it on a MSI motherboard, MSI K9N NEO-F, nForce 550, SATAII My guess is that

Re: 2.6.14-2-386, missing thermal.ko and initrd

Eddy Parris wrote: Hi everyone and happy new year :) Sometime over the weekend I had a power blip that shut ny debian sarge box down. When i booted it this morning i found this lovely message: Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... FATAL: Error inserting fan (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-386/kerne

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:40:11 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I would like to make my Etch box use less power, but I'm having a hard time consolid

Re: how to copy and/or rip DVDs with Debian?

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 08:10:15PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:48:28AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 19:33 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: I'm using Etch amd64 and the CSS magic lib is not available yet so I can't watch DVDs. So

Re: /dev/fd0 problem

Stephen wrote: Happy New Year ! I did something stupid, when tired and working as root. What did you do? I'm now getting this error when attempting to mount/read a floppy; "Inappropriate ioctl for device" running 'hdparm -Tt /dev/fd0' returns the following; /dev/fd0: rea

Re: acroread on amd64

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:23:59AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does anyone succeeded to run properly acroread on Etch amd64 box ? I have follow the instruction in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq but I get Pango critical messages: in fact it seems that the wrong Pa

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:19:34AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Naturally, since he provided *zero* substantiation for his position (if you could even call it that), I asked if he had in fact used it. Now, I don't consider

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:19:34AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:40:11 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:01:30AM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:30:14 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: Why are you worried about power consumption on a desktop? Hi Doug, Well, a few reasons. It seems like the right thing to do vis-a-vis global sustaina

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Sid upgraded my gtk-gnutella to gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1. And now it does not work. I appear to be firewalled. AFAIK, I have the right ports in my firewall forwarded (shorewall); this has worked for years. gtk-gnutella told me that the version is "too old" (although

Re: Annoying beep!

Chris wrote: Hello, I'm have a testing/unstable system and am using KDE. The system beeps from the PC speaker fairly regularly, although I haven't figured out if it occurs at a regular interval. I've turned off all sounds in system-notifications in the Control center, and I know it is the P

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Gerard Robin wrote: I am afraid I can't help you but I use gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1 too (with unstable) and it works fine for me. Hmm.. maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have a firewall on a separate machine? Anyway I filed a bug about this, and

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Gerard Robin wrote: I am afraid I can't help you but I use gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1 too (with unstable) and it works fine for me. Hmm.. maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have a firewall on a separate machine? Any

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Gerard Robin wrote: I am afraid I can't help you but I use gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1 too (with unstable) and it works fine for me. Hmm.. maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have a firewall

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:21:10PM +, andy wrote: Marko Randjelovic wrote: I think it is memory issue. Programs generally are using more memory with new releases. Use 'free' command to see your memory situation. 'top' can tell you which processes are consumin

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

andy wrote: Łukasz Andrzejak wrote: Hi, On 1/4/07, *Kumar Appaiah* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has slowed the

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature monitor to my panel. I see the temperature is hight around 70-80 C and so

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge? [ RAM recognition solved ]

andy wrote: andy wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:45:40 + andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:18:27 + andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Although the man page will identify as a bug that the info in dmidecod

xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Hi, How would I go about backlevelling xorg to 6.9.0 on Sid? Is it possible? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Hugo. Hugo Vanwoerkom, 06.01.2007 19:44: How would I go about backlevelling xorg to 6.9.0 on Sid? Since there have been a lot of changes from 6.9→7.0→7.1, you should completely purge your current Xorg and install the packages from s.d.n[0]. But why do you want

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > >> Mathias Brodala wrote: >>> Hello Hugo. >>> >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom, 06.01.2007 19:44: >>>> How would I go about backlevelling xorg to 6.9.0 on Sid? >>> Since there have been a

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: I've just installed it and tleds works fine with ,[ /var/log/Xorg.0.log ] | X Window System Version 7.1.1 | Release Date: 12 May 2006 | X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 | Current Oper

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:06:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: I've just installed it and tleds works fine with ,[ /var/log/Xorg.0.log ] | X Window System Version 7.1.1 | Release Date: 12 May 2006 | X Pro

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: I've just installed it and tleds works fine with ,[ /var/log/Xorg.0.log ] | X W

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: However, on the default keyboard they LEDs don't work no matter if my USB keyboard is plugged in or not. So the bottom line is (in my case) tleds works on my laptop only with

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: 1. I start a network intensive task anywhere, e.g. a download 2. Make sure tleds is running 3. I select Alt+Ctrl+F1 and then end up in a VT console #1 I see the LEDs blink 4. I select Alt+Ctrl+F7 and end up in X, whatever I did there before

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Wayne Topa wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I mean this: 1. I start a network intensive task anywhere, e.g. a download 2. Make sure tleds is running 3. I select Alt+Ctrl+F1 and then end up in a VT console #1 I see the LEDs

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

John Hasler wrote: Kevin Mark writes: After geening a snippet of an article on slashdot last year, it said that solar cells are now 48% efficient. Some extremely expensive experimental solar cells are up to 48% efficient. ...it would seem that the cost of investing in solar cells to power co

Re: xorg-6.9.0 on Sid?

Wayne Topa wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Wayne, I have tried that image on Sid, same xorg components, and tleds does *not* light the leds, when I am in X. I changed the tleds code to use X routines instead of ioctl's (which was in the upstream ve

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

Russell L. Harris wrote: Yesterday I read another article bemoaning the large number of Window$ machines which have been commandeered remotely and turned into spam-spewing zombies. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html where I read it Hugo If I understand the matter corre

Re: Iceweasel download manager problem

Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Running latest available Iceweasel on Debian unstable, when trying to save a link the download manager never opens, and the destination file is simply created with size 0 and downloading don't progress. Any ideas welcome. Cordially, Ismael I run Mozilla/5.0 (X1

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

John Hasler wrote: Douglas A. Tutty writes: ...if he has the bandwidth to make keeping up with Sid an option... There is no need to "keep up" with Sid, Indeed. Sid follows me around together with Carlota and Concho... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: a LaTeX question

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online resources. TeX/La

Re: hard disk crash revisiited

steef wrote: dear florian, pinneped and others, thanks to your help (and some further study of myself) did I succeed this afternoon in recovering 50GB of data from a completely crashed hd (see a former thread). dd_rescue and fsck did the job in this case. thanks again for all your help for

fdisk + disk identifier

Hi, When I use fdisk I get back (among others): ... Disk identifier: 0x0843f502 ... Can I get the disk model/type from that? I don't find that identifier in anything that hdparm outputs. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: System freeze in Lenny

Matthew Lennig wrote: I'm experiencing a system freeze-up in Lenny. Which package should this be reported against? Some details: System: Abit AB9Pro motherboard CPU: Intel Core Duo E6600 Memory: 4GB The system boots normally. With very low load, it can run for several hours (e.g., if I ju

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/04/07 13:36, blues wrote: [snip] I appreciate all of the advice...It was way more than I ever expected, but then again, that is what makes the linux community so unique. As for my questioning of MS, they do suck... Blatan

Re: file system check

Tony Heal wrote: There have been times when I have rebooted a system after a couple of months of uptime that the OS automatically does a file system check of all partitions. The message on the screen states that the files system has not been checked in X number s of days. Anyone know where this

dpi changes on the fly

Hi, Running Sid with Nvidia driver 9631. X has always been rock solid, but recently I notice that the DPI settings of the display changes on the fly, when I do: xdpyinfo | grep 'dots per inch' I normally get 110x110. That's what I set it to in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: ... command=/usr/bin/X0 :1 -

Re: dpi changes on the fly

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running Sid with Nvidia driver 9631. X has always been rock solid, but recently I notice that the DPI settings of the display changes on the fly, when I do: xdpyinfo | grep 'dots per inch' I normally get 110x110. That's what I set it to in /e

Re: dpi changes on the fly

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Running Sid with Nvidia driver 9631. X has always been rock solid, but recently I notice that the DPI settings of the display changes on the fly, when I do: xdpyinfo | grep 'dots per inch' I normally get 110x110. That's what

Re: make menuconfig problem

Thomas H. George wrote: I know there is another package which must be installed before make menuconfig will work but I have forgotten what it is. Please refresh my memory. Kernel-package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: X start in low resolution

Misko wrote: When system sturt up it start X server in 1024x768 resoulution but only if monitor is switced on at booting time. If monitor is off than X start in 640x480 resolution. Can this be fixed? In /etc/gdm/gdm.conf I have: ... command=/usr/bin/X1 :0 -layout X1 -dpi 110 -deferglyphs 16

Re: mondoarchive

debian user wrote: I am running Sarge. I apt-get(ted) the stable mondo tools and am trying to use mondoarchive. When doing a test archive for my /home dir, mondoarchive complains of a fatal error: Fatal error. Filesystem cramfs not supported for initrd image. Terminating. Does anyone have a s

New Debian Packages Page

Hi, Has it been mentioned that http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages has a new look? Looks very nice! Somebody did a lot of work. Whoever that person was: thank you! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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