Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Ken Hu wrote: Thanks for your information, I will give it a try. Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP You're never safe when using windows... /magnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

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

2007-07-08 Thread Magnus Pedersen
David Fox wrote: Subject line pretty much describes the situation. I've even purged and reinstalled amarok, but this still brings up an error when I try to play an mp3 file. Install libxine1-ffmpeg, i just incountered this "bug" as well, the upgrade to amarok 1.4.6 and the updates to the xine

aptitude hanging

2007-07-09 Thread Magnus Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude --version aptitude 0.4.5.4 compiled at Jul 3 2007 15:14:18 Compiler: g++ 4.1.3 20070629 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-13) NCurses version: 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.17 If I start aptitude in interactive mode and installs packages and/or updates it hangs when it's do

Re: aptitude hanging

2007-07-09 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Magnus Pedersen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude --version aptitude 0.4.5.4 compiled at Jul 3 2007 15:14:18 Compiler: g++ 4.1.3 20070629 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-13) NCurses version: 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.17 If I start aptitude in interactive mode and installs packages and/or

Re: aptitude hanging

2007-07-10 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Daniel Burrows wrote: Several people have reported that their problems go away if they remove libc6-i686. I don't know why this should be, but I'd be interested to know if you see the same behavior. Daniel I do, just removed libc6-i686 and aptitude responded after an update. btw, I have

Re: Building fglrx on Lenny

2007-07-11 Thread Magnus Pedersen
koffiejunkie wrote: I just noticed that kernel 2.6.21 is available in Lenny. Finally - my CPU fan will work correctly! So I have one problem, building the fglrx module fails with this message: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1 modules FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko use

Re: KDE Default action for audiocd

2007-07-15 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Paul Johnson wrote: If I accidentally tell KDE to automatically do the same thing when an audio CD is inserted, but I no longer want it to do that action, how do I go back and change it again? Control center -> Peripherals -> Storage Media -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

logitech dinovo edge

2007-07-15 Thread Magnus Pedersen
I'm playing with my new keyboard and it mostly just works. With kernel 2.6.21 the built-in mousepad works and most og the specialkeys work. I've used lineakd to make them do useful stuff. But there are still some keys that doesn't work. I get no output when I try them in xev nor in dmesg. Wha

Re: ATI 3D Rage and /dev/video0; was /dev/video0.

2007-07-15 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Helen Easthope wrote: Folk, At Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:10:30 -0400 Steve Reilly wrote, "IVTV package should provide everything you need." OK. I've installed ivtv-modules-2.6.18-4-686, libvideo-ivtv-perl, ivtv-utils, xserver-xorg-video-ivtv, and ivtv-modules-2.6-686. I might be wrong, but as I r

libcbtsysinfo in /home/user

2007-07-27 Thread Magnus Pedersen
I have a new dir in /home/magnus, /home/magnus/cbt and I have not put it there. It contains cbt/lib/libcbtsysinfo_0.so and google draws a blank on that filename. Has my system been compromised (theres is nothing out of the ordinary anywhere else) or is there something I have missed? /Magnus

Re: libcbtsysinfo in /home/user

2007-07-27 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:43:28PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: I have a new dir in /home/magnus, /home/magnus/cbt and I have not put it there. It contains cbt/lib/libcbtsysinfo_0.so and google draws a blank on that filename. Has my system been compromised (theres

Re: libcbtsysinfo in /home/user

2007-07-27 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:19:38PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > which while its obviously for windows, show the same storage path ($HOME/cbt/lib/). It looks to be a very new thing, so if it is some sort of malware and is so new (July 12) then perhaps it does ex

Re: libcbtsysinfo in /home/user

2007-07-27 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:38:46PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > What is the timestamp of the file? What were you doing then? The file is from the 24th of this month, where the computer was off, so that is no help, unfortunately :-/ And the new directory sho

Re: libcbtsysinfo in /home/user

2007-07-27 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Anson Gardner wrote: fix the problem. You may have malware running amok now. Doug. I know, there is nothing suspect in top though, it seems that it is only this one useraccount that is affected. There are no weird directories in the other accounts or in otherplaces on the system. /Magnus

Re: libcbtsysinfo in /home/user

2007-07-28 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I don't think I've been rooted, but there is definitely something fishy going on with my useraccount. But you are of course right, everything could have been patched if I have been rooted... if you really need to get a handle on these things, without taking your bo

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi all, After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move everything else over shortly. Right now, I've

Re: Organising MP3 Files into folders

2007-08-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Adam Gray wrote: Basically while backing up my system I used my iPod to back up my music collection, which used to be neatly sorted into folders with artists & albums. Then when downloading it again with gtkPod I was left with one directory containing a lot (~3000) of files. Anyone know of any mu

Re: Organising MP3 Files into folders

2007-08-17 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Magnus Pedersen wrote: Adam Gray wrote: Basically while backing up my system I used my iPod to back up my music collection, which used to be neatly sorted into folders with artists & albums. Then when downloading it again with gtkPod I was left with one direc

Re: Installation process Debian Etch

2006-12-03 Thread Magnus Pedersen
aa dd wrote: I want to install debian etch. Now installation process is asking for domain name, what should I give? I don't have a domain setup. I've 4 winxp computers under a workgorup named Workgroup. So do I keep the field for domain name empty in the installation process? If i use a madeup do

Re: Problem with installation

2006-12-19 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Manoj Shukla wrote: Hi, I am trying to install the unofficial Debian-AMD64 Sarge release on AMD64-dual core system with 4GB RAM using DVD image. It appears that the keybord is not being recognized at the screen asking for "Choose Language". Please let me know the solution. Thanks Manoj Shuk

Re: ETCH Installation succes :-) WAS: New Debian User

2006-12-20 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Niels Rasmussen wrote: Well didn't know what happened :-) Guess the RAMS didn't emptying itself at first, but today when I want to solve to "X aborting" thing, the Gnome suddenly appear on the screen :-D Oh boy !! This is what have wanted for so long ! Debian on my own box !!! The instal

dpkg-buildpackage, debian etch, beryl

2006-12-29 Thread Magnus Pedersen
I'm trying to build .debs of beryl: http://beryl-project.org . I can build the source without problems with : ./configure make But when I try to build with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot I end up with a lot linies like this and an error: /home/magnus/Desktop/beryl/beryl-core-0.1.4/libberylsett

Re: dpkg-buildpackage, debian etch, beryl

2007-01-01 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Adam Porter wrote: Magnus Pedersen wrote: I'm trying to build .debs of beryl: I can build the source without problems with : ./configure make But when I try to build with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot I end up with a lot linies like this and an error: /home/magnus/Desktop/beryl/beryl

Re: dpkg-buildpackage, debian etch, beryl

2007-01-01 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Adam Porter wrote: Magnus Pedersen wrote: I'm building from the 0.14 release tarballs and this is my buildcommand and path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/beryl/build/beryl-core-0.1.4$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot The final error looks like this: /home/magnus/Desktop/beryl/build/beryl

Re: Does XFS work with LVM?

2007-01-07 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Marko Randjelovic wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: That is correct. You cannot make XFS shrink, only grow. However, this does not prevent you from using it on LVM. You just can't make the logical volumes any smaller, only larger. Out of curiousity, why XFS? Why not ext3? And why ext3? I

Re: store the output of wget in a different directory

2008-03-28 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to store the output of wget in a different directory than the current directory in one single command. Say I am in dir1. Instead of doing wget http://url1 mv url1 dir2 Is there any way to achieve it in one shot? I looked at the man

Re: best way to secure communication?

2006-05-17 Thread Magnus Pedersen
lee wrote: Hi, what's the best way to secure IM-like communication? One way I could think of is using ssh and then talk (or some equivalent), another idea was to run an irc server like ircd-hybrid and use ssl. But I don't exactly want to have other users log in via ssh (letting aside that there

naming of linux-image package

2008-06-22 Thread Magnus Pedersen
On http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 I can read the following: Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 (2.6.25-5) The 2.6.25 I get, but what is the difference between the -2 and the -5. My guess is that the -x is the debian build version, but why the different numbers? /Magn

Re: naming of linux-image package

2008-06-22 Thread Magnus Pedersen
David wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 I can read the following: Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 (2.6.25-5) The 2.6.25 I get, but what is the difference between the -2 and the

Re: New Graphics Adaptor (a bit off topic?)

2008-07-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-07-29T14:03:43, Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:47:52PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: Yes. And I confirmed that the settings are saved. (Its not a stupid question. There aren't any stupid questions!!!) If a chicken-and-a-half lays an egg-and-a-half

Re: No internal mic on the dell XPS M1330 laptop

2008-08-21 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi, I am unable to get the internal microphone to work on my dell XPS M1330 laptop. Has anybody succeeded in doing so? For the obvious answers: yes, I have googled, and have tried lots of different settings in "option snd_hda_intel model=..." settings in /etc/modprobe.d

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed but computer is still on (ie. fan is running..etc..) and I have to remove alimentation (s

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Bruno Costacurta wrote: On Sunday 30 July 2006 16:53, Magnus Pedersen wrote: Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. Difficult to give more details as nothing

Re: kopete subscript

2006-07-31 Thread Magnus Pedersen
roberto wrote: hi there i wonder if it is possible to write in kopete something like it is possible in messenger or probably also in gaim, i mean the subscript under the "display name" something like this: my_name (away from computer) hi guys, this is my funny display name ! i use kopete 0.10

Dell xps 1330 laptop, problems with multimediakeys.

2008-04-05 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Hello :-) I have debian testing on my new dell laptop, it has a number of specialkeys, play/pause, stop, forward and so on... I have made them useful with lineakd and it works, sort of... When i press one of the keys they are very sensitive and the result is that if I press play 5-7 instances

Re: Dell xps 1330 laptop, problems with multimediakeys.

2008-04-05 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 11:04:28PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: Hello :-) I have debian testing on my new dell laptop, it has a number of specialkeys, play/pause, stop, forward and so on... I have made them useful with lineakd and it works, sort of... When i

xine, amarok and missing demuxer. Debian testing.

2008-04-07 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Hello gurus... Amarok stopped playing mp3s and oggs all of a sudden, checked if libxine-ffmpeg had disappeared but it is still there, when I try to play an mp3 or ogg this is my output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gxine -v music.mp3 load_plugins: skipping unreadable plugin directory /home/magnus/.xine

Re: xine, amarok and missing demuxer. Debian testing.

2008-04-07 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Magnus Pedersen wrote: Hello gurus... Amarok stopped playing mp3s and oggs all of a sudden, checked if libxine-ffmpeg had disappeared but it is still there, when I try to play an mp3 or ogg this is my output: What am I missing?!? /Magnus Hm, I rm -Rf ~/.xine/ that helped. must have

unison on testing and stable

2008-04-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
I'm using unison to keep my Docs, my music and my pics in sync between my laptop, my desktop and my server. The laptop and the desktop are running testing and the server is running stable. With the latest upgrade of unison in testing the version in stable and testing no longer want to speak to

Re: unison on testing and stable

2008-05-01 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Sylvain Le Gall wrote: Hello, On 30-04-2008, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using unison to keep my Docs, my music and my pics in sync between my laptop, my desktop and my server. The laptop and the desktop are running testing and the server is running stable. With

Re: shutdown - md0 busy

2007-04-05 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Artem Zolochevskiy wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So what do you see on the screen after the Stopping MD array md0... failed (busy) line? Will now halt md: stopping all md devices md: md0 still in use Syncronizing SCSI cache for disk sda Syncronizing SCSI cache for disk sdb Syncronizing SC

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread Magnus Pedersen
David Dawson wrote: I'm running Debian Testing and trying to set up a Logitech Quickcam Chat. it supposedly uses the spca5xx driver and is alleged to work. I have installed the driver with module-assistant. I have noticed that suddenly, the /dev/video* devices are not present (they exist only in

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread Magnus Pedersen
David Dawson wrote: Thanks! ... What does dmesg give your right after: - you plug in the device? This: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice - you modprobe the module? This: Linux video capture interface: v2.00 us

Re: really dumb question

2007-04-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
steef wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 07:59 +0200, steef wrote: hi, where can i find the driver for a rtl8139 (chip) realtek networkcard under etch? [i used to load them under woody from the modconf list, but cannot find the driver there] 8139too thanks, greg

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070416 13:28]: I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. The smaller Creative players are ti

Re: Touchpad Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Michael Pobega wrote: After a long fight with an offline install of Debian, I decided to give up and do a netinstall. The new installation is working PERFECTLY, with just one hitch; My touchpad doesn't work right. The touchpad doesn't seem to be configured in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and therefore I

Re: IFConfig location

2007-05-02 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: Why is IFConfig in "/sbin"? Now I have to run it as "/sbin/ifconfig" everytime. Moving it to "/bin" will allow non-super users to get information about networking easily. put /sbin in your path... /Magnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Ffmpeg and Ipod

2007-05-12 Thread Magnus Pedersen
hackarre wrote: Hello everyone! I'm quite new in Debian, I used to use Ubuntu. Everything is great but the problem is to convert my videos to the ipod format. I've heard about many programs doing that function, such as thinliquidfilm, avi2palm... OK but all of them need ffmpeg configured to enab

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-13 Thread Magnus Pedersen
David wrote: Hey, I am trying to install this .bin file from my desktop "jre-1_5_0_09- linux-i586.bin" I want to change it into a .deb package file so its easier to install. what im doing now is opening up the terminal the file is on my desktop, so i type "cd /home/usr/Desktop" then i type "fak

Re: How to get the original configuration of a package

2007-05-17 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Gang Qin wrote: Dear All, Recently I accidentally deleted the directory: /etc/apache2, could anybody help me to restore the original one when I first got by "apt-get install apache2"? Thanks. Sincerely, Gang You can try to purge the package and then install it again. Perhaps dpkg--reco

Re: Icedove

2007-05-22 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Andrew. Andrew Sackville-West, 22.05.2007 19:53: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:42:07PM +0100, andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:17:36AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: Icedove/testing appears to be seriously broken. […] A What version I

Lenny, aptitude and md5som problems

2007-06-02 Thread Magnus Pedersen
I've been getting the following error when i try to: aptitude upgrade E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.5-9_all.deb: MD5Sum mismatch I get the same eroor with doc-linux-text. These errors are blocking any other upgrades, am I the only one seeing t

Re: Lenny, aptitude and md5som problems

2007-06-02 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 02:17:48PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: I've been getting the following error when i try to: aptitude upgrade E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.5-9_all.d

Re: Lenny, aptitude and md5som problems

2007-06-02 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 04:19:38PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: That helped, thanks. How to make a "bugreport" on a mirror? the doc-linux-text package have been sick for about a week. Don't bother. Ok, if I understand you correctly the nest

Re: Commandline FTP tool to sync mirror @ISP

2007-06-17 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, unfortunatly my ISP allow only FTP and it is not realy easy to update the FTP/Webspace by hand. What I need is a full automated FTP commandline client which can sync my local mirror (Laptop) with the ISP. I mean, not only upload files but deletiong fils on the IS

Re: how to exclude a package

2007-06-24 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Chuck Payne wrote: Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am no

Re: kdesu woes

2006-10-22 Thread Magnus Pedersen
HXC wrote: I recently installed Debian Etch with kde. Kdesu unfortunatly has an serious bug. It won't accept the password. Is there a known workaround for this bug? No, but it is a known bug and as i remember kdebase is at 3.5.5-1 in etch right now and the fix is in 3.5.5-2, so, you could ei

http://packages.qa.debian.org/ down?

2009-08-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Have I missed something? I'm not able to connect to http://packages.qa.debian.org/ ? /Magnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: http://packages.qa.debian.org/ down?

2009-08-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-16 10:16 +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > >> Have I missed something? I'm not able to connect to >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/ ? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure- announce/2009/08/msg0.html > > Note

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-10 Thread Magnus Pedersen
David Fox wrote: > b) spilling the > content into a multiregister add/adc pair. :) ...or your coffee into the keyboard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-10 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM: >> > Hi >> > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep >> > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just >> > won

Matroska tag editor

2009-04-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Greetings. I have a series of .mkv files with wrong tags, are there a simple tool in debian that can re-tag them without remuxing them? /Magnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Matroska tag editor

2009-04-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: Greetings. I have a series of .mkv files with wrong tags, are there a simple tool in debian that can re-tag them without remuxing them? maybe have a look at mmg Will do, thanks. /Magnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-25 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Micha Feigin wrote: I've installed virtualbox from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian on my debian unstable. I'm trying to connect a usb device to that machine (a usb camera at the moment). It appears under devices->usb devices->camera 0100 but it is grayed out and I can't mark it.

Re: virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-25 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Magnus Pedersen wrote: already, but are the permessions in /proc/bus/usd rw before you start That would be permissions and /proc/bus/usb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: VNC Server?

2009-04-25 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Depo Catcher wrote: What's the "linux" way of installing a Tight VNC Server? On windows, I just run the exe; on freebsd I just install for ports and/or packages. Both take under 3 minutes. I try 'apt-get install tightvnc' and it failed, saying there isn't a Debian package for this? .. that i

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-28 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Matteo Riva wrote: Hello everybody. I have been using Debian for a while, I had an old system which went through many dist upgrades and I always played with testing and unstable stuff, even before I actually knew what I was doing. Now since I'm running a fresh and "clean" Lenny install I'm here

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-04-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Rob McBroom wrote: On 2009-Apr-29, at 2:40 AM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: I wouldn't mix stable and testing, get XFCE from backports if it is available or run testing. Someone on another list once told me: "As long as you can install the package from Debian unstable directly

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-22 Thread Magnus Pedersen
thveillon.debian wrote: H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: I refuse to run a mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than enough. I'm not using the applications that would require t

Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-07 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/06/08 11:40, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi. Im running Lenny on two computers, and have been very happy with it. Nothings ever really been broken, so i dont think that a "stable" version is necessary for what i need. I dont really want to go "unstable"--the name alo

Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-07 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Ron Johnson wrote: Repeat the Litany Against Fear as often as needed: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to se

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: Hi, I originally posted about installing Gnome (and X) on a base setup to avoid the entire 'Gnome Experience' inclusive of the web browser I don't use, mail/news client I don't use, the 17 games I won't play, etc... I've totally screwed my system trying to remov

Re: NVIDIA Twin View

2009-01-30 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Julian De Marchi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey All, I have hooked up a second monitor to my Debian Lenny system. It is using the NVIDIA driver on the 2.6.27 kernel. When I use the NVIDIA system util to activate the second display, the configuration does not stick. By

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor in Linux

2007-11-11 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Jerry Wong wrote: I am using Debian Etch and want to buy a wireless USB Adaptor for connecting to Internet. Please tell me your choice and the performance. Many Thanks. The wl-167g from asus uses the rt2570 driver witch is available via moduleassistant. I use it with no problems on a couple

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor in Linux

2007-11-11 Thread Magnus Pedersen
William Thomas wrote: Magnus Pedersen wrote: The wl-167g from asus uses the rt2570 driver witch is available via moduleassistant. I use it with no problems on a couple of debian machines. Did you manage to compile the driver with module-assistant? It didn't work for me. I had to compil

Re: lossless rotation in konqueror

2007-11-13 Thread Magnus Pedersen
H.S. wrote: Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:05:53 -0500 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, When I rotate an image in Konqueror, is the rotation lossless? I have a few gigs of photos which I cannot import as an album into my digikam (not enough space in /home). So I am tryin

Re: [solved] ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?

2007-11-25 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst™ 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going backwards? Is 7.11 really the LATE

Re: strange outbound connection

2006-01-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
johannes wrote: The gui of my firewall reports a strange outbound connection on port 1054 to a strange IP. How could I determine which process matches this connection? How could I determine if this is something worrying? Thanks for any help and links. Johannes netstat -plant | grep 1054

Re: mounting USB pen under 2.6

2006-04-05 Thread Magnus Pedersen
michael wrote: I've had a look around but can't see how to mount my USB pen under 2.6 (stable). I've just upgraded from 2.4 where I had a line in /etc/fstab /dev/sda1/usbkey vfat users,noauto0 0 but under 2.6 my first SATA drive in now /dev/sda1 so I'm confused wha

Re: OT : K9Copy Problems

2006-02-06 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Scarletdown wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:41 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: When I check out the newly created ISO, it is only 2MB, which I know is not how it should be, considering the original was 4.9GB (.2GB too big to fit a SL DVD-R). Apparently, all the ISO contains is the DVD menu. This is

Testing, "could not start kdeinit. check your installation" since yesterdays updates

2006-02-19 Thread Magnus Pedersen
I am seeing this on two machines. It dosn't matter if I use kdm or startx, I get that error in a small window just before the kde-splasscreen. And my syslog is filled with dbuserrors like this: Feb 19 12:29:35 localhost hcid[6842]: Can't send D-BUS inquiry start message Whats up anyone? /

Re: Testing, "could not start kdeinit. check your installation" since yesterdays updates

2006-02-19 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yup, get the libXft 2.1.7 library and replace that shared object library as below and it will work, it is only a hack but it works.. I fixed this by using the lib from a box with libXft2 2.1.7 instead of 2.1.8.2-3. # mv libXft.so.2.1.2 libXft.so.2.1.2-2.1.8.2-3 # scp [EMAIL

Re: USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Andrew Archibald wrote: Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported by the Linux kernel? I am running the latest Debian testing on i386. Currently I use a device supported by ndiswrapper & the windows driver but this situation isn't ideal. For example I have to reinst