Re: Xen. Ohm ohm

2008-06-25 Thread thveillon.debian
Damon L. Chesser wrote : I feel so dirty. I am using vmworkstation because at the time I wanted to learn Linux server things, not vm things. Now I am looking at Xen and it seems interesting. However, I am having a hard time on finding good info (I admit, I am not putting in hours of research

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-30 Thread thveillon.debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Let me add my name to the list of supporters. I originally installed a D-Link but eventually replaced it with the 54GL. I also use the companion Linksys range extender. Larry Looks like Netgear is about to bring us a nice toy : "The high-performance WGR614L, whi

Re: logitech mx600 mouse

2008-07-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Alexandru Cardaniuc a écrit : Hi all! Did anybody manage to make all mouse buttons work under debian linux? That's the mouse that comes in mx3200 keyboard&mouse combo. If yes, can you share how you configured it? Hi, I don't know your mouse but regarding buttons configuration you should rea

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Kent West wrote : Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: H.S. wrote: So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for virtual machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your experiences will be appreciated. I was succesfully used kvm and qemu. There is also 'virtualbox-ose' in Debian arch

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread thveillon.debian
elijah r. wrote : Debian Etch ISO images are available for download, completely free, via the internet, just like those Fedora ISO's you are downloading. I highly recommend you get the single Debian NetInstall ISO. Since you are using a Dial-Up connection, this will be the fastest way to instal

Re: Skype64 or SIP alternative?

2008-07-23 Thread thveillon.debian
> On 07/22/08 21:37, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings, The only deb skype.com has is for i386 and i'm running AMD64. So, i tried using the static version (http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-static) both with "linux32 ./skype" and just running the ./skype but i get the same result: it'll sta

Re: chkrootkit infected ports 2881

2008-08-04 Thread thveillon.debian
Adam Hardy on 03/08/08 14:13, wrote: [...snip] I talked to the support at the hosting company and they looked at the system and said they couldn't see anything wrong with it - but they can re-image it for me which normally costs a fee. Is it worth re-imaging my system and re-installing everythi

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-05 Thread thveillon.debian
Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2008-08-05 07:27 +0200, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, Has anyone played with the swappiness settings of the 2.6 kernel? It looks like the default is set at 60. I was thinking on this new machine I put together with 4 gigs of ram t

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Paul Johnson wrote : On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:28 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: On a Desktop workstation (multimedia edit, 4Gb ram, timer freq being set @ 1000HZ) I've been using 20 for a long time, no problem whatsoever and no swapping at all. How sure are you on that? I've

Xorg update on Lenny killed evdev ?

2008-05-06 Thread thveillon.debian
Hi all, I've just applied a few updates on my Lenny, including xorg-1:7.3+10, and after restarting the x-server my mouse was frozen (completely frozen from the login screen, but the rest of the system works fine including the keyboard). After some testing I found out that using "evdev" as my d

Googleearth mailto: mess .

2008-05-09 Thread thveillon.debian
Hi, I am fighting with Googleearth mailto feature which allows the happy user to send a capture or a link of what is looking at to yet another happy user. Problem is the call this mailto function does is to the $BROWSER (equivalent to x-wwwbrowser ?), and then relying on the browser ability t

Re: I've lost my keyboard repeat.

2008-05-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Barry Samuels a écrit : Since upgrading my Debian Testing system yesterday the keys on my keyboard no longer repeat when held down. I suspect the xserver-xorg packages as this problem occurs in any X application but the keys still repeat normally when in an ordinary text console. I have just

Re: network card change

2008-05-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Kum Gabor a écrit : Hello Everybody! I need a little help with setting up a new network card: I changed mainboard in my computer, and I have new integrated network card, works with forcedeth module, but I don't know how to set up. I tried modprobe forcedeth, but not appears eth0. Can somebody

Re: Assumed bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure

2008-05-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Florian Kulzer wrote : On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 17:20:05 +0200, s. keeling wrote: Uwe Bugla wrote: I am running the latest Debian Lenny / Sid combination and wanted Lenny is testing. Sid is unstable. There is no "Lenny / Sid", except of your making. He is probably simpl

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

2008-05-19 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. The logs showed nothing up to the moment. That hasn't happened since I bought this mobo 3 years ago. It could be m

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

2008-05-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. The logs showed nothing up to the moment. That hasn't hap

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

2008-05-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. The logs

Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?

2008-06-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64? I thought www.blackdown.org was the place to get it but that site does not seem to exist. Any suggestion? Thanks, Bob -- Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics, Concordia University College of Alberta, 7128

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread thveillon.debian
Damon L. Chesser a écrit : On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 01:11 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: - Forwarded message from Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dat

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread thveillon.debian
Damon L. Chesser a écrit : On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:19 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: Damon L. Chesser a écrit : SNIP I'm just an average Testing user, have been for a while, and around me almost every Debian users I know are using Testing, mostly because it&#

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread thveillon.debian
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso a écrit : On 05/06/2008, thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Testing [snip] has always been at least as reliable as Ubuntu. That's not saying much. ;-) But seriously, people, testing is not stable. If you like bugs and can liv

Re: RealPlayer Guidance Needed

2008-06-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Thomas H. George wrote : When an old cpu died I upgraded to a new motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+. I am running the current version of Lenny with a 2.6.24-1-amd64 kernel. I can no longer listen to the audio streams from my favorite radio stations, play the NY Times videos and

Re: iceweasel crashing on bmw site

2008-06-11 Thread thveillon.debian
Ron Johnson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/08 08:24, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hi, is there a way of viewing www.bmw-web.tv without having iceweasel crash? I will report a bug, if these crashes get reproduced by others. Insufficient information: what do

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Ron Johnson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to burn an ISO to a dual-layer DVD+R disk, but these programs instantly error out. growisofs successfully burns the disk, but mplayer and vlc can't read them. Single-layer DVD-R disks work perfectly. Am I miss

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Dietrich Bollmann a écrit : Hi Daniel, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 21:21 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:31:16AM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: Hi, Since weeks I can't update debian sid as apt-get always wants to remove gnome: apt-get dis

Re: Grub2 made my systeum unbootable

2009-07-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Anthony Campbell wrote: > Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub > legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I just get > the message "Grub" and nothing more. > > Looking at /boot/grub with my rescue disk I see all sorts of files I > don't recognize b

Re: Grub2 made my systeum unbootable

2009-07-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 21 Jul 2009, thveillon.debian wrote: >> Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub >>> legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I just get >>> the message

Re: --initrd

2009-08-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Johann Spies wrote: According to the kernel-package README.gz one can use the following command to compile a kernel with an initrd.img: $Get_Root make-kpkg --initrd --revision=3:custom.2.0 kernel_image In the past I could compile a kernel like that and when I install the

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

2009-08-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > > On 8/16/09, Klistvud wrote: >> P.S. I've also noticed that the laptop runs hotter when the free >> graphics driver is used, as opposed to the proprietary ATI one. >> > I also have an HP Dual core 2.1GHz, and it gets kinda to warm during > "idle" work (hovers a

Re: restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

2009-08-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic wrote: > (Sorry for the long re-naming, but I fell the thread should get its > proper name as the issue evolves) > > On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. >> > Thank you, I completely forgot about this one. Two is

Re: restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

2009-08-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic a écrit : > Hello, > > On 8/18/09, thveillon.debian wrote: >> I recently bought a HP 6730s with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 graphic >> chip. I run Squeeze/Sid AMD64 just like you, and with 2.6.26* kernel and >> the associated fglrx I ra

Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd

2009-08-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Peter Crawford wrote: > Squeeze is recently updated. > > Using /etc/network/interfaces, a Linksys USB200M > works as expected. > > To use wicd, the instructions in > http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#OtherGUI > were followed; yet the connection failed. > After "/etc/init.d/wicd restart" thes

Re: Converting Flac to MP3

2009-08-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Mark wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:16:19PM +0100, Gav wrote: > > Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3. > > Preferably taking all the tag information from the flac file and > setting it > > in the MP3 file. I converted my CD collection to Flac

Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd

2009-08-28 Thread thveillon.debian
>Peter Crawford wrote: >> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:12:28 +0200 >> From: thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd > >> for wicd to work you need an empty /etc/network/interfaces file (except lo). > > Yes; as spe

Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd

2009-09-04 Thread thveillon.debian
Peter Crawford wrote: > Tom, > >> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:19:40 +0200 >> From: thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote, >> relates to the default "lastused = True" in wired-settings.conf, if >> there is no "lastused" settings it fails instead of using default >> profile (would look like a bug...).

Re: Nvidia binary driver installation

2009-09-04 Thread thveillon.debian
>o...@larstennstedt.de wrote: > >Hello, > >I have a question about the installation of the binary nvidia driver. >It is a time ago that I used Debian and at that time you could install >the driver with apt-get directly from the non-free repository. I >installed testing/squeeze and sid in virtual ma

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

2009-09-06 Thread thveillon.debian
AG wrote: > Hello > > Sorry if this is too far OT, but I was hoping for some Debian-specific > advice on obtaining and using Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. The > website/ forum provides some linkages to additional campaigns, but after > following their instructions I just can't seem to call the su

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

2009-09-06 Thread thveillon.debian
Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:33:56 +0200 > "thveillon.debian" wrote: > >> AG wrote: > > ... > >> Download add-ons (campaigns but not only) from: >> >> http://www.wesnoth.org/addons/1.6/ >> >> (again for 1.6) &

Re: local linux (debian) support

2009-09-11 Thread thveillon.debian
Patrick Holthuizen wrote : > Hello, > > Since a few weeks I am thinking about the idea to provide support for > Linux in my local neighborhood for people who do not have much > experience with mailing lists, only speak their native language > (non-english) and/or prefer the physical appearance of

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-09-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> I'm curious, why are you indicating use of sudo? It's not even >> installed/configured by default in Debian... > > Ubuntu influence, I'd bet. > > It's offered as an install option, at least it was the last time I instal

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-09-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>>> On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>>>> I'm curious, why are you indicating use of sudo? It's n

Re: Raid disk delimma

2009-09-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi, All > > Somewhere (about 9/15) in my enthusiasm for Debian, Testing up2date > & kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64,--updating I said (y) where I should have said > (q). My system will not boot correctly. It halts with: fsck died with > exit status 8 > > I have 4 disks, 2 in raid

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

2009-09-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Charles wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:47:48 +0100 > Joe wrote: > [snip...] > > > > Well as I said in earlier mail, the Supergrub disk saved my...err..bacon. > It allowed me to reinstall Grub, then I purged Grub-pc (grub2) and was > back in business. > I still fail to understand what went

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

2009-09-21 Thread thveillon.debian
> Frank wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 >> "thveillon.debian" wrote: >> >>> I still fail to understand what went wrong. After the installation and >>> reboot which went OK, I picked the chain option and that's when it all >>&

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

2009-09-21 Thread thveillon.debian
>Ole Toft Jensen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:58:51PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Frank wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 >>>> "thveillon.debian" wrote: >>>> Obviously grub-pc is not ready for primetime yet. On t

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

2009-09-21 Thread thveillon.debian
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2009 09:49:39 Frank wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 >> "thveillon.debian" wrote: >>> The package "os-prober" is taking care of other OS detection, it's >>> "

Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

2009-09-24 Thread thveillon.debian
>Brent Clark wrote: >> On 24/09/2009 15:12, Dominik Smatana wrote: >> Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-14-generic = OK (strange) > > Hiya > > Close your eyes, save yourself time and effort and just use Ubuntu. > > Regards > Brent Clark > > P.s. Ubuntu 9.04 is using kernel 2.6.28-15-generic. > > Hi,

Re: configuring xserver

2009-09-24 Thread thveillon.debian
Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-09-24_22:49:04, Adrian Levi wrote: >> 2009/9/24 Paul E Condon : >>> I just purchased a small LCD monitor. It is 16:9 format and 1366x768. >>> I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg >>> and that program set up the driver for 1024x768, so naturely the letters >>> and graph

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

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

Re: Re (2): configuring xserver [Solved]

2009-09-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-09-25_10:07:22, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> Paul, >> >>> Thanks. gtf gave me a plausible modeline. I editted it into xorg.conf >>> as suggested and it worked. >> If you can spare a few minutes, please post a detail or two. >> It might solve a remotely similar probl

Re: how to add sound to cheese

2009-10-02 Thread thveillon.debian
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I use cheese to create photos and video, it works with my webcab correctly. > But no sound recorded on video I get just animation photos , is it > possible to add sound via cheese ? > > thanks for help > bela Hi, what's the webcam model and make, and what's th

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-05 Thread thveillon.debian
lee wrote: > Hi, > > today I updated my testing installation. Now the 32bit part of the > NVIDIA drivers doesn't work anymore: The installer says it cannot find > the libraries that are supposed to be in > /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/. However, the libraries are there, but when > I try to run them, I

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-05 Thread thveillon.debian
lee a wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 07:41:47PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: > >>> cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 >>> Segmentation fault >>> cat:/home/lee# >> the ia32-libs got seriously reworked has I understand, you can use

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-06 Thread thveillon.debian
lee a wrote : > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:17:53AM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: >> lee a wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 07:41:47PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: >>> >>>>> cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 >>>>> Se

Re: Debian Testing and ext4 :?

2009-10-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Szymon G wrote: > hi > I've got question: can i install Debian Squeezy (installed from one of > those cds > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ > ) be installed properly on ext4 (with seperate /boot on ext3)? i mean: > will it boot properly etc etc? > jus

Re: testing system updates: how often?

2009-10-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > How often do you update your testing? I noticed that leaving your > system as is for couple of weeks and about 200 packages would be > available for updates. I would like to know what would be the > "optimal" updating frequency that would minimise breakages. In th

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Chris Jones wrote: > Being the absolute Joe User > CJ > [apologies for the unethical massive snip, just couldn't resist bouncing on the "Joe User" ;-) ] For those who actually are Joe users : in "joe" (aptitude install joe) do ^T (calling options) V ("Language") Set language and spell c

Re: testing system updates: how often?

2009-10-08 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/7/09, thveillon.debian wrote: >> It also makes the (careful) reading of "apt-listbugs" and >> "apt-listchanges" output easier. >> > Nice packages, worth being suggested for aptitude or synaptic. They work just fine w

Re: When to expect a kernel commit in Debian stable's kernel?

2009-10-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 18:25 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Between releases, stable is only updated to fix RC bugs. > > Does that imply that there is no kernel release within one stable life > cycle? If so, why are there 2.6.30 packages in lenny? > What I'm curren

Re: When to expect a kernel commit in Debian stable's kernel?

2009-10-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 12:42 +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: >> gspca has been inside the kernel since 2.6.27 onward. > > Ah, the missing link, thank you! > >> So from 2.6.27 you don't need any other source package, just userland tools. >

Re: Firefox and sqlite mismatched.

2009-10-14 Thread thveillon.debian
>Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings, > > After yesterday's dist-upgrade i can't run firefox, it'll complain > with "The application has been updated, but your version of SQLite is > too old and the application cannot run." which, thankfully, is a very > clean error message. The problem is i already

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-17 Thread thveillon.debian
>>> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always >>> using the >>> official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and >>> then Etch. >>> >>> Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable >>> Debian version >>> for man

Re: KDE 4

2009-02-21 Thread thveillon.debian
M. Lewis a écrit : > > Following the instructions at > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html > > Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of > other s/w)? > > TIA, > Mike > > > moe:~# aptitude -t experimental install kde4-minimal > Reading package list

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-02-21 Thread thveillon.debian
H.S. a écrit : > Hello, > > I am looking to buy a good webcam for linux. Some of the things I have > in mind are: > 1. Have good low light performance (at least better among the usual > consumer webcams) > 2. Mic built in that works in Linux (Debian Testing, Sid, Ubuntu) > 3. Reasonable price, it

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-02-22 Thread thveillon.debian
> Alex Samad wrote : >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:49:27PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use a Logitech QC Pro 9000, bought it for ± £60, it's expensive but > > you talking about one of these > > 046d:0990 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-02-22 Thread thveillon.debian
H.S. a écrit : > Hello, > > I am looking to buy a good webcam for linux. Some of the things I have > in mind are: > 1. Have good low light performance (at least better among the usual > consumer webcams) > 2. Mic built in that works in Linux (Debian Testing, Sid, Ubuntu) > 3. Reasonable price, it

Re: Logitec quickcam pro 9000 [was: Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')]

2009-02-22 Thread thveillon.debian
> H.S. wrote : > > Okay, bought this one yesterday and so far it is working with xawtv and > skype and luvcview. Did nothing special to have it detected on Debian > Testing. Did install the gspca module for my kernel though, but I am not > sure how it actually helps. > > It low light performance

Re: Logitec quickcam pro 9000 [was: Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')]

2009-02-22 Thread thveillon.debian
> H.S. wrote : > > Got it working in ekiga after installing libpt-1.11.2-plugins-v4l2 > package. Video in kopete is garbled in the top 25% of the video sceen, > the rest being all green. > > > Kopete never worked properly for me with any of my webcams... Even though every other softwares were

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread thveillon.debian
Lisi Reisz a écrit : > Has anyone used this software on Lenny? Etch? Sid? > > http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ > > If you have, may I have some comments? Good, bad or indifferent. > > TIA > Lisi > > Hi, I am using it on Squeeze (not proudly, but it's hard to do without...) with th

Re: Upgrading flashplayer?

2009-02-25 Thread thveillon.debian
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum a écrit : > Hi. Im running...well, I guess Sid. Im using "testing" for my > /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > A few days ago flashplugin-nonfree went away, or something, and i can no > longer get flash to work. I installed flashplayer-mozilla but it doesnt work. > I looked at

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Roger Leigh wrote : > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: So, am I doing something completely wrong here? >>> Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to

Re: kde4 installation problems

2009-02-27 Thread thveillon.debian
raman narasimhan a écrit : > i tried to install kde4 as per the instructions given in > *http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html > didnt succeed, please see part 2, and guide me [snip] > *2. got many broken dependencies: > * > debian:~# *apt-get -t experimental install kde4* > Reading

Re: what does easycam2 really do? and gspca vs uvcvideo

2009-02-28 Thread thveillon.debian
H.S. a écrit : > Hello, > > I came across some websites related to webcam detection and working on > Linux systems which describe a tool called "easycam2". Here are the main > ones: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EasyCam > http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Easycam2 > http://blognux.free.fr/ > > I d

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > Hi, > > I see 2.6.28 made it to Sid. > > Anybody use it with the nvidia closed source driver? > > Hugo > > Hi, I use a 2.6.28 and Nvidia non free driver from their website. It works OK here. (version is now 180.35). Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: OO.o 3.0.1 in Lenny

2009-03-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Frederik Kriewitz a écrit : > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> Aside from official installer (that somehow corrupted, happened to every >> tarball downloaded, don't know why), is there any backports or something? > > It's available in the experimental repository. > > I

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Alex Samad wrote : > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:40:45PM +0000, thveillon.debian wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> >>> I see 2.6.28 made it to Sid. >>> >>> Anybody use it with the nvidia closed source driver? >>> >>

Re: Linux and Assistive Technology

2009-03-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Dancing Fingers wrote : > Hi guys, > I kind of volunteered myself to help do a presentation on Assistive > Technology, for people with disabilities, and Linux. Does any body > know of good linux-specific resources that would help with my > research? > > Thanks. > Chris > > Hi, I'm no expert, b

Re: Debian needs ENTER to continue boot process

2009-03-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote : > Just to complement, > > I must press the ENTER key for many times, or the POWER KEY only once, > it worked as well but I pressed it only once and the boot continue fine. > > Thanks > > > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:26 -0300, Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: >> Hey there, >> >>

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-04 Thread thveillon.debian
Mark Allums a écrit : > Anthony Campbell wrote: > I need driver version 180.29. I have not been >> able to install this, either with the Nvidia installer or with >> module-assistant. Possibly this is because the linux-headers for this >> kernel are not installable (because kbuild for it is not ava

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-05 Thread thveillon.debian
Mark Allums wrote : [snip] >>> You must have the deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list : >>> >>> deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main >>> deb-src http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main >>> >>> To be able to compile, instal build-essentials. >>>

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-05 Thread thveillon.debian
Mark Allums wrote : >> thveillon.debian wrote: >> I don't know about that, but I just checked with the 2.6.28 which is in >> unstable and it doesn't seem to have it's ready made corresponding >> kbuild either, at least aptitude didn't find it for

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread thveillon.debian
>Michael Pobega wrote : > > I am not sure if Debian has anything like Kickstart, but to be fair I > can't think of one time I would have needed it. Debootstrap/dd works > fine whenever I needed to quickly setup a system. Kickstart would just > be a superfluous app I'd never use. > Hi, I just re

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Received that personally, so forwarding to the list... Joe McDonagh wrote : > >>> Hi, I just read an interesting article about FAI [1] (Fully Automatic >>> Installer), which present itself as : >>> >>> "FAI - Fully Automatic Installation >>> >>> I've used FAI and didn't really like it, probab

Re: USplash

2009-03-08 Thread thveillon.debian
Dean Chester wrote : > Hi > I recently installed Usplash for a boot splash screen for my debian > system. I have now removed usplash i think its called and the > splashscreen still exists. Anyideas on how i can fix this? > Dean > > Hi, I don't recall how usplash is working exactly, but I thing

Re: netinstall using 1 wireless usb rtl-8187L

2009-03-11 Thread thveillon.debian
consultores1 wrote : > hello > > does somebody know how to do an installation using a wireless usb > rtl-8187L, which does not need any kind of firmware, it works correctly > with lenny, sid and maybe with any other linux distribution. > > My problem is that the netinstall does not recognize the

Re: scanner stop working after update

2009-03-13 Thread thveillon.debian
>Rainer Kluge wrote : > Enrique Morfin schrieb: >> My system is sid. >> The scanner is epson perfection v100 photo >> >> It was working flawlessly (with iscan). > > Hello, > > Which backend do you use: the one provided by the official Debian > libsane-extras > package or the one from the Avasys

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-03-17 Thread thveillon.debian
>Alex Samad wrote : > > Hi > > Sorry to revive an old thread, but I was wondering if any one has used > Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF > > looking for a pan tilt webcam I can use under linux ? > > Alex > I know that Paulo Assis, developer of the admirable Guvcview http://guvcview.berlios.de/

Re: Latest Power Management tool for AMD64

2009-03-19 Thread thveillon.debian
T o n g a écrit : > Hi, > > My CPU is AMD 64. What's the latest and easiest power management tool for > AMD64? > > powernowd is less complicated than cpufreqd or cpudyn, but I also heard > sayings that the 2.6 kernel ondemand cpufreq governor might be even more > simpler, and there are many ot

Re: Checking the md5sum of a burned CD

2009-03-19 Thread thveillon.debian
M. Lewis a écrit : > > I've burned a CD from a .iso image. Now I want to verify the burning > process worked correctly (there were no errors reported). Note, I > verified the md5sums of the .iso's before I burned them. So now I'd like > to check the burned CD against that md5sum. > > Thanks, > Mi

Re: Checking the md5sum of a burned CD

2009-03-19 Thread thveillon.debian
Paul E Condon wrote : > On 2009-03-19_05:29:17, M. Lewis wrote: >> thveillon.debian wrote: >>> M. Lewis a ??crit : >>>> I've burned a CD from a .iso image. Now I want to verify the burning >>>> process worked correctly (there were no errors repo

Re: Canon HV 20 camera and Debian (firewire)

2009-03-19 Thread thveillon.debian
Peter Krefting a écrit : > Hi! > > Do I need to do something special to get firewire up and running on a > Debian (unstable) install? > > I am trying to get kdenlive working with my Canon HV20 camera. It is a > HDV camera, and I connect it via Firewire. I am not able to get kdenlive > to see the

Re: Canon HV 20 camera and Debian (firewire)

2009-03-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Alex Samad a écrit : > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:49:00PM +0000, thveillon.debian wrote: >> Peter Krefting a écrit : >>> Hi! >>> >>> Do I need to do something special to get firewire up and running on a >>> Debian (unstable) install? >>> >

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Norbert Zeh a écrit : >> I want to install Skype on Debian Lenny amd64 > > I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build > for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any > more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't > remember, t

Re: Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

2009-03-23 Thread thveillon.debian
Frederik Kriewitz a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Matthew Smith wrote: >> Is there a mirror of this anywhere that I can use or is there an >> alternative, not-too-complicated way of doing this? > > Download the 64 Bit plugin from > http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html >

Re: Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

2009-03-23 Thread thveillon.debian
kj a écrit : > Matthew Smith wrote: >> Wow, I didn't know there WAS a 64-bit plugin! Next thing you'll be >> telling me that there's a 64-bit Sun Java plugin too. > Are you ready for this? > > http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp > > I just downloaded the rpm (needed to install it on an RH mac

Re: Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

2009-03-23 Thread thveillon.debian
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <49c7beff.5080...@googlemail.com>, thveillon.debian wrote: >> kj a écrit : >>> Matthew Smith wrote: >>>> Wow, I didn't know there WAS a 64-bit plugin! Next thing you'll be >>>> telling me that there&

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

2009-03-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Javier Barroso wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek >>> wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but

Re: problem with IP Masquerade in etch

2009-03-28 Thread thveillon.debian
Long Wind wrote : > I install shorewall on etch > but I have not found it useful > My configuration is Masquerade that allow client machine to visit only > some sites. > > Can you recommend other frontends? > Hi, FWIW I have used "guidedog" as a masquerading frontend, together with guarddog for

Re: problem with IP Masquerade in etch

2009-03-28 Thread thveillon.debian
Long Wind a écrit : > I don't use KDE > I hate those big software that are not very useful > My requirement is simple: masquerading that allow clients to visit > only some sites. > My script works in sarge! > Is there anyone that can make a few correction to make my script work in etch? > I don't

Re: problem with IP Masquerade in etch

2009-03-28 Thread thveillon.debian
Long Wind a écrit : > "nf_conntrack*" does not exist in "modprobe -l " listing > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:54 AM, thveillon.debian > wrote: >> I don't run Etch, but my guess would be to check the modules names with >> modprobe -l ,

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