Re: managing audiofiles

2009-03-29 Thread thveillon.debian
Bernard a écrit : > Hi to Everyone, > [snip] > > My question is this : I have recorded a file which is way too long, > since I started the record maybe one hour prior to the meeting that was > the purpose of this work. Now I hope I can trim the record in such way > as to discard the unwanted part

Re: ooo3 Lenny

2009-03-31 Thread thveillon.debian
cesarino vinh a écrit : > And ooo3 on Lenny is to read/write ms office 2007 docs, that's all :D :S > [I just "heard" that I can read/write ms2007 formats with ooo3 :O ?] > > There's a backport : http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openoffice&searchon=names§ion=all&suite=lenny-backports a

Re: pinning not working

2009-03-31 Thread thveillon.debian
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <20090331142022.ga12...@osamu.debian.net>, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> It is tricky but apt-pin only works with >> testing/stable/unstable/experimental/... suite names. > > Technically, > release a= > matches any package where its repository's Release file has: > Sui

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L a écrit : > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > sudo dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.29custom1.0_deb > > Maybe that should sort things out. Let me know if you face further > problems. > > > > > Sorry - i tried to run that command but it g

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > Tom - thanks for the reply - > Do you think that is the issue ??? > I am running mirrored drives for /boot. I can not boot off of lvm. > I have the rest of my drives on software raid5 and i have created lvm > volume groups and put my / filesystem allong with everything else on th

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > > Tom - thanks for the points..but need more help !! please > > I did as you said - > 1. echo -e "raid1\nmd_mod\nraid456" >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules > 2. update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.29 > > and i saw that the modules all loaded successfully. > But i still got the error that i

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > I think i did everything and this is a standard configuration - I did > not do anything too crazy ! > Again - all this is software raid --- the /boot is raid1 and the other > volumes are software raid5 The Raid5 has LVM filesystems. > > here is fdisk -l : > > thor:/home/mjh# fd

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

2009-04-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Hi Folks, > > Here it is, Friday, and my birthday to boot, with one fire on my desk > already, when I discover that a critical server has crashed > > The server is running Sarge (I know, I was just about to upgrade, but if > it ain't broke, why fix it), that just cr

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-06 Thread thveillon.debian
zhang zhengquan a écrit : > Dear debian users, > I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends > laptop running sid, > and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, > I have a system rescue cd that boots well in to another linux on the cdrom. > > I wonder if it is

Re: debian testing

2009-04-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Daniel Dalton wrote : > Hi, > > How stable is debian testing (squeeze)? Is it worth updating to? Or > should I wait a little bit until more development has been done? I used > to run debian when it was testing, so wonder if squeez is this stable? > > Daniel. > > > > Hi, Squeeze is definitely

Re: create and share torrent with transmission bittorrent client

2009-04-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Angelin Lalev wrote : > Greetings, > > Is there some howto or walktrough about how to create and share > .torrent files with transmission client. > Some direct help would be even better. > > I have some big files (to which I legally own the copyright, btw) I > wanted to share. > I did the followi

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

2009-04-20 Thread thveillon.debian
T o n g a écrit : > Hi, > > Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? > > Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically > useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. > http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- > FAQ#Can_I_r

Re: Support for Logitech QuckCam S7500 in Lenny?

2009-04-22 Thread thveillon.debian
James Youngman wrote : > I looked for software to support the LogiTech QuckCam S7500 (a newish > USB web camera) in Lenny. Plenty of stuff appeared to be relevant, > but nothing actually seemed to work (for example, one piece of > software turned out to be for parallel port driven cameras). Wit

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

2009-04-23 Thread thveillon.debian
Felix Miata a écrit : > On 2009/04/22 22:40 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > >> I just installed Lenny for the first time on a system with GeForce4 MX4000 >> AGP. X is coming up on nv driver in 800x600. KControl provides no option to >> up resolution from 800x600 that I can find, nor am I able t

Re: Where/What's the xorg configurator?

2009-04-23 Thread thveillon.debian
Felix Miata a écrit : > On 2009/04/23 22:41 (GMT+0100) thveillon.debian composed: > >> Felix Miata a écrit : > >>> On 2009/04/22 22:40 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > >>>> I just installed Lenny for the first time on a system with GeForce4 MX4000 &

Re: Debian new user (french language)

2009-04-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Jerome BENOIT wrote : > Bonjour, Hello, > > you want to look: > > www.debian.org > > hth, > Jerome > > El Haouari ZOUAGHI wrote: >> Bonjour, >> /Hi,/ >> >> Je suis sur Ubuntu et je songe à songer car la nouvelle version >> d'Ubuntu galère avec ma carte vidéo (ATI mobility radeon X1300). >> /I w

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread thveillon.debian
Randy Patterson wrote : > I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At this > point I'm just researching the various options or ways in going about this > and > in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way a couple > years > ago when I first start

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread thveillon.debian
Randy Patterson wrote : > On Thursday 30 April 2009 09:51:54 Michael Pobega wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:24:43AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: >>> I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At >>> this point I'm just researching the various options or ways in goin

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

2009-04-30 Thread thveillon.debian
Stefan Bellon engraved : > Hi all, > > I've been running Debian unstable on my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 for > more than two years with the proprietary fglrx driver to drive the ATI > Radeon Mobility X1400. > > With a recent upgrade a few weeks ago the fglrx driver didn't work > anymore, so I fell

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

2009-05-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Stefan Bellon wrote : > thveillon.debian wrote: >> you'll be sorry to hear that your card is now a "legacy" one >> according to AMD/ATI. They dropped support for a bunch of card with >> the 9.4 release. > >> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/li

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

2009-05-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Stefan Bellon wrote : > thveillon.debian wrote: > >> So maybe you have another problem on top of that, > > Yes, of course, that's the reason for my posting. > >> some leftovers from fglrx installation that don't go well with free >> drivers, like prop

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

2009-05-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Adrian Levi a écrit : > When trying to install the latest virtualbox-2.2 from the virtualbox > repo I get the following error: > > Cloud9:~# aptitude install virtualbox-2.2 > Reading package lists... Done [...] > 302 Moved Temporarily > E: Failed to fetch > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtual

Re: gimp use

2009-05-04 Thread thveillon.debian
steef wrote : > hi folks, > > i am in africa now with a sometimes not optimal internet-connection in > this region. i cannot properly google: so i put my question hopefully on > the list: > > is it possible with the 'gimp' to scale 160 photographic pictures down > *in one time*? > > thank you ,

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread thveillon.debian
Patrick Wiseman wrote : > I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has > disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far > unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install > those missing dependencies also fail, in particular the following: > > # apt-

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread thveillon.debian
Christopher Judd wrote : > Hi, > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, > and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time > is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather > large itunes library. Does anyone h

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread thveillon.debian
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > I have a Lenovo T61p running an amd64 testing system. Yesterday, my > system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock > LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick > Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel pan

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

2009-05-08 Thread thveillon.debian
gn643202 wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> ... Yesterday, my >>> system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock >>> LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick >>> Go

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

2009-05-13 Thread thveillon.debian
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Raffaele Morelli > wrote: >> +1 >> I build kernel from vanilla sources every time a new RT patch is released. >> >> It's really easy, just take care to the latest changes in kernel-package >> regarding --initrd option. > > Thanks, guys, f

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

2009-05-14 Thread thveillon.debian
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > 2009/5/14 Daryl Styrk mailto:darylst...@gmail.com>> > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:15:42AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > I dumped Network Manager and went with WiCD. No regrets for doing

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Marc Shapiro a écrit : > Mark Allums wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still ne

Re: Skype in Squeeze

2009-05-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Peter Crawford wrote: > After updating Squeeze on 2009-05-19 Skype > crashed when it tried to open the video viewer. > Disabling the video option allows use of audio. > > With any luck this will be resolved or Ekiga will > work again soon. > > Regards, ... p. crawford > Hi, m

Re: Skype in Squeeze

2009-05-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Peter Crawford wrote: > Tom, > >> might be a problem specific to the webcam driver, because here Skype >> works all right on Squeeze (amd64) with an uvcvideo webcam. > > The system here has no camera. Skype crashes as it > tries to open the video coming from the other Skype. > In a developer list

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

2009-05-22 Thread thveillon.debian
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 the >>>

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

2009-05-22 Thread thveillon.debian
Magnus Pedersen a écrit : > 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 >

Re: Correct sudoers file configuration

2009-05-26 Thread thveillon.debian
Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello, > > When I first installed squeeze on my system, and being oblivious as to > the presence of any sudoers file in general, I asked a friend to help me > with the setting up of the sudoers file. I have a sneaking suspicion, > however, that the configuration applied mig

Re: [Fwd: Re: Correct sudoers file configuration]

2009-05-26 Thread thveillon.debian
steef wrote: > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: Correct sudoers file configuration > Resent-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:32:39 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:32:14 +0100 > From:

Re: startx and KDE 4.2.2

2009-05-27 Thread thveillon.debian
GRotfl wrote: > Hi all! > > After upgrade to KDE 4.2.2 I could not start X windows with startx (it > complained that startkde in .xinitrc is not there). I have located startkde > in package ksmserver, which is both in stable and unstable, but not testing. > Also, it is version 3.5.9, not 4.2.2.

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

2009-05-28 Thread thveillon.debian
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > lee wrote: >> For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde >> than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want >> to have to use either of them. > > Isn't startx or startkde supposed to do that? Login at the console and > try

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread thveillon.debian
JoeHill wrote: > lee wrote: > >> the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) >> to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? >> >> Some sites feed the data too slow to watch while it's being fed, so I >> want to download what's being send instead and save it to a file

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Recover data from formatted ext3 partition

2009-05-30 Thread thveillon.debian
Azhagu selvan wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think that post is for **formatted** partition. IMO, A formatted > partition is suppose to be clean(no meaningful data). > > Regards, > Mohan R. > > Yes it has been formatted to ext3. So,does it mean that there is _no > way_ of recovering my

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-31 Thread thveillon.debian
lee wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: >> If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it >> back using the setting panel from Adobe there : >> >> http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashpla

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-31 Thread thveillon.debian
marc wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel said: > >> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a >> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in >> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz). >> >> It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press >> control-alt-backs

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-31 Thread thveillon.debian
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:03:06PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > >> Note to self : disabling "rm" > > The default of both KDE and GNOME is to use the trashcan. There's also > safe-rm. The literal 'rm -rf /' has also been

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-31 Thread thveillon.debian
Rich Griffiths wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:50:11 +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: > > >> Use Firefox "better privacy" >> extension, it can wipe the .macromedia content automatically. >> > >> Tom > > Thanks for this tip. I've been do

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-06-01 Thread thveillon.debian
lee wrote: [big snip] >> Use Firefox >> "better privacy" extension, it can wipe the .macromedia content >> automatically. > > Does that work with iceweasel? Even if it does, I keep the browser > running until the flashplayer crashes. > "better privacy" can wipe out the .macromedia folder content

Re: replacing hard disk

2009-06-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to >> the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install >> any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy >> modified config files, mails, bookmarks, etc? > > If you can connec

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel >> (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to >> 64bits. > > Why? > > I know that 64bit is the future. I have the feeling, however, that many > applicatio

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Klaus Jantzen wrote: > On 06/03/2009 09:05 AM, Rod James Bio wrote: >> Its a Seagate HD. I dont have the exact model number. Now I am >> checking if this is a hardware problem. One thing that bothers me is >> why does 32bit works? >> >> Klaus Jantzen wrote: >>> On 06/03/2009 07:46 AM, Rod James Bio

[going OT] Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

2009-06-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >>>> But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel >>>> (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to >&

Re: Why does a webcam MT6225 not work with Debian?

2009-06-09 Thread thveillon.debian
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Webcam MT6225 which woks with ReHat, Fedora and SuSE but not > with Debian, even if it is detected through v4l. > > Bus 001 Device 017: ID 0e8d:0004 MediaTek Inc. > > and VLC/Ekiga identified it as MT6225. > > Any suggestions WHY it does not

Re: Are there any major issues with Debian testing?

2009-06-13 Thread thveillon.debian
ZephyrQ wrote: > Just picked up a BBuy cheapo that I will lather/rinse/repeat and put Deb > on...just wondering if testing has any major issues that I should be > aware of before I make the jump (my main system runs stable). > > Hi, I have been running testing since Etch, and if most of the tim

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread thveillon.debian
>> On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web >> interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select >> a driver and click on "Add Printer". At that point I am >> prompted for a username and a password. >> > [sn

Re: SATA CD- drive not picked up by system

2009-06-16 Thread thveillon.debian
AG wrote: > Matthew Moore wrote: >> On Monday June 15 2009 2:32:18 pm AG wrote: >> >>> Default DVD/CD-drive that plays media. Sorry - my poor wording. I mean >>> the device doesn't seem to be automounted when I load an optical disk. >>> >>> The applications that play DVD (mplayer, kmplayer, tot

Re: java

2009-06-21 Thread thveillon.debian
>Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:16:10PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >> I just want to install a Java runtime environment which will allow me >> to see Java applets in action. It seems I have the choice of (at > > If you're running 64-bit, your choice of plugin is rather

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Fred Zinsli a écrit : > Hello all > > I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server > platform. > > My partner has a VISTA machine and she is always having problems with it. > No surprises there I guess. > > I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her wi

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Eike Lantzsch a écrit : > On Sunday 21 June 2009, Fred Zinsli wrote: >> Hello all >> >> I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server >> platform. >> >> My partner has a VISTA machine > [snip] >> >> I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz >> sol

Re: java

2009-06-22 Thread thveillon.debian
>Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:36:15PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > >> sun-java is now fully 64 bit, including the plugin, starting with 6-12 >> maybe, or even one release earlier. But the icedtea one runs just as >> well on my machine, it'

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-22 Thread thveillon.debian
>Sebastian Günther wrote: > * 明覺 (shi.min...@gmail.com) [22.06.09 03:18]: >> I want to keep the programs in my system all written in c/c++, no >> python or perl or any other programming languages, is it possible to >> reach it? I removed the 2 packages, python and perl, from my system, >> and of ca

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread thveillon.debian
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,22.Jun.09, 09:24:59, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> As for the games, a question: Has anybody tried playing such a game >> (Unreal, etc) under a virtualization engine? Virtualbox for example? > > AFAICT virtualization doesn't do any 3d acceleration. > > Regards, > And

Re: java

2009-06-22 Thread thveillon.debian
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:50:36AM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > >> I don't remember if I had to update the alternatives manually, I don't >> think so. >> [...] >> update-alternatives --config iceweasel-javaplugin.so > > Th

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-22 Thread thveillon.debian
>明覺 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:11 PM, > thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Sebastian Günther wrote: >>> * 明覺 (shi.min...@gmail.com) [22.06.09 03:18]: >>>> I want to keep the programs in my system all written in c/c++, no >>>> python or perl or

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

2009-06-25 Thread thveillon.debian
Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, me: > >> NOTE: kvm is based on qemu and uses the same command syntax, so it's easy to >> confuse between KVM and QEMU. > > While qemu hangs, kvm just works! - Excellent! Now, You say kvm is based on > qemu, but I do not want to have the same

Re: Anyone has VDPAU working?

2009-06-26 Thread thveillon.debian
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get VDPAU working on my laptop (Dual Core t2...@1.6 GHz, > nVidia Quadro NVS 140M, 2 GiB RAM) as this would be the only way to > watch 1080p movies, but no success so far. I tried: > > - mplayer from www.debian-multimedia.org (also recompiled) >

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-28 Thread thveillon.debian
Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-06-29 08:17 (+0200), Raffaele Morelli wrote: > >> 2009/6/28 Mark Marcacci : >>> I've been installing Debian 5.0.1 via a downloaded jigdo DVD image >>> from the official site. [...] One of the packages missing after >>> booting into Gnome was Network Manager >> Use w

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread thveillon.debian
Luis Maceira wrote: > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu > (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: > upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs > that come with the netbook.Is there any standard

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

2009-07-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/7/7 Red Hen : >> Sirs-- >> >> I have designated Firefox my Debian Lenny system's MAIN web browser, as >> stipulated in the KDE Control Center. >> > > Which version of KDE? Did you type in "/usr/bin/firefox" or "firefox" > or select Firefox from the list? Note that Firefox

Re: Configuring wine.

2009-07-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Sthu Deus wrote : > Good day. > > I have no sound in wine-1.0.1-2 running game "Heroes of Might and Magic III". > About 2 years ago on another installation I had sound in the same game under > wine. > > Of wine packages I have installed: > > libwine-1.0.1-2 > wine-bin-1.0.1-2 > > Do You have an

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread thveillon.debian
lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:47:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > >>In the partitioner, set /dev/sda1 as /boot. /boot needs to be >>separate from the RAID+LVM setup in order to be accessible by the >>bootloader, though it's possible grub2 will fix this at some point. >>K

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:45:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach thveillon.debian >> [2009.07.09.2215 +0200]: >>> It is possible to boot from mdadm software raid1 with grub2, in Lenny >>> and Squeeze. But I would worry about

Re: Best Video Editor?

2009-07-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Thomas H. George wrote: > A year ago I did a little video editing using cinelerra. When I tried > again yesterday it wasn't working properly, running about a single frame > per second. > > I checked the web site but saw no reference to a users group. My memory > is that when I used it previous

Re: Best Video Editor?

2009-07-10 Thread thveillon.debian
>Thomas H. George wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:32:38PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Thomas H. George wrote: >>> A year ago I did a little video editing using cinelerra. When I tried >>> again yesterday it wasn't working properly, ru

Re: grub won't but XP

2009-07-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Bernard Fay wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Masood > wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly > mailto:sfrei...@roadrunner.com>> wrote: > > Bernard Fay wrote: > > > title Windows XP > > rootnov

Re: Iceweasel, Icedove and KDE4

2009-07-15 Thread thveillon.debian
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Since ever, as a KDE user, I was distracted by the obvious quality > mismatch between fonts for thunderbird and firefox in gnome and KDE. > That is, in Gnome, thunderbird and firefox's usage of fonts seems to be > near perfect. In KDE the fonts of these app

Re: Iceweasel, Icedove and KDE4

2009-07-15 Thread thveillon.debian
Γιώργος Πάλλας a écrit : > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone! >>> >>> Since ever, as a KDE user, I was distracted by the obvious quality >>> mismatch between fonts for thunderbird and firefox in gnome and KD

Re: reply-to-list for icedove? was Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

2008-09-11 Thread thveillon.debian
Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : On 2008-09-10 13:31, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [snip] I am sorry for having accidentally sent that OT message to list. Does anyone know, if there is a way of fixing the missing 'reply-to-list' functionally of icedove for lenny? Since the extension doesn't work an

Re: Sunbird server?

2008-09-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Neil a écrit : On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Depo Catcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use the SunBirds (on Windows/Linux) and my girlfriend uses the gmail Calendars Is there any ways to sync the two together? I might be able to get her to switch to the SunBirds. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Building a new desktop: hardware advice

2008-09-18 Thread thveillon.debian
Dotan Cohen a écrit : I am building a new desktop machine for home use (no gaming, but we will output DVD and MPEG movies to the TV). I would appreciate the Debian community's opinion regarding my hardware selection, as this is the first non-MS machine that I am building. I have tried to select c

Re: backup system to ISO image

2008-09-23 Thread thveillon.debian
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI a écrit : Nhadie escreveu: Hi, Is there a tool i can use to fully backup a system to an ISO image and preserve all files? So that if ever something happens to any of my server, i can simply reinstall from the ISO image, no need for me to do reconfiguration on the service

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-10-01 Thread thveillon.debian
Aniruddha a écrit : On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:22 -0400, David Clymer wrote: Clonezilla uses partimage which I haven't found too reliable. I still prefer to tar /. It works perfectly every time. Clonezilla allows you to pick the method you want it to use. One of those methods is partimage. Other

Re: Kernel i686 & 4 Gig RAM

2008-10-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Ron Johnson a écrit : On 10/07/08 03:57, Mark Panen wrote: Hi I am running Debian Lenny Testing on my laptop and i see it has kernel 2.6.26-1-686. I would like to install the 32 bit version Debian Lenny 5 (when it is released) on a machine with 4 Gig's of RAM. Will all the RAM be seen ? One w

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - and lost my settings

2008-10-11 Thread thveillon.debian
Osamu Aoki a écrit : On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:10:29PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hi, I was feeling bored by the freeze, so I decided to install KDE 4.1 from experimental. I installed the packages, it is running apparently fine, but... where did all my settings go? I started with a

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008-10-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Adrian Levi a écrit : I have since tried compiling the kernel in a clean lenny debootstrap chroot sucessfully. Strangely is was called, linux-xenu-2.6.27_2.6.27-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb Maybe you enabled xen support in the config : CONFIG_XEN But it boots and works, must be a version incompati

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008-10-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Adrian Levi a écrit : I'm having troubles compiling a vanilla 2.6.27 kernel using kernel-package. Looks like there is a new iwl4965 driver and I'd like to try it out. The kernel compiles correctly using the usual toolchain provided with the sources but fails on the packaging part using make-kpkg

Re: Compile vanilla 2.6.27 using make-kpkg

2008-10-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Adrian Levi a écrit : But you ended up with a .deb package at the end, Mine is failing before creating the package. My installed kernel-package version is 11.007 what was yours? What did you use for a .config file? Mine is from linux-image-2.6.26 in lenny, answered the few new questions and wen

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread thveillon.debian
BALLABIO GERARDO a écrit : Hi all, I'd like to ask for suggestions on how to check a cd-rom (or dvd-rom) against the original iso image to verify that it has been burned correctly. I tried a couple of methods, but I am not sure that they work. One was to mount the iso via the loop device and c

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: BALLABIO GERARDO a écrit : Hi all, I'd like to ask for suggestions on how to check a cd-rom (or dvd-rom) against the original iso image to verify that it has been burned correctly. I tried a couple of methods, but I am not sure that

Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental

2008-10-23 Thread thveillon.debian
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:44 AM, thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, There have been several similar threads on the French and English lists recently, many more on forums, and although it looks too generic to put all this problems together the symptoms are always the same : co

Re: digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system

2008-10-28 Thread thveillon.debian
Micha a écrit : After my camera died on a recent trip I bought a new one (nikon s52 if it helps). Due to some bug and bad timing on button presses the camera trashed the file system somehow. Based on the number of images it can write to disk it seems that the images are still there, but what I se

Re: digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system

2008-10-29 Thread thveillon.debian
Micha a écrit : I tried 3. I wouldn't be able to access the card at all without one ... Like I said, it's not the card that's the problem it's the file system that is ruined, and even that partially, it's the file inodes (or whatever they are called under fat) or directory entries that were junk

Re: digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system

2008-10-29 Thread thveillon.debian
Micha wrote : On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:06:51 + "thveillon.debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, with Linux I guess Tesdisk and Photorec are your best bet, photorec did a great job for me once. With windows and Mac I guess products from diskinternals.com and prosofteng.com

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-19 Thread thveillon.debian
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:18 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and there's a couple of nice

Re: Iceweasel sessions

2008-11-23 Thread thveillon.debian
Marcin Klapkowski wrote : Hi, I use Iceweasel and I want to save my opened sessions by session name. 1. Is it possible in Iceweasel? 2. Is there any web browser that can save many sessions with opened tabs? 3. Is there some wish list or something in Debian community? thanks martin3z Hi, I

Re: receive system mail into inbox?

2008-11-23 Thread thveillon.debian
Jack wrote : It's very easy in kmail. Just create a new account, choose "local inbox," and point it to the account (in /var/mail/ ) that you want to monitor. Thanks for the quick reply It was indeed very easy to setup, but i'm getting an error: Transmission failed: Could not lock /var/mail/

Re: Automatix w/Lenny?

2008-12-04 Thread thveillon.debian
Chris a écrit : Greetings, I know that after a certain release of Ubuntu it was suggested NOT to use Automatix. Can I get input on the pros and cons of using that w/Lenny please? Hi, Automatix is dead, it wasn't a good idea to use it before, but now for sure it isn't. http://en.wikipedi

Re: Locale testing

2008-12-06 Thread thveillon.debian
Dotan Cohen wrote : > Thanks. I do know how to set the locales, but I want to see an app that shows that they are set correctly. Therefore I could conclude that Open Office is ignoring a correctly set locale and I could file an issue. If you'd like to help me, seeing as you are using the ISO da

Re: Video editing

2008-12-08 Thread thveillon.debian
Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > Hi to all Debian users. > > I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off > and > select pieces of a video file. > > Please someone suggest a proper video editing program that does that? > > Thanks for any help > Rodolfo > > Hi, The af

Re: supported hardware: scanner

2008-12-09 Thread thveillon.debian
Anthony Campbell a écrit : > On 09 Dec 2008, Bernd Kloss wrote: >> Lenny >> >> Hello, >> >> in search for a flatbed scanner I looked through >> >> >> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON >> >> I could not find any newer scanners by Canon that are ranked >> good or complete. >> >> Ar

Re: Converting a Flash Stream to MP3

2008-12-09 Thread thveillon.debian
Hal Vaughan a écrit : > My favorite radio station is on the web, but their stream is through > Flash and not a standard MP3 stream that most stations have. Is there > some way I can access this without going through a browser with Flash > and convert it to an MP3 stream for my LAN? > > Thanks

Re: Video editing

2008-12-09 Thread thveillon.debian
Rodolfo Medina wrote : >> "thveillon.debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> "Lives" from debian-multimedia will do the job pretty well, decomposing >> the video frame by frame before editing it, so you'll be able to achieve >> good

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