Re: How to create qemu-bootable image using debootstrap?

2008-07-06 Thread David Barrett
Joey Hess wrote: David Barrett wrote: Following up on my previous post: I've figured out some of the steps, but I'm stuck on installing Grub. Do you know how to install grub on a raw device file? You may be able to get grub-install to work using the --grub-mkdevicemap option and a dummied

Re: How to create qemu-bootable image using debootstrap?

2008-07-06 Thread David Barrett
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:00:38PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: David Barrett wrote: What's the best way to create a raw disk image using debootstrap that can be booted with qemu? Following up on my previous post: I've figured out some of the steps, but I'm stuck on installing

Re: How to create qemu-bootable image using debootstrap?

2008-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
David Barrett wrote: > Following up on my previous post: I've figured out some of the steps, > but I'm stuck on installing Grub. Do you know how to install grub on a > raw device file? You may be able to get grub-install to work using the --grub-mkdevicemap option and a dummied up device map

Re: How to add a mount point in fstab?

2008-07-06 Thread hce
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/06/08 19:46, hce wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 07/05/08 18:34, hce wrote: > On 7/4/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL

Re: How to add a mount point in fstab?

2008-07-06 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, hce engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} /hom/project/work ext3 Silly question but is the above correct or should that be: /home/project/work ext3 Probably not? -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** If a man constantly

Re: How to create qemu-bootable image using debootstrap?

2008-07-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:00:38PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: > David Barrett wrote: > >What's the best way to create a raw disk image using debootstrap that > >can be booted with qemu? > > Following up on my previous post: I've figured out some of the steps, > but I'm stuck on installing Grub.

Re: How to create qemu-bootable image using debootstrap?

2008-07-06 Thread David Barrett
David Barrett wrote: What's the best way to create a raw disk image using debootstrap that can be booted with qemu? Following up on my previous post: I've figured out some of the steps, but I'm stuck on installing Grub. Do you know how to install grub on a raw device file? Basically, grub-

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Sunday 06 July 2008 02:49:07 am Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:38:05PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What's the right way to run more than one X server? > > You will probably get a few different answers to this question as there > is no one true Right Way to do i

Re: Lenny

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph Neal
Neil Gunton wrote: >> to see what driver version supports your card. The names have changed >> since Etch. For example, the 1.0-8776 driver was the one which supported >> the MX400 graphics card, but it is now the 96.43.xx driver which >> supports it - but is not yet in testing. > > Thanks - but

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 06 11:10 -0500]: > Where did you read this? I resize pictures, and they don't turn > into black rectangles. Unless what I'm thinking of isn't what > "they" are talking about... I wonder if it's the effect I noticed during the first day or so of runnin

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 06 18:19 -0500]: > So, I *can* and *do* unequivocally affirm that *using* CUPS is an > simple as rolling off a log. I concur. So long as a PPD file is available for a given printer, CUPS has worked like a hose for me. I fought printcaps and filters fo

Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client

2008-07-06 Thread Brian McKee
> # Only listen for connections from the local machine. > Listen localhost:631 > Listen 192.168.1.10:631 > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock Oh - and I meant to point these lines out. It 1.10 is the server than I believe it won't listen to your client. Try Port 631 instead of those first two Listen

Re: Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client

2008-07-06 Thread Brian McKee
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allow 192.169.2.* > That looks weird when the rest of your file seems to be referring to a 192.168.1.0/24 subnet Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: login problem (password corruption? pam?)

2008-07-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Joseph Neal wrote: Hello all. Logins keep going bad on me. Repeatedly. I first noticed the problem yesterday after updating sid. First sudo failed to accept my password. I logged out of KDE and was not able to log back in. Let's call my normal login that I've been using the past couple

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > Spots is dead. What do I do now to update that to my present real-world > situation, or do I even really have to? I've spent many hours on the > manpage among others. Have you read the _GNU Privacy Handbook_ that is included in the gnupg-doc package? You probably don't want

Re: How to add a mount point in fstab?

2008-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 19:46, hce wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/05/08 18:34, hce wrote: On 7/4/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 07/04/08 00:47, hce wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: How to add a mount point in fstab?

2008-07-06 Thread hce
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/05/08 18:34, hce wrote: >> On 7/4/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> >>> On 07/04/08 00:47, hce

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "lahf_lm"?!? Supports LAHF in 64 bit mode, which is the closest I could find on google. If you have that, I don't see why you wouldn't have lm as they should go together, AFAIK. With semprons you have to be careful if they'll

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:21:09AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s. keeling writes: > > > Can we expand on that? I have my passphrase. I use the key all the > > > time. It's tied to my old, now defunct, ISP. You mean I can generate a > > > revocation key, then

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling writes: > > Can we expand on that? I have my passphrase. I use the key all the > > time. It's tied to my old, now defunct, ISP. You mean I can generate a > > revocation key, then generate a new, more accurately tied key? > > What do you mean by "

How to create qemu-bootable image using debootstrap?

2008-07-06 Thread David Barrett
What's the best way to create a raw disk image using debootstrap that can be booted with qemu? I think I've almost figured it out, but I'm not savvy with the low-level file commands. Can you point me in the right direction? I'm hacking together a few sources -- most notably http://www.debia

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > Can we expand on that? I have my passphrase. I use the key all the > time. It's tied to my old, now defunct, ISP. You mean I can generate a > revocation key, then generate a new, more accurately tied key? What do you mean by "tied"? You can edit the key and add, delete or

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 16:19, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 07/06/08 02:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> 4. because, in the light of the above, using it will involve me in a >>> fair amount of work for no clear benefit and possibly a

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 23:13:08 +0200, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought > > this laptop second hand. > > > > Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Karl O. Pinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 07/06/2008 08:36:13 AM, John W Foster wrote: > > I have over the years established several PGP public keys that are no > > longer valid due to expired e-mail addresses. I did not think at the > > time they were created that I needed an expiration date in t

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2008-07-06 23:13 +0200, s. keeling wrote: > > > Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought > > this laptop second hand. > > > > Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with > > Sidux for the moment (2008-0

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-06 23:13 +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought > this laptop second hand. > > Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with > Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25-10). It refused to boot on > their

Re: [Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 23:13:08 +0200, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought > this laptop second hand. > > Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with > Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25-1

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 07/06/08 02:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > 4. because, in the light of the above, using it will involve me in a > > fair amount of work for no clear benefit and possibly a worse output. > > Huh *Using* CUPS is as difficult as rolling off a log.

[Sidux] AMD Sempron 64 bit kernel (Gateway laptop)?

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I'm somewhat confused and in uncharted territory. I just bought this laptop second hand. Which kernel is this CPU supposed to be using? I've been testing with Sidux for the moment (2008-06 (?) 2.6.25-10). It refused to boot on their AMD images ("... detected i1586[sic] CPU."). This thing

Lenny CUPS server and etch CUPS client

2008-07-06 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I have a lenny cups server and an etch cups client running here. Unfortunately even browsing the printers does not work on the client. The cups server has these entries in its error_log: D [06/Jul/2008:23:07:21 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from 192.168.2.1:631 (IPv4) D [06/Jul/2008:23:07

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 15:06, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I'll just mention the follow-up. I just tried installing gtk+-2.10 > (compiling source from http://www.gtk.org/) and indeed, "print to > lpr" now appears in the print dialog. Without cups or xprint. Just >

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I'll just mention the follow-up. I just tried installing gtk+-2.10 (compiling source from http://www.gtk.org/) and indeed, "print to lpr" now appears in the print dialog. Without cups or xprint. Just lprng. So as soon as gtk+-2.10 appears in Sid, this problem will be over. Regards, Jan -- To UN

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 12:47, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 07/06/08 09:59, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >>> You are right IMHO; it is a bug, not just the Inevitable >>> March Of Progress. It seems clear that the Firefox developers >>>

login problem (password corruption? pam?)

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph Neal
Hello all. Logins keep going bad on me. Repeatedly. I first noticed the problem yesterday after updating sid. First sudo failed to accept my password. I logged out of KDE and was not able to log back in. Let's call my normal login that I've been using the past couple years login1. After

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/06/08 09:59, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: >> You are right IMHO; it is a bug, not just the Inevitable >> March Of Progress. It seems clear that the Firefox developers >> did not intend to drop lpr support: >> - they don't say anything about such a change in the Release >

Re: no /etc/printcap file

2008-07-06 Thread s. keeling
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I am running etch, and I have installed lprng and apsfilter for > printing. But I don't have a /etc/printcap file installed. For example: > > $ lpr mf1a-prova2.pdf > Read_file_list: cannot stat required or included file '//etc/printcap'

Re: PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/06/2008 08:36:13 AM, John W Foster wrote: I have over the years established several PGP public keys that are no longer valid due to expired e-mail addresses. I did not think at the time they were created that I needed an expiration date in thm. FWIW, IIRC accepted best practice is to gen

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/06/2008 08:31:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: Why step 2, make softlinks to the X command? http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/sym_links.html That does not explain much. Just says you have to do it. Likewise, I found in "man xinit":

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/06/2008 08:31:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/06/2008 07:27:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the right way to run more than one X server? , I _could_ just run X and startX directly. Are there any out-of-the-box solutions or should

Re: Package requirements installation

2008-07-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 06 July 2008 18:21, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/06/08 10:34, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > During the installation of gnome-mplayer, at the `./configure' step it is > > complained the lack of the following packages: > > > > gtk+-2.0 > > You

64 bt install fails 32 bit succeeds

2008-07-06 Thread Jim Pazarena
I have an Asus M2A-VM HDMI MoBo. With AMD 64-bit processor. The 64 bit install fails to find my SATA drives. The list to "pick from" is huge for SATA. The 32 bit install senses the disk, and installs just fine. Are there any tips on getting this to sense my SATA drive and install on 64-bit? Tha

Re: Package requirements installation

2008-07-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:21:03AM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > gthread-2.0 > > This is the tricky one. It's part of libglib2.0-dev. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gthread-2.0.pc libglib2.0-dev: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gthread-2.0.pc Daniel -

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-07-06 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Florian Kulzer at 2008-06-03 20:44+02:00: > > I suspect that something is not quite kosher with the PDFs that your > > bank generates. The fact that they work with the Adobe reader does not > > necessarily mean that they conform 100% to the PDF

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-07-06 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Florian, thanks for your reply. Am Samstag, 5. Juli 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 22:53:02 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 23:01:18 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Lenny

2008-07-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:36:22AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: >> If you are running Testing/Lenny then you are basically acting as a >> guinea pig so learn to use http://bugs.debian.org/ > > Agreed - although I have never used the bug reporting for debian, it would > be good to know that. Not onl

Re: Installing svk on lenny?

2008-07-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-06 15:42 +0200, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > If i try to install from stable or unstable, i get the following message: > > --- > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package shou

Re: DigiVox A/D TV-Tuner issue

2008-07-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 06 July 2008 10:53, Anas Husseini wrote: > Hi again Nigel, > > Thank you for the tutorial. Actually I made a deep search in google before > and that's one of the tutorials I've found then. Most of these tutorials I > found contain essentially the same steps, so I applied them (compiling t

Re: Package requirements installation

2008-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 10:34, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > During the installation of gnome-mplayer, at the `./configure' step it is > complained the lack of the following packages: > > gtk+-2.0 You need to install libgtk2.0-dev. $ apt-cache search libgtk | grep

Re: How to add a mount point in fstab?

2008-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/05/08 18:34, hce wrote: > On 7/4/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> On 07/04/08 00:47, hce wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a partition in /dev/sda6 which is manually mount

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 09:59, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > On 06 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 05 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> What is the reason that you don't install CUPS? > >> 1. because lpr/lpd and magicfilter work perfectly for me. >> 2. becau

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/08 02:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >> What is the reason that you don't install CUPS? >> > > 1. because lpr/lpd and magicfilter work perfectly for me. > > 2. because CUPS offers no advantage for me. Unt

Re: Audacious segfaulting

2008-07-06 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:04:20AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Fully up-to-date Lenny system, not running anything fancy. Trying to run Audacious, I get: In Lenny audacious was updated but not audacious-plugins*. The old plugins are not working with the new audacious. Get the new auda

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
On 06 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >> What is the reason that you don't install CUPS? > 1. because lpr/lpd and magicfilter work perfectly for me. > 2. because CUPS offers no advantage for me. > 3. because when I did use it in the past my output was slightl

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Mag Gam wrote: Is there a tool to measure network traffic? I am using ifstat but its reporting wrong statistics. I am trying to get something similar to eth0 , 16Mb/sec eth1, 10Mb/sec etc.. I need something simple :-) I needed something like that, and I finally ended up writing a small py

Re: apt-get don't update or upgrade

2008-07-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:56:18AM +0200, Micaela Gallerini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 2008/7/5, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:56:10PM +0200, Micaela Gallerini > > Do you have an HTTP proxy configured in /etc/apt/apt.conf? Run > > > > apt-co

Package requirements installation

2008-07-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
During the installation of gnome-mplayer, at the `./configure' step it is complained the lack of the following packages: gtk+-2.0 glib-2.0 gthread-2.0 Debian Etch does not recognize those package names. Please can anybody suggest the proper names within Debian packages set, so that I can inst

Re: ethernet configuration

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 22:47:34 -0300, André Timpanaro wrote: > On 7/5/08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:15:05 -0300, André Timpanaro wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:43:58 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: [..

Re: Installing svk on lenny?

2008-07-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:16:49PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Im trying to install svk on a lenny system, but its not available in the > lenny sources. A search of the package archives suggests that you can > get it in Etch or unstable, but "apt-get install svk / stable" or > "/

Re: Installing svk on lenny?

2008-07-06 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Sun, 7/6/08, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Installing svk on lenny? > To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 6:17 AM > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:16:49PM

Re: Installing svk on lenny?

2008-07-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:37:42AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:16:49PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Im trying to install svk on a lenny system, but its not available in the > > lenny sources. A search of the package archives suggests that y

Re: Lenny

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Gunton
Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 07:24:40AM +0200, Daniel Ngu wrote: Hi, I read that Lenny will be released sometime in September this year. I've been using Etch and am contemplating on moving to Lenny now instead. There are some issues: First off: If you have a nvidia graphics

PGP Keys Expiration

2008-07-06 Thread John W Foster
I have over the years established several PGP public keys that are no longer valid due to expired e-mail addresses. I did not think at the time they were created that I needed an expiration date in thm. Is there any way to gat rid of these from the PGP key server so that no one will try to use them

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/06/2008 07:27:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/06/2008 07:27:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC has some hooks for d

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karl O. Pinc wrote: Hi, What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC has some hooks for different configuration settings for different DIS

Re: Hibernate/suspend works without quirks, but not with Gnome

2008-07-06 Thread Magnus Therning
Michael Biebl wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: >> I have a desktop system that is fully capable of hibernating and >> suspending. Both >> >> % pm-hibernate >> >> and >> >> % pm-suspend >> >> work beautifully. I don't need to supply any further command line >> options. Resuming is also no proble

Re: Lenny

2008-07-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 07:24:40AM +0200, Daniel Ngu wrote: > Hi, > > I read that Lenny will be released sometime in September this year. > I've been using Etch and am contemplating on moving to Lenny now instead. There are some issues: First off: If you have a nvidia graphics card: The nvidia-d

Re: [OT]: Cellular phone used as modem stops during fast downloads

2008-07-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi > the problem only occurs during fast downloads, i.e. in umts mode: when the > download proceeds at a high speed, say about 40 kilobytes per second, the > phone (a Nokia 6630) stops and reboots, and so the connection breaks down. > Anybody having experienced the same problem? Also i use often

[OT]: Cellular phone used as modem stops during fast downloads

2008-07-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Excuse the off topic. If anybody in this list uses a cellular phone to be connected in internet: the problem only occurs during fast downloads, i.e. in umts mode: when the download proceeds at a high speed, say about 40 kilobytes per second, the phone (a Nokia 6630) stops and reboots, and so the

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-07-06 Thread hh . eu
Florian Kulzer at 2008-06-03 20:44+02:00: I suspect that something is not quite kosher with the PDFs that your bank generates. The fact that they work with the Adobe reader does not necessarily mean that they conform 100% to the PDF specification. According to the version string, your original

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:38:05PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > What's the right way to run more than one X server? You will probably get a few different answers to this question as there is no one true Right Way to do it. Here is a very simple one: 1. login at the console with the user

Re: How to add a mount point in fstab?

2008-07-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:34:48AM +1000, hce wrote: > On 7/4/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a partition in /dev/sda6 which is manually mounted to my user > > > directory ~/work every time when I start the x window. Is following > > > command correct to add /dev/sda6 in

Re: DigiVox A/D TV-Tuner issue

2008-07-06 Thread Anas Husseini
Hi again Nigel, Thank you for the tutorial. Actually I made a deep search in google before and that's one of the tutorials I've found then. Most of these tutorials I found contain essentially the same steps, so I applied them (compiling the v4l-dvb-kernel, downloading the corresponding firmware, m

Re: apt-get don't update or upgrade

2008-07-06 Thread Micaela Gallerini
2008/7/5, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:56:10PM +0200, Micaela Gallerini > Do you have an HTTP proxy configured in /etc/apt/apt.conf? Run > > apt-config dump | grep -i proxy > > and post the output if it prints anything. I haven't no one log...:S the re

Re: no /etc/printcap file

2008-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jul 2008, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 07/05/2008 10:56 AM, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> Hello, >> > > Hello. > >> I am running etch, and I have installed lprng and apsfilter for >> printing. But I don't have a /etc/printcap file installed. For example: >> >> $ lpr mf1a-prova2.pdf >> Read_file_li

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > What is the reason that you don't install CUPS? > 1. because lpr/lpd and magicfilter work perfectly for me. 2. because CUPS offers no advantage for me. 3. because when I did use it in the past my output was slightly worse than with my existing setup.