good easy antivirus
Hi, I'll need some recomandations/pointers/howto implement this. I'm running debian 2.6 stable with postfix/Courier-IMAP/Courier-POP3 and mail delivery to ~/Mailbox It is both windoze and linux clients that get their mail from here. On linux its primary pine as mailclient and windoze clients are mostly running appz like outlook. It's also got squirrelmail for users to read mail. In addition is it running samba to to give windoze/linux users their ~/home share and apache2 with users own home sites and proftp for up/download. Everything is stored on raid5, sw raid (which I also got some problem with, but that's another thread:)) on different partitions. The antivirus sw need to scan all out and incoming mail, and rest of the filesystem. I'm not a debian expert so a easely implemented sw will be prefered:-). Someone? /ernst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup
Michael Marsh wrote: > On 12/14/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up >>PDFs using psnup but I am not able to. > > > Off hand, I'd probably use something like: > > BEGIN MAKEFILE > SRCS := $(filter-out %-4up.pdf,$(wildcard *.pdf)) > DESTS := $(patsubst %.pdf,%-4up.pdf,$(SRCS)) > > default : $(DESTS) > > %.ps : %.pdf > acroread -toPostScript $< > > %-4up.ps : %.ps > psnup -m0.5cm -l -Pletter -pletter -4 $< > $@ > > %-4up.pdf : %-4up.ps > ps2pdf $< > > END MAKEFILE > > Remember to change the spaces to tabs for the action lines. Gmail > won't let me enter a tab by hand. There's a circular dependency, but > it doesn't seem to cause problems. Since you have tighter naming > rules, you can probably change > > %.ps : %.pdf > > to > > %N.ps : %N.pdf > That gave me a start. The circular dependency was a problem. Had to change a few things to arrive at the following makefile which works (tried "make -n" and all commands seem to work as expected): start SRCS:= $(filter-out %-4up.pdf,$(wildcard *.pdf)) DESTS:= $(patsubst %N.pdf,%N-4up.pdf,$(SRCS)) .SUFFIXES: .SUFFIXES: .pdf .ps N.ps N.pdf N-4up.pdf N-4up.ps default : $(DESTS) P: echo $(DESTS) %N.ps: %N.pdf # echo "First Step: making PS of $<" acroread -toPostScript $< %N-4up.ps : %N.ps # echo "Second Step: Makaing psnup of $<" psnup -m0.5cm -l -Pletter -pletter -4 $< > $@ %N-4up.pdf : %N-4up.ps # echo "Third Step: making PDF of psnup" ps2pdf $< end Defining the suffixes was important. And the restrictions on the output filenames (*N.pdf and *N-4up.pdf) actually helped in resolving the circular dependencies. Thanks, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] good laptops
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:47:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I just got a 1.6 GHz IBM ThinkPad A31 for $500 at budcom.com (Budget > Computers, SW 114th Ave and OR-10 and OR-217, Beaverton, Oregon). That's a > much nicer machine, everything on it works, and I've even heard good things > about Linux on them (though I haven't tried dual booting it yet). Yesterday I took delivery of an X30 (?250). I took it home after work, booted off a Knoppix installation CD and a couple of hours later it had installed itself fine. Video, sound, everything working fine. Very pleased. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Athlon AMD 64 3000+
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 02:05 -0100, p wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:46:08PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Which Debian image should I install for AMD Athlon 64 system? TIA, > > > > -a > > > > // > > i believe i used the amd-64 port: > > http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ And of course plain old i386 still works. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world." seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Launch an X Windows app from Apache (PHP or Perl)
man xhost, and set the DISPLAY variable. I assume that this is a local
apache.
On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> I'm setting up an automated movie player system on my Ubuntu box and
> what I want to be able to do is run an application (totem) when a I
> click a link to a movie on my page. This will be run from the server,
> logged in as my default account (it'll be a home theatre system)
> The php command I'm calling is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]("/usr/bin/totem --fullscreen /mnt/hdd1/MOVIE");
> Now because www-data is actually calling this command I get the error
> (totem:9414): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> in the apache logs.
> I've tried adding www-data to sudoers, to the root group etc but no
> dice. I believe it's soemthing to do with the DISPLAY environment
> variable but I'm not sure how to change this or what to change it to to
> enable this to work.
> Others have suggested freevo or writing the app as perl+GTK but I want
> to do it from PHP/Perl if at all possible
> many thanks in advance for any help
>
> cheers
>
> Lucas
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Launch an X Windows app from Apache (PHP or Perl)
Hi
I'm setting up an automated movie player system on my Ubuntu box and
what I want to be able to do is run an application (totem) when a I
click a link to a movie on my page. This will be run from the server,
logged in as my default account (it'll be a home theatre system)
The php command I'm calling is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]("/usr/bin/totem --fullscreen /mnt/hdd1/MOVIE");
Now because www-data is actually calling this command I get the error
(totem:9414): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
in the apache logs.
I've tried adding www-data to sudoers, to the root group etc but no
dice. I believe it's soemthing to do with the DISPLAY environment
variable but I'm not sure how to change this or what to change it to to
enable this to work.
Others have suggested freevo or writing the app as perl+GTK but I want
to do it from PHP/Perl if at all possible
many thanks in advance for any help
cheers
Lucas
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moving across tabs in firefox
Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous tab) in firefox? I am using debian unstable (up to date), kde, 2.6.14-2-686-smp kernel. I have read http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard and they only list alt+i to go to the ith tab. But if there is some key board shortcut to go to the next/previous tab (ie relative moment instead of the absolute movement) that would be really useful for me. thanks for any pointers raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing over to udev
On 14 Dec 2005 22:41:27 -0500 David Zelinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and > > 2.6.14 (which must have udev). > > When I upgraded from 2.4 kernel to 2.6.14 I also installed udev along > the way -- I don't remember why. But I later removed udev because > some device files weren't getting created properly and I couldn't > understand how to fix it. Now everything seems to work fine without > udev, using plain old static device files. Am I missing something? I > am running Sarge not Sid; maybe that's the difference? The difference is that you can write rules for udev so that it will always symlink, for example, your usb pendrive to /dev/pendrive and your usb camera to /dev/webcam. This keeps you from having to look at /var/log/syslog after you plugin each one to figure out which device name it was assigned this time (if I plug in my pendrive first, it's /dev/sdb, but if I plug in the camera and then the pendrive, it's /dev/sdc, etc.). And then if you have to change the preferences for your software each time you plug in the device so that it knows where to find it... you get the idea. Plain old static device files can still work, udev is just a nice convenience that makes life easier. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
REQUEST: Good backup software for DVDs
I have used Mondorescue and like it but the time involved ~12hrs for 180GB is just too much, I would like to be able to insert the first disk of foo, have it be able to repartition/format the drives as needed but take less time to run than mondo currently does. As I understand it Mondo is slower than say ghost because it backups a live file system... (on the gripping hand Mondo is Libre, @DEITY bless the devels; and Ghost costs like mad) I don't mind initing to runlevel 1 if I have to but what ever package ends up being suggested needs to be either apt-getable on Debian Sid or instalable via source/checkinstall/easily built into a deb. Libre software preferred... -- Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: RAR under linux: any alternative?
> From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:21 PM > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:34:31PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > IIRC one of the algorithms that can be used in zip is > > lzw which is (or was) patented. > > The patent expired in 2003. > > http://www.sslug.dk/patent/lzwunisys.html In that case, it appears that using 7-zip to produce fixed-size, split zip files followed by generating a set of PAR files would accomplish the same thing as using RAR. That seems to answer Gabriel's question that started the thread, yes? The zip files each contain CRC's, so you can tell when one is bad and the PAR files allow you to repair defects. The two approaches are both the same: a message authentication code (hash, CRC or other MAC) to detect errors, followed by forward error correction to repair detected errors. You decide how much FEC you get by how many PAR files you generate. Same old - same old, except the compression and FEC are better than older methods. I also don't know if any other program besides 7-zip can put together the split archives it produces, since 7-zip can't put together split archives from WinZip. That's not much of an objection, since the program is free and the code is open for others to build implementations around. I haven't bothered doing split 7z or tar archives, yet, but the 7z archives are similar in size to RAR and have better MAC's. That makes the main advantage of RAR only that the PAR file generation is conveniently built-in. If a customer asks for RAR, I don't argue, so the fact that some people like it is also an advantage. -- Seth Goodman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openoffice hangs with 2.6 kernel
Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.14, and now openoffice > > freezes whenever I try to open a document, or to start a new > > one. When I boot into the old 2.4 kernel, it works fine. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > I tried looking through the list of openoffice bugs. I didn't see > > anything related, though the list was pretty extensive so I could have > > missed something. > > > > Here are some system details: I'm running Sarge on an IBM Thinkpad, > > with these openoffice packages installed: > > > > % dpkg -l | grep openoffice > > ii openoffice.org 1.1.3-9 > > ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.3-9 > > ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.3-8+1 > > ii openoffice.org-help-en 1.1+20040420-3 > > ii openoffice.org-l10n-en 1.1.3-9 > > ii openoffice.org-mimelnk 1.1.3-9 > > > Instead of mocking about with oo 1.1.3-9 why not install oo 2.0? > It is better/faster than the older versions and hasn't caused me any grief > yet. > I am running 2.0, on sid with a self-compiled 2.6.14 kernel,it works like a > dream. I'm running sarge, so I tried installing it from backports.org, but it wouldn't install. It depended on some other package that didn't exist anywhere (don't remember which). As for my original problem, I've discovered that when I try to open a document and it appears to hang, if I wait long enough (several minutes) it eventually opens. Then opening other documents happens quickly. I thought the problem was cured, but when I logged in again, I again had to wait a long time to open the first document. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing over to udev
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and 2.6.14 (which > must have udev). When I upgraded from 2.4 kernel to 2.6.14 I also installed udev along the way -- I don't remember why. But I later removed udev because some device files weren't getting created properly and I couldn't understand how to fix it. Now everything seems to work fine without udev, using plain old static device files. Am I missing something? I am running Sarge not Sid; maybe that's the difference? -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get install tries to REMOVE my kernel
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: astrid jurgensen wrote: I recently tried to download and install software using apt-get install. The process was aborted because apt-get install tried to remove the kernel. See details below: apt-get install –no-remove xcdroast 13 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 2 to remove and 500 not upgraded. E: Packages need to be removed but Remove is disabled As seen in the above, 2 files are to be REMOVED: initrd-tools and kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 The second one of these is the kernel I am currently using, and should therefore not be removed, and I guess that initrd-tools should also not be removed. What is the cause of this problem? (Note: It is not due to my kernel being a bit old. Others have posted questions about this problem already, and they were using more modern kernels. Unfortunately no solutions were posted.) You have 500 packages not upgraded. It seems you are mixing different releases. You probably attempt to install xcdroast form a 'newer' version than the rest of your 500+ packages. Suggestion: bring your system in sync; possibly by upgrading to sarge, as described in http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html If you are mixing different releases on purpose, you have probably encountered a situation where this doesn't work due to dependency problems. Hope that helps, Johannes Well spotted, that's probably got something to do with it ;-) Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer and ALSA
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:47:39 -0800 (PST) Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:29:09 -0600 > > Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -0800 (PST) > > > Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have made two Sarge installations within the > > past > > > > few months, one with a 2.4 kernel and one with a > > 2.6 > > > > kernel. I installed Realplayer on both of them, > > but > > > > sound is obtained from .ram only with the > > 2.4-kernel > > > > installation. There is a note that Realplayer 10 > > is > > > > not designed for use with ALSA, and my > > 2.6-kernel > > > > installation probably uses it. > > > > > > > > So I'm wondering what to do, since I'd like to > > access > > > > such files. Totem does not open them either. > > > > > > I was only able to get Realplayer 10 to work by > > running it with the > > > following command: > > > > > > aoss realplayer > > > > Whoops... That should be "aoss realplay". > > > This is going to be very sticky. First, to use it as a > browser helper application with that parameter, it is > necessary to write a shell script. When I do that, > say, switching to /music and invoking > > >aossrp file.ram I would look into mozplugger for invoking RealPlayer. In /etc/mozpluggerrc you can change the commands it uses to call helper applications. There is a section specifically for .rm, .ram and other RealPlayer formats. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing over to udev
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:00:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and 2.6.14 (which > must have udev). Until 2.6.14 is demonstrably working with udev, I do not > want to get rid of 2.6.11 (which uses devfs and current hotplug). Can udev be > installed anyway? Consequences? rei $ uname -a Linux rei 2.6.14.2 #1 PREEMPT Mon Nov 21 09:50:55 PST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux And I'm using udev on this box. Not that I like it, not that I give a tinker's damn about demonstrating how big my d*ck is by how empty I can make /dev (and that emptiness has meant I've had to write rules for every symlink I ever had in there)... I just wanted persistent naming for four external USB hard disk enclosures. And I more or less had to use udev to do it. That's unfortunate. I *so* wish md would actually follow through on his claims and demonstrate how to use udev with a static /dev. Oh, and that's a self-built 2.6.14.2... FWIW the last thing I'd ever do is use a Debian kernel. -- Marc Wilson | Q: What's the difference between a duck and an [EMAIL PROTECTED] | elephant? A: You can't get down off an elephant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:32:15PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > In related news, Linus says "Just use KDE": > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00022.html My gods, when will Jeff Waugh ever actually start paying attention and realize that whatever part of Havoc he's channelling thinks Gnome is all about has no clue about how people actually view Gnome? Perception is everything. -- Marc Wilson | There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not object to it. -- G.B. Shaw signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: What would I do without partimage?
William Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:22:55PM -0500, Marty wrote: > >>*What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where >>a large number of identically configured systems used "ghost" (or similar >>tool) >>to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the systems were booted, i.e. >>at >>least once per day! (True story.) > > > I load a fresh image of XP every single time I use it. It's unthinkably > awful to use it otherwise. > > Tell me about it. Where I go to school, the lab machines are ghosted weekly. I lucked out and managed to get a SUSE 9.3 Pro workstation setup, which I must admit is quite nice. SUSE is very well integrated, but I still prefer Debian by far. I jsut count myself fortunate that they didn't force me to use a WinXP machine. Ugh. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: What would I do without partimage?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:22:55PM -0500, Marty wrote: > *What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where > a large number of identically configured systems used "ghost" (or similar > tool) > to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the systems were booted, i.e. > at > least once per day! (True story.) I load a fresh image of XP every single time I use it. It's unthinkably awful to use it otherwise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What would I do without partimage?
William Ballard wrote: I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke all over itself, then restore the cleanness. It's the only thing that makes patching Windows remotely tolerable. Eventually partimage will stop working on new versions of NTFS, and it seems to not be maintained anymore. It was removed from Sarge. Are there other tools that work like Ghost but in Linux? Partimage is great. Maybe this is just a case where in Unix you don't need weird tools to do a routine task, or what *should* be routine in any sanely designed OS.* I've always just used the cp command, e.g. "cp /dev/hda>disk_image" or "cp /dev/hda1>partition_image to back up a disk or partition, respectively. (dd also works but I just don't trust it.) I've never tried to gzip or bzip the resulting image file, but if that works then I don't see much advantage using partimage or Ghost. They may be of marginal value if they are smart enough to automatically detect and adjust to differing drive geometries. I don't think cp or dd can handle that by itself. *What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where a large number of identically configured systems used "ghost" (or similar tool) to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the systems were booted, i.e. at least once per day! (True story.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Athlon AMD 64 3000+
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:46:08PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > Greetings, > > Which Debian image should I install for AMD Athlon 64 system? TIA, > > -a > // i believe i used the amd-64 port: http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ luck. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: After upgrade no bootup. (solved)
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RE: After upgrade no bootup. (solved)
Andrei, Thank a lot, This did the trick, - boot system with KNOPPIX - mount the root partition - mount the dev in the root partition: mount -o remount,dev /mnt/hda1 - chroot into your root partition - mount /proc - mount /sys - edit /etc/yaird/Default.cfg and add MODULE ide-generic MODULE ide-disk right after the "MODULE evdev" line - dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 - umount /sys - umount /proc - leave chroot'ed partition and umount it F8 with recovery console, one big middle finger. Hihi. This is great. System is up and running again. Pascal.
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> and
> Thanks to all who replied. ctrl+pg{up|down} work perfectly. Dont know
> why they were not documented on
> http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard .
Ah grasshopper, they are so! This is because tabs on your desktop are
derived from tabs in paper binders, mere convenient access to pages
lower or higher in a stack of many pages, and on your desktop, bringing
up a page from below.
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Greetings, Which Debian image should I install for AMD Athlon 64 system? TIA, -a
Re: What would I do without partimage?
On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:25, William Ballard wrote: > I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay > mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. > > Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke > all over itself, then restore the cleanness. > > It's the only thing that makes patching Windows remotely tolerable. > > Eventually partimage will stop working on new versions of NTFS, and it > seems to not be maintained anymore. It was removed from Sarge. > > Are there other tools that work like Ghost but in Linux? Partimage is > great. You could use dd, and compress the image, or use an emulator with a COW disk image. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What would I do without partimage?
I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke all over itself, then restore the cleanness. It's the only thing that makes patching Windows remotely tolerable. Eventually partimage will stop working on new versions of NTFS, and it seems to not be maintained anymore. It was removed from Sarge. Are there other tools that work like Ghost but in Linux? Partimage is great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Monitor daemon for exim4 logs
Hi, I have Debian sid running on a standalone laptop. exim4 is my MTA, Yahoo the smarthost, and fetchmail pulls mails from Yahoo and Gmail via POP3. Today I had the unpleasant surprise that Yahoo changed the canonical name of its SMTP relay server, and mails I wrote during the day were bounced back by Yahoo. As I map my login name to my Yahoo account name via /etc/email-addresses, exim4 kept trying to relay them to Yahoo, bounce back, same story... Result: all mails were frozen in exim4. After changing Yahoo's canonical name in /etc/exim4/passwd.client, I forced delivery of the frozen messages and had hell to edit one by one, to remove exim4's headers, and resend them. I realized that I should be monitoring exim4 logs for errors, so that I'd know when a message is frozen. Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4 logs, something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single user ? Thanks for your attention Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVDs burned in Win, filenames shortened
On 12/14/05, John M Flinchbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It could be that your disc has a UDF fs and a fallback ISO9660 on it. > Mount is probably first recognizing the ISO9660 and showing you that > with the short names. > > Try mounting the disc in question explicitly as "udf" and see if you see > the proper long names you expected: > mount -t udf /dev/dvd It worked! I used the following command: sudo mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /cdrom Thanks! Andy -- ~ G O W E R O P O L I S ~ http://gowerlinux.no-ip.org:8080/blog/
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
Maurits van Rees wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:54:27PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous
tab) in firefox?
and
Thanks to all who replied. ctrl+pg{up|down} work perfectly. Dont know
why they were not documented on
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard .
raju
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Re: Realplayer and ALSA
--- Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:29:09 -0600 > Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -0800 (PST) > > Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have made two Sarge installations within the > past > > > few months, one with a 2.4 kernel and one with a > 2.6 > > > kernel. I installed Realplayer on both of them, > but > > > sound is obtained from .ram only with the > 2.4-kernel > > > installation. There is a note that Realplayer 10 > is > > > not designed for use with ALSA, and my > 2.6-kernel > > > installation probably uses it. > > > > > > So I'm wondering what to do, since I'd like to > access > > > such files. Totem does not open them either. > > > > I was only able to get Realplayer 10 to work by > running it with the > > following command: > > > > aoss realplayer > > Whoops... That should be "aoss realplay". > This is going to be very sticky. First, to use it as a browser helper application with that parameter, it is necessary to write a shell script. When I do that, say, switching to /music and invoking >aossrp file.ram the following comment appears: Warning: LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libaoss.so" That looks like an environment variable. Can I do anything with it? Some have also compiled OSS support into the kernel, reporting success. Is that a good idea, or will it interfere with ALSA? Robert "Tim" Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
* kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 14 18:17 -0600]: > David Watson wrote: > > > > >Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab will do what you need. > > > > > Are you using KDE? In kde, ctrl-tab and ctrl+shift+tab is used to switch > across desktops. So it does not work for firefox. Any other ideas? Very easy to do in KDE! You can go into Kcontrol Center|Regional & Accessability|Keyboard Shortcuts and remap the keys. I typically remove the ctl-tab and ctl-shift-tab and then bind alt-ctl-right_arrow to Next Desktop and alt-ctl-left_arrow to Previous Desktop. HTH, - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | free since January 1998. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | "Debian, the choice of My Kawasaki KZ-650 SR @| a GNU generation!" http://www.networksplus.net/n0nb/ | http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote on Dec, 14: [...] > >>Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous > >>tab) in firefox? I am using debian unstable (up to date), kde, > >>2.6.14-2-686-smp kernel. [...] You might try Mozilla's shortcuts[1]. I don't have Firefox installed to test them but won't do any harm to try them: ctrl-PgDown next tab ctrl-PgUp previous tab Hope it works Paulo [1] http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel upgrade trouble: Device /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down
Søren Boll Overgaard wrote on Dec, 14: [...] > I've recently upgraded the linux-image-2.6-686 package to 2.6.14-5[1]. The > installation went as normal when new kernel images are installed, but the > ensuing reboot didn't work out as expected. > > Immediately after the first IDE disk was detected, output like this was > generated on the console: > > /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory [...] Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/343048, and you'll see you're not alone. But Erik (the maintainer) has provided a patch. I applied it and the problem is solved. It's all there in the BTS. Paulo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:34:31PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > IIRC one of the algorithms that can be used in zip is lzw which is (or > was) patented. The patent expired in 2003. http://www.sslug.dk/patent/lzwunisys.html -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VLC in testing?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:18:40PM +0100, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > Any ideas on how to get the vlc packages to my testing machine? I > assume I can't build them myself since the source packages will depend > on gcc-snapshot. Any ideas? Submit a bug against VLC. Depending on a package that will never become stable would seem to be a problem. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: After upgrade no bootup.
did you setup your 'net in Knoppix ? use 'netcardconfig' from a knoppix (NOT where you chroot'ed) root terminal Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrei, I got stuck. Booted with Knoppix. I mounted and chroot'ed into /mnt/hda1 Ran aptitude purge yaird. Instantly aptitude offered me the choose to downgrade to testing, which should solve the dependencies, so I accepted this choose In the links you gave, you mentioned you got at least the initramfs-tools installed. Never used it though. Well, problem is: can't get eth0 up. Do I have to mount my proc system somehow. Or do I have to get a newer Knoppix (uses 2.6.9)? Probably last answer? Thx, Pascal. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Andrei Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: woensdag 14 december 2005 20:19 Aan: debian-user@lists.debian.org Onderwerp: Re: After upgrade no bootup. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I upgraded my system. It wouldn't boot up. Instead it give me this error: Waiting 2 seconds /sys/block/hda/dev to show up. /bin/cat:/sys/block/hda/dev: no such file or directory. Is this fixable or do I have to set up my complete system again? Hope not. Pascal. Here is what worked for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01408.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01406.html post your steps if you get stuck Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Weihnachts-Angebot: Loesungen fuers Leben
Weihnachts-Angebot: Loesungen fuers Leben Hallo, Sie haben diese Email erhalten, weil jemand, der Sie kennt, Sie als Person mit aussergewoehnlichen Faehigkeiten empfohlen hat. Und, ja, es duerfte wohl die wichtigste Email sein, die Sie seit langem erhalten haben. Denn wir von CO-ART laden Sie ein, mit uns Dinge anzusehen, die Ihr Leben ein fuer alle Mal zum Positiven veraendern koennten. Wir haben uns naemlich etwas ganz Besonderes einfallen lassen; etwas, das jemand wie Sie einfach interessieren muss. Denn vermutlich sind Sie jemand, fuer den lebenslanges Lernen nicht nur ein leeres Schlagwort ist; offenbar sind Sie auch jemand, der bereit ist, ausgetrampelte Pfade zu verlassen und nach neuen Moeglichkeiten Ausschau zu halten, um sich auch mal einige Extras leisten zu koennen und sich nicht staendig sorgen zu muessen, ob das Einkommen morgen noch sicher ist. In diesen turbulenten Tagen wird keiner widersprechen, wenn wir sagen, dass wir neue Loesungen brauchen, Loesungen fuers Leben, die tatsaechlich anwendbar sind und die bei anderen Leuten zu sichtbarem Erfolg und einem greifbar hoeheren Einkommen gefuehrt haben. Eigentlich reden wir von Loesungen, die - richtig angewandt - Ihren Lebensstandard nach oben katapultieren werden. Ja, natuerlich wuenschen wir uns, dass Sie sich die Produkte, die wir momentan bei CO-ART schon im Angebot haben, ansehen und, wenn etwas Interessantes fuer Sie dabei ist, auch bestellen. Immerhin handelt es sich um Artikel, die im normalen Handel bis zum Zwei- und Dreifachen kosten und teilweise sowieso nur ueber CO-ART zu beziehen sind. Aber noch mehr wollen wir, dass Sie ganz persoenlich von CO-ART profitieren und greifbar mehr in Ihrer Tasche haben. Wir wollen, dass Sie sich gewinnbringend an CO-ART beteiligen, und sei es nur dadurch, dass Sie uns ueberlebensfreundliche Produkte und Ideen empfehlen. Schauen Sie doch mal, welche Buecher, Songs oder pfiffigen Geschaeftsideen Sie so kennen, und lassen Sie uns wissen, was Ihnen daran am meisten gefaellt. Haben Sie selbst jemals daran gedacht, Dinge, die sich in Ihrem Berufsleben als besonders effektiv herausgestellt haben, in Form eines kurzen, handlichen Buechleins niederzuschreiben. Wenn Sie als Schriftsteller noch keine Erfahrung haben, helfen wir Ihnen dabei, Ihre ganz besonderen Faehigkeiten interessant zu formulieren. Wir wollen, dass Ihre Idee ein Bestseller wird. Denn mit CO-ART vermarkten wir Erfolgsrezepte weltweit via Internet und erreichen damit Millionen. Schauen Sie einfach auf unsere Homepage und bewerben Sie sich. http://www.coart.de/ Damit Sie auf den Geschmack kommen, moechten wir Ihnen einige Beispiele an besseren, erfolgreich angewandten Ideen vorstellen. Diese Angebote sind uebrigens ganz einfach per Mausklick erhaeltlich - elektronisch zum Download. Unsere Buecher sind uebrigens so genannte E-Books, elektronische Buecher zum Runterladen auf Ihren PC. Da wir uns die Versandkosten sparen, sind sie erheblich guenstiger als Papier-Buecher. Der wichtigste Vorteil aber besteht darin, dass man beispielsweise mit einem Schlagwort im E-Book nach bestimmten Inhalten suchen kann und dann alle betreffenden Stellen sofort angezeigt bekommt. Jetzt vor Weihnachten bedanken wir uns bei unseren treuen Abonnenten mit einem kleinen Dankeschoen. Sie erhalten ein Gratis-Kinderbuch nach Ihrer Wahl. Diese Maerchenbuecher mit Geschichten der Gebrueder Grimm gibt's ebenfalls als E-Books, sofort zum Download. Registrieren Sie sich bei CO-ART und los geht's. http://www.coart.de/c-34-kostenlos.aspx Wie waer's damit, beim Autokauf richtig Geld zu sparen. Ein professioneller Motorjournalist gibt Tipps unter anderem dazu, wie man ganz legal aus anderen europaeischen Laendern Autos weit unter dem deutschen Listenpreis beziehen kann - und zwar mit voller Garantie. http://www.coart.de/pc-19-3-der-eu-import-ratgeber-pkw-westeuropa.aspx Was muss ich beachten, wenn ich ein Auto aus den USA ueber den grossen Teich nach Europa einfuehren will. Der US-Import Ratgeber Pkw verraet alles, was man wissen muss, um eine Corvette,einen Ford Mustang oder einen Chevy kostenguenstig zu erwerben und in die EU zu bringen. http://www.coart.de/pc-17-3-der-us-import-ratgeber-pkw.aspx Oder koennte es nicht von unschaetzbarem Nutzen sein, grundlegende Wahrheiten zum Thema Gesundheit zu erfahren? Ein Buch, das Medizin verstaendlich erklaert, und das jeder gelesen haben muss, der mehr ueber das natuerliche Zusammenwirken von Vitaminen, Naehrstoffen, Mineralien und dem Koerper wissen will. Eine erfrischende Sichtweise, die Ihrer eigenen Gesundheit nur gut tun kann. Bei CO-ART zum Download. http://www.coart.de/c-6-gesundheit.aspx In nahezu jeder Illustrierten findet man sie - Hungerkuren oder sonstige Diaeten gibt's wie Sand am Meer, aber wie die optimale Ernaehrung aussieht, sagen sie einem nicht. Das E-Book Optimale Fitness raeumt mit falschen Vorstellungen auf und erklaert, was man zu
RE: After upgrade no bootup.
Andrei, I got stuck. Booted with Knoppix. I mounted and chroot'ed into /mnt/hda1 Ran aptitude purge yaird. Instantly aptitude offered me the choose to downgrade to testing, which should solve the dependencies, so I accepted this choose In the links you gave, you mentioned you got at least the initramfs-tools installed. Never used it though. Well, problem is: can't get eth0 up. Do I have to mount my proc system somehow. Or do I have to get a newer Knoppix (uses 2.6.9)? Probably last answer? Thx, Pascal. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Andrei Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: woensdag 14 december 2005 20:19 Aan: debian-user@lists.debian.org Onderwerp: Re: After upgrade no bootup. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Today I upgraded my system. > > It wouldn't boot up. Instead it give me this error: > > Waiting 2 seconds /sys/block/hda/dev to show up. > > /bin/cat:/sys/block/hda/dev: no such file or directory. > > Is this fixable or do I have to set up my complete system again? Hope not. > > Pascal. > Here is what worked for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01408.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01406.html post your steps if you get stuck Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.14-1 ok but since 2.6.14-2 hardware not detected and thus modules not loaded
I have a sid based system which runs fine with kernel 2.6.14-1 but which will not find/initialize the network card with any 2.6.14-2 and above kernel. I have updated the 2.6.14-2 kernel through version -2, -3, -4 and now -5 with similar results. I think the problem may be with the hardware detection. The boot.log for 2.6.14-1 shows e1000 NIC (and other hardware) detected and modules loaded. The boot.log for 2.6.14-2 does not seem to detect most of the hardware. Does anyone know what changed between 2.6.14-1 and 1.6.14-2 which may be causing this? When booting from 2.6.14-1 the same segment from /var/log/boot looks like this: = Wed Dec 14 16:48:18 2005: Detecting hardware...Discovered hardware for these modules: agpgart parport_pc e1000 via82cxxx aic7xxx emu10k1 usb_uhci Wed Dec 14 16:48:19 2005: Loading agpgart module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:20 2005: Loading parport_pc module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:20 2005: Loading e1000 module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:21 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m Skipping already loaded module via82cxxx. Wed Dec 14 16:48:21 2005: Loading aic7xxx module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:40 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m emu10k1 disabled in configuration. Wed Dec 14 16:48:40 2005: Loading uhci_hcd module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Setting sensors limits: done. Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Setting up networking...done. Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Setting hostname 'n3'...done. Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Configuring network interfaces...done. = When booting from 2.6.14-1 it appears hardware is detected and modules loaded ok When booting from 2.6.14-5 the segment of /var/log/boot related to hardware detection/module-loading looks like this: = Wed Dec 14 16:43:21 2005: Detecting hardware...Discovered hardware for these modules: ide_scsi Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m Skipping unavailable/built-in ide_scsi module. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Setting sensors limits: done. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Setting up networking...done. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Setting hostname 'n3'...done. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: Failed to bring up eth0. Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: eth0:1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: eth0:1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: Failed to bring up eth0:1. Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: done. === I can load the module manually but still get similar eth0 / SIO... messages when tryting to reinitialize the network. Any help greatly appreciated. R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD/DVD burning
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 16:44, steef wrote: hello steef, Have a look at the links below for a dvd authoring starter http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6953 and http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5817 and http://linuxgazette.net/issue83/stoddard.html all the best from peter colton > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > >On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:20:25 +0100 > > > >steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Fritz Wettstein wrote: > >>>Which tool do you recommend for burning/authoring dvds? > >> > >>*growisofs* (dvd) *cdrecord* (cdrom); both from the commandline. > >> > >>steef > > > >Maybe you could offer some advice. I'm trying to burn an iso image, but > >I need the "+" & "-" options to get a good DVD. > > > >I didn't see any switch in the reading. > > > >Thanks > > ...if i get your question right (with a risk i tell you things you know > already) > > under sarge: > > install as root *dvd+rw-tools*aptitude install etc. etc > then do as $ man growisofs and this help_file really helps you further. > > install as well *cdrecord* > i do not know which kernel you are using. if you use a 4.4.x kernel: > > do as root *cdrecord -scanbus* to get the *scsi-codes* of your burning > device(s). > look further at the *man cdrecord* file. > if you use a 2.6.x kernel *just* do (if you start burning) cdrecord > /dev/hdx/ -data/-audio and the rest. > > to get some exercise use the -dummy option to get the hunch of it. > > hope this is of some help. > > good luck, > > steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:54:27PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous > tab) in firefox? and -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ GnuPG key | http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "Do only what only you can do." --- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > H. S. wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up >> PDFs using psnup but I am not able to. >> >> I have L??N.pdf files in a directory and wish to produce a >> corresponding 4-up PDF for each file named L??N-4up.pdf. > > > Sorry about the dumb question. But should not you use pdfnup for > n-upping the pdf files instead of psnup? or is there any reason that I > am missing? > > thanks > raju > I am doing this at my university and we don't have pdfnup available. But quite interesting question though, I didn't know pdfnup existed! I will try this at my home machine, running Debian where I see this: $> apt-cache search pdfnup pdfjam - collection of PDF document handling utilities Thanks, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 19:15 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > David Watson wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:54 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > > >>Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous > >>tab) in firefox? I am using debian unstable (up to date), kde, > >>2.6.14-2-686-smp kernel. I have read > >>http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard and they only list alt+i > >>to go to the ith tab. But if there is some key board shortcut to go to > >>the next/previous tab (ie relative moment instead of the absolute > >>movement) that would be really useful for me. > >> > >>thanks for any pointers > >>raju > >> > >> > > > >Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab will do what you need. > > > > > Are you using KDE? In kde, ctrl-tab and ctrl+shift+tab is used to switch > across desktops. So it does not work for firefox. Any other ideas? > > thanks > raju Afraid not, I use Gnome, I have no idea if the keys can be changed. -- David Watson (GPG Key ID: A7D6AE79) Lugmaster, Programmer, Bass Player http://planetwatson.co.uk/blog http://liverpool.lug.org.uk IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
David Watson wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:54 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous tab) in firefox? I am using debian unstable (up to date), kde, 2.6.14-2-686-smp kernel. I have read http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard and they only list alt+i to go to the ith tab. But if there is some key board shortcut to go to the next/previous tab (ie relative moment instead of the absolute movement) that would be really useful for me. thanks for any pointers raju Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab will do what you need. Are you using KDE? In kde, ctrl-tab and ctrl+shift+tab is used to switch across desktops. So it does not work for firefox. Any other ideas? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid
Hi all. I sent this to debian-laptop a few days ago, and haven't gotten any responses, so I thought I'd try the wider-readership list. It's now a full week since I lost my wireless, and still no indication that the kernel team has looked at my bug report. I was going to try compiling the orinoco module myself, but the kernel-source version for 2.4.27 (-11) doesn't match the kernel-image version (-12), and I have no idea what kind of mess I might create if I use the wrong-version module. -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 12, 2005 6:54 PM Subject: orinoco wireless on sid To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Hi all. Last week I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.27-12, from kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686, and promptly lost my orinoco network driver to an unresolved symbol: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# modprobe orinoco /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o: /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o: unresolved symbol ALIGN /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o: insmod orinoco failed Consequently, I've been wireless-less (would that be "wire"?) for the better part of a week. Not life-threatening, to be certain, but definitely inconvenient. Is anybody else seeing this? Alternatively, does anyone else have the same configuration (sid, orinoco, 2.4.27-12 on 686) working correctly? I'm interested in corroboration, work-arounds, or a demonstration that it's something particular to my own setup. I filed a bug report pretty much immediately after the problem hit me (bug #342503), but there's been no response from the kernel team (including any indication that the report has been read). Thanks. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
Re: [OT] good laptops
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:47:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I just got a 1.6 GHz IBM ThinkPad A31 for $500 at budcom.com (Budget > Computers, SW 114th Ave and OR-10 and OR-217, Beaverton, Oregon). That's a > much nicer machine, everything on it works, and I've even heard good things > about Linux on them (though I haven't tried dual booting it yet). > Paul, can you post the spec of the machine? (plus, are they used, new?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup
On 12/14/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up > PDFs using psnup but I am not able to. Off hand, I'd probably use something like: BEGIN MAKEFILE SRCS := $(filter-out %-4up.pdf,$(wildcard *.pdf)) DESTS := $(patsubst %.pdf,%-4up.pdf,$(SRCS)) default : $(DESTS) %.ps : %.pdf acroread -toPostScript $< %-4up.ps : %.ps psnup -m0.5cm -l -Pletter -pletter -4 $< > $@ %-4up.pdf : %-4up.ps ps2pdf $< END MAKEFILE Remember to change the spaces to tabs for the action lines. Gmail won't let me enter a tab by hand. There's a circular dependency, but it doesn't seem to cause problems. Since you have tighter naming rules, you can probably change %.ps : %.pdf to %N.ps : %N.pdf -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous > tab) in firefox? Ctrl-Tab moves right, Ctrl-Shift-Tab moves left. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving across tabs in firefox
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:54 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous > tab) in firefox? I am using debian unstable (up to date), kde, > 2.6.14-2-686-smp kernel. I have read > http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard and they only list alt+i > to go to the ith tab. But if there is some key board shortcut to go to > the next/previous tab (ie relative moment instead of the absolute > movement) that would be really useful for me. > > thanks for any pointers > raju Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab will do what you need. -- David Watson (GPG Key ID: A7D6AE79) Lugmaster, Programmer, Bass Player http://planetwatson.co.uk/blog http://liverpool.lug.org.uk IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Un-bootable kernel due to bad initrd (Solved)
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: For archive readers: before chrooting you need to mount you / partition avoiding Knoppix' fstab #mount -o rw /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 What's the right mount command, with '-o exec'? H I don't mean to be rude, but... did you actually read my post? Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup
H. S. wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up PDFs using psnup but I am not able to. I have L??N.pdf files in a directory and wish to produce a corresponding 4-up PDF for each file named L??N-4up.pdf. Sorry about the dumb question. But should not you use pdfnup for n-upping the pdf files instead of psnup? or is there any reason that I am missing? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to use makefile to work with psnup
Hi,
I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up
PDFs using psnup but I am not able to.
I have L??N.pdf files in a directory and wish to produce a corresponding
4-up PDF for each file named L??N-4up.pdf.
I have a shell script which converts all L??N.pdf files to 4up PDF files:
#
#!/bin/bash
if (( $# != 1 )); then
echo "Usage: $0 "
exit -1
fi
#get the base name of the file
bn=`basename $1 .pdf`
#use acroread to get the PS of the file. acroread gives smaller PS
#files than pdf2ps!
acroread -toPostScript $1
#now convert the PS file to 4up and then to the final PDF version
psnup -m0.5cm -l -Pletter -pletter -4 ${bn}.ps | ps2pdf - ${bn}-4up.pdf
#delete the intermediate ps file
rm -f ${bn}.ps
###
This works great, but using a makefile would be even better, won't need
to run the script on all PDF in a directory if only a few are revised.
Here is my dismal attempt at making a makefile:
#
SRC=$(wildcard L??N.pdf)
OBJS=$(patsubst %N.pdf,%N-4up.pdf,$(wildcard L??N.pdf))
#reset recognized suffixes
.SUFFIXES: N.pdf N-4up.pdf
#%N-4up.pdf: %N.pdf
# echo 'making #> #@'
%N-4up.pdf: %N.pdf
echo "making $@ from $?"
4ups: *N-4up.pdf
#
Any help in making this makefile is greatly apprecaited.
Thanks,
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Re: [OT] good laptops
Rob Benton wrote: > I was wondering what everyone's opinion was on a good quality laptop. I > bought a Dell desktop for my mom almost a year ago and it wasn't such a > good deal. I agree. I had a Dell Inspiron 3000 and was utterly disappointed with the machine. > So any place that takes trade-ins is a plus. I'm not really > worried about compatibility with Linux since she'll only be using > Windows XP. I just got a 1.6 GHz IBM ThinkPad A31 for $500 at budcom.com (Budget Computers, SW 114th Ave and OR-10 and OR-217, Beaverton, Oregon). That's a much nicer machine, everything on it works, and I've even heard good things about Linux on them (though I haven't tried dual booting it yet). -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got jabber? http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?
Seth Goodman wrote: > I know this is a Debian list, but there is Windows tool called 7-zip > that is distributed under the LGPL that can deal with zip, tar, gz and > bz2. This makes me suspect that there cannot be any patent hindrances > to the zip format itself. IIRC one of the algorithms that can be used in zip is lzw which is (or was) patented. Remember, just because something is under the (l)gpl does not mean it is patent free. I could easily write an mp3 player and distribute it under the gpl, doesn't change the fact that mp3 is patented. > Since my Windows and Debian boxes are connected through SAMBA, I have no > problem running the 7-zip tool on a Windows box and leaving the result > on a Debian machine. Yes, this is both impure and heretical and I > expect to be flamed all the way to the gates of hell for mentioning it. Not from me. Use 7-zip here myself. Far prefer it to the alternatives on Windows which are either useless or commercial (and about as useless). -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Gnome 2.12
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:46, Marcel Stoop wrote: [snip] > gnome 2.12 isn't even in sid yet. So it will take at least a few months. > Is this because it's thought unreliable? I've been using Gnome 2.12 on a couple of other distros without problems so far. :) Fish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sent mail timing out
On my ISP's sysadmin suggestion, I changed from sendmail to postfix, as he has experience with it The problem is in the mail.log still: Dec 13 20:27:40 ljmoore postfix/smtp[6930]: connect to mx1.rog.mail.yahoo.com[67.28.113.16]: Connection timed out (port 25) Dec 13 20:28:10 ljmoore postfix/smtp[6930]: connect to mx1.rog.mail.yahoo.com[64.156.215.23]: Connection timed out (port 25) Dec 13 20:28:40 ljmoore postfix/smtp[6930]: connect to mx2.rog.mail.yahoo.com[66.94.225.172]: Connection timed out (port 25) Dec 13 20:29:10 ljmoore postfix/smtp[6930]: connect to mx2.rog.mail.yahoo.com[206.190.37.6]: Connection timed out (port 25) Dec 13 20:29:11 ljmoore postfix/smtp[6930]: A5C81185D7: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=18836, status=deferred (connect to mx2.rog.mail.yahoo.com[206.190.37.6]: Connection timed out) Help - what question should I be asking? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing over to udev
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:00:04 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If, indeed, this must be done--this provides hotplug functionality as > well. > > Does it need to be in control? As of now, many things are modprobed > before hotplug and hotplug says "already loaded". Might be quite > difficult to find and sort all this out. Hotplug/udev might be > self-sufficient without /etc/modules or alsa configuration scripts > elsewhere but maybe not. > > Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and > 2.6.14 (which must have udev). Until 2.6.14 is demonstrably working > with udev, I do not want to get rid of 2.6.11 (which uses devfs and > current hotplug). Can udev be installed anyway? Consequences? I'm currently trying to learn/convert to udev on Sid as well. What I did was to install the 2.6.12 kernel which can also work without udev. 2.6.12 is currently in Testing. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GTK Woes
Hi , after a recent dist-upgrade to etch, I have noticed problems with starting JabRef, a Java-based reference manager that apparently uses some native GTK libraries. JabRef basically crashes with the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/PDF$ java -jar JabRef-1.8.1.jar ** ERROR **: file ../../../src/libjava/jni/gtk-peer/gnu_java_awt_peer_gtk_GtkImage.c: line 572 (createRawData): assertion failed: (data_fid != 0) aborting... Abgebrochen I havent been able to find anything quite to the point by Googling...any ideas? Thanks, Peter ps abgebrochen = "aborted" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: converting mailbox format
Andreas Rippl wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:53:08PM +0100, Juraj Fedel wrote: > >>How do I convert mailbox from OutlookExpress to mbox format? >>Command line use is preferable. >> >>Juraj >> >> > > Hi Juraj, > > cvpoly2:~$apt-show readpst > Package: readpst > Priority: optional > Section: utils > Installed-Size: 192 > Maintainer: Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Source: libpst > Version: 0.5.1-1 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) > Filename: pool/main/libp/libpst/readpst_0.5.1-1_i386.deb > Size: 55764 > MD5Sum: 37d2a85b5f88edf8dd6daf61a6fe2b94 > Description: Converts Outlook PST files to mbox and others > ReadPST is an application that can take a Microsoft Outlook PST > (Personal Folders) file and convert it into mbox, kmail, its own > recursive format, or separate each email into its own file. > . > It can currently handle emails, folders and most contacts. > > Does a good job for me. > > Hth > I am not all up to speed on Windows, but I believe that Outlook PST and Outlook Express are two different mail formats. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: converting mailbox format
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:53:08PM +0100, Juraj Fedel wrote: > How do I convert mailbox from OutlookExpress to mbox format? > Command line use is preferable. > > Juraj > > Hi Juraj, cvpoly2:~$apt-show readpst Package: readpst Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 192 Maintainer: Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: libpst Version: 0.5.1-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) Filename: pool/main/libp/libpst/readpst_0.5.1-1_i386.deb Size: 55764 MD5Sum: 37d2a85b5f88edf8dd6daf61a6fe2b94 Description: Converts Outlook PST files to mbox and others ReadPST is an application that can take a Microsoft Outlook PST (Personal Folders) file and convert it into mbox, kmail, its own recursive format, or separate each email into its own file. . It can currently handle emails, folders and most contacts. Does a good job for me. Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Screwed up USB
Hello gurus, I've got a linux-2.6 i686 sarge machine running udev, dbus-1, and hal. A (l)user has just pulled a usb drive out before waiting for it to finish transfering data. *Is* it possible to recover without rebooting the machine? Here's what I've tried so far, which may have only made the situation worse: I took down dbus-1 and hal w/ invoke-rc.d dbus-1 stop I killed all processes that have an open file descriptor to the directory the flash drive was mounted on using lsof | grep I tried to unmount the disk, but could not, so I wound up using pumount -l. Maybe that was a mistake... Tried to kill -HUP udevd, pretty sure that was a mistake. And now I'm out of options except to try randomly removing kernel modules or reboot. The user would rather I not reboot as the machine is running a model that's been number-crunching for days. The machine seems fine except that usb removable media doesn't seem to work and the load level is higher than normal. Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?
Seth Goodman wrote:
From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:49 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?
Mike McCarty wrote:
It is distributed with a BSD like license. IOW, you can
redistribute, and source is available, but they retain
rights. But no charge (unless you meant something
different by the term "free").
Free of patent and royalty issues which ZIP is not entirely. :)
I know this is a Debian list, but there is Windows tool called 7-zip
that is distributed under the LGPL that can deal with zip, tar, gz and
bz2. This makes me suspect that there cannot be any patent hindrances
to the zip format itself. This tool, like RAR, can create a split
archive with whatever size the user specifies. Zip files do have CRC's
for each file they contain that are made at the time of file
compression, and this is no different for RAR. Only the formats
supported are different. It also has support for rpm, deb and cab
files, and some support for decompressing RAR, but I haven't tried that.
Since my Windows and Debian boxes are connected through SAMBA, I have no
problem running the 7-zip tool on a Windows box and leaving the result
The ZOO program is also some sort of free source. I've used it under
MSDOS, VMS, HPUX, and Solaris. I dunno if this is the same thing I've
used, but I found this:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/z/zoo.html
Anyway, here's a quote from the the full copyright notice for the
source I have...
[QUOTE MODE ON]
2. DISTRIBUTION IN UNMODIFIED FORM: You may copy this software in
unmodified form for any purpose, whether commercial or
noncommercial, provided that you make no attempt to restrict
distribution of it by others.
[QUOTE MODE OFF]
Anyone who wants a copy of the source I have may get it
by e-mailing me.
Mike
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Re: RALUS on Debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just put together a little howto in order to install the veritas backup agent on a Debian host. You may want to take a look at it. It is published under http://newvibes.net/linux/backup.html#ralus. Regards Alexander Sennhauser - Alexander Sennhauser | _o) http://newvibes.net | /\\_o) _o) mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _\_V _(/) _(/) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDoIpsx0IDfdztR0kRAslbAKCIYD6pKqmi6XdfTTfdqKZX23WT4QCgliR/ BjJqjPOb681XiuOJe1do6hw= =Pmed -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: RAR under linux: any alternative?
> From: Seth Goodman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:02 PM > > > I know this is a Debian list, but there is Windows tool called 7-zip There is a port of this tool in Debian unstable http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/p7zip so hopefully this at least provides another Debian-compatible method to read RAR's. The RAR decompression is in a non-free area of the developer's web site and I don't know what the license limitations are. They ported the command line 7-zip version, not the GUI-based tool, so it is scriptable. -- Seth Goodman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing over to udev
If, indeed, this must be done--this provides hotplug functionality as well. Does it need to be in control? As of now, many things are modprobed before hotplug and hotplug says "already loaded". Might be quite difficult to find and sort all this out. Hotplug/udev might be self-sufficient without /etc/modules or alsa configuration scripts elsewhere but maybe not. Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and 2.6.14 (which must have udev). Until 2.6.14 is demonstrably working with udev, I do not want to get rid of 2.6.11 (which uses devfs and current hotplug). Can udev be installed anyway? Consequences? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: RAR under linux: any alternative?
> From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:49 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: RAR under linux: any alternative? > > > Mike McCarty wrote: > > It is distributed with a BSD like license. IOW, you can > > redistribute, and source is available, but they retain > > rights. But no charge (unless you meant something > > different by the term "free"). > > Free of patent and royalty issues which ZIP is not entirely. :) I know this is a Debian list, but there is Windows tool called 7-zip that is distributed under the LGPL that can deal with zip, tar, gz and bz2. This makes me suspect that there cannot be any patent hindrances to the zip format itself. This tool, like RAR, can create a split archive with whatever size the user specifies. Zip files do have CRC's for each file they contain that are made at the time of file compression, and this is no different for RAR. Only the formats supported are different. It also has support for rpm, deb and cab files, and some support for decompressing RAR, but I haven't tried that. Since my Windows and Debian boxes are connected through SAMBA, I have no problem running the 7-zip tool on a Windows box and leaving the result on a Debian machine. Yes, this is both impure and heretical and I expect to be flamed all the way to the gates of hell for mentioning it. Like Mike, I am a practical person and use whatever tool I need to get a job done. While I prefer GPL'd tools for the same reason we all do, sometimes you have to use a closed source tool to accomplish a task. When a commercial software vendor recently asked me to provide him a particular large file in RAR format with PAR files, I didn't argue or attempt to "educate" him on the merits of GPL'd software, I just gave him what he needed. Same goes for what my clients request. Zealotry is bad for business. -- Seth Goodman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] good laptops
Jacob S wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:08:29 +0100 Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/13/05, Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering what everyone's opinion was on a good quality laptop. I bought a Dell desktop for my mom almost a year ago and it wasn't such a good deal. So any place that takes trade-ins is a plus. I'm not really worried about compatibility with Linux since she'll only be using Windows XP. [ Don't buy an acer travelmate 4102WLMi] When I was looking for a laptop everybody told me IBM was the way to go but they're kinda hard to get around here (and expensive). They're sold by Lenovo now but I don't think that has much bearing on their quality. I'm pretty sure the thinkpads are pretty good, if you can get one. I'll second the recommendation for IBM thinkpads. But as Wim said, they are more expensive than other laptops. My dad has a Thinkpad T22 running Debian stable and I've been happy with it's compatability. 3d video was enabled fairly effortlessly and for the most part sleep and suspend work properly. (The T22 is old enough that it's a 900Mhz PIII and came with Windows 2000, but it works great for our purposes... it can even play DVDs pretty well.) Ditto. I have an old Thinkpad 390. Solid as a rock. It dual boots woody and Win98SE. One of the hinges is completely broken out of the casing, but the box just keeps on running. When I have a job and can afford a new box I will replace it, but Thinkpads are right up there at the top of my list. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VLC in testing?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:19:59AM -0800, Cameron Dale wrote: > This frustrated me for a while too. I ended up adding the stable > repositories to my sources.list, and then installed the version from stable > (version 0.8.1.svn20050314-1 in stable, compared to 0.8.4.debian-1 in > unstable).This worked perfectly for me, though I am only using the main vlc > package, not wxvlc. Ok, that will work for me as well I think. I agree that is the easiest solution... Thanks! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tool to print photos
Søren Christensen wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:38:35PM +0100, olive wrote: In Windows XP, there is a tool to easily print photos Take a look at the program montage from ImageMagick, I think it does just what you're looking for. Thanks, I had been wondering about this, as well, and montage seems to be exactly what I was looking for. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg leaking
Micha Feigin wrote: on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:09:55PM -0800, Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyone else experiencing leaks in Xorg? I have a root window image that updates ever five minutes. I thought I saw somewhere were that might be the leak, but I couldn't see it leak by updating my root window. For me it has always been process related. X seems to develop some insane memory leak and then when I close the offending process things are ok again. Can't recall now what where suspect culprits (I think it was something either web/flash related or dri). Try closing programs when that happens and see after each one if things go back to normal. I have had problems with a javavm eating up memory. It seems to be getting started by firefox and then memory and swap just disappear as the system slows to a near halt. The last time I killed the javavm, it took out firefox with it. It freed up about 10MB of real memory and about 240MB of swap. The system immediately started to respond normally after that. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Un-bootable kernel due to bad initrd (Solved)
Andrei Popescu wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:53:36AM +0200, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is unstable ... indeed it is :) This seems to be |Bug#343042 |Just to summarize: i just did an '#aptitude upgrade' and my kernel 2.6.14 got upgraded (and probably yaird allong the way too). Due to the yaird mentioned above the created initrd image is bad and Debian won't boot. Because it was a minor kernel upgrade i don't have a backup kernel...won't do *that* mistake again :) Is it possible to recover from this? All i have is a Knoppix CD (the windoze doesn't count :D) and another machine with stable on it (kernel 2.6.8). I don't want to repair this the M$ way (format c:) Boot Knoppix. Mount your installed root partition. Chroot into it. Mount any additional partitions underneath it. You're now effectively in your installed system. Install / remove / configure packages as necessary, rebuild your initrd, etc. Peace. Actually i had already tried this, but then i didn't know yaird was the culprit so it failed. It worked now, after purging yaird and solving another error (/dev/null: Permission denied) For archive readers: before chrooting you need to mount you / partition avoiding Knoppix' fstab #mount -o rw /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 What's the right mount command, with '-o exec'? H This is explained on Knoppix' site. thanks for the impulse though, i was just about to give up. i had no ideea if it is even possible to recover from this (without guru knowledge :D ), but linux amazed me *again* Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the script update-grub located?
David R. Litwin wrote: I have the same problem, and there allready is a thread about it, but without any hopes. I didn't try update-grub because i don't think this is the problem, but if you find something please post ... Which thread is this? I should like to read it. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it. Here is what worked for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01408.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01406.html if you get stuck post your steps in the 'After upgrade no bootup'-thread to reduce redundancy (how the hell do you link a thread ?) Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VLC in testing?
This frustrated me for a while too. I ended up adding the stable repositories to my sources.list, and then installed the version from stable (version 0.8.1.svn20050314-1 in stable, compared to 0.8.4.debian-1 in unstable).This worked perfectly for me, though I am only using the main vlc package, not wxvlc. On 12/14/05, Daniel Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All,I was going to play with videolan today and tries installing wxvlc onmy testing machine. This wasn't possible though... Looks like wxvlc ispart of source package vlc, which in turn depends on gcc-snapshot which in turn is never supposed to enter testing according the BTS. Sothis means then that no packages built from vlc will ever entertesting either...Any ideas on how to get the vlc packages to my testing machine? I assume I can't build them myself since the source packages will dependon gcc-snapshot. Any ideas?ThanksDaniel--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: After upgrade no bootup.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I upgraded my system. It wouldn’t boot up. Instead it give me this error: Waiting 2 seconds /sys/block/hda/dev to show up. /bin/cat:/sys/block/hda/dev: no such file or directory. Is this fixable or do I have to set up my complete system again? Hope not. Pascal. Here is what worked for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01408.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01406.html post your steps if you get stuck Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hplib + sane
I have an HP OfficeJet connected via HPLIP. "scanimage --help" reports: List of available devices: hpaio:/net/OfficeJet__K60?ip=192.168.2.11 but "scanimage -d hpaio:/net/OfficeJet__K60?ip=192.168.2.11" always returns with: scanimage: sane_start: Device busy /var.log/messages reports: scanimage: warning HP-SCAN channel already closed: scan/sane/hpaio.c 518 and /var/log/syslog says: hpiod: invalid scan response 1 socket 5 JetDirectChannel::Open: line 97 hpiod: invalid channel descriptor:-1 I run: - hplip 0.9.3-3 - libsane 1.0.16-4 - sane 1.0.14-1 - kernel 2.6.14.3 Can anybody help me? Thanks, -- Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > > > A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to > > 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... > > I just tried that on my sarge system., whose ssh documentation does > mention ssh. But in the new shell > env did not give me an entry for DISPLAY > emacs opened in text mode > xjig said > can't open display '' > Evidently, something more is needed than just ssh -X localhost. > some additional package maybe? No, odds are sshd is just set to disable X11 forwarding. Add/change the following line X11Forwarding yes in '/etc/ssh/sshd_config' and restart sshd (as root) /etc/init.d/ssh reload (That won't affect any existing ssh sessions.) -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The mouse erratic problem in X on AMD64 Debian Sarge box
I recently installed Debian Sarge on my AMD64 system. It all works fine until I start X (have tried startx and gdm). When I move the mouse, it jumps erratically around the screen. I have googled and found this problem, but the solutions I have found didn't work for me. One was the use of a fifo called gpmdata and the other was simply stopping gpm. Is there a website for figuring out: 1) which packages are required for X to work (preferably gnome) 2) how to make the mouse behave It is a logitech wireless mouse which works fine in my Slackware installation. I have also tried using xorg instead of xfree86. I tried to use the same config file that works on my Slack system too. Vicki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: If you do not need international text printing, it is best to get rid of xprint, and go back to printing by PostScript/default. But when I stop the xprint servers and use print in TBird, indeed only the postscript menu item appears but using it to file is excruciatingly slow and produces an unrecoverable error in GV. Restarting X will cure the "slowness" problem; I cannot reproduce the "error" problem (on Sid). Actually by "getting rid of" I meant something like dpkg --purge xprint xprint-common This, as I said, should only be done, on Debian, if you do not care about "international" printing (printing the full UTF-8 character set). Other distributions (e.g. Ubuntu Breezy) seem to have found solutions for international printing which avoid the buggy xprint. Some form of "freetype printing", perhaps. Regards, Jan Spoke too soon again :-( You are absolutely right Jan Willem, stoppint xprint servers and restarting X solves the whole thing. Goodbye xprint! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i cant use hdparm to configure my hard disk drive
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 21:03, 飘雨时分 wrote: > # hdparm -c1 /dev/hda5 > > /dev/hda5: > setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 > HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > ~~ > does my hard disk support IO_32？ > ~~ > > # hdparm -I /dev/hda5 I don't know,but you only need to specify a hard drive device not a partition on the device, i.e. /dev/hda not /dev/hda5 > /dev/hda5: > > ATA device, with non-removable media > Model Number: ST340810A > Serial Number: 3FB0YPJB > Firmware Revision: 3.34 > Standards: > Supported: 6 5 4 3 > Likely used: 6 > Configuration: > Logical max current > cylinders 16383 16383 > heads 16 16 > sectors/track 63 63 > -- > CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 > LBA user addressable sectors: 71682031 > device size with M = 1024*1024: 35000 MBytes > device size with M = 1000*1000: 36701 MBytes (36 GB) > Capabilities: > LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) > bytes avail on r/w long: 4 Queue depth: 1 > Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard > R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = ? > Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x0040) > Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 128 > DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 > Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns > PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 > Cycle time: no flow control=240ns IORDY flow control=120ns > Commands/features: > Enabled Supported: > * READ BUFFER cmd > * WRITE BUFFER cmd > * Host Protected Area feature set > * Look-ahead > * Write cache > * Power Management feature set > Security Mode feature set > SMART feature set > * Device Configuration Overlay feature set > * Automatic Acoustic Management feature set > SET MAX security extension > * Advanced Power Management feature set > * DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd > * SMART self-test > * SMART error logging > Security: > Master password revision code = 65534 > supported > not enabled > not locked > not frozen > not expired: security count > not supported: enhanced erase > HW reset results: > CBLID- above Vih > Device num = 0 determined by CSEL > Checksum: correct > > > ~~ > this is /dev/hda5 > ~~ > /dev/hda5: > multcount = 0 (off) > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq = 0 (off) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 256 (on) > geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 11888037, start = 12289788 -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: If you do not need international text printing, it is best to get rid of xprint, and go back to printing by PostScript/default. But when I stop the xprint servers and use print in TBird, indeed only the postscript menu item appears but using it to file is excruciatingly slow and produces an unrecoverable error in GV. Restarting X will cure the "slowness" problem; I cannot reproduce the "error" problem (on Sid). Actually by "getting rid of" I meant something like dpkg --purge xprint xprint-common But should I not see the same results stopping the xprint servers? The "error" in GV with TBird may well be Sarge. H This, as I said, should only be done, on Debian, if you do not care about "international" printing (printing the full UTF-8 character set). Other distributions (e.g. Ubuntu Breezy) seem to have found solutions for international printing which avoid the buggy xprint. Some form of "freetype printing", perhaps. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVDs burned in Win, filenames shortened
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:50:03AM -0800, Andy Gower wrote: > I am running Debian Testing on the 2.6.12-k7 kernel. I burned many > DVDs on Windows in the past. Now in Debian, when I put some of them > in my DVD drive, mount, and view the files, the folders/filenames are > truncated to 8 digits. Other DVDs that I burned with Windows worked > correctly and I can see the full filenames. I think I might burned > them with different burning programs. I was googling looking for an > answer and it looks like it may have something to do with Joliet, > maybe? I was hoping that perhaps there was a specific "mount" command > that I could use to view the files with having the filenames > truncated. It could be that your disc has a UDF fs and a fallback ISO9660 on it. Mount is probably first recognizing the ISO9660 and showing you that with the short names. Try mounting the disc in question explicitly as "udf" and see if you see the proper long names you expected: mount -t udf /dev/dvd -- John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Gnome 2.12
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:40 +0545, Paras pradhan wrote: > hi all: > > Is there any way out where i can check when (tentative date ) the > gnome 2.12 will move to etch? > > > Thanks > Paras, > gnome 2.12 isn't even in sid yet. So it will take at least a few months. Marcel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:02:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > > > A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to > > 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... > > I just tried that on my sarge system., whose ssh documentation does > mention ssh. But in the new shell env did not give me an entry for DISPLAY You need two things for X11 forwarding to work: /etc/sshd/sshd_config on the machine you're connecting to must contain the setting: X11Forwarding yes The default is 'no' which disables this. You'll also need to make sure that you have the xbase-clients package installed upon that host too, this provide you with the 'xauth' binary. Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administration http://www.debian-administration.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)
> Evidently, something more is needed than just ssh -X localhost. > some additional package maybe? Enable X11Forwarding in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (server). Regards. -- Homepage : http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard Feynman.
getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to > 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... I just tried that on my sarge system., whose ssh documentation does mention ssh. But in the new shell env did not give me an entry for DISPLAY emacs opened in text mode xjig said can't open display '' Evidently, something more is needed than just ssh -X localhost. some additional package maybe? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Built 2.6.14!
>1. I am not using udev. Apparently not using devfs either because I compiled >that into the kernel with no change. Since I am based on an older knoppix >install, what exactly am I using? Devpts is what? How do I get modules active >and alsa working? I note that any attempt to place CONFIG_DEVFS=y (or CONFIG_DEVFS_FS as implied in the Makefile by the devfs sources!!) produces an undefined symbol error. I did, however, notice some errors dealing with devfs elsewhere. In any event, this was NOT in the kernel I compiled! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VLC in testing?
Hi All, I was going to play with videolan today and tries installing wxvlc on my testing machine. This wasn't possible though... Looks like wxvlc is part of source package vlc, which in turn depends on gcc-snapshot which in turn is never supposed to enter testing according the BTS. So this means then that no packages built from vlc will ever enter testing either... Any ideas on how to get the vlc packages to my testing machine? I assume I can't build them myself since the source packages will depend on gcc-snapshot. Any ideas? Thanks Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVDs burned in Win, filenames shortened
Hi guys, I am running Debian Testing on the 2.6.12-k7 kernel. I burned many DVDs on Windows in the past. Now in Debian, when I put some of them in my DVD drive, mount, and view the files, the folders/filenames are truncated to 8 digits. Other DVDs that I burned with Windows worked correctly and I can see the full filenames. I think I might burned them with different burning programs. I was googling looking for an answer and it looks like it may have something to do with Joliet, maybe? I was hoping that perhaps there was a specific "mount" command that I could use to view the files with having the filenames truncated. Any help or pointers to websites that would help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Andy -- ~ G O W E R O P O L I S ~ http://gowerlinux.no-ip.org:8080/blog/
Re: Built 2.6.14!
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:34:05AM -0500, Piszcz, Justin wrote: > Why use initrd at all (as long as you are not using a RAID ROOT > volume) Yeah I'd avoid usind initrd. The only problem there is since you based your config on the existing one for the debian kernel, you may need to go through and disable a whole lot of options for hardware you don't have to make the compile time sane and the kernel small enough to not require an initrd. > Try installing with ik, http://installkernel.tripod.com/ > Configure your kernel and LILO/GRUB then run: > ./ik -i > Then reboot. Eek! I'd stick to make-kpkg if you can help it, that way you satisfy debian package dependencies etc. and if things go wrong, you are more likely to get help here than with ik. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: If you do not need international text printing, it is best to get rid of xprint, and go back to printing by PostScript/default. But when I stop the xprint servers and use print in TBird, indeed only the postscript menu item appears but using it to file is excruciatingly slow and produces an unrecoverable error in GV. Restarting X will cure the "slowness" problem; I cannot reproduce the "error" problem (on Sid). Actually by "getting rid of" I meant something like dpkg --purge xprint xprint-common This, as I said, should only be done, on Debian, if you do not care about "international" printing (printing the full UTF-8 character set). Other distributions (e.g. Ubuntu Breezy) seem to have found solutions for international printing which avoid the buggy xprint. Some form of "freetype printing", perhaps. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer and ALSA
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:29:09 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -0800 (PST) > Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have made two Sarge installations within the past > > few months, one with a 2.4 kernel and one with a 2.6 > > kernel. I installed Realplayer on both of them, but > > sound is obtained from .ram only with the 2.4-kernel > > installation. There is a note that Realplayer 10 is > > not designed for use with ALSA, and my 2.6-kernel > > installation probably uses it. > > > > So I'm wondering what to do, since I'd like to access > > such files. Totem does not open them either. > > I was only able to get Realplayer 10 to work by running it with the > following command: > > aoss realplayer Whoops... That should be "aoss realplay". Jacob > The aoss utility is in the alsa-oss package. I've tested it with both > 2.6.9-2-k7 and 2.6.12-1-k7 so far. > > HTH, > Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] good laptops
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:34:28 -0500 Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/14/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll second the recommendation for IBM thinkpads. But as Wim said, > > they are more expensive than other laptops. > > If the cost of a Thinkpad isn't prohibitive, and XP isn't a > requirement, another option is to get an Apple laptop. You get a > friendly interface, a reasonable selection of third-party software, > and considerably less vulnerability to malware. I know a number of > people who are very happy with their Powerbooks, and some of them are > fairly hard-core Unix guys. I've been a little down on Apple ever since I had to send an iBook in for the Logic Board recall _twice_ and now it has started exhibiting similar symptoms again. The good side is that Apple keeps paying for shipping both directions and gets it back to me within a week. But still, it gets tiring putting up with the poor performance until it's bad enough for them to recognize the problem and then have to restore a backup to it when I get it back. Oh, and the hard drive died once, too (though I replaced that myself). It's an iBook G3 800Mhz with 640MB of ram. I still like the direction they're headed with OS X and especially the fact they're competing with Microsoft, but I'm not so sure about their hardware any more. The fact that they're switching to Intel chips doesn't comfort me any, either. Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt broken dependencies
On 12/14/05, Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i run > #apt-get update > #apt-get upgrade If you're upgrading from one distribution (stable) to another (testing), you need to run # apt-get dist-upgrade Otherwise, all of the changes between the two that require new packages for upgrades or the removal of obsolete packages can't go through. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
Re: apt broken dependencies
i run #apt-get update #apt-get upgrade On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:32 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 12/14/05, Viliam Kocinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > i have upgraded my instalation of debian stable to testing. My > > repository list looks like this: > > > > t# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian/ stable main > > deb ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ stable main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > deb ftp://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian/ testing main > > deb ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ testing main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main > > deb http://www.backports.org/pending/openoffice.org/ ./ > > deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free > > Is there a reason you're mixing stable and testing? If you're really > intending to upgrade to testing, you should comment out the sources > for stable. > > > Now i have problem with broken dependencies. When i try to run: > > > > t# apt-get install k3b > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree... Done > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > > or been moved out of Incoming. > > What else did you do other than changing your sources list? Did you > run an update and a dist-upgrade? > > -- > Michael A. Marsh > http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh > http://mamarsh.blogspot.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] good laptops
On 12/14/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll second the recommendation for IBM thinkpads. But as Wim said, they > are more expensive than other laptops. If the cost of a Thinkpad isn't prohibitive, and XP isn't a requirement, another option is to get an Apple laptop. You get a friendly interface, a reasonable selection of third-party software, and considerably less vulnerability to malware. I know a number of people who are very happy with their Powerbooks, and some of them are fairly hard-core Unix guys. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
RE: Built 2.6.14!
Why use initrd at all (as long as you are not using a RAID ROOT volume) Try installing with ik, http://installkernel.tripod.com/ Configure your kernel and LILO/GRUB then run: ./ik -i Then reboot. -Original Message- From: David Baron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, Subject: Built 2.6.14! Yes, I succeded for the first time in building a kernel. Since the Sid version came up with "Kernel modules not enabled" and loads of undefined symbols, no alsa, etc., I based the build on the working 2.6.11 config. Answered a bunch of questions for new items, taking mostly the defaults except for choosing preemption and a couple of other interesting-looking goodies. Ran make-kpkg and viole. Painless. I installed the .deb. Yaird is broken but never worked for me anyway so made the initrd the old fashioned way. Ran lilo and rebooted. The kernel booted and came up ... exactly like the Sid version with all the same errors! So ... 1. I am not using udev. Apparently not using devfs either because I compiled that into the kernel with no change. Since I am based on an older knoppix install, what exactly am I using? Devpts is what? How do I get modules active and alsa working? 2. While I cam compiling, I might as well dispense with the initrd. The linux filesystems are all ext3 so I must compile in ext3, ext3, jbd and what else? (I use mkinitrd with "dep" and explicitely call for ext3.) Nice satisfaction on making my own kernel for the first time but still cannot use it :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Built 2.6.14!
Yes, I succeded for the first time in building a kernel. Since the Sid version came up with "Kernel modules not enabled" and loads of undefined symbols, no alsa, etc., I based the build on the working 2.6.11 config. Answered a bunch of questions for new items, taking mostly the defaults except for choosing preemption and a couple of other interesting-looking goodies. Ran make-kpkg and viole. Painless. I installed the .deb. Yaird is broken but never worked for me anyway so made the initrd the old fashioned way. Ran lilo and rebooted. The kernel booted and came up ... exactly like the Sid version with all the same errors! So ... 1. I am not using udev. Apparently not using devfs either because I compiled that into the kernel with no change. Since I am based on an older knoppix install, what exactly am I using? Devpts is what? How do I get modules active and alsa working? 2. While I cam compiling, I might as well dispense with the initrd. The linux filesystems are all ext3 so I must compile in ext3, ext3, jbd and what else? (I use mkinitrd with "dep" and explicitely call for ext3.) Nice satisfaction on making my own kernel for the first time but still cannot use it :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer and ALSA
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -0800 (PST) Robert Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have made two Sarge installations within the past > few months, one with a 2.4 kernel and one with a 2.6 > kernel. I installed Realplayer on both of them, but > sound is obtained from .ram only with the 2.4-kernel > installation. There is a note that Realplayer 10 is > not designed for use with ALSA, and my 2.6-kernel > installation probably uses it. > > So I'm wondering what to do, since I'd like to access > such files. Totem does not open them either. I was only able to get Realplayer 10 to work by running it with the following command: aoss realplayer The aoss utility is in the alsa-oss package. I've tested it with both 2.6.9-2-k7 and 2.6.12-1-k7 so far. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] good laptops
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:08:29 +0100 Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/13/05, Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering what everyone's opinion was on a good quality > > laptop. I bought a Dell desktop for my mom almost a year ago and > > it wasn't such a good deal. So any place that takes trade-ins is a > > plus. I'm not really worried about compatibility with Linux since > > she'll only be using Windows XP. > > > > [ Don't buy an acer travelmate 4102WLMi] > > When I was looking for a laptop everybody told me IBM was the way to > go but they're kinda hard to get around here (and expensive). They're > sold by Lenovo now but I don't think that has much bearing on their > quality. I'm pretty sure the thinkpads are pretty good, if you can get > one. I'll second the recommendation for IBM thinkpads. But as Wim said, they are more expensive than other laptops. My dad has a Thinkpad T22 running Debian stable and I've been happy with it's compatability. 3d video was enabled fairly effortlessly and for the most part sleep and suspend work properly. (The T22 is old enough that it's a 900Mhz PIII and came with Windows 2000, but it works great for our purposes... it can even play DVDs pretty well.) HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LimeWire/Zip
steef wrote:
cc wrote:
i;
I am pretty new to linux and brand new to Debian. I have fooled around
with Ubuntu so I know how apt-get works.
I am trying to install LimeWire. The LimeWire home page has it in the
form of a .zip file which I cant manage to open. I also tired: wget -c
http://frankandjacq.com/ubuntuguide/LimeWireOther.zip
and then
unzip -u LimeWireOther.zip -d /opt/
The error is:
unzip: command not found
I have tried to work this out and googling was not to helpful.
TIA
Charlie
i am confused. the only limewire i installed once under woody is
*LimeWireLinux.bin*.
i had to install this file, after installing a blackdown_java_package
(this limewire is completely java_dependent), with something like
*$ PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}" ./{...}.bin*
steef
you 're new: allow me to give you some further clue:
on my system (sarge), after installing a java_blackdown-package, or sun
or whatever... I do
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ PATH=/home/steef/j2re1.4.2_06/bin ./LimeWireLinux.bin*
and behold: LimeWireLinux installs.
good luck,
steef
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