good easy antivirus

2005-12-14 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
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

Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup

2005-12-14 Thread H.S.
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,

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Joe Mc Cool
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 L

Re: Athlon AMD 64 3000+

2005-12-14 Thread Ron Johnson
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/amd

Re: Launch an X Windows app from Apache (PHP or Perl)

2005-12-14 Thread Arafangion
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

Launch an X Windows app from Apache (PHP or Perl)

2005-12-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 call

moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
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 boar

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
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 > t

REQUEST: Good backup software for DVDs

2005-12-14 Thread Brad Sims
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 slowe

RE: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-14 Thread Seth Goodman
> 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:/

Re: openoffice hangs with 2.6 kernel

2005-12-14 Thread David Zelinsky
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 suggestion

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread David Zelinsky
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 we

Re: apt-get install tries to REMOVE my kernel

2005-12-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
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

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
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:

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Wilson
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

Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Wilson
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

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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 sy

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread William Ballard
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. > a

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread Marty
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 o

Re: Athlon AMD 64 3000+

2005-12-14 Thread p
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

Re: After upgrade no bootup. (solved)

2005-12-14 Thread Arafangion
On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please use text email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: After upgrade no bootup. (solved)

2005-12-14 Thread pascal
  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  

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread Felix Miata
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 binder

Athlon AMD 64 3000+

2005-12-14 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, Which Debian image should I install for AMD Athlon 64 system? TIA, -a

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread Arafangion
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,

What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread William Ballard
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 patch

Monitor daemon for exim4 logs

2005-12-14 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
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

Re: DVDs burned in Win, filenames shortened

2005-12-14 Thread Andy Gower
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

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
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 docum

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Kopp
--- 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

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* 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

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
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

Re: Kernel upgrade trouble: Device /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down

2005-12-14 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
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 detecte

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-14 Thread Carl Fink
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 P

Re: VLC in testing?

2005-12-14 Thread Carl Fink
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 ne

Re: After upgrade no bootup.

2005-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
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 cho

Weihnachts-Angebot: Loesungen fuers Leben

2005-12-14 Thread Newsletter Co-Art Publications
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 Si

RE: After upgrade no bootup.

2005-12-14 Thread pascal
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 in

2.6.14-1 ok but since 2.6.14-2 hardware not detected and thus modules not loaded

2005-12-14 Thread Randall J. Parr
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 de

Re: CD/DVD burning

2005-12-14 Thread peter colton
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

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread Maurits van Rees
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://mau

Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup

2005-12-14 Thread H.S.
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. > >

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread David Watson
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),

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
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/firefo

Fwd: orinoco wireless on sid

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Marsh
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

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
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 Li

Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Marsh
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

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread ke6isf
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

Re: moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread David Watson
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 the

Re: Un-bootable kernel due to bad initrd (Solved)

2005-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
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 p

Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup

2005-12-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
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 y

how to use makefile to work with psnup

2005-12-14 Thread H. S.
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

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
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-

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
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 th

Re: Gnome 2.12

2005-12-14 Thread Mark Crean
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, em

Re: sent mail timing out

2005-12-14 Thread Larry Moore
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/sm

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
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 > di

GTK Woes

2005-12-14 Thread Peter . Robinson
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 ../.

Re: converting mailbox format

2005-12-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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:

Re: converting mailbox format

2005-12-14 Thread Andreas Rippl
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

Screwed up USB

2005-12-14 Thread Michael S. Peek
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

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-14 Thread Mike McCarty
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 avai

Re: RALUS on Debian

2005-12-14 Thread Alexander Sennhauser
-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 - --

RE: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-14 Thread Seth Goodman
> 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

Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread David Baron
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

RE: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-14 Thread Seth Goodman
> 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 availabl

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
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 de

Re: VLC in testing?

2005-12-14 Thread Daniel Nilsson
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 wor

Re: tool to print photos

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
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 mon

Re: Xorg leaking

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
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 upda

Re: Un-bootable kernel due to bad initrd (Solved)

2005-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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

Re: Where is the script update-grub located?

2005-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
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. -- —

Re: VLC in testing?

2005-12-14 Thread Cameron Dale
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

Re: After upgrade no bootup.

2005-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
[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

hplib + sane

2005-12-14 Thread Bernd Prager
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

Re: getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)

2005-12-14 Thread Brad Sawatzky
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

The mouse erratic problem in X on AMD64 Debian Sarge box

2005-12-14 Thread Vicki Stanfield
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 cal

Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable

2005-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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

Re: i cant use hdparm to configure my hard disk drive

2005-12-14 Thread Greg Madden
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? >

Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable

2005-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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

Re: DVDs burned in Win, filenames shortened

2005-12-14 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
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.

Re: Gnome 2.12

2005-12-14 Thread Marcel Stoop
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

Re: getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)

2005-12-14 Thread Steve Kemp
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

Re: getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)

2005-12-14 Thread Nelson Castillo
> 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

getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)

2005-12-14 Thread hendrik
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

RE: Built 2.6.14!

2005-12-14 Thread David Baron
>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_DEVF

VLC in testing?

2005-12-14 Thread Daniel Nilsson
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 t

DVDs burned in Win, filenames shortened

2005-12-14 Thread Andy Gower
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

Re: Built 2.6.14!

2005-12-14 Thread Jon Dowland
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 d

Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable

2005-12-14 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
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

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
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 Real

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
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

Re: apt broken dependencies

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Marsh
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 r

Re: apt broken dependencies

2005-12-14 Thread Dexter
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.

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Marsh
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

RE: Built 2.6.14!

2005-12-14 Thread Piszcz, Justin
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

Built 2.6.14!

2005-12-14 Thread David Baron
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 f

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
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

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
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

Re: LimeWire/Zip

2005-12-14 Thread steef
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://frankan

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