Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-20 Thread Daniel B.
Levi Waldron wrote: 3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot - at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was. Sometimes you can avoid the need to reboot: If you can unmount every other partition that is on the disk whose partition table you are modifyi

Re: OfficeJet 4110 [Was: Why do I bother?]

2006-02-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:15:48AM -0500, jlquinn wrote: > I posted several days ago about the lack of success I'm having with an > HP 5440 (regular inkjet). I have hpijs installed (the debian package), > but the HP tools can't find the printer and hence nothing works for me. > > I see the pri

Re: Watch out! In Etch, apt-get upgrade breaks KDE on every machine I upgraded...

2006-02-20 Thread H.S.
Chris Howie wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > >>I fixed this by using the lib from a box with libXft2 2.1.7 instead of >>2.1.8.2-3. > > > Thanks for the heads-up. I found myself referring to your post after > rebooting > and nothing worked. > > It is possible to fix this without copying the .so

Re: Introducing myself and ATI+Toshiba problem

2006-02-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
How can I use the external monitor? (it seems that the standard X configuration is not good). It is only a configuration problem, or there is something to do in order to enable the secondary monitor? does your monitor work when you are outside of X? i had a similar problem before. it was so

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-20 Thread Josep Serrano
Hello all again. So what do we do? What is the cron/multi-user safe way to clean up regularly /tmp ? I checked the way bootclean.sh is implemented: if cd /tmp && [ "`find . -maxdepth 0 -perm -002`" = "." ] then # First remove all old files. find

Re: Unable to print from mozilla-firefox only

2006-02-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:07:05AM -0600, Jason M Cox wrote: > big smiles =). why does mozilla default to that? wouldnt everybody have the > same problem then? Not everyone uses CUPS (thank the gods). Many Linux people do, but Mozilla runs on all sorts of platforms. -- Marc Wilson | If I a

Re: fetchmail broken after etch update - a kludgy fix

2006-02-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:38:38AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > if [ ! "x$START_DAEMON" = "xyes" ]; then >echo "Edit /etc/default/fetchmail to start fetchmail" >exit 0 > fi > Temporarily, I have commented out the above lines, and my fetchmail is > working again, but obviously th

Re: Font, fc-list and xlsfonts

2006-02-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 02:21:41PM +0200, Sed Nivo wrote: > Why some fonts that i can see by fc-list i can't see by xlsfonts and > xfontsel? Verdana font for example. I copy they from Windows. Because, just as the documentation says, fc-list lists fonts made available by fontconfig. The tools

Re: film codec conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
Add unstable repo for 0.23 or experimental for 0.25 В Пнд, 20/02/2006 в 10:10 -0500, Rick Pasotto пишет: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:50:40PM +0300, Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: > > http://packages.kirya.net/ -- tovid packages > > I added the lines from that site to my sources.list and ran > 'apt-get

Re: OfficeJet 4110 [Was: Why do I bother?]

2006-02-20 Thread jlquinn
Brett wrote: S Clement wrote: > The usb connectiion did not work and neither did the printer, an HP Officejet 4110. For anybody that's interested, I have used a HP OfficeJet 4110 for two years on Linux using hpoj with no problems (apart from the initial setup, due to several factors which

Re: film codec conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:50:40PM +0300, Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: > http://packages.kirya.net/ -- tovid packages I added the lines from that site to my sources.list and ran 'apt-get update'. Running 'apt-cache search tovid' still returns nothing. -- "For the word 'we' is as lime poured over men,

Re: Installation issues

2006-02-20 Thread Kent West
TAC Forums wrote: >Hi All, > >I was trying to install Debain Sarg stable 3.1 on a system, with 20 GB >HDD and 128 MB RAM. > >The base installation went smoothly. > >While configuring the packages to be installed, i selected the web >server option and the the instllation procees started off.. > >At

Re: film codec conversion

2006-02-20 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
http://packages.kirya.net/ -- tovid packages В Вск, 19/02/2006 в 20:34 +, John Halton пишет: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Hello. I use Debian Sarge. Is there a Debian package of a program that > > converts movie file codecs? I have used a program called Tovid to > > covert an avi to an mpg

Introducing myself and ATI+Toshiba problem

2006-02-20 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Hi all, I'm an ICT Consultant in Rome (Italy) I'm just switching to Debian (etch) from a commercial Linux distribution. Normally my customers use a commercial Linux distribution and are prone to religious wars about the distribution to use. So I decided to use a distribution that is not commercia

Re: Kernel problems

2006-02-20 Thread Jamie Thompson
> If he hasn't rebooted his Win2k box in three years, he has some serious > Security > Issues!! There have been a huge number of security patches requiring reboot > in > the last three years Well, yeah. I thought of that after a few months of our little rivalry...and he replied that as it w

Re: Kernel problems

2006-02-20 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jamie Thompson wrote: > Ok, I'll start by saying that I adore the "Debian Way"(TM). However, I > have a long-standing problem that is pretty much the only blight I can > find with Mr Debian. > > My server PC is old. Really old. Cyrix M2 old. That said

Re: Midi editor

2006-02-20 Thread David Baron
On Monday 20 February 2006 02:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to create some midi file. I'm using etch. > - If I try to install noteedit or Kguitar, apt-get want to remove few > useful packages (amarok and half of KDE...). > - If I add sid in sources.list (with the prefered version to et

Re: Limiting scp access

2006-02-20 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:57 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Nico De Ranter: > > > > The idea is to setup a server which is available from the Internet for 1 > > specific user using scp only, but all other users can get full ssh > > access when they are connecting from my internal network only. > >

Re: Watch out! In Etch, apt-get upgrade breaks KDE on every machine I upgraded...

2006-02-20 Thread Chris Howie
Justin Piszcz wrote: > I fixed this by using the lib from a box with libXft2 2.1.7 instead of > 2.1.8.2-3. Thanks for the heads-up. I found myself referring to your post after rebooting and nothing worked. It is possible to fix this without copying the .so from an older installation -- just down

Re: Limiting scp access

2006-02-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nico De Ranter: > > The idea is to setup a server which is available from the Internet for 1 > specific user using scp only, but all other users can get full ssh > access when they are connecting from my internal network only. See man 5 sshd_config for the option AllowUsers. You can qualify usern

Limiting scp access

2006-02-20 Thread Nico De Ranter
Hi, I'm trying to setup a secure replacement for an ftp server where a limited set of users should be able to connect using scp only while the other users should not be able to connect at all. I know scponly can be used to prevent a user from getting a full login using ssh, but how do I prevent

Re: Midi editor

2006-02-20 Thread debian
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:33:56AM +, Pooly wrote: > But can I generate a midi file with it ? (I don't want to print it, > just listen to it ) Yes, here's an example: (try to get a 2.6 version, I am on Debian testing. I am not sure about chords, or complex stuff) \version "2.6.3" \header

Re: Midi editor

2006-02-20 Thread John O'Hagan
Pooly wrote: >Timidity and freepats works correctly, it's just rosegarden that I >don't manage to install As I understand it, rosegarden4 is not currently in etch as it depends on things that are still in unstable (e.g. libjack1*), so you either have to upgrade in large chunks to unstable to g

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Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-20 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 2/20/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes. The Althon 64 fully supports i386 through some fancy on chip emulation > > that is as fast as a native 32 bit chip (I think all the 64 bit processors > > you mention do this but don'

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. The Althon 64 fully supports i386 through some fancy on chip emulation > that is as fast as a native 32 bit chip (I think all the 64 bit processors > you mention do this but don't quite me on that). So I could do that by booting a no

dpkg, apt-get, aptitude don't work--relocation error.

2006-02-20 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
I cannot use dpkg, wajig, apt-get, aptitude--I always get a message: "/usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol__libc_stack_end, version GLIB_2.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so2 with link time reference". I run "Linux version 2.4.27-2-586tsc" (Debian testing). What is a newbi

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-20 Thread Pooly
Hi, > BUT: PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU USE/KNOW A BETTER, MORE VERSATILE > MUSICPLAYER! You're talking about amaroK, aren't you ? :-D Otherwise, I think the original poster is talking about a desktop system, not production... -- Pooly Webzine Rock : http://www.w-fenec.org/

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-20 Thread John Halton
On 2/19/06, Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using amarok and I think is the best! Amarok is great as a player for your music collection (i.e. as an equivalent to Windows Media Player or iTunes), but a bit bloated for just playing a single MP3 file. XMMS is just the ticket for that.

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-20 Thread mslinuz
Toshiro wrote: I didn't know that xmms wasn't in development anymore. What is its substitute? I've been using moc (Music On Console), already packaged in Debian, which is able to play a quite impressive list of music formats. It, together with easytag, are the "must haves" audio applic

Re: Midi editor

2006-02-20 Thread Pooly
Hi, > Nah, after years of struggling with NWC, abc, Noteedit, Rosegarden etc, I > gave up and swung over to Lilypond. It does things the Linux way. > Super. But can I generate a midi file with it ? (I don't want to print it, just listen to it ) -- Pooly Webzine Rock : http://www.w-fenec.org/

Re: Midi editor

2006-02-20 Thread Pooly
Hi, > > If anyone has suggestion, they warmly welcome ! > Hi, > I'd second rosegarden > use timidity for playing midi and look for freepats for midi sound > files. Timidity and freepats works correctly, it's just rosegarden that I don't manage to install. -- Pooly Webzine Rock : http://www.w-f

Re: ghost MB of memory

2006-02-20 Thread roberto
On 2/17/06, Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > roberto wrote: > > On 2/15/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > i cheked the BIOS setup: the video shared memory is not set; hence the > > problem is only about this module 'highmem' in the kernel; > > hence i reali

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