Alle 21:43, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Johannes Wiedersich ha scritto:
> $ apt-cache search laptop|grep net |sort
> ifplugd - A configuration daemon for ethernet devices
> ifscheme - scheme control for network interfaces
> laptop-net - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet
> laptop-netconf - network det
some weeks ago a had a fatal breakdown of my harddisk, I only managed to save
user-data in /home partition.
On a new computer I'm now setting email. During installation I specified
smarthost, but I cannot send mail anyway.
I recall something about entering a list of names in /etc/hosts that conne
Ron Johnson wrote:
Kent West wrote:
$ dmesg | grep sd
$ dmesg | grep sd
$ dmesg | grep [hs]d[a-j]
Well, sure, if you want to be efficient. But that kind of thinking would
free up some of my time, which I'd then have to use mowing the lawn. And
it's HOT out there!
You kids and
Yahoo video player wont play with a greyed out screen
coming up during the last stages of loading. A greyed
out screen appears with teal green double cross that
gives the following message upon clicking it: "This
application contains information of the
type(application/x-mplayer2) that can only be
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Kent West wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Redefined Horizons wrote:
>>
>>> What bash command would I use to list information about the
>>> hard drives installed on my computer?
>>>
[snip]
> $ dmesg | grep sd
>
> $ dmesg | grep sd
$ dmesg | grep [hs]d
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:16 -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote:
> What bash command would I use to list information about the hard
> drives installed on my computer?
>
> I did what I needed through GNOME's disk management, which was handy,
> but I'd like to know the old fashioned way to do it.
Depen
Ron Johnson wrote:
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Redefined Horizons wrote:
What bash command would I use to list information about the hard
drives installed on my computer?
I did what I needed through GNOME's disk management, which was
handy, but I'd like to know the old fa
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Redefined Horizons wrote:
> What bash command would I use to list information about the hard
> drives installed on my computer?
>
> I did what I needed through GNOME's disk management, which was
> handy, but I'd like to know the old fashioned way to
If you're just looking for the basics, mount and df. smartctl (apt-get
install smartmontools) can tell you just about anything you ever wanted
to know. If you find something else, let us know! That's part of the
fun of the lists.
--John
Redefined Horizons wrote:
> What bash command would I us
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Kent West wrote:
> I have a lot of tables in a mysql database starting with "phpWeb"; I
> want to delete them. I can delete them one-by-one with a command like:
>
>drop table phpWebmod_modules;
>
> Rather than trying to delete all 20-30 similar t
Can you run tasksel? That would be a painless way to get all the
packages you need.
The point of apt is to resolve dependencies, though, so if
xprt-xprintorg is really necessary for x-window-system, it should come
along for the ride. If your /etc/apt/sources.list file only has a CD
for its sourc
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Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
>> It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: For
>> the vast majority of people, I'd suggest that using GTK-apps or
>> QT-apps in mutual exclusion is a s
What bash command would I use to list information about the hard
drives installed on my computer?
I did what I needed through GNOME's disk management, which was handy,
but I'd like to know the old fashioned way to do it.
Scott Huey
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(My first attempt to install any Linux system so bear with me please!)
I did what appeared to be a clean installation of 3.1r2, but on first
startup gdm says:
GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth
/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
Error: Command could not be execut
I have a lot of tables in a mysql database starting with "phpWeb"; I
want to delete them. I can delete them one-by-one with a command like:
drop table phpWebmod_modules;
Rather than trying to delete all 20-30 similar tables, a wildcard
command would be really nice hear. I've been googling f
On 6/11/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:14:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:> Thanks for that little rant; it made my day. I recently switched from> mozilla to firefox and the new file dialog is driving me up the wall...
Ah, if it were only a rant. The proble
I recently acquired an hp xw9300, dual opteron workstation, including
the subject video card. Additionally, after setting that up with a crt
at 1280x1024, I acquired an hp l2335, wide screen lcd, capable of
1920x1200 resolution -- but, my problem is displaying at that
resolution.
OSD on the lcd s
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern:
> For the vast majority of people, I'd suggest that using
> GTK-apps or QT-apps in mutual exclusion is a serious case of
> premature optimisation and such people are missing out
Scott,
You're probably looking for /var/cache/apt/archives. I've never tried
burning a CD from it and apt-getting, though. I would guess that you'd
need to generate some meta-info first. You'd essentially be creating
your own apt repository on a CD.
dpkg -i would also work, though I've only u
if you download and install your packages with apt-get
then, the folder your looking for is:
/var/cache/apt/archives/
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I've been using Debian for a few months now, but for the first time
I've got a Debian box hooked to an internet connection. So now I can
finally download Debian packages directly to my work box from the net,
and software installation is much easier! :]
I've got another Debian box at home that isn
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:24:44 -0400
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hi,
a quick answer, FWIW,
> I've just bought a new dell latitude d820, which is lovely.
congrats ! :)
> It came with windows pre-installed,
(i'm glad i always buy computer-pieces and build my own,
not paying the M$-tax :-)
> and
Hi folks,
I've just bought a new dell latitude d820, which is lovely. It came with
windows pre-installed, and I thught that this time (since I have a huge hard
drive) I might leave it installed in a shrunken-down partition. What I'm
wondering is whether I can get windows to run from inside li
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Nicoco Kinlidex wrote:
> Nick Lidakis wrote:
>> Nicoco Kinlidex wrote:
>>> hello
>>>
>>> i can't get the brand new google earth for linux (R) (C) (TM)
>>> working. installation is OK but i get this : $ googleearth :
>>> [splashscreen] Segmentation er
Hello,
I've tried to install sarge over netowrk but I failed to do it for the
following reasons
Infrastructure:
Internet access via DSL WLAN Router **ONLY WLAN* with WPA,
The target computer uses successfully ASUS WL 138g PCI WLAN Card
That implicats that in order to install debian the bootstrapi
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 12:54, Ben Whyte wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an onboard network card which has a vendor supplied driver
> module, which I compile and then put in the right place.
>
> It builds correctly and copies correctly but when I try to insmod it,
> it complains about the version magic, bas
Hi,
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 19:22, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I am stunned and amazed. Is this a new option or have I just
> had it set the other way without knowing?
>
> If its new, what else am I missing? Was there an announcement I
> missed?
This isn't a new feature (a
No, it applies to all users. I set up a new user test, and got
the beginning of the desktop loading, and that was it. After
the initial splash showing stuff coming up, just a grey screen
with a bar across the top and bottom.
Note that KDE works fine, except for the intermittent error.
> -O
Hi
I have an onboard network card which has a vendor supplied driver
module, which I compile and then put in the right place.
It builds correctly and copies correctly but when I try to insmod it, it
complains about the version magic, basically saying that the version
magic is 2.6.16.2-686-sm
Nick Lidakis wrote:
Nicoco Kinlidex wrote:
hello
i can't get the brand new google earth for linux (R) (C) (TM) working.
installation is OK but i get this :
$ googleearth :
[splashscreen]
Segmentation error
has anyone solved this ?
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Works fine here on my unstable box with kernel 2.6
On 13/06/06, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's been a while since I've dealt with these, so memory is a bit rusty. You may want to follow up with a Wikipedia or general web search, formore detailed data. I tried 'BIOS disk size limit', and one of the
sites (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/bio
Roberto Bernetti wrote:
Hi all
I'm moving, for my laptop, from SuSE 9.2 to Debian.
Welcome aboard!
One of the packages I
appreciated was System configuration profile manager I used to switch
configuration from my different office or at home.
Is there anything similar in Debian?
$ apt-cac
It's been a while since I've dealt with these, so memory is a bit rusty.
You may want to follow up with a Wikipedia or general web search, for
more detailed data. I tried 'BIOS disk size limit', and one of the
sites (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/bios.html) provided this bit:
Limit Capacity
Hi,
I'm running testing on a Sparc box, and have just upgraded slapd to the
latest version (2.3.23), only to discover that it now won't start, at
all. The same applies to the version in unstable, & an attempt at
downgrading to stable was unproductive (although differently
unproductive!) as w
On 13/06/06, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*Important note*: grub "suffers" the same limits as the BIOS does. Soif your disk is large, you will need to create your boot partition *and*the Linux root partition near the beginning of the disk.
I thank you kindly for both posts. They have be
Here is what happens with flightgear and its family:
freeglut (fgfs): Unable to create direct context rendering for window
'FlightGear'
This may hurt performance.
fgfs: indirect_vertex_array.c:1359: __indirect_glTexCoordPointer: Assertion
`a != ((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted
Other programs, pprac
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Lothar Braun wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:44, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > Just little broken icons where the pictures ought to be.
>
> Check Edit->Preferences -> Privacy and Security -> Images and turn the
> "Image
> acceptance policy" to "Accept
Nicoco Kinlidex wrote:
hello
i can't get the brand new google earth for linux (R) (C) (TM) working.
installation is OK but i get this :
$ googleearth :
[splashscreen]
Segmentation error
has anyone solved this ?
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Works fine here on my unstable box with kernel 2.6.15. Using an NVIDIA
[debian-www isn't really the most appropriate list for this type of
question; adding debian-user to the Cc list. Please direct replies, if
any, there, removing debian-www from the list]
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:30:52AM +0200, bruno doutriaux wrote:
> je pense que j'aurais pu vous parler en franç
On re-reading my post, I realize there's one thing I forgot to mention.
The scenario I suggested has you installing the XFS based system with
separate ext[23] /boot partition as the second step. This means that
the install process, the second time around, will find the first
installation and
Hi. I'm running X.org 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4, on AMD64 testing. The video card
is a ATI Radeon 9550, and accelleration works fine when I startx as
root. However, if I go into X as a normal user, there is no
acceleration. The obvious guess is that this is due to permissions,
but I have not found any
hello
i can't get the brand new google earth for linux (R) (C) (TM) working.
installation is OK but i get this :
$ googleearth :
[splashscreen]
Segmentation error
has anyone solved this ?
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A Dimarts 13 Juny 2006 17:32, Benjamí Villoslada va escriure:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330604
Oops! I see a new bug with reportbug. Is this poblem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369828
Downgrading libgc1c2 to 6.6-1
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Inkscape doesn't starts in my Debian Sid with the last dist-upgrade:
$ inkscape
[no errors, still waiting]
I see this bug but seems that is old, I've used Inkscape few weeks ago:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330604
Any experience? Thanks :)
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Florian, sorry for the long delay. But aptitude did it
to me again. Hit the "g" key before I was ready and
there is no panic stop in aptitude. It took took out
those 682 files I wanted and I've been trying to get
them back and aptitude is not cooperating. It could
definately use a more friendly int
Inkscape doesn't starts in my Debian Sid with the last dist-upgrade:
$ inkscape
[no errors, still waiting]
I see this bug but seems that is old, I've used Inkscape few weeks ago:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330604
Any experience? Thanks :)
(I apologize for the possible
A high level overview of the boot process may help in understanding how
the /boot partition/directory is used. This is not exact or perfect,
but should be good enough to answer the basic question (as I understand
it). So here goes:
Power on self test (POST)
-> load and run BIOS code
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 10:28, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Yes, for s/w which has no "other" analog. Kino and GoogleEarth
> being two examples of Qt apps which I use on my GNOME system.
>
I did not know that google earth is available for Linux. I just now checked
http://earth.google.com/download-eart
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Marc Wilson wrote:
>> Note to maintainer: telling CUPS to advertise printers but setting up
>> cupsd.conf to only allow connections from localhost doesn't exactly work
>> too well. Certainly neither my several OS X ma
On 6/13/06, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 1150162787 past the epoch, Ron Johnson wrote:
> If KDE is your DE, then it's a great idea. If your WM/DE
> is based on gtk, though, you're adding a lot of extra
> overhead loading both the gtk & qt/KDE libraries.
It's a shame that people stil
Hi all
I'm moving, for my laptop, from SuSE 9.2 to Debian. One of the packages I
appreciated was System configuration profile manager I used to switch
configuration from my different office or at home.
Is there anything similar in Debian?
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Hi folks,
I have a fresh install of sarge stable and am trying to get totem to
work.
I've successfully run the script
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
to install css.
I've installed gstreamer0.8-plugins.
I've set up symbolic links for /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom.
The package
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Jerry Heyman wrote:
> Does anyone know what speed cdrom's are supported? I have an
> A3000 with 132MB of memory that I'm trying to install with v3r1.
> I get partially through the installation program when I have a 2x
> SCSI cdrom attached, but then i
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Jon Dowland wrote:
> At 1150162787 past the epoch, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>>> For good or bad, I shifted from firefox to konqueror
>>> just because of this stupid (IMHO) gtk issue.
>> If KDE is your DE, then it's a great idea.
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> The HP still eludes CUPS, though.
The HP printer can benefit from HPLIP, and since it is a HP LaserJet 1200,
which in my own experience is dog slow when processing PostScript with lots
of *images* (it is fast enough when processing text)... but much fa
Does anyone know what speed cdrom's are supported? I have an A3000
with 132MB of memory that I'm trying to install with v3r1. I get
partially through the installation program when I have a 2x SCSI cdrom
attached, but then it hangs because the apparently it can't read the
cd anymore :-(
I moved
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:44, Thomas H. George wrote:
> Just little broken icons where the pictures ought to be.
Check Edit->Preferences -> Privacy and Security -> Images and turn the "Image
acceptance policy" to "Accept images that come from the originating server
only" or "Accept all images"
At 1150162787 past the epoch, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > For good or bad, I shifted from firefox to konqueror
> > just because of this stupid (IMHO) gtk issue.
>
> If KDE is your DE, then it's a great idea. If your WM/DE
> is based on gtk, though, you're adding a lot of e
Just little broken icons where the pictures ought to be.
I am completely baffled.
I have purged and reinstalled mozilla.
I have purged and reinstalled mozilla-mplayer.
I have downloaded and installed Java Plugin 1.5.0_07-b03 replacing an
earlier version.
I have downloaded and installed MPlayer
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Marc Wilson wrote:
> As usual, Debian's CUPS is broken by default.
As usual, *CUPS* is broken. Debian's own packaging can (and often does)
make it worse, though.
> *Whyinhell* the maintainer would ask a question regarding browsing, but not
> actually *DO* anything to make it
Thanks. I'll run through this this evening.
> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:25 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Gnome xml parsing error & only allows one login
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 1
Hi all,
I was always downloading from www.kernel.org, using always the same
.config file, and everything was fine. Up to the point I found out that
the newer kernels which were supposed to have new options
(CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP) are not having them. I tried to compile the
configure the kernel wi
Hello list.
I am running a box with debian testing and I had some troubles running KDM after
upgrading to Xorg v.7. After watching syslog the fix was simple: the file
/usr/bin/X
was missing.
I just created a link /usr/bin/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg.
Perhaps I shall better modify some init script variabl
Hello list.
Here some hints related to VMWare I found after upgrading a debian box to Xorg7
in a
hosted system.
If you download a package xserver-xorg-video-all it will install for you all
video
drivers. Actually you just need the package xserver-xorg-video-vmware and you
can
remove all other
At 1149845000 past the epoch, Carl Fink wrote:
> You aren't PERMITTED to type a directory path in, even if
> you know it? I thought this was *nix.
I believe this is possible in all versions of the file
chooser, including the newly revamped ones, although I
cannot confirm how as you don't state wh
Hello,
audit2allow (from package policycoreutils) returns the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/audit2allow", line 27, in ?
import commands, sys, os, pwd, string, getopt, re, selinux
ImportError: No module named selinux
Where can I grab (python ?) module se
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 17:03:39 +0800, rosetta wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I opened a .desktop file, the content like follow:
>[Desktop Entry]
>Name=Demo
>Comment=Demo
>Exec=hello
>Terminal=0
>Type=Application
>Icon=calendar.png
>Categories=Application
>StartupNotify=True
>SingleInstance=True
>
>How can I f
2006. június 12. 20:42,
John Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-> debian-user@lists.debian.org,:
> I want to use the CD-RW drive in my Linux server for backup. I have
> installed K3b and am able to burn CDs and read them after the burn. But
> I have some remaining issues>
KDE on a server? That's great :)
Hi all
I opened a .desktop file, the content like follow:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Demo
Comment=Demo
Exec=hello
Terminal=0
Type=Application
Icon=calendar.png
Categories=Application
StartupNotify=True
SingleInstance=True
How can I find the explain about the keys in the file(such as SingleInstance)
r
Þann 2006-06-12, 17:18:25 (+) skrifaði Olafur Jens Sigurdsson:
> Hi, I just installed fuse-source and used module-assistant to compile
> it and install it (all done as root) and now i cant access /dev/fuse as a
> regular user (even though I am a member of the fuse group as id and
> groups show)
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 21:52 -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote:
> I just finished with a sucessful install of Debian Etch. However, I am
> having some problems setting the screen resolution on my GNOME
> Desktop. The highest resolution available is 1024x768. I would like to
> set it to a higher resolu
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 18:41 -0400, H.S. wrote:
[...]
> Or, if you want, you can let the Windows stay as it is and use up
> the part of the disk that had Linux on it as an additional partition for
> Windows.
[...]
> ->HS
Even better idea: format that partition in FAT32! This way data exchange
b
On 13/06/06, Modestas Vainius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
0.14.4-5 is fine. You should avoid >= 0.14.5-1 at all costs if you want to useksynaptics, which is currently in debian. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372498
I just installed ksynaptics. Despite the fact that I have xser
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:18:23PM -0400, Allen Williams wrote:
> When I select Gnome as my desktop environment, I get an XML parsing error
> dialog, with no close button but a window decoration that lets me close it.
> When I close it, the system just hangs, and I have to CTL-ALT F1 to get a
> con
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