list of problem

2006-07-08 Thread john znuck
hi folks,got a list of problems on hand.1. mouse hang if i don't move it about during boot.2. after boot, with ps -e, i see 6 apaches2 processes.3. when i start mplayer from the kde menu, i get two mplayer logos, one overlapping the other.anyone would like to give them a shot?thks in advance.jz

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wonka
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:48:44PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > I have NOT yet *chosen* memtest86+ from my GRUB menu, but it's there now, and I > > will try to boot into it during next reboot ;-) > > cool, I;m curious to see if others get the same results as I.

Re: vim-latexsuite not loading template

2006-07-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:20:23AM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:32:06PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just tried vim-latexsuite on sid and I can't issue the > > :TTemplates command to automatically bring in a template, in fact the > > Templat

Re: regex for top-posting?

2006-07-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Eric d'Alibut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have a regex for top-posted list messages? > > Or some other Mailman hack that can be used to weed out these > undesirables? In Gnus, W Y c -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --

Re: Segmentation faulty Tree - aptitude

2006-07-08 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:43:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Went OK until I got aptitude existing with a segmentation fault. I > rebooted, but I still get a segmentation fault. I tried to reinstall > aptitude with apt-get [maybe that doesn't make sense!] and I get the > message: > >

Re: mplayer-1.0pre8 install on Sarge - howto

2006-07-08 Thread amateur
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:55:55AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 03:18:24PM +0800, amateur wrote: > > > > I want to install MPlayer-1.0pre8 on Debian Sarge. > > > > > > I have downloaded .tar.bz2 > > > > > > I ask you: which is the preferred way to install it on Debian: >

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >>> and hdparm reports: >>> >>> /dev/hda: >>> multcount= 16 (on) >>> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) >>> unmaskirq= 0 (off) >>> usin

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 helices wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:08:19:12:57-0500] > scribed: >> helices wrote: >>> I have a printer and a workstation that are both >>> firewire/ieee1394 capable. dmesg shows that ieee1394 is >>> resident. >>> >>> Setting

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Mumia W.
Rich Johnson wrote: [...] Sat Jul 8 17:31:04 2006: Calculating module dependencies... done. Sat Jul 8 17:33:38 2006: Loading modules: ide-cd ide-detect ide-disk psmouse modprobe: Can't locate module psmouse [...] Perhaps something is wrong with your module loading system. It doesn't take 2

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jul 8, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: and hdparm reports: /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-08 Thread helices
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:08:19:12:57-0500] scribed: > helices wrote: > > I have a printer and a workstation that are both firewire/ieee1394 > > capable. dmesg shows that ieee1394 is resident. > > > > Setting up cupsys, I have not been able to find the printer. Nor have > > goog

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> >>> BTW, I'm running 2.4.27-2-386 >> >> That's 2 years old. Any particular reason you aren't running >> 2.6? >> >> (No, "it's unstable" is *not* a valid reason.") >> >

regex for top-posting?

2006-07-08 Thread Eric d'Alibut
Does anyone have a regex for top-posted list messages? Or some other Mailman hack that can be used to weed out these undesirables? Best regards, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jul 8, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: BTW, I'm running 2.4.27-2-386 That's 2 years old. Any particular reason you aren't running 2.6? (No, "it's unstable" is *not* a valid reason.") Tthis is a brand new installfirst walk, then run. Alas, the system only crawls :-< The

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:47:46PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:11:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> > >>Really? I administer a number of servers and workstations. Currently, > >>these are my backport needs: > > > > > > Um, you just

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 helices wrote: > I have a printer and a workstation that are both firewire/ieee1394 > capable. dmesg shows that ieee1394 is resident. > > Setting up cupsys, I have not been able to find the printer. Nor have > google searches led me to a solution. >

Re: sound and tv card

2006-07-08 Thread Felipe Leon
> > Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:52:20 -0300 > From: Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: sound and tv card > > On Friday 07 July 2006 11:30, Felipe Leon wrote: > > I could not find possibilities to connect the tv > card > > to the sb live with an audio

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:11:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >>Really? I administer a number of servers and workstations. Currently, >>these are my backport needs: > > > Um, you just agreed with me. > > [snip details] > Except that my *only* server backport need i

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> >> it will give you detailed logs of the boot process so you can review >> it and see what's happen instead of trying to read it as it zips (in >> your case, crawls

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:11:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > The thing is, the Debian Project is set up to guarantee that Stable will > > never actually be usable. If you want anything resembling current software, > > you MUST use Unstable or Testing. That makes

Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-08 Thread helices
I have a printer and a workstation that are both firewire/ieee1394 capable. dmesg shows that ieee1394 is resident. Setting up cupsys, I have not been able to find the printer. Nor have google searches led me to a solution. I know that the answers are probably obvious to some of you; and I implo

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jul 8, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: it will give you detailed logs of the boot process so you can review it and see what's happen instead of trying to read it as it zips (in your case, crawls?) by. Got it. I can also cut and paste to show that I'm not dreaming. For i

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Carl Fink wrote: > > The thing is, the Debian Project is set up to guarantee that Stable will > never actually be usable. If you want anything resembling current software, > you MUST use Unstable or Testing. That makes Testing the de facto "standard > workstation distribution" for Debian. > > I

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
Let me start by saying that I basically agree with Ben. On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 03:12:04PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > In particular, no guarantees are made that the entire distribution > will be 100% release-critical bug-free. All we can assure you is that > packages have undergone "some degr

Re: Fortune file!

2006-07-08 Thread John Hasler
Jude DaShiell writes: > Linux has its problems with packet sniffers certainly; I've got the logs > to prove it. Would you please explain what you mean by this? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:22:13PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> > >>What gives? I've never seen such bad performance. > >>What diagnostics/benchmarks should I be looking at? > >> > >>Judging from the lackadaisical disk LED activity, I doub

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:48:44PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > > > > > > I googled the memtest issue and found one good hit that said you have > > to burn the img directly to a floppy. I've done that with dd and it > > works like a charm, boots right into memtest. It must be some grub > > rel

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Joey Hess
Rich Johnson wrote: > Judging from the lackadaisical disk LED activity, I doubt it's the disk. Disk issues can lead to apparently low disk activity in some situations, and it's the first thing I'd check: Make sure that DMA is on, make sure that hdparm is optimally tuned, etc. -- see shy jo sig

Re: Fortune file!

2006-07-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
Linux has its problems with packet sniffers certainly; I've got the logs to prove it. I don't know that there's any solution to this problem either. You can reinstall the hacked software but without additional protection of the system the dhcp software just gets hacked again as soon as the or

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Mumia W.
Willie Wonka wrote: [...] Whoops!! I forgot to add one VERY IMPORTANT point when running *update-grub* Remember to Copy down ANY/ALL Kernel and Initrd CUSTOM Boot settings!! [...] That's not a bad idea, but it's not necessary either. From /boot/grub/menu.lst: ## ## Start Default Options ## #

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jul 8, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: What gives? I've never seen such bad performance. What diagnostics/benchmarks should I be looking at? Judging from the lackadaisical disk LED activity, I doubt it's the disk. Have you enabled bootlogd? No. It's installed, but disabled in

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-08 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:52:25PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2006. július 8. 16:49, > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:47:16AM +0200, LeVA wrote: > > > 2006. július 7. 16:11, > > > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wonka
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:22:59PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > ACPI hmm.. Let's see output of 'dmesg | grep ACPI' > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep ACPI > BIOS-e820: 0dfec000 - 0dfef000 (ACPI data) > BIOS-e820: 0dfff000 - 0e000

Re: Questions related to voice/sound recording in Debian.

2006-07-08 Thread Martin McCormick
There should be a number of solutions. If you build a kernel and add the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) project modules, the world of sound opens up very nicely. You can adjust the soft controls on your sound card and such programs as arecord and aplay work as advertised. The k

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wonka
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 02:02:42AM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > > > ~$ sudo update-grub > > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . > > Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . > > Searching for splash i

Voodoo 4/5 display problem

2006-07-08 Thread jb701
I'm using KDE, with a Voodoo 3 card. Excellent display. THen I try to swap it for a Voodoo 4. I get a crawling display [that's how it looks - all the pixels constantly moving]. I looked ona another machine I usually use without GUI - it has a Voodoo 5. I load KDE, I get the crawling proble

Segmentation faulty Tree - aptitude

2006-07-08 Thread jb701
I was seeing if a memoery stick I had was any good, and put it in my debian machine. All seemed OK, so I tried to install memtest. Went OK until I got aptitude existing with a segmentation fault. I rebooted, but I still get a segmentation fault. I tried to reinstall aptitude with apt-get [ma

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Johnson wrote: > Folks-- > > I have just converted an old NEC PG350 (500MHz) w 256MB and 20G(WDC > WD200BB) disk from WIn'98 to Debian Sarge and ran into a problem I've > never before encountered with Debian: > > Performance that is HORRIBLE bey

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 02:02:42AM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > ~$ sudo update-grub > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . > Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . > Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... > Found ke

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:22:59PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: [... stuff about cron jobs ...] definitely this is not my issue as it happens at any time of day. Also, this is truly a hard lock -- no disk activity, no response of any kind from any stimulus I can come up with. In fact, if the machine

Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-08 Thread Rich Johnson
Folks-- I have just converted an old NEC PG350 (500MHz) w 256MB and 20G(WDC WD200BB) disk from WIn'98 to Debian Sarge and ran into a problem I've never before encountered with Debian: Performance that is HORRIBLE beyond belief! For example: - ~16 minutes to boot (A 10 yr old 130Mhz Power

ссылка

2006-07-08 Thread seo6
Добрый вечер. Купим ссылку с главной страницы вашего сайта, наша тематика продвижение сайтов. Текстовая ссылка до 3 слов, расположение любое, оплата месячная. Кампания Seomaster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-08 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:40 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > it. Many people use webmail such as gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc., What about > them? They should suffer by exposing their email address to the public just > because they wanted to help other debian users? Well, for those using GMail,

Testing and honesty

2006-07-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Art Edwards wrote: > Unless such core pieces as the debugging tool (ddd) and the data display tool > (xmgrace) are working, it is dishonest to pretend that the 64-bit version > is ready for testing. It seems your expectations for our "testing" distribu

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Jimmy Tang
Hi, On 7/8/06, Oliver Rother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the risk of imposing what we do at our work place onto your work > flow, i find that users generally should have access to better > debuggers/profilers than what ships with standard gnu distros. Well, if you intend to start a flame w

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Hans van Middendorp
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:20:57 +0100 Stephen Fahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very > well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I > got the updates available window and went ahead with updates > resulting in

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Oliver Rother
Jimmy Tang wrote: At the risk of imposing what we do at our work place onto your work flow, i find that users generally should have access to better debuggers/profilers than what ships with standard gnu distros. Well, if you intend to start a flame war on the lists... but enough on that. p

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Oliver Rother
Art Edwards wrote: Unless such core pieces as the debugging tool (ddd) and the data display tool (xmgrace) are working, it is dishonest to pretend that the 64-bit version is ready for testing. ddd and grace are in Debian testing (etch) amd64 and work fine. So where exactly is the issue? W

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:53:31PM +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: > Robin Putters wrote: > >On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: > > > >>I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager. > >>I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password, >

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Jimmy Tang
On 7/8/06, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been writing to the list about two applications thatare so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render thebox pretty useless. I'm sure one could say that two measlyapplications are no big deal. However, if you do scientific computation

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 08 July 2006 12:09, Art Edwards wrote: > I have been writing to the list about two applications that > are so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the > box pretty useless. I'm sure one could say that two measly > applications are no big deal. However, if you do scientific

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Török Edvin
On 7/8/06, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been writing to the list about two applications that are so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the box pretty useless. Did you send bugreports for those programs? Btw, what is the appropriate severity level for a package tha

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:09:56AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I have been writing to the list about two applications that > are so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the > box pretty useless. I'm sure one could say that two measly > applications are no big deal. However, if you do s

Re: azureus: upgrade

2006-07-08 Thread Robin Putters
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 12:19 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Azureus 2.2.0.2 in sarge. Each time Azureus starts, I > receive a warning regarding new updates availables. Is it safe to > upgrade Azureus accepting the suggested upgrade? > Update will work just fine.. But

Re: vim-latexsuite not loading template

2006-07-08 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:32:06PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > I have just tried vim-latexsuite on sid and I can't issue the > :TTemplates command to automatically bring in a template, in fact the > Templates menu does not exist. Yes you can have a menu in the console, > just put [1] i

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 08 July 2006 09:20, Stephen Fahey wrote: > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission > denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), > are you root? > You cannot run two simulataneous processes both of which will upgrade packages o

Re: azureus: upgrade

2006-07-08 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 11:54 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running Azureus 2.2.0.2 in sarge. Each time Azureus starts, I > > receive a warning regarding new updates availables. Is it safe to > > upgrade Azureus accepting the suggested upgrade?

Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Art Edwards
I have been writing to the list about two applications that are so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the box pretty useless. I'm sure one could say that two measly applications are no big deal. However, if you do scientific computation for a living, and two of the primary tools are

Re: new user with installation problem

2006-07-08 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:53:32AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Andrea Maffei wrote: > > Dear Roberto, > > thank you very much for you answer. My processor is an AMD Athlon > > (64bit). On debian.org I couldn't find any file for AMD, this is the list > > I found (does AMD have any other nam

Re: Problem with external RAID

2006-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesus Roncero wrote: > On Friday, 7 de July de 2006 23:32, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> From what I have been reading, the system loads the modules >>> asynchronously using udev (I guess) and so that's why the RAID is >>> assigned /dev/sda or /dev/sdc. I've

Re: azureus: upgrade

2006-07-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Azureus 2.2.0.2 in sarge. Each time Azureus starts, I > receive a warning regarding new updates availables. Is it safe to > upgrade Azureus accepting the suggested upgrade? > > Thanks in advance > > Marcelo > > Probably not. The built-in A

Re: new user with installation problem

2006-07-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Andrea Maffei wrote: > Dear Roberto, > thank you very much for you answer. My processor is an AMD Athlon > (64bit). On debian.org I couldn't find any file for AMD, this is the list > I found (does AMD have any other name?): > > * Alpha > * ARM > * HP PA-RISC > * Intel x86 > *

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-08 Thread LeVA
2006. július 8. 16:49, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:47:16AM +0200, LeVA wrote: > > 2006. július 7. 16:11, > > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:26

Re: application for editing videos

2006-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LeVA wrote: > 2006. július 8. 11:30, > Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> Debian User ,: >> Hello! >> >> I have a small video that I can now to play in mplayer. >> >> Is there an application wherewith is possible to edit this video.wmv >> and cut part

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-08 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:47:16AM +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2006. július 7. 16:11, > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:26:28PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > > > When my daughter who is still wedded to windows listens to

azureus: upgrade

2006-07-08 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I am running Azureus 2.2.0.2 in sarge. Each time Azureus starts, I receive a warning regarding new updates availables. Is it safe to upgrade Azureus accepting the suggested upgrade? Thanks in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Stephen Fahey
Robin Putters wrote: On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager. I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password, access to Root Terminal does not get a response. Running :~$ apt

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Robin Putters
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: > I now cannot open Update manager or start Synaptic package Manager. > I think the issue is I'm not being asked for Administrator password, > access to Root Terminal does not get a response. Running :~$ apt-get > check in Terminal return

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Bob Smither
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: > I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very > well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I got > the updates available window and went ahead with updates resulting in an > error message, w

Re: [OT]usb stick

2006-07-08 Thread Brad Brock
"L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have Transend usb pen drive. It was working OK. I gave to my nephew for backup. He used in some other PC. Now it is not working. Now when I insert nothing happens. I mean no message in syslog.But in the same machine with other USB stick I get asJul  8 16:5

Re: Highly Recommend: Grml

2006-07-08 Thread Chris Lale
T wrote: Hi I just found Grml about 2 weeks ago, as a Debian based Live CD. And now I'm ready to give up my stable Sarge and go for Grml! It is going to be my Live CD as well as desktop OS. I highly recommend it. [ ... ] Don't forget Debian-Live which is the only 100% pure Debian live CD. In

Re: What is "semantic"?

2006-07-08 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Haines Brown wrote: > When was Semantic introduced, and what is its purpose? Is it > associated with ext3 as well as ReiserFS? With the newer kernels? This "semantic"? - aptitude show semantic [...] Description: Parser Infrastructure for Emacsen The Semantic Bovinator's goal is to provide

Re: Re: SATA-problems

2006-07-08 Thread [vEX]
> This line: > > Jul 4 12:32:11 grimreaper kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 39635095 > > Means you may have a disk that is going bad. I was afraid it could mean that which is why I ran Samsungs diagnostic tool that said everything was fine. I'll try running some more SMART-tes

Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Stephen Fahey
I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I got the updates available window and went ahead with updates resulting in an error message, which I didn't write down. I now cannot open Update manager or

What is "semantic"?

2006-07-08 Thread Haines Brown
Something has crept up on me (running Sarge with ReiserFS and kernel 2.6.8-2-686) that I should have been aware of, but wasn't: Semantic. I find that, apparently at random, files are created in certain directories with the name semantic.cache. It appears to make the directory into an object. A se

Midi files with Debian GNU/Linux (was: Midi files S.O.S.)

2006-07-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a program that allows to modify > midi files, i.e. adjust tone and speed and cancel > traces I'm reporting how I managed the problem. Improvements and corrections welcome. Rodolfo - Operating s

Re: new user with installation problem

2006-07-08 Thread Andrea Maffei
Dear Roberto, thank you very much for you answer. My processor is an AMD Athlon (64bit). On debian.org I couldn't find any file for AMD, this is the list I found (does AMD have any other name?): * Alpha * ARM * HP PA-RISC * Intel x86 * Intel IA-64 * Motorola 680x0 *

vim-latexsuite not loading template

2006-07-08 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, I have just tried vim-latexsuite on sid and I can't issue the :TTemplates command to automatically bring in a template, in fact the Templates menu does not exist. Yes you can have a menu in the console, just put [1] in your .vimrc file Yes I have "filetype plugin on" in my .vimrc Is anyone u

[OT]usb stick

2006-07-08 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have Transend usb pen drive. It was working OK. I gave to my nephew for backup. He used in some other PC. Now it is not working. Now when I insert nothing happens. I mean no message in syslog.But in the same machine with other USB stick I get as Jul  8 16:52:29 localhost kernel: usb 3-5: new high

Re: No menus on some multimedia apps (xmms, audacity)

2006-07-08 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 7/7/06, Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll wager a guess and say your FONT or LOCALE are messed up -- pertaining toUTF-8 and default Languages / Keymap codes you have installed...etcI think those 'numbers' instead of fonts is/are the UTF-8 representation in code of wghat the font shoul

Re: apt-get setup?

2006-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:25:39 +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > >>is this option disappeared? > > > >man apt-setup > > > >is that what you mean? > > > > sorry I meant right that, but even apt-setup disappeared... It was part of the "base-con

Re: SATA-problems

2006-07-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, [vEX] wrote: Heya, I've been having some strange SATA-problems and I'm not sure what's 'causing them. I noticed first about a week ago when XMMS just froze for no reason at all. Checking the log (/var/log/messages) revealed a lot of messages looking like this: Jul 4

Re: Problem with external RAID

2006-07-08 Thread Jesus Roncero
On Friday, 7 de July de 2006 23:32, Ron Johnson wrote: > > From what I have been reading, the system loads the modules > > asynchronously using udev (I guess) and so that's why the RAID is > > assigned /dev/sda or /dev/sdc. I've been trying to figure out how > > to set the order at which I'd like t

Re: apt-get setup?

2006-07-08 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: is this option disappeared? man apt-setup is that what you mean? sorry I meant right that, but even apt-setup disappeared... -- +-+ | Lorenzo Bettini ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 |

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-08 Thread LeVA
2006. július 7. 16:11, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:26:28PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > [...] > > > > > > When my daughter who is still wedded to windows listens to this > > > > > station on line there is a continually changing light

Re: application for editing videos

2006-07-08 Thread LeVA
2006. július 8. 11:30, Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Debian User ,: > Hello! > > I have a small video that I can now to play in mplayer. > > Is there an application wherewith is possible to edit this video.wmv > and cut parts from the video and save it in another file.wvm? > > Thanks for any ad

application for editing videos

2006-07-08 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hello! I have a small video that I can now to play in mplayer. Is there an application wherewith is possible to edit this video.wmv and cut parts from the video and save it in another file.wvm? Thanks for any advices! -- Regards, Paul Csányi http://csanyipal.info/moodle <<<--- Moodle - Cour

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wonka
Willie Wonka wrote: > Back to you and Memtest86; > I too have used the Knoppix CD and type this at the prompt; > Boot: memtest86 > > Just did a bit of searching my local HD, and it turns out I hadn't yet > installed memtest86+ this time around - so I just recently installed it, since > I want to

Re: mplayer-1.0pre8 install on Sarge - howto

2006-07-08 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 03:18:24PM +0800, amateur wrote: > > I want to install MPlayer-1.0pre8 on Debian Sarge. > > > > I have downloaded .tar.bz2 > > > > I ask you: which is the preferred way to install it on Debian: > > whether with checkinstall or just with make install? > I remember the

Re: ispell/aspell in TeX mode.

2006-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 22:02:02 -0400, T wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:31:09 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > > > In ispell/aspell documentation defined this mode like "tex" mode I > > tried the next lines in ".emacs": > > (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") (setq-default >

Re: diagnosing hard-locks [was memtest+ won't load]

2006-07-08 Thread Willie Wonka
Willie Wonka wrote: > Couple of thoughts; > > * I notice the "nobody" account/group(?) start thrashing late at night, when > the monitor (only) has been sleeping for a little, which translates into me not > using the system and it's resources at that time (idle). I ran 'top' when I > heard this g

Re: apt-file problem - no output

2006-07-08 Thread swhe
On 7/6/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's likely nothing you did. See this message from eariler Sunday: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00074.html > > I just verified today (Tuesday) that the Contents-i386 files that > apt-file uses are still being generated empty

Re: mplayer-1.0pre8 install on Sarge - howto

2006-07-08 Thread amateur
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:05:39AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hello! > > I want to install MPlayer-1.0pre8 on Debian Sarge. > > I have downloaded .tar.bz2 > > I ask you: which is the preferred way to install it on Debian: > whether with checkinstall or just with make install? I remember the R