Orinoco Silver wireless works w/2.6.15 but not 2.6.17

2006-07-12 Thread Paul Scott
Any ideas why I can't get an Orinoco Silver card: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Version 01.01 manfid 0x0156, 0x0002 works with a stock 2.6.15 kernel but not with a 2.6.17? Something to do with device names and udev? TIA, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Why not?

2006-07-12 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:53:00 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > your KDE session. But again, it's not something th

qunu tip

2006-07-12 Thread Darrell Crow
hey guys, i've been giving realtime help on the debian area of Qunu (http://alpha.qunu.com/search/debian) for a couple weeks now to new users and it's been kinda fun so i wanted to bring it to your attention. i was thinking that it might be a great evangelism opportunity for Debian if other

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-12 Thread Indraveni
Hi,I have done apt cache seach and found something called magicdev paackges which satisfies what you explained but I am not able to get my requirement. There is no proper help given in its usage.How can i make my distro to detect autorun CD's and restrict on some CD's only?Johannes Wiedersich <[EMA

Re: Any way to comment on bugs?

2006-07-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ron Johnson wrote: Alec Berryman wrote: Andrew Malcolmson on 2006-07-09 13:53:41 -0400: Can anyone other than a package maintainer add comments to bug reports? Yes, send an email to @bugs.debian.org. Additional useful information is always welcome. Better, I would say, would be to use rep

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-12 Thread Indraveni
Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indraveni wrote:> > I think I dint give proper information to you. Actually we are> wowrking for a debian based distro and for this we want to create an> autorunning CD. That is, for Windows, after installation if we some> other features to be installed so

Re: encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?

2006-07-12 Thread Dave Patterson
* Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-11 17:00:56 -]: > I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive > encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able > to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the > encrypted FS mounted, then mount t

Re: dell poweredge 830

2006-07-12 Thread Bruno Buys
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: okay gang, help me out here. I've got a buddy coming over tomorrow with a dell poweredge 830. So, he calls and asks if i have any windows server software for his sweet new server for hishouse. I laugh and say (as i do every time I talk to him), why don't you put linu

Re: 2.6 kernel image for AMD-K6-2

2006-07-12 Thread Joop
> You got it wrong. That's about the linux-image-... kernel packages which > have only few profiles, not including -k5, -k6 and many others. > > Eduard. > I could not help to tease a little. The 1st thing I did after my Debian basic install was simply to compile my own kernel. Seemed the most logic

Help with first spamassassin rules update

2006-07-12 Thread Debian Newbie
Hello all I am a newbie and have read through much documentation with no luck. We are running SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 (daemonised). I want to update the rules. But when I type sa-update (bash shell, root user), I get "command not found." Can someone help me out with the correct rules

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:17:29PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > Thanks for the resonse. See below. > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:36:25AM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > > > I don't see any bug reports with greater severity than normal on > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ddd

Re: Please clarify correct sid packages for 2.6.16 and for 2.6.17?

2006-07-12 Thread RParr
George Borisov wrote: RParr wrote: Could someone please clarify which is the correct set of Debian sid packages to install for the following two situations: 1) install/update kernel 2.6.16, headers, etc. 2) install/update kernel 2.6.17, headers, etc. What processor hav

Re: Please clarify correct sid packages for 2.6.16 and for 2.6.17?

2006-07-12 Thread RParr
Greg Madden wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:30:17 -0700 RParr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could someone please clarify which is the correct set of Debian sid packages to install for the following two situations: 1) install/update kernel 2.6.16, headers, etc. 2) install/update kernel 2.6.17, h

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-12 Thread Ian Brandt
Thomas Dickey wrote: >> I compiled your terminfo on my Debian box, and ssh'd over with TERM >> set to 'nsterm'. A few initial observations: >> >> - Color is lost at the Bash prompt. > > bash on Debian? odd - since I thought it would be using ncurses (actually > the termcap interface). It m

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I meant recompiling ncurses, to get version 5.5. But I wonder if Apple > modified the ncurses 5.4, because tic didn't behave like under Debian. > For instance, xterm-* were installed under the 78 subdirectory instead > of the x subdirectory. hex 0x78 i

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gnu-Raiz wrote: >> "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. > > Does your laptop get hot under load? My wife has a Pentium M that > burned out two motherboards, when used to crunch RC5-72. >

Re: CPU temperature question

2006-07-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I have a temperature question. When I'm working, normally I see in a file '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature' something between 51 C to 55 C. It is not to much ?? If it is a problem, what can I do about ? oops. that link I just sent you, I just notic

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Brockway wrote: > I'm going piggy back a couple responses here... > > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Digby Tarvin wrote: [snip] >> I would also suggest a reboot any time you use apt to do an >> upgrade, > > I'd modify this a little. I schedule a reboot

Re: CPU temperature question

2006-07-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I have a temperature question. When I'm working, normally I see in a file '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature' something between 51 C to 55 C. It is not to much ?? If it is a problem, what can I do about ? See: http://www.3degs.net/index.php?page=webl

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jul 12 16:11 -0500]: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:07:48PM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: > > > That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if > > left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. > > Really? Most batteries lose

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 11.07.2006 at 21:44 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I am interested in obtaining a new motherboard and CPU. The current CPU is a Pentium III and runs Debian Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686). I am thinking of getting an Athlon 64 as the new CPU. Does anyone please kno

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:07:48PM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: > That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if > left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. Really? Most batteries lose life if repeatedly discharged and recharged. -- Carl Fink

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:48:45PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:44:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I run Stable on the servers I administer, but 100% of them have to use some > > hand-compiled or backported software, or they'd be unusable. > I really don't think that is

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Jimmy Tang
Hi, On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:29:37PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > Excuse me for chiming in, but I think many places simply look > for the best performance and productivity/dollar(euro). We do use the PGI > compiler, > mostly because gnu had not had a f90-f95 compiler, and partly because > of, m

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
I posted the same initial message on the three sites I thought were appropriate. My plea for honesty was a measure of frustration with what should be well-established packages. It turns out that in the newer distros, the structure of /usr/X11R6 has changed dramatically enough that it broke a .cshrc

Re: xfce panel missing on startup

2006-07-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:55:18AM +0200, Chris wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:51:27PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > i have xfce4 installed as below. With some users on my system it works > > > as expected, with an

Re: dell poweredge 830

2006-07-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:59:04AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > If I am not mistaken, nic is either Broadcom or intel. > great, thanks. > The 830 worked well on Debian Sarge where I used to work, even with the > sata controller. There is scsi support available for those server, so it >

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks very much. See below. On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:54:14PM -0500, Ozzy Lash wrote: > On 7/12/06, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The point is that they do not work exactly fine. For ddd, the console at > >the bottom is dead. > >The keyboard fails. For grace(xmgrace) the same symptom

Re: Battery monitor and sound adjust short cut

2006-07-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 22:10:45 +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: > Hey List, > > I'm using Debian Sid on my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop. I want to enable the > power monitor function for my computer. But when I go to Control > Center-->Power Control -->Laptop Battery of KDE I got the following message. > >

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Sean Perry
David R. Litwin wrote: I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I recently downloaded two large files via BitTorrent. As I wanted to have them as quickly as I could, I decided to leave my laptop on until they were fully downloaded, rebooting only for upgrades. I noticed no real

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. Does your laptop get hot under load? My wife has a Pentium M that burned out two motherboards, when used to crunch RC5-72. I look at it like this, if a computer is left on it might as well be d

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread David Pashley
On Jul 12, 2006 at 20:39, Art Edwards praised the llamas by saying: > The point is that they do not work exactly fine. For ddd, the console at the > bottom is dead. > The keyboard fails. For grace(xmgrace) the same symptom is present in all > text boxes. This appears to be a pretty general proble

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Ozzy Lash wrote: On 7/12/06, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The point is that they do not work exactly fine. For ddd, the console at the bottom is dead. The keyboard fails. For grace(xmgrace) the same symptom is present in all text boxes. This appears to be a pretty general problem beca

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Ozzy Lash
On 7/12/06, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The point is that they do not work exactly fine. For ddd, the console at the bottom is dead. The keyboard fails. For grace(xmgrace) the same symptom is present in all text boxes. This appears to be a pretty general problem because the same is t

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-12 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 11.07.2006 at 17:59 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > > > > OK, that's a reason to avoid PHP, *not* specificially a reason to > > avoid Squirrelmail. Just because PHP may lead to insecure apps does > > not mean that any particular PHP application is badly written

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Török Edvin
On 7/12/06, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you send bugreports for those programs? It turns out that the bugs are present in FC 5 as well. Then it is one more reason to file a bugreport. I have to say that I found this to be an unsatisfying solution. Part of the reason I moved to

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

2006-07-12 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 11.07.2006 at 21:44 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> I am interested in obtaining a new motherboard and > >> CPU. The current CPU is a Pentium III and runs Debian > >>Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686). I am thinking of getting > >>an Athlon 64 as the new CPU. > >> > >> Does anyone pleas

Re: xfce panel missing on startup

2006-07-12 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 11:09, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:51:27 +0200 > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i have xfce4 installed as below. With some users on my system it > > works as expected, with another user it seems to start, but there are > > no panels

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Robert Brockway
I'm going piggy back a couple responses here... On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Digby Tarvin wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:45:20AM -0700, Greg Ryman wrote: I would say to do a reboot and possible a file system check once a month to avoid corruption and unintended loss of data. Other then that, you do

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:44:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > 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-fr

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for your response. See Below. On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 03:12:04PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > -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 dishone

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
The point is that they do not work exactly fine. For ddd, the console at the bottom is dead. The keyboard fails. For grace(xmgrace) the same symptom is present in all text boxes. This appears to be a pretty general problem because the same is true for Fedora Core 5, but not for Fedora Core 4. I

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for your response. Please see below. On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:48:46PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > 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 > >

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
Excuse me for chiming in, but I think many places simply look for the best performance and productivity/dollar(euro). We do use the PGI compiler, mostly because gnu had not had a f90-f95 compiler, and partly because of, maybe, a 10% improvement in speed. What I find interesting is that both Fedo

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for your response. We have the pgi compiler on the head node of a very old, 32-bit beowulf. I do my production calculations on a very nice large, 64-bit cluster at a national laboratory, but my desktop machine had, until about 6 weeks ago, been a 1.4 GHz 32-bit machine. The graphics had bec

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for the resonse. See below. On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:36:25AM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > 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 > >

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
Thanks for the response. On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:23:54PM +0300, Török Edvin wrote: > 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 s

Re: disappearing text in gtk apps in upgraded Sid

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Green wrote: > Indeed, the problem is libcairo2. Downgraded and things work fine... > (except that now all my package hierarchy is busted). Thanks for the > tip. Blearg, thanks for the confirmation. I'm going to go the other route. Only Firefox was pooched so I'm just going to use Oper

Re: xmgrace partly broken under debian

2006-07-12 Thread Art Edwards
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:09:35AM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:15:19AM -0600, edwardsa wrote: > > I'm running amd64 debian. Xmgrace does not allow me to enter text in the > > Filter area of the Read sets window. This is true under both KDE and > > gnome. Because

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:45:20AM -0700, Greg Ryman wrote: > I would say to do a reboot and possible a file system check once a month > to avoid corruption and unintended loss of data. Other then that, you > don't need to reboot. I would also suggest a reboot any time you use apt to do an upgrade

Re: Why not?

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Liam O'Toole wrote: > your KDE session. But again, it's not something that the user would > normally want to do: the whole point of using a desktop environment is > to avail of a set of consistent software components rather than to adopt > a mix-and-match approach. Sez who? Name the consisten

Re: Why not?

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Lamb
John Hasler wrote: > Perhaps, but demanding of the already overwhelmed new user "Do you want to > use KDE or Gnome?" when he has never heard of either would not be helpful. Pft. The demand of Gnome on the new user isn't helpful. I mean there are two big strikes against Gnome when it comes to

HOWTO setup a shoutcast server....

2006-07-12 Thread Dirk
I downladed the shoutcast server from nullsoft and _DID_ RTFM... i changed the password i replaced ./content with the path where my mp3's are... started the server when i then start xmms with the playlist it says "401 Service unavailable"... Any ideas why I fail to setup shoutcast which is so inc

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-07-12 10:32:59 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is version 5.4. Recompiling ncurses 5.5 (and Mutt) fixes the > > problem. I don't know if it was specific to Mac OS X. > > ncurses 5.5 was released last fall, > so "recompiling" is not a good c

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread Greg Ryman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would say to do a reboot and possible a file system check once a month to avoid corruption and unintended loss of data. Other then that, you don't need to reboot. David R. Litwin wrote: > I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I

Re: Why?

2006-07-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > In many other facets of the install process questions are posed and > reasonable defaults are suggested yet a choice can be made. I think > the same approach should be taken to a DE. Certainly the question could be "Would you prefe

Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-12 Thread David R. Litwin
I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I recently downloaded two large files via BitTorrent. As I wanted to have them as quickly as I could, I decided to leave my laptop on until they were fully downloaded, rebooting only for upgrades. I noticed no real difference in performance

Re: Please clarify correct sid packages for 2.6.16 and for 2.6.17?

2006-07-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:30:17 -0700 RParr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone please clarify which is the correct set of Debian sid > packages to install for the following two situations: > > 1) install/update kernel 2.6.16, headers, etc. > > 2) install/update kernel 2.6.17, headers, etc.

Re: Why?

2006-07-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jul 12 07:05 -0500]: > > Perhaps it is all well to introduce the rank newcomer and train them in > >the GNOME way, but I have used a number of similar environments over the > >years and KDE for a DE and IceWM for a simple WM suit me best. > > Change the def

Re: Winner

2006-07-12 Thread Max Hyre
> Dear Winner, Does this apply to all of Debian? Or just debian-user subscribers. > Winners are advice to keep this award confidential OK, I won't tell anyone. Don't any of you either! > The Luckyday Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft > Corporation Oops---maybe th

Re: Please clarify correct sid packages for 2.6.16 and for 2.6.17?

2006-07-12 Thread George Borisov
RParr wrote: > Could someone please clarify which is the correct set of Debian sid > packages to install for the following two situations: > > 1) install/update kernel 2.6.16, headers, etc. > > 2) install/update kernel 2.6.17, headers, etc. What processor have you got? -- George Borisov DXSo

Re: Why?

2006-07-12 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 12, 2006, at 12:36 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Mattern wrote: [snip] Good Lord...I can see how the spiral was chosen. Was the contest fixed? The only other one that wasn't godawful butt-ugly was the DG logo, and that looks like something

Re: Run command on shutdown

2006-07-12 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:28:15AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Ott wrote: > > Hello Marco! > > > >> What's the safest way to run a command on every shutdown? > > Create an init script and create a link into rc0.d > > rc0.d or rc6.d? If

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-07-12 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> From: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1) to limit total control of a system to a subset of > applications for security reasons in large organizations and 2) to > enable > people who couldn't handle something say like console-based linux > well to > still use that computer; the operating

Re: Run command on shutdown

2006-07-12 Thread Bob McGowan
The answer depends on what the original poster wants. For example, if the action were to send an email stating that the system had been halted, then only rc0.d would be needed, since rc6.d is for reboot. Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Ott wrote: He

Please clarify correct sid packages for 2.6.16 and for 2.6.17?

2006-07-12 Thread RParr
Could someone please clarify which is the correct set of Debian sid packages to install for the following two situations: 1) install/update kernel 2.6.16, headers, etc. 2) install/update kernel 2.6.17, headers, etc. both including the ability to install/build modules for nvidia, ivtv, vmware, e

Re: Run command on shutdown

2006-07-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Ott wrote: > Hello Marco! > >> What's the safest way to run a command on every shutdown? > Create an init script and create a link into rc0.d rc0.d or rc6.d? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For exampl

Re: disappearing text in gtk apps in upgraded Sid

2006-07-12 Thread Andrew Green
Indeed, the problem is libcairo2. Downgraded and things work fine... (except that now all my package hierarchy is busted). Thanks for the tip. Here is a copy of the bug report I just submitted. - Mensaje reenviado De: ahg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: libcai

Re: Why not?

2006-07-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:19:07 -0500 "Cybe R. Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 > 06:44:44 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within > my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, > did polemic

Re: Why not?

2006-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Cybe R. Wizard writes: > What a shame, too, because using various WMs is such a treat. Perhaps, but demanding of the already overwhelmed new user "Do you want to use KDE or Gnome?" when he has never heard of either would not be helpful. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Marsh
Indraveni wrote: > I think I dint give proper information to you. Actually we are wowrking for a debian based distro and for this we want to create an autorunning CD. That is, for Windows, after installation if we some other features to be installed so we just insert the installable CD, it will ju

Alternatives to Mondo Rescue

2006-07-12 Thread jhollad
Whilst attempting backup to DVDs, I have experienced freezes (although the time remaining clock continues to tick upwards...) at the same point in two separate mondoarchive runs. There was no indication of any failure in the logfile and I forgot to run strace before killing mondoarchive, so I basi

Re: Why not?

2006-07-12 Thread Roger Leigh
"Cybe R. Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:44:44 > -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within my Magick > Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did > polemicize thusly: > >> Change the defaul

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-12 Thread Alejandro Bárcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Indraveni wrote: > Hi, > > I want to know how to create an autorunning CD in Linux especially > debian Linux. As soon as I insert the CD it opens up in a browser in my > system but along with this i also want a script to run automatically or > some h

Re: Why not?

2006-07-12 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:44:44 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: > Change the default to KDE and an equal number of people will complain > t

A question on TV recording

2006-07-12 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Hi Everybody, I am using tvtime to view tv using my PCI TV Tuner card. The problem is, when I want to record a live program, I have to close tvtime, and then use streamer to record the program, otherwise, streamer says /dev/video0 is busy (although it works while xawtv is being used instead of tv

Re: regex for top-posting?

2006-07-12 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 7/11/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check out fullquottel. With that and procmail it is probably possible, though I've never used it. Aha! What an interesting package. Thanks. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Indraveni wrote: I think I dint give proper information to you. Actually we are wowrking for a debian based distro and for this we want to create an autorunning CD. That is, for Windows, after installation if we some other features to be installed so we just insert the installable CD, it will ju

Re: Mapping between *.wav files and cdrecord -audio tracks?

2006-07-12 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-07-11, Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How good is the inverse function (ripping the CD tracks back to WAV)? > > If your disks scratch, then you may lose information; also take into > consideration the expected life of your media. I think backup copies are the solution then.

Re: Run command on shutdown

2006-07-12 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/12/2006 05:56 AM, Marco wrote: What's the safest way to run a command on every shutdown? Thanks, Marco Install the debian-reference and take a look at § 6.5.4 "Runlevel Usage." Also look at "man update-rc.d" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Why?

2006-07-12 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > The reason is that there is no reason to change. One or the other has to > be the default: should we toss a coin? Nate writes: > No reason to change what? The default. > Perhaps it is all well to introduce the rank newcomer and train them in >the GNOME way, but I have used a number o

RE: dell poweredge 830

2006-07-12 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
If I am not mistaken, nic is either Broadcom or intel. The 830 worked well on Debian Sarge where I used to work, even with the sata controller. There is scsi support available for those server, so it is possible it is scsi > -Original Message- > From: Mihira Fernando [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas Jollans
roberto wrote: > [snip] >> 4. When did it start? After upgrade maybe? > after the last upgrade it was ok, probably after realplayer > installation, but, sorry, i'm not sure of this > >> 5. Do other sound formats (OGG, WAV, etc.) and applications that produce >> sound (games for example) work fine?

Re: Run command on shutdown

2006-07-12 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le mercredi 12 juillet 2006 à 12:56 +0200, Marco a écrit : > What's the safest way to run a command on every shutdown? > > Thanks, > Marco > > I would guess it's to put a script in the init.d directory corresponding to the "shutdown" runlevel (perhaps also reboot runlevel). Check /etc/inittab..

Re: Run command on shutdown

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Marco! > What's the safest way to run a command on every shutdown? Create an init script and create a link into rc0.d CU Michael -- ,''`. Michael Ott, e-mail: michael at zolnott dot de : :' : Debian SID on Thinkpad T43: `. `'http://www.zo

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

2006-07-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-07-11 23:49:23 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are >> > buggy. >> >> hmm - to the best of my knowledge, the "ncurses that come with

Run command on shutdown

2006-07-12 Thread Marco
What's the safest way to run a command on every shutdown? Thanks, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

e00conv

2006-07-12 Thread David
Hi I am trying to use the GRASS function v.in.e00 but it tells me I do not have e00conv. I am using Debian Etch and so I did an apt-get install e00compr. This installed fine, but e00conv appears not to be part of the bundle - although the man pages are. I'm not sure what is going on here, is the

Re: farewell mp3 :(

2006-07-12 Thread roberto
On 7/10/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The question is, why bitrate of 192 kb/s is considered anomaly? roberto, could you please explain what do you mean by "higher rate"? I am not a native English speaker, so I may be misunderstanding something. You provided very little informa

Re: Mapping between *.wav files and cdrecord -audio tracks?

2006-07-12 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-07-11, Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > >>I made digital copies of an old record by connecting my hi-fi line >>output to my sound input and using Audacity to record the tracks (and >>edit them slightly) and save them as "RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE >>audio, Microso

Re: Problem with external RAID

2006-07-12 Thread Jesus Roncero
On Saturday, 8 de July de 2006 17:08, Ron Johnson wrote: > Try the compiling-in SATA drivers (that also means you won't need > initram[?]), and leaving the "external RAID card" driver as a module. I solved the whole thing by creating a new initrd. I added the name of the ata module to /etc/mkinit

Re: Hugin on debian "sarge"

2006-07-12 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
I see. Linux is now mature enough for home applications - multimedia etc, also for small office  - LAN, internet, Word. I use it for both for a couple of months and I like it. The only drawback is this damned end-user-service. Obscure manuals, "guess installations", much of IT work before you re

RE: Why?

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Bellears
> Ah, you just triggered a memory. /Robocop/. The DG logo > reminds me of the OCP logo, Classic Movie!

vsftpd: OOPS: vsf_sysutil_recv_peek

2006-07-12 Thread Josep Lluís López Munné
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *** I am not subscribed to the list *** Please CC me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] In an undetermined date, vsftpd started giving the error reported below. As etch is the "testing" distribution now, I "apt-get upgrade" once or twice a month. OS: Debian etch G

Re: Odp: Re: Hugin on debian "sarge"

2006-07-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:02:47AM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: > Hi, it's exactly where I got a hugin.deb from, > > Yesterday I tried again to compile it from source. > > It worked !!! > > I had to install some packages that "./configure" required, although with > another names (e.g. ./config

Odp: Re: Hugin on debian "sarge"

2006-07-12 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hi, it's exactly where I got a hugin.deb from, Yesterday I tried again to compile it from source. It worked !!! I had to install some packages that "./configure" required, although with another names (e.g. ./configure required "zlib", I installed "zlib1g-dev" as "most similiar" for me). Previo

Re: xfce panel missing on startup

2006-07-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:51:27 +0200 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > i have xfce4 installed as below. With some users on my system it > works as expected, with another user it seems to start, but there are > no panels and no mouse buttons result in any menus. I am using kdm. > > I

Re: disappearing text in gtk apps in upgraded Sid

2006-07-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:28:53 -0500 Andrew Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried turning ON anti-aliasing in the Gnome font preferences > dialogue, and the problem went away. But... err... I hate using > anti-aliased fonts in my UI... ! Where should I look to try to get > non-anti-aliased

Re: SID, Gnome and default media player

2006-07-12 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:10:23 +0200, Michael Ott wrote: >Hello Tshepang! > >> >I want to use xmms as default "music" player but nautilus want to open >> >totem when i pressed return. >> > >> >How can I change this. >> > >> >The same for the default movie player. >> Right-click on that media file

Re: SID, Gnome and default media player

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Tshepang! > >I want to use xmms as default "music" player but nautilus want to open > >totem when i pressed return. > > > >How can I change this. > > > >The same for the default movie player. > Right-click on that media file, click 'Properties', click 'Open With', > and there you go... I kno

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