Re: Cross-referencing files in a GUI

2006-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John O'Hagan wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to be able to browse a set of files according to variable > criteria without being restricted to particular directories. > > A simple model to demonstrate: say I have three folders named "work", "rest" >

Re: APT Black Magic

2006-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Redefined Horizons wrote: > It is almost 11:00 at night and I'm getting very frustrated, so please > bear with me. :] > > I'm having trouble getting APT to recognize debs on my hard drive, or > local file system. I can't understand what the problem is

Union FS

2006-07-18 Thread David Baron
This may well be the most useful and powerful "new" puppy around. Used by Knoppix and others to "merge" the CD image file system with the operational ramdisk FS and with a user's FS (no longer restricted to a /home/user). Magic. A normal mount replaces the mount point's visible contents with wha

Cross-referencing files in a GUI

2006-07-18 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi, I would like to be able to browse a set of files according to variable criteria without being restricted to particular directories. A simple model to demonstrate: say I have three folders named "work", "rest" and "play", each containing sub-folders called "pictures", "music", and "text".

[OT] How do I make my computer act like a telephone?

2006-07-18 Thread David R. Litwin
Preamble:Hello list. This is rather not Debian related, but I simply can't find the correct forum. If this can be suplied, I'd be grateful.Now then: I want to make my computer act like a telephone: Literaly, plug in the telephone wire to a jack and dial (and receive) a phone call. I _believe_ I've

Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-18 Thread chavdar
Dear List, I am running Debian unstable. My current kernel is 2.6.12 and it is my own custom build. Following the recent security advisories, last night I decided to upgrade my kernel. I downloaded the Debian source for 2.6.17 and did my build as usual with the following commands: # make-kpkg cle

APT Black Magic

2006-07-18 Thread Redefined Horizons
It is almost 11:00 at night and I'm getting very frustrated, so please bear with me. :] I'm having trouble getting APT to recognize debs on my hard drive, or local file system. I can't understand what the problem is, since I had the same repository system working on my Debian Sarge OS. (Now I'm o

Fwd: Re: Apache2.2

2006-07-18 Thread Indraveni
Note: forwarded message attached. Regards, K.Indraveni, Project Engineer, CDAC -Chennai. Find out what India is talking about on Yahoo! Answers India. Send FREE SMS from New Yahoo! Messenger to Mobile: Download NOW!--- Begin Message --- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi Kevin Mark,

Re: xorg: Ctrl+Alt+F7 doesn't bring back WindowMaker

2006-07-18 Thread Yasir Assam
I've never used WindowMaker, but have you tried just pressing Alt+F7 (no ctrl)? That works for me using gdm + gnome. Hi! I don't know since when Ctrl+Alt+F7 does not bring me back to WindowMaker any more. Once I switch from WindowMaker to console by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 ~ F6, I lose my GUI

Re: Apache2.2

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:00:26AM +0100, Indraveni wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I get Apache2.2 debian package. > Regards, Hi K.Indraveni, the facts: current in sid/unstable: 2.0.55-4 so you can get apache2 but not the cutting edge version. The result is a more tested and stable version. why d

Re: Playing with backported kernel

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:08:00PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if it is a good idea to install the 2.6.16 kernel from > backports. But apt-get told me it would need to remove hotplug. I'd also > like to keep my current setup (with 2.6.8-2-k7 sarge stock, which runs > just fi

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:31:50PM +0800, CN Liou wrote: > >You can run "xev" from a windowmaker terminal to check if your F7 key is > >still registering key press/release events. (That is not exactly the > >same situation as when you try to switch back to vt7, but you will see > >whether the key i

Apache2.2

2006-07-18 Thread Indraveni
Hi, Where can I get Apache2.2 debian package. Regards, K.Indraveni, Project Engineer, CDAC -Chennai. Find out what India is talking about on Yahoo! Answers India. Send FREE SMS from New Yahoo! Messenger to Mobile: Download NOW!

Re: Search for text string in files

2006-07-18 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Cool, thanks! I will log this command in my memory. Alas, the string "jack" is not in any of my rcn.d files or init.d, so I'm lost again. -Chuckk On 7/18/06, Fred J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $grep -FHrn jack /path/ Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you do this? I still can't f

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread John O'Hagan
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 21:58, mike williams wrote: > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont have a > problem logging in,but then all i get is debia"a"mike~$, what do i do from > there to browse web

Problem with ghc-pkg

2006-07-18 Thread Joseph M. Legner
I hope someone can help me. I'm trying to get rid of libghc6-c2hs-dev; every time I use aptitude I get an error message because of it. When I try apt-get remove libghc6-c2hs-dev, I get: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. When I

Re: gnuplot not working properly inside nxclient

2006-07-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:40, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all > > Using Debian Sid, NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0-141, G N U P L O T Version 4.0 > patchlevel 0, NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-45-SVN. > > Inside the nxclient program, I open a konsole and run gnuplot. At the > prompt of gnuplot if I run

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-18 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:45 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > I make a lot of Knoppix disks because the Green Party here > gives them away. I get CD drives used or salvage or surplus, > all kinds and ages. Over time I collected nine drives that > stopped working: some wrote bad disks, others got

Playing with backported kernel

2006-07-18 Thread Bruno Buys
Hi, I was wondering if it is a good idea to install the 2.6.16 kernel from backports. But apt-get told me it would need to remove hotplug. I'd also like to keep my current setup (with 2.6.8-2-k7 sarge stock, which runs just fine) so I could boot both. Will 2.6.8-2-k7 miss hotplug badly? Is 2.6

Gimp 2.2.6 and "libpangocairo".

2006-07-18 Thread DJ Hackenbruch
Please can someone help me. I was trying to update my GIMP and it stopped working. The GIMP 2.2.6 package seems to install OK but when you run it it wants to see "libpangocairo". Of which pango is available, but cairo is not in the Debian repository. Anything I have tried leads me to need yet o

Re: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux

2006-07-18 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 23:52 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > At 1153225783 past the epoch, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> Through Gaim I'm trying to chat via ICQ, but when asked for > >> a room name I don't know what to put there. > >> A hint about the proper syntax or what on earth I s

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-18 Thread Mike McCarty
Micha Feigin wrote: The problem is not the usb port but whether the kernel negotiates with the device properly. Try to first connect the reader without the card and then do immediately cat /proc/bus/usb/devices (lsusb should work also). If the device is negotiated with properly, this should ret

Re: Search for text string in files

2006-07-18 Thread Fred J.
$grep -FHrn jack /path/Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you do this? I still can't find out why 2 instances of the jackaudio connection kit are starting up on boot, and I find myselfopening each startup script and searching for "jack". If there's abetter way, Google doesn't have acce

Search for text string in files

2006-07-18 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Can you do this? I still can't find out why 2 instances of the jack audio connection kit are starting up on boot, and I find myself opening each startup script and searching for "jack". If there's a better way, Google doesn't have access to it. Is there a command I can type that will search for

Re: Have I been rooted?

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 14:38, Default User wrote: > I just installed chkrootkit. The first run reported as part of the > normal output: RTFM: chkrootkit's output should be taken with a grain of salt. > eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhclient[1005]) > > Does this mean there is a sniffer on my syste

Re: Web Trends like program?

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 11:12, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Hello all, > > > Does anyone know of a "Web Trends" like program that is available for > Debian? One that will analyze web logs make make web pages to show the > information. I use awstats, which does a pretty good job. You can

help opening a cpp file in emacs

2006-07-18 Thread Fred J.
HiI have a problem opening a .cpp file with emacsusing debian testing kernal 2.6.15 and emacs21 21.4a-3, I googled,search variables and help docs, asked at different forum for no avail.the problem happens only when I start emacs as a user but it does nothappen when I start it as root.I am enclosing

Re: Need help to file installer bug

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:18:14AM +0100, Chris Carr wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm wondering where to file this bug - last time I filed it against > debian-installer, but it got reassigned to kernel-source, so I want to > get it right this time. > Grateful for some confirmation that kernel-source i

Re: [deb-user] startup strangeness

2006-07-18 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/18/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 18 July 2006 18:47, Greg Folkert wrote: > > These seem totally unrelated, but they started with the exact same boot: > > > > 1) double Jack connection kits on startup- one seems to be well before > > the other, so maybe a link is being

Re: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux

2006-07-18 Thread bootlog
Rodolfo Medina schrieb: > At 1153225783 past the epoch, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >>> Through Gaim I'm trying to chat via ICQ, but when asked for >>> a room name I don't know what to put there. >>> A hint about the proper syntax or what on earth I should >>> type in there? (I

Re: thunderbird and screen resolution

2006-07-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:57:15PM -0600, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello: > > I recently went to a dual screen setup, and X provided a screen > resolution of 191x96 (from 96x96). I was able to configure mozilla and > firefox to use a resolution of 96 (thus making the image the same size > as o

Easy to manage debian mirror

2006-07-18 Thread T
Hi My adjacent debian mirror, gulus.usherbrooke.ca, goes off and on often. I need to access my 2nd choice when it is down. So I have to change my apt sources.list, pull down all the package lists from it before I can do anything. Now I'm thinking, I should put an persistent entry 'debian-mirror'

Re: Have I been rooted?

2006-07-18 Thread Lothar Braun
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 23:38, Default User wrote: > I just installed chkrootkit. The first run reported as part of the > normal output: > > eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhclient[1005]) > > Does this mean there is a sniffer on my system? Most likely no: That's a common false positive from chrootkit

Re: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux

2006-07-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
At 1153225783 past the epoch, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Through Gaim I'm trying to chat via ICQ, but when asked for >> a room name I don't know what to put there. >> A hint about the proper syntax or what on earth I should >> type in there? (I've never chatted before.) >>

Re: iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-07-18 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 22:16 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I just bought a 2GB iRiver Clix media player as an upgrade from my old > CD-based mp3 player. It works fine on my XP hardware testing box. > However, I need to get it working with Debian (both my Athlon 2500 > desktop runing Kernel 2.6.15-1-k

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-18 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manon Metten wrote: > Art Edwards wrote: >> I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop >> writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's.r >> > My cd writer of white label

Have I been rooted?

2006-07-18 Thread Default User
I just installed chkrootkit. The first run reported as part of the normal output: eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhclient[1005]) Does this mean there is a sniffer on my system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:46 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And for the record, I believe NEC and NCR are now the same company, > > rather than two separate entities of a holding company. > > Er, no. > [...snip...] Thanks Miles. I'll have to go back and s

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:56:38 -0500 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Hey, thanks for the kind reply. > > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:32:51 -0500 > > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >>>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: Going back to stable

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 09:46 +0530, H S Rai wrote: > What is the way to go back to stable version, if mess has > been created using apt-get for unstable and experimental > vesrsion? Thar be fierce fire breathing Dragons in that direction! But you can do it, if and only if you know your way arou

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> "Flash Memory" is too ambiguous. SD, MMC, CF, or (probably, since >> this is Sony) Memory Stick? >> > > SanDisk 128 mg SDMS 0343SD7 Ok, it's a Memory Stick. Try this $ dmesg | tail -n40 Insert the MS,

thunderbird and screen resolution

2006-07-18 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I recently went to a dual screen setup, and X provided a screen resolution of 191x96 (from 96x96). I was able to configure mozilla and firefox to use a resolution of 96 (thus making the image the same size as on the single screen setup, instead of double size), but do not know how to do th

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-18 Thread Mike McCarty
Micha Feigin wrote: Hey, thanks for the kind reply. On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:32:51 -0500 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: My girlfriend has a Sony Mavica MVC FD200 with Flash Memory [and can't g

Re: Web Trends like program?

2006-07-18 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Tuesday 18 July 2006 20:12, Account for Debian group mail(Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) a écrit: > Hello all, Hello, > Does anyone know of a "Web Trends" like program that is available > for Debian? One that will analyze web logs make make web pages to > show the informat

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-18 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: "Flash Memory" is too ambiguous. SD, MMC, CF, or (probably, since this is Sony) Memory Stick? SanDisk 128 mg SDMS 0343SD7 Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn

Re: sun-java5-jre installed but not recognized

2006-07-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Greg Madden wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:57:07 +0800 CN Liou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I just installed package sun-java5-jre from unstable but none of the following directories is recognized by OpenOffice: /usr/lib/jvm/ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.

Re: Web Trends like program?

2006-07-18 Thread Bruno Buys
Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know of a "Web Trends" like program that is available for Debian? One that will analyze web logs make make web pages to show the information. Thanks, Ken Rea webalizer, analog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:32:51 -0500 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>My girlfriend has a Sony Mavica MVC FD200 with Flash Memory > > [and can't get it to mount] > > > > > > "F

Re: /etc/X11/X already customeizes on a fresh install

2006-07-18 Thread Derek
I had that same problem,I moved /etc/X11/X to /etc/X11/X.bak(or just delete it) and all was goodOn 7/18/06, James Westby < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On (18/07/06 09:22), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> Just installed 32-bit etch on an AMD64 two days ago.> Today I installed xorg.> Then I did dpkg-reconfig

Re: /etc/X11/X already customeizes on a fresh install

2006-07-18 Thread James Westby
On (18/07/06 09:22), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just installed 32-bit etch on an AMD64 two days ago. > Today I installed xorg. > Then I did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, went through the usual > options, and when I was done, it said, > > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; f

Re: Web Trends like program?

2006-07-18 Thread Jochen Kaechelin
Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 20:12 schrieb Account for Debian group mail: > Hello all, > > > Does anyone know of a "Web Trends" like program that is available > for Debian? One that will analyze web logs make make web pages to > show the information. apt-cache show awstats -- Jochen Kaechelin, f

Web Trends like program?

2006-07-18 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello all, Does anyone know of a "Web Trends" like program that is available for Debian? One that will analyze web logs make make web pages to show the information. Thanks, Ken Rea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: How do I turn on LVM on RAID in 32-bit etch: SOLVED

2006-07-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:04:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:21:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:55:42AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 09:26:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > A fresh

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-18 Thread Roger Leigh
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I will add it to /set/modules and see. I did not have this problem >>> with 2.6.16 kernels but then again, I do not do all that much >>> printing so maybe I did. Cups writes printer.conf with the default >>> printer (with the data switch setting the par

Re: sun-java5-jre installed but not recognized

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:57:07 +0800 CN Liou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I just installed package sun-java5-jre from unstable but none of the > following directories is recognized by OpenOffice: > > /usr/lib/jvm/ > /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07 > /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 02:16:37PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > >My girlfriend has a Sony Mavica MVC FD200 with Flash Memory > >cards. The card reader is a Dazzle USB card reader. It mounts > >just fine with Windows XP, but does not mount with Debian. Hi. Jumping into the mi

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:58:39AM -0700, mike williams wrote: > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont > have a problem logging in,but then all i get is debia"a"mike~$, what > do i do from there to

Re: soundgrab

2006-07-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:44:04PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 13:16:27 +0200, Jirka H. wrote: > > oh - thx, I was really very blind :) - and it means, that this package > > will be only in Sarge (stable) and not in Etch, Sid...? I use Etch. > > It was removed from tes

Re: [deb-user] startup strangeness

2006-07-18 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 18:47, Greg Folkert wrote: > > These seem totally unrelated, but they started with the exact same boot: > > > > 1) double Jack connection kits on startup- one seems to be well before > > the other, so maybe a link is being visited twice? > > Never used jack, sorry can't help

Re: sun-java5-jre installed but not recognized

2006-07-18 Thread Guillaume
CN Liou a écrit : Hi! I just installed package sun-java5-jre from unstable but none of the following directories is recognized by OpenOffice: /usr/lib/jvm/ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07/jre OpenOffice complains: "The folder you selected does not co

Wireless Card recommendation

2006-07-18 Thread Dave Bellows
Hey folks, I finally decided to put together a home network for the first time. I bought a Linksys router which, after a lot of work (adding its address to /etc/resolv.conf and updating the firmware), I got up and running properly. Then I attempted to add a PCI wireless network card to my comput

Package in poor state interferes with apt operations

2006-07-18 Thread Joseph M. Legner
For some reason, I have Haskell installed on my machine. I'm pretty new to Linux and Debian - I've been running it for about 6 mo now without too much trouble. Now every time I try to use apt or aptitude, I get error messages. For example: legner1:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Do

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-18 Thread David Baron
>> > I went into http://localhost:631/ and "started" the printer. >>> > >>> > I never had to do this before so how to I make this happen >>> > automatically? >>> >>> If you put >>> >>> lp >>> >>> in /etc/modules >>> >>> and reboot, is /dev/lp0 created with the correct permissions? >> >> My /dev is

Re: [deb-user] startup strangeness

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 22:53 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > These seem totally unrelated, but they started with the exact same boot: > > 1) double Jack connection kits on startup- one seems to be well before > the other, so maybe a link is being visited twice? Never used jack, sorry can't help you

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-18 Thread H.S.
Magnus Therning wrote: BTW, I let udev mount the pluggable devices automatically. I doubt udev is the party that mounts it. udev creates the device in /dev, I don't think it can mount things. Yes, you are correct. AFAIU on GNOME this is what happens when a storage device is plugged in:

adduser and RPC Connection

2006-07-18 Thread T
[redirected from gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user] hi whenever I add a user in grml, I get the following error: rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused The respond that I got is that - the Debian's useradd tried to run userauth via NIS by default,

Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok

2006-07-18 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Dear Srs, I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. The modes are ok: I have only four resolutions (1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480) and I can see all of them right after a boot, by cycling the modes with ctrl-alt-plus and ctrl-alt-minus. However,

sun-java5-jre installed but not recognized

2006-07-18 Thread CN Liou
Hi! I just installed package sun-java5-jre from unstable but none of the following directories is recognized by OpenOffice: /usr/lib/jvm/ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07/jre OpenOffice complains: "The folder you selected does not contain a Java run

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-18 Thread CN Liou
You can run "xev" from a windowmaker terminal to check if your F7 key is still registering key press/release events. (That is not exactly the same situation as when you try to switch back to vt7, but you will see whether the key is active at all.) Every key stroke from F1 to F12 triggers an eve

Problem intalling xorg package.

2006-07-18 Thread Alex Yakushev
I got problem installing xorg package. Alex. apt-get install xorgReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneSome packages could not be installed. This may meanthat you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are usingthe unstabledistribution that some requir

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-18 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 03:04 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:57:01 -0500 > Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read in a Popular Science magazine that freezing a battery may help. > > I had little to lose as this battery was getting very bad, so I tried > > it. ...It d

/etc/X11/X already customeizes on a fresh install

2006-07-18 Thread hendrik
Just installed 32-bit etch on an AMD64 two days ago. Today I installed xorg. Then I did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, went through the usual options, and when I was done, it said, xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been customized Now I know for sure I have not d

Re: How do I turn on LVM on RAID in 32-bit etch: SOLVED

2006-07-18 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:21:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:55:42AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 09:26:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > A fresh install from the debian-testing-i386-netinst > > > CD, donloaded 2006 07 1

Re: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux

2006-07-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
At 1153225783 past the epoch, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> Through Gaim I'm trying to chat via ICQ, but when asked for >> >> a room name I don't know what to put there. >> >> A hint about the proper syntax or what on earth I should >> >> type in there? (I've never chatted before.) >> >> [...] >>

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
mike williams: > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > browse webpages and download programs etc... Sure it is! I am not sure what you mean by "downloading programs". With Debian, you will usually be installing software from (semi-) official repositories. The t

Re:sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread Jirka H .
try write... startx what happend? > Původní zpráva > Od: mike williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Předmět: sarge for i386 > Datum: 18.7.2006 14:21:41 > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like browse > we

sarge for i386

2006-07-18 Thread mike williams
is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont have a problem logging in,but then all i get is debia"a"mike~$, what do i do from there to browse web pages etc...

how to install a plug-in (separate) i Gimp

2006-07-18 Thread Søren Christensen
Hi, I'm trying to install the plug-in "separate" for colour-separation in Gimp. Downloaded from here (version 0.3): http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml I've tried both a global installation (in /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/) and a local (in ~/.gimp-2.2/plug-ins/) but it doesn't show u

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-18 Thread Manon Metten
Mike McCarty wrote: My girlfriend has a Sony Mavica MVC FD200 with Flash Memory cards. The card reader is a Dazzle USB card reader. It mounts just fine with Windows XP, but does not mount with Debian. Googling around produced simply reports of problems reading these things at all. One recommende

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-18 Thread Manon Metten
Art Edwards wrote: I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. My hardware vendor says that this is rare. Has anyone else had this experience? Is there something I should be doing? Art My cd writer of white lab

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:07:15 +0800, CN Liou wrote: > >What happens if you try to "chvt 7" from one of the ttys? Any error > >messages or other clues? > > Amazing! It take me back to WindowMaker! > > How embarrassed I am! Maybe some keys on my keyboard are broken as a > result of water drops

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 17 Jul 2006, Willie Wonka wrote: Art Edwards wrote: I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. My hardware vendor says that this is rare. Has anyone else had this experience? Is

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-18 Thread CN Liou
What happens if you try to "chvt 7" from one of the ttys? Any error messages or other clues? Amazing! It take me back to WindowMaker! How embarrassed I am! Maybe some keys on my keyboard are broken as a result of water drops on it days ago when it was raining outside as well as inside of my

Re: soundgrab

2006-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 13:16:27 +0200, Jirka H. wrote: > oh - thx, I was really very blind :) - and it means, that this package > will be only in Sarge (stable) and not in Etch, Sid...? I use Etch. It was removed from testing and unstable after being orphaned for more than a year. Nobody seems

ALSA and Creative Audigy 2 NX USB-soundcard/box

2006-07-18 Thread Søren Christensen
Hi, I've been trying to set up a Audigy SE 7.1 soundcard, but I get a lot of white noise, and according to the ALSA-homepage, soundcapture is not supported -- and I need that. So I'm considering another sound-card: Audigy 2 NX USB external soundcard: http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.as

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 13:57:42 -0600, John W. M. Stevens wrote: >On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:51PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Magnus Therning wrote: >> >I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. >> > >> >I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the >> >desktop and choos

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:51 -0400, H.S. wrote: [..] >I usually use KDE and I see that by unmounting a USB device from its >icon on the desktop, the icon seems to stay as long as the USB stick's >activity LED keeps blinking. For large files (images), I have noticed >that the icon stays on the d

Re: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux

2006-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1153225783 past the epoch, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > But, suppose I want to enter a chatroom that already > exists: that's what I mean and don't know how to do. > Sorry, but, as I said, I've never chatted before. The model of joining existing chatrooms is more like Internet Relay Chat (IRC) than

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 15:37:37 -0600, John W. M. Stevens wrote: [..] >If pmount and pumount are handling the actual mount and unmount >operations for you, then you could try manually mounting and unmounting >your devices from a virtual terminal (no gnome running), and see if the >behaviour is dif

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jul 2006, Willie Wonka wrote: > Art Edwards wrote: > > I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop > > writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. My hardware vendor > > says that this is rare. Has anyone else had this experience? Is there > > something I

Re: soundgrab

2006-07-18 Thread Jirka H .
oh - thx, I was really very blind :) - and it means, that this package will be only in Sarge (stable) and not in Etch, Sid...? I use Etch. Původní zpráva Od: Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Předmět: Re: soundgrab Datum: 18.7.2006 13:08:39 --

Re: soundgrab

2006-07-18 Thread Wackojacko
Jirka Hrbek wrote: Hi, I can not find package soundgrab (http://rawrec.sourceforge.net/soundgrab/) in Debian repository. It is a perl script which allows the user to interactively select and save their favorite portions of a long volume of raw audio data. Im a beginner in Linux + Debian, what ca

soundgrab

2006-07-18 Thread Jirka Hrbek
Hi, I can not find package soundgrab (http://rawrec.sourceforge.net/soundgrab/) in Debian repository. It is a perl script which allows the user to interactively select and save their favorite portions of a long volume of raw audio data. Im a beginner in Linux + Debian, what can I do for putting

Re: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux

2006-07-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Through Gaim I'm trying to chat via ICQ, but when asked for >> >> a room name I don't know what to put there. >> >> A hint about the proper syntax or what on earth I should >> >> type in there? (I've never chatted before.) >> >> [...] >> >> When

Re: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux

2006-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1153176741 past the epoch, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Through Gaim I'm also trying to chat via ICQ, but when asked for > >> a room name I don't know what to put there. > >> A hint about the proper syntax or what on earth I should > >> type in there

Need help to file installer bug

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Carr
Hi folks, I'm wondering where to file this bug - last time I filed it against debian-installer, but it got reassigned to kernel-source, so I want to get it right this time. Why am I filing the same bug again? Well, a lot has changed in 18 months - except my hardware, that is. My original bugs ar

Re: resizing /var

2006-07-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Raquel Rice wrote: > > And if one doesn't have a cd player on a server? > Use an external USB CD-ROM. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Problem with rdiff-backup

2006-07-18 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! I use rdiff-backup to "copy" my home dir to another box: rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist exclude /home/michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/backup And it works good for a few weeks. But yesterday I had problems with my wlan connect and the backup stops with this message: Fatal Error: Lost

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:57:01 -0500 Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 02:06 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:51:03 -0500 Jay C Vollmer wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 21:24, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > I'm not an electrochemist, but modern Li-io

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 13:55:42 +0800, CN Liou wrote: > >I know Bastille will log to 7, moving X to a higher vt. Try running > >"fgconsole" to find out which tty X is using. It might be 8 or 9. > > fgconsole reports 7. What happens if you try to "chvt 7" from one of the ttys? Any error message

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