Debian doesn't detect my DVD-Burner on my new Laptop

2006-07-27 Thread Robert Jeffrey Miesen
Hi all. I recently had the misfortune of having to replace my old laptop because the costs of repairing it were too great to warrent it and purchased a new Toshiba A105-S4074. Everything works well with one exception---debian doesn't detect my DVD-Burner. I tried using 'discover' 'lshw', 'report

Gaim not stable

2006-07-27 Thread shell
Hello everyone: I just update gaim 2 1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-5, then gaim disappeared again & again. Then I start it from term, it show the follow word & disappeared again. Gaim has segfaulted and attempted to dump a core file. This is a bug in the software and has happened through no fault o

Re: What's blocking port 1443 during boot?

2006-07-27 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:20:32 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have an init.d script that starts two instances of Apache2. It's a > front-end/back-end server setup. For testing the front-end Apache2 > listens on port 82 and 1443 (SSL). The front end is a reverse proxy > and prox

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Solved- I watched it in Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't access usb

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Grieveson
Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete. I now have Debian installed but it doesn't recognize

Re: where's gksuexec in Etch

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:38:14 -0400 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I recently switched from Sarge to Etch. I used to use the > command "gksuexec" to run things as a different user (run as root). > In particular, I used it to open "nautilus --no-desktop --browser". > I'v

Help with udev rule

2006-07-27 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi, Further to my earlier post "Mouse devices gone after suspend-to-ram" a couple of days ago, I'm trying the tack of writing a udev rule to create the missing device after a suspend. In local.rules I have: BUS=="serio", SYSFS{protocol}=="SynPS/2", SYSFS{description}=="i8042 Aux-3 Port", NAME=

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-27 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:26 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Marcum) writes: > > > You've compiled MPlayer without cdparanoia. Install that (and it's > > -dev packages) and then recompile mplayer. I didn't notice when I built 1.0cvs from source package any references to cdparanoia. So I went ah

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-27 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:44:34 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You have to install cdparanoia and libcdparanoia0-dev and then install > mplayer again, and then do: > > $ mplayer cdda:// Um, that didn't work. I have 1.0-cvs currently, as reported by dpkg -l. I have cdparanoia a

What's blocking port 1443 during boot?

2006-07-27 Thread Bill Moseley
I have an init.d script that starts two instances of Apache2. It's a front-end/back-end server setup. For testing the front-end Apache2 listens on port 82 and 1443 (SSL). The front end is a reverse proxy and proxies requests the back-end Apache2 on listening on ports 10082 and 11433. During boo

Re: System Quits Responding-Swap Issue Or What?

2006-07-27 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
--- Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:13:03 -0700, Leonard > Chatagnier wrote: > > > > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > > > Runing unstable on a Dell dimensions XPS T450 > with 128 > > > > Mb Ram and 384 Mb Swap

Problems Installing R

2006-07-27 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi list, I am running a generally quite stable unstable system, but recently have had troubles installing R 2.3. Although I can get aptitude to install r-base and r-base-core without any noticeable problems, when I then try to start R, I get the warning message Error in options(...) : invalid

Re: NFS + iptables: (re)boot sequence

2006-07-27 Thread Brad Brock
Try to use the old way. In /etc directory you'll find subdirectories rcx.d where x is number between 0 to 6. These directories (rcx.d) contain symlinks to related startup scripts in /etc/init.d. If you use window manager, please pay attention to rc5.d. In rc5.d, you'll see something like S22sshd or

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/27/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > === > vlc: > Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2) > Depends: libflac6 but it is not installable > Depends: libmodplug0 (>=1:0.7-1) but it is not installable > Depends: slang1 (>1.4.9dbs-4) but it is not installable > Depends: w

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > === > vlc: > Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2) > Depends: libflac6 but it is not installable > Depends: libmodplug0 (>=1:0.7-1) but it is not installable > Depends: slang1 (>1.4.9dbs-4) but it is not installable > Depends: wxvlc but it is not going to be installed >

Re: USB serial adapters - resolution

2006-07-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:10:54AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I have just tried connecting a USB serial adapter to my Debian Etch > system, and happily it seems to have been recognised and worked right > out of the box > > But these things seem to come with very little documentation, and wha

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/27/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 17:38:36 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: [...] > Never fear, within a few generations software barons will be a thing > of the past. And a certain software robber baron of today will be remembered as a selfless guy who

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:39:07PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Any way to solve these problems?... Yell at the maintainers, which won't work. >... Or is there something else I can use to play .mov files? Add www.debian-multimedia.org to your sources.list and then install mplayer, totem, or a

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:24:22PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > Should I file a wishlist bug, requesting that xpdf suggest msttcorefonts, > > given that PDF creators including the US government assume everyone uses > > Windows and has Arial? > > No, you should read xpdf(5) (that

Postgresql socket missing after a reboot

2006-07-27 Thread Bill Moseley
I have a Debian Stable machine that's doing two odd things when rebooting. Namely, Apache2 isn't coming up and Postgresql's domain socket is missing. First the Postgresql problem. I post separately about apache. After a reboot I get this: $ psql template1 psql: could not connect to ser

Re: System Performances

2006-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
gustavo halperin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello I have some questions about system performances. > > By now I have the current 'hdparm' settings: -m16 -c3 -u1 -Xudma5 > Then the 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' show the next results: >/dev/hda: >Timing cached reads: 1376 MB i

crontab problem: multiple processes at the same time

2006-07-27 Thread Luis P. Mendes
Hi, I scheduled a job to run a script each two minutes that verifies if a process (python script) is running or not. If it's not running, it should start a new process of the same python script. The problem is that crond sometimes starts three or more processes within seconds of each other. Why

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-27 Thread Chris Mattern
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Once upon a time, I spent many a long workday hauling tapes to 3420 tape drives (the big ones, with the 5-foot tall vacuum columns-- my exercise was the

Password protected EXCEL files and Openoffice

2006-07-27 Thread L . V . Gandhi
Is there a way to open password protected excel files in oipenoffice in sarge?-- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/linux user No.205042

Re: System Performances

2006-07-27 Thread shell
gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I have some questions about system performances. By now I have the current 'hdparm' settings: -m16 -c3 -u1 -Xudma5 Then the 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' show the next results: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1376 MB in 2.00 seconds = 686.58 MB/sec Timing buffer

Re: about kde

2006-07-27 Thread Limin Wang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try with CUPS, I can print from kde without any issue. Thanks, Limin * Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-27 14:39:40 +0200]: > On my i386 (debian etch) kde is in poor conditions since the last few days, > in > deep crisis as soon as mo

More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
=== vlc: Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2) Depends: libflac6 but it is not installable Depends: libmodplug0 (>=1:0.7-1) but it is not installable Depends: slang1 (>1.4.9dbs-4) but it is not installable Depends: wxvlc but it is not going to be installed === Now, aalib is not available in m

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Magnus Therning wrote: > If you want to package software for Debian then the maintainer's guide > is required reading (IMNSHO). Read the whole thing, then package > something, then read it again :-) Then run it through lintian and linda and you have couple of hours of good works ahead of you ;-).

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Carl Fink wrote: > Should I file a wishlist bug, requesting that xpdf suggest msttcorefonts, > given that PDF creators including the US government assume everyone uses > Windows and has Arial? No, you should read xpdf(5) (that's not xpdf(1)). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: pine

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Anton Piatek wrote: > Anyone know if "pine" is in debian? I can't find it... > If you know where it is, let me know! It is not. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-software.en.html#s-pine Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jab

Re: Can't access usb port

2006-07-27 Thread shell
R A L Carter wrote: Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete. I now have Debian installed but i

System Performances

2006-07-27 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I have some questions about system performances. By now I have the current 'hdparm' settings: -m16 -c3 -u1 -Xudma5 Then the 'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' show the next results: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1376 MB in 2.00 seconds = 686.58 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 50 MB in

Re: Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
More news- I replaced the line "Exec=firestarter" with "Exec=sudo firestarter." Now when I start up, firestarter is open, but somehow the Gnome splash screen stays on until I click it. I don't know if it is the .desktop file that is opening firestarter, or Gnome's attempt to preserve the previous

Re: Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Come to think of it, I get a similar authentication message running gedit from the command line, but it still runs... On 7/27/06, Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Vitaliy. gnome-session-properties says 'authentication rejected' etc. I did this other method, and now when I start

Re: Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Thanks, Vitaliy. gnome-session-properties says 'authentication rejected' etc. I did this other method, and now when I start up, it brings up my program's icon (firestarter), but I can't find the program open. I select run, and it asks for root password and then runs. Is there something special I

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 13:53:57 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:40, Matej Cepl wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> > I've looked through the Debian reference as mentioned elsethread and >> > discovered dh-make, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how >> > dh_make >> >

Re: Bringing up eth0 NIC without logging in

2006-07-27 Thread marc
Bill Marcum said... > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:12:48PM +0100, marc wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I have a couple of Debian installs on my laptop, on one the eth0 NIC > > comes up during the boot process, but on the other it doesn't, although > > it's identified and there in dmesg. I'm using the same

Re: printer recommendations

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:11:27PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I phoned HP and was told that I could not speak with a technician, > because no technicians were assigned to non-supported printers such as > the HP5. And without authorization from a technician, the customer is > not authorized

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
Okay, purging and reinstalling CUPS let me print again. This makes the third time I've had to do that in a month. Not a good record. Installing msttcorefonts had no effect on printing from Acrobat Reader, but it DID allow me to print the page correctly from xpdf. Apparently xpdf silently substi

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:46:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Did you try purging all cupsys packages and reinstalling them? I think > there were a few cases recently where old cups config files screwed up > the new version of CUPS. Of course, purging "all" CUPS files will also remove (and I

Re: Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
Pure gnome way: run gnome-session-properties The other way: cd ~/.config/autostart/ and create there file with extension `desktop` i.e. `gaim.desktop` than open this file in text editor and write: ---start gaim.desktop listing- [Desktop Entry] Name=Some name which you like Enc

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:24:44PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > What is your goal? To get a copy of the form, or to get your > printer working? I mean your immediate goal. Eventually, of > course, you want to be able to print anything. If your goal > is just to get the form, then I suggest using o

Can't access usb

2006-07-27 Thread R A L Carter
Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete. I now have Debian installed but it doesn't recognize my

Re: Can't access usb port

2006-07-27 Thread Derek
EDIT:lsmod | grep usb_storageis that module loaded?if notmodprobe usb_storagethen mount it,something likemount /dev/sda1 /mnt/if that doesn't work try reloading the modulermmod usb_storagemodprobe usb_storage On 7/27/06, Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: lsmod | grep usb-storageis that module loaded

Re: Can't access usb port

2006-07-27 Thread Derek
lsmod | grep usb-storageis that module loaded?if notmodprobe usb-storagethen mount it,something likemount /dev/sda1 /mnt/if that doesn't work try reloading the modulermmod usb-storagemodprobe usb-storage On 7/27/06, R A L Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debi

Can't access usb port

2006-07-27 Thread R A L Carter
Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete. I now have Debian installed but it doesn't recognize my

Re: X11R7.1 for Debian?

2006-07-27 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:04 -0400, Kit Peters wrote: > I'd like to try out X11R7.1, in the hope that it will fix the dualhead > issues I'm having (Bug #378081 [1]). I'd rather not go to the > trouble of compiling it myself if there are .debs available. Does > anyone know where I might find such?

Gnome startup?

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
I was a little shy about asking before, because I felt I hadn't done enough digging on my own, but this info is incredibly hard to find. How do I set up what programs start at startup? I'm using Gnome on AGNULA 1.3.0. In other news, my keyboard keys no longer repeat when held down. I can't imag

Re: pine

2006-07-27 Thread Wulfy
Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, Anyone know if "pine" is in debian? I can't find it... If you know where it is, let me know! Anton Hi, Anton! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy pine pine: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.64-1duo+sarge1 Version table: 4.64-1duo+sarge1 0 500 http://ftp

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:17:41PM EDT, Carl Fink wrote: [..] > > So what the heck is going on? Never had any problems printing .gov forms on a linux system with cups and a native ps printer so I thought I'd give it a shot: . gpdf never displays the document.. 100% cpu.. had to issue a kill . gv

pine

2006-07-27 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, Anyone know if "pine" is in debian? I can't find it... If you know where it is, let me know! Anton -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]home: 02088 702 664 mobile: 07900 951 627 work: 01962 816 557 blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (ht

Gnome problems

2006-07-27 Thread edwardsa
Gnome has been giving me mysterious problems. I am running a testing amd64 installation (gnome 2.14). My install was very problematic. The package that checks signatures debsig-verify wouldn't allow many packages to install. When I removed it, the installation continued, but had many holes that

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Bob Smither
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 14:24 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > > >>How about this: > >> > >>If the file you're trying to print doesn't have proprietary > >>or trade secret info in it, I volunteer to try printing

Re: Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:37, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > OK, it believes it's catching spam. Do you have it set to quarantine, or > > simply pass the mail with something in the headers indicating Spam? > > I have set it up to include the word SPAM i

Re: GRUB; reboot; next partition selection

2006-07-27 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, I have been wondering how suse did this. So how would I add that to kde's shutdown option to allow me to select the OS to boot into when shutting down (i.e. so I can reboot into windows without catching the grub menu but keep my default boot option as linux) Anton Joey Hess wrote: > Ice wrote

Re: Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: OK, it believes it's catching spam. Do you have it set to quarantine, or simply pass the mail with something in the headers indicating Spam? I have set it up to include the word SPAM in the subject. And it adds an X-DSPAM header to every mail no

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:40, Matej Cepl wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I've looked through the Debian reference as mentioned elsethread and > > discovered dh-make, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how > > dh_make > > works from the dh_make manpage. Is there any step-by-step guide

Re: dma errors

2006-07-27 Thread Daniel B.
David Baron wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 00:38, Daniel B. wrote: ... I have had similar problems with an Asus A7M266-D motherboard with multiple kernel versions (2.2 through 2.6, I think). From what I've been able to gather, my motherboard's IDE controller (AMD 768?) is buggy, and the Linu

Re: Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:00, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > I've implemented dspam on a Debian system. Have you trained dspam yet? > > Um I think so... > > > It > > will not filter out of the box, it must be trained. > > I have used dspam_train (the we

Re: Bringing up eth0 NIC without logging in

2006-07-27 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:12:48PM +0100, marc wrote: > Hi. > > I have a couple of Debian installs on my laptop, on one the eth0 NIC > comes up during the boot process, but on the other it doesn't, although > it's identified and there in dmesg. I'm using the same interfaces file > for both, but

Re: etch installer on dialup line?

2006-07-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I downloaded the latest business-card image of d-i and tried to install sid with it. You need a slightly larger CD image. The netinst image contains only software that you would download anyway during the install, and it also cont

Re: Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: I've implemented dspam on a Debian system. Have you trained dspam yet? Um I think so... It will not filter out of the box, it must be trained. I have used dspam_train (the web frontend does not work out of the box) with balanced amounts of ham

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac Mini

2006-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a Mac Mini (x86) but I'm having a silly > little problem: > - I have BootCamp and rEFIt installed > - At boot time, I select the CD drive to boot > - The CD boot loader (ISOLINUX?) starts up great and asks me to hit ENTER or > F1 > > and now

driver for Belkin USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter

2006-07-27 Thread petereasthope
Is there a driver for the Belkin USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, part F5D5050? The Pegasus driver in the installer failed. Thanks, ... Peter E. shark at gulfnet dot sd64 dot bc.ca Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: where's gksuexec in Etch

2006-07-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:38:14 -0400 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I recently switched from Sarge to Etch. I used to use the > command "gksuexec" to run things as a different user (run as root). > In particular, I used it to open "nautilus --no-desktop --browser". > I've trie

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > I've looked through the Debian reference as mentioned elsethread and > discovered dh-make, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how > dh_make > works from the dh_make manpage. Is there any step-by-step guide to doing > this? Unpack the original tarball. Then if you a

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:47, Matej Cepl wrote: > >>Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>>I already looked there first. The "Packaging" section is three sentences >>>long and basically shoos you off to the dh_make(8) manpage. >> >>You haven't looked long enough >>http://www.us.debian.

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:47, Matej Cepl wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I already looked there first. The "Packaging" section is three sentences > > long and basically shoos you off to the dh_make(8) manpage. > > You haven't looked long enough > http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide

Re: printer recommendations

2006-07-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are HP laser printers still OK? Anybody have horror stories about the > 4700? Or a better idea (color, laser, self contained server, heavy load)? My HP5 no longer is supported. I discovered the fact when a HP toner cartridge (supposedly with a lifetime

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > I already looked there first. The "Packaging" section is three sentences > long and basically shoos you off to the dh_make(8) manpage. You haven't looked long enough http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html is quite big document. Matěj -- GPG Finger

Re: turn off CUPS cover sheet

2006-07-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:55:24 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> How can I turn off printing of the job identification cover sheet in >> CUPS on a freshly-installed Etch system? > > http://localhost:631/printers/ > Set Printer Options > Banners > > o

Re: printer recommendations

2006-07-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Glenn English wrote: > Are HP laser printers still OK? Anybody have horror stories about the > 4700? Or a better idea (color, laser, self contained server, heavy load)? > > TIA. > I like the Samsung CLP-550N (Note: don't get the 500 or 510, which do not speak native postscript). However, it is

OpenOffice always on top in Debian Testing

2006-07-27 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
Hi, I googled and get onlyone topic [1] about my problem, so I am trying here, maybe someone can help. That topic is exactely that mine! I upgraded my Debian Testing by apt-get and the problem have been started. I use GNOME as desktop. When you open a document with OpenOffice, it keeps on po

Bringing up eth0 NIC without logging in

2006-07-27 Thread marc
Hi. I have a couple of Debian installs on my laptop, on one the eth0 NIC comes up during the boot process, but on the other it doesn't, although it's identified and there in dmesg. I'm using the same interfaces file for both, but clearly I'm missing something - that I probably did in the midst

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 27 July 2006 02:00, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 00:44:58 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >I've looked through the Debian reference as mentioned elsethread and > >discovered dh-make, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how > >dh_make works from the dh_make manp

Installing Debian on a Mac Mini

2006-07-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm trying to install Debian on a Mac Mini (x86) but I'm having a silly little problem: - I have BootCamp and rEFIt installed - At boot time, I select the CD drive to boot - The CD boot loader (ISOLINUX?) starts up great and asks me to hit ENTER or F1 and now the problem: the USB keyboard seems n

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: How about this: If the file you're trying to print doesn't have proprietary or trade secret info in it, I volunteer to try printing it using Acrobat Reader on my machine, and see whether I have similar problems. Th

printer recommendations

2006-07-27 Thread Glenn English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are HP laser printers still OK? Anybody have horror stories about the 4700? Or a better idea (color, laser, self contained server, heavy load)? TIA. - -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)

Re: man pdksh, I don't understand this - [ was: how to make colour prompts for pdksh ]

2006-07-27 Thread LeVA
2006. July 27. 00:40, LeVA: Here I will post a solution and an explanation which was provided by Brian T. Brunner in a private mail conversation. - START OF QUOTE - > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > "... Note that since the command line editors try to figure out > > > how > > > long the prompt is (s

X11R7.1 for Debian?

2006-07-27 Thread Kit Peters
I'd like to try out X11R7.1, in the hope that it will fix the dualhead issues I'm having (Bug #378081 [1]). I'd rather not go to the trouble of compiling it myself if there are .debs available. Does anyone know where I might find such? Kit Peters [1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.de

REF.: Problems with checkinstall

2006-07-27 Thread Everton Freire
Hi Guys, Is there a way to inform checkinstall that the package I'm building from sources, and going to install, should have the list of dependencies ? , or be, inside of package ".deb" that I building should have a file called "control" with all the dependencies. Someone know how can I do this

thunderbird upgrade problem

2006-07-27 Thread gustavo halperin
Today I made 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after well. The system ask for upgrade the next packages: libnspr4 libnss3 mozilla mozilla-browser mozilla-calendar mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm thunderbird I obviously accept and the I receive the next errors: Updating mozilla

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 13:17:41 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:29:31AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > > See my previous "fun" with CUPS and KDE in a few different bug reports. > > > > Running Sid, I had to comment out the line in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf: > > > > #Listen /var/

Re: Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 27 July 2006 08:59, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Has anyone successfully implemented dspam as a postfix content filter? > I've followed the instructions in README.postfix and while mail is being > filtered by dspam, 100% of it is marked as innocent. Which kind of > defeats the purpose of a

Re: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar

2006-07-27 Thread Larry Irwin
I use "bvi" to fix things like that... If you would like to skype back and forth on how to use it to clip binary files for recovery, let me know... You have to explore the files and determine where to delete at the end of the last good file and at the beginning of the first good file after the

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 17:38:36 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: [...] > Never fear, within a few generations software barons will be a thing > of the past. And a certain software robber baron of today will be remembered as a selfless guy who helped to cure malaria. -- Regards, Florian

Re: Install problems

2006-07-27 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:51:15PM +, Harold D. Skank wrote: > People, > > I'm attempting to install Debian 3.1r2 on a Dell - Optiplex GX400, and > I'm not progressing very fast. > > I should say that I already have CentOS 4.3 up and running on this > machine, which leads me to believe that t

Re: Thunderbird mail opens links in email in a new mozilla window

2006-07-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
J F wrote: Thunderbird mail opens links in email in a new mozilla window everytime I click on a link in an email. My old netscape allowed me to open emailed links in the same browser window every time. Does anyone know where the file or menu to fix this is? I use Firefox, not Mozilla, but i

Re: System Quits Responding-Swap Issue Or What?

2006-07-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:13:03 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > Runing unstable on a Dell dimensions XPS T450 with 128 > > > Mb Ram and 384 Mb Swap Partition on a 13 Gb HD. I run > > > KDE with usually 4 or 5 session

Re: NFS + iptables: (re)boot sequence

2006-07-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:08:33AM +1000, Joseph Le-Phan wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to implement some iptables rules for my > system. Unfortunately, (on etch) it appears that the boot sequence > doesn't allow for nfs mounts to be located (as nfs+portmap appear to > get started _before_ I've

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > The topology is identical, and how it works (servers being clients of other > servers to deliver between sites, end users connecting to their local server) > is identical to SMTP. The only real differences between SMTP and XMPP is > XMPP uses XML and gets the job done in n

Re: dchroot not working

2006-07-27 Thread Roger Leigh
Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 22:57 +, Mauricio Calvao wrote: >> You mean I should delete the present etch chroot and then install it all >> again first as sarge and then, keeping login package under hold, to >> etch??? Or should I wait for some fixing from t

Re: turn off CUPS cover sheet

2006-07-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:55:24 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > How can I turn off printing of the job identification cover sheet in > CUPS on a freshly-installed Etch system? http://localhost:631/printers/ Set Printer Options > Banners or: edit /etc/cups/printers.conf JobSheets none none se

Re: Question about bzip2 and bzip2recover and tar

2006-07-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:05:26PM -0400, Larry Irwin wrote: > If you can successfully extract each bz2 file, then you should be able to > cat the results sequentially into a tar file or stream and then extract > If this listing script works, you should be OK... > for i in *.bz2 > do > cat $i

NFS + iptables: (re)boot sequence

2006-07-27 Thread Joseph Le-Phan
Hello, I'm trying to implement some iptables rules for my system. Unfortunately, (on etch) it appears that the boot sequence doesn't allow for nfs mounts to be located (as nfs+portmap appear to get started _before_ I've established an internet connection with my network interface which relies o

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:29:31AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > See my previous "fun" with CUPS and KDE in a few different bug reports. > > Running Sid, I had to comment out the line in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf: > > #Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock > > then restart CUPS in order for my local printer

where's gksuexec in Etch

2006-07-27 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I recently switched from Sarge to Etch. I used to use the command "gksuexec" to run things as a different user (run as root). In particular, I used it to open "nautilus --no-desktop --browser". I've tried the command "gksu nautilus --no-desktop --browser" in the run application (alt-

Debian dspam as postfix content filter?

2006-07-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Has anyone successfully implemented dspam as a postfix content filter? I've followed the instructions in README.postfix and while mail is being filtered by dspam, 100% of it is marked as innocent. Which kind of defeats the purpose of a spam filter don't you think? I suspect the debian package

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-27 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 7/27/06, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matej Cepl writes: > and keep running "aptitude update; aptitude upgrade" from time to time -- You will want to use 'dist-upgrade' to upgrade from Sarge to Etch. Right, and if you're a desktop user probably you will be happy keeping up with 'd

Re: Installation problem - Asus A8N mobo

2006-07-27 Thread Patrick Rittich
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Patrick, Tks for your advice. When I installed on a Asus A8N mobo I had to install the onboard ethernet drivers from the cd that came with the board. I found it on the CD coming with Asus A8N modo. Under Drivers/Chipset/Drivers/64bit/VM/Ethernet/NDIS/MCP51/nvpxes.ni

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