Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem (More Info)

2006-11-13 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: > Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> _ >> X Window System Version 7.1.1 >> Release Date: 12 May 2006 >> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 >> Build Operating System

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread anonymous
Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ "anonymous" seems to be a silly name to be using, but hey... ] > > "anonymous" wrote: > > > >I still have not received a definitive reply to my question as yet. > >Which, to repeat was: > > > >" I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15 regular and 3 > >for the

Re: GTK+ performance problems in etch

2006-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/14/06, Vasiliy Faronov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: People on #gtk+ @ irc.gnome.org told me that this seemed like an X server configuration issue to them, but I am hesitant to believe this as I do not see where the problem could be. The X config is rather standard, no new bells and whistles l

Re: ca-certificates

2006-11-13 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:50:50 +0100 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The post-installation script is here: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ca-certificates.postinst > > You can try to add > > set -x > > at the beginning of this script, right after the comment header. Then > run "dpkg --configure

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/13/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Alan Ianson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or > somesuch) that may need an adjustment. > I found x-www-browser, www-browser and gnome-www-browser. I set them all just in ca

Re: launcher for terminal ap

2006-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/13/06 22:05, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] > I'm wondering how to have a launcher on the desktop that will open a > terminal, with the command already present (ie, the terminal starts, > with "dict" already typed, meaning the user does not have to

Re: cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:04:12PM -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > > Hi Kev, > > Thanks for your reply. I think the packages db is really fubar. This is what > I > get when I try to install lsb-base: > > $ sudo apt-get install lsb-base > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... D

Debian Installer etch RC1 released

2006-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first release candidate (RC1) of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch. Improvements in this release of the installer include:   * This new version of the installer uses and installs the 2.6.17     kernel which is now the default for all archit

Re: Problem opening StarOffice files in OpenOffice 2

2006-11-13 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:18:32 + "Bruce M. Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody else found that the Debian supplied OOo 2.0.4 (2.0.4-5) > in Etch will not open StarOffice 5 .sdw files? > > I first get a 'Filter Selection' window (as thoug

Re: Two network cards - firewall starts twice or more

2006-11-13 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:50 +0100, Jarek Buczyński wrote: > Hi All > > I have two network cards eth0 (public IP Internet) eth1 (private LAN). > I have firewall script in "/etc/network/if-pre-up.d". Unfortunately > when my system boots script runs three times. > > How change this (I'd like script

launcher for terminal ap

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
Disclaimer: not a pressing issue, but a curiosity none-the-less. Hello. I'm setting up an old laptop for an inexperienced user, and I'd like to set up a dictionary on the the desktop. The laptop will not be connected to the internet (except for the occasional dial-up connection for email).

Re: Cupsys, using gutenprint driver instead of CUPS'

2006-11-13 Thread T
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:01:32 -0500, T wrote: > the driver that I was using > is actually not the gutenprint's but CUPS'. So I re-installed everything > again, but still I can't see any gutenprint drivers when I get to the > choosing "Model/Driver" step at web setup, all are CUPS' Thanks Matthew f

Re: multimedia CD?

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
What I do in a case like yours is simply copy the files to /var/cache/apt/archives so they don't need to be downloaded again. Thanks. That sounds like a good idea. I'll give that a try. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread cothrige
* Alan Ianson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or > somesuch) that may need an adjustment. > I found x-www-browser, www-browser and gnome-www-browser. I set them all just in case. I find the same result for gnome-www-browse

Cupsys, using gutenprint driver instead of CUPS'

2006-11-13 Thread T
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:50:14 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> For cupsys in Etch, is it possible to use gimpprint driver instead of >> gutenprint? > > The current cupsys-driver-gimpprint package in Etch is just an empty > transitional package to ensure an automatic upgrade to the gutenprint > sys

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:19:12PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun November 12 2006 19:16, Stephen Yorke wrote: > > > All I run is Etch at home right now...guess I should'a mentioned > > > that...sorry. > > > > from what I have read it

Re: Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 17:05, cothrige wrote: > I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs, > and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my > accounts it always opens epiphany. Of course, the first thing I did > was try to change whatever kopete thought

Problem opening StarOffice files in OpenOffice 2

2006-11-13 Thread Bruce M. Ward
Has anybody else found that the Debian supplied OOo 2.0.4 (2.0.4-5) in Etch will not open StarOffice 5 .sdw files? I first get a 'Filter Selection' window (as though it hasn't recognised the file type), I can go select (after hunting for) 'StarWriter 5.0', and then get "General Error. General i

Re: "processor" acpi module permanently throttles processor

2006-11-13 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 14:25 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:29 +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > > > An old laptop I have supports ACPI, but when I use ACPI, the processor > > > > becomes very slow. Without ACPI enabled, it runs fine. > > > > Some thing could be done. Try out wi

Re: cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Monday 13 November 2006 17:53, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > > On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote: > > > I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do > > > a --force-all to get them to install. I've trie

Re: ACM TechNews; Monday, November 13, 2006

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:30:19PM -0500, technews wrote: > Read the TechNews Online at: http://technews.acm.org > > > "A Sneak Peak at a Fractured Web" > Wired News (11/13/06); Anderson, Mark > > The OpenNet Initiative is putting together an unprecedented report on > government censorship of

debian 3.1r3 netinstall cd couldn't be mounted

2006-11-13 Thread deva seetharam
hello all,i have a system with a gigabyte mobo (ga-965sp-s3) with intel Pentium-D 925 processor. i am trying to install debian stable (3.1 r3) using the netinstall cd. although the cd is read and i get the "press F1 for help or ENTER for boot:" message, the CDROM mounting step fails with the messag

Re: Redirect http request ONCE without authentication

2006-11-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:58:47PM -0500, Craig Russell wrote: > I've found quite a few relatively complex solutions but I'm looking for > something a little simpler. I need a method of redirecting HTTP traffic > from a specific subnet to a splash page but, only ONCE. Once the user > is redire

Re: cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote: > > I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a > > --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways to > > remove the package but all fai

Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

2006-11-13 Thread piter
I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" a few days ago. After that, i can't access the terminals from tty1 to tty6 (i mean that nothing happens when i press ctrl+alt+Fx). With KDE i don't have the same problem, everything works fine, and I can login if

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:23:11PM -0800, anonymous wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:23:11PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > > > > > I don't know, but this has been discussed quite a lotta times in various > > > fora. > > > Users often get stunned by the number o

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:19:12PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sun November 12 2006 19:16, Stephen Yorke wrote: > > All I run is Etch at home right now...guess I should'a mentioned > > that...sorry. > > from what I have read it looks like the problem only exists with 2.6 kernel's > for some re

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:58:58PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:05:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > > I'm not a professional programmer, so my standards of reasonableness > > > are not temp

Cannot change default browser

2006-11-13 Thread cothrige
I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs, and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my accounts it always opens epiphany. Of course, the first thing I did was try to change whatever kopete thought was the right browser, but I could find nothing at all

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > "Settings"? Reportbug does its own SMTP. Rob Bochan writes: > It can also store and use SMTP settings (i.e. ISP's SMTP server) if no > MTA is installed Those "settings" are the information needed by reportbug's internal MTA to connect to the ISP's server via SMTP. I wrote: > What's

Re: Etch kernel

2006-11-13 Thread Colin
Amit Joshi wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 19:29, Colin wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hope that's true and that they stay with a 2.6.17 kernel... Why not a 2.6.18 kernel? Again, Sarge was released when there were 2.6 kernel versions lying around. But the Debian developers decided to inclu

GTK+ performance problems in etch

2006-11-13 Thread Vasiliy Faronov
I have slight performance problems in GTK+ applications (whether run in GNOME or not) in Debian etch. The widgets are drawn with a slight delay, so for example when I switch between tabs in a preferences window, the old tab is still shown for a moment before it is replaced by the new one. Or whe

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 19:16, Stephen Yorke wrote: > All I run is Etch at home right now...guess I should'a mentioned > that...sorry. from what I have read it looks like the problem only exists with 2.6 kernel's for some reason. Are you running a 2.4 kernel there by chance? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 14:50, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > On 11/12/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I > > can log into the site but web pages don't seem to load up in the browser. > > This is only th

evince vertical offset

2006-11-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
In i386 Debian Etch, Version 0.4.0 of Evince prints images with a upward vertical offset of 8 mm (about 5/16-inch). Adobe Acroread 5.0.10 prints the images correctly. There appear to be no setup menus for Evince which might be used to correct this problem. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 11/12/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List, I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I can log into the site but web pages don't seem to load up in the browser. This is only the case when running testing or unstable, I can navigate the site just fi

Re: Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 13 November 2006 13:40, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:54:34 +0100 > > David Moerike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is to do when I want to run Debian 4.0 on the new Apple Macintosh > > machines with Intel processors, especially the Xserve Server machine? > > Does Debia

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ "anonymous" seems to be a silly name to be using, but hey... ] "anonymous" wrote: > >I still have not received a definitive reply to my question as yet. >Which, to repeat was: > >" I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15 regular and 3 >for the update. I would like to know whether a

Re: Failing to use Linux PC as router

2006-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hans Vogelsberger wrote: Some weeks ago I bought an AMD64 X2 which now I must connect to the internet, using my old Pentium 4 as router to the dynamic address I receive from my cable provider whenever I boot. Having used Testing since it came up in Potato times, I never needed and never acquired

Re: Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

2006-11-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:54:34 +0100 David Moerike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is to do when I want to run Debian 4.0 on the new Apple Macintosh > machines with Intel processors, especially the Xserve Server machine? > Does Debian for PowerPC work, or Debian for i386, or none? > AFAIK the

Re: Printing Problems with Gnome

2006-11-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061113 15:13]: > I am running Debian Etch and using the gnome desktop. I also have cups > installed as well as some KDE apps. > > When I go to the CUPS printer administration page I can print test pages to > all my networked printers. I can also print to the

RE: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Stephen Yorke
All I run is Etch at home right now...guess I should'a mentioned that...sorry. -Original Message- From: Alan Ianson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:10 PM To: Stephen Yorke Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotia

RE: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Stephen Yorke
I use ScotiaOnline on all my PCs/OSs... Have had it work with FireFox, IE 6 and the recent IE 7 (Beta 1, 2, RC1 & Release)...it just works. I have just tried it with one of my Debian boxes and it works fine...logged in and checked my account using FireFox 1.5.0.7. Not a problem. I hope this mak

Re: Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 13:54, David Moerike wrote: > What is to do when I want to run Debian 4.0 on the new Apple Macintosh > machines with Intel processors, especially the Xserve Server machine? > Does Debian for PowerPC work, or Debian for i386, or none? That's an interesting question, I bet i3

Debian on new Macs with Intel CPU?

2006-11-13 Thread David Moerike
What is to do when I want to run Debian 4.0 on the new Apple Macintosh machines with Intel processors, especially the Xserve Server machine? Does Debian for PowerPC work, or Debian for i386, or none? If none, will Debian be ported to that architecture? Will it be possible to make a dual boot i

Two network cards - firewall starts twice or more

2006-11-13 Thread Jarek Buczyński
Hi All I have two network cards eth0 (public IP Internet) eth1 (private LAN). I have firewall script in "/etc/network/if-pre-up.d". Unfortunately when my system boots script runs three times. How change this (I'd like script starts once)? -- Best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread Rob Bochan
On Monday 13 November 2006 15:26, John Hasler wrote: > > You probably want nullmailer. I wasn't aware of that package, I'll look into it. > "Settings"? Reportbug does its own SMTP. It can also store and use SMTP settings (i.e. ISP's SMTP server) if no MTA is installed > What's with this horr

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Kent West
anonymous wrote: I still have not received a definitive reply to my question as yet. Which, to repeat was: " I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15 regular and 3 for the update. I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are these also include CDs with sources

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 12:23, anonymous wrote: > I still have not received a definitive reply to my question as yet. > Which, to repeat was: > > " I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15 regular and 3 > for the update. > I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:23:11PM -0800, anonymous wrote: > > Many thanks for your elaborated reply. I prefer to download the iso > image at least for the > first time install of the distribution as it would give me a better > *feel* about the distribution > and the packages included with it. Lat

Re: Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-13 Thread Bernard Adrian
Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : [...] > The more customized your kernel to your system, the better. But often > improvements don't compensate the amount of work it requires to end up > with a kernel fully optimized to your system. > > I usually use Debian kernel's config

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem (More Info)

2006-11-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > _ > X Window System Version 7.1.1 > Release Date: 12 May 2006 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 > Build Operating System: UNKNOWN > Current Operating System: Linux buddy 2.6.15y #7 Wed Sep 27

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread anonymous
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:23:11PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > > > I don't know, but this has been discussed quite a lotta times in various > > fora. > > Users often get stunned by the number of CDs and get confused what to > > download and what not to. > > Perhaps ht

2.6.17-2 kernel and lirc not working

2006-11-13 Thread Anton Piatek
I have upgraded from an older 2.6 kernel (needed for LVM) and now cannot get lirc working. I got the module compiled but when I try and load it with modprobe lirc_serial I get: WARNING: Error inserting lirc_dev (/lib/modules/2.6.17-2-k7/misc/lirc_dev.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknow

error message : pic error on cpu0 : 40(40)

2006-11-13 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, Sometimes i see this error. My system is a amd64 processor with 1GB memory. What does this mean ? Regards, Roelof _ Windows Live Mail: Kies je eigen kleur, indeling en contacten! http://imagine-windowslive.com/mail/launch

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread John Hasler
Rob Bochan writes: > I'm interested in the cron-apt package. Is anyone aware if there's any > way for it to send a message to an external mail (i.e. to a gmail > account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the machine? You probably want nullmailer. > Perhaps some settings like the reportbu

Re: ASCII file to ISO-8859-* to UTF-8

2006-11-13 Thread s. keeling
ochnap2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 10:52, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > Hi. I have a lots ascii file with ecoding iso-8859-* and I must > > convert those in UTF-8. How? > > convmv (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude show convmv ... Description: filename encoding conversion

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 06:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The other (an AMD64) crashes shortly after X starts. Often within a > minute. If I avoid mouse movement and just use text consoles within X I > can get it to survive a few minutes; once even for an hour. If I > ctl-alt-F1 immediately aft

Re: multimedia CD?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 09:07, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I've installed Debian Etch on an old laptop using CDs -- it does > not have high speed internet access. I then, on a separate computer, > downloaded Christian Marillat's multimedia files, maintaining the > directory structure, and the

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:05:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > I'm not a professional programmer, so my standards of reasonableness > > are not tempered by 'real world' experience. I use C++ to write > > simulation code f

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 05:04, anonymous wrote: > I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time. > However, when I browsed the website below: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/ > > for a download, I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15

apt-get network problems

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Allison
I'm having a lot of trouble with the apt-get update process. I keep getting errors trying to update the packages. Most of this seems to hang on ftp.us.debian.org. Which I am begining to suspect is an alias for mirrors as I'm finding network IP traffic to different debian mirrors other than t

Re: Skype via VNC

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Sunday 12 November 2006 11:39, Peter Easthope wrote: > Joshua & others, > > I'm back at home and can reply to the list with help > of a thunderbird. > > jk> What error messages do you get if you open a shell and start Skype > jk> that way (or look in .xsession-errors in your home dir). > > Xsess

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm not a professional programmer, so my standards of reasonableness > are not tempered by 'real world' experience. I use C++ to write > simulation code for my research in biodiversity. It seems to me, from > reading the doc.s, tha

firefox / Xorg memory usage / swap

2006-11-13 Thread David A.
Hi, sometimes when I have many tabs open in firefox (10-15 or so) the system begins to swap and become virtually unresponsive. If I'm quick I can kill firefox. Below is a snapshot from top while swapping. As you can see Xorg is the heavy Mem-consumer. My questions; 1) why does Xorg consume much

Redirect http request ONCE without authentication

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Russell
I've found quite a few relatively complex solutions but I'm looking for something a little simpler. I need a method of redirecting HTTP traffic from a specific subnet to a splash page but, only ONCE. Once the user is redirected, at least initially, they will be given a splash page with an OK

Firefox -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

2006-11-13 Thread Gnu_Raiz
Dear: Fellow Debian users;I have ran across several problems with Firefox, and Iceweasel, or any browser based on Mozilla code. I have run an strace on Firefox and am having problems getting good performance out of my system. This happens to be an old laptop, with a AMD Duron 800. It seems to work

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/13/2006 07:20 AM, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Hi everyone > > I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. > I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010. > > Here some information that may be useful: > > When I connect my camera to the computer using USB the > system say

Re: cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Brown
On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote: > I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a > --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways to > remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to remove > the package? Hmmm...

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-13 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 13 November 2006 04:00, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > I changed the port, now when I enter > apt-proxy --config-file=/etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy-v2.conf > I get this output and it stops there: That looks right...does it still not respond on the configured port? j > > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-pac

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Tim
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Any other ideas as to what I should choose in the Security tab? > Sorry, I was looking at one of my incoming accounts for my previous response. Here I am using: Encryption: SSL Authentication Method: PLAIN -- Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Tim
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Any other ideas as to what I should choose in the Security tab? > Use SSL and Authentication Method: Clear Text works for me. -- Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Romanian

2006-11-13 Thread user local
2006/11/13, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In the gnome-terminal menu, choose "Terminal: Set Character Encoding:Current Locale (UTF-8)". Doesn't work. However, thank you

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 13 November 2006 12:46, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hi, > > I have gmail running on kmailhave been using it for quite sometime. > Just checked my config and I have encryption set to SSL and Authentication > method as Plain. The rest of your config seems alright. > > Hope it works out for yo

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Samuel Bächler
Thanks for your inputs, :). One can copy all the pictures on a camera using 'gphoto2' with 'gphoto2 -P' over PTP. But as far as I know gphoto can not copy any movies. I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010. Here some infor

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, I have gmail running on kmailhave been using it for quite sometime. Just checked my config and I have encryption set to SSL and Authentication method as Plain. The rest of your config seems alright. Hope it works out for you :) Bye for now On Monday 13 November 2006 22:57, Kamaraju

Compiz - Screen blanks out after switching terminal console

2006-11-13 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, I'm using Compiz v0.2.2 and everything works fine - the window decorations et al. However when i move to a different terminal console - say vt0...when i return back to my X on vt7, sometimes i lose all window decorations and at other times I get a blank screen. The keyboard locks out and I

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:22:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 08:31:42PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:55:52AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Thanks for stack profiling info. I

cannot remove mysql-server-5.0

2006-11-13 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways to remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to remove the package? Thanks, Tom $ sudo apt-get remove mysql-server-5.0 Readin

configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi Did any succeed in configuring gmail SMTP server with kmail? I am using Etch/testing kmail 1.9.5 I did Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Accounts -> Sending and used the following settings. Host : smtp.gmail.com Port : 465 However I am confused about the "security" tab where it asks encryption

multimedia CD?

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I've installed Debian Etch on an old laptop using CDs -- it does not have high speed internet access. I then, on a separate computer, downloaded Christian Marillat's multimedia files, maintaining the directory structure, and then burned these to CD. I attempted to add this to my sour

cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread Rob Bochan
I'm interested in the cron-apt package. Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the machine? Perhaps some settings like the reportbug package does? I'm interesting in using it to keep machi

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:23:11PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > I don't know, but this has been discussed quite a lotta times in various > fora. > Users often get stunned by the number of CDs and get confused what to > download and what not to. Perhaps http://www.debian.org/distrib/ should ex

Help: NO longer boots ;

2006-11-13 Thread helices
I have a dual Opteron box (Odin) that went down while I was gone, due to an extended power failure. When it comes up, it fails to complete boot. Please, help me get this system running again. uname -a Linux (none) 2.6.17-2-amd64 #1 SMP ... Bootup sequence from obvious problems: ... Success: lo

Printing Problems with Gnome

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I am running Debian Etch and using the gnome desktop. I also have cups installed as well as some KDE apps. When I go to the CUPS printer administration page I can print test pages to all my networked printers. I can also print to the printers from Firefox and Kontact. However, I cannot p

Re: cs4232 soundcard

2006-11-13 Thread David Baron
On Monday 13 November 2006 17:31, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 10:16 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 12.11.06 16:00, David Baron wrote: > > > I believe that there is NO ALSA support for this card. There is a > > > recent OSS driver but we use ALSA. > > > > I've got cs4236

Re: Cupsys, using gimpprint driver instead of gutenprint

2006-11-13 Thread Matthew Krauss
T wrote: Hi, The new cupsys in Etch does not work for me, while the old cupsys in Sarge works perfectly. After switching to Etch, I've had 3 attempts trying to make it works, but failed 3 times. (My latest attempt and problem logged at: http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?s3095+gcups.bugs+v3104+

Re: apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing

2006-11-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:26 -0500, T wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:33:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > "$ reportbug apt-show-versions" is your friend. :) > > My ISP will TLS email authentication is my barrier to get it through. :-) I guess you've never configured a local MTA to work with you

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Roby
Samuel Bächler wrote: > I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. > I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010. > > Here some information that may be useful: > > When I connect my camera to the computer using USB the > system says: > > Nov 13 12:30:39 localhost kernel

Re: cs4232 soundcard

2006-11-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 10:16 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 12.11.06 16:00, David Baron wrote: > > I believe that there is NO ALSA support for this card. There is a recent > > OSS driver but we use ALSA. > > I've got cs4236 in my home computer, and it is supported by OSS cs4232 > driver,

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:16:41PM +0100, Samuel Bächler wrote: From: Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Mount digital camera X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: N

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Amit Joshi
On Monday 13 November 2006 18:34, anonymous wrote: > I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time. > However, when I browsed the website below: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/ > > for a download, I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs:

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread anonymous
Samuel Bächler wrote: > > A. > > > First of all you should not call yourself anonymous, tell us your real name. > > > I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are > > these also include CDs with > > sources and documentation. If so, which ones of them? > > As far as I know t

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread George Borisov
Alan Ianson wrote: > > I find etch (and even sid) very usable at the moment. OOo 2.0.4 seems to be > working well reading/saving to/from different formats. I've been using Sid on my desktops for years and have had relatively few problems. Admittedly it does break sometimes, but not that often (1

Re: ASCII file to ISO-8859-* to UTF-8

2006-11-13 Thread ochnap2
On Sunday 12 November 2006 10:52, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > Hi. I have a lots ascii file with ecoding iso-8859-* and I must > convert those in UTF-8. How? > convmv > -- > Openclose.it - Idee per il software libero > http://www.openclose.it __ Correo

Re: ASCII file to ISO-8859-* to UTF-8

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:06:44AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 12.11.06 14:52, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > Hi. I have a lots ascii file with ecoding iso-8859-* and I must > > convert those in UTF-8. How? > > iconv -f -t > outputfile. > > There is also 'recode' package, however I

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:15:43PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sun November 12 2006 21:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 04:53:52PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > > > I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I > > > can log

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Kent West
anonymous wrote: > I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time. > However, when I browsed the website below: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/ > > for a download, I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15 > regular and 3 for the update.

Re: How to enable/use Hyperthreading?

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Colin wrote: I don't think Pentium D processors are suppose to have two cores. Some of them have hyperthreading which can make then behave like they have two cores. The Pentium D (dual) has two physical cores smudged together on one die, for a total of two cores. The P

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:04:06AM -0800, anonymous wrote: > I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time. > However, when I browsed the website below: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/ > > for a dow

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