Re: Updating to 2.6.20 cause unable to start xorg

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:42:29AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Perhaps try "modprobe i810"? IMHO i810.ko is something about drm, and for 865G chipset, it's recommended to use i915 instead of i810/i830. And I have tried i915 already, but nothing happened. Thank you! Wang Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: texlive, beamer and etch

hi, there was a discussion about it a few days ago on this list. it seems that i missed it and cannot find anything relevant now :( by the way - this is fresh etch install (into chroot). just after installation, i get the following: $ aptitude install texlive Reading package lists... Done B

Re: Updating to 2.6.20 cause unable to start xorg

On 4/20/07, Wang Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an intel 865G integrated VGA adapter, and it works fine with kernel 2.6.18 and before. However, when I update it to 2.6.20, the X server cannot be started, and give the following message (EE) I810(0): cannot continue (II) I810(0): VESA

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

Thanks for the replies, everyone. We seem to have two basic ideas: 1. A Debian package, updatable with apt. 2. A GUI app that would manage all the different things and ways to be updated. The reason for the whole idea, IMO, is to make the process of refreshing your wallpaper automatic. Over t

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:36 +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > I'm thinking that the problem may not be the kernel after all. I > rebooted using the 2.6.8 kernel and it still didn't work, so now I'm > thinking it may be something in Etch rather than the kernel ?? > > Should the 2.6.8 Sarge kernel wo

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

I'm thinking that the problem may not be the kernel after all. I rebooted using the 2.6.8 kernel and it still didn't work, so now I'm thinking it may be something in Etch rather than the kernel ?? Should the 2.6.8 Sarge kernel work with an Etch installation ??? It is an upgrade from Sarge to

Re: my experiences trying to install Etch

On 4/20/07, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into several issues. I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a running Debian system for that. Can anybody suggests how I should proceed? (5) is a fairl

Re: my experiences trying to install Etch

On Friday 20 April 2007 13:00, D. Hugh Redelmeier sent this for all our perusal: >---} I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into > several ---} issues. >---} >---} I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a >---} running Debian system for that. >---} >

Updating to 2.6.20 cause unable to start xorg

I have an intel 865G integrated VGA adapter, and it works fine with kernel 2.6.18 and before. However, when I update it to 2.6.20, the X server cannot be started, and give the following message (EE) I810(0): cannot continue (II) I810(0): VESA BIOS not detected (EE) I810(0): VBE initializatio

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, all > > I've set my SSH to accept only public key authorization, and forwarded > port 22 from the Big Bad Internet to my Debian box. Predictably, I'm > being hit by a lot of dictionary attempts to log in. A while back, > someone posted a link in this

my experiences trying to install Etch

I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into several issues. I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a running Debian system for that. Can anybody suggests how I should proceed? (5) is a fairly serious block. Context: Me: long-time Linux user. This

Re: Backup: optical disk, and RAID

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:10:59AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > I need to backup a partition on my hard drive. Currently, I am trying to get > > CDRW-Taper to work. Is that the best, or does anyone recommend anything > > else? > > There is no 'best' for all ca

Re: Sound and No Sound

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 17:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > If the logout and login happens quickly, perhaps esound for the other > > person is not ending soon enough. > > > > You might look and see if things are hanging around for the other user. > > > > Oh, this might be i

Re: aptitude deleted most of packages!!

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:43:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:09:21AM -0400, Ninenineone Efx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > I think I made a big mistake. > > > > I executed the following command to install a font package. > > > > aptitude install ttf

Re: aptitude deleted most of packages!!

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:09:21AM -0400, Ninenineone Efx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I think I made a big mistake. > > I executed the following command to install a font package. > > aptitude install ttf-unfonts > > After it installed the font package, it began to remove packages

Re: two network cards on a server

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:12:24PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Alex Samad wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:15:25PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >>On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:06:47PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >>> > >>>/sbin/route -n > >>> > >>>Kernel IP rou

Re: interesting ubuntu bug report

Andrew J. Barr wrote: > What a cheap stunt that is. Mark Shuttleworth, I hate to say it, has > always struck me as being less than genuine. I'm sure many people will > disagree with me but that's been my impression. You might want to see about having that sense of humor serviced. -- John Hasler

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

Dave Thayer wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:00:32PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I should clarify what I mean by "cheap": less than $20 or $30 is my goal. So, I'll do some trolling around eBay. Geeks.com have some cheapie players, here's one for $26 which says it works with linux:

Re: top replacement

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:39:39PM EDT, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:38:16PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > I'm sure this was mentioned on this list within the last month .. > > > > Someone recommended using a newer .. possibly better program that does > > pretty much what

Refresh rate & video play back 60Hz & 50Hz

I have video in both PAL 50Hz and NTSC 60Hz formats, is it possible to get mplayer (or anything else) to automatically switch display refresh rates depending on source? This was never an issue with my CRT, I just ran it at 120Hz, problem solved, but I think my sharp LCD TV should support 60Hz

Dual Head RADEON MergedFB, overlay causes shimmer on screen0

When I playback video with mplayer (vo=xv), visit a site with animated flash advertising or watch a clip on youtube, my primary screen, (right hand side analogue over DVI, CRT [EMAIL PROTECTED]) shimmers, my secondary screen, (left hand side, analogue over VGA D-sud 15, LCD [EMAIL PROTECTED]) s

Etch install hangs at tasksel configuration

Hi, I'm trying to install Etch and everything goes fine until it tries to install tasksel. It then gets to "configuring tasksel" and never finishes. Does anyone have any ideas how I might fix this? Thanks, Jason Terk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:58:35AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >>mdadm is not installed. > >>My adaptec raid card provides hardware raid, so I don't think I need > >>mdadm. I certainly did not need it when I was running Sarge/2.6.8, so > >>I presume that shouldn't n

Re: interesting ubuntu bug report

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:02:22PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > replying to myself just 'cuz I like this one > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 > > > > bug #1 > > It just shows me where their priorities are. Thank you kindly, but I > prefer a dist

Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?

Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007-04-18 12:00:50 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:08 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: >> > I found version of emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch. Is there any >> > technical obstacle for emacs's upgrading? >> >> AFAIK, that's the most

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: mdadm is not installed. My adaptec raid card provides hardware raid, so I don't think I need mdadm. I certainly did not need it when I was running Sarge/2.6.8, so I presume that shouldn't need it for Etch/2.6.18. My mistake. Were you using an in-tree driver f

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it now fails to boot. Have you checked that "AUTOSTART=true" is set in /etc/default/mdadm? Did you read and follow the instructio

linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 and sky2 module

I have been working on a Toshiba Tecra A4-S211 and have run across a problem in relation to the linux-image package in the title of this post and the Marvell 88E8036 NIC. The sky2 module is loaded according to lsmod, the system thinks the ethernet port is active as the lights actually blink on

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:34:12AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > > > >>I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it > >>now fails to boot. > >> > >> > >Have you checked that

Re: interesting ubuntu bug report

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/%7Eneato-2001 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 > Nice sense of "geek" humor! Thanks for posting the links! hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ --

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it > now fails to boot. > Have you checked that "AUTOSTART=true" is set in /etc/default/mdadm? Did you read and follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mdadm/READM

Re: interesting ubuntu bug report

On 20/04/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:39:15PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:30:01PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > courtesy of Digg: > > Bug #107648, first reported 14 hours ago by neato2001 > >

Re: interesting ubuntu bug report

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > replying to myself just 'cuz I like this one > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 > > bug #1 It just shows me where their priorities are. Thank you kindly, but I prefer a distribution that is both free and wide

Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it now fails to boot. It is getting stuck because it fails an fsck.ext3 on /dev/sda1. /dev/sda1 is an ADAPTEC RAID card with a number of hard disks. The module dpt_i2o is loaded. None of the i2o_* modules are loaded. I can

Re: interesting ubuntu bug report

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:39:15PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:30:01PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > courtesy of Digg: > > Bug #107648, first reported 14 hours ago by neato2001 > > > > The Ubuntu community is insane

Re: grub question read-only

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:30:35PM -0700, michael wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:42:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my > > > system / mounted re

Re: top replacement

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:38:16PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > I'm sure this was mentioned on this list within the last month .. > > Someone recommended using a newer .. possibly better program that does > pretty much what the old "top" process monitoring tool does. > > Would anyone remember this an

Re: interesting ubuntu bug report

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:30:01PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > courtesy of Digg: > Bug #107648, first reported 14 hours ago by neato2001 > > The Ubuntu community is insane > > another good reason to stick with Debian :-) That's right! with Debian you

top replacement

I'm sure this was mentioned on this list within the last month .. Someone recommended using a newer .. possibly better program that does pretty much what the old "top" process monitoring tool does. Would anyone remember this and what the program's name is? Been looking for it all over and can't

Re: grub question read-only

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:42:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote: > > [...] > > > > > What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my > > system / mounted read only? > > when / is remounted, the flags in /etc/fstab are used, so t

interesting ubuntu bug report

courtesy of Digg: Bug #107648, first reported 14 hours ago by neato2001 The Ubuntu community is insane another good reason to stick with Debian :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 23:18, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:30 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 22:13, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:48 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:07, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > >

Re: two network cards on a server

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:15:25PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:06:47PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 152.

Re: two network cards on a server

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:12:24PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > >have a look for ip (it part of the iproute package) > > > >Usage: ip addr {add|del} IFADDR dev STRING > > ip addr {show|flush} [ dev STRING ] [ scope SCOPE-ID ] > >

Re: two network cards on a server

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:15:25PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:06:47PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > /sbin/route -n > > > > Kernel IP routing table > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > > Iface > > 152.3.172.0 0.0

Re: two network cards on a server

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:18:10PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:31:33:8C inet addr:152.3.172.111 Bcast:152.3.173.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:31:3

Re: two network cards on a server

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:06:47PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > /sbin/route -n > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > 152.3.172.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 00 eth1 > 152.3.172.0 0.0.0.0

Re: Sound and No Sound

Greg Folkert wrote: If the logout and login happens quickly, perhaps esound for the other person is not ending soon enough. You might look and see if things are hanging around for the other user. Oh, this might be important too if you are using fast user switching in GNOME, which just opens a n

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

If you have 100's of machines all in production or atleast all having to be kept to the same package setup. why not setup yor own repo (and extend it to your down release) could correspond to your SOE, when it comes time to update, go through the testing phase, once your happy with all the new pac

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 04:36:21PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Clarification: I have a perfectly running system. heh. suure you do ;) A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: grub question read-only

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:17:28PM -0700, michael wrote: [...] > > What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my > system / mounted read only? when / is remounted, the flags in /etc/fstab are used, so to have / finish up mounted ro, you have to set it up so in the fstab. i think. A

Re: two network cards on a server

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:18:10PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:31:33:8C > inet addr:152.3.172.111 Bcast:152.3.173.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:31:33:64 > inet addr:152.3.172.60 Bc

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

Le jeudi 19 avril 2007 14:21, Randy Patterson a écrit : > On Thursday 19 April 2007 02:54, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [...] > lftp will do this from what I have seen so far. The problem with lftp > thought for me seems that it can't mirror a local directory to a remote > site and I need to be able

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 23:18, Greg Folkert wrote: On the off chance, can you do "ALT+F2" and run "konsole --ls" which starts it with a login shell rather than a regular shell? This may help separate from udev and other stuff. Sorry not to have repl

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

Jim Hyslop wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> There's [...] no need for Symantec anti-virus >> products. > > I'm curious why you say that. I'm fairly new to Linux, but I understand > it is more robust and secure than MS Windows. Still, it's not totally > secure - nothing made by humans could be. So, d

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:08 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 10:44, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am a bit of a loss to whats wrong. I have /dev/pts directory, but its > > seems unable to create anything in it. > > Is it mounted correctly? > > # grep devpts /etc/fstab > none

Re: grub question read-only

michael wrote: > Hi, > I have this in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. (pasted below) > I'm wondering whey there is an option "ro" on the main > kernel line, even though the system boots normal rw? The initramfs is mounted read-only I believe, and for the initial mount, your root filesystem is also re

grub question read-only

Hi, I have this in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. (pasted below) I'm wondering whey there is an option "ro" on the main kernel line, even though the system boots normal rw? What would I do if I actually wanted to boot and have my system / mounted read only? Thanks! ## ## End Default Options ## t

Re: windows download

Joe Hart wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [snip] >> Thinking more about it, I actually like the idea of a site like this, >> sponsored by micro$oft: >> They would develop a deb-package with software in it to pack a >> microsoft-installer to ext3, reiserfs, xfs etc. The installer would have >> th

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

On Thursday 19 April 2007 10:44, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am a bit of a loss to whats wrong. I have /dev/pts directory, but its > seems unable to create anything in it. Is it mounted correctly? # grep devpts /etc/fstab none/dev/ptsdevpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 m

Re: Unix-ify File Names

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Frank Terbeck wrote: > Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Some commands do provide fully general mechanisms. (For example, > > find's -print0 and xargs' -0 option can handle any possible file > > pathname, including one with newline characters.) Howe

Re: texlive, beamer and etch

Lubos Vrbka: > > has anyone succeeded in installing texlive and latex-beamer at the same > time on an etch box? I am running unstable and I had no problems having both of the packages installed at the same time in the last couple of months. Only recently aptitude has warned me it would have to r

Re: windows download

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> Joe Hart wrote: Personally, I don't know why they both need to exist, but that's beside the point. What is the point is that one no longer needs to do

RE: How to switch from php4 to php5 when upgrading to etch?

Andrew, thank you so much. I never heard about the Debian 'alternatives' system, but this is obviously what's meant to control this behavior. >From the man page, this is the output for php: cn2:/etc/php5/apache2# update-alternatives --display php php - status is auto. link currently points to /us

Re: windows download

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > But I'd have no problem with a site like that and I don't have a problem > if someone says goodbye to debian. Err, I meant to write: I don't have a problem if someone says goodbye to debian, except if it is one of our excellent developers, bug fixers, release managers,

Re: windows download

Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >>> Personally, I don't know why they both need to exist, but that's >>> beside the point. What is the point is that one no longer needs to >>> download and burn a CD if they want to convert from Windows to >>> Debian. >> The m

Re: How to switch from php4 to php5 when upgrading to etch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Zembower, Kevin escribió: > I just upgraded my server from sarge to etch. Everything seemed to go > well. php5 was installed. However, php4 still seems to be used by > default: > cn2:/etc/alternatives# ls -la `which php` > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 S

Re: How to switch from php4 to php5 when upgrading to etch?

I'm not qualified to answer this in terms of php4 -> 5 transition of compatibility, but, on the assumption that you can just transition then: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:52:52PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: > I just upgraded my server from sarge to etch. Everything seemed to go > well. php5 was in

Re: Unix-ify File Names

Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck wrote: >> Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Frank Terbeck wrote: Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do >>> ... b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (an

Re: Debian etch on SONY VAIO VGN-FE880E/H

On 4/18/07, stevo123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you ever find out if this is possible? I'm in the exact same boat. L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > I have searched google, tuxmobile, linux-laptop etc. I could n't find any > much useful info regarding installing etch as dual boot in SONY VAIO > VGN-F

Re: windows download

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > Personally, I don't know why they both need to exist, but that's > > beside the point. What is the point is that one no longer needs to > > download and burn a CD if they want to convert from Windows to > > Debian. > > The more there exist, the bet

How to switch from php4 to php5 when upgrading to etch?

I just upgraded my server from sarge to etch. Everything seemed to go well. php5 was installed. However, php4 still seems to be used by default: cn2:/etc/alternatives# ls -la `which php` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 11 2006 /usr/bin/php -> /etc/alternatives/php cn2:/etc/alternatives# ls -l /etc/a

Re: Fullscreen on dual monitors

2007/4/19, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, On 4/19/07, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am using two 19" LCD screens on a Radeon 7000 card, using the radeon > driver (not fglrx, it does not support this card). I have it set up using > MergedFB which gives me one big de

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:40:17PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > Does anyone know of any good, inexpensive players with support for the > ogg audio format? I've burned all of my music to .ogg format and I'd > like to find a good music player that ISN'T Cowon America (Their > customer support is pa

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

I'm pretty happy with my Samsung YP-T7, which I got from overstock.com a while back. It has a voice recorder and an FM radio, both of which I use regularly, along with 512MB RAM which is plenty for my casual music use. The interface is OK, a little clunky but I can get used to it (and have). It

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:15:05AM -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > On Monday 16 April 2007 10:24, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are > > few but perhaps odd: > > > > - Cheap. > > - Used OK. > > - 512MB or larger OK. > >

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

On 4/19/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P Kapat wrote: > Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very > similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite > satisfied. No warranties 8-) Sure. Thanks for the file. The man pages will help to unde

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

Ken Irving wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:58:27PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> P Kapat wrote: >>> Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very >>> similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite >>> satisfied. >> No warranties 8-) >> >> The man pages w

Re: Etch with encrypted lvm, remapping of sata hd names, problem

"Thomas Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I tried to replace this: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 > root(hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-k7 root=/dev/mapper/tommy--d4-root ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:58:27PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > P Kapat wrote: > > Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very > > similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite > > satisfied. > > No warranties 8-) > > The man pages will help to understand

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 23:18, Greg Folkert wrote: > On the off chance, can you do "ALT+F2" and run "konsole --ls" which > starts it with a login shell rather than a regular shell? This may > help separate from udev and other stuff. Sorry not to have replied sooner, been away on business for two

Re: FAI kernel

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, ccostin wrote: FAI require for client hosts a modified kernel or work with a standard one ? -- FAI does use a modified kernel, but it only uses it during the install process. It's also possible to build your own, in the event that the supplied kernel doesn't support y

Re: texlive, beamer and etch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Lubos Vrbka escribió: > hi guys, > > has anyone succeeded in installing texlive and latex-beamer at the same > time on an etch box? i was doing one fresh etch install today and just > installing texlive brought several conflicting packages. unfortun

Re: Unix-ify File Names

Frank Terbeck wrote: Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frank Terbeck wrote: Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do ... b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters). ...> Using 'for i in `ls *`'-type lo

Re: texlive, beamer and etch

Hello, there was a discussion about it a few days ago on this list. Jerome Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, has anyone succeeded in installing texlive and latex-beamer at the same time on an etch box? i was doing one fresh etch install today and just installing texlive brought several conflictin

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

P Kapat wrote: > Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very > similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite > satisfied. No warranties 8-) The man pages will help to understand the options, you should verify and adopt them to your situation. I tried to translat

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

Georgi Alexandrov wrote: Too much is going on in testing, unstable and experimental but not in the stable branch. Mmm I'd say that having less package changes would be more reason to monitor the process instead of just throwing it out there. :P From the look of it there applications that wi

FAI kernel

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Re: windows download

Joe Hart wrote: > Well, comparing the two sites, the http://goodbye-microsoft.com is > simpler to follow, but http://www.goodbye-windows.com gives a lot more > detail in what the debian.exe will do. My question was targeted along the lines "do their different debian.exe's differ?" or "Will they in

Installing wacom-kernel-source on Etch: /var/lib/dpkg/info/wacom-kernel-source.postinst: line 49: [: too many arguments

On 19/04/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 11:52 +0100, Emmanuele Massimi wrote: > > I have read somewhere that the pen tablet should work out of the box, > after modprobing it. So I did a clean re-installation (since in my > previous one I did not install the Des

Debian Stable (Etch): Wacom Volito2 not recognised

Hi all, I have been recently struggling with my USB pen tablet Wacom Volito2 on my Debian Stable (Etch) fresh installation. I have read somewhere that it should be recognised out of the box, only after modprobing it (modprobe wacom). I have tried to do that, but the pen tablet did not seem to wor

texlive, beamer and etch

hi guys, has anyone succeeded in installing texlive and latex-beamer at the same time on an etch box? i was doing one fresh etch install today and just installing texlive brought several conflicting packages. unfortunately i couldn't get further info since the machine had to be ready asap - so

Re: A strange problem with iceweasel & gnome themes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Martin Weinberg escribió: > After the final update to etch as stable I noticed the following > behavior: > > whenever I try to save a file, print a file with iceweasel (anything > that tries to bring up the file dialog), the browser cras

Re: All that new tetex stuff

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 David Baron escribió: > Upgrade will eat a half gig. Maybe all this text-live language modules should > be installable to a different partition or burnable to an offline CD or DVD. > Why? How often will they be used? Nice to have them available but

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

Hi, On 4/19/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, I do the opposite! I have a simple bash script that calls rsync with all the options I require to do the actual sync. It mounts my external backup drive, tells me how much space is left, does a dry run of rsync so that I c

Re: Fullscreen on dual monitors

Hi, On 4/19/07, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, I am using two 19" LCD screens on a Radeon 7000 card, using the radeon driver (not fglrx, it does not support this card). I have it set up using MergedFB which gives me one big desktop that is 3D accelerated too. I have Windows

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

Daniel Palmer wrote: > Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: >> Ok, but what is the alternative? I find that without dist-upgrade, I >> end up with a constantly growing number of packages in the >> "The following packages have been kept back" >> category. > Jamming dist-upgrade into a cron job will cause pro

All that new tetex stuff

Upgrade will eat a half gig. Maybe all this text-live language modules should be installable to a different partition or burnable to an offline CD or DVD. Why? How often will they be used? Nice to have them available but too much disk space for some of us. Shoud I file a "wish-list"? -- To U

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

Daniel Palmer daniel-at-cardboardbox.org.uk |volatile-lists| wrote: Jamming dist-upgrade into a cron job will cause problems when a package doesn't upgrade cleanly.. for example mysql is getting upgraded, the server will stop and not come back up. Even worse if a kernel upgrade doesn't create t

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

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