Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:19:12AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that > > > an entire separate list is being considered, the off-topic diversion > > > is already beyo

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > I tried: > > video=rivafb:1280x960 > > video=vesafb:1280x960 > > > > but neither worked. > > You do realize that you may need to compile a custom kernel to enable > support for a given video card..? Not necessarily. It should work i

keeping ooffice in foreground

2007-05-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, is there any way how to force ooffice, oocalc, oowriter, ... not to go into background? when i issue soffice, it works exactly this way, but i would like to have it (if possible) for oo* as well. why do i need it? i have openoffice installed in chroot (this is amd64 system). oo* app

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:59:15PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:43:45PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Agreed. It may be a good idea to add to the mailing lists code of > > conduct a couple of extra lines: > > > > A lot of questions asked on debian-user

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:44:10PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be > enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we try to > self-regulate. Eg: "Yoh WhatsYourName, this topic, while interesting in > a general s

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:35:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > > My _first_ consideration (other than not going bankrupt) was longevity,

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried 'ifup -a' > to > see what would happen. Came back 'ifup command unknown'. its in /sbin so you either need the full path, or do it as root (it won't work as non-root anyway

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:52:12PM +0100, Pete wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007 19:56:47 H.S. wrote: > > Pete wrote: > > > DHCP. Laptop has its own IP address. No idea about name resolution. Not > > > certain how to check it > > > > What is the output of the following commands: > > > > $> ping 4.2.2.

Re: emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:52:37AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/21/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Strange. I know on my system when my hourly rsync backup runs, it can > >take a couple of seconds for things that are normally instantaneous. > >Beyond that, I am not sure. D

Re: Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 20:43:44 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, May 20, 2007 22:15:34 PM +0300, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that > > an entire separate list is being considered, the off-topic diversion > > is

Re: OT VPS Hosting

2007-05-20 Thread Mihira Fernando
Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have an off topic question, I hope that someone help me, I bought a > hosting plan with Dreamhost but is just simply anything but a > hosting company I have like a day of downtime each week, is horrible > that's why I'm looking now for a Vi

Re: emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/21/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Strange. I know on my system when my hourly rsync backup runs, it can take a couple of seconds for things that are normally instantaneous. Beyond that, I am not sure. Does this happen all the time or only at certain times? Is your mach

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-20 Thread cga2000
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:25:41PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote: [..] > A list of the available video drivers here (?): > http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/driverlist.php > > I tried: > video=rivafb:1280x960 > video=vesafb:1280x960 > > but neither worked. You do realize that you may need to compil

Re: emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:43:45AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/21/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Do you have a low memory or slow machine? Do you have one or more > >filesystems mounted over a slow network? > > 256 MB should suffice for console. No NFS either. Atleast je

Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users! (Fixed!)

2007-05-20 Thread Bruce M. Ward
Got it! After removing the problem user from all likely groups, there was no difference - still could not run X. Started getting desparate and deleting anything that looked like a configuration file or directory in the user's home directory. It all came right when I removed .gconf. Therefore,

Re: emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/21/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you have a low memory or slow machine? Do you have one or more filesystems mounted over a slow network? 256 MB should suffice for console. No NFS either. Atleast jed shouldn't take up similar time that sometimes emacs does? Even ema

Re: Ubuntu - change available screen resolutions

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:29:15PM -0700, RobG wrote: > Hi, I have installed Ubuntu using VMWare Fusion beta on Mac OS X. > During installation, I accidentally didn't include the correct screen > resolutions and so only have the default 1024x786 and sm

Re: emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:32:09AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > When I start emacs or jed at times, both of them pause for a long tiem > before starting up. This only happens sometimes. How can I dermine > what is the cause? > Do you have a low memory or slow machine? Do you have one or more filesyste

emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Deboo ^
When I start emacs or jed at times, both of them pause for a long tiem before starting up. This only happens sometimes. How can I dermine what is the cause? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Ubuntu - change available screen resolutions

2007-05-20 Thread RobG
Hi, I have installed Ubuntu using VMWare Fusion beta on Mac OS X. During installation, I accidentally didn't include the correct screen resolutions and so only have the default 1024x786 and smaller. I have a MacBook and also use an external monitor, so I need to include 1280x1024 (external monitor)

Kernel 2.6.18-4 and acpi

2007-05-20 Thread John Marks
I tried disabling the onboard sound and the problem came back. Powered off and enabled it on the next boot. It was still there. Powered off and removed the sound card. Powered it back up and problem gone. It appears there is some problem with the motherboard. Thanks, John Marks -- To UN

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-20 Thread Klein Moebius
* Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-20 17:42:56 -0400]: > No, but if it goes, it can take the whole thing with it. If it goes > slightly, its a PITA to track down. Why dither? Keep it cool. I've set a laptop in a refrigerator in order to get a critical backup off a failing drive

Re: network interfaces fail to start on boot

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:58:27PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > hi all, > > I just installed Etch on a system with 3 network interfaces: eth0, > eth1, lo. all network interfaces are configured as auto in > /etc/network/interfaces. > > for some reason,

Re: OT VPS Hosting

2007-05-20 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-05-20T19:59:16-0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2007-05-20T17:53:51-0500, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > > [...] I'm looking now for a Virtual Private Server Hosting company > > does anyone know a good company that really works? Any help will be > > appreciated. > > I have been with rosehosti

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:42:56PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:35:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > I

Re: xorg cannot read V_BIOS Intel D945GTP + 2 video cards / a way out

2007-05-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
*** 2) Downgrade to xorg 7.0 since this setup was working before I would not like to to this, but it's an option. My dual setup worked out of the box in a previous xorg version. I wonder how I could use an older xorg in Debian sid. Ok. A few hours and I got it. Let's reply myself

Re: procmail vs maildrop (Found: excellent procmail HOWTO)

2007-05-20 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On May 20, 3:10 pm, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are there advantages . . . ? Like everything else, it depends on your situation. If you are a single user just trying to set up yourself on your own personal machine, it should be easy. I think I used this tutorial: http://www.linuxf

Re: restarting proftpd

2007-05-20 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello. To restart apache2, I simply use the command "apache2 -k > > restart", which works nicely. Does anyone know of a similar command > > for proftpd? > Maybe /etc/init.d/proftpd restart > I haven't installed it ATM > > Thanks, > > Mark

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/20/2007 01:38 PM, Matthias Brennwald wrote: [...] Another option would be to have both "1440x1024" and "1280x1024" in the modes list and to use Control-Alt-Plus to switch between the modes. You can also use the ServerLayout

Re: OT VPS Hosting

2007-05-20 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-05-20T17:53:51-0500, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > [...] I'm looking now for a Virtual Private Server Hosting company > does anyone know a good company that really works? Any help will be > appreciated. I have been with rosehosting.com. /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: amarok / libgpod destroys iPod playlists

2007-05-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thursday 17 May 2007 06:56, Jörg Becker wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem using my iPod with amarok from etch. Whenever I use the > iPod with amarok I loose the contents of all my iPod playlist except the > first one. I can see the playlists within the iPod, but they are empty. > > It seems t

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 and acpi

2007-05-20 Thread John Marks
On Sunday 20 May 2007 11:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > John Marks wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Thank you everyone. I am continuing to examine the problem. This had occurred to me when I first went to etch. I had two sound cards at the time. For some reason I thought that was the problem. I

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-20 Thread Pete
On Sunday 20 May 2007 16:49:46 Jeff D wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote: > > Hi > > I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another > > thread so it probably got lost. > > > > Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany, > > Iceweasel and A

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 01:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > >

Re: OT VPS Hosting

2007-05-20 Thread Chris Martin
I've been using http://www.vpslink.com/ for the last month. Only complaint I had is that their Debian installs are set to pull down 'stable' or 'testing' (instead of 'sarge', 'etch', etc). So choosing Sarge will get you Etch, choosing Etch will get you Lenny. I signed up for their plan labeled E

Re: OT VPS Hosting

2007-05-20 Thread srg
budgetdedicated.com They have a very good service. If you, want then give you a test vps server for a week (the are a lot of images availables). I tested one and I bought the service. Regards On Monday 21 May 2007 00:53, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have an off topic ques

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-17 11:03:57 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> For "large" scrollbacks, e.g., more than 10,000 lines, >> xterm has its own problems. > Hmm... yes. I've tried with xterm using a 20,000-line scrollback, > and zsh: > for i in {1..3}; echo $i

OT VPS Hosting

2007-05-20 Thread Martin Kenneth Lopez
Hello Everyone, I have an off topic question, I hope that someone help me, I bought a hosting plan with Dreamhost but is just simply anything but a hosting company I have like a day of downtime each week, is horrible that's why I'm looking now for a Virtual Private Server Hosting company

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 17:25 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:01:18PM EDT, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Mind if I add snippets of you two posts to Owen to that Vesa Mode Page? > > Not in principle naturally. [snip] > Oh, if you do decide to add something to your web page, please let m

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1580

2007-05-20 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 May 2007, Klein Moebius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Evil scum. The gauntlet is down, then.  Any luck on TuxMobil? I will try there with my continued wireless problems. If I hand code the /etc/network/interfaces file, everyth

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Fothergill wrote: > There were some references to running qemu on AMD64 but mostly indirect ones. > > Has anyone tried this? Yes, works just fine. > At a dumb level, is qemu smart enough to "fake" the 32 bit environment on my > 64 bit box

Re: network interfaces fail to start on boot

2007-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:58:27PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > hi all, > > I just installed Etch on a system with 3 network interfaces: eth0, > eth1, lo. all network interfaces are configured as auto in > /etc/network/interfaces. > > for some reason, the interfaces all fail to start on boot. I ha

network interfaces fail to start on boot

2007-05-20 Thread David Fuchs
hi all, I just installed Etch on a system with 3 network interfaces: eth0, eth1, lo. all network interfaces are configured as auto in /etc/network/interfaces. for some reason, the interfaces all fail to start on boot. I have to manually run ifup -a for them to work. how can I fix this? another

Re: HOWTO:2.6.20-1-k7 + nvidia

2007-05-20 Thread ___Jul___
Because of the many questions how has this package been built and what it does exactly I have written a small page that clarifies this. Its location is : http://grizach.servebeer.com/nvpatch/ http://grizach.servebeer.com/nvpatch/ Julian -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/H

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-20 Thread Pete
On Sunday 20 May 2007 19:56:47 H.S. wrote: > Pete wrote: > > DHCP. Laptop has its own IP address. No idea about name resolution. Not > > certain how to check it > > What is the output of the following commands: > > $> ping 4.2.2.2 > > $> ping google.com > > $> ping > > > ->HS Curiouser and curiou

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > >> discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > >> "off-topic" messages. For

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:58:37PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and > > > be enumerated so that it could be referred to directly

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:35:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Is the PSU really more failure prone than any other component? > No, but if it

[OT] Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:34:55PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:34:50PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > This type of guideline means a whole heck of a lot more than large > > sweeping corrections. Plus, we do need someone to thwack the > > responder(s) from time

[OT] Re: installing tutos2

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:03:49PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > This abowe is in Hungarian. > > I can't remember how can I set the LANG environment variable for a > command to show up messages in English? > I have this on my system: $ cat /etc/default/locale # File generated by update-locale L

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > My _first_ consideration (other than not going bankrupt) was longevity, > > hense the huge case, PSU in bottom bay, and lots of fans. Good reliable

[OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > My _first_ consideration (other than not going bankrupt) was longevity, > > hense the huge case, PSU in bottom bay, and lots of fans. Good reliable

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:34:50PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > This type of guideline means a whole heck of a lot more than large > sweeping corrections. Plus, we do need someone to thwack the > responder(s) from time to time. Many could do this, specifically and > privately over private e-mail.

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they need to be *in

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:58:37PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be > > enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we try to > > self-regulate. Eg: "Yoh WhatsYourNa

Re: Can't find cable Internet Connection

2007-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:28:22PM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > Andrei Popescu said: > < please post the output of runing 'dhclient' as root. > > I got the following (replacing the IP numbers with x): [snip > I can now connect to the Internet successfully. What changes should I > make in my

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-20 Thread cga2000
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:01:18PM EDT, Greg Folkert wrote: [..} > Mind if I add snippets of you two posts to Owen to that Vesa Mode Page? Not in principle naturally. Just that I'd be a little concerned about the contents of my posts possibly misleading others .. A clear case of I don't under

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/20/2007 03:34 PM, Matthias Brennwald wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option would be to have both "1440x1024" and "1280x1024" in the modes list What would this look like? Two 'Modes' lines? Or one line with two entries? How are they separated (space, comma, whatever)? They

Re: installing tutos2

2007-05-20 Thread csanyipal
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:44:57PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:49:07PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > > > My /etc/postgresql/7.4/main/pg_hba.conf on my Debian Etch has the > > following lines enabled: > > > > -> > > local al

Re: Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:43:44PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > Dear all > > sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot > I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines > that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > My _first_ consideration (other than not going bankrupt) was longevity, > hense the huge case, PSU in bottom bay, and lots of fans. Good reliable > fans also seem to be quieter than cheap unreliable ones. why PSU in the bot

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:34:07PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Another option would be to have both "1440x1024" and "1280x1024" in the > >modes list > > What would this look like? Two 'Modes' lines? Or one line with two > entries? How are they separated (sp

installing grub-pc

2007-05-20 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello, list. I have attempted to install the new grub-pc on to my lappy, running Sid. However, what comes up during boot is the legacy grub. I assume that I need to do a grub-install hd0,1 (the boot partition is on hda1), but I want to make sure I'm right before I bork my system. There is curren

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:38:25PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > Dear all > > I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home and on > the road (with Debian Etch installed). At home, the laptop is connected > to an external screen, with the laptop closed (so, at home, I don't

Re: procmail vs maildrop (Found: excellent procmail HOWTO)

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:06:05PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 11:11 -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > I found a good HOWTO also. It said use getmail and maildrop instead of > > fetchmail and procmail. :) I spent a whole day trying to get procmail > > to work, then gave up

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option would be to have both "1440x1024" and "1280x1024" in the modes list What would this look like? Two 'Modes' lines? Or one line with two entries? How are they separated (space, comma, whatever)? and to use Control-Alt-Plus to switch between the modes.

[OT] Re: Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 20:43:44 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > Dear all > > sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During > boot I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines that > snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas? Hi a

Re: Mounting network shares under home?

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:28:25PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:46:51PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > > Is it possible to mount network shares so that they will show up under > > > each users /home? It seems alot of programs only will look at files > > >

Re: installing tutos2

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:49:07PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > My /etc/postgresql/7.4/main/pg_hba.conf on my Debian Etch has the > following lines enabled: > > -> > local all postgres ident sameuser > local all all ident sameuser > host

Re: matlab r2007a installation problems

2007-05-20 Thread Felipe Sateler
Hardestadt wrote: > > Hi! I have a problem when i try to install matlab r2007a on my debian > etch. > > When i execute the installation scipt, i get the following error: > > An error status was returned by the program 'xsetup', > the X Window System version of 'install'. The following >

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:07:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/19/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > I only make a computer every 10 years or so. I went a little > > bleeding-edge at the time, and got a huge CM-Stacker case with all the > > extra fans, 600W PSU, two drives for

Re: restarting proftpd

2007-05-20 Thread Felipe Sateler
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. To restart apache2, I simply use the command "apache2 -k > restart", which works nicely. Does anyone know of a similar command > for proftpd? Usually, to restart services, you should do: invoke-rc.d restart So in this case it should be "invoke-rc.d proftpd resta

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:30 +0200, Michael G. Hansen wrote: > KQemu used to be proprietary and was thus not in Debian. But as of > version 1.3.0-pre11 it is under the GPL and it is in lenny/sid. You can > also grab it from http://www.qemu.org There is a binary in the package > and a wrapper around

[OT] Re: restarting proftpd

2007-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 15:39:38 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. To restart apache2, I simply use the command "apache2 -k > restart", which works nicely. Does anyone know of a similar command > for proftpd? /etc/init.d/proftpd restart or invoke-rc.d proftpd restart should work. -- R

Re: procmail vs maildrop (Found: excellent procmail HOWTO)

2007-05-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 11:11 -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I found a good HOWTO also. It said use getmail and maildrop instead of > fetchmail and procmail. :) I spent a whole day trying to get procmail > to work, then gave up and set up maildrop in half an hour. I switched to getmail from fetc

Re: [OT] Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 18:48:02 +, David Dawson wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 17:08:03 +, David Dawson wrote: > >> Florian Kulzer wrote: > > That looks normal to me. You probably already tried running kcontrol > > from a terminal window and checking for erro

Re: restarting proftpd

2007-05-20 Thread Floxxx
Yep, /etc/init.d/proftpd restart works Regards, Ben Tom Rauchenwald wrote: Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello. To restart apache2, I simply use the command "apache2 -k restart", which works nicely. Does anyone know of a similar command for proftpd? Maybe /etc/ini

Re: Aptitude, upgrade and pinning

2007-05-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:08:35AM +0200, Mauro Sacchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Could you quote what aptitude actually output? > > debian:~# aptitude install -f kde/unstable > Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto > Generazione dell'albe

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:51:08AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > This particular problem is solved for the most part by a policy > > change that says non-Debian topics are inappropriate. This opens > > the door to various actions starting with "thi

Re: restarting proftpd

2007-05-20 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. To restart apache2, I simply use the command "apache2 -k > restart", which works nicely. Does anyone know of a similar command > for proftpd? Maybe /etc/init.d/proftpd restart I haven't installed it ATM > Thanks, > Mark Tom -- To UNSUBS

restarting proftpd

2007-05-20 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. To restart apache2, I simply use the command "apache2 -k restart", which works nicely. Does anyone know of a similar command for proftpd? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] messages with HTML content (was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user)

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:58:02AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:07:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:49:14 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:15:53PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at

matlab r2007a installation problems

2007-05-20 Thread Hardestadt
Hi! I have a problem when i try to install matlab r2007a on my debian etch. When i execute the installation scipt, i get the following error: [b]An error status was returned by the program 'xsetup', the X Window System version of 'install'. The following messages were written to standard

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/20/2007 01:44 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [...] I propose we add a clause to the code of conduct to address the OT issue. This half of the problem is generally followed but it should be part of policy. The following wording is a starting point for discussion: Discussions whic

Re: Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/20/2007 01:38 PM, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home and on the road (with Debian Etch installed). At home, the laptop is connected to an external screen, with the laptop closed (so, at home, I don't use the laptops own scre

Re: Using a development server also as a backup production server

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:44:38PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:04:29AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:56:45PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > > > > > > I realise the original poster uses MySQL, but if you want to keep a > > > postgresql DB

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they > need to be *interspersed* with the

Re: [OT] Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-20 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 17:08:03 +, David Dawson wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: > That looks normal to me. You probably already tried running kcontrol > from a terminal window and checking for error messages. Another thing Thanks! I'm not exactly a newbie, but as I do

Touchpad speed

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all moving the cursor with the touchpad of my PowerBook G4 is very slow in Debian Etch. I played around with the settings in xorg.conf, and that helped a bit, but it's still rather slow. I mainly played with 'AccelFactor' (I used values 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, and 10) and 'HorizScrollDelta'

Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Intel 3945 difficulties

2007-05-20 Thread Klein Moebius
* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-20 13:06:07 -0400]: > Yes. That was something I made sure of. > Good. > As I followed up before, the problem is that the HP hardware is not a > standard mini-pci-e slot. No other card than the Broadcom that comes > with it will work at all. Evil s

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:43:45PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Agreed. It may be a good idea to add to the mailing lists code of > conduct a couple of extra lines: > > A lot of questions asked on debian-user and debian-devel are asked > regularly. Please consider searching using an Inter

Changing screens

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home and on the road (with Debian Etch installed). At home, the laptop is connected to an external screen, with the laptop closed (so, at home, I don't use the laptops own screen). The two screens have different resolutions (l

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-20 Thread H.S.
Pete wrote: DHCP. Laptop has its own IP address. No idea about name resolution. Not certain how to check it What is the output of the following commands: $> ping 4.2.2.2 $> ping google.com $> ping ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: securing desktop

2007-05-20 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Thanks for everyone's suggestions. They helped get me thinking, and I think I'll be able to solve some of the current issues. I'm going to change ownership of the /home/guest/Desktop file to root, which should solve the issue of cluttering the desktop. And for the panels, I'm going to

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:51:08AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > This particular problem is solved for the most part by a policy change > that says non-Debian topics are inappropriate. This opens the door to > various actions starting with "this is not appropriate, please stop" in > the event that f

Re: Found: excellent procmail HOWTO

2007-05-20 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On May 19, 10:20 pm, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been wanting to set up procmail for a while (with a .forward file), > but wasn't able to find a good HOWTO. I found a good HOWTO also. It said use getmail and maildrop instead of fetchmail and procmail. :) I spent a whole day try

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael G. Hansen
Michael Fothergill wrote: >> From: "Michael G. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Michael Fothergill wrote: >> > 2. You need a blank disk image ("harddisk"). This is like adding a >> blank >> > disk to the virtual computer that QEMU creates. Use qemu-img to >> create a >> > 3Gb blank disk image: >> > >

Re: Clamav-deamon Bug

2007-05-20 Thread Mike Bird
On Sunday 20 May 2007 05:17, David Baron wrote: > I usually cannot find any dmesg entry for this problem. ONE time I did see > one and the complaint was about permissions for opening the log file in > append mode. The logfile's owner and the executer of clamd is "clamav" and > the file;s permission

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