Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade

2007-06-25 Thread rocky
On Jun 26, 2:00 am, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:56:04 -,rockywrote: > > [ snip: A problem with /dev/psmouse was solved by purging the hotplug > package. ] > > > > > Yes, I go ahead and upgrade the linux-image to 2.6.18 and reload udev. > > Now it see

mATX motherboard

2007-06-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
Does anyone know how this motherboard: Intel Core 2 Duo mATX Part Number: BOXD946GZISSL might fare under an install of Debian etch? Any experiences to report? Thanks very much indeed for any advice or pointers to useful information. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: size and position of iceweasel window

2007-06-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:06:12 -0400 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:58:45 -0400, I wrote: > > > I added this to .Xresources: > > Firefox-bin.geometry: 800x977+0+0 > > > > and it was ignored. As judged by ls -lu, the file isn't accessed > > when I bring up a fire

Re: problems with radeon driver (solved)

2007-06-25 Thread Bob
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 10:47 +0800, Bob wrote: Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:26 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: 8< snip radeon problems with xorg driver glx module Mmm, I use glx on 3 different radeons, what page suggested that

Re: [OT] package for talking to usb device using visa protocol

2007-06-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:18:08PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hopping that I didn't miss spell this, I am looking for a reference or > preferably a library that would enable me to talk to a usb device that > uses the vesa protocol. I found some info from national instruments > that the device sho

Re: NeroLinux

2007-06-25 Thread Ms Linuz
2007/6/26, Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Folks! Recently i've installed NeroLinux to taste the linux version, at that moment I didn't get the key, passed a few days when I execute NeroLinux this show me a alert box that "this program has expired", so I delete the $HOME/.nero folder, rei

Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade

2007-06-25 Thread rocky
On Jun 26, 2:00 am, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:56:04 -, rocky wrote: > > [ snip: A problem with /dev/psmouse was solved by purging the hotplug > package. ] > > > > > Yes, I go ahead and upgrade the linux-image to 2.6.18 and reload udev. > > Now it s

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:31:09PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > >SQL in the early 1970s. It just didn't become an ISO standard until 1987. > > > >Follow the link I gave you. > > I replied to your message AS WRITTEN. If you don't mean to imply > that MicroSoft doesn't predate 1987, then you should

Lantronix EPS1 en Debian Sarge

2007-06-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tengo una red doméstica conectada a un Print Server Lantronix EPS1 y a una impresora HP 5L LaserJet. Uso LinEx 2006 (basado en Debian Sarge). Necesito configurar el EPS1 para que pueda imprimir sin problemas. Tengan el favor de guiarme. Les saluda, Rodrigo Araneda Santiago de Chile Chile

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Bob Proulx wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: They why was there a big flap when Unisys restricted use of GIF? Unisys held a patent covering LZW compression. Unisys did not create the GIF format. The GIF format was created by CompuServe. Neither Thanks f

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McCarty wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Mike McCarty wrote: > >>They why was there a big flap when Unisys restricted use of GIF? > >Unisys held a patent covering LZW compression. Unisys did not create > >the GIF format. The GIF format was created by CompuServe. Neither > > Thanks for the rep

Re: OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-25 Thread Kent West
"Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, This urgent request was posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Hagar de l'Est < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >. Is not exactly Debian, but I think also of great importance for all of us. Please sign the petition here: http://www.noooxml.org/petition. (Cookies have

size and position of iceweasel window

2007-06-25 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:58:45 -0400, I wrote: > I added this to .Xresources: > Firefox-bin.geometry: 800x977+0+0 > > and it was ignored. As judged by ls -lu, the file isn't accessed when I > bring up a firefox window. On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:51:37 GMT, s. keeling replied: > Add "xrdb -merge ~/.

Re: OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-25 Thread Gernot Hassenpflug
"Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > This urgent request was posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Hagar de l'Est > < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >. > Is not exactly Debian, but I think also of great importance for all of us. > > Please sign the petition here: http://www.noooxml.org/petition. > (Co

Re: time zone

2007-06-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from j j: > >See /etc/default/rcS > > rcS is supposed to check /etc/localtime or > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern. I dont have those files. Can I > generate those files with a text editor? Weird. No, those come in (or are created by?) the tzdata package. aptitude update && aptitud

Re: time zone

2007-06-25 Thread j j
On 6/25/07, Daniel James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi jj, > The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there > something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? Even easier, you can right click on the clock in Gnome and select Adjust Date & Time :-) > I installed da

Re: time zone

2007-06-25 Thread j j
See /etc/default/rcS rcS is supposed to check /etc/localtime or /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern. I dont have those files. Can I generate those files with a text editor? Please don't post html to mailing lists. Sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew J. Barr wrote: kqemu allows code to be executed directly and natively on the bare-metal processor under certain conditions. This takes QEMU's dynamic translation engine out of the picture and allows for near-native performance of x86-on-x86 (32 or 64 bit) situations. It turns kqemu into

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Bob Proulx wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: They why was there a big flap when Unisys restricted use of GIF? Unisys held a patent covering LZW compression. Unisys did not create the GIF format. The GIF format was created by CompuServe. Neither [...] Thanks for the reply. I am aware of all yo

Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux, and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them, based on install, ease of use, and speed of emulation. The emulators I tried are DOSEMU + Freedos, BOCHS + MSDOS 6.22, and QEMU + MSDOS 6.22. I found that each ha

Re: size and position of iceweasel window

2007-06-25 Thread s. keeling
Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:13:55, I wrote > > > Is there a way to make the iceweasel window consistently pop up at the same > > position every time? > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:18:09 +0100, Liam O'Toole replied: > > > That's been a bug in firefox/iceweasel for as

Re: reportbug emails [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no response

2007-06-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrew Sackville-West wrote, on 2007-06-25 14:54: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:51:38PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, the last bug I successfully submitted via reportbug was #429996. on June 21... Since then I have attempted to submit a couple more bugs, but although I received my cc: email, t

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that kqemu reduces processor load. This may be the reason > for your different experience. kqemu allows code to be executed directly and natively on the bare-metal processor under certain conditions. This takes QEMU's dynamic translation engine ou

Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 25 June 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Monday 25 June 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > 1) Is there a way to tell my NVidia card or xorg.conf to > > > > recognize the widescreen as my first sc

Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 25, 2007 05:50:24 am Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have an NVidia GEforce 6800 with two monitors attached. One is a > widescreen, hooked up with a DVI cable, at 1680x1050, and the other is > hooked up with a VGA cable and set at 1280x1024. They are working, but > there are two issues I'd like to

Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > 1) Is there a way to tell my NVidia card or xorg.conf to recognize > > > the widescreen as my first screen? > > > > See the nvidia driver document: > > > > /usr/sh

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Chris Lale
Mike McCarty wrote: > This question is really Really REALLY off topic! > > I administer my girl friend's Debian machine for her, but do > not run Debian myself. I installed QEMU on my machine (Fedora > Core) from source, and installed the Debian release on hers. > She's pretty happy now running so

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McCarty wrote: > They why was there a big flap when Unisys restricted use of GIF? Unisys held a patent covering LZW compression. Unisys did not create the GIF format. The GIF format was created by CompuServe. Neither did Unisys write the 'compress' program. But both implemented an algorit

Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 25 June 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > 1) Is there a way to tell my NVidia card or xorg.conf to recognize > > the widescreen as my first screen? > > See the nvidia driver document: > > /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz > > Option "TwinViewOrientation" "string

Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Hal Vaughan wrote: > 1) Is there a way to tell my NVidia card or xorg.conf to recognize the > widescreen as my first screen? See the nvidia driver document: /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz Option "TwinViewOrientation" "string" Controls the relationship between the

Re: how to exclude a package

2007-06-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Chuck Payne wrote: > >Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it > >replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was > >hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by > >editing one of the apt conf fil

Re: size and position of iceweasel window

2007-06-25 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:13:55, I wrote > Is there a way to make the iceweasel window consistently pop up at the same > position every time? On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:18:09 +0100, Liam O'Toole replied: > That's been a bug in firefox/iceweasel for as long as I can remember. And on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20

NeroLinux

2007-06-25 Thread Orestes leal
Hi Folks! Recently i've installed NeroLinux to taste the linux version, at that moment I didn't get the key, passed a few days when I execute NeroLinux this show me a alert box that "this program has expired", so I delete the $HOME/.nero folder, reinstalled nero but this won't work, I couldn' ima

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:49:43AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > I wanted to install a motherboard monitor. I found one in the list, > > > xmbmon, > > > and chose to install it. It said installation complete. However, I have > > > no > > > idea how to find it and r

Kolab in debian etch

2007-06-25 Thread Adrián Ribao Martínez
Hello, I have a server running under Debian etch. I need to install kolab, but I can't because: apt-get install kolabd ->kolabd: Depends: kolab-resource-handlers but it is not going to be installed apt-get install kolab-resource-handlers ->kolab-resource-handlers: Depends: libapache2-mod-php4 but

Re: IPW3945 With Etch

2007-06-25 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Monday 25 June 2007 19:14, Tom Grove wrote: > It seems as though I am able to install the modules via module-assistant > and I receive an eth1 with wireless properties. The problem is that no > matter what I set my AP to I can't connect to it. I typically just run > with WEP but regardless or

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread Ken Irving
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > I wanted to install a motherboard monitor. I found one in the list, xmbmon, > > and chose to install it. It said installation complete. However, I have no > > idea how to find it and run it. It's not showing up in the applications > > list > > anywhere. You can see

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: Celejar writes: What does it even mean for a file format to be open? That the creator can't restrict its use? The creator of a format cannot restrict its use. They why was there a big flap when Unisys restricted use of GIF? You might have a look here http://lpf.ai.mit.ed

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft existed! It has been an ISO standard since 1987. Mike writes: You need to learn some history. MicroSoft predates 1987 by quite a bit. You need to learn some hi

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew J. Barr wrote: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SQL is also theirs... Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft existed! It has been an ISO standard since 1987. You need to learn some history. MicroSoft predates 1987 by

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I just installed Debian. I'm wondering about the Synaptic Package Manager. > As > I've never used a GUI for Linux before, I will need to get used to how things > work. If you already have experience in using the command line, nothing stops you from keeping to use it. In m

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft existed! It > has been an ISO standard since 1987. Mike writes: > You need to learn some history. MicroSoft predates 1987 by quite a bit. You need to learn some history (it isn't history

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:27:04PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have to say that since alsa started shipp

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
"Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by >

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by > > > default, it all works *much* better. But its still co

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by default, > > it all works *much* better. But its still confusing and is (to my mind > > at least) sucn an esoteric su

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>SQL is also theirs... > > > > > > Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft > > existed! It has been an ISO standard since 1987. > > > > You need to learn some history. MicroSoft predates 1987 by

IPW3945 With Etch

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Grove
It seems as though I am able to install the modules via module-assistant and I receive an eth1 with wireless properties. The problem is that no matter what I set my AP to I can't connect to it. I typically just run with WEP but regardless or whether or not I am using WEP/WPA/Nothing I can not

Re: hddtemp value

2007-06-25 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/25/2007 01:02 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > Conventional wisdom is that higher temperatures shorten disk life, but > IIRC Google did a study on their own drives and didn't find any > significant correlation. Correct. Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population Appears in the Proceedings

Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade

2007-06-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:56:04 -, rocky wrote: [ snip: A problem with /dev/psmouse was solved by purging the hotplug package. ] > Yes, I go ahead and upgrade the linux-image to 2.6.18 and reload udev. > Now it seems the mouse problem is gone but I still not be able to > startx. Because th

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: David Baron writes: Microsoft does not restrict [the use of RTF] to my knowledge. They can't. Are you a lawyer? How do you know this? SQL is also theirs... Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft existed! It has been an ISO standard since

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: > Microsoft does not restrict [the use of RTF] to my knowledge. They can't. > SQL is also theirs... Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft existed! It has been an ISO standard since 1987. -- John Hasler -- To UN

Re: Fonts are small, in second X11 log-in

2007-06-25 Thread Matthew K Poer
Had a similar issue a few months back that is probably related "Fonts from GDM?". Received excellent advice (commands/files) that I can't really remember. From the web archive: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/03/thrd2.html#00052 On Monday 25 June 2007 12:56 pm, Masatran, R. Deepak wro

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by default, > it all works *much* better. But its still confusing and is (to my mind > at least) sucn an esoteric subject that its kind of all like > blackmagic to make it work properly. Pu

Re: stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software?

2007-06-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 25, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Last one I ran across was a bad agp video card. machine wouldn't boot. I assumed it was the mobo cause I put *everything* into another mobo and it all booted just fine. The only thing I hadn't moved was the video card... the "faulty" bo

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread John Hasler
Alan Ianson writes: > I believe kword supports ODF now and I hope this will continue to be the > case with koffice and other word processing applications like abiword in > the future. The problem is that most Microsoft Windows users cannot deal with ODF. That doesn't matter to me but to some peopl

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > What does it even mean for a file format to be open? That the creator > can't restrict its use? The creator of a format cannot restrict its use. > That the spec has been published? Yes. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software?

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:23:09PM +, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2007 15:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [some stuff about witching sticks around...] > > Unfortunately, I have only 1 compatible with this machine. [sidebar: kicking > self in head while shouting, "Always bu

Re: Connect to DOS box

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mirko Parthey wrote: Another useful software for your toolbox could be etherboot. A few years ago, I used a floppy image generated by their rom-o-matic to boot KNOPPIX over the network on an old machine without PXE support. The servers in KNOPPIX supporting network boot (DHCP, TFTP, ...) are cal

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
michael wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: michael wrote: I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors doesn't seem to detect anything. I've a Intel Server Board SE7320SO2 Even if it did, unless you've calibrated the thing you won't know th

file is read as line.

2007-06-25 Thread L . V . Gandhi
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Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:01:30AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > [that the sound card isn't working] > > Ok, after much fooling around, I find that ESD is running, and > has the DSP open. So, I killed it, it should be taken out and shot, IMHO. we see so many problems rel

Re: hddtemp value

2007-06-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 22, 2007, at 2:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi folks :-) Which value hddtemp show? (about my ata disks, between 45-55 C) Is it correct? Or I should worry? 45-55 C seems a little hot. They will probalby work for you but your drives will

Re: compatible UPS - solved

2007-06-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 22, 2007, at 1:07 PM, csanyipal wrote: On that site I find that, that an APC Back-UPS is supported by apcupsd. So I decide that, that I should to by such an UPS. :) NUT also supports every APC UPS I've run into. NUT may be overkill for your needs, but in a server room it's great.

Fonts are small, in second X11 log-in

2007-06-25 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
I am using up-to-date Debian Testing on my laptop, mainly with XFCE and Sawfish. All logging-in is from GDM. When I log-in as the first user, I get the normal-sized fonts. But when I log-in using "New login" in X-screen-saver, after someone else has locked the screen, all the fonts are smaller tha

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Jun 25, 11:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to install a motherboard monitor.? I found one in the list, xmbmon, > and chose to install it.? It said installation complete.? However, I have no > idea how to find it and run it.? It's not showing up in the applications list > anywhere.

Re: compatible UPS

2007-06-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 22, 2007, at 3:19 AM, csanyipal wrote: Hello! Is this UPS supported by Etch? Inform Guard 600A (600VA)/Line Interractive/AVR Any advices will be appreciated! Debian uses NUT for its UPS support, so the place to check would be the NUT homepage: http://www.networkupstools.org/ Da

Re: time zone

2007-06-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Alan Ianson: > j j: > > The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is > > there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? > > I think tzconfig will setup your time zone. Or in KDE, right click on clock > Show Timezone > Configure Timezones... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:25:27PM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is > installed? > it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not DFSG-compliant, so it > is in the non-free repo. > I agree this is probably it. kqemu makes

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is > installed? it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not > DFSG-compliant, so it is in the non-free repo. kqemu is free software as of a few months ago. -- Andrew J. Barr W

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Matthew. Matthew K Poer, 25.06.2007 18:25: > Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is > installed? > it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not DFSG-compliant, so it > is in the non-free repo. Not anymore. It’s licensed unter GPL since February. Regar

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread ndemou
On 6/25/07, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using Abiword, which recommends using RTF for document exchange > with non-Abi users. I'm trying to understand whether RTF is an open > standard. Wikipedia [0] claims that it's proprietary. This article > [1] points out that it has the s

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Matthew K Poer
Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is installed? it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not DFSG-compliant, so it is in the non-free repo. On Monday 25 June 2007 12:17 pm, Mike McCarty wrote: > This question is really Really REALLY off topic! > > I admini

Re: stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software?

2007-06-25 Thread Prismatic Plasma
On Monday 25 June 2007 15:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Do you mean bad ram? Or is it a timing issue from bios that need > > twiddling? The machine's been flakey like this since I got it. > > either one. They just sound like memory problems to me. I see you've > already messed with the volta

OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
This question is really Really REALLY off topic! I administer my girl friend's Debian machine for her, but do not run Debian myself. I installed QEMU on my machine (Fedora Core) from source, and installed the Debian release on hers. She's pretty happy now running some stuff. But I noticed that on

[OT] package for talking to usb device using visa protocol

2007-06-25 Thread Micha Feigin
Hopping that I didn't miss spell this, I am looking for a reference or preferably a library that would enable me to talk to a usb device that uses the vesa protocol. I found some info from national instruments that the device should be available under /dev but no code Will be grateful for any p

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [that the sound card isn't working] Ok, after much fooling around, I find that ESD is running, and has the DSP open. So, I killed it, and things got farther. But, still weren't working. Looking around some more got to the point where something complained that ALSA wasn't ther

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread Keith Christian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed Debian. I'm wondering about the Synaptic Package Manager. As I've never used a GUI for Linux before, I will need to get used to how things work. [stuff deleted] > So basically I'm curious about that package manager. Once installed, are icons creat

Re: Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread Pol Hallen
> I wanted to install a motherboard monitor.? I found one in the list, > xmbmon, and chose to install it.? It said installation complete.? However, > I have no idea how to find it and run it.? It's not showing up in the > applications list anywhere. Sorry, but i never used xmbmon :-( u could do: a

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread David Baron
> I'm using Abiword, which recommends using RTF for document exchange > with non-Abi users.  I'm trying to understand whether RTF is an open > standard.  Wikipedia [0] claims that it's proprietary.  This article > [1] points out that it has the same status as PDF.  I can't imagine > that Abi would

Using Debian Package Manager

2007-06-25 Thread russ421
I just installed Debian.? I'm wondering about the Synaptic Package Manager.? As I've never used a GUI for Linux before, I will need to get used to how things work. I wanted to install a motherboard monitor.? I found one in the list, xmbmon, and chose to install it.? It said installation complet

Problem with argus-client on etch (86_64)

2007-06-25 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have problem reading argus files made on sarge (i686) with argus-client on etch (86_64). The version of argus-client is 2.0.6.fixes.1-2 on sarge, while etch has version 2.0.6.fixes.1-3. The result on etch is that when runing ra it directly one line w

Re: stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software?

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:09:33AM +, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2007 05:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:19:22AM +, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > > I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even > > > fully diagnose what's

Re: how to install ntfs-3g from etch-backports

2007-06-25 Thread baldyeti
To install an new kernel you need package linux-image-2.6.21*. I cannot find this for Etch at backports.org or anywhere else. (You have probably seen linux-headers-2.6.21*). Backports has linux-image-2.6.21-1-k7, I just installed it without a hitch. You have to compile fuse too - see my previo

Re: shell : is syntax checking via option -n really working ?

2007-06-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Monday 25 June 2007 17:13:06 Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi Bruno. > > Bruno Costacurta, 25.06.2007 17:04: > > Hello, > > as I ckeck a script via 'sh -n ' I receive the syntax error > > > > listserver.tcl: 31: Syntax error: "else" unexpected (expecting "then") > > > > However syntax looks good and

Re: shell : is syntax checking via option -n really working ?

2007-06-25 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Bruno. Bruno Costacurta, 25.06.2007 17:04: > Hello, > as I ckeck a script via 'sh -n ' I receive the syntax error > > listserver.tcl: 31: Syntax error: "else" unexpected (expecting "then") > > However syntax looks good and script execution is fine. But it’s an TCL script and not a shell scr

Re: 'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file

2007-06-25 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Celejar. Celejar, 25.06.2007 16:40: > 'file' reports just 'data' when queried about an Abiword .odt file. Abiword does not support the ODT format yet. What makes you think that it did save in this format? > There's a bug here [0], Where? > but the discussion indicates that 'file' is > repor

shell : is syntax checking via option -n really working ?

2007-06-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, as I ckeck a script via 'sh -n ' I receive the syntax error listserver.tcl: 31: Syntax error: "else" unexpected (expecting "then") However syntax looks good and script execution is fine. Please find attached file for more details. Is there anything weird with 'sh -n' behaviour ? Or anythi

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 06:59 -0700, Sam wrote: > just a quick thought, do you have acpi on in your kernel? > > modprobe acpi > ? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe acpi Password: FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko)

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 10:18 -0400, Celejar wrote: > I'm using Abiword, which recommends using RTF for document exchange > with non-Abi users. I'm trying to understand whether RTF is an open > standard. Wikipedia [0] claims that it's proprietary. This article > [1] points out that it has the same

Re: stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software?

2007-06-25 Thread Prismatic Plasma
On Monday 25 June 2007 12:03, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > On Monday 25 June 2007 05:31, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:19:22AM +, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > >>> I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even > >>> fully

'file' doesn't recognize my Abiword .ode file

2007-06-25 Thread Celejar
'file' reports just 'data' when queried about an Abiword .odt file. There's a bug here [0], but the discussion indicates that 'file' is reporting 'zip'. Do I have something misconfigured, or should I add my experience to the bug report? Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secur

Solution for avoid to capture password between Browser - Squid

2007-06-25 Thread Javier Enrique Tiá Marín
Hi: I'm looking alternative a VPN and IPSec for avoid to capture the password between Browser (IE, iceweasel) and Squid, I read [1], it will be the idea, somebody post a example, howto, etc and if use a LDAP backend much better. Another solution? [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt TIA, -

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 13:54 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Sorry, this was meant fort the list.. :) > Dear Debianists, > > I have been working with an engineering modelling program called ASCEND. > You can get it from sourceforge and it has a wikipedia page. > > See: > > http://ascendwiki.

RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Celejar
I'm using Abiword, which recommends using RTF for document exchange with non-Abi users. I'm trying to understand whether RTF is an open standard. Wikipedia [0] claims that it's proprietary. This article [1] points out that it has the same status as PDF. I can't imagine that Abi would recommend

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:28 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > michael wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 16:36 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > >>> I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors > >>> doesn't seem to detect anything. > >> Do u have the i2c kernel modules? > >> > >> P

Re: mail server for offline system

2007-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:40:04 +0100 Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Owen Heisler wrote: > > Postfix, exim4, or any other decent mail server in Deiban that > > (preferrably) can be configured easily with will suffice. The server > > must support Maildir folders, honor the ~/.forward file

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > michael wrote: > > I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors > > doesn't seem to detect anything. I've a Intel Server Board SE7320SO2 > > Even if it did, unless you've calibrated the thing you won't know > the temp

testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I have been working with an engineering modelling program called ASCEND. You can get it from sourceforge and it has a wikipedia page. See: http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/ I have a version of it compiled on my AMD64 box here that works OK courtesy of the kind assistance o

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-06-25 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 21:11 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > michael: > > > > I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors > > doesn't seem to detect anything. I've a Intel Server Board SE7320SO2 > > with two 3. GHz Xeon chips. Anybody know how to get mobo/chip/internal > > tem

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