Re: Window backgrounds

2008-03-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/08 00:06, Ron Keller wrote: > I am new to debian. I am running debian etch with the gnome desktop > environment. I would like to know if it is possible to to have a common > background in all the windows on the desktop. For example, I like

Re: Thunderbird, import emails

2008-03-23 Thread Strong Cypher
just copy the file into another filename and in thunderbird move file from new directory to you inbox On 3/23/08, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-23 16:42 +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > > I used to use Thunderbird and now have copied all my email files from > > on PC into ano

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-23 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade.

Window backgrounds

2008-03-23 Thread Ron Keller
I am new to debian. I am running debian etch with the gnome desktop environment. I would like to know if it is possible to to have a common background in all the windows on the desktop. For example, I like to seea cork background when I open the home folder. and to have each of the windows t

aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-23 Thread Nick Boyce
Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" error from "aptitude update", which googling reveals has been experienced by quite a few people : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/12/msg00227.html http://

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 23 March 2008 01:57, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I assume I'm running into problems with udev not naming > the devices consistently but am not quite sure of my diagnosis or how to > fix it if that is the problem. I don't think udev rules will fix it, since the udev rules are on the ro

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 05:14:44PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > >>I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID > >>card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. Th

Re: configuration of a linux router

2008-03-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:07:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dt> Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would > you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca? > > Not really. Didn't think so :) > > OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse; > the curre

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-23 Thread Michael Paulsen
On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ya, > > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every > time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's > to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead > of all the CD's w

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the >> > DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)? >> Hi, Andrei, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately my (quite >>

Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-03-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Well gmane doesn't seem to preserve threading either so I guess this > leaves googlegroups. > I use gmane servers with knode. Never had a problem with threads on d-u or any other lists for that matter. Perhaps the problem is somewhere else. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-23 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 22:21:50 +0100, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are > > one of the testers of the next stable release. > > That's exactl

Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands will fix it: rm /e

Re: windows partition not usable

2008-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 23 March 2008 03:15:51 pm Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote: > I have also a windows xp service pack 2 partition. But I made an > installation mistake, so that at the moment I cannot use this windows > partition from debian. Were you able to before you made the installation mistake? What was

windows partition not usable

2008-03-23 Thread Hans-Gerhard Schrick
Dear Sir or Madam, I have debian etch installed on my laptop. I have also a windows xp service pack 2 partition. But I made an installation mistake, so that at the moment I cannot use this windows partition from debian. I have tried to change the /etc/fstab, but it didn't work. What can I do to

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-23 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are > one of the testers of the next stable release. That's exactly what maintainers think. Me not. I use testing since it came up in potatoe times.

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:45:29PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > On 03/23/2008 08:49 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > It is usual for upstream developers not to support the debian packages. > > If you have troubles you should contact the maintainer/file a bug. > > Generally or for web applicat

Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:41:47PM +, Andrei Popescu wrote: > shaw.ca> writes: > > > I read the messages from the Web based archive > > so there is no question of replying directly > > to an emessage. When there is time, I can look > > for a way to incorporate the message id into > > my

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 03/23/2008 08:49 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > It is usual for upstream developers not to support the debian packages. > If you have troubles you should contact the maintainer/file a bug. Generally or for web applications? Why? cheers Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Digital Camera

2008-03-23 Thread nikon D60
http://www.nikond60.com Nikon D60 Robert Thompson wrote: > > Hello All, >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB > to > connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with > Debian? > > Thanks > Eric > > -- View this message in contex

Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
shaw.ca> writes: > I read the messages from the Web based archive > so there is no question of replying directly > to an emessage. When there is time, I can look > for a way to incorporate the message id into > my reply. You can try gmane (which I am experimenting now) or googlegroups Reg

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I > >> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall > >> sarge, from

Configuring dhcp3 to send hostname mappings to clients

2008-03-23 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Dear all, My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal subnet: 10.0.0.2 reidster.net reidster 10.0.0.4 convex.reidster.net convex 10.0.0.4 toys.reidster.nettoys.reidster 10.0.0.4 yabman.reidster.net yabman The same box is also a DHCP server

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:28:40PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > On 03/21/2008 09:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I don't think so. Run 'aptitude keep-all', 'aptitude update' and retry. > > Do you get the same thing? I'm guessing you tried to install some task > > and aptitude still remembe

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:33:49PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > I posted the same topic on Mediawiki admins mailinglist. A Mediawiki > developer[0] told that the Debian package is unsupported third-party and > they receive a lot of complaints about it. It is usual for upstream developers not

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I >> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall >> sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This >> took a while. > > Wou

Re: configuration of a linux router

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:07:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Douglas, > > dt> Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would > you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca? > > Not really. > > OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse; > the current host

Toid authentication disabled

2008-03-23 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi all, I am trying to set up mutt using fetchmail to get mail from y POP3 server. I am getting the error Toid authentication disabled. What does Toid refer to here? I have entered the same settings with fetchmailconf as I have in Icedove.. thanks peter fetchmail: 6.3.8 fragt pop.t-online.de

Re: LCD screen flickering

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:10:36PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > try using the intel driver. ,[ ls -la /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so ] | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2008-02-25 20:03 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so -> intel_drv.so ` Regards, Andrei -- If you can't exp

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday was a horrendous day! My goal was to upgrade my > ancient sarge distribution to etch, using my three etch > DVDs. It is a complicated problem because my DVD Reader/player > is external, connected through USB, and my BI

Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network

2008-03-23 Thread Micha
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I hav

Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network

2008-03-23 Thread Micha
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I hav

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-23 Thread Bernardo Dal Seno
On 19/03/2008, Jörg Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also tried noauto in fstab an manually mount after boot. But with the same > result: device is busy. Does any error or warning message appear in kernel logs? Either at startup, or when you try to mount the device? Happy Easter Bernardo

Re: Thunderbird, import emails

2008-03-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-03-23 16:42 +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > I used to use Thunderbird and now have copied all my email files from > on PC into another. Now I would like to import my email to new PC > which have Thunderbird again. > I have copied my emails files from previous PC into new empty folders > and

Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
Yesterday was a horrendous day! My goal was to upgrade my ancient sarge distribution to etch, using my three etch DVDs. It is a complicated problem because my DVD Reader/player is external, connected through USB, and my BIOS won't allow booting from it. Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems bust

Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-03-23 Thread peasthope
Vikki, s. keeling, Ron, Thanks for the comments. The MUA is in Oberon and I don't want to abandon it. I read the messages from the Web based archive so there is no question of replying directly to an emessage. When there is time, I can look for a way to incorporate the message id into my r

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 23 March 2008 04:05:24 am Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > >> c) I want that standalone server receives LAN and internet mail of LAN > >> users. > > > > When setting up exim, it'll ask you if you what range you want to act as > > a smarthost for. Tell it your local network's information. > > Did

Re: configuration of a linux router

2008-03-23 Thread peasthope
Douglas, dt> Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca? Not really. OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse; the current hosts file follows. Please let me know of any remaining errors. Isn't there a place to

Thunderbird, import emails

2008-03-23 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi all, I used to use Thunderbird and now have copied all my email files from on PC into another. Now I would like to import my email to new PC which have Thunderbird again. I have copied my emails files from previous PC into new empty folders and all email have been retrieved successfully. Bu

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. > > The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. > > Well, yo

Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail

2008-03-23 Thread Max Hyre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>That's odd. I get Icedove notifications all the time, > For movemail accounts? If so, that's new, and I'll have to dig > through my preferences. For

Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail

2008-03-23 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > Unfortunately, > > state-of-the-art biff technology seems to elude the TB team, and > > they've determined that automatically finding new messages is a > > problem beyond their abilities. > >That

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID > card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all > sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I'm running Etch. > > T

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-03-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:30:28AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:16:52AM +0100, Vincent Bachelier wrote: > Can you explain: > > "all main think like HIMEM4G and 64BITS RESOURCE, is sets ..." > > Whats this "64BITS RESOURCE"? > > Is "uname -a" for redhat == "u

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:05:24PM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote: > > >You will also need to install some kind of POP or IMAP daemon to handle > >this part. > > > What is/are the "default" POP and/or IMAP server(s) of the Debian etch? There isn't a default POP or IMAP server, take your pick. >

Re: circuit semantic diagram editor with PIC support?

2008-03-23 Thread jeffry s
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:20 PM, e s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jeffry s wrote: > > i need a software to draw a circuit. in my circuit there is one micro > > controller PIC16F877A. > > any suggestion of a good software. i am using debian unstable with > GNOME.. > > > > thanks.. > > xcircuit is

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-23 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Sanjaya Vitharana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is not accurate. Your display's vertical refresh is 50-120 Hz, not > > 50-160. > Thanks, I found the correct one as. > http://www.viewsonic.com/support/desktopdisplays/crtmonitors/e2series/e50c/index.htm > I have tried with "dpkg-r

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
I posted the same topic on Mediawiki admins mailinglist. A Mediawiki developer[0] told that the Debian package is unsupported third-party and they receive a lot of complaints about it. So will install myself. The only downside that I need to care myself about security patches. cheers Simon [0] h

Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail

2008-03-23 Thread Max Hyre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: > Unfortunately, > state-of-the-art biff technology seems to elude the TB team, and > they've determined that automatically finding new messages is a > problem beyond their abilities. That's odd. I get Icedove notifications a

Re: circuit semantic diagram editor with PIC support?

2008-03-23 Thread e s
jeffry s wrote: i need a software to draw a circuit. in my circuit there is one micro controller PIC16F877A. any suggestion of a good software. i am using debian unstable with GNOME.. thanks.. xcircuit is another option -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: cdda2wav default device customization

2008-03-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
>> $ cdda2wav dev=/dev/hdc -t 4 >>. How can manage things so to omit the device specification? > when I do: icedax -t 4 (now (in debian) cdda2wav is a symbolic link to > icedax) > I get: > icedax: No such file or directory. Cannot open '-1'. Cannot open SCSI driver. > icedax: For possible

Hylafax faxgetty faxrcvd arguments

2008-03-23 Thread sk71
Hi @ll, i have trouble with my hylafax configuration. I use a Debian Etch System with the standard hylafax package from debian. The faxserver is only used for incoming faxes. Each incoming fax is delivered to one mail address at the local system. Now, i try to filter incoming fax by sender but

Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > Hello, > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I have no > idea why. Are you running stable or testing/unstable? The statement: "Unfortunat

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. > The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are one of the testers of the ne

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:16:52AM +0100, Vincent Bachelier wrote: > Hi, > > I have a issue with IBM DB2 V9.5 (the express version) in 32 bits. > > I have install it on a 64 bits arch without any problem, on debian > > But in 32 bits, on a Bi-Xeon with 4g of ram, during installation they say > "

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-23 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
c) I want that standalone server receives LAN and internet mail of LAN users. When setting up exim, it'll ask you if you what range you want to act as a smarthost for. Tell it your local network's information. Did you mean range of IP addresses to act as a smarthost? d) I want th