Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Javier Vasquez: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Why do you only copy 446 Bytes back? > > That's what I read is necessary, since the last 64+2 bytes of the 1st > 512 bytes correspond to the partition table, which shouldn't be > copied over I belie

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 05/20/08 21:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Is there any way to directly clone /dev/hda to /dev/sdX, so that I >> can then boot off of /dev/sdX? > > If you can boot some live system, you can just partition your new disk, > mount them all, copy all your files over, fix /etc/f

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread David Fox
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to directly clone /dev/hda to /dev/sdX, so that I > can then boot off of /dev/sdX? I'll probably do the mount and cp -R trick, after partitioning with a live system, fairly soon, since I just blew some $$$ a

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 22:06, Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 07:20:17 pm Ron Johnson wrote: >> In a similar vein to OP's question, I am going to buy a new boot >> disk, because my hda is old enough -- and drives are cheap enough -- >> that I'd rath

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Dotan Cohen wrote: There is now an English-language demo of the Java applet, but it takes some work to get to. I would have expected better of Technion! If this is actually a java problem then they should use something else. If this is not a java problem, then Technion ought to have better pr

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 07:20:17 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > In a similar vein to OP's question, I am going to buy a new boot > disk, because my hda is old enough -- and drives are cheap enough -- > that I'd rather replace it before it fails. > > So I checked out CloneZilla, but it seems to be aimed at

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gmail *sucks*, because it screws up reply nesting. I have to manually fix it so that people (including me) how use sane MUAs can read it properly. On 05/20/08 21:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/20/08 15:55, Lee Glidewell w

Re: Anti-gaming Behaviour of Keyboard Driver

2008-05-20 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 20/05/2008, Dmitryi & Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Out of curiousity, does this happen with Nexuiz as well? > Not installed. > Uhm, so aptitude install nexuiz. It would be interesting to know if other Quake or modified Quake engines also experience this problem. Also, do you have an x

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Glenn Becker wrote: Hi all - I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was defaulting to 1400x1050. It is nice to see that my older laptop

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread kellybelly
Check out this website: www.crazytrain.com/dd.html www.crazytrain.com/dd2.html It contains very useful information on using dd to copy hard drives. dd is a bit-by-bit copy of your hard drive, or a hard drive partition. It will copy everything on the drive, included deleted files. -- To UN

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 15:55, Lee Glidewell wrote: Have a look at partimage. Specifically you might be interested in the CloneZilla live distro. It's built specifically for the purpose of porting installations between hard disks. In a si

Re: apt & cdrom repository

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
John Knops wrote: Hi, I want to download various debs to my home directory to be burnt latter to a cd for use on an older computer which will not be connected to the internet. At the moment I'm downloading all debs, including dependencies manually one at a time. To speed up the process I've tried

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Javier Vasquez wrote: You mean grub-install it? I couldn't... For some reason grub doesn't even find the stage1 file after running something similar to "grub-install --root-directory /mnt/sda-boot /dev/sda". So I tried chroot to /mnt/sda-root (I also made the bind between /mnt/sda-boot and /m

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 20:45, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi all - > > I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings changed > (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can recall) so > that the screen resolution on Gnome, for exampl

Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 15:55, Lee Glidewell wrote: > Have a look at partimage. Specifically you might be interested in the > CloneZilla live distro. It's built specifically for the purpose of porting > installations between hard disks. In a similar vein to OP

screen resolution question

2008-05-20 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi all - I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was defaulting to 1400x1050. It is nice to see that my older laptop can handle this, bu

problem with ldap ssh and password auth

2008-05-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have most of my users in ldap, I would like to allow password authentication, but I do not want to use usePAM, because pam uses pam_env (which loads up /etc/default/locale), this is turn overrights any LANG env sent from the ssh client. Password auth works when i use usepam but i loose my LA

apt & cdrom repository

2008-05-20 Thread John Knops
Hi, I want to download various debs to my home directory to be burnt latter to a cd for use on an older computer which will not be connected to the internet. At the moment I'm downloading all debs, including dependencies manually one at a time. To speed up the process I've tried to use ¨apt-get -d

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Kevin & Florian Thanks for pointing out the mutt SMTP feature. I wish I could use it. My (brain dead) ISP does not support any of the authentication options supported by the smtp_authenticators option. Yep, I know I should switch ISP's. Maybe now is the time Thanks again Wayne -- To UN

Re: Anti-gaming Behaviour of Keyboard Driver

2008-05-20 Thread Dmitryi & Elf
Uhm...in my case I don't think it's the same issue. For some reason I can't strafe backwards; this is, the combination of backpedal+strafe works, but it doesn't get any more input, so I can't jump. It does seem like the same issue. Snag is, shift also modifies keycodes. The only usable modifie

Re: Anti-gaming Behaviour of Keyboard Driver

2008-05-20 Thread Dmitryi & Elf
Out of curiousity, does this happen with Nexuiz as well? - Jordi G. H. Not installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 01:47:03 pm Javier Vasquez wrote: >> I did a copy of the contents of each partitions, except by /proc under >> root, into the new created ones, but I used "cp -a" instead of "dd". >> This might have pr

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Javier Vasquez: >> >> Do you suggest using "dd" instead? Would it work even if the destine >> partition is bigger (I read somewhere it works perfectly when source >> and destine are the same size, but I never read it works

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > The only seemingly significant differences are that you have [] > around your relayhost, and mynetworks is 127.0.0.0/8. For some > now-unremembered reason, I had to change it to 192.168.1.0/24. > Also, I don't see a relay_domains in your

Re: .xsession-errors query

2008-05-20 Thread jamie
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 converted... ] > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:48 PM, jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I wanted to ask a question about the file ".xsession-errors", namely its > > contents. > > > > Inside this file in my home directory is see this: > > > > X Error: BadWindow (inval

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-20 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/20/2008 09:51 AM, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 17:56:24 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 16:38:13 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-20 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:51:17 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 17:56:24 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 16:38:13 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: [...] Hi! follows a cop

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 01:47:03 pm Javier Vasquez wrote: > I did a copy of the contents of each partitions, except by /proc under > root, into the new created ones, but I used "cp -a" instead of "dd". > This might have prevented copying the boot sector, necessary for the > boot sector probably... >

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-20 Thread Samuel Bächler
You mean guru.com? Thanks for the input Steve. Guru.com is interesting to see if it works and how it works. But of course I would like to see it implemented in a FOSS way. s. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Preston Boyington
Javier Vasquez wrote: I have an old laptop with a 10G HD...and changing the HD on the only IDE slot is getting less fun each time i really like using a livecd for these things and my current favorite is the gparted-clonezilla livecd. couple that with a usb laptop drive enclosure and things

Re: .xsession-errors query

2008-05-20 Thread Jamie White
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:48 PM, jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I wanted to ask a question about the file ".xsession-errors", namely its > contents. > > Inside this file in my home directory is see this: > > X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 > Major opcode: 19 >Minor

.xsession-errors query

2008-05-20 Thread jamie
Hi I wanted to ask a question about the file ".xsession-errors", namely its contents. Inside this file in my home directory is see this: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x228 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Windo

Re: D-Link DWL-122 Wireless Adapter

2008-05-20 Thread Consultores Agropecuarios
El dom, 18-05-2008 a las 13:48 +0200, Michael Geiger escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > francisco schrieb: > | Hello > | > | Does somebody knows how to install the DWL-122 Wireless Adapter? > > I have installed the same stick a few month ago. DWL-122 are b

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

2008-05-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. The logs sh

Re: Alt-gr key not working correctly under X after a testing upgrade

2008-05-20 Thread Julien Barnier
Hi, Sorry to answer to myself... > Then I changed my .xmodmaprc to the following : > > ,[ .xmodmaprc ] > | clear Lock > | keycode 227 = Multi_key > | keycode 113 = ISO_Level3_Shift > | add Lock = Multi_key > | add Mod4 = Caps_Lock > | add Mod5 = ISO_Level3_Shift > ` > > And now it seems t

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Javier Vasquez: > > Do you suggest using "dd" instead? Would it work even if the destine > partition is bigger (I read somewhere it works perfectly when source > and destine are the same size, but I never read it works perfectly > when destine is bigger)... Yes, it works. You have to resize your

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Lee Glidewell
Have a look at partimage. Specifically you might be interested in the CloneZilla live distro. It's built specifically for the purpose of porting installations between hard disks. Lee On Tuesday 20 May 2008 01:47:03 pm Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old laptop with a 10G HD. I have

Re: Alt-gr key not working correctly under X after a testing upgrade

2008-05-20 Thread Julien Barnier
Hi, > I tried this configuration and it works for me. AltGr+3 produces "#" and > AltGr+6 produces "|". I run Sid, but you should have the same versions > of xserver-xorg-input-kbd (1:1.2.2-3) and xkb-data > (1.2~cvs.20080501.1-1) if your Lenny system is up-to-date. I do have a > newer kernel (2.6.

[debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I have an old laptop with a 10G HD. I have it partitioned into a swap partition hda5, an ext3 boot partition hda6, and an ext3 root partition hda7 (all logical). I acquired an 80G HD, and through an USB interface I have it partitioned the same way, only with bigger root partition, :). I did

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-05-20 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Florian, thanks for the quick reply. Am Montag, 19. Mai 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 23:30:15 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 23:47:06 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > >

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

2008-05-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. The logs showed nothing up to the mome

Re: blogging - alternative packages

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 09:36:05 am Brian McKee wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the > > present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress. > > > > WordPress rapi

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

2008-05-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. The logs showed nothing up to the mome

Re: curlftpfs and /dev/fuse

2008-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 19:40:31 +0200, Fabrizio Lippolis wrote: > I have installed curlftpfs and I am trying to mount an ftp repository > in > my file local file system. I am trying to do this as root as a first > try > not to have problems with permissions and so on. > > machine:~# curlftpfs -o

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 13:56:54 -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Wayne, > > On Tue, 20 May 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: > >> I am still reading the mail on mutt though. So I have to paste your >> message into icedove. ;-( > > I haven't been following this discussion, so forgive me if I'm > misunderst

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

2008-05-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. The logs showed nothing up to the moment. That hasn't happened

Re: howto: romanian alphabet - special characters?

2008-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:59:08PM +0300, Bogdan Marian wrote: > Hey, > > I'm on KDE and even if i switch to Romanian Layout, i dont't get those > special characters on OpenOffice. Do i need to install some special fonts > or smth? I have already installed Linux Libertine fonts but still... > Any

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Wayne, On Tue, 20 May 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: I am still reading the mail on mutt though. So I have to paste your message into icedove. ;-( I haven't been following this discussion, so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding. I suspect from this e-mail that you're having problems sending e-ma

Re: blogging - alternative packages

2008-05-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080520 11:42]: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the > > present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress. > > > > WordPress rapidly i

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 12:38, Wayne Topa wrote: >>> Running postfix version 252~rc2-1. Yes my relay host is set to my ISP's >>> smtp server. > >> You did this with dpkg-reconfigure? > > No, I set it up in /etc/postfix/main.cf > >>> Note: 'This' mail is bein

Re: Alt-gr key not working correctly under X after a testing upgrade

2008-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 22:36:36 +0200, Julien Barnier wrote: > Hi, > > I recently made a «dist-upgrade» on my Thinkpad T21 laptop under > Debian testing (xerver-xorg v7.3+10, kernel 2.6.24-6). > > Since then I have a very strange behavior of the «Alt-Gr» key under X > (works fine in a terminal o

Problem with rsync between debian sid and nfs from opensuse

2008-05-20 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello everybody, I'm trying to do a rsync from my home directory (Debian Sid i386) to a NFS mounted on this system, but mounted from a OpenSuse 10.3. The permissions are right on both ends (Debian and OpenSuse), and the rsync starts ok, but after a few gigas rsync error: some files could not

Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
>> Running postfix version 252~rc2-1. Yes my relay host is set to my ISP's >> smtp server. > You did this with dpkg-reconfigure? No, I set it up in /etc/postfix/main.cf >> Note: 'This' mail is being sent on my system using icedove. >Directly configured to point to smtp.${yourisp}.net? Yes.

Re: capturing BookTV videos

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 11:41, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Has anyone been able to capture/download BookTV videos under linux? They > seem to go to great lengths to hide and/or obfuscate the url so I can't > find one to give to mplayer. Actually, I can't even watch them

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/20 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Did you notice that you can actually tab between the fields of the login > dialog? > Yes, that is in HTML. After that the user opens another page, and only then opens the Java applet. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/20/2008 09:51 AM, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 17:56:24 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 16:38:13 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 15:01:49 -0300, M

capturing BookTV videos

2008-05-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
Has anyone been able to capture/download BookTV videos under linux? They seem to go to great lengths to hide and/or obfuscate the url so I can't find one to give to mplayer. Actually, I can't even watch them. The page has some CDATA with 'ActiveX' in it so maybe they require MS. -- "It is not unc

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:51:17 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 17:56:24 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 16:38:13 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: [...] > Hi! follows a copy of my /

hwinfo hangs up the modem

2008-05-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Running hwinfo (13.41) I ran into an interesting feature: I was online + all indicators show I am still online, but the phone starts ringing. Then if you access a webpage an error occurs. This is with an analog modem. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, May 20, 2008 6:26 am, Samuel Bächler wrote: > That' s not what I meant. By the term "normal" user I am thinking of > someone who sees some advantages of using a computer but does not > want to make his living out of it. Therefore that person maybe is willing > to spend some of his wage to t

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 09:51, Wayne Topa wrote: > More information on my mail problem. > > Ron Johnson asked >> How have you configured your MUA? To use your ISP's smtp > server, or >> to use a local MTA as a relay host? > > > Running postfix version 252~rc2-

Re: blogging - alternative packages

2008-05-20 Thread Brian McKee
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the > present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress. > > WordPress rapidly is increasing in complexity because features are > being adde

Re: acpi kernel modules - obsolete or not?

2008-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 04:17:00AM -0700, Bill wrote: > On Mon, 2008-19-05 at 21:55 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > ACPI will be replaced, but it's APM (and Plug-and-Play) that is > > deprecated in favor of ACPI. It is widely needed by billions of > > motherboards, and won't be eliminated entirely

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
More information on my mail problem. Ron Johnson asked How have you configured your MUA? To use your ISP's smtp > server, or to use a local MTA as a relay host? Running postfix version 252~rc2-1. Yes my relay host is set to my ISP's smtp server. Note: 'This' mail is being sent on my syste

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-20 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 17:56:24 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 16:38:13 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 15:01:49 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On

Re: printing setup

2008-05-20 Thread tyler
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080517 13:49]: >> tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one >>> thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose >>> the top

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

2008-05-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. The logs showed nothing up to the moment. That hasn't happened since I bought this mobo 3

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue May 20 2008, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: > "that it had all the cool effects" > Don't what you exactly mean with cool effects. Is it the KDE desktop, > the login-window or some 3d animations? I am guessing it is the compiz 3D effects, wobbly windows, window shades, cube effect.. All I know is

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-20 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 16 2008, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: Before spending many hours trying to get a usable Xserver-configuration (or other configs), I always used an live-cd like Sidux, Knoppix, Kanotix or maybe Ubuntu (all Debian based). The distribution running the best way, you can

Re: strange chars in xterm (etc)

2008-05-20 Thread Francis Earl
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:33:17 michael wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 04:23 -0700, Francis Earl wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:01:49 michael wrote: > > > If I run > > > xterm -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > or > > > gnome-terminal -x ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > from my Debian box "rat", then

Re: Setting Video Card

2008-05-20 Thread Peter Kuma
vvokong wrote: > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" does not work, when i install lenny today. > . > This command only askes question for keyboard, and nothing for video card. > > ... > > When I install lenny about one week ago, this command works well. > What's wrong with it ? > The bug was repor

Re: strange chars in xterm (etc)

2008-05-20 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 04:23 -0700, Francis Earl wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:01:49 michael wrote: > > If I run > > xterm -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > or > > gnome-terminal -x ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > from my Debian box "rat", then I get some strange chars in the manual > > pages on the 'hp

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-20 Thread Samuel Bächler
The idea which came to my mind some time ago was to establish a marketplace where "geeks" meet "normal" users. You invented the mailing list? That' s not what I meant. By the term "normal" user I am thinking of someone who sees some advantages of using a computer but does not want to m

Re: strange chars in xterm

2008-05-20 Thread Francis Earl
What version of Debian is this? Why aren't you using UTF8? Try enabled UTF8 and see if the characters are still strange. On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:01:49 michael wrote: > If I run > xterm -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or > gnome-terminal -x ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > from my Debian box "rat", then I ge

Re: acpi kernel modules - obsolete or not?

2008-05-20 Thread Bill
On Mon, 2008-19-05 at 21:55 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > ACPI will be replaced, but it's APM (and Plug-and-Play) that is > deprecated in favor of ACPI. It is widely needed by billions of > motherboards, and won't be eliminated entirely anytime soon. Well have a look at the 2.6.25 documentation

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 17:56:24 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 16:38:13 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 15:01:49 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mo

strange chars in remote ssh session

2008-05-20 Thread michael
If I run xterm -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] or gnome-terminal -x ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my Debian box "rat", then I get some strange chars in the manual pages on the 'hpc' machine, eg for `man bash` the pipe char "|" comes out as an "a" with a hat (^) above it (see attached screenshot) but I can'

strange chars in xterm

2008-05-20 Thread michael
If I run xterm -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] or gnome-terminal -x ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my Debian box "rat", then I get some strange chars in the manual pages on the 'hpc' machine, eg for `man bash` the pipe char "|" comes out as an "a" with a hat (^) above it (see attached screenshot) but I can'

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-20 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Samuel Bächler wrote: Here it is, no error messages: Now, what lead to the solution? s. Well, I am thinking about: a) cry b) use a hammer c) go back to the 32 bit architecture as soon as possible. Many problems with the amd64 port, for me at last... M. -- Marcelo Chiapparini -- To UNSU

Re: Anti-gaming Behaviour of Keyboard Driver

2008-05-20 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On May 19, 12:40 pm, "Dmitryi & Elf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually the problem is more straightforward. Quake locks key input when > [Control] is pressed. That key is bound to fire, so until the fire action > is released, the game won't recognise any new keypresses. Looks like > scancodes g

openoffice java problem in sid

2008-05-20 Thread niclas w
I can't set java runtime environment in openoffice 2.4.0 (openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-6) Tools >> Options >> Openoffice.org >> Java When I set jre to Sun Microsystems 1.6.0_06 it seems to work but when I reopen the window it's not set. Niether does it tell me to restart oo. Also I can't chang

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Dotan Cohen on 20/05/08 10:17, wrote: There is now an English-language demo of the Java applet, but it takes some work to get to. First, go to this URL: http://mathnet.math.technion.ac.il/ Then click on the text "English demo of MathNet". To log in use these credentials: Enter "demo" in the top i

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
There is now an English-language demo of the Java applet, but it takes some work to get to. First, go to this URL: http://mathnet.math.technion.ac.il/ Then click on the text "English demo of MathNet". To log in use these credentials: Enter "demo" in the top input box. Enter "d" in the bottom input