NVidia - blanking problems

2008-08-18 Thread Rob Gom
Hello, I have: - Debian SID (updated month ago or so) - 2.6.25 x86_64 kernel on my laptop with NVidia card - NVidia proprietary drivers, most probably 173.14.09-3 (I'm writing this from another computer) Kernel and nvidia are official Debian packages. The problem: when my screen goes blank, it can

Re: Best fs for imapserver?

2008-08-18 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:52 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > There has alway been talk that if you use xfs make sure you have a ups > as well. > > > I use XFS, like it for my large partitions and I have a ups The reasoning behind this is that an unclean shutdown can cause severe data loss. Strangely e

Re: wifi connection manager recommenadations

2008-08-18 Thread Dale
Hi, 2008/8/17 Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have the same wireless card as you and I use: >> $ dpkg -l |grep network-manager >> ii network-manager 0.6.6-2 >> network management framework daemon >> ii network-manager-gnome0.6.6-2 >> network management

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-18 Thread Jos Collin
This should work for 64-bit. http://www.fsckin.com/2007/09/20/how-to-install-adobe-flash-player-for-amd64-64-bit-on-debian-etch/ - Jos Collin On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > > kj <[EMAIL PROT

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-18 Thread Jos Collin
This should work for 64-bit. http://www.fsckin.com/2007/09/20/how-to-install-adobe-flash-player-for-amd64-64-bit-on-debian-etch/ - Jos Collin On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > > kj <[EMAIL PROT

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Jos Collin
> (Java, Flash, etc. are not yet released in 64-bit compatible > versions). This requires some workaround but is generally manageable; > software that is not available in 64-bit versions will usually just be > run in 32-bit compatibility mode. This is true. Flash is not yet released in 64-bit co

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:46:53PM -0500, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I accidentally made all the files on my system owned by > me and am trying to get them back to where they should be. > > Is there any utility that at least gets all the system > files ba

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:03:57PM -0600, Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: [snipped -- please don't repeat long emails if you're just responding to one part] > Also, recently, I discovered that a dual or quad CPU board only > provides load balancing and not greater speed

Re: Best fs for imapserver?

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:34:58PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10:42PM +0200, Eric Persson wrote: > > > I'm looking to improve the performance on one of our imap-servers > > since its getting slow on large folders with 100k or more files in > > I'm not sure this is a

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:13:29PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > «(Java, Flash, etc. are not yet released in 64-bit compatible > versions)» browser plugins > > Huh? I'm using Java (Eclipse) and flash (mozilla) on 2.6.18-6-amd64... > > -- > Nuno Magalhães -- "A dictatorship would be a heck of

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Jeff Soules
So am I -- thought that was via a compatibility layer, though? I know I'm running Adobe's flash player, which has not been released in a 64-bit version, on my 64-bit box here... On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Nuno Magalhães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > «(Java, Flash, etc. are not yet released i

Re: dovecot help?

2008-08-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:28:58PM -0400, I Rattan wrote: > userdb passwd-file { > args = /etc/passwd > } Why aren't you just using pam? Try commenting out userdb/passdb and using: passdb pam {} instead. -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks"

Re: Best fs for imapserver?

2008-08-18 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10:42PM +0200, Eric Persson wrote: > I'm looking to improve the performance on one of our imap-servers > since its getting slow on large folders with 100k or more files in I'm not sure this is as true as it used to be, especially if you're using ext3 with dir_index enab

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
«(Java, Flash, etc. are not yet released in 64-bit compatible versions)» Huh? I'm using Java (Eclipse) and flash (mozilla) on 2.6.18-6-amd64... -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: pci-to-parallel vs usb-to-parallel?

2008-08-18 Thread Bob McGowan
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:00:06AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Mike Fontenot wrote: My new PC doesn't have a parallel port on the back (or anywhere else), and I need one for my HP1200 B/W lase

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 18 14:51 -0500]: > Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CB> Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > >> 14 years! > CB> 15 years even! :) > > whoa. & i've been running it for 11. has anyone here been with > debian from the start?

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: crank writes: whoa. & i've been running it for 11. has anyone here been with debian from the start? I started with 1.1 (there was no 1.0). And that was 15 years ago? 1993? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:46:53PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I accidentally made all the files on my system owned by > me and am trying to get them back to where they should be. I did this about 2-3 weeks ago, although all to root (damned cold). it was only a test machine, just going

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > If I'm hearing folks correctly, is 32-bit flash running out of the box > on 64-bit lenny now? If it's not running out of the box, could someone > please post a link to a HOWTO? Thanks! apt

Re: sid browsers considering kernel changelogs as man pages

2008-08-18 Thread Fabrice LORRAIN
Martin Ågren a écrit : 2008/8/17 Fabrice Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I tried to have a look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24 and all the browsers I tested, considered this as a man page and want to download it instead of just showing it. The server does indeed

Re: Differences in PCI boards...

2008-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/18/08 13:10, Mike Fontenot wrote: I was surprised to find out that there are differences and incompatabilities between some PCI cards vs some motherboards. Specifically, several perturbations of 5v vs 3.3v vs "either one will work". I've been trying to decide on a parallel port PCI card, a

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 18 August 2008 23:03, Ted Hilts wrote: > Jeff Soules wrote: > > AMD is a chip manufacturer. They started out (~20 years ago) as a > > "second source" for 286 processors, but since then they have been > > producing independently-designed chips within the x86 architecture > > (i.e. they us

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Jeff Soules
Hi Ted, Thanks for clarifying -- hopefully that'll give the wiser heads around here a bit more of a lead on how to help you. I've done a little bit of research into virtualization, but only just scratching the surface, and nothing on the level that you're describing--it sounds like you'll have a

Re: Gnome desktop: mouse suddenly won't move to left screen

2008-08-18 Thread Ted Hilts
Andrew Perrin wrote: I'm sure this is something simple, but on my gnome desktop which uses an ATI dual-output card for a dual-screen layout, I suddenly can't move the mouse off the right-side screen. The left side is recognized by the resolution switcher, and displays fine, but there's no way

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread John Hasler
crank writes: > whoa. & i've been running it for 11. has anyone here been with > debian from the start? I started with 1.1 (there was no 1.0). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Shachar Or
What a nice thing, this is... an [1]interesting number by all means. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_(number) -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Ted Hilts
Jeff Soules wrote: AMD is a chip manufacturer. They started out (~20 years ago) as a "second source" for 286 processors, but since then they have been producing independently-designed chips within the x86 architecture (i.e. they use the same instruction set). (See: AMD: http://en.wikipedia.org/

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CB> Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: >> 14 years! CB> 15 years even! :) whoa. & i've been running it for 11. has anyone here been with debian from the start? lish [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-18 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DJ> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:48:23AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >> gotcha. ok, so it loads lynx now without incident, but it's still >> using default oldlynx colors, which is at least a step better than default DJ> Have you looked

Test2 (was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.)

2008-08-18 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Testing (2). Please ignore. -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.)

Test (was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.)

2008-08-18 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Testing. Please ignore. -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.)

Re: Differences in PCI boards...

2008-08-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike Fontenot wrote: I was surprised to find out that there are differences and incompatabilities between some PCI cards vs some motherboards. Specifically, several perturbations of 5v vs 3.3v vs "either one will work". I've been trying to decide on a parallel port PCI card, and had pretty much

Gnome desktop: mouse suddenly won't move to left screen

2008-08-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm sure this is something simple, but on my gnome desktop which uses an ATI dual-output card for a dual-screen layout, I suddenly can't move the mouse off the right-side screen. The left side is recognized by the resolution switcher, and displays fine, but there's no way (that I can see) to ac

Re: pci-to-parallel vs usb-to-parallel?

2008-08-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:00:06AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >>> Mike Fontenot wrote: My new PC doesn't have a parallel port on the back (or anywhere else), and I need one for my HP1200 B/W laser printe

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: David Goodenough wrote: Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr or ifconfig. David Thanks for that

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of k

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Ted Hilts
Kent West wrote: Ted Hilts wrote: Can someone enlighten me regarding my confusion with the term AMD. 1, I know that the term AMD (American Micro Devices) is supposed to be a 'second source' for Intel 32bit and 64bit microprocessors. You're incorrect. They're two totally different chip

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
David Goodenough wrote: >> Does this look like it's happy with the driver? >> Cheers, >> Jonathan >> >> -- >> Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ > > Its a good start. Now you need to try connecting to the great outside. > > David OK, thanks David. We'll look for an AP and gi

dovecot help?

2008-08-18 Thread I Rattan
Trying to make dovecot-imap server run under linux (Linux tigaon 2.6.25-4.slh.3-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 23 21:58:49 \ UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux) The following config generates the error: dovecot: Aug 18 13:33:51 Error: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/passwd: \ User root has invalid UID

Re: User authentication question?

2008-08-18 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Ishwar Rattan escreveu: The system is: Linux pali 2.6.23.14-slh-smp-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 14 23:28:40 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux I am trying to configure dovecot imap server. How can I figure if the system is PAM for authentication or not? Can it be configured to user /etc/shadow info to a

Re: copying ms-windows

2008-08-18 Thread Philipp Hübner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pol schrieb: > I am planning to change my hard disk, where linux will be re-installed. > I would like to move my ms-windows/xp bootable partition to the new disk, > without re-installing. Is that possible? > Any suggestions? Put both harddisks in one

Differences in PCI boards...

2008-08-18 Thread Mike Fontenot
I was surprised to find out that there are differences and incompatabilities between some PCI cards vs some motherboards. Specifically, several perturbations of 5v vs 3.3v vs "either one will work". I've been trying to decide on a parallel port PCI card, and had pretty much settled on a Rosewill b

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Jeff Soules
AMD is a chip manufacturer. They started out (~20 years ago) as a "second source" for 286 processors, but since then they have been producing independently-designed chips within the x86 architecture (i.e. they use the same instruction set). (See: AMD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD x86 architec

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Kent West
Ted Hilts wrote: > Can someone enlighten me regarding my confusion with the term AMD. > > 1, I know that the term AMD (American Micro Devices) is supposed to be > a 'second source' for Intel 32bit and 64bit microprocessors. You're incorrect. They're two totally different chips, which are mostly co

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > > > > Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by > > looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to > > see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip

KDE Automount stopped working

2008-08-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Users, For a few days now, KDE has stopped automounting my USB and CDs. I seem to have to mount them myself now. To perform some diagnostics, I attempted to purge and reinstall hal, udev and kdebase-kioplugins, but to no avail. Then, to check if the problem was something in my KDE dot

RE: copying ms-windows

2008-08-18 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: copying ms-windows >Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:47:44 -0500 > >>> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pol >>> Subject: copying ms-windows >>> >>> I am planning

debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Ted Hilts
Can someone enlighten me regarding my confusion with the term AMD. 1, I know that the term AMD (American Micro Devices) is supposed to be a 'second source' for Intel 32bit and 64bit microprocessors. But it seems based on what I have read on this relationship between AMD and Intel that there i

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Aug 18 11:35 -0500]: > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > 14 years! > > 15 years even! :) 15 is odd. ;-) HBD, Debian, the universal OS. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> 15 years even! :) Any "parties" happening in your area? I attended one last saturday in Aveiro, Portugal. Will there be a program to calculate the amount of alcohol in home-made beer in the Debian repositories in it becomes of age? ;) -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
David Goodenough wrote: > > Without a nearby AP it is kind of difficult, but you can get clues by > looking at /var/log/syslog for madwifi related messages, and looking to > see if there is an interface included in the list you get from ip addr or > ifconfig. > > David Thanks for that David. I

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > 14 years! 15 years even! :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. > > > > Wayne > > None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David > also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still > couldn't g

Re: 2.6.24 deprecated?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Felipe Gallois wrote: > i face it sometimes too > i'm using the same kernel as you and to be honest, i feel no need to > upgrade to 2.6.25 by this time... > what i usually do is install the headers from the CD/DVD and then forget > about it ;) > > when the kernel changelog includes something that

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Wayne Topa wrote: > > My apologies to Jonathan for 'my' mis-information. > > Wayne None required, Wayne. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks to David also. I tried the madwifi package ath_pci, ath_hal and wlan but still couldn't get the wifi to work. Is there anyway of knowing (without

User authentication question?

2008-08-18 Thread Ishwar Rattan
The system is: Linux pali 2.6.23.14-slh-smp-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 14 23:28:40 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux I am trying to configure dovecot imap server. How can I figure if the system is PAM for authentication or not? Can it be configured to user /etc/shadow info to authenticate the users on

Re: pci-to-parallel vs usb-to-parallel?

2008-08-18 Thread Bob McGowan
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Mike Fontenot wrote: My new PC doesn't have a parallel port on the back (or anywhere else), and I need one for my HP1200 B/W laser printer. I've seen inexpensive PCI cards that have one or two parallel ports, and

Re: hibernate s2ram so that I could sleep well

2008-08-18 Thread Bob McGowan
Shachar Or wrote: Hi! I've moved my desktop to my room, where I sleep at night and it is very close to the floor and to my head (I sleep on the floor (not directly, of course)) so the little noise made by the large silent fans is too much. I am thinking of suspending it at night because I do

Re: sid browsers considering kernel changelogs as man pages

2008-08-18 Thread Martin Ågren
2008/8/17 Fabrice Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I tried to have a look at > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24 > > and all the browsers I tested, considered this as a man page and want to > download it instead of just showing it. The server does indeed tell your browsers

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-18 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:48:23AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TD> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:30:17AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. > wrote: > >> Configuration file "3D3D/tmp/lynxcfg22579" is not available. > TD> That's mime-encodin

Re: starting apache at boot?

2008-08-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 23:24:56 -0400, Zach Uram wrote: > I manually compiled apache2 since the version packaged for Debian is > the threaded version which causes fatal memory errors on my VPS host > and it works great but now I need to tell it to start every time my > system boots. Running Debian

Re: starting apache at boot?

2008-08-18 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Sunday 17 August 2008 06.24.56 Zach Uram wrote: > I manually compiled apache2 since the version packaged for Debian is > the threaded version which causes fatal memory errors on my VPS host *The* version? $ aptitude search '^apache2-mpm' v apache2-mpm

Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
14 years! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: copying ms-windows

2008-08-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-18 14:47 +0200, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > To clone a Windows partition I would look into tools like Norton Ghost > (paid), or partimage (Open Source). I have never done this myself, but I've heard that ntfsclone (from the ntfsprogs package) is the preferred tool for that task. NTFS su

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
David Goodenough wrote: On Monday 18 August 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, <<-- SNIP --> At this link http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k I found the following instructions: Enabling ath9k To enable ath9k, you must first enable mac80211: I'm not sure what

Re: Problem with chrooted Etch

2008-08-18 Thread andy baxter
Roger Leigh wrote: "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When I open a terminal from an X-Window it does not accept entries and after a minute displays a message, "There was an error creating a child process for this terminal." In some cases there was a message like failed to creat

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 18 August 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian > > Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and > > found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/17/08 15:59, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over the drivers and released the code. It seems I need an

Re: Error when installing flashplugin-nonfree on sid amd64

2008-08-18 Thread Star Liu
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 16:26:29 +0800, Star Liu wrote: >> Here is the output when i install flashplugin-nonfree on sid amd64 >> --- >> Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (1:1.6.2) ... >> wget failed to dow

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:06:11 -0500 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kemp writes: > > No. The ideal solution is that you restore from your backups... > > Ironically, this all started from an upgrade to increase drive > capacity i

Re: 2.6.24 deprecated?

2008-08-18 Thread Felipe Gallois
i face it sometimes too i'm using the same kernel as you and to be honest, i feel no need to upgrade to 2.6.25 by this time... what i usually do is install the headers from the CD/DVD and then forget about it ;) when the kernel changelog includes something that seems worth the upgrade for me, i do

Re: Disk-like interface in umts modem

2008-08-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Rodolfo Medina wrote: On 08/17/2008 07:34 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Perhaps your modem has some sort of disk-like interface that is inactive or inaccessible by default. Look at the manual for the device. Unfortunately the manual says nothing about

Re: debian upgrade process is dirty

2008-08-18 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Monday 18 August 2008 05.21.09 Jude DaShiell wrote: > Earlier I was having problems installing podracer; clamav, and nethack on > lenny. What problem? What you wrote earlier was in Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was: > The packages could be installed using a command line > like: aptitude -

starting apache at boot?

2008-08-18 Thread Zach Uram
I manually compiled apache2 since the version packaged for Debian is the threaded version which causes fatal memory errors on my VPS host and it works great but now I need to tell it to start every time my system boots. Running Debian lenny/sid (testing release) with 2.6.18 Linux kernel. How exactl

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Martin McCormick
Steve Kemp writes: > No. The ideal solution is that you restore from your backups... Ironically, this all started from an upgrade to increase drive capacity in order to make daily backups of the entire system. Home is well backed up but the system backups are too old to use. I

type 1 fonts (without X11)?

2008-08-18 Thread Adam Hardy
How can I get the type 1 fonts (without installing X11 which is the only way I found by searching the net)? I am using ntop which is throwing an error: Error: fontconfig: Didn't find expected font family. Perhaps URW Type 1 fonts need installing? : Helvetica I tried installing various useful

RE: copying ms-windows

2008-08-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pol > Subject: copying ms-windows > > I am planning to change my hard disk, where linux will be re-installed. > I would like to move my ms-windows/xp bootable partition to the new disk, > without re-installing. Is that possible? > Any suggestion

Re: Problem with chrooted Etch

2008-08-18 Thread andy baxter
andy baxter wrote: #!/bin/bash # # testing-shell - start a root shell chrooted to the testing release. # must be run as root JAIL_ROOT=/jail # modify this to point to your chrooted directory. PROGRAM=$0 if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ] ; then echo "Must be run as root" exit fi if [

git error

2008-08-18 Thread hce
Hi, I installed git and git-core by apt-get install, but was running git to following errors, I have no problem to install and run git in FC and CentOS. Please advice what was the problem? git, the filemanager with GNU Interactive Tools, is now called gitfm. If you are looking for git, Linus Tor

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 22:27 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: > >>> > >>> /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 > >>> > >>> , so I normally mount my usb pendrive simply

User can't unmount by uuid (was: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in)

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I have Debian Etch. >>> >>> In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: >>> >>> /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 >>> >>> , so I normally mount my usb pendrive simply with: >>> >>> $ mount /mnt/sda Ron Johnson <

Re: Disk-like interface in umts modem (was: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in)

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 08/17/2008 07:34 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> For some reason, although the umts device is mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0, >> /dev/sda comes to be `busy'. So, if I add in fstab another line: >> >> /dev/sdb/mnt/sdb vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 >> >> , I can mount the pendrive on /

2.6.24 deprecated?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, I'm running Debian Lenny with a 2.6.24-1-686 kernel. I notice that there are now no lenny packages for the corresponding linux-headers. Is this Debian's gentle way of suggesting that it's time to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.25-2? TIA, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counte

User can't unmount by UUID

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I sent this yesterday, but never saw it come through. I'm sending it again. Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I have Debian Etch. >>> >>> In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: >>> >>> /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 >>> >>> , so I normall

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use nvidia-installer to UNinst

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-18 Thread H.S.
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > 2008/8/16 Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> If I use nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, > > Btw, the installer from nvidia's website doesn't play nicely with > Debian's packaging system, as you have seen. The Debian way to do it > is something like th

copying ms-windows

2008-08-18 Thread Pol
I am planning to change my hard disk, where linux will be re-installed. I would like to move my ms-windows/xp bootable partition to the new disk, without re-installing. Is that possible? Any suggestions? Thank you -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I sent this yesterday, but never saw it come through. I'm sending it again. Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I have Debian Etch. >>> >>> In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: >>> >>> /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 >>> >>> , so I normally

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-18 Thread Bill Wohler
kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At work I'm starting to push the limits of my RAM with MySQL/InnoDB on > my workstation (I do dev/testing on my workstation). I have 64bit > hardware, capable of taking 8gb memory. I know what you mean. I recently bumped my machine up to 12 GB and it's already fu

Re: Difference between `user' and `users' mount option (was: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in)

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 22:27 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Another thing that is not clear to me is the difference between the `user' >> and `users' options of `mount' command. "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sent this yesterday, but never saw it come through. If you saw t

Re: uvesafb with linux-image-2.6.26-1-686

2008-08-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-08-15 14:13 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am going to play with the latest 2.6.26 kernel and change those uvesafb 'm's to 'y's I think. Although the object was to have a Debian kernel with framebuffers just from installs. Note that this ma

where is ath9k?

2008-08-18 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a wifi driver on an Acer Aspire 3500 running Debian Lenny 2.6.25 with a 802.11b/g wlan. I did some heavy-duty googling and found the madwifi website which then said that Atheros had taken over the drivers and released the code. It seems I need an ath9k driver and that I

Re: Referring in fstab by uuid (was: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in)

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 06:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> in /etc/fstab I'd refer to that drive not as >> /dev/sda but by it's UUID. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You need to have pmount installed, and be a member of the pmount group > for this to be true, interestingly enough.

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-18 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TD> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:30:17AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >> Configuration file "3D3D/tmp/lynxcfg22579" is not available. TD> That's mime-encoding (a nuisance to get rid of unless your newsreader TD> understands the attachments). He

Re: Apache adding users?

2008-08-18 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:29:27 -0400 "Zach Uram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Apache 1.3 and now as root to add content I add files > into /var/www > > I have a regular user /home/bob but how do I allow him to a have space > on the webserver and what will his URL be? > > Also how do I enabl

test post

2008-08-18 Thread andy baxter
just checking that I can post to the list? (I tried twice replying to a post and it failed) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is apt-build compatible with aptitude?

2008-08-18 Thread Aniruddha
I would like to use apt-build for certain programs. However I wonder if apt-build is compatible with aptitude. From what I understand aptitude is the preferred application (instead of apt-get) because of better (reverse) dependency handling by aptitude. Using apt-get interferes with aptitude in th

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-18 Thread abel
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:21:30 +0200 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:26 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I *think* it works, but this is your data... > > > > > I suspect that running update-grub isn't mandatory, I can always > > > update m

Re: chroot ?

2008-08-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 17 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > devpts-live on /home/live/chroot/dev/pts type devpts (rw) > > > proc-live on /home/live/chroot/proc type proc (rw) > > sysfs-live on /home/live/chroot/sys type sysfs (rw) > > --- > > I was attempting to make a Debian ISO using someones web

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