Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/08 01:39, Thierry Chatelet wrote: [snip] I dont want to start a church war, but try try aptitude why-not Or a Culture War: I'll give you my apt-get when you take it from my cold, dead hands! -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remembe

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2008 08:25:04 JoeHill wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > > > > JoeHill wrote: > > > >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages > > > >> are preventing HAL from being installed

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/23/08 01:25, JoeHill wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > >>> JoeHill wrote: > >>> > Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are > preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/08 01:25, JoeHill wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: JoeHill wrote: Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure. ...forgot to mention, I did run th

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 23 October 2008 08:25:04 JoeHill wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > > > JoeHill wrote: > > >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages > > >> are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? > > >> Not s

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > > JoeHill wrote: > > > >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are > >> preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not > >> sure. > > > > ...forgot to mention, I did run the 's

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: JoeHill wrote: Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure. ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see what the 'proposed rem

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Oct 23, 2008 at 00:27:23 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > Screen is a truly great program but this has nothing to do with running > graphical apps using X-forwarding over ssh (which I believe is what you > are doing). Here is more information on screen: > > http://delicious.com/andmalc/s

Re: Xorg - nv - 8600GT blank screen problem.

2008-10-22 Thread en0f
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > I am having issues with my new video card MSI 8600GT. Xorg fires up > properly and everything is fine as long as I am within X. The moment > I try to switch one of the VCs (c-a-f1/2 etc) or exit X, all I get is > blank screen and no response from KB/mouse etc. Soon

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
JoeHill wrote: > Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are > preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not sure. ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see what the 'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm con

Re: Desktop search engines

2008-10-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:38:23 -0700 John Magolske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > My understanding is that recoll is gui only...is that true? I've been recoll can be run from the CLI with the -t switch. I don't have much experience using it this way. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote

cannot install all updates

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Hi, Very new to Debian, so far so very very good. Running Debian Testing, having to relearn a lot as I'm coming from an RPM-based distro. This one I don't want to leave to trial and error, though. The update applet is telling me there are updates available, but I get an error that 'not all upda

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:10:27 -0400, "Kamaraju S Kusumanchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Eric De Mund wrote: > > > This email was composed on my ISP which I am ssh'ed in to from a screen > > session on my home system. Which, in turn, I've ssh'ed in to from work. > > If my work->home connection die

Xorg - nv - 8600GT blank screen problem.

2008-10-22 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I am having issues with my new video card MSI 8600GT. Xorg fires up properly and everything is fine as long as I am within X. The moment I try to switch one of the VCs (c-a-f1/2 etc) or exit X, all I get is blank screen and no response from KB/mouse etc. Soon the monitor goes into power save. T

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread H.S.
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> > > Does screen work well with graphical applications? I know it is a very good > app for text based applications such as vim. But what if I use gvim/texmacs > for most of the editing? I am using screen with rtorrent (terminal graphics based) and irssi (terminal

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 20 October 2008 19:13, Hatta wrote: > Yes, I have run 'update-initramfs -v -u -k 2.6.24-1-686' > > This had no effect. > > I cannot find any documentation as to how the system is supposed to find > and > unencrypt encrypted drives. When in the boot process is the system > supposed to loa

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eric De Mund wrote: > This email was composed on my ISP which I am ssh'ed in to from a screen > session on my home system. Which, in turn, I've ssh'ed in to from work. > If my work->home connection dies, I simply reconnect to home via ssh, > then resume my screen session. When I resume the screen

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:59:36PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: > I originally posted about installing Gnome (and X) on a base setup to > avoid the entire 'Gnome Experience' inclusive of the web browser I don't > use, mail/news client I don't use, the 17 games I won't play, etc... > I'v

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:23:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't make > these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 minutes), > the ssh connection just freezes up. As a result, I have to kill all the

Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental

2008-10-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue,21.Oct.08, 18:47:07, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> The most recent obvious candidate change is the most recent kernel update, >> which I did shortly before the first freeze. This was the upgrade to >> linux-image-2.6.26

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:56:30 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Look for some package like gnome-minimal, gnome-core, etc., that > installs only the minimal requirements, then install other parts as > necessary. Yes, second to that. During Debian intallation, don't select gnome. Afterward, ins

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Eric De Mund
Raju, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ] I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't ] make these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 ] minutes), the ssh connection just freezes up. As a result, I have to ] kill all the gvim, xterm windows

Re: Catch-all mail server for test environment

2008-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, "Ketil Froyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Catch-all mail server for test environment': >Any tips on the best way to achieve this with Debian? And maybe exim, > which is the installed mta? I'm not that expierenced with exim, but it seems entirely capable. My fi

Re: Samba LDAP

2008-10-22 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
Hi again Mi idea is that the users could acces to their directories getting acces on aserver and get theirs directories y any machinne, like active directory -- Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto ( KrLoS ) Free and OpenSource Software Developer GNULinux Registered User #379182 GNULinux Registered Machi

Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental

2008-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,21.Oct.08, 18:47:07, Kelly Clowers wrote: > The most recent obvious candidate change is the most recent kernel update, > which I did shortly before the first freeze. This was the upgrade to > linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-9. > > I see nothing in syslog - everything is normal and

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,22.Oct.08, 09:33:58, Aioanei Rares wrote: > I've read something about a year ago that adding an entry in fstab for usb > sticks isn't > such a good idea...can't remember the link though.YMMV. Hhm, ... $ grep mirror /etc/fstab LABEL=mirror/media/mirror ext3user,noatime,data=journ

Samba LDAP failed

2008-10-22 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
Hi people I am installing samba and ldap on an ubunto machinne, but I could get the windows terminals on it, well i do an apt-get remove -- purge all the tools that I had installed for it, and re do it again atep by step, but when I try to populate the smbldap, it fails [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/smbl

latex/maketextfm problem

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi all, I am trying to use a latex template that leads to the following error. The problem seems to be related to a file called hv or to the fact that fonts cannot be created at a certian size (last two lines). I have seen some problems similar to the second issue in various mailing lists, but

Re: howto create debian package with conf files

2008-10-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
lucas kenter wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to create a debian package for a simple project that I've > created. Ask on debian-mentors. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

howto create debian package with conf files

2008-10-22 Thread lucas kenter
Hello, I would like to create a debian package for a simple project that I've created. The project contains only scripts, so there is no makefile or anything like that. For the script to work I would like to prompt for some simple questions like "what url should be used", "what organisation does t

Samba LDAP

2008-10-22 Thread Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto
Hi people I have a problem, which is in other thread, well Ia m installing samba and ldapo on a ubuntu machinne but it give some problems that i must fix, but before begin to fight with the problem i want to know your opinion and experiences on this tools. for make a better decision (Kill my machi

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Ketil Froyn
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/22/08 14:23, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't make >> these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 minutes), >> the ssh connect

Re: libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-22 Thread Bob McGowan
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 20:14 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:31:27 -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > [ snip: the config file sets and exports LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other > > > environmental variables. ] > > > <> > > Awesome! However, acuSim has a su

Re: how to separate Debian list emails from my other emails ...

2008-10-22 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
David Bernier wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I use the Icedove mail-client for my email. Icedove works like > Thunderbird. I continue my subscription so that I can send mail to the > list. > > With the high volume on this list, it's necessary for me to sift through > lots > of headers to separ

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread en0f
en0f wrote: > Probably off-topic but nonetheless helpful but KDE on Lenny right now is s/KDE/KDE4/g -- en0f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread en0f
Magnus Pedersen wrote: > I had the same problems with kde, my strategy was to install the bits I > knew I needed. For instance, I needed kdm and kwin so I installed those, > realised I needed konqueror as well and installed that and so fort... Probably off-topic but nonetheless helpful but KDE on

Catch-all mail server for test environment

2008-10-22 Thread Ketil Froyn
Hi, I am setting up a qa/test environment in which to test a system. As part of that, I need to set up a mail server that will accept email to any email address (any local part, any domain part), and either deliver it to a local account (where I can pop it or something), or forward it to a real em

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/08 14:23, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't make these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 minutes), the ssh connection just freezes up. As a result, I have to kill all the gvim, xterm windows opened

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Kamaraju, I have the same problem, I ended up resolving it by setting the following option; ServerAliveInterval=30 This forces SSH to send traffic around every 30 seconds if it's idle, keeping my work's firewall happy. Cheers, Tyler Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't make these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 minutes), the ssh connection just freezes up. As a result, I have to kill all the gvim, xterm windows opened from that terminal. This is very annoying if I am

Re: fixrtf in debian ?

2008-10-22 Thread mathieu
On Oct 22, 12:00 pm, "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using doxygen to generate rtf files, but I cannot find any way > to embedded them into the document (even using winword). Searching on > the web I found that the FreeBSD people have a fixrtf: > > A patch maki

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Why don't they make a debian version with OpenBSD's kernel? It seems to > support most hardware, with a BSD licence. But then we can't run the > nVidia drivers, and perhaps not watch flash movies. Oh well. That would require someone who w

Re: nis user and group id conflicts with user and group id for libuuid on nis client

2008-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, BERGY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'nis user and group id conflicts with user and group id for libuuid on nis client': >I added a nis user 'sushmita' on the server. The server is running >cent os. She can login on the server (nataraj) >uid=532(sushmita) gid=534(su

Re: /dev/shm lost

2008-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:16:08 +, T o n g wrote: > > n Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:55:55 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >> I used to have the tmpfs /dev/shm, but lost it due to recent update. > >> > >> I'm wondering who is in charge of creating it -- so as to get it back. > > > > /etc/init.d/mo

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Ken writes: > I'd try this: > dpkg --purge gnome > That should remove gnome and all of its extra packages. No. That will just remove the gnome metapackage and all of its configuration files. Since it has none that command will do nothing 'dpkg -r gnome' wouldn't do. -- John Hasler -- To UN

nis user and group id conflicts with user and group id for libuuid on nis client

2008-10-22 Thread BERGY
Dear All, subject: user and group id for nis user conflicts with user and group d for libuuid on client running debian lenny We are having nfs + nis setup at our workplace. I added a nis user 'sushmita' on the server. The server is running cent os. She

Re: libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-22 Thread Ken Teague
Florian Kulzer wrote: > You could put this into ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_aliases): > > alias acusession='source > /usr/local/bin/acusim/LINUX64/V1.7e/script/.acusim-sh' > > Then you can use "acusession" as a convenient abbreviation to source the > configuration script and prepare the present bash s

Re: libz.so.1 conflict/compatibility issue

2008-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:31:27 -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [ snip: the config file sets and exports LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other > > environmental variables. ] > > > > Have you put the command to source this config file into .bashrc or > > another startup file? > > Yes,

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread Ken Teague
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: > Hi, > > I originally posted about installing Gnome (and X) on a base setup to > avoid the entire 'Gnome Experience' inclusive of the web browser I don't > use, mail/news client I don't use, the 17 games I won't play, etc... > I've totally screwed my system tryin

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: Hi, I originally posted about installing Gnome (and X) on a base setup to avoid the entire 'Gnome Experience' inclusive of the web browser I don't use, mail/news client I don't use, the 17 games I won't play, etc... I've totally screwed my system trying to remov

Re: From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) escreveu: > What is the best way of installing Lenny CD1 (Full Gnome) then getting > rid of the bits you don't want ... from the top The best way is not to install the full gnome and then rip what you do not want, but rather to install nothing, except what you actually wa

From the top... cutting down Gnome

2008-10-22 Thread Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp)
Hi, I originally posted about installing Gnome (and X) on a base setup to avoid the entire 'Gnome Experience' inclusive of the web browser I don't use, mail/news client I don't use, the 17 games I won't play, etc... I've totally screwed my system trying to remove these things from my already i

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-22 Thread Bob McGowan
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 10:47 +0200, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote: > Hi all, > I'd like to ask for suggestions on how to check a cd-rom (or dvd-rom) against > the original iso image to verify that it has been burned correctly. > > I tried a couple of methods, but I am not sure that they work. > > One wa

Re: High cpu usage with compiz

2008-10-22 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:05 +1000, lachlan wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:04 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > I would like to use compiz. Unfortunately this is problematic since my > > system lags because of high (50%) cpu spikes. 3d acceleration is > > working. Is there anything I can do to solve t

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome? ==> generic solution for selective (de)install from task

2008-10-22 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > If you want them, mark them as not automatically installed: > aptitude unmarkauto Osamu Aoki writes: > This works but it is quite tedious to do this from command line. Not expecially. Just select and paste the list apt-get prints when it tells you about the packages, deleting the one

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:17:20PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:11:16PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:09:43PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > If it has been backported to Etch, Lenny is so close now that I can > > Mmmm there is a thr

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Re: Sleek and slim Gnome? ==> generic solution for selective (de)install from task

2008-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:09:35PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: > >> Forget about "installing Gnome" and just install the specific Gnome > >> packages you want. I assume OP installed Gnome from task list. > > OK well since I already have Gnome install

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Steven Maddox writes: > Only problem now is every time I do something with apt-get it warns me > about these... aptitude unmarkauto -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
JoeHill wrote: > Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I've been using Lenny since June and recently reinstalled (just like to > > start fresh) in anticipation of the Lenny release. > > > > I'm starting to be really annoyed with Gnome... it now comes with > > Epiphany, Evo

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread JoeHill
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been using Lenny since June and recently reinstalled (just like to > start fresh) in anticipation of the Lenny release. > > I'm starting to be really annoyed with Gnome... it now comes with > Epiphany, Evolution, SEVENTEEN games, and god kn

Re: chipcardd4 ?

2008-10-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Paul Cartwright wrote: I was doing a top to see what was going on, and I noticed chipcard4. 9460 chipcard 20 0 6136 1768 1148 S1 0.1 94:25.74 chipcardd4 what is it?? google wasn't much help, it just showed Debian packages that don't have man pages.. apt-cache [search/show] chipcard

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: >> Forget about "installing Gnome" and just install the specific Gnome >> packages you want. >> >> >> > OK well since I already have Gnome installed (Lenny CD1)... I have... > > apt-get remove gnome gnome-desktop-environment > > Which were empty packages... a

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp)
Forget about "installing Gnome" and just install the specific Gnome packages you want. OK well since I already have Gnome installed (Lenny CD1)... I have... apt-get remove gnome gnome-desktop-environment Which were empty packages... and since doing this I have finally been able to remove

Re: resolution change on startx -- :1

2008-10-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > Mmmm there is a thread about DFSG violations in the kernel on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may delay the actual release. Looks like there > will have to be a GR to sort it out. > > I hope they don't "rip out" *too* much hardware support. :) The

Re: debian packaging examples.

2008-10-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > Other than the standard debian packaging manual / site. > > Would anyone have any links / urls for deb packaging from source. > > Kind Regards > Brent Clark > There is a debian-mentors list for such questions. For example of packaging you can download any source pa

debian packaging examples.

2008-10-22 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya Other than the standard debian packaging manual / site. Would anyone have any links / urls for deb packaging from source. Kind Regards Brent Clark

Re: Inode issue

2008-10-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Shaun Martin: > > Ok so my filesystem ran out of inodes :( > Is their away to increase the inodes without reformatting? The manpage of mkfs.ext2/3 says there isn't: -i bytes-per-inode Specify the bytes/inode ratio. mke2fs creates an inode for every bytes-per-inode bytes of space on the di

Re: Inode issue

2008-10-22 Thread Shaun Martin
Hi All, It is an ext3 fs. Thanks, Shaun On 10/22/08 5:32 AM, "Sharninder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Ok so my filesystem ran out of inodes :( >> Is their away to increase the inodes without reformatting? >> I saw some articles referring to an app called maxfiles but has not been >> abl

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:28 PM, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eduardo M Kalinowski writes: >> Look for some package like gnome-minimal, gnome-core, etc., that installs >> only the minimal requirements, then install other parts as necessary. > > You can do that if you want to, but it isn

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:06:25PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:57:00PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Paul Cartwright: > >> > > >> > My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let > >> > her save a file, permission d

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Steven Maddox writes: > I'm starting to be really annoyed with Gnome... it now comes with > Epiphany, Evolution, SEVENTEEN games, and god knows what else... you try > and remove these extras and it wants to remove all of Gnome - surely the > core of Gnome can't possibly really require these extra a

Re: Alternating between keymaps

2008-10-22 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > How do I alternate between keymaps with a keystroke? Please guide me on > this. > Gnome: In "System -> Preferences -> Keyboard": First, you have to add the two layouts you want to switch between. Then, In "Layout options", you have to choose a keystroke for switching i

Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental

2008-10-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kelly Clowers wrote: Hi all, Over about two days, I have had three hard freezes with Sid/Experimental. A few minutes ago, I saw one happen (the others where while I was away). The computer instantly went from fully functional, no problems to frozen solid. Nothing moving on screen, no response to

Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages

2008-10-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-18 17:30:52, schrieb Josep M.: > Hello. > > Openoffice.org have .deb packages for debian, I have in etch and runs > well. But not version 3 Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debia

Re: OOo 3.0 still not ready?? (was Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages)

2008-10-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Shalom Tzafrir, Am 2008-10-18 18:16:59, schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:06:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > You say that OOo3 is "Experimental 3.0.0-3", but evidence shows that the > > ftp.debian.org experimental branch is still at 3.0.0~rc4-1. > > $ rmadison openoffice.

Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages

2008-10-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-17 23:40:55, schrieb Jason C. Wells: > Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages? > > For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made > their way to lenny yet. It seems like the Sun provided .deb files > aren't quite so slick with handling dependen

Re: kcontrol is the answer

2008-10-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, 2 years ago I asked why I had no sound in Konsole, not running KDE but FVWM: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/11/msg02898.html Nobody answered. The answer is: install kcontrol and configure the sound to alsa. Now I have the system bell and KDE sounds in Ko

Re: Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) escreveu: > Hi folks, > > I've been using Lenny since June and recently reinstalled (just like to > start fresh) in anticipation of the Lenny release. > > I'm starting to be really annoyed with Gnome... it now comes with > Epiphany, Evolution, SEVENTEEN games, and god kno

Sleek and slim Gnome?

2008-10-22 Thread Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp)
Hi folks, I've been using Lenny since June and recently reinstalled (just like to start fresh) in anticipation of the Lenny release. I'm starting to be really annoyed with Gnome... it now comes with Epiphany, Evolution, SEVENTEEN games, and god knows what else... you try and remove these ext

config of dhcpd

2008-10-22 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to add to my dhcp server config the equivalent of the windows option in option 252: we put the address of the file wpad (web proxy autodiscovry protocole) to get address of proxy. Therefore the client (firefox , ..) can auto detect the proxy info (address and port). thanks for h

Re: fixrtf in debian ?

2008-10-22 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using doxygen to generate rtf files, but I cannot find any way > to embedded them into the document (even using winword). Searching on > the web I found that the FreeBSD people have a fixrtf: > > A

Re: chipcardd4 ?

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:59:24 -0400, Paul Cartwright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was doing a top to see what was going on, and I noticed chipcard4. > > 9460 chipcard 20 0 6136 1768 1148 S1 0.1 94:25.74 chipcardd4 > > what is it?? google wasn't much help, it just showed Debian

Re: chipcardd4 ?

2008-10-22 Thread Adrian Chapela
Paul Cartwright escribió: I was doing a top to see what was going on, and I noticed chipcard4. 9460 chipcard 20 0 6136 1768 1148 S1 0.1 94:25.74 chipcardd4 what is it?? google wasn't much help, it just showed Debian packages that don't have man pages.. Have you installed gnucash

Re: cannot access www via a proxy while in a VPN

2008-10-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:17:39AM +0200, Steve S wrote: > On Oct 22 08:42 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > [snip] > > So that's the same as with the browsers. > > Any further tips on what I could do? Thanks! might be time to talk to the helpdesk ? looks like you address isn't allow to access the

chipcardd4 ?

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
I was doing a top to see what was going on, and I noticed chipcard4. 9460 chipcard 20 0 6136 1768 1148 S1 0.1 94:25.74 chipcardd4 what is it?? google wasn't much help, it just showed Debian packages that don't have man pages.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Register

fixrtf in debian ?

2008-10-22 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am using doxygen to generate rtf files, but I cannot find any way to embedded them into the document (even using winword). Searching on the web I found that the FreeBSD people have a fixrtf: A patch making it possible to embed PNGs into RTFs http://www.freebsd.org/ports/textproc.htm

Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental

2008-10-22 Thread Sharninder
> > Over about two days, I have had three hard freezes with Sid/Experimental. > A few minutes ago, I saw one happen (the others where while I was away). > The computer instantly went from fully functional, no problems to frozen > solid. Nothing moving on screen, no response to ctrl-alt-backspace or

Re: Inode issue

2008-10-22 Thread Sharninder
> > Ok so my filesystem ran out of inodes :( > Is their away to increase the inodes without reformatting? > I saw some articles referring to an app called maxfiles but has not been > able to find it for debian. > Any help is greatly appreciated. > While filesystem are you using ? Most filesystems

Re: cannot access www via a proxy while in a VPN

2008-10-22 Thread Steve S
On Oct 22 08:42 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > try telnet to test, for example if the uni's proxy is bla.uni.com:3128 > try > > telnet bla.uni.com 3128 > > and then type > GET / > > you should get a response back from the proxy which should help $ telnet www.example.com 80 Trying 139.20

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Aioanei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Aioanei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: USB ownership > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 8:33 AM > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Emano

Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental

2008-10-22 Thread en0f
Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 18:47:07 -0700, Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: [ .. ] >> The most recent obvious candidate change is the most recent kernel update, >> which I did shortly before the first freeze. This was the upgrade to >> linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.

Re: i8xx_tco.ko?

2008-10-22 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Given the message you posted, it looks like it is a watchdog timer > control module. If you don't have or need watchdog support, then I'd > ignore the message; as long as everything works fine. Thanks for that Douglas. I didn't know about

Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 18:47:07 -0700, Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > Over about two days, I have had three hard freezes with Sid/Experimental. > A few minutes ago, I saw one happen (the others where while I was away). > The computer instantly went from fully functional

Re: You are a broken record (was Re: friend cannot see me on msn)

2008-10-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron, if you can't be nice, please leave the Debian lists. You've been > nothing but obnoxious in every reply to one of my messages for months > now. It's not appreciated, nor welcome, here. Funny, Paul, people have been thinking the same of you for several years. --

Re: Please follow list guidelines [was ... Re: USB ownership]

2008-10-22 Thread en0f
Chris Bannister wrote: [ .. ] > [120 odd lines snipped] > > Hey, come on guys, how about following the netiquette and snipping > unnecessary content and replying inline to each point in turn? I agree. We need some list etiquette. -- en0f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Please follow list guidelines [was ... Re: USB ownership]

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:22:17AM +0200, Neil wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Aioanei Rares > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-22 Thread Neil
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Aioanei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > From: Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Subject: Re: USB o