[Fwd: Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro]

2008-11-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:39:44 +0800 From: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: none To: Mike Grice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,20.Nov.08, 19:35:30, Kent West wrote: > Try "sudo aptitude install x-window-system". Am I missing something here? AFAIR sudo is *not* configured unless you choose so in the /expert/ install. Why recommend it to a newcomer? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't und

fcitx problem with xterm

2008-11-20 Thread Can-Hua Chen
I use fcitx (chinese input method program) and xterm. I set fcitx so that pressing the key "Shift" would toggle between chinese character input method and english letter input method. I can use this setting in other X application, including xfce4-terminal, but not in xterm. I guess this problem ma

Re: X11 Forwarding with Lenny?

2008-11-20 Thread swm38 swm38
2008/11/21, subscriptions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > did you change user after remote login? No I didn't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 21:03, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:58 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: If your machine runs kernel 2.6, it shouldn't have OSS. > >> >> lsmod will list your loaded modules. snd_pcm_oss, snd

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:28:49PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:22:06PM EST, Michael Marsh wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Used to be true of google in general. > > Their "advanced search" page is now regrettably usin

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:24:34PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If he is wanting to try something other than Debian, OpenBSD will take > > far fewer resources (leaving more for his applications) (based on my > > exper

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread H.S.
Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:58 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> If your machine runs kernel 2.6, it shouldn't have OSS. > > lsmod will list your loaded modules. snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss, > and snd_seq_oss, are all part of the alsa oss emulation.

Re: Login manager will not let me log in - machine thrashing

2008-11-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:53:13PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Later I discovered that I could open my user and root from a virtual > terminal. So to test my suspicion I opened root in F1, went back to F7 > and entered my user ID and password and immediately went back to F1. > > There I opened to

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:58 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Anyone? >> >> If your machine runs kernel 2.6, it shouldn't have OSS. >> > > hmm ... ookay. Does that mean both are orthogonal? And, yes, I am > running 2.6. I am not sure that that is true. I think Debia

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:22:06PM EST, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, for what it's worth .. I don't have access to your mail account or > > an account on "libero.it" .. but I just verified that I can _access_ my > > gmail a

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:01:32PM EST, Paul Johnson wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > >> I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > >> list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > >> > >> I would gladly comply .

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Anyone? > > If your machine runs kernel 2.6, it shouldn't have OSS. > hmm ... ookay. Does that mean both are orthogonal? And, yes, I am running 2.6. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my ema

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread tôba
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:10:08 +0800 Ding Honghui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tôba wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can you help me with a bash command? > > I a directory, I want to extract with a command line for jpg name > > files. I have a lot of: > > > > icon_3620_0_1.jpg > > icon_3616_0_1.jpg > > i

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/20/08 21:29, H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: And can I remove OSS in favor of Alsa? Yes. This is what I am most interested in ... how exactly? Anyone? If your machine runs kernel 2.6, it shouldn't have OSS. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If you don't agree wit

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> And can I remove OSS in favor of Alsa? >> Yes. > > This is what I am most interested in ... how exactly? > > Anyone? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are j

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-20 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:29:10AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:00:28PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for a very slim desktop manager. >>> >>> The system lookin

ballaingatlan.hu, Ingatlanközvetítés Budapest IX., X., XIV., XV., XVIII., XIX. és XX. kerületében

2008-11-20 Thread Balla Ingatlan
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Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-20 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having trouble with the install of Etch Linux. During the install, the GUI Desktop Environment was not installed (install failed). I am wondering if I can possibly download and install the desktop environment manually onto the debian machine. I am not a

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread Ding Honghui
tôba wrote: > Hello, > > Can you help me with a bash command? > I a directory, I want to extract with a command line for jpg name files. > I have a lot of: > > icon_3620_0_1.jpg > icon_3616_0_1.jpg > icon_3563_0_1.jpg > > I want to extract the number betwen icon_*_0_1.jpg AND I want to use > the

Re: Login manager will not let me log in - machine thrashing

2008-11-20 Thread subscriptions
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 21:53 +0100, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a newly reinstalled Etch plus KDE in a dual core desktop. After > the installation was finished I was able to reboot and log in using kdm. > > The next morning, when I turned on the c

Re: X11 Forwarding with Lenny?

2008-11-20 Thread subscriptions
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 22:05 +0100, swm38 swm38 wrote: > Hello, > > I can't get X11 Forwarding working with lenny as server. > > Client is Debian Lenny too, X11 Forwarding works fine with an etch server. > > The lenny Server is running with the exact same sshd_config as the etch server > > X11Fo

Re: Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/20/08 17:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having trouble with the install of Etch Linux. During the install, the GUI Desktop Environment was not installed (install failed). How so? What error messages? Symptoms? I am wondering if I can possibly download and

Need to install GUI for Etch Linux

2008-11-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been having trouble with the install of Etch Linux. During the install, the GUI Desktop Environment was not installed (install failed). I am wondering if I can possibly download and install the desktop environment manually onto the debian machine. I am not able to use the normal instal

Re: bug advice

2008-11-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mark Allums wrote: > Earl Sullaway wrote: >> Not sure where this bug should be reported. >> >> New install of Lenny amd64 on HP Proliant DL360G5, onboard SAS RAID, >> Broadcom G-Ethernet >> >> During install, message indicated install of bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw required >> for ethernet adapter, instal

Re: apt-get – proble m configuring /etc/apt/sources.list

2008-11-20 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:55:17 -0800, Vwaju ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Might there be a guide to using apt that is conceptually clearer than > the man page? I am unsure what you mean by "conceptually clearer", but man apt-get seems quite comprehensive to me. I cannot really comment about ap

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,20.Nov.08, 16:59:06, H.S. wrote: > So my next query is how do I find out if any application in Debian > requires OSS other than using the obvious brute force method? Is it even > possible? Usually the package description mentions it, but I doubt there is a maintained software that doesn

Re: Sound starts only sometimes after boot

2008-11-20 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi Anthony, On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The modules loaded seem to be the same whether sound works or not. I > get: > > snd_pcm_oss41760 0 > snd_mixer_oss 18816 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_ens137127328 2 > snd_usb_au

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System#OSS_in_relation_to_ALSA >> >>OSS is the standard up through the 2.4 series of official >>(kernel.org) Linux kernels. ALSA was added starting with 2.5, >>and in those versions, Linux kernel authors marked

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/20/08 14:27, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Could somebody give some insights in to how is OSS related to Alsa? When > > I hate to sound rude, but did you apply any effort in researching this > yourself? Yes, but it was a while ago. At that time, I must admit though, I kn

X11 Forwarding with Lenny?

2008-11-20 Thread swm38 swm38
Hello, I can't get X11 Forwarding working with lenny as server. Client is Debian Lenny too, X11 Forwarding works fine with an etch server. The lenny Server is running with the exact same sshd_config as the etch server X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 UseLogin no AllowTcpForwarding yes xau

Re: hostname must tally with fqdn in /etc/hosts?

2008-11-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,20.Nov.08, 20:29:22, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Why that must be, I mean when changing the hostname with hostname command, > we also sometimes need to do the same with /etc/hosts else something weird > would happen. Does the command hostname writes somewhere else other than > /etc/hosts? Acc

Re: apt-get – problem configuring /etc/apt/sources .list

2008-11-20 Thread Vwaju
Thank you Bob and Eugene. Bob -- Yes, inserting: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian sarge main into /etc/apt/sources.list and then running #apt-get update does the trick. Might there be a guide to using apt that is conceptually clearer than the man page? Best Regards, Vwaju -- To UNS

Login manager will not let me log in - machine thrashing

2008-11-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a newly reinstalled Etch plus KDE in a dual core desktop. After the installation was finished I was able to reboot and log in using kdm. The next morning, when I turned on the computer, I only got as far as the kdm login manager. When I enter

Sound But No Sound

2008-11-20 Thread Thomas H. George
Sound: alsaplayer plays cd's & totem plays videos. alsamixer adjusts volume. No Sound: Audacity has no input control - input options are determined by the sound card so presumably Audacity doesn't see the sound card. Neither does alsactl. alsactl names returns nothing and alsactl card0 says card

Re: oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/20/08 14:27, H.S. wrote: Hello, Could somebody give some insights in to how is OSS related to Alsa? When I hate to sound rude, but did you apply any effort in researching this yourself? a headset is connected via USB, how is it supposed to be detected, as an OSS device or as a USB de

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 07:47:37 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FK> Let's see what is going on here; please post the output of these two > FK> commands: > $ dpkg -L flashplayer-mozilla | grep '\.so$' > /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so > $ find /usr/lib/*/plugins* > /usr/lib/krb5/pl

oss and alsa and audio devices

2008-11-20 Thread H.S.
Hello, Could somebody give some insights in to how is OSS related to Alsa? When a headset is connected via USB, how is it supposed to be detected, as an OSS device or as a USB device? And can I remove OSS in favor of Alsa? Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corr

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,19.Nov.08, 14:02:37, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': > >On Mon,17.Nov.08, 22:03:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> It would be nice for the list to auto-respond to any HTML posting with

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread Carl Fink
Note: top-posting fixed. Please don't do that. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:20:37PM +, x03 wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:38:01PM +, x03 wrote: >> >> >>> I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not >>> synced with the image. >>> >> >> I

Re: eximstats: What happened to it, is there a replacement?

2008-11-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:09:56AM -0600, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > what happened to the package "eximstats"? It doesn't seem to exist > anymore, is there a replacement for it? dpkg -S eximstats exim4-base: /usr/sbin/eximstats exim4-base: /usr/share/man/man8/eximstats.8.gz apt-cache policy exim4

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread François Cerbelle
Bob McGowan a écrit : for a in `ls`; do DIR=`echo $a | cut -d_ -f2`; echo mkdir -p $DIR /$a; echo rmdir $DIR/$a; echo mv $a $DIR/$a; done ... Why do this with a `ls` when a simple * will work? for a in *; do ... Hum... Because ! ;-) In fact, first, I used to do this, because I seldomly use

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-20 Thread green
On Wed, 2008.11.19, 324, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: > > On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > On Lenny, I am not running that tool. What is overwriting my > > > resolv.conf and how do I keep the correct data while using static IP? > >

Re: Upgrading a kernel in a remote server without fears, how

2008-11-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-20 16:13 +0100, Arnau wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a question that probably has appeared a lot of times here but > I haven't found a solution. > > Yesterday I went to the data center where our servers are > hosted. There I tried to upgrade the kernel of one of our > servers. It's a De

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread H.S.
tôba wrote: > Hello, > > Can you help me with a bash command? > I a directory, I want to extract with a command line for jpg name files. > I have a lot of: > > icon_3620_0_1.jpg > icon_3616_0_1.jpg > icon_3563_0_1.jpg > > I want to extract the number betwen icon_*_0_1.jpg AND I want to use > the

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread Bob McGowan
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 17:27 +0100, François Cerbelle wrote: > Le Jeu 20 novembre 2008 16:18, tôba a écrit : > > icon_3620_0_1.jpg > > icon_3616_0_1.jpg > > icon_3563_0_1.jpg > > > > The goal is to create a directory called 3620 and move the > > icon_3620_0_1.jpg file into this directory. > > > > S

Re: Upgrading a kernel in a remote server without fears, how

2008-11-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Arnau: > > This is a question that probably has appeared a lot of times here but I > haven't found a solution. Sounds like "I didn't bother to google but I hope I still get answers". :) > And here comes my question, is there a way to ensure that the kernel > will work? Not without running

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread x03
And you notice the difference in quality ? Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:38:01PM +, x03 wrote: I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced with the image. In my experience, this was caused by the bitrates in the HD file being too high for

Re: Upgrading a kernel in a remote server without fears, how

2008-11-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Arnau wrote: > Yesterday I went to the data center where our servers are hosted. > There I tried to upgrade the kernel of one of our servers. It's a Dell > Poweredge 1950 running a 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem installed via aptitude, no > manual compilation. I i

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
x03: > > I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced > with the image. If you have working OpenGL support for your nvidia hardware, you should try other video output drivers, especially '-vo gl' and '-vo gl2'. J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine,

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 20 novembre 2008 16:18, tôba a écrit : > icon_3620_0_1.jpg > icon_3616_0_1.jpg > icon_3563_0_1.jpg > > The goal is to create a directory called 3620 and move the > icon_3620_0_1.jpg file into this directory. > > So, I did like this for test: > # for a in `ls | sed -e s'/_/ /g' | awk '{prin

Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro

2008-11-20 Thread jsmurf
In case anyone cares, the problem was that the RAM disk was loaded by LILO, but not found by the kernel (I guess the address "0" printed in the error messages is incorrect, since "an initrd should be placed near the end of memory" (Linux kernel docs), so it might be a LILO bug, the starting a

Re: kdm will not accept my password

2008-11-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/11/2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > > > On 13/11/2008, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I just finished installing Etch in a new box. KDM appears on the > > > monitor with my user name and plac

eximstats: What happened to it, is there a replacement?

2008-11-20 Thread lee
Hi, what happened to the package "eximstats"? It doesn't seem to exist anymore, is there a replacement for it? -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-20 Thread anx_dev
On Nov 19, 5:50 pm, Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >     I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would > > like to avoid using it. > > >     However, while it is perfectly OK to edit one or two configuration > > files to set-up wireless

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:38:01PM +, x03 wrote: > I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced > with the image. In my experience, this was caused by the bitrates in the HD file being too high for my system to handle. If I transcoded the video down to a reasonable

[SOLVED] Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread tôba
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:28:17 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tôba escreveu: > > Hello, > > > > Can you help me with a bash command? > > I a directory, I want to extract with a command line for jpg name > > files. I have a lot of: > > > > icon_3620_0_1.jpg > > icon_3616_0_1.

Re: ID tied to hardware? (was Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?)

2008-11-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/20/08 08:41, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:45, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which part of the hardware? And what if you upgrade/replace the bit of hardware upon which your "host id" is based? Switching RAM should prolly not change the ID, but motherboard,

Re: need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
tôba escreveu: > Hello, > > Can you help me with a bash command? > I a directory, I want to extract with a command line for jpg name files. > I have a lot of: > > icon_3620_0_1.jpg > icon_3616_0_1.jpg > icon_3563_0_1.jpg > > I want to extract the number betwen icon_*_0_1.jpg AND I want to use > the

Upgrading a kernel in a remote server without fears, how

2008-11-20 Thread Arnau
Hi all, This is a question that probably has appeared a lot of times here but I haven't found a solution. Yesterday I went to the data center where our servers are hosted. There I tried to upgrade the kernel of one of our servers. It's a Dell Poweredge 1950 running a 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem in

need help with bash command

2008-11-20 Thread tôba
Hello, Can you help me with a bash command? I a directory, I want to extract with a command line for jpg name files. I have a lot of: icon_3620_0_1.jpg icon_3616_0_1.jpg icon_3563_0_1.jpg I want to extract the number betwen icon_*_0_1.jpg AND I want to use the entire filename too in the same com

Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

2008-11-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Winfried Tilanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/20/2008 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hi, > >> Debian doesn't distribute such and that means folks installing from >> discs won't get their wireless working out-of-the-box > > It is distributed by Debian, you can

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread x03
# lspci | grep -i nvidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1) # modinfo nvidia filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/nvidia/nvidia.ko license:NVIDIA alias: char-major-195-* alias: pci:v10DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00* alias:

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:38 PM, x03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi list! > > I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced with > the image. > > With mplayer i have this: > > $ mplayer file.mkv > MPlayer dev-SVN-r26940 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00G

Re: apt-get -- problem configuring /etc/apt /sources.list

2008-11-20 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Bob Cox wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 16:26:08 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Firstly, try use another mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list, for example >> ftp.cz.debian.org or ftp.de.debian.org. > > No. There is no sarge repository on these servers either. Th

Re: ID tied to hardware? (was Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?)

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:45, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which part of the hardware? And what if you upgrade/replace the bit of > hardware upon which your "host id" is based? Switching RAM should prolly not change the ID, but motherboard, CPU, disks etc are all fair game. And as l

Re: apt-get – proble m configuring /etc/apt/sources.list

2008-11-20 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 16:26:08 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Firstly, try use another mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list, for example > ftp.cz.debian.org or ftp.de.debian.org. No. There is no sarge repository on these servers either. The OP will have to use http:

Re: ID tied to hardware? (was Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?)

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:50, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus That can be side-stepping by defining the crucial parts of a compuer, er, ship. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread x03
hi list! I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced with the image. With mplayer i have this: $ mplayer file.mkv MPlayer dev-SVN-r26940 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 10) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3D

Re: apt-get – proble m configuring /etc/apt/sources.list

2008-11-20 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:16:00 -0800, Vwaju ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > With a little help from my friends, I'm teaching myself networking by > building an internet server. I am running Debian Linux 3.1 on a Dell > Dimension 4100 desktop. > > I have installed ISPConfig, and I now I'm tryi

Re: apt-get – problem configuring /etc/ apt/sources.list

2008-11-20 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Vwaju wrote: [snip] > Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/main monit 1:4.5-1 [228kB] > Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/main monit 1:4.5-1 > Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP: > 35.9.37.225 21] > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/m

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dexter Filmore wrote: > Won't do me good, lots of subdirs where I need to copy selections. Will mount > on another machine and copy over 100MBit, will have to do. Filed a bug > report, we'll see. In the meantime you could have a look at rsync. It ha

Sound starts only sometimes after boot

2008-11-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
After each boot it is a matter of luck whether sound comes up or not. It works about one time in four, though once it has worked it continues to do so until the next boot. If it fails, speaker-test gives the following: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave Goog

apt-get – problem configuring /etc/apt/sources.lis t

2008-11-20 Thread Vwaju
With a little help from my friends, I'm teaching myself networking by building an internet server. I am running Debian Linux 3.1 on a Dell Dimension 4100 desktop. I have installed ISPConfig, and I now I'm trying to install monit: # apt-get install monit Reading Package Lists... Building Depend

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-20 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:28, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about virtual hosts that may migrate from one piece of hardware to > another? Wouldn't VMs mean that you need a unique host ID separate from > hardware? Yes, that is the point. But a cloned VM would create a duplic

Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

2008-11-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-20 13:07 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2008-11-19 11:00 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> >>> I struggled to get 4965 wireless working on my TravelMate 6592, and >>> succeeded only once having ins

Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

2008-11-20 Thread Winfried Tilanus
On 11/20/2008 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, > Debian doesn't distribute such and that means folks installing from > discs won't get their wireless working out-of-the-box It is distributed by Debian, you can find it in the non-free repository: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmwar

hostname must tally with fqdn in /etc/hosts?

2008-11-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Why that must be, I mean when changing the hostname with hostname command, we also sometimes need to do the same with /etc/hosts else something weird would happen. Does the command hostname writes somewhere else other than /etc/hosts? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

2008-11-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-11-19 11:00 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> I struggled to get 4965 wireless working on my TravelMate 6592, and >> succeeded only once having installed firmware-iwlwifi from non-free. >> Is there a way to ac

Re: How to install packages from DVD

2008-11-20 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > If I'm to install source packages from DVD, does "apt-cdrom add" work or > does any other command have to be used to add DVDs in sources.list? Yes, apt-cdrom should help you. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ De

Re: Cannot configure Synaptics touchpad - Requires SHMConfig [SOLVED]

2008-11-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > It seems the minimal xorg.conf files do not work perfectly always... Well, xorg.conf did work. Per default it's just not configured to work with gsynaptics (there will be users without gsynaptics, or those who don't want

How to install packages from DVD

2008-11-20 Thread J.H.Kim
Hi, everyone If I'm to install source packages from DVD, does "apt-cdrom add" work or does any other command have to be used to add DVDs in sources.list? Please tell me how can I add DVDs to package source lists. Thanks in advance. p.s) I'm using Synaptic to install packages. Regards, J.H.Ki

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2008, tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends': >>I believe .profile and .bash_profile are synonyms, so you'd only use one >>or the other. > > .profile is only used by bash when it cannot find .

Re: Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bob wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a CF >> slot that is seen as primary/secondary HDD in Bios. I've jumpered to >> primary as I don't have a HDD attached. The card is a CF card (hda: ELITE >> PRO CF CARD 4GB, ATA D

Re: Cannot configure Synaptics touchpad - Requires SHMConfig [SOLVED]

2008-11-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I think you have to add the following to your xorg.conf > > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Server Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" "Core Keyboard" > InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "Core Pointer" > End

Re: SATA CD/DVD recording fails on Etch - MSI K8MM-V

2008-11-20 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:20 AM, KEBRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 11/19/08 20:19, Kebra Negest wrote: >> >>> >>> 2008/11/19 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >> >> [snip] >> >>> Hmmm. $ grep VIA /boot/config-2.6.18 >