Re: What do people do about large clock scews

2009-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Ron Johnson writes: > On 02/22/2009 12:30 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I have debian lenny in several vmware applications on different >> windows machines so some of them don't get run too often. >> >> I noticed firing up one that hasn't been run for a few weeks that the >> time is off a by several

Re: Newly obsolete package?

2009-02-21 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/2/22 Adrian Levi > 2009/2/22 Umarzuki Mochlis : > > There are 35 newly obsolete packages: bomber, gtk-qt-engine-kde4, kapman, > > kdeedu-kvtml-data, kdepim-groupware, killbots, kmymoney2-common, > > kpartloader, > > > > The 4 packages I checked from that list are in experimental only, My >

Vim tip (was Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts not running? Mouse frozen?)

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 06:59:15AM +0100, Javier wrote: > You should use /etc/pm/sleep.d for these purposes. For example, create a > new file in /etc/pm/sleep.d/10key_issue with this content: > > #!/bin/sh > case "$1" in > hibernate|suspend) > echo -n "i8042" > /sys/bus/platfor

Re: What do people do about large clock scews

2009-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/22/2009 12:30 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: I have debian lenny in several vmware applications on different windows machines so some of them don't get run too often. I noticed firing up one that hasn't been run for a few weeks that the time is off a by several of hours. To get it up to speed, l

Re: Newly obsolete package?

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Umarzuki Mochlis : > There are 35 newly obsolete packages: bomber, gtk-qt-engine-kde4, kapman, > kdeedu-kvtml-data, kdepim-groupware, killbots, kmymoney2-common, > kpartloader, The 4 packages I checked from that list are in experimental only, My guess is that if you add an apt pinning

What do people do about large clock scews

2009-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I have debian lenny in several vmware applications on different windows machines so some of them don't get run too often. I noticed firing up one that hasn't been run for a few weeks that the time is off a by several of hours. To get it up to speed, looks like I'd have to shut ntpd down, run ntpd

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Celejar : > I was actually surprised by the fact that I apparently had a bunch of > java stuff marked as manually installed. I run aptitude without > automatic installation of recommends, and I have no idea when I would > have marked stuff like 'libxom-java' or 'bsh' (BeanShell) as manu

Re: VirtualBox on lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Fraser writes: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:21, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Or any posters here have VirtualBox running on lenny that can say how >> they did it? > > I'd recommend installing VirtualBox from experimental -- 2.1.2 is the > latest version, as opposed to 1.6.6 available elsewhere.

Newly obsolete package?

2009-02-21 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
There are 35 newly obsolete packages: bomber, gtk-qt-engine-kde4, kapman, kdeedu-kvtml-data, kdepim-groupware, killbots, kmymoney2-common, kpartloader, libkabcommon4, libkdegames5, libkexiv2-7, libkipi6, libkonqsidebarplugin4, libkontactinterfaces4, libkopete4,

Re: [OT] Bloatware and how to make Programs smaller

2009-02-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-02-21 22:59:39, schrieb Andrew Reid: > Awesome. Reminds me of my hobbyist/hacker days. > > And as long as we're already OT: > It also reminds me of a great book I read years ago, > "Windows Assembly Language and Systems Programming", > by Barry Kauler, which shows, along similar lin

Re: VirtualBox on lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Paul Fraser
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:21, Harry Putnam wrote: > Or any posters here have VirtualBox running on lenny that can say how > they did it? I'd recommend installing VirtualBox from experimental -- 2.1.2 is the latest version, as opposed to 1.6.6 available elsewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

VirtualBox on lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Googling about virtualbox on debian.. I see only older information. Looks like the wiki at http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox Appear to be somewhat old too and only goes up to etch. Other stuff shows its from 2007. I know VirtualBox is under very active development so wondered if things may have ch

Re: Proper "modern" way to install TrueType fonts in Lenny/Sid?

2009-02-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:07:02 -0600 Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to use an early-semitic font (midway down page > http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/30_intro.html) on my Sid system. > > A couple of weeks ago I was playing with a Slashdot(?)-highlighted site > that allows you to make a font of your o

Proper "modern" way to install TrueType fonts in Lenny/Sid?

2009-02-21 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to use an early-semitic font (midway down page http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/30_intro.html) on my Sid system. A couple of weeks ago I was playing with a Slashdot(?)-highlighted site that allows you to make a font of your own handwriting, and after scanning my handwriting in and submitt

Re: [OT] Bloatware and how to make Programs smaller

2009-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 21 February 2009 20:25:46 Michelle Konzack wrote: > OK, we have the night from Saturday to Sunday and for those peoples who > are not hanging arround in Discotheks, but being alone at home I have > something to read for you: > >

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 21 February 2009 20:34:09 Michael M. Moore wrote: > Maybe there is no "magic package" that is keeping these things installed > and I just need to selectively remove them one-by-one, along with the > packages that will break but that I don't want anymore. I just thought > I might be mi

Re: KDE 4

2009-02-21 Thread M. Lewis
thveillon.debian wrote: M. Lewis a écrit : Following the instructions at http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of other s/w)? TIA, Mike moe:~# aptitude -t experimental install kde4-minimal Reading package lis

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:09 -0800 "Michael M. Moore" wrote: > I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost. > > I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed > gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole > bunch of other things. I also removed evolut

how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-21 Thread Michael M. Moore
I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost. I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole bunch of other things. I also removed evolution. But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed p

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:30:41 +1000 Adrian Levi wrote: ... > But you can use Openoffice.org without java but for Base, even then > IIRC it's only used for some of the functionality > > I found a feally good link [1] that describes exactly what Java > provides in the different components of openo

[OT] Bloatware and how to make Programs smaller

2009-02-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
OK, we have the night from Saturday to Sunday and for those peoples who are not hanging arround in Discotheks, but being alone at home I have something to read for you: Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konz

Re: console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2009 05:44 PM, Michael M. Moore wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2009 03:19 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, asdf asdf writes: What is the "best" DVD writing solution "without GUI"? :D wodim. wodim does not support to write DVDs. Then ho

Re: console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread Michael M. Moore
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2009 03:19 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, asdf asdf writes: What is the "best" DVD writing solution "without GUI"? :D wodim. wodim does not support to write DVDs. Then how am I able to burn DVDs, even though I do not ha

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-21 Thread mond
On Feb 20, 10:50 am, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > mond wrote: > >> On Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. > >>> That's actually a good th

Re: scp GUI?

2009-02-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:48:47PM +0100, Nagy Daniel wrote: > Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a > folder, in Midnight Commander. I think that gftp can do it too. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:35:20AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > I also made the discovery that one of the laptops that all the hardware > appears to work on, is a different model and it has 98 on it! Sadly, > this one doesn't have a lan connection, nor wireless, nor a USB port, > nor a CDRom

Re: console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:12 +0100, asdf asdf wrote: > What are people using for writing CD/DVD's under console? I use `growisofs' from the `dvd+rw-tools' package for DVDs. I don't think it words for CDs, unfortunately. It is unfortunate because I like it a lot better than wodim. Fredrik Tolf -

Re: Installing Gtk2.0 -> Problem with ATK

2009-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2009 04:37 PM, Carlos Fernandez wrote: Hi, i have installed all the dependencies of gtk2.0 sucesfully except v2.0? Isn't that pretty old? ATK: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.18.0, but GLIB (2.16.6) *** was found! If pkg-c

Re: Problem with default resolution starting Debian Lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Carlos Fernandez
Exactly, sorry if my english is too basic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Installing Gtk2.0 -> Problem with ATK

2009-02-21 Thread Carlos Fernandez
Hi, i have installed all the dependencies of gtk2.0 sucesfully except ATK: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.18.0, but GLIB (2.16.6) *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may als

Re: is it possible to install a custom initramfs USB bootable system?

2009-02-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a computer with 10 GB of RAM, but no hard disks. I want to > install Debian to make it work this way: > 1. Debian is installed in RAM (maybe from PXE netboot) > 2. with some command a compressed squashfs image is created of the > current system, and saved on an USB flash stick > 3.

Re: console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2009 03:19 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, asdf asdf writes: What is the "best" DVD writing solution "without GUI"? :D wodim. wodim does not support to write DVDs. Then how am I able to burn DVDs, even though I do not have cdrecord install

Re: Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Dennis Busboom : >> Could you try running memtest86+ on it and see if its a memory issue. > > I fired up memtest before leaving last night. It ran 10 hours, 12 passes > with no errors. Only thing I can think of now is to grab some source and > and roll my own where I can cherry-pick and

Re: console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volkan YAZICI wrote: >On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, asdf asdf writes: >> What is the "best" DVD writing solution "without GUI"? :D >wodim. wodim does not support to write DVDs. wodim is a dead fork from an extremely outdated cdrecord release where the working DVD support from the original software was

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-21 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/22 Bret Busby : > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Adrian Levi wrote: > >> >> 2009/2/21 Bret Busby : >>> >>> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: If you install the desktop task you also get OpenOffice.org that depends >

how to force removal of etch-backport trac after upgrade to lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Guy Marcenac
Hello, I upgraded to lenny with no major problem. But my trac package is broken. Under etch, I had the etch backport package of trac 0.11-2.1~bpo40+1. It's been broken during the upgrade and fails to uninstall. Removing trac ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pycentral", lin

Lenny sun-java6-doc installation issue

2009-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
Hi all -- I'm experimenting with various Java versions on one of my new Lenny installs, and I'm having a problem with the "sun-java6-doc" package. This package says it's an installer package only, and doesn't provide the actual docs, but prompts the user to go to http://java.sun.com/javase

Re: Problem with default resolution starting Debian Lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:28, Carlos Fernandez wrote: > Hi, when i start the SO and i am not in the screen of Debian (i use the > same screen for two computers) the resolution appears to start with 400 > x 600. > > How could i start Debian Lenny with my original resolution? (1280x). I > only can

Re: console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 03:12, asdf asdf wrote: > What is the "best" DVD writing solution "without GUI"? :D > > What are people using for writing CD/DVD's under console? > > Thank you! wodim (cdrecord) is the most used base package, but there are various cli frontends, including: mybashburn (I f

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-21 11:22 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:29:47AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:10:11AM EST, Sven Joachim wrote: >> > Yes, a very important step: inform yourself of potential problems and >> > read the release notes first! >> >> Would

Re: is it possible to install a custom initramfs USB bootable system?

2009-02-21 Thread Miernik
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Why not use NFS root? Because I want the machine to function without any other machines turned on around it. After initial installation, the machine must boot and function completely alone, no local network or anything like that. >> 1. Debian is installed in RAM (maybe fr

Re: is it possible to install a custom initramfs USB bootable system?

2009-02-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:38:35PM +0100, Miernik wrote: > Hello, > > I have a computer with 10 GB of RAM, but no hard disks. I want to > install Debian to make it work this way: Why not use NFS root? > > 1. Debian is installed in RAM (maybe from PXE netboot) > > 2. with some command a compr

Re: aptitude error message

2009-02-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:13, Rick Pasotto wrote: > For quite some time now I've been seeing the following lines when I > upgrade packages: > > database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load. > Exception bsddb.db.DBRunRecoveryError: DBRunRecoveryError(-30975, > 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,

Re: Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-21 Thread Dennis Busboom
> Could you try running memtest86+ on it and see if its a memory issue. I fired up memtest before leaving last night. It ran 10 hours, 12 passes with no errors. Only thing I can think of now is to grab some source and and roll my own where I can cherry-pick and make some SWAG's (Silly Wild A$$e

doc. on failure recovery using LVM for RAID1

2009-02-21 Thread Daniel B.
I've read that LVM can perform RAID1 mirroring. However, I'm having trouble finding documentation of RAID1 failure recovery using LVM (recognizing failures, what to do with LVM after replacing a failed disk, and how LVM rebuilds the mirror). The md/mdadm documentation says how to assimilate a re

is it possible to install a custom initramfs USB bootable system?

2009-02-21 Thread Miernik
Hello, I have a computer with 10 GB of RAM, but no hard disks. I want to install Debian to make it work this way: 1. Debian is installed in RAM (maybe from PXE netboot) 2. with some command a compressed squashfs image is created of the current system, and saved on an USB flash stick 3. t

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a recent email, but the site doesn't respond. I have tried several different browsers but they all go into a "waiting for reply" mode and nothing comes back. Any info appreciated. TIA, Dennis If

Re: Any programming editor/ide with "intelisense" for c++ and fortran around?

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:59:35AM -0700, Chris Burkhardt wrote: >> Micha Feigin wrote: >>> I'm trying to find if there is a proper programming editor with >>> "intelisense" >>> like behavior (the only thing I miss about visual studio) that supports both >>> fortran and c++,

Problem with default resolution starting Debian Lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Carlos Fernandez
Hi, when i start the SO and i am not in the screen of Debian (i use the same screen for two computers) the resolution appears to start with 400 x 600. How could i start Debian Lenny with my original resolution? (1280x). I only can start with my original resolution if I am using the screen with Lin

aptitude error message

2009-02-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
For quite some time now I've been seeing the following lines when I upgrade packages: database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load. Exception bsddb.db.DBRunRecoveryError: DBRunRecoveryError(-30975, 'DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- PANIC: fatal region error detected; ru

Re: Any programming editor/ide with "intelisense" for c++ and fortran around?

2009-02-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:59:35AM -0700, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > I'm trying to find if there is a proper programming editor with > > "intelisense" > > like behavior (the only thing I miss about visual studio) that supports both > > fortran and c++, or at least c++. > > L

Re: Any programming editor/ide with "intelisense" for c++ and fortran around?

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to find if there is a proper programming editor with "intelisense" > like behavior (the only thing I miss about visual studio) that supports both > fortran and c++, or at least c++. Look at Vim 7's Omni-completion feature. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/help

Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-02-21 Thread thveillon.debian
H.S. a écrit : > Hello, > > I am looking to buy a good webcam for linux. Some of the things I have > in mind are: > 1. Have good low light performance (at least better among the usual > consumer webcams) > 2. Mic built in that works in Linux (Debian Testing, Sid, Ubuntu) > 3. Reasonable price, it

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2009 10:16 AM, Javier wrote: Sorry for my ignorance in this respect, I hope you can help me. I'm actually using encfs to protect my sensitive data, but this is what is said in the manual: """The most intrusive attacks, where an attacker has complete control of the user’s machine (and c

How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-21 Thread Javier
Sorry for my ignorance in this respect, I hope you can help me. I'm actually using encfs to protect my sensitive data, but this is what is said in the manual: """The most intrusive attacks, where an attacker has complete control of the user’s machine (and can therefor modify EncFS, or FUSE, or th

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-21 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/2/21 Bret Busby : On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: If you install the desktop task you also get OpenOffice.org that depends on a Java JRE. So, to use Open Office, Java is n

good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-02-21 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am looking to buy a good webcam for linux. Some of the things I have in mind are: 1. Have good low light performance (at least better among the usual consumer webcams) 2. Mic built in that works in Linux (Debian Testing, Sid, Ubuntu) 3. Reasonable price, it should be less than $125 (Canad

Re: vlc still playing?

2009-02-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2009 06:38 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:10:20AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Last I tried it, vlc 0.9.8a-1 worked fine for me, playing DVDs and MPEGSs. OK. I did some more trials after rm -rf ~/.vlc and here are the results: I'd try running them with strace. $

Re: "On battery power, so skipping file system check" when in AC power

2009-02-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2009 09:15:46 Virgo Pärna wrote: > > Does anyone else also receives "On battery power, so skipping file > > system check" warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? > > Especially in Lenny. > > > > -- > >

Any programming editor/ide with "intelisense" for c++ and fortran around?

2009-02-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to find if there is a proper programming editor with "intelisense" like behavior (the only thing I miss about visual studio) that supports both fortran and c++, or at least c++. I mostly use emacs and this is the main feature I miss. I saw some talk around about such support for emacs b

Re: Kernel AMD 64

2009-02-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:16:48 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/2009 06:01 PM, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: > > > > Hi, i just installed a new server runnign Debian, my server has a > > 32-bit, presumably? > > > AMD 64 X2 processor, i'd like to know which one is the best kernel > > for th

Re: vlc still playing?

2009-02-21 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:10:20AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I tried it, vlc 0.9.8a-1 worked fine for me, playing DVDs and > MPEGSs. > OK. I did some more trials after rm -rf ~/.vlc and here are the results: $ vlc big_buck_bunny_720p_stereo.ogg ... Segmentation fault $ vlc ED_1024.avi

Clamav problem

2009-02-21 Thread Vadim Kolchev
I installed clamav and want to update virus database but it tells me i got the latest database. However when I view info about my clamav it tells I have 0 entries in database. How can I fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, asdf asdf writes: > What is the "best" DVD writing solution "without GUI"? :D wodim. Rgeards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:27:33 +0100 Peter Robinson wrote: Hello Peter, > I had the same problem and solved by commenting out the set and search > lines in grub.cfg: Which is just what I did. At least I know the problem is not unique to me. Finally, please don't Cc: me. I subscribe to the lis

Re: KDE 4

2009-02-21 Thread thveillon.debian
M. Lewis a écrit : > > Following the instructions at > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html > > Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of > other s/w)? > > TIA, > Mike > > > moe:~# aptitude -t experimental install kde4-minimal > Reading package list

console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread asdf asdf
What is the "best" DVD writing solution "without GUI"? :D What are people using for writing CD/DVD's under console? Thank you!

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:34:16AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH. > Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges. They report being empty when there is still a week or two of use left? -- Chris. == I c

Re: Debian Lenny 5 on Inspiron 1525

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:05:07AM -0500, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just get Lenny 5 stable, but I don't know if anybody else have a > problem with the wifi, Lenny doesn't recognize the wifi card not even > with ndiswrappers any help will be appreciated, I already tr

Re: sony ericsson w550i for internet connection

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:40:16AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 > Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch > > "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a > shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the >

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:29:47AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:10:11AM EST, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2009-02-19 04:00 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend: > > > > > > 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition > > >

Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:44:11PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > With my luck..? I'd be a winner again & the first to report a problem > that nobody else cares about. Posting a problem to this list is not the same as reporting a problem to Debian itself. To report a problem you either have to file

Re: lenny kde artwork

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top-post. Instead, remove quoted material that you're not replying to, and reply inline to the points you're responding to.] On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:47:02PM +0100, baldyeti wrote: > Thanks Jimmy, desktop-base was missing indeed. > I am intrigued now: how touse the grub splash-scr

Re: apache error

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:20:43PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > this still doesn't answer my original question of how to actually remove all > the config files for apache, and basically start over. Please read the man page of your preferred package manager. It explains how to remove a package

Re: "On battery power, so skipping file system check" when in AC power

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:57:55AM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:32:25 +1300, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > > > IOW, does "apt-get install powermgmt-base" fix it? > > > > Nope, I had powermgmt-base already installed and it is in latest version. > Anyway - it seems, that

Re: KDE 4

2009-02-21 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/2/21 M. Lewis > > Following the instructions at > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html > > Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of > other s/w)? I don't suppose it is. > > > TIA, > Mike > > > moe:~# aptitude -t experimental install kde4-minima

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2009-02-21 Thread shafrina.monsun

Buggy Lenny "xkb-data" Package (Alt/AltGr Problem)

2009-02-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, I have just upgraded my Debian GNU/Linux running on a HP Pavilion dv6580et notebook and xkb-data messed up my whole Alt/AltGr key configuration. (Google and mailing list archives pointed out that dozens of people reported similar problems but no particular solution. People just try downgrading

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Peter Robinson
Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800 "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: Hello Todd, error: unknown command 'initrd' How can I recover from this? First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot command so the first two lines get removed. That is, the one