Re: time server

2009-03-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:37:51PM -0700, leo wrote: hey! I need to configure automatically my date on boot time where I can find ntp servers Google! ntp server yourlocation perhaps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,26.Mar.09, 22:38:05, paragasu wrote: I am using ACPI debian testing with linux kernel 2.6.26-1-686, the problem is, there is no warning when the battery is low. Is there a way to make a warning beep whenever my laptop battery low? Yes, but this is usually done by some user tool. What

Re: weird error while trying to run apt-get ? has anyone seen this...google has not

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,26.Mar.09, 17:33:10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Do I not get to file bugs with my setup? ;) Nope, too boring ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Consolechars Question

2009-03-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:59:57AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:02:42AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: During bootup (Lenny) the console font changes to a thin, wiry font and then changes again

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-27 Thread paragasu
i am using openbox , btw, how to do it in KDE? maybe the same can be done on openbox? On 3/27/09, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu,26.Mar.09, 22:38:05, paragasu wrote: I am using ACPI debian testing with linux kernel 2.6.26-1-686, the problem is, there is no warning when

Re: extract debian package default config

2009-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sylvain Viart wrote: Hi, Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? Example: I would like to get the original packaged apache2.conf Is there some command which extract this from the package or is it extracted somewhere? I use mc for that. Hit 'enter' on a deb

Re: mouse and gpm

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:20:12AM +0100, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:15PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: I hadn't really thought about gpm in particular, but wheel mice are doable with the extension I added a few years ago, and have tested in xterm (which is a binary

Re: time server

2009-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-27 03:39, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:37:51PM -0700, leo wrote: hey! I need to configure automatically my date on boot time where I can find ntp servers Google! ntp server yourlocation perhaps. His ISP might have a time server. Mine has ntp.cox.net. -- Ron

question about applying patch to kernel 2.6.26

2009-03-27 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God I'll be thankfull if you guide ; this patch codehttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.hdaps.devel/1324/rawhas been saved as 2.patch in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 directory. and with this command applied to kernel : patch -p2 -l 2.patch debian:~# patch -p2 -l

Re: fish problem almost solved

2009-03-27 Thread leo
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:49 -0500, green wrote: leo wrote at 2009-03-26 13:38 -0500: gloogling around I found that setting enviroment variable KDE_FORK_SLAVES=true in the command prompt partialy correct the problem cause I have to do this every time before konqueror start... leo, please

Re: time server

2009-03-27 Thread leo
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 07:56 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-27 03:39, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:37:51PM -0700, leo wrote: hey! I need to configure automatically my date on boot time where I can find ntp servers Google! ntp server yourlocation

More: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error awk command not found????

2009-03-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 More information, sorry I didn't think to include this in the prior message. Any ideas? = $ dpkg -l | grep awk ii gawk1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l ii mawk1.3.3-11.1 a pattern scanning and text

Re: time server

2009-03-27 Thread John Hasler
leo writes: my ISP ntp server is having problems with dayligth hour changes... NTP deals only in UTC. Daylight savings has no effect on it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Consolechars Question

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:41:03AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:59:57AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:02:42AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: During bootup (Lenny) the

Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error awk command not found????

2009-03-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is the second day I've gotten this error, on up-to-date Lenny. I'm going to go look for what package awk should be in, but I cannot imagine why it would be missing. Aren't grep awk and sed the basic building blocks of all UNIX? Curt- -

Fwd: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error awk command not found????

2009-03-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I've found the problem. Although ls -al /usr/bin/awk comes back with nothing, if I cd to /usr/bin and do a dir, I get the following: == - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64136 2008-11-16 09:18 avisync l? ? ? ?

pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Rick Pasotto
What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? -- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed--and hence clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. --- H. L. Mencken Rick Pasotto

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 27 March 2009 14:46:50 Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? -- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed--and hence clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? screen capture? -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread randall
Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? if its a single one then the gimp could do it for you -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Reilly
Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? if im not mistaken imagemagick can convert files of many different types. take a look at that steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:59:33AM -0400, Steve Reilly wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? if im not mistaken imagemagick can convert files of many different types. take a look at that Duh! I use 'convert' all the time but it didn't

hp proliant dl380 g5 intermittent network connectivity issues (debian lenny 5.0)

2009-03-27 Thread Matthew Lenz
Got some serious issues with a brand new hp dl380 g5 running debian lenny. The machine seems to have issues with intermittent network connectivity. It'll work for awhile and then stop working. The real bugger is that I'm having diagnose this remotely. Initially we thought it was a bad hp NC360T

Re: Fwd: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error awk command not found????

2009-03-27 Thread Joe McDonagh
Curt Howland wrote: == - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64136 2008-11-16 09:18 avisync l? ? ? ? ?? awk - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39828 2008-04-16 18:37 barcode == There's some filesystem corruption. Are you familiar with fsck?

Most current printer support

2009-03-27 Thread Josh Kelley
We're setting up some Debian installations for some customers, and I'm trying to make sure that the printing support covers as many models as possible. Since printing is covered by a number of different packages, I want to make sure that I've included everything I need. If I set up Debian stable

Re: extract debian package default config

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? No. Various way to do that have been proposed already in this thread, but there's no simple and reliable way to do that. It's too bad, really. I wish `dpkg' was careful to stash a copy of the original conf file somewhere

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? maybe pdftoppm | ppmtojpeg ? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Illogical drives?

2009-03-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
postid wrote: Just finished a lenny install. I used manual partitioning in the graphical installer to do the following: #1 primary 19.0 GBntfs #2 primary 6.0 GB B F ext3 / #5 logical 1.0 GB F swap swap #6 logical 14.0 GB F ext3 /home #1 is Win2000 and

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm convinced that the suggestion is worthwhile, but I'm having difficulty following it. See below. On 2009-03-27_16:33:11, Owen Townend wrote: 2009/3/27 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net: On 2009-03-26_19:08:32, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Many of those packages will have been

$DISPLAY set when I log into virtual console

2009-03-27 Thread Dale Harris
So I don't run xdm or gdm, or similar display. I like to come in via regular getty to the virtual console and start up startx on my own. However, I notice now that $DISPLAY is let to localhost:0.0 when I log in, and I'm wondering... why? And where it is set. I would like to turn it off. I

Re: extract debian package default config

2009-03-27 Thread Sylvain Viart
Hi Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Sylvain Viart wrote: Is there some command which can extract the apache2.conf from the package or is it extracted somewhere? I use mc for that. Thanks, you're right. This is like extracting the package with ar or dpkg -x mc - midnight commander - a

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-27_11:19:29, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,26.Mar.09, 19:08:32, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I wouldn't put my backup info in /etc/apt. Most of what is in /etc/ (just like the rest of the file system) is managed by packages which are managed by apt. You may find that what you put

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Rainer Kluge
Rick Pasotto schrieb: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? I got best results with imagetops + convert: imagetops -scale 300 image.jpg temp.ps convert -density 300 temp.ps image.pdf Using directly convert image.jpg file.pdf works in principle, but does

DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available only from amazon, USA or UK. For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code thing, apparently designed to stop Australian audiovisual DVD

Re: time server

2009-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-27_08:14:01, John Hasler wrote: leo writes: my ISP ntp server is having problems with dayligth hour changes... NTP deals only in UTC. Daylight savings has no effect on it. -- John Hasler OT question: I think the actual, underlying time data source for email time is the Unix

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available only from amazon, USA or UK. For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code thing, apparently

Re: $DISPLAY set when I log into virtual console

2009-03-27 Thread tiagosaboga
On Mar 27, 12:30 pm, Dale Harris rod...@gmail.com wrote: So I don't run xdm or gdm, or similar display.  I like to come in via regular getty to the virtual console and start up startx on my own. However, I notice now that $DISPLAY is let to localhost:0.0 when I log in, and I'm wondering...

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
@ftc-p01:~$ aptitude search region p regionset - view and modify the region code of DVD dri This may not help much if he also wants to play Australian DVD's, as they would then have the wrong region code, and I am not sure whether you can switch region codes at will.

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available only from amazon, USA or UK. For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have

Re: Illogical drives?

2009-03-27 Thread postid
Greetings: Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some more reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand. Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm looking at a file system, not necessarily a list of physical locations. But on the

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bret Busby: Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all Region Codes, or, are they limited to particular region codes? The region code is not tied

Re: time server

2009-03-27 Thread Josh Kelley
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.netwrote: OT question: I think the actual, underlying time data source for email time is the Unix time clock on the originator's host. This gets translated into a text string for insertion into the email. I think the

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

2009-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but they depend on linux-kbuild-2.6.28 which isn't available

mounting filesystems in Gnome

2009-03-27 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi, I have a vfat partition on /dev/sda7. I would like to use the option in Gnome to mount the file system automatically using the Properties dialog. I open the Properties dialog, go to the Volume tab, and set the following: Mount Point: /media/f/ File System: vfat Mount Options: rw nosuid I

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Frank
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Bret Busby: Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all Region Codes, or, are they

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 27 March 2009 17:19:35 Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available only from amazon, USA

Re: Illogical drives?

2009-03-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0600, postid wrote: Greetings: Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some more reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand. Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm looking at a file system, not

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. Thierry And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? - Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Most current printer support

2009-03-27 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
FYI re adding hp printers and All-in-Ones: Add the printer using the Gnome add printer wizard or by running the 'hp-setup'. Either will auto-detect network printers, select a ppd, and add the queue. The add printer wizard in the CUPS web interface is way more work. If you're adding an

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

2009-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but they depend on linux-kbuild-2.6.28

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Tom Ashley
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:15 -0400, Frank wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Bret Busby: Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. Are these movie players able to read and play

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 27 March 2009 18:50:28 Norbert Zeh wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. Thierry And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? - Norbert Not yet! Thierry --

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:34:50 +0100 Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote: [105 lines trimmed] Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. You have added exactly one line; please trim messages when replying. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via

Galeon's myportal nfg?

2009-03-27 Thread Eric d'Alibut
A recent dist-upgrade to Lenny has broken galeon's neat myportal homepage feature. This is version 2.0.6-2.1. 1. Previously, the URL 'myportal:' worked fine. The error message for that is now: myportal is not a registered protocol. 2. Galeon's help suggests using the URL 'about:myportal'. The

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: So, it appears that this proprietary and restrictive Regions Code thing is absolute, and cannot be got around, and I apparently just have to accept that the video companies don't want us to watch their DVD's here in Australia.

Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following: /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01) But when I try to

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:52:58 +0530 Divick Kishore divick.kish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following:

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following: /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01) But

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Miles Fidelman wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? screen capture? Would work, but not necessarily the best way. I'd suggest 'convert' or gimp. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-27 Thread green
Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 09:26 -0600: Now, the discussion has moved to how to query the packaging system to get the most useful file of information. I'm still not sure what the query string should be. Restoring the package set is not so simple as restoring the packages that are

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Celejar
[Please don't reply to me personally, as per the list's code of conduct.] On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:16:15 +0530 Divick Kishore divick.kish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive

Re: question about applying patch to kernel 2.6.26

2009-03-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:27:37PM +0430, a dehqan wrote: In The Name Of God I'll be thankfull if you guide ; this patch codehttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.hdaps.devel/1324/rawhas been saved as 2.patch in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 directory. and with this command

Re: mounting filesystems in Gnome

2009-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-27_21:09:19, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: Hi, I have a vfat partition on /dev/sda7. I would like to use the option in Gnome to mount the file system automatically using the Properties dialog. I open the Properties dialog, go to the Volume tab, and set the following: Mount Point:

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 01:19:35AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. me to [snip] So, it appears that this proprietary and restrictive Regions Code

problem with module loading in etch

2009-03-27 Thread Long Wind
I have a bttv card etch loads driver for it during booting but etch does not use correct options so I have to use commands below: rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=8 I add bttv card=8 to /etc/modules but it does not help. My question is how to help etch use correct options so that I needn't enter

Re: Illogical drives?

2009-03-27 Thread Mike McClain
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0600, postid wrote: Greetings: Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some more reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand. Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm looking at a file system,

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Divick Kishore
[Please don't reply to me personally, as per the list's code of conduct.] Oh Sorry about that...I just hit the replyall button in my email client. Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive

Re: problem with module loading in etch

2009-03-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:25:40PM -0400, Long Wind wrote: I have a bttv card etch loads driver for it during booting but etch does not use correct options so I have to use commands below: rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=8 I add bttv card=8 to /etc/modules but it does not help. My

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

2009-03-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but they

Re: weird error while trying to run apt-get ? has anyone seen this...google has not

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,27.Mar.09, 10:58:25, Andrei Popescu wrote: Oh, and forgot to say, it is a bug you found, but since you are running etch (which is now oldstable) it might have been found (and fixed) a long time ago. If I don't forget I'll look into it... Ok, as far as I can tell the bug is only

Virtual Keyboard for Touchscreen

2009-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Today afternoon I have installed a Graphiccontroller with LVDS interface and attached a QVGA (320x240) Display to simulate my AT91SAM9263... Now I have my FrameBuffer X-Server running with matchbox in a chroot and no keyboard anymore. Yet I do not find the Virtual-Keyboard for the

matchbox ultra-ugly

2009-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I reala can not believe it that matchox is so ugly... Does someone know, how to make matchbox looking REALY beautifull on a QVGA (320x240) screen? I mean something like the Symbian S60 GUI. Note: On my i.MX37 I run a LVDS Display (800x600) with Feline Virtual Window Manager

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:10:07 +0530 Divick Kishore divick.kish...@gmail.com wrote: ... Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows

Re: extract debian package default config

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,27.Mar.09, 11:09:32, Stefan Monnier wrote: Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? No. Various way to do that have been proposed already in this thread, but there's no simple and reliable way to do that. It's too bad, really. I wish `dpkg' was

[Solved]Re: Unable to boot into encrypted file system after upgrade etch -- lenny

2009-03-27 Thread klappnase
On 26 Mrz., 16:10, Michael Lange klappn...@web.de wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:41:26 +0200 snip Ok, there seems to be a bug in debian's initramfs-tools that resembles a lot the one described at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507721 . In the last few days I learned how to

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Divick Kishore
But I don´t want to write to that disk, only read. I tried changing the entry in my fstab to ´ro´ but it is of no use. I still see the same permission issue. Not sure why is this happening. Well, you can't be surprised that you can't chown, since the filesystem is RO, and if the

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,27.Mar.09, 09:26:59, Paul E Condon wrote: I see you have a different search string than has been mentioned before. Is yours really what you use, or something typed from memory? The ones I have tried didn't seem to give correct results. It was from memory, and I was even right ;) Let

Re: fish problem almost solved

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,26.Mar.09, 20:58:53, leo wrote: ...writing KDE_FORK_SLAVES value in ~/.xsessionrc works until I restart KDE. You probably need to 'export' it: export KDE_FORK_SLAVES=true Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Celejar
[please don't cc. me.] On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:07:24 +0530 Divick Kishore divick.kish...@gmail.com wrote: But I don´t want to write to that disk, only read. I tried changing the entry in my fstab to ´ro´ but it is of no use. I still see the same permission issue. Not sure why is this

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
[top posting fixed] On Fri,27.Mar.09, 04:52:52, paragasu wrote: Yes, but this is usually done by some user tool. What Desktop Environment are you using? (I can help with Xfce, but am not familiar with KDE or Gnome) i am using openbox , btw, how to do it in KDE? maybe the same can be

Re: problem with module loading in etch

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,27.Mar.09, 05:42:32, Long Wind wrote: I have a bttv card etch loads driver for it during booting but etch does not use correct options so I have to use commands below: rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=8 I add bttv card=8 to /etc/modules but it does not help. My question is how

Re: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error awk command not found????

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,27.Mar.09, 08:27:10, Curt Howland wrote: This is the second day I've gotten this error, on up-to-date Lenny. I'm going to go look for what package awk should be in, but I cannot imagine why it would be missing. Aren't grep awk and sed the basic building blocks of all UNIX? The

Re: mouse and gpm

2009-03-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:48:00AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:20:12AM +0100, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:15PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: I hadn't really thought about gpm in particular, but wheel mice are doable with the extension I

Re: More: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error awk command not found????

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,27.Mar.09, 08:50:35, Curt Howland wrote: More information, sorry I didn't think to include this in the prior message. Any ideas? = $ dpkg -l | grep awk ii gawk1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l ii mawk1.3.3-11.1 a pattern scanning

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-27_13:53:14, green wrote: Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 09:26 -0600: Now, the discussion has moved to how to query the packaging system to get the most useful file of information. I'm still not sure what the query string should be. Restoring the package set is not so

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,28.Mar.09, 00:52:58, Divick Kishore wrote: Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following: /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs

Touchpad hangs on Lenny

2009-03-27 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
Hi All, I have problem with Synaptics touchpad on Dell 640m(E1405) and Lenny. From several days very oftten touchpad arrea and buttons stop responding, after a minute they are back functional. If I press keyboard key (any key) during hang period touchpad function properly. Google do not help

Re: time server

2009-03-27 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: ...suppose you are looking at old emails in an archive. Suppose it matters to the minute when that old email was actually sent, like in a criminal or national intelligence investigation. Is there a database somewhere that records the dates of switching to and from summer

Re: Question about get-selections

2009-03-27 Thread green
Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 16:35 -0600: On 2009-03-27_13:53:14, green wrote: I think I have minimally tested these commands, but it has been a while. It would be great if someone could try this out and add a wiki page for it. Well, I'm going to try it out, I can't promise a

Re: Touchpad hangs on Lenny

2009-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
Hey, Ivan, you high-jacked my thread. If you want to get some intelligent traffic on your question you should start a new thread. I see you are using Evolution as you MUA. I don't know Evolution, but I'm sure it does have a way for you to start a new thread for your new topic. Don't select 'Reply'

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

2009-03-27 Thread Bryce
Divick Kishore wrote: Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following: /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs

Re: Question about get-selections - a little story

2009-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-27_17:43:22, green wrote: Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 16:35 -0600: On 2009-03-27_13:53:14, green wrote: I think I have minimally tested these commands, but it has been a while. It would be great if someone could try this out and add a wiki page for it. ... want an

Re: Most current printer support

2009-03-27 Thread Josh Kelley
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Malcolmson andm...@gmail.comwrote: FYI re adding hp printers and All-in-Ones: Add the printer using the Gnome add printer wizard or by running the 'hp-setup'. Either will auto-detect network printers, select a ppd, and add the queue. The add printer

Re: about ntp

2009-03-27 Thread tech lists
On 4/25/09, leo leona...@softel.cu wrote: when I exec ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org for example, the out is: no server suitable for synchronization found so it's posible a misconfiguration or no access what could be the problem here? If you are running ntpd while trying ntpdate, it will fail (with

Re: Konqueror: select all doesn't work in the location bar

2009-03-27 Thread tech lists
On 3/26/09, Harold R. Grove rgr...@msad56.org wrote: On Thursday 26 March 2009, Randy Kramer wrote: On Thursday 26 March 2009 05:02:48 am Thorny wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:49:37 -0400, Randy Kramer posted: Not sure if confirmation is what you want, for me in Konq 3.5.9 on Lenny, select

Re: problem with module loading in etch

2009-03-27 Thread Long Wind
Thanks! I'll try your solutions later on. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:25:40PM -0400, Long Wind wrote: I have a bttv card etch loads driver for it during booting but etch does not use correct options so I have to use commands

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
I want to know that, before I start buying movies on DVD's from other Region Codes, so that I will not end up with movies on DVD's, that I cannot use. There are several ways to do that: 1 - use `regionset'. But this can only be used 5 times. 2 - change your DVD's firmware (there's a web site

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread VaCi0
--- johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de escribió: From: Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: pdf - jpg Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:48:04 +0100 Miles Fidelman wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image

Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-27 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I have a hardware RAID with a logical drive that I expanded adding a disk being of the following way: Name Part TypeFS TypeSize (MB) -- c0d0p1 Primary Linux swap / Solaris

thunderbird and evolution

2009-03-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I plan to use evolution and thunderbird occasionally to read my mail. I normally use mutt from a console, but how can I configure thunderbird and evolution to do the following? - Read mail from /var/mail/daniel, and don't move it, just read it from that folder, and delete or move only when I

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