Re: Moonlight install failed : not compatible with Iceweasel build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3)

2009-05-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 17 May 2009 08:19:19 Foss User wrote: > I was trying to install Silverlight. The Silverlight download link > took me to moonlight and when I tried to install it, I got this error > message after the XPI download: Which flavor of Debian are you running? Because moonlight is in Squeeze and Sid.

Re: source package linux-2.6

2009-05-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:04:21AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I would like to test the lastest linux-2.6 package from Sid on my Lenny Box. May I ask why? If you just need to build a deb from a kernel, maybe use kernel-package (make-kpkg). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jab

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:19:49PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hey, neither can I. I've got pretty much the same symptoms. > I'll be grateful for any eyeballs/suggestions. I'm running a recent Toshiba laptop. The black screen chvt 1 problem hits when I use an external monitor. With the built-in

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Old Crankbuster [2009-05-17 10:29:04 +0700]: > Ah. But this a standard install with no proxy, upgraded to Sid. The > difference between this side and that side is that I run bind9 on this > side as caching nameserver on this box... Waitaminnit > For grins, I just reinstalled Lenny on t

Moonlight install failed : not compatible with Iceweasel build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3)

2009-05-16 Thread Foss User
I was trying to install Silverlight. The Silverlight download link took me to moonlight and when I tried to install it, I got this error message after the XPI download: "Novell Moonlight" could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Iceweasel build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please

Apache virtual map for Exchange OWA?

2009-05-16 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi There, Is there anyway we can trick Exchange OWA to be redirected via Apache server? I had SBS 2003 with OWA working OK locally But the http server is on my Debian box Can I somehow make virtual directory (or something else) under Apache so when user type www.mydomain.com/exchange, it will a

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:57:29PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 get me only a > black screen with no prompt. The same thing happens if I try "console login" > from kdm. inittab is the default. Graphics driver NVidia 173.14.09. Any > h

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mark Allums wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still needs to download the player from Adobe.

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-16 Thread Mark Allums
Marc Shapiro wrote: Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still needs to download the player from Adobe. I've already inst

source package linux-2.6

2009-05-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I would like to test the lastest linux-2.6 package from Sid on my Lenny Box. My initila plan was to build it from its source with dpkg tools. But the list of packaged balls is rather huge _and_ useless for a personal use: is there an easy way to build the packages that we really need.

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Alex Samad [2009-05-17 10:53:31 +1000]: > you realise when you use a proxy the proxy does the name resolution. > also apt can be set to use a proxy as well in apt.conf and the > environment. Ah. But this a standard install with no proxy, upgraded to Sid. The difference between this side a

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Michael M. Moore [2009-05-16 16:20:28 -0700]: > Out of curiosity, if you ping the repositories first, then run apt-get > update, does it resolve properly and proceed with the update? Nope, no joy. The repos do resolve with ping, however. There seems to be something else going on when I cal

Re: How to run an application in X under another user?

2009-05-16 Thread gcrimp
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:00:14PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > As I try to run oowriter in terminal under another user with > > su - another_user > another_user$ oowriter > > I get error messages notifying me that it can not open a display. > How this can be overcome? > take a look

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still needs to download the player from Adobe. I've already installed Flash directly

Gnome not reconizing Keyboard

2009-05-16 Thread Dean Chester
Hi I started playing with sysvconfig and then rebooted and gnome stopped my keyboard from working was it that i disabled a service or was it an upgrade that has affected the keyboard. I have not changed my xorg.conf file. I can boot in to single user mode and older kernels yet they don't support th

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-16 Thread Mark Allums
Marc Shapiro wrote: Up until today, flash was mostly working. Any sites that I go to that needed flash were happy. My 8 year old daughter goes to a number of sites that use flash heavily and some of them wanted a more current version than was on my system (flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.xx.xx, left

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Up until today, flash was mostly working. Any sites that I go to that > needed flash were happy. My 8 year old daughter goes to a number of > sites that use flash heavily and some of them wanted a more current > version than wa

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 04:20:28PM -0700, Michael M. Moore wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:16 +0700, Old Crankbuster wrote: > > * Peter Crawford [2009-05-14 10:49:54 -0700]: > > [snip] > > Interestingly, have been able to solve the surfing problem in iceweasel > > by setting the network setti

Re: How to run an application in X under another user?

2009-05-16 Thread Roberto De Oliveira
xhost + LOCAL: su - user export DISPLAY=:0 oowriter -- Saludos, Roberto De Oliveira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Help with Flash

2009-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Up until today, flash was mostly working. Any sites that I go to that needed flash were happy. My 8 year old daughter goes to a number of sites that use flash heavily and some of them wanted a more current version than was on my system (flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.xx.xx, left over from Etch, I no

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:16 +0700, Old Crankbuster wrote: > * Peter Crawford [2009-05-14 10:49:54 -0700]: > > > Does /etc/hosts begin thus? > > > > 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost > > 127.0.1.1mycomputer.invalidmycomputer > > > > If so, try commenting the 2nd line. > >

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 01:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > However, on the web page at > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting , under the heading > "4.8 - Multibooting OpenBSD/i386" > is > "Only one of the four primary MBR partitions can be used for booting > OpenBSD (i.e., extended pa

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-16 Thread Dennis Creedan
> > Since alsa-driver 1.0.17.dfsg-1 maestro3 ist supported anymore. > Don't know which Debian Kernel version removes it because of DFSG > violations. > > Custom Kernels can be build with maestro3. > >> How do I go about doing this? > > Elimar > >

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:47:46AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: [..] > Are you still talking in the context of Emacs? If so: > > You won't need to reach the arrow keys, etc., once you've learned the > traditional Emacs movement keystrokes. (In fact, that would also > apply to vi.) But you need

Re: Could someone recommend documentation or books about debian?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:15 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Charlie Dorff wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > >> I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good > >> documentation or books about how to use debian. Thanks. Charlie > >> > I found "The Debian System," by Mart

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-16 Thread Dennis Creedan
I've configured Gmail to use UTF-8 for outgoing messages .. hope this helps. Here is the output of 'lspci -nn' 02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator [125d:1998] (rev 10) At the time of my original email, I had only tried alsa-firm

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 16:55:07 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Saturday 16 May 2009 15:44:25 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 13:24:45 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > On Saturday 16 May 2009 12:05:56 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wr

Re: ideas for Linux router?

2009-05-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:16:15PM +, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:18:24PM +0800, Bob wrote: > > Alex Samad wrote: > >> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:23:52PM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I got an awesome deal today on a Linksys wired Eth

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 16 May 2009 15:44:25 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 13:24:45 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > On Saturday 16 May 2009 12:05:56 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote:

gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-16 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000-October/msg00020.html And that doesn't look encouraging. I am looking for a terminal that ren

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 13:24:45 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Saturday 16 May 2009 12:05:56 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > >

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:51:00 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Florian Kulzer [090516 18:53 +0200] > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 00:25:44 -0400, Dennis Creedan wrote: > > > All, > > > > > > I've upgraded from woody to sarge to etch to lenny, and I am having > > > problems > > > with sound.

Re: How to run an application in X under another user?

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 18:00:14 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > As I try to run oowriter in terminal under another user with > > su - another_user > another_user$ oowriter > > I get error messages notifying me that it can not open a display. > How this can be overcome? Install the pack

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-16 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Florian Kulzer [090516 18:53 +0200] > [ Please try to turn off Gmail's HTML output. ] > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 00:25:44 -0400, Dennis Creedan wrote: > > All, > > > > I've upgraded from woody to sarge to etch to lenny, and I am having problems > > with sound. (I had no problems in woody, but

tmpreaper clobbers initramfs under construction?

2009-05-16 Thread Mike Bird
Just got this and much more when a kernel update occurred while tmpreaper was running. I'm redoing the kernel update in case there were parts of the initramfs which HAD been successfully unlinked. > /etc/cron.daily/tmpreaper: > error: Failed to unlink `ehci-hcd.ko': No such file or directory > er

Re: How to run an application in X under another user?

2009-05-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 16 May 2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > As I try to run oowriter in terminal under another user with > > su - another_user > another_user$ oowriter > > I get error messages notifying me that it can not open a display. > How this can be overcome? > > Thank You for Your time. One w

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 16 May 2009 12:05:56 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please try to turn off Gmail's HTML output. ] On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 00:25:44 -0400, Dennis Creedan wrote: > All, > > I've upgraded from woody to sarge to etch to lenny, and I am having problems > with sound. (I had no problems in woody, but I did not test sound in sarge > or etch since it wa

Re: xen, guest won't start, "Hotplug scripts not working"

2009-05-16 Thread dbaxps
gcrimp wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use xen for the first time. This box is running a recent > install of Lenny. > > I've reading web howtos, the man pages and user.pdf, so it could be that I > am mixing and matching too much and not following the debian way, but here > goes: > > > >

Re: No console from X

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 get me > > > > > only a black screen with no prompt. The same

Re: No 3D option on glchess

2009-05-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Hashimoto wrote: > Hi guys, > > I see no option to enable the 3D view mode on game glchess. Actually I'm > using Debian Lenny (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) and compiz-fusion (0.7.9). > > Any idea what is the trouble ? The 3D option was removed because of this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.

Feedback requested on the package magicfilter

2009-05-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, I am the maintainer of the magicfilter package, which is a package for converting files (say, Postscript or PDF) to printers. This is its long description: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Magicfilter is a customizable, extensible automatic pri

How to run an application in X under another user?

2009-05-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. As I try to run oowriter in terminal under another user with su - another_user another_user$ oowriter I get error messages notifying me that it can not open a display. How this can be overcome? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: is it safe to reomve all the other video card driver?

2009-05-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:24 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,15.May.09, 12:08:55, 明覺 wrote: > > my video card is nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT, but i found that > > my debian system also installed all the other drivers, like ati, > > arp.., is it safe to remove all the other drivers e

Re: Stuck at "Setting system clock" when booting

2009-05-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 09:07 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Using: Lenny i386 > > The only way I can bypass this is to go "single user mode" and > pressing Ctrl+d, any other way to get rid of this problem? I suspect it's a problem specific to your RTC clock. What's your hardware (or motherb

Re: how to debug "segment fault" problem in kdevelop?

2009-05-16 Thread 明覺
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <6a8fced30904251059g77a533c2yf94d6b66d6a63...@mail.gmail.com>, 明覺 wrote: >>I download the k3dsurf project(a kdevelop project) and compiled it in >>kdevelop successfully, but when i run it, it says "segment fault", how >>could I de

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current? [Ext4]

2009-05-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 15:44 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > Anything that doesn't have a showstopping-type bug filed against it in > > sid moves to testing after a week, as I understand it. You might check > > bugs.d.o for information. Is

Re: How to generate Contents-.gz

2009-05-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:29:40AM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to search a local mirror and a local repository with > apt-file. How can I generate the Contents-.gz files needed? By "apt-ftparchive generate" http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/po4a/html/ch02.en.html#_smal

Re: display with 3d eccelation not working after software upgrade

2009-05-16 Thread 明覺
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2009/5/14 Matus UHLAR - fantomas >> >> On 02.05.09 18:37, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> > Use: Debian Lenny i386 >> > g. card: nvidia 7600 GS >> > >> > After upgrading to the latest kernel, I coudn't play computer game with >> > 3d >> >

postfix with policyd-weight

2009-05-16 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi there, I am trying to build postfix mail MTA spam with guide from http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-spamsnake-ubuntu-8.04-p1 Everything working OK until implementing policy-weightd I hope someone can point out my mistake, here are my conf files mail.cf [...] smtpd_recipient_restrictions