Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 02:13:43 Wayne Topa wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > John W Foster wrote: > >> I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, > >> from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian > >> lists. > >> scenario: When I post an answer or

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
John W Foster wrote: I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian lists. scenario: When I post an answer or a questions to this list or any debian list. I do not recieve the replies that are sent to

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Rich Griffiths wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:17 +0200, Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? You won't have to answer all those setup questions

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. I'm sure that I'm not along when I say tha

SOLVED: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Marcacci
In what will remain one of the great mysteries of my life...somehow during installing Lenny 5.0.2 my BIOS setting was changed to "Wireless Off" instead of "Wireless On". I am not joking - haven't touched the BIOS in months but as soon I changed it to "Wireless On", I connected to my home network w

Re: Booting 5 OSes? Is this possible?

2009-06-29 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 05:33:29 Zachary Uram wrote: > I wish to setup on the same hard disk (500GB): > > Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit) > Debian 5.01 (64 bit) > MS Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) > MS Windows 98 (32 bit) > MS Windows XP (32 bit) > > I want to allocate 50GB for each. > > 1) Is this possi

Booting 5 OSes? Is this possible?

2009-06-29 Thread Zachary Uram
I wish to setup on the same hard disk (500GB): Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit) Debian 5.01 (64 bit) MS Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit) MS Windows 98 (32 bit) MS Windows XP (32 bit) I want to allocate 50GB for each. 1) Is this possible? 2) How do I setup grub (or lilo) to do this? 3) What order do I ins

Re: fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:43 +0100, kj wrote: > Well, I used to have a Radeon 7000, which was fully supported under X, > and that worked beautifully, until they came up with this randr stuff, > and threw out support for dual screens on the radeon driver without > providing a working alternative

Re: Wireless networking help - can't find AP

2009-06-29 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:39 + Joel Roth wrote: ... > My wireless network interface is present: > > $ iwconfig wlan0 > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated > Tx-Power=0 dBm > Retry min limi

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa wrote: John W Foster wrote: I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian lists. scenario: When I post an answer or a questions to this list or any debian list. I do not recieve the replie

Re: Wireless networking help - can't find AP

2009-06-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Joel Roth wrote: Hello all, I have a Toshiba Satellite L305 series laptop running sid with a recent, stock kernel: Linux version 2.6.26-1-686 (Debian 2.6.26-10). I am seeking to connect to a D-Link 614+ wireless router. For initial testing, the AP is unencrypted, unsecured. My wife's G3 i-Boo

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Rich Griffiths
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:17 +0200, Steve Witt wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: > >> Hi. >> I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to >> upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? >> >> > Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most c

Wireless networking help - can't find AP

2009-06-29 Thread Joel Roth
Hello all, I have a Toshiba Satellite L305 series laptop running sid with a recent, stock kernel: Linux version 2.6.26-1-686 (Debian 2.6.26-10). I am seeking to connect to a D-Link 614+ wireless router. For initial testing, the AP is unencrypted, unsecured. My wife's G3 i-Book with AfterTheMac

Graphical display problems on thinkpad iseries

2009-06-29 Thread whollygoat
Hi all, I'm having trouble with the graphical interface on an IBM Thinkpad i1161. I was hoping for some help in debugging them. First off, I had to tinker with xorg.conf to get anything usable. I'm using siliconmotion as the driver at 1024x768. Now that I've got that working, other problems h

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Marcacci
Well, apparently Network Manager isn't the problem since I installed wicd and it says "No wireless networks found" (even after removing LAN line, rebooting, etc). Have done a ton of researching, editing different files such as /etc/network/interfaces, but nothing seems to get my wireless card to s

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread Wayne Topa
John W Foster wrote: I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian lists. scenario: When I post an answer or a questions to this list or any debian list. I do not recieve the replies that are sent to

Re: No music playback

2009-06-29 Thread JoeHill
Daryl Styrk wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:41:46PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > > This is strange: I can play video files with sound, I can play flash video > > with sound, but when I try to play a music file (mp3) in either Rhythmbox > > or Exaile the progress bar does not move and the file

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:51:54PM -0500, John W Foster wrote: > I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, > from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian > lists. > scenario: > When I post an answer or a questions to this list or any debian lis

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Witt
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. Usually the machine's configuration is not affected during the u

Re: scroll heel problem

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 05:06:30PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Daryl Styrk wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:32:47PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: >>> Just installed Lenny on my Dell d600 laptop. Any attempt to use the >>> mouse wheel results in an attempt to connect t

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, John W Foster wrote: I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian lists. scenario: When I post an answer or a questions to this list or any debian list. I do not recieve the repli

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:46:34PM -0700, Adriano Trentini wrote: >Hi. >I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. >Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny?

Re: scroll heel problem

2009-06-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Daryl Styrk wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:32:47PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: Just installed Lenny on my Dell d600 laptop. Any attempt to use the mouse wheel results in an attempt to connect to a url consisting of whatever I last copied to the clipboard and tells me i

Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread John W Foster
I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian lists. scenario: When I post an answer or a questions to this list or any debian list. I do not recieve the replies that are sent to my mailbox at gmail.com.

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Adriano Trentini
Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? --- Em seg, 29/6/09, Ed Sutter escreveu: De: Ed Sutter Assunto: Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem... Para: "Rich Griffiths" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Data: Segunda-fei

Re: No music playback

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:41:46PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > This is strange: I can play video files with sound, I can play flash video > with > sound, but when I try to play a music file (mp3) in either Rhythmbox or Exaile > the progress bar does not move and the file will not play. > > I don't

Re: scroll heel problem

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:32:47PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > Just installed Lenny on my Dell d600 laptop. Any attempt to use the > mouse wheel results in an attempt to connect to a url consisting of > whatever I last copied to the clipboard and tells me it can't connect > (of course sin

scroll heel problem

2009-06-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
Just installed Lenny on my Dell d600 laptop. Any attempt to use the mouse wheel results in an attempt to connect to a url consisting of whatever I last copied to the clipboard and tells me it can't connect (of course since what was on the clipboard wasn't a url). This distro, loaded from the sa

No music playback

2009-06-29 Thread JoeHill
This is strange: I can play video files with sound, I can play flash video with sound, but when I try to play a music file (mp3) in either Rhythmbox or Exaile the progress bar does not move and the file will not play. I don't know if this is related, but I have two volume icons in my panel, the o

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:12:57AM EDT, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Chris Jones writes: > > > Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based > > applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... > > irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread John Hasler
Pete Boyd writes: > The question is misguided as it assumes one wants to use an account > called 'root', but this concept doesn't exist on Ubuntu... Yes it does. It just has logins disabled. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Jun.09, 14:02:38, Mark Marcacci wrote: > Is wicd more widely used? I don't know, but for me it Just Works. I also installed it on my mothers laptop (lenny) from backports and had no issues with it. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Marcacci
Thanks to the advice given so far. A hard drive wipe and fresh install put all the menu items back in their place, including Network Manager. After installing the firmware for my wifi card (Broadcom BCM4306 rev 02) roaming mode doesn't work nor can I force it to connect to my home network. I had

/lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.8' not found

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Ok, next question... My original reason for upgrading from etch to lenny was because a tool (cross compiler) I'm using complained because it needed GLIBC_2.4, and apparently etch only went up to GLIBC_2.3.8. Now I've updated to Lenny, and the tool no longer complains about GLIBC_2.4. That's the

Re: [SA Rule] meds, pill and shop spams

2009-06-29 Thread markus reichelt
* Michelle Konzack wrote: > because I am currently hit by several 10.000 new type of spam > using domains like www.(meds|pill|shop)XX.(net|com|org) I sugest > you to put the following in your spamassassin config: Well, it worked out of the box here: Your message was tagged as spam. -- lef

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Rich Griffiths wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ai

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Rich Griffiths
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: > Hi, > Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go > well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) > and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. > > Bottom line... > It ain't good. :-

Re: New Dell netbook Ubuntu,Debian,login problems-part 2.

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:27:28AM -0700, luis_a_mace...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Thanks to all who promptly have responded to my first question.Now I have a > more effective knowledge about some of the differences between the two worlds > in terms of power accounts,but I now see that my problem is: >

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Jun.09, 18:00:09, mess-mate wrote: > > > >quote - that's how I did it on my laptop. > >As for your other question - "how to partition?" is a faq, with around > >1234567 possible answers; as for grub, it detects vista automagically > >(as "Vista/Longhonrn") > > > > > Hi, if it can help.. >

Re: Graphical Interface Crashes

2009-06-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Jun.09, 08:11:50, Curtis Tyndall wrote: > I tried running "xdpyinfo | grep reso" and got the the following: >dots per inch 89x89 BIG OOUPS, should have been $ xpdyinfo | grep dime Sorry for that. In the meantime I have access to a Lenny machine where I had to customize xorg.conf f

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Tha

New Dell netbook Ubuntu,Debian,login problems-part 2.

2009-06-29 Thread luis_a_maceira
Thanks to all who promptly have responded to my first question.Now I have a more effective knowledge about some of the differences between the two worlds in terms of power accounts,but I now see that my problem is: I do not know what is my Ubuntu user password,it do not come with the netbook packa

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Pete Boyd
> was it removed from 5.0.2 because of that? If anything were changed then notice of it would appear on the page announcing the release: http://debian.org/News/2009/20090627 -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegoldenear.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-29 Thread kj
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I gave up on a similar endeavour when lenny was testing. ATI's proprietary drivers are a mess for those kind of things -- or at least were the last time I tried. I had it partially working for some time with only minor artifacts and troubles, when a new update of the ke

Re: kvm -net nic -net tap makes no network.

2009-06-29 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:25:52PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: [...] > Could You please share Your command line, and the knowledge how You or a > script > bring/s up an interface? When I use it like that, my start command was : # kvm -k fr -localtime -m 384 -usb -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:59 -n

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Marcacci
I'm still confused as to why certain menu items disappeared when going from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 via a fresh installation.  I should mention that I chose to use the debian ftp repository during installation so the newest packages and updates were installed. Certain menus were significantly truncated whi

etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Thanks in advance, Ed

System is corrupted installing packages

2009-06-29 Thread debuser
Hi! I have the flash card image which contains a lenny dustr and I'd like to upgrade the OS there up to sid. I mount the image to the dir 'flash': mount -o loop,offset=16384 -t ext2 q.raw flash and I chroot into it: LC_ALL=C chroot flash/ /bin/bash Everything is ok. Then I run 'nano /etc/apt/so

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
mess-mate wrote: Le 29/06/2009 13:37, Lorenzo Beretta a écrit : Alan Greenberger ha scritto: On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. C

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 29 June 2009 16:28:11 thveillon.debian wrote: > Luis Maceira wrote: > > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running > > Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative > > tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su passwor

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Luis Maceira wrote: > > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu > (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: > upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs > that come wi

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Pete Boyd
The question is misguided as it assumes one wants to use an account called 'root', but this concept doesn't exist on Ubuntu (yes it can if you want it to, but it doesn't by design, so why resurrect it). Answering that question for Luis doesn't answer his actual question, which is more like 'what is

Re: Re: Fwd: 2.6.26 and 2.6.29 kernel image , Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0

2009-06-29 Thread Tóth Szabolcs
I removed and reinstalled the initramfs-tool and the package which include the 2.6.26 image. During the configuration procedure I saw the following msg: update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (2.6.26-15lenny3) ... Running depmod. Running mkin

Re: fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
kj wrote: > Is anyone here running a dual screen (one big desktop) with the fglrx > driver? I'm having a wild time trying to make this work with an ATI HD > 2400 XT card on Squeeze. I gave up on a similar endeavour when lenny was testing. ATI's proprietary drivers are a mess for those kind of thi

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread mess-mate
Le 29/06/2009 13:37, Lorenzo Beretta a écrit : Alan Greenberger ha scritto: On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 29 Jun 2009, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:22:30AM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs Maybe the root account is disabled. If you i

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread ghe
On 6/29/09 9:28 AM, thveillon.debian wrote: Hi, Ubuntu works with "sudo" only (and your user password), the root password isn't configured. You can use the "passwd" command to set it I believe. Yes. 'sudo passwd' works fine to enable root. -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: how to grep error messages

2009-06-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090628141815.gm2...@pear.tzafrir.org.il>, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:42:58AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> But I would prefer something like: >> >> if [ $(cd "$1") -ne 0 ] >> then echo "badbadbad" ; exit 1 >> fi > >Note that this runs the 'cd' command

Re: how to grep error messages

2009-06-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090628094255.ga12...@freenet.de>, Michelle Konzack wrote: >Am 2009-06-28 11:39:55, schrieb Soren Orel: >> I can /dev/null the error messages like: >> >> cd "$1" 2> /dev/null >> >> e.g.: I get error If "$1" has spaces in it >> >> Ok, but how can I grep the error message? I tried: >> >> if cd "

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:22:30AM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs Maybe the root account is disabled. If you install lenny you can choose this option as

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread thveillon.debian
Luis Maceira wrote: > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu > (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: > upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs > that come with the netbook.Is there any standard

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Avi Greenbury
Luis Maceira wrote: As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs that come with the netbook.Is there any standard passw

New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Luis Maceira
As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs that come with the netbook.Is there any standard password that we use in t

fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-29 Thread kj
Hi guys, Is anyone here running a dual screen (one big desktop) with the fglrx driver? I'm having a wild time trying to make this work with an ATI HD 2400 XT card on Squeeze. I installed the ATI drivers from non-free, compiled the module with m-a - all works fine. I can configure X with a

Re: Re: Fwd: 2.6.26 and 2.6.29 kernel image , Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0

2009-06-29 Thread Tóth Szabolcs
I removed and reinstalled the initramfs-tool and the package which include the 2.6.26 image. During the configuration procedure I saw the following msg: update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (2.6.26-15lenny3) ... Running depmod. Running mk

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

2009-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:18:54 Mark Marcacci wrote: > I've been installing Debian 5.0.1 via a downloaded jigdo DVD image from the > official site. This morning did a fresh laptop install and noticed it used > 795 files total versus 809 last week when I did a few trial installations > on the same

Re: Re: Re: Re: Graphical Interface Crashes

2009-06-29 Thread Curtis Tyndall
I tried running "xdpyinfo | grep reso" and got the the following: dots per inch 89x89 I have no idea what that exactly means. But I would really like to be able to get this fixed up so that I have the proper resolution. I don't know if I mentioned previously, but the video on my motherboar

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

2009-06-29 Thread Csanyi Pal
Chris Jones writes: > Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based > applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... > irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice. I'm using the Urxvt terminal. aptitude show rxvt-unicode RXVT-li

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Alan Greenberger ha scritto: On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: Hi, I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do to shrink the Vist

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Cowley Harris wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote. > >   "But I haven't seen anyone insult him yet -- but then I >  haven't read many of the overnight posts yet." > > Anybody here watch "The daily show". The first time I ever saw a show, > they had a piece where they had Don

Re: I'm at my wit's end

2009-06-29 Thread steef
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Sunday 28 June 2009 14:40:17 Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:33:09 -0700, Ken L. Klaser wrote: Hi, The Youtube symptoms you describe I also experienced on 32-bit Lenny and Iceweasel precisely as you explained them. I believe I finally tracked it do

Re: hi, all, help me with debian installation!!

2009-06-29 Thread John Allen
Yi Zhao wrote: hi, all: I have a disk which install windows(30G) and debian(30G), but sometimes ago, my debian is broken, so I want to resintall it on the exists partitions(I don't want to create other new partitions), but, when I run the installation program, I can't find the operation to fi

Re: WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence

2009-06-29 Thread Robert S
> > >> > I get the above error message whenever I use invoke-rc.d. This > isn't a > >> > major problem except that I get annoying messages every night when > logrotate > >> > restarts services. Is there a fix for this? > >> > > >> > # invoke-rc.d samba restart > >> > invoke-rc.d: ---

Re: i need ia32-libs. What to do?

2009-06-29 Thread ludovico van
>>> What's the simplest way to get ia32-libs back? > Anyone knows how long will it take for the transition to finish? it seems ia32-libs has been updated to version 18 (??). from http://packages.debian.org/sid/ia32-libs : This is a transitional package that depends on a set of core libraries fo

Enable multicast forwarding

2009-06-29 Thread EQMaker
Hi all. To use Mrouted on my Debian 5.0.1, I inserted net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf... and restarted linux-box... And there are error on booting screen. The error is... Setting kernel varibles (/etc/sysctl.conf)...error : permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.conf.all.m

Re: kvm -net nic -net tap makes no network.

2009-06-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: > Looks like kvm is using different network start scripts than qemu (none) and > they are broken or make certain assumptions that aren't true. Check > /etc/kvm for scripts that use brctl and fix them. Seems it has my OS just has no net-interfaces for

Re: X-server restart console command

2009-06-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, jida...@jidanni.org: > # nohup /etc/init.d/xdm restart I have no the file. Yet occasionaly I have solved my problem by downgrading acpid from testing to stable and therefore got my power button to function that calls KDE logout dialog from which I can choose w/