Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/17/2010 9:03 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> Most (if not all) software has some sort of license, like "use as >> you'd like but make sure you tell the next person the same" (BSD . . >> .as I understand it). However, Flash is not just a set of

Re: Interrupting a hibernate

2010-03-18 Thread Alok G. Singh
Micha wrote: > Try escape, works with tux on ice,maybe others as well Doesn't seem to do anything here. -- Alok Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #470

2010-03-18 Thread David Baron
> >> According to every story I've read, Nouveau is constantly improving. > >> > >> In fact, it was merged into 2.6.33. > >> > > So it was. Now that was release notes I really should have read. > > I will go into make menuconfig and enable the module and maybe give the > > old card one more try

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 9:23 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: 1 But I'm just pragmatic enough that I want it to work. If there was a reliable, stable, free flash plugin, I'd use it. But there's just too many flash sequences that the free stuff can't handle properly. At least not yet. If web sites didn't use thi

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> vishnu vardhan : >/etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf: No such file or directory This seems suspect: why considering this file? -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 / +261 33 11 207 36

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 9:03 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: Most (if not all) software has some sort of license, like "use as you'd like but make sure you tell the next person the same" (BSD . . .as I understand it). However, Flash is not just a set of words . . . to use Adobe software without paying for it is stea

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2010/3/18 Micha : > There are quite a few word documents that > don't open properly in open office (hebrew usually typesets wrong, math > doesn't work at all ...) > Please comment on this issue: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=105270 -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is

[semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 10:40 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so that each user on the machine can choose which flash player she wants to use. My initial

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread vishnu vardhan
*the output of the apt-cache mysql-server* : auth2db - Powerful and eye-candy IDS logger, log viewer and alert generator cacti - Frontend to rrdtool for monitoring systems and services mysql-server - MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version) mysql-server-5.0 - MySQL datab

Re: Nouveau

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 03:38, David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2010 23:44:35 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: The time has come for the open source nvidia drivers to get full Debian support. Nvidia is still publishing purported upgraded "legacy" drivers that will only work on

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 03:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:28:40, Ron Johnson wrote: The main problem is all the 3rd party applications written specifically for Word and Excel which have no analog in the OOo world. Interesting, I didn't come across such things in my company A

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Hi Vishnu, try apt-cache search mysql-server (list mysql server) apt-get install mysql-server (install mysql server) it will install mysql-server with all the required dependencies. _Krishna On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, vishnu vardhan < vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is wh

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread vishnu vardhan
This is what I have done : i have installed the mysql server and client. Then I have issued the following commands : # aptitude remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client # updatedb # rm -r /etc/mysql/ After a couple of days, I have tried to install the packages again. It has shown an error as i h

Re: Nouveau

2010-03-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-18 09:38 +0100, David Baron wrote: >> According to every story I've read, Nouveau is constantly improving. >> In fact, it was merged into 2.6.33. > So it was. Now that was release notes I really should have read. > I will go into make menuconfig and enable the module and maybe give t

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 2:08 PM, Mike Castle wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Gnash is a noble effort. Gnash sucks. I want choice, and my choice is Adobe Flash. Installing Gnash screws up Flash. Right now, I can refuse to update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will

Re: Nouveau

2010-03-18 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 23:44:35 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > The time has come for the open source nvidia drivers to get full Debian > > support. Nvidia is still publishing purported upgraded "legacy" drivers > > that will only work on "legacy" Xorg with no warning.

grub2; unknown command initrd

2010-03-18 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
I have debian 5 on /dev/sda1 and ubuntu 10.04 on /dev/sda3 here are my grub.cfg ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### set default=0 set timeout=5 set root=(hd0,1) search --fs-uuid --set da13d632-e65a-4128-9b06-0ec24a5d390f if font /usr/share/grub/ascii.pff ; then set gfxmode=640x480 insmod gfxte

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:28:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > The main problem is all the 3rd party applications written > specifically for Word and Excel which have no analog in the OOo > world. Interesting, I didn't come across such things in my company > Also is the tight integration w/ other MS

Re: Change In Restarting Services

2010-03-18 Thread Adamou Nacer
It seems to me that the debian way to achieve this task from the commandline is to use the following command: invoke-rc.d networking restart Ron Johnson a écrit : On 2010-03-17 22:57, Tom H wrote: I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was still in 'testing' and noticed

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 02:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:07:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: Therefore, I have no problem with proprietary Flash, even though I understand the problems that it causes. I wish that more proprietary software, such as Solidworks and MS Office, were available for Debia

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Micha
On 18/03/2010 09:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:07:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: Therefore, I have no problem with proprietary Flash, even though I understand the problems that it causes. I wish that more proprietary software, such as Solidworks and MS Office, were available for Debian

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 22:23:24, Stephen Powell wrote: > I can only speak for myself. I am a Linux user and system administrator. > I am not a Debian package maintainer or Debian developer. I *STRONGLY* > prefer free (as in freedom and as in price) software over non-free > software. But I'm just pr

Re: Interrupting a hibernate

2010-03-18 Thread Micha
Try escape, works with tux on ice,maybe others as well ב-18/03/2010, בשעה 04:11, alephn...@hcoop.net (Alok G. Singh) כתב/ה: When I was using uswsusp, hitting Backspace would interrupt the suspend. Now I just use pm-utils and there appears to be no way of cancelling a suspend once initiated

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:07:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Therefore, I have no problem with proprietary Flash, even though I > understand the problems that it causes. I wish that more proprietary > software, such as Solidworks and MS Office, were available for Debian > or Linux in general. Is there any r

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 16:44:17, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free > tree, and Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. Most of the stuff there is DFSG-free, but infringes some patents. Regards, Andrei -- Of

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 19:16:40, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Replying to my own post, again... > > Just after I sent the last post I realized that I had not done an > 'ifup wlan0' after loading the ath5k module. Once I got home I booted > up, loaded the module and did 'ifup wlan0'. Unfortunately, it stil

Re: Change In Restarting Services

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 22:57, Tom H wrote: I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use or could c

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