How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

2010-04-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have oowriter from testing repo installed w/ all the necessary dependencies. Now at opening of the first document it hangs for about 40 seconds - all other documents it opens quickly - the same is for oocalc. Is there anything I can do to remove this delays? Thanks for Your time.

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-13 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: hi folk, got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am i wrong

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM: > Hi, > > Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with? > I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices. It would help if you told us what the primary use of the machine will be. Server or desktop? If desktop, heavy 3D app

Synergy, controlling many client with same setting

2010-04-13 Thread T o n g
Hi, I want to layout my synergy control so that all client machines are to the left of my server. Is it possible? Only one client machine might connect to my server at any given time, but I don't want to change my the ~/.synergy.conf file every time when the client machine changes (because th

Re: C programming question

2010-04-13 Thread Robert Baron
What a great little learning project. My suggestion is to work out a simpler version of what you are trying to do: typedef struct { unsigned short rec_type; long data; } type1; typedef struct { unsigned short rec_type; char data[4]; } type2; . some_type *chunk_of_mem; long

RE: C programming question

2010-04-13 Thread Mike Viau
> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:29:51 -0500 wrote: > > On 2010-04-13 17:16, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific > > C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for > > CMS-formatted > [snip] > > > > I know how to do this

Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?

2010-04-13 Thread Mark
Hi, I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great results on older dell bcm43xx cards in Lenny but bcm4310 is not listed here http://wireless.kernel.

Re: C programming question

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-13 17:16, Stephen Powell wrote: I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for CMS-formatted [snip] I know how to do this in PL/I, but despite having spent the last two hours paging throug

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
anyone having problems with their Nvidia card and drivers should first consult Lennart Sorensen's HOWTO: http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html also it is essential to have the xorg's 'nv' "driver" handy if you get kicked back to the console on startx after an Nvidia u

C programming question

2010-04-13 Thread Stephen Powell
I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for CMS-formatted disks on the s390 architecture. The source code is written in C, of course. But I am not a C programmer. I can spell C, but that's about it.

Re: recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-13 15:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with? I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices. Come on, man... You should know the drill. Specify: o budget o needed features o preferred features -- Dissent is patrioti

Re: Configuring exim4 to send emails

2010-04-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Ruben Varela wrote: I'm configuring an email to send emails. Emails sent to any domain, apart from my own, are sent okay. I have my emails with Google Apps. Assuming my domain is, example.com. If I send an email from my server to ru...@example.com it doesn't arrive at my Go

XDMCP session, lenny client: pictures are displayed as black area

2010-04-13 Thread Ekkard Gerlach
Hi, A lenny client makes XDMCP, server is a suse 9.2 machine. Images (simple black-white-scans 100kB) are displayed with "kuickshow" application as area completely in black . Why? Using gwenview instead of kuickshow all pictures are displayed korrectly - but gwenview 1.1 in not usable, too man

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-13 Thread green
Tzafrir Cohen wrote at 2010-04-11 07:41 -0500: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 06:08:22PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: > > > Both sup (sup.rubyforge.org) and notmuch (notmuchmail.org) are > > interesting works-in-progress that are based off the Xapian search > > engine, and have curses-based interfaces.

Re: New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-13 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 07:24:29PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start > Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of > arguments > failed! > > After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? Yes : Change the 2 lines in /etc/clamav/cla

recent mobo recommendation

2010-04-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with? I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Configuring exim4 to send emails

2010-04-13 Thread Ruben Varela
I'm configuring an email to send emails. Emails sent to any domain, apart from my own, are sent okay. I have my emails with Google Apps. Assuming my domain is, example.com. If I send an email from my server to ru...@example.com it doesn't arrive at my Google Apps account, it arrives to my server a

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-13 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M.Lewis wrote: > Would it be better to move the LVM to a larger SATA drive and migrate > the boot drive on to a new small IDE HD? I've even thought to set it up > to boot from a flash drive. Not sure that would be wise either. > > My question is is th

Re: 093a:2622 webcam

2010-04-13 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 13/04/2010 21:33, Jozsi Vadkan wrote : I bought a webcam: Bus 006 Device 004: ID 093a:2622 Pixart Imaging, Inc. What should I do, to bring it to life? I installed cheese, but it doesn't gives any video. /dev/video doesn't exists. Is there a script that installs all the webcam drivers? Or

Re: gforce 9400

2010-04-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: steef wrote: hi folk, got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am i wrong??) well: everything w

Updating JRE in Lenny

2010-04-13 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A website I want to use would allow access unless my java applet is JRE 6 update 13 or higher. As far as I can figure out the applet provided by package sun-java6-bin is update 12. - From the Sun Microsystems site I downloaded file jre-6u19-i586.bin;

Re: 093a:2622 webcam

2010-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:33:46 +0200 Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > I bought a webcam: > > Bus 006 Device 004: ID 093a:2622 Pixart Imaging, Inc. > > What should I do, to bring it to life? > > I installed cheese, but it doesn't gives any video. > > /dev/video doesn't exists. > > Is there a script that

093a:2622 webcam

2010-04-13 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
I bought a webcam: Bus 006 Device 004: ID 093a:2622 Pixart Imaging, Inc. What should I do, to bring it to life? I installed cheese, but it doesn't gives any video. /dev/video doesn't exists. Is there a script that installs all the webcam drivers? Or how to find out, what drivers does it need

Re: New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:24:29 David Baron wrote: > ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start > Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of > arguments > failed! > > After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? Which upgrade on which OS? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

system-test upgrade

2010-04-13 Thread Ansgar Pflipsen
Hallo Detlef, versuche gerade mal wieder ein apt-get upgrade, momentan sind alle pakete verfügbar. am besten ist es neu zu booten. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: wget, apache and spam

2010-04-13 Thread sethurf
Jon Dowland wrote: > sethurf wrote: > >> Would you have any solution for me ? I don't know what to do... Maybe >> there is a big big bug/fault in a hosted file for a hosted website. >> > > Yes, one of the sites you are hosting has a problem which is allowing a > third party to run arbitrary

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-13 11:13, thib wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-13 05:23, Jon Dowland wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote: If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance here and there (depends on application). I disagree

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > ¹ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel > I try it! Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. You find out who yo

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 19:17 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:16 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > You can list the currently installed kernels with > > aptitude search ~i~n^linux-image > > and I would suggest to install the linux-image-2.6-amd64 metapackage, > which

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:16 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Is the 'Trunk' kernel needed for Debian? I installed Squeeze and it > defaulted to the 'Trunk' kernel. I was told the Trunk kernel is no > longer supported or available. Is this true? I am confused because it > still installed and Virtual

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:54:56 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> And your BIOS version is the latest available? :-? > Sure! Ouch! O:-) How about trying with "debian-eeepc-devel¹" list? Maybe they provide more information about this as they develop the tools for these specific net

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > And your BIOS version is the latest available? :-? Sure! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. From those to whom much is given, much is expected. (B

New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-13 Thread David Baron
~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of arguments failed! After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Grabbing DV with Kino and dvgrab over firewire...

2010-04-13 Thread Erik Sundin
So I'm trying to get video of my DCR-HC1000E... Using Kino I get the following output: >> Left Editor >> Starting Capture >> AV/C Aktiverad >>> Using iec61883 capture rom1394_0 warning: read failed: 0xf414 >>> iec61883Reader::StartThread on port 0 >>> AVC enabled >> Constr

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:46:43 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> *** >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Powermanagement >> >> Power management >> >> On some models, the battery info is not very precise (jumps from 10% to >> 100%, no rate information, etc.). Appare

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-13 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-13 05:23, Jon Dowland wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote: If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance here and there (depends on application). I disagree. Mirroring only protects you agai

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: > I bet you did a netinstall, hence the 'trunk' kernel which is an older > version than the 2.6.32-3 kernel. Once you've installed the latest version > you can just remove the older. Sometimes virtualbox won't boot on the 32-3 > version either

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100413_101637, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Is the 'Trunk' kernel needed for Debian? I installed Squeeze and it > defaulted to the 'Trunk' kernel. I was told the Trunk kernel is no > longer supported or available. Is this true? I am confused because it > still installed and Virtualbox doesn't like

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > It looks not so normal to me. > I am reassured. > But looking at Debian wiki for EEE systems it seems to be a known issue > with power management: > > *** > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Powermanagement > > Power management > > On some models, the battery

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:15:42 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I receive the message `Battery is now fully charged' on my Asus EEE > 1000HE under Debian Lenny 5 w. kernel 2.26-2-686, but only once I have > unplugged the cable? For example, the PC might be on AC power for 15 > hours, and say nothing.

Re: Definitions of all sections in the Control file.

2010-04-13 Thread Xuan Ngo
Thank you for replying, but I already knew both links mentioned. Besides, my list of examples of sections is a straight copy and paste from the Debian Policy page. As Osamu Aoki noticed, debian-installer is not in the policy page. Probably, the page was not up-to-date. Anyways, I would like to

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:16:37 -0400 Carlos Mennens wrote: Hello Carlos, > Is the 'Trunk' kernel needed for Debian? I installed Squeeze and it > defaulted to the 'Trunk' kernel. I was told the Trunk kernel is no The trunk kernel gets listed as the preferred kernel as it isn't listed as an excepti

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Monsieur Louk
2010/4/13 Carlos Mennens > Is the 'Trunk' kernel needed for Debian? I installed Squeeze and it > defaulted to the 'Trunk' kernel. I was told the Trunk kernel is no > longer supported or available. Is this true? I am confused because it > still installed and Virtualbox doesn't like it. I have to s

`Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I receive the message `Battery is now fully charged' on my Asus EEE 1000HE under Debian Lenny 5 w. kernel 2.26-2-686, but only once I have unplugged the cable? For example, the PC might be on AC power for 15 hours, and say nothing. If I then unplug the cable, it tells me that the battery is _n

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-13 05:23, Jon Dowland wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote: If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance here and there (depends on application). I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures a

Re: What's a good replacement package for ipmasq?

2010-04-13 Thread Michael R. Head
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 13:35 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael R. Head wrote: > > What should I use to run a Debian server as a NAT box these days that > > works as simply as ipmasq? > > The closest I have been able to find is arno-iptables-firewall. I have > not replaced ipmasq with it yet, but it

Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Carlos Mennens
Is the 'Trunk' kernel needed for Debian? I installed Squeeze and it defaulted to the 'Trunk' kernel. I was told the Trunk kernel is no longer supported or available. Is this true? I am confused because it still installed and Virtualbox doesn't like it. I have to switch to the default "2.6.32-3-amd6

Re: Definitions of all sections in the Control file.

2010-04-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 02:18:02PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Xuan Ngo writes: > > > Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file? > > > > Examples of sections: admin, cli-mono, comm, database, devel, debug, > > doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts, games, gnome, g

Re: Debian in Debian via Virtual box

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:08:08 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > How have people managed to get debian in virtual box to display with a > resolution higher than 800x600. By installing "Guest Additions". > I've tried reinstalling with a higher > video memory setting and installing the guest additions

Problem with iwl3954

2010-04-13 Thread James Brown
I had the dmesg message that I needed use iwllwifi-3945-2 instead iwlwifi-3945-1. I finded the packege firmware-iwlwifi-0.23~bpo50+1 and installed that instead 0.14+lenny2. Now I have the next records in dmesg: [ 49.170257] iwl3945 :02:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode [ 49.2

[solved] Re: Kernel updating

2010-04-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > When I close a PPP connection with `C-c', the keyboard gets stuck and I have > to reboot the system. The problem is reported here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508589 > > In the hope of fixing it by updating the kernel, I want to install a freshl

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:19:54 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hello Vincent, > module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-2) unstable; urgency=high Migrated to testing today. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" A friend of a fri

Re: wget, apache and spam

2010-04-13 Thread Jon Dowland
sethurf wrote: > Would you have any solution for me ? I don't know what to do... Maybe > there is a big big bug/fault in a hosted file for a hosted website. Yes, one of the sites you are hosting has a problem which is allowing a third party to run arbitrary commands on your server as the apache us

Re: Google repositories

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:19:42 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100412_153139, Christopher Judd wrote: >> I thought that I had previously installed GoogleEarth (quite a while >> ago) from the repository on Google's site, but I may have been >> confusing it with Picasa, I might have used googleear

Re: Automating xmodmap keymaps

2010-04-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > You can try with .xinitrc and/or .xsession, it should work. > Alternatively, you can try with .bachrc file, but in this way command > will be execute every time you open a shell session (i.e. open a > terminal): I suggest you to prevent this with a little bit code: > > if

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-13 Thread Jon Dowland
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > If you're going to buy two > drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a > little added read performance here and there (depends on application). I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not human error. Using a second dr

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-13 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Clive McBarton schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Clive McBarton schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a rsync -ax / /media/newdevice. What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"? Added to the points others make the "d