Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Merciadri Luca : > This is not a so-rare situation, is it? I think it is. And as an ISP employee, I can tell you it's not that easy :-) -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 3456

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 25, 2010, at 1:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: To try to jam all of that information into the smtp address itself is silly. Again, this is what display names and sigs are for. Silly, perhaps for you or me, Stan. Not so for somebody from another culture, where the chain-of-command from

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zhang Weiwu: > Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: > > Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project > > Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it > become too long for many web forms and email clients: Are you sure that the problem is the length of the

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Zhang Weiwu put forth on 5/24/2010 11:02 PM: > Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: > > Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project > > Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it > become too long for many web forms and email clients: > > Zhang Weiwu the

(OT) suggestion on terse wording of "IT Helpdesk"

2010-05-24 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. In our company we use a email naming convention like this: Zhang Weiwu on Holz Project Problem being when a special email address is needed for Office IT, it become too long for many web forms and email clients: Zhang Weiwu the support engineer of Office IT services of ICD SS So what

Re: kvm disk read error

2010-05-24 Thread briand
On Mon, 24 May 2010 02:06:36 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,23.May.10, 13:43:53, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;) > > > > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > virtual

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-24 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Celejar: On Sunday 23 May 2010 21:42:44 Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 03:03:42 +0200 > "Jesús M. Navarro" wrote: > > ... > > > My simple rule about Debian has always been: > > * Stable, if you just want to use Debian. > > * Testing, if you want a peek over what Debian will be on next r

Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread godo
It is, at least in part, due to a problem on my box. I had been installing Fedora on another box and when it finished I tried Google maps - and bingo! So it is neither me nor my router, but my box. I clearly have to solve this, but not tonight. Oh - and your URL opened perfectly on my box, St

Jumpy video after KDE 4.4 upgrade in Squeeze

2010-05-24 Thread Gene Kodadek
I upgraded my Squeeze box to KDE 4.4 about a week ago, and have been contending with jumpy, hesitant video performance ever since. I'm not sure which package to file this bug against; if it helps I'm running an Nvidia 7900GS using the drivers in the nvidia-glx package. It ran fine with KDE 4.3.

Re: grub savedefault?

2010-05-24 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,23.May.10, 19:52:17, Celejar wrote: >> On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:56:13 -0700 >> "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: >> >> > When one has multiple kernels installed, where is one supposed to >> > configure the option to always boot the last-selected

Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread peasthope
From: consul tores Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:32:49 -0700 > Again, and again; Debian depends of Linus Torvals; For curiosity, what distribution does he use? > maybe it is time to seriously think about Debian kernels! The Hurd? Regards, ... Peter E. -- Carnot is waiting for a dis

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ferenc Wagner put forth on 5/24/2010 4:36 AM: > I chatted about this with the grub upstream a couple of days ago. > According to Vladimir, most of those bugs are already fixed, but there's > nobody around to do a new upload. Both grub maintainers (Felix Zielke > and Robert Millan) unexpectedly di

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread consul tores
2010/5/22 Sven Joachim : > On 2010-05-23 07:47 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> No, resist forced conformity.  This is Linux.  We have multiple choice with >> everything else, so we should darn well have our choice of boot loader. > > You're welcome to work on lilo so that can cope with the increas

Re: evolution 2.30 with exchange

2010-05-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 24 May 2010 23:09:51 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:33:11 +0200, deloptes wrote: >> >>> I tested evolution 2.30 in sid to access my exchange mailbox, >>> something that's working painfully in lenny. In sid evolution says >>> that network is not avail

wireless button works for bluetooth, not for wlan

2010-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, One of the recent updates appears to have altered the behaviour of the hard ware wireless switch on my HP Elitebook 6930p. It never used to work at all. Now, it works for bluetooth, but not for regular wireless. With the wireless turned on, I get this: /home/tyler# rfkill list 4: phy1: Wirel

Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread peasthope
> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be > used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment > to oppose further deployments of Linux, ... What about the carrot approach? Find an even better backup method, compatible with Grub 2 and appealing to your management for its ef

Re: evolution 2.30 with exchange

2010-05-24 Thread deloptes
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:33:11 +0200, deloptes wrote: > >> I tested evolution 2.30 in sid to access my exchange mailbox, something >> that's working painfully in lenny. In sid evolution says that network is >> not available. Why? > > Check whether Evolution is working in "off-lin

PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 17:59:46 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 24 May 2010 17:31:50 Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > > How I fared: > > > > > > I could only persuade Yahoo maps to offer to get me from A to B, not > > > show me pictures of A. > > > > > > Ma

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 19:31:27 Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:47:35 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > (...) > > > I downloaded, then: > > > > l...@tux:~$ cd /home/lisi/Peter/Google_Earth/ > > l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ chmod u+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin > > l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ su > > No

Re: grub savedefault?

2010-05-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,23.May.10, 19:52:17, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:56:13 -0700 > "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > > > When one has multiple kernels installed, where is one supposed to > > configure the option to always boot the last-selected kernel? I can't > > make sense of all the automatic over-writ

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/24/2010 10:07 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Could this also be eventually added as an alternative to grub2 in the > installer? i've talked with otavio about this already a year ago, as i'm much in favour[0] of extlinux over grub2 anyway, but i didn't got arround to finally push it. if anyone

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Daniel Baumann writes: > On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. >> It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy >> would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this. > > sometime ago

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.May.10, 09:24:31, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2010 00:26:57 +1200 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > Aaaah! what about the bloat added to the packages.gz file? You can find > > the functionality by "apt-cache show radeontool", but I agree it should > > be a suggests. > > When doing an u

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 24 mai 2010 à 20:46 +0200, Daniel Baumann a écrit : > On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. > > It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy > > would be easy to adapt, and I actually

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 23 mai 2010 à 20:48 -0400, Stephen Powell a écrit : > I do understand why a Debian package maintainer does not wish to become > "upstream". And I hope that someone who is both willing and able to do > so steps up to the plate. But withdrawing it from the distribution seems > like ove

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Stephen Powell writes: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> Stephen Powell writes: >>> On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: Stephen Powell writes: > Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of > the m

Re: crashes after resuming from suspend

2010-05-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:47:06 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > I normally suspend my laptop (Dell Latitude D630, Squeeze, AMD64) with > s2disk of uswsusp. > > Lately (not sure exactly when it started) resuming seems to be rather > broken: (...) > I've already upgraded to the kernel from Sid (linux-

Re: evolution 2.30 with exchange

2010-05-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:33:11 +0200, deloptes wrote: > I tested evolution 2.30 in sid to access my exchange mailbox, something > that's working painfully in lenny. In sid evolution says that network is > not available. Why? Check whether Evolution is working in "off-line" mode. Greetings, -- Ca

Re: Tengo problemas con instalar debian

2010-05-24 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:17:06PM -0500, Servicio al Cliente wrote: > Estimados Amigos: agradesco mucho el esfuerzo que hacen todos los dias > para hacer de debian cada dia mejor. > > Quisiera saber si me pueden ayudar con un problema, estoy tratando de > instalar debian en un board intel DP55WB

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. > It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy > would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this. sometime ago i've added extliux-install and upd

Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?

2010-05-24 Thread thib
Rob Owens wrote: I'm not sure. ext2 has no journal, so I'd assume it's faster, but I really don't know. ext4 can be configured not to use a journal nor barriers. There's really no point in using ext2 these days, I think. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello David Baron, Am 2010-05-24 19:31:11, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: > > 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] > dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:47:35 +0100, Lisi wrote: (...) > I downloaded, then: > > l...@tux:~$ cd /home/lisi/Peter/Google_Earth/ > l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ chmod u+x GoogleEarthLinux.bin > l...@tux:~/Peter/Google_Earth$ su No need to "su", just install with your common user. Greetings, --

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Stephen Powell writes: >> On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: >>> Stephen Powell writes: Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of the master boot record [...] >>> >>>

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/24/2010 11:31 AM, David Baron wrote: I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL FROM: SIZE=8814") I am running exim4 he

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:01:30 -0400 (EDT), Edward Allcutt wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: >> To the best of my knowledge, lilo is the *only* bootloader which supports >> setting an initial text video mode *and* does not use any sectors outside >> the master boot record and outsid

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Stephen Powell writes: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Stephen Powell writes: >>> >>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of >>> the master boot record [...] >> >> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this re

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 05:03:42PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:28:55PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying > > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? > > Rather than disabling the h

Re: Tengo problemas con instalar debian

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Servicio al Cliente wrote: > > Estimados Amigos: agradesco mucho el esfuerzo que hacen todos los dias > para hacer de debian cada dia mejor. > > Quisiera saber si me pueden ayudar con un problema, estoy tratando de > instalar debian en un board intel DP55

Tengo problemas con instalar debian

2010-05-24 Thread Servicio al Cliente
Estimados Amigos: agradesco mucho el esfuerzo que hacen todos los dias para hacer de debian cada dia mejor. Quisiera saber si me pueden ayudar con un problema, estoy tratando de instalar debian en un board intel DP55WB con un procesador Core i3, lamentablemente en la instalacion me aparece que no

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Edward Allcutt
On Mon, 24 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: To the best of my knowledge, it is the *only* bootloader which supports setting an initial text video mode *and* does not use any sectors outside the master boot record and outside of a partition. If I'm wrong about that, someone please correct me. gr

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Stephen Powell writes: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:36:32 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> Kurt Roeckx wrote: >>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: William Pitcock (22/05/2010): > This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze >

RE: Tengo problemas con instalar debian

2010-05-24 Thread Valencia Perez Jose Jaime
Ya intentaste poner la imagen de instalación en USB? Esa seria otra solución y procura usar una tarjeta 3com, o Encore, PCI para que tengas salida a Internet vía esa tarjeta y puedas encontrar las soluciones a los controladote de esa tarjeta Intel, Lo ideal es que use tarjeta para AMD, son mucho

Tengo problemas con instalar debian

2010-05-24 Thread Servicio al Cliente
Estimados Amigos: agradesco mucho el esfuerzo que hacen todos los dias para hacer de debian cada dia mejor. Quisiera saber si me pueden ayudar con un problema, estoy tratando de instalar debian en un board intel DP55WB con un procesador Core i3, lamentablemente en la instalacion me aparece que no

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 17:31:50 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > How I fared: > > > > I could only persuade Yahoo maps to offer to get me from A to B, not show > > me pictures of A. > > > > Mapquest zoomed in on it beautifully, but had no pictures. T

Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-24 Thread David Baron
I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL FROM: SIZE=8814") I am running exim4 heavy on a Sid box. Exim shows no stuck messa

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 22 May 2010 12:08:39 Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:41:38AM -0500, John Hasler uttered: > > JohnRChamplin writes: > > > ...which used to be available from unstable, but which I have heard is > > > now in sid. > > > > Unstable _is_ Sid. > > > > In any case, a few w

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > How I fared: > > I could only persuade Yahoo maps to offer to get me from A to B, not show me > pictures of A. > > Mapquest zoomed in on it beautifully, but had no pictures. Two > different "maps", and I could turn the labels off under th

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:28:55PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? Rather than disabling the high resolution display, as others suggested, I would advise a rather si

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 16:11:43 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:47:35 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny ... > > Lisi, > > This is not really an answer to your question, but rather > an alternative, especially since you are short of time.

Re: RAW photo images

2010-05-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
Thanks for all the help. -- C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100524113208.077bc...@mondo

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:19:32 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > Lisi wrote: >> I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny in order to be >> able to show a *** insurance inspector what the junction, >> where my husband ... > > Why not just use Google Maps? Even if the agent is els

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:47:35 +0100 Lisi wrote: Hello Lisi, > I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny in order to be > able to show a *** insurance inspector what the junction, > where my husband Why not just use Google Maps? Even if the agent is elsewhere, you can give him

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
On Monday 24 May 2010 16:11:43 Stephen Powell wrote: > Both Yahoo and Mapquest have aerial photos available, down > to fairly decent resolution in most areas. Thanks, Stephen. Shall try both immediately. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-24 16:59 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 16:28 Sun 23 May , Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying >> teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? >> > > I had this on my system as well. I also had trouuble w

Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:47:35 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny ... Lisi, This is not really an answer to your question, but rather an alternative, especially since you are short of time. Both Yahoo and Mapquest have aerial photos available, down to

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-24 16:09 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 24 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-05-24 01:28 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> >> > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying >> > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? >> >> Whic

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system: Solved!

2010-05-24 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Thank you all for your gracious help. > > You were right. The default entry in grub (modified in /etc/default/grub and > then > running upgrade-grub) had shifted down one entry to the single user mode > entry. > > restoring the correct d

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 16:28 Sun 23 May , Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? > I had this on my system as well. I also had trouuble when tried to reinstall the binary nvidia driver for my nv

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system: Solved!

2010-05-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
Thank you all for your gracious help. You were right. The default entry in grub (modified in /etc/default/grub and then running upgrade-grub) had shifted down one entry to the single user mode entry. restoring the correct default entry in /etc/default/grub and running upgrade-grub solved my pr

Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????

2010-05-24 Thread Lisi
I have been trying to install Google Earth on Lenny in order to be able to show a *** insurance inspector what the junction, where my husband and a cyclist had a slight contretemps a few weeks ago, looked like. I am not getting very far. Googling brings up more stories of failure and

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Stephen Powell writes: >> >> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of >> the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup >> software that my employer uses. This backup software backs up

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:09:01PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 24 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2010-05-24 01:28 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > > > > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying > > > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 May 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-24 01:28 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying > > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? > > Which graphics card do you use? > > Sven > > VGA compatible c

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:36:32 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>> William Pitcock (22/05/2010): This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze is released so that any issues c

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 May 2010 00:26:57 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:39:49PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:20:45 +0300 > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > An interesting proposal a while ago was to be able to add some more > > > information to Suggests:, somethi

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-24 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 05/24/2010 12:42 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > It is in experimental, and work fine for me: ...but we're not talking about experimental now, are we? :) -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O signature.asc Descripti

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-24 Thread Tomasz Maluszycki
> And I massume people read manuals or similar > before making big steps toward unstable or > testing versions. I didn't read even ONE manual, it was just too boring at stable, after few weeks in testing I just got bored... perhaps I will get bored before August and then I will use experimental...

crashes after resuming from suspend

2010-05-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, I normally suspend my laptop (Dell Latitude D630, Squeeze, AMD64) with s2disk of uswsusp. Lately (not sure exactly when it started) resuming seems to be rather broken: * In one case a few processes failed (fakeroot would fail because getopt segfaulted, iceweasel would crash often, and in r

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:28:55PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? Are you running grub-legacy? If so what is vga= set to? Is the old kernel still installed, that i

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 04:39:49PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:20:45 +0300 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > An interesting proposal a while ago was to be able to add some more > > information to Suggests:, something like: > > > > Package: acpi-support > > Suggests: radeontool (back

evolution 2.30 with exchange

2010-05-24 Thread deloptes
hi, I tested evolution 2.30 in sid to access my exchange mailbox, something that's working painfully in lenny. In sid evolution says that network is not available. Why? Do you know if it is working at all? there seem to be many bugs in this version. Any experience with exchange mails? regards

Re: upgrade from lenny to sid with kde installed (second attempt)

2010-05-24 Thread deloptes
Andrei Popescu wrote: > man invoke-rc.d so it means that the packages does not handle the return value correctly? what can be done for this? regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Cloned Lenny OS partition: bumped into hibernate and grub2 issues

2010-05-24 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 23. 05. 2010 03:40:54 je Tom H napisal(a): >> >> Re 1. Your swap partition's UUID must be different. Check >> "/etc/initramfs-tools/". There is a "resume" file (in that dir or in a >> subdir) that will have your swap partition's UUID. > > Tha

Re: changing default nfs mount options

2010-05-24 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010 14:27:44 -0700, Evuraan wrote: > >> i did  install nfs-common portmap, and nfs client works: >> >> below are the options i see take effect per /proc/mounts if i say "mount >> -t nfs blah:/fs /tmp/somedir" >> > rw,vers=3,rsize=

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

2010-05-24 Thread Tom H
> Mitchell Laks wrote: >> I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message >> "Give root password for maintainance >> or type Control_D to continue " >> during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages >> starting NFS (... etc) >> ... >> starting sessions >>

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Stephen Powell writes: > Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of > the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup > software that my employer uses. This backup software backs up the > master boot record and all partitions; but since the extra secto

Re: Tomcat failed to shutdown

2010-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:36:11PM +0800, Niu Kun wrote: > Dear all, > Wish all on the list Happy New Year. > I've just downloaded tomcat 6.0 and install it on my latest stable > Debian system. > I also download the latest sun jdk. > Tomcat can startup successfully. But with shutdown.sh script bund

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Kurt Roeckx writes: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> William Pitcock (22/05/2010): >>> This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze >>> is released so that any issues can be resolved now. >> >> There should also be some folks fixing t

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

2010-05-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-23 06:08 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message > > "Give root password for maintainance > or type Control_D to continue " > > during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages > > starting NFS (... etc) > ..

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-24 01:28 +0200, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? Which graphics card do you use? Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?

2010-05-24 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:12:18AM +0700, Alexey Salmin wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Andrew Reid wrote: > > On Sunday 23 May 2010 18:46:29 Tom Furie wrote: > >> Just for the sake of argument *why* is setting /tmp rw- a bad thing? > >> Surely if you put a file there, you know the full

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2010, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying > teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25? > I've noticed the same thing. In my case I think it's due to using the nouveau driver. I haven't tried to do anything about

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

2010-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2010, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Anthony Campbell writes: > > > On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi Mitchell, > >> > >> You might add > >> > >> == > >> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| > >> == > >> > >> in /etc/inittab. > >> > >> > > > > But why was the OP getting the message in th

Re: ColdFire Debian kernel image?

2010-05-24 Thread hadi motamedi
This list is likely the wrong place to ask. Ask here instead: > > debian-...@lists.debian.org > > > > Thank you very much for your comment. I forwarded my inquiry to the address you mentioned.

Re: Globally map to

2010-05-24 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Vadim Matveev writes: > How can i globally map to work as ? It is default in > rxvt-unicode and vimperator, but i want it to work this way with any X > application. I tried xbindkey with 'xdotool key Return', but it is too > slow - about 1 sec delay, useless. > Maybe it shoul