Re: Dovecot access imap folder via POP3

2010-05-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,26.May.10, 03:54:57, Vincze Janos Istvan wrote: > Dear All, > > I use postfix and dovecot (1.1.11) combo with maildir format. > I would have a question about dovecot config. > > Can I confiugre dovecot to download mails from IMAP folders via POP3? > > Now, mails can be downloaded only fro

Re: Can't switch to DASH

2010-05-25 Thread Freeman
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:06:06PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > If this is a repeat I apologize for the noise. > > > With this mornings upgrade to testing there was a new > version of DASH. > I've been using BASH..and tried to switch. > > > fr...@squeeze:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash > dpkg

Re: Can't switch to DASH

2010-05-25 Thread Freeman
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:06:06PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > If this is a repeat I apologize for the noise. > > > With this mornings upgrade to testing there was a new > version of DASH. > I've been using BASH..and tried to switch. > > > fr...@squeeze:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash > dpkg

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

2010-05-25 Thread consul tores
2010/5/25 thib : > consul tores wrote: >> >> Again, and again; Debian depends of Linus Torvals; maybe it is time to >> seriously  think about Debian kernels! > > Madness. > > -t Could you say why? We have lost the posibility to install from disquette, we have to add an initrd, SElinux have been a

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

2010-05-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> consul tores : >Again, and again; Debian depends of Linus Torvals; maybe it is time to >seriously think about Debian kernels! http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement

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

2010-05-25 Thread thib
consul tores wrote: Again, and again; Debian depends of Linus Torvals; maybe it is time to seriously think about Debian kernels! Madness. -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

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

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever > downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will > be copied into these directories which are marked executable, and > my hand-made configuration file will get wiped

Dovecot access imap folder via POP3

2010-05-25 Thread Vincze Janos Istvan
Dear All, I use postfix and dovecot (1.1.11) combo with maildir format. I would have a question about dovecot config. Can I confiugre dovecot to download mails from IMAP folders via POP3? Now, mails can be downloaded only from .INBOX. My dovecot.conf file: mail_location = maildir:/home/v

Re: OT-Brother DCP 130C printer

2010-05-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 23:45:36 Jens Selk wrote: > Am Dienstag 25 Mai 2010 21:17:08 schrieb Thierry Chatelet: > > I may get my neighbor to switch to debian, if its printer works > > under linux, but it is not mentioned in linuxprinting.org. Has > > anyone some returns on such a printer.(It is p

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

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:38 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... I installed the mbr package ... > > The extlinux package itself also contains an mbr.bin, which you can use > (it's strong point is probably EBIOS support). So it does. Well, I've now installed extlinux

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

2010-05-25 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: zlinux...@wowway.com >To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org, >debian-b...@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test >grub2") >Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00:45 -0400 (EDT) > >>On Tue, 25 May 2010

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

2010-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Joachim Wiedorn put forth on 5/25/2010 2:37 PM: > Because I still use LiLO for all my systems, I could support the > maintaining of LiLO. Same here. The last thing I need is for my next distribution upgrade to try to forcibly remove LILO and the current MBR, and then install Grub2, bricking my s

Re: OT-Brother DCP 130C printer

2010-05-25 Thread Jens Selk
Am Dienstag 25 Mai 2010 21:17:08 schrieb Thierry Chatelet: > I may get my neighbor to switch to debian, if its printer works > under linux, but it is not mentioned in linuxprinting.org. Has > anyone some returns on such a printer.(It is printer and scanner) > Thierry Brother officially suppor

Re: Jumpy video after KDE 4.4 upgrade in Squeeze

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 19:16:06 -0500, Gene Kodadek wrote: > 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 usi

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-25 21:25 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-25 20:48 +0200, Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 25 May 2010 at 15:49:43 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> I never had any problems with the terminus fonts, YMMV. >> >> Which one do you use? TerminusBold 20x10, 22x11, 24x12 and 28x14 all lead >>

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
deloptes on 25/05/10 21:09, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: arecord -Dplughw:0,1 |aplay I just also see that you are not using the command as suggested by me -f cd -vv /dev/null regards er yes. sorry, figured i could either look up what that did or just leave it out, so I chose to leave it ou

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

2010-05-25 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Harald Braumann wrote on Tue, 25 May 2010: > > On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy > stuff -- it works quite well. This is enough to use grub2 for new installing of Debian. > On other systems it often breaks miserably. Updates leave my system > unbootable every

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

2010-05-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Barclay: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> ... In my >> experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters in email >> addresses at all. > > Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), > right? Sure. J. -- I like my Toyota RAV4 because of the commanding vi

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
Adam Hardy wrote: > arecord -Dplughw:0,1 |aplay > I just also see that you are not using the command as suggested by me -f cd -vv /dev/null regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
Adam Hardy wrote: > 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture try with this one arecord -Dplughw:0,0 ... this should be the first input on your first card 0,1 and 0,2 can be the other inputs like line etc regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
deloptes on 25/05/10 19:36, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: 3 steps to find out and test a microphone on linux with alsa 1) find out cards and inputs 3) so no we can test the mic shell> arecord -c1 -Dplughw:2,0 -f cd -vv /dev/null Hmm, the only one that worked was the USB mic: a...@isengard:~$ cat

Re: OT-Brother DCP 130C printer

2010-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 14:17:08 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > I may get my neighbor to switch to debian, if its printer works under > linux, but it is not mentioned in linuxprinting.org. Has anyone some > returns on such a printer.(It is printer and scanner) Brother printers are hit-and-miss. Min

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-25 20:48 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 May 2010 at 15:49:43 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> I never had any problems with the terminus fonts, YMMV. > > Which one do you use? TerminusBold 20x10, 22x11, 24x12 and 28x14 all lead > to screen corruption for me. 32x16 behaves. > > https://b

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

2010-05-25 Thread consul tores
2010/5/24 : > 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? I am not sure, but i read somewhere, that he usualy used Red Hut. >> maybe it is time to seriously think about Deb

Re: can't switch to dash as default shell

2010-05-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 25 May 2010 20:52:48 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-25 18:29 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > With this mornings upgrade to testing there was a new > > version of DASH. > > I've been using BASH..and tried to switch. > > > > > > fr...@squeeze:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash > > d

OT-Brother DCP 130C printer

2010-05-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I may get my neighbor to switch to debian, if its printer works under linux, but it is not mentioned in linuxprinting.org. Has anyone some returns on such a printer.(It is printer and scanner) Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

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

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
Jochen Schulz wrote: ... In my experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters in email addresses at all. Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), right? -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F] -- To UNSUBS

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 May 2010 at 15:49:43 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > If the native resolution is not detected, it is a problem of the monitor > which should have reported its preferred resolution via EDID. I thought that too but with these two cards Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon

Re: can't switch to dash as default shell

2010-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-25 18:29 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > With this mornings upgrade to testing there was a new > version of DASH. > I've been using BASH..and tried to switch. > > > fr...@squeeze:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash > dpkg-divert: mismatch on package > when removing `diversion of /bin/sh by

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread Pete
On 25/05/2010 16:58, David Baron wrote: On Monday 24 May 2010 22:57:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org 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

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
David Baron wrote: >> | How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but >> | this is  not catching this one. man exim4-config_files /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist is an optional file containing a list of IP addresses, networks and host names whose messages will be den

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
Adam Hardy wrote: > Jasper on 25/05/10 17:38, wrote: >> You have more than one sound-device in your system. >> Maybe this helps: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/ALSA_device_labels > > Surely my microphone input should be listed? > > a...@isengard:~$ arecord -L > default:CARD=Intel > HDA I

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:06:29 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > | > It is a spamer... > | > > | > > | > > | > It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist > | > | > | > | How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but this > | is not catching thi

Re: evolution 2.30 with exchange

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2010 18:57:31 +0200, deloptes wrote: > >> Camaleón wrote: >> >>> If Evolution is working "off-line", switch into "on-line" mode, that >>> should go away the message about "network not available". >>> >>> >> this is the problem the online option (down left) is o

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Jasper on 25/05/10 17:38, wrote: You have more than one sound-device in your system. Maybe this helps: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/ALSA_device_labels Surely my microphone input should be listed? a...@isengard:~$ arecord -L default:CARD=Intel HDA Intel, ALC882 Analog Default Audio

Re: evolution 2.30 with exchange

2010-05-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 25 May 2010 18:57:31 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >> If Evolution is working "off-line", switch into "on-line" mode, that >> should go away the message about "network not available". >> >> > this is the problem the online option (down left) is outblended and > inactive. I

can't switch to dash as default shell

2010-05-25 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With this mornings upgrade to testing there was a new version of DASH. I've been using BASH..and tried to switch. fr...@squeeze:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash dpkg-divert: mismatch on package when removing `diversion of /bin/sh by dash' found `div

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
David Baron wrote: >> >> It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist > > How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but this > is not catching this one. IF you are heavy user implement amavis-new (We've been using this in our company since 2002 with great success -

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

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> You're missing the point. The main selling point to management >> is that Linux is free. > > No software is entirely without cost. Free Software is no exception. There > are usually no up-fro

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/25/2010 01:03 PM, Jean-François wrote: Hello, I might be wrong, but I guess the exact name for your motherboard is DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs PLUS (as opposed to the Elite or Turbo models), which has 8 SATAII ports, and I also guess you have used the two yellow ports? If so, plug your dri

Can't switch to DASH

2010-05-25 Thread Frank McCormick
If this is a repeat I apologize for the noise. With this mornings upgrade to testing there was a new version of DASH. I've been using BASH..and tried to switch. fr...@squeeze:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash dpkg-divert: mismatch on package when removing `diversion of /bin/sh by dash' found `

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
Adam Hardy wrote: > I just tried with bplay but it wants me to have /dev/dsp which I haven't > got - it should be using udev shouldn't it? I read the description of > elisa and it has megs of gnome stuff to install as well - is it worth it? if you have a program using /dev/dsp you need alsa-oss (

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread John
On 25/05/10, David Baron (d_ba...@012.net.il) 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 |

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jean-François
Le 25/05/10 18:44, Jordan Metzmeier a écrit : I run Debian Lenny on a DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs. I really like the board but it did throw a curveball at me. Since it had an Intel ICH10R southbridge, I expected it to have an Intel ICH storage controller and use the ata_piix driver. This was not t

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

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT), Mark > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: >>> Stephen Powell wrote: (3) The need for special backup requirements will be used by the opponents of Linux at my p

Re: evolution 2.30 with exchange

2010-05-25 Thread deloptes
Camaleón wrote: > If Evolution is working "off-line", switch into "on-line" mode, that > should go away the message about "network not available". > this is the problem the online option (down left) is outblended and inactive. I don't understand why. By the way I'm using evolution in KDE4 so may

Re: Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Jasper
You have more than one sound-device in your system. Maybe this helps: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/ALSA_device_labels --Jasper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

`/usr/lib/libsfml-{windows | system}.so.1.deb3 is not a symbolic link' ({} means the two files)

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I installed some new packages, namely cmake, libqt4-dev, libasio-dev, boinc-dev, libperl-dev. Everything goes as nicely as habitually, but I am getting some ldconfig messages for some packages: == [...] Setting up libmysqlclient15-dev (5.0.51a-24+lenny3) ... ldconfig: /usr/lib/libsfml-window.

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/25/2010 11:55 AM, David Baron wrote: Anyone with experience and Debian-related information on motherboards by DFI and by Winsonic? Apparently of the few which support modern CPU and memory and still sport as ISA slot or two. I run Debian Lenny on a DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs. I really l

Re: can't determine affected package

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Then, you might follow Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.'s recommendation. tadziu wrote: > yes i've got the same hardware as mentioned in bug report, > and tested suspension on debian as well as ubuntu, mint, > fedora, and sabayon. problem persist distro independent, > and kernel version indepedent > > 2010/

Re: can't determine affected package

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
tadziu wrote: > it's a simple reproduction of this bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/329645 > > i've got the same problem either on lenny/squeeze/sid and all possible > kernels up to 2.6.34 (not tested yet). can someone tell mi how to > send a bug report in that case? la

Re: can't determine affected package

2010-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 10:42:15 tadziu wrote: > it's a simple reproduction of this bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/329645 > > i've got the same problem either on lenny/squeeze/sid and all possible > kernels up to 2.6.34 (not tested yet). can someone tell mi how to >

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 May 2010 22:57:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org 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

Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
Anyone with experience and Debian-related information on motherboards by DFI and by Winsonic? Apparently of the few which support modern CPU and memory and still sport as ISA slot or two. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 May 2010 22:57:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org 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 comma

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

2010-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 10:42:34 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: > >> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be > >> used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment > >> to oppose further deployment

can't determine affected package

2010-05-25 Thread tadziu
it's a simple reproduction of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/329645 i've got the same problem either on lenny/squeeze/sid and all possible kernels up to 2.6.34 (not tested yet). can someone tell mi how to send a bug report in that case? launchpad service seems litt

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

2010-05-25 Thread Mark
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: > >> (3) The need for special backup requirements will be > >> used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment > >> to oppose further deployme

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

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> (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

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

2010-05-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Stephen Powell writes: > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Stephen Powell writes: >>> >>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of >>> the master boot record and outside of a partition ... >> >> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. > > It doe

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 25/05/10 15:54, wrote: Anand Sivaram on 25/05/10 15:35, wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 18:29, Jasper I can't get a tweet out of the mic though and it doesn't look bust nor can I remember treading on it or using the cable hang weights on. In audacity under the microphone dropdo

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Anand Sivaram on 25/05/10 15:35, wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 18:29, Jasper arecord|aplay then play with the sliders in alsamixer. :) --Jasper. I also suggest the same. arecord | aplay arecord could be used to record wave files also.. I can't get a tweet out of the mic

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 18:29, Jasper wrote: > arecord|aplay > > then play with the sliders in alsamixer. > > :) > > --Jasper. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: ht

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-25 10:41 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Mon 24 May 2010 at 17:11:37 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> You can blacklist the module or use nouveau.modeset=0 kernel parameter, >> leaving you with the nv (or nvidia) driver for X. > > Changing the console resolution is easily done with the nouveau

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

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 07:08:20 -0400 (EDT), Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: >> This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the >> way that lilo's stage2 loader code works. Given that there is no >> active upstream and that the Debian lilo package carrie

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

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Stephen Powell writes: >> >> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of >> the master boot record and outside of a partition ... > > You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. Well, I tried extlinux last night, and I am

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Jasper
arecord|aplay then play with the sliders in alsamixer. :) --Jasper. -- 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/1274792348.2735.1.ca...@dx2000.g48b

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:32:24 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > This has got to be a simple question: I have a sound card and I've just > plugged in a microphone that I want to test (not USB obviously). Is > there an easy program I can install onto lenny/xfce that I can use to > test it? If you've got "a

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Claudius Hubig on 25/05/10 12:37, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: This has got to be a simple question: I have a sound card and I've just plugged in a microphone that I want to test (not USB obviously). Is there an easy program I can install onto lenny/xfce that I can use to test it? I just tried w

Re: microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Adam Hardy wrote: >This has got to be a simple question: I have a sound card and I've just >plugged >in a microphone that I want to test (not USB obviously). Is there an easy >program I can install onto lenny/xfce that I can use to test it? > >I just tried with bplay but it wants me to have /de

microphone

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Hardy
This has got to be a simple question: I have a sound card and I've just plugged in a microphone that I want to test (not USB obviously). Is there an easy program I can install onto lenny/xfce that I can use to test it? I just tried with bplay but it wants me to have /dev/dsp which I haven't got

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

2010-05-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> William Pitcock : >This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the >way that lilo's stage2 loader code works. Given that there is no >active upstream and that the Debian lilo package carries many patches >for bug fixes that are alleviated by standardizing on grub2, this >s

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

2010-05-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:44:44 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > Thanks for the suggestion, Brad. I like Google maps even better You're welcome, Stephen. Glad the idea proved useful to you. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad

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

2010-05-25 Thread Harald Braumann
Hi, On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:52PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > (4) Users need to test grub2 now. I've been using grub2 for quite some time now on several different systems with mixed success. On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy stuff -- it works quite wel

Re: Tiny terminal text after kernel update

2010-05-25 Thread Brian
On Mon 24 May 2010 at 17:11:37 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > You can blacklist the module or use nouveau.modeset=0 kernel parameter, > leaving you with the nv (or nvidia) driver for X. Changing the console resolution is easily done with the nouveau driver by using 'video=VGA-1:1024x768' as a kerne

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

2010-05-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rick Thomas put forth on 5/25/2010 12:55 AM: > > 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 someb

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

2010-05-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:02:11 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > 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: > > Zhan

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> 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 :-) > Okay. I did not know it. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use P