Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

On Ma, 01 iun 10, 22:33:26, John Culleton wrote: > > I ask here because my message to the Knoppix list has not yet > appeared. I assume you missed my reply [1] to your previous message so I am CCing you now. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg02551.html Regards, Andrei -- Off

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On Ma, 01 iun 10, 15:44:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Of course, SUS basically ignores any locale other than "POSIX" or "C", > > > but there is rarely a good reason to be different in other locales. > > > > One reason would be that '%b %e %Y' makes sense only to Americans >:-) > > In

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 June 2010 08:56:52 Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> And is there some HTC Sync program? > > > > HTC Sync is their proprietary MS Windows application. I don't think > there is > > an equivalent for Lin

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/01/2010 03:23 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >>> From SUSv3: >>> "The field shall contain the appropriate date and >>> timestamp of >>> when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall >>> b

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 01 June 2010 08:56:52 Merciadri Luca wrote: >> And is there some HTC Sync program? > > HTC Sync is their proprietary MS Windows application. I don't think there is > an equivalent for Linux, but I've not done any research on what line protocol > it spe

Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC motherboard. I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its built-in ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured on installation. There is no eth0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces, no eth0 entry displaye

Screen width on Knoppix install.

I installed Knoppix, a Debian derivative, on my stepson's computer. Everything runs fine. But the screen background does not cover the entire area of his flat screen monitor which measures roughly 17 1/2 inches x 9 7/8 inches. The bottom button bar extends all the way to the left but stops at t

Re: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

> "JDC" == Jaime Di Cristina writes: JDC> For automatic login as the same user every time try nodm. Works perfectly! Ah, sure wish it was hinted to on the xdm man page! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Page remove please

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:14:04PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 31 May 2010 03:07:05 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > > elfie...@aol.com : > > >Hi! The following 2 posts (pages) contain my name. Can you please > > >remove them or make them unsearchable? > > >http://lists.debia

Re: date bug?

Tom Furie writes: > We need a new calendar system... This _has_ been discussed: -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On Tuesday 01 June 2010 15:23:11 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > From SUSv3: > > "The field shall contain the appropriate date and > > timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the > > field shall be the equivalent of t

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

Bob McGowan wrote: > On 06/01/2010 11:01 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Bob McGowan wrote: >> >>> On 05/30/2010 04:44 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> >>> Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > X

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

On 06/01/2010 11:01 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: >> On 05/30/2010 04:44 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: Xfce has an option to start Gnome and/or KDE services at startup. May

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On 06/01/2010 03:23 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: From SUSv3: "The field shall contain the appropriate date and timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall be the equivalent of the output of the follo

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

On Tuesday 01 June 2010 08:56:52 Merciadri Luca wrote: > And is there some HTC Sync program? HTC Sync is their proprietary MS Windows application. I don't think there is an equivalent for Linux, but I've not done any research on what line protocol it speaks. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: date bug?

On Tuesday 01 June 2010 14:32:26 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/01/2010 01:41 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > (It may > > not be entirely friendly, but any other behavior will be hard to reason > > about because of inconsistencies.) > > That's why whomever came up with the complete idiocy of bre

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > From SUSv3: > "The field shall contain the appropriate date and timestamp > of > when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall be the > equivalent of the output of the following date command: > > date "+%b %e

Re: date bug?

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:32:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's why whomever came up with the complete idiocy of breaking up 52 > weeks into 12 irregularly-sized months, days starting in the middle of > the night and years in the middle of winter, should br brought behind the > barn and fl

Re: date bug?

On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: That's why whomever came up with the complete idiocy of breaking up 52 weeks into 12 irregularly-sized months, days starting in the middle of the night and years in the middle of winter, should br brought behind the barn and flayed alive. Gi

Re: Backports kernel

On Tue June 1 2010 12:20:43 pm Proskurin Kirill wrote: > Hello. > > One question: > It is safe to use backported kernel in production? > > I seems to need to use 2.6.30+ kernel to have a fix in OCFS2. I use the kernel from backports for ext4 support on one of my boxes, never had a problem with it

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

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:29:15AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Having /boot on a separate partition for robustness, security or advanced features (encrypted LVM and stuff) is one thing, but having it because the default bootloader doesn't support current (ext4) and future (btrfs) filesystems see

Re: date bug?

On 06/01/2010 01:41 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] Section 6.30, General Rule 6b of the same document reads: "If, after the preceding step, any of the result is outside the permissible range of values for the field or the result is invalid based on the natural rules for dates and tim

Backports kernel

Hello. One question: It is safe to use backported kernel in production? I seems to need to use 2.6.30+ kernel to have a fix in OCFS2. -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:58:09AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: For me dd mmm is very clear ... Even when the month abbreviation is in a language you don't know? Then I can always use „env LANG=C ls -l”. That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 03:31:41AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > d.sastre.med...@gmail.com put forth on 5/30/2010 4:45 PM: > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 02:24:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> What happens when you use LILO instead of Grub? > > > > I haven't tried that yet. > > [ snip ] > > But

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On Sunday 30 May 2010 00:58:59 Brian Marshall wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:17:31AM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > * 2010-05-29 20:25 (-0700), Brian Marshall wrote: > > > Recently, I noticed that the date format in the output from "ls -l" > > > has changed in squeeze. Before, it used the ISO

Re: date bug?

On Monday 31 May 2010 13:23:30 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/31/2010 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:34:12 +, T o n g wrote: > >> Please take a look at the following, do you think it is bug of date? > >> $ date --date='next month' > >> Thu Jul 1 11:07:31 EDT 2010 > >> > >> I

Re: xorg.conf for nvidia binary drivers interfering with xorg.conf for vnc4server

On 17:26 Tue 01 Jun , Camaleón wrote: > I'm not sure. It could be that "vnc4server" just "erroneously" quits when > finds something it doesn't like in the the "xorg.conf" file. indeed I did have those exact same messages in my log as well. i can try this. I will be at work to try this tomorr

Test Case Software

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Re: Booting from an SD card?

Marc Shapiro wrote: > My wife has an early eeepc with a 4GB SSD running Xandros. She would like > to change the OS so that she can install other software easily. I have a > newer eeepc with a 160GB HD that came with the OS that must not be named > and now also has Eeebuntu 3.0. > > I wanted to

Re: Page remove please

On Monday 31 May 2010 03:07:05 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > elfie...@aol.com : > >Hi! The following 2 posts (pages) contain my name. Can you please > >remove them or make them unsearchable? > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1998/08/msg00568.html > >http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user

SuperGrubDisk (was: businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?)

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:44:59 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: >>> But SGB has support for Grub2, isn't it? :-? >>> >>> >> I see this: >> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/forum/index.php?topic=494.0 that says >> 'Super GRUB2 disk 1.98s1 released' >> >> But I r

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On Ma, 01 iun 10, 10:58:09, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >For me dd mmm is very clear ... > > Even when the month abbreviation is in a language you don't know? I think in such a case the output of ls will be the lesser of my problems ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic di

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:02:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Pressing "Shift + Num. Lock" will solve this issue, I just found it :-P > >> How did you find it? That solved my problem. I think that the bigg

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

On Ma, 01 iun 10, 10:25:42, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Actually, I've been tempted to volunteer to become the upstream maintainer > for lilo myself. I have worked on boot loaders before, on other platforms. [...] > I agree. But I also sympathize with the poor package maintainer who is > essent

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

Bob McGowan wrote: > On 05/30/2010 04:44 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >>> On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> >>> >>> Xfce has an option to start Gnome and/or KDE services at startup. Maybe >>> Gnome has something similar? >>> >>> >

Re: businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:57:28 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:31:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills

trying to understand/purge linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686

There was a slight screw-up with my mount points of /boot earlier today, when I was doing a bit of house cleaning. I purged some old kernels and installed a new one while /boot was mounted on a different partition (another story, sigh!). I noticed the problems and fixed that and rebooted with prop

Re: businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?

Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:57:28 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:31:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very great, b

Re: xorg.conf for nvidia binary drivers interfering with xorg.conf for vnc4server

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:30:28 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 11:20 Tue 01 Jun , Camaleón wrote: >> I would look first at the origin of the failure, I mean, why >> "vnc4server" cannot run with your current "xorg.conf" file. Logs will >> tell. (...) > Note the following recent (yeterday) bug

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:02:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Pressing "Shift + Num. Lock" will solve this issue, I just found it :-P > How did you find it? That solved my problem. I think that the biggest > problem under GNOME is that there're many built-in shortcuts, just l

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

On 05/30/2010 04:44 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> >> Xfce has an option to start Gnome and/or KDE services at startup. Maybe >> Gnome has something similar? >> > I do not know. I've just tried to find such an opti

Re: linux-image-2.6.34-1-686 + AMD Athlon II X2 3.0GHz Socket AM3

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I've asked this before but I can't find where. Will linux-image-2.6.34-1-686 run on an AMD Athlon II X2 3.0GHz Socket AM3 CPU? Found it: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/de3ffe2469331a2/3cf4a3591c595bf8?hl=ia&q=amd64+group:lin

Re: businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:57:28 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:31:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a >>> squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very >>> great, bu

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

Stephen Powell writes: > Actually, I've been tempted to volunteer to become the upstream > maintainer for lilo myself. Please do so. > However, although the SAPL is written in assembly language, it is > written in s390 assembly language, which is totally different from x86 > assembly language. I

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Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On 01/06/10 12:14 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > jhead -n%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.JPG > > It reads the date/time stamp from a pic's Exif header and then renames > the file. ...... Not applicable if there is no exif data in the photo file ... fai

Re: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:34:00PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201855 > T> on my openmoko freerunner I modified /etc/pam.d/xdm by replacing > T> > T> @include common-auth > T> > T> with > T> > T> authrequiredpam_permit.so

Re: xorg.conf for nvidia binary drivers interfering with xorg.conf for vnc4server

On 11:20 Tue 01 Jun , Camaleón wrote: > It's weird that "vnc4server" cannot work with nvidia drivers. Maybe just > conflicts with a setting in the "xorg.conf" file and quits when you try > to run it. Well, after all the vnc4server is not working off the physical video card is it? it is displ

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On 06/01/2010 10:18 AM, H.S. wrote: On 31/05/10 05:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: Besides, I also tend to name the files and folders as "2010-05-31_filename" and so on, they keep my mind (and my computer) in a very well organized fit :-) Totally agree. This is one of the main uses of ISO date format

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:22:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > >>> "Soft keys"? I do not recall this :-? >>> >>> But anything regarding assistive keyboard is configured/activated >>> within GNOME keyboard setting

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West writes: > On 6/1/10 8:56 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Kent West writes: >> >> > Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an >> >> explanation on how to connect an Android-base

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:27:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I've found what my numeric panel's keys are now affected to. Everybody >> knowns that these keys can also be directional keys (i.e. like the <-, >> the |^, the |_, and

Re: businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?

Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:31:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very great, but now are really quite rusty. And my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years ago. I

Re: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:58:36 -0430, Roberto De Oliveira wrote: >> That is half the way to full automatic login! Every day for the last 10 >> years I've had to type in username and password. Can somebody tell me >> how to get some relief without having to switch display managers, for >> heavens sa

linux-image-2.6.34-1-686 + AMD Athlon II X2 3.0GHz Socket AM3

Hi, I've asked this before but I can't find where. Will linux-image-2.6.34-1-686 run on an AMD Athlon II X2 3.0GHz Socket AM3 CPU? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:27:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I've found what my numeric panel's keys are now affected to. Everybody > knowns that these keys can also be directional keys (i.e. like the <-, > the |^, the |_, and the -> which are at its left). They are acting > exactly like this. I am

Re: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

> > That is half the way to full automatic login! > Every day for the last 10 years I've had to type in username and > password. Can somebody tell me how to get some relief without having to > switch display managers, for heavens sake. Maybe, the problem is that _there is_ a display manager. If yo

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

On 31/05/10 05:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > Besides, I also tend to name the files and folders as > "2010-05-31_filename" and so on, they keep my mind (and my computer) in a > very well organized fit :-) Totally agree. This is one of the main uses of ISO date format that I routinely take advantag

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/30/2010 05:51 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can you tell if these files were created 5th marc

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:22:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> "Soft keys"? I do not recall this :-? >> >> But anything regarding assistive keyboard is configured/activated >> within GNOME keyboard settings. Check in there *all the tabs* and see >> if something has been enabled a

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

Andrei Popescu wrote: For me dd mmm is very clear ... Even when the month abbreviation is in a language you don't know? That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date form

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

Stan Hoeppner wrote: The problem, in and of itself, is booting. Period. There is [no] way to test it but to replace LILO with Grub2 and see if the system boots afterward. I cannot do this on production servers, obviously. Cloning drives to play with on a lab machine would be a good idea, but

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

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:20:09 -0400 (EDT), thib wrote: > > In the worst case, people will maintain unofficial packages in unofficial > repositories. In fact, I'm not even sure there's still much to maintain > with the package.. just keep it around. > > It's very true, official support is best,

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/01/2010 04:38 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > [snip] >> It will complain, but will it impede its `functioning'? I will probably >> try with a rescue disk, effectively. What could have caused such errors >> if I did not mistreat my computer these days? >> > > Bug(s) in the OS

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've found what my numeric panel's keys are now affected to. Everybody knowns that these keys can also be directional keys (i.e. like the <-, the |^, the |_, and the -> which are at its left). They are acting exactly like this. I am even able to move m

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:45:34 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Mmm... I suppose you already care about the "num. lock" switch/button >>> is "on", right? :-) > >> Yes, sure. > > O.k. Let's hope this one is l

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

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:32:37 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > From a seasoned sysadmin perspective, a "vendor" forced change away from > something as critical as a bootloader, causes immediate push back. In LILO's > current state, and given the way I run kernels, I could likely used LILO 22.8 >

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

Stan Hoeppner wrote: LILO isn't broken and it works well enough for may folks such as myself. We should have the option of keeping it, as an installable package, until _we_ feel we need to change to something else. It's as much a philosophical issue as it is a practical one. There is no legiti

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

On 6/1/10 8:56 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Kent West writes: > > > Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an > >> explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian > >> workstation (through USB2, evidently). Do you have

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:45:34 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Mmm... I suppose you already care about the "num. lock" switch/button >> is "on", right? :-) > Yes, sure. O.k. Let's hope this one is linked with the other porblem. >> Dive into GNOME keyboard settings (keyboard

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:01:13 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an >> explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian >> workstation (through USB2, evide

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West writes: > Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an >> explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian >> workstation (through USB2, evidently). Do you have any poin

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:25:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Since I played accidently with `Hot keys' or something like that (I do >> not remember exactly their name, but the fact is that I pushed the `maj' >> key four times and

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

On 06/01/2010 04:38 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] It will complain, but will it impede its `functioning'? I will probably try with a rescue disk, effectively. What could have caused such errors if I did not mistreat my computer these days? Bug(s) in the OS or HDD firmware? -- Dissent is pa

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:29:27AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When booting my computer this morning, fsck was not happy. Here is what >> it said: >> >> == >> # cat /var/log/fsck/checkfs >> Log of fsck -C

Re: PCI-E mini wireless card to use Debian as AP

[Replying to list as I guess this might be of use to others] On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 06:44, Cameron Hutchison wrote: >>Does anyone have any experience of doing this and/or can suggest any >>cards which would be suitable? Draft N support would be nice, but not >>essential. I am in the UK which may

How can I set up a mobile broadband connection in squeeze without another connection already established?

how can i get my mobile broadband up at the first time itself and only with cd1 downloaded and no other internet available in that machine? thanks a lot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Install squeeze in VM but couldn't not find network-manager

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:28 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:35:33 +0530, emigrant wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:47:08 +0530, emigrant wrote: > > > >> > but, this implies, i cannot configure the source list or install ne

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an > explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian > workstation (through USB2, evidently). Do you have any pointer on how to > do this? By `connecting,' I do not necessarily mean `synch

Re: Booting from an SD card?

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I wanted to install Debian on my eeepc. Recently I have successfully installed Debian on my eeepc (Surf 4GB) following this tutorial: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/InstallOnSDcardOrUsbStick Now,

Re: Encrypted /tmp fails after recent kernel upgrade

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 09:31:28AM +, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > No, seems to be a problem with recent upgrade of e2fsprogs to > 1.41.12-1. Before upgrading e2fsprogs yesterday everything worked fine > for me. No, it's some other package. I remember seeing a message saying that some boot uti

crash and data loss on supermicro xdwn7+/xeon5420/adaptec 52445/lvm/ext4

I reported this as a bug to bugzilla.kernel.org as #16081, but since we're running Debian I thought asking around for help and discussion would be advisable. The current situation is: We have a Supermicro XDWN7+ board (Intel 5400, Xeon 5420 CPU, 8GB Ram) with 24 1TB SATA disks attached to an Adap

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:01:13 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an > explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian > workstation (through USB2, evidently). Do you have any pointer on how to > do this? By `connecting,' I d

Re: businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?

On 01/06/10 02:31, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very great, but now are really quite rusty. And my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years ago. I have and use a businesscard CD for in

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:25:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Since I played accidently with `Hot keys' or something like that (I do > not remember exactly their name, but the fact is that I pushed the `maj' > key four times and that it launched something related to keys and > GNOME), my numeric pan

Re: xorg.conf for nvidia binary drivers interfering with xorg.conf for vnc4server

On Mon, 31 May 2010 22:25:44 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I recently set up binary nvidia drivers on my machine and set up the > Xorg to use the twinhead setup. > > Now when I run the vnc4server to set up a vnc instance to log in to my > machine from another machine, the vnc4server does not star

Re: businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?

On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:31:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a > squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very great, > but now are really quite rusty. And my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years > ago. I always have

Re: Install squeeze in VM but couldn't not find network-manager

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:35:33 +0530, emigrant wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:38 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:47:08 +0530, emigrant wrote: > >> > but, this implies, i cannot configure the source list or install new >> > necessary things to get up an internet connection *witho

Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

Hi, To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian workstation (through USB2, evidently). Do you have any pointer on how to do this? By `connecting,' I do not necessarily mean `synchronizing' but at least being able

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:29:27AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > e2fsck [-y] /dev/sdc5 > > [The optional -y answers "yes" to the prompts saying "Fix.[y/n] > > e2fsck -a attempts an automatic fix of the commonest errors but is > conservative and makes minimal > c

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

Stephen Powell put forth on 5/31/2010 8:57 PM: > On Sun, 30 May 2010 03:48:50 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sat,29.May.10, 22:35:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> >>> My gut instinct is that due to the above reasons and possibly others, the >>> next >>> dist upgrade is going to hose all my p

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

Tom H put forth on 5/31/2010 1:04 AM: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Stan Hoeppner > wrote: >> Tom H put forth on 5/28/2010 10:55 PM: >>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Stan Hoeppner >>> wrote: Roger Leigh put forth on 5/28/2010 11:39 AM: >>> > For the most part, grub is a vast

Re: Install squeeze in VM but couldn't not find network-manager

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:47:08 +0530, emigrant wrote: > > but, this implies, i cannot configure the source list or install new > > necessary things to get up an internet connection *without* having an > > internet connection already?...? > > Well

Re: Install squeeze in VM but couldn't not find network-manager

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:47:08 +0530, emigrant wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:19 +, Camaleón wrote: >> It should be there: >> >> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/network-manager >> >> Have you configured the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file to use the online >> repos? >> > > thanks for the

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

d.sastre.med...@gmail.com put forth on 5/30/2010 4:45 PM: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 02:24:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> What happens when you use LILO instead of Grub? > > I haven't tried that yet. > > First thing would be to know if the bootloader is to blame for not > having a bootable s

Re: Install squeeze in VM but couldn't not find network-manager

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 06:22:10 +0530, emigrant wrote: > > It should be there: > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/network-manager > > Have you configured the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file to use the online > repos? > > Greetings, > > -- >

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the comments and help. > > I have edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg to match my devices by UUID as > proposed, getting UUIDs from blkid /dev/md{0,1} (previously I run > blkid -g): Good. > It doesn't boot. Bummer. > Note a added `rootdelay=15' and removed

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