Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:38:19 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc > RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks > good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration > everything seems to run

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Amar Cosic
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 24/06/10 10:03, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: >> >> Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or >>> ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been around for a fe

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:03 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 21:27:40 Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > Hi List! > > > > > > > > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was gi

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:05:24 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> 1/ At login screen, click the mouse button and wait for Florence to >> appears > > nothing happens then. > >> 2/ Then, after you login, run "florence" to get the keyboard > > a

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 24 June 2010 21:27:40 Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > > > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc > > > RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loa

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 24/06/10 10:03, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been around for a few weeks, and although there is a workaround using the updated version

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > > Hi List! > > > > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc > > RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks > > good on the desktop, b

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-24 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: > Any ideas on what I need to change? I just switched to not using any xorg.conf at all, which I think is the ``new'' recommendation. I put new in quotes because I think I saw someone at work the other day say something like ``You've not needed

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-24 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Remember that at login screen you have to press any mouse button to > activate the virtual keyboard. If you do not press any key, Florence does > not become active. yah, i know that part ;) > Mmm, I guess this line is used when the program is to

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > Hi List! > > My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc > RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks > good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration > everything se

xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-24 Thread Alan Ianson
Hi List! My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an "ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]" as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration everything seems to run slowly. I have been using a minimal xorg.conf that s

thttpd CGI pattern specified in thttpd.conf fails to match

2010-06-24 Thread Joel Roth
I'm running thttpd 2.25b-11 in unstable. Spending an inordinate amount of time, I find no setting for the cgi-pat variable in thttpd.conf including the default would allow CGI script to execute. I found a workaround is to start thttpd from the command line, specifying cgi-pat with the -c flag.

Re: viewing a pdf in Squeeze

2010-06-24 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:36, Steven Demetrius wrote: > > Thank you > Steven Demetrius > +855 12 810 350 > > On 2010-06-24 02:10, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:28:01 Camaleón wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:20:25 -0700, peasthope wrote: > >> > >>> Given a Squeeze syst

Re: how to start xfce in etch

2010-06-24 Thread Long Wind
Thank Jordan Metzmeier ! You are right! On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > Why are you still running etch? Etch is no longer supported. > > You want "exec startxfce4" in your ~/.xinitrc. On Lenny (possibly also > etch) you can make this global with update-alternatives -

Re: how to start xfce in etch

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Long Wind wrote: > I have just installed xfce4 in etch > but get no hint how to start it > I add "xfwm" to ".xinitrc" > but it doesn't work when I run xinit > > Why are you still running etch? Etch is no longer supported. You want "exec startxfce4" in your ~/.xin

how to start xfce in etch

2010-06-24 Thread Long Wind
I have just installed xfce4 in etch but get no hint how to start it I add "xfwm" to ".xinitrc" but it doesn't work when I run xinit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:06:17 Mark Allums wrote: > > Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right > > way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list > > && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else > > I h

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-24 22:06 +0200, Mark Allums wrote: > On 6/24/2010 2:21 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: >>> And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? >> >> Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all >> functionality

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/24/2010 2:21 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that aptitude allows for. Does it matter what order udev

Re: Understanding LVM UUIDS

2010-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100623_054331, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/23/2010 05:20 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Alan Chandler > >wrote: > > > >>I feel I should move my entire /etc/fstab over to using uuids > >> > [snip] > >> > >>Which do I use, and what does the other one mean? > >> > >

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: > And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? > tnx. Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that aptitude allows for. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100622_022612, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/22/2010 12:33 AM, Augustin wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >I must learn to use e2fsck as I am having some I/O problems on some of > >my external drives. > >I checked all the existing documentation everywhere I could think of > >(including the Debian offici

Re: Downgraded Flash Non-Free 32 to Backports

2010-06-24 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Saturday 19 June 2010 14:10:28 Freeman wrote: . . . > > > > Is there some possible fix, something else in development or is flash > > simply going to be bad solution for old radeons? > > > Flash won't be fixed :-), and it is not r

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:06:43 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:25:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Then your best bet is reporting the problem at BTS. > > Bug tracking system? Debian's or Xorg's? Better, Debian's. Debian devels can be in touch with Xorg's ones. > Out fo cur

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Amar Cosic
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Amar Cosic wrote: > > > > Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right > way > > to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' i

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-06-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:25:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: > Then your best bet is reporting the problem at BTS. Bug tracking system? Debian's or Xorg's? Out fo curiosity, I tried an Ubuntu live disc (10.04) with the Radeon 3450 installed. The machien locks up as well. Also, I dug out an old Saphi

Re: An explanation is needed on aptitude working.

2010-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-24 19:26 +0200, Sthu Deus wrote: > Could You please explain me the situation. On aptitude update I see > this: > > Err http://ftp2.jp.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages > 404 Not Found [IP: 61.206.119.174 80] > > And latter I see: > > Get:16 http://ftp2.jp.debian.org testing/ma

Re: An explanation is needed on aptitude working.

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:26:35 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Could You please explain me the situation. On aptitude update I see > this: > > Err http://ftp2.jp.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages > 404 Not Found [IP: 61.206.119.174 80] > > And latter I see: > > Get:16 http://ftp2.jp.debian.or

An explanation is needed on aptitude working.

2010-06-24 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Could You please explain me the situation. On aptitude update I see this: Err http://ftp2.jp.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 61.206.119.174 80] And latter I see: Get:16 http://ftp2.jp.debian.org testing/main 2010-06-23-2114.45.pdiff [372B] Get:17 http://

Re: Problem with permission in /dev/sr0: k3b cannot find CDROM drive

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:05:52 -0500, M. wrote: > I'm facing for some time now problems with the permissions of my CDROM > drive. Everytime I start k3b I receive this message: > > No optical drive found. > K3b did not find any optical device in your system. Solution: Make sure > HAL daemon is runni

Re: Configuring the Huawei E620 dongle to work using wvdial

2010-06-24 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day, Ken, You wrote: > I don't think he is correct, and so my question to you is whether you > know if such modems are locked until unlocked when someone buys one. I do not know what Your ISP does w/ its modems but You can try to unlock it if it being the case. I know that some ISP do lock

Re: Stable volatile versions

2010-06-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-06-24, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > > Last night I was attempting to install spamassassin on my Lenny box. I > had some difficulty doing so because it turned out that the volatile > version had a lesser version number. > > The only ways I found to get the volatile version to install was to

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:29:10 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> As per the instructions, is not that file the one you have to edit but >> "/ etc/gdm/custom.conf" :-) >> If it's not there, just create it and see how it goes. > > grrr.. ok, sorry ab

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-24 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > As per the instructions, is not that file the one you have to edit but "/ > etc/gdm/custom.conf" :-) > If it's not there, just create it and see how it goes. grrr.. ok, sorry about that. i no longer get the conf file warning anymore. but nor do

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Problem with permission in /dev/sr0: k3b cannot find CDROM drive

2010-06-24 Thread M.
Hi all, I'm facing for some time now problems with the permissions of my CDROM drive. Everytime I start k3b I receive this message: No optical drive found. K3b did not find any optical device in your system. Solution: Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding devices. I'm in

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:50:53 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Check the systax of both files, as Tao suggested. > > very little here for me to mess up. so im a bit stumped. > > /etc/gdm/gdm.conf ^ As per the instructions, is no

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-24 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Check the systax of both files, as Tao suggested. very little here for me to mess up. so im a bit stumped. /etc/gdm/gdm.conf [daemon] Greeter=/usr/lib/gdmlogin GtkModulesList=gail:atk-bridge:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libkeymouselistener:/usr/lib

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Sorry, Hanspeter, for the extra posting to you directly. - Original Message > From: Hanspeter Spalinger > schrieb Marc Shapiro: > I am running a Lenny box, with > postgressq-8.4. > > I ran ps -e, just now, and there were over 350 > sshd processes running under user postgres. I kill

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Amar Cosic wrote: > > Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way > to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list && > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there i

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Brent Clark schreef: On 24/06/2010 15:44, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attent

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-24 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 24.06.10 04:58, schrieb Marc Shapiro: > I am running a Lenny box, with postgressq-8.4. > > I ran ps -e, just now, and there were over 350 sshd processes running under > user postgres. I killed the postgresql-8.4 process, but the sshd processes

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Allums
Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention on ? I would retain the Lenny security update line in

Stable volatile versions

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Last night I was attempting to install spamassassin on my Lenny box. I had some difficulty doing so because it turned out that the volatile version had a lesser version number. The only ways I found to get the volatile version to install was to pin

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Brent Clark
On 24/06/2010 15:44, Amar Cosic wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention on ? Thats what

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Amar Cosic
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Brent Clark wrote: > On 24/06/2010 00:26, Amar Cosic wrote: > >> Hello list >> >> I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if >> everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you >> use squeeze so its probably best place

problem with variables_order configuration in PHP5 package on Lenny

2010-06-24 Thread Siju George
Hi, I faced the same problem with package from Lenny repository so I used the dot deb packages and find the same problem. Here is the description Currently I use PHP Version 5.2.13-0.dotdeb.1 on Linux srv1 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 12 18:03:14 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux The full php packa

Re: [LONG] Trouble using debmirror on Lenny (certain public keys not found)

2010-06-24 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:45:31AM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > gpgv: keyblock resource /root/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg': > general error > gpgv: Signature made Sa 30 Jan 2010 00:18:35 CET using RSA key ID 55BE302B > [GNUPG:] ERRSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B 1 2 00 1264807115 9 > [GNUPG:] NO_PUBKE

Re: changing user password on KDE 4.4 (was: How 'stable' is squeeze?)

2010-06-24 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 23:34:38 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > [...] > > > However, I still do not see a way to > > change passwords as an ordinary user. How does an ordinary user who > > does not use the command line (and thus

[SOLVED] Can't boot 2.6.32-3 after running 2.6.32-5 for a while

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:05:49 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > > I'm interested in seeing how your testing goes. OK, I found the problem. It's a user error, but not an obvious one. Here's the deal. At boot loader install time, lilo translates the root device specification into a number. In the ge

[LONG] Trouble using debmirror on Lenny (certain public keys not found)

2010-06-24 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi to everybody, I want to create a partial mirror for both the stable (Lenny) and testing (Squeeze) distributions of Debian. The mirror is supposed to contain the amd64 arch only (all binary packages of all sections). Here's how I invoke debmirror from within a shell script: === debmirror -a am

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Brent Clark
On 24/06/2010 00:26, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask Hiya I think its very stable, and sure enjoying it. Give i

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: > Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or > ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been around for a few > weeks, and although there is a workaround using the updated version > from SID, all the installation CD

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:25:36 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Check if that helps: >> >> *** >> Using Florence with GDM >> http://florence.sourceforge.net/english/tips.html#gdm *** > > hmm... edited the two files as instructed but not only do i g

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Well . . . I suppose this is not hijacking as it is about stability and > usability.  I eagerly ran my apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, > rebooted and, voila, X refused to start.  I finally installed the > proprietary nvidia driver

changing user password on KDE 4.4 (was: How 'stable' is squeeze?)

2010-06-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 23:34:38 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [...] > However, I still do not see a way to > change passwords as an ordinary user. How does an ordinary user who > does not use the command line (and thus passwd) and does not have the > root password change their password in