Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi >> > Do you have a good screenshot manipulation tool to recommend? >> >> I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gimp. i use Shutter! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

PCI-MSI-edge in /proc/interrupts

2011-08-08 Thread J.Hwan Kim
Hi, everyone When I read /proc/interrupts, it displays interrupt type of my ethernet card with "PCI-MSI-edge". Does it mean MSI-X interrupt or MSI interrupt? I set to my ethernet driver operates with MSI-X interrupt. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.Hwan Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Xfce4 becomes unresponsive after a period of rest

2011-08-08 Thread AG
Hi list I'd send this to the Xfce users list except that list is too slow to catch a cold and as I am using Debian, I thought that the collective wisdom of Debian Xfce users here might be a better bet. I have recently decided to give Xfce4 a try on Debian stable. The WM itself is pretty coo

Re: powerdevil lacks options

2011-08-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Aug 2011 at 17:56:45 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > But how can I get the cpu stay in low frequency mode whatever happens? I > suppose, a command related to /proc might help. But which command is telling > the cpu to stay in low mode? Any help is welcome. http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo

eog (Image Viewer) all black on jpg images

2011-08-08 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I noticed recently that eog (aka Image Viewer) displays all black on jpg files. This was not so a few weeks ago. I have recently upgraded (and dist-upgraded). Can anyone replicate this. eog does display pngs correctly. gimp displays jpgs correctly. cheers Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-06 15:29:04 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > Thanks for your help! I was finally able to get it to work with the > following, which I put into a script: > > /etc/init.d/wicd stop > ifconfig $IFACE down > iwconfig $IFACE essid $ESSID mode Ad-Hoc channel $CHANNEL > ifconfig $IFACE

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-08 08:12:07 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:29:04 -0400, "Robert Blair Mason Jr." writes: > > 1. Why do I have to call iwconfig twice? > > Because wicd overwrites it somehow? No, wicd (the daemon) is stopped at that time. > > 2. Is wicd at fault in this case? I

hibernate fails because of wicd

2011-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On my Debian/sid laptop, hibernate failed for a couple of times: the screen was cleared with only one message on it (I always get a message, so that I think it's unrelated), but the hard disk and the screen were still on. The only thing I could do was to switch off the machine. Concerning the seco

Re: Xfce4 becomes unresponsive after a period of rest

2011-08-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Aug 2011 at 09:47:56 +0100, AG wrote: > In terms of power management settings, the computer is regarded as idle > after 20 minutes which leads to the screen blanking out, and the display > is put to sleep after 30 minutes. The computer is never "put to sleep". > This is the same a

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2011 1:25 AM, Dion Kant wrote: > > Dear list, > > When writing to a logical volume (/dev/sys/test) directly through the > device, I obtain a slow performance: > > root@dom0-2:/dev/mapper# dd of=/dev/sys/test if=/dev/zero > 4580305+0 records in > 4580305+0 records out > 2345116160 bytes (

Re: sound bell when 'USB disconnect' in syslog

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:59:04 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:11:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> I am looking for a package that will sound the bell when 'USB >>> disconnect' appears in syslog. >>> >>> I can write it myself, but does it already exi

Re: install and wireless issues on Dell D600

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:34:03 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: (...) > I have installed all the files that I feel are necessary from the > usb-stick (IE, all the relevant firmware files). There's a site that > lists various required drivers for this laptop at > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/DELL/D600 I

which is the best alterative package for kbibtex

2011-08-08 Thread lina
Hi, before I used kbibtex, but this time when I tried to install it, seems lots of KDE staff, I use gnome desktop mainly? so what's the best alterative choice for bibtex edit. thanks, -- Best Regards, lina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem - Solved

2011-08-08 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 06:07:43PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > We subscribed to Verizon DSL ten years ago. Overall the service has > been as advertised, 3 Mbps. > > All last week we had major problems - system freezes and system down for > times ranging from half an hour to several hours. T

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:41:40 +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: >>> I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gimp. > > i use Shutter! Thanks Mirco. Shutter is indeed a feature-rich screenshot manipulation program which has all the features that I need. Thanks. Just one drawback

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 02:34:01PM +, T o n g wrote: > 24 new dependences, 4232kB of archives, 26MB of total installation disk > space is a bit too big for a simple task like this. > > Thanks all the same. Is 26MB really too much disk space? Are you perhaps mistakenly valueing a disk-space

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:34:01 +, T o n g wrote: > 24 new dependences, 4232kB of archives, 26MB of total installation disk > space is a bit too big for a simple task like this. I still gave it a try. Here is it's limitations I found so far. - unable to work on the image from the system clipbo

Re: rhythmbox converting files to ogg

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:26:11 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I have a bunch of music in encoded in flac. When I drag the files in > rhythmbox to my Sansa Clip player, rhythmbox converts them to mp3. I > want them to be converted to ogg. I have my preferred format set to ogg > in rhythmbox's preferenc

Re: Mounted device naming convention

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:16:15 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > For the last couple of kernels, devices that get automounted by the > system (thumb drives, USB hard drives, etc) are getting mounted as > /media/. In past times, they were mounted in /media/disk, > /media/disk-1 and so forth. Is there a

Re: IP geographical address info

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:23:01 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-08-05 13:48:49 +, T o n g wrote: >> MaxMind GeoIP City Database >> http://www.maxmind.com/app/city >> http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity Determine country, state/region, >> city, US postal code, US area code, metro code,

Re: cups on wheezy problem

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:05:34 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Have been without a working cups for some time now so upgrades to the > unstable version 1.4.8-2. Still not working because of this error > > udevd[17007]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe > /sys/devices/pci:00/:

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:54:09 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: (...) > The misery begins as soon as you try to switch from X to console either > by Ctrl-Alt-F1 or induced by system shutdown > > the monitor goes black and the sysem will not react to any input not > even to SysReq Keys How about ssh? C

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:15:04 +0530, Anirudh Parui wrote: > The comparison between Linux Distros is a big matter of discussion. And > when it comes to finding out what is the best everyone has his own point > of view. > Well i found this link which does a good comparison in all domains and > want t

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:42:14 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:32:20 +, T o n g wrote: > >> Do you have a good screenshot manipulation tool to recommend? > > I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gimp. I use Gimp for that task O:-) Anyway, look for an

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread shawn wilson
I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) On Aug 8, 2011 10:30 AM, "Camaleón" wrote: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:15:04 +0530, Anirudh Parui wrote: > >> The comparison between Linux Distros is a big matter of discussion. And >> when it comes to finding out what is the best everyone has

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:14:29 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: (...) > Tried to ping and tcptraceroute with the only reaction either way 'No > network present'. Then you seem to have a network configuration problem. Your router should be configured as stated by the manual and you have to configure y

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi > - unable to work on the image from the system clipboard. just configure the keybinding on Shutter preferences to use the stamp button (or: Import from clipboard) > - unable to further select out from the already captured image > - no general-purpose commonly-used image handing capability, e

Re: which is the best alterative package for kbibtex

2011-08-08 Thread Cristian Solís Espinoza
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:02:25 +0800 lina wrote: > Hi, > > before I used kbibtex, but this time when I tried to install it, seems > lots of KDE staff, I use gnome desktop mainly? > so what's the best alterative choice for bibtex edit. Hi, You can give jabref a try. I don't know if it is the "best

Re: eog (Image Viewer) all black on jpg images

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:15:30 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > I noticed recently that eog (aka Image Viewer) displays all black on jpg > files. This was not so a few weeks ago. I have recently upgraded (and > dist-upgraded). > > Can anyone replicate this. > > eog does display pngs correctly.

Re: Problem getting php5-mysql to work

2011-08-08 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Scott Ferguson s it should be. > > I'm "assuming" you're running Squeeze. Not easy to answer your question > without knowing a little more... :-) > > What other php and mysql packages do you have installed? > I run Debian Squeeze. The problem appears to be that modu

Re: Problem getting php5-mysql to work

2011-08-08 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Aniruddha wrote: > I run Debian Squeeze. The problem appears to be that modules aren’t' > automatically loaded. I can't get php5-curl to work either. > When I copy mysql.ini and curl.ini to the right directory all works fine. I wonder what the official procedure is

Re: cups on wheezy problem

2011-08-08 Thread Wayne Topa
On 08/08/2011 11:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:05:34 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Have been without a working cups for some time now so upgrades to the unstable version 1.4.8-2. Still not working because of this error udevd[17007]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe' 'mtp-p

Re: cups on wheezy problem

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:00:17 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 08/08/2011 11:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>>udevd[17007]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe >>> /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:12.0/usb3/3-1 3 3': No such file or >>> directory >>> >>> udevd errors exist in wheezy

Squeeze rotating cursor blinks

2011-08-08 Thread Tomas Kral
Dear List, Just noticed an interesting fact about cursor on Squeeze. The rotating cursor, showing when an app is busy, is actually blinking at intervals. This does not show with Lenny, where it is steady rotating, this happens only with Squeeze. I remember there used to be a parameter during in

Re: PCI-MSI-edge in /proc/interrupts

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:57:49 +0900, J.Hwan Kim wrote: > When I read /proc/interrupts, it displays interrupt type of my ethernet > card with "PCI-MSI-edge". Mmm, I get two modes for each of my ethernet devices: sm01@stt008:~$ grep -i eth /proc/interrupts 20: 1 0 0

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/8/2011 11:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) Slackware is a great way to learn Linux without many 'isms to worry about. Slackware 4.x/5.x was my first distro to try on my own and I used it for a very long time. It taught me the fundamental ba

Easy way to restart network

2011-08-08 Thread Tomas Kral
Dear List, What is the recommended and easy way to restart network subsystem on a desktop without need of rebooting the computer? My installation is a home use, multi-user, family sort of thing computer. I have CDC_ETHER broadband connection to an ISP. Cable modem is plugged to na USB port. eth

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 08/08/11 19:30, Chris Brennan wrote: On 8/8/2011 11:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) Slackware is a great way to learn Linux without many 'isms to worry about. Slackware 4.x/5.x was my first distro to try on my own and I used i

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/8/2011 1:35 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Why have you switched to Debian ? Simply for the experience, I try to spend some time with a few different distro's at a time. I've played with RHL, SuSE, Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware and FreeBSD, just to name a few. To be perfectl

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread shawn wilson
On Aug 8, 2011 12:31 PM, "Chris Brennan" wrote: > > On 8/8/2011 11:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) > > Slackware is a great way to learn Linux without many 'isms to worry > about. Slackware 4.x/5.x was my first distro to try on my own and I u

Re: cups on wheezy problem

2011-08-08 Thread Wayne Topa
On 08/08/2011 01:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:00:17 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: On 08/08/2011 11:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) udevd[17007]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:12.0/usb3/3-1 3 3': No such file or directory ude

Re: cups on wheezy problem

2011-08-08 Thread Wayne Topa
On 08/08/2011 02:02 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 08/08/2011 01:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:00:17 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: On 08/08/2011 11:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) udevd[17007]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe' 'mtp-probe /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:12.0/usb3/3

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-08 Thread Dion Kant
On 08/08/2011 03:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/8/2011 1:25 AM, Dion Kant wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> When writing to a logical volume (/dev/sys/test) directly through the >> device, I obtain a slow performance: >> >> root@dom0-2:/dev/mapper# dd of=/dev/sys/test if=/dev/zero >> 4580305+0 record

Re: Easy way to restart network

2011-08-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Tomas Kral wrote: > What is the recommended and easy way to restart network subsystem on a > desktop without need of rebooting the computer? This has been a popular topic this week! > On Lenny I used to, as admin, execute something like this, > > #!/bin/sh > # restart network > su -c'\ > modprob

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:42:14 +, T o n g wrote: > >> On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:32:20 +, T o n g wrote: >> >>> Do you have a good screenshot manipulation tool to recommend? >> >> I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gi

bash quoting problems

2011-08-08 Thread Andreas Berglund
Hi! I have a problem with the following sed snippet sed -i s"|^\( *PATH="\)\(.*\)|\1$ADD:\2|" ~/profile-test I need soft quotes in order for $ADD to expand and I also need to math against one doublequote in the regexp in for $ADD to be put in the corrct place. Does anyone know how to do this?

Re: bash quoting problems

2011-08-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Berglund wrote: > I have a problem with the following sed snippet > sed -i s"|^\( *PATH="\)\(.*\)|\1$ADD:\2|" ~/profile-test > I need soft quotes in order for $ADD to expand and I also need to > math against one doublequote in the regexp in for $ADD to be put in > the corrct place. Does any

Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-08 Thread KS
Hi all, I understand this is not Debian specific but there being quite a few helpful people on the list, I wanted to get their opinion on this one. I have my main machine in an Antec Sonata box with ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3, AMD Phenom II X4 970BE, Mushkin 2x2GB 996744, MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC GeF

cd burning in nautilus

2011-08-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I'm running Squeeze, looking to burn a CD/DVD with nautilus. msoulier@anton:~$ sudo apt-get install nautilus-cd-burner [sudo] password for msoulier: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package nautilus-cd-burner is not available, bu

Re: cd burning in nautilus

2011-08-08 Thread Pete Orrall
> E: Package 'nautilus-cd-burner' has no installation candidate > > > ...confused. > > What should I install? It appears that package isn't in Squeeze. I use Brasero for my burning needs, it works very well. There is also a Nautilus extension for it: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/brase

Re: PCI-MSI-edge in /proc/interrupts

2011-08-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011, J.Hwan Kim wrote: > ethernet card with "PCI-MSI-edge". > Does it mean MSI-X interrupt or MSI interrupt? It could be either. Use lspci -vvv as root to check whether MSI or MSI-X is active on the device. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to brin

Re: PCI-MSI-edge in /proc/interrupts

2011-08-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:57:49 +0900, J.Hwan Kim wrote: > > When I read /proc/interrupts, it displays interrupt type of my ethernet > > card with "PCI-MSI-edge". > > Mmm, I get two modes for each of my ethernet devices: > > sm01@stt008:~$ grep -i eth /proc/int

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2011 2:00 PM, Dion Kant wrote: > On 08/08/2011 03:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 8/8/2011 1:25 AM, Dion Kant wrote: >>> Dear list, >>> >>> When writing to a logical volume (/dev/sys/test) directly through the >>> device, I obtain a slow performance: >>> >>> root@dom0-2:/dev/mapper# dd of

Re: LVM write performance

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2011 11:03 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/8/2011 2:00 PM, Dion Kant wrote: >> On 08/08/2011 03:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> On 8/8/2011 1:25 AM, Dion Kant wrote: Dear list, When writing to a logical volume (/dev/sys/test) directly through the device, I obtain a slow p

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2011 6:59 PM, KS wrote: > I shut down the machine and tried to boot it with just the Mushkin RAM. > Same beep sequence followed. If you put the Mushkin back in the original sockets, then you likely: 1. Damaged the mainboard PCB when inserting modules 2. Lodged a screw, or something cond

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-08 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 9 August 2011 01:37, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:14:29 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > (...) > > > Tried to ping and tcptraceroute with the only reaction either way 'No > > network present'. > > Then you seem to have a network configuration problem. > > Your router should be confi

Re: screenshot manipulation tool

2011-08-08 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 08/07/2011 08:12 PM, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:32:20 +, T o n g wrote: Do you have a good screenshot manipulation tool to recommend? I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gimp. thanks For KDE there's Ksnapshot. Pretty sure there's a similar app fo