Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:40:17 -0400 "Rob Owens row...@ptd.net" suggested this: >On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:40:07PM +1000, Charlie wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:30:35 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" >> suggested this: >> >> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:05 +1000 "Charlie >> > aries...@

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:02:25 +0100 "Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk" suggested this: >It sounds like you succeeded. It reading the microphone and putting >it out through your headphones. > >Sorry can't help you turn it off - but presumably doing something your >were doing to turn it o

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread Han Soo Chang
> ..what happens if you try the radeon driver from backports? > Or dist-upgrade to wheezy? Well, if I change the word fglrx in my xorg.conf to radeon or radeonhd, it gives me a black console. Actually, I was running wheezy on my machine, until X window system crashed after my recent upgrade of th

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-25 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > Indulekha --- if you would care to answer --- what is the software that > wmaker does not interact well with? > I had trouble with terminator (my preferred terminal emulator) and also with conky, which I use insted of a dock or system tray. Bear in mind, I swi

Partman-Auto - Multi-Disk OR Use Existing Layout via Preseed

2012-04-25 Thread Matthew Drobnak
First, I have to say I love Debian. But I've been struggling with the preseeding lately. First it was the keyboard layout, as the name has changed a few times. But that's been rectified. So, now I am trying to get partitioning right. This was the recipe I tried: d-i partman-auto/disk string /d

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:07:40 +0900, Han wrote in message : > Thanks again for your help. > > I didn't realize that I needed to install xorg from the backports > besides an upgraded kernel > and fglrx driver. > > Now, I installed linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64, xorg, fglrx-driver, > and fglrx-c

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-25 Thread Dan Hitt
Thanks Rob, Wayne, and Indulekha for your help (and thanks again Johan and Camaleón for your earlier help). Rob, thanks for pointing out where the window manager selection was on the screen (in my case, at the bottom, and as you said, only visible after the user account is selected). That actuall

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread Han Soo Chang
Thanks again for your help. I didn't realize that I needed to install xorg from the backports besides an upgraded kernel and fglrx driver. Now, I installed linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64, xorg, fglrx-driver, and fglrx-control from the squeeze backports. # aticontrol --initial again failed to re

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-25 Thread Indulekha
Dan Hitt wrote: > > Thanks in advance for any other advice anybody may have. > > (Is anybody actually using WindowMaker on this list? Maybe > my problem is i'm posting to the wrong list? :) But thanks > everybody for your help because you certainly are very helpful!) > I was using wmaker until

Re: NEWBIE sanity check re gnome-ppp PLEASE

2012-04-25 Thread Go Linux
--- On Wed, 4/25/12, Indulekha wrote: > > > Then install pppconfig and create your connection with > 'sudo pppconfig' run in the terminal, then start the > connection > with ppp-on-boot or manually using pon. > That's the simple, easy, reliable way to do it, and it > doesn't > require any part

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:29:09PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my > > laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. > > > > who > > stephen tty7 2012-04-25 11:49

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:10:02PM +0200, Matthias Guentert wrote: > Hello everyone > > Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days > later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this > behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB > disk,

Re: NEWBIE sanity check re gnome-ppp PLEASE

2012-04-25 Thread Indulekha
Richard Owlett wrote: > > At first I tried tried running it from sub-menu > (Applications-Internet-GNOME ppp). > Failure message was "Can not open modem." The logfile > expanded it saying "Cannot open /dev/ttyS3: Permission denied". > FIRST, find out what kind of modem you have, where it is, a

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:24:28PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > Doesn't do it for me, I'm just seeing the pts entry. > > joe@jresid:~$ who > joe pts/02012-04-25 21:19 (:0) > > joe@jresid:~$ w > 21:21:13 up 2:30, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.14, 0.12 > USER TTY FROM

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-25 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/25/2012 05:10 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Thanks Camaleón and Johan for your suggestions. For reference, here's what happened: Camaleón: i did try the update-alternatives path, including the --display option to check. It reports wmaker, but has no effect otherwise that i can tell. The idea of c

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:40:07PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:30:35 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" > suggested this: > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:05 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" > > suggested this: > > > >> > >>I have turned on something on my laptop us

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:10:03PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Thanks Camaleón and Johan for your suggestions. > > For reference, here's what happened: > > Camaleón: i did try the update-alternatives path, including the > --display option to check. It reports wmaker, but has no > effect otherwise t

Re: NEWBIE sanity check re gnome-ppp PLEASE

2012-04-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:46:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>OK already -- I've written both UNread manuals and MISread test > >>procedures ;/ > >> > >>What am I using - I'm not sure: > >>1. the *HAND writ

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list (Solved)

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Roach
Sorry about the Iceweasel. Yes I meant Icedove. I was mucking around with the settings and ran across "Display Attachments Inline" under the View menu. I checked it and the problem went away. I'm not sure why this should make such a difference but it does. The package now works as it should. T

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-25 Thread Dan Hitt
Thanks Camaleón and Johan for your suggestions. For reference, here's what happened: Camaleón: i did try the update-alternatives path, including the --display option to check. It reports wmaker, but has no effect otherwise that i can tell. The idea of choosing a window manager a login time is i

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Joe
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:15:21 -0400 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:29:09PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > > Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my > > > laptop, when I should be the only on

Random system freezes - need your input

2012-04-25 Thread Matthias Guentert
Hello everyone Lately I changed from Fedora to Debian squeeze on amd64. A few days later my system started to freeze randomly. I first noticed this behaviour while I was copying files from my system disk to my USB disk, but don't think this is the culprit. After having searched high and low on my

Re: Single boot EFI Mac install

2012-04-25 Thread Dan
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed Debian as a single boot system > on an EFI Mac? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Arch

Re: evolution mail

2012-04-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:51:02PM +, Camale�n wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:04:28 +0100, John Gennard wrote: > > > Is there a way to delete evolution without deleting gnome. > > I think the "problem" arises when someone installs a gnome metapackage, > that can trigger lots of (and unfores

Re: USB harddisk problem

2012-04-25 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 24/04/12 23:00, Josep Llauradó wrote: Hello, I have a serious problem with external usb hard drives and a new debian squeeze on a laptop. The symptoms are What it works: - When I mount a previously an usb hard drive formatted using another computer (linux or windows) the first time it mount

forwarding packets to service in same host without using loopback network

2012-04-25 Thread Arif Hossain
This question is not about linux usage. But still i think user list is a good crowd for linux programmer. So here it goes. I have this libnetfilter_queue application which receives packets from kernel based on some iptables rule. Before going straight to my problem, i'm giving a sample workable co

Re: ssh sessions with pseudo terminal hang when in kernel events thread hangs

2012-04-25 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 02:04:34PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, > since about December we see machines where interactive ssh sessions hang or > logins are no longer possible. The machine itself is still alive and > using ssh without pseudo terminal allocation works fine (ssh -T). To follow this

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-25 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 25.04.2012 20:34, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:25:19 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > >> I'm not sure where the problem lies, but all of the mail I am receiving >> from this mailing list is coming in as attachments to attachments to a >> blank email. This mailing list is different than th

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:25:19 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I'm not sure where the problem lies, but all of the mail I am receiving > from this mailing list is coming in as attachments to attachments to a > blank email. This mailing list is different than the others to which I > subcribe in that after

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-25 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 25.04.2012 19:25, Gary Roach wrote: > I'm not sure where the problem lies, but all of the mail I am receiving > from this mailing list is coming in as attachments to attachments to a > blank email. This mailing list is different than the others to which I > subcribe in that after the index all o

Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Roach
I'm not sure where the problem lies, but all of the mail I am receiving from this mailing list is coming in as attachments to attachments to a blank email. This mailing list is different than the others to which I subcribe in that after the index all of the messages are attachments. All my othe

Re: FYI: nautilus-dropbox works with Xfce's file manager, Thunar

2012-04-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:26:18 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> I recently installed a new testing system, using the xfce installation, >> so as to avoid the new GNOME. I wanted to install DropBox, which comes >> in a package called nautilus-dropb

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:29:09PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my > > laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. > > > > who > > stephen tty7 2012-04-25 11:49

Re: FYI: nautilus-dropbox works with Xfce's file manager, Thunar

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:26:18 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I recently installed a new testing system, using the xfce installation, > so as to avoid the new GNOME. I wanted to install DropBox, which comes > in a package called nautilus-dropbox. I feared that I was going to have > to install Nauti

Re: Debian netboot not detecting Addonics flash adapters

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:25:44 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian Squeeze from the netboot image [1] over PXE > and having great difficulty getting it to detect the drives. The error > is that no drives are detected: > > "No disk drive was detected. If you know the name

Re: evolution mail

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:04:28 +0100, John Gennard wrote: > Is there a way to delete evolution without deleting gnome. I think the "problem" arises when someone installs a gnome metapackage, that can trigger lots of (and unforeseen) packages and (unwanted) dependencies (it hapenned to me in whee

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my > laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. > > who > stephen tty7 2012-04-25 11:49 (:0) > stephen pts/02012-04-25 11:52 (:0) Run a "user-depup"

Re: changing window managers in debian 6.0.4

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:36:09 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > I'm running debian 6.0.4 (squeeze). > > I'm attempting to change my window manager from the default metacity to > wmaker (WindowMaker). > > I attempted the change by >sudo update-alternatives --display x-window-manager > and then choosing

Re: How To Install A Complete LEMP (Linux - EngineX (Nginx HTTP SERVER) - Mysql - PHP) Server (Not LAMP...) On Debian Squeese

2012-04-25 Thread TFML
I concur... the best thing for you is going on the search engines find documentation that will provide you the information on how-to. What I can personally tell you, I currently do use Nginx as a front to serve https web sites, but then it pushes to a cluster of Apache servers on the backend.

2 users on desktop, should be one right?

2012-04-25 Thread Stephen Allen
Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. who stephen tty7 2012-04-25 11:49 (:0) stephen pts/02012-04-25 11:52 (:0) This is on a Sid box, updated this morning. I have re-booted the laptop in question and

Re: NEWBIE sanity check re gnome-ppp PLEASE

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:38:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> You better be sure about what you install as your OS, sir, or you can >> encounter bad suprises... Have you verified the md5sum of the media to >> know it comes from a trusted source? > > My phrasing was poor

FYI: nautilus-dropbox works with Xfce's file manager, Thunar

2012-04-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: I recently installed a new testing system, using the xfce installation, so as to avoid the new GNOME. I wanted to install DropBox, which comes in a package called nautilus-dropbox. I feared that I was going to have to install Nautilus, but it turns out that's not so. When I first opene

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread keith
張 漢秀 wrote: On 2012/04/25, at 20:26, keith wrote: I've used a 6xxx series driver from their website OK on my Acer running Debian Squeeze 6.0.4. Did you just run their installer? Wouldn't it cause any future problem? Han Soo Yes, just ran their installer; don't know about the future. :) (

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:56:12 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: > Thank you very much for your help. > > I installed fglxr driver from squeeze backports, but it didn't help. Bad news, then. The backported driver is the same version than the current upstream from AMD/ATI (12.3). Besides the ATI driver

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-25 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 25/04/12 00:58, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: Drive has now arrived. Creating a single partition and formatting it to ext4 was a doddle. Have now backed up 15GB of films and over 4GB of music. Just used the commands cp -av /opt/music /mnt cp -av /opt/iso /mnt Now I shall copy the co

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900?

2012-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:39:54 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > When I replaced my desktop with a new computer, I kept my TFT screen. It > has the non-standard size of 1440x900. > > Recently, I have been wondering if it would be better for me to have > 1600x1200 screen. Would this be better for Lin

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900?

2012-04-25 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 25/04/12 02:40, Richard Hector wrote: On 25/04/12 08:02, Gary Dale wrote: 1440 x 900 is a standard 16:9 ratio Sorry, that just jumps out at me, and I can't ignore it :-) 1600 x 900 is 16:9; 1440 x 900 is clearly 14.4:9, or 16:10. Richard Well said. 1920x1080 is 16:9 (aspect ratio of 1.7

Re: getent passwd doesn't show ldap user

2012-04-25 Thread stefano malini
Per, it runs. yes, i forgot to put it. thanks. now it the samba round! maybe i'll wrote you again! thank you very much. On 04/23/2012 10:36 PM, Per Carlson wrote: Hi Stefano nslcd: [8b4567] DEBUG: myldap_search(base="dc=amahoro,dc=bi", filter="(objectClass=posixAccount)") nslcd: [8b4567] DEB

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread 張 漢秀
On 2012/04/25, at 20:26, keith wrote: > I've used a 6xxx series driver from their website OK on my Acer running > Debian Squeeze 6.0.4. Did you just run their installer? Wouldn't it cause any future problem? Han Soo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: ..solved: two video cards on Squeeze

2012-04-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:19:57 -0400, Rob wrote in message <20120425011957.gc8...@aurora.owens.net>: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:40:08AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:34:18 -0400, Rob wrote in message > > <20120424223418.ga5...@aurora.owens.net>: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 24,

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/04/12 11:58, Charlie wrote: So that it produces constant feedback [background buzzing] and the sound of clicking on my keyboard when typing. I have no idea what I turned on, but can't turn it off. I was trying to get my microphone working. Can someone please help. It sounds like you succ

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900?

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/04/12 08:35 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:02:56 -0400, Gary wrote in message <4f9706f0.3000...@rogers.com>: On 24/04/12 01:39 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: When I replaced my desktop with a new computer, I kept my TFT screen. It has the non-standard size of 1440x900. Rece

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline1.2 released

2012-04-25 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello World, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 1.2 Release Highlights * Bug Fix Release - Fixes bug with newer apt system's gpg signature verification mechanism * Minor changes. Please see the git log for full details[1]. . What is apt-offline ? apt-offline is an Offline APT Pac

Re: evolution mail

2012-04-25 Thread John Gennard
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 14:11 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > John Gennard writes: > > > Is there a way to delete evolution without deleting gnome. > > There is a specific article on this very subject: > > http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article8/uninstall-meta-package > > -- > Alberto > >

Re: evolution mail

2012-04-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
John Gennard writes: > Is there a way to delete evolution without deleting gnome. There is a specific article on this very subject: http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article8/uninstall-meta-package -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

evolution mail

2012-04-25 Thread John Gennard
Is there a way to delete evolution without deleting gnome. John. -- 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/1335355468.1905.7.ca...@debian.btinternet.com

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:30:35 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" suggested this: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:05 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" > suggested this: > >> >>I have turned on something on my laptop using: >> >>Debian wheezy 3.2.0-2-686-pae using fvwm >> >>So that it produc

Re: Problem with resolution on Radeon HD 7459 card (Squeeze)

2012-04-25 Thread keith
Han Soo Chang wrote: I found a proprietary linux driver in AMD's site (http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx) for Radeon HD 7XXX series, but I don't know if it is safe to use it. I've used a 6xxx series driver from their website OK on my Acer running Debian Squeeze 6.0.4. -- Sent

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:58:05 +1000 "Charlie aries...@skymesh.com.au" suggested this: > >I have turned on something on my laptop using: > >Debian wheezy 3.2.0-2-686-pae using fvwm > >So that it produces constant feedback [background buzzing] and the >sound of clicking on my keyboard when typing.

Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Charlie
I have turned on something on my laptop using: Debian wheezy 3.2.0-2-686-pae using fvwm So that it produces constant feedback [background buzzing] and the sound of clicking on my keyboard when typing. I have no idea what I turned on, but can't turn it off. I was trying to get my microphone wor

Re: Bash script problem [OT?]

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Davies
Cam Hutchison wrote: > Sigh. Sorry, it was a typo. That explains why it did not work for the OP. Phew! These array things are new to me in a shell context - I've used associative and indexed arrays for years in awk and perl, though - and after your example didn't work I went digging through the

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900?

2012-04-25 Thread Joe
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:08:43 -0700 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 24 April 2012 10:39, Sian Mountbatten > wrote: > > When I replaced my desktop with a new computer, I kept my TFT > > screen. It has the non-standard size of 1440x900. That's pretty much standard in the '19 inch' size for TVs and moni

Re: How To Install A Complete LEMP (Linux - EngineX (Nginx HTTP SERVER) - Mysql - PHP) Server (Not LAMP...) On Debian Squeese

2012-04-25 Thread Joe
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:29:01 +0530 Joby Mathew wrote: > Hi all > > i just want to setup debian webserver with Nginx > > i installed and i am getting "*Welcome to nginx*!" page but i am > not getting other pages which is in the www directory like "info.php" > so could u please sent me the *How