Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Tom H a écrit : >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Joe wrote: >>> >>> But the save and restore commands only give you the iptables rules, and >>> you may want to do other network-related things when the 'service' is >>> started, such as l

Re: Backup backup backup -- sound problem SOLVED using a backup

2012-04-27 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 28/04/12 03:10, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:50:40AM +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I then did the usual sid upgrade commands: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade reboot After the reboot, I logged in and ran speaker-test: speaker-test -tsine -c2 Sound from

Re: Backup backup backup -- sound problem SOLVED using a backup

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:50:40AM +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I then did the usual sid upgrade commands: >apt-get update >apt-get dist-upgrade >reboot > After the reboot, I logged in and ran speaker-test: >speaker-test -tsine -c2 > Sound from both speakers! >played some mu

Re: ..solved: two video cards on Squeeze

2012-04-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:01:44 -0400, Rob wrote in message <20120428010144.ga4...@aurora.owens.net>: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:25:28PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > Actually, I now need to figure out how to make the two screens > > > act as one. Currently, I can open applications on either s

Re: ..solved: two video cards on Squeeze

2012-04-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:33:54PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > Actually, I now need to figure out how to make the two screens act as > > one. Currently, I can open applications on either screen but I can't, > > for instance, drag an application from one screen to the other. I'

Re: ..solved: two video cards on Squeeze

2012-04-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:25:28PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > Actually, I now need to figure out how to make the two screens act as > > one. Currently, I can open applications on either screen but I can't, > > for instance, drag an application from one screen to the other. I'm > > not sure if

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Tom H a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Joe wrote: >> >> But the save and restore commands only give you the iptables rules, and >> you may want to do other network-related things when the 'service' is >> started, such as loading conntrack modules for unusual protocols. > > It's best t

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : > i run this command > > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -d 8.8.4.4 -j MASQUERADE > > my client computers able to ping 8.8.4.4 > > but when i "iptables --flush -t nat" it clrear the table but my > client can still ping the destination. Do you mean

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Dom
On 27/04/12 17:20, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:59:54 +0100, Dom wrote: On 27/04/12 15:45, Camaleón wrote: (...) 2/ Use the fallback (now "classical") desktop. With higher doses of patience it can be very configurable and enjoyable but remember it won't last forever. Barely work

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 27.04.2012 21:05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 14:45 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:15:58 +, James Allsopp wrote: >> >>> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all >>> costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? > > Yes, s

Re: dwww can't read some files

2012-04-27 Thread Indulekha
Prad wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> dwww: can't access postgresql-8.1 page for alter_table >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399366 >> >> Explanation on the why (although I'm not sure if that still remains true) >> at comment #10. >> > fantastic, camaleon! thanks very much! it

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 14:45 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:15:58 +, James Allsopp wrote: > > > I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all > > costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? Yes, switch to Xfce4 or LXDE :p. > "At all costs"? Wh

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:26 +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote: > http://mate-desktop.org/install/#debian No experiences here, but I heard that it shouldn't be a good successor of GNOME2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Debian Wheezy w/ Xen incorrect memory

2012-04-27 Thread Shane Johnson
Hello, I just installed Wheezy on my laptop using debootstrap to test Xen advancements from Squeeze. Everything seems to be working great, except the memory is reported incorrectly under the Xen enabled OS. Normal boot reports correct memory. Included below are the details I think are pertinent,

Re: dwww can't read some files

2012-04-27 Thread prad
Camaleón writes: > dwww: can't access postgresql-8.1 page for alter_table > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399366 > > Explanation on the why (although I'm not sure if that still remains true) > at comment #10. > fantastic, camaleon! thanks very much! it never occurred to me to

Re: Prompting for settings on first boot of a pre-installed image.

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:39:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 03:05:41PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> It would be nice having such a tool ("oem-config") here. If the OP is >> interested maybe he can suggest it to be packaged (ITP): > > That would be "Request For Package" (RFP)

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 27.04.2012 19:26, Ellwood Blues wrote: > 012/4/27 Mika Suomalainen : >> On 27.04.2012 13:56, Ellwood Blues wrote: >>> 2012/4/26 James Allsopp : Hello, I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? >>

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-27 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 27.04.2012 18:59, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:39:07 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> On 27.04.2012 17:05, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > According to "dispmua" (package: xul-ext-dispmua), >>> >>> I didn't know about such a package existed (he, he... I wonder what >>> icon di

Nautilus-dropbox license (was: FYI: nautilus-dropbox works with Xfce's file manager, Thunar)

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:21:01 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> OTOH, do you know -by any chance- why is that package at the "non-free" >> section? I thought it was released under a GPL license :-? > > I guess because it downloads the Dropbox bin

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Ellwood Blues
012/4/27 Mika Suomalainen : > On 27.04.2012 13:56, Ellwood Blues wrote: >> 2012/4/26 James Allsopp : >>> Hello, >>> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all >>> costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? >>> >>> Thanks >>> James >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:59:54 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 27/04/12 15:45, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I would suggest against going that way. I'd better (in order of >> preference): >> >> 1/ Give gnome-shell a chance, it deserves it. > > Doesn't work on my laptop. Neither it does on my VM (I reported a

Re: dwww can't read some files

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:01:12 -0700, prad wrote: > once in a while i get > dwww will not allow you to read the file > > for instance, when i look for clusterdb by searching for postgresql and > choosing the clusterdb link the error message is > > Access denied > dwww will not allow you to read th

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread keith
Dom wrote: I'd just like to say that I'm not completely against gnome3, but it doesn't work for me (yet). I have to accept that with the hardware that I'm using I may have to move off to another desktop. Have a go with LXDE alongside your present setup, & see how you feel about it, no need

Re: Logging question

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:06:15 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: > I have a machine that is locking up every few days. It doesn't seem to > be doing much when it happens, nor do I see anything in the syslog or > messages files. Is there any way to enable extra logging to try to catch > what is going wrong

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:39:07 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 27.04.2012 17:05, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> According to "dispmua" (package: xul-ext-dispmua), >> >> I didn't know about such a package existed (he, he... I wonder what >> icon displays with my posts ;-P) > > It looks like news p

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Dom
On 27/04/12 15:45, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:15:58 +, James Allsopp wrote: I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? "At all costs"? Whether such possibility exists, the price will be very high ;

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

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:07:40 +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: (...) > Now, I get the desired resolution of 1920 x 1080. > > However, redrawing of windows is very slow, and I can't move a window > smoothly, which is quite bothersome. Mmm... as you are using gnome2 with metacity (i.e., a non-3D enable

Re: debian 6.0.4 DVD #2

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:57:02 -0400, Joe Zien wrote: > I installed debian 6.0.4 DVD #1 and it is working fine. Later I > downloaded iso's #2 and 3. > Tried to boot up #2 iso, won't boot up. How do I install 2 and 3? Additional DVDs (or CD media) only add more packages that you can install when no

grub2 loop back is not working

2012-04-27 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have upgraded my grub installed in my pendrive from 1.95 to 1.99 And now the .iso images are not booting any more. oOne such configuration is ` ` ` ` menuentry "Ubuntu Live 11.10 64bit" { set root=(hd0,2) loopback loop (hd0,2)/ubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:15:58 +, James Allsopp wrote: > I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all > costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? "At all costs"? Whether such possibility exists, the price will be very high ;-) I would suggest against going

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-27 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 27.04.2012 17:05, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:40:32 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> 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 mai

Re: evolution mail

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:40:25 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > 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 ins

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:40:32 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 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 >>>

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 27.04.2012 13:56, Ellwood Blues wrote: > 2012/4/26 James Allsopp : >> Hello, >> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all >> costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? >> >> Thanks >> James >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 27.04.2012 10:56, Miles Bader wrote: > James Allsopp writes: >> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at >> all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? > > Hmm, can't you just run it in "compability" mode or whatever it's > called...? [if you want to avoi

Re: What kind of digital video camera

2012-04-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:44:19AM +0800, Augustin wrote: > Hello, > > I am about to purchase my very first digital video camera. I have never > bought > this kind of hardware before, and as a KDE user, I'd like to enquire what the > linux community would recommend. I want a low-to-mid range

RESOLVED - was [Re: NEWBIE sanity check re gnome-ppp PLEASE]

2012-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] DEBIAN 6.0.3 with GNOME desktop 2. initial attempt to use gnome-ppp failed [snip synopsis of original troubleshooting It was a permissions issue. I was not a member of 'dialout' group. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: gdm3 cancels/ignores Control/CapsLock swap

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 07:31:44PM +, Camaleón wrote: > I remember I had to do something similar to what you are seeking for > enabling the touchpad "tap" action at GDM3 but IIRC (I'm not in front of > my netbook where I have Wheezy with GDM3 installed) I had to edit one of > the Xorg config

Re: Prompting for settings on first boot of a pre-installed image.

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 03:05:41PM +, Camaleón wrote: > It would be nice having such a tool ("oem-config") here. If the OP is > interested maybe he can suggest it to be packaged (ITP): That would be "Request For Package" (RFP) -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:06:37 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> Thanks for the clearing my concept. >> however i read some of the part via google that there is a file >> /etc/network/iptables in Debian from where all the startup scripts run >>

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Ellwood Blues
2012/4/26 James Allsopp : > Hello, > I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at all > costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? > > Thanks > James > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 04:56:16PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > James Allsopp writes: > > I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at > > all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? > > Hmm, can't you just run it in "compability" mode or whatever it's > called...

Re: What kind of digital video camera

2012-04-27 Thread Augustin
Allan and Keith, Thank you very much to both for your comments. (of course, I welcome complementary comments from others...) I will take what you write into consideration; I will research more some of the aspects you mention. And I'll come back here if I have more specific questions. Thanks f

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-27 Thread Joe
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:06:37 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks for the clearing my concept. > however i read some of the part via google that there is a file > /etc/network/iptables in Debian from where all the startup scripts run > for FW . may be i didnt got the correct idea out of it.

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-04-27 Thread Miles Bader
James Allsopp writes: > I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at > all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully? Hmm, can't you just run it in "compability" mode or whatever it's called...? [if you want to avoid gnome-shell... I don't see much obvious differen

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:13:28 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> i run this command >> >> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -d 8.8.4.4 -j MASQUERADE >> >> my client computers able to ping 8.8.4.4 >> >> but  when i "iptables --flush -t nat"