Re: mouse speed too fast

2011-04-03 Thread Chance Platt
On 04/03/2011 09:04 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: Chance Platt writes: On 04/03/2011 05:58 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: I've tried using xset to change the sensitivity, but I have only succeeded in making it even faster (for instance, using xset m 10 0). My attempts to slow the mouse down (xset m

Re: mouse speed too fast

2011-04-03 Thread Chance Platt
On 04/03/2011 05:58 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian testing with Fluxbox for my window manager. I've just bought a new optical mouse, and it's so sensitive that it's very difficult to select small bits of text. I've tried using xset to change the sensitivity, but I have only succeed

Re: CDROM burning problem - new approach

2010-12-28 Thread Chance Platt
On 12/28/2010 05:26 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Since I have two DVD/CD rewritable drive units in two different boxes, it occurred to me to swap the two and see what would happen. Here is the result: k...@sol:~/downloads$ wodim -v speed=2 dev=/dev/hda ... wodim: fifo had 10699 puts and 10699 gets.

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-22 Thread Chance Platt
On 12/22/2010 01:51 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, ... Doing something like this: gnash -u http://example.domain.com/flashfile.swf or flashfile.flv etc ... Looks like youtube-dl would do this. It does, but it is not available pre-packaged in Lenny. You can get youtube-d

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Chance Platt
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chance Platt wrote: Loris Boillet wrote: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. It looks like debtree can&#x

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-11 Thread Chance Platt
Loris Boillet wrote: Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words, packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. It looks like debtree can't do it for instance. deborphan --all-packages --

Re: video card reccomendation

2010-09-27 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 23:51 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and a

Re: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

2010-09-22 Thread Chance Platt
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 16:11 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > h...@debian:~$ dmesg | grep -i eth > [1.181349] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) > [1.229553] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 > [1.231041] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x3000, 00:0a:e4:eb:04:59, IRQ 20 >

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

2010-08-27 Thread Chance Platt
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 07:23 -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I have to say I'm getting confused. I'm in the middle of setting up > my first Debian server (which used to be Ubuntu). > > I will be administering it remotely and would like to use the best > tool for the job. > > Now I read conflicting o

Re: Question about Intel chipset

2010-08-23 Thread Chance Platt
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:14:39 +0400 Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:07:36 +0400, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > > > > > Recently I decided to build cheap desktop computer, but I'm stuck > > > with choosing the motherboard. >

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-16 Thread Chance Platt
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,16.Mar.10, 00:36:27, Chance Platt wrote: aptitude install hal udev linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 Your computer has to be running the more current kernel before udev updates .. reboot into the newer kernel and finish (aptitude full-upgrade). ...but the new kernel

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-15 Thread Chance Platt
Marc Shapiro wrote: If there is a better place to ask this question, please let me know. I am running Lenny on my desktop and would prefer to run Debian on the eee, as well. So I found EeePC/HowTo/Install on the wiki and used the custom installer to install Lenny, as was suggested. The wiki

Re: Installer problem

2010-03-11 Thread Chance Platt
Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:26 -0500 (EST), Chance Platt wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:04:21 -0500 (EST), Richard Hector wrote: And I see there's actually already a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501723 So I guess

Re: Installer problem

2010-03-11 Thread Chance Platt
Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:04:21 -0500 (EST), Richard Hector wrote: And I see there's actually already a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501723 So I guess I'll leave it at that. I looked at the bug report. What a hoot! Did you read the title?

Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?

2010-03-09 Thread Chance Platt
Dotan Cohen wrote: I'd say he's facing a very strange and uncommon situation. I've never seen that before, as I told you. And from the other user's comments I think neither they have. The thing is, I wonder just how uncommon it is! Would thinks of these things? It would not surprise me to learn

Re: Squeeze, Java script in Iceweasel

2010-02-09 Thread Chance Platt
Curt Howland wrote: Good evening, all. Just putting together a Squeeze laptop (network hardware needs very recent kernel) and I simply cannot get Java to run in Iceweasel (or Konqueror, but I expect that). Java is a little broken in Squeeze at the moment. One fix.. In file: /etc/sysctl

Re: Plz suggest the kernels that can be used in GNU

2010-02-06 Thread Chance Platt
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Hi Maybe you should ask on a gnu.org-list or something? I think Debian also has hurd packages and maybe bsd, but you'll have to hack google for the answers. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail Debian

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Chance Platt
Kent West wrote: I have a Sid box with a wireless PCI card. Somehow or 'nuther I got it working last year. Last week the power supply died, and rather than scrounge up another, I just moved the hard drive and wireless card to another computer. I'm doing the work on the computer in a different lo

Re: eth0 or eth1

2010-01-28 Thread Chance Platt
T o n g wrote: Hi, One of My Debian has eth1 as the Ethernet card, while all others use eth0. There are only one Ethernet card in each system. Why the different? How can I have consistent 'eth0' throughout all systems? Thanks Is there more than one NIC in your system? If not, delete the

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-01 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 18:23 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:44 -0600, Chance Platt wrote: > > > The feeling of responsiveness on the desktop... but more how > > quickly the menus snap down and their dialogs to appear. For these > > kinds of things, th

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-01 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:12 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > B.Hoffmann wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:09 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >>I imagine the performance gain will probably be negligible on a desktop > >>at home, or are there other benefits like better media support?

Re: "free" shows only 4GB out of the 8GB of memory on the system

2006-03-27 Thread Chance Platt
... > PAE (Physical Address Extension) enabled (which it is). But before a final > decision is to be made by my supervisor Holy cow man! You need supervisor approval to recompile a kernel? I'm sorry. > Cheers, > -Glen > > > -

Re: Resolution problems with monitor

2006-03-26 Thread Chance Platt
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:19 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Hello! > > I am using Sarge and my monitor is not giving better resoultion than > 640x480. I have tried all the suggestions given in the on various > websites and wikis in this regard, but none of them worked. I have an > IBM E50 monitor an

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp update

2006-03-24 Thread Chance Platt
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 04:28 +, Ramsay D. Seielstad wrote: >Greetings all, seems the kernel-images have recently been updated and > I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm running an IBM dual xeon 2.4 ghz > system on the stock kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp with no problems. > >Now kernel-ima

Re: i want spam

2006-03-19 Thread Chance Platt
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 08:01 -0800, Hex Star wrote: > Well by her signing up to this list and posting to it, since her > address isn't obfuscated in the archives she's now one step closer to > getting spam ;-) :P...and if she really wants spam, she can google my > email address and sign up for the s

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-12 Thread Chance Platt
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:43 +1100, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > >Dear Users, > >I would like your suggestion of a Sarge install on a low memory > >system. The system actually has a 750 Mhz P-III, and 56 MB RAM (+ 8 MB > >VRAM, I hear). Now, I would like to install

Re: REPOST: DSL/Networking Help

2006-03-12 Thread Chance Platt
You don't specify how you will be using the wireless adapter -- PCI in a desktop, pcmcia, (?). At any rate, this first link is pcmcia-only, and was updated last just after linux-2.6.8 was released (the kernel used in Sarge): http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS This page has a *

Configuring DSL modem (pppoe)

2006-03-11 Thread Chance Platt
Hello all I'm attempting to "properly" set up my DSL modem. I've run pppoeconf, accepted most of the defaults but set up the username and password, and it brought up my connection. When I reboot, I see the following after my debian box attempts to initially configure the interfaces: > Don't se