Re: aptitude and "Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security."

2007-07-25 Thread George Hein
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi George. Are you talking about debian-multimedia.org? If, did you install their keyring package? YUP. Thanks, I thought it might be this, but my SID environment where I had this included failed completely after an apt or synaptic upgrade twice (in between did a re

Re: aptitude and "Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security."

2007-07-24 Thread George Hein
How about doing the obvious and searching for that warning? You’ll learn about Secure Apt and PGP keys. I did this and am did not find the correct answer. Long ago I installed debian-archive-keyring via synaptic, this solved all problems then, but lately I added another archive to pick up

Re: Xorg crashes when playing video with totem?

2007-06-25 Thread George Hein
Carl Fink wrote: Is anyone else experiencing occasional Xorg crashes when totem is running? I've had six, all of them while totem-xine is playing video. I read the list, no need for personal answers. Thanks. Try XINE, I have had trouble with totem not in crashing but in ability to play vide

Re: dvd + xine = 100% CPU?

2007-03-19 Thread George Hein
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I play .avi files with xine and get about 17% CPU usage with them. I play a DVD with xine and the CPU shoots up to 97% and xine complains about missing frames. No problem with newer PC's. A three years ago xine worked well on a thinkpad 600e (predecessor to T20),

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-16 Thread George Hein
I have done this for a couple of years on two separate laptops, mixing RedHat and Mandriva. Even recently I sucessfully tried a kernel from RIP (mini-distribution) on a Debian. However, lately there has not been much of a need. More likely than not it will not work due to the mix of libraries

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

2007-03-01 Thread George Hein
Two years ago I ripped all my CD's to 4GB .ogg for my laptop. I backed all this to a single DVD. All classical music and operas. Recently, did it again to highest fidelity using ogg onto a 500GB-HD. Then I backed this up on 5 double layer DVD's. I did not need tar as I had no problems with

Re: etch no wifi with ipw2200

2007-02-23 Thread George Hein
Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to setup a wifi connection on Etch. The wifi network card is an intle pro and the ipw2200 module is installed correctly (I can see it in lsmod) I originally got the firmware (fw) from Intel website, but recently found something on Debian using apt

Re: Apt-get install to alternate directory

2006-12-27 Thread George Hein
you could also chroot into /target and run apt from inside the chroot. I tried the chroot apt-get and it does work partially. Some updates appear to run, but others, especially the kernel and initrd.img fail to start/complete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: hibernate desktop?

2006-09-13 Thread George Hein
Both IBM-Aptiva desktops I have/had suspend to ram very well on several Linux distributions: old-mandrake, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse. A year old IBM-NetVista will not on any distributions: Debian-test/sid, Ubuntu, Suse. I never got suspend>disk to work on any desktops. Havn't tried suspend2 late

Re: IBM A21m thinkpad power management

2006-08-20 Thread George Hein
Any suggestions besides buying another notebook? My ThinkPad-T42 with Debian: susp>ram works well, susp>disk suspends but does not resume. The wireless requires firmware from Intel, otherwise Debian-test and Debian-sid are excellent and my favorites. With Suse and Ubuntu everything works "

Re: Ogg Vorbis 2 for xine or mplayer?

2006-08-12 Thread George Hein
Carl Fink wrote: I've got an AVI video here that has Ogg Vorbis audio (0x6770) which can't be played by any of totem, avifile-player, mplayer, or xine-ui. I would have thought that Free players would support a Free codec. There is another vid-aud-player which I tried "VLC" which worked for me.

Re: IPTables Location

2006-06-30 Thread George Hein
Johnno wrote: Hello All, I have just install debian, but can't find the location where the IPTable routines are loaded on bootup.. I wrote my own script, /etc/init.d/local with a symlink in /etc/rcS.d/S99local. I read somewhere where this is the way to do it for Debian. Previously (and stil

Re: [OT] Installing Damn Small Linux on a USB key

2006-06-11 Thread George Hein
After viewing instructions for DSL and RIP (RecoveryIsPossible) I installed RIP onto a USB-hardisk on a FAT partition. It took two or three attempts to do it. The RIP instructions may or may not be useful for you. Initially I tried to boot a full Debian and full Suse as well from there and

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-22 Thread George Hein
I am a bit crazy about partitions and keep changing them, about twice a year, my wife won't generally let me near her PC. I saw somewhere that data at end/center of disk has slower I/O so I put hdx4 there with a bootable Linux-fix-RIP partition containing all backup data, I keep this to about

Re: "Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG" stopped working in Linux 2.6.16.5...

2006-05-17 Thread George Hein
Fawad Nazir wrote: Hi All, I am running, Ubuntu 5.10 and Linux v2.6.16.5. I just upgraded my Linux kernel and my "Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG" stopped working. I previously did some upgrade and required an upgrade of the firmware from intel before I could get my 2200 working on my ThinkPa

HOWTO: setup full Debian on USB and boot from there, problems solved

2006-05-14 Thread George Hein
BOOT DEBIAN on and from a USB-harddisk. How I did it. Only newer computers allow this. I used a ThinkPad-T42, sometimes with original harddisk in DVD/CD bay. This will not work with 600e, T20, 240 or 240x thinkpads, too old. Several months ago, DSL(DamnSmallLinux) and RIP(RecoveryIsPossible) mi

Re: thinkpad suspend/resume woes

2006-05-09 Thread George Hein
No problems with suspend->ram with Debian: stable,test,sid for the last 12 months with T20, 240, 240X and T42. No adds to Grub. Suse 9.3 and 10.0 works well also, and in addition, suspend->disk works even by closing lid, this on the T42. I am very satisfied with Suse but I still prefer using

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

2006-05-06 Thread George Hein
I have done it often, and even the entire partition, BUT: On Debian now you should always use the same partition number as the initrd.img has been set (at install by mkinitrd.yaird) to the partition listed in /etc/fstab. This is something new with Debian, and I have never encounted this probl

Re: Etch on USB-HD wont boot - race condition?

2006-05-02 Thread George Hein
Kai Olsen wrote: Hi list. I'm trying to get etch to boot from an USB-attached harddisk on my notebook but the kernel cannot find the root filesystem. It seems to me, that udev hasn't finished its job by the time the kernel wants to read from the disk so /dev/sda isn't defined yet. Any ideas

Re: Problem with sound in Debian Unstable?

2006-03-20 Thread George Hein
Robert Harris wrote: As of Friday I lost sound on my IBM R50 after I did a dist-upgrade. All the drivers load, alsaconf detects the intel chipset correctly and the modules load. Even the alsamixer looks correct, nothing is muted. No sound other than speaker beeps (^G) though. There is a prob

Re: maximize an xterm

2006-01-29 Thread George Hein
debian wrote: Please, how can I send the xterm I am working in a signal to maximize itself, or minimize itself ? In ICEWM there is a file called preferences. I use alt-f10 expand vertically, alt-f11 for full screen. In GNOME and KDE there are preferences that can be set to do the same, so

Re: grub master boot record problem

2006-01-23 Thread George Hein
Mike wrote: Bear with me on this one... I have 3 hard drives, hda is a ntfs drive for extra space on windows, hdb is supposed to be a debian etch drive... And the kicker, sda is the windows drive with the master boot record. When I install debian testing it see's windows on sda but installs th