Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Nick Lidakis
s. keeling wrote: No, I think he was serious, and I agree with him. Do you want your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked? Especially in this nvidia crazed age? Can you elaborate on that statement? I ask because of my utter frustration with my NVIDIA card lately, as Ron

Re: nVidia binary on 2.6.26 [was: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid]

2008-08-05 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: Where is the beta? Stable is at: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86 You can also find it in updated sticky posts at the official Nvidia Linux forum: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
gary turner wrote: It's a little late now, but why would you choose a class A amp over a class B or AB push-pull amp? Input to the finals approaches zero in class B with no input signal. Back in the day, when I had more of a clue about these things, I found the B or more usually the AB (just

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Timo Boettcher wrote: Why did you use the 3c2 that is intended as a router, but not the 1c [1]? It has vga, network, usb, and even sound onboard (spdif, too, if you are willing to build an adapter yourself [2]). Be careful with the PCI-slot of the alix1c though, it doesn't provide +12V/-12V, so m

Re: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Nick Lidakis
Stackpole, Chris wrote: I am not very knowledgeable on this subject, but I have a few questions if you don't mind. I am rolling my own entertainment system and learning a lot as I do. So I have heard terms and of products but I am a far cry from expert on them. :-D The comments are interspersed

Re: [FIXED] Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-20 Thread Nick Lidakis
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/08 14:01, Kelly Clowers wrote: [snip] Personally, I prefer Adobe's Flash 10 beta. It seems to have smoother playback and some report lower cpu us

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel 3: agony of the snail

2008-07-20 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: Most of you will yawn, and think, "there he goes again", but this why I don't like display managers. Can you elaborate? With a display manager one cannot kill X to make new changes, like the aforementioned libraries, to take effect? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-19 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: - Mark it [OT] and post away! Thanks... Just thought someone could benefit from this application, or I could receive some constructive criticism on some of choices I had made. I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server since early last year f

Posting to list about a project completed w/ Debian software is OT or not?

2008-07-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is it too off topic to post about a project completed with Debian software? I don't have any specific problems with the solution I have put together, but thought I would share and would like some constructive criticism in regards to the way I integrated the software together. Figure I would as

Re: Supported hardware

2008-07-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
Stefan Neacsu wrote: Hello! I recently tried to install the latest stable debian version on a Asus A7k laptop, but the installer fails to identify my hard drive. Here is the configuration: CPU: AMD Turion 64 x2 TL60 Video: Ati Radeon HD 2600 RAM: 2048 HDD: Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 SATA 250 GB WLAN

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: > You can use a userContent style sheet to do that. Add this line * { background-image: none ! important; } to the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default/chrome/userContent.css Thanks for that. It seemd to have mostly fixed the sluggishness on the page (http://www.

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: > A y2k-vintage Gateway VX1120 (Hitachi Diamondtron flat-screen CRT) at 1280x1024 with GNOME & Metacity. (I see no reason to waste resources on eye candy.) Would you mind posting your xorg.conf? I have tried EXA and XAA options to no avail. My desktop is a minimal Openbox a

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
John Hasler wrote: Brian writes: I would argue that this is a problem with Firefox, not whatever video driver you're using. I've noticed that fixed background images really cause Firefox to choke, especially with smooth scrolling enabled That would explain why it works fine for me. I use smoo

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
H.S. wrote: . Slows mine too. Mozzila Iceape browser 1.1.9-5, Debian Testing, 1.9 GHz Pentium, 1.25 G RAM and using Nvidia driver from Unstable repositories of Debian. I'm running unstable as well with its current driver: 173.14.09 I'm running one DVI panel (IBM L200P) at its native 1600x12

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: The "inner" scroll region? No sluggishness or slowdown. Noticeable CPU usage by /usr/bin/X11/X when I rapidly jerk the scroll bar up and down, but that's normal. Are ya using the NV or Nvidia driver? Sorry. The

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: I went to that page, but all I saw was a relatively simple web forum. NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE Iceweasel 3.0-rc2 What about scrolling through the posts? And sluggishness? Are ya using the NV or Nvidia driver? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Frank McCormick wrote: Hummn.Tried both sites and they work well on my machine - the shame site does tend to drive up the cpu needle. Would you (or anyone else, especially if you're using and Intel or NVIDIA driver) mind trying this site? http://www.tempus-vivit.net/taverne/thema/935 Thi

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Frank McCormick wrote: Thanks Brian, but I think I am gonna get myself an Nvidia-based card :) The NVIDIA card might not be any better. I have issues, with the proprietary drivers, with slow scrolling using either a Quadro NVS 285 or a GTX 7800 on a 1600x1200 DVI panel. The open source dri

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-28 Thread Nick Lidakis
oneman wrote: On 28-jun-2008, at 18:30, Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a mini case with a VIA motherboard and CPU. It has an on-board ethernet port. I'd like to use it as a Linux firewall/NAT router to replace the (wired only) LinkSys I have now. It only has one PCI slot, but I want to be abl

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Nick Lidakis
David wrote: Here is a summary of my PC usage: 1) Turn on home PC briefly to check e-mail etc, before going to work, then shut down. 2) Back from work, turn it on for the evening, and off again before going to bed. The PC is near my bed, I don't like to have the noisy fans etc going while I'm

Re: iceweasel crashing on bmw site

2008-06-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
thveillon.debian wrote: Ron Johnson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/08 08:24, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hi, is there a way of viewing www.bmw-web.tv without having iceweasel crash? I will report a bug, if these crashes get reproduced by others. Insuffici

Re: What packages has aptitude installed on my server?

2008-05-30 Thread Nick Lidakis
Kelly Jones wrote: I often do "aptitude install package" to install a package. Cow can I get a list of all the packages I've installed this way? Looking at /var/cache/apt/archives seems like a kludge? dpkg -l | less -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: problems with mrxvt

2008-01-13 Thread Nick Lidakis
Micha wrote: for some reason it's redicoulously slugish to resize on my machine (core 2 duo 2Ghz, so it's not a cpu issue and with xfce4 desktop so it shouldn't be a desktop issue). Up to a point that it can lock the machine if I try to maximize/minimize it too many times (without realizing tha

OT: USB to Ethernet adapter in Debian, but in reverse configuration?

2008-01-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Using Google, I have found multiple USB to Ethernet adapters that work well with the Linux kernel. From what I understand the devices are designed for computers without network cards. Can these adapters be used in reverse with Debian? Can I send FLAC files over the ethernet cable that has the

Re: intall nvidia driver on debian lenny

2007-10-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Bogdan Marian wrote: Hello. Yes, it was running with the free version of the driver. I can successfully start if i change the Driver section to "nv" from "nvidia". In fact, that's how i'm able to send you this mail. I had a similar problem once; realized I forgot to do "apt-get install n

Re: k3b crashing when track added for audio cd

2007-10-14 Thread Nick Lidakis
H.S. wrote: I did run it from the command line to see what was going wrong. Didn't get much info through. The debug errors within k3b say something about no permission to use the device. Can any ones else using Testing confirm that he can make an audio cd from a flac file on a fully updated sy

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Kevin Mark wrote: Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. Insulting folks about background, sexual orientation, or language IN ONE POST is beyond the pale. While folks here ocasssionaly make slight taunts or comments at one another, it is expected that newcomers r

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Oleg Verych wrote: 27-09-2007, Nick Lidakis: Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first sent it this morning. Oh, man, are you serious? First. No one interested in you prev. email sending failures, right. Because this is a noise, not information. No one

Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sending this again as it did not seem to get to the list when I first sent it this morning. I am need of some help with a USB device under Debian; trying last night multiple times to no avail. I have a Dallas Semiconductor Thermochron temperature data logger that I am trying to set. The data lo

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sid Arth wrote: Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and what do you mean by trimming? Ill try to fix it myself if I can. On 9/26/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: or any other email clien

Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-06-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Orestes leal wrote: Hi Folks, I want that some of the members of the group comments something about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like Doom3, etc in linux with a performance closely like win32 and Dir

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-06-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Any ideas? I am not even allowed to move or delete the file via the shell. You have a corrupted filesystem. Suggest going to single user mode and fscking

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-30 Thread Nick Lidakis
Joey Hess wrote: nick lidakis wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sed ... dpkg: error processing

sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-21 Thread nick lidakis
I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sed ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb (

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-04-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
Wayne Topa wrote: Last try 1. cd /usr/src/linux less .config Post the section starting with # # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # # # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_PM_LEGACY=y # CONFIG_PM_DEBUG is not set # # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Inter

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Lidakis wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.20 from kernel.org. These are my options in either kernel: The stock 2.6.18-4-686 kernel has it enabled, but the 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem doesn't have it at all (not eve

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Stefan Monnier wrote: No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.20 from kernel.org. These are my options in either kernel: The stock 2.6.18-4-686 kernel has it enabled, but the 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem doesn't have it at all (not even disabled). Maybe that can help you,

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Lidakis wrote: I posted clearly that those options were not available and even copied over the menuconfig screen in my previous post. So, you telling me that the options are there helps me little. What I am asking (and, yes, I did try Google) is: I'm I misconfiguring the kernel c

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Wayne Topa wrote: Nick Lidakis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Celejar wrote: In 2.6.18, it's under 'Power Management Options'. Check 'Software Suspend'. Celejar No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Celejar wrote: Well, like many kernel options, it does depend on other things. For example, if swap (General Setup / support for paging anonymous memory (swap)) isn't enabled, you won't get an option for software suspend. >From 'kernel/power/Kconfig': config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND bool "S

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Celejar wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:29:40 -0400 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on one

CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on one detail: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y. I can not find this kernel option anywhere when attempting to confi

xine, mplayer or any media player segfaults

2006-12-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
As of a couple of days ago, any media player that I try on my Debian Sid box segfaults, no matter what video file format. Same goes after installing VLC. After doing a search, I think I might want to use a program called strace to try to figure out what's going on. I have to admit that I am t

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:26:31AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long do they sustain operation if the power fails? -- hendrik It all depends on how power hungry your machine is. LCD is more efficient than

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-08-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: O Is this still about the problem with gtkwifi? What you posted initially showed that there was an issue with the post-removal script. The contents of other files in /var/lib/dpkg/ should not have anything to do with that. It is not not a good idea to just randomly delete f

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:19:37AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. I'm insinuating that *I* don't have my beloved box plugged into a high quality APC UPS? -- hendrik Is that a statement? You do have question m

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-19 Thread Nick Lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. I'm insinuating that *I* don't have my beloved box plugged into a high quality APC UPS? -- hendrik Is that a statement? You do have question mark at the end of the sentence. Too bad. You can get a name brand UPS for about 35.00 USD these days. Nick -- To U

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:05:03PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: ??? -- This does not work for updating a BIOS. is for bypassing all those bootsectors... Greetings Michelle Konzack Right. You burn the BIOS update file --and

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
Michelle Konzack wrote: ??? -- This does not work for updating a BIOS. is for bypassing all those bootsectors... Greetings Michelle Konzack Right. You burn the BIOS update file --and maybe another file or two, don't quite remember-- to a CD ROM, pop that in your drive, hit F8, pick

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-08-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
shell wrote: Looks like there has something wrong in ur globel deb database. Maybe remove it from /var/lib/dpkg/ menually and reinstall will fix it. Otherwise, u can also check if u can access all directory dev package need. There are several files in that directory. I can't seem to figure

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 30 July 2006 00:17, Nick Lidakis wrote: There was no old package. The .deb was downloaded (Sourceforge?) from a site to be used with Debian Sid, which I am running. Something happened when I tried to install it; can't remember the original error message. So

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... Aha! and when trying to remove: dpkg: error processing gtkwifi (--purge

Re: Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:07:20PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When t

Stuck with dpkg: can neither remove nor reinstall a package

2006-07-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When trying to reinstall via dpk it keeps complaining: "The package gtkwifi needs to be reinst

Re: Fluxbox + Firefox slow

2006-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
bob hole wrote: Firefox and fluxbox is working great for me,I'm using the latest fluxbox. Would you care to elaborate as to the type of hardware, kernel, branch of Debian you are using? Nick (sorry for the accidental CC) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Fluxbox + Firefox slow

2006-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
bob hole wrote: Firefox and fluxbox is working great for me,I'm using the latest fluxbox. Would you care to elaborate as to the type of hardware, kernel, branch of Debian you are using? Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Fluxbox + Firefox slow

2006-07-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Wright wrote: I use fluxbox as my window manager. Its pretty sweet for most stuff -- light and fast. However when scrolling around in firefox the system is brought to its knees (CPU load spikes to 80-90%). This also happens quite a bit when altering the focus between firefox and other window

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Liam O'Toole wrote: You have two choices: 1. Keep your copy of ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (which looks like it was written by the theme switcher) and put further customisations in ~/.gtkrc.mine 2. Replace the contents of ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the following: gtk-theme-name="Clearlooks_Cairo-Breathe"

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-03 Thread Nick Lidakis
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:46:39 -0400 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons that Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that

changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-02 Thread Nick Lidakis
I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons that Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that matter, e.g. Abiword) is using. It seems to using the the stock gnome icons I have installed. I don't have Gnome or Xfce

Re: google earth and sid...

2006-06-13 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: hello i can't get the brand new google earth for linux (R) (C) (TM) working. installation is OK but i get this : $ googleearth : [splashscreen] Segmentation error has anyone solved this ? -- Nicoco Works fine here on my unstable box with kernel 2.6.15. Using an NVIDIA

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-08 Thread nick lidakis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:33:51AM -0400, nick lidakis wrote: In comparison, my Asus A8N-SLI Premium board can be updated just as you described: from just burning a CD-ROM with the latest BIOS. All this before loading the OS. Not only that, but hitting F8 gives you

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-06-08 Thread nick lidakis
Michelle Konzack wrote: MSI is crap... I prefer a Bullet-Proof Tyan!!! Greetings Michelle Konzack I prefer Tyan also, but with the latest Tyan Tomcat K8E I purchased, you still need a DOS floppy to do a BIOS upgrade. What is up with that? I did manage to Google some esoteric instr

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-06-01 Thread nick lidakis
Dmitri Minaev wrote: I am afraid that nothing can be done to recover this installation. You still can try to recover some of your data. If your partition table is damaged, you may find TestDisk useful. See: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk TestDisk has helped me to recover my data when I

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
Kilian wrote: nick lidakis wrote: I was having trouble with my monowall router running off a compact flash. I decide to reinstall the monowall boot image onto the CF card. In the process I must have mistyped and accidentally wrote the image to my boot partition i.e. /dev/sda1. The machine

Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
I was having trouble with my monowall router running off a compact flash. I decide to reinstall the monowall boot image onto the CF card. In the process I must have mistyped and accidentally wrote the image to my boot partition i.e. /dev/sda1. The machine now boots into monowall instead of Gru

strange whiteglass cursor behaviour in Xorg with mozilla & thunderbird

2006-05-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
I will do my best to describe the problem (feature?) I witness when using the whiteglass cursor theme under Xorg. I have been using the the whiteglass cursor since it first became available (Xfree 4.0?) in Debian unstable, but have always noticed one annoying aspect: When using the whiteglass c

No network on Tyan K8E S2865ANRF with Broadcom BCM5721 GbE controller and Debian 2.6.15

2006-04-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
A recently purchased, and transition to, Tyan K8E S2865ANRF (single on boardNIC) socket 939 motherbaord has gone well except for getting the Broadcom BSM5721 NIC to work. The kernel module that should support this NIC is the tg3 module. The kernel compiles fine, and I can modprobe the module,

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:50:43 -0400, nick lidakis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: I get the same error message, but X still starts for me, both with "startx" from the console and with graphical log-in via kdm. Therefore I would guess that you have an

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread nick lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: I get the same error message, but X still starts for me, both with "startx" from the console and with graphical log-in via kdm. Therefore I would guess that you have an additional problem. Do you find any error messages or warnings in the log files after you try to start X?

Re: Oh where, oh where has my whiteglass cursor gone??

2006-04-13 Thread Nick Lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: After a dist-upgrade today I was happy to see Xorg 7.0 installed on my sid box. After restarting X though, my whiteglass cursor has left me. Checking /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme [Icon Theme] Inherits=whiteglass This was the file I initally edited to

Oh where, oh where has my whiteglass cursor gone??

2006-04-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
After a dist-upgrade today I was happy to see Xorg 7.0 installed on my sid box. After restarting X though, my whiteglass cursor has left me. Checking /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme [Icon Theme] Inherits=whiteglass This was the file I initally edited to get whiteglass running. But still no whiteg

Re: macromedia flash plugin for firefox?

2006-04-02 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:22 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Sridhar M.A. wrote: Put this in your sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main Adjust for sid or testing as to your system needs. # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree You'l

Re: macromedia flash plugin for firefox?

2006-04-02 Thread Nick Lidakis
Sridhar M.A. wrote: Put this in your sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main Adjust for sid or testing as to your system needs. # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree You'll get flashplugin-nonfree 7.0.63.1 that works perfectly. It doesn't work perfectly for me. Eith

Re: how to pick fresh fruit.

2006-03-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Hugo Jackson wrote: i know this is not a debian specific question, but when choosing melons should i go by size or feel? thanks. Your asking about melons on the Debian mailing list? I think I know why. You are afraid of Debian. You want answers? You want the truth? You can't handle the trut

Trying to fix sound after suspend to disk on dektop.

2006-02-18 Thread Nick Lidakis
I'm running Debian Sid kernel 2.6.15 on an Asus A8V deluxe and a Sound Blaster Live value PCI card, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, and Athlon 3500+. After getting the stock kernel's suspend to disk working via echo -n disk > /sys/power/state, I have been using that mechanism instead of shutting down the

Re: nforce4 PATA support?

2005-08-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nicos Gollan wrote: Hi, after some research, I ordered a MSI Neo4 Platinum Mainboard, which uses the nforce 4 chipset. Until today, I was fairly confident that I could get the planned configuration to run, but just now I'm not so sure anymore. Each and every writeup I found so far on the 'n

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
Rogério Brito wrote: Indeed. One thing that has puzzled me is that scrolling in www.macslash.org is simply *slow* on my system while I am using Debian. On the other hand, when I boot Windows 2000 SP4 on this very same machine, I have no problems with slow scrolling on that site. I wouldn't eve

Dallas Semiconductor Thermochron iButtons and tempature logging with Debian/Linux

2004-12-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is there anybody on the list using or experimenting with Dallas Semiconductor IButtons? I recently ordered the DS9490B 1 wire USB bridge and a DS1921G-F5 Thermocron temperature logger. I am going to use the device to log temperatures throughout the duration of a few backpacking trips, with atten

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
Otto Wyss wrote: Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 'ello Otto On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:44:59PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's in the xfce4-mcs-plugins package. You might need the gtk2-engines-xfce package too. I have it inst

Re: xcdroast and 2.6.9 in Debian

2004-11-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roy Pluschke wrote: There appears to be a problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 kernels and cdrecord. This problem is well documented -- see for example: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3644 You either have to apply a patch or burn cd's as root. Some people are also having trouble burning audio cd's whe

Re: Enhancing video

2004-11-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: That's right: MX-440 + Nvidia driver 1120.200 FPS TNT2 - 440.800 FPS Running 2 cards with two monitors, two kbds, two mice for two users, and 2 X servers from Sarge and the Nvidia driver. Hugo May I ask if that video card has a fan or if it's of the silent heatsink only

Re: debian based dtstro that's designed for flash USB sticks > 64Mb

2004-07-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi, may be you can start here: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/index.html hth, Jerome Nick Lidakis wrote: Have been searching on Google and on linux.org for a debain based linux distribution that is bootable from usb flash memory but will also allow you to apt

debian based dtstro that's designed for flash USB sticks > 64Mb

2004-07-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Have been searching on Google and on linux.org for a debain based linux distribution that is bootable from usb flash memory but will also allow you to apt-get pacgakes and install on the USB media as needed. I will be using with a 256MB flash key. Most of the distros I have found on google f

Recommendations on SCSI controller for Debian desktop

2004-07-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
I was looking into replacing the hard disk on my debian box with a 36GB 15k Fujitsu SCSI disk. I was hoping that by doing this I would be able to reduce boot times and increase system responsiveness. I would like to hear about people's experience with SCSI disk on the desktop, and hope they co

3ware escalade 8006 SATA RAID recommendations; dual boot windows

2004-06-09 Thread Nick Lidakis
I have been meaning to upgrade my hard disk setup to a RAID array 0 to help increase system responsiveness and reduce system applications start up times. After some research using google, it seems that the 3ware escalade line of RAID SATA cards, specifically the 8006-2LP 2 port RAID card, fit t

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: If you start out with your root FS on one device and later move it to another device, basically what you are doing, there are two things you need to do: 1. Tell the (new) kernel about the change 2. Update /etc/fstab. I'll elaborate a bit on #1. If you have booted 2.4.25 an

Re: USB camera is not recognised as a SCSI device

2004-04-23 Thread Nick Lidakis
Tom Peters wrote: Following the HOWTO's I try to mount my digital USB camera in the following way: sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device May I ask what type of media your digital camera is using, and is it removable? I ask this because I has trouble m

cdrom, kernel 2.6 and ripping audio cd's

2004-04-08 Thread Nick Lidakis
Under kernel 2.4, I was using scsi emulation for the dvd-rom and cd burner and USB mass storage on my sid . Scsi emulation worked fine as a normal user. I'm a member of the following groups: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups nick cdrom audio src video After switching over to kernel 2.6.4 with ATAPI C

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: [SNIP] Updating mozilla chrome registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-chrome: line 68: une xpected EOF while looking for matching

Re: dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4

dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives.

dpkg EOF mozilla error after dselect install

2004-03-11 Thread Nick Lidakis
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install: marvin:/home/nick# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0

Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?

2004-03-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
Number Six wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:38:52PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: Thanks for the excellent information, adding the list back in as they would also like to know. One thing I just noticed is mplayer is using the "x11" -vo device even though in debconf I specified &q

[Fwd: Re: ATI drivers 3.7.0 for XFree 4.3 *just now* released?!?]

2004-03-06 Thread Nick Lidakis
--- Begin Message --- Number Six wrote: What am I not getting? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/06/1436223&mode=nested http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html The release date for 3.7.0 on the ATI site is 3/2/04. But the fglrx-4.3.0-*_3.7.0-3_i386.deb .debs I download

Re: Broken system libgcc_s.so.1 errors after ungraceful shutdown

2004-02-25 Thread Nick Lidakis
Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:29:45PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: find / -name libgcc_s.so.1 tells me that rit esides in /lib on my desktop machine, would it be safe to copy it over to the laptop? If it's the exact same version as should be on the laptop, I'd guess

Re: Broken system libgcc_s.so.1 errors after ungraceful shutdown

2004-02-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Lidakis wrote: I seem to have broken my debian unstable. I completed a apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade on Saturday to install Xfree 4.3. Everything installed fine, but the power to the laptop was interrupted accidentally and I didn't get a chance to power up the mach

Broken system libgcc_s.so.1 errors after ungraceful shutdown

2004-02-23 Thread Nick Lidakis
I seem to have broken my debian unstable. I completed a apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade on Saturday to install Xfree 4.3. Everything installed fine, but the power to the laptop was interrupted accidentally and I didn't get a chance to power up the machine until today. I keep getting erro

Debian and ACPI: success stories on the desktop?

2004-02-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is there anyone on the list who has had success using ACPI and suspend to RAM on a home desktop machine? If so, are the results consistent and reliable? I would like to have my debian box instantly available for searching the web, but would feel guilty to leave an electron guzzling p4 3ghz machi

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2003-12-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
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