Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-22 Thread seeker5528
See if this gets through, my WiFi got flaky, which seems like it cause some issue with imap between Thunderbird and Comcast. Thunderbird claims the message was sent twice, but I never got a copy in my inbox. Here we go again, from the webmail this time. ;) On 3/22/2016 11:20 AM, Russell

Re: apt stuck at Reading database

2015-04-19 Thread seeker5528
//Is this still a work in progress? /From: Luis Finotti luis.fino...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:03:48 -0400 Message-id: CAMo809Whz_V=qvvypE2RBef3ZrAQm0f_x=m724pxjcopovo...@mail.gmail.com Dear all, I had a power failure while I was away and when I came back the boot

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-13 Thread seeker5528
On 12/12/2014 2:35 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 12.12.2014 06:13, seeker5528 a écrit : Personally I would prefer software X gets a poke in the arm and a message indicating network status changed, screen orientation changed, configuration changed here, there was an event

Re: making sound work in Jessie - how?

2014-12-13 Thread seeker5528
On 12/13/2014 3:43 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: What packages should I make sure are properly installed? Where can I find a check list of what needs to be done. While I'm typing this I realize I might need to become a member of a special access group, but what is the name of the group? These are

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-11 Thread seeker5528
On 12/10/2014 11:22 PM, Bret Busby wrote: I make the point that the term is a malapropism. Not that it is invalid. A car central computer, which performs functions like heating the seats, and, determining which seats are occupied, to illuminate seatbelt not fastened on seat position indicator,

Re: 9p/plumber to replace D-Bus?

2014-12-11 Thread seeker5528
On 12/11/2014 8:33 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.12.2014 18:59, Marty a écrit : If this proves feasible, that's what I hope to do. I just want to know if anyone thinks it's a good idea, before I commit time and resources. My knowledge of all of the issues is sketchy at

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-07 Thread seeker5528
On 12/07/2014 at 06:37 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Look, if you reboot a laptop instead of suspending/hibernating it, sooner or later you're going to have to think Hmm, it hasn't fscked for a while. It shouldn't be a surprise when it does. That brings up a whole different question about

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread seeker5528
On 12/6/2014 5:58 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Well, it is not as if fscks happen out of the blue. Either you weren't paying attention and you were hit with the periodic fsck, or you make a habit of doing dirty shutdowns, and you know the fsck is going to happen anyway. Assuming your

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread seeker5528
On 11/28/2014 6:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: I have a question along these lines: Years ago when we used computers, many people used one machine -- centrally administered. Nowadays one person uses many machines 1. Simply multiple hardware 2. Multiple OSes on the same h/w 3. Other more fancy

Re: XDG Standard is not evil

2014-11-28 Thread seeker5528
On 11/28/2014 10:27 PM, seeker5528 wrote: Pictures, music, etc... can all be kept on another partition, creating symlinks in your home directory within each installation in place of the real Documents, Pictures, etc... that would normally be there. As root you can do something like

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-26 Thread seeker5528
On 11/26/2014 6:04 PM, Serge wrote: Those XDG standards were created by X Desktop Group only to define unified directories for COMMON files of multiple X desktop environments, not for some rogue applications to hide their own private files. Each of files placed in those directories is

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread seeker5528
On 11/23/2014 9:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: What I see missing in these discussions is the vast number of people who don't monitor the lists. That is the huge majority of Debian users. Some will get a rude surprise when they upgrade and things don't work as expected. That's how it works

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-23 Thread seeker5528
On 11/23/2014 12:03 PM, Doug wrote: Yes, grub can boot Windows _just fine_ if Windows is bootable. Windows wants to be activated and I found that GParted's activation does not suffice.That's why I mentioned obtaining a program to activate Windows. If you only have one computer, you should get

Re: systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-23 Thread seeker5528
On 11/23/2014 1:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: We're not talking non-technical people here. We are talking companies with ITcd departments managing multiple servers and desktops. We are talking small companies who contract their IT services. We are talking individual users running their own

Re: replacing hard disk

2009-06-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:12:17 -0400 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy modified

Re: Recover data from formatted ext3 partition

2009-05-30 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:12:52 + Azhagu selvan selva4...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using debian and my present installation partition is accidentally formatted while trying to install ubuntu in another partition. Can i recover my files that i have stored in my previous home

Re: Convert a 64 bits machine from debian32 to debian64

2008-09-17 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:19:10 -0500 Sebastian Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now i want to change that... i want to have all 64bits libraries, and kernel.. i begin installing the amd64 linux image package and the amd64 libc version but now i dont know all of the implications of this

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-25 Thread seeker5528
I have not seen this personally, but it explains why so many Windows users are suddenly getting infected with XP Antivirus and AV2008 over the last few weeks. Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1733 Not just windows, the proof

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-24 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- From: Jesse Welling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I'm running Debian Testing for reference. The problem I'm having seems very very suspicious to me, and please don't think this is a joke, but I think my clipboard (or whatever takes care of

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-24 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- From: Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 03:09:23AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: For Java, icedtea-gcjwebplugin is in main. (Sun Java is not packaged but this free one is pretty good) The last time I checked,

Re: Ndiswrapper not work...

2008-08-22 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- I don't know how; but i use b43-fwcutter from Debian repositories. I use Lenny and broadcom card. I finally got rid of my broadcom card because no matter what driver I tried to use results were inconsistent. It would work for a while,

Re: Strange behaviour of K3B

2008-01-30 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:12:49 + Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R snip When I hit the burn button, the dialog box that pops up normally has a drop down box which says the type of media detected. This remains steadfastly saying no media loaded

Re: Amarok and mp3

2007-09-21 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:25:09 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everyone, I recently install amarok (on amd64), using the xine engine, but it refuses to play any mp3 files. After some searching, I also installed libxine1-ffmpeg, and have w32 codecs installed, but it still won't

Re: debian port of timidity doesn't work here

2007-09-08 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:49:12 -0500 (CDT) Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if so

Re: Upgrade from 32bit Sarge to 64bit Etch

2007-06-08 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:19:36 +0200 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way you might want to go about it, is to just upgrade a 32-bit setup to a 64 bit one, rather than installing multiple versions. That being said, I have both the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version installed, but

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-12-05 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:34:50 -0500 Matthew Krauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a larger list - see below. Also, that list includes Gamin, which actually conflicts with fam. In fact, I'm confused. If I try to install fam, it tries to rip out a lot of Gnome stuff, and some other things,

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-11 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:33:22 + Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeker, Thank you very much for your reply. From: Seeker5528 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -l hdb brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdb

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-07 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:32:31 + Piers Kittel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -l hdb brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ I assume this should be cdrom not disk correct? That is what the Audio CD, DVD, VCD players want, the

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-07 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:24:42 +0800 Rage Callao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a script, something like make-jpkg for Java, that can be used to create a .deb from a FireFox binary tarball? Look at checkinstall. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: udev

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:17:27 + Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I pinned udev to version 0.079.1 a while back after suffering some serious hassle with it when etch was testing. I'm still on etch - and synaptic claims that this is still the latest version available. Must be

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:51:12 + B. Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is which wm to use, as Gnome install metacity by default and I don't have experience with anything else. There's a lot of information on Google Groups and in the Debian archives, however I have a more

Re: Moving Unstable to new HDD

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:51:10 -0500 KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have a 80GB+40GB pair of HDDs in my desktop. The 40GB is the one which came with the system and contains the original Windows installation. The 80GB hard disk contains the Debian unstable system with different

Re: Yes! a free legal source for downloadable music!

2006-10-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:45:46 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i get some music This may not be what you were looking for, but it's an interesting find for legal, free downloads: http://www.irateradio.com/ Hmmm, interesting, I will have to check that out and

Re: Debian install and swap

2006-08-27 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:16:45 -0400 (EDT) Ishwar Rattan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system is a debian derivative. hdb2 is a primary partition for Linux swap. /etc/fstab has the entry: /dev/hdb2 noneswapsw 0 0 The entry looks fine to me. The entry my Debian unstable

Re: Why not?

2006-07-15 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- Clearly all this is rather a matter of opinion; my only intent in posting was to provide a counter to your implication that KDE/qt was somehow obviously superior in functionality/usability, and that people only like Gnome/gtk for

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-09 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:43:11 +0100 Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if you are not running Gnome you can still use gnome-volume-manager+pmount, you just have to add it to your .xsession file, ~.kde/autostart directory, run it and save your session, or whatever is necessary for

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

2006-07-09 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:11:43 -0300 Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Do ISPs change DNS addresses often? Is there a way to detect it when it happens, so I don't have to call them up for the new one every time it happens? They shouldn't change very often. Usually you can connect to

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-07 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:01:01 +0100 Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're running a GNOME desktop then gnome-volume-manager+pmount can take care of it. Even if you are not running Gnome you can still use gnome-volume-manager+pmount, you just have to add it to your .xsession file,

Re: Hello Nethelpers [SSH / PUTTY]Strange behaviour with telnetd

2006-07-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 07:57:51 +0200 jbmorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, sorry I don't understand how the mailing list works. Should I reply directly from my mail client : gmail in IE6 ? Or should I do what I do now, reply to my own thread in the list itself ? When you reply to

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-05-04 Thread seeker5528
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:16:16 +0100 Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. Do you launch them just by kicking off kdesktop and gnome-panel somewhere in the openbox config? I run fluxbox and start just about everything extra from my .xsession file and have the option for the fluxbox panel to

Re: Udev problem when rebooting....no filesystem found

2006-05-04 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:14:04 +0200 miguel velasco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! yesterday night I installed my Debian Etch widh KDE 3.5 at home and everything could be ok untill I rebooted my computer. At this moment in the boot process watched: Waiting for root file system.. (hay se

Re: ati fglrx and xorg 7.0.0

2006-04-25 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:05:46 +0200 Ivan Glushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the

Re: disableing gnome destop background?

2006-04-08 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:50:43 -0800 Britton Kerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to be able to display pictures for my desktop background, and change them every so often. It seems that gnome doesn't do this, so I though I'd just do it from a script with xsetbg, but I think for this

Re: how to begin with qemu and networking

2006-04-05 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:25:05 +0200 Rakotomandimby Mihamina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The host is a Linux Debian amd64. - How could I set the internal IP of the host to 10.0.0.1? When I played around with QEMU in the past I found these scripts on the net. http://home.comcast.net/~seeker5528

Re: Radeon : scanpci failure ? DRM+DRI disabled

2006-03-30 Thread seeker5528
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:19:43 +0100 Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support *** Direct rendering support is highly experimental for Radeon 9500 *** and newer cards. The 3d mesa driver is not provided in this tree. *** A very experimental (and

Re: How do I make my NIC pick the same ETH port every time?

2006-03-25 Thread seeker5528
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:09:28 -0800 My NIC keeps jumping around between eth0 and eth1 every so often when I reboot. It is real annoying! How do I get it to stick to be the same all the time? It is conflicting with a firewire controller... My last go around with the network issue was:

Re: modprobe.d and post-install problem

2006-03-05 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:28:13 +0200 Andras Lorincz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a tv-tuner with saa7135HL chipset and works fine with kernel version 2.6.15.4. When booting I want to pass the module alsa=1 option and to load the saa7134-alsa module also. So I took these steps: 1. created a

Re: midi support in debian

2006-03-02 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:53:55 +0300 Roman Makurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) $ sudo aptitude install awesfx 2) Copy from Driver`s CD sound fonts to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 2GMGSMT.SF2 4GMGSMT.SF2 3) $ sudo modprobe snd_emu10k1_synth 4) $ asfxload 4GMGSMT 5) $ pmidi -l Port

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2006-02-28 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:36:35 +0100 Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The solution given below has been working for some time now, until udev 0.085-1 from Feb 19 was installed. Then the behaviour is wrong again, eth0 is associated to the 8139too driver and eth1 is associated to the 3c59x

Re: udev problem

2006-02-18 Thread seeker5528
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:33:58 -0500 Jonathan Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a second box, I thought I would get smart and install yaird and remove initramfs before I switched from 2.4 to 2.6 kernel, but that didn't work somehow. Typing 'man mkinitrd.yaird' shows: To let yaird build the

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread seeker5528
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:31:01 -0800 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.15.20060216 root(hd0,8) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15.20060216 root=/dev/hda9 ro quiet splash vga=791 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15.20060216

Re: Newly added TV Card disables existing sound card.

2006-02-14 Thread seeker5528
I have an onboard sound card that has been working fine based on default settings for some time. I have added a Pinnacle TV card and now find that the sound card is no longer configured after boot. Can anybody provide advice on what config step I am missing? Looks like it is configured

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-10 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:14:32 -0600 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] Driver radeon BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option UseInternalAGPART yes Option RenderAccel true

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-09 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:12:43 -0600 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned ppracer as a bit of a sidenote, since not all applications in Sid could handle Xorg's dri at first. Up until just recently, glxgears/glxinfo would show I had dri enabled in Xorg, but applications like ppracer would

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-09 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:53:47 +0100 Renato Serodio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, I forgot about the xorg.conf file.. I have a Radeon 8500 LE The most significant differences between your and mine are the following sections. Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap

Re: weird fam/samba problem

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:05:36 -0600 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fam was started by /etc/init.d/fam on my Sid machine. (I say was because it appears my machine is now using avahi, since I did an apt-get upgrade the other day.) These are unrelated things. Avahi provides a framework for

Re: Removing Exim 4 from Sarge

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:46:25 + Brad Stockdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I would like to know is what is the best way to remove the preinstalled binary of Exim so that I can download the source and compile it manually? When I try to remove it through aptitude, it wants to remove all

Re: X.org resolution default selection

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:04:21 -0800 Joel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other suggestions as to how I can accomplish this? Again, I'd like 1400x1050 for normal desktop use, but be able to switch (via XRANDR) to lower *and higher* resolutions. The only other thought I have it to place the

Re: How to add a new dir to my PATH?

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:21:08 -0800 Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 01:40:53PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: Apparently the issue is solved, so thanks for everybody's inputs. But it looks weird, to me. How come there's .bash_profile and .bashrc on my home, that

Re: Debian equivalent to service?

2006-02-07 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:44:45 -0500 Jerry Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These distinctions (at least 3 and 5) are actually useful when debugging problems with your X config. It just saves a step on some activity. On debian, I have to kill gdm, fiddle, and restart it. I can see situations

Re: ReactOS (was windows desktop under linux)

2006-01-27 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:28:14 +0200 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qemu with ReactOS is either installing to/saving to its disk image file or simply to ram-disk like knoppix does. A second, empty disk image can be created as the D drive as well. I have had this work running Knoppix

Re: ReactOS (was windows desktop under linux)

2006-01-24 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:11:10 +0200 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This baby runs slower than a qemu knoppix session off a CD. Even with kqemu installed. I do not know how one would run one's own apps in such a virual machine since the only programs are those it has compiled into its

Re: gnome firefox thunderbird

2006-01-23 Thread seeker5528
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:26:44 + Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep seeing messages about Firefox and Thunderbird but it's never about this and I can't find any info about how to control this in Gnome: Gnome has nothing to do with it. I expect Thunderbird probably is defaulted to

Re: Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!

2006-01-22 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:38:19 +0100 G-Point [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that a file has 6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s) so i can't boot linux. There are six different parts in the file where it points to a

Re: apt-get source

2006-01-21 Thread seeker5528
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:05:43 +0200 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having failed to get apt-build to work, I tried this. I can easily compile and install stuff that the kde packages will not due to dependency problems (around qt3 and kde) and I get the Debian version (versions posted

Re: su/sudo cannot X

2006-01-19 Thread seeker5528
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:29:35 -0500 Lei Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange problem with my thinkpad z60t, running debian testing. I ran these commands in konsole or xterm under kde: $xhost + $ sudo -s #kedit kedit: cannot connect to X server What is wrong? If you just want

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-17 Thread seeker5528
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:53:44 -0400 Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At last! Not only am I not inebriated, but I remembered where I read what I based my missive on. :-) http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/man/README/README.ATAPI An extract from which goes as follows: The

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread seeker5528
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:31:51 -0500 David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file available.old has an uncorrupted copy. Shall I simply copy the good lines in to the file available and save it? The reason I've not yet done so is that it says it is a binary file and saving (or is it

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-14 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:17:50 -0400 Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't you think it would be more confusing to tell people that SCSI emulation was built in to ide-cd. If you tell them that then they will be expecting to have srX devices for their drives 1) I have symlinks: [EMAIL

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

2006-01-13 Thread Seeker5528
On 12 Jan 2006 00:45:10 -0800 hillbilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a question to Marc Perrudin... In directory /etc/ only have a modprobe.d/ directory. Should the 'local' file be in there or should I create an /etc/modprobe.conf/ directory as indicated in your response and place the

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:32:17 -0400 Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience, FWIW, Simply put: In kernel 2.4, ide-scsi module, we got used to the scsi-emulation concept. Whereas, In kernel 2.6, we were (somewhat confusingly, IMO) told the above, i.e.: SCSI emulation is not required

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2006-01-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:52:26 +0100 Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the new way of device creation and module loading (udev, discover etc) my ethernet modules (3c59x,8139too) are loaded in different order with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. For 2.6.14 3c59x is loaded first

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

2005-12-26 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:29:30 + Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am obviously missing the obvious here. An IBM Thinkpad, sid, orinoco wifi card talks to the Netgear DG834G router when security is disabled, but when I turn WEP on it doesn't connect. /etc/network/interfaces has

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-17 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:45:03 -0800 Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I'm using udev on this box. Not that I like it, not that I give a tinker's damn about demonstrating how big my d*ck is by how empty I can make /dev (and that emptiness has meant I've had to write rules for every

Re: screen resolution

2005-11-27 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:58:51 + Bob Hynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone remind me how to change the screen resolution in Debian when the Configure - Desktop application doesn't have the option for 1024 X 768? I can't get anything higher than 832 X 624 at 75Hz. I know the system is

Re: aic7xxx driver floppy for sarge

2005-11-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:31:10 -0800 David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, This may sound like a stupid question, answered in some FAQ somewhere, but I just can't find it. Does anyone know which Sarge floppy image contains the aic7xxx SCSI driver? From here:

Re: dpkg-reconfigure clamav doesnot work

2005-11-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:07:33 +0530 Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, dpkg-reconfigure doesn't seem to work with clamav. What should I do to reconfigure the clamav package seetings?? Synaptic shows me that clamav-base and clamav-freshclam use debconf so I would try both of those.

Re: grammar checkers

2005-11-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 02:38:02 -0500 Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A function of computers is to help people to communicate, and become empowered. Some computer users are recent immigrants, for whom English is not their first language. Some computer users did not have a chance to

Re: setting up wifi / interpreting errors

2005-11-07 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:22:12 -0500 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have added the following stanza to my /etc/network/interfaces: iface ut-wifi inet dhcp wireless-mode managed wireless-essid UTORwin wireless-key s:UToronto1home wireless-keymode open

Re: apt-get install wants to remove too much

2005-11-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:03:00 +0100 Thomas Schuett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I do apt-get install mozilla-browser it answers: [...] WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! e2fsprogs sysvinit I would

Re: chmod mistake

2005-11-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:49:39 +0100 David Dorward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something along the lines of: chmod -R 700 ~/ find ~/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; might do what you want. Would it be better to do this? find ~/ -P -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; find ~/ -P -type f -exec chmod 600

Re: about properties

2005-11-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 06:03:51 -0800 (PST) Nevruz Mesut Sahin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bougth new computer which Linux is installed on it. how can I see the hardware properties of the computer by terminal comands - Yahoo! FareChase - Search

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:56:00 -0500 Mitch Wiedemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is, if you had a computer with 64 MB of RAM, and you wanted to give the novice user the ability to browse the web, use e-mail, instant messaging, create documents and spreadsheets, etc. What window

Re: Problems moving from KDM to GDM

2005-11-05 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:03:14 - marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to bugs in KDM being unable to run remote sessions via XDMCP - which have apparently been fixed in unstable [1] - I have had to move to GDM. However, I've immediately hit a few problems that I hope experienced GDM users

Re: rosegarden4 no sound SOLVED

2005-11-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:45:44 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Playing with alsamixer/kmix etc. does not seem to help, as now playign a wav file - or playing back wav content I just record plays some horrendous noise instead of the desired result. mp3 files are playing fine, and I

Re: desktop icons in gnome

2005-10-31 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:34:09 + (UTC) Ed Kademan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get rid of the trash, computer, and home icons on my gnome desktop. I tried gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible false gconftool-2 --set --type=bool

Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101

2005-10-27 Thread Seeker5528
If you are looking for something to use for your server it might be better to just get a wireless access point rather than putting in a card. Another alternative depending on the need is one of these:

Re: problem with fonts in sid

2005-10-24 Thread Seeker5528
file in $HOME/.kde/Autostart for the gnome-settings-daemon. I have one I use for this purpose at http://home.comcast.net/~seeker5528/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-24 Thread Seeker5528
The KDE and Gnome help applications (khelpcenter and yelp) both show the man pages. Useful if you are not sure exactly what you are looking for. Later, Seeker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rosegarden4 no sound SOLVED

2005-10-24 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:06:35 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timidity is too slow here to run in real time (Athlon 1ghz, 2.6.13 kernel, sarge). There are too many skips and places where it repeats notes over and over again (buffer probs?). Secondly, even when sfxload is run,

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-20 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:44:06 +0200 Kjetil Kjernsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - do not mix ata-66 with ata-100 - do not mix ata-100 with ata-133 Hmmm, OK. Is it that fragile...? The slave is a 4.5 GB Western Digital something someone threw after me... I dump things that are

Re: savage card, X.org, DRI, Mesa

2005-10-16 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:48:24 +0200 Francesco Bochicchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8KM266/KL266] I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think there is any direct rendering support for any of the IGP chipsets

Re: mp3 player/network

2005-10-15 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:34:08 -0400 Roger Creasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a home network, a win xp desktop, a win xp laptop, and 3 Debian desktops. Everything seems ok with the network. All boxes have internet access and can share files, etc. However, I cannot play mp3 files that reside

Re: Knoppix KDE problem + apt problem

2005-10-15 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:28:48 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdeedu-data_4%3a3.3.2-3.sarge.1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/edu_languages.png', which is also in package

Re: why do I need fam?

2005-10-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:59:18 -0400 golfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I running sarge with 2.6.8-686 as a desktop workstation. I notice a slow down when I'm doing something as simple as copying a large file and top shows the 'cp' command only using about 7% of cpu, but also shows 'famd' as a

Re: reboot with fsck and bad block check

2005-10-04 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:04:15 +1200 Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that the badblocks man page has a big fat warning: [..] This can be overridden using the -f flag, but should almost never be used --- if you think you're smarter than the

Re: GNOME other menu

2005-10-03 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:02:03 -0400 Titus Barik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, when I use Fluxbox, I have an Apps menu, a Games menu, a Shells menu, a Programming menu, and so on. Most of these applications under these menus and these menu groups don't appear in my GNOME menu. I still

Re: rosegarden4 no sound SOLVED-UNSOLVED!

2005-10-03 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 17:39:01 +0100 debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snd_ac97_codec 59268 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_via82xx Do you actually have both a Soundblaster Live or Audigy and via onboard sound? It would seem very off if you didn't and both of these modules loaded succesully, but I figure

Re: upgrading to etch after installing sarge

2005-10-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:56:17 -0700 Andy Streich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I've pinned udev. Any hint on how to avoid this kind of thing in the future with some other package upgrade? I was using synaptic, added testing to the repository after installing sarge, and then chose Mark

Re: gnome upgrade in testing

2005-10-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 02:15:04 -0400 Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're using testing you should expect this type of thing to happen. No, I shouldn't. It makes no sense to upgrade the data for an application if the application itself is being removed. It's not that uncommon

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