On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote:
> In the course of scripting some aptitude upgrade activity I've found
> that (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum
> behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various
> failure situations, wh
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:03:29PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
> nevermind - I finally figured it out...
do tell Bob!
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:24:57AM -0800, Robert Bond wrote:
> I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+
> packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared
> to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down
> to
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:09:16AM -0500, Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>Newbie to Debian. I've got a 4.0 system with two nics in it, one a
> realtek 8139, the other a 3com 3c905. One is configured via dhcp, the other
> will be via static. I read that /etc/modules contains the names of kernel
> drive
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 08:29:02 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/11/07 20:20, Michael Pobega wrote:
startx /usr/bin/startkde
Remembering that, I tried "startx startkde", but that bombed. Now I
know why...
Why?
I _think_ Ron is saying that earlier
Andrew Varner wrote:
Hi
I have a problem with the X server. When I type 'X', the screen goes
black and everything stops. SysRq+b doesn't even work. Is it likely that
I am missing the driver?
The video driver is where I would start. I'd shoot for the lowest common
denominator to start, by "dpk
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:31:40PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> startx uses ~/.xinitrc to start up the X session. In case it doesn't
>> exist, then debian has some default stuff that starts whatever the
>> default window manager is. Lo
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
startx uses ~/.xinitrc to start up the X session. In case it doesn't
exist, then debian has some default stuff that starts whatever the
default window manager is. Look at `update-alternatives --config
x-window-manager` to set a different window manager as the de
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:24:07AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> Benjamin Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command "find
> > / -print ...". Instead use tar, like:
> >
> > tar -zcvf /media/mirror/`date +%F`.tar.gz -C / --exclude=/me
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:13:49PM +0200, wanderlust wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to install Debian/etch on Acer Aspire 5520G, but the problem
> is, that kernel 2.6.18 doesn't support Marvell netcard 436b. I found it
> is supportable in 2.6.23.9, so I decided to compile it. I used default
> conf
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:50:26PM +0100, strawks wrote:
> > I just experienced my first ever system lockup. No mouse, no keyboard
> > with an Iceape screen open.
>
> > I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then
> > Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response.
>
>
I"m running sid on my LinuxCertified lappy. It came with ubuntu
installed, which I wiped and replaced with debian on top of enxrypted
lvm. Works great. Everything works but suspend2ram. I could probably
make it work, but it's not worth it. I just shut it down.
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:36:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To enter GNOME, I type "startx". I tried entering KDE by typing
> "startkde" which I what I remember doing a couple of years ago when
> I last tried it. But it can't start X.
startx uses ~/.xinitrc to start up the X session.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:42:17PM -0600, John Patton wrote:
> Okay. I have a regular ethernet card built into my laptop's motherboard.
...
>
> What i have done so far is make changes to the powersaved config
> scripts. I have instructed it to restart networking, acpid, and the
> firewall to no a
John Patton wrote:
After bringing up my system after a suspend to disk, i lose internet
access. When i try to restart networking, i get the following:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such d
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:52:10PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:43:38AM -0500, Scott Lair wrote:
> ---deleted---
>> so its not strictly etch. Also, these cards include hardware mpeg
>> encoding which can be a blessin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:16:47AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> How about the Atari 800 (or was it the 400?) that had the bare
>> membrane. ugh. now that was crap!
>
> Fortunately I never had the displeasu
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:18:55AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:27 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
>> Humbug. If you learned hot to type *properly* on a real IBM Selectric
>> (hint: you never pushed the key down past the "click", certainly never to
>> the stops), using a clicky k
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Vanilla Debian also installs fine. Wife, suspend, bluetooth, card reader, usb,
all work fine.
Debian makes your wife work fine? Wow, Debian _is_ the best!
--
Kent
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Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello. I'm wondering if there is a way to, without using gdm, have x
started, my user logged in, and fluxbox opened, automatically. Perhaps
a script, or something.
Yes. I haven't tested the following, but I believe it will work (it's
based on the solution googled at
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:42:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/08/07 12:17, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:54:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> Listening to people sing in Italian (or German) about incest and
> >> matricide is not my
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:54:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Listening to people sing in Italian (or German) about incest and
> matricide is not my cup of tea.
sounds like a python bit
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:18:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> lsdvd does a good job of dumping the name of the disk, and the
> titles on the disk, but is there any tool to list the chapters? If
> there were any CLI way to see title names, that would be great too.
>
> I've pored over
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:43:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?)
tekant ozer wrote:
The system is old. Dual PIII with 440M/B. Dual Hotswap PSU. about
730Mb ECC. Dell Perf Quad 64bit Raid with 128Mb daughterBrd. 5 SCSI in
Hotswp Cage. TapeDrv, DVD, floppy etc..
No problem with Hardware except wireless card. godd**n Airlink 101
card . There was a limited wire
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:10:00PM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote:
> i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
>> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 13 lines
>> --]
>> ASW> Totally OT
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:06:00PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 13 lines
> --]
> ASW> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:26:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/06/07 17:36, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I"ve been typing on mine for a couple hours now and it's
> > fantastic. The sound takes me back.
>
> As I type this, Bee
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:20:46PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Dec 06 17:42 -0600]:
>
> > They only weigh about 5 pounds, why not get a ps/2-usb adaptor and
> > carry one with the laptop?
>
> I have a bit of tro
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:21:25AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:08:47PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
> >
> > If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?
Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?)
this year, check out www.clickykeyboards.com for real IBM
keyboards. Mine just arrived and I'm in heaven.
I hate to bump a commercial enterprise like that, but I know many of
you do lot
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:22:58PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
> On Dec 5, 9:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:26:38PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > ie: the command line [from my router] is:
> > >
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:59:07AM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
> On Dec 5, 9:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > exchange_router:
> > driver = manualroute # not manual!
> > data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/path/to/recipien
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:23:32PM -0500, Jerry DuVal wrote:
> When a client purchases our software we deliver it to them on a leased
> server. The clients do not have any access to the server besides http. We
> allow them to configure CUPS through the web admin console and execute
> certain oper
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:20:20AM +, Tim Diggins wrote:
> Hi list -
>
> have recently started with debian etch (sort of know what I'm doing in BSD,
> linux is a /slightly/ new adventure).
>
> I want to install jdk (and tomcat) by the simplest means, but DON'T want to
> install x11 stuff.
i
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:53:05AM +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > Sometime ago Erik wrote:
> > > I want to install the PWC software for my Logitech Webcam Pro 4000
> > > I got the code from here:
> > >
> >
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:21:26PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:47:33PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
> > running debian etch w/ exim 4.
> >
> > I want to setup exim to receive internet email, and accept/relay ONLY emails
> > to a reci
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:26:38PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At the end of all this research, I STILL find myself trying to
> diagnose why my router isn't working; and it's a pretty darn simple
> router at that. getting useful error messages out of exim debug is
> worthless.
>
> So I thou
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:47:33PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
> running debian etch w/ exim 4.
>
> I want to setup exim to receive internet email, and accept/relay ONLY emails
> to a recipient listed in a text file, on to my exchange server. It will not
> send any outbound email.
I think I've fig
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:31:17AM -0500, chloe K wrote:
> thank you Andrew
>
> this is my mistake. the tmp folder is missing
>
> grub-install is fine
:)
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:43:16AM -0500, chloe K wrote:
>
>
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at
> 02:56:57PM -0500, chloe K wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I install etch in hda
> > then I add the hdc which ha
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:32:36PM -0500, David Bruce wrote:
> After a power outage triggering the need for fsck on several partitions, it
> appears the KDE menus got hosed - many entries no longer have a command
> associated with them, specifically all of the KDE apps. I can't find any
> other
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:30:58PM -0800, Raquel wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:09:12 -0500
> Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running
> > servers on my system (Apache,
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:22:48PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> Seriously though, I use rdiff-backup and cron jobs to pull backups of
>> critical data and /etc using pub-key ssh authentication to make the
>>
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:20:51PM -0500, Christopher Judd wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 13:06:36 Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> >...
>
> >
> > How sad.
> > ...
>
> >
> > If you can only have one woodworking tool, make it a combination stone.
> > Then you can make every other tool eventually
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:26:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/03/07 21:17, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
> >>> Yes, that's a nice idea. I myself would follow your advice, but my
> >>> wife doesn't let me to... :)
> >> sorry dear, that harddrive died and took windows with it. Fortunately,
> >> I
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:57:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/04/07 04:59, Martin Marcher wrote:
> > 2007/12/3, Henning Follmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> Add erik to the sudores file?
> >>
> >> visudo is a wrapper around vi to edit the /etc/sudoers file.
> >
> > well not exactly vi.
> >
>
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:57:21PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:52:40PM +0100, Misko wrote:
> > I noticed that some messages on this list mutt can not read.
> > When I try to read signed message (tapping ENTER) mutt says:
> > Could not copy message
> > and does not open
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:06:36PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:25:46AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Andrew Sa
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:08:22PM +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > we really sort of need more details about this, like what camera, what
> > are you trying to build, where you got the code, etc etc etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > just
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:56:57PM -0500, chloe K wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I install etch in hda
> then I add the hdc which have same partition but not same size in hda
>
> /dev/hda1 /boot
> /dev/hda2 /swap
> /dev/hda3 /
>
> i use rsync to copy data from hda to hdc
>
> I use fedora5 boot disk to boo
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:24:24PM +, andy wrote:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> andy:
>>
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ...
>>>
>>> Is this really an okay arrangement for the contents of /sbin?
>>>
>>
>> Sure it is. Only root may modify the files and everyone may read and
>> execute them. Wha
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:09:12PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers
> on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of
> backing up, because no matter how much security someone has things may
> still go wro
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:53:53AM -0800, 2006me wrote:
> Hi, I have the following issue. When I start my recent debian
> installation (4.0 r0) everything work fine except when it comes to
> start the x-window. It starts up but gets stuck in a black and white
> screen with the mouse pointer as a X.
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:15:56AM -0500, John Miller wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> There are plenty of personal finance applications out there for Linux
> (GNUCash, gAcc, etc.), but with all of them, you must make entries on your
> PC. When I eat out at a restaurant, I'd like to be able to enter
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:54:27AM +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> I am trying to install a webcam on my etch dist.
we really sort of need more details about this, like what camera, what
are you trying to build, where you got the code, etc etc etc.
>
> I get this:
>
> # make
> make -C /lib/modules/
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > Interesting. I view it more like this: sudo and grep (find, sort, etc
> > etc etc) are ubiquitous. I'm surprised they
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:31:26AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do you look at this?
>
> http://www.imparoax.com.mx/
huh. that's wierd. Do you think its serving a different page to other
browsers? The source is very simple with just the link to ... nowhere.
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:48:59AM +0100, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:56:56 -0500
> Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Samuel Bächler wrote:
> > >> Is the vfat module loaded? You might want to check the filesystem
> > >> type with "file -s /dev/sdb1". Also are you able t
-imap-pop3-1.5.3-5.i386.rpm but it conflicts Cyrus Sasl and needs
> > courier-imap-common. then I tried to install courier-imap-common but
> > this time it needs rc-scripts then I tried to install rc-scripts but it
> > gives errors bellow. please help me how can I install courier-
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 07:36:08PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi debian-user,
>
> Here is a summary of the mini-poll that I conducted recently on Debian-user:
Very interesting results, and thanks for doing this.
>
> Firefox/Iceweasel and GIMP reign supreme for the third year running
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:09:25AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Two thirds of that email was useless nonsense crap.
>>
> Right.
pile on...
looks like it was cut-n-pasted from a website.
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:08:33AM -0800, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote:
>
> I have problem with installing Courier Imap . when I try to install
> courier-imap-pop3-1.5.3-5.i386.rpm but it conflicts Cyrus Sasl and needs
> courier-imap-common. then I tried to install courier-imap-common but
> this
Michael Pobega wrote:
... sudo is in NO WAY a replacement for su.
Three (possible) Ways that come to mind:
1. It's my understanding that sudo commands are logged, whereas su
commands may not be. (This may be old or inaccurate information.)
2. There's the (very) slight psychological reminder
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi.
I have just installed Debian.
I get this when I want to install:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install pico
Password:
erik is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
How can I get rid of that problem ?
As root, run "visudo"; add "erik" to the f
Rodney D. Myers wrote:
Every once in a while, when I use my KVM switch, the middle mouse
button/scroll wheel, ceases to function.
Short of rebooting, not really an option, what else can I do to get
the scroll wheel to function properly again?
Anything in /etc/init.d/ that I can rerun?
PS/
a copy sent to me directly. You are using Thunderbird -- there is
a plugin/extension for Reply-to-List. Check the archives here for
mention of it, or just poke around at mozilla.
>
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> I honestly don't know. There *has* to be some performanc
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 06:50:32AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Qtopia ("application framework for single-purpose devices powered by
> embedded Linux") used to be called "qt-embedded" but now I can't find it as
> a package.
>
> Anyone?
Is this it?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache searc
Kent West wrote:
... using a D-Link DI-514 wireless router I
just bought.
The Debian laptop gets a DHCP address, but I can't ping anything
outside the laptop, not even the router.
After additional testing, I've decided the problem is that the router is
faulty.
--
Ke
this belongs on the list...
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:47:05PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > nice guide. it was definitely part of my list of open tabs when I was
> > setting up my encrypted laptop. He's got some other good ones there as
phillinux wrote:
I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab
in my school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to
Debian Net install.
I have the kids SSH into their accounts to change their samba
passwords but the connection is now being refused by the s
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:37:52AM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > It comes down to this. Backups -- if its something you don't want to
> > have to go through the work to replace, then you should back it
> > up. Even if it's something t
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:45:35AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the
> backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance?
>
> I'm trying to backup a dvd using k9copy. It wants to have about 8 gig free
> in
> the /tmp partition, but
Mark Neidorff wrote:
Is it possible to increase the space available in /tmp without doing the
backup/repartition/reinstall/restore dance?
I'm trying to backup a dvd using k9copy. It wants to have about 8 gig free in
the /tmp partition, but when I set the system up, I gave /tmp much less than
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:18 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Install Question
>
> On Tu
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:06PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're
> no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through
> repeated cycles of connect-disconnect, with no devices actually appearing:
>
> Nov 28 1
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:30:10PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
> I have a big disk that I cannot backup due to space constraints and want
> to encrypt it. It is an ext3 external WD MyBook drive. I keep movies
> music and backups on there so its nothing I cannot lose, but I would
> hate to spend ti
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:02:24PM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> On Nov 28, 1:20 pm, Andrew Sackville-West
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> These key combos I never even heard of. Ditto. I'll try them if it
> happens again.
google on "magic sysrq&quo
Robert Hodgins wrote:
But then some genius gave us the > sign to allowed us to select how far back in
a thread we wished to read and also saved our scroll wheels many many miles of
rolling through text that we had already read only to find a one-liner at the
bottom of the message.
Yes, b
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:33:18PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> If a controller manufacturer makes drivers for your OS, but the OS doesn't
> have them natively, how does one install Debian on to this controller as the
> boot device?
to answer this very generic question... there are many ways
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:43:38AM -0500, Scott Lair wrote:
>
> I'm in the market for a TV card for my etch system.
> I'd prefer pci hardware. I don't really care about
> actually watching tv programs on my computer, I just
> want to record shows, edit in kino, then burn to dvd
> for viewing late
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:35:21AM -0500, Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé wrote:
> > What log file do I look at on my system to get a clue for the source
> > of the problem?
>
> Log files are in /var/log. You might want to look into syslog and
> kern.log attach it to your post if you need further help.
>
BartlebyScrivener wrote:
Hello.
I moved from Windows XP to Debian Etch about a year ago. Rock solid
until recently. I apply all updates via synaptic. Recently added the
unofficial and multimedia repositories to my sources to get mplayer
and a few others.
I don't mean to suggest that this is cau
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:30:54PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
>
> the biggest part of it is that it is a learning
> experience for me, both to see what can be done
> without the x server installed, and to work on
> programing which is certainly not a strong suit for me
> at the moment.
nothin'
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:50:52PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
>
> i have been looking at screen, and think that it may
> work if i could find a way (an add-on script or
> something) to create a tabbable menu of the open
> screens to replace the use of next and windowlist
> (almost a persist on
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
I prefer kpdf, which integrates better into my kde than xpdf or evince.
I was surprised to discover the other day that kpdf had a right-click
option to read out-loud highlighted text. Pretty cool.
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lostson wrote:
Hello All
I have install debian stable with kde and am wanting to remove kde completely
and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if so how ? I have been googling
trying to find a way with no luck thanks.
LostSon
If you have plenty of drive space, don't bother uninstall
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:39:52PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> well to an extent this is an extension of my last
> thread. does anyone know of any metapackages that
> contain all the cli tools in one place, if not then i
> am off to RTM at http://people.debian.org/ on creating
> metapackages an
Kent West wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Anybody try the new firefox 3?
Also, most of my add-ons are incompatible with FF3. Reckon I'll have
to wait a while on those
Indeed. Keep us posted on that freeze up. I hav
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Anybody try the new firefox 3?
Also, most of my add-ons are incompatible with FF3. Reckon I'll have
to wait a while on those
Indeed. Keep us posted on that freeze up. I have not found any tr
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:36:29PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri November 23 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > When was the last time we had a questio from someone wondering how do do
> > something in ed?
>
> maybe BUT... when you use VI, you can still do the ":" commands that are ed
> b
Kent West wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Anybody try the new firefox 3?
Also, most of my add-ons are incompatible with FF3. Reckon I'll have to
wait a while on those
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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Very few [OT]'s nowadays.
Anybody try the new firefox 3?
I just downloaded it last night. I logged in on a second X session as a
second user and untarred it in that user's home directory and ran it
directly from there.
I only ran it 30 mins or so, and didn't "pu
Peter Smerdon wrote:
Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64
installed.
I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that
/var/log/Xorg.0.log does not exist, and never gets generated.
Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
Dear,
I have the same problem on
Peter Smerdon wrote:
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
What happens if you just try running X alone, as in:
# X &
The same thing happened running X directly
Maybe try redirecting the errors to a file:
# X 2> errors.txt &
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tom arnall wrote:
i just tried to do an upgrade and got the following messages:
snip---
Reading changelogs... Done
Error: "/tmp/kde-klorovwp0rg" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-klorobxLJlU" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link
Peter Smerdon wrote:
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Do you see anything interesting in /var/log/syslog?
nothing appears in syslog with the startx command, however everytime I
use gdm I get:
Nov 20 17:51:54 laptop gdm[4562]: WARNING: Failed to start X server
several times
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:53:40PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I have a default Sarge installation that I had to move to a new network.
> It had been getting the address through DHCP with no problem. Now, on
> the new network, it tries to connect to a DHCP server, but there's no
> connection.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:44:56PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 21:57, Bill Smith wrote:
> > Henrique Rennó wrote:
> > > I have a Windows XP machine connected to the Internet and an
> > > additional network card with a fixed IP configured (192.168.0.5). I
> > > connected
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:39:58AM +0800, Augustin wrote:
>
> Hello,
...
>
> For the power supply, I am thinking to buy a 500~550 Watt, 80plus
> certified unit.
just a quick note on power supplies. Its not the total wattage that is
of concern, but how that power is distributed into the differ
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