OT: HTML Q - How to cycle through text blurbs in a box?

2008-09-23 Thread Kent West
help! -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which package for libawt.so

2008-09-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:13:19AM +1000, hce wrote: Hi, I am running opera 9.52, there is an error ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. I could not find there is any libawt.so in the /lib or /usr/lib. I searched libawt without any results. Please

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

2008-09-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:14:04AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/05/08 10:46, Mike McCarty wrote: Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:52:48PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The Satellite has 40MB

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:15:31PM -0400, Eric Gerlach wrote: ... I don't view non-free as some kind of refuse bin for the licences that don't make the cut. I view it as a place where I can choose packages from other licenses if I please. well put and echoes my sentiments exactly.

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:31:26PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:58 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: you may improve the ultimate installed experience by rolling your own kernel with just the bare minimum you need for these lappies. That sounds like a good idea

Re: Can't Detach from a startup script

2008-08-31 Thread Kent West
Martin wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: case $1 in start) echo -n Starting $DESC: start-stop-daemon -c $USER --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- $OPT \ /dev/null hmm looks to my that either you

Can't Detach from a startup script

2008-08-29 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to run Maple12 from my Debian box. I've hacked a startup script together that looks like this: Beginning of Script == #! /bin/sh # Maple 12 # I hacked this script from a copy of the lisa start-up script; no guarantees that it works properly. # Kent West, 14 June 2007

Re: LiveCD's don't work

2008-08-28 Thread Kent West
Mike Fontenot wrote: Kent West wrote: I had great difficulty installing Debian on a Dell Optiplex 320; it would NOT boot from a USB jumpdrive or a LiveCD; finally had to resort to using an external USB hard drive. How did you use the external USB hard drive? http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk

Re: LiveCD's don't work

2008-08-27 Thread Kent West
information, but I include it just in case: http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/optiplex320-debian.txt -- Kent West ))) Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Restore mouse right button copy / paste

2008-08-25 Thread Kent West
. Any advice how can I restore the mouse copy / paste? Did you maybe uninstall gpm as part of your clean-up? -- Kent West ))) Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: need help with cc

2008-08-23 Thread Kent West
the coder :P Then why didn't he just say that? Segfault means you wrote buggy code. I thought that's what he said, just in different words: the code being compiled is faulty = you wrote buggy code. -- Kent West ))) Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Turning off touchpad scroll

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:27:11AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. Up to date Sid. Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptics Touchpad Driver synaptics Option SendCoreEvents

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:22:46AM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: Thanks for the help. I've looked into this a bit more. You're running etch. etch's thunar does not depend on, and probably can't use thunar-volman. http://packages.debian.org/etch/thunar tells us that it suggests hal and pmount. This

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:43:30PM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: Hi, I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4. Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them. I have done some googeling, and it seems that I need to use Thunar's

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Kent West
all CPUs are created equally, but in the latter part, you seem to realize that there are differences between different CPUs. Hopefully, I haven't just added more noise to this list with my response. -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade SOLVED

2008-08-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:23:48PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote: I think I solved the problem. The files were missing, but also found. This is what I found: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki - /usr/share/pycentral/spe/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki -

Re: difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:25:39PM -0700, NewDeb wrote: Here is the output with apt-get install (albeit with --download-only. You get the same output if you were to go ahead with the real install) I am trying to understand the difference between the NEW packages and the Extra packages. Why

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade SOLVED

2008-08-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:22:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:09:14 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:23:48PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote: I think I solved the problem. The files were missing, but also found. This is what I

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:42:11PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Okay. Running m-a a-i qc-usb might have been easy, but it does not result in an application that I can run. no. it just builds the drivers. I still do not have an application that runs on Debian 4.0, that will allow me to

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:07:09PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote: I have a Debian testing system and I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. I now have this problem with python and all packages that depend on python - they cannot be installed (see rhytmbox example below).

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:21:13AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:58:15 -0700 From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0 On Tue, Aug

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:31:22PM -0400, charlie derr wrote: Mark Phillips wrote: I don't have a man entry for apt-file. What is it and how do I use it to solve this problem?? thanks! Mark aptitude update aptitude install apt-file apt-file update and then apt-file search

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:20:55PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote: Someone wrote: Try to run 'apt-get install python-central' I tried it, and get this error: narwhale:/home/mark# apt-get install python-central E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct

Re: Configure error

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:06:20PM +, Oscar Corte wrote: Hi all I'm receiving the next error message upon executing configure on a MySQL source distribution. checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check See

Re: How to find dependency information for a package ?

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:09:56PM -0700, NewDeb wrote: Hi all, I am trying to find the exhaustive list of dependencies of a particular package (For example, package tomcat5_5.0.30-12etch1_all.deb) From what I have read so far, there seem to be many ways of doing this and I tried out the

[SOLVED]: gramps fails to start on sid

2008-08-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: I'm remoted into a sid box, from a sid box, and when I run gramps, it pops up the following and then just hangs; I eventually have to KILL it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gramps Upgrading INI file Hspell: can't open /usr/share/hspell/hebrew.wgz.sizes. Hspell: can't open /usr/share

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:46:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/09/08 00:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] there are several ways to go about this. What you need to do first, I think, is find out which video driver is trying to run that card. Realise that the 8xxx series cards

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 08:19:14AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-08-09 07:09 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: But emacs I've used for writing code. Not a lot of code, but enough to get the basic stuff wired in. I also use it as a general purpose editor (it's my default editor

gramps fails to start on sid

2008-08-09 Thread Kent West
I'm remoted into a sid box, from a sid box, and when I run gramps, it pops up the following and then just hangs; I eventually have to KILL it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gramps Upgrading INI file Hspell: can't open /usr/share/hspell/hebrew.wgz.sizes. Hspell: can't open

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:05:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/07/08 23:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote: Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson

Re: local network problem

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:56:40AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! I am running etch at home in two machines: a desktop and a laptop. Both are connected to the web trough a switch witch is connected to a modem. Both machines work fine regarding the internet. I want to connect both

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 01:28:56AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:59:02 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am running Debian 4.0 on a number of computers (laptop and desktop). I have a Logitech QuickCam

Re: suspend / hibernate

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:44:14AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Aug 8, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Dale wrote: 2008/8/6 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I have had this problem for a little while now, when I come out of suspend / hibernation on on my Acer Aspire 5601AWLMi laptop I have very high

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:25:57PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri August 8 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: man ffmpeg and learn how to capture the audio as well. The very first example in the man page Examples section shows one way to do it. It depends of course on whether the spca

Re: local network problem

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:24:17PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:56:40AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! I am running etch at home in two machines: a desktop and a laptop. Both are connected to the web trough a switch witch

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 05:32:40PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri August 8 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: hmmm... I believe its possible, with some cameras, to cat /dev/video0 myvidfile and then play it with mplayer. worth a shot. $ cat /dev/video0paulsvid cat: /dev

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 05:53:59PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri August 8 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: wow. that looks kind of like there might be a problem in the driver. If you can't cat from the video device, then there's something seriously wrong. I highly recommend you

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM +0200, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I've no trouble with either at the command line. The *curses interface is

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:26:42PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/8/1 Star Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm really happy to get so much good suggestions, I will try the following tools one by one, and send my use reports to this mail thread. I feel that the first one I want to try is

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:37:47AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Shachar Or wrote: there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the spca5xx is being replaced upstream... All this talk about spca... Isn't there a quickcam specific driver? I know there

Re: Router IPv6

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:08:56AM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: modprobe ipv6 I can't see anything happens here # modprobe ipv6 I suspect that what Alex is getting at is simple. to use ipv6 you need, at a minimum, to have

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:50:39PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:23 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:57:44PM -0500, Taahir wrote: I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its own hard disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive is currently not connected, so that isn't a factor. My graphics card is an

Re: Is the monitor ON?

2008-08-07 Thread Kent West
can easily tell if the computer is up and running, but I can't find a way to tell if the monitor is on or not. Does anyone have a way to remotely tell if a monitor is on? The only reliable way I can think of is to put a webcam on that computer facing the monitor. -- Kent West

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Kent West
it! People like me!) Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost with the ncurses interface of aptitude. (I actually found dselect easier to get around in. What?!!) -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:47:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Quoting Andrew Sackville-West: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: aptitude makes it easy to plan

Re: Is the monitor ON?

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:38:45PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Quoting mike (mail4mike2008-debian AT yahoo DOT com): Far on the other side of my building at work I have several linux boxes that displays a slide-show on a X screen. When our power blinks the computer will reboot and is fine.

Re: Upgrading necessary, but maybe not

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: The Huawei e169 umts usb modem seems to work fine with Debian Sid, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 kernel, but not with my Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7. Now, in order to have the device working, I should upgrade my system to Sid or even

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:55:23PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Cousin Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]: Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost with the ncurses interface of aptitude Add a ditto onto to the ditto regarding my own

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:23:28AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] Now for particular needs I want to try to use Sid with a = 2.6.25-2-686 kernel. I edited sources.list as follows: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src

Re: when debian run out of memory

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:18:20AM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: Hi list, When debian run out of memory, I can only ping the host and can't ssh to the host. It seems oom-killer is running but memory is still exhaust. What should I do then? Only reboot can solve the problem? Can I protect

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote: Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to

Re: suspend / hibernate

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
... And the other problem I have noticed is that when I come out of suspend or hibernate it does not notice whether I am I am on AC or not and if I am on AC and come out suspend or hibernate it set my HDD power management to 128 instead of 254. not much help, but I configured laptop mode to

Re: 2.6.24-4 kernel not booting

2008-08-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
older kernels and editing the grub initrd line. A mjh On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:36:18PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: i appriciate your help. i am not new to linux but i am new to lvm and raid and recovery

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: aptitude makes it easy to plan the updates How so? I'll bite on this... the simple but powerful interface allows me to quickly browse

possible RAID array failure [was Re: 2.6.24-4 kernel not booting]

2008-08-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
answer your questions: :) On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Sackville-West why do you think this? What evidence tells you this? have you looked at /proc/mdstat? i looked into /proc/mdstat -- it has inactive raids. I have tried to re-correct the problem by removing and adding

Re: suspend / hibernate

2008-08-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:07:07AM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: 2008/8/6 Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have had this problem for a little while now, when I come out of suspend / hibernation on on my Acer Aspire 5601AWLMi laptop I have very high system load. I am wondering if any one else has

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-05 Thread Kent West
with Stable. -- Kent West ))) Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-05 Thread Kent West
with Stable. -- Kent West ))) Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suspend / hibernate

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:28:50AM +0930, Dale wrote: Hi all, I have had this problem for a little while now, when I come out of suspend / hibernation on on my Acer Aspire 5601AWLMi laptop I have very high system load. I am wondering if any one else has or noticed this problem. I have been

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +0100, andy wrote: Hi all This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up-to-the-minute software (and related patches), are there any other benefits to using Sid? I am aware of the

Help with iPod touch?

2008-08-05 Thread Kent West
screen reports: Version: 2.0 (5A347) Model: MA623LL Googling hasn't turned up much help for me, so I'm hoping one of you folks can help me get it working; I'd hate to have to resort to using a Mac just to put some audio files on this thing. (Pfft! Proprietary; I hate proprietary!) -- Kent West

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +0100, andy wrote: Hi all This is just a general enquiry about the benefits of using Sid on a desktop or a workstation. Aside from obtaining up

Re: 2.6.24-4 kernel not booting

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:36:18PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: i appriciate your help. i am not new to linux but i am new to lvm and raid and recovery. if you give me some simple steps, i can follow. i would really like the help because my main ssystem is down. please provide step by step

Re: 2.6.24-4 kernel not booting

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:36:18PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: i appriciate your help. i am not new to linux but i am new to lvm and raid and recovery. if you give me some simple steps, i can follow. i would really like the help because my main ssystem is down. please provide step by step

kde4 without losing kde3?

2008-08-04 Thread Kent West
to 3? Or, if 4 doesn't work for me, can I purge the 4 packages, remove the experimental stuff from my sources.list file, and reinstall 3 and be back to normal? (Will I have to move my ~/.kde? directory? (I'll make a backup of my version 3 .kde stuff first, just in case.)) Thanks! -- Kent West

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-04 Thread Kent West
by aptitude dist-upgrade. Expect breakage. -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:54:14AM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jeff Soules wrote: What do you mean by up to par? http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/up+to+par I would venture to guess that we understand the expression, but just don't know what

Re: Printing from GIMP

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:43:11PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently purchased a new printer and drivers were not available for it in Etch, which I am running. Gutenprint 5.0.2 has the necessary drivers and I compiled it from source and the printer works great. My problem is that

Re: Sometimes only 1 desktop and no window border in KDE

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:54:35PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 07/27/2008 10:33 AM, Anton Liaukevich wrote: I have been using Lenny for several weeks yet (with KDE 3.5). For first two week all was Ok but then such a bug appeared: 1) In the KDE panel only one desktop available (but I have 4

Re: pc doesn't start

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Brian McKee wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Claudius Hubig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lóránd Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and the pc is in a wooden box:D but the connector is grounded, could that be the problem? I have

Re: Synchronize two folders in both way; criteria: last changed

2008-07-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:23:46PM +0200, Dvorzhetsky wrote: Hello, First I'll explain the situation: I have an archive folder with images, text and other type of files. I used to backup this folder from time to time but at some point I stop doing that and got confuse (or messy:) and

Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user

2008-07-24 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone # startx ...works $ startx ...does not I would start by looking in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and making sure the allowed_users line equals console. -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/

2008-07-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:21:23PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:57 흍㒲횛漨꺋帢ᚯ禫⵪ Paul, is your client hosed, or mine, or something else? The last two emails you sent only showed what is quoted above. On my

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: I have at home a small LAN with Debian GNU/Linux Etch boxes. The gateway/router can to access the internet but server and desktop

Suppressing console messages [was Re: x.org]

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 19, 11:30 pm, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please be sure to reply to the list and not to me personally. You will miss out on the wisdom of many more knowledgeable people than me... On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:57:54PM -0600, Cliff McAtee wrote

Re: apt upgrade sarge - etch udev error can't get past it. Ideas?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:26:45PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I am upgrading an old server to etch to be able to use new sata drives. I followed the release notes. I first did apt-get upgrade then I did apt-get install initrd-tools then i installed linux-image-2.6.18-686

Re: ping

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:05:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/22/08 18:30, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008, Ron Johnson a écrit : On 07/22/08 16:13, Preston Boyington wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: snipped It appears that something blocked my l.d.o email for

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:51:07PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:50, Arthur A wrote: I give up. snip Oh to hell with Debian. snip N. Problem solved. The probelm is not solved Arthur A I'm a wanker The problem is that I live in France, and to

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-22 Thread Kent West
Bruno Voigt wrote: I just found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc # which /dev/dsp wrapper to use ICEWEASEL_DSP=auto I changed it to none and everything is fine now :-) Yep; worked for me, too. -- Kent West ))) Westing Peacefully - http

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-22 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/22/08 22:56, Kent West wrote: Bruno Voigt wrote: I just found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc # which /dev/dsp wrapper to use ICEWEASEL_DSP=auto I changed it to none and everything is fine now :-) Yep; worked for me, too. But can you get

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-07-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:24:46PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: On Monday 21 July 2008 13:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,21.Jul.08, 03:55:20, Dominik Dera wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: and the blacklisting won't work if the module is in your initrd! You at least need to run

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:17:39PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: ... Could someone kindly point me to where I can get the base install for Etch, including KDE. I don't mind downloading 4 or 5 iso's if this is necessary. if you don't mind all the downloading, why don't you just download and

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-20 Thread Kent West
problem. I haven't had time to debug it yet, but one thing I noticed is that when I run ldd against /usr/bin/iceweasel, it dies also. This leads me to believe the problem is deeper than a mere iceweasel problem. -- Kent West ))) Westing Peacefully - http

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-20 Thread Kent West
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:22:38 -0500, Kent West wrote: Bruno Voigt wrote: I'm currently not able to start iceweasel ii iceweasel 3.0.1-1 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla ii iceweasel-gnome

Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:39:52AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: [breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated

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

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:30:31AM +0100, andy wrote: andy wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: andy wrote: Greetings The following is one of a number of sites (including, for example, parts of the NASA site) where I am told that my version of Flash Player is outdated: You need the latest

Re: [not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 03:25:44PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008 14:32, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Any suggestions about which one? DWM? I do not know. You may want to go with those that do not depend on extra libraries to keep things simple; not the ones that are part

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

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:01:17PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, you still aren't running the debian version, but instead running the adobe installed version. There's nothing inherently wrong

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:22:38 -0500, Kent West wrote: Bruno Voigt wrote: I'm currently not able to start iceweasel ii iceweasel 3.0.1-1 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla ii

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:22:38 -0500, Kent West wrote: Bruno Voigt wrote: I'm currently not able to start iceweasel ii iceweasel 3.0.1-1 lightweight web browser

Re: Seg fault

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:10:08PM -0400, Frank wrote: After the latest upgrades to Sid. I am getting a segmentation fault running (or trying to run) my mail reader Sylpheed. Where to start looking ?? have you logged out and back in yet? restarted X yet? maybe even restarted the machine

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Bruno Voigt wrote: I'm currently not able to start iceweasel ii iceweasel 3.0.1-1 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla ii iceweasel-gnome-support 3.0.1-1

Glacial ClearWire Download

2008-07-20 Thread Kent West
I'm having to download a lot of data via an aptitude dist-upgrade, and the download process is glacial, pulling down 6Kbs or 90Kbs, dial-up to just-barely-better-than dial-up speeds. I'm using ClearWire, but saw even slower speeds on Xanadoo (also a wireless ISP). A Windows computer in another

Re: Seg fault

2008-07-20 Thread Kent West
Frank wrote: Frank wrote: After the latest upgrades to Sid. I am getting a segmentation fault running (or trying to run) my mail reader Sylpheed. Where to start looking ?? I have since discovered I can run Sylpheed as root. FYI: I'm seeing similar problems with Iceweasel. I can run

Re: Seg fault

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
please reply to the list instead of to me directly. On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:22:24PM -0400, Frank wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:10:08PM -0400, Frank wrote: After the latest upgrades to Sid. I am getting a segmentation fault running (or trying to run) my

Re: debian/unstable: iceweasel segmentation fault

2008-07-20 Thread Kent West
Frank wrote: Kent West wrote: New clue. I just discovered that sudo iceweasel works. My problems sounds like yours...except I can run Iceweasel. It's Sylpheed I can't run...except as root. I'm not seeing my messages getting through to debian-user, so I'm CC:ing Frank on this. I've

Re: Glacial ClearWire Download

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 03:24:19PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'm having to download a lot of data via an aptitude dist-upgrade, and the download process is glacial, pulling down 6Kbs or 90Kbs, dial-up to just-barely-better-than dial-up speeds. I'm using ClearWire, but saw even slower

Re: apt-get/aptitude bustage with gnucash

2008-07-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:36:15PM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: I have just attempted a dist-upgrade with bost apt-get and aptitude, and both of them want to remove gnucash from my system (sid). This seems to be busted. At the moment there is a new gnucash-common (2.2.4-2) but no new

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