Minitube in the stable branch

2020-12-31 Thread Davide Lombardo
What is the point of packaging such software for the stable release ? Doesn't the package maintainer know the application stop working after some time because Google is constantly changing things on their side. I think would be a better policy doesn't packaging such software for the stable bran

if you want to see Debian (no one have seen it before! ;-)

2020-11-14 Thread Davide Prina
tedomum.net/data/Tulip6-e5392f.png Note that the main block have the Debian spiral form :-) Note that the high number of edges/nodes can cause slow down or block you computer with some algorithms (I have a very old PC with few RAM and I notice that a lot). You can also make more complex analysis fetch other data, for example: DD names, DD nationality; upstream source (es: sourceforge, github, ...); package tags; package dimension, ... I don't know very well or nothing of the algorithm used to get this graphs, if someone of you are expert in this can extract very useful information with Tulip :-) Ciao Davide

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-04 Thread Davide Lombardo
nome Files for every Locale in the World! It > took a while to clean this up! > > > On Fri, 3 Jul 2020, Davide Lombardo wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 13:17:33 > > > From: Davide Lombardo > > > To: Debian-user List Debian > > > Subject: Very old

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-04 Thread Davide Lombardo
On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:01:50 CEST Christian Groessler wrote: > 3000 Lire? > > Did you mean 3.000,000 Lire? > > regards, > chris > > On 2020-07-03 19:17, Davide Lombardo wrote: > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > CPU:

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-04 Thread Davide Lombardo
On Friday, 3 July 2020 22:57:06 CEST Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:17:33 +0200 > > Davide Lombardo wrote: > > Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > > CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > > It might be useful to identify the manu

Re: How do I troubleshoot wireless network dropping?

2020-07-04 Thread Davide Lombardo
On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:26:18 CEST Borden Rhodes wrote: > I'm looking for help on how to interpret journalctl to understand why > my wireless keeps disconnecting. I have two wireless adapters on my > laptop: an internal Intel card and a USB dongle. The former has driver > issues, so I generall

Re: my Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!!

2020-07-04 Thread Davide Lombardo
On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 23:16:47 CEST Marco Möller wrote: > !THANK YOU! Thank You Debian Developers! > > My Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!! > > My old laptop running on Debian/testing since the update from today > flies like a rocket!! It before was fine, I di

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-04 Thread Davide Lombardo
On Friday, 3 July 2020 20:58:52 CEST Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 07:17:33PM +0200, Davide Lombardo wrote: > >Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: > >CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; > >DRAM: 64 MB SDDR > >GPU: RIVA TNT-2 >

Very old hardware...

2020-07-03 Thread Davide Lombardo
Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; DRAM: 64 MB SDDR GPU: RIVA TNT-2 HARDISK: 10 GB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE MODEM 56K In the receipt is written 3,000 Lire (1,500) Euro of today... Do you think I can install something different than the already ins

Previous versions of Debian GNU/Linux

2019-12-10 Thread Davide Lombardo
I would like to download and test the previous versions of Debian for historical reason, is it possible to safely download such versions somewhere ?

Re: Re: Problem compiling libpoppler=0.48.0-2 in Jessie

2016-11-30 Thread Davide Anchisi
I do have libpoppler-qt5-1: dpkg -l libpoppler-qt5-1 ii libpoppler-qt5-1:amd6 0.26.5-2+deb8u1 and libpoppler-qt5.so.1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpoppler-qt5.so.1 The command to build the package. I first went with: apt-get -b source libpoppler64=0.48.0-2 but also tried: dpkg-build

Problem compiling libpoppler=0.48.0-2 in Jessie

2016-11-22 Thread Davide Anchisi
Hi, I am trying to compile "libpoppler" in Debian Jessie (amd64) from testing sources: apt-get -b source libpoppler64=0.48.0-2 I resolved the build dependencies: apt-get build-dep libpoppler64=0.48.0-2 The build begins, but stops with an error: make[1]: entering directory &qu

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Davide Mirtillo
.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE_114/opensuse-reference/cha.yast.text.html > What about aptitude? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude_(software) -- Davide Mirtillo Ser. Tec. S.R.L. http://dpidgprinting.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: iceweasel tab groups: 100% cpu load

2012-12-07 Thread Davide Anchisi
2012/12/7 Andrei POPESCU > On Vi, 07 dec 12, 12:29:36, Davide Anchisi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it is very frustrating when I use tab groups in iceweasel, because it is > so > > slw. > > The problem seems to be xorg which loads the cpu to 100% when displayin

iceweasel tab groups: 100% cpu load

2012-12-07 Thread Davide Anchisi
, stable and testing; - iceweasel 16.0.2 (but I had the problem also with version 10.x and previous); - video card nNVIDIA quadro135M and nvidia driver (nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-2.6.32-3-amd64). Thanks for any help, Davide

Re: Debian and OSS vs vSphere

2012-02-29 Thread Davide Mirtillo
go with the install cd i downloaded off their website since usually guides like the one i linked always cause issues, but i admit i did not try the procedure. Anyway, from what i can see, the 2.0 interface works like a charm and i had no trouble setting up a couple VMs just to play with: I&#

Re: Debian and OSS vs vSphere

2012-02-29 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 28/02/2012 20:08, Peter Teunissen ha scritto: > > On 28 feb. 2012, at 16:15, Robert Brockway wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Davide Mirtillo wrote: >> >>> I was also wondering if any of you had opinions regarding Proxmox. >>> >>> http://pve.pr

Re: Debian and OSS vs vSphere

2012-02-28 Thread Davide Mirtillo
s like a solid solution and it also looks it's gonna be something that works out of the box by just installing it, which is kinda what i was hoping for - yes, i know, i'm lazy :) -- Davide Mirtillo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4ced70.9080...@ser-tec.org

Debian and OSS vs vSphere

2012-02-28 Thread Davide Mirtillo
pporting it oob. I am also currently looking at the various pages on the debian wiki on Xen, QEMU, OpenVZ and the suggested softwares to work with virtualization. If you have other valid sources of information, they would be really appreciated. [1] http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-

Re: How to design a centralized cross-platform BACKUP solution ?

2012-02-14 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 14/02/2012 09:50, J. Bakshi ha scritto: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:43:39 +0100 > Davide Mirtillo wrote: > >> Il 14/02/2012 08:00, J. Bakshi ha scritto: >>> Hello list, >>> >>> I like to implement a debian server with plenty of HDD space to work as a

Re: How to design a centralized cross-platform BACKUP solution ?

2012-02-14 Thread Davide Mirtillo
d between backuppc and bacula. I eventually ended up using backuppc because bacula turned out to be too complex for my case and i have to admit, backuppc is a really well done software, if you set it up correctly. -- Davide Mirtillo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Davide Mirtillo
lity and more durable than the blue ranges. Once > burnt, twice shy. > Attitude? I would worry about the technical details of the drive. And yes, system specifications do help if you need an advice. If you were going for a RAID setup, i would reccomend you pick other brands. http://en.wikipedia.org

pyPdf with python3?

2011-09-26 Thread Davide Anchisi
: sqeeze, with some packages from testing and debian-backports. Some other python packages on my system: python2.* (2.5.5-11; 2.6.7-3; 2.7.2-5). Thanks for any help Davide

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-13 Thread Davide Baldini
On 06/13/11 15:50, Chris Brennan wrote: > I'm a mutt user and vim is my editor of choice, if that's the route you > would like to go then the following will make your life somewhat easier. I know nothing about vim.. but I rule that little on emacs. For minimal use of mail/news like I do a graphi

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-13 Thread Davide Baldini
On 06/13/11 15:37, Camaleón wrote: > This doc covers both of them: > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Viewing_Headers > > Greetings, > Oh thanks that's guide is much helpful. Anyway, i found the margin setting as told earlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-12 Thread Davide Baldini
This doesn't seem to be such a common/requested feature though nearly everyone uses it in newsgroups. On 06/13/11 05:05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I suspect you get something similar to this > > dummytextdummytextdumm ytext dummytextdummytextdumm ytext > > Right? exactly > Perhaps you need to edi

news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-12 Thread Davide Baldini
What software do you use for mail/news? I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget, lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i see the big mistake... is there any margins set

Re: Debian on a Macbook (Leopard): package xserver-xorg-video-intel leads to blank screen on reboot

2011-04-15 Thread Davide Baldini
Wikipedia reads: "Support for Intel GMA graphic cards has been accepted in version 2.6.29 which was released on March 23, 2009." May it be easier to try a prior 2.6.29 kernel instead of disabling kms? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Debian on a Macbook (Leopard): Xorg installation leads to blank screen on reboot

2011-04-09 Thread Davide Baldini
GM965 graphics controller is well supported now and should work on defaults with your 2.6.32-5 kernel. By the first boot you told to start X you needed to manually issue startx. But since the second boot, standing at your description, the blanked screen after "some textlines" rolled up, would sug

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-09 Thread Davide Baldini
On 04/09/11 09:36, Larry Wazny wrote: I have been trying for the last hour to download a copy. I have not used Linus for years, which was Redhat. I get the parent directory which allows me to do nothing. I have tried http and torrent and have never experienced such difficulty. No wonder windows

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-09 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 09/02/2011 10:09, Stan Hoeppner ha scritto: > Davide Mirtillo put forth on 2/9/2011 1:06 AM: > >>> Is this a brand name server, white box, DIY? If the latter, what >>> motherboard? >> >> It's a low end dedicated server i am renting. I've

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-09 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 09/02/2011 08:32, shawn wilson ha scritto: >> I installed the 32bit OS because the 64bit ones i tried were crashing >> miserably. I know i shouldnt be using the 32bit bigmem kernel, but it >> was the default when i installed lenny using the preconfigured images >> from the datace

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 08/02/2011 15:11, Stan Hoeppner ha scritto: >> I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has > > Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why run > the bigmem kernel on a machine with only 1 GB RAM? The bigmem kernel is only > needed for PAE,

Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread Davide Mirtillo
irmware-realtek debian package. I would love to have some opinions on how to deal with this. -- Davide Mirtillo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d51280c.4030...@gmail.com

Re: Acer Aspire 5520G microphone issues

2011-01-25 Thread Davide Mirtillo
FT http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+ask+questions+the+smart+way -- Davide Mirtillo EV Network, Via Emilio Salgari 14/e 31056 Roncade (TV), Italy http://evnetwork.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: GMail backup on debian

2011-01-17 Thread Davide Mirtillo
gmail mailbox is becoming big ? > > Thanks ! I'm using offlineimap to back up my mail, it works pretty well with gmail, and it's in the debian repos :) http://packages.debian.org/lenny/offlineimap -- Davide Mirtillo EV Network, Via Emilio Salgari 14/e 31056 Roncade (TV), Italy htt

Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

2010-11-13 Thread Davide Mancusi
> /dev/sda55234719115727603+ 83 Linux > > /dev/sda671927452 2096451 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > > /dev/sda77453 1216137825011 83 Linux > > > > Any ideas? > > John Do

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-17 Thread Davide Mancusi
gt; 'filename' as being used. Try lsof -p process_id You should be able to access the same info from the /proc interface, too. I don't know where (if?) it is in /sys. Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-17 Thread Davide Mancusi
gt; 'filename' as being used. Try lsof -p process_id You should be able to access the same info from the /proc interface, too. I don't know where (if?) it is in /sys. Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault

Re: problems with cpufreq utils

2010-09-03 Thread Davide Baldini
On 09/03/10 13:53, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I am having problems on my media box, it used to be able to play hd stuff easily, recently it has been having problems. I believe I have tracked down the problem to cpufreq-utils. analyzing CPU 3: driver: powernow-k8 CPUs which run at the sam

Re: ftp root password

2010-08-31 Thread Davide Baldini
You wouldn't fix it. if you want to upload files to a restricted directory you could add your account to root group and allow it to write the directory, or you could set a new account specific for ftp maintenance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Locked up Gnome

2010-08-31 Thread Davide Baldini
Current testing versions of gnome & gnome components are giving lot of troubles to me mainly crashes and resource floods. Just for test I got kde (kde3 tanks to a repachage for squeeze, see link) some days ago and the performance boost was unimaginable. All the system was lighter; iceweasel i'd

Re: Locked up Gnome

2010-08-31 Thread Davide Baldini
Current testing versions of gnome & gnome components are giving lot of troubles to me mainly crashes and resource floods. Just for test I got kde (kde3 tanks to a repachage for squeeze, see link) some days ago and the performance boost was unimaginable. All the system was lighter; iceweasel i'd

Re: Locked up Gnome

2010-08-31 Thread Davide Baldini
Current testing versions of gnome & gnome components are giving lot of troubles to me mainly crashes and resource floods. Just for test I got kde (kde3 tanks to a repachage for squeeze, see link) some days ago and the performance boost was unimaginable. All the system was lighter; iceweasel i'd

Re: Re: Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-06 Thread Davide Mirtillo
el module loaded, if so, that might be the cause of your crashes. Get the proper drivers for your NIC on the realtek website, compile them against your kernel, run depmod, blacklist the old module, update initramfs and you shouldn't have any more trouble. -- Davide Mirtillo -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Unwanted xscreensaver process spawned by startkde (KDE4)

2009-10-20 Thread Davide Mancusi
Guys, this is really driving me nuts. Running KDE4 on sid. When I log in, there are always an xscreensaver and a ssh-agent instance running, even though I log in into an empty session: dav...@macco:~$ ps aux | grep xscr davide1580 0.0 0.0 7272 820 pts/1R+ 20:59

Re: Are these scan logs dangerous ?

2009-07-05 Thread Davide Prina
: # fuser -n tcp 113 You can use also lsoft # lsof -i -n # lsof -i TCP:113 Ciao Davide -- Dizionari: http://linguistico.sourceforge.net/wiki Browser: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox GNU/Linux User: 302090: http://counter.li.org Non autorizzo la memorizzazione del mio indirizzo su outlook

Re: Are these scan logs dangerous ?

2009-07-05 Thread Davide Prina
nt service active Ciao Davide -- Dizionari: http://linguistico.sourceforge.net/wiki Perché microsoft continua a compiere azioni illegali?: http://linguistico.sf.net/wiki/doku.php?id=traduzioni:ms_illegal GNU/Linux User: 302090: http://counter.li.org Non autorizzo la memorizzazione del mio indirizzo

Re: AltGr broken in GTK apps (?) since yesterday's upgrade

2009-07-02 Thread Davide Mancusi
that you are not passing any lv3 option to X. Three places you should look at: /etc/default/console-setup /etc/X11/xorg.conf your KDE "Regional and language" configuration To check if X is running with a lv3 option enables, try setxkbmap -print Cheers, Davide -- To UN

Re: AltGr broken in GTK apps (?) since yesterday's upgrade

2009-06-11 Thread Davide Mancusi
16.1-2, libgtk2.0-bin 2.16.2-1 -> 2.16.1-2 and libgtk2.0-common 2.16.2-1 -> 2.16.1-2, but it didn't help. It would be nice if we were at least able to identify which library handles keyboard input for Mozilla and is thus responsible for the breakage. Davide -- Time flies like an arro

AltGr broken in GTK apps (?) since yesterday's upgrade

2009-06-04 Thread Davide Mancusi
neither Iceweasel nor Claws were upgraded. Could it be related to GTK? Has anyone experienced the same behaviour? Cheers, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

qcmessenger in 2.6.29-amd64 kernel

2009-05-18 Thread Davide Mancusi
In 2.6.26-amd64 there was a kernel module called qcmessenger, but it's not there in 2.6.29. Does anyone know what happened to it? Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386

2009-05-14 Thread Davide Mancusi
rong here. > > I run lenny on both systems. > > I get the same behaviour for -i868 and -amd64 kernels on i386. Try compiling with -ffloat-store on i386. Also, is it a pure FORTRAN program or do you have some parts written in other languages? And finally, are you linking to some ex

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-29 Thread Davide Mancusi
tastiera > > > > The "keyboard" module is not listed among the possible choices. I > > have also checked with "ldd /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_keyboard.so" that all > > linked libraries are available. What could I do next? > > http://bugs.debian.org/524506 >

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-28 Thread Davide Mancusi
ed and debsums does not complain; still... dav...@macco:~$ kcmshell4 --list | grep keyboard keyboard_layout- Mappatura della tastiera The "keyboard" module is not listed among the possible choices. I have also checked with "ldd /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_keyboard.so" that all link

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-27 Thread Davide Mancusi
libs5 4:4.2.2-2 ii kdelibs5-data 4:4.2.2-2 ii systemsettings 4:4.2.2-2 The 3.5.10 packages are there to satisfy dependencies of isolated KDE3 programs. Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped --

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-27 Thread Davide Mancusi
p; Mouse > > Keyboard > > should have an "Enable keyboard repeat" checkbox and two sliders for > adjusting the initial delay and the repetition rate. I've got four tabs ("Mouse", "Joystick", "Standard Keyboard Shortcuts" and "Glo

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-27 Thread Davide Mancusi
> > But the keyboard repeat rate is not set by Xkb, as far > > as I'm aware. > > Right. As far as I can tell it's set in the WM/DE (for Xfce: Menu -> > Settings -> Keyboard: Behaviour tab). ...but KDE4.2 doesn't have it. Grrr. Davide -- T

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-26 Thread Davide Mancusi
be nice if there were a comprehensive translation > > guide for the xorg.conf --> hal transition. > > Here's a start: > > http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide Thanks for the link. I was aware of that document, and that's how I built my custom

Re: X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-23 Thread Davide Mancusi
50" > > in /etc/default/console-setup > Nope, it doesn't help... but maybe I should focus on the console first. Thanks anyway, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- To UNSU

X.org Keyboard repeat rate through hal

2009-04-23 Thread Davide Mancusi
cy file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ called 12-davide.fdi (see below for the content of the file). The "input.x11_options.AutoRepeat" key is my latest unsuccessful attempt. It would be nice if there were a comprehensive translation guide for the xorg.conf --> hal tran

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-21 Thread Davide Mancusi
line, but I will try 2.6.28 as soon as it becomes available in sid. Thank you all for the feedback. Cheers, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

External USB HD showing up late in /dev

2009-03-18 Thread Davide Mancusi
really understand why udev doesn't pick on the new devices automatically, as soon as the kernel creates them. I have tried to add WAIT_FOR="/dev/exthd1" to my udev rule, but it didn't help. Any help would be appreciated. Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies

Re: Old fglrx not at snapshot.debian.org?

2009-01-29 Thread Davide Mancusi
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >> I need to downgrade my fglrx driver to version 8-7-3 but I > >> can't find the package at snapshot.debian.org nor at > >> packages.debian.org. Could anyone please give me a clue? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Davide &g

Old fglrx not at snapshot.debian.org?

2009-01-28 Thread Davide Mancusi
I need to downgrade my fglrx driver to version 8-7-3 but I can't find the package at snapshot.debian.org nor at packages.debian.org. Could anyone please give me a clue? Cheers, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegment

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Davide Mancusi
ypt my data, or something > similar? I am looking for something feasible, considering I can't > afford to run my own tunnel or proxy. There are web-based IRC clients. GIYF. Cheers, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegm

Re: Bad blocks and powernowd

2009-01-19 Thread Davide Mancusi
2009/1/16 Johannes Wiedersich : > Davide Mancusi wrote: >> The hard disk of my 4-year-old laptop is starting to fail. I ran >> fsck.ext3 -c on my root partition yesterday and a few blocks were >> marked as damaged. The blocks contained some XFCE4 theme files, so I >> th

Bad blocks and powernowd

2009-01-16 Thread Davide Mancusi
nal any damaged files belonging to powernowd. Can anyone help me sort this out? Could it be that fsck -c did not mark some blocks as damaged because I ran it with the root partition mounted read-only (as opposed to unmounted)? Thanks in advance for the attention! Davide -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: virtualbox-ose problem: how to run "modprobe vboxdrv" automatically

2008-12-14 Thread Davide Mancusi
ally? Modules listed in /etc/modules will be modprobe'd automatically at boot. Cheers, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: obtaining linux-source or linux-image for 686 versions 2.6.19 - 2.6.23

2008-11-30 Thread Davide Mancusi
of the eata module to work > successfully? Sure. Try http://snapshot.debian.net/ Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: chrony and DST

2008-11-16 Thread Davide Mancusi
ose 224 seconds sound a lot like the 3-minute offset the hwclock had. We shall see what happens at the next reboot. > Try this as root: > > hwclock --utc -w > > then compare "date" and "hwclock -r" again. # hwclock --utc -w # hwclock -r && date d

Re: chrony and DST

2008-11-16 Thread Davide Mancusi
00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 26 02:00:00 2008 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600 chronyd was holding /dev/rtc, so I had to kill it before running hwclock. Thanks for the interest, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dump

chrony and DST

2008-11-15 Thread Davide Mancusi
with ntpd... Thanks, Davide -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- If anything can go wrong it wSegmentation fault core dumped -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple Java installed, how to switch?

2008-02-10 Thread Davide Mancusi
pdate-alternatives). HTH, Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
in xorg.conf. In my configuration (see previous e-mail) I use Shift+Shift to switch keyboard layout (that's what the "grp:shifts_toggle" option does). There are other possibilities, but I don't remember now where they are documented. Try some googling on "xkb options gro

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
You don't need setxkbmap to switch between different keyboard layouts. I also use KDE, but I prefer to use kkbswitch and set up X as follows: Thanks Davide, are you on Debian sid too? Yes. I switched to kkbswitch because I had problems with KDE's management of multip

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout""it,se" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle,compose:menu,lv3:rwin_switch" EndSection Cheers,

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-06 Thread Davide Mancusi
iceweasel in normal mode, disable all the extensions by hand and re-enable them one at a time until you find the culprit. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-06 Thread Davide Mancusi
ausing problems... HTH, Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: security keys

2008-02-05 Thread Davide Mancusi
e verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt$ Try to install debian-multimedia-keyring. Cheers, Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time fli

multiple qc-usb drivers?

2008-02-02 Thread Davide Mancusi
out of the module sources. Thanks for the help! Davide [1] http://home.mag.cx/messenger/ [2] http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://tuukkat.awardspace.com/quickcam/quickcam.html -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana

Re: Can not login to Gnome

2008-01-13 Thread Davide Mancusi
Pantor ha scritto: Login as root OK, login KDE as root and user OK. Login as root --- very bad idea. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Broken Swedish keyboard layout

2008-01-09 Thread Davide Mancusi
oken behavior when I use your keyboard definition in my xorg.conf. Running "setxkbmap" without arguments seems to restore the normal "se" keyboard. This is probably a bug somewhere in xkb-data. Thanks, Florian. I will file a bug report. Davide -- A tautology is a th

Broken Swedish keyboard layout

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
ch" EndSection However, the Swedish (se) layout has been broken for a while now. If I type "qwerty", for example, I obtain "@ł€rt←", which is a bit annoying. Anyone with the same problem? Running Sid on amd64. Cheers, Davide -- A tautology is a thing which

Re: texexec utility?

2007-12-21 Thread Davide Mancusi
Davide Mancusi ha scritto: I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see texexec. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list bin/texexec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I apologise. Wrong command... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search bin/texexec context: usr/bin/texexec This one seems to

Re: texexec utility?

2007-12-21 Thread Davide Mancusi
ISHWAR RATTAN ha scritto: I have textex/texlive installed but I do not see texexec. $ which texexec $ What package is this utility part of? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file list bin/texexec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Looks like texexec is not in Debian. What did it do? Davide -- A

Re: Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-21 Thread Davide Mancusi
John Salmon ha scritto: I keep seeing "Aptitude Reference Manual" mentioned in the documentation but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? Have you installed aptitude-doc-en? Then you should find the documentation in the standard location: /usr/share/doc/ap

Re: GDM/KDM users not displaying in list on Sid

2007-12-18 Thread Davide Mancusi
re several tools to select which users should appear in the list at the prompt. Check there if everything looks as it should. Cannot help about gdm, sorry. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Jerky Mouse

2007-11-28 Thread Davide Mancusi
files in /dev/input/. Hope that helps! Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipod

2007-11-25 Thread Davide Mancusi
or me, it can transfer songs, podcasts, album covers and even submit the listened tracks to last.fm. The catch is that it will pull in a lot of KDE libraries when you install it (not a problem for me, since I use KDE anyway). Hope that helps! Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautolo

Re: Compiling .deb from source with additional parameters?

2007-11-13 Thread Davide Mancusi
u should have a look at $ ./configure --help and add or modify the relevant options in /debian/rules (look for CFLAGS). Then build everything using dpkg-buildpackage. HTH, Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNS

Re: Mount HFS+

2007-11-11 Thread Davide Mancusi
webjay ha scritto: # mount -t hfsplus -r /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk ^^^ Shouldn't this be sda1? Just a thought, I do not use HFS+. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a b

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-08 Thread Davide Mancusi
omatically. You need to kill kdm first, otherwise you will not have the chance to unplug/plug the recompiled module. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
be -r fglrx # modprobe fglrx # /etc/init.d/kdm start Will try that next time. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
a dpkg-reconfigure No, you need to reboot because you recompile the kernel module. Still, there might a way to avoid this but a simple dpkg-reconfigure won't help. Davide -- A tautology is a thing which is tautological. -- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-04 Thread Davide Mancusi
s windowed and I think some effects are disabled. Probably ATI broke some of the GLX extensions in the 8.40 --> 8.42 upgrade. Thank you very much for your help anyway! I have posted a bug on the ATI bugzilla and if something pops up, I will post here again. Davide -- A tautology is a thin

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-04 Thread Davide Mancusi
Davide Mancusi ha scritto: [...] building the package does not work. It fails like this (long log follows): [snipped] For the benefit of those who are trying to walk the same path: I have managed to create the packages by following the instructions on the ATI wiki [1]. The drivers from the

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-04 Thread Davide Mancusi
Jonathan Kaye ha scritto: Hi Davide, Here's how I did it: 1. Remove all fglrx packages currently installed. 2. as root or using sudo a. go to /usr/src/modules and rm -r fglrx b. if you an flgrx-kernel .deb file in /usr/src, delete it. Now to build the new driver. 1. Go to the folder

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-03 Thread Davide Mancusi
Jonathan Kaye ha scritto: Hi Davide, I've installed it and it's BRILLIANT Three cheers for ATI they've got it right! fgl_glxgears ran around 380fps under 8.39. Now, under 8.42 it's over 500! So I'd say go for it. Cheers, Jonathan Thank you all for the feedback. I

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-01 Thread Davide Mancusi
Let me know... I wanted to try that yesterday but I was too tired. If it works, I might give it a shot tonight. Cheers, Davide -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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