Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-06 Thread Matt
remains that yum update installs things and apt-get update simply updates the database.  This caused me considerable confusion.  I suggest that you check this before telling me that I am incorrect in believing it. Doing: yum update Causes yum to check all installed packages including kernel

Re: mobi files reader

2011-05-25 Thread Matt Richardson
if you don't run unstable. http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux -- Matt -- 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/BANLkTintz3y72iS1oisz7K=nzm7tkna

Re: mobi files reader

2011-05-25 Thread Matt Richardson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: You can also use FBreader. Calibre does have a built-in reader, but is more of a library manager and does conversions as Matt said. The difference between Calibre and FBreader is like the difference between, say, Amarok

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Matt Harrison
In your /etc/apt/sources.list file you need to place a # before the entry for the CDROM. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, huubvanniek...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've installed Debian 5 without X, and so far had no problem installing extra packages from CDROM. However, now I need to install from

Automounting USB drives

2011-05-19 Thread Matt Harrison
for a couple of days now but I have not found anything yet. Thanks! -Matt -- 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/BANLkTi=esrzg5uhfdouh9+ejckc69fy...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Squeeze boot takes 9 minutes; no sound and no 3D acceleration

2011-05-17 Thread Matt Richardson
to Squeeze updates, I had to run apt-get a few times to clear up error messages related to dependency loops, but nothing that caused time outs like you are experiencing. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problem with Driver!

2011-05-16 Thread Matt Richardson
). Alternatively, there is a cd image with the non-free drivers included, link can be found on the wiki page. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant [2] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-bnx2 -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Problem with Driver!

2011-05-16 Thread Matt Richardson
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote: Hi Matt / Yashar, I have got a problem with Network controller on HP ProLiant DL380 G7 E5620 and HP ProLiant DL380 G6 E5504. The matrix on the wiki page[1] says you need the bnx2 firmware.  I just installed Squeeze

Re: Access to non-free from aptitude?

2011-05-12 Thread Matt Harrison
On 5/12/11, Charles Blair c-bl...@illinois.edu wrote: Somewhere I read that this should be done by modifying the /etc/apt/sources.list file. I tried changing this to: deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ lenny main deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ lenny non-free but I'm still

Re: Re^2: inconsistent reports from lpstat

2011-04-26 Thread Matt Richardson
, so I can't speak much about using the lpr commands with cups. I haven't used magicfilter as cups has worked well in my environment: samba with Windows and Apple clients. -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: inconsistent reports from lpstat

2011-04-25 Thread Matt Richardson
queues. -- Matt -- 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/banlktimt5k8br9zwvpczwv-qfokrrxr...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-04-05 11:51:13 George Standish wrote: If you need more support than Debian provides and= 5 years,

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:24:39 Matt Harrison wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

2011-04-04 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hum... I've got some servers hosted on XO (San Jose, CA) and no one there is able to speak to me in Spanish when I place a call :-P That's oddMost of where I have been in California always have someone who speaks fluent

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

2011-04-04 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:17:56 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: (hey Matt, next time you want to going on-list again, advice ;-) On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: Hum... I've got some servers hosted on XO (San Jose

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread Matt Richardson
changes in Squeeze need this syntax. -- Matt -- 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/aanlktinkiydurxkk1bwpzxccmje3xdl_yzxnirtn4...@mail.gmail.com

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 30 mar 11, 16:17:52, Chris Brennan wrote: So why the hell is apache being installed/upgraded on a desktop install w/ no

Re: cups in squeeze with ethernet postscript printer

2011-03-25 Thread Matt Richardson
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org wrote: * Matt Richardson shortp...@gmail.com [110325 04:45]: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Russell L. Harris rlhar...@broadcaster.org wrote: I have made repeated attempts without success to use the web interface

Re: Problem/regression on ETPS elantech touchpad

2011-03-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Sorry to top post this, but I'm in a hurry. I actually got my touchpad working again. I'll dig up the documentation that I used and post it when I find it, unless someone else is able to get it to you first. It has something to do with creating a configuration file and setting something with

Re: cups in squeeze with ethernet postscript printer

2011-03-24 Thread Matt Richardson
sabotaged, in order to discourage Linux and to promote the MacOS? I tend to go with cock up over conspiracy, like the spurious 'File not found: /System/Library/blahblahblah' messages in my error log, but I have to admit I wasn't very happy about Apple buying ESP. -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Cups printing missing color profile

2011-03-22 Thread Matt Richardson
systems. -- Matt -- 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/aanlktimumctwpubewhmaaekskidzt2bxmvnsfuc3t...@mail.gmail.com

Apt-get, Exclude

2011-03-21 Thread Matt
Have worked mostly with CentOS. In CentOS we frequently use 'yum update' to keep the server up to date. For packages that we do not want updated we add them to exclude in yum.conf. Is there anything like exclude for apt-get in Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Squeeze install hangs reading CD drive

2011-02-15 Thread Matt Harrison
cat debian-6.0.0-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdc sync Instead of doing this, have you tried running: dd if=(path to ISO) of=/dev/sdX ? I did this with the netinstall ISO and the Disk 1 CD ISO and it worked just fine for me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Lenny or Squeeze?

2011-01-25 Thread Matt Harrison
Stable. I know the Ubuntu upgrade between distros is crap so I really don't want to just finish customizing Lenny to the way I want it to only have an upgrade reinstall all of the packages that I just uninstalled. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Squeeze RC1 expert installer seems to have outdated message about Grub 2

2011-01-21 Thread Matt Hoskins
is out of date. Is my assessment correct? Should I file this as a bug report? If so, what should I file it against? Regards, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Squeeze RC1 expert installer seems to have outdated message about Grub 2

2011-01-21 Thread Matt Hoskins
which package to look in and failed to get the right terms to find that entry in the bug tracker. Thanks for looking anyway, and good to discover that it has been fixed! Regards, Matt On Vi, 21 ian 11, 10:59:44, Matt Hoskins wrote: I'm doing a fresh install of Squeeze RC1 on amd64 from

Re: What is possible with static ip?

2010-12-09 Thread Matt Smith
box behind the other one? Ta, Matt. -- 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/idrc35$7u...@dough.gmane.org

What is possible with static ip?

2010-12-07 Thread Matt Smith
I discovered my isp has assigned me a static ip. Does this mean I can make files available over the internet, if I want to leave a box running 24/7? Thanks, Matt Smith. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Nouveau and Nvidia backlight brightness

2010-11-13 Thread Matt Simmons
that this is the code determining my max brightness. More like hoping, than guessing really. Can anyone provide any insight about this, perhaps? Might hacking this file with a kernel recompile change the max_brightness? Thanks, Matt On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri

Nouveau and Nvidia backlight brightness

2010-11-12 Thread Matt Simmons
the brightness should be more like 40,000 on this guy. Anyway, installing the NVidia proprietary driver yields strange results (download from NVidia, not debian repos), there is nothing in the folder /sys/class/backlight at all! Kernel 2.6.32-5 amd64. Thanks, Matt

Newbie alert: Single package from unstable

2010-11-12 Thread Matt Simmons
Hi, how can I install a package from unstable? (currently running testing) For example, I know it should be something like: # apt-get install uswsusp/unstable However, my output is: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Release 'unstable' for

zorp in squeeze -- Need tproxy Patch for iptables?

2010-10-02 Thread Matt Miller
I think I need to patch iptables, but I'm not seeing how to do that. -- Matt Miller mattmille...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

zorp in Squeeze? Can't Compile balabit Source

2010-07-14 Thread Matt Miller
= 3.1.0: is pkg-config in path? (I've built and installed libzorpll3.1.8 and libzorpll-dev from the 3.1.8.4.1 source at balabit.) Any ideas? Is 3.1 (or higher) of zorp itself coming to unstable or testing soon? -- Matt Miller mattmille...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all

Re: Key logger

2010-07-07 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Andre Majorel aym-nai...@teaser.fr wrote: Can anyone recommend a key logger for Debian ? apt-cache search key logger Though I've never used a key logger. Cheers, -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: PPP MTU on an Ethernet link.

2010-03-29 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
link/ether 00:50:ba:52:79:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Questions Can anyone explain why the dhcp negotiation in Lenny results in MTU = 576? It may be a path MTU discovery. -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagr...@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems

Re: j2se on debian

2010-02-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
contrib non-free /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list 2 sudo aptitude update 3 sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk 1 needs to be done as root 1 Sun's java is in non-free 3 in aptitude you can search for Sun's java with /^sun-java HTH, -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagr...@d.umn.edu - (218

Re: A tool for auto amplifying of wav/flac files.

2010-02-04 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
algorithm. -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagr...@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 4096R/42A00942 2009-12-16 Fingerprint: 5814 2CCE 2383 2991 83FF C899 07E2 BFA8 42A0 0942 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
=`lsb_release -i -s 2 /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rootdelay=15 console=ttyS0,9600 GRUB_TERMINAL=serial Note the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line, it includes console=ttyS0,9600. Perhaps it is time to file a bug report against grub-pc? -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagr...@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844

Re: e2defrag

2010-02-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
, -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagr...@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 4096R/42A00942 2009-12-16 Fingerprint: 5814 2CCE 2383 2991 83FF C899 07E2 BFA8 42A0 0942 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot

Re: e2defrag

2010-02-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
, testing, unstable, or experimental. Indeed. I re-updated my apt-file cache and came up with the same results - nada. -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagr...@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 4096R/42A00942 2009-12-16 Fingerprint: 5814

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Point? I didn't see that you were already associated... sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap any -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagr...@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 4096R/42A00942 2009-12-16 Fingerprint: 5814 2CCE 2383 2991 83FF C899 07E2

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 16:00 -0600, Kent West wrote: So, how do I associate an Access Point? Associate to a wireless network: sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid UMD-Wireless Associate to a AP, I wouldn't do this step: sudo iwconfig wlan0 ap mac-address-of-ap-radio sudo ifup wlan0 -- Matt Zagrabelny

Debian PCI Question

2009-11-13 Thread Matt McCants
know I'm not alone in the world thinking that backporting security fixes is much more secure than installing the latest versions. Right? Thanks for your time, Matt This message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from

Re: Installing a Shavian font for Epiphany

2009-11-08 Thread Matt Kraai
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 01:54:29PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 21:39:55 -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: Hi, I'd like to install a Shavian font so that I can take the Shavian tutorial at http://shavian.org.uk/learn/ using Epiphany. I've installed ttf-mph-2b

Installing a Shavian font for Epiphany

2009-11-07 Thread Matt Kraai
characters are always shown as rectangles. Does anyone know how to make this work? -- Matthttp://ftbfs.org/kraai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Installation trouble

2009-07-27 Thread Matt Seburn
things, but I am far from an expert. Thanks, Matt

Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-05 Thread Matt Miller
I don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer swapping, or whatever it is, that prevents me from scrolling back in my terminal history when the editor is open, and then clears away the screen and redisplays what was there before after the editor is closed. This behaviour

Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-03 Thread Matt Miller
From GNOME terminal, when I: vi x :set nu the line numbers are colored, and I want to get rid of that. you could change the default alternative setup to point to nvi instead. Thanks, that got rid of the colorized line numbers. Also, I don't want the editor to do whatever special

vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-01 Thread Matt Miller
From GNOME terminal, when I: vi x :set nu the line numbers are colored, and I want to get rid of that. Also, I don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer swapping, or whatever it is, that prevents me from scrolling back in my terminal history when the editor is open, and then

Re: Gzipped debian docs via apache localhost

2008-09-18 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
a text file directly in the browser window. In recent years this does not work, I click on the link and then have to uncompress the file in a separate step. Does anyone know why? No. But try this: # a2enmod deflate or % sudo a2enmod deflate Cheers, -- Matt Zagrabelny - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sed

2008-09-18 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
() { chomp; if (my ($url) = /a href=([^]*?)www\/a/) { print a href=\$url\$url/a\n; } } Cheers, -- Matt Zagrabelny - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85

Copying home movies in Unstable.

2008-07-21 Thread Matt Gracie
? Thanks for any insight, - --Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiFAMkACgkQ6wBqCH7pnjLprACfShB+5QXcfPe0Eryuyuv4IsSd 3M8AoPBb17pZ9JJep9q49ULLryE2mL45 =E/jH -END PGP SIGNATURE

abcde cddb lookup has stopped working?

2008-07-18 Thread Matt Price
abcde.conf, but i;ve replaced it with the dpkg-dist version to no avail. i appreciate any help you can give. here's the output of grep ii cddb /etc/abcde.conf, if anyone finds that helpful. thanks! matt -- # CDDB options # If you wish to use a different CDDB server, edit this line

Re: RAID5 problem.

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: [snip] The problem is that when I tried, using mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1, the rebuild would kick off and then fail after a short time, marking all four drives

RAID5 problem.

2008-06-22 Thread Matt Gracie
. - --Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhefY8ACgkQ6wBqCH7pnjJ/OgCeN1tEyE2cDN5GZ4s5juJcidiU on4AoLt7OTKWNed5o8d+wi9DfcX/9gQU =6vB3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Moving RAID1 Set to New Machine

2008-05-13 Thread Matt Miller
An etch machine died (machine won't power on), so I pulled the two hard drives out and dropped them into some identical hardware. These were the only two disks in the machine, and they formed a RAID1 set. Now the new machine can't find the root filesystem: Success: Loaded module raid1. Done.

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
of ways, probably more efficient ;-) ). Not sure if it is more efficient. aptitude -F '%p' search '~i!~M' -- Matt Zagrabelny - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58

Re: chroot vs. Xen (usecase: Lenny on Etch for testing)

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
. -- Matt Zagrabelny - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85 C5CA 53E7 887F 84E2 2DA2 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot

troubles with custom repository

2008-04-30 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
using: deb http://lager.d.umn.edu/debian etch umd And version of apt: ii apt 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpk Does anyone see anything I missed? TIA -- Matt Zagrabelny - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems

Opensync and GPE.

2008-02-27 Thread Matt Gracie
don't see one for icedove contacts either. Any help would be appreciated; I'm sort of lost here, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of Googleable information on syncing to anything non-Palm. - --Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

I'll put your ad for Mvelopes.com - The Simpler, Smarter Budgeting System, on all 50,000 pages of my Alexa 19,000 marketing forum for free

2008-02-23 Thread Matt
Hi , It's Matt the owner of http://www.thefreeadforum.com I saw that your site, Mvelopes.com - The Simpler, Smarter Budgeting System, is linking to the Themillionaireleague.com site. I will put your put your 468 X 60 ad in rotation on the footer of my forum which includes 50,000 Google

GNOME faint printing problem.

2008-02-10 Thread Matt Gracie
this problem in the bug tracker. Is this a known issue? Is there some simple setting that I'm missing? Thanks for any help, - --Matt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: how can I see version changes using aptitude?

2007-12-18 Thread Matt Baker
buggy package either in command line or interactive mode:-) Osamu I like: aptitude dist-upgrade -DV That'll show you the version numbers of the packages installed and the ones replacing them. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Strange kernel boot hang

2007-12-18 Thread Matt Baker
ideas are greatly appreciated. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-02 Thread Matt Everingham
I know the conversation has gone way beyond this at this point (really, brilliant stuff), but I usually just cheat and use konqueror. I use it for other tasks too (remote connections, etc.), so I don't worry about the memory usage. I know this is a n00b answer, but thought I would throw it out

Re: Not able to find qwtplot3D

2007-07-31 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
or compile them yourself. -- Matt Zagrabelny - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85 C5CA 53E7 887F 84E2 2DA2 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep

concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

2007-07-15 Thread Matt Price
hi, im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from ripped-down harry potter cd's. unfortunately my ipod doesn't know that these files are 'audiobook' file, and so when i put the ipod on shuffle, about one in 5

Re: concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

2007-07-15 Thread Matt Price
On 7/15/07, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from ripped-down harry potter cd's. unfortunately my ipod doesn't know that these files are 'audiobook' file

Re: RAD tool for debian?

2007-07-14 Thread Matt Miller
is), and then an open-source version was cut in 2000. Since then the open-source version has been pretty stagnant, but it still rocks. Much PDF doc. Good stuff. -- Matt Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: RAD tool for debian?

2007-07-13 Thread Matt Miller
RAD/rapid-application-development tool sought... (web page forms interface to a database we define) possl http://sourceforge.net/projects/possl CVS version might be a bit less buggy compiling on debian. This a quite a deep tool. It was commercial for many years (and still is), and then an

tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

2007-07-05 Thread Matt Price
from amarok that's great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required. thanks very much, as always! matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Matt Miller
libdbi-perl libexpat1 libmagic1 libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libpq4 libsqlite3-0 libxml2 mime-support mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 php5 php5-cli php5-common What's going on here? Ant insight would be appreciated... -Matt -- A-la peanut butter

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Matt Miller
On 7/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Run aptitude interactively (no parameters) and choose options. It sounds like you have the default aptitude behaviour of assuming that 'recommends' are hard dependancies. I always turn that off. I turned off recommends as dependencies

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Matt Miller
. Got it... I guess it's more complicated a package than I thought. -Matt -- A-la peanut butter sandwiches! - the Amazing Mumford -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: gps and linux?]

2007-06-02 Thread Matt Price
On 6/1/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: hi, i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get

gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Matt Price
a suggestion? thanks as always, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia dies hard after upgrade Sarge-Etch

2007-05-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
driver. -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reading /proc/kmsg as a Unprivileged User

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Miller
This is my problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /proc/kmsg -r-r-- 1 root root 0 2007-05-01 07:38 /proc/kmsg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/kmsg cat: /proc/kmsg: Operation not permitted In other words, now matter how I try to set permissions on /proc/kmsg, I can't read from it unless I'm root.

Re: Dell Latitude D820

2007-04-12 Thread Matt Price
lenovo's thinkpads are a little better in this regard. matt Thankyou so much :-) Kind Regards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Linux kernel for external hard drive

2007-04-11 Thread Matt Miller
Will linux-image-686 work on the 32-bit and 64-bit AMD processors? I've used this kernel to boot both AMD64 and Pentium III. i686 is not the preferred kernel for 32-bit AMD, but it seems to work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1099

2007-04-09 Thread Matt Richardson
some time ago. The solution was to add psmouse to /etc/modules. Check out lsmod and see if it's listed already, but I'd guess not. (sorry for the subject line, I'm on digest) -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Matt Richardson
On 4/9/07, Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Richardson wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 4:39 PM -0500: I had the same problem when I upgraded sarge to etch some time ago. The solution was to add psmouse to /etc/modules. Check out lsmod and see if it's listed already, but I'd guess

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
problems being caused by not connecting things in the right order 1. Adapter - HD 2. Power - HD 3. Adapter - USB/Computer Disconnect in reverse. Yes, this was apparently part of my problem. I do need to connect things in the order you say above or the device is not recognized by the

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because grub complains with error 21. So boot into AMD64

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached you're done. It looks like the MBR of your Etch installation

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error I got into this thread late... but this is the error that you get when the chrooted disk is not mounted with -o exec That doesn't seem to explain my problem: [EMAIL

Re: MBR Confusion SOLVED

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because grub complains with error 21. This is fixed. Thanks

Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error

2007-04-06 Thread Matt Miller
I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to build an etch i386 system on it. I partitioned the drive, and used debootstrap to lay down a minimal i386 system on the drive. The problem is that I want to chroot into that system to do some more stuff, but the chroot

Re: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error

2007-04-06 Thread Matt Miller
I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to build an etch i386 system on it. ... I want to chroot into that system to do some more stuff, but the chroot fails: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash':

Re: MBR Confusion? (was: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error)

2007-04-06 Thread Matt Miller
I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because grub complains with error 21. I'm thinking that when the

Re: gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

2007-04-05 Thread Matt Miller
every time I create a new partition the system mounts the partition immediately, and then gparted complains that it can't create the filesystem because the partition is mounted. probably some nautilus configuration, if you use GNOME I used gnome-volume-properties to turn off all the

Re: gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

2007-04-05 Thread Matt Miller
Is there some other way to properly erase the disk so I can start from scratch and lay down a new filesystem? Since neither gparted, not parted, nor fdisk seemed to be able to do the job, I used dd: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=8192 After that I used parted to create a new disk label, and

IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized under etch. Or, maybe it is being recognized, and I'm just not seeing it. Where would I look on my system for such a device? This device plugs into my USB port, and on the other end I plug in an IDE drive that I want to work on.

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized under etch Check the output of dmesg for any messages about usb-storage. Thanks for the idea. I powered up the device and plugged it all in, and then rebooted my machine. Following is the output of dmesg |grep -i usb. I'm

Re: IDE to USB Adapter SOLVED?

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized under etch. Okay, it's working fine now. Apparently I wasn't attaching things in the right order. I needed to first power up the device, and then plug the USB cable into my computer. If I reboot my computer with the device

Re: IDE to USB Adapter SOLVED?

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
If I reboot my computer with the device already plugged in then the device is not recognized until I unplug it and plug it back in. Since the kernel will see it as a USB drive, you probably don't have to reboot. Yeah, everything works if I first turn the device completely on, and then

gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
I'm using gparted to partition and lay down a filesystem on a hard drive connected externally via a USB adapter. The problem is every time I create a new partition the system mounts the partition immediately, and then gparted complains that it can't create the filesystem because the partition is

Re: Zorp Can't Open policy.boot

2007-03-09 Thread Matt Miller
Under etch I can't seem to get zorp instances to start. I see the following in syslog: Error opening policy.boot file; file='${prefix}/share/zorp/policy.boot' Looks like you hit an RC bug, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413933 I recently filed this bug. I've

Broken Package: tftpd-hpa

2007-03-09 Thread Matt Miller
During my latest apt-get update on etch the package tftpd-hpa became messed up. Apparently the installation scripts were not able to stop the old daemon or start the new one. If I now try to remove the package I'm advised that the package is in a very bad inconsistent state, and I am told to

Re: Broken Package: tftpd-hpa

2007-03-09 Thread Matt Miller
During my latest apt-get update on etch the package tftpd-hpa became messed up. ... in.tftpdinvoke-rc.d: initscript tftpd-hpa, action stop failed. you've got to figure out why this initscript is failing. When I tried to manually start this daemon I saw no errors on the console, but I saw

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