Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:29:26 -0500 > Preston Boyington wrote: > >> I have Debian Testing with the Gnome environment setup on a friends' >> laptop. In an effort to make things easier to use I'm trying to stick >> with Network Manager because of the PPP support for the USB cellular >> broadband.

Re: installing mdadm breaks udev (and *lots* of other stuff!) in squeeze

Rick Thomas a écrit : > Whooo boy! > > When I decided to raid my home directories, I never expected this! > > Anybody have any suggestions for getting udev and mdadm to coexist? > > Rick > > > squeeze:~# aptitude -Pv install mdadm > Reading package lists... Done

Re: compiling a kernel from kernel.org [SOLVED]

Gregor Galwas wrote: > Hey, > > Thx everybody for your quick answers and friendly help. > > You were right. I removed all Xen options from the kernel config and > > linux-image-2.6.32-rc5_20091016-2_amd64.deb > > has been built. > Installing it with "dpkg -i ..." worked fine. > The only problem

Re: Installing XBMC on testing

Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:11:28 +0200 > "thveillon.debian" wrote: > >> Frank McCormick wrote: >>> Does anyone know how to get XBMC ( media centre app) installed on >>> Debian testing. Apparently at least 2 of the libraries needed

Re: Installing XBMC on testing

Kevin Ross wrote: >> From: thveillon.debian [mailto:thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:11 AM >> >> Frank McCormick wrote: >>> Does anyone know how to get XBMC ( media centre app) installed on >> Debian testing. >>&g

Re: Installing XBMC on testing

Frank McCormick wrote: > > Does anyone know how to get XBMC ( media centre app) installed on Debian > testing. > Apparently at least 2 of the libraries needed are not available for Debian. > > I went as far as trying to install the Ubuntu Intrepid edition (this has > worked > for other software

Re: Firefox and sqlite mismatched.

>Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings, > > After yesterday's dist-upgrade i can't run firefox, it'll complain > with "The application has been updated, but your version of SQLite is > too old and the application cannot run." which, thankfully, is a very > clean error message. The problem is i already

Re: When to expect a kernel commit in Debian stable's kernel?

Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 12:42 +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: >> gspca has been inside the kernel since 2.6.27 onward. > > Ah, the missing link, thank you! > >> So from 2.6.27 you don't need any other source package, just userland tools. >

Re: When to expect a kernel commit in Debian stable's kernel?

Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 18:25 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Between releases, stable is only updated to fix RC bugs. > > Does that imply that there is no kernel release within one stable life > cycle? If so, why are there 2.6.30 packages in lenny? > What I'm curren

Re: testing system updates: how often?

Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/7/09, thveillon.debian wrote: >> It also makes the (careful) reading of "apt-listbugs" and >> "apt-listchanges" output easier. >> > Nice packages, worth being suggested for aptitude or synaptic. They work just fine w

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

Chris Jones wrote: > Being the absolute Joe User > CJ > [apologies for the unethical massive snip, just couldn't resist bouncing on the "Joe User" ;-) ] For those who actually are Joe users : in "joe" (aptitude install joe) do ^T (calling options) V ("Language") Set language and spell c

Re: testing system updates: how often?

Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > How often do you update your testing? I noticed that leaving your > system as is for couple of weeks and about 200 packages would be > available for updates. I would like to know what would be the > "optimal" updating frequency that would minimise breakages. In th

Re: Debian Testing and ext4 :?

Szymon G wrote: > hi > I've got question: can i install Debian Squeezy (installed from one of > those cds > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ > ) be installed properly on ext4 (with seperate /boot on ext3)? i mean: > will it boot properly etc etc? > jus

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

lee a wrote : > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:17:53AM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: >> lee a wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 07:41:47PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: >>> >>>>> cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 >>>>> Se

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

lee a wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 07:41:47PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: > >>> cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 >>> Segmentation fault >>> cat:/home/lee# >> the ia32-libs got seriously reworked has I understand, you can use

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

lee wrote: > Hi, > > today I updated my testing installation. Now the 32bit part of the > NVIDIA drivers doesn't work anymore: The installer says it cannot find > the libraries that are supposed to be in > /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/. However, the libraries are there, but when > I try to run them, I

Re: how to add sound to cheese

abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I use cheese to create photos and video, it works with my webcab correctly. > But no sound recorded on video I get just animation photos , is it > possible to add sound via cheese ? > > thanks for help > bela Hi, what's the webcam model and make, and what's th

Re: Re (2): configuring xserver [Solved]

Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-09-25_10:07:22, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> Paul, >> >>> Thanks. gtf gave me a plausible modeline. I editted it into xorg.conf >>> as suggested and it worked. >> If you can spare a few minutes, please post a detail or two. >> It might solve a remotely similar probl

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

Arthur Marsh wrote: > Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 2009-09-26 23:21: >> * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] >> [...] >>> Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am >>> posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to >>> http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cf

Re: configuring xserver

Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-09-24_22:49:04, Adrian Levi wrote: >> 2009/9/24 Paul E Condon : >>> I just purchased a small LCD monitor. It is 16:9 format and 1366x768. >>> I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg >>> and that program set up the driver for 1024x768, so naturely the letters >>> and graph

Re: Debian vs. ATI Radeon x1650

>Brent Clark wrote: >> On 24/09/2009 15:12, Dominik Smatana wrote: >> Ubuntu 9.04 kernel 2.6.27-14-generic = OK (strange) > > Hiya > > Close your eyes, save yourself time and effort and just use Ubuntu. > > Regards > Brent Clark > > P.s. Ubuntu 9.04 is using kernel 2.6.28-15-generic. > > Hi,

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2009 09:49:39 Frank wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 >> "thveillon.debian" wrote: >>> The package "os-prober" is taking care of other OS detection, it's >>> "

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

>Ole Toft Jensen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:58:51PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Frank wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 >>>> "thveillon.debian" wrote: >>>> Obviously grub-pc is not ready for primetime yet. On t

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

> Frank wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200 >> "thveillon.debian" wrote: >> >>> I still fail to understand what went wrong. After the installation and >>> reboot which went OK, I picked the chain option and that's when it all >>&

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

Charles wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:47:48 +0100 > Joe wrote: > [snip...] > > > > Well as I said in earlier mail, the Supergrub disk saved my...err..bacon. > It allowed me to reinstall Grub, then I purged Grub-pc (grub2) and was > back in business. > I still fail to understand what went

Re: Raid disk delimma

Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi, All > > Somewhere (about 9/15) in my enthusiasm for Debian, Testing up2date > & kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64,--updating I said (y) where I should have said > (q). My system will not boot correctly. It halts with: fsck died with > exit status 8 > > I have 4 disks, 2 in raid

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>>> On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>>>> I'm curious, why are you indicating use of sudo? It's n

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> I'm curious, why are you indicating use of sudo? It's not even >> installed/configured by default in Debian... > > Ubuntu influence, I'd bet. > > It's offered as an install option, at least it was the last time I instal

Re: local linux (debian) support

Patrick Holthuizen wrote : > Hello, > > Since a few weeks I am thinking about the idea to provide support for > Linux in my local neighborhood for people who do not have much > experience with mailing lists, only speak their native language > (non-english) and/or prefer the physical appearance of

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:33:56 +0200 > "thveillon.debian" wrote: > >> AG wrote: > > ... > >> Download add-ons (campaigns but not only) from: >> >> http://www.wesnoth.org/addons/1.6/ >> >> (again for 1.6) &

Re: [SOT] Installing additional Wesnoth campaigns

AG wrote: > Hello > > Sorry if this is too far OT, but I was hoping for some Debian-specific > advice on obtaining and using Battle for Wesnoth campaigns. The > website/ forum provides some linkages to additional campaigns, but after > following their instructions I just can't seem to call the su

Re: Nvidia binary driver installation

>o...@larstennstedt.de wrote: > >Hello, > >I have a question about the installation of the binary nvidia driver. >It is a time ago that I used Debian and at that time you could install >the driver with apt-get directly from the non-free repository. I >installed testing/squeeze and sid in virtual ma

Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd

Peter Crawford wrote: > Tom, > >> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:19:40 +0200 >> From: thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote, >> relates to the default "lastused = True" in wired-settings.conf, if >> there is no "lastused" settings it fails instead of using default >> profile (would look like a bug...).

Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd

>Peter Crawford wrote: >> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:12:28 +0200 >> From: thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd > >> for wicd to work you need an empty /etc/network/interfaces file (except lo). > > Yes; as spe

Re: Converting Flac to MP3

Mark wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:16:19PM +0100, Gav wrote: > > Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3. > > Preferably taking all the tag information from the flac file and > setting it > > in the MP3 file. I converted my CD collection to Flac

Re: Linksys USB200M adapter failing under wicd

Peter Crawford wrote: > Squeeze is recently updated. > > Using /etc/network/interfaces, a Linksys USB200M > works as expected. > > To use wicd, the instructions in > http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#OtherGUI > were followed; yet the connection failed. > After "/etc/init.d/wicd restart" thes

Re: restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

Liviu Andronic a écrit : > Hello, > > On 8/18/09, thveillon.debian wrote: >> I recently bought a HP 6730s with a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 graphic >> chip. I run Squeeze/Sid AMD64 just like you, and with 2.6.26* kernel and >> the associated fglrx I ra

Re: restarting X fails and generates kernel panic on halt (was Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver))

Liviu Andronic wrote: > (Sorry for the long re-naming, but I fell the thread should get its > proper name as the issue evolves) > > On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. >> > Thank you, I completely forgot about this one. Two is

Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > > On 8/16/09, Klistvud wrote: >> P.S. I've also noticed that the laptop runs hotter when the free >> graphics driver is used, as opposed to the proprietary ATI one. >> > I also have an HP Dual core 2.1GHz, and it gets kinda to warm during > "idle" work (hovers a

Re: --initrd

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Johann Spies wrote: According to the kernel-package README.gz one can use the following command to compile a kernel with an initrd.img: $Get_Root make-kpkg --initrd --revision=3:custom.2.0 kernel_image In the past I could compile a kernel like that and when I install the

Re: Grub2 made my systeum unbootable

Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 21 Jul 2009, thveillon.debian wrote: >> Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub >>> legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I just get >>> the message

Re: Grub2 made my systeum unbootable

Anthony Campbell wrote: > Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub > legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I just get > the message "Grub" and nothing more. > > Looking at /boot/grub with my rescue disk I see all sorts of files I > don't recognize b

Re: Iceweasel, Icedove and KDE4

Γιώργος Πάλλας a écrit : > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone! >>> >>> Since ever, as a KDE user, I was distracted by the obvious quality >>> mismatch between fonts for thunderbird and firefox in gnome and KD

Re: Iceweasel, Icedove and KDE4

Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Since ever, as a KDE user, I was distracted by the obvious quality > mismatch between fonts for thunderbird and firefox in gnome and KDE. > That is, in Gnome, thunderbird and firefox's usage of fonts seems to be > near perfect. In KDE the fonts of these app

Re: grub won't but XP

Bernard Fay wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Masood > wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly > mailto:sfrei...@roadrunner.com>> wrote: > > Bernard Fay wrote: > > > title Windows XP > > rootnov

Re: Best Video Editor?

>Thomas H. George wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:32:38PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Thomas H. George wrote: >>> A year ago I did a little video editing using cinelerra. When I tried >>> again yesterday it wasn't working properly, ru

Re: Best Video Editor?

Thomas H. George wrote: > A year ago I did a little video editing using cinelerra. When I tried > again yesterday it wasn't working properly, running about a single frame > per second. > > I checked the web site but saw no reference to a users group. My memory > is that when I used it previous

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:45:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach thveillon.debian >> [2009.07.09.2215 +0200]: >>> It is possible to boot from mdadm software raid1 with grub2, in Lenny >>> and Squeeze. But I would worry about

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:47:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > >>In the partitioner, set /dev/sda1 as /boot. /boot needs to be >>separate from the RAID+LVM setup in order to be accessible by the >>bootloader, though it's possible grub2 will fix this at some point. >>K

Re: Configuring wine.

Sthu Deus wrote : > Good day. > > I have no sound in wine-1.0.1-2 running game "Heroes of Might and Magic III". > About 2 years ago on another installation I had sound in the same game under > wine. > > Of wine packages I have installed: > > libwine-1.0.1-2 > wine-bin-1.0.1-2 > > Do You have an

Re: KDE, openoffice bug

Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/7/7 Red Hen : >> Sirs-- >> >> I have designated Firefox my Debian Lenny system's MAIN web browser, as >> stipulated in the KDE Control Center. >> > > Which version of KDE? Did you type in "/usr/bin/firefox" or "firefox" > or select Firefox from the list? Note that Firefox

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

Luis Maceira wrote: > As a Debian user since 2005 last week I bought a Dell netbook running Ubuntu > (since it is Debian based),but I am unable to do administrative tasks: > upgrading,become su etc. because I cannot find the su password in the docs > that come with the netbook.Is there any standard

Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?

Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-06-29 08:17 (+0200), Raffaele Morelli wrote: > >> 2009/6/28 Mark Marcacci : >>> I've been installing Debian 5.0.1 via a downloaded jigdo DVD image >>> from the official site. [...] One of the packages missing after >>> booting into Gnome was Network Manager >> Use w

Re: Anyone has VDPAU working?

Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get VDPAU working on my laptop (Dual Core t2...@1.6 GHz, > nVidia Quadro NVS 140M, 2 GiB RAM) as this would be the only way to > watch 1080p movies, but no success so far. I tried: > > - mplayer from www.debian-multimedia.org (also recompiled) >

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, me: > >> NOTE: kvm is based on qemu and uses the same command syntax, so it's easy to >> confuse between KVM and QEMU. > > While qemu hangs, kvm just works! - Excellent! Now, You say kvm is based on > qemu, but I do not want to have the same

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

>明覺 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:11 PM, > thveillon.debian wrote: >>> Sebastian Günther wrote: >>> * 明覺 (shi.min...@gmail.com) [22.06.09 03:18]: >>>> I want to keep the programs in my system all written in c/c++, no >>>> python or perl or

Re: java

Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:50:36AM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > >> I don't remember if I had to update the alternatives manually, I don't >> think so. >> [...] >> update-alternatives --config iceweasel-javaplugin.so > > Th

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,22.Jun.09, 09:24:59, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> As for the games, a question: Has anybody tried playing such a game >> (Unreal, etc) under a virtualization engine? Virtualbox for example? > > AFAICT virtualization doesn't do any 3d acceleration. > > Regards, > And

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

>Sebastian Günther wrote: > * 明覺 (shi.min...@gmail.com) [22.06.09 03:18]: >> I want to keep the programs in my system all written in c/c++, no >> python or perl or any other programming languages, is it possible to >> reach it? I removed the 2 packages, python and perl, from my system, >> and of ca

Re: java

>Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:36:15PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > >> sun-java is now fully 64 bit, including the plugin, starting with 6-12 >> maybe, or even one release earlier. But the icedtea one runs just as >> well on my machine, it'

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

Eike Lantzsch a écrit : > On Sunday 21 June 2009, Fred Zinsli wrote: >> Hello all >> >> I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server >> platform. >> >> My partner has a VISTA machine > [snip] >> >> I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz >> sol

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

Fred Zinsli a écrit : > Hello all > > I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server > platform. > > My partner has a VISTA machine and she is always having problems with it. > No surprises there I guess. > > I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her wi

Re: java

>Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:16:10PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >> I just want to install a Java runtime environment which will allow me >> to see Java applets in action. It seems I have the choice of (at > > If you're running 64-bit, your choice of plugin is rather

Re: SATA CD- drive not picked up by system

AG wrote: > Matthew Moore wrote: >> On Monday June 15 2009 2:32:18 pm AG wrote: >> >>> Default DVD/CD-drive that plays media. Sorry - my poor wording. I mean >>> the device doesn't seem to be automounted when I load an optical disk. >>> >>> The applications that play DVD (mplayer, kmplayer, tot

Re: what user and password for cups

>> On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web >> interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select >> a driver and click on "Add Printer". At that point I am >> prompted for a username and a password. >> > [sn

Re: Are there any major issues with Debian testing?

ZephyrQ wrote: > Just picked up a BBuy cheapo that I will lather/rinse/repeat and put Deb > on...just wondering if testing has any major issues that I should be > aware of before I make the jump (my main system runs stable). > > Hi, I have been running testing since Etch, and if most of the tim

Re: Why does a webcam MT6225 not work with Debian?

Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Webcam MT6225 which woks with ReHat, Fedora and SuSE but not > with Debian, even if it is detected through v4l. > > Bus 001 Device 017: ID 0e8d:0004 MediaTek Inc. > > and VLC/Ekiga identified it as MT6225. > > Any suggestions WHY it does not

[going OT] Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >>>> But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel >>>> (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to >&

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

Klaus Jantzen wrote: > On 06/03/2009 09:05 AM, Rod James Bio wrote: >> Its a Seagate HD. I dont have the exact model number. Now I am >> checking if this is a hardware problem. One thing that bothers me is >> why does 32bit works? >> >> Klaus Jantzen wrote: >>> On 06/03/2009 07:46 AM, Rod James Bio

Re: 64Bit installation on a 500 GB Sata DRIVE

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel >> (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to >> 64bits. > > Why? > > I know that 64bit is the future. I have the feeling, however, that many > applicatio

Re: replacing hard disk

Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to >> the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install >> any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy >> modified config files, mails, bookmarks, etc? > > If you can connec

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

lee wrote: [big snip] >> Use Firefox >> "better privacy" extension, it can wipe the .macromedia content >> automatically. > > Does that work with iceweasel? Even if it does, I keep the browser > running until the flashplayer crashes. > "better privacy" can wipe out the .macromedia folder content

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

Rich Griffiths wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:50:11 +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: > > >> Use Firefox "better privacy" >> extension, it can wipe the .macromedia content automatically. >> > >> Tom > > Thanks for this tip. I've been do

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:03:06PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > >> Note to self : disabling "rm" > > The default of both KDE and GNOME is to use the trashcan. There's also > safe-rm. The literal 'rm -rf /' has also been

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

marc wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel said: > >> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a >> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in >> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz). >> >> It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press >> control-alt-backs

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

lee wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: >> If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it >> back using the setting panel from Adobe there : >> >> http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashpla

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Recover data from formatted ext3 partition

Azhagu selvan wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think that post is for **formatted** partition. IMO, A formatted > partition is suppose to be clean(no meaningful data). > > Regards, > Mohan R. > > Yes it has been formatted to ext3. So,does it mean that there is _no > way_ of recovering my

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

JoeHill wrote: > lee wrote: > >> the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) >> to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? >> >> Some sites feed the data too slow to watch while it's being fed, so I >> want to download what's being send instead and save it to a file

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > lee wrote: >> For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde >> than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want >> to have to use either of them. > > Isn't startx or startkde supposed to do that? Login at the console and > try

Re: startx and KDE 4.2.2

GRotfl wrote: > Hi all! > > After upgrade to KDE 4.2.2 I could not start X windows with startx (it > complained that startkde in .xinitrc is not there). I have located startkde > in package ksmserver, which is both in stable and unstable, but not testing. > Also, it is version 3.5.9, not 4.2.2.

Re: [Fwd: Re: Correct sudoers file configuration]

steef wrote: > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: Correct sudoers file configuration > Resent-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:32:39 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:32:14 +0100 > From:

Re: Correct sudoers file configuration

Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello, > > When I first installed squeeze on my system, and being oblivious as to > the presence of any sudoers file in general, I asked a friend to help me > with the setting up of the sudoers file. I have a sneaking suspicion, > however, that the configuration applied mig

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

Magnus Pedersen a écrit : > thveillon.debian wrote: >> H.S. wrote: >>> H.S. wrote: >>>> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>>> In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >>>>>> I refuse to run a >

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: I refuse to run a mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than enough. I'm not using the applications that would require the >>>

Re: Skype in Squeeze

Peter Crawford wrote: > Tom, > >> might be a problem specific to the webcam driver, because here Skype >> works all right on Squeeze (amd64) with an uvcvideo webcam. > > The system here has no camera. Skype crashes as it > tries to open the video coming from the other Skype. > In a developer list

Re: Skype in Squeeze

Peter Crawford wrote: > After updating Squeeze on 2009-05-19 Skype > crashed when it tried to open the video viewer. > Disabling the video option allows use of audio. > > With any luck this will be resolved or Ekiga will > work again soon. > > Regards, ... p. crawford > Hi, m

Re: Help with Flash

Marc Shapiro wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still ne

Re: Help with Flash

Marc Shapiro a écrit : > Mark Allums wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > 2009/5/14 Daryl Styrk mailto:darylst...@gmail.com>> > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:15:42AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > I dumped Network Manager and went with WiCD. No regrets for doing

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Raffaele Morelli > wrote: >> +1 >> I build kernel from vanilla sources every time a new RT patch is released. >> >> It's really easy, just take care to the latest changes in kernel-package >> regarding --initrd option. > > Thanks, guys, f

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

gn643202 wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> ... Yesterday, my >>> system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock >>> LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick >>> Go

Re: Is Network-Manager freezing my system?

Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > I have a Lenovo T61p running an amd64 testing system. Yesterday, my > system froze twice, i.e. became completely unresponsive, the caps lock > LED flashing, as it does on this machine when it's frozen. (A quick > Google search suggests that's a sign of kernel pan

Re: Wine and itunes

Christopher Judd wrote : > Hi, > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, > and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time > is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather > large itunes library. Does anyone h

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

Patrick Wiseman wrote : > I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has > disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far > unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install > those missing dependencies also fail, in particular the following: > > # apt-

Re: gimp use

steef wrote : > hi folks, > > i am in africa now with a sometimes not optimal internet-connection in > this region. i cannot properly google: so i put my question hopefully on > the list: > > is it possible with the 'gimp' to scale 160 photographic pictures down > *in one time*? > > thank you ,

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

Adrian Levi a écrit : > When trying to install the latest virtualbox-2.2 from the virtualbox > repo I get the following error: > > Cloud9:~# aptitude install virtualbox-2.2 > Reading package lists... Done [...] > 302 Moved Temporarily > E: Failed to fetch > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtual

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

Stefan Bellon wrote : > thveillon.debian wrote: > >> So maybe you have another problem on top of that, > > Yes, of course, that's the reason for my posting. > >> some leftovers from fglrx installation that don't go well with free >> drivers, like prop

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

Stefan Bellon wrote : > thveillon.debian wrote: >> you'll be sorry to hear that your card is now a "legacy" one >> according to AMD/ATI. They dropped support for a bunch of card with >> the 9.4 release. > >> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/li

Re: xorg (fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa) not working after upgrade

Stefan Bellon engraved : > Hi all, > > I've been running Debian unstable on my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 for > more than two years with the proprietary fglrx driver to drive the ATI > Radeon Mobility X1400. > > With a recent upgrade a few weeks ago the fglrx driver didn't work > anymore, so I fell

Re: kernel-package??

Randy Patterson wrote : > On Thursday 30 April 2009 09:51:54 Michael Pobega wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:24:43AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: >>> I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At >>> this point I'm just researching the various options or ways in goin

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