Re: Alt-Tab does not work in my KDE

2011-09-19 Thread Mahesh T Pai
H Xu xusu...@gmail.com writes:

  Hello,

  I'm using Debian wheezy and the Tab switcher usually does not work on
  my KDE, although sometimes it works very well. I've googled and have
  no idea of what is going on here. Could anyone help me, please?


Probably some minor configuration / keyboard lay out issue. Check if you
have anything special in your keyboard layout / switching options. 

Tried if this works fine in a new user?? 

Just create a new user, and log in as the new user. 


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Re: Bug report - which package, what severity?

2011-09-18 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Chris Barnard cb...@westnet.com.au writes:

  from grub there is a message regarding a memory conflict and after a
  few more messages the screen goes to random noise: all TTYS.  There is


Please try the Recovery mode from grub. 



Just hit the down arrow once to enter the 2nd option in Grub.

The Grub terminal is required when Grub install has botched up
something.

If you get some scrolling messages, after BIOS POST, chances are that
your graphics card has some problems.

Is there a /var/logs/Xorg.0.log file? Any hints in there? 



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Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-29 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Baurzhan Ismagulov i...@radix50.net writes:

  Hello,

  I've installed Squeeze to a USB drive, and grub2 installed itself to the
  internal hard drive. Now I can't boot from the internal drive since it
  has encryption software checking some sort of CRC of the MBR. Is the
  backup of the MBR available somewhere in the Linux rootfs?

you can always restore the mbr. 

You can also use grub's rescue mode to boot from the USB device. 



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Re: How do I examine the video in iceweasle problem

2011-07-29 Thread Mahesh T Pai
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com writes:

  Hi,

  when I tried to watch some video online, in iceweasle,

  it's (naturally) silent in less than 2 mins, it can continue playing
  but no sound. I can drag further but can play, just no sound.

  I also tried epiphany, still the same problem.

  also I changed to different video,

  the same situation.

  Thanks for any suggestions,


You can search for flash plugin no sound - there are several people
complaining of things like this, and have got it solved.

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Re: Stopping auto indexing at start/login

2011-07-29 Thread Mahesh T Pai
L V Gandhi lvgl...@gmail.com writes:

  As soon as I login, I find a notification that indexing files is started. It
  consumes cpu. Hence nothing else can be done.
  How to stop the indexing starting automatically?

Depends on who is doing the indexing. 

If it is a cron job, you can disable the cron job. 

OTOH, if the evil thing is done by  KDE or GNOME, things are a lot more
simpler, which of these do you use? 

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Re: pppoeconf can't find new Verizon DSL modem

2011-07-23 Thread Mahesh T Pai
CamaleĆ³n noela...@gmail.com writes:


  Maybe you only need to set the new modem with the same parameters (local 
  IP address -or dhcp- settings, username/pass, etc...) of the old one.

  Also, review pppoeconf logs.

That configures the modem as a router. The public IP address is
acquired by the modem. (I would rather call this thingie a device
which can be used both as a modem and a router).

While I use this set up, I hate this to the extreme. My net security is
trusted to the unknown OS on the unknown device.

The OP wants to configure the device as modem proper. That way, the
public IP address is acquired by the machine running pppoe.


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Re: 32bit vs 64bit

2011-07-22 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com writes:


  I was just hoping for an undocumented way of doing it as an upgrade...

cdebootstrap?? 


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Re: Playing .ra files in Firefox

2011-07-12 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com writes:


  Is there any way to get RealPlayer to work?  Or is there any other way
  to play RealAudio files?

ffmpeg from marillat / debian-multimedia.org? 


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Re: A smaller iso

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
nikhil jain nik.j...@gmail.com writes:

  the 4.4 gb is too big for my internet connection(512kbps) .
  I am looking for something ubuntu-like complete 500mb-2gb debian iso
  (why not use ubuntu? because its buggy buggy buggy)

I guess you are using the DVD image - try the CD image. Have a look at 

http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/

  I want to avoid the net installer , because my slow connection and
  the weird debian installer makes it a royal pain (I have tried it
  before)

I have a 256 kbps connection, and have felt that a net installer is
adequate me. Sometimes, I get stingy and stick to business card ISO
(which is still smaller than the netinst). 


  Most importantly I want the installer to have the option to install
  the bootloader to the partition itself and not the MBR. when I tried
  w32 installer it didn't gave me the option.

Hope somebody else will help you here. IIRC, there is an option for this
when you select the Make system bootable option in the installer. 


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Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
bri...@aracnet.com writes:


  it's the strangest thing though, Xorg -configure still fails.

It simply generates the xorg.conf which is practically useless and
un-used (on your and my systems); so why bother??


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Re: A smaller iso

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
nikhil jain nik.j...@gmail.com writes:

 It's possible the above question does not appear in a normal install,

  with the w32 loader it doesn't. I think

If you are installing from a CD / DVD, simply entering expert when you
boot from the CD will do the trick. 

I do not quite get what you mean by the w32 loader. More than 12 years
since I used M$win for any productive thing. 


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Re: creating a preseed file

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
nikhil jain nik.j...@gmail.com writes:

  2.Instead of creating a complete preseed.cfg file , can I just add a
  few lines to it?
  For example I just want to add the following to the preseed.cfg:

  will this work? If so instead of (hd0,0) can I specify the / partition
  ? basically I want to install the boot loader into the same partition
  as the  /  partition . So how does one figure out the (hd0,0) number
  of the future  partition? My partition table looks like this :
  http://i.imgur.com/SC3yC.jpg

Considering that you are a first time debian user, may I suggest that
you do not try such things? Selecting default selections in the debian
installer will be the best option most of the time. Just make sure that
you do not select the entire disk for installation.

When I do an install, I select only the minimal install, (a basic text
only sysem, with no graphics) which is between 500 to 750 MB of
installed space, and around 200MB downloads. The installer will ask me
to reboot after this. After reboot, I run aptitude as root, and select
the packages I want. Since you will be using a CD, this should not be a
problem, and you should have a fulfledged debian desktop system in about
30 minutes.


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Re: alternative to kaffeine?

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes:

  Hi,

  is there a good alternative to kaffeine?  Since I ran dpkg-reconfigure
  fontconfig-config and dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig, kaffeine only shows a
  black window.  It seems to be still working, just I can't do much with

Run dpkg-reconfigure kaffeiene :-)


  Other than that, does anyone have an idea how to fix kaffeine?

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Re: Debian changes active partition?

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
nikhil jain nik.j...@gmail.com writes:


  How can I know the /dev/sdaX address of the / partition of debian?


You were asked by the installer to to select the partitions and their
mountpoint(s) a few minutes before you were asked about installing Grub.


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Re: help ! nvidia driver and X

2011-07-08 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk writes:

  Isn't a basic one required to run the nvidia driver rather than nouveau?

If I got the message to which I was responding right, the problem was
solved by removing xorg.conf. I was responding to (what seemed to me) an
aside comment about the configuration programme which generates
xorg.conf. 


Was myself using nvidia binary drivers for some time, I had gone through
the hell on an upgrade. Finally gave up on gnome3, 3D and reverted back
to nouveau (and gnome2). Took another 3 hours to figure out that
xorg.conf needs to be deleted.

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Re: moving to testing

2011-07-01 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:

  I'd like to see a few example sources.list when running testing.
  Especially ones that show the hosts for accessing a bigger selection
  of packages.

To what has been already posted, add:-

deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-6.0

Hey - that is experimental. :-D

I usually use the stable business card / netinst ISOs, and then directly
upgrade to testing  / unstable releases. 

I first install aptitutde and dpkg; libc6, the kernel, _reboot_ and then
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Re: Debian 6 causes my SunFire T2000 system to not boot

2011-06-30 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Scott Simpson simpson...@att.net writes:

  I'm getting the following problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/
  bugreport.cgi?bug=609466

  However, if I boot with Linux video=atyfb:off as suggested in the link it
  still doesn't work. It always hangs at the boot line

I do not have Sparc systems, but going through the bug report thread
suggests that you may succeed if you use a later CD image. 

Have you tried with weekly / daily build images? 


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Re: Can't smoothly type in gnome-terminal

2011-06-30 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes:

  I have this problem too:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631116

  Very annoying (there are a lot of decent terminal programs in Debian,
  but gnome-terminal is still the nicest I've found).

I use same version - 3.0.1-1 and I have no such problems. 

There was somebody here couple of days back with same problem, and his
problems were solved with a  reboot. 


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Re: Can't smoothly type in gnome-terminal

2011-06-30 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes:

  somewhat different hardware (AMD + radeon + USB keyboard vs. Intel +
  i915 + PS/2 keyboard -- I mention those details because it might be
  related to X / input handling...).

WHich version of libgnomekbd? 


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Re: GTK3 themes

2011-06-30 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Matteo Riva mura...@gmail.com writes:

  A recent testing update upgraded some gnome packages to version 3.0.X
  gnome-terminal is one of these and it doesn't seem compatible with my
  current GTK theme: its interface (menu, etc) looks horribly similar to
  windows95.

:-D


  How can I install/manage themes for GTK3?  I did a quick search with
  aptitude but found nothing relevant.


Here is what I did about anything GNOME with version number higher than
3.

aptitude purge package

Purged all related liabraries. Ran deborphan. Made sure that every thing
related gtk too is purged. 

Removed all references in sources.list to experimental / unstable. 

Installed GNOME again. Made sure not run full upgrades ever since. 

So, now, I am left gnome terminal 3.0.1. And almost everything else
gnome / GTK is 2.XX.XX. 

I loved Gnome shell during the days it was on my system - nice eye
candy. But I hate (a) lack of themability, (b) absence of a shut down
button, and (3) that sensitive spot on top left hand corner. ( have a
small vision problem, and always take the mouse to that spot and bring
it back to where I want it).

It also depends on nvidia's drivers which are in non-free, and I need to
spend tiem building the nvidia modules. I really do not need much eye
candy; very happy with what the nouveau drivers provide me. 

YMMV. 

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Re: Can't smoothly type in gnome-terminal

2011-06-30 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes:


 WHich version of libgnomekbd? 

  2.91.91-2

I use 2.30.2-2

Probably, that makes a difference. 


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Re: Can't smoothly type in gnome-terminal

2011-06-29 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Chris bbsh...@gmail.com writes:

  Hi, I'm a user of gnome-terminal. Currently the version is 3.0.1-1.

  Now if I try to type any characters, I just get part of them typed
  in. For example, if I type ls, only s typed in. If I continuously
  type asdf, only as typed in. The result seemd to be random.

  And the GUI changed. I'm not sure what style it is. Maybe it's some
  old window style.

  The problem is only in gnome-terminal. Now I'm using xterm, and it
  works fine.

No such problem here - I am however running sid + experimental; but same
gnome-terminal; and *not* the gnome-shell. 




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Re: [fsug-kochi-discuss] audio failure

2006-01-15 Thread Mahesh Pai
On 1/15/06, Jeffrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hello all,

 Iam using debian GNU/Linux sid with audio support.sound was working fine
 in user mode when i added the user into audio mode.when i made an APT
 upgrade and after thet the sound is not working in user mode.

Does this mean ``sound works when logged in as root and not for other users''?

Are the appropriate devicesin /dev/ created? HAve you re-run alsaconfig?

Did the user log out and login again after modifying the group?

What is the version of alsa and udev?

Are the sound modules being loaded?



sendmail local delivery problem

1998-03-10 Thread M K Pai

We are running a LAN. E-mail clients are Win95 Eudora. Mail Server is a
Linux box running sendmail 8.8.8. We have a server in USA from where
external mail is routed to our linux box. 

The problem is that even local mail is being routed to the USA server and
then coming to the respective mailbox, whereas it should be delivered
locally instead of going to the USA server.

Please help.

Thank you in advance.
M. K. Pai
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Rajesh Mittal
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Re: Running just an X-server

1998-03-06 Thread M K Pai

There are two X-clients for Win. You will find them at

1) www.microimages.com
   This is a free Win95/NT server. I like it very much.

2) www.orl.com/vnc
   This server is supposed to be good for NT and OK for 95. I have not
   tried it yet.

Hope this helps
M. K. Pai
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote:

 I have a small Debian box running as a server in a small network (NT/95).
 Until now I have done all configuration using a terminal session from the
 client to the server (which does not have a monitor). I would like to be
 able access my server with an x-client. All x-servers on the list seem to be
 dedicated to some graphical device. Is there a minimal installation I could
 perform which would allow me to have only the daemon on the server and the
 graphical stuff on the client?
 
 Any suggestions greatly appreciated,
 
 Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
   CMG Bedrijfsinformatiesystemen B.V.
   Postbus 91 / 1180 AB / Amstelveen
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64 Kbps Leased connection - HELP

1998-03-02 Thread M K Pai

I run a corporate intranet on a Linux server. Browsing is accomplished
thru an apache proxy and dialup connection.

We are expecting a 64Kbps leased connection ( 16 static IP addresses ) any
day. 

I have no idea about how to interface it to our Linux box. If I fail, the
boss wil give the line to WinNT - a fate worse than death.

Please help .

Thanx in advance.
M. K. Pai


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Re: Free X servers for win

1998-02-26 Thread pai

Thanks to all who responded. The Mix server works just fine. In fact
Netscape on X works faster than on Win.

I teach UNIX. My assignment was to port an entire syllabus from SCO to
Linux. I have started by installing just a simple Slackware to teach shell
scripting, C, C++, and elementary Perl. Next comes introductory Motif. I
think the lesstif + Mix server should do that trick. After that - Java,
RDBMS, simple sysadmin ...

Wish me luck.

Thank you all once again.
M. K. Pai
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Free X server for Win95

1998-02-24 Thread pai

Is there a free X server for Win95 / WinNT ? If so where ? 


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Re: NIC Configuration

1998-02-21 Thread M K Pai

Dear Kechie,

You are very brave. You are new to Unix and you have chosen to 
install Debian. You can get a lot of help by going to www.linuxpress.com.
They have a book online which will be of great help to you. Download it
and if you like it, buy the real thing. Read on ...


 I install Debian/Linux on one of the machines at my office and I can't
 get the Network Card to work.
 

Have you conpiled ethernet support in your kernel ? If not do so.

 The network card is a PCI 3Com Ethernet XL Combo. And I can't find the
 driver on the installation package.  I don't have a copy of its manual.

Compile all the 3Com drivers as modules and then install them, testing
them one by one until your machine recognizes one of them. In case none of
them is recognized by your PC, the card is probably  plug'n'play. There is
a tool called isapnptools that can help you. Check it out at
www.debian.org.

 
 And one thing more, how do you configure LILO to boot MSDOS.  I've made
 the partitions on the hard drive (primary, logical(bootable, msdos
 filesystem), swap(linux)).  I don't have any experience with UNIX/Linux
 so I need all the help that I can.
 
The book I recommended will help do all that and more.

Regards
M. K. Pai


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Re: How to setup Linux Network

1998-02-18 Thread pai

You are probably using a plug and play network card. So you will have to
boot into DOS and the warmboot into Linux using Loadlin, or you will have
to use something called isapnptools. Pl see www.debian.org for details.


On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Dai Jian Jun wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I am a newer of Linux , I have already download the
base-1.bin  base-2.bin  base-3.bin  base-4.bin  base-5.bin
resc1440.bin   drv1440.bin
 and install the them on a compaq 4/66  ,
 I configed the network about ip address , gateway and ethernet
 network card etc   , and then install the  base-1 to base-5
 diskettes (is my installation right ), I can login as root and
 my personal account , but the problem is appeared
 
 I CAN NOT RUN FTP/PING/TELNET etc THAT THE SYSTEM TOLD ME THE
 NETWORK UNREACHABLE
 
 where is the problem , how can i solve it ? by the way what is the
 usage of base1_3.tgz
 JianJun ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 
 
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freedos

1998-02-17 Thread pai


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I am a Linux fanatic living in India.

I currently use Slackware 3.3.

I wish to keep my system Microsoft-free. I have the follwing problem.

(1) It is almost impossible to get non pnp ethernet cards, modems etc in
India.
(2) Further these cards are usually no-name Asian types with their own DOS
drivers
(3) I am no great device-driver writer.

Since I have to use Linux with these peripherals, I have to first boot
into DOS and then warm-boot into Linux.

Can I get rid of MSDOS if I use freeDOS ? All I want is my machine to boot
into DOS, poke in the pnp drivers and warm-boot Linux.

Please note that I wish to work only in Linux. I do not wish to run any
DOS programs from Linux. For example, I wish to participate on a network
(using a pnp ethernet card) or browse the WWW (using Lynx on a pnp modem)
from Linux.

I know you can help me do this. 

Thank you in advance.

M. K. Pai



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Questions

1996-08-03 Thread pai
Hi,
  I am installing debian linux from CDROM.
My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select
the sbpcd module. Is that correct? When the system
boots, the busy light in CDROM flashes. But when I use
dselect, it ask me the block device name. How do I answer it?
And when I use mount command, it doesn't show CDROM is mounted.
What's happened?

  Hung-Ta Pai