Re: debian/lenny: keyboard doesn't work after software upgrade

2009-03-15 Thread Thorny
I have reordered your post to be in chronological order, suggestion below. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Michael Yang michael@gmail.comwrote: I have a Debian/Lenny 2.6.24 installed on my laptop (D630). I did a software upgrade just now (apt-get upgrade) and the keyboard doesn't

Re: libc6 upgrade from debian 3.1 to 5.0

2009-03-15 Thread Luis San Martin Rojas
2009/3/15 linux china chinali...@gmail.com: when I do the aptitude dist-upgrade, I got errors while upgrading libc6, Get:153 http://www.anheng.com.cn stable/main libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.27-4 [54.0kB] Get:154 http://www.anheng.com.cn stable/main makedev 2.3.1-88 [42.3kB] ... ... Get:245

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:41:24PM +0800, linux china wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com 2009/3/14 linux china chinali...@gmail.com The debian 5.0 has a tiny CD installation

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-15 Thread John W Foster
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 21:31 +0800, Star Liu wrote: I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of my current project. thanks! -- My platform is AMD64 with Debian sid and gnome. Currently not in

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-15 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 15 March 2009 17:45:18 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of my current project. thanks! Zu3d. Get it off qt-apps.org -- To

Re: libc6 upgrade from debian 3.1 to 5.0

2009-03-15 Thread Thorny
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:45:02 +0800, linux china wrote: From your subject line 3.1 to 5.0. I'm fairly sure the upgrade from Sarge to Lenny is not supported. For one thing, the upgrade from Sarge to Etch was problematic for many people, especially those who didn't read the release notes before

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-15 Thread Victor Padro
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:53 PM, linux china chinali...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The debian 5.0 has a tiny CD installation method, I downloaded these files You don't need to compile, extract, add, create an iso, whatever...is not necessary as I and others stated before it's already done and you

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-15 Thread Victor Padro
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de wrote: Victor Padro wrote: Direct link, DVD version: AMD64(if your laptop has more than 3GB of RAM): http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ i386(if your laptop has less than 3GB

Re: How do I Install your Linux operating system.

2009-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Please keep the discussion on list, so that others looking for help will be able to benefit as well. caleb rodgers wrote: this really doesn't really help me very well like immediately what can I do exactly and dual boot to windows vista. step by step in great detail man. Please help. What is

Several segmentation faults after upgrade to Lenny

2009-03-15 Thread Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
I just did a aptitude upgrade on an early lenny (testing) system to lenny release, which has resulted in an unusable system. Several programs (bind, apache, greylist and a couple of others) segfaults on startup: Starting domain name service...: bind9/etc/rc2.d/S15bind9: line 44: 1359

Re: Würmchen...

2009-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
steef wrote: what is the point of these worms-exhibition on an linux-mailing list? Just a misdirection. It had been a long day. Sorry for the noise. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-15 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, what is the best method to create a boot CD (i386) using Debian? Is it advisable to use the generic kernel from the network installation CD or would you recommend to compile a custom kernel? Or is it perhaps better to base it on something like Knoppix (which in turn is based on Debian).

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 15 March 2009 13:33:35 Oliver Schneider wrote: what is the best method to create a boot CD (i386) using Debian? Is it advisable to use the generic kernel from the network installation CD or would you recommend to compile a custom kernel? Or is it perhaps better to base it on something

Re: debian/lenny: keyboard doesn't work after software upgrade

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Yang
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Thorny thorntreeh...@gmail.com wrote: I have reordered your post to be in chronological order, suggestion below. thanks. I post message in my mail client that puts quotes below reply. I'll follow your rules. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Michael Yang

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-15 Thread Robert Hodgins
Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions. I'll keep fiddling around with this computer. If something works, I'll let you know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-15 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/15 Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com: -- Sending: ATZ ATZ OK -- Sending: AT+CGDCONT? AT+CGDCONT? +CGDCONT: 1,IP,my3g,0.0.0.0,0,0 OK -- Modem initialized. -- Sending: ATDT*99# -- Waiting for carrier. ATDT*99# CONNECT -- Carrier detected.  Starting PPP immediately. --

Re: How do I Install your Linux operating system.

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
caleb rodgers wrote: Hey how do I Install your Linux operating system Go here http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ and download and install debian.exe, that's all you need to do. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To

KVM switches (VGA+PS2) and stuck Scroll Lock key in Debian

2009-03-15 Thread Phillip Pi
Hello. I have two old Belkin OmniCube KVMs (2-ports and 4-ports using VGA and PS2) from 2000 or so between Windows and Debian/Linux boxes. In Linux/Debian, I noticed sometimes my xscreensaver will not start (stuck scroll lock confirmed with its debugging logs and the developer) and

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-15 Thread Oliver Schneider
If I were you I'd take a existing live CD you think is closest to what you need and modify that, learning the tools they use to build it also the way. Okay, sounds sensible. This list is not a legal professional. Your company needs to be asking these questions to a lawyer. Of course not and

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Santhosh R wrote: Hello sir, , please send me the link to download Debian 5 version suitable for my laptop. I like so much working in Linux Thank You. Here ya go. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-500-i386-kde-CD-1.iso and the md5sum is

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:31:20 +0800 Star Liu minxinjian...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of my current project. thanks! scilab and octave? I think that currently octave

Re: xhost: cannot connect to X server

2009-03-15 Thread Dirk Vervoort
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 23:22:32 +0100, Dieder Vervoort wrote: Hi all, I can' t make xhost to work. I searched around but couldn' t find a solution. Any idea ? [...] die...@koala:~$ xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi all, My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light start blinking and the system stops responding. I have checked my memory using memtest86+, and cannot find any problem. Also, nothing appears in any

Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
I am trying to print to PDF with lpr: $ lpr -P PDF todo.odt I see that the file is put in the PDF jobs (using KDE's Kjobviewer) but it doesn't get written anywhere. The $HOME/PDF directory exists, in fact, I can print to PDF from Firefox with no problems. Any ideas why this is not working from

Re: Würmchen...

2009-03-15 Thread steef
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: steef wrote: what is the point of these worms-exhibition on an linux-mailing list? Just a misdirection. It had been a long day. Sorry for the noise. Johannes .it 's allright. i enjoyed the implicite irony. regards, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
I just noticed that I can in fact print PDF files this way, so the problem is that I am trying to print an ODT file. How can I convert that ODT to PDF on the command line? I have googled that before and could not figure it out, even after installing OOo scripts and other nasties. -- Dotan Cohen

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:47:43PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I just noticed that I can in fact print PDF files this way, so the problem is that I am trying to print an ODT file. How can I convert that ODT to PDF on the command line? I have googled that before and could not figure it out, even

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
As mentioned in previous threads: abirod should be able to do that. Thanks, Tzafrir. I had STFW, but I obviously did not STFA. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-15 Thread Kilian
Star Liu wrote: I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of my current project. thanks! You may have a look at octave: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ For 3D visualisation, you could try

Re: xhost: cannot connect to X server

2009-03-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 22:05:20 +0100, Dirk Vervoort wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 23:22:32 +0100, Dieder Vervoort wrote: I can' t make xhost to work. I searched around but couldn' t find a solution. [...] die...@koala:~$ xhost + access control disabled, clients can

Re: IP Forward Problems

2009-03-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:44:40PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:43:52AM -, Gerard Hooton wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:07:06PM +, Gerard Hooton wrote: Hello, [snip] why do you have 3 interface into the same ip network ? I presume there are

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-15 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/16 Adrian Levi adrian.l...@gmail.com [snipped] What sent the AT commands to the modem? You or some other program? I can't understand how you sending AT commands can initiate a ppp session. Frankly, I don't really know how to answer that other than giving you the full dialing message

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:32:20 +0100 mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net wrote: ... now, when I respond to specific points in the quoted message, I bottom post. unfortunately, many people are not used to this, and find it hard to continue the discussion consistently: they often don't understand levels

Re: GTK fonts too big

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 01:08:32PM EDT, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hello, afer upgrading to lenny I have noticed that fonts in GTK applications are too big. It seems that GTK does count font size from DPI resolution (hbigger DPI, higher font). Are you talking about the fonts that GTK

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-15 Thread linux china
these files are downloaded from Debian tiny CD cdrom folder here , http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/ The instruction from this page http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst, where also tell me that I should write them into the media. Copied to here,

Re: It's possible to install Debian 5.0 using serial console?

2009-03-15 Thread my mail
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: From: Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il Subject: Re: It's possible to install Debian 5.0 using serial console? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 1:39 PM -Inline Attachment Follows- On

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-15 Thread Victor Padro
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM, linux china chinali...@gmail.com wrote: these files are downloaded from Debian tiny CD cdrom folder here , http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/ The instruction from this page http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst,

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-15 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:35 AM, linux china chinali...@gmail.com wrote: these files are downloaded from Debian tiny CD cdrom folder here , http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/ The instruction from this page http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst,

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-15 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Oliver Schneider borba...@gmxpro.netwrote: Hi, what is the best method to create a boot CD (i386) using Debian? Is debian live cd for this purpose? Is it advisable to use the generic kernel from the network installation CD or would you recommend to compile

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-15 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl wrote: Hi all, My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light start blinking and the system stops responding. I have

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi all, My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light start blinking and the system stops responding. I have checked my memory using

Re: GTK fonts too big

2009-03-15 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:08:32 +0100 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: Hello, afer upgrading to lenny I have noticed that fonts in GTK applications are too big. It seems that GTK does count font size from DPI resolution (hbigger DPI, higher font). Is there any way to force

Postfix Version/Upgrading

2009-03-15 Thread Jeff Grossman
I am running Debian Testing. I just switched from Sendmail to Postfix on my machine. This machine is used as an e-mail and web server. I noticed that the version in Debian is 2.5.5. The current version available on postfix.org is 2.5.6. Is it safe/smart to download the source from postfix.org

Re: install from tiny CD

2009-03-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
linux china wrote: I know we could try the small CD aprox 180MB or 40MB, but this tiny CD is very cool, which size is even smaller than the two, but lack of doc, I don't know how to write these files into media - my CD-disk. Nothing to extract, just use your burning software and burn the

Install debian 5.0 without press ENTER key?

2009-03-15 Thread my mail
can i install leny without install key, like another distro linux, will automatically run installer if you don't anything in 30 seconds. I have boot using debian dvd but after 30 s without i press the enter key, the installer not running. it's possible to install leny without press the enter?

Re: Install debian 5.0 without press ENTER key?

2009-03-15 Thread Daryl Styrk
my mail wrote: can i install leny without install key, like another distro linux, will automatically run installer if you don't anything in 30 seconds. I have boot using debian dvd but after 30 s without i press the enter key, the installer not running. it's possible to install leny without

Re: Postfix Version/Upgrading

2009-03-15 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Jeff Grossman at 2009-03-16 14:32... I am running Debian Testing. I just switched from Sendmail to Postfix on my machine. This machine is used as an e-mail and web server. I noticed that the version in Debian is 2.5.5. The current version available on postfix.org is 2.5.6. Is it

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