Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 10:57:35 am Sthu Deus wrote: No. There is backports for squeeze too - to mix up not w/ the backborts of now stable branch. Are there any packages uploaded to it yet ? -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 01 January 2011 05:42:28 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: OK, Here is what I did here: The google search suggestion was to do this: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf What is peculiar

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 01 January 2011 02:36:51 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower

Re: Poppler error: floating point exception (lenny)

2010-12-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 December 2010 10:50:09 am Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:20:10 +, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 19 December 2010 16:37:01 Camaleón wrote: I am getting a floating point exception error message from Evince when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file

Re: why my sound card doesn't work

2010-12-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 12 December 2010 01:03:25 pm Long Wind wrote: I have a P4 motherboard, which has intel integrated audio It works fine in Windows XP but in etch, there's no sound I try to play a real media file and I adjust sound volume with gamix No matter how hard I try, there's no sound below

Re: setting up a network printer

2010-12-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 09 December 2010 07:19:16 pm Rick Pasotto wrote: How do I configure a HL-4150CDN Brother printer? I have installed the hl4150cdnlpr-1.1.1-5.i386.deb and hl4150cdncupswrapper-1.1.1-5.i386.deb files from the Brother site. http://localhost:631 finds the printer and the correct

Re: Release file expired

2010-11-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 22 November 2010 09:51:09 am Charles Kroeger wrote: E: Release file expired, ignoring http://mirror.rit.edu/debian/dists/sid/Release (invalid since 1d 21h 21min 52s) I got the same type or error for mirrors.kernel.org, sent an email to debian-mirr...@lists.debian.org, got a

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 22 October 2010 18:13:54 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 10/22/2010 07:42 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 14:57:15 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Does this have something

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly see something about it scrolling by, but I never get a chance to read it. You can use 'dmesg |grep

Re: change in behavior of iptables with respect to firestarter

2010-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 22 October 2010 14:57:15 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly

Re: Ethernet port dead

2010-10-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 17 October 2010 01:40:44 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net writes: On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Morgan Gangwere 0.fracta...@gmail.com writes: dmesg | grep eth gives the folloing output: eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over

Re: OT Firewire networking (was: Ethernet port dead)

2010-10-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Morgan Gangwere 0.fracta...@gmail.com writes: dmesg | grep eth gives the folloing output: eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: But... what kind

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 11 October 2010 18:37:24 Dmitryi wrote: KDE 4 is a nightmare. How can KDE 3.5.x be installed on Debian testing? Is there a package repository somewhere? I am using these on 64 bit Squeeze. http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/ -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

2010-10-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 09 October 2010 11:26:53 Roman Khomasuridze wrote: Hello kind people. The story is, that I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but unfortunately i don't have spare primary partition (only logical one), and as freBSD documentation says, I can only install it on primary

Re: Installation issues of Debian 5.0.6 Lenny

2010-10-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 04 October 2010 23:17:56 Klistvud wrote: However, as a side question, has anyone gotten flash to successfully work in 64 bit OS? I think there have been rumours that 64-bit flash will be available again soon (or perhaps already is).

Re: LibreOffice repositories

2010-10-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 03 October 2010 08:56:36 AG wrote: Hey list As many here are probably already aware, due to Oracle buying out Sun, the OOo developer community has forked the project as a pre-emptive protection against Oracle doing the same thing to OOo as they did to OpenSolaris. As LibO is

Re: LibreOffice repositories

2010-10-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 03 October 2010 09:59:19 Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:56:36 +0100, AG wrote: (...) My question is: any idea how long it might take for the LibO files to find their way into the testing, etc. repositories and will the OOo repositories be deprecated? Any insight

Re: How to upgrade kernel in Lenny, not compile a custom one

2010-10-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 02 October 2010 11:59:02 Mark wrote: Based on what I've read, kernel 2.6.32 has fixed the broadcom 4306 rev02 wireless card 1 MB/s speed issue and I'd like to have my Lenny system boot into that kernel to fix this issue. The only help I've found for doing this without doing a

Re: Lost keyboard in KDE 3.5.10 on Lenny.

2010-10-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 01 October 2010 02:03:26 Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 October 2010 08:17:41 Camaleón wrote: Years ago, when I was using KDE3, cleaning the KDE user temp. folder helped a lot for solving this kind of (weird) problems... Worth a try. Thanks. I'll report back. Okay :-)

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 20 September 2010 00:15:42 Klaus Wolf wrote:  odf-converter-integrator Thanks, I found more info at; http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator What release of OO.org has what add-in, somewhat confusing ? http://katana.oooninja.com/w/editions_of_openoffice.org maybe the

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 19 September 2010 07:52:09 Klistvud wrote: Dne, 19. 09. 2010 15:41:40 je T o n g napisal(a): Hi, It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that people sent me. What's your

Re: RS232-to-USB adapter with dial-up modem

2010-09-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 17 September 2010 15:52:34 S D wrote: From: Phil Requirements simultane...@comcast.net What are you using to try to dial out? I'm using pppd and the respective pon/poff scripts and configuration files. This configuration works fine with the modem when the modem is connected

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 16 September 2010 08:14:53 T o n g wrote: Hi, How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? By practical I meant, - I would assume less than 0.01% people would do that so I can't find any

Re: Squeeze. Failed to install bootloader in VirtualBox

2010-09-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 08:05:58 Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:32:19 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: Here is a try to install Squeeze into Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.6. Virtual drive is 8.0 GB persistent,

Re: Upgrade From 5.02 To 5.05

2010-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
accept Sun's EULA prior to successfully installing this package: sun-java6-bin You could put the sun java stuff on hold, or say yes to continue without authentication. 'aptitude' might work better in your case, at least it has a better resolver. more verbose. -- Greg Madden Precision Air

Re: Adding UUID to a partition?

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 23 August 2010 01:29:50 Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I have installed Debian Squeeze with kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64. In the fstab file there almost every partition has an UUID. Now I want to mount a windows partition, but that hasn't an UUID. How can I achieve to get an UUID to that

Re: Adding UUID to a partition?

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 23 August 2010 03:35:34 Csanyi Pal wrote: Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net writes: On Monday 23 August 2010 01:29:50 Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I have installed Debian Squeeze with kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64. In the fstab file there almost every partition has an UUID. Now I want

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 16:26 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:06:18 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 08/20/2010 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:31 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: Luckily Evolution has nothing to do with Mono. Actually, I don't know of any

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:55 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:45:17 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 16:26 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:06:18 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: IIRC when the big issue came up of some distros (suse and ubuntu

Re: disable sleep mode hdd usb

2010-08-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:16:51 Markus wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:26:30 +0200, Tabano wrote: I want disable the sleep mode in my external hdd usb forever when start Debian. hdparm/sdparm may help. But some manufacturers disallow this management on the user

Re: disable sleep mode hdd usb

2010-08-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 10:52:40 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-08-17 20:26 +0200, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:16:51 Markus wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:26:30 +0200, Tabano wrote: I want disable the sleep mode in my external hdd usb forever when

Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

2010-08-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 05 August 2010 14:28:50 John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 16:34 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu August 5 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a shot? ;-) Here is the package list with

Re: Evolution Backup ??

2010-08-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 10 August 2010 12:44:22 John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. John Not sure if

Debian 6.0 Squeeze frozen

2010-08-06 Thread Greg Madden
FYI, from debian-announce. -- Peace, Greg -- 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/201008061130.26914.gomadtr...@gci.net

Re: Debian 6.0 Squeeze frozen

2010-08-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 06 August 2010 11:31:53 Jordon Bedwell wrote: On 8/6/2010 2:30 PM, Greg Madden wrote: FYI, from debian-announce. A little behind times eh? Already a thread about it :P Ack! -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907)276-0461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: how to dual boot debian with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 03 August 2010 03:52:19 hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All On my debian machine, I need to install redhat on one of its partitions and so make it dual boot . Can you please let me know how this can be accomplished? Thank you If you have the resources, I prefer using a VM, Virtualbox,

Re: how to dual boot debian with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 03 August 2010 05:25:11 Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:22 +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All On my debian machine, I need to install redhat on one of its partitions and so make it dual boot . Can you please let me know how this can be accomplished?

Re: IDE lost interrupt followed by lock-up

2010-08-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 01 August 2010 15:32:56 Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I've had sporadic problems with errors such as the following: Aug 2 05:09:10 victoria kernel: [616687.192331] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50) Aug 2 05:09:10 victoria kernel: [616687.192467] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0

Re: Debian Squeeze - Wine 1.2

2010-07-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 19:34:44 Shaun Glass wrote: Hello All, I am looking a repository where I can get Wine 1.2 for the version of Debian mentioned above. I have tried the following : deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt squeeze main but remain at : 1.1.42 Regards I think you

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze - Howto?

2010-07-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 02:13:20 Paul Chany wrote: Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com writes: On Jul 21, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Paul Chany wrote: Could you please drop me the dd command for this task? Here is a little article that explains it (while it might seem out of date it still

Re: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko' in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel

2010-07-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 18 July 2010 01:22:00 Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I just installed the new 2.6.32-5-686 kernel and I've been having trouble installing the NVIDIA linux display driver. Usually this process required of me only to download the linux-headers for the relevant kernel release and

Re: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko' in 2.6.32-5-686 kernel

2010-07-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 18 July 2010 09:31:46 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-07-18 19:18 +0200, Greg Madden wrote: to make it work with the stuff from Nvidia's site, 1. Squeeze kernel 2.6.32-5 is configured with gcc 4.3.5 2. gcc that is installed on Squeeze is 4.4.4 4.3.5 3. installing gcc creates

Re: How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?

2010-07-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 16 July 2010 08:15:23 H.S. wrote: On 10-07-16 11:48 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Sex, 16 Jul 2010, H.S. wrote: given eth2 while I wanted eth0). After tweaking udev rules, can I have them reapplied, or the rules reread, without having to reboot? If yes, how? I have tried

Re: Iceweasel/Firefox profiles

2010-07-13 Thread Greg Madden
Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain I had this happen also, though awhile ago. I don't remember the precise setting but I had to change a setting using 'about:config . Something must be flipping a config option for images., afaikt. -- Greg

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 11 July 2010 14:52:05 mess-mate wrote: Hi list, i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader. On an 2d hd lenny with grub (older version with the stage.. files) is installed. Since grub2 is installed on the mbr no way to boot my lenny system. Here is the lenny part

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-05 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 05 July 2010 15:58:48 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jim McCloskey put forth on 7/5/2010 5:40 PM: If anyone here had advice to offer regarding this choice, I would very much appreciate hearing it, Allowing a single web plugin to dictate your course of action here is simply...sad. If

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 03 July 2010 02:36:48 Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 07:52 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 02 July 2010 08:45:41 H.S. wrote: I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, etc

Re: AM3 socket Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard work flawlessly in Debian?

2010-07-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 02 July 2010 08:45:41 H.S. wrote: I am thinking of getting this one. It appears to be a new one from Asus and I am wondering if Linux supports it in all ways (networking, sound, etc.). It is an AMD Socket AM3 motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO. Anybody with this mobo can confirm there

Re: gpart can retire now

2010-06-27 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 27 June 2010 13:30:50 T o n g wrote: quick scan An old fashioned, but still reliable method , cli: not gui You can use the same strategy for partition tables as data ...backups. 'fdisk -l /dev/' partition_table.txt, Then use fdisk to create partitons again. This will write a

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 24 June 2010 21:27:40 Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 19:58 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: Hi List! My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] as a loaner. It runs

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 25 June 2010 11:26:22 Merciadri Luca wrote: Arthur Machlas wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: Silly me, sent before I was done pontificating. Also wanted to add that you should check your router for the latest firmware

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: Hi List! My nvidia card bit the dust and I was given an ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] as a loaner. It runs fine and everything looks good on the desktop, but when I run an app that requires 3D acceleration everything seems to

Re: viewing a pdf in Squeeze

2010-06-23 Thread Greg Madden
setting for Iceweasel? I think you still need a PDF reader. But... how do you actually open a PDF with that tools? Greetings, -- Camaleón Yes, you still need a reader. Mozplugger needs a pdf reader to launch inside of the browser. -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907

Re: Showing recommended packages from cli

2010-06-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 08:34:57 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 21 June 2010 12:27:47 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Is there some functionality in apt-cache or aptitude for displaying recommended files, other than having to visually parse the output of apt-cache show? If you can handle

mising ~/include/linux/version.h 686-bigmem

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
I am using 32bit Lenny. I added more memory ,I wanted to use the 686-bigmem kernel. The Nvidia package install, from nvidia's site, complains about missing the version.h file. Searching I found the solution was to install the kernel source and do a 'make oldconfig' with the .config file

Re: mising ~/include/linux/version.h 686-bigmem

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 21 June 2010 01:47:42 Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-06-21, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: I am using 32bit Lenny. I added more memory ,I wanted to use the 686-bigmem kernel. The Nvidia package install, from nvidia's site, complains about missing the version.h file

Re: mising ~/include/linux/version.h 686-bigmem

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 21 June 2010 03:55:57 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:44:14AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: I am using 32bit Lenny. I added more memory ,I wanted to use the 686-bigmem kernel. The Nvidia package install, from nvidia's site, complains about missing the version.h

Re: Administrating wview on a meteorologically-dedicated computer: tips / advices?

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 21 June 2010 13:41:12 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I am going to install and manage wview (see http://www.wviewweather.com/, not commercial) on an university computer for some project. I know that this is a really nice tool, but, as there are many chances that I will be going to

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 June 2010 03:03:59 Disc Magnet wrote: If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from the Internet? Is there a way

Re: Downgraded Flash Non-Free 32 to Backports

2010-06-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 19 June 2010 14:10:28 Freeman wrote: Flashpluggin non-free became very choppy on my 32 bit squeeze install with an old Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]. Nothing played smoothly. It started near-about the recent xserver upgrades: xserver-xorg-core, xserver-common,

Re: UUID in fstab?

2010-06-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 18 June 2010 09:15:48 Thomas H. George wrote: I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the rest of the line unchanged as /bkups ext3 rw,user,noauto 0 2 Next I rebooted the system,

Re: Kernel update includes nouveau module that clobbers nVidia drivers

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 22:53:57 AG wrote: On 17/06/10 07:26, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-17 00:35 +0200, AG wrote: Since the last testing update I have rebooted and found myself being ensnarled in what seems to be a kernel issue, whereby a module nouveau by default seizes control of

Re: dist-upgrade locked resolution at 640x480

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 17 June 2010 09:03:28 Thomas H. George wrote: A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem: The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to F9. My system is Debian Squeeze. Yesterday (16 Jun 10) I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system was

Re: how to start and run a command during boot

2010-06-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 14 June 2010 01:17:27 pm H.S. wrote: On 14/06/10 04:38 PM, Long Wind wrote: I have etch and a ppp connection I want to make ppp connection every time Debian boot That is, run pon during boot What is the proper way to do that? Thanks! When you do pppoeconf to configure the

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

2010-05-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 29 May 2010 09:16:16 pm T o n g wrote: Hi, How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? [OT] Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use sys A: to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying ntldr, ntdetect.com and

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 05:35:29 pm Rob Owens wrote: If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems installing a full desktop environment from the Lenny repos? (Gnome,

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Greg Madden
live system (otherwise I'd be able to use a kernel from backports.org). -Rob Can you use one of these ? http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907)276-0461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-09 Thread Greg Madden
used 'smartmontools' AFAIKT, lots of drives have errors, errors get re-mapped by the hd firmware, some drives are more accurate than others. Never did get straight, but the drives keep working. smartmontools uses badblocks , if memory serves. -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread Greg Madden
with specs like that Don't install anything with 'Gnome' in the package name, or K/KDE'. Apps that use GTK libraries without the Gnome stuff maybe. 'Damn Small Linux' does minimal installs., which are hard to duplicate with more mainstream distro's. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: connecting to WPA wireless network with ipw2100

2010-04-01 Thread Greg Madden
had trouble with getting WAP to work, but MAC filtering worked. -- Peace Greg Madden -- 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/201003312335.54802.gomadtr

Re: problem with ooffice from backports

2010-04-01 Thread Greg Madden
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Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-27 Thread Greg Madden
way is all manual not sure of the automagic way, either way 'UUID=' is useful. -- Peace Greg Madden -- 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/201003271019.13730

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
that have been installed as recommends and will prompt you to offer to remove them. 'deborphan' can help find remove orphaned libraries. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Greg Madden
out various (which may include Apache, Samba, whatever really, etc) Debian packages on the system. This time I plan to keep better track of what I have installed so that the packages can be purged easily when I am finished with the application. Rogerio 2010/3/19 Greg Madden gomadtr

Re: aumix not working

2010-03-06 Thread Greg Madden
card, rebooting fixed the issue, no reason why though. -- Peace Greg Madden -- 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/201003061314.02927.gomadtr

Re: install

2009-12-30 Thread Greg Madden
to a separate partition on the hdd and booting from that might work, does that make sense to anyone else? Mark Umm, if he can boot from cd then installing from cd is a shorter route :-) -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

2009-11-28 Thread Greg Madden
writer? My WP files were created with WP8, OO works with them. I know WP's file format has been the same for years, though I think there was change after 5.2 ? -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

2009-11-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 28 November 2009 01:32:16 Nick Douma wrote: Greg Madden wrote: have you tried opening your WP files with Openoffice writer? My WP files were created with WP8, OO works with them. I know WP's file format has been the same for years, though I think there was change after 5.2

Re: New Debian install problem

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Madden
. Search for 'white screen of death' , ATI -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Dmesg gives ata1.00 exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80002 action 0x6 frozen

2009-11-15 Thread Greg Madden
enabled drives. It reports errors, something hdparm doesnt do.. afaik. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Need advice analyzing S.M.A.R.T data of HDD in Imminent disk failure.

2009-11-03 Thread Greg Madden
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Re: virtualbox: Install from backup DVD HP Pavilion

2009-10-17 Thread Greg Madden
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Re: Inquiry:Where to find Debian GNU/Linux kernel 2.6.8-4-686 iso image ?

2009-09-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 12 September 2009, hadi motamedi wrote: kernel 2.6.8-4-686 http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/ I think that was the release kernel for Sarge, aka Debian 3.1 -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: etch kernel version 2.6.18

2009-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 01 September 2009, Greg Madden wrote: I have a Lenny box running the 2.6.18 kernel. I have the following sources added to the Lenny ones: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib. This gives me kernel

etch kernel version 2.6.18

2009-09-01 Thread Greg Madden
; it shows kernel version 2.6.18-6. I am using dselect, and I am wondering why the differences in kernel version. -- TIA Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

2009-07-24 Thread Greg Madden
removable media. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to run an application in X under another user?

2009-05-16 Thread Greg Madden
out the 'xhost' command. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread Greg Madden
know what to search for. Search on desktop publishing apps, Scribus is one, Klyx is a KDE app. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

2009-04-19 Thread Greg Madden
/gcc' -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: need a browser that can stream video well

2009-04-18 Thread Greg Madden
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Re: Netinstall and ADSL

2009-03-10 Thread Greg Madden
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Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

2009-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
to remove package openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome, but none of those efforts works. Any ideas? Thanks! Best Regards, Wang Long Sometimes starting an app from a terminal, cli, will have relevant output. -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Greg Madden
that component working? Any other suggestions welcome, but don't talk computerese, please! hardware prolems can be diagnosed with a disc such as; http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: dvd and cd burning and ripping

2008-06-28 Thread Greg Madden
, it rips the dvd then uses transcode to create a file, mpeg, avi, ogg. I store them on a hard drive, mythtv box, to view so I haven't burned to dvd any of them. xine is my current favorite movie viewer. -- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: (907)276-0461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Unstable wireless connection in Etch

2008-02-01 Thread Greg Madden
connection would come up. * Laptop Specs: 500MHz PowerBook G4, 512MB RAM, Debian Etch Does it sound like a hardware issue? How can I restart the wireless subsystem? restarting your network, '/etc/init.d/networking restart' assuming all is well with the interfaces file. -- Greg Madden

Re: vote for Debian on Dell computers

2007-03-15 Thread Greg Madden
/linuxsurvey Choose other in question (6) and enter Debian. If enough users respond, may be they will have Debian computers. Long shot, but I think it is worth it. BTW, I am not associated with Dell or anything. raju Buy an HP,they support Debian. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Printer setup problem in Etch

2007-03-12 Thread Greg Madden
), 2592000 (1 month), and 31536000 (1 year). It is set using the lpadmin(8) command: /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printername -o job-quota-period=604800 This directive must appear inside a Printer or DefaultPrinter - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Printer setup problem in Etch

2007-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
is a testing version of Debian, so could there be some sort of bug? Thanks for your help. Search the Cups docs for Quota. I had this problem in Etch, after a cups upgrade - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860

2007-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
or a planned solution in the next release? Thanks Regards Ben Humpert ia64 is Itanium, which is different than amd64 in Debian. Does Dell do Itanium? Using Etch is good advice. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8H8

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
gtk2 program. - -- Greg Madden -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7KqlaefA3q8KcpARAlk9AJ0evxMgc1i26tTmkzpi+QtTCfHp4gCeP2jg u8AXUz724hy25Gc3cCMy6/E= =Zqqf -END PGP SIGNATURE-

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