Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Hugo writes: I'm using chrony for years. But this last change to DST I had to do a makestep in chronyc for the change to take effect. Chrony neither cares nor knows about DST, nor does the kernel. That's handled by the time zone stuff. Do you have your hardware (BIOS)

Re: Want to work with a Linux Group

2009-04-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Carsten Hey wrote: Hi, thank you for your interest in Debian. snip Very complete list. Thanks! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal

2009-04-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dirk wrote: some true asshole decreased linux' value as an alternative to windows by making hal a dependency(!) of xorg now... you can get the sovereignty over your system back by purging hal from your installation and adding this - Section ServerFlags

Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers

2009-04-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:51:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009 08:09:12 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-10 01:00 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote: May I ask how you managed that superscript 1 after the word problem? With a German keyboard layout, it's on

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: jida...@jidanni.org wrote: OK then, how do the _shmoes_ keep up with the latest kernel? Especially now that linux-image-686 depends on an unavailable package, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028 Any other tracker packages left these days that point to

Re: mondoarchive at Lenny ?

2009-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello It seems Mondoarchive is not available at Lenny when searching with apt-cache search mondo command there is no result. Does this package has been replaced by another one ? Use the debs from ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/debian/5.0/ You need: mondo 2.2.8 + mindi 2.0.6 +

Re: Kernel Build Problem: dpkg-gencontrol

2009-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: Building rt patched kernel using: make-kpkg --append-to-version -davidb-rt kernel_image snip Whatif you did: make-kpkg --revision 1 --append-to-version -davidb-rt kernel_image Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: How do the pros keep up with the latest kernel?

2009-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stefan Monnier wrote: -bash: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: No such file or directory As long as you keep `stable' in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, that shouldn't be a problem. h...@debian:~$ http://packages.debian.org/lenny/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 -bash:

Re: side-by-side display of two files with latex

2009-04-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Russell L. Harris wrote: I need to typeset a document in which a pair of files are displayed side-by-side, each in its own column, so that the reader easily may compare the two files. The problem is that each file spans several pages; so the left column of each page must be a continuation of

Re: mondo/mindi failure

2009-04-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gregory Guthrie wrote: After an upgrade to lenny, Mondo backup fails. I get the message: Calling MINDI to create boot+data disks Your boot loader is GRUB and it boots from /dev/hda /var/tmp.mondo.12739/tmp.mondo.30564 Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks. ---promptpopup---1--- Fatal

Re: Iceweasel question?

2009-03-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-30 13:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: John W Foster wrote: I recall a while back that with Mozilla and its predecessors, you could have the bookmarks organizer perform a real connection test on all of the entries. That does not seem to be the case now. I recently

Re: Iceweasel question?

2009-03-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John W Foster wrote: I recall a while back that with Mozilla and its predecessors, you could have the bookmarks organizer perform a real connection test on all of the entries. That does not seem to be the case now. I recently imported several bookmark files that I have had for some time to my

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-29 10:49, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-29_22:29:41, Strong and Humble wrote: Good day. Just wanted to know if it is possible to specify a time zone that has no winter time shift whole year? What I want is to stay the same time (without winter shift) whole

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

2009-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: snip Hi, kbuild is out for 2.6.29: apt-cache policy linux-kbuild-2.6.29 linux-kbuild-2.6.29: Installé : (aucun

vmserver2 and 2.6.29

2009-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Now that 2.6.29 is available in Sid: vmserver2 fails to install. There is a fix that has been posted here: http://communities.vmware.com//thread/188410?tstart=0 it's at the end of the thread. You have to replace the modules in vmware-server-distrib/lib/modules/source. You have wonder about

Re: extract debian package default config

2009-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sylvain Viart wrote: Hi, Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? Example: I would like to get the original packaged apache2.conf Is there some command which extract this from the package or is it extracted somewhere? I use mc for that. Hit 'enter' on a deb

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

2009-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but they depend on linux-kbuild-2.6.28 which isn't available

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

2009-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but they depend on linux-kbuild-2.6.28

Re: iceweasel rendering problem

2009-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Leonardo Canducci wrote: It only happens in a few websites (i.e. http://www.tuxfeed.it/ ) and in debian sid only, lenny is ok. The webpage is a little messy with frames and decorations out of place. Zooming charachters in or out (ctrl + ctrl -) fixes the problem but using default size (ctrl 0)

Re: iceweasel resume download fails after reboot

2009-03-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Trying to download VMware-server-2.0.0-122956. I prefer to use wget but there is no link for it to use on the download page of VMware. Anybody had better luck? So I use Iceweasel's download. That works. And resume works as long as you don't reboot the machine

iceweasel resume download fails after reboot

2009-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Trying to download VMware-server-2.0.0-122956. I prefer to use wget but there is no link for it to use on the download page of VMware. Anybody had better luck? So I use Iceweasel's download. That works. And resume works as long as you don't reboot the machine. When you do reboot and use

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, I see 2.6.28 made it to Sid. Anybody use it with the nvidia closed source driver? Hugo Hi, I use a 2.6.28 and Nvidia non free driver from their website. It works OK here. (version is now 180.35). Happy to report that 2.6.28 from

Re: iceweasel resume download fails after reboot

2009-03-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:24:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Anybody able to use download resume across reboots? I manually copy the URL to ~/uldl/wget.list Then I run wget -c -i wget.list I have wget aliased as alias wget='/usr/bin/wget -t 0 --read-timeout

Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be used in RAID pairs or for LLVM? Yes Well, that worked. And

2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I see 2.6.28 made it to Sid. Anybody use it with the nvidia closed source driver? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, I see 2.6.28 made it to Sid. Anybody use it with the nvidia closed source driver? Hugo Hi, I use a 2.6.28 and Nvidia non free driver from their website. It works OK here. (version is now 180.35). Thanks Tom, I am going to try

vmware server + 2.6.28

2009-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Anybody running a vmware server with 2.6.28? If so what version and with or without a patch? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:40:45PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, I see 2.6.28 made it to Sid. Anybody use it with the nvidia closed source driver? Hugo Hi, I use a 2.6.28 and Nvidia non free driver from their website. It works OK here

Re: vmware server + 2.6.28

2009-03-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephan Seitz wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:45:31PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Anybody running a vmware server with 2.6.28? If so what version and with or without a patch? VMware server 2.0 runs without additional patches. Shade and sweet water! Indeed, let me download

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: snip Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to use: apt-get. *That* must be the reason I use apt-get and not aptitude... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

[OT] free WiFi access in Berlin

2009-02-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I just saw an article in Der Spiegel that if all goes well the residents of Germany's capital will get free WiFi internet access. Nice. I wonder when we'll get that in Oaxaca, Mexico? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

ifconfig data

2009-02-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Ifconfig says: ... ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:200.57.201.43 P-t-P:200.57.219.18 Mask:255.255.255.255 ... I want that inet addr (200.57.201.43) in a program and I prefer not to run the ifconfig command from it and grep it. Does anyone know where

Re: ifconfig data

2009-02-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Aneurin Price wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hi, Ifconfig says: ... ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:200.57.201.43 P-t-P:200.57.219.18 Mask:255.255.255.255 ... I want that inet addr (200.57.201.43

Re: ifconfig data

2009-02-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Aneurin Price wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: snip Maybe this would suit you: snip To explain a little: I wrote a little program that analyzes the output of apache2's access log. It puts just one message out

Re: Debian on the HP Compaq t5135 Thin Client?

2009-02-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rick Thomas wrote: Has anybody tried running debian on the HP Compaq t5135 Thin Client? 128 MB SDRAM, 64MB Flash, VIA Eden 400 MHz processor, 10/100 ethernet, several USB ports, one serial and one parallel port, VGA video. US$149 direct from HP (probably cheaper from other places)

[OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Try this: date -...@1234567890 Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript Anyone verify this? After upgrade of flashplayer no longer segfaults: h...@debian

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rob Singelais wrote: Hello, I have installed hplip 2.8.7 using the automatic installer from sourceforge and the printer works fine on Debian Lenny. I installed samba and am trying to share it to a Windows XP machine. After I run the add printer wizard in XP I see the workgroup (set the same

iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript Anyone verify this? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

2009-02-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth.html I click on Agree and Download, script enabled, and nothing recognizable happens. Anybody had more luck? Hugo Yes, it downloaded from the above link with no problem. Did you notice

Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

2009-02-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/03/2009 06:19 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] That page never shows up although NoScript has the permissions set, it is related to that, because as another user who does not have the NoScript plugin the page *did* show up. Aggravations like this are why I

Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

2009-02-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth.html I click on Agree and Download, script enabled, and nothing recognizable happens. Anybody had more luck? After installation: ./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol

Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

2009-02-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth.html I click on Agree and Download, script enabled, and nothing recognizable happens. Anybody had more luck? After installation: ./googleearth-bin: relocation

Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

2009-02-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth.html I click on Agree and Download, script enabled, and nothing recognizable happens. Anybody had more luck? After installation

Re: Modify the scrollback buffer in console

2009-02-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/30/2009 05:53 PM, Girish Venkatasubramanian wrote: Hello, I am desperately trying to find out how to increase the size of the scrollback buffer in the non-graphical mode console (no X). I am running a stock debian etch distribution without any X manager, starting in

[OT] google earth 5.0

2009-02-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth.html I click on Agree and Download, script enabled, and nothing recognizable happens. Anybody had more luck? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: usb hard drive diagnosis

2009-01-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Fox wrote: snip Hmm perhaps this is true, since I don't have any USB hard drive media, but I would think they fall into two distinct types: * flash (RAM) drives * enclosures that are basically a standard sata or ide drive with a power and usb cable added For #2 I'm not sure why you

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:18:57 + Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt wrote: What insets? The right-side menu goes a little off-screen, other than that seems fine (buti've only skimemd through it). Nuno Magalhães Just near the bottom of the page, above For More

[OT] iptables q

2009-01-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have Firehol for iptables front-end and WordPress on Apache. Access to WP is restricted to me only, like this: interface ppp0 internet policy drop protection strong ... server http accept src 200.57.201.163 So far so good. Now the question is: where do

Re: [OT] iptables q

2009-01-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jeff D wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have Firehol for iptables front-end and WordPress on Apache. Access to WP is restricted to me only, like this: interface ppp0 internet policy drop protection strong ... server http accept src

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: snip No, but I can show you what mine look like. It's a Sid box running a hand-rolled kernel based on linux-source-2.6.28. (The machine is about 3 months old, so also worked with 2.6.24.) snip # cat /dev/sndstat Sound

Re: monitoring swap i/o

2009-01-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:06:21 +0100 Pol linux_mil...@yahoo.it wrote: I would like to be able to exactly monitor programs i/o in the swap area; 'top' does not seem to be the right tool as processes are sorted according to the total amount of swap space used, while i would like

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pavlos Parissis wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:49:23 + Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. Dean http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/620 good hint

Re: mousewheel scroll

2009-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote : [snip] What video driver are you using ? Is the bad scrolling linked to some web pages only, like Flash ? NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.07-pkg1.run Poor scrolling is general. snip I run a two-seat. Something very

Re: Free alternative for Plesk on Debian

2009-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/1/6 Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com: From Wikipedia: The Parallels Plesk Control Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesk The CLI will do everything that Plesk does and more. The learning curve is

Re: Recovery required on readonly filesystem

2009-01-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
postid wrote: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1760.htm ext3 switches to read-only automatically if it encounters too many write errors Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: mousewheel scroll

2009-01-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote : [snip] What video driver are you using ? Is the bad scrolling linked to some web pages only, like Flash ? NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.07-pkg1.run Poor scrolling is general. Hugo I'm running NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.18-pkg2.run, it's a beta

Re: mousewheel scroll

2009-01-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Hi, On Sid, using the evdev mousedriver in xorg.conf, scrolling is terrible. It just is unworkable. Have to use the scrollbar. Unfortunately using FF on XP under VMware it's terrific. Anybody have good experiences with mousewheel scroll

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: snip Mondo is useful for system backup. Its prime selling point is that it can restore a fully functional system (partitions included). I'm not sure it is that useful for data backup. Very useful: use mondoarchive to archive anything onto DVD's then use mondorestore

mousewheel scroll

2009-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, On Sid, using the evdev mousedriver in xorg.conf, scrolling is terrible. It just is unworkable. Have to use the scrollbar. Unfortunately using FF on XP under VMware it's terrific. Anybody have good experiences with mousewheel scroll? What driver do you use? Update the driver?

Re: HP Laptopn NVIDIA Graphics Driver Go 6150

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,03.Jan.09, 10:38:19, Marek D wrote: Hello, First off, thank you for all of the hard work. Second, I have a laptop HP 9410US that I had installed 4.0r5. I had everything working. The problem was in that when I wanted to install the current NVIDIA driver v177 X

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:05:14PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. Mondo does that without any trouble. It splits the dir.

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Cliff wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures, right?), mv? cut-n-paste? BTW, this is sth I always wanted to

Re: Latex to html

2008-12-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Alan L Tyree wrote: Hello Bela, I saw your query in the Debian User archives. I'm not a member of the list, so forgive me answering off-list. I use tex4ht. It has a number of scripts that convert LaTeX to html as well as to other formats. It works well even if you

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Cliff wrote: Hello everyone, I'm a new Debian user. I recently installed Debian on my laptop computer, and almost everything worked out of the box. However, there are a few things that don't work now, but did in my old system. So I would like to ask for your advice. I use a PS/2 keyboard

tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Recently there was a post mentioning tesseract. Turns out that is an award winning opensource OCR that works! I tried it out: 1. apt-get install tesseract-ocr 2. apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng 3. use xsane to scan a page at dpi 300 and save as .tif 4. run: convert foo.tif -depth 8

Re: post doesn't show up

2008-12-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I've tried now about 5 times to post a thread on an OCR that is opensource a Debian package and works fantastic. But the post does not show up. What's up? Hugo Hi Hugo, This message showed up. Did you send this last one from the same account

Re: post doesn't show up

2008-12-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I've tried now about 5 times to post a thread on an OCR that is opensource a Debian package and works fantastic. But the post does not show up. What's up? Hugo Hi Hugo, This message showed up. Did you send this last one

Re: post doesn't show up

2008-12-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I've tried now about 5 times to post a thread on an OCR that is opensource a Debian package and works fantastic. But the post does not show up. What's up? Hugo Hi Hugo, This message showed up

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

2008-12-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/23/08 17:32, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Everytime, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. snip My iceweasel [1] never crashes. It's your addons. [1] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U

post doesn't show up

2008-12-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I've tried now about 5 times to post a thread on an OCR that is opensource a Debian package and works fantastic. But the post does not show up. What's up? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: cannot boot after update

2008-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Simon Kranz wrote: snip What happens if you disable gdm to get it to boot and then run: Xorg -configure That gets you an xorg.conf. What happens if you use that xorg.conf? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently Google, so I thought I'd ask first. My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to experiment with virtual machines. Is this possible, or do I have to start from bare metal? I run the

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

2008-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Everytime, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. snip My iceweasel [1] never crashes. It's your addons. [1] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092816 Iceweasel/3.0.4

Re: cannot boot after update

2008-12-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Simon Kranz wrote: Hello, I run debian etchnhalf 4.0r5a AMD64. I just installed a new desktop system (std and desktop packages). Since then i have done very little to add to it. Just installed foo2qpdl for my printer and also dvdrip from debian multimedia. Once in gnome i was informed of

Re: compile help please

2008-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile tesseract from svn so I can do ocr. Here is my problem I get compile errors... So, can someone please help? At the bottom of this email is the output of stderr and stdout for the following commands: ./configure and make So does anyone know how I

Re: Help needed with xserver (plain text)

2008-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 12/19/2008 12:08 PM: On 12/19/08 11:54, w...@mgssub.com wrote: Greetings; (Sorry about the html. Different computer, different everything!) When I try to start gnome I get messages: (WW) RADEON: No matching device section for instance

Re: Creative Zen mp3 Player

2008-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Raquel wrote: I got my spouse a Creative Zen 8GB mp3 player for Christmas and I'm trying to get it loaded with her music before Christmas. I've charged the player using the USB port but Debian doesn't find the player. I've tried using Gnomad2 and Amarok. Neither will find the player. Anyone

Re: Asterisk and Obelisk [was: Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!]

2008-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:01:22AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums writes: True, although, I don't think they need a PBX, just something like Asterix? Asterix is a PBX. Asterix is a comics character. Asterisk (*) is a PBX. Asterix is s/ks$/x/ to Asterisk, as this

Re: race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? I have 2 audio cards: one the builtin card of the mobo two a CA0106 PCI card. They are supposed to be like this: h...@debian:/etc/udev$ cd

Re: [SOLVED]race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? I have 2 audio cards: one the builtin card of the mobo two a CA0106 PCI card. They are supposed to be like this: h

Re: [SOLVED]race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? I have 2 audio cards: one the builtin card of the mobo two a CA0106 PCI card

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/17/08 14:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? I'll

race condition audio cards + pcspkr

2008-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, How does one put a wait in the initialization of the pcspkr module? I have 2 audio cards: one the builtin card of the mobo two a CA0106 PCI card. They are supposed to be like this: h...@debian:/etc/udev$ cd /etc/modprobe.d/ h...@debian:/etc/modprobe.d$ more sound alias snd-card-0

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

2008-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
lostson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:57:23 -0500 Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM... Thanks!

Re: Tying debsecan Zabbix (or RT) together?

2008-12-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Richard Hartmann wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:13, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's just polite to provide some context when referring to generally-unfamiliar software. I was under the impression that it's quite well-known. But we both know what the other means, so yah :)

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
elijah rutschman wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: define a new user, any user: adduser mickey then logon to X as that user that you just added. Then try iceweasel again, logged on as that user. That worked! If you were thinking

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
elijah rutschman wrote: Hi all, I recently installed Debian Lenny onto an EeePC 701. I installed firefox with apt-get, which I believe is just a wrapper for installing iceweasel. However, if I try to launch either iceweasel or firefox from an xterm, nothing happens, and there is no helpful

Re: Iceweasel not starting

2008-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
elijah rutschman wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:46 AM, elijah rutschman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running: $ iceweasel --safe-mode Sorry, I meant to type iceweasel -safe-mode, with one dash before 'safe'. The result was the same, no window or output. Try this: define a new user, any

Re: Debian Project News - December 2nd, 2008

2008-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Richard Hartmann escreveu: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 18:27, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Many of tning packages many are multimedia related. What exactly is this sentence saying? My brain can't parse it and I don't think tning is a word.

Re: edd = Bios Enhanced Disk Drive Services

2008-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adrian Levi wrote: 2008/12/1 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Back in May I reported a problem using 'vga=791' with post 2.6.24 Debian 686 kernels: the kernel booted w/o framebuffer support. I reported this as a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481063 Turns out

edd = Bios Enhanced Disk Drive Services

2008-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Back in May I reported a problem using 'vga=791' with post 2.6.24 Debian 686 kernels: the kernel booted w/o framebuffer support. I reported this as a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481063 Turns out as of Oct. 4th 2008 that problem has been identified as having to

Re: automatic gdm log in

2008-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Is it possible to get gdm to log me in automatically to a certain account with out me having to enter a username or password? It's a home pc so security isn't an issue, but I'm blind and I have to log in to gdm with out any feadback, and it would just be easier if it

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
tom arnall wrote: I want to put linux on a new computer, without having to rebuild all my applications. Following are the steps I plan to take: Install a base system with the same network installer that I used for the source machine and without getting anything from the

Re: receive system mail into inbox?

2008-11-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:14:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Jack wrote: Hello, is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually read using the command line mail program, for example system error reports) as normal mail through kmail or any other

Re: receive system mail into inbox?

2008-11-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:14:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Jack wrote: Hello, is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually read using the command line mail program, for example system error reports) as normal mail

Re: What version of debian should I install at this point in time?

2008-11-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Jones wrote: I am upgrading to a larger HD on my laptop. Since I will have a bit more space, I plan to copy my existing Sarge and Etch systems to the new drive and install something more current as well. I have heard that Lenny will soon replace Etch as the stable version. Should I wait

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tom Allison wrote: Richard Hartmann wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 19:04, Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hostid - contained in the coreutils package. Unfortunately, this id is either read from /etc/hostid or calculated from the IPv4 address which a gethostbyhostname_r(3) on the

[OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, After the shutdown of that server I get less spam. Others have noted that too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111801120.html?hpid=topnews Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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