Re: viewing a pdf in Squeeze

2010-06-23 Thread Steven Demetrius
Thank you Steven Demetrius +855 12 810 350 On 2010-06-24 02:10, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:28:01 CamaleĆ³n wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:20:25 -0700, peasthope wrote: Given a Squeeze system with libpoppler5, poppler-utils, iceweasel and mozplugger, what else

Re: running acceleraation on ati-hardware

2009-11-16 Thread Steven Demetrius
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have ATI x1100 on a laptop and in x-server logs I see that it load Radeon driver with GLX module... - AFAIK it should allow 3D direct rendering - but it is not - visually and the glxinfo utility states the same. It also states about setting

Re: Gnome problem under squeeze/amd64

2009-05-04 Thread Steven Demetrius
Thank you. ** Hi all, I'm having this problem: I recently installed squeeze amd64 in my laptop and after that I recived the gdm login screen. I tried to login with my normal user account (juan) and after I do so, I receive a blank screen. I'm able to use

Re: File Server

2009-04-22 Thread Steven Demetrius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lynn Kilroy wrote: I imagine this question has been answered lots of times, but I'll be dumb and ask it again. I am setting up a Debian computer and hope to use it primarily as a file server. This is for a network, and all the computers

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-17 Thread Steven Demetrius
Alok G. Singh wrote: What I want to do is to deploy a dhcp+tftp server in the network that people can boot into debian-installer via PXE. The idea is to have an easy way to install Debian/Ubuntu without having to cart DVDs around. The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the

Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape

2009-04-04 Thread Steven Demetrius
H.S. wrote: Hello, Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. Anybody else also having this problem? Thanks. If you are using the ATI or Nvida

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-04 Thread Steven Demetrius
**Miles Fidelman wrote: H.S. wrote: Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? how would I check that, and why would it just start doing that? You could just list the devices: $ /sbin/ifconfig -a and ensure you have the

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-03-15 Thread Steven Demetrius
Hello, I just upgraded to lenny without any problems, except for one: I'm using the vesa xorg driver, because using the free nv driver causes the display to freeze after a few minutes of use (I can move the mouse, but I can't even switch to a virtual console). I was using the non-free

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-11 Thread Steven Demetrius
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:27 +, Aneurin Price wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Steven Demetrius steven.demetr...@fiwwi.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:19 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: Does anyone here power off their computer without first shutting it down? Maybe, but after

Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Steven Demetrius
For all you posters discussing Top posting vs Bottom posting and taking other threads off topic here is a thread for you. First my opinion, Since this mailing list historically has been Bottom posting then we stick with it. Using both top and bottom posting in the mailing list will lead to

Staying on topic and quoting

2009-03-11 Thread Steven Demetrius
Staying on topic and quoting. One of the things that causes confusion is going off topic and improper quoting. Staying on topic makes the thread easy to follow and understand. We all go off topic now and then but we need to curb this as it makes the mailing list seem chaotic. If you find that

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, A manual fsck must be performed

2009-03-10 Thread Steven Demetrius
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:14 +0800, Star Liu wrote: When I boot my debian sid 5 minutes ago, I got this error message: --- /dev/sda4: unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually.(i.e., without

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-10 Thread Steven Demetrius
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:19 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: Does anyone here power off their computer without first shutting it down? Maybe, but after having to spend time repairing the system and/or rebuilding it or losing data they most likely don't anymore. Even if you're careful, you'll

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-08_12:58:14, Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-08_13:41:53, Lists wrote: Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3

Re: mounting DVD's

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Bernd Kloss wrote: Lenny Kaffeine KDE 3.5.10 member in groups cdrom, plugdev and powerdev Hello, I am recording TV-broadcastings with a conventional DVD-recorder and I want to edit the VOB-files. I have problems copying the files from DVD to PC. On my computer the DVD-drive is on /dev/hdb,

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-09_09:20:06, Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-08_13:41:53, Lists wrote: Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-08_23:25:53, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:15:43 -0400 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: ... ext2 is problematic for removable drives because if you remove the drive without cleanly unmounting it you risk losing your data. So I would

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-07 Thread Steven Demetrius
Joe McDonagh wrote: At the risk of starting a huge religious war: 1. Preseed vs. kickstart If you're only running at home or only a few machines at work, you're not going to run into this. Once you're done a RH install a .ks file is dropped under /root. You can now use this file to kickstart

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Steven Demetrius
Girish Kulkarni wrote: Hi, I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? Thanks, Girish. Simple ways to solve this: 1. Before you shutdown the desktop mute the

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-07 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this one be ext3, also? Doesn't ext3 essentially write everything twice,

Re: pcmcia bluetooth card intro questions

2009-03-04 Thread Steven Demetrius
H.S. wrote: Hello, I do have any experience with PCMCIA bluetooth cards on laptop and have some questions. I have gone over some web pages about what these cards are, but my question are more of practical nature. This is on a laptop which has a slot for Type 2 PCMCIA (also called PC?) card.

Re: pcmcia bluetooth card intro questions

2009-03-04 Thread Steven Demetrius
H.S. wrote: Steven Demetrius wrote: H.S. wrote: What kind of cards are supported in Debian (Testing)? What I have mind, if it is possible, it to get a bluetooth card for the PCMCIA slot and use it for a mouse and a headset and probably also for a cell phone. Thanks. If you have USB on your

Debian and Linux related training video

2009-03-03 Thread Steven Demetrius
discouraging as they are more for reference than for learning. Try reading the HOWTOs and online instructions for SAMBA or SWAT. Note: If you decide to flame me for posting this email please re-read the email and give it some thought first. Thank you Steven Demetrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email